They opened up a genre of gaming to people that would have never even considered it.
Can confirm, that was my case. Before this game the closest thing to a turn-based CRPG I had played was KOTOR, now I’ve already purchased DOS:2 and I’m looking forward to Larian’s next title.
It becomes even more impressive when you remember how many amazing games came out in 2023. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Pikmin 4, Street Fighter 6, Alan Wake 2, The Talos Principle 2, Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, Final Fantasy XVI, Hi-Fi Rush, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Lies of P, Pizza Tower, most of these would win GOTY if they had come out this year instead.
I don’t think it’s that deep. Deadlock, the game they mention in their rant, also has a pretty diverse roster. I think Concord just looks very generic both in gameplay and in character designs.
To be fair they did run out of stories to tell.
The problem as far as I understand is Nintendo doesn’t have the same degree of control over Pokemon that they have over their other IPs since they share ownership of the franchise with Game Freak and Creatures Inc. I bet they’d like to hold Pokemon to the same standards as Mario or Zelda and probably just can’t… Or maybe they just don’t really care considering how Pokemon games sell like crazy no matter how much effort is put into them.
This is the way. It’s how I managed to beat both Pokémon Emerald and Fire Red on my phone during my bus commute a few years ago.
For me the main draw was always being able to freely explore their beautiful handmade worlds, be it Tamriel or a post-nuclear US. You always knew you’d find something interesting around the next corner. I’d be happy with this being just Fallout in space too but it seems Starfield is mostly procedurally generated and you can’t even drive any vehicles so in that front they lost most of my interest.
I don’t know what makes you think South Americans are not under US influence cause I can tell you things in Brazil look exactly the same: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter… well, Whatsapp is also absurdly popular around here but I don’t think it qualifies.
Thank you, I just subscribed.
Speaking of which, do we have a Lemmy version of r/patientgamers? I miss that place
TIL the Dead Cells’ game dev studio is a worker cooperative with no hierarchy. That’s based as hell.
Wait, what new ending? Can we fix her heart now?
That’s great to hear. It gives me hope that The Wolf Among Us 2 will be as good as the first one.
The Lemmy devs have no power over instances they do not run themselves.
It seems to me they’re saying Lemmy needs corporate backing to grow? Cause if they were so bothered by the opinions of the Lemmy devs they could simply use Kbin instead.
That’s a funny way to spell Pizza Tower.
And just for the sake of completion, yes, it also has an Epic store page.