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It's a miracle... they actually managed to pull this out of development hell?!?!
From this little bit that is shown, I guess it's not a complete overhaul.  I was concerned that it was either canceled or in the off-chance it was still around....was being completely redesigned, but there it is.
 
I still wish they had 3rd person perspective as an option though.
ah, Gametrailers just posted this
 

Well... even the narrator in BG3 is quite nice on the eyes
 
Really, for a while I thought it was Claudia Black (one of the sexiest voices of all time, btw; also just generally hot as well... Claudia was "Sam" in Gears of War games, and Dahlia in The Originals along with several other tv/movie roles)...in the game she sounds  like a younger version of her.

I actually just beat FFXVI about 30 minutes ago. 
 
+ Remixes of original tracks are godlike 
+ The game is absolutely stunning to look at. 
+ Summons have always been one of my favorite things about FF. So having a story HEAVILY, heavily based around them was a treat
+ The summon designs are very true to the characters but breathe a fresh new take on each of them. 
+ Top to bottom incredible voice acting. Everything more-or-less flowed naturally in terms of dialogue and convos. There’s some cringe here and there but it’s an RPG. So 🤷🏻
+ so many great characters. There’s next to no wrong choice in terms of favorite character. All the designs are great too. 
+ How many nods, tributes and Easter eggs there are to the FF’s that came before it
+ Story for the most part is amazing. 
 
- Combat is incredibly boring. Despite how many different styles of combat you have access to the combat portion of the gameplay loop is very one dimensional and boring. 
- Lack of enemy variety. I know this is just kind of a thing with JRPG’s as almost every enemy is a pallet swap of another but this was the first next Gen core FF entry. they should have came out swinging and they didn’t. 
- Lack of item variety 
- Lack of difficulty curve. This game is not hard. At all. 
- No real RPG elements. 
- Crafting is very boring and doesn’t really add anything to the game. Outside of the crafting materials needed to make the ultimate gear You’re always given the crafting materials needed as soon as the best equipment becomes available to you. 
- Hunts/Notorious Marks are back. Unfortunately there's nothing really fun or interesting about them. You don't really get any major rewards for them either outside a very few of them.  
- The characters all feel very lively and interactive but the environments absolutely do not. 
- A lot of the side quests that pertained to world building, relationship building, etc came too little and waaay too late. So it makes the story feel very rushed, and disjointed. 
- Active Time Lore. I hated it. I love exposition dumps. I don’t want to have to do shit like this to get the full story. 
 
= Eikons fights would be amazing if it wasn’t for all the god damn QTE’s. 

Like, as much as like there’s just as much I don’t like about it. If I thought about it, there’s probably even more I dislike. So for now I’m at a right down the middle 6/10. 
 

FEMALE FRIDAY: the real threat edition
 
 

That porta potty fight went hard. Speaking of shits, I've been at uni for a week and taken 8 dumps and all of them have been ghostwipers. I'm slowly becoming too powerful.

aw man I was hoping that fight would've gotten extra nasty, considering the location... let's see some shit hit the fan for real.
 
haha imagine if one of those porta potty units tipped over and the contents spilled out...then they're slippin and sliding around everywhere in the shit juice 🤣

Hey look, it sucks that people are out of work. That said Volition developed a product it's fan base didn't want. The fanbase told them that they aren't into it. And instead of considering the feedback, they doubled down on the new direction. Not only that, in several cases, they attacked their fanbase. The game predictably tanked and now the studio is no more. I feel for the 9 to 5 people that had no say in the game's direction and were just doing their jobs. However the decision makers and PR people got what they deserve. The epidemic of companies attacking their customers, their products bombing, and the subsequent "surprised Pikachu face" from them has gotten old. Did they skip Business 101?

Some people going in with no respect.
 
 
 

A whole studio lost because they made a game called Saint's Row instead of making a Saint's Row game.

There's a side quest in Red Dead Redemtion 2 that ends with a con artist being drowned by one of his victims in a Porta potty. 

Take shit, get hit.

Epic Viral Videos Catch Women Brawling In SAVAGE Port-O-Potty Smackdown at Country Star’s Concert 😦
 

Well... even the narrator in BG3 is quite nice on the eyes
 
Really, for a while I thought it was Claudia Black (one of the sexiest voices of all time, btw; also just generally hot as well... Claudia was "Sam" in Gears of War games, and Dahlia in The Originals along with several other tv/movie roles)...in the game she sounds  like a younger version of her.

Borderlands 3 eventually coming to Switch has been some surprising news... I was thinking it would be unlikely the system can even handle it.  
It's still quite a shame what happened with that game though--- the story is awful and the jokes are rather lame at this point...and the lazy ass decision to just not add any extra characters via DLC (this is a bit surprising though, considering the unchecked greed of most modern companies in this industry...you'd think they would've had an extra character or 2 already designed but held back to add later for extra $$).... but the gameplay...specifically the faster pace of combat and other little details---it is the best the series has ever had.  Basically, the optimal B3 experience is to just disregard most or all character dialogue and the story entirely and just have fun shooting things and using your "action skill" powers.

Dont ps5 come with SSD?
 
Space is always an issue for me.  Im like the guys that hoard physical games but I hoard digital games.  I'm downloading Starfield now...fuckin' game is like 130gb installed.  Sheez
 
Here is this so you can actually see my hoarding.

 
Bet you cant guess what drive Starfield is going on?  lol

You've come a long way, "Frenzy"....
 
From left....
 
2013 Masterpiece,  2023 SS86,   and  1984 G1
 

Well... even the narrator in BG3 is quite nice on the eyes
 
Really, for a while I thought it was Claudia Black (one of the sexiest voices of all time, btw; also just generally hot as well... Claudia was "Sam" in Gears of War games, and Dahlia in The Originals along with several other tv/movie roles)...in the game she sounds  like a younger version of her.

^eh, I wish the pace of that was a bit faster; general slowness is the last thing I want in any beatemup (or most games, actually)... from the glimpses it looks like the amount of animation is a bit lacking as well....but I'm still interested since it's classic GI Joe stuff there....hopefully the character roster is decent.  The dream of course would be to just have all the popular named characters as playable choices.  If I were making it, I'd let villains be playable as well but we know that's unlikely to happen....a lot of devs still seem to have the old mindset of only letting the player pick the good guy side. (oh yeah, back then as a kid... of course my favorite characters were on the Cobra side; Stormshadow, Dr. Mindbender, Zartan, Destro, etc.)
 
Starfield---here's another review... 
I'm leaning towards buying it at this point.

This song from Too Short is another recent "work out/exercise" track for me; I was reminded when it was part of the playlist at the gym recently
 
Music; especially a faster pace/tempo really helps one get into that calorie burn that much more.

That inspired me to contribute to VGM Fridays....
 
 

I wasn't expecting dlc for this game but here we go... new character for Dawn of the Monsters!
oooh there's other stuff too... new color/customization options too... and a Japanese voices option among other things!