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Yea, I wouldn't give them any money, though. The actual creators got fucked and any purchases of the game go to the people that fucked them. Great game, but I'd sail the seas for it.

I've been meaning to pick up Crystal Project (that price, wow!) But I learned it's coming to Switch so have held off on it. After Sea of Stars, I need me some new JRPGs!

Control was so good that, for me, it retroactively made Alan Wake better by their connections.

However, in my opinion, that didn't make Alan Wake good. It's a game that should have worked wonders for me, but the gameplay loop being the same from beginning to end (and truthfully, it being monotonous didn't help) and the controls being frustrating just made it a game I wanted to get through, rather than enjoy.

Unsure if I'm going to play Alan Wake 2, as it looks like the same gameplay that I didn't enjoy.

Finally beat Sea of Stars, and have gone back to play Megaman Battle Network Collection, starting with #1. Definitely not the best entry in the series, but it's got good bones. Looking forward to getting to #2.

I know a lot of people like them, but you just listed a lot of my least favourite Zelda games. Wind Waker (before the remake, I heard there were a lot of QoL changes that I had issue with from the original?), Phantom Hourglass and Skyward Sword. I would've beat my head against a desk if you said Spirit Tracks.

But people do enjoy these, so I hope you like them much more than I did.

This cements two things for me. The first is that I hate the wording of things in 5e, especially it being called a Bonus Action. I think that specific phrase confuses people.

The second is that this is much easier in Pathfinder 2e. You can cast any spells as long as you have the actions for it using your 3 action turn. Cantrips are usually one action, and greater spells usually range from two to three actions. Simplifies this confusing mess quite easily.

It's really a shame, I loved their Sam & Max. Their Monkey Island was a lot of fun, as well.

No, what killed it was them taking on too many high profile licenses at the same time and trying to juggle high workload and high demand with short turn around. Pair that with the fact that they change and work on things between episode releases, too.

Think about it this way: what's the purpose of the players choosing between North and West if the outcome is exactly the same, whether they know this or not? Are they just arbitrarily choosing between the two paths, or do they have information that gives positives and negatives to either path? Doing the former is just a choice for the sake of it. It serves no purpose. In the latter, it's now less of something to fill and waste time, and it's now a decision on the players' part on whether they want to travel safely or dangerously, or whatever the differences are between the routes.

Quantum ogre is more about the intent and removing actual choice from players. Good prep does away with making player choice irrelevant.

I'm assuming in your question, the first situation would have the "preplanned" fight be wherever the players decide to go since we're discussing the QO. The difference between your two methods is in the latter, you're making up the creature or combat on the spot by reacting to what the players have done. In the first, it didn't matter what the players did. You were going to do it anyway, so why even give them a choice?

I've just recently said that on Lemmy - I said to a friend I wanted a game where you broke down and scrapped star wars ships, and they pointed me towards this game. It was recently on sale so I picked it up. It's been an absolute blast and exactly what I was looking for (though I still wish I could do it with SW ships). I also agree about the shift timer, so thankfully there's an option for that.

My only suggestion would be to take your time and take breaks between them to play other games. They're great, but they're all very similar. An easy recipe for burnout.

I also just got it on sale. I told a friend my dream game was a sim where you scrap and dismantle different Star Wars ships and vessels - they pointed me towards this game right during the sale. It's been a lot of fun!

It's still early morning for me, so I apologise for my words and thoughts being muddled.

I just meant the direct reason they removed it wasn't because it was broken. They would have removed any game that was being mass refunded. But yes, the reason people were refunding was because it was broken.

Sure, but Sony didn't decide to take it down because it was broken. Only because people were refunding. Bit pedantic, but I see a lot of revisionist history going on in this thread and just wanted it to be clear.

My experience with people who have played Cyberpunk is being told that if I don't expect it to be the game they advertised it was going to be, that its great.

Which makes no sense to me.

Sony only removed it because there was a mass-refunding problem since CDPR told people they had to contact Sony to get refunded, while that wasn't Sony's policy. Had nothing to do with how broken the game was (which it was).

$80, please!

I felt the same. On paper it looks like something I'd love. I just couldn't get into it.

If you ever go on YouTube not logged into your account (or in a provate browser), the default stuff on the homepage are: one lo-fi stream, Mr. Beast latest video, and the rest is all right wing feaemonger stuff.