did u rly play it felix
I watched like 40 minutes of it
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That doesn’t do it justice. While the game does have more than a few flaws it doesn’t really get starting gameplay-wise until a couple hours in and some of its absolute mechanical highlights (notably the mechs, and then the flying mechs), and also the most amusing excuse for introducing a new combat power-up which is that your team mates just assumed you knew you were a superpowered cyborg cause everyone else sure did, and that you must’ve had some good reason not to use your full powers, are only introduced mid-campaign or later. This is one of the few open worlds with actual level design, and the katamari effect when you find out how differently it works on multiple scales has almost no equivalent.
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it did seem like the producers were managing to undermine a considerable amount of actual game design, yeah
Depends. The decision to keep the mechs for later in the game is a great one, for example. A sense of scale has to be established before you can blow it away by introducing them, the effect would not be nearly the same if you could use them right away. To stick with the Katamari comparison, it’s why it doesn’t let you roll up the whole world until the very final level.
It’s actually a very well designed game in many respects as long as you can tolerate its writing, but that’s not the kinda thing you’re gonna find out by watching 40 minutes of it.
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I like being able to sit in chairs or lay in beds. I like making my party all sit down in a tavern in ultima 7 and making them eat and drink. I like clicking on a door in quest for glory and getting a menu of whether I want to knock, open the door, pick the lock, etc. I like that you can get breakfast every morning or dinner every night in the tavern in quest for glory. I like robbing places being an optional sort of locked off risky thing instead of the default behavior. the perfect game would be being able to do all of the above things in xenogears towns.
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i just want to have a dedicated smoking button in a game. just sit at the tavern and light the pipe.
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… snd then find out whether it is a non-smoking place, hilarity or serious brawl ensuing after a few minutes!
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Are there any rpgs in which you can “smoke a bowl” or is that too progressive for this conservative genre
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Btw I’ll totally steal some of this thread’s ideas if I ever make a videogame town
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A cursory search suggests drug use will bump your ESRB rating to M, which I feel is not the kind of rating most RPGs aim for.
Corrected
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i sorta wanna apologize for making this thread and then never having the mental energy to making a more substantial post in it
but it’s good, yall are good and this is a fun place to read about video games
still blows my mind that there’s a whole community of people out there getting paid to write about video games and us suckers have been doing it better than them for free for, like, decades
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I’m still not sure what a video game is
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one day we’ll figure it out, together
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In this world quality work doesn’t really get paid most of the time, is what I learned
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