The rapist can get a weapon too and being raped at gunpoint isn’t quite an improvement. You’ll likely get shot before you can draw a gun of your own.
The rapist can get a weapon too and being raped at gunpoint isn’t quite an improvement. You’ll likely get shot before you can draw a gun of your own.
I had a similar experience of first finishing the DLC and then going into God of War (2018). While not open world, it’s the same type of AAA soup you get from most big studios. There are so many baffling design decisions, I cannot fathom why people love the game so much - the constant barrage of stories and small talk is the most engaging thing in there.
The combat is utterly boring. Increasing the difficulty only results in spongy enemies. Their move sets are boring at best and annoying at worst. They are all but helpless if you just keep them at a distance and throw your axe.
Even worse, your godly powers are cutscene only. If you don’t want to make your game challanging, at least make a fun power fantasy and Kratos is perfect for that. He kills giant enemies, tears the very ground asunder and moves the heaviest objects imaginable. He even has super healing. None of which are tied to actual combat mechanics.
Upgrades are meaningless. Early on, you unlock a smith. I got my axe from 5 to 40 damage. Guess what? The very next enemy took the same amount of hits as the same type of enemy did before.
Traversing is mechanically boring. Climbing just means you gotta follow the yellow markings - press in the right direction or do the indicated button press. You literally cannot fall. Everything else is just walking from combat area to combat area.
The game throws an endless barrage of puzzles at you, none of which are engaging. They are so watered down, there’s barely much more thinking involved than in climbing.
Even worse, major upgrades are placed in “puzzle” chests. The puzzle? Well, just walk around and rotate your camera for several minutes until you’ve found all three runes.
The game basically just feels like a very long cutscene with a lot of padding so you can press some buttons. You can play it just fine, but they removed everything that could make any one system interesting in favor of having nothing in there a player could be stuck at. I like the characters, but I’m better served just watching a cutscene compilation for the second one.
Just finished the Elden Ring DLC, which was overall still fun but felt overtuned at times. While I didn’t use any summons throughout the base game and initially tried to keep it that way, some bosses simply weren’t fun to learn anymore.
Afterwards I dove into my backlog and started God of War 2018. I had pretty high expectations, given how beloved it is. Honestly, it’s fine at best - the combat is boring and the overall design can be summarized as AAA slob. Maybe it does get better, I’m not very far yet.
That’s just such a nothing article. Some bloodsucker investor asked about their AI related plans and, as with everything else in the Q&A, they gave a non-answer.
I’m pretty sure they could re-apply and we’d take them in eventually, same as any other country. They just need to fulfill all the requirements and not demand any of their prior special treatment, which was bullshit anyways.
So much for reclaiming their future, I guess. Assuming the growing far-right sentiment doesn’t destroy the EU, it’s pretty much the best thing that can happen to a country in Europe.
So, what are his goals? “Re-Brenter” the EU? Revert the rampant privatisation? Revert the massive funding cuts to local governments? Prevent the impending bankruptcy of many cities? There are so many problems to tackle and I probably only know a fraction of them myself, not being British and all.
I’m gonna be honest, I love that design. That comparison just makes it better, those games had a big part in my childhood.
As always, you guys are way too fixated on size.
RPGs, specifically turn-based or strategy ones. Action is sometimes fine too. I like stuff with complex battle mechanics and tons of customisation/planning - anything that gets the brain working is fun, really.
I don’t like FPS in general. I’ve only completed Borderlands 2 and Fallout: New Vegas. I don’t like the perspective and the gameplay often feels dull to me. I don’t feel stimulated by them.