Really? I've been moderately underwhelmed by the combat in Judgment, in large part because Yagami feels so slow compared to Kiryu. But it's a small complaint, I'm mostly happy to get back into active combat after Like a Dragon, which was neat for a while, but the turn-based style got stale with all the street encounters.
But if Lost Judgment is even better I'll be looking forward to it.
You know, I think I knew that from the beginning but I have spent too much time spinning my wheels thinking maybe I'm just missing something.
Glad to hear they took it out for LJ though lol.
That was one of the first skills I unlocked too.
I've played the entire Yakuza series and honestly I feel like there are always mechanics in these games that have no real purpose or stakes. Somehow it usually just adds to the charm, but this one is the most egregious.
I was really impressed with this when I first started it. Really great production values and some fun twists on standard combat, but I did get worn out on it pretty quickly. I managed to finish the story, but I was very ready to be done and left a lot of side content behind.
I actually did play Pillars of Eternity and was quite fond of it, except that I eventually had to give it up because I reeeaaalllly suck at the real-time-with-pause combat at that scale, and I just got stuck.
Months later it dawned on me that I could have just dropped the difficulty level, but I had forgotten too much about what was going on and couldn't get back into it.
I actually have heard that before and have wanted to try! Unfortunately I've only had playstation consoles with the exception of the 360. I was actually planning on eventually getting a series x or s to play their exclusive stuff (particularly from Arkane), but if things keep turning out like Redfall I may reconsider.
Subnautica was the first survival-crafting game I played and I became obsessed in large party because of how finally tuned crafting and progression was. Now I keep trying a bunch of other similar games hoping they grip me like Subnautica, but they never come close. No Man's Sky was closest but it's too big and unfocused. I went from repairing my little broken ship to owning an entire freighter in like 2 hours.
Much like how I keep buying racing games hoping something will click like the old burnout games, I'm coming to realize I don't think I like the genre that much, I just liked that one special entry within it.
Kind of hoping someone comes in and says "have you heard about x game that's super similar DA:O" and that I haven't heard of it, cause I agree with you and I'd love to have that experience again fresh.
Shaun and Contrapoints are two of my three holy trinity for politics and culture too, with Folding Ideas being the third. I'm looking forward to checking out the rest, thanks for taking the time to put these together!
Happy to spread the word! If you do wind up giving it a shot I hope you enjoy it.
Well, if you wouldn't mind, I'd love to get some more of your top picks for the others, especially tech and film (been a Lindsay Ellis fan for years and am also fond of creators like Pop Culture Detective, Just Write, Thomas Flight, and lots more).
I agree with you, but I think this is more an issue with the way crypto and its advocates have firehose-marketed that corner of technology, than an issue with laymen who aren't interested. Crypto, web 3.0, etc. have been hyped as the future of the internet, coopting general concepts like decentralization as belonging to scheme-y crypto stuff rather than just a principle that crypto (ostensibly) aligns with.
I never got into any of that myself and am hyper-skeptical of it, but (hopefully) I know enough to determine that the Fediverse is not on the same plane as all that. I also wouldn't blame anyone who can't tell the difference.