OH FUCK, WE ARE IN 2020, LOL!!!!because it's already been 12 months and it's not out, you dum-dum!
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I find the demo pretty good, but quite hard. I played Bravely Default on 3DS and II is straight up improvement.
I tried the PS4 demo of Disaster Report 4 last night.
It was odd, and I still really have no idea what this game is supposed to be.
I just wandered around aimlessly until a few cutscenes with dialogue options with NPCs happened (you have lots of dialogue options that range to mustache twirling level evil but no idea how they affect things) and then it ended
It was odd, and I still really have no idea what this game is supposed to be.
I just wandered around aimlessly until a few cutscenes with dialogue options with NPCs happened (you have lots of dialogue options that range to mustache twirling level evil but no idea how they affect things) and then it ended
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Im getting that one though, as it is a full exclusive, not sure on release though, finished the original Xenoblade not too long ago.
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Yo what the fuck, a NiER Replicant remaster? That's awesome, I still need to play through the original PS3 version sometime
Well to expand a little on my take...
Minor
Encountered a minor shadow bug. Texture streaming seems to be an issue too for the first second or so when your get out of town.
They still have polish to put in the UI department, some QOL details in the combat menus are lacking imho.
Controller tends to double click, that's maybe more of a Nintendo quality issue but at the same time I haven't noticed this elsewhere.
More annoying
Graphically it's relatively hideous. The town is blurry and the characters are pixelated to hell and back.
The writing is wooden. General plot is classical as can be, it's a choice I don't like but to each his own. But in the name of everything that is beautiful in the world, can party dialogs be a little bit worked on ? I mean, at this point it's some automatic writing level of bad.
Debatable camera distance, I often felt like it was too close.
Calling that a little adventure exclusive to the demo is pushing it. It felt like a part of the game, not something separate. It also felt like the game is very much still being tinkered, an embryo of a game (not the most elegant analogy, granted)
Please kill it with fire
JRPG dev haven't solved the battle frequency issue. Cool, I can see the monsters on the map ! Wait, they are remote controlled missiles
Generally super hard, which only pushed me to grind. It wasn't an adventure as much as a multiple hour grind session. And when you think things can't be worse, you meet the boss.
Just my 2 cents, evidently, I'm not dismissing the validity of your positive experience.
Hmm have you played Octopath Traveller?Well to expand a little on my take...
Minor
Encountered a minor shadow bug. Texture streaming seems to be an issue too for the first second or so when your get out of town.
They still have polish to put in the UI department, some QOL details in the combat menus are lacking imho.
Controller tends to double click, that's maybe more of a Nintendo quality issue but at the same time I haven't noticed this elsewhere.
More annoying
Graphically it's relatively hideous. The town is blurry and the characters are pixelated to hell and back.
The writing is wooden. General plot is classical as can be, it's a choice I don't like but to each his own. But in the name of everything that is beautiful in the world, can party dialogs be a little bit worked on ? I mean, at this point it's some automatic writing level of bad.
Debatable camera distance, I often felt like it was too close.
Calling that a little adventure exclusive to the demo is pushing it. It felt like a part of the game, not something separate. It also felt like the game is very much still being tinkered, an embryo of a game (not the most elegant analogy, granted)
Please kill it with fire
JRPG dev haven't solved the battle frequency issue. Cool, I can see the monsters on the map ! Wait, they are remote controlled missiles
Generally super hard, which only pushed me to grind. It wasn't an adventure as much as a multiple hour grind session. And when you think things can't be worse, you meet the boss.
Just my 2 cents, evidently, I'm not dismissing the validity of your positive experience.
Fuck yeah Nier.
To be honest they would have to pretty fundamentally change that for me to be interested. What I played of the original on Wii (well, Dolphin) was such a slog. I even gave it 2 tries of ~20 hours total.
No, I don't know why because the game interests me and I have it in my backlog. Considering my experience with the BDII demo and Four Heroes of Light before, I'm a little wary now, yeah.
OT but I'm looking at AC-like chillax experiences and there are options. I wouldn't say many jump at me but there are definitely several. I'm eyeing Pokemon Sword, then there are a lot of farming/life sims on PC. And evidently the Sims.
