There are so many things that go into whether a game feels responsive or not. Your experience could be explained by anything from access to stable Internet, to trends in game design philosophy, and vary from game to game based on implementation.
Here’s one of my favorite GDC talks that looks at just one small part of what goes into making a game feel responsive: youtu.be/h47zZrqjgLc
Sure, this is just an example of how complex “feel” can get in game development. The video includes several examples where player perception changes drastically from very minor gameplay design changes
There are novels that don’t measure up to the writing of visual novels.
There are comics that don’t measure up to the art of visual novels.
There are video games that are less engaging than visual novels.
Broad generalizations like this are so useless. It’s okay that you play one or two visual novels and they weren’t for you. I don’t particularly like visual novels either, but to discredit an entire genre because of it is just ignorant. I’ve played some visual novels that were excellent and pushed the boundaries of video games. See Slay the Princess and Doki Doki Literature Club. I’m playing Date Everything right now, it’s not exactly innovative, but I’m having fun with it.
That’s a load of crap. Visual novels are such an incredibly low bar on literally every front, if you made a comic or a novel that’s worse than a VN you’d have been actually trying to out-shit VNs.
Before the Steam censorship spectacle, payment processors pushed quite hard against eroge sites until Japanese government stepped in and payment processor backed down as a result. We need a similar move for the western adult games.
I’m very slowly working my way through my fifth Baldurs’s Gate 3 run since it went from early access to release. Decided I want to do all the origin characters and make decisions as they would.
I’ve already done Gale, evil Dark Urge and now Shadowheart (spoilers below)
Tap for spoilerIn the beginning, I didn’t have Shadowheart save Lae’zel from the tieflings when she’s captured because to me she would want to be as far away from the githyanki as possible. I chose to romance Karlach because I never had before, and in my headcanon Karlach swayed Shadowheart from choosing Shar. Romanced the emperor and am going to try siding with him on a play through because I never have before lol
I find something I missed on every single play through, and so far there is enough unique content in the origin runs to keep them interesting. Not sure which origin character I will try next but I am really enjoying playing as Shadowheart.
Edit - I loved Cyberpunk 2077! At some point I want to replay as male V.
I’ve tried this, too, and they always self-destruct. Their character growth when you don’t play as them is so tied to them reacting to the player character’s influence that taking that influence away tends to prevent them from growing.
With Shadowheart in particular,
spoilerNightsong made a convincing argument that I shouldn’t follow Shar anymore but I saw no reason why I should just go along with the vanilla thing that she immediately switches to being a cleric for the opposite deity and I spent Act 3 bumbling ineffectually through a couple questlines with no clear ideology to lean on, plus a history that had previously skewed quite evil and thus left me without the alliances a more moral character would have developed by now.
The two exceptions to that rule have been Karlach who right out the gate has got her shit shockingly together for this cast and, hilariously, Astarion who absolutely thrives as his worst self. Those are the only two Origins I’ve managed to beat without betraying the RP of it all.
That’s fair. I’ve also noticed dialogue in places that assumes you are not the origin character you are playing, or ignores when specific characters are not in your party.
Tap for spoilerWhen you recruit Minsc as Shadowheart, there is a place in the dialogue tree where you refer to yourself in third person. There was a line suggesting I ask Lae’zel about a githyaki slate in Act 1 when I chose to kill her instead of join her earlier in the game.
I wonder if the difference is because Karlach was a later addition to the game as an origin character.
Well, I was trying to complete my second playthrough of Metal gear solid 2. But a bad Windows 11 update seems to have corrupted something, and now my PC is crawling.
So, attempting to reinstall/repair. Thanks Microsoft :3
Other than that Metal Gear has been awesome. I finished 3 the other week and have also been playing 4 on the ps3. Not super keen on the bombardment of cutscenes so far in 4, but it’s still pretty neat.
I have really appreciated learning the mechanics of each game. I feel like this is one of the first series where I can play each game twice and learn new things about the game on each playthrough. I can tell how I’m improving and when certain fights were completed with luck or if I actually mastered them. The depth is super addicting
Not super keen on the bombardment of cutscenes so far in 4, but it’s still pretty neat.
This isn’t a spoiler but I need to warn you: the final cutscene is 40 minutes long with no break/checkpoint and you can only save your game after, not before or during. Literally everyone who goes into the game blind ends up trapped there late at night wanting to go to bed.
Thank you for the heads up! I’ll have to go check when the cutscene comes up so I don’t get caught off guard.
I ended up having to watch the MGS2 cutscene before the last boss, and one of the really long MGS3 cutscenes on youtube because I fell asleep while they were playing lol
I’m a couple decades late to Chibi-Robo and it is incredible. They’re probably not going to let me actually steal this guy’s wife in the end but it will not be for lack of trying.
Started a new playthrough of Far Cry 6 since I never got to finish it when it came out. The story is a little heavy-handed but serviceable, and there is some dimensionality to the characters that helps keep things interesting, like I actually care about what’s happening. The game is also really good about not railroading you through the story, you can choose when you start story missions, and there’s three branches of storyline for most of it so you can play in whatever order you want, or just ignore it completely - I spent about 10 straight hours of gameplay just doing random side quests and looking for collectibles, it’s a huge improvement on the Far Cry 5 story/missions.
The gunplay feels really satisfying, and there’s a ton of different equipment options so you can really play whatever style you want. Stealth is really fun but not completely OP, you still have to be really deliberate and careful. You can switch between pretty much any of your weapons/gear, so you always have a ton of options, but it also feels kind of OP, especially later in the game.The difficulty options are pretty good too, it doesn’t feel like higher difficulty = everybody is a bullet sponge.
The movement and especially climbing mechanics are kind of clunky but it doesn’t take too much away from the gameplay overall. The open world is huge and there’s a lot to see and explore if that’s your thing, and it feels very lived in, it doesn’t feel like a vast expanse of nothing.
Tried VOID/BREAKER, a roguelite FPS, that released into Early Access last week. The game definitely has potential, but needs more time to cook.
You have a grappling hook, that can function like telekinesis powers and throw certain objects at enemies, or hook to specific points in the small combat arenas, although that isn’t is fun as it should be. It’s just too slow and there’s seemingly always something in the way.
Then you can also find mods for your weapons to change and upgrade it. You’re supposed to find synergies for the mods and essentially “break the game”, but most of the time it’s just to make the numbers go higher. I finished a run twice (first time is with some story elements, after that it just loops), and I think one time I got a few mods that worked well together.
The game also has destructible environments, although that’s also kinda lacking, unless you find a bunch of mods to boost it.
So in the end you’ll be going through the same three environments, that look extremely similar, fighting mostly the same enemies, that also look very similar, shooting with mostly basic guns, while lobbing a grenade or some random object at enemies every couple of seconds.
The building blocks are there, like I said, the game has potential, but it’s just not there yet.
Otherwise with Silksongreleasing in like 10 days, my Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous playthrough will have to wait a bit more. I’m not gonna stop in the middle of a run.
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