Shalakushka
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Please don’t continue to beat this dead horse. What made Mass Effect great was Drew Karpyshyn’s ideas and world building, a solid cast of characters, along with a lot of superb visual design. Mass Effect had such an interesting, detailed, lived-in universe. The quality of writing in the games after the first is perfectly proportional to the amount of Drew Karpyshyn’s involvement, and it sharply declines after the first. A fifth game made purely out of a corporate desire for profit and not to tell a story is unlikely to yield better results, in my mind - see Mass Effect: Andromeda for evidence on that.
No thank you, the VII remake feels like they are making the rest of the game in the next room. “No, you can’t do the next part, you have to collect flowers for orphans and have a motorcycle chase.” Constantly buying time with stupid crap.
The original was well paced and fun, they would undoubtedly fuck it up and have Tetsuya Nomura write it.
It was entire alternate playthrough with a female main character, new characters to build social links with, and a lot of new insights into the other characters of the game. The characters you fight with have different relationships with the female MC than the male MC. The PSP version had both playthroughs on one disc, though they had to make some adjustments like turning it into more of a visual novel style than 3d environments for the “town” segments of the game.
Honestly I watched some old episodes recently and felt the opposite. I miss the weird out of left field humor of the first few seasons, before they got obsessed with being a cardboard filter over making fart sniffing libertarian gotchas in their characters voices. They got way too into giving their take on current events, which are basically always just “libs bad lol isn’t caring about stuff cringe???”. I miss when the Loch Ness monster wanted $3.50.
This is such a weird take because Cyberpunk’s storytelling was a series of Grand Theft Auto phone calls occasionally interspersed with “UR DYING V, I’M KEANU REEVES AND IM GONNA TAKE UR BODY LOL”. There wasn’t anything interesting about Cyberpunk’s storytelling. I believe a Bethesda game could be more boring than that, but it doesn’t retroactively make Cyberpunk great as a result.
You can have a moral high ground either way. It would be impossible to live in such a way that you are totally free of hypocrisy and anything someone could possibly criticize you for, which is what these people are basically asking in bad faith. They are saying you would have to live an impossible life because they do not want a moral high ground to exist at all. Just because we do not always meet our ideals does not mean we cannot have ideals, or that we cannot note when those ideals have not been met in others. I have not lived a 100% violence free life, but that isn’t necessary to call out something like a murder.
I agree with this assessment a lot. The art and environmental design is gorgeous. The music is top notch (the battle theme is a bit polarizing though). In terms of production it’s seriously well put together, for the most part. But, it suffers a lot of the worst excesses of 90s JRPG design, with a meandering, nonsensical plot and a battle system that’s more interested in being fiddly than in being fun. It feels like one of the worst examples of a company just straight up not understanding the appeal of a game and making a “sequel” that could easily have been called something else. As a recommendation for someone just coming off of Chrono Trigger, I can hardly imagine something worse, oddly.
I’d like to give people in this thread the warning I wish they had given me about this game. Don’t go into Cross expecting it to have anything to do with Trigger (or expecting it to be 10% as good as Trigger). They made a weird JRPG where every character is just a text filter and then decided in the last 3 hours that it was the sequel to Chrono Trigger. It has nothing in common with CT except a couple of place names and some dead characters, and would be a much better game if they called it Lynx Quest or Radical Dreamers 2 or what the hell ever.
Reading this thread makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills. This game was mediocre as fuck. The open world was practically empty. There were like five characters with anything but a superficial motivation. Combat is point and click nothingness, there is no strategy whatsoever and the AI is practically nonexistent. Constant bugs and graphical issues. The big fixes only fixes the very last thing.