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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 found commercial and critical acclaim for many reasons, but the heart of Sandfall Interactive’s French RPG is a turn-based combat system that mixes in real-time elements like parrying enemy attacks and timing combo inputs. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Remake director Naoki Hamaguchi reasons that such a hybrid of turn-based and action elements may have been “inevitable” as pure turn-based RPGs lost ground to action with younger, newer generations of gamers.Speaking with Game Informer in an excellent reflection on turn-based combat, Hamaguchi, who’s now helmed two massive JRPGs that largely pivoted to action combat, notes that…
Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone is still considering following through on his quarter-joking suggestion that a good life sim should include homewrecking and all of its ugly aftermath.Stardew Valley is a farmland sandbox, and Barone explains to GameInformer in a new interview that he believes, “In a sandbox game, you should be able to do wicked things and then face the consequences.” So while he disclaims he’s against destroying a household just because you find kindly step-father of two Demetrius too erotic to bear – “I’m against that on a moral level,” Barone says about infidelity – being able…
Jon Bernthal makes his triumphant return as Frank Castle in new Marvel special The Punisher: One Last Kill. Telling a standalone story, it acts as a reintroduction of the Defenders character, now that the superheroes have made the jump from their Netflix universe into the MCU.The TV special kicks off with Frank trying to leave his life as a vigilante behind as demons from his past continue to haunt him. However, he soon finds himself thrust back into the world of crimefighting when he becomes a target of the Gnucci family.Despite being self-contained, this isn’t just an individual story for…
Frank Castle is back on our screens, beating up bad guys and battling his inner demons in The Punisher: One Last Kill. The new Marvel special reintroduces the character following on from his brief appearance in Daredevil: Born Again season 2, ahead of his upcoming appearance in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.The TV movie tells a standalone story as we get deeper into Frank’s past as he faces a new enemy. However, given that we’re only a few months away from Spider-Man 4, you might be wondering if there’s any set-up in the new release. Well, we get into the details…
There’s very little you can scratch off your bingo card in the age of AI, but one thing seems pretty certain: you won’t see an AI-generated ear of corn or romanceable NPC in any of Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone’s games.That comes straight from the man himself, who explains his hardline stance against AI in a new interview with Game Informer (paywalled). Barone says he can understand AI’s appeal when it’s “being used for very specific zoomed-in cases, maybe,” but says anything creative is better left to humans.”You’re offloading creativity to an algorithm, which I think is always gonna undermine the pure…
I’ve sunk about 200 hours into Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 at the time of writing, but today I learned something new about it: Henry isn’t complimenting my sick photo-taking skills just to be nice; he’s doing it to prevent me from being a dirty, rotten cheater.If you’ve played the game and tinkered around at all with its photo mode, you’ll know Henry loves to loudly comment on your pictures when you exit photo mode, sometimes alerting nearby guards you would’ve rather remained hidden from. Talking to PC Gamer, KCD2 lead designer Prokop Jirsa explains why this happens. KCD2 is a…
Hideo Kojima recently polled fans on their favorite Death Stranding 2 trailer, and obviously, the winner was Higgs. But while Troy Baker’s villain came out on top, he didn’t run away with the votes. Kojima himself is pretty happy about that, since he’s been pouring his heart into character creation for years and can now rest assured that all his children have their fans.If you’ve stumbled upon Tomorrow’s Nightmare in Death Stranding 2, you’ve already been asked to choose between Higgs, Rainy, Fragile, and Tomorrow. The game doesn’t really present any criteria for the choice, simply imploring you to “choose…
“Bigger,” Gabe Newell chants incessantly at Steam’s Valve UI and UX team at Valve. “Larger! More! Never stop making it bigger!” He screams. At least this is what I imagine has been happening over the past year, given the number of size related (mostly widening) changes that’s been taking place on the storefront. Today, another UI change is on the way, this time for the Steam Community Market. As explained in a blog post, the Community Market is a platform that lets people on Steam buy and sell in-game and Steam Community items to one another. “Over the…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and fellow GOTY trophy glutton Baldur’s Gate 3 before it were held up by some as a return to form for turn-based RPGs. But while they did respectively bring or reintroduce a lot of people and attention to JRPGs and CRPGs, and serve as exemplars of their genres, turn-based games never really went away or needed saving. Kazuhisa Wada, head of Persona team P-Studio at Atlus, says “what we’re calling a ‘resurgence’ may simply be the rediscovery of things that had fallen outside our field of view.”In a conversation with Game Informer, Wada admits “this might…
We still don’t know how long it’s going to be before Haunted Chocolatier is ready, and it seems like even Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone isn’t sure, either. Making the new game is a lot more challenging than creating Stardew Valley, according to Barone – after all, he didn’t have the legacy of one of the biggest indie hits of all time to deal with back then.Barone now tries to spend five days a week on Haunted Chocolatier and two on Stardew Valley, as he explains in a new interview with Game Informer (paid article link). “It’s kind of hard to switch…