Post AMHpCyxehmnAFCAxMm by tsallinia@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #AMHmlVXjlz5lHKp9fc by BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online
       2022-08-07T13:25:27Z
       
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       The more I play FFXV the more I realize they Square Enix had no idea what they were thinking making an open world Final Fantasy. The game front loads 10+ hours of side content and then as you progress the story hardly anything gets added
       
 (DIR) Post #AMHn2EvKoh8Qeoq8vI by BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online
       2022-08-07T13:28:25Z
       
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       The game revolves around driving through the open world and there are scripted segments that any other game would make a short cutscene that this game makes you just sit and wait for no practical reason.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMHn5Npk99Wn9wivmS by BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online
       2022-08-07T13:28:28Z
       
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       Take for example a segment where you go from a major hub city Lestallum to the coast at Cape Caem, you literally are in a driving segment that you have no control over for 5+ minutes, nothing is happening, there's a bit of dialogue every so often but it could be a minute cutscene
       
 (DIR) Post #AMHnIRoKfdgfG8IF2O by BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online
       2022-08-07T13:31:25Z
       
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       It doesn't sound that long but when it keeps happening over and over it starts to get tedious, it's one thing to start the game with a segment where you're pushing your car that ran of petrol to a station but that bit is only interesting once.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMHnLKE1KY02bLgGn2 by BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online
       2022-08-07T13:31:28Z
       
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       I really like FFXV but it would be a vastly better game if it was never an open world title and instead focused on interesting zones like earlier titles. I'm very happy that FFXVI is going to be taking a more scaled down world approach.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMHnZ3UQLhlokett0S by BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online
       2022-08-07T13:34:25Z
       
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       I could get into the scuffed combat or the really interesting wasted characters but it is what it is.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMHoqapritpr35r8WO by bgardner@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-08-07T13:48:49Z
       
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       @BrodieOnLinux Modern game developers seem to have a general issue with respecting player's time.  I've seen this in other titles, as well.  Repeating and unskippable cutscenes, for example.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMHpCyxehmnAFCAxMm by tsallinia@fosstodon.org
       2022-08-07T13:52:51Z
       
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       @BrodieOnLinux Doesn't sound like a great game for what you're saying :-/