I played the whole thing on controller. It sounds like you’re still early in the game so the combat hasn’t pushed you to play it like a twin stick yet. During certain bosses and especially after a spoiler will the drone become more useful and reveal mechanical depth you havent been exposed to yet. Give it time. That game is a treasure.
Ah gotcha. How are you liking Nier so far? It’s more of a spectical fighter than an open world traversal game.
Nothing that grandiose. Sounds like you’re mostly in it for the traversal. Did you play Mirror’s Edge 2?
What about a system like the Like a Dragon franchise, where it’s a small open area flush with things to do?
We finally found him! John Openworld! The core reason why game devs keep making every game into an open world!
I have a question I always wanted to ask. Is it more important for the world to be deep or wide? More side content or more to navigate?
That’s just, like, your opinion, man…
Dropping all civility, I’ll say; hummuna hummuna, awwwooooga, boiyoiyoing, SCHWIINNGGG
People are simplifying it a bit too much. Take Two is calling it an extended look at the game. Knowing Rockstar, it’ll preview a lot of the story and show off the gameplay adjustments/additions from the last release. Some agreement happened between Take Two and Netflix, understanding that this release was going to draw a lot of attention, so they worked out this timed exclusivity thing.
Is that Rockstar’s track record now? I remember RDR2 releasing in a pretty stable condition. Regardless, bugs or no, I think people deep into gaming usually see the most important parts as what the gameplay is shaping up to be. So that would be, how has the driving changed, is there more thought and effort put into the non-violent side-content, how intractable is the world and to what degree is the world responsive? Stuff like that. The folks I usually listen to are mostly on that track since graphics are generally irrelevant now and the story is… Gonna be a Rockstar story, and won’t be anywhere near GTA IV, so it’s not that exciting.
It sucks, but GTA is one of our last tentpole entertainment products. I understand people being a little excited to participate, and that also means the corps milking it for every last cent. The Netflix thing makes sense in the same way superbowl commercials make sense. And it does look like this is supposed to be the big gameplay showcase, so wanting to tune in as a gaming insider also tracks. It is what it is.
Crime usually comes before punishment. Right now the system is working it’s way into figuring out how to deal with this new social dynamic. Like you, I think it’s pretty straightforward. We won’t solve the core reason for the bullying dynamics though. I think humans that adhere to gendered thinking will be behind on that for a good long while yet.