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After a while and seeing this video, I think the new Skate is a perfect example of what is wrong with live service games.



He basically goes on about how the game technically plays well but it quickly gets boring. Reason for that is the lack of purpose behind anything you do, and the rotation of things to do being shallow and repetitive. After so many hours it becomes apparent how the only real goal in this game is to do random shit, like whatever happens to be available, for e-bucks and coupon credits to cash in on lame cosmetics and loot boxes. It's like if you have your character setup in a way you feel satisfied with, there is literally no draw to doing anything anymore as it's all just directionless busy work.

To me that's just everything wrong with live service games, they just want you to feel a need to grind away for shit and after you have so much shit it's like nothing has any real depth or draw anymore. Doesn't help how they always seem to make these games centered around some lame open environment with a bunch of random fucks running around where there is no real purpose to them being there at all, with all the online focus making it feel both largely pointless to interact with and difficult to become immersed in.
 
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Gavinmad

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I'd be more interested if it didn't look like it was just a vampire survivors reskin but I'm guessing it will at least be better than that shallow pathfinder bullshit.
 

Wombat

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As someone who played Vampire Survivors this weekend (the free Balatro DLC and the free addition to the previous paid-for Castlevania DLC), I am always up for more Vampire Survivors.

Somewhat odd it is its own executable - the assumption will be James Workshop wanted more than DLC pricing for this. Then again, Vampire Survivors seems like its reaching the end of its extensability nowadays (multiple secrets can't be completed at the moment due to bugs).

That said, I still wish Poncle would stop with the foreplay - the (admittedly free) Saga DLC - and give us what we actually want, the Final Fantasy expansion / standalone.
 

TBT-TheBigToe

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I still wish Poncle would stop with the foreplay - the (admittedly free) Saga DLC - and give us what we actually want, the Final Fantasy expansion / standalone.
I dare anyone, not namerd Wombat Wombat or Gavinmad Gavinmad , to explain this sentence.
I will reward
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for a successful attempt
 
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Seananigans

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If you turn the hyphens into parentheses, it seems pretty straightforward. He’d rather Poncle spend their effort on an FF entry rather than the Saga DLC.

I know nothing about any of that.
 

Kajiimagi

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half of this entire thread seems like someone doing voice to text on a mid-90's style potato phone to me anyhow.
 
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