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Re: Video: Convincing a Nintendo Fan to Buy a PS5

Bolt_Strike

I've said it on here several times, but I just haven't seen enough interesting exclusives. And I especially haven't seen the IPs I've liked from previous consoles show up yet (Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, Gravity Rush, Knack), but I'm usually enticed to PS5 by new IPs instead of old IPs oddly so that might be the same for the PS5. I'd want at least like, 3-5 good exclusives before jumping in.

And unlike Alex, I don't have a Series X because their exclusive lineup is even worse. Just neither next gen console really has anything worth buying for yet.

Re: The Elder Scrolls 6 Isn't Coming to PS5, But It's Not About 'Punishing Other Platforms'

Bolt_Strike

Bye then. I won't miss you, Skyrim was a mediocre open world game. Xbox is continually unable to develop the kind of IPs that would make me actually want to buy an Xbox, which is the main reason I lean more Playstation than Xbox. Shame because they own two IPs I would be interested in (Banjo and Conker), but they're just sitting on them and every time they bring them out of the vault they screw it up. I've always been Nintendo with Sony as my #2, and Xbox seems intent on doing nothing to change that.

Re: Mini Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition (PS5) - A Still Great RPG Bolstered By a Lot of New Content

Bolt_Strike

@Mauzuri Yeah, you're definitely playing BotW wrong (in fact I would argue that's not how open world games should be played period). BotW generally isn't the kind of game that you just set a destination, go there, and ignore everything, it's a game that's meant to indulge your curiosity. You see a suspicious location in the overworld and explore it to find a chest, Korok Seed, or Shrine. The towns serve more as a base of operations to gain supplies and enhance your gear so you can go back out and explore. Skyrim doesn't really work like this and that's the problem, because again, it's not a game that really gets you to explore every nook and cranny, and therefore doesn't really make the most of its open world. You can't just go off the main road and look for puzzles or suspicious locations and find something worthwhile, there's nothing there. The actual content and rewards are largely contained within the towns and dungeons and there's no real reason to engage with the rest of the overworld which largely defeats the purpose of having one.

If you like the kind of game where you just go from A to B for quests that's fine, but you don't really need an open world for that, a linear or sandbox style game (think something less like BotW and more like OoT) would suffice. If you're designing an open world you want to give players a reason to go off the beaten path and explore at their own leisure. No such reason exists in Skyrim.

Re: Mini Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition (PS5) - A Still Great RPG Bolstered By a Lot of New Content

Bolt_Strike

@Mauzuri I'm not quite sure what you look for in an open world game, but if you're only spending 10 hours on BotW and not finding what you're looking for, you're probably doing something wrong. BotW does just about everything Skyrim does plus more. I've played both games for 100+ hours so I have a pretty good idea of how both play (although it's been about 3 or 4 years so I don't remember everything), and I can definitely say that what I'm looking for, incentive to actually explore the overworld instead of just passing through it to reach the next town or dungeon, doesn't really exist.

Re: Best PS4 Superhero Games

Bolt_Strike

@Thelegend159 Wouldn't help, those aren't the studios that need to pull their finger out. We need Sony's first pary devs to make some games that aren't based on comic book super heroes.

Re: Mini Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition (PS5) - A Still Great RPG Bolstered By a Lot of New Content

Bolt_Strike

@Mauzuri You sure you don't have that backwards? Skyrim's events are mainly located in towns and dungeons and feels more like the game that's empty, empty, empty with nothing happening in the actual overworld. BotW has a lot more shrines and Korok seeds throughout its world and even if not that, there's often treasure and enemies all over the map.

Re: Poll: 10 Years Later, What Are Your Thoughts on Skyrim?

Bolt_Strike

@Legacy2K Speaking of, I hated how they wouldn't let you marry Khajit. You could marry like, just about every other race but Khajit? Nope. I played as a Khajit and I wanted to be able to marry an NPC of my species but Bethesda says screw you furries I guess? Kind of a nitpick I know, but it turned me off to the whole marriage feature because the variety of potential races you could marry was smaller than the variety of potential races you could actually choose to play. It honestly seems a tad racist, and would be a huge controversy if races like Khajits or Argonians were real instead of fictional (that'd be the Skyrim equivalent of not letting you marry non-white races in the real world).

Re: Mini Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition (PS5) - A Still Great RPG Bolstered By a Lot of New Content

Bolt_Strike

My main complaint with Skyrim still doesn't seem to be fixed (unless someone modded it somehow). The game has a pretty glaring flaw in that there's no real incentive to actually explore the open world, you're only really exploring about 10% of the map where the quests are located. It makes the open world feel like pointless fluff. This game really needs a collectible like the Korok Seeds in BotW or the oculi in Genshin Impact, something that really encourages you to explore every nook and cranny and make the most out of the massive world. Until they fix that Skyrim will always be kinda meh and overrated, there are much better open world games including the two I mentioned above (and one of them is a Gacha mobile game for God's sake).

