Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25555436-20150613000756/@comment-10380701-20150627155102

So I disappeared for a few days. I kind of had a valid reason for that. Had a fever and all.

But that's not why I'm in this thread.

For the past months leading up to the release of DMC4:SE last June 24, I've been on a character action genre (emphasis on this, because this is a very specific subgenre of hack-n-slash. By default the Musou series and God of War, I count out.) binge. This is why I was rather passionate in the discussion above in this thread.

I digress. From here onwards, I'll only be talking about gameplay.

So for the past month, I've played Revengeance again with a fresh save file and finished it from easy to hard. (This includes Sam and Bladewolf's campaign.) After that, I follow it up with the DMC series. Blew through DMC1, played DMC2 twice (normal, w/ both Dante and Lucia), nearly tore myself apart going through DMC3 from Easy to Dante Must Die. (TWICE. Both as Dante and Vergil). And probably played vanilla DMC4 around 20 times just to prepare myself for DMC4SE.

I unfortunately did not play Bayonetta, on account of not having a PS3/Wii U. Along the way, I also played the Legend of Korra Platinum game. I forgot when.

Then I played DmC: Complete Edition. I don't find myself struggling on the game like in DMC3 and DMC4. But I think that was one of the problem.

I got bored in my fourth run. I tried liking it, I really did. It's a well-made game, I'll give it that. But it didn't push my shit in hard enough.

So I went back to DMC4. It should be boring as fuck by now, given that I've tore through that game several times over. But it wasn't.

But enough words. I've made a graph to sum up my past month.

So what's my angle in this post?

I stand by my statement that the character action genre is a genre that can thrive for a long while, posessing one of the best replayability among videogames.

And games with good replayability tend to hook me more than games with one long epic story but zero replayability. I blame being born in the generation where story is not as relevant as today.

That's it from me. I still need to finish Legendary Dark Knight for everyone in DMC4:SE. o/