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Premium is a lower fee increase. Imagine if you had to pay for it in order to get Extra!

Huh, PS Blog is down.

I bought it after playing the demo. Seems like a good time.

Star Wars... Demolition?

Yeah, achievement as post-death quip was always a bad implementation, even when not stuck to a death that really isn't meant to be funny.

And Spyro 2 & 3 before that. They still had the feature up until the PS4. I haven't found the games after A Crack in Time very good in general.

They're really just an element of the game. They can be pointless (pick up one coin!) or annoying or they can be designed like a goal in a video game. Unlockable rewards still exist in good games. There's no requirement to not have those just because achievements exist.

Well, this topic compelled me to try Axiom Verge 2 and see what all the fuss is about. It's not strikingly beautiful but come the fuck on.

Although "all achievements unlocked" is also cool.

Will they consider better remasters?

Anyway, I'm not engaged with the Xbox ecosystem at all, and neither Valve nor Sony gives me anything for them. I don't think Google Play does either to any significant extent.

Sony used to give you store credit for them. It's just not a thing currently.

NeatoAnAccount posted...

These are different things. If someone says a game is objectively bad they mean one thing, and if they say it's flawed they mean another.

I meant in terms of their flaws. "Flawed" is generally a pretty positive evaluation as these things go.

I wouldn't even consider getting 100% achievements in every game I play. As for tiering achievements, all you really need is the percentage of players who completed it, which as far as I know is viewable on all of these platforms.

Other than the difference of many games having a Platinum to encourage getting all other trophies, there isn't much practical difference. The tiers are often ridiculously inconsistent, making you grind for hours or do full additional playthroughs for a bronze or silver while other games throw golds at you for story progression.

How about describing "objectively bad" things as flawed? If you describe a flaw, as in an element of a work you say is bad, the description of the element can be agreed on even when not everyone agrees it's a flaw. Flaws are what give us works that are "bad" and enjoyable. There's something in there that overcomes the flaws, even if it's just unintentional comedy.

It's funny, I just did a writeup in a topic saying something was "Bad game, 10/10, highly recommend" so I do understand liking something that I think is bad. But it was nominated for The Game Awards so clearly not everyone agrees it's even bad.

Subjectively I don't like it. Outside of edge cases like that, people can be extremely divided on the quality of a work, and it's not a matter of one side or the other being correct. The IMDB rating or RottenTomatoes score is not a measure of quality. It's a compilation of opinions. Is it just hyperbole, like "ironic"? I wouldn't have any problem with that, I just haven't seen much of that compared to all the people who still argue for the objective truth of their own opinions.

I still don't even understand what you mean by "objectively" though. It's not overall consensus and it's not a technical evaluation. Seems kind of like a "I know it when I see it" standard but I get the feeling there must be more precise terms for why these things are bad and possibly still enjoyable.

That would probably be considered poor composition on a technical level. There's such a thing as music theory. The rules are not absolute but they've even been plotted out mathematically and they fit to some degree with what most people like. But it's still not objectively anything.

Really? I can't say "technical quality" to mean "technically good or bad" but when someone says a game's objectively bad and then joins in an argument about what "objective" means that's clear and effective wording?

I think the term you're looking for is "technical quality." As in, the skilled craft and design evident in the work itself. This also isn't quantitative but it's less dependent on opinion than the overall evaluation.

Why don't we all just find a dictionary and look up a popularly-accepted definition for "objective"

Also, (Language warning)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/9/6/AAF5_iAAEEpM.jpg

You know what's ugly? Games that run really badly. I remember recently saying that F.I.S.T. is "ugly but playable" because the framerate just stops for half-seconds all the time. I've improved it a bit with settings since then, but it's still not great. The aesthetic isn't bad at all, just extremely furry.

It's not a matter of where he grips it!

It does have the most in common with Dark Souls, but it's hard to say it's extremely different from Demon's Souls or Bloodborne.

Edit: I've 100%ed both on the "Hard" mode, between normal and maximum.

I think it's about the same, but I'm not sure I played on the same difficulties. It can be a lot to manage at higher difficulties, but the consensus seems to be that the tricky parts are once again focused around certain optional boss fights.

XIII_Rocks posted...

Not in the like mgs1 sense, but it had a separate data disc

I'm glad they don't make you switch discs mid-gameplay anymore. Many cases of that are not quite so graceful as FF or MGS.

Wait, is it 2 discs on PS4?

Controls are way better. I can't imagine what the combat was like with having to cycle through all your spells etc.

Voice acting aside, it's a PSP game with QoL improvements and that's fine.

NBIceman posted...

Sea of Stars, as the first and only Kickstarter game I've ever backed. If the beta quality was at all indicative of what we can expect from a full release, it'll be the best JRPG in a very long time.

I'll also shout out Granblue Fantasy Re:link on the off chance it actually comes out.

I'm excited for this.

You know what type of tree is appreciated on torrent sites?

Cedars

scarletspeed7 posted...

What browser though

I need realism in my jokes

Uhhh, some sort of open-source one, with branches

I'd recommend playing the duology. Pixeljunk Shooter I mean.

I'm excited for the many new years that just started

You're allowed to buy less dry champagne!

That is an ominous title considering the genre.

Weird choice but your opinion is as good as anyone else's.

No. I installed a softmod on it. It's put away right now, though.

Regardless of what I've seen, I can't bring myself to defend any of these even comparatively.

This game is actually quite fun, but it's running poorly for me and apparently I'm not alone.

I saw it and was like "Wait is that a sequel to" a game that I was once modded for mentioning until I demonstrated it was an actual title of a game.

It's all Greak to me!

Ew, Fallout 76! I played Jedi, it's good. Interested in Axiom Verge 2.

In terms of original versions, III is the earliest one you'd want to play at all.

Sounds like an infection.