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Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 5, 2026

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What are you buying during the Steam summer sale? I picked up Persona 4, Noita, Witcher 3, Halo 3 collection, and the Prey Mooncrash DLC.

It's ending in a couple days so I'm considering picking up another couple games on sale like God of War, Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, or Into the Breach.

Tell me what you're buying, or try to convince me to buy one of the games on my list!

I bought Expedition 33. It's really good, with a spectacular turn-based battle system and an even better system for upgrades and finding upgrades. But I am a little confused why people hold up E33 as why the FF7Rs are mot good enough, especially since there is universal agreement that the FF7 combat, especially Rebirth, is great. It seems to me like these are two obviously great rpgs with somewhat flawed storytelling and a few shortcomings in world design. (Rebirth has the excessive quest issue abd badly erred by saving too much story for part 3, while E33 is too empty.)

especially since there is universal agreement that the FF7 combat, especially Rebirth, is great

Very much no. I hated the battle system in FF7R. It wasn't fun to play, and also suffered from terrible boss design where fights would last 10 minutes because they had way the hell too much HP (not exaggerating, that's how long it took me to beat Air Buster even though I was doing nothing but hitting him with stagger and lightning moves to stagger him, then dumping in limit breaks when he was staggered). I know some people enjoy it and I don't expect them to stop, but their opinion is not remotely universal.