Captain Poofter

Okay, you got me! Hi-fi Rush is a masterpiece of perfection, the others that upvoted my OP are definitely wrong too, and any criticism ever considered by a player is just incorrect, because a lot of people loved it, and things a lot of people love are always perfect.

So sorry for the confusion! Have a good weekend!

Just because things are highly beloved does not mean they aren’t flawed and couldn’t use improvements. Starfield has an 83 on metacritic. Life is Strange an 85. As of right now, only 190 people are playing Hi Fi Rush on Steam. 204 are currently playing Bayonetta, for comparison. I never said the game was a trainwreck or totally unenjoyable, i said i believed it could have been even better if they paid attention to criticisms that put off the people who didn’t enjoy it.

Edit: also just looking at the percentages on the global steam achievements and most people do not even see the ending for a 9 hour game. The achievement for beating it on normal difficulty is …16%.

I’m glad you liked it, but the two camps are definitely “this game is a masterpiece” and “this game combat is overbloated and feels sloppy”. Just check the negative steam reviews, they eco similar sentiments to each other

This game was only good for 4-5 hours, imo. Hi-fi rush was a refreshing concept that attracted attention because it stood out in a sea of similar looking titles that the mainstream has become. But they didn’t follow through on the player feedback for such a creative leap in gameplay. It really shows when they start piling on new gameplay mechanics, and combat stops being fun and becomes a mess of awkward controls and spazzy cameras and frustrating vertically-aligned jumping.

No idea why you got downvoted for being so right, the guy makes schlock

I’m disappointed there will be a subnautica 2. I thought below zero basically ruined the lore of the planet and architects for me. Imo, the planet is done. I don’t care about what happens there anymore. The architects are no longer mysterious or interesting to me after

. I think it’s a huge shame the team is cash grabbing a third entry as opposed to starting a new unrelated title in the same genre.

I realize I’m probably in the minority, good thing down votes don’t matter here.

I never really understood how BioShock got this tag. What about it is an immersive SIM exactly? Bioshock is a linear first person shooter action/stealth game. There’s no other mechanics. You don’t have to survive in any way with food or water. There’s no deep mechanic specific to the world that you need to tend to and maintain. Literally the only thing that comes even close to being that sort of mechanic is the hacking? Is it an immersive sim simply because you can hack things and lock pick? Because I do those things in Nancy Drew games as well, but I’m pretty sure those are just point and click adventure games. I think BioShock is an amazing atmospheric first shooter RPG, but I’ve never understood how people think of it as an immersive simulator.

Ya 2 felt like the panburger partner of BioShock

They don’t sell? I was an older teenager when BioShock 1 came out, and people LOVED shooters? Wtf were they talking about? QUAKE?? Everyone was playing cod or half life 2. Fps was a successful genre already, both single player campaigns and multiplayer. i really don’t get this quote.

Nothing in your response was telling me about the game. All you said is that the game is old and that game’s change over time. Not helpful. P.s. I DID try playing it when it was new.

I have been playing video games for 30 years. Thank you so much for telling me about video games.

Can you give me some quick teaser spoilers or something to reignite my interest? I’ve tried to start this game 3 times and every time i fall off cuz it feels like a clunky Dreamworks movie game

I don’t like Nintendo. They used to innovate. Now they’ve been riding the same cash cows for decades. Even the breathe of the wild literally just took the popular gameplay mechanics at the time and threw them into the formula (all the games are open world with crafting now! Lets do that!)

2024 nintendo is 2 things: safe, and money hungry.

I thought the first few hours were fun. Then i got very bored and frustrated. Uninstalled it. Won’t ever beat it.

Such a good cash cow.

I played the whole game too and I didn’t think a single one of my choices mattered 🤷 That’s actually one of the reasons I didn’t even like the game. Also, it’s interesting that you say the game gives you so much information because I largely found all the information useless and not anything I wanted to actually know. The game sidelines the larger plot for the b stories and focuses on those as if they were the main plot and completely forgets about the larger mystery at hand. You never learn what’s going on. You never get any answers about anything other than the silly stuff happening at the school. I don’t understand how this doesn’t bother more people but I guess that’s just me 🤷

Just because something is successful once doesn’t mean it needs to be successful forever.

Not every game needs to be a franchise. All of these indie games were already successful. Nothing is being uplifted.

Man, I just never got it… I made myself play through this entire game and legitimately thought it was a 5/10. And i love adventure games/walking simulators, I’ve played hundreds.

Wow, they’re reaaallllyyyyyy trying to fight slipping into irrelevancy.

I don’t think comparing an audiobook to a text-based adventure game is fair. A text-based adventure game has actual gameplay it’s just presented as text. That is very different than what I’m talking about which is literally just a picture book that is read to you. I personally think they make much more sense on a platform like Audible. When i come home and want to game, it’s NEVER “should i have a picture book read to me, or replay Bayonetta?”