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Re: Poll: Did You Buy The Callisto Protocol?

Constable_What

I just beat it. It was good! Final boss sucked though, it was the only thing I didn't enjoy.

Once you learn the combat system it's a really fun game! You do NEED to learn it though, but it's easy to learn. You handle most enemies by positioning yourself in front of them and getting them to funnel themselves one by one while dodging and smacking them, and shooting them in the face into interrupt their attacks. It has a real nice flow to it.

Stealth is pretty good later in the game as well. I relied on that a lot, and it was really fun with the help of my GRP.

I will say after the hype, it was a little underwhelming, but it's still a good game, and only really frustrating if you try and play like Dead Space. It does NOT play like that.

Re: God of War Ragnarok Dev Accused of Not Crediting Music Production Intern

Constable_What

I'm not buying that that can't be patched in... That seems incredibly weird to me as someone working in the industry and has had to sanity check credits to make sure everyone is there that's meant to be.

People that aren't get added in a future title update. Simple as that. Very bizarre. Getting credit for work in games is important to the culture. As far back as Atari refusing to do so for devs, and those devs creating Activision with credit where credit is due as one of the main reasons.

It's tradition.

Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give God of War Ragnarok?

Constable_What

@dark_knightmare2 Right? It's a pretty damn great year. I keep hearing people say it's a bad year or a mediocre year, and I am left just scratching my head. There was always something really good to play from either a AAA or an indie.

I have a lot of similar gripes with Ragnarok and Elden Ring, but I love them for different reasons. Well, I'm off to do the Sisters tombstone fight (laziest and worst fight in the game by far, and that's saying something after the 7 of these stupid fights I've done.)

Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give God of War Ragnarok?

Constable_What

@dark_knightmare2 I'd also compare it to the Witcher 3, and that game also had its share of filler side content.

Filler content by definition is not for you to define by the way, it's perfectly fine if you feel differently. It's subjective for sure.

I could do without 48 ravens and trapsing around Vanaheim for next to nothing, and for the ghosts to tell me pretty much the same things the last ghost told me. It didn't add much substance. There are still plenty of good side quests, but some of them I definitely felt were filler.

Ragnarok is still a fantastic game, and a GOTY contender for sure. Either this or Elden Ring are my picks for it. Can't decide which game I like more.

Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give God of War Ragnarok?

Constable_What

@dark_knightmare2 I mean the ravens in particular do give you an armor set, but it's not nearly as good as the dragon set I used or the last set in the story you get (playing on Give me God of War), a lot of the side quests just give you crafting materials that are pretty worthless, or runes that barely do anything.

It's definitely filler to me.

Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give God of War Ragnarok?

Constable_What

I'm almost 50 hours in, and I'd say a 9 or 10. I picked 9, but it could go either way.

Mainly due to the camera being a bit fussy sometimes, most of the AI callouts being useless, and the optional Vanaheim area, although being a cool surprise, feeling a little half baked and kind of a pain to navigate, and the side content being little more on the filler side, with a few stand out quests. One side quest, in Alpheim, in particular starts great, but then after it concludes feels like it goes nowhere, and that's disappointing.

10 out of 10s for me, or perspective changing games that gets me to think about games a different way while still being fun, nice to look at, and puts up an engaging challenge (whether that be a gameplay or story challenge).

It comes close, but doesn't quite get me to shift my perspective on gamez. Still, it's amazing, a GOTY contender for sure, and these 50 hours have been as enjoyable as Elden Ring for me.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 452

Constable_What

I have been playing really nothing but Ragnarok. I'm 25 hours in (perks of my career), and playing on Give Me God of War difficulty.

It is absolute bull****, but it is as satisfying as any souls game I've played, so I'm keeping the difficulty there until I've at least beaten the main story. Not all challenges should be fair, and most of them aren't, so I usually play games on harder difficulties if I enjoy the combat.

Will probably also play Genshin Impact and MW2, and Path to Nowhere on my phone as well.

Re: Talking Point: What Are Your Thoughts on Protagonists Discussing Puzzles?

Constable_What

As a Genshin player who has done a majority of the puzzles in the game as well as the godawful Golden Archipelago event puzzles with no help from any characters discussing puzzles, I welcome characters discussing puzzles when you're talking a bit of time.

It's just better to get it over with and continue on with the game rather than spending a few minutes to...more than a few minutes wondering what you need to do. It's not that gratifying with hints, and not that gratifying without.

Saves you a lot of time. I'm grateful for the feature after playing an action adventure game without it.

