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IMO this was the absolute peak of FF gameplay. The story was fine and all, but gameplay wise, this is easily the best game in the series from the leveling system to the gambits you could use to program your characters, pure gold.

I'm sure I won't be able to resist in the long run. But I just tried going back to BB and I'm feeling a little burn out. I've probably completed 70 or 80 upgraded level 120+ characters across all the Souls games, and I'm just not feeling the excitement anymore. DkS3 is right around the corner and I'm wondering if burning out on more BB is really what I need right now.

@hassun said:

I'll be excited for the next Souls game until the Souls game I hope for each time actually comes out. Demon's was great, but I thought Dark Souls was a legitimate improvement. Except, even if Dark Souls was great, the P2P connections were terrible and meant more waiting than playing. Dark Souls 2 was great, but Soul Memory was a terrible system. Bloodborne probably has the best PVE in the series, but by far the worst PVP.

Actually, now that the Agape Ring in Scholar has turned Soul Memory into something interesting, and one of the arenas uses SM while the other uses SL, maybe the game I wanted is already here. DkS2 may be the worst game in the series, but SOTFS may be the best game in the series. How does that even make sense? IDK, but that's the way it is for me.

I just hope they get it right this time. Each game has been really really good, but none of them have been the masterpiece that should have been delivered by now after four iterations. They just keep mashing it up, throwing shizeet at the wall to see what sticks. For every good idea they add, they break something.

Do it right already. Quit teasing your fan base. I'm losing faith that From can produce anything better than a 9.

If this is legit, it's the last time I get my hopes up. I'll always play their almost-masterpiece games, but I won't get my hopes up anymore that they can actually deliver on the potential these games have.

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Demon's Souls - Amazing for being the first entry

Dark Souls - P2P matchmaking, why play when you can wait

Dark Souls 2 - Soul Memory, scarce invasion items, ng/ng+ and covenant segregation, clunkier controls; saved by the Agape Ring but too late

Bloodborne - No Arena at all yet, oversimplified combat so skilled play is just missing, Chalice Dungeons so grindy

Dark Souls 3 - ???

Very much Electra. Two of my favorites were panned pretty badly - Daredevil and Hulk. Maybe I just enjoyed DD because that was my comic as a kid, but the original Hulk would be a legitimate good movie even if it hadn't been based on any existing comics property. The later Hulk movies that were better received were just standard formulaic action flicks to me. Need another Hulk movie now w/ Ruffalo. But anyway, after liking DD, Electra was a big disappointment.

I also loved Superman Returns, and hated Man of Steel, for whatever that's worth.

In general, I don't get into the massive world burning sci-fi sh*t like the Avengers movies. I like the grittier down to earth superhero against bad guys stuff.

A demo two years before the game releases? I don't care how good it is, that's pretty annoying.

Actually, I do care how good it is. The better it looks the more annoying that is. So right now FF XV is just really annoying to me. This much hype this far in advance wtf.

Condemned. Seriously needs a proper sequel.

I'm a big fan of Half-Life, I would love to play HL3, but at this point I hope they never do another HL game, or if they do I hope it sucks just to kill of the hope for any more HL.

Not because I wouldn't want the game, but because you can't trust Valve. HL3 would just be another awesome game that left you wanting more from a company who doesn't deliver more. Amazon might as well own the IP. Valve is just a retailer now, with far more interest in bean-counting than games. HL's value to them is free publicity, the legacy of HL serves them better than trying to live up to the legacy.

@brodehouse said:

Wow. I don't know if there has ever been a year where there were 10 game released in a single year that I actually wanted to play.

@getz@thrillhouse87 Ulysses is the one I sorta read. I didn't finish it though, so I gotta say "sorta". I picked it up because it is one of the most highly regarded works in all of modern literature, if not THE most highly regarded. So I picked it up without a second thought, after all, how could a book that highly regarded go wrong? But if you look at what actual readers think of it, instead of intellectuals ranking important books, even fans will say it was a real chore to get through, so much so that they felt a sense of triumph when they finished (Monster Hunter!), and the thing they tended to enjoy was observing Joyce's genius at work. I guess it's an acquired taste that I haven't acquired.

That's how the number 1 novel of all time as ranked by things like Modern Library and New York Times winds up with only a 3.7/5 after 65,000 reader ratings on Goodreads while the world nearly ends if Gertsmann gives Twilight Princess an 8.8. I'm not suggesting anyone should put stock in the voice of the masses, but 65,000 reviews actually means not many people finish it; by comparison a lot of highly regarded classics have 10x that many reader reviews on Goodreads, probably because Ulysses is just damn hard to finish.