Mystyr_E

think I lost interest around the "they're screwing with the wrong people" time. Now and then I check out a youtube channel that does episode highlights just to see if anything interesting happened

Ah-tah-mah-dah

for GOTY awards, you can probably make an award solely dedicated to "best Nier Automata sequence" cause this has a bunch. Easily top 3 of the year by the end for me.

Important exposition that then gets interrupted because your character walked too far or it overlaps and it's 2 things going on at once.
Example:
"well 50 years ago, something important happened, your father was tryi..."
"okay phew we made it, I'll go look around and meet you over here".

Like UGH stop fucking doing this

Also I hate when games re-tell you things you know. Much as I love Last Guardian, having the prompts telling me how to let go or how to use the mirror or in Horizon it kept telling me what tagging trails would do. Like I understand, game, I'm 42 hours in you don't need to re-tell me how to open a door or whatever.

Another huge pet peeve of mine and I don't know why but I'm going to give you a scenario:

1. Option
2. Option
3. Option
4. Option
5. Option

now, let's say you're scrolling down menus for controls, sound, graphics options or whatever and say you're at #5. Pressing down once should then warp you back to the top, right? WRONG, you gotta reclick or motion all the way back to the top. Drives me crazy.

Fan 1: "Why u no beta, Bioware?"
Bioware: "We've done extensive testing with top men so we don't need no beta. Our servers will be golden."

Fans 1-300,000 Launch day: THE SERVERS ARE ON FIRE! NO ONE CAN CONNECT!
Bioware: Wow, we're so humbled by our fans support. Thank you."

It just writes itself, really.

I agree and been seeing it a lot lately. This whole "well this game's good....I mean it's no Witcher 3 but..." and stuff like that. Let a game stand on its own merits and not always comparing it to things.

It looks, I don't want to say bad but for a game long in development you have bad character faces, awful squad dialogue, scanning scanning everywhere and dull walking to your next waypoint.

This game really comes across to me like an obligation project: DAI was almost 3 years ago, their new IP is likely next year, EA told us make a new Mass Effect aaaand this is what we get? err?

Assassins Creed 3. not sure how Black Flag's was, didn't play it as much

Resident Evil 5's mercenaries

Red Faction Guerrilla

Blur. Project Gotham meets Mario Kart.

the one word I keep using is scattered, like every positive I can say about it comes with this "but....", and it's a detriment as opposed to a weird quirk.

Combat's fantastic in 1v1 but really falls apart when you're surrounded in groups.

Unlocking new gear's cool but you don't see it much anyway

Getting stats on gear is great but rarity is dependent on prestige so the good stuff doesn't kick in until you're past level 20 on one class

It's got cool looking unlocks which you can speed up through RMT's, season passes and the like.

It's got an optional premium membership service at 67$ CAD a year with perks that benefit you.

There's so many great elements to this game but it always feels like there's always something, like a nunchaku master who occasionally keeps hitting himself in the face.