Sure, that sounds good to me.
I really wanted to, but I played FF7R on PS4, and Intergrade is PS5/PC only. I have since acquired a PC that could run FF7R, but I would have to buy and replay the entire game on PC first, so I'm waiting for a hefty sales.
It's a Square game. Don't those never go on sale?Plenty of time for it to go on sale before you make it to the FF7R bit of the lets play.
Yes they do - I got my copy on sale (still need to play it, tho) - was IIRC, 43% discount last summer sale (you can check yourself)
I'm not going to say that waiting for a sale is not the best idea, since you do need to actually buy the game again in order to then get the DLC, and that's quite the expense when you're specifically aiming for the DLC. But Intergrade itself doesn't need you to play the main game at all to unlock it. The only reason you'd need to play the game again on PC is the urge of seeing an unfinished save file.
Well, I don't post in a *wink wink* *nudge nudge* "hey y'know what you could do if you wanted" way if I think something's a good idea.
Headcanon: That's just the worm parasitically influencing your mind into wasting time rather than prioritizing dealing with it.
I thought the joke was going to be 'For a game about having a worm inside your brain actively eating you from within... well, BG3 is also a lot like that worm.'I'm playing Karlach, the Tiefling Barbarian woman who is Beeg and has a hellfire engine built into her chest, and having the time of my life.
But also in 6 hours of FF7 we covered the entire Midgar sequence. In 6 hours of BG3 I... left the initial crash site, cleared a small ruined church of bandits, met the first companions, and found a cove of obstructionist druids and a bunch of tieflings persecuted by racism. I didn't even, like, reach the boss druids at the heart of the cove; at the six hour mark I was still hanging around the outside of the cove talking to random druids and tieflings and dealing with mini-sidequests. I think it took me an extra hour just to actually talk to the boss druid of the first conflict in the first zone. And that's "time recorded on save" - in terms of playtime you can add in an extra hour from reloading failed encounters and savescumming skill rolls
The difference in, how to put it, density of story vs density of content is a lot. Like, FF7 is dense in that a tremendous amount of story is happening at a very fast paced and the game is constantly throwing new shit at you. BG3 is dense in that in the time it takes you to go from a partial plot point to the next half of that plot point there's five different herbs to pick up, two new NPCs to talk to who just have environmental dialogue, a dozen of chests with near-worthless loot that's mostly there to tell a story, a hidden magic item, and dialogue-based sidequest about a child tiefling who objectively did steal someone's trinket but also is only under suspicion for the crime because of racism that can be solved with four different dialogue checks, only one of which will give you the Best Ending for that particular event which probably won't matter ever again.
For a game about having a worm inside your brain that is actively eating you from within and will kill you in a week (allegedly), it's incredibly chill in terms of just wandering around finding and doing little things.
I'll admit it depends on how much one stretches the definition of minigame when it comes to FFVII. Because on one hand, you have in-depth things like the motorcycle chase out of Shinra HQ which is absolutely dope, top tier, or maybe one of the more complicated minigames that is very likely to be the first thing we get next update considering where Omi left off (I can't actually recall how good that one is).
Yes, but I'm avoiding talking about specifically what minigame(s) are coming up other than in broad strokes, since Omi hasn't actually updated or posted about how far he is yet, thus it may or may not be spoilers. It's kind of... one thing to go "Omi there are in fact more minigames in this game that already has had half a dozen minigames and clearly likes making minigames", it's another entirely to go "Yeah Omi probably didn't like it because FFVII's main plot was suddenly blocked behind a six hour escape room puzzle minigame". Better safe than sorry, and all that.
This just goes to show how wildly different two playthrough can be even without any other differences because
