It seemed obvious immediately after seeing that The Last of Us 2 won that they were using Gost of Tsushima or whatever as their way of announcing that they were mad that the SJW game won and trying to downplay it. Like this random game didn't have any sort of staying power or popularity related to the winner.
It's Shadow of Mordor with a katana. Multiplayer mode was a cool addition though. They made it a free update too
You get to go fishing and design your settlement so it's basically animal crossing with dismemberment. It's buggy though to the point of being unplayable for some folks.
It is dope. I like bonking people with the axe and then drawing peenors in the snow. Bugs are the only problem.
Viking one is not bad. If you liked the Greek one it's basically a better iteration of that
I finally got around to playing Odyssey and just finished it up a few weeks ago.
I started Valhalla last week and I’m finding it so sluggish (also really buggy). I like ideas that they put in the game like the settlements and the world events, but I’m just finding it really unfun to play.
It feels like the games keep getting worse since Origins but for different reasons each time.
I really enjoyed Valhalla. The combat still is the sucky Dark Souls-lite bullshit, but the story is finally back on track for the first time in a decade.
Sorry guys, I loved it to the point where I couldn’t play other games for a week afterwards because they just felt disappointing in comparison.
From a gameplay perspective, I think it’s the best iteration of easy open world games with a bunch of shit to do on a map, taking the crown from Horizon: Zero Dawn. This is my favorite genre of game so it really ended up being one of the most enjoyable games I’ve played in years.
I also really connected to the story and Jin, even though it’s pretty lib at times (but I don’t expect much from the gaming industry). I really felt like my gameplay was influenced by the story and character. Like I was playing zero stealth until certain story beats and by the end I was full stealth.
It’s totally fine that people don’t like it or think it’s mediocre, I can see how it’s middle of the road for some people. Just wanted to give the other perspective.
Zero Dawn had more fun mechanics with the bow, but Tsushima was good with the combo building and combat flow. It's just an arcadey slash em up with a tacked on story and great visuals and amazing sound design. I didn't really go in expecting some grand RPG adventure, just a slightly prettier Shadows of War and that's exactly what I got.
I've said before, GoT doesn't really innovate (maybe the swipe pad?), but it is in terms of quality of life, intuitiveness, quests, and ESPECIALLY the load times, the pinnacle of the open world formula as we know it.
It's funny you compared it to Horizon, because playing Ghosts convinced me to go back to Horizon to finish it up. I love both games, but the slickness of GoT becomes even more evident when you go back to a launch title. Which isn't a slap at Horizon - of course the newer title has significant improvements.
GoT is definitely the pinnacle of one particular kind of open world game. I'd say that BOTW is the pinnacle of the kind of open world game that's more about freedom, and GoT is the best of the more story-driven, structured kind.
They really should have put in better traversal though. After playing BOTW, any open world game without an equivalent to shield surfing just feels boring- all you do is run.
I'd bump the difficulty up because if you master parrying the game is a cake walk, though you will learn with time that it has far more depth than it lets on. Otherwise I find it very chill in a similar way to BotW. Just walk around looking at the sites, find some Mongols to slaughter, and then continue on. Some of the side quests are really good too.
GoT is a mix of BotW and Assassins Creed I'd say. Theres a lot more to do than BotW (like 40 sidequests that all are at least somewhat decent to very good).
BotW is just Zelda but open world. Plus its rated for 10+ in the USA though im sure kids younger than 10 could play most of it fine. most games are a ripoff of a game from a decade ago.
I feel like open world games just aren't for you. Which is fine, like thats valid as hell. But I probably would stop even trying to play them if I were you lol.
Yeah I feel you. As for me, I'm a completionist who just likes content for content's sake. So really, my only problem with massive open world games with tons of busywork is the worker exploitation that tends to go into making them.
While I've not played BotW (durability mechanic? I'm out), I think you've got the correct approach to the game. It's incredibly atmospheric and smooth, so it's just fun to chill with the world, make friends with a fox, and stab a bunch of Mongols in the face.
I have a general disdain for durability mechanics. They always feel extremely game-y.
Definitely do. The English VA is just not very good. I'm not sure if the Japanese VA is an better, but at least I can't tell
I was about to comment something similar, then I looked into it a bit more and it seems like that's mainly settler colonial/US war propoganda.
Don't get me wrong, Kiri-sute gomen specifically and the status and role of Samurai in general were completely fucked, but Samurai never had the right to murder peasants at will and the notion that they could was propogated to otherise Japanese people.
