Ruined KI.
I’ve gone into this multiple times on here (as well as others) and don’t really feel like doing it again.
But a summary is that it’s the characters, changes made to the engine, and anime.
Please do.
Any Keits diss is a good rant.
As well as being factually correct.
The changes Iron Galaxy made that I remember hating
They changed how combo breakers work. Before a successful combo breaker gave you a knockdown with a slight advantage to the guy who broke the combo. It changed to combo breakers making a guy flip to reset the neutral.
They made it possible to combo break juggle combos.
Original cast got damage nerfs across the board.
Adding ultra combos.
There’s probably some other stuff I missed but that’s from what I remember.
On paper this makes sense. Why doesn’t it work?
I did. I had a thread all about how I did it on Tech Talk.
The way Double Helix made combo breakers work didn’t rely on guessing. The way auto doubles were designed made it obvious if they use light, medium or heavy and you can use the corresponding buttons to break. The window to break is generous but brutal if you miss it. You get a 4 second lockout if you miss and for most combos that would be enough for it to end. If someone getting breaker happy that’s what the counter breaker exists for. You can stop your own combo and counter the breaker for double the damage and hit degeneration reset. There was already a system in place to punish the advantages a combo breakers can give. I didn’t feel that taking away the small advantage a successful breaker gives you was necessary.
The title is ironically apt. The days where a single player zombie game or grim open world survival one featuring a rough and tumble biker hero being a hot property now feels stale. Sony seems to have figured this too hence the delay while they got the hotter properties out last year despite word being this game has been done for a while. It sounds a decent enough game, just something that was made several years back and got delayed allowing it’s trends to fade and most of the appeal.
I just prefer linear games with a direct story rather than having an open world with all these random side quests. That alone turns me off quite a bit, unless I hear stuff about the game after launch that sounds appealing. The only open world games I’ve really enjoyed in the past 10 or so years (other than Burnout Paradise) is the latest God of War. Everything else doesn’t really interest me.
But I’m a huge God of War mark so it makes sense that I liked that game regardless.
Did you play Horizon Zero Dawn?
For like 90 minutes or maybe 2 hours and have never touched it since. I couldn’t get into it. I still have it. I got the $20 GOTY edition or whatever it was.
What about BotW?
And would Spider-Man be considered open world, or is it more like open city?
Spider-Man is considered open world, I believe, even though it’s a city.
I’ m down for some Days Gone, but it’s not something I’m excited for. I’ll get to it down the line after Horizon (which is also sometime down the line).
Yeah I did like BotW so I guess that is also an outlier. But again, it’s Zelda and a big named franchise, and I’m a Zelda mark.
I was skeptical about Zelda though to be honest and almost canceled my Switch preorder. The only reason I kept it is because I was flying to Aruba 2 days after launch and having it to play on my flights was the only reason I kept it. In hindsight I’m happy as hell that I did that lol. Switch is probably my most played console right now.
I played Spiderman at my friends for like 10 minutes and that was more than enough time with that game. Same with RDR2. Neither of those games appealed to me before I ever played them so I wasn’t surprised after playing them my mind didn’t change at all.
Fair enough. I have a similar feeling about games with turn based combat. There hasn’t been a single one that I could get into.
It’s got some pretty fun-ass action elements, too.
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I’ve been over turned based combat games since PSX days. FF7 is the reason I hate turn based RPG’s now, because of how fucking long turns in that game took. I loved those RPG’s back in the day when you press ‘attack’ and you see a sword swipe and -18 hp comes off, and next turn.
The only turn based game I have played since then though was South Park Fractured But Whole, and holy shit that game was hilarious. The combat was a very minor part of that game though, and it was really easy too for the most part (and difficulty I had it on) but the game as a whole was hilarious. And the battles in that did actually have a bit of strategy too because it’s on a grid and based on stats/attacks, how you moved or were pushed on the grid made a big difference.
I can’t really do open world anymore either. The last “open world” ish game I played and actually enjoyed was inFamous: Second Son.
Looooooved the shit out that game.
My main issue with open world games now though is yeah. There’s a lot to do but to me none of it is interesting. Like. Not even remotely. Which makes the game not interesting to me.
Like I know it’s all “optional” but I don’t like being reminded of it every 5 minutes once i (accidentally) accepted that mission, or side quest or whatever. Sometimes accepting them is unavoidable.
I don’t give a fuck about killing x type of enemy, or stopping x amount of robbers or finding x amount of beacons or outposts or whatever. It’s all just a waste of time for me cause it’s not interesting to me.
It’s why I never got in MMO’s as well.
No Straight Roads sounds interesting. They say it plays like Devil May Cry and … kingdom hearts 
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I’m hit or miss when it comes to open world games. It has to have an enticing theme or the gameplay has to be really good. I loved Red Dead because I’m a big fan of Westerns. I dig Spider-Man because Spider-Man. BotW because Zelda. Never could get into Fallout, or any other Bethesda games because the whole fantasy mediaeval themes is played out, even though I still enjoy that genre when it comes to books.
I’m intrigued by Days Gone, but I’m gonna wait a while before I decide to grab it. Have too much backlog to add yet another game I spend a few hours on and ultimately put down.
This looks fucking awesome.