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Looks like Stealth Strategy is back. ua-cam.com/video/E9DeYqVHkkM/v-deo.html

A lot of games mentioned in the video are AAA games that have similar issues not involving an XP system. One example I found with both the Horizon games, and Assassin Creed open-world games, is the fact you can relatively easily unlock all the skills, rendering the experience system pointless. This means it's not really much of a skill "tree," and instead you're simply deciding which skills to have first. In my opinion, this eliminates the purpose of having XP. So I would agree with you in this instance; however, in games that allow you choose your preferred playstyle by leveling up with experience, and purchasing the ones you want knowing that you will have to choose carefully your specialization, would change the dynamic entirely. With your system, this would require you to look up a guide on the internet in order to plot your playstyle and skills. Arguably, having to specialize is what made these systems popular in the first place, but the simplification of modern AAA games has bastardized the systems they were based on.

Hi how is it going? Will you update any video soon?

Dark Cloud on ps2 had one of the craziest leveling systems, you didn’t level up yourself w points but your weapon which you had a risk of breaking or could turn weapon into a weapon attachment you’d put onto a another weapon

Just give me all the abilities a character has from the get go like an old arcade game and focus on making the levels/world difficult and interesting, because to me the only progression that truly matters is the player's skill and knowledge, everything else is a waste of time, and is just plain condensing to the player. Don't even give me a tutorial level, give me that vertical slice moment from the world go like Ninja Gaiden 2 (Xbox360) so its not a chore to replay. To me, the first playthrough is NOT the most important, every playthrough after the first should be the priority, there's a reason people love NG+ if its in a game.

feels like you got inspiration from waskerton

Such an amazing game. The community-made Anniversary Edition launcher/patcher enables all moves from the start, and if you want a *serious* challenge, you can install the "Brutal AI" and "Brutal Konoko" mods. There are many of others, such as retextures and a conversion mega-pack that adds new enemies and encounters, but I'll leave the rest for everyone to discover in the launcher. You can download+install mods directly from there. Way cool stuff!

I really love Zero Dawn a lot, it’s a Masterpiece on its own. The only problem I had with it was the inconsistent Coil System, which makes Handling the Meta and almost made it feel like there was no point of it being added.

DSP? ITS THE GUY! the one that cranked it in front of children in his lifestream. Also his wife cries downstairs a lot because of doordash.

it's not an isometric view game, that's why it is a bit unnoticed

The only other game to take this kind of combat in the same direction was BDO. The key inputs are similar in that they all make sense directionally.

RISING FURY!!!!!!

I only played 2013 finished it and sorry i will not play no more games from Crystal Dynamics. Only the true Tomb Raider made by CORE Design. Of course we had Aspyr thankfully

I just beat rise yesterday after its been sitting on my shelf since the year it came to ps4 so it's fresh for me. The story is even worse then the gameplay. Feels like NOTHING ever happens. Its full of instances like Jonah pointing a gun at the bad guy but not shooting him so the bad guy could stab him or Lara taking a solid minute to smash the artifact down while surrounded by an army of zombie greeks and it makes me want to die. Also lara was such a badass in the old games and now shes limping, complaining, getting smacked around, and never putting her phone down and walking slow so I can't play the game. Worst of all, she NEVER shuts up. Imagine playing a zelda game and link was constantly talking to himself saying "I think I need to open this door somehow" "I might be able to climb up there." That's what this game is. Not only do these games disrespect your time, they disrespect your intelligence and those are two of the worst sins a game can commit. It also has no reason to be open world or have crafting. I'm done with games shoehorning crafting into them. Ruins the flow of gameplay because now instead of clearing a room and moving on, I have to loot all the bodies and bumble around looking for ore and stuff like a moron.

There is also Sumerian Six coming out this year.

