I feel like the best thing about this list as that most of this stuff could be done through updates... aside from the writing of course. Edit: If I was a game dev, this video would be the perfect form of feedback. I would love to be able to get this in front of the Shift Up team if I could.
2:15 Aha! You've activated my trap card! Devil's Advocate! I would argue that EVE DOES have a character. She's a soldier born and bred for war and combat. She basically doesn't know how to interact with anyone outside of Tachy (as far as we know), thus this is why her dialogue feels awkward or stilted most of the time. She's an introvert who's a fish out of water. She doesn't even know what RAIN is, or what worms are. She's not as closed off as Cloud is/was, but she's still her own brand of closed off introvert who slowly breaks out of her shell over the course of the games and side missions. I'll be the first to admit the side missions aren't that great gameplay wise, but story? I personally attached myself to the characters- but it could be because none of them overbearing assholes. Am I reaching? Probably. Was this their intent with EVE's character? Not sure. But this is how I viewed EVE and everything she said and did. SPOILERS AFTER THIS PART . . . . She's also an android, so we have no idea how old she actually is/how long she's been off the assembly line. Maybe I'm wrong. But this is how I view EVE.
I didn’t actually argue that her stoicism was an issue although it doesn’t work to justify it in that way because she isn’t even the character with the most awkward and emotionless acting. That would be Adam who is human. My argument is her dialogue leaves no room for much character. I say I’m the video that 90% of her dialogue is solely meant to push plot forward. The other 10% does have small character moments. I’m simply saying it’s not enough and not very good. It basically tries to have the same arc as 2B from Nier Automata but nowhere near as well. You can boil EVE’s character to a really nice lady who has to have shit explained to her a lot. Absence of knowledge is not what I would call a compelling character trait. Just an excuse for a lot of exposition. The characters conversations are always to push plot forward, no one ever just talks about each other or what they want so the bonds they form by the end seem unearned. EVE doesn’t have any want or desire outside the mission she was programmed with and never shows any thoughts outside of being helpful to others and pushing that mission forward. She’s written VERY bare bones.
I think they should've given Eve a vehicle to traverse large areas in the game. I know she can boost sprint but it feels like it takes forever to cover that large area of terrain, especially in the wastelands.
That would be cool. Honestly I don’t think they had to even go that far. Just make the boost sprint kick in instantly instead of 10 seconds after running and go a little faster. I think that would alleviate the issue enough.
I’m aware. So you find it fun to skip through 10 pages of uninteresting dialogue every time you want to buy something from a vendor? I don’t. Hell even when you’ve exhausted all the story related dialogue you still have to skip through the same 4 lines every time you talk to them. It’s annoying and saying you can skip them is not a defense for them being bad.
I feel like the best thing about this list as that most of this stuff could be done through updates... aside from the writing of course.
Edit: If I was a game dev, this video would be the perfect form of feedback. I would love to be able to get this in front of the Shift Up team if I could.
A full open world, and not a locked after finish the game story
I thought they patched that? The not locking off shit. Maybe it was just the New Game+
2:15
Aha! You've activated my trap card! Devil's Advocate!
I would argue that EVE DOES have a character.
She's a soldier born and bred for war and combat. She basically doesn't know how to interact with anyone outside of Tachy (as far as we know), thus this is why her dialogue feels awkward or stilted most of the time. She's an introvert who's a fish out of water. She doesn't even know what RAIN is, or what worms are.
She's not as closed off as Cloud is/was, but she's still her own brand of closed off introvert who slowly breaks out of her shell over the course of the games and side missions. I'll be the first to admit the side missions aren't that great gameplay wise, but story? I personally attached myself to the characters- but it could be because none of them overbearing assholes.
Am I reaching? Probably.
Was this their intent with EVE's character? Not sure.
But this is how I viewed EVE and everything she said and did.
SPOILERS AFTER THIS PART
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She's also an android, so we have no idea how old she actually is/how long she's been off the assembly line.
Maybe I'm wrong. But this is how I view EVE.
I didn’t actually argue that her stoicism was an issue although it doesn’t work to justify it in that way because she isn’t even the character with the most awkward and emotionless acting. That would be Adam who is human.
My argument is her dialogue leaves no room for much character. I say I’m the video that 90% of her dialogue is solely meant to push plot forward. The other 10% does have small character moments. I’m simply saying it’s not enough and not very good. It basically tries to have the same arc as 2B from Nier Automata but nowhere near as well. You can boil EVE’s character to a really nice lady who has to have shit explained to her a lot. Absence of knowledge is not what I would call a compelling character trait. Just an excuse for a lot of exposition.
The characters conversations are always to push plot forward, no one ever just talks about each other or what they want so the bonds they form by the end seem unearned. EVE doesn’t have any want or desire outside the mission she was programmed with and never shows any thoughts outside of being helpful to others and pushing that mission forward. She’s written VERY bare bones.
I messed up then. My bad.
But I understand what you're saying now.
"Fukin Biden" had me rolling 😂😂
This game does seriously need some unfucking tbh it's unreal.
I think they should've given Eve a vehicle to traverse large areas in the game. I know she can boost sprint but it feels like it takes forever to cover that large area of terrain, especially in the wastelands.
I said that several times during my playthroughs.
What makes it worse is that Adam HAS A BIKE WE CAN USE
That would be cool. Honestly I don’t think they had to even go that far. Just make the boost sprint kick in instantly instead of 10 seconds after running and go a little faster. I think that would alleviate the issue enough.
You can skip dialogue at vendors... Lol wtf
I’m aware. So you find it fun to skip through 10 pages of uninteresting dialogue every time you want to buy something from a vendor? I don’t.
Hell even when you’ve exhausted all the story related dialogue you still have to skip through the same 4 lines every time you talk to them. It’s annoying and saying you can skip them is not a defense for them being bad.
Parry input is complete bullshit, especially when enemies does a second quick multi-hit combo!
It doesn’t need shit
Really? Has humanity finally done it? Have we made the perfect game that can never be topped?! Huzzah!!!