Larian has always been both, quality and quantity. Recently finished OS1, played OS2 first actually. Both extremely good games and can be played in any order. My brother played all the Divinity games, and I've watched longplays of them, clearly Original Sin is a step up from their previous games, OS2 another one up, and Baldur's Gate 3 yet another masterpiece.
Bethesda is quantity. Their stories, writing, content etc. is pretentious, superficial, shallow and generi...
I can recommend Dragon Quest XI, Nier Replicant, Nier Automata, Valkyrie Chronicles IV, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 The Golden, Dark Souls I-III, Elden Ring, Chained Echoes, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, FFX/X-2, Monster Hunter World & Rise, Ni no Kuni I & II.
On top of that you have the classic versions with great mods to make them better than the PS1 versions: Chrono Trigger, FFVI, FFIV, FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX and Chrono Cross.
Can you disable the tutorials in the full game? I'm so done with Japanese games' tutorials, I can't take them. That's one of the reasons I have not bought Xenoblade Chronicles 3 yet. I don't have time to read about systems, I want to test them out without any guidance, and the ability to disable all tutorials.
A lot of people wrote negative comments and ridiculed me when I said the RPG elements from the demo were scarse and that the game lacks in many departments such as character build variation, equipment, attributes and elementals etc. Now look where we are, people are complaining about the exact same stuff.
This is not an ego thing, I don't like being right by the way, I wanted the game to be better. I wanted FFXVI to be a full-fledged complex RPG with the story and world...
That document was incredibly revealing, and extremely interesting. It certainly is elusive of ANY creative process recognition or vision of the studio or mission statement, and quite business-only focused appraisal of the organization. I found it an appalling way of putting numbers and value on a such a wonderfully complex company which has great creative talent who ooze innovative ideas, such as the ones presented in the last three Hitman games.
If this is the input and ho...
Amount of attributes, multitude of distinctive weapons, build customization, variety of spellcraft, equippable armor/ring/talisman/accessory slots and upgradability, number of playable characters, plethora of paths and overall length of the game. If you have plenty of those, you are closer to an RPG. Less of those and you are closer to an Action/Adventure game with RPG elements. I would say Souls, Original Sin and Dragon Quest games are RPGs whereas FFXVI, Hogwarts and God of War are Adventur...
That is exactly what happened to me after the demo! Could not take it. If they fix it, might as well get it for PS5, if they don't I can wait for PC release.
Hand-made will always prevail over procedurally generated. Even with From Software, you can see Elden Ring (and the devs told this openly) has procedural generation and it took away from the Dark Souls III type of very carefully crafted world. It was a great first attempt, and a sequel and other new open world games From Software creates surely will have more detailed worlds that have open areas which have meaning.
But when you go No Man's Sky or Starfield level of proc...
Agreed. And this is the sole reason I'm not buying the PS5 version. In the demo, I could not take the 30fps due to the camera shutter speed and laggy controls, and the performance mode was all over the place dropping in and out of the VRR range making it extremely uneven and unresponsive. The uncapped FPS without VRR was equally bad, so this is a resounding "No" from performance point of view. Plenty of other games to play at 4K120.
I'll wait for the PC ve...
Edit: I think I will wait. The PS5 Performance mode drops under VRR window, and 720p in combat to hit 60fps. The 1080p 30fps is a bit too jarring for me right now, I think I'll wait. I'm not a fan of the shallow RPG system either. Will buy this though, on PC, for the story. Maybe I'll buy the OST meanwhile! Soken is superb.
I'm so torn! On the other hand, I can wait till this arrives to PC to play it at 4K120 with all the bells and whistles, but on the other hand, I play games because of story and this seems to nail it so well. People are talking about Vagrant Story and FFXII as comparison, and these (and FFT and Xenogears) are my top game stories, especially the writing is phenomenal. Ghhhh, I may just splurge!!
Just tried it, the demo is awesome. I'm not sure though, if this can reach the heights of Chained Echoes. It will really depend on the length and amount of content, and the story etc.
I am very willing to change my mind, but the 6 hour previews from various news outlets report similar stuff, and they were able to test the game at sections which were at around mid-way through. There seems to be couple of more open-ended areas, but most of the story-related areas are apparently quite closed, and less free than for example FFXII. The lacking environmental art was not only my complaint, seems like most of the tunnels and caves and castles look very similar as you go forward fr...
I wish they would add a 40fps mode for 120hz TVs out there, or even 50fps mode so that it would be in the LFC range of standard VRR TVs. It's a Sony game, so I'd hope they'd hit the Sony Bravia series LFC range. The VRR didn't really help with the performance mode, it was incredibly erratic frame-time wise, felt extremely unpolished from purely performance perspective. Not sure if it was because I had the PS5 in 120hz mode, though.
Character graphics and c...
Oh statistics do not mean a thing? So what is it, your feelings dictate if it is dead or not then? The company is making money and players are engaged and new content is coming. Maybe it's niche, but it's not "dead", because it is "alive" and kicking.
Lost Odyssey oh yeah! I'd absolutely love to have a PC remaster of that. It still looks and sounds great, and plays well too. The writing in the game was really good.
Yeah, one can invest 100hrs into a 120fps shooter in 2023 on PC :)
I always thought FFIV, V, VI, VII and FFXII were very grown up. FFXIV as well, and FFIX had a lot of dying and killing as well. And especially FFT, which is probably one of the roughest video game stories with very realistic scenes, including betrayal and blood, grotesque scenes as well.
FFXVI just got back to where the series was two decades ago before it went full Teen and Emo.
I mean TGS:
2023: https://events.nikkeibp.co....
2022: https://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp...
You know, one of the largest game shows in the world at Makuhari Messe!
You came from... low-poly...grapes?