What is the "fast and the furious" moment that Vinny pulled off that Dan brought up about Battlegrounds? If it's on a site video, can anyone timestamp it? I don't remember much except the new guy running the stream from the most recent one.
The Weird is actually a real book. It's an award-winning anthology of genre fiction that gives an odd feeling rather than wonder, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, two of my favorite editors of SF/F fiction.
I'm about ~30 hours in and am thoroughly charmed. I never expected to like the game so much, not even when I started playing it. The first area is the weakest, and the jungle is much more interesting but still not close to as interesting as the game gets. The art gets stronger, the atmosphere gets more diverse, and every new power opens up movement or combat in an entertaining way. I love the badges that let you add riffs, like no knockback on you, or being able to dash more frequently. But the big thing is the further in you get, the more wrinkles in the lore and world design you encounter. There are a shocking number of clever, creepy, or honestly cute twists around that world.
It's captivating for me so far. My current GOTY topping Horizon, RE7, and NIOH, though I loved all of those too. Also 2017 has been a wildly good year for games so far.
A well-written review that is painful to read because it clearly comes from an optimist who was badly burned. Even before the review got to technical flaws, it sounded greatly disappointing.
Meanwhile, people are somehow faulting him for the review score? Read the freaking review.
Obviously the soulsborne comparisons are near endless, but to those who've played it, does that comparison remain apt when discussing Nioh' worldbuilding and storytelling? Because the game mechanics/combat of Souls I like, but I wouldn't give a flying fuck if not for their amazing world design and mysterious storytelling. Visually this looks a little repetitive... but honestly I haven't seen anything beyond this demo.
The storytelling is much more explicit. There are hard cut scenes, characters explain their motivations and goals, and the big conflicts are explained rapidly. You know who has ulterior motives pretty early. I am loving the combat, traversal, and short cut hunting, and the story could be okay, but the storytelling is nothing like how Dark Souls does things.
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