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Re: Soapbox: Grinding Is Poor Gameplay Design That Doesn’t Respect Your Time

doctorhino

I like the freedom of being able to sit around and make the harder parts of the game easier. But it can't take you hours to grind. How did this article not mention octopath, it has to be the most old school grind I've had to do in a while cause you have to level all the characters up to even do the story parts. Now that is a part of grinding I don't like, using characters you don't normally just to level up just to trigger story events.

Re: No, Konami Isn't Exiting The Video Game Business

doctorhino

@Anti-Matter oh yeah you have a personal stake in all this. I will admit the property being owned by Konami is probably the only reason we don't get consistent games for newer consoles. Heck if they can make let's dance every year they could probably sell enough ddr.

Re: Pokkén Tournament Producer Katsuhiro Harada Up For A Sequel, But Says It's Not Bandai Namco's Decision To Make

doctorhino

@MegaVel91 I realize that but they just haven't had a lot of good fighting games since the first one came out way back in 2015. naruto is really their main fighting game draw and they even jacked up the last one of those games (Shinobi Striker). What's the point of taking a gamble on them with your biggest series again.

I don't think the Namco games really count as we know who ends up handling all the anime series and it's Bandai.

Re: Fortnite Adds Top Football Teams Like Man City And Juventus In Latest Crossover

doctorhino

@iulis84 we also have a heck of a lot less teams than euro football so that helps. I don't know how AAA baseball and other more localised sports are doing but it's understandable that countries like Romania don't have massive national tv deals like here. I guess it's supply and demand and here there is not a lot of supply (1 league per sport type) and crazy high demand.

Re: Random: Masahiro Sakurai Calls Cyberpunk 2077 A "Dream Game"

doctorhino

They made the PC version spectacular, complained that they had to make it compatible with ps5 and xSx and then didn't even come out with a version for them. If they had split the time of dev up and not had to make the PC version the only good version it could have been patched and all versions got better over time.

I think they grossly underestimated how much of their audience is on console and really the worst thing a game maker can do is make a great game and then a broken game on 2 different platforms. It's like teasing us that the PC players get RTX and 60fps.

Given all that I had about 35 hours of fun on Series X until I realized it wasn't worth blowing through this whole game on crappy mode and not wanting to play it again until the true current gen version is out.