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Post by Ex on Oct 30, 2020 16:22:34 GMT -5
Glad I never got invested in his books or anything. I liked Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag. But yeah who knows if he'll ever finish the GoT series.
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Post by toei on Oct 30, 2020 16:46:13 GMT -5
If I were him I'd announce one last book to tie everything up, and when it comes out it'd just be one page that says "THEN EVERYTHING HAPPENED LIKE IN THE TV SHOW".
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Post by Chainsaw Bilqis on Oct 30, 2020 16:49:18 GMT -5
I think GRRM is a good fit for an open world fantasy game if the game is told through a "less is more" lore approach. For me the best parts in the ASOIAF books are the minor details in the text that help inform the bigger picture to lead to conclusions that are never overtly stated. Now, it is possible a lot of these things will eventually be revealed if more books are released, but at least the books have already been written in a way that even if no more books come out there are still a lot of details that can be pieced together in the story to come up with interesting possible scenarios. So I think it could work out to be pretty neat if he applies that style of writing to a game.
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Post by Ex on Oct 30, 2020 16:55:36 GMT -5
"THEN EVERYTHING HAPPENED LIKE IN THE TV SHOW"
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Post by anayo on Nov 2, 2020 18:18:17 GMT -5
"THEN EVERYTHING HAPPENED LIKE IN THE TV SHOW" That's hilarious. XD
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Post by Xeogred on Nov 9, 2020 11:25:52 GMT -5
Yakuza 7 Like a Dragon looks INCREDIBLE. I love how the main character straight up loves Dragon Quest too and that wasn't an issue between Sega/Square/localization. Been watching some stream of it today and even the English VO is excellent, with lip sync that seems perfect. I'll play in Japanese though.
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Post by Xeogred on Nov 12, 2020 15:00:51 GMT -5
Demon's Souls 2.0 is out and I guess I don't care too much about watching some videos/streams here and there, since it's a remake...
Now I could be judging, but I'm feeling like the game has replaced one personality with another. For better worse. The new more bombastic music, the overly slick and ugly UI, some redesigned monsters... on its own it looks like I'll have a blast with it, but I don't know if I see this remake being any kind of "replacement" for the original to me. Sometimes that happens, sometimes the remake sucks, sometimes the remake can fully replace the original, or both versions are great. The original is near and dear to me, so maybe I'm just overly sensitive to any kind of little change, but yeah.
For me:
Metroid > Zero Mission RE1 < REmake RE2 = RE2R RE3 = RE3R
Okay surely there's more but I'm drawing a blank now...
I guess I could take Bluepoint's Shadow of the Colossus remake over the original. Having played that one, it felt like the spirit of the original game was basically untouched. But it looks like they kind of tinkered a little more with Demon's Souls in comparison.
Cool that new fans can play this 10/10. But I'm already annoyed when I see some people say the original Demon's looks terrible or whatever. Ah well, that's me being the cranky retro gamer I guess.
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Post by Ex on Nov 12, 2020 15:11:33 GMT -5
Gonna have to let you be point man on this one Xeogred, some of what you describe worries me. The original DeS is an absolute masterpiece though, irreplaceable to me. I thoroughly loved it. I really need to play Dark Souls next year. Actually in 2021, Dark Souls will be a decade old. Aged to the correct HRG vintage.
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Post by Xeogred on Nov 12, 2020 15:47:57 GMT -5
Looking forward to your Dark Souls run and how it'll measure up. I can't really argue against anyone's personal favorite Soulsborne game(s). Demon's is something special to me but the rest are 10/10's too. lol
I just watched a guy beat the Adjudicator ... couldn't really hear the music at all. He bumped down the sound effects volume and boosted hardware volume on his end, but it just seems like the game itself has the music mixed in really low for some reason.
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Post by Xeogred on Nov 12, 2020 18:34:50 GMT -5
The new Tower of Latria... and Fool's Idol... it's just not the same! My absolutely top favorite level in all these games! I think something happened to the secret sauce here. I don't really imagine new fans are going to walk away thinking this is better than all the other games either, when I was speculating that could be possible. But this remake just comes off a bit too clean, hollow? Again, just judging by watching here and all. But I suddenly don't feel like I must have a PS5 to play this right away. I can wait now.
I think this is why I never wanted to believe Demon's would be released again or get the remake treatment. Just wasn't possible to capture the same magic to me. The Demon's SOUL, cannot be replicated or emulated again.
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