General gaming discussion

See that's the thing you don't realize. I went back to Kings field 1 because of this image:

Just to laugh at the graphics. And they are hilariously bad. And then an hour had pasted before I knew it and I was hooked.

Good games are good games forever regardless of graphics.

Beat way to play souls games is to go in expecting to not have a clue what's going on and accept you'll fail or not finish quests. Trophies aren't important in the grand scheme of things.

I think that message just signified a barrier being passable now anyway

I find them great to just get lost in. The atmosphere and environmental storytelling are excellent, looking up the lore is optional to me. I don't think they've managed to too the first Dark Souls for how it manages to integrate gameplay mechanics and unreliable NPCs but their world building is better than anyone else's and I love that they aren't so in love with their lore that they can leave their lore bible aside and not hit the player with boring codex and lore dumps.

I kind of find that sometimes knowing the lore can spoil the atmosphere of the game. Baroque is a game I adore the art and atmosphere of but if you read up on the actual backstory it's kind of rote sci fi, whereas just playing the game was such a weird lynchian experience. Same with the awful translation of FF7. My mind came up with a much more interesting story for that game but playing the more accurate translation patch it's really just a load of anime tropey nonsense.

Game Freak are their own entity and the engine might not have been ready for them. Also game freak are a third party despite the close relationship with Nintendo so that Zelda tech would be at risk of leaking.

The thing that people don't understand about those ugly looking pokemon games is that the pokemon games more often than not have been very low tech. I mean there's no excuse for the last few pokemon games looking like they are running on a Voodoo2 on the tribes 2 engine. However on twitter all I'm seeing is people not interested in Pokemon making a massive deal out of how pokemon looks and how it sucks now and on the other side are the people that love pokemon saying, yeah it looks awful but legends and the last pokemon games are the most fun the series has ever been.

Yes by a long shot.

Although people swear by mercenaries mode. I'm half expecting Ropedrink to appear and defend the game.

And while I appreciate that mercenaries mode does have a lot of depth with a move set that makes it more inline with a devil may cry game the single player campaign is awful with the Gigante section of Chris's campaign possibly the worst thing Ive played since some of the worst **** on the Commodore 64.

Yeah I'm surprised at the reviews but seems it's a good surprise. It seems like they didn't mess with the story at all and stuck to it very rigidly, even the dialogue is almost word for word.

It's good to see a developer hone their craft and become much better. Layers of Fear was really bad but then again Mercurystream went from making one of the worst Metroidvanias of all time to making Metroid Dread.