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Re: Fae Farm Promises The Depth Of Stardew Valley And The Charm Of Fantasy Life

Ocaz

There’s too many farm games now. It’s a rough market to compete in because of the time required to be spent in each game it won’t garner your farm game that much player population. Plus most farm games are very samey and are easy to just forget and put down. Distinguishing your game is important, put something wacky in it that generally doesn’t get used in casual game enclosures. Farming is very casual don’t mix it with another casual element. Take a non casual element and simplify it. Stardew did great with their combat whereas I think rune factory struggles with it. It’s too much of a part of the game without having much to it so you spend too long on an overly basic system whereas farming has many intricacies such as fertilizer placement large crops sales machinery cooking and more and combat is just bludgeoning someone to death.

Source: most of my time played in games are farming sims. I won’t pretend I’m being modest here I know what is good and what isn’t. This is my main genre.

Re: Two Castlevania Characters Join The Fight In Brawlhalla Next Month

Ocaz

Ah yes, the two that should’ve been playable in smash. I don’t like this game that much but at least they’re doing it right. I think people know who Simon and alucard are vs Simon and richter. They added the latter as full characters because it took less work to implement. Still salty about not being able to play as alucard. Every time I see his assist trophy I’m still disappointed.

Re: Take-Two CEO Urges Caution Against Betting On The Metaverse

Ocaz

@shgamer no it’s cool. It’s hard to find good conversation anywhere these days. But I see what you mean and yes I feel the same way. It’s all been done and then an outlier will fly out of left field but really all they’ve done is taken one thing and another and merge it together. It looks new but it’s not, but I still encourage that because it feels new and that’s a good feeling. We don’t exactly get to discover the world in the 21st century. That adventure was seized by those who precede us by a couple decades ago. Seems like now is the age of push it till you break it which isn’t good because it is more about destroying things rather than seeing how long the good can last. In short, I get you.

Re: Take-Two CEO Urges Caution Against Betting On The Metaverse

Ocaz

@shgamer well even though it probably won’t happen maybe people will wisen up and actually not buy things they don’t want. I’m really into big business failing so I hope this gets trash canned really quick. It’s a bad move and it will draw in too many suckers with lots of money to spend just to try “the new thing” even though the new thing is a digital version of the old thing in most cases.

Re: Take-Two CEO Urges Caution Against Betting On The Metaverse

Ocaz

@shgamer it’s just combining everything. All digital entertainment will be one big glob of a mess. People will pay for digital space to house their product in this one entity that requires a large amount of hope to achieve. It’s not that it’s too ambitious it’s just that it’s innately a bad idea. The only ones to benefit are the ones behind the meta verse itself. Companies taking part and consumers will just be confused about what they are supposed to be doing to interact with the thing in a meaningful way. The Walmart meta verse sums up the stupidity of it perfectly. Imagine instead of going to Walmart and walking up and down the aisles you put on a VR headset and walk up and down the aisles picking what you want and they’ll be shipped to you. It’s literally just a flashy waste of time way to interact with anything. And you bet your snazzy little self it will be expensive to do it all.

Re: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet's Multiplayer Will Let You Explore With Up To Four People

Ocaz

I’d love to do this with my 2 homies. Pokémon could be such a great multiplayer game but it’s been restricted to 2 of the least interesting forms of multiplayer you can have. I’ve never had the urge to battle my friends Pokémon and trading is just an inconvenience created by the games themselves having exclusive Pokémon. I love that I didn’t need any connectivity to fully enjoy legends arceus.

Re: Random: Nintendo's Latest Splatoon 3 Tweet Has Some Inklings Excited

Ocaz

Sounds like the type of feature that other people get far more excited than me. I like fun gameplay and really despise in depth customization systems. If the customization system ties into gameplay somehow I will use it but only to get me by. I’d put a bed down and a radio maybe a plant and never touch it again. Not a fitting system for a shooter game.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (May 21st)

Ocaz

I’m currently limping through Ōkami. So far this is not a good game but there’s some things I like about it that are keeping me on the path to the end. Really tired of fighting the “wiser than thou” camera they have constant cutscenes and interruptions and awful pacing. The combat is kind of fun when you don’t have to pause time to use a stupid brush thing. Some things are quirky and fun and unique it’s just enough to keep me there.

Re: Pokémon Unite's In-Game Subscription Service Is Now Live

Ocaz

9.99 could buy you a game rather than a single item. Just saying. Especially if you plan to subscribe for a while you could just buy legends arceus since it’s on sale right now and come out on top in the end. If you like Pokémon play the real games. Not some tencent paywall crap.