It is almost incomprehensible to dislike this game unless you really hate these LGBTBBQ+ politics.
I’m not a fan of it either but that was really the only con of the game (which can be major depending on your tolerance).
At the beginning, I could understand the dislike of it because it was cringe to the core but going further onto the end I can not deny that the story was damn good and the game play itself is good. That progressive politics just stops being a factor on (or against) the game
I just don’t understand the hate or anything… or rate the original better than this when this had more action in it, more creative ways to kill enemies, a much deeper plot, etc.
I can’t speak to TLOU or TLOU2 personally. I’ve been watching this mess unfold from the sidelines. I can speak to this. It’s about taste and what you value. I’ll use myself as an example. From a gameplay standpoint ME3 shits on the first two games in the series. Yet I finished the first two games over a dozen times each and only managed to get through ME3 twice. Why? The narrative.
Story was the biggest part of my enjoyment of Mass Effect and the story in ME3 was terrible. It was full narrative inconsistencies and characters acting out of character. Shepard’s characterization was highly defined by the player in the first 2 games. Not so much in the third. The decision to give Shepard PTSD over a random kid you met for all of five minutes may have made sense for a player going paragon but made little sense for a player that went the renegade route. Hell depending on how you’d played Shepard in the first two games the opposite could have been true. The point was that decision was out of your hands. It, like many story aspects of the game, grated my nerves so much that I can’t even enjoy the first two games anymore.
Not really. “Bigot sandwich” was hella stupid, but my dislikes of the story are mostly tied to the narrative structure, the ending and how it favors one protag over the other.
Yeah I saw that, had me actually agreeing with Jason Schierer of all people. Schierer is a prick but the their no disputing his investigative journalism. Sony and ND look bad over this as well. Ever since Schierer exposed their terrible working conditions and the studio’s high attribution rate they’ve made a point of going after the dude.
The OP was trying to make a point that a lot of games are bloated nowadays. He said that Hollow Knight is the perfect length. That game can easily be 50 hours if you do everything.
Maybe he’s trying to say he prefers games where most of the content is optional, hence the Hollow Knight comparison cuz it can be over 50 hours but it could be 15 to depending on how you play.
I dunno. The comparison is wack to me, I have well over 50 hours in Hollow Knight, I wouldn’t call that game short at all lol.
I didn’t feel Persona 5 had pacing problems. Personally I found everything the game had deeply engaging. There wasn’t a shortage of character development and things to do even during the down times.
That’s what he said.
He more or less was making the point that games shouldn’t “feel” long, not that long games are inherently bad.
But instead of saying “Video games have pacing issues and often end up feeling bloated and stretched thin” he said they were too long. But I think this was supposed to be just a throw away tweet
Ah but that’s the thing - a 40-hour game can be just fine if it’s well-paced and never feels like a slog, and Hollow Knight is one game that never feels like a slog
I liked Zero Punctuation as even if he liked or didn’t like a game he breaks everything down and explain his choices so that the viewer can make their own conclusions.
I put P5 down after Shido’s palace because it felt like the end but there was still more.
Noe I don’t think it’s paced badly but I do there are times where the game just…goes on and on and I could see that grating on other people worse then it did for me. For me it just felt like game should be over and there was other stuff I wanted to play and P5 had like 2 months of my time at that point. Was ready for something else.
Maybe I did more or took more of my time then Saitsu. He says he finished in 85 hours. My final clock time was 103.
My first run on P5 clocked in at 121 hours. I did a lot of the stuff and spend some time with persona fusions. Mementos was the only part of the game that felt like a slog to me.
