statue simulator 2020 or: how i learned that trying to use your muscles as a piece of stone is extremely painful
gacktâd up dragonâs dogma
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XV was one of the best single player Final Fantasy games
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This is going to be Brutal Fate, huh?
This cannot be, Tulpa. No way. That game, except for when youâre fishing and smiling at your cute friends, feels barely playable.
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i mean i guess getting two solid boys on big fun future adventures games means we were due for some kind of attack on titan game of thrones reckoning
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demonâs souls costs the equivalent of $90 USD in the UK lol
what a gaffe!
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XVIâs combat looks like a direct port of XVâs combat. Teleporting, focus on canned animation aerial attack combos, summons as giants that change the play field entirely, controlling one character only
In other words, I expect to be as mechanically satisfied by 16 as I was with 15, but have no interest at all in the environment or aesthetic, so it seems like a step down right now
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I didnât have a very great understanding of XVâs combat, but playing VIIR made me think they moved the presentation closer to the business of actually attacking. So I hope that XVI follows that trend and makes the combat feel closer to how it looks.
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I wouldnât trade any of those for the demons souls aesthetic. They could change not a one of those things and just make it 4K 60 FPS WTF update, and it would be a better game than if they fixed all those things and went with these aesthetic choices
like i just wicked donât care about game balance, they got 4 other games to futz with that stuff, itâs not why demonâs souls is cool. Just make it more accessible.
The nexus is perfect why would anyone try to bedazzle the nexus 
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Honestly just get a good emulator going for Demonâs Souls on PS5 lol
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VIIR slowed the combat down, let you control the rest of your party and cut the teleporting out, but it was otherwise pretty much the same in my opinion. VIIRâs combat is definitely better than XVâs but thereâs an obvious iteration going on between the two games.
From how you describe it though, I should perhaps have been more specific
XV is a good single player final fantasy game so long as combat is in âwait modeâ rather than âactive modeâ. Itâs a chaotic mess without the ability to just pause and make decisions
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ahh maybe I should give the wait mode a chance when I inevitably revisit it.
I donât really have an opinion on FF XVI yet. Trailer looked okay. Aesthetic is whatever at the moment. Itâs early who knows what will change before itâs out. I am disappointed though that itâs almost 2021 and they still wonât make one of these that looks like a Yoshitaka Amano painting. Take a chance! You might just make a thing that appeals to people beyond the fan base.
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Oh man this is the generation that the $70 retail price trigger gets pulled.
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honestly Iâm baffled people are making as big a deal about it as they are, because how often do people actually buy games at full price nowadays, especially digitally on PC and non-Nintendo consoles
From what I played of VIIR, it seemed to be moving in the right direction to improve on the stuff about XVâs combat that I just found incredibly unengaging, but IMO was still not quite there. I hope that iteration continues in this!
I believe that both XV and VIIR probably become more interesting after the first few hours, but what I played of both justâŚwasnât enough to convince me to keep going I guess. My reaction to it is very much âold man yells at cloudâ style âthis is new and i donât like itâ and would much rather have preferred a simple turn based system.
I also like finished BloodBorne though so itâs not like Iâm averse to action. The new FF battle system just felt like a very unpleasant compromise to me.
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I mean considering the reliance the industry has on first-week sales and preorders, a lot of people presumably are buying at full price. And even if not, 30% off $70 is more than 30% off $60.
I mean, I donât care really. Gonna be wild though.
From July:
I read somewhere once that if video games were priced âappropriatelyâ (however you define that) they would regularly be over $100.
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