I left RE9 feeling not very satisfied. Didn't feel complete and the story was garbage. There were fun gameplay moments but most felt shallow. But everywhere you look online ppl are singing its praises who haven't even beaten the game. Consumer and influencer ideology is really destroying video games is so sad. I finally found some reviews that really nailed what o disliked about the game, and the comments on the video too. I miss the original games, are we living in dystopian times or am I becoming like the boomers.
Exactly my experience, thanks for making me feel more sane about this lol.
RE9 felt very disappointing to me as a fan since OG RE2, both in story and gameplay. It was such a huge downgrade from RE4R (and RE2R). It lacked.. "identity", you know, those character moments, interesting encounters, intriguing villains, all that stuff.. let alone a new IP "face" (Grace is such a meh character). It felt "soulless", and I was amused when I learned from a friend that it was originally an open-world multiplayer project, so mystery partially resolved I guess, lol.
RE9 was an ok game on its own, but it failed to deliver the RE experience I was looking for. At least now I know I won't care much about RE10 from an IP attatchement standpoint. I only care about the Code Veronica remake now.
The early game with the hospital was pretty good but the later parts with the city aren't that great. I think they went a bit too much over board with the nostalgia bait and around the second half they lost me with the story.
They also went a bit over the top kind of like the movies did, for instance riding a motorcycle up a skyscraper.
I don't know, once you open the can of worms with multi verses, time travel or clones in story telling it often goes downhill fast. At that point everything tends to lose meaning cause nothing has real consequences.
All of the most recent RE entries have been heavily frontloaded. Once you get past the first act the story just falls apart, then you beat the game and there is almost no extra content. No reason to keep playing. I don't like what Capcom has been doing of late so I never even considered this game.
Picked up Crimson Desert. A co-worker has been geeking out over this, I guess he likes the developer's previous games. It looks cool and will be my latest excuse to not finish Nyzul to get my Burtgang. Crimson Desert on Steam
Picked up Crimson Desert. A co-worker has been geeking out over this, I guess he likes the developer's previous games. It looks cool and will be my latest excuse to not finish Nyzul to get my Burtgang. Crimson Desert on Steam
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The popular game journos dont like it
So it must be a banger
Shame about the 25th hour inclusion of FPS-Killer DRM
I get it, because it does slow down the process. Doom Dark Ages got cracked last week, took about 10 months (May 2025 release). Sales in that time (all prices in CAD, I'm Canadian):
Start of Aug - 67.49 25%
End of Sep - 60.29 33%
Black Friday - 44.99 50%
Winter sale - 44.99 50%
Start of Feb - 29.99 67%
Spring Sale - 29.99 67% (just started)
The problem is that companies dont remove the FPS-Killer after a while. Once you've hit the point you're doing 67% off, just patch the ***out. Though its possible that in May, on the 1 yr anniversary, they'll officially patch it out.
Then people can do the before and after comparisons to show how much it kills FPS, as has been demonstrated multiple times already.
Picked up Crimson Desert. A co-worker has been geeking out over this, I guess he likes the developer's previous games. It looks cool and will be my latest excuse to not finish Nyzul to get my Burtgang. Crimson Desert on Steam
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Looks like I'll be grinding out Nyzul this weekend... I refunded this thing. I played for 57mins, 20mins of that was trying to screw with graphic settings to get it to look right. All of the presets were junk. Ended up on high, no RTX, HDR, no motion blur, and no depth of field... only then could I actually tell what was happening. This is with a 3090. Couldn't do better than 60fps, even on low I only managed 90fps. Ultra everything was like 30-40fps.
The controls are what did it. They are absolutely horrendous. If this is supposed to be some kind of open world breath of the wild type of game, they couldn't have made worse controls.
This could be one of those "oh it opens up after like 15 hours" kind of games, but those kind of reviews are from copium addicts.
This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.