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Post by bonesnapdeez on Aug 14, 2023 14:13:01 GMT -5
Original is a pretty cool game, and that's probably enough for me, honestly.
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Post by Ex on Aug 14, 2023 14:31:42 GMT -5
I posted somewhere else on the forum that the original Gothic is getting ported to Switch soon, including a physical port. I'm conflicted about if I want to get it or not. After spending so much time with Risen, I have to wonder if Gothic wouldn't be more of the same of what that was. Risen was good, but it was also very demanding of the player - not a turn your brain off breezy RPG by any means. I have to wonder if the original Gothic is even more demanding.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Aug 14, 2023 17:08:35 GMT -5
Arcania is the easiest of the Gothic games. It's also the worst.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 14, 2023 17:49:04 GMT -5
Yeah, a lot of series fans did not like that one at all.
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Post by Ex on Aug 14, 2023 20:02:54 GMT -5
It's not that Risen was difficult so much as just how involved it is. There was just a lot of complexity in every facet. It's not like your usual JRPG where things are streamlined and funneled and overtly user friendly. One has to be in a very specific (patient) mood for a hoary ol' WRPG, even an action-WRPG... when it was made by Germans at least.
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Post by Xeogred on Aug 23, 2023 18:09:02 GMT -5
tl;dr FromSoftware wins again, best in the business.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Aug 23, 2023 19:25:15 GMT -5
"I have not beaten it due to time constraints"
lmao reminder that games journos don't even complete the games they review. One reason modern video games are so frontloaded.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 23, 2023 21:31:17 GMT -5
Gene's a good dude from what I can tell, though. Not sure he's in charge of the review for that one, assuming WaPo reviews it.
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Post by toei on Aug 24, 2023 9:17:16 GMT -5
He literally says he's only giving his impressions for now because he hasn't had time to finish it, it's not a review.
I agree "pro" journalists should beat games before they write reviews about them, but I'm just not sure it makes sense economically when it can easily take a week or two weeks full time to beat a game. How much does a site pay for a review? Two weeks' worth of salary? I doubt it. I've seen job ads for Kotaku and sites like that, I don't remember the exact numbers but you had to write like 20 posts a day for an entry level job salary. No wonder the site's full of bullshit articles about nothing. Who can think of this many pertinent or interesting topics a day? If you're paid for 7.5 hours, that's barely over 20 minutes per article. No wonder they're full of typos, too. I'm hoping the rate is higher for high-profile reviews, but I don't know.
Reviewing games professionally made sense in the days of magazines, when publications made money with sales and ads, games were much shorter, and there weren't thousands of people willing to do the same thing for free, but today it just doesn't make sense. It's no wonder some of the "pros" just make up most of their reviews.
How dumb is it that X's URL is still Twitter.com, btw? lol
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Post by Xeogred on Aug 24, 2023 18:29:19 GMT -5
Guess it's all part of Musk's branding lol. I thought it was joke at first...
I was rambling and deleted a post in fear of sounding like a total elitist, but I can't help but judge others who don't finish games, when they act otherwise. Local friends and online forums, more jokingly and it's not a big deal. I'm not going to think less of anyone here if they drop a game or whatever.
But nothing irks me more than listening to the "experts" on podcasts or whatever who act like they're the know-it-alls of an entire franchise, when they've probably only spent an hour with each entry or whatever. Or just big online personalities, "journalists", etc, dishing out false information, that annoys me so much. When they have a platform and should do their diligence to put out objective information first. You can usually fish them out though. I still listen to a lot of podcasts, it's a fun vibe when you find a good group (I still like Easy Allies a lot), it's not that I'm going to them for news, but just cool to listen to some dudes shoot the breeze on videogames and some opinions.
I had a local friend back in the day who was the expert on comics, by being very good at reading Wiki entries for whatever. lol, I never got into comics myself, but that group of friends, I could tell how much it annoyed them when he'd chime in like he knew everything going on in some series.
I have no clue who this Gene person even is. But all in all, seemed like a nice initial take on AC6 which is sounding epic. So that was why I posted that haha. Don't worry Gene, I will beat AC6.
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