Jak 2 is a bizarre game. I guarantee there was a meeting at some point where Naughty Dog's bosses asked "how can we appeal to the audience of recent industry sensation Grand Theft Auto 3 with our bright, colorful cartoon platformer"?
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i already mention games like Hades and Darkest Dungeon that are indie but didn't have to fall back on pixel nostalgia baiting, asset flip or lazy art direction. Indie mediocrity deserve their criticism just as much as AAA slop does, but every year a shitton of generic metroidvanias, walking sims and survival games come out without an ounce of originality and people suck the tranny dev's girldick without a hint of irony. You are even defending Palworld, literally one of the worst examples of indie trash there is, just copypaste over copypaste in every aspect of its design from already popular IPs, i don't see any way thats doing something better than ubicrap, the game was literally made with the exact same mentality any megacorp who designs by comitee and google analitics would have.
Is this a bad time to say that I fucking adore Warrior Within? They wanted to appeal to edgy American teenagers and they succeeded.
The aesthetic can be a bit hard for some people to get past, but for me it's the best game in the original trilogy. Two Thrones returns to the style of the original game, but for my money it's much jankier.
I love the game mechanically and level design-wise, but even as a teenager found the edgelord shift to be really embarrassing. The first game was so aesthetically pleasing and it felt like a real waste to throw that away for grimdark balloon tits and metal thongs.
I don't think any mega-corp who designed a game by committee and google analytics would allow slavery of animals and humans to be a core game-play mechanic.
I'm just enjoying the decline tbh. Hades did have enjoyable gameplay then it just slows to a crawl because I need the DEEPEST LORE, they couldn't be bothered with making the character spawns consistent and decided that the farming for the items needs to be tedious, like checking the store for the best deals before I start a run, needing to plan the route from picking the weapon that was given the 20% extra certain item gain that changes every run all to get items so I can give/spend them on more items to give to the npcs all for one line of dialogue only to do it all again, gave up on it at 90 hours. DD, the game that solely relies on rng and nerfing the fun builds cause the dev didn't like people were having fun using them. I'd rather Palworld, at least it copied things from fun games.
Even 2000s games had Legends in the title. Tomb Raider Legend, X-Men Legends
Die Hard on the NES is supposedly like that. I tried to play it, but never got far enough.
I didn't mind what I played of the multiplayer, but the things you mentioned are why people hate it. Having it effect galactic readiness meant people that didn't want to play it felt forced into it. Progression was loot box based, and is to AAA loot boxes what horse armour is to DLC. Want to play as a Turian? Better get grinding or cough up the cash.
To be fair it was a guaranteed pack with the amount of credits at the end of every successful match but the lootboxes do become tedious to open after a point.
Brawl is by far the funniest Smash game to play with friends, directly because Sakurai had a tantrum about nerds trying to play it competitively so he just didn't care about the balancing at all. It's perfectly crafted to piss off anyone who tries to take it seriously, but also make anyone laugh their head off if you play it casually; it feels a lot more like Mario Party in that way than the other ones. 4 players, all items high, Ice Climber Summit, let's go!
I'm glad you liked the MP for a SP game who's main draw was the story, which had to be pushed aside to make room for the MP, which was added last minute to chase a trend and add microtransations...
PTDE is still functionally good in 30FPS. I dont know why people say Bloodborne needs to be 60, its slight jank but you get used to it after the first 10 minutes. Its much better in comparison to the 10-15 FPS of N64 PS1 games. I still wish I could play Bloodborne, its on my games before I die alongside Elden Ring, Mario Odyssey and RDR1. Hopefully it can be emulated in 10 years.
It is capable of doing 60fps on the PS4 but you'd need to lower the resolution to 720p for it to be consistently 60fps.
Problem is that if you want a legit copy you have to either pirate or get a key reseller. remaster having 60fps is nice but the way it looked originally but at 60fps was what the remastered should have been maybe add what had to be cut from the original release but that would take effort and a cheap "remaster" sells better.
My only archived copy is a pirated copy of PTDE. Remastered is fucking trash and runs bad as well, I refuse to play Remastered even if it has graphical and QOL improvements. Its not like the online playerbase is active anyways, even on Remastered.