Elden Ring UI/UX is garbage tier. Unclear, confusing menus, inconsistent controls, pointless messages. Do you want to resurrect Torrent? No, of course not; I'm just gonna stand here until something kills me... The truth is FS has barely made any changes to the DS1 UI/UX, and it came out 14 years ago! The amount of amateurish design in FS games is astonishing, and they are not learning from their past mistakes/experience. It's just copy-paste with minor changes. It's really funny how some seriously great design appears next to complete trash in FS games... Oh, and I forgot about how you have to exhaust an NPS's dialogue before they move to the next location. You have missed one line of dialogue? The guy is going to hang out here until the end of time.

"Oni: the best melee combat game ever" - Ever heard of Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy?

Great video. Would be interesting to see a follow up now that FW has been out for a while.

maybe some of them are not 100% pure "stealth strategy" but it worth to check also: Chicago 1930, Heldorado, Peaky Blinders Mastermind, El Hijo

Why did you not touch on the story as other people mention in the comments? I just recently bought shadow of the thombraider, never having played any of the games. I asked myself what it was that made me not like it and it has to do with mainly the story not being strong enough, it does not make you curious or want to play on. The quests also dont really catch me. Its so different from games like resident evil or some open world games where there is a very compelling main objective

You have discord man ? I'm wondering what the best melee combat in your mind should be ? Should be free-form combat, should it be animation locked, etc, etc ??

Have you played sifu? It has everything here and more

Filthy Lucre is also definitely worth playing.

The third part of Desperados is not in the video. It's called Helldorado: Conspiracy - it's a direct sequel to Desperados 2, and this part is better than the previous one.

Mimimi just announced a new game lol

This is my first From Soft game and I came in fully prepared for a new level of difficulty in terms of combat. What I wasn't prepared for was the new level of difficulty in terms of missing QoL stuff that I'd taken for granted. I'm not talking about the lack of a minimap or lack of quest logs-- I've played and enjoyed mil sim games where you literally have to navigate with a compass and a paper map, that's all fine. It's the goddamned item management, the scrolling. It's so cumbersome. A radial wheel or hotkeys would make a world of difference. I'm 11 hours in, I beat Margit, have done a bunch of stuff in the starter zone, and I still avoid very dark areas because the process of pulling out my torch and then putting it back away so I can dual wield in combat is so awkward that I will often get it wrong and then die while fumbling around in the scroll options. I haven't even thought about adding a crossbow or spell staff to my setup yet purely based on this. It's just annoying because this shouldn't be part of the "git gud" process. You have to memorize key press combos like you're playing Street Fighter, but it's for item management, not combat.

Excellent game let down by a shitty UI and UX decisions. Still good game of course, but could have been goated. Nothing worse than dying to a boss because of a bad UI/UX that had been solved long time ago.

the only move forward W sections are "immersive" loading screens.

overlooked Helldorado

I’m just tired of all these cinematic games feeling like the same game with different characters and environment. Horizon , Gow, tomb raider , assassins creed . Shits getting old

Lara was 'Microsofted.' By that I mean so insanely complicated that I don't even want to play it. The one in Japan was mediocre with the complexity of abilities. It's like they are trying to make Tomb Raider like Skyrim or Assassin's Creed which I'm done with. The games and tech needed to run these on a PC is fucking insane, sorry to say. I prefer the Remasters overall.

I'll always prefer the classic. Anniversary, Legend, and Underworld were really good. If only they would have remade 2, 3, & 4 like Anniversary. I suggested it but only fans listen.

Mimimi started as a company to give life to RTS stealth games after Commandos series died. They became very good at it to the point where we started saying Shadow Tactics-like for a while. Unfortunately, their latest game Shadow Gambit was a very far departure from the original path. All the new magic stuff, teleporting... this isn't the Commandos-like nor Shadow Tactics-like. I was a die hard fan and was waiting patiently for SG, I didn't even bother buying it after the first video. God knows when will another company take the torch for this genre 😢

For me this genre is the “life consuming game” than those civ or whatever. I need more and more of this.

