It's amazing how beautiful games can look nowadays, packing so much detail and all these amazing features ...
~ yet the NPC still look like soulless puppets because of those eyes and the uncannyness of it all.
~ and dialogue in RPGs is still the same shit since Ultima 7, CYOA dialogue lines with occasional stat check inbetween.
~ and NPC AI is still the same static bullshit where a dude does the same few animation every day, goes to bed at night and gives you basic instruction for quests. You've had Wizardry 7 doing rival NPCs who acted in the world, or some attempts at dynamic characters with Space Rangers and Stalker.
Yeah, those mountains look pretty as fuck, but can you actually climb those mountains like you were able in some small measure in Gothic?
Those trees look gorgeous, but can you cut them down so you can start a little fire, or build a make-shift raft to get along the river?
That fort looks pretty cool, but can you amass an army and conquer it, then rule over the surrounding lands and start your own faction?
Seriously, fuck graphic whores. They have ruined our hobby more than any other subset of gamers. You can see it in this thread right here, with a bajilion of people complaining about muh bad textures and muh framerates, not being aware that the game is set on the course of blowing dongs from gameplay perspective.
I can't wait to role-play as the good-at-everything character with even less meaningful choices and the samey-ass combat in a giant map. Fuck being able to create a stealth build, fuck being able to have recruits and maybe form a new school of Witcher-ing, fuck having to deal with rival Witchers, fuck being able to choose which sides to pick in the war, fuck being able to choose fighting styles again, fuck expanding the alchemy system into new territories. No, the problem and the constant discussion has to be about how that one rock was a bit blurrier than real life or how you can't see every speck of dust and dandruff in Geralt's hair. Oh, and if the game will have loading times, because muh immershun or something.
We deserve our fate.
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