This because, while I appreciate AC for what it offers me these days, I can't say I was that occupied today on my island. I will hop back later to chill some more and try to find little things to do, but it felt like a Sunday... the simulation is deep
Oh, and hurry the fuck up on the museum, Tom ! I have a backlog of fossils, ffs.
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Xenoblade Chronicles is kinda overrated tho
The game is beautiful, the world is amazing and the story and characters very interesting and it has a killer soundtrack, but "slog" is a good way to describe it. It's far too long and filled to the brim with shit MMO-tier fetch quests. The combat is also offline MMO tier where you set up you party and abilities and then constantly cycle through the same combos. The only change of pace is playing as a different character.
Xenoblade Chronicles is kinda overrated tho
It took me 3 or 4 tries to get through and it probably wasn't worth it in the end.
The game is beautiful, the world is amazing and the story and characters very interesting and it has a killer soundtrack, but "slog" is a good way to describe it. It's far too long and filled to the brim with shit MMO-tier fetch quests. The combat is also offline MMO tier where you set up you party and abilities and then constantly cycle through the same combos. The only change of pace is playing as a different character.
Yeah all your complaints to BDII also exist in Octopath Traveler so avoid that game.No, I don't know why because the game interests me and I have it in my backlog. Considering my experience with the BDII demo and Four Heroes of Light before, I'm a little wary now, yeah.
OT but I'm looking at AC-like chillax experiences and there are options. I wouldn't say many jump at me but there are definitely several. I'm eyeing Pokemon Sword, then there are a lot of farming/life sims on PC. And evidently the Sims.
This because, while I appreciate AC for what it offers me these days, I can't say I was that occupied today on my island. I will hop back later to chill some more and try to find little things to do, but it felt like a Sunday... the simulation is deep
Oh, and hurry the fuck up on the museum, Tom ! I have a backlog of fossils, ffs.
I really want to play AC but it's hella expensive due to corona
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Yeah, I tried to play it for the first time in emulation a few years back (and lost my save, dammit) and it wasn't a particularly interesting experience. And as I'm dumb as a brick, I will maybe try it again with the new version.
Boring, filled with filler content, and yeah, combat is uninteresting.
I would go farther than you and say, very interesting story ? What story ? I was 30 or 40 hours in and there was barely a story there. The pace is glacial. Every few hours the game throws you a bone, a little cinematic hinting at some mecha plot... and gets immediately back to filler.
Ah, so it's the day where I look like a grumpy old man yelling at clouds ! I didn't find any way to deactivate these improvements and don't like them. My brain is already used to the old UI and while it's a very welcome addition for other players, I think it's just adding unnecessary clutter.indeed
If there is a way, please tell me. And explain the point thing, even with the patch description, I don't understand it.
And then, please kindly get the fuck out of my lawn.
Can't you get a cheap code on CDKeys ? Cheap being very relative, yeah. As I think you are living outside the EU/US that might not be possible, I'm not sure if they sell keys for your region.Yeah all your complaints to BDII also exist in Octopath Traveler so avoid that game.
I really want to play AC but it's hella expensive due to corona
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That's been my problem with souls games ever since DS1 and it has only gone worse over time. I don't think I can bring myself to play another one if they keep on treating combat like a memory and execution challenge rather than let the player breathe and be creative.
It's an authoritarian, school-teacher way of approaching combat design that I find increasingly boring and distasteful. The fact that a vocal part of the fans always want the game to punish and hurt them more with each installment doesn't help and, truth be told, is quite disquieting
I loathe Square Enix and dislike Platinum, I have to force these words through clenched teeth but it's a good game. It was a terrible pain mechanically but the plot at least for the first play-through was really good. It was way too tedious to be anything above that, but the world, the story and characters were truly something special at the time of release.
I couldn't bring myself to do repeat play-throughs, and I think the whole narrative structure of it is bullshit aiming at stretching the game's playtime.
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The game really drags its feet in the last third and the ending is ridiculous. It's a great game but not something I'd replay because of how unnecessarily long it is.
I am so happy that we're getting Nier remastered. New content and songs make up for no Papa Nier.
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Drakengard when?
