I dunno why you were grinding with random monster in FF7 for materia point, the only time I'd grind was at the end of the game with mover and elixir pot, who would give hundreds of point per battles.
Pretty much agree. Although, I do kinda like the base building mechanics in theory, just in practice they tend to get tedious really quickly.
Man I feel the same way.
*Cue Paula Abdul*
Wow, bad video choice to make a point. That guy needs to junction something better to his magic. He's only getting 3-7 per draw... on pathetic early game spells. No wonder it took him nearly 10 minutes to draw to full. It takes 5 or less when you junction up your magic stats and basically always draw 9. Dude just needs to Emo Git gud.
Not true. Yoko taro also wears a moon on his Head
Not to say you're wrong, since this is all about hot takes, but BotW does one thing that pretty much no open-world does eventhough they really should. And that's interacting with the actual world. And it's not just the climbing. BotW has this vibe of going into your backyard and seeing what's what; rooting around in the grass, checking under a bush, lifting a tile to see underneath. It gives the world a tactile feeling very few if any open-world games have. The world is comprised of areas that feel designed like little playgrounds for you to mess about in for a couple of minutes, and that's ignoring the shrines.
While Kojima definitely loves the attention, he still does show a genuine interest and doing interesting stuff with video games, to mixed results. Yoko Taro's pretty similar, with his games often incorporating mechanics and features that can only be done in a video game, showing, in my eyes, that he enjoys making games and wants to do original things. Plus he's been doing the 'weird, wacky, mask-wearing' thing long before he became well known. It's just his thing.
At at least Yoko Taro tries, even if he has a lot of game design philosophies I disagree with. Kojima doesn't even try anymore and is just up his own ass, and I've already said enough about David Cage. He's a writer that couldn't make it anywhere in Hollywood so he overcompensates. That's literally the only reason why he's in the game industry. Suda51 is better than all of them.
With HK it might be truer than ever now, because apparently his studio is going to take a turn into film production of some sorts.
Between all three of these, I don't see much of a difference at this point. They are all the exact same evil as far as I'm concerned. While Ubisoft may focus more on single player by comparison, it doesn't change the fact that that their campaigns just vary in so much quality or are so generic that it doesn't matter. Add into the fact that they too are trying to incorporate, and the most vocal about it, nft's into their games does not bode well for future single player games that come out.
I do like to add I felt this way about them years back before NFTs were a thing. I’m not saying they re good or pro consumer. Just how they are slightly better company then ea or Activision.
That's the thing, I don't feel that way. They're all nearly exactly the same with minuet differences. Games or no games, I don't consider Ubisoft even slightly better than those two. I will be honest with you and say that I do hate Activision and Ubisoft more than EA lately.
I would say Ubisoft is on a cliff. Breakpoint and Far Cry 6 were unmitigated disasters with a huge emphasis on minimizing develop efforts and trying to fill big empty voids with procedurally generated environments while wasting those development cycles on multiplayer DLC shovelware. They officially lost me as a customer though thats not saying much as Activision lost me like 15 years ago and EA lost me at BFV.
I never have put a single dime into a Kickstarter project. I wait and see if it’s successful for me to buy their product. But I never have faith in a project that could turn south at any moment. Mighty number 9 made sure of that.
I've done a couple Kickstarters, but almost all of them ending up taking forever to get completed when they were. It pretty much put me off kickstarters. Or maybe my problem was investing in episodic games that ended up having 70 thousand years between episode releases. Speaking of which, I've more or less stopped supporting episodic games(until they're finished) with the exception of Deltarune, because even 2 chapters of Deltarune has been more memorable then a lot of completed games.
