I just find it funny that so many people care about if Jeff likes it. Is his validation that important?
Personally I am glad Jeff gave the game enough of a run to be able to articulate an proper opinion about a souls game rather than a hand waving dismissal. Jeff can be extremely insightful when he wants to be, and it's nice he can now articulate an opinion beyond his past dismissal.
I think the behaviour you are making fun of often gets out of hand, especially in the case of reviews and review scores. For most well adjusted people who read the review test, as long as the reviewer played the game and is capable of articulating opinions and reasons, there is no problem.
In the end people like to have others agree with them. Short of that, it's nice to be able to discuss the how's and the why's for someone's opinion. I think this goes for many things other than video games.
I hope this doesn't turn the Steam Workshop into a "appstore style" garbage dump too. We've had mods being passion projects which might have kept out the strictly opportunistic types. There's always going to be the community ranking systems to sift through all the mods, but I'm a tad worried. I've dabbled with mods in Skyrim and it's enjoyable enough, but I wouldn't really have ponied up cash to get nicer trees or lighting model. It probably will change the landscape in some unpredictable way. I don't know what to make of it yet. I'm with you Jeff. I get it, I just hope the bad doesn't outweigh the good, and that modding ethos doesn't turn for profit. Would you have paid to play Just Cause 2 MP? I don't know.
Am I the only one that feels the aesthetics feels similar to what we saw of Hyper Light Drifter (but not as polished)? Not commenting on gameplay, as I have played neither games thus far, but just first glance "looks"/visual language; color palette, relative size of the "textures" and "sprites", size of rooms and maps. General feel of similarity.
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