Oddly I don't think so this time. The ones most letdown by Deathloop are the Arkane faithful, myself among them. It's basically Arkane's Fallout 4/Dragon Age 2.
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Jason Schreiers Top 10 games of 2021
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I only knew he is the best gaming journalist but had no idea about him as a person, I was checking and he does love JRPGs, I should check that podcast.
Exactly my feelings. Deathloop let me down, even if I did enjoy a lot of my time with it. Prey and Dishonored (especially 2) were just so much better.
Not sure what Jason's take was on BD2, but for me, even if the story and world were by-the-numbers, the battle and job systems were so satisfying to play and tinker with (particularly on hard mode), that the game is on my top 10 as well.
(Also love the music. And the characters grew on me as it went on.)
Cool list, a lot of these games I have either played and liked or am hoping to get around to. The Forgotten City especially, as I played the Skyrim mod it's based on and it's absolutely wonderful.
Also delighted to see more people champion The House in Fata Morgana, what an exceptional visual novel. Some very challenging content there but if you can stomach it, a really beautiful experience.
Also delighted to see more people champion The House in Fata Morgana, what an exceptional visual novel. Some very challenging content there but if you can stomach it, a really beautiful experience.
Player here who laughed at all the pre release buzz:
It's fucking great.
Enjoy!! It's a heck of a ride but one I'm so glad I finally took 😊
Well... It had a game-breaking bug.
I think Prey is a 10/10 and an easy GOTY contender, but the console versions suffered from some rough bugs.
Echoes of the Eye really deserves more end of list nods, and discounting it as 'dlc' does a huge disservice to it. It was easily over a 10 plus hour experience for me though others completion times will vary depending on how quickly you figure out the puzzles and how the dlc area works.
Despite my frustrations with how it felt more grindy and repetitive than the main game due to some pacing issues with how long it takes to get there and get new things done during each loop it's stayed with me more than most things in 2021. Incredibly inventive puzzle design that builds on the intuitive discovery, 'a ha!' moments of the core game. Felt like I was playing a classic sci-fi novel in parts.
Check it out ya'll!
Despite my frustrations with how it felt more grindy and repetitive than the main game due to some pacing issues with how long it takes to get there and get new things done during each loop it's stayed with me more than most things in 2021. Incredibly inventive puzzle design that builds on the intuitive discovery, 'a ha!' moments of the core game. Felt like I was playing a classic sci-fi novel in parts.
Check it out ya'll!
IMO, Bravely Default 2 is the best designed Job mechanics from any of the FFV-likes. So many interesting synergies to consider. I strongly recommend people go on bling rather than min maxing grind strategies to bypass the great design of the game. Every job is useful, every job has a killer move, every job has good passives.
I adored the soundtrack, in general.
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Seriously, almost certainly my favorite of the six "FFV-likes".
I think that is really reductive. JRPG is a huge dumptruck of a genre that gets a bunch of nonsense groupings. They are two very distinct styles out of like 8 or so genres that just get lumped together into "JRPG". FFV-like and Star Ocean / Tales are totally different experiences, and are distinct enough to have their focused audiences.
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I must say that as a Arkane games fan, Deathloop is my least liked game from them - I just don't like the style of their gamestyle took way in Deathloop.. I always like immersive sim games when they offer me to play atleast the majority of the game stealthily and I dont think this can applied to Deathloop campaign .. even CP77 I could finish pretty much the whole game stealthily, which is a strong contrast to Deathloop.. I don't know, the problem can be entirely with him, because I absolutely love Dark Messiah of Might and Magic from them, even though you can't finish the whole game stealthily but I feel the level design and overall gameplay in DM is more in the style that I like than how - and how I expect it to be being designed in a immersive sim RPG - it's designed in DL
I played the game on PS5 after they patched it and didn't have any issues. Wait there was one time when the game froze but thats it.
Idk if it was buggy on PS5 at launch but I know on PC there were some issues.
Oh...I gotcha. Yea can't say I had the same experience with that one at all. Only thing I didn't like was the ending
Deathloop ended up being a huge disappointment for me.
Only 4 levels, spent most my time in the menu between missions, un-interesting level design, poor AI, limits on weapons and abilities (requiring you to leave a mission to change). I could go on.
Only 4 levels, spent most my time in the menu between missions, un-interesting level design, poor AI, limits on weapons and abilities (requiring you to leave a mission to change). I could go on.
I'll legit take any and all exposure for fata morgana. Not like very many people have played it at all, and I consider one of the single most impactful games I've played/stories I've experienced.
Deathloop was legit. I'm glad Arkane changed things up coming from Dishonored and Dishonored 2. Didn't want things to get stale.
Also based on the strength of everyone's praise here - just bought House in Fata Morgana on Steam on sale for $13 CAD. Not normally much of a VN guy - but with all this effusive praise (and a deep discount), why not!
Also based on the strength of everyone's praise here - just bought House in Fata Morgana on Steam on sale for $13 CAD. Not normally much of a VN guy - but with all this effusive praise (and a deep discount), why not!
True story (at least not friends interested in this kind of game)
Glad to see some love for the game here! Though I get why it wasn't what everyone was looking for.
I'm curious, what are the other FFV likes? Other than the other Bravely games.
FFV, FF Dimensions, Final Fantasy Gaiden, Bravely Default (which was Final Fantasy Gaiden 2 early in development), Bravely Second, and Bravely Default 2. Just heroes on an adventure with the Final Fantasy Job system.
yeah it just feels weird
Fata Morgana is one of my favorite things i've ever read but that was 5 years ago at this point and it wasn't even like it was a fan translation
Yeah, I just kind of assume when individuals put out these lists anymore that's basically what they are. And it's like, it's fine and all, people can do whatever they want with their list and it's obviously the trend now (I see so many lists that have random games from 2020 or 2018 or whatever on it). It kills the purist in me lol, but it's their list and all so whatever.
Fata Morgana was a surprising and inspired pick. Arise was meh but hey I'm glad that this series is finally starting to get attention in the west.
Yep. I think I would've liked it better without the rougelike elements. The gameplay just wasn't good enough to keep me engaged.