Re: Best PS4 Superhero Games

Bolt_Strike

Can we not turn Sony into a Marvel fest? Marvel's oversaturated enough as is, and I play video games to experience you know... creative things I couldn't experience in the real world. If you spam the same BS over and over again that's not very creative.

Re: Video: Why Skyrim Is Still the Ultimate Open World Fantasy RPG, 10 Years Later

Bolt_Strike

No, it's not. There's no incentive to actually explore the world, you just visit the key points of interest to do quests so the large open world feels like fluff. The game desperately needs a collectible of some kind (something like the Korok Seeds in BotW or the oculi in Genshin Impact) to encourage you to explore every nook and cranny of that big open world.

Re: Poll: 10 Years Later, What Are Your Thoughts on Skyrim?

Bolt_Strike

Played the Switch version. It's okay, but there are better open world games. The main issue I have with the game is that it's entirely quest based and doesn't really have a collectible of some kind (like say: Korok Seeds or Spirit Orbs in BotW), so there's no real incentive to explore the massive open world. You just go wherever the quests tell you to go and ignore 90% of the map, which almost defeats the purpose.

Re: Reaction: PlayStation Showcase 2021 Was Good, But Not Good Enough

Bolt_Strike

@UltimateOtaku91 Eh disagreed, Nintendo's was the best (but wasn't even that great). Metroid Dread and BotW2 were better than anything shown here or by Xbox. The entire industry's underwhelmed this year and seems to be really hamstrung by COVID, so it's hard to really declare a "winner", but Nintendo showed me the most games I'm actually interested in playing.

For me to really buy into PS5, I'm looking for platformers and adventure games with a unique gameplay hook (this is why, as you can probably guess, my primary console is always a Nintendo console, but I buy Sony as a secondary console with a few of their IPs I like and some third parties that don't come to Nintendo). Some of Sony's previous IPs that have fit this for me were Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, Gravity Rush, and Knack. None of those IPs have shown up yet and we haven't seen any new IPs that have a similar vibe.

Re: Talking Point: Did PlayStation Showcase 2021 Deliver on the Hype?

Bolt_Strike

@twitchtvpat Well if they want my money, they need to make games I'd want to play. How do they expect to get new PS5 owners if they make the same kinds of games?

What I'm asking for isn't exactly unreasonable, especially when adding the "or any new IP with a similar vibe" part. Past Playstation consoles have always had some form of game like those IPs even if they haven't continued the same IPs I loved from the previous consoles (in fact, for the most part it's been new IPs that have drawn me in to the next console and the older ones I do want haven't really continued). They haven't shown such an IP on PS5 yet.

Re: Talking Point: Did PlayStation Showcase 2021 Deliver on the Hype?

Bolt_Strike

The most interesting game here for me was an indie Super Mario Odyssey ripoff and I don't even want that, tells you all you need to know about what I thought about it. Still not enough to make me want a PS5, wake me up when we get a new Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper, Gravity Rush, Knack, or any new IP with a similar vibe to those games, those are the kind of IPs I'm waiting on.

Also don't get why everyone keeps creaming their pants over Marvel games like Spider Man and Wolverine. Marvel is oversaturated enough as is in movies, we don't need to see 5000 Marvel video games as well.

Re: Hands On: Balan Wonderworld Is an Unusual PS5, PS4 Platformer That Doesn't Style It Out

Bolt_Strike

@Quintumply The counter in the hub appears to be for building up the hub world with structures for the Tims to interact with, namely a marble run-esque tower and a second "Tim Trampoline" (the switch like structure that seems to do nothing). You raise the counter by standing in front of the wheel near the counter and the Tims will spawn on it and spin it around. It also seems like feeding the Drops (the colored gems you collect in the level), by going to a flower patch in the hub world of the same color and then pressing a face button, will increase their energy and cause them to spin the wheel faster, but it's hard to tell and not necessary because they'll still spin the wheel anyway regardless. Like you said, they give you very little explanation as to what all this is and why you should do it.

Re: Far Cry 6 Officially Revealed for PS5, PS4

Bolt_Strike

Eh, not really excited for the game itself since this was just a cutscene, but holy crap, Giancarlo Esposito is voicing the villain? Hell yes to that much, he makes such an amazing villain in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul.

Re: Poll: Did You Miss E3 2020 Last Week?

Bolt_Strike

In Sony's case? No, they pretty much had their E3 with the PS5 reveal event last week. If anyone's being hurt by no E3 it's Nintendo, since they have a fat load of nothing right now.

In general though, I don't think the industry needs E3 anymore. Livestreams and social media posts make E3 less and less of a necessity for new reveals.