Game Title: Lost Ark
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Developer: Smilegate RPG
Publisher: Amazon Games
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 84 average - 94% recommended - 19 reviews
CGMagazine - Dayna Eileen - 8 / 10
With some small setbacks like pay-to-win features and awkward movements, Lost Ark manages to stand out with its overall style, story, and game mechanics. Free-to-play is going to push this game to the top now that it’s in the West.
COGconnected - Mark Steighner - 82 / 100
Lost Ark is a polished, solid, substantial, and engaging free-to-play MMORPG that is very solo-friendly and offers a vast amount of well-made content for just about everyone. The combat is exciting and fun, the classes are appealing and varied, and the world is colorful …
If never been a tremendous fan of multiplayer. I’m much more into being immersed, whether due to compelling story or interesting simulation. Or it may because I’m a slightly older than the average gamer (36)? I was already into games for a while before multiplayer largely even existed. I have never been against them. Just less interested. I also think I’m just too slow haha.
And thinking of my early years gives me some real pc stream of concioisness nostalgia: Gabriel Knight The Beast Within 2. Blade Runner. Myst. 7th Guest. Eleventh Hour. Police Quest Swat. Red Alert. Dune 2000. Harvester.
I was a huge sucker for FMV in games; nothing made it seem more immersive to me than that, even thought it was the opposite of that in many ways haha.