8bitecho.bsky.social
Self-imposed exile of the website formerly known as Twitter
FFXIVs resident one-time funni guy/Aki Tokugawa on Tonberry
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If you liked Sifu and Hifi rush Dead as Disco rules
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It does, but people who aren't into character action games or dmc specifically dont understand that they just see as it "button mashing and bullet spongy enemies" there is reward for playing stylishly but its still on the player to want to explore combo options to figure that out
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Why would I spend my time building things when this is the solution to everything?
Cause its cool
Why would I do all these combos on Dante when its faster to just do the same three hits into stinger?
Cause its cool
Why would I spend time stacking boxes to climb through a vent in Deus Ex
ect ect
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This is the age old argument around intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation
Both styles are cool but your reaction to it is entirely based on whether you preffered following the lego kit instructions or trying to build that thing out of lego by figuring out its shapes as a kid
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but as soon as I saw the robot I audibly said "call of doody" just based on its design being almost identical to the infinite warfare robot so it was interesting to watch people get baited for some new ip. Just a total wet fart of an announcement all around
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Yeah but hows thatnnew donkey kong tho
I know its not out yet but I couldnt give a SHIT about Mario Kart hows the monke
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The game not actually being that random, so you see everything after just a few runs, the lack of build variety in the classes, the lack of player to player communication its all a recipe for it to perform worse than I think people were hoping for even for those its target audience
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I mean, Im a crazy souls fan but theres a lot about this game that doesnt appeal BECAUSE I am. Set classes over custom builds, rougelike over focused hand crafted experiences, poor balance outside of 3 man teams.. and then therds the issues being discussed such as the online quality being poor or-
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I hope it succeeds, I have no intention of playing it myself but I really doxhope theyre able to iron out those early issues and make something gold for the people who enjoy this stuff because that means they can carry foward the best parts for future projects I will want to play
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Man I really dont want to be that dick sitting here like "I told you all this would suck" cause if it was really good then like, yeah even if its not my thing, good on FS for doing something out of their wheelhouse and nailing it but those early reviews are DIRE
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There are two dungeons that while not directly tied to the ending give context to many of the most important questions the game doesn't cover, ones that both you and Woolie have discussed
I wont say more than that due to spoilers but ______s Drafts and the Flying Manor are the ones to look out for
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Oh and then theres another dungeon thats optional but absolutely should be finished before the final dungeon and its INSANE that the devs dont make it mandatory given the closure it gives to *spoilers*
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There are 3 superboss dungeons that are absolutely worth doing on stream as 2 are lore important, and one has a way to round out any possible monoco skills you may have missed
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Handsy Bitchford being the biggest waft of smelly any time ANYTHING borderlands happens almost single-handedly turns new announcements from "oh shit that looks cool" to "GOD do I not wanna fucking watch this"
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Expedition 33 is decidedly not a first person game
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I mean absolutely but then every year theres complaints that cod needs to slow down because the yearly release cycle hurts the development of the games and because of the way theyre developed between 3 studios itll take 3 years before the next one comes out to address issues
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"The series has grown past the need to rely on final fantasy" really means that Disney wants the series to have as little to do with Squares ip as possible to make way for a 3 min full recreation of let it go in the frozen word
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Turn off all the gimmicky additions that ARENT the keyblade transformations because they stall combat so dramatically
Also the lack of Final fantasy characters outside of a gloridfied cameo in a paid dlc would be fine if said dlc wasnt the games actual ending and didnt make it so obvious that
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Kh3 does a lot right when it focuses on its core plot and its worlds look fantasitc
Its gameplay on the other hand Is such a dramatic step back from even the 3DS version of the game its hard to recommend even as a fan. It says a lot that the best way to play it is to use the custom difficulty to
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Refer to a person of Similar age whereas as Auntie and Uncle are used for people in my parents' generation or Kui and Koro, who used for those in my grandparents' generation. Theyre familial terms but they're more about showing the respect that we all came from the same place
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To be fair to the show, I think it means Cousin in the Polynesian colloquial sense as in "of our people," not so much as an actual relation
Like, personally, as a Māori man in NZ when im around a lot of other Māori who im not familiar with personally cousin is often used to address someone of-
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Bro despite ALL of the praise Expedition 33 has been getting ive seen no one talk about how fucking awesome that ost is
Its like up there with the best of FF, Persona and LAD for me i genuinely cant believe it fires on all cylinders in EVERY ASPECT
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So many up and coming titles probably have a lot of cool ideas but someone always says some version of "hey have you seen this new rougelike/deckbuilder/souls like/dungeon crawler/Bullet Heaven/Rythym game/boomer shooter/ Dating sim/Puzzle platfomer" and im left looking like:
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Tarkov and Hunt showdown and even then peaked at 2 million
People dont want this genre, it feels inherently antifun to lose your progress to another person with a personal garuntee from the game of no reward
Like i dont care if it felt good by bungie standards it was from inception the wrong genre
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Not that Fromsoft and bungie are the same thing, but this is what I mean when I hear the possibility of Duskbloods being an extraction type game.
