Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?

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• iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Upvoting because this fits the thread perfectly, but a little bit of me died inside reading this, you heathen lol ;)

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  • commander@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These days I feel like an outlier saying I love kotor combat. It’s like Disgaea games to me. The joy is watching the animations and building your character to see big damage happen and/or make your character a defensive/health monster. Like on rare occasion I’ll play an ARPG like Victor Vran solely just to mow down monsters at ease. That’s the joy by the end of kotor 2. In the academy just force jump mowing down enemies

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    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah! I really like the combat in KotOR. It’s like a normal turn based CRPG, but faster.

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      • commander@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I wish more games adopted kotors combat. To me its the perfect casual streamlining of a turn based CRPG. It feels faster to me than traditional real time with pause games. Talk about kotor remakes and how the combat has to change.

        To me the only need in modernization of the combat is adding more cool animations to cycle through and more abilities that possibly chain together animations that react a bit with each other. That’s the mainstream hook, cool animations you wouldn’t get with real time combat. Uncharted 4 sold huge numbers and that’s not very heavy on gameplay mechanics. It’s a spectacle. Kotor style combat can be a spectacle without being a QTE and cutscene battles festival

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    • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah I liked it too. It took some getting used to but it is strategic and it really gets absorbing.

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  • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On the other hand, the graphics can be ASCII if the gameplay and story are good enough.

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    • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I feel that, for sure.

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• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Life’s too short to spend on grinds that aren’t fun. Cheat in a 1-shot-kill gun, and it becomes a good Star Wars movie.

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• mr_account@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I very much enjoyed both KotOR games, but I agree with you. That’s why whenever I recommend it to my friends I flat-out just tell them to cheat with a save editor to max out your character off the bat. Trivialize the combat so you can enjoy the world and character interactions

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• mohab@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  OMG, it’s so boring 🫠 I got like halfway through and concluded nothing could make me keep going.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you at least do the Sith planet? Thats where the game peaked other than the finale.

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    • mohab@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This was years ago so I’m not sure, but I remember I got to a sand planet.

      There’s a 21-hour full playthrough on YT by a channel called Lacry, I got to hour 8~9.

      I watched all the Star Wars movies and I actually enjoy them, but I’m not a die hard fan so a lot of the lore was not interesting to me. My biggest issue was the combat though: it did not grip me at all.

      I prefer much faster paced games overall.

      If the announced remake is a fast-paced action game, I may give it a shot.

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