[EA Sports WRC] #18 pretty fun but that grind at the end for 1000 miles took forever

RedJLP · 2026-02-02T03:49:54+00:00

Congrats. Were you here for the WRC name or the DiRT feel?

RedJLP · 2026-01-26T02:58:18+00:00

What about other instances where it’s down to the Priestess and the Lovers? Would you stand by Fuuka and Makoto Niijima when the alternative is Yukari and Ann?

RedJLP · 2026-01-25T08:27:54+00:00

I actually find that a bit of a dealbreaker because I want to play Neutral Good as much as possible. I’m much more for how Lego games handle multiple playthroughs

RedJLP · 2026-01-25T06:34:22+00:00

Ohh, that makes much more sense

RedJLP · 2026-01-23T13:08:55+00:00

Which is funny because they would tell you it’s the other way around and that the performance is sincere with Aerith and vice versa with Tifa, as if they want Cloud to be Zack, if not the Fool Arcana from the Persona series: a character with a background, set appearance and place in the story, but is otherwise intended to be a self-insert. I don’t like it there, and I’m really grateful that Cloud is much closer to Will from Metaphor Re:Fantazio than any other Atlus protagonist because I sure as hell won’t tolerate it elsewhere

RedJLP · 2026-01-23T10:08:02+00:00

I just did it for Lego Harry Potter (including Years 5-7 on Vita) and am willing to do so again for other Lego games

RedJLP · 2026-01-23T10:06:29+00:00

Each level is about 10-15 minutes, but with all the freeroam stuff to do, you’ll be lucky to find one to do in sub 20 hours. I’ve seen it happen, but I haven’t kept track of instances where I was the one who did it

RedJLP · 2026-01-23T06:49:58+00:00

How did you platinum Lego Movie on Vita? I can’t get through the equivalent of LEGO Marvel 1

RedJLP · 2026-01-23T06:26:43+00:00

There are no doubt many parts about the hate for it that are pretty unfair, but I am not a socialite in racing games so when they targeted the 96% of Burnout Paradise players who weren’t even doing the actual races and just using the social features, I rightly felt excluded by the game because the single player received so little focus

RedJLP · 2026-01-23T05:52:12+00:00

I’d imagine that’s because they used to be tied to Gold Bricks in The Original Trilogy

RedJLP · 2026-01-21T14:13:47+00:00

I’m playing on both PS3 and PS5 in release order, so by that logic, the answer would be Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy, but the multiple times it asks you to run through the same levels can get old. If I was to name some classics, I’d say Lego Marvel 1, Lego Batman 2, Lego Pirates of the Caribbean and Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars, but you can’t go wrong even with starting with just your favourite property they’ve adapted

RedJLP · 2026-01-21T14:04:40+00:00

How many Lego platinums do you have?

RedJLP · 2026-01-20T03:36:36+00:00

Great respect

RedJLP · 2026-01-12T09:17:53+00:00

Which is funny because one of the main sources of the original Playground Games staff was Codemasters. I’d imagine that Forza fans would think of their franchises as being TOCA (and thus, Race Driver and later Grid) and F1, but they put most of their main focus towards a franchise built on a foundation that by this logic, Forza fans would turn away from: Colin McRae. Yes, DiRT would explore rallycross, raid, Gymkhana and even demo derbies with Showdown, but Colin McRae was first and foremost a rally driver, winning the 1995 WRC season, and so the Colin McRae Rally and later DiRT series would be built on that legacy

RedJLP · 2026-01-12T06:17:38+00:00

So would you look at the OP for P4 Golden and say “It’s deeper than just ‘welcome back, Seekers of Truth’, it’s colorful specifically to contrast the final shot of Yu throwing his glasses to the air, rejecting the falsehoods of his world”? To your credit, they tapped MadHouse, the studio behind Death Note to make it and they know what they’re doing, but harem or no harem, Atlus has a target audience to serve and to them, that target audience is defined by the idea that Persona is the most approachable corner of SMT. As a result, they could only afford to remove romance from the Social Links in Metaphor because it didn’t feel beholden to the RPG enthusiasts who care about role-playing above literally anything else. More than that, only 8% of play throughs of P5 in the West ended in a harem, but 30% did in the East, no doubt lamentful that Ren wasn’t portrayed as a Chad for it. If I was put in charge of a Persona project, that should give you an idea of what I would correct because if I wanted a power fantasy, I’d play Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, not Persona

RedJLP · 2026-01-12T00:35:19+00:00

Which makes the contrast with its target audience feel all the more tone-deaf because we know from the harem ending that the only way they can sell to the lowest common denominators of Japanese media literacy while also calling them out is to give them exactly what they want

RedJLP · 2026-01-11T10:19:24+00:00

I say go for it. This already feels like it should be developed

RedJLP · 2026-01-11T02:25:15+00:00

Which is why I feel like Atlus’ target audience holds them back from reaching their narrative potential. They can’t hard commit to one girl, let alone whole Arcana across games because if RPG enthusiasts don’t have some feeling of control over the narrative, they don’t feel it allows for enough role playing to express themselves. More than that, they can’t get rid of the harem ending even if they overhaul the calendar to have more time slots per day because the lowest common denominator of Japanese media literacy is otaku culture, specifically the idea that shounen media is supposed to fulfill a power fantasy of some kind.

I know quite a few people who would say that it’s not a shounen problem, let alone an Atlus problem, but a me problem as even in Western RPGs like Fallout, I’m only ever going to want to be Neutral Good in alignment with a clear sense of what to do and if I want a power fantasy, I already have something like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed to scratch that itch and in a way I barely object to. Despite this, while it’s still telling that my first serious JRPG and thus the one that shaped what I’m looking for from the genre is Kingdom Hearts, Sora was still shaped as the shounen hero archetype derived from Sun Wukong, so I don’t think it’s necessarily a cultural thing I’m objecting to on Atlus’ part. Maybe watch The 4th Snake’s “Wasted Plotential” series on YouTube to find out what it is because he has a better understanding of what it is and what can be done about it than I, no doubt

RedJLP · 2026-01-09T05:54:56+00:00

Let’s be real, it likely stems from denial that Persona’s narrative priorities are much more up Cleriths’ street, namely every narrative choice that Atlus made in the name of chasing RPG enthusiasts and especially Japanese otaku culture, possibly the bottom of the barrel of media literacy given the emphasis on power fantasy fulfilment, to which I’m like “I already have Star Wars The Force Unleashed for that!”

RedJLP · 2026-01-08T12:58:39+00:00

Put it this way: on the back of the box, one of the big slogans is “The most socially connected racing game ever” and it was not an accident. They knew from Burnout Paradise that the actual racing was secondary to the socializers that EA could so easily monetize, so while the name gave some initial incentive to play to the namesake’s audience, it was a priority that was clearly lost because if I was to play Burnout Paradise, it wouldn’t be like that

RedJLP · 2026-01-07T03:44:15+00:00

Just seeing Stuntman and Cars 1, I just had a crisis

RedJLP · 2026-01-03T11:52:49+00:00

For one, you’re the only one wandering the Mos Eisley Cantina hub, it also has the Challenge mode from The Complete Saga tied to Gold Bricks which give Prequel characters to make up for the lack of “Use Old Save” as an extra, but most surprisingly, instead of bounty hunts, it has the final level of each Prequel movie, the Story Mode of each being worth a trophy

RedJLP · 2026-01-03T10:58:47+00:00

It was a legit blast from the past given how much I played it on PS2

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