I don’t disagree that I dislike them breaking the game up. But you proceed under the false assumption that all the mini games somehow did not need development resources to create.

You don’t pour sawdust onto the game disc and it magically creates content. People still had to make these things, and this game still took…

I mean, in fairness the third disc is just the final dungeon so they can do all the big FMVs, same with 8 and 9. So you can split the game in two pretty effectively. But uh, they didn’t split it into two. So it feels very lopsided.

That it is a video game does not make it above concerns such as pacing and tone. More content and things to do is not a universally better thing. Video games are not solely interaction machines, those interactions can and should have some sort of meeting.

Yeah, sure, they expanded Midgar, and it is a good setting, but…

If I got my hands on the first Final Fantasy VII remake, I would rip out that whole ghost train yard sequence in the middle of the Sector 7 plate crisis.

Like, you are on your way to prevent an act of genocide and the game just decides to halt you and its a baffling.

I mean, I get what you are saying about filler, but its weird to say that the inclusion of a dozen resource intensive minigames and other content as a ‘Cash Grab’.

I cannot stress enough that it is because I picked it up in 2019 in anticipation of the remake and I wrote down my playtime once we found ourselves at the end of the overpass. And a cursory glance at a long play supports that rough number.

Like, its a very small fraction of the first disc. And I hadn’t played the game…

The first game took a literal 4 hour section of the game in which you are confined to a single city and expanded it to 60 hours. Now that it released a sequel with things to do and places to see and actually covers a sizable percentage of the story you have a complaint?

I mean, its a pretty faithful recreation of a nearly 20 year old game, so its not going to be a snappy or as confident as P5R.

As a long fan of the series, something thats as refined in terms of gameplay as P5 but a bit more languidly paced and more somber is just what I was looking for. And I’m glad they didn’t try to…

Okay, so the price point at least doesn’t feel like a gouge, but at the same time it just feels like a deeply dissatisfying piece of merch. The cards alone don’t seem to have much utility beyond the codes on them. It would be cool if they were like, coasters with unique art. But instead its just a mini-nuke that isn’t…

This is wild to me because I don’t really care for most of Sony’s 1st party stuff, so when I think of a great back half I think about 3rd party developers making the most of the hardware.

At this juncture, Sony has the install base it doesn’t need to worry as much about crossgen or other systems. If I buy a console game, I buy it for PS5/4. People are already bought into the ecosystem.

Heck, Xbox is phasing out physical games so they don’t really have retail competition. They can take a year off and…

Listen, I am not saying there are not great examples of queer rep in anime and manga, but some sort of weird fetish book in which a man is made forcibly transgender in some sort of sexually exploitive way is probably not what I would call quality queer rep.

Theres pretty much a queer member on every superhero team in…

So you brought up video game characters not being designed to be sexually appealing to you into a discussion about queer rep for no reason?

I know what OP is trying to say, I just want him to say it. And he did, he is upset about women not being attractive enough for the male gaze anymore. Because of ‘the agenda’.

“From my perspective”

People aren’t judging it by the metrics of a live service game. They are judging it by the standards of a massive Bethesda RPG. And it did not meet those standards.

Its called having an editor.

You arent LGBT, that much is certain.

Horizon 2. Spider-man 2. Games that feature very few meaningful changes from their predecessors except apparently their women just aren’t pretty enough for people who really like anime.