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The end products aren't good, and they can't seem to make them good. That's why I feel bad for them But development is never as easy as "learn to make good games." There can be so many other factors that result in them failing. So at this point I just feel bad for them.

I feel kinda bad for 343 at this point.

Hot damn.

I am hype.

Nobu (Trust)

Yeah the protecting part definitely made it trickier and I fucked up my first try because I didn't realize that was a thing until they killed him but then I somehow managed it okay on my second try. I'm also playing on normal though, like a scrub.

I just sworded most of them in my regular gear (I switched out as soon as you get control) because I knew my archery wasn't going to be up to snuff

Seems like in the reviews some people didn't really like the combat. Maybe it gets old once I've played a lot more, but I really enjoy it. And notably, I think this is the best open world combat I've played. Is there another open world game that people think has significantly better combat?

Is there a catch to Sprint Strike? I've only gotten it to work once. I've main been trying to use it when dashing at archers, but when I press square he seems do only a weak slash, not the full one that goes down completely on one knee afterwards. EDIT: I think I figured it out, but will need to do more testing. It seems like you have to press square when you're basically right on the person. If you do it as soon as you enter striking range, which is what I was doing, you won't get the attack.

Yeah I feel the same way. Granted, I'm early, but after many of the criticisms, I was anticipating a hell of a lot more of minor ?s littering the map. From what I've seen, it doesn't come anywhere close to as many as AC, or even the (justly) adored Witcher 3.

Still early, but I'm enjoying it! It is really beautiful and the sword fights are pretty satisfying. I suspect that as you get level up you will become pretty OP, but I think that will be okay.

Whether it was "popular" is probably debatable based on what we mean by that term. But for whatever level it was at in the 90s, it seems like it's much more so than even that now. Or at least that's my impression. Do you happen to know the figures out of curiosity?

I only got into anime recently, like last year recently (and now I binge a lot of it ). I also have mostly focused on more recent animes, so it's entirely plausible it got better. Especially since they're now much more popular in the US than they were.

Thanks! I'll look into this. I do tend to go English dub for Japanese games and anime myself. Partly because I actually like the English voice actors, and partly because yes, reading is annoying because my eye sight is in fact poor! I've become progressively more nearsighted with time. Can't imagine why that would have happened to me

Huh. Now that you mention it, I don't know why this isn't more of a thing. For people in mocap and games, It would be straightforward to gather a large dataset of sounds to lip motions and train a model that works extremely well for any voice input. Even if you didn't want pay the computational burden of running the neural net live in the game (assuming it was large), you could just run it once offline for all voice lines and load the animation.

I actually like what they did with the modern day stuff in Odyssey. Largely because it was so connected with Kassandra.

Maybe my memory is wrong but I don't think murder was the norm, but that's how it played out in the movie because it revolved around a disruptive element. Of course, as we all know by now, relying on norms is a terrible form of government, but that they would rely on norms seems completely believable at this point

I don't think it would be offensive because humans have a strange obsession with monarchies in general when it comes to entertainment. Even if you only want to look in the MCU you only have to go to Thor to find an advanced society with a white monarchy. The monarchy part is normal for the medium, it's not like it's only done for black people.

I could get behind AI ninjas and samurai.

I was interested before, and these reviews are easily above the bar to make me get it. But I also need to finish up Bloodstained before I start a long game. I know, I'm late to the party on that one, but I kept hoping that they'd patch the Switch version into a better performing state and decided it wasn't in the cards and finally just got it for PC on the steam sale

Actually, only 8. Which will surely increase from this post.

So, that's totally John Wick, right?

That looks pretty good!

wtf!

I hope that is the outcome if anything, as shitty as that would be for Lockhart owners! I mean, we could refrain from discussing any topic until all information is completely available and certain, but that's going to kill a lot of discussion on a video game message board I also don't see anything wrong discussing things with the information we have. It's not like if they come out and show it's a stone's throw from a XSX I'd be like "Nope, I don't care, I thought it would be weaker before and that's my reality for all decisions and conclusions." I very plainly stated in my post that you quoted that PC gamers will *not* upgrade all at once (and nor will console gamers). I went on to say that Lockhart will not hold anything back at the start of this next generation. So I'm not sure what point you're trying to make? Let me make a corollary. In various other threads, I've expressed how enthusiastic and excited I am that PS5 and XSX are going all in on very high performance NVMe SSDs and what that means about bringing the bar up on that tech for everything. It will force PCs to also improve on this, because they actually will be behind for a bit of time. That's great and it's an example of how consoles setting a baseline of something better brings us all up, including PCs. That is exactly the same reason why Lockhart worries me about pulling other aspects down.