steel_for_humans

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 664 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My main issue with BotW is that there are no dungeons. Shrines are just small random puzzle games. Doing a dungeon in Zelda is part of the quest, doing shrines is doing puzzles for the sake of it to get points (Orbs) to advance your character with some numbers and bars. Only the Divine Beasts resemble traditional Zelda dungeons to some extent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 664 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was my first Zelda game. I didn’t read any reviews, I just played it. Afterwards I learned that not everybody loves it, but I do. Being the first, I guess it will always be the best Zelda game to me. I… don’t like BotW. I spent a few dozen hours in it over the past few years and have not finished it. I prefer the traditional structure of Zelda games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crimson Desert sales top five million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It technically started as an MMO. That was their initial idea, but after they started development, they changed direction. That shows in the game to some extent, because the quests are kinda scattered and there is not always linearity, sometimes you get quests out of nowhere which doesn’t make sense. There are some short fedex type quests or tasks, too, but at the same time playing Crimson Desert does not feel like a single player MMO. Exploration is *fantastic*, but you should know that this game doesn’t hold your hand. You are tree to do whatever and to discover the mechanics on your own. There are puzzles with no explanation whatsoever. Sometimes you’ll stumble on some hidden area with an environmental puzzle and no idea what to do. The last game like that was last year’s Hell is Us (a highly recommended hidden gem). Crimson Desert is just *fun*.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crimson Desert sales top five million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you talking about player retention in context of a single player game? Perhaps you mixed it with their previous game — Black Desert – which is an MMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  UE5 on handhelds is a red flag, but I will check some reviews and performance tests before buying.