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LegitHyperbole 3 hours ago
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SvennoJ said:
LegitHyperbole said:

You need to play more sword games :P You'd open up whole genres with the most interesting, satisfying and addicting gameplay loops (both moment to moment loops and extended play gameplay loop) and much that don't have the hint of a cutscene in them, just pure gameplay focused.

Also, I think you're being a bit too harsh on DS after 5 hours  that game gets legit great, it kind of sucks you in and holds you hostage after a certain point but I suppose it depends on your personality, if you have any sense of being zealous about exploration, building networks, optimising said builds, or want to get in a really relaxed flow state of pure zen doing just that it really does pay off. For us who put 100+ hours into it and I've talked to many we all praise the game for one core aspect, that you become zen and get an very much opiate high and taken into a meditative trance while you play with occasional pretty cool cutscenes to break you out of that. Exploration on foot, only then to create paths which you can half the time to then further lessen the time until you're literally zipping though the most optimised route and ordering where you're next deliveries go and weighing up what routes to take is one of the most surprisingly satisfying and dopamine heavy things I've experienced with games even though on paper it's boring as fuck. If you enjoy a Platinum this is one of, if not the best there is. I only wish it took double the length to obtain and DS had more content or DLC so I could continue it. Thankfully I can get a ps5 platinum now and intend to do so and regain that amazing cerebral zen state of this amazing gameplay loop. 

Play it offline, it will last much longer ;) I don't remember if you can get the platinum that way, but it was a lot more rewarding re-building the road and having to balance what optimizations to build where. Plus your entire world is your own without structures from other players spoiling the landscape :)

I did both, offline first. Online you can make more ziplines in the end by using other people's infrastructure. Very zen game indeed, I spend 270 hours with it according to ps stats. By far the most in chapter 3. With an exploration mindset the cut scenes and combat missions are also very spread out, so indeed a nice break from building networks, change of scenery then right back to the fun. If it was just combat mission after combat mission I wouldn't have liked the game.

I'll try that for a bit but I'm sure I'll get sick of not having enough bandwidth to reach destinations. With DS2, I pray Kojima knows why this game is good and understands why so many love it, I see a guy with a electric guitar sword or a whole presentation on the photo mode and I get worried he's misunderstood the point.