Is there transit on both ends as one of the challenges with rail in NA is once you arrive at your destination, it can be hard to make that last mile or so transit. It also has to be as fast or faster overall than driving and it has to be cheaper as people will just default to cars again. That has been my experience living in cities around the world.
Well I suppose it depends on your definition of cheated 😛
It’s true that the community did not know a tas existed until today. So really only 1 actual tas (that we know of) was made. There were however a lot of glitches (and I believe some hacks) that made it into levels that either: got deleted by Nintendo from the servers, or became unbeatable due to the game getting patched and the glitch no longer being possible.
A slightly unrelated but also interesting point. A ton of levels that were uploaded to the game were deleted by Nintendo. The reason being that in Mario maker 1 only, Nintendo would delete any levels that didn’t get a star (equivalent to mm2’s “like”) after 1 month being uploaded. The numbers that the team 0% discord reports are:
Total remaining uploaded levels: 10,610,412
Total ever uploaded levels: 68,550,789
So, nearly 60 million levels that were uploaded were deleted
You might find this video about the brightline rail in Florida interesting. They started off as only a short section and the video discusses the costs and funding.
I think it is bold that it lets you wall climb right from the beginning (it’d be like a 20 hours unlock if this was metroid). Yet it managed to deliver an interesting and challenging experience. Frustratingly difficult even at some points, but most levels are fun. The characters are impressively well animated and I like the story a lot. It’s so cool to be a legendary solider in this cyberpunk world. Hard recommend for anyone who doesn’t hate action games.
I never played the first game. But I loved BG3 so much (having never played BG1 or BG2) and it was suggested I’d probably like this game too. I worry because I keep seeing it compared to Dark Souls, which isn’t a game I liked.
I don’t think DD1 and BG3 have very much in common, honestly. DD1 was not a game where you engaged in immersive dialogue or developed interesting relationships (well, there was a relationship mechanic, but if you didn’t know how it worked, it didn’t feel like you had a lot of input.)
It was more a game about walking around surprisingly atmospheric environments and then fighting for your life against surprisingly difficult encounters. (It also had the reverse-difficulty-curve problem, where the beginning of the game was very hard and the enemies felt very tanky because of how damage was calculated, and then once you had some reasonable gear and stats the game got much easier.)
I would definitely watch someone else play an hour or two of DD2 when it comes out before you decide to buy it, especially if the action combat was what you didn’t like about Dark Souls.
Depending on what you liked about BG3, I might recommend Solasta: Crown of the Magister. It’s much more linear (if my DM ran it I would accuse them of railroading), but it’s also based on 5e’s SRD. It offers much less freedom in how you play, but makes up for it by how well characterized the player characters are, especially considering they’re all entirely customizable and fully voiced. It’s easy to forget that the party isn’t made up of premade characters when they’re all sitting around a campfire having a conversation with each other.
It has a much lower production value than BG3, but I feel it’s more authentic to the D&D experience. The only thing BG3 has on it is better throwing mechanics imo
I must admit it’s much shorter and simpler than BG3’s story. Objectively, I would give it a 6.5/10 for being overly simplistic and linear, but still a fully functional story without plot holes or many contrivances. It’s very easy to see where the story is going, there are very few surprises, your choices don’t much matter, and you literally meet in a tavern. Subjectively, I give it a 9/10, because although the story is simplistic and linear, it’s also easy to follow and fun to play, and it’s very reminiscent of every actual campaign I’ve ever played.
I especially like the second main campaign—it takes place shortly after your party resolves the story in the first campaign, when there are still problems going on in the north. I really like that people recognize the players as the heroic adventurers that they are, while still acknowledging that the new threat is more dangerous than the old one.
Edit: I will recommend playing with a friend if you have any that are interested. It’s always more fun to experience games with other people, and games that involve inventory management and role playing are especially easier when you can split the workload
They’re still microtransactions in a full priced game which can break the trust between player and the developers/publishers.
