Ravenprose said:

We need someone with lots of money sue these companies for anti-consumer practices like this and, hopefully, the courts will side with consumers.

I don't have much faith in that happening these days, though. Maybe they'll shut down one of Elon's favorite games and he'll sue them, lol.

Playing Endless Ocean Luminous, 15 min take, awesome graphics, nice shades, depth of field and resolution.

No operatic music, wii like menus, no motion controls.

Saw some mythical creatures which were cool. You're interrupted and guided by an AI voice, would have preferred a decent voice actor.

Haven't played enough to get a sense of its likeness to the first or second games yet.

Not sure what to make of Endless Ocean 3.

I did the story tutorial missions which are 5 min segments in quickfire succession. Then it says I have to scan 500 fish to go to the next chapter. My only options are online dive, solo dive or repeat the tutorial segments.

So I dove into solo dives. There don't seem to be dive sites like the first two games. It feels like a big empty space where there may be some procedural generation at play. If the whole game is like this it's like one big tech demo.

Need to get back to the story mode to see if there's more to it.

Visuals are really good. The music is very similar to the wii games (midi keyboard) but has no voiced operatic music.

It feels unlikely the rpg like second game or the experience led piece of art the first game was. It's still nice and relaxing.

Yeah, I’m pretty satisfied with the rumoured specs for the Switch 2 as well. Just give me that full backwards compatibility and I’ll be good to go.

I finished my BG3 review, the best RPG I ever played.

I bought FO4 DLC and am back in the wasteland because the show has me in the mood. That show is amazing, better than TLOU.

I have a new GOTY 2021, it was Metroid Dread but I played Inscryption and holy shit what a game! I'll have a write up soon.

So the solo dive option in Endless Ocean 3, and the online dive are procedurally generated, I did experience different things in the two long sessions.

But I came across the exact same sunken ship, 4 times in one dive.

There are also no specific stages. It's all large and flat with a couple of caves.

If the story mode uses the same open, procedurally generated map this will go down as a bare bones online game that probably should cost 10 bucks.

gamingeek said:

But I came across the exact same sunken ship, 4 times in one dive.

That's diving for you.  It can be mighty disorientating.  You probably just circled around three times without noticing.