I think this video does the best job explaining why I think the game just isn't fun
Nailed it. I started watching it and thought I would bail after seeing it was nearly an hour long, but I stuck with it and he perfectly described so much of what I've been thinking about the game and why TLOU1 was a different experience.
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...Alright, that was meant for the simpsons thread, but I'm just gonna go ahead and leave it.
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Just an update on Assassin's Creed Valhalla bugs: they released a big patch yesterday (1.0.4) that seems to have addressed most of the issues. I was able to go back and complete side quest world events that I had to abandon earlier due to bugs. And Eivor hasn't had another random seizure anymore either.. yet.
Think those waiting on bugs to be fixed before playing it are in the clear now.
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There’s a lot more than 8 minutes worth of content, but even if you thought there was only that, then you clearly got the point of posting the video. It wasn’t about the high quality jokes about Menards or Goopy Goblin Brain, it’s about the actual points about the game he makes in the video, whether they’re 8 minutes long or 40 minutes long.
Which is (to summarise for people who don’t like YouTube gamer level humour) that Naughty Dog relies on outdated and largely boring gameplay, produces games where your actions are wildly inconsistent with the narrative proposed in cutscenes, and in the car of TLOU2: where the overall message is grade school level in it’s complexity and approaches with hamfists, where it gives you no real reason to care about anyone aside from the game screaming “CARE ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEY HAVE A NAME!” and where TLOU1 was the exception because Joel was a ####ty person, so his actions and the reactions to them made sense, and you actually cared about Ellie, because you were actually present for the formation of that relationship.
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That's a lot of it. There's a whole structural issue with the story too, but we've done this to death at this point. It was a good game for a lot of reasons, it had a lot of flaws that kept it from being a classic like its predecessor. No need to re-litigate it a dozen times.
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That's a lot of it. There's a whole structural issue with the story too, but we've done this to death at this point. It was a good game for a lot of reasons, it had a lot of flaws that kept it from being a classic like its predecessor. No need to re-litigate it a dozen times.
I just bought it like two days ago and don’t follow the whole online gamer controversies at all so apologies but it is relevant to me!
I’ll admit I’m way, way behind the times though. I play games about 1-3 years past launch date. I’m like the GotY edition gamer. I don’t pay for DLC and I don’t deal with bugs.
I’m still finishing AC Odyssey. Currently in Elysium. About to pass the 100hr mark, which if I’m being honest is too much. This was at most a 70 hour game. Way too much repetition and pointless quests.
Yeah, I do the same thing. Other than TLOUII and FF7 Remake, which are games I've obviously been anticipating for years, I haven't played a game near its release date since... I don't know when. I bought Odyssey at some point last year when it was on sale for 20 bucks and haven't touched it. When the lockdown started in March / April I finally got around to Spider Man... I don't go through games quickly enough to need to play the latest thing, and this is cheaper.
On the other hand...
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Speaking of Spider-Man, it’s on sale for like $25 (I don’t care about the PS5 version). With a trade-in I can get it for like $15. Is this something I must do?
More like something you should do. It's not a masterpiece by any standard, but it is a whole hell of a lot of fun. Even just traveling around the city to get from mission to mission (which is not quite an accurate portrayal of Manhattan but it kinda feels like it is) is fun. The combat is fun and if it gets repetitive you can change your playstyle through the suits and upgrades and mix things up. The story is solid comic book fare, nothing daring, but as a video game plot perfectly cromulent. Clearly a good buy at that price.
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Man one thing I find annoying in Miles Morales is the game just never shuts up. You can’t go 30 seconds without some podcast playing or phone call coming through with some long conversation. Sometimes I just want to swing around with the cool beat playing and just enjoy that, you know? I had the same problem with Lost Legacy, characters never shut up, just jabbering to each other constantly.
Man one thing I find annoying in Miles Morales is the game just never shuts up. You can’t go 30 seconds without some podcast playing or phone call coming through with some long conversation. Sometimes I just want to swing around with the cool beat playing and just enjoy that, you know? I had the same problem with Lost Legacy, characters never shut up, just jabbering to each other constantly.
Reminds me of Vice City every time Lance would call.
Working my way through WoW: Shadowlands. So far so good. It's got much more of a Legion feel than a BfA one, which is good (I didn't particularly like BfA).
The story is pretty linear, though, and it's the same for Horde/Alliance, which is a bit of a downer. If feels weird going to lvl 50 from 120, to.
Man one thing I find annoying in Miles Morales is the game just never shuts up. You can’t go 30 seconds without some podcast playing or phone call coming through with some long conversation. Sometimes I just want to swing around with the cool beat playing and just enjoy that, you know? I had the same problem with Lost Legacy, characters never shut up, just jabbering to each other constantly.
I think you can turn off most of the podcast interruptions in the options.
I downloaded and am playing Metal Gear Solid The Phantom Pain. I've never played a MGS game before and so far it's great. I'm terrible at being sneaky and always seem to end up in gun battles, but it's fun. Is it more important to try and be sneaky or are the gun battles ok once in awhile?
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I downloaded and am playing Metal Gear Solid The Phantom Pain. I've never played a MGS game before and so far it's great. I'm terrible at being sneaky and always seem to end up in gun battles, but it's fun. Is it more important to try and be sneaky or are the gun battles ok once in awhile?
In that one gun battles are fine. Don't go guns blazing 100% of the time, but the game lets you play however you want