Worst ones are probably the portcrystals and metamorphsis ones which both solve artificial problems created by the developers.
The appearance change item can be purchased in-game and portcrystals are also findable in-game. So, at best, these items provide a small “headstart” to someone playing the game from scratch.
If anything, the biggest issue is that they are kind of a waste of money.
Portcrystals are not the same thing as ferrystones and are useless without them.
You are speaking from ignorance.
They give you some ferrystones in the game as well, but it is artificially limited to force microtransactions into a single-player game. It literally goes against the design of the game.
The microtransactions are the reason I’m not buying the game. That they sell a lighter tent tells me that the tent in the base game is too heavy. That they sell rift crystals for real life money gives them incentive to raise prices in game. Microtransactions that make the game easier necessarily inherently give the developers incentive to make the base game worse.
If all of these microtransactions are innocuous and don’t make the game any better, then why do they want $40 for them? If all of these microtransactions do make the game better, then they shouldn’t cost $40 when you already spent $70 on the game. This is the kind of head start bonus that you would expect to see in a shitty free-to-play mobile game when you use your favorite youtuber’s discount code, not something you should expect to see after spending $70.
It was great to watch all these runs on twitch. Now if Nintendo would just release an open source version of the server and all the content people have created…
As a huge fan of the first Dragon’s Dogma I am very much disappointed with the game as it was released today. Honestly after playing for about 2-3 hours today on PS5, I have to say the game is very much not ready for release.
Terrible performance with an unlocked frame-rate that’s between 20 - 35 FPS (give me a smooth 30 FPS and never use a fucking unlocked frame-rate on console. WHO DOES THAT? If you can’t get a smooth 60 don’t make me play an uneven mess such as this) First patch gives an option for fixed 30 FPS, disable RT and seems to have made the main city a little better
Controlling the character feels like moving through molasses
Annoying motion blur that cannot be disabled Fixed in the first patch
bad dialog animations and lip sync
micro-transactions in a full price game
It’s clear that the game was rushed and needed at least a couple more months in development. I am sure they will fix the most egregious problems but as it stands right now I would not buy the game. Shame fucking Sony won’t let you refund a game if you downloaded it, which is the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.
CPU usage in Monster Hunter World is also quite high and installing the performance boost mod from Nexus doubled the FPS for me. I don‘t think I have a single Japanese PC game that doesn‘t have performance problems.
If you wanna pirate a Denuvo game, you better get comfortable cause those take a long, long while.
I didn’t quite figure out the issue. It seemed to be a problem with directx, and I wasn’t certain how to proceed. I chose to uninstall the nvidia drivers and proceed, for the time, with integrated graphics on my Intel chip until NVK ships with fedora 40
Capcom is on a roll, almost every single one of their releases has been unanimously praised.
I’m happy for the fans of the IP, I have a few friends who loved DG1 and were waiting for the sequel. I’m also a bit curious about the claims that they improved on the storyline, as it was by far my biggest gripe with the first entry, so much that I never bothered to finish it.
I actually loved parts of the story from 1. Granted, a lot of it was pointless, shallow, needed expansion, better written characters, so on and so forth. But every scene with the dragon was enthralling. A lot of what happened after you beat it was interesting. And idk how to do spoilers here so I’ll be vague, but what happens at the final boss on a second playthrough blew my mind. I had no clue, and it had been hundreds of hours since, so my jaw literally dropped.
Honestly they’ve been on a steady decline in my eyes at least. With each and every new entry they’re becoming more and more like the rest of the Triple-A studios.
Sure many of their games are still decent fun if you can ignore:
Dark patterns
Microtransactions in full priced games
Battle passes
Denuvo
Personally I just can’t as mere existence of these thigns ruins my trust towards these developers/publishers.
Can’t you all complain about games that are out having issues? Like Helldivers 2 and how the lightning gun was shipped in a sorry state and how Arrowhead lied about the flying bugs?
(I kid, this game sounds like a mess and my opinion of Capcom was already pretty bad)
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