Yup! Though to be fair those are not my favorite subjects. In a more positive tone, The Division is impressive on so many fronts it's not even funny.We are cranky today
more like they have schizophrenia, on the other hand Atlus...
Riffing on what others said about Xenoblade (1), the best thing about it to me was how it captured my imagination. The concept of being on this huge creature and the execution thereof through its scale, scope, sight lines and openness really spoke to me in a way very few games have. The story is pretty trite for large parts of it, the combat isn’t amazing either. But the world is such a cool place to just kind of “be in”. That was really appealing and allowed me to “round up” the overall experience, so to speak.
Breath of the Wild did a similar thing to me, but I enjoyed its theming and play more than XB. It would be nice if the combat was tuned a little differently in this remaster, but I don’t believe that will be the case.
I do think the game could’ve benefited from being in an action genre with more layers of world interactions rather than a JRPG, because its pacing issues and repetitiveness kind of compound with the amount of dead time there is just walking around or doing very samey battles.
In contrast, I think the auto battle system in FF12, despite being simpler, works better over the long run because it takes place in more compact spaces. So the time to “engaged interaction” is a lot shorter. Plus game speed modifiers. What a godsend. Every JRPG needs this and Bravely Default’s “just leave me alone” button.
Breath of the Wild did a similar thing to me, but I enjoyed its theming and play more than XB. It would be nice if the combat was tuned a little differently in this remaster, but I don’t believe that will be the case.
I do think the game could’ve benefited from being in an action genre with more layers of world interactions rather than a JRPG, because its pacing issues and repetitiveness kind of compound with the amount of dead time there is just walking around or doing very samey battles.
In contrast, I think the auto battle system in FF12, despite being simpler, works better over the long run because it takes place in more compact spaces. So the time to “engaged interaction” is a lot shorter. Plus game speed modifiers. What a godsend. Every JRPG needs this and Bravely Default’s “just leave me alone” button.
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No, it's just that they have no clue how to manage their releases, they do a great support for every platform (except ONE) but they really make weird decisions such as not do day and date release for everyone or skip certain games on certain platforms for no good reason.
Still, their support is more or less stable.
Square doesn't hate PC, they're just weird as per usual.
Every Final Fantasy game on Steam! Except 1-2-Tactics for no apparent reason even though they have mobile versions.
Every Final Fantasy game on Steam! Except 1-2-Tactics for no apparent reason even though they have mobile versions.
I would scream. I'm still salty I sold off my PS3 before playing Drakengard 3
Agreed, Xenoblade Chronicles X is much better and underrated
Also, can you imagine the tears and rage if they release Drakengard 3 with the D Ending unaltered to modern tastes and expectations? lol.
I still have my PS3 and I'm always tempted when it goes on sale but that frame-rate is just so bad.
Well Switch is region agnostic and there are only three store region there, NA EU JP. I just checked cdkeys and there is Animal Crossing EU that's cheaper than USD. Hmmm now I'm interested.
Drakengard 3 with more than 10fps
How to make a game riddled with microtransactions better:
- Play on PC
The end.
- Play on PC
The end.
How to avoid endless grinding in single player game:How to make a game riddled with microtransactions better:
- Play on PC
The end.
- Play on PC
It also make something like Borderland's golden key giveaway a joke because you can just cheat unlimited golden key.
Wow, such a nice game, they only have 7 currencies.How to make a game riddled with microtransactions better:
- Play on PC
The end.
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lol, exactlyHow to make a game riddled with microtransactions better:
- Play on PC
The end.
i always do that as well ... because fuck that shit
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I started playing the game yesterday, after owning it since launch, and I have a bit of a love and hate relation with it.
The game looks lovely, and the soundtrack is very much 80's, "doing our best John Carpenter impression", so I find it appealing because of that.
But, the game is extremely unpolished, and buggy. Everything, from the movement of the character, to small texture issues in the screens where you change your look.
I have a very high tolerance for "jank", and buggy games, but after all these months I can't believe the number of bugs I experienced in just a couple of hours.
I mean, things like: suddenly my ammo turned to zero, and I couldn't shoot and died (I had 148 bullets, but they were suddenly gone from the ammo counter, and couldn't be equipped; I had to drop them to the ground, and pick them up again, in order for them to appear again); I got stuck in several objects, and had to fast travel elsewhere, in order to continue the game; and more.
