To be clear, I was saying that the reason open world games get a bad rap is that the design can come off as lazy in some games (the same dialogue being said by 9000 different NPCs all over the world, every cave looking exactly the same, etc.).

It is, but it’s still not that fast, especially compared to From’s latest games (and Elden still looks faster than DS3, at least based on what I saw).

I think you meant: “Microsoft continuing to show gamers already in their ecosystem that they don’t need to purchase additional hardware”

I don’t think open-world and beautiful design are mutually-exclusive, I’ve played a few games that prove it’s just devs being lazy.

1) You could’ve told me this was a Dark Souls game completely without GRRM’s involvement, and nothing in the trailer would’ve seemed out of place.

Ah man, I loved that shit, lol. I don’t blame you for hating it, but I don’t think I ran into the ads until after I played the game, so I thought they were pretty funny (strategy guide has the scratch and sniff stuff too).

Same for both! I had to have the Classic and a big part was Earthbound, but a big part of grabbing a Switch day 1 was the “promise” of a Virtual Console with (hopefully) Earthbound on it.

Earthbound was a game I randomly stumbled into and rented at a Blockbuster the year it came out, then I rented it again, and finally, at some point, quit lying to myself, and just bought the damn thing. A rental that very quickly turned into one of my favorite games of all time, and one of that absolute hallmarks for…

Right? I’d have paid money to be there for that shit! lmao

Glad to see that group of dudes mock these ladies; it’s important to see shit like this normalized so that 1) marginalized people don’t always have to be the ones standing up for themselves and 2) non-marginalized people see people that look like them standing up for others (not to say they haven’t, but people tend to…

What’s frustrating is that this whole debate makes it more likely for other studios to just say “fuck it, we’ll do loot boxes instead of skins, it’s just not worth it.”

I think the issue is more that a 6/10 game is more likely to let you down (it’s more divisive), not necessarily that it’s a “lower tier” of game; there are plenty of 6/10 games I’d give an 8 or 9 to, it’s just a riskier proposition than a game that’s scoring 9/10 everywhere.

You’d lose that bet, but I do kinda like that as a descriptor for the Mako!

Yeah man, I have no issues with the direction 2 or 3 went, really, since I think they also did some really cool stuff, but there’s really no substitute for the feelings you get playing through the first one.

Honestly, 100% agreed. It really captured the “you’re exploring an unknown galaxy” thing for me like ME1 did, and while I had some issues with the game, I would’ve loved to play more of it.

Imo, ME1 has always been required playing; it’s such a cool sci-fi story, and really has a vibe neither of the other 2 capture.

Yeah, Destiny is a really interesting game in this respect, imo; there are hardcore players (a fair amount, actually) who just play constantly and obsess over every minor detail, every gun roll, etc. There are players like you, who check in for the major expansions, and players like me, who aren’t hardcore enough to…

Destiny definitely boots you at some point, so no, it doesn’t work the same way a single-player game would. If you try to resume before the point where it logs you out, though, yes.

You’re taking this pretty literally lol. I just meant maybe I was more focused on the Aeris/Tifa/Cloud triangle and didn’t pay enough attention to Yuffie’s side story..

Hey, maybe I’ll like her this time! She just never took off for me in the original game, maybe because I already had my heart set on Tifa and/or Aeri(s)(th).