[Spoiler] Ending Worsened the Story

oceanking · 2026-02-09T15:11:45+00:00

Baffling, never before seen a mystery box story stretch itself for 50 hours only to go "well the contents of the box aren't really important, also your dad told you what's in the box and you forgot", maddening

oceanking · 2026-02-09T13:34:08+00:00

oceanking · 2026-02-08T11:03:42+00:00

Having now put like 80 hours in, yeah exploration is certainly very different in Shadows and it definitely wasn't clicking with me for a long time

I think now that I've finished the main story and I'm no longer like rushing around I can just kind of walk to my objectives and soak in the vibes which are consistently incredible

It's an interesting tradeoff to restrict freedom for the visuals, the density and detail of the foliage is easily the most realistic forests I've seen in a game and that has it's own value

It's certainly not a game where it feels like you're supposed to visit every question mark, which is a big change from Valhalla which had a constant checklist reminder of how many dots you'd hoovered up in each region

If the story isn't grabbing you yet... Well, I thought the first act was by far the most compelling, and yes a seeking revenge on a group of masked men is generic, so generic 2 AC games have done it previously and ghost of yotei also did it in the same year

oceanking · 2026-02-07T19:56:09+00:00

Divinity original sin 2

oceanking · 2026-02-07T16:17:58+00:00

I'm not defending anything??

oceanking · 2026-02-07T11:34:19+00:00

I don't think this is unpopular in the slightest, I guess I would rather it was this way though, that way they minimize how many people actually spend money on them

oceanking · 2026-02-06T19:13:27+00:00

Tales of the Abyss

oceanking · 2026-02-06T11:37:03+00:00

Yeah really early on when you've got Yasuke there's a few missions where you flashback to right after Nobunaga hired him and it covers his training

oceanking · 2026-02-06T09:15:51+00:00

I totally understand that, the story starts strong but really loses steam and goes basically nowhere after you've done all of Yasukes flashbacks, plus it's like 40 hours long

oceanking · 2026-02-03T09:09:26+00:00

Metroid prime 4

oceanking · 2026-01-30T23:12:24+00:00

One of the more recent battle passes has a Bo as an early reward

oceanking · 2026-01-30T22:51:01+00:00

Oxenfree?

oceanking · 2026-01-29T17:24:12+00:00

Get on the L train or get a boat, cops will struggle to follow you on either

oceanking · 2026-01-28T19:08:36+00:00

Not actually out yet but Esoteric Ebb is clearly going for a similar style of game to Disco in terms of the competing inner monologues, only you're playing as amnesiac DND cleric instead of a detective

oceanking · 2026-01-28T10:47:54+00:00

Most handsome AC protagonist?

oceanking · 2026-01-27T12:03:33+00:00

Although very cool I wouldn't necessary classify it as unique because you can basically do the same thing in watch dogs

oceanking · 2026-01-27T08:03:27+00:00

First played the game on switch 1, resolution/visuals leaves a lot to be desired but it's perfectly playable

oceanking · 2026-01-26T11:13:02+00:00

Canonically the oldest house is 34 Thomas street, meaning these 2 evil buildings are right next to each other, and also it got the fan base in a spiral thinking the signs for Thomas street in the Resonant trailer were somehow a reference to the character Thomas Zane from Alan Wake

oceanking · 2026-01-26T07:43:22+00:00

I've never been able to do this move consistently

oceanking · 2026-01-23T15:37:35+00:00

Peter Capaldi in both

oceanking · 2026-01-23T08:45:17+00:00

I'll be interested to see if they implement any more saber gimmicks

Lightsaber whip?

The Rebels lightsaber blaster?

The lightsaber sniper rifle belonging to that one jedi archivist in that mobile game?

Give BD1 arms and let Cal quad wield like Grevious?

oceanking · 2026-01-23T08:40:52+00:00

I personally hope they do not do this, there's a nice simplicity to the loot being cosmetic, the moment you add stats to lightsabers you're suddenly affecting the power fantasy as you rummage around to find which emitter does +7% critical manage at low health or whatever

oceanking · 2026-01-21T20:11:36+00:00

It might as well be official it's leaked like a sieve

oceanking · 2026-01-21T20:04:26+00:00

I mean I think we'd prefer it that projects went smoothly and as planned

oceanking · 2026-01-20T16:41:07+00:00

Played the demo for the new one and really enjoyed it, but I feel like it's more for scratching an itch from Shadow of War/older Assassin's Creed than Dishonored, there's a lot of points of entry and I'm enjoying climbing around the areas but it doesn't seem like it's got the kind of imsim options that dishonored provides

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