@AFCC Oh you’re preaching to the choir about Dark Souls’ story. Metroid Prime already nailed what Dark Souls was going for because all its lore was neatly presented in an optional scan mechanic. Not by NPCs spouting stuff like “Ho ho ho, the cleansing of the blood moon led poor Ser Bumfluff to madness”.
@Kidfried Good to hear another “+1” for the game as I picked it up last night (and within a minute couldn’t find the game so assume it was being put into the sale at that point 😑)
@Kidfried About the haptics: it's not anything special most of the time (but still better than it would be without it) but I thought all the train rides, lifts etc between levels felt really good.
Also I don't think I found any secrets, I might have to play again.
@AFCC i heard from software made the souls games so hard in everything because they thought that games back then had way to much "handholding" urgh i hate that term.
it just has this smell of arrogance to it all imo.
even though i'm trying demon's souls out atm,i can't see myself sticking with it much longer. atleast some of the player messages are helpfull altough still cryptic.
and having to go to an external source as a wiki to understand the story other than the very basics is just bad story telling. i don't care if it's done on purpose and part of the charm,it's bad story telling.
i just don't like games that don't give you any direction or are very cryptic with their objectives. where from softwares thinks there's to much "handholding" in games i think souls games are on the other end of the extreme. coming across as arrogant,and being cumbersome just for the sake of it. it also created this mentality for some players that playing games in general on anything other than hard are for casuals.
@jdv95 same! Don't like having no objectives, but I do enjoy souls games mostly for the bosses designs tbh!
Also the storytelling is AWFUL. There is just no other way to describe it lol
@AFCC Awful? I personally think it's great. You, as the character, know what you would know, which is to say you have to kill something for a certain purpose, in Demon's Souls and Bloodborne. I've only finished Bloodborne, but I've read a lot of the story and tried to piece it together and it's brilliant. It's done in a way only a game could do, and you can feel the atmosphere and work even if you don't pick up on what's gong on. I mean think about it, why would you know more easily in a game like that? What would tell your character aside from convenience? I don't think anyone really would, so it puts you in those shoes. You don't have a knowledge or guide to gain as the character, and as such they could have just said, "it's a game," but everything is thoroughly thought out and has a reason anyway, which is why it's so brilliant and it shows in just how thought the level design is from a gameplay standpoint too.
@Kidfried I somehow managed to get zero cosmetics from secrets so I didn’t even know they existed! I quite liked the haptics though, they weren’t too in your face which I found a bit more relaxing given the genre of the game. Just the footsteps still feel like magic to me.
Also, for anyone playing Disco Elysium on PS5, I finally recreated the frame drops that Liam was talking about. After about 8 hours of play, I think? If you zoom out to the max distance while in Whirling-in-Rags at night time with the Union dudes’ booth open then the game goes to about 20FPS. It’s playable but it does look a bit silly. If you zoom even a bit in then it’s sorted. I also got a hard crash luckily a few minutes after a save. I wasn’t happy about a hard crash but at the same time, I’ve had Astro’s Playroom, FIFA 21, Tony Hawk and The Pedestrian all hard crash on me. Which might speak more to system software maybe?
@nessisonett Hard crash as in the console makes a scary noise and turns itself off? I only had one of those since launch and it was in MK11.
Speaking of which - I made it to Grand Master rank in Kombat League last night. There's 5 days to go in the season and 3 of them are the Easter weekend - I'm not visiting family this year so maybe I can attempt reaching Demigod... would probably have to win 20+ sets to do it.
@Jaz007 Well said! I think it is just a different way of telling a story. Fair enough people are fine to not like it, but there is a difference between that and something being outright poorly implemented or written.
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@nessisonett I've only had some soft crashes, and most of the with Cyberpunk 2077. Think the last time I had one was when I was playing Concrete Genie. Is it in a well ventilated area?
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@AFCC Yeah it's not awful at all, as @Jaz007 says it takes advantage of the medium to tell a story. It might not be like watching another generic Netflix show but the pieces are there to put together.
@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, it’s got plenty of room at either end. Pretty annoying.
@Voltan Doesn’t make a noise but the app immediately shuts down with no warning, no freezing or anything, just kicks me back to the menu and stutters for a bit. It’s happened a few times already and I’ve only had it for a couple of weeks.
@nessisonett OK, so that's a different thing. The one I'm talking about is when the console shuts down completely and you have to wait a while to turn it back on - preceded with the screen freezing completely - and since the audio "freezes" too, it makes an ugly noise for a second - kinda scary
I've heard about it happening to people a lot near launch, especially in Cold War but also in Miles Morales - which I myself platinumed with exactly one "soft" crash.
But it did happen to me once last month and it was in MK11.
Overall my experience was pretty stable since launch - a few games did crash but no more than a couple times each.
@RogerRoger Technically there already is a full Astro game, it's even free on PSN right now - but unfortunately it requires PSVR
I hear it's excellent though.
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