Thank you! Thank you for mentioning pacing and tone. More is not always better.

Good bite! Well said.

Enlighten me, please. How did I use “cash grab” so wrongly that you had to invoke the Lord’s name in exasperation?

One thing has nothing to do with the other. I never said it’s a bad game and no one should play it. It’s still a game in 3 parts, that you have to pay three times for. A game that could have been tighter, have less filler and cost 1/3 of its current price. A cash grab, in short.

I compare the slow, methodical dance with Artorias or Fume Knight to Sister Friede and Gael and... no. I nope out. The game is not for me.

So, because people worked on 3 discs of filler, it’s not a cash grab? I don’t follow. The game could have been one great remake, but no.

Just everything is so fast and hectic. Enemies never stop slashing, you can roll 20 times I a row... gone is the tactical gameplay of DS1 and 2.

Remaking a very popular game: 70 euros. Remaking it into 3 parts, full of filler: 3x70 euros. Is my math off?

Not if it's not optional/skippable.

Doesn’t sound like the filler is optional.

I was considering buying it, but playing DS3 kept me from it. DS3 was ok, but the switch to twitchy gameplay turned me off.

My friend, Bob Sacamano, disagrees.

“For Rebirth, the bloat comes from a constant, inescapable barrage of mini-games”.

They looked up from their phone momentarily.

In this case a steel parachute.

I thought the point is not to have to worry about cyclic, collective and co. To be able to fly a helicopter like you would a fixed-wing aircraft.

You have a point.

What would be the read/write speed of such a disk, though?

This is a good idea, but I am afraid it could be vaporware. Helicopters are insanely hard to fly and the only thing that makes it possible is that a human’s ass, with (hopefully) pants on, is sitting in the pilot’s seat and balancing the whole thing.

What an unbearably ugly car. It screams nouveau-riche and - I am sorry - American (the worst parts of it). You can do much better, auto industry!