- Nov 15, 2017
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This Episode more then any previous made me miss a Quick button for "Tasks"
I mean.. How many times can you click the Phone, See all the people you have to talk to, or various extra tasks you can do for them, and remember all of that? Honestly i spent as much time looking at the Task screen as actually playing the game. I lost track on many people i just had to talk to before i could move on.
Add to that how many tasks now happen randomly "it seems" just by stepping in or out of a room. Feels like i lost control of even browsing the free roam sections.
I find the Free roam a boring part of the game, but that is just personal. It was ok early on when you could quickly pass though them on your replays to get new paths or branches. But later when you need to Mix drinks, do shores and do everything in a specific order, it becomes very time consuming.
And now we have more then 8 different branches! So to play a fresh Episode 9 for a specific branch, you have to repeat season 1-2 in 8 different ways.
I feel the game is caving in by it's own weight at this point. If you plan a main story and let all the branches be side stories and never cross the main your good. But if you plan to branch out in 8 (And later more) story lines.. You need to create as many versions of each episode as there are branches. A Trippe A game company would find this hard to keep up with. I expect develop time to increase by the same amount as branches are added. May be DPC is happy as long as cash keeps coming in. But this will be a PITA for all of us trying to play the game until it's finished. (About year 2031 with the going rate)
Anyways.. Please give us a Quick button for tasks...
I mean.. How many times can you click the Phone, See all the people you have to talk to, or various extra tasks you can do for them, and remember all of that? Honestly i spent as much time looking at the Task screen as actually playing the game. I lost track on many people i just had to talk to before i could move on.
Add to that how many tasks now happen randomly "it seems" just by stepping in or out of a room. Feels like i lost control of even browsing the free roam sections.
I find the Free roam a boring part of the game, but that is just personal. It was ok early on when you could quickly pass though them on your replays to get new paths or branches. But later when you need to Mix drinks, do shores and do everything in a specific order, it becomes very time consuming.
And now we have more then 8 different branches! So to play a fresh Episode 9 for a specific branch, you have to repeat season 1-2 in 8 different ways.
I feel the game is caving in by it's own weight at this point. If you plan a main story and let all the branches be side stories and never cross the main your good. But if you plan to branch out in 8 (And later more) story lines.. You need to create as many versions of each episode as there are branches. A Trippe A game company would find this hard to keep up with. I expect develop time to increase by the same amount as branches are added. May be DPC is happy as long as cash keeps coming in. But this will be a PITA for all of us trying to play the game until it's finished. (About year 2031 with the going rate)
Anyways.. Please give us a Quick button for tasks...
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