dgSean

The bug I minded is the one that ate my save and cost me 6 hours of my life; This game isn't nearly interesting enough mechanically or even narratively (was interesting enough the first time), to play through that section a second time... still waiting on support... not holding my breath on them getting back to me, let alone having anything useful to say about it. ... I'm a little sour on the whole thing...

From my experience in this sort of game, if your instinct is to say "it's probably not over that way".... it's more than likely that way.

I see the multipart thing playing out like it did for 13, more than episodic. I really can't see a point in FF7s story where I would think, "hey, let's take a 2 year break". At least the 13 for better or worse (and regardless of how I felt them personally) games felt contained, if anything too divergent. I have no idea how they make that work for 7 if they're trying to keep the story together.

I can rationalize that the time to make this game today versus then is so different, but there is a mental block here for me that says this was a 60$ game and now you are asking me to pay something closer to $200. The language they used was so rough, "each will have a full game content" which effectively means, you're going to pay full price, even if we break this up into 15hr chunks. Especially in a year that gave us so many 100 hour games. It's a bitter pill for me right now.

edit: just to add that I'm skewing on the side that I am because SE has done little in recent memory to suggest they might do something other than "what the market can bear".

lets be honest though, there is a story/lore that informs the map design, but it doesn't really matter.

@vn1x: yea, and not to mention the 1hr long panel they had at blizzcon dedicated explicitly to the story.

I got my invite the day fallout 4 and legacy of the void came out, I had preordered both of those things, and I haven't played either yet because I've been playing overwatch so much. I haven't played a multiplayer competitive shooter in the better part of a (if not a) decade. It's really well put together, the heroes are unique and synergize and counter in a way that makes your composition choices feel strategic.

Most importantly to me though, as someone who doesn't play shooters mostly because I have no tolerance for toxicity, it does some clever things with the design that seems to be minimizing a lot of the abusive behavior that comes with this sort of game (at least so far, maybe because it's still a limited player pool). I'm curious to see what they do with the metrics generated from the player rating stuff they added this week, could be a neat way to clean some of that up. They're certainly trying.

I'm having a lot of fun and I'm in love with this game.

PS: having played this and battleborn there is next to no comparison between them in terms of gameplay. the only similarity is that there are heroes.