Ignoring your uncalled for insult, that’s just not how I play games.
Once I was free of the tutorial area, I set off in a random direction and did my thing. I completed multiple divine beats before ever setting foot in Kakariko.
If I wanted to follow the direct path as described by NPCs, I might as well go play a linear game. I got to the destinations eventually, but almost never on the beated path.
It’s a game about free exploration, it’s silly to expect the player to directly follow these instructions. Just make him part of the mandatory tutorial area or have him come to you after collecting your first 10 seeds or something.
I only found out about the guy after finishing the game.
God of War 2018
I gave it a full playthrough, but since then it has pretty much become my definition of AAA slop.
The game is littered with “puzzles”. The solution is always obvious within seconds and on top of that you get commentary on how to “solve” it. They just waste your time.
Stats don’t matter. Early on you get your first weapon upgrade, I think I tripled my damage. The very next enemy got some commentary about “showcasing” my new weapon. It took the exact same amount of hits as the same enemy type did before ugrading my weapon. Since weapon upgrade materials are fixed drops from bosses, everything just scales alongside you.
The battle system in general is a slog. 9 out of 10 times throwing your axe feels like the best option. Even the post game bosses are annoying at best.
Also, why is the camera so darn close. Your “cinematic angles” mean shit when the gameplay suffers from it.
There are so many “cutscenes” that have you walk at a snails pace. If your “gameplay” can be executed by a rubber band on my joystick, then just give me a proper cutscene. Annoying me isn’t immersive.
You get awesome godly powers - for as long as cutscenes are running. Your super healing and mountain splitting punches mean nothing against any random draugr.
Probably some more things, but it’s been a few years.
The story was fine, but I would have enjoyed watching a cutscene compilation more than playing the game. In fact that’s what I did your second entry.
Pokemon is owned by GameFreak, Creatures Inc and Nintendo. Roughly split in thirds.
However, Nintendo also owns an undisclosed amount of Creatures Inc and I think parts of GameFreak, making them the majority holder of Pokemon as a whole.
GameFreak does release other games on different platforms. Notably, they will release Beast of Reincarnation on everything but the Switch 2 this year.
Some free Silksong DLC, maybe?
I deal with crack and I’m fine! It’s those damn addicts who are the problem.
It’s the same thing every time. Someone tries to stop a corporation from preying on vulnerable people and others jump to its defense because they “aren’t affected”. Have some empathy, man.
Still working through Shin Megami V Vengeance!
Finished the second main area, out of 4, I presume. By now the story has established the new group of antagonists and gave more screen time to the previously underused cast. There are enough new demons that I can barely keep up with fusing them all! But I always feel to need to collected them all in SMT/Persona. (Funnily enough, I never did in Pkmn.)
Finished the first route of AI: The somnium files!
Got Ota’s ending, which didn’t actually solve the case. Luckily, the game tells you about each branching path and you can freely jump to them.
The humor is hit or miss, but it did land with me and my partner. The mystery is fun and the characters are all around fun, too. We’ll do the other routes and then jump right into the sequel!
It probably has the best translation tooling. On top of that, they even learn it as their second language.
But I don’t think that’s a major factor. The UK always had special privileges within the EU and was probably just the most susceptible major country for the idea of leaving.
Thanks for asking, but there isn’t yet. I’ve dabbled around quite a bit and wan’t to focus on actually finishing something this year. Maybe for the next one.
Over the last two years, I’ve often lost my drive to continue since there are always new shiny ideas that are far more interesting than doing a lot of the menial work game dev involves. Kinda the opposite of your problem, really.
Didn’t game too much this holiday season and I want to focus more on making games instead of playing them this year - let’s see how that one is working out.
Anyhow, got in a good chunk of SMT V Vengeance! The QoL stuff is awesome, but it’s still pretty similar to the original - just with more quests and demons along the way . I don’t mind since I loved the original game, but if you didn’t it likely not worth it.
Started Ai: The Somnium Files! Decided to play through some detective games with my partner. This one is a great start! I like the characters, it’s both fun and has a good mystery. I’ll probably go through the entire series + rain code, then do the Ace Attorney games. Are there other games like this?
At this point getting slandered by Israel seems more like a badge of honor. I don’t even want a nation committing an ongoing genocide to like me.
It’s in a similar vein. There are new demons, quests, QoL stuff and some rebalancing changes just like in P5R. However, instead of a new chapter, Vengence added a new route through the game - revamping most of the story. (Or fixing the lack thereof.)
Currently, it’s still quite similar to vanilla SMT V, but I’ve been told it will diverge a lot more quite early. Don’t know if or how many new locations there are.
Finished up Harvestella.
Overall, I really like the game. The farming and combat are both somewhat simple and the story does start out generic. However, then it speedruns a complete JRPG story within a single chapter and then throws another 5 chapters at you. The characters are fun, the world is interesting and I felt engaged throughout. Even did some more farming after I already bought everything until I hit the money cap at 999,999.
Finished Pokemon Legends Arceus!
My initial impression stands. The first area was some of thr best Pokemon I ever played. Afterwards the entire thing kind of fell apart. Too many repeated Pokemon per area; most things didn’t even reach half my level and fhe story never hooked me. The final fight against the hidden antagonist, I guess, was somewhat challanging, but I don’t think the battle system is all that fun. Sometimes, you defeat a Pokemon and the next one just gets 4 turns in before you move again (even using my fast moves!). But still, I really enjoyed that initial catching of Pokemon and think it’s woth trying.
Just yesterday, I started Shin Megami Tensei V Vengence.
I love the original SMT V, it’s one of my favorite Switch games. Having played some more SMT games since then, it does show some cracks, but I’m still having a great time and enjoy the new stuff. It’s probably best coming of Persona and I still prefer it over SMT 3 Nocturne, which I think is somewhat uncommon. (Although that’s mostly due to Nocturnes save system. On the highest difficulty, not being able to save for sometimes hours at a time really does suck when you could die from a single random encouter at any time. At full health. Without getting a turn in.)
Psychonauts is really good and currently less than 2 bucks. There’s also a sequel, currently about 9 bucks. (Both in €)
VII is one of my favorites! It is quite long, yes, but it’s structured in such a way that you can easily take breaks inbetween mostly self-contained areas.
I’m still planning on going through the entire Trails series at some point, but I’m still debating on whether to play these or the originals.
On one hand, these are probably the most polished games in the series, right? Spoiling me for the rest of it. On the other hand, having played the demo for the first one, I still thought it felt somewhat awkward and clunky. Making me think I might not enjoy the originals.
What’s consensus on this? Does it make sense to start with the remakes?
There you go: https://satellitetracker3d.com/
There are a few sites like celestrak.org hosting TLEs for all satellites and some debris, which allow you to calculate current and future positions yourself. They are published by NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) since 2003.
These aren’t super critical information. While we know where they are, it’s not always public information what they do exactly.
Just noticed Octopath Traveler 0 is missing, I think it’s releasing today actually.
Although I still don’t know what to think of it, the first trailer gave heavy mobile energy and I never looked further.
Yes! I’ve bought most things already, so I don’t really need the money anymore. However, it’s still fun to collect new cooking ingredients (new crops; or new ways to process them) and to finish the remaining fairy requests (grow x amount of y; unlock better skils etc.).
I don’t think I ever found a potion before clearing the area. I remember stocking up on food, like you, and eventually stumbling into the merchant selling me fire resistant armour.