What a daft c*nt.
I don't understand him. MGS3 is in his top four for his favorite year in gaming. He never said stories don't matter (although I kind of straw-manned him for it), but he thinks there is no place for cutscenes. I don't want every game story told like Half-Life and F.E.A.R. Like the other guy pointed out, cutscenes have been a part of video games longer than you or I have been alive. Cutscenes don't make games less pure. There are too many of these people and devs have listened to them.
At this point I like whatever pleases me, so long as the game is honest about it, or does something unique that's fun, and doesn't get in the way of that fun. While I am a gameplay over story person that doesn't mean I hate it cut scenes automatically at the start. The forces walking sections, I can't deal with especially; when i've already been through the story and the gameplay is just as good or better than the story.
I can see why Eyepatch is disappointed in Romeo. It has its issues. The game is better than Travis Strikes Again, but I do feel the combat is a step down from both Killer Is Dead (the Grasshopper game with the best combat, but Suda never directed nor wrote the story for the game) and No More Heroes 3. The only advantage Romeo has over these two is weapon variety, and compared to No More Heroes 3, enemy variety. Romeo has on the fly weapon switching and using a summoning/Chaos Legion/Pocket Monster mechanic where you summon zombies called bastards and unlock up to 4 slots total and select between. After acquiring them, or mixing and matching them. These cool ideas and mostly work, but level design could have been better. I sub space sections are just padding, and I personally don't care for the enemies respawn after reaching a save station. The game didn't need the RPG elements at all either. That hospital section in the first half drags too. Makes repeat playthroughs a nightmare.
My dumbass brain keeps recalling it as Romeo Must Die but that's an unrelated movie and no matter how many times the memory is given specific orders to not come back with that one title it still does. "Romeo must...no that's the film! Romeo....muuuuust, NO i just said, that's the film! Don't say the film, Ok? Ok. Romeo. Hmmmm. Unmm. Hmmmmuuuuuuust....GARHHHHHG!" Is this what dementia feels like?
Agreed but not sure how this is a hot take, I feel like even rabid cod fanboys who don't just play the multi would agree.
More to do with the rationale than the fact that "Modern Warfare has the best CoD campaign story".
On the other hand, there's a certain satisfaction in figuring something out for yourself that you don't get from being told how to do something. Every time I look something up there's a little empty bit of disappointment that now I've robbed myself of the chance to figure it out on my own.
I'm not saying you should read guides for every little thing as a first resort. You should at least attempt to figure stuff out yourself first, especially in puzzle games or generally story-driven ones; but for games like shmups, fighting games or other competitive multiplayer games, trying to do everything by yourself is just going to lead to unnecessary frustration, since they're not designed to be played that way.
Have you tried Holocure? It uses the same 3/4 top-down perspective as Vampire Survivors, so it essentially works the same in terms of visibility, and it has a pretty wild roster of weapons based on the collected lore of Hololive - I know that VTubers aren't really everyone's thing, but the game is extremely enjoyable even to people who know nothing about VTubers generally or Hololive specifically, and I'm one of those people, so I'd know.
Ooh, does look rather appealing definitely! Unfortunately it didn't show up on the store searching for it (is a PC exclusive for now, the internet says) on PSN, though I saw mention of a future switch port so hopefully if it happens I'll get it on there. While it isn't usually an artsytle I go for, have been making efforts to broaden horizons in that under-served area outside the comfort zone, plus you've made it sound quite appealing indeed lol!
