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Because of what @Feel Like I'm On 42 said here:


its too samey. it doesnt evolve in any meaningful way despite abby being slightly more melee focused. its basically the same game from start to finish.

Which is fine for a short 8-10 hour game. Or even a 15 hour game like TLOU1. But 25-30 hours is pushing it. it got boring towards the end.

also, the game sets up its finale meticulously by having the wulf vs seraph war reach a climax at the end of day 3. the game mostly delivers on that, but ends up continuing for another 3-4 hours at which point it loses all its tempo and sense of pacing. for a story driven game, you cant have it be that poorly paced. especially towards the end.

What game isn’t the same from start to finish????

I’ve never seen a game as perfect as TLOU 2 get negativity lol. EVEN IF you didn’t like the story you can’t deny it excels in everything else.

Graphics
Sound
Motion Matching Animations
Cinematography
Attention to super small details ✔
Solid performance
Controls
Bang for your buck length
Quality
GOTY awards King
Production Values
Presentation

Yet people HAVE to find something petty to attack it lol..

It’s like greatness is automatically a target for unjustified hate…

 

[mindfreak191]

When you’re in VR with Alyx it can at points trick your brain into believing what you’re looking at is real - it’s actually crazy

I replayed HL:A recently but this time I would take an edible half an hour before I started playing....Let me tell you something, I literally forgot that I was in VR for a good time, one of the best experiences in my life lmao.

 

[GymWolf]

I replayed HL:A recently but this time I would take an edible half an hour before I started playing....Let me tell you something, I literally forgot that I was in VR for a good time, one of the best experiences in my life lmao.

Half an hour? What kind of super speedy digestion do you have?

Last time an edible had any effect on me it was like after 2 hours, and they were small cookies with 1 gr of hash per cookie so like small fucking bombs

 

[Lethal01]

Btw while we are talking about gorey melee, you people should try the free betatest of half sword, the graphic is shit and many basic animations are very silly looking but the physically generated damage system, the blood spilling tech and some of the animations are incredible and you have to play it by yourself to understand how good it is, it looks silly in video form






If only kingdom come had this type of damage and animations instead of the theatrical shit it has instead i would play the shit out of it.

On the opposite end of the spectrum fo what I want, relistic gore is just so bland and boring to me, and realistic swordfighting even more so

 

[GymWolf]

On the opposite end of the spectrum fo what I want, relistic gore is just so bland and boring to me, and realistic swordfighting even more so

The gameplay is only realistic if you are damn good dude, majority of us flail their weapons trying to hit shit before getting hit, you think i can do parries like the dude in the video there is no parry button, you deflect the weapons with the real time movement of the mouse (controller stick in my case)

And ultra realistic damage systems are beyond rare, majority of games have arcadey damage systems, we should praise when a small dev manage to achieve this level of realism.

This is basically a modern bushido blade mixed with exanima control scheme.

I'm super addicted with this game just because of the damage system and violence level, you even have those sound effects ala tlou2 when mofos die, with all the gargling, screaming etc, very cathartic

 

[Buggy Loop]

welp, a lot of good things in the future

Mega geometry with UE5 looks stunning. So is neural shaders

Black state I didn't know deviated so far from UE5, no nanite or Lumen. The body dismemberments is so cool

Alan wake 2 with new ray reconstruction old (left), new (right)

 

[Buggy Loop]

Just saw these at R/halflife.
alyx released in 2020
Man i can't imagine what valve will do with the visuals if they release HL3 .

They did this with Source 2, pre-baked and runs on a potato (relatively, 1060 will get you VR experience depending on resolution of headset).

No, I can't imagine what they would do with HL3.

Its still the best looking VR game by far. Sometimes the lighting is almost photoreal.

 

[SlimySnake]

What game isn’t the same from start to finish????

PLenty of them. Especially nowadays where even action adventure games like Horizon, ghost of tsushima and God of War are shipping with RPG elements allowing you to have builds that change the way you played the game mere minutes ago, let alone 30 hours ago.

I’ve never seen a game as perfect as TLOU 2 get negativity lol. EVEN IF you didn’t like the story you can’t deny it excels in everything else.

Graphics
Sound
Motion Matching Animations
Cinematography
Attention to super small details ✔
Solid performance
Controls
Bang for your buck length
Quality
GOTY awards King
Production Values
Presentation

Yes, and it was because of those things I gave it my GOTY. I just dont think that a game is above criticism just because it won Goty awards. especially if it has issues that were exacerbated by its length. MGS3 and MGS4 are two of my favorite games of all time and I can write an entire thesis on their shortcomings. MGS4 especially had severe pacing issues due to its 30 minute cutscene interludes.

And I just dont agree with the bang for buck angle. Thats how we got in a mess with games taking 5-7 years to make. Both Horizon and GOW are like 2-3x longer than their previous games, and meh, i wouldve rather had an epic finale than 50 hours of fetch quests.

It’s like greatness is automatically a target for unjustified hate…

Well, we dont talk about shit games so yes, only great games are going to have detractors. If you still think that my hate is unjustified after everything ive said then there is not much i can say to change your mind.

 

[SlimySnake]

Btw, with the surprise of no one, kc2 that looks barely any different than kc1 run well on console, now we can safely return to bash wukong that look a generation better and run like shit

Thats what people want from this gen. cross gen looking games that run well at 60 fps.

And then shit on anything thats 30 fps and looks next gen.

 

[SlimySnake]

New UE5 game from Witcher 4 director.

Gameplay at 3:52. looks ok i guess.

 

[coachmcguirk91]

New UE5 game from Witcher 4 director.

Gameplay at 3:52. looks ok i guess.

Do you mean Witcher 3 director?

 

[Msamy]

This one looks very interesting as AA game

 

[GymWolf]

No wonder i'm loving the animations in this game, the devs are trying to make their version of euphoria engine

 

[GymWolf]

welp, a lot of good things in the future

Mega geometry with UE5 looks stunning. So is neural shaders

Black state I didn't know deviated so far from UE5, no nanite or Lumen. The body dismemberments is so cool

Alan wake 2 with new ray reconstruction old (left), new (right)

I just watched blank state, what dismemberment are you talking about? When the 2 enemies at the end explode? It looked pretty average as far as gore effects tbh.

 

[GymWolf]

New UE5 game from Witcher 4 director.

Gameplay at 3:52. looks ok i guess.

Looks promising but yeah graphically it only looks ok.

 

[hinch7]

New UE5 game from Witcher 4 director.

Gameplay at 3:52. looks ok i guess.

New origional IP, get to play as a vamp (hybrid?) and looks quality. I'm in.