See above

Maybe I’m older but majority of video games don’t hit like they used to.

I’ve noticed a big honeymoon phase with a new game and after 2 weeks it goes back to collecting dust.

Ngl you not spittin my boy

EDIT: After the PS3 days maybe but MGS 1-3 were extremely good for a video game

I don’t disagree at all. Maybe he had a ghostwriter because it all went to s*** after then

Ban

Play yakuza like a dragon. It’s a soft reboot of the franchise

Also I agree with you besides the last point. Figuring out the subtle lore of souls games is part of the fun

Idk how I feel about turn based combat and the whole "extremely goofy but also extremely dangerous gangsters" tonal contrast is a big reason why I didn't like Yakuza 0. Don't think I'll enjoy anything in the series

I love the way FromSoft present their stories, but Bloodborne could've used just a few extra cutscenes or NPC dialogue lines to explain the plot to the player. Reading the item descriptions etc gives you pieces of the puzzle, but I hate having to rely on Youtube rather than the game itself to clue me in on what the big picture is. Its cool if some things are left ambiguous or obscure, but if many players finish your game without even realizing there's an (amazing) underlying plot - that's too obscure imo

Persona 5 is one of the most tedious and repetitive rpgs i've ever played and the story nosedives in quality when you get past the first arc about the pedo teacher. how it gets so much praise outside of the music and style is insane to me.

I like the stories overall but he legit didn't want to make 4 and V, a lot of the subtext of 4 is Snake representing the franchise going on far beyond its intended duration

If he had his way the series would've stopped at 2, I think the increasing contrivances of the later games are a result of them being added into a story that had been considered finished with the previous installment

That definitely puts things into perspective

Yeah, each time Konami were like 'Want to make a new Metal Gear?', he'd be like 'No', then they'd say 'Well, we're gonna make one anyway without you then...' and he'd have to do it because he didn't want the franchise getting messed up, fair play to him, he absolutely gave it his all every time and we got some great games from it, but it sucks that Konami treated him like a cash cow then dumped him in the most unceremonious way possible, after all he'd done for the company

Persona 4 still sucks

Metal Gear Solid 3 is a top 3 game OAT

Doom 2016 is a mediocre game

anime rpg are lame af

Kinda agree. I liked it but I think they held back a bit

VNs shouldn’t even be considered games. They are not games

I feel like 2016 was just another FPS while Eternal feels like what Doom 2016 should have been

Western RPGs usually either ape the aesthetics of Lord of The Rings or Star Trek with no type of variation or sense of identity and I think that's wack and boring

While this is a problem my main problem with western rpgs is that the combat is usually terrible

Ocarina of Time is f***ing mid. Like even as a kid that s*** played like garbage and was boring. Thank god I was lucky enough to grow up with Majora's Mask.

The Persona 2 Duology is better than Persona 3, 4, and 5

Fighting games are only fun when guys aren't that good and don't know every combo known to man.
Turn based combat has never been done in a way that's genuinely fun outside of Pokémon who's copied the exact gameplay since the 90s.

It's because it's an exclusive and people reach to make it worth the purchase.
That said it's one of the few games I genuinely had a lot of fun with and no lifed it. I'll definitely grab the 2nd one on day 1.

This too. The Witcher 3 had some really clunky combat, no type of feedback either. I've been told Skyrim has this issue too