DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]

I picked that up in the steam sale and haven’t gotten around to it yet. it looks good!

I never took Halsin with me once because I had the Girl Power Squad of me, my beloved goth turned cottage core Shadowheart, Lae’zel, and Karlach. BUT- if she wants to fuck the bear dude, like that’s fine

I love the Yakuza games, but alllll that mini game shit and 100 side quests that are mostly boring is an annoyance of mine. I will just play the main story in Yakuza, look up some top 10 side quest list and do those, and I am done with the game in like 20-30 hours. no I will not get Haruka to level 10 affection by playing skee ball 100 times or eat every menu item at every restraunt

I think not mentioning genre in this does miss quite a large part of things. RPGs should be long, because the point is an immersive world that you can explore and play around in as a character. many games are very different on subsiquent runs; rouge likes and strategy games get thousands of hours out of me, but no 2 instances of the game are the same as say RPG quests can sometimes be. action adventure games have been getting too long imo. this is because they’re a genre that lends itself to a simple gameplay loop, combat, set peices, and a linear story that is the driving factor for playing. sometimes, after a few years, I will go back to say portal 2, but I would not find it that weird if somebody had only ever played it once. the RPG-lite aspects being tacked on to what really should just be a straight forward action adventure game, are something that bloats these games imo. like he said in the video, if disco elysium had added a combat system it would bloat the game beyond the core that it should be.

basically, many modern games have scope creep that turns into bloat, and this happens due to marketing teams leading design because they think this will make more money if they have a crafting system and open world

see this is what I was thinking. the gamepad was kind of clunky for one, I don’t want a whole ass tablet to play some features. did some kids have to vie with parental interests for video game time vs tv time? yeah, but also most kids have a tv in their room, I always did growing up as did my friends. so then one asks ok why I am I paying like £250 for a meh line of launch titles, and a gimmic I don’t want. it also did not entice the casual market as you said; though I imagine they considered with the rise of mobile gaming that tablets would be a safe bet with the casual market, it just failed.

the name just feels like an easy out. we had the nintendo DS, nintendo DS lite, DSi, DSi XL ect and each of these itterations sold pretty well, with not so clear naming schemes. because people wanted a DS

gamecube was nintendo 65

wii was nintendo 66

wii u nintendo 67

switch was nintendo 68

which would make the switch the… the… nintendo sixt- 💥🔫

name is mid, but eh wii u flop spooked them. not that surprised, nobody has misunderstood a ps3 for a ps2 addon.

though I do wonder how much of the wii u flop was less the name and more, it was just kind of uninteresting? personally, the wii u came out when I was in my mid teens and moving away from consoles to PC and was very much uninterested in the wii u so that could be clouding things for me, but I do not know a lot of gamers even who got a wii u and they were not confused about the name

this sounds like a 2000s spooky rumour 0_0

not saying I don’t believe it, but that’s just what it reminds me of

also, like any time a fight breaks out, there’s like 5 kings and other friendly NPCs that just kill the 1 dude who has a pipe they’re trying to batter you with and then they immediately die. the only ‘real’ fight in all of freeside is probs the shady bodyguard tourguide guy who tries to jump you with his boys

but in cold war Regan said my they/them pronouns

they really did the followers dirty in that game. as with all things, this is due to the rushed development of new vegas