Re: NintenDOMINATION
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 1:04 pm
The gameplay is inexcusable this time around. Though I think the FPS issue is not the main problem at all. That can be patched or fixed with a port later on.
I do agree that the main story is good, though I actually went out to sell the game after I had to sit through two USA government mandated speeches where York shits on a black man and a child for daring to misgender a man with a penis who claims to be a woman, and the black priest selling HRT medication to said tranny. The store turned out to be closed so I actually powered through the rest of the game and the storyline does get a lot better.
Too bad Swery is not going to have a career after this because after all the preaching, York goes on to refer to the tranny as a man as well and also "deadnames" him which means he's gonna get cancelled sooner rather than later. I can see someone on resetera "outing" him as a sexual molester or something quite soon, as soon as some video calling out the deadnaming shows up on youtube I'd say.
All the black people in the game also have "offensive" accents lmao. (despite everyone having loud accents in the game.)
Here's my issue with the game. Yes the original DP had pretty bad gameplay, but that's only in the sense that the action sequences were a last minute addition dictated by the producers, so they came off as very bland and boring.
The game did give you tools to deal with that though, some weapons were hilariously overpowered and would get you through the action stages quite fast.
The meat of the 'gameplay' in the first game was actually exploring the town, having interactions with characters who would roam around town and give you different dialogue depending on where you met them, visiting their houses, doing side quests for them and what not. Each sidequest also had a tangible reward in terms of stronger weapons, faster cars, cosmetics (suits), or money.
The main collectable in the first game was silly trading cards.
In the sequel, everything that is outside of the main story (which basically just involves going to certain places to watch cutscenes and occasionally play an action sequence) is a complete grind with no purpose whatsoever. You can't enter people's houses, they don't roam around the town (just teleport around during loading screens), you barely get any dialogue out of them, and every sidequest is just a MMO-style grind for materials or a quest for one specific item that is found in the same way as the MMO style materials, just walking around the map with no rhyme or reason collecting little sparkly things on the ground.
It is mind numbing but it's aggravated by the fact that the only reward for these, are upgrades for your one gun or upgrades to your health and such, which serve no purpose whatsoever since the game has only one difficulty setting and it's so easy I never actually died once and completed every chapter with an S rank without trying. You don't get any funny character interactions either, nor do you get any more details about the story or the game world. Just grinding out a million fragments of something to make a slightly bigger thing that gives you a 1% stat increase which you won't ever need, because the game is piss easy.
The action sequences which were already shitty even got a downgrade in that at least the ones in DP1 were visually interesting. This time around all four of them are just recycled from the same assets over and over again, as you play through them with your one and only weapon. The action sequences in DP1 also had York collect clues through the level, while here he just divines the happenings out of magic halfway through the level. Not to mention every alternative gameplay segment like chase sequences and what not is gone.
While the FPS issues are obviously technical, the game design itself feels completely misguided because while I know that people liked the open world aspect of DP1, I don't think anyone wanted a focus on farming and crafting to replace character interactions and goofy scenes, especially if said crafting is ultimately completely pointless (because, again, the game plays itself. The different weapons in DP1 at least gave you different ways of navigating the levels, or made it easier to complete some of the harder challenges.)
DP1 had one minigame which was playing darts, which you only needed to play three times if you ever wanted to get 100% completion. DP2 has three different minigames, two of which (bowling and stone skipping) don't actually work properly due to said technical issues. Not only that but each of the three minigames is also a complete grind that you'll have to replay a dozen times and the rewards are, as usual, just more crafting items.
How do you get suits now? Well they are rewards for getting some hidden achievements. These achievements all involve grinding hundreds of enemies or materials of course.
I honestly don't understand what the fuck they could have been thinking with this, it is legitimately one of the worst games I have actually played and the people who claim that the original "was just as bad" and that "it's part of the charm" are completely delusional. Nothing in this game is worth shit it except for the main storyline, I wish they just made it into a movie game like D4, or at least ripped off the open world from DP1 as is.