Kiri-sute gomen or, literally Samurai's "authorisation to cut and leave the body" was meant to be about self defense. Samurai's right to strike and leave only applied if they were physically attacked or dishonoured in a codified set of ways which everyone in their society was aware of. After excercising Kiri-sute gomen a Samurai was confined to house arrest for 20 days while the local authorities investigated, and were required to provide a minimum of one eye-witness to back up their version of events. If their story couldn't be corroborated or the local authorities found against them they were without exception sentenced to death.
It's still extremely fucked that they could kill people for insulting their honour, and undoubtedly there were times and places where the local authorities let the Samurai get away with whatever the fuck, but overall they probably didn't have any more right to kill peasants than most French or English knights, and probably had more critical oversight and indisputable worse consequences for their murder of civilians than modern US police officers.
So why is the myth of "Samurai chopped bits off of peasants to test their swords" so prevalent?
Well, I think it first got serious traction in the wake of the Namamugi incident, when an English merchant was summarily executed by a Japanese princeling for refusing to dismount and bow. The British retaliated proportionately by spinning up the consent manufactories, sending a Royal Navy flotilla to extract unpayable reparatoins and navally bombarding the capital city of the province the merchant was killed in when those unpayable reparations weren't payed, and making a shockedpikachuface.jpg when the artillery emplacement in the capital city of that province returned fire and returning home to sulk when they realised they didn't have utter firepower superiority.
Of course, the Namamugi incident was in 1862. That may have been how the myth found its way to the west but it's probably not the reason we heard it. US WWII propaganda, put about that Samurai would maim or even kill peasants just to test their swords and peasants had to stay still and take it. They used this claim to present Japanese people as the Ur fascist other, both senseless, remorseless killers who thought nothing of murdering their own countrymen for sport, and cowardly weaklings who would brook any injustice so long as their god Emperor demanded it.
That's what I managed to gather from half an hours googling and having watched that US propaganda film before anyway. If anyone more knowledgable on the subject can correct me on some or all points I'd welcome it.
Well damn, color me informed. I guess when you live in a "modern" and "civilized" country where the cops are still allowed to do indulge whatever sick shit they want at will with no consequences, it's easy to assume that past times in other places would be the same. Turns out it's more projection from the worst nation on Earth., and I appreciate you taking the time to dispel it. Also, speaking of projection:
They used this claim to present Japanese people as the Ur fascist other, both senseless, remorseless killers who thought nothing of murdering their own countrymen for sport, and cowardly weaklings who would brook any injustice so long as their god Emperor demanded it.
This is so many of us Americans lmao
I was having fun with Ghosts of Tsushima.
I wanted to save my people from the Mongolian army.
I walked into a village held hostage by mongols.
I was killed. It didn't load a save, it just continued the game.
I woke up in the same village.
A man was washing the side of his house. A few other townspeople were milling about.
There were no mongols.
All the people in the game are just fleeting random encounters, nothing is real, you die and get transported a few meters away, infinitely, without consequence.
The zelda game? I haven't played it, but is the sword fighting that good? It's not really what I associate with Zelda, and Sekiro is the gold standard for sword action.
Lmao I jest, the sword fighting in Skyward Sword is infamously terrible. It uses the Wiimote motion controls, and follows your swing. Theoretically it was cool, and definitely novel, but the tech just wasn’t there, and frequent cut outs and recalibration made it really annoying really fast. And to account for the inaccuracy of the tech, almost all the fights were dumbed down. Cool idea, poor execution.
However, sword fighting in VR? There isn’t a particularly standout game yet, but it’s pretty fuckin’ sick, can’t wait till we see really good, surprisingly realistic sword fighting in there
Ooooohhh haha I didn't know about any of this, I was jazzed to learn a Zelda game with good sword play existed
My issue with Sekiro is that I try and stealth through everything, then get my arse kicked by the boss that I have to fight head on.
Reception in Japan was very positive, with most of the negativity being why are the foreigners making a better game about Japan then we are.
I don't play AAA open world games anymore, they're all basically the same.
I dont play it cause I dont wanna kill my ancestors lmao; I guess this is what arabs/russkies feel like when playing COD modern warfare
The game is so empty. I had more fun in 3 hours of assassins creed valhalla than I did 100%ing ghost of tsushima.
It's super anticlimactic. Oh boy another headband I'll never wear.
You know what, I think I see what the problem here is.
You must not have realized you can pet the foxes. Now that you know that, I assume you'll make this your favorite game of all time
