howaito
Stop trying to "modernize" games while ignoring the original intent in its game design.
The MGS2 mechanics completely break this game in half and the new music is awfully generic.
The MGS2 mechanics completely break this game in half and the new music is awfully generic.
I wanted to love this game.
This was my most hyped up release in years,
the game I was looking forward to the most and now after finishing it, I feel utterly disappointed.
I think I'll start with some technical complaints I have:
- I want RGG to abandon this Frankenstein ass corpse of an engine they're carrying around. The Dragon Engine is an unrefined piece of shit and never have I felt this more than with Infinite Wealth. This thing is priced at $70 but fails to actually feel like a full price game with its complete lack of polish.
- There are no seamless transitions in this game whether you're entering let's say a Substory, a scripted event or a Cutscene. It is always either an abrupt hard-cut or a shitty fade to black
- Companion AI sucks dick and their path finding is straight up broken
- The always re-used animations during in game dialogue sections are getting on my fucking nerves. I understand that you can't mo-cap everything in large scale JRPG's like these, but I would like for SOMETIMES VERY IMPORTANT SCENES to not feel like a fucking Garry's Mod animation on Youtube.
Which now brings me to one of my biggest gripes with this whole experience.
- T H E - P R E S E N T A T I O N -
Everything that isn't part of a motion captured and well composed cutscene looks like absolute horse shit and won't stop drilling THE SAME 5 SONGS FROM LIKE THE LAST 4 GAMES INTO MY HEAD.
I am sick and tired of hearing the melancholic substory theme from Yakuza 0. What's even worse is that every and I really mean EVERY music cue in this game is forced and as agonizingly formulaic as possible. It's not even like these are entirely new issues,
-> the R in RGG does stand for re-use after all, but I am starting to feel ripped off after they have tried to pull this shit a few too many times now.
I also despise the way anything is framed in this game,
Yakuza has lost its style, every interaction between NPCs looks fucking robotic and had me skipping dialogue more times than I wanted to.
Almost every bit of side content felt unrewarding or like a complete waste of my time and the structure of this game only makes this worse, by
A) putting the entire story on halt just to shove minigames you do not give a fuck about down your throat
and B) Constantly putting your next objective on the other side of town, making the exploration of Hawaii feel like an obligatory chore.
I don't even want to start talking about the story, because it is the biggest problem I have with Like a Dragon: Infinite Ass and I would quite literally have to write a book to fully elaborate on why this is one of the worst narratives I have ever seen in the medium.
A game so incompetently written that it actively devalues its previous installments by acting like the consequences that were established after the last 2 mainline entries just do not matter anymore
- While also refusing to elaborate on how we got to certain points in the story or just forgetting to properly tie up its loose ends in the final chapter.
They chomped up more than they could swallow here... This shit is legit missing scenes and the necessary context to make anything that happens matter.
Infinite Wealth tries to do and say a lot, but falls flat on its face, failing to justify its existence.
It is without a single doubt in my mind, the most pointless addition to the franchise,
one that has done nothing but aggravate me with its quantity over quality philosophy.
I feel ripped off, betrayed and lied to....
The only good things about this game are the quality of life improvements to 7's combat, perhaps a few good scenes sprinkled onto a steaming pile of shit and that is it.
This was my most hyped up release in years,
the game I was looking forward to the most and now after finishing it, I feel utterly disappointed.
I think I'll start with some technical complaints I have:
- I want RGG to abandon this Frankenstein ass corpse of an engine they're carrying around. The Dragon Engine is an unrefined piece of shit and never have I felt this more than with Infinite Wealth. This thing is priced at $70 but fails to actually feel like a full price game with its complete lack of polish.
- There are no seamless transitions in this game whether you're entering let's say a Substory, a scripted event or a Cutscene. It is always either an abrupt hard-cut or a shitty fade to black
- Companion AI sucks dick and their path finding is straight up broken
- The always re-used animations during in game dialogue sections are getting on my fucking nerves. I understand that you can't mo-cap everything in large scale JRPG's like these, but I would like for SOMETIMES VERY IMPORTANT SCENES to not feel like a fucking Garry's Mod animation on Youtube.
Which now brings me to one of my biggest gripes with this whole experience.
