When people talk about SotN being the 1st great Metroidvania game I always point out thaꦆt Super Metroid is a tighter game with better balance. Top 5 ga🔯me for its day in any genre.

Without early access t♏o generate money and free play testers indie companies could not make games like Subnautica. Think of it as a development period wherein 𝓰the public has access.

Fallout 3 is the Xbox 360 GOAT. I don't want to hear New Vegas is better because it's not. NV was a buggy POS that thankfully was saved by the DLC. Even then it constantly crashed and was basically unplayable at times. F3 doesn't need a remake. It is still awesome as is. If you need better graphics then your imagination is broken. How about they put resources into making Fallout 5 or ES6. 🌱Stop taking the easy way out with cash grab re releases. Then we can stop comi🎐ng up with superfluous opinions on color saturation etc.

I think we should all start expecting less from AAA games. Generational fra🔯nchises like Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Dark Souls etc are regularly released and th🐈at fact alone gives us unrealistic expectations. Skepticism is warranted when trying a new RPG as most are pale imitations of what's come before. Since I've adopted this paradigm I find myself pleasantly surprised by titles that are better than expected once in awhile rather than constantly being let down that the next big thing is just hype.

Any DM worth their salt can adjust to exploitation. However, ingenuity should not be punished. After all, the players did not write the rules. Rebalancing can usually done without the players even being aware of it. Don't nerf someone's build because it's broken just fix the campaign so it doesn't ruin things. At the end of the day remember DMs your word is law, but it's always better to finesse things behind the scenes rather than confront players. Save that for issues 🅰that can't be fixed without it.

Secret of Evermore is a game that's almost great. The reason it is not is due to internal strife between Square's US based development company and its home office in Japan. The game was developed without the approval of the eastern branch and when they found out they told the western devs to shut it down. The Americans rushed the last 30% of the game and released it🅰 anyways. The result was a mediocre endgame to cap off an otherwise excellent experience. It also caused Square to close their US operations down.

Most OP damage spell in 5e D&D is Animate Objects as long as you are in possession of 10 daggers coated with purple worm𒉰 poison. The poison stays effective until used so you can prepare the daggers in advance. I forget the math but you can do over 1000 damage with one casting of the spell. So, save this combo and sur🍬prise your DM by one shotting the Tarrasque.

There's been a hu🤡ge push in the numbers of female protagonists in video games for the last 20 years. This is to be expected with the number female players increasing throughout the years. Where there is an unsaturated market there is money to be made. So it's natural that female characters will be prevalent for awhile as that market is utilized fully. For some reason a social trend has developed alongside of it where it is somewhat taboo to acknowledge the simple economics of the situation instead citing social evolution as the reason for the drive to push femininity. That idea leads to misconceptions that add fuel to a fire that needs not burn.

Castlevania SotN repopularized the genre created by Metroid and spawned a dozen ꦑgames in the franchise let alone all the newer indie titles that channel that Metroidvania energy. It deserves to be on the list. Also the enormous success of the Medal of Honor series should have one entry from the series on the list as well. Everything other than Uncharted belongs imho.

To be fair even the best RPGs with very long play times become tedious as you near the end of completing all content. Even Skyrim and Witcher 3 get blasé by the end. You do the same things to kill the same kind of enemies. You do reskinned versions of the same go here get that/kill that/find that mission with a few details changed. After awhile only the good writing makes things interesting and most side quests are not given the same attention as the main one. And side quests are usually 50% of the game. So I think th൩at a huge chunk of any RPG is boring in terms of gameplay as you get used to everything. Very few games mechanics are cool for the entire﷽ty of a playthrough. BG3 is pretty good at it though. I found myself still trying out a new thing from time to time right up to the end.

Jaheira should not have been a PC in BG3. Plenty 🌱of other Forgotten Realms alumni were featured as NPCs and she could have easily hung out in camp with the rest. Halsin is a secondary choice for a druid party member with her around and Minsc was good enough for supplying a OG PC to use. I꧂n the end it felt superfluous. Viconia as head of Shar cult was brilliant though.

Let's be real here🥀. The 2024 changes rebalance a few issues while overhauling a large portion of the game. This will lead to imbalance naturally. It isn't a fix for problems with 5e so much as a cash grab disguised as one. The problems in 5e were easily handled by a competent DM with house rules. The new edition is completely unnecessary and I refuse 💙to spend a dime on it.

Ayla from Chrono Trigger has normal attacks do 9999 damage after reaching level 99. Her Fist turns into Gold Fist. Also, ꦆI have to say it: FF9 was a terrible game that's only loved by those who played it as kids or ultimate FF fanbois. Nostalgia does not make a game universally good.