Every time it goes on sale, I think about picking it up, but then I remember...
It takes me long enough to finish 10-hour games I already own...
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I highly recommend the game, but I totally get you. I didn't buy it for years for the exact same reason. Eventually it was on a good sale when I was between games so I got a chance to play it. If you're an anime fan you will probably love the game. And if you're not, it may be cringy as fuck on occasion but you'll probably still love the game after getting sucked in. But if you end up never playing it, that's totally fine too. I've found in life that you don't need to watch every movie and play every video that are highly praised. I still haven't played the Mass Effect games even after owning all of them for 5 or so years.
I've found in life that you don't need to watch every movie and play every video that are highly praised.
You're absolutely right and I'm glad I reread that sentence: at first I somehow missed the "don't" and was gearing up for a long and pointless rebuttal of what I THOUGHT I just read 😄
Personally, I'm a sucker for long completion time. I only like specific types of games that don't get released that often, so I'm always in danger of running out of games I haven't replayed to death yet 😁
Most of it being cutscenes is a huge negative if not an outright dealbreaker to me, though.
I do feel like some of these games lose their premise if they grind on for too long. I think Haru Okumura's dungeon is one of the more inspired, but by the time you get there, the game loop has gotten stale. Then the finale is just an interminably long series of hallways.
They could have compressed that game by half (especially towards the back end), keyed up on the drama, and maybe fleshed out the daytime normal-life content a bit more.
But I say that within the context of a game with a truly captivating story, some solid twists and top 10 anime betrayals, and a charming romance system that draws you into the characters. Had a great experience on my playthrough. Can't imagine ever trying to play it again, but it was a wild ride the first time.
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It’s one of those games with a fun grind. With how snappy the UI and everything is, nothing ever really feels like a chore. I played Xenoblade Chronicles recently and I think it took my 50lbs to beat, but those 50lbs felt longer than Persona’s 100+ hours.
I like Xenoblade more personally anyway, but just wanted to share my experience.
Measuring games by weight? Neat.
Not sure if tired or autocorrect, but I’ll leave it as is
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I've tried P4G and I just can't stand the required grind, nor the 3h bossfights, otherwise good game
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I don't have time for games that long
plays Factorio for the 274th hour
A friend of mine tried to convince me to get Factorio a couple days ago. Couldn't help but feel like he was a junky trying to get me to try just a little bit of heroin.
It's more like crack or meth. You start a gamenin the early evening and suddenly it dawn's outside. I hate myself for loving a game which basically simulates the job of "process optimization"
I always describe it as a puzzle game where all the puzzles are designed by an idiot and that idiot is you.
Hey if your actual job is process optimization, you get to enjoy it twice as much 🥲
I’ve never played factorio, but I am an industrial engineer and my builds in the minecraft mod create make my wife sad
Do not even come close to Factorio or it will be your Ex Wife. Trust me Bro!
Satisfactory, however, will be 100% totally safe and good for that marriage. Trust me bro!
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274? In Germany, we call that ausbaufähig. The factory must grow.
Is that a single save, or your total playtime?
"120 hour anime series" is fair, but "occasionally click a button" is not. If P5 qualifies for that, then every turn-based JRPG ever does.
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This is me and Persona 4.
There's a lot of good game elements. But it's SOOOOO MUCH. It's like a damn visual novel with bits of game.
And I'm sure the payoff is great, since the Persona games are very well received. But after a long day, I don't want to think. I just want to mash buttons until the pain stops.
If you like monster collection games. Check out shin megami tensei. More rpg than graphic novel. Same overall concepts but none of the daily dating sim like aspect.
I feel like the people looking for a JRPG, having been guided to Persona, that wind up hating Persona, were probably looking for one of the mainline SMT games instead!
Game is okay I guess.
My wife and I recently started our first playthrough. We're mostly interested in the story and style and I don't want to deal with any bullshit difficulty spikes, so we set it to Safe Mode and are absolutely here for the 120-hour push-button anime experience. So far, it rules.
God I wish I could play this game again with a fresh slate and no knowledge of anything again. Story, style, soundtrack, and gameplay all in an endearing package.
I've never played it
Me neither but Winter is coming and my pile of shame recently got Space Marine 2 added ....
But one day I will be old and retired. I will only die when I played them all!
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looks at all the games I played for over 300 hours
Oh no.
"Wait, it's all visual novels?"
Metal Gear 4 lol
MGS5 did it very well! (That's if you made it passed the long intro)
It's chapter based. So you get 1-2 minutes of introduction, then tossed into the field. Story follows more gameplay like cassette tapes or walkie talkies while you explore, with cutscenes when you hit certain points.
After MGS5, I find it hard to play the older ones with its 10-30 minute cutscenes.
It's funny you praise 5 for that, but as a huge fan of the series I think the best description I read of mg5 was: "it's simultaneously the best stealth action game out there and the worst metal gear game in the series." Lol
I think the open world kinda ruined the pacing of the story and it all felt kind of disjointed in comparison to the linear games. That's coming from someone who LOVES open world games too. Still lots of fun though
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If you played all of the games up to 4, you were invested in the story, and therefore the cutscenes were welcome.
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looks at 300hr nocturne save
They didn't make it to the first dungeon XD
In Persona 4, it took me something like 5 hours before I got to my first combat scene. Then another few hours before I got into a dungeon.
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Persona 5 is the only game in my life I ever played and made my eyes hirt, it just felt nauseating
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Make him play Digital Devil Saga if he wants a game
Telltale
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