I disagree with the "...no one played...". I am still playing the Commandos games, along with the 3 Desperados games and Robin Hood. The latter one especially, it's so well crafted, the maps, the music, make it feel so authentic. Same as the music in Commandos 2 Men of Courage, reminds me of some old war movies, Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare and Guns of Navarone. They really get you in the mood and you lose yourself. Tried the 3 games by Mimimi but Desperados 3 was a bit of a letdown. Cooper's a gunslinger in the 2 previous games and here he can get a shot off every 10 seconds ? Seriously ? I get the stealth part but this game is at a scale of 1000% stealth with overmultiple enemies and all you can try to do is to stealth your way through them. Easily detected if you make noise or move carelessly, in my opinion, that's why Mimimi died. There must be some freedom. That's why Commandos 2 is THE masterpiece. Not as strict as the first game, allowing for some room to try different ways. Same goes for Robin Hood The Legend of Sherwood. One mistake doesn't mean reload. Once you get Little John you're golden. I still have to try Shadow Gambit, Patrisans 1941 and War Mongrels. I am also playing the Splinter Cell and Thief series of games and the very first, original Deus Ex from 2000-2001. Stealth it's my favorite game genre but i don't like the Hitman games because you have to figure out ways to make it look like an accident and that gets boring fast. Again, only one way to do things and stay hidden in plain sight, no choice. I mean, yeah, you can shoot everyone but that's no stealth.

With these commands and moves, this is a REAL death by degrees

Yk sleeping dogs has juggling too, if you stun your enemy with a knee strike and then do a spinnin jump kick on them you can follow up with a follow up front kick while they're mid air.

My favorite option is what they do in Minecraft and most Kirby games, where you double tap the walk button to run

Story is just meh,’ gameplay and combat was fun

You forgot the part where Lara is a boring character in the reboot

I'd like to make a DIShonorable mention in sprinting. GTA. You mash A to sprint. You stop mashing, you stop sprinting. And then you're stuck in the Grand Senora Desert, with no vehicle and none nearby. Or you're in the Epsilon Program mission line, in which one mission entails sprinting a lap around the whole Grand Senora Desert. All roughly 4 miles of it, as the slowest playable character. And then you go outside and wipe a whole invading army just by thrusting your thumb in their foreheads.

I would like to mention that game Partisans 1941 is a Russian game that glorifies RED ARMY, which was ally of Na*i Germany even before the WW2 and invade Poland with Na*is in 17 of September 1939. Red Army committed a lot of atrocities and war crimes. To Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Hungarians, Moldavians and so on, Russian army was not better then Na*is. They were fighting Na*is only because they were attack by them. By games like Partisans 1941 Russians are distorting history and paint themselves as the "good guys" which can't be further from the truth.

I remember Sleeping Dogs had some fun melee combat in it

You really do need to try Sifu, I’d love to see a breakdown like this

a rough diamond that needs polishing. The story sucks. The level design sucks; Not multiplayer sucks. But the combat design is masterclass.

Hold is better. Even in horizon, you have more than just the tip of your pinky. Hit control to slide with your knuckle. Its a bit of an acquired skill to learn to multitask with your pinky like that, but with games like Warframe, hitting control after a slide is necessary for using certain speed tech. Not necessarily a skill issue, more of a muscle memory issue.

In Control, every time you land from your levitation ability you're back to your super slow walking mode and have to activate sprint again which I found super annoying. Glad someone is pointing out this annoying inconsistency in games.2

This is why I don't understand the youtube algorithm, this guy's videos should have been on my feed a long time ago and the channel should be blowing up. Keep at it man, you're insights and editing are exactly what I love

B-hopping will always be the best form of sprinting

Having to google how to equipo items to the pouch, how to open the pouch, how to this, how to that... is bad design. I'm currently ten hours into Elden ring and have no idea how to use the pouch. I really miss the times when games explained things with gameplay, like Valve did