BulldogXero

The founders left over this game, lest we forget

As I play more, I will say that it is not flawless.

The "as the crow flies" objective marker is infuriating at best and useless at worst.

There are a lot of named NPCs that have expansive dialogue trees but virtual zero side quests or any real purpose.

The game balance is busted. You either steamroll the enemy or they steamroll you. There isn't much in between.

It is a UE5 game with lack of optimization that is on par with Borderlands 4, but Borderland's implementation of Frame Gen is far superior.

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This is why I’m very happy EA went private and I think it’s the future for the industry. Private companies aren’t subject to investor pressure and are usually more focused on delivering quality

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Private Equity isn't really the same as "going private" or even being a "private company."

Private equity is a lot like being a public company except the PE firm is the sole shareholder you answer to.

Private equity wants a return on their investment after x number of years so they can sell it off or take it public again. They'll do this by any means necessary whether it be mass layoffs, selling off/shuttering other parts of the business, shirking on quality (using AI, etc).

I think a bigger problem with AAA is that there's no passion in it. Games feel like they are designed by an assembly line because they basically have been.

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He said they want to make all mainline finally fantasy titles playable on modern platforms and right now 13 13-2 and LR are the only ones that aren’t?

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Can't play FF11 on a modern console. I wish they would have finished the mobile port or figured out a way to release a single player version of that game.

The Halo Studio is so badly out of ideas it's not even funny

I bought it but I thought the melee combat was some of the worst I had ever seen I'll give it another shot though.

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I believe we have lost 15 straight SEC games. I wouldn’t bet on us. I was over Shapen last season.

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:lol:

Am I the only one thinking this setting would be damn boring for an AC game? It'd be like the complaints people have about AC3 on steroids

I really don't agree with this. It has me wondering is there is more to the story.

They could do a lot worse. What makes them think that a new HC is all of the sudden going to have them winning national titles?

I might be having more fun with this game than Tsushima, but it's tough to say. I feel like Tsushima was the "tighter" package. It had (so far) a better story and a better sense of progression.

This game has more activities and in general things to keep me occupied, but I kind of hate the main character. She's 28 but looks 45. Her voice is somewhat unpleasant. The way she is portrayed in the story "so far," she comes off as being very weak and constantly fails at everything without the support of her NPC allies.

Character progression seems weirdly spaced out. You will go long stretches of the game fighting enemies with weapons that you don't have a counter for because you haven't gone to that part of the map to unlock it yet.

Combat in general feels a bit overtuned this time around. Fighting multiple enemies was not a strong suite of the original game, and the more aggressive enemy AI combined with the far shorter parry window exacerbates this. The boss fights also seem to drag on way too long. Even the fist handful of bosses take ages to chip away at their health while they can kill you in two hits, thus every boss fight becomes a battle of attrition even when you memorize their patterns.

I will reserve full judgement on the story though once I have seen the ending.