ForceStealer
Double Growth
looks like circuit boards
What games are you currently playing?
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Yeah, the conversation around this game has somehow gotten even worse. People are angry that IGN Japan and Famitsu did not give it high enough scores, and worse, that it flopped in Japan despite being a "JRPG." Apparently, to some idiots online, Japanese people are xenophobic for buying and preferring JRPGS made in Japan instead of Western RPGS pretending to be JRPGS.
Strangelove
AI Researcher
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- hitoshura
finished the callisto protocol and just started the dlc
ngl it's been a let down. i had just finished the dead space remake before this. i was apprehensive about when the original came out and i played the demo but i got a second hand copy for like a fiver and it was one of my favourite games of that generation. and i was a bit apprehensive about a remake but i had a good time.
i'd heard a mixed reception for tcp but i went in with an open mind and hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but it didn't really live up to it. the thought that went through my head as i went on was that it felt like a parsed-down dead space in a bunch of little ways. there's weapon upgrades, but it's 4 upgrades per weapon and that's it (except the baton and glove thing). you get a suit upgrade, but you get one and you're stuck with 12 inventory slots max. i guess there's 6 firearms based on the menu, but i never made any except the ones you have to get because i struggled with managing the inventory with just two weapons. you have Legally Distinct Not-Kinesis, but you can do less with it than you could in dead space (can't pick up items, can't pick up enemies after they're dead). you've got your familiar audio logs, but they're mostly just 2-3 lines. i didn't find all the logs but from what i did, i didn't get as much a sense of the world compared with dead space 1. being able to vault over stuff opens up exploring more but i'm not sure if it was used to its fullest and it felt clunky at times.
combat was probably the biggest disappointment for me. by the end i am just dreading when enemies pop up. mechanically all the fights feel the same and start to drag. this is perhaps down to me not taking advantage of the systems fully or something, but i never really had to do much different for any of the enemies. being able to dodge is an interesting idea, but if you're fighting multiple enemies and they're all attacking you i'm just standing there dodging for like 30 seconds before i get a hit in. then you get to the boss fights and they're... functionally the same as regular fights but now the enemies has even more health. i don't think dead space was the most cerebral combat ever but there were at least times when you've fighting in zero-g, where you had to aim for a certain point on enemies. i was probably enjoying it the most during the section with blind enemies but maybe that's because you could sneak up on them and avoid combat easily.
i've only played maybe 30 minutes of the dlc so far, but it did add some minor unlocking mechanism which is a change of pace. but then i had to travel a short distance and had to fight like 8 enemies and by the time i was half way through the room was saying "god, not again" out aloud to myself. it reminds me of my least favourite parts of uncharted or the last of us, where you'd get to a clearing with some cover and it'd make you find multiple waves of enemies and i just wanted to move forward.
also, the suit just isn't as cool as dead space's.
ngl it's been a let down. i had just finished the dead space remake before this. i was apprehensive about when the original came out and i played the demo but i got a second hand copy for like a fiver and it was one of my favourite games of that generation. and i was a bit apprehensive about a remake but i had a good time.
i'd heard a mixed reception for tcp but i went in with an open mind and hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but it didn't really live up to it. the thought that went through my head as i went on was that it felt like a parsed-down dead space in a bunch of little ways. there's weapon upgrades, but it's 4 upgrades per weapon and that's it (except the baton and glove thing). you get a suit upgrade, but you get one and you're stuck with 12 inventory slots max. i guess there's 6 firearms based on the menu, but i never made any except the ones you have to get because i struggled with managing the inventory with just two weapons. you have Legally Distinct Not-Kinesis, but you can do less with it than you could in dead space (can't pick up items, can't pick up enemies after they're dead). you've got your familiar audio logs, but they're mostly just 2-3 lines. i didn't find all the logs but from what i did, i didn't get as much a sense of the world compared with dead space 1. being able to vault over stuff opens up exploring more but i'm not sure if it was used to its fullest and it felt clunky at times.
combat was probably the biggest disappointment for me. by the end i am just dreading when enemies pop up. mechanically all the fights feel the same and start to drag. this is perhaps down to me not taking advantage of the systems fully or something, but i never really had to do much different for any of the enemies. being able to dodge is an interesting idea, but if you're fighting multiple enemies and they're all attacking you i'm just standing there dodging for like 30 seconds before i get a hit in. then you get to the boss fights and they're... functionally the same as regular fights but now the enemies has even more health. i don't think dead space was the most cerebral combat ever but there were at least times when you've fighting in zero-g, where you had to aim for a certain point on enemies. i was probably enjoying it the most during the section with blind enemies but maybe that's because you could sneak up on them and avoid combat easily.
i've only played maybe 30 minutes of the dlc so far, but it did add some minor unlocking mechanism which is a change of pace. but then i had to travel a short distance and had to fight like 8 enemies and by the time i was half way through the room was saying "god, not again" out aloud to myself. it reminds me of my least favourite parts of uncharted or the last of us, where you'd get to a clearing with some cover and it'd make you find multiple waves of enemies and i just wanted to move forward.
also, the suit just isn't as cool as dead space's.