Plus, unless things pick up significantly, the game is extremely empty, and with not much to do.
You go to a place, you search around everywhere for a note or an audio message that tells you to go to the next place. You go to the next place, search around for where to go next. And so far, it's been only that. Go to point A, and get message to go to point B. Go to point B, and get message to get to point C. Get to point C, and get message to go to point D. And so on.
So far, I haven't even seen an NPC.
I agree with completely. It is empty and janky as hell. i think it's all there is to it, go to a place to get next waypoint. But still, I'm loving it.I started playing the game yesterday, after owning it since launch, and I have a bit of a love and hate relation with it.
The game looks lovely, and the soundtrack is very much 80's, "doing our best John Carpenter impression", so I find it appealing because of that.
But, the game is extremely unpolished, and buggy. Everything, from the movement of the character, to small texture issues in the screens where you change your look.
I have a very high tolerance for "jank", and buggy games, but after all these months I can't believe the number of bugs I experienced in just a couple of hours.
I mean, things like: suddenly my ammo turned to zero, and I couldn't shoot and died (I had 148 bullets, but they were suddenly gone from the ammo counter, and couldn't be equipped; I had to drop them to the ground, and pick them up again, in order for them to appear again); I got stuck in several objects, and had to fast travel elsewhere, in order to continue the game; and more.
Plus, unless things pick up significantly, the game is extremely empty, and with not much to do.
You go to a place, you search around everywhere for a note or an audio message that tells you to go to the next place. You go to the next place, search around for where to go next. And so far, it's been only that. Go to point A, and get message to go to point B. Go to point B, and get message to get to point C. Get to point C, and get message to go to point D. And so on.
So far, I haven't even seen an NPC.
Because it has it charm and does some things really well. Like I'm loving that one has to shoot different parts of the robots. And it does Swedish village life so right, and growing up in a such place it does maybe make me look over many of it's flaws.
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Yeah, that's why I mention I have a love and hate relation with it.I agree with completely. It is empty and janky as hell. i think it's all there is to it, go to a place to get next waypoint. But still, I'm loving it.
The game sure has a wonderful "ambience" to it, it looks lovely (frequently extremely impressive, from weather effects, lightning, ...), and the soundtrack fits perfectly.
But, despite the sense of emptiness being appealing, I find the gameplay loop very limited and unappealing.
Even the collectables are uneventful. It's great that you can check them and rotate them (I assume some of these flyers are real things?), but there's not much here of interest so far, and they don't help make the world a "richer" place, content-wise.
It kind of makes me wish someone would take this map and engine, and did a new game in it.
With characters, missions, some appealing secrets and collectables, anything.
I'm hoping things pick up a bit soon, even if it's just some different loot or something.
Fuck yeah, XCX was the best Xenoblade game (I enjoyed them all) and I really hope it gets a Switch port.Agreed, Xenoblade Chronicles X is much better and underrated
Also, can you imagine the tears and rage if they release Drakengard 3 with the D Ending unaltered to modern tastes and expectations? lol.
Poor baby Papa NieR
And also maybe Kainé and Weiss being voiced by Laura Bailey and Liam O'Brien.
And also maybe Kainé and Weiss being voiced by Laura Bailey and Liam O'Brien.
I really wish i had Index controllers for HL:A. Im finding the Vive ones awkward to hold for a prolonged period of play and i keep pressing buttons i dont mean to and find holding the triggers uncomfortable. Ive taken about a million screenshots because i keep hitting the two buttons at the same time.
Ive just got the grenades which are fun but a few times ive not been able to coordinate the buttons and end up dropping it at my feet and then having a mad scramble to pick it up and lob it.
I haven't played Elex yet, but from what I hear for fans of that type of game it's very good.
Generally, I know people who would strongly disagree with calling their other games "sub-par"
. Personally I felt Risen 3 was pretty good.It's just always important to go into these games with the right mindset, and realize that what you're seeing is a tiny (by AAA standards) developer trying to make what's basically one of the most budget-intensive genres imaginable, a deep open world RPG.
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