It gets better, but that does continue to be a thing. Part of the reason it's so heavy is a bit of a spoiler, so I'll leave it to your discretion:
After some point, you gain the ability to rewind time, and while things are fairly shippable on review, you'll start having informed decisions to make that matter.
That being said, either way the game is somewhat chatty. Even if it gets better, it never completely goes away.
Not gonna lie, I'm not that big on shooters these days, but after HLL was free on epic I did have a bunch of fun with some friends playing it, intermittently getting into character, begging the squad medic to help me so I could go home to my darling Betsy.
I don't want to die like this, on some kraut battlefield an ocean away from her. Take care of Betsy for me
There's actually a Wizardry mobile game that dropped recently that is technically a gacha game with permadeath, but is actually pretty good and I've yet to put a cent into it. Wizardry Variants Daphne. I wish the dungeon layouts were a little more complex, but I'm not that far
Yeah I think the goal of the game was "make a single player game that makes the player feel as though the are collaborating to build something bigger" and I strongly experienced that feeling. Using tools left by other players, looking for places I could place tools for others to use that didn't have an easy traversal option otherwise, especially the big projects like bridges and roads, which gain a lot of their required resources from others, felt like I was helping build back a world to make it better for everyone. That success, saying "we want the player to feel x emotion" and succeeding in that goal? That's art.
The soundtrack is outstanding as well.
Also their birth rate is the lowest in the world, but like much of Asia, they're fairly xenophobic, so without immigration or kids, they're likely to stop having a working population while the government continues paying out a pension fund, resulting in a permanent recession and/or total collapse starting within the next 10 years. It's WILD that South Korea, for all its successes, is going to collapse BEFORE North Korea, because of xenophobia and sexism.
When I lived in an area with high opiate addiction rates, I regularly saw bumper stickers which read "shoot your local drug dealer." They made me absolutely livid. The dealer is only doing anything because the Sacklers got them addicted
I'm personally getting caught up, just finished Wano, which One Pace has only covered MOST of and the viewing experience noticeably declined when I went to the official content. Would recommend, even for first view
Honestly pacing is the anime's biggest weakness. The show simply has dogwater pacing to help it maintain a consistent run since 1999.
One Pace, which cuts roughly half of the total run time is a godsend if you ever want to watch the show
What? Polymorph might disable the target, but if its a single target boss fight, what does that help? Whether you kill the transformation or wait for the spell to time out, the result is the same
If you enjoyed the sombre tone of some of the other media, I'd encourage giving Halo 3 ODST a shot. Invasion of earth from the perspectives of more typical marines, not a supersoldier. It's still very clearly halo, but the vibes are completely different.
Every day I get a reminder that it's weird I use my off hand.