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Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Baldur's Gate 3?

starnivore

This game has overtaken elden ring for my fave ps5 game, and I adored elden ring. I'm not even finished with act 2, either! My big gripes, of course, would be that I think the game gets considerably buggier as you hit the part that didn't benefit from early access play testing. In addition, as well written as it is, there's one part I won't spoil that can see you suddenly thrown into a combat encounter that - if it doesn't go well and you meet the failure condition - automatically fails a variety of side quests, including at least one companion quest. This is definitely meant to be a surprise event in terms of the story, and it does make for a thrilling twist in the tale. From a gameplay perspective though I kinda wish they gave more warning. It's far from a point of no return but I ended up having to re-load a save and losing about 45 minutes of progress when I realised the implications.

Re: PS Plus Drives Down PS Store Prices on Over 2,000 PS5, PS4 Games

starnivore

grab disco elysium if you like story-based games, you won't regret it. There's really no combat system, the game is almost closer to a visual novel spliced with a point and click than an RPG, and it's so bloody good that you barely even notice any of the above. Insanely clever how they've managed to put it all together. This game has been all I've played for the past two weeks, and when I've not been playing it I've been thinking about it.

Re: Poll: Did You Buy Armored Core 6?

starnivore

@TheDudeElDuderino nihilists? I'm a big fromsoft fan but they've never stood out as having an especially nihilistic attitude, as an organisation. Not sure how that would affect the quality of the games they make either...

Re: Genshin Impact Dev's Turnbased RPG Honkai: Star Rail Confirmed for PS5, PS4

starnivore

@themightyant it's sort of the same between genshin and honkai too, sometimes purposefully (like raiden ei/raiden mei and yae sakura/yae miko as the most obvious ones and more subtle like alhaitham/su and venti/wendy, apparently nahida/theresa but that's a bit more of a dubious one)

they like to basically re-use characters between games, it's clever in its way as you've got an existing fanbase for a character already that you can use to drum up hype even if the two characters are entirely separate in terms of personality and motivation. It's fairly certain the Tsaritsa is gonna be an expy of Bronya (hands down best girl out of the three MCs in honkai) and that's what drums up a lot of hype for her eventual reveal. They've also done this between honkai and star rail with Himiko (an expy of whom is also heavily implied to be the Pyro archon)

So yeah, expect to see a lot of re-used character designs. It doesn't help that anime is so tropey anyway, the characters do tend to stick within the same basic archetypes if the writers are lazy

Re: There's a New Persona 5 Game, But It's a Gacha for Smartphones

starnivore

the only thing about this that upsets me is the uniform designs. Beige top, black/white plaid bottoms? Were they designed by AI?

It's hardly the first time SMT has dabbled in mobile games, and not even the first persona game to get a mobile spinoff either. Visually it looks impressive, even if the actual character designs aren't especially memorable or anything. It'll probably be predatory as ***** as F2P games always are but like it's been mentioned, it's not been designed for the western market and we'll be lucky to get a release over here anyway. It's also being produced by an entirely separate team so it's hardly taking resources away from persona 6 or the persona 3 remake that may or may not be on its way.

Re: Poll: Did You Buy One Piece Odyssey?

starnivore

it's not for me I don't think. I've tried one piece but it's never charmed me like I know it has a lot of people. reviews seem to be decently positive for an anime game though so I'm happy for the people who are fans

Re: Poll: Have You Completed Elden Ring?

starnivore

I bought it day 1 and played through it 3 times. Not my first souls game but the first one I ever actually beat. I love souls games for the atmosphere and, unironically, the plot, but I lack patience usually and get bored. Elden Ring really gripped me in a huge way. Absolutely my GOTY by a huge, huge margin.

Re: Quick Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Trailer Talks Up Main Villain

starnivore

I wanna see this game in action before I get giddy.

I also wonder if they'll bring any characters back from the dark horse comics they released a few years ago, there were about three I think but my was the one about the elven squire/rogue and the elderly human knight whose names I can't remember. I'd like to see those two come back, they had a nice dynamic.

Re: Persona 25th Anniversary Celebration Ends, Director Regrets Not Being Able to Share New Info

starnivore

I did this dance before when waiting for persona 5 news back in 2013 (I just realised that's nearly 10 years ago now and I've made myself sad, wow.) There is absolutely no point in expecting news for this game any time soon. Anniversaries will come and go and every time they'll tease and tease something new and then it'll end up being personakart or a limited release of phone charms or something. P6 will land when they're ready, they probably don't want to repeat the never ending delays situation they had with p5 and honestly I'd much rather just not see any of it til it's almost ready for me to play it anyway. There's other games.

