Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?
Strider@lemmy.world 1 week agoOh yes so on board with you regarding Bethesda stuff. And it’s always technically a mess, for premium price. Often multiple times!
I think some people like to set their own rules and live in those worlds while I can not oversee the deficiencies and exploit the hell out of it out of spite (eg looting a shop standing on the merchant because he can’t see me doing it there)…
In case of E33, I’m mostly surprised how much mainstream popularity it gained despite being a timing-based JRPG. Is that not weird? I find that to be a small miracle how popular it got given the pretty niche genre.
(Admittedly I also found the E33 combat system to be rather dreary, but the story was an unquestionable ride.)
I think it got good press as jrpg and was well advertised on several platforms. Timing based attacks was possibly not related to all of this.
For me personally as friend of jrpgs it was as much a burden as it was an addition and I just wish there was a toggle to do it automatically for people like me who can be biologically incapable of pulling of timing at all times. So a little bit sad about that.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What other game could I actually go into anyone’s home and see exactly how they live? What other game could I play that lets me pick up and look at, in detail, anything that isn’t nailed down (forks, pieces of paper, charcoal, etc)? What other games create a living breathing world where characters have full schedules and lives programmed into them (more games are coming out with these types of features though)?
People just like being able to exist in a detailed world like that, and almost no other game comes close to that level of immersion imo.
Strider@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It is awesome, I think so too. I just get distracted very easily 😁