With the Japanese version of Magia Record shutting down at the end of July, here is my editorial I wrote a few years back on the gripes of Gacha/Live services games.
@chikorita157 I strongly prefer games with an actual end. If they don’t have an end I just get tired of them one day. Like a lot of driving games.
There’s a few exceptions, like Minecraft, that doesn’t have a way to end. But it’s fine if it’s part of the game design and not part of the monetization plan.
I find that I tend to remember things much better if there’s an end. I get a memory of the game. While if it doesn’t it kind of just goes nowhere.
Plus gacha, isn’t really fun for me. I see through the monetization and yeah. I don’t like it.
Also there’s a lot of older games out there waiting to be enjoyed :)
The first company that goes "oops all muscle mommies" with their #gacha#waifu s is going to get embarrassingly rich.
I'm picturing a side to side beat 'em up game like Final Fight, Streets of Rage, or River City Girls but the plot is about trying to maintain order in a crumbling post apocalyptic city. The waifus are from different gangs vying for power. Go over the top weird with them ASAP. The cardinal rule of character design is that every one of these women can beat you up. The high school malcontent with a baseball bat, the telekinetic one with pigtails, the werewolf, the lady cop, the gyaru with a chainsaw, and the yoga mom. They can all kick your ass.
To be honest, this game lasted a bit longer than I expected given all the outrage of them putting a male insert MC, which caused a lot of outrage from players. Who thought that was a good idea given the franchise having an all female cast. :neocat_facepalm:
But as always with all Gacha, it’s a hard market to get into since there is a lot of competition.
@chikorita157 Wow that was so fast. I had just gotten into BR2 right before this launched and was bummed the story was continuing in a Gacha, and one that wasn’t even available in the US. Honestly I’m pretty glad they abandoned ship so early and just hope it’s not the end of the franchise altogether.🤞
Passez votre chemin sur le remake mobile Ever Crisi : #SquareEnix a oublié que le joueur attendaient une expérience de jeu intéressante et que sortir sa CB toute les 2 sec N'EST PAS une expérience de jeu ! 🤬
C'est donc juste un gacha sous stéroïde porté par une licence iconique. SE vous prend encore pour des vache à lait !
Vous voulez vous refaire le jeu en HD, faite la version Steam + mod HD !
If you havent' broken your #gacha addiction yet I highly recommend it. At least for me just a week later I had already lost the daily urge to get my crap and realized "who cares there's no more possibility for a 'perfect game'."
And if you ever go back you'll noticed how disgustingly samey and grindy it all is. Like 40 daily actions you MUST perform and all of them largely boil down to navigating a menu, mashing through text and waiting.
@SirTapTap I feel like the amount you have to do per day varies wildly between #gacha games. #ffbe#wotv is very slow and it takes a long time to get through all the menus. #langrisser mobile is a bit better.
@Sibshops infinie menus is one of the biggest problems with them. I should never be navigating through menus >20% of the time regardless of genre, much less >90%
TFW you login to a #gacha game quite literally one tiny little minute before you would have hit the energy/stamina cap 😬
I guess I'll take it as a minor point of personal character that I managed to put "get most of a workday done" ahead of "check on my mobile game dailies” 😅
@bitprophet ahaha. I agree. I like StarRail cause it a bit goofy and doesn’t take itself overly serious. Some of the conversation options for the Trailblazer makes me cackle. Haha.
Just saw an announcement for a new #Gacha on CN that is the most #furry targeted game I've seen since that Kickstarter about stomping cities. The intro PV has 10 hot guys, then one woman, then another hot guy before doing some plot stuff and showing off fights and villains (also mostly hot guys). Oh, and did I mention they all have animal mascots so most vary from #kemono to #anthro?
I doubt it'll come to global or even get translated but this intro teaser video is fun to watch.
I tried out #Nikke for a few hours last night. I hadn't realized just how much I've been spoiled by playing #gacha games made by passionate people who have a vision they want to share and dedicate budget to polishing that vision. Nikke feels more like it's targeting investors and feature checklist junkies.