Yeah I was waiting til' I beat Cai's route but I am very much all in on this now, not only am I already completely absorbed into the story in a way I never was with Engage but I'm also really into the world map/time management side of things too, 160 free turns seems like a lot until you factor in side quests pulling you everywhere and farming items repeatedly taking up 1 turn a pop…as well as genuine exploration with some nodes unlocking new routes to better stores and stuff. The fact that Dagison's weekly reset makes you decide to use turns getting back or continue exploring is pretty clever in my opinion too.
I still wish time in-between story maps wasn't so big but when you do get to them, they're pretty good and inventive, already did two Paralogues with Cai with really unique win conditions.
When taken as a whole, with all 4 routes, the world map and all of that this is surely the most ambitious game in the series.
Oh wow, that's a lot, something I'm not sure I'll have time for but I'll see what I can do even if not at launch!
Obviously I'm still a XIV guy despite being on a massive break, I'm also really looking forward to Evercold, but if there's one MMO I'd like to have enjoyed as it 'happened' I'd say FFXI still sounds like the best MMO to me based on what I've played. I've thought about trying the Dragon Quest X trial too but I'm not sure how annoying the fan TL patch is to sort up, I've mentioned DQX a few times in this thread I think, it's just something that I know I could probably live in for months if they ever felt like giving it to us…
All that said, from all those, WoW is clearly the easiest one to get up and running in which is why I'm interested.
I'm not actually anti raid or anything, I'll probably do the easy ones but from someone who used to raid full on with statics and then recently tried to pug it, it's not really for me anymore to burn away what little free time I slaved away for at work banging my head against a brick wall.
What do you do in WoW if you're not a raider?
As a FFXIV diehard I have to say I'm intrigued…
The criticism for this film from some fans is largely nonsense in my opinion, they want Leon or Chris and also think the older Resident Evil films, which had an original main character, were more of a Resident Evil film than this one because it had zombies and no snow in it.
Also, about the monsters in the film, nothing in this film would be out of place in a post Resi 7 universe in my opinion, if the stalker that chases Bryan through Raccoon City (Yes, the film has a stalker, like Nemesis/Mr X/The Girl, how is that not sick???) was in Requiem, I wouldn't have bat an eye. Everyone's favourite game, Resident Evil 4 had people's head explode into bladed tentacles and they weren't zombies!
Last third spoilers:
Spoiler - click to showI know people have criticisms of the final third and I disagree, I thought the Maternity Ward in particular was fantastic but man oh man that ending makes me so upset, in a good way. I don't really have a problem with it per se, Umbrella don't save the day, after all the city is doomed so of course they don't. But as much as it pains me to see a character I absolutely loved suffer it really did drive home that he was just another victim of the virus, his last message to his girlfriend is something Leon would find on his way through the city near his corpse except of course…Bryan is a Tyrant, can only hope they managed to put my boy down because that shits rough. It's a subversive ending but it also works in my opinion.
And speaking of Bryan, he's such a good character in this movie, he's basically like a solid mid point between Grace and Ethan, not as scared as she was but also not as competent as Ethan is with getting things done. And the part around the house near the start was peak horror comedy
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