I do agree that the main story is good, though I actually went out to sell the game after I had to sit through two USA government mandated speeches where York shits on a black man and a child for daring to misgender a man with a penis who claims to be a woman, and the black priest selling HRT medication to said tranny. The store turned out to be closed so I actually powered through the rest of the game and the storyline does get a lot better.
Too bad Swery is not going to have a career after this because after all the preaching, York goes on to refer to the tranny as a man as well and also "deadnames" him which means he's gonna get cancelled sooner rather than later. I can see someone on resetera "outing" him as a sexual molester or something quite soon, as soon as some video calling out the deadnaming shows up on youtube I'd say.
All the black people in the game also have "offensive" accents lmao. (despite everyone having loud accents in the game.)
Here's my issue with the game. Yes the original DP had pretty bad gameplay, but that's only in the sense that the action sequences were a last minute addition dictated by the producers, so they came off as very bland and boring.
The game did give you tools to deal with that though, some weapons were hilariously overpowered and would get you through the action stages quite fast.
The meat of the 'gameplay' in the first game was actually exploring the town, having interactions with characters who would roam around town and give you different dialogue depending on where you met them, visiting their houses, doing side quests for them and what not. Each sidequest also had a tangible reward in terms of stronger weapons, faster cars, cosmetics (suits), or money.
The main collectable in the first game was silly trading cards.
In the sequel, everything that is outside of the main story (which basically just involves going to certain places to watch cutscenes and occasionally play an action sequence) is a complete grind with no purpose whatsoever. You can't enter people's houses, they don't roam around the town (just teleport around during loading screens), you barely get any dialogue out of them, and every sidequest is just a MMO-style grind for materials or a quest for one specific item that is found in the same way as the MMO style materials, just walking around the map with no rhyme or reason collecting little sparkly things on the ground.
It is mind numbing but it's aggravated by the fact that the only reward for these, are upgrades for your one gun or upgrades to your health and such, which serve no purpose whatsoever since the game has only one difficulty setting and it's so easy I never actually died once and completed every chapter with an S rank without trying. You don't get any funny character interactions either, nor do you get any more details about the story or the game world. Just grinding out a million fragments of something to make a slightly bigger thing that gives you a 1% stat increase which you won't ever need, because the game is piss easy.
The action sequences which were already shitty even got a downgrade in that at least the ones in DP1 were visually interesting. This time around all four of them are just recycled from the same assets over and over again, as you play through them with your one and only weapon. The action sequences in DP1 also had York collect clues through the level, while here he just divines the happenings out of magic halfway through the level. Not to mention every alternative gameplay segment like chase sequences and what not is gone.
While the FPS issues are obviously technical, the game design itself feels completely misguided because while I know that people liked the open world aspect of DP1, I don't think anyone wanted a focus on farming and crafting to replace character interactions and goofy scenes, especially if said crafting is ultimately completely pointless (because, again, the game plays itself. The different weapons in DP1 at least gave you different ways of navigating the levels, or made it easier to complete some of the harder challenges.)
DP1 had one minigame which was playing darts, which you only needed to play three times if you ever wanted to get 100% completion. DP2 has three different minigames, two of which (bowling and stone skipping) don't actually work properly due to said technical issues. Not only that but each of the three minigames is also a complete grind that you'll have to replay a dozen times and the rewards are, as usual, just more crafting items.
How do you get suits now? Well they are rewards for getting some hidden achievements. These achievements all involve grinding hundreds of enemies or materials of course.
I honestly don't understand what the fuck they could have been thinking with this, it is legitimately one of the worst games I have actually played and the people who claim that the original "was just as bad" and that "it's part of the charm" are completely delusional. Nothing in this game is worth shit it except for the main storyline, I wish they just made it into a movie game like D4, or at least ripped off the open world from DP1 as is.