BulldogXero

I like it a lot and hate it at the same time.

Had to clear out bandits from a quarry, and the amount of enemies I had to kill was just insane. Was not difficult once I upgraded my gear except for I kept hitting the exploding barrels and killing myself. Luckily it respawned me close enough to the place that progress was intact, and I just kept chipping away at it.

I think I may end up somewhere on the side of favoring quality over quantity, but it's truly a beautiful game with some interesting mechanics.

Not necessarily know. I care about lazy and blatant AI use like when you see artwork in an advertisement and the character has 6 fingers.

I think the combat in this game is awful. The trailers make it look like it's Platinum Games level but it's actually a shittier version of modern-day Assassin's Creed style combat. You get to these camps with like a million enemies and they all just bum rush you, and the controls aren't responsive enough to react

The more I play, the more I am convinced that this game started out as a F2P GACHA game that was converted to a single player RPG late in development.

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Most complaints about gameplay is the lack of handholding and objective markers.

No tip screen popping up to tell you how to complete a puzzle. . .or even that it IS a puzzle

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I can see this being annoying. In the age of the internet, anyone that doesn't want to fool with this is just going to look things up online. There should always be an option for waypoint markers even if it's turned off by default.

The thing with a game like TotK is that the puzzles were mostly all segmented off into shrines so it was very easy to know when you're going through a puzzle. The puzzles were also intuitively designed and had multiple ways to complete them.

I think there's little reason not to make your own. You can use a lot of different things, depending on what systems you want to be able to emulate.

You can use a lot of different things (Rasberry Pi, mini-PC, old desktop PC, old laptop,etc). Install something like Retroarch or Batocera and have fun.

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It looks like a medieval fantasy cross between Red Dead and Zelda, and if they nail it, I will be all in.

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I am convinced that this is essentially Black Desert designed for the ground up as a single player RPG. I expect there to be a lot of detail in the world design and the combat to be a lot of fun. The story will probably be complete trash.

I see this as being a better Dragon's Dogma.

I liked it when it came out, but having gone back to play it, I think it's by far the weakest of the RPG AC games.

Of all the games set in open world Japan recently released, this is probably the most bland, boring version.

The cities feel very copy/paste and are mostly devoid of NPC activity. I do not feel that this is entirely due to the setting.

The side activities are very bland/repetitive.

Yasuke is kind of a more interesting character storyline-wise, but he is a character made for people who hate playing AC games.

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Watered down is COD, Far Cry, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Borderlands, and such

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There's a lot of parallel between Dragon Age Veilguard and FF 16. FF 16 just as much stronger writing.

Honeslty the biggest indicator of how fricked we are was when Christopher Judge mocked the length of that year's CoD campaign at the game awards, and a butthurt CoD goes on twitter bragging about CoD's "player engagement metrics" treating it like it's some kind of massive gotcha moment.

At one point in time you had people with passion making video games. Now you have corporate drones.

I think in general they have leaned too far into the wackiness aspect. Probably has something to do with the original director leaving Sega.

They've also embraced a lot of unfortunate AAA gaming trends with making their games 80 hours long and their maps enormous for no reason.

The games were better when they were 15-20 hours long set in small maps densely packed with activities. I think when you feel compelled to develop a segway for players to travel around faster, you've probably messed up somewhere.

A bad Yakuza game isn't a horrible experience, but my problems with Kiwami are mostly into how it looks visually and the lack of quality sub stories. I am starting to wonder if the studio is bleeding talent or stretched too thin.