Re: Final Fantasy 14's Next Major Patch, Buried Memory, Launches on 23rd August

starnivore

Getting back into this finally after taking a break from when I finished SHB. Everyone has that one game that has a hold on them, this one is it for me. Possibly one of my favourites of all time, which is impressive since I'm not an MMO person and really don't enjoy playing games with other people at all tbh. Something about Eorzea always pulls me back!

Re: Beyond Good & Evil 2 Just Found Its New Lead Writer

starnivore

This whole thing has seemed from the start to have been something that would have made a gorgeous, insane animated feature film, but they don't get paid to make films they get paid to make games so they had to try and construct a game around their idea. So we end up with three very beautiful marketing videos that tell us absolutely nothing about the product they eventually want us to buy. Very confusing. I'm pretty sure it'll come out eventually to critical disregard and we'll all forget about it within three months.

Re: Explore Sword and Fairy: Together Forever's Rolling Vistas in New Trailer, Coming to PS5, PS4 on 4th August

starnivore

looks super pretty! I'm loving the art style. I wasn't aware of this franchise at all but I think I'll give this one a look. Like other people have said, chinese mythology is rich and beautiful and not really a thing in the western gaming industry. I'm always up for a departure from traditional western fantasy, as much as I love it it does get a bit old

Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Officially in Development

starnivore

the phrase 'goblins, arisen!' lives rent free in my mind thanks to this game

beyond excited for more goofy, delightful fantasy action. I hope they keep the insanely varied character creator, too, and the ability to toss your party members off of cliffs for absolutely no reason

Re: E3 2022 Has Been Completely Cancelled

starnivore

I genuinely will miss E3, though I get why it's not really needed anymore and devs prefer reveals that won't be overshadowed by 1000000 other releases and trailers. E3's always the weekend before or after my birthday though so it always felt like a special present just for me, lots of shiny trailers and gameplay showcases. The odd state of play presentation, while actually a better deal, doesn't really have the same sense of excitement and anticipation as the annual showcase did. Ah well.

Re: Hands On: Cyberpunk 2077's PS5 Version Actually Feels Like a Finished Game

starnivore

I'd recommend this game to anyone, now that the performance is what it's supposed to be and it's got a nice price cut. It's a shame CDPR really really let themselves down on release because the game itself is good, the story is amazing, the characters and romance options are mostly great (river is meh so sucks to be het female V) and night city is so, so gorgeous I've spent hours driving around it just enjoying the sights.

Re: It's Been One Year Since the Release of Cyberpunk 2077

starnivore

I played the whole game on my 6ish year old ps4 and, while the performance did let the game down massively, I would still call it one of my favourite games of all time. I get why people would be put off by the game and by CDPR as a whole following the whole debacle, but I'd definitely recommend giving it a try if you can find it preowned/on sale though.

Re: Rumour: Final Fantasy Origin Reveal Set for E3, Working with Team Ninja

starnivore

@Ken_Kaniff I dunno, I disagree with that. It's more similar to super mario IMO, in the sense that there's a whole bunch of different games and spinoff titles, and the series sees a few releases a year across a bunch of platforms but in general each title is its own unique thing. Some are great, a lot are just okay, but you never get the sense when playing any one of them that they've just copy/pasted the last title in the series and added some flair to make it seem different.

A Final Fantasy soulslike has me rolling my eyes a bit, but Nioh was a solid game. I'll be willing to give it a try

Re: Poll: Which Bethesda Franchise Will PS5 Miss the Most?

starnivore

I'm not thrilled about it but I'd already planned to buy a gaming PC in the next few years anyway. Not to mention, TES6 isn't coming out for a while, and I'm not really interested in Starfield since space sci-fi isn't my jam. I'll miss Dishonored loads, but again that's a franchise that's been shelved for the time being at least so nbd.

Re: Poll: Did You Request a Cyberpunk 2077 Refund on PS5, PS4?

starnivore

I'm loving the game, despite its issues. They'll get fixed in time and I'm happy to wait, but it's honestly not been too bad for me even on my 4 year old PS4. I'm glad people who are unhappy have options, though. There should really be this sort of refund programme available for all games, regardless of the state of them at launch.