Plenty of people complain about book, movies, and novels being overlong. And that complaint is often lodged at things like TV adaptations that stretch an originally shorter story thin.

Do you understand that two things can hold true at the same time? The game is good, with excellent combat, it's full of nostalgia and quirky moments. The game is ALSO filled with inane mini-games, that are not skippable, and suffers from bad pacing.

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

Angry comments be damned, the glacial pacing of FF7 Remake was one of its central flaws, and it sucks if it continues to plague its sequels. Pacing does matter, especially in storytelling. 

From Claire’s review:

I’ll bite.

Many of the side quests and things you could do in the original FF7 were things that, by and large, either didn’t make difference to either the narrative or characterization of the main cast of characters and their adversaries. This is made even more considerable when you consider that the OG Japanese…

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…

im 37 and I did too and had no idea about this til reading this article.

Bummer. Where will I find nude people on the internet now?

The Steam Deck is easily my favorite video game related purchase in a long time.

I’m asking for a second chance, because I will never do anything like this again, and I never have in the past.

They advertised a game that doesn’t even exist, the next generation zombie MMO with cutting edge UE5 graphics turned out to be an extremely basic extraction shooter with less than a dozen zombies made from prebuilt assets, that’s why it was a scam - it would be like promising the next gran turismo and releasing the…

The problem isn’t that people don’t “[set] out to make a bad game,” it is that they specifically put out a completely fake bullshot trailer, lied about the game that they were making (repeatedly), and delivered a game that looked different (absolutely worse) than any of their previous materials in a different genre…

Surely they’ve known for months if not years that the game they’ve been marketing as an open world MMO was going to be released, at least initially, as a bare-bones extraction shooter. Given that pre-existing knowledge, did they make any effort to be open with players about what the game would consist of once they…

I haven’t really followed this whole saga outside of a few articles here and there, but from what I gather, the trailers they released appear to, if we give them the benefit of the doubt, been aspirational for what they hoped the game could maybe be one day, rather than, you know, what a trailer actually should be,…

It kind of undercuts the bit if you completely fail to predict them though.

No, he’s exactly as he appears here. I’ve had a run in with him before and this is what he does. He’ll say something completely stupid and then when you point out his stupidity he starts trying to spin what he said as something intellectual you just didn’t understand because he himself is so far above the whimsy of…

You think a bunch of no money indie games are committing fraud to sponsor their games that will probably make a couple dozen thousand dollars each? Are you truly, TRULY that fucking clueless about how literally anything works?

As is now traditional (these features have been going for three years now!), these games are selected at random from the hundreds of emails I’ve received after appealing for suggestions. Unless I say otherwise, I’ve not played the games, and as such can’t vouch for them, not least because most have yet to be released.

You got Deck Builder, so that’s like, one in ten. Good job embarrassing yourself.