Extraction pvp is just an inherently abhorrent idea to everyone that isnt a super freak
Like the only two (kind of) successful titles in this genre are
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Kinda an intern getting moved to a specific department after theyve shown where their skills lay guess
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You entered a contract for a base level of power, but your patron doesn't actually have worth for you until you prove yourself. From level 3 it can be assumed you have some skills that your patron can use for their own goals so they grant you a more specific pact to fulfill their needs
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Moment only leads to a reward sometimes, and then you get that same puzzle 5 runs in a row where you still dont get a reward out of it then all youve achieved is getting the player to feel almost stupid and then bored them with the follow through
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Whos express purpose is to encourage 100s of runs and substitute hand crafted direction with RNG elements, feel less like an oil and water situation, and more like pouring gasoline into a glass of milk and calling that a cocktail
It was never gonna work in the first place because if the "Aha!" 3/4
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At the exact moment, BEFORE the player feels stupid but long enough after they feel like they've exhausted their knowledge base that the best ones always are designed to be beaten once or maybe built upon on multiple loops (heres looking at you outerwilds)
The idea of combining that with the 2/4
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I dont like Rougelikes to begin with, so im definitely not the person to be weighing in heavily on these types of things but to be honest the idea of a rougelike puzzle game from the outset seems like a terrible idea. Puzzle games are unique in that they require the "Aha!" Moment to be delivered 1/4
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Kinda falls into the Rebirth/Ragnarok issue of "There's so much here, and it's all high quality, but does it NEED to be this long or would shaving a couple hours off be tighter'
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It's absolutely fantastic until the last 2 zones
Not that those two zones are bad, just that that's the exact moment the game gets into the territory of "too big"
And that's probably a lot to do with "I've got all the abilities, and I've solved combat now. Let's get moving"
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WAIT ITS PAID? TS NEVER GETTING OUT THE DOOR LET ALONE TO FAIL IN YEAR 2
Destiny 2 DIED FOR THIS
Bungie can suck my nuts I wish everybody making the executive decisions there a sincere go fuck yourself. I hope your studio burns and you get no severance from sony
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Destiny 2 died for this.
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But instead its shackled to a genre with a more niche and worse gameplay loop than even 1 life style battle royales where the only people that ever get ahead is pros followed by cheaters who WILL kill the game by its second year
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I have no clue who this character is, but looking at her gameplay in alpha max, she looks like she sits halfway between Vatista and Lili, which means im in
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Which sounds dismissive until you look into it and the examples of the games they use as "see this game does it well" all include the exact mechanics being lambasted by these pseudo-intellectual think pieces that read more and more like "i prefer when games were shitty and the camera didnt work"
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Trying to decide the likelihood of being punched in public if I buy the first responder tee
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It would be hilarious if Microsofts fumble with the "EVERYTHING SHOWN HERE COMES OUT THIS YEAR" that they fucked over Team Cherry with gave them a legal standing to back out of the contract without ramifications or even bolster their own standing with them funding wise
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Towards something that might have more staying power while still letting them delve into the play with your friends angle they clearly want to pursue. 3/3
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with seamless coop. And to then see that all the info is pointing towards it being an extraction game is not only dissapointing, its downright worrisome. The ONLY success story in this genre is Tarkov. Every attempt since has failed within a year and I just feel like the dev time could go 2/3
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Hey I wish I could be more optimistic about it but after Nightreign was shiwn to be a Rougelike (a genre that's a garunteed bullet to the head of games for me) I had hoped that if they were going to continue branching into multiplayer content we'd see something more along the lines of a linear souls
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That sounds more possible than we may think just based on the decision to release at its current count is more to do with it taking too long for them to get it in players hands and less that they dont have development started on multiple characters
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In saying that, all the big Soulslike reviewers I follow said its got some of the most satisfying progression of any of these things and holds a very similar gearing and skill system to Nioh without having you trawl through hours menus because of loot vomit and skill descriptions