- T H E - P R E S E N T A T I O N -
Everything that isn't part of a motion captured and well composed cutscene looks like absolute horse shit and won't stop drilling THE SAME 5 SONGS FROM LIKE THE LAST 4 GAMES INTO MY HEAD.
I am sick and tired of hearing the melancholic substory theme from Yakuza 0. What's even worse is that every and I really mean EVERY music cue in this game is forced and as agonizingly formulaic as possible. It's not even like these are entirely new issues,
-> the R in RGG does stand for re-use after all, but I am starting to feel ripped off after they have tried to pull this shit a few too many times now.
I also despise the way anything is framed in this game,
Yakuza has lost its style, every interaction between NPCs looks fucking robotic and had me skipping dialogue more times than I wanted to.
Almost every bit of side content felt unrewarding or like a complete waste of my time and the structure of this game only makes this worse, by
A) putting the entire story on halt just to shove minigames you do not give a fuck about down your throat
and B) Constantly putting your next objective on the other side of town, making the exploration of Hawaii feel like an obligatory chore.
I don't even want to start talking about the story, because it is the biggest problem I have with Like a Dragon: Infinite Ass and I would quite literally have to write a book to fully elaborate on why this is one of the worst narratives I have ever seen in the medium.
A game so incompetently written that it actively devalues its previous installments by acting like the consequences that were established after the last 2 mainline entries just do not matter anymore
- While also refusing to elaborate on how we got to certain points in the story or just forgetting to properly tie up its loose ends in the final chapter.
They chomped up more than they could swallow here... This shit is legit missing scenes and the necessary context to make anything that happens matter.
Infinite Wealth tries to do and say a lot, but falls flat on its face, failing to justify its existence.
It is without a single doubt in my mind, the most pointless addition to the franchise,
one that has done nothing but aggravate me with its quantity over quality philosophy.
I feel ripped off, betrayed and lied to....
The only good things about this game are the quality of life improvements to 7's combat, perhaps a few good scenes sprinkled onto a steaming pile of shit and that is it.
Neil Cuckmann is a 13 year old feminist that wrote a fanfic power fantasy about his own game.
ladder
ngl mom kinda bad
I never want to touch this piece of shit ever again.
1998
timeless masterclass on innovative game design.
1996
You have to appreciate the "fuck it we ball" mentality in this game's level design.
Cut the last 3 hours from this and you have a damn near perfect horror game. Not necessarily a scary one but a very intriguing and atmospheric experience nonetheless. This has grown into an absolute comfort game of mine and it feels like I discover something new every time I replay it.
It's just a shame that it trades everything that works so well in its first half, for mindless action and head-scratchingly bad level design later on. The way RE7 progresses ironically mirrors exactly what went wrong with the entire franchise after a certain point.
It's just a shame that it trades everything that works so well in its first half, for mindless action and head-scratchingly bad level design later on. The way RE7 progresses ironically mirrors exactly what went wrong with the entire franchise after a certain point.
2019
I have never seen a story that makes less sense than this one..
Yokoyama was snorting Infinity Stones when he wrote this.
The Combat would be some of the best, if the game wasn't so piss easy
Yokoyama was snorting Infinity Stones when he wrote this.
The Combat would be some of the best, if the game wasn't so piss easy
2018
The puzzles are so good, that there's a "skip" button
Just give me a fucking sequel already.
2017
You can finally play Yakuza 6 with the story of 2, now featuring:
worse presentation, worse progression, worse music, worse combat, worse pacing, worse side activities and cut content with the addition of shit no one fucking asked for.
worse presentation, worse progression, worse music, worse combat, worse pacing, worse side activities and cut content with the addition of shit no one fucking asked for.
I love the ending and a lot that was missing from 6 is here,
but how do you fuck up the pacing in a game that is only 5 chapters long???
but how do you fuck up the pacing in a game that is only 5 chapters long???
Almost 6 years later and it is still the most detailed open world to ever exist with the greatest protagonist ever written in the medium.
The ride back from Guarma is probably the most impactful gameplay segment I have ever experienced in my life.
The only thing I dislike about this game is Rockstar's hand-holdey design philosophy and almost the entire epilogue.
The ride back from Guarma is probably the most impactful gameplay segment I have ever experienced in my life.
The only thing I dislike about this game is Rockstar's hand-holdey design philosophy and almost the entire epilogue.