Of course, games with puzzles that have more than one way to do the puzzle, I'd rather just do the puzzle my own way. That's why I love immersive sims.

Re: Former Capcom Producer on Ghost of Tsushima, Resident Evil, and Cross-Cultural Creation

Constable_What

@KidBoruto I bet it's as simple as creators might just find them boring or too close to home. Part of what makes some video games fun is a setting that you're unfamiliar with.

But like @PegasusActual93 it seems there is a fascination with Western, particularly American, aesthetics. Devs like Hideo Kojima consumed a lot of movies from the America in his formative years, so that has influenced his work.

Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Nears $1 Billion in Opening Weekend

Constable_What

@MightyDemon82 because it's fun. It has a lot of online content. Because you can play it with friends. Because it gets a lot of support for a couple years. Because it's a consistent, and low risk game you buy, and know what it's going to be when you boot it up.

Because people usually have enough income to buy this game, and then whatever other game they want.

I've played CoD for years (I'm pretty good at it too), and still play other games. Niche games, more hard-core games, casual games. There's a lot of inherent value to a game that comes out yearly or regularly that is similar to the last, but different enough to where any that have played hours and hours of the previous entry can tell what improvements have been made, or what's been made worse.

It's kind of like fast food, more specifically, McDonald's. You know what you're getting, you get it, you're satisfied with it (most of the time), and sometimes you're even surprised.

Re: Persona 5's Huge Success Is Down to Western Sales, SEGA Report Reiterates

Constable_What

Japanese video game companies have known the importance of the western market for decades (Just look at the stuff Capcom were putting out in the 7th generation of consoles); what they didn't know is that inherently Japanese style games that cater to their home market do have a market in the west. That market is niche, but still matters, especially now.

As long as genuine and quality projects are made and marketed, there is an audience for it. Cater to that audience, but don't pander.

Re: Random: Chloe Grace Moretz Is Eager for Sony to Make a New PSP

Constable_What

@Gloamin Shadow in the Clouds was such a dumb movie. That part where she got exploded BACK into the plane was so hilariously bad we had to rewind it to watch it over again.

Whoever made that movie is an idiot, or they think their audience are idiots. Thanks for the condolences, and reminding me of that plane wreck of a movie. 🤣
Cheers!

Re: PS5 Players Don't Want to See 60fps Die Out

Constable_What

@UltimateOtaku91 That is simply not true. There were many games that ran at 60 fps on the PS2, PS3, and PS4. Devil May Cry has ran at a consistent 60 since the first game with only the trash reboot running at 30, and the newest game offering modes to run at 40 with raytracing, 60 with enhanced graphics, and 120fps on PS5, and running at locked 60 FPS on PS4.
Call of Duty games, 60 FPS is standard across the board for CoD games since CoD 4.

60 FPS games were around, and there are many more examples than what I've provided (fighting games in particular usually run at 60) even a lot of old Nintendo games on the SNES ran at 60...

Your opinion on 30 vs 60 is subjective, and I respect that, but 60FPS games on console have been around for 25 odd years.

Re: UK Sales Charts: Gotham Knights, A Plague Tale: Requiem Make Decent Sales Debuts

Constable_What

@Northern_munkey I have a digital PS5 (all I could find for MSRP, so i took it), and usually just have to wait for PS sales. It's not really a bother, as when the game is on sale it's got a few patches.

A $10 increase is not that big a deal to me. $70 is a dinner date at a good restaurant with my fiance. Still I would always prefer to pay less; especially on games that I'm only really kind of interested in.

There are a lot of deals for physical day one releases though. I want to try to get a physical version PS5 when it has a console reset for sure!

Re: Beloved RPG Fallout: New Vegas Was First Meant to Be Fallout 3 DLC

Constable_What

Yeah Bethesda really wanted Obsidian to do it, and when NV didn't hit the Metacritic threshold Bethesda withheld bonus for Obsidian. Still though, Bethesda made the right call getting Obsidian on the project, as New Vegas is widely considered the best in the series now that it's in a playable state...probably had nothing to do with the stringent deadline and use of an ancient (even at the time) engine.

Re: Voice Actress Laura Bailey Keen to Reprise Role in Potential Sequel to The Last of Us: Part II

Constable_What

I wouldn't really be interested at all at this point. If ND makes another TLOU they should take a page out of Hideo Kojima's book and make a prequel game or a game that takes place in a different country. China, Japan, or Korea could be pretty cool.

Maybe come back to Abby for TLOU 4 if ever. She isn't a fun character, and she is also just really has a bland personality. Didn't care all that much for her at all.