Elevator7009Oct 18

They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?

https://lemmy.zip/post/51197042

They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? - Lemmy.zip

Feel free to replace “friends” with “anyone you know in real life” or even online groups you trust or are close with. “They”: > WOM marketing is highly effective as 88% of consumers trust friend recommendations over traditional media. [https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/word-of-mouth-marketing.asp] and my own personal experience; most games I have bought in the past 10 years have been off of recommendations from r/gamingsuggestions before Reddit went to crap and Lemmy came into existence; and even moreso when it is a personal friend recommending things to me. Mods, feel free to nuke if this feels too close to advertising or better-suited for [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] (my own community); I mean it more as a discussion piece but I don’t run the place.

Show threadℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠Oct 18
KotoR. It doesn’t matter how great the story or characters are if I have to grind terrible gameplay to get to them.
Show threadiltoroargentoOct 18
Upvoting because this fits the thread perfectly, but a little bit of me died inside reading this, you heathen lol ;)
Show threadcommanderOct 18
These days I feel like an outlier saying I love kotor combat. It’s like Disgaea games to me. The joy is watching the animations and building your character to see big damage happen and/or make your character a defensive/health monster. Like on rare occasion I’ll play an ARPG like Victor Vran solely just to mow down monsters at ease. That’s the joy by the end of kotor 2. In the academy just force jump mowing down enemies
Show threadSolOrion
Yeah! I really like the combat in KotOR. It’s like a normal turn based CRPG, but faster.
Oct 18 at 3:03amWeb
Show threadcommanderOct 18

I wish more games adopted kotors combat. To me its the perfect casual streamlining of a turn based CRPG. It feels faster to me than traditional real time with pause games. Talk about kotor remakes and how the combat has to change.

To me the only need in modernization of the combat is adding more cool animations to cycle through and more abilities that possibly chain together animations that react a bit with each other. That’s the mainstream hook, cool animations you wouldn’t get with real time combat. Uncharted 4 sold huge numbers and that’s not very heavy on gameplay mechanics. It’s a spectacle. Kotor style combat can be a spectacle without being a QTE and cutscene battles festival

Show threadCethinOct 19
I agree combat shouldn’t change with a remake. However, how the player interacts with it I think should, at least for PC. The UI/UX is not great, and we’ve figured out better ways to do things since then, even for controllers.