Maddy Myers

But it does mean that then I don't feel as connected to the characters anymore.

And instead I'm like, okay, the voice performances are good here, but the characters themselves end up seeming more wooden than I think they deserve.

That said, I didn't really mind the bit you highlighted, Jason, about the fact that it's all just proper nouns.

I'm okay with that in a science fiction story, and if anything, I'd rather that than people trying to explain everything to me.

And I sort of appreciated that they didn't, and that I was just dropped into the story and was like, okay...

I don't really know what's going on, but I'll figure it out later, and that's okay with me.

That's how I'd prefer it.

I liked that.

I thought that was a fun detail to have the AI be... It's the...

It's the opposite of chat GPT.

It doesn't tell you what a great question you just had or whatever.

I can't remember what that little guy's name is.

He's adorable, too.

Yeah.

Then they became longer and longer the more you played.

Or just the fact that you couldn't, like, reasonably play the PS5 and have other people in your household who might want to play the PS5.

Like, suspending Returnal in the middle of a run and being like, well, now I can't use the PS5.

And, like, just having that unfriendliness of saving it.

Like, that lack of user-friendliness is such a prohibitive aspect that kind of has nothing to do with difficulty and is, like, a user-friendliness issue.

Yeah.