I disagree with Infinity Nikki as I've played it. It has good concepts and worldbuilding ideas, but the actual scene-to-scene writing is really, really slowly paced, not engaging, and honestly not that well written. I try very, very hard to not play a podcast while I play it but it for sure has all of the feelings of a podcast-game experience.
Character design can only take you so far, which was part of my point. You need the rest to be that 9/10 experience (if that what your game is going for)
And this is one of my issues. You are using a broad brush with western writers, and then using a very thin brush with everyone else. The fair way to go about this would be to use the same critical mind for every game and not have bias about it.
I agree with this but for all writers, not just western ones.
If people here keep saying how much better these games are than their western counterparts, then that means I have to give each and every game a fair chance to impress me. That's what being fair is all about. I will eventually move on to Stellar Blade and Wukong. I don't have high hopes for either's story but I know their gameplay will most likely impress me.
Yet you have people here claiming otherwise. Both can't be correct, so based on what you're saying, people are defending them too hard.
I hope so, but so far PBZ has only impressed me with gameplay, encounter design, and not it's story. Again, that's not me taking a dig at the game as I want it to be good or better than what I'm currently witnessing.
Another chud ownage in progress, Scribbler?
Haha, my man is very critical. I can recommend you some Chinese games with great stories. I just can't comment on translation though, as I played them in Chinese.
"But it's unsustainable!"
Lol if you say so. Giving them a free pass for yet another non-rpg ‘Rpg’ is exactly why games keep regressing.
Have you played the gayest game of all time, Ocarina of Time?
LectureMaster
Chinese? Did I miss anything?OOT is gay shit, indeed.
Have you played the gayest game of all time, Ocarina of Time?
I appreciate the recommendations and I'll wishlist both of these, thank you. Again, I'm not trying to be overly critical, I'm simply trying to be fair, unbiased, and neutral. A fun game will be a fun game regardless of origin, culture, or intent, that's always how I've felt about this hobby since I was a kid and that northern star has not changed or wavered.
This certainly worked out for "The Completionist".If his schtick is that he 100%'s all games before reviewing, he probably knows more what he's talking about than most
I've seen you name what you feel are the strengths and weaknesses of modern day eastern game design. What are some of your favorite strengths of modern day western game design? It can be a top 5 if needed, but I'm just curious.
This depends on one's perspective. If you mean the tons of genres that have exploded onto steam in the past 10 years that offer experiences aside from challenge and skill, I'd disagree. It's fun for those who want them that way.
Agreed, but to me even then that doesn't mean they're not trying to be made to be fun. Things go wrong sometimes, mismanagement happens, games are cancelled, money gets spent wrong, and even after all of this most devs are still just trying to make a good experience.
I've grown to be okay with people constantly being negative on...well, everything. It's the part of the internet's story arc we are in right now.
Man... I don't have as much fun doing this anymore as I used to. Too many bad faith arguments, too many people who are playing team sports, too many cyclical arguments I've seen again and again. Sometimes it's fun to hop in and engage but I mostly stick to reacting and posting fun comments and gifs for a reason. I've been trying to put more time into gaming itself than this forum and so far I've been successful.
LectureMaster
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Angry_Megalodon
thanks for the peaceful back and forth. 
Yea and he's played up as a joke and loser.OOT gave us MM which gave us:
This depends on one's perspective. If you mean the tons of genres that have exploded onto steam in the past 10 years that offer experiences aside from challenge and skill, I'd disagree. It's fun for those who want them that way.
If you mean people making games with a social/political message, but they're still games at the end of the day that you can play and have fun with, I'd still disagree. Again, it's fun for those who want them that way.
The main thing I'd mostly-agree with are the games which I'd consider monetary wallet vampires that prey on addictions, that were built for people in suits at the top floor of a building in order to make a quick buck. But even then, sometimes those games strangely can find a way to be fun depending on what they do and how much they give you vs how much they charge.
Agreed, but to me even then that doesn't mean they're not trying to be made to be fun. Things go wrong sometimes, mismanagement happens, games are cancelled, money gets spent wrong, and even after all of this most devs are still just trying to make a good experience.
I've grown to be okay with people constantly being negative on...well, everything. It's the part of the internet's story arc we are in right now.
I guess one of my issues is that most of the people who are telling others to 'not play this' or 'stay away from that' are not really recommending alternative experiences.
There are tons of games that release every year, especially this year as we're packed with so many releases some games will have no choice but to fail in sales... but people are being recommended a microscopically small amount of alternative games after they are told to avoid most of everything else or that everything else is trash.
Man... I don't have as much fun doing this anymore as I used to. Too many bad faith arguments, too many people who are playing team sports, too many cyclical arguments I've seen again and again. Sometimes it's fun to hop in and engage but I mostly stick to reacting and posting fun comments and gifs for a reason. I've been trying to put more time into gaming itself than this forum and so far I've been successful.
On topic, I do see myself playing Avowed one day, just not Avowed version 1.0 and not at 69.99 or 59.99. This game has a road ahead of it and I'm curious to know where it leads. I'll be in the OT when it's 24.99 or something, and I'll probably be comparing it a ton to Zeno Clash as that's the game it continues to remind me the most of, even on review day.
Define “bomb” within the Xbox ecosystem system… they don’t rely on sales to determine success! For them, Indiana Jones was successful cause 4 million people played it! How many actually gave them money by purchasing it? Who the fuck knows. And does Microsoft care? Who the fuck knows? They must not care as they push rentals so hard and try fooling everyone into thinking a metric of success, in fact the ONLY metric of success for them, is how many people played the game!
Karak
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Link wears a green dress with a matching hat, and plays a hipster flute. How obvious can you get?
Microsoft absolutely do care. Depending how well these games do on Gamepass will decide the future of the subscription. I think they'll give the service another year or two to see if they can gain momentum, but Gamepass is certainly on the chopping block unless it rapidly improves its numbers
Kind of torn apart from a couple of peoples I trust, including GmanLives. Also two french reviewers I follow, both are complete opposite opinions, like WTF how can it be so polarizing.
While also having this guy who was the goat sekiro teacher and other souls in general, liking the exploration a lot and finding the combat quite ok. I'm a bit on the side of his opinion that I always like a fantasy RPG above most genres and exploration is a big part of my enjoyment.
On some level its a disappointing obsidian RPG, on the other hand it seems like its almost Borderland a tad with combat and loot and some side exploration. Becomes more of a simplistic RPG like
Many strange decisions in the game that is puzzling, such as no respawn, no AI emergent gameplay, simplistic RPG elements like looting a chest just uses lockpicks and no skills required, etc. Very weird and unexpected direction from them. It seems a fun game on its own but when you attach Obsidian name on that, I think its puzzling. Waiting on more impressions in coming days and otherwise if it comes to it, I'll try on gamepass next week.
If his schtick is that he 100%'s all games before reviewing, he probably knows more what he's talking about than most
