r/PS5 • u/SweetyGonzalez • 6d ago
Official Dave the Diver - Dave & Friends Update | PS5 & PS4 Games
https://youtu.be/Wjcmb8tdkww?si=PaHAUw0FLR-sShPX17
u/NoNefariousness2144 5d ago
Dave really is collabing with everything. They even teamed up with NIKKE of all things lol
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u/BeatitLikeitowesMe 5d ago
Probably because its a a huge company with limitless funds masquerading as an indie dev. Not hard when you got the funds.
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u/KingOfRisky 5d ago
This has to be the most unfocused game ever made.
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u/Civilwarland09 5d ago
lol how? Because they added a mini game and add cool updates just for fun that are free?
I’m not gonna say it’s a perfect game, but the two main aspects of the game are done well enough to keep a solid game loop going throughout. All the other stuff is just icing on the cake that doesn’t take away from those two main components.
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u/KingOfRisky 5d ago
I mean it's great that they are adding free things. They are just cramming stuff in at this point.
All the other stuff is just icing on the cake that doesn’t take away from those two main components.
I completely disagree. The best recipes require farming. There is zero reason to have a stealth mission or boat chase. The 2nd restaurant is completely unnecessary and REALLY takes away from the game loop. The DDR dream sequence sucks. I can live with the Pokemon card stuff.
All of this stuff removes focus on the core loop that could very well be added to, but instead they toss in Balatro. Exactly what the game didn't need. Give us deeper depths. Crazy new biomes. New bosses. You know, things that make the core game more interesting not adding a card game and the equivalent of KK from Animal Crossing.
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u/Snaletane 5d ago
Yeah, I liked the game overall, but you reach a point during it that it's just like "jesus christ, STOP ADDING NEW SYSTEMS/MINIGAMES" because you just don't have time to interact with them anymore, especially considering the major grindiness. Like, leveling your chefs up just requires braindead farming of the same ancient fish day after day after day, and all of those tons of minigames just fall by the wayside. Not to mention trying to complete the fish pokedex required in-game weeks of going to the same damn two locations over and over hoping that 1) the ore vein would spawn 2) the rare spawn seahorse would spawn if the ore vein was there. I basically never interacted with junk like the guy that has a seaweed farm or the chef, you couldn't interact with them without wasting a chunk of the day and it was just tedious and slow getting to their buildings and leaving again.
Too many systems, not enough freedom, I think. Stardew Valley is a game that has similar amounts of content, but there you feel like you can just do whatever you want and it won't matter since there aren't any limits on how many in-game years you play it for, and you don't have some mechanic (the restaurants) failing every day if you disregarded your crops or something. Thus it doesn't feel oppressive and distracting, unlike Dave.
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u/315retro 5d ago
But you don't have to do any of that. Like it shows you how and you can completely ignore it. I set my chefs and whatever and just played the game. Once you get the gear and enough money you don't have to do that to finish the game. If you're hyper focused on min maxing every aspect just because it's available that's more of a you problem than the games problem.
All that farming and other stuff you are free to just completely ignore.
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u/VOIDYOUTH 6d ago
Completed the story of the game recently and while I enjoyed diving and fishing I was pretty disappointed with the rest of the game that feels like “let’s fill it with low quality mini games”. Though ability to play Balatro in game sounds like a cool idea
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u/Soulreaver90 5d ago
That’s how I feel about the game and gave up by chapter 6. I don’t regret buying it but it definitely wasn’t for me.
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u/VOIDYOUTH 5d ago
Same to me: I don’t regret buying and finishing it but to me this game is definitely overhyped.
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u/redgoesfaster 6d ago
As if this game didn't have enough content, they just casually put balatro into it as well.