Topic: Returnal

@TraCuz- Hmm... I’ve been feeling an 8 or 9/10 coming, so a Metacritic score in the 80’s is certainly in the range of what I was thinking. Of course basing it entirely on preview footage, rumor, and good ol’ Sol “gut instinct” 😅. To me, the little bits of story that we’ve been given sound really good actually — How there is some kind of mystery to the planet and Selene’s past, it has me curious to know what her story is. I like the fact she has these flashbacks to a home and some kind of earth life.

I have a good feeling about the story, as the narrative designer worked on Control previously (not as the lead writer but still) and I liked that one a lot.
And yeah, I also think it will be in the 80s metascore range.

@Th3solution @Voltan Yeah they definitely have an interesting premise. I'm looking for to see how they choose to deliver the story and if it'll be anything like Hades. Not sure if you guys played or not, but with each subsequent escape attempt a new story chunk is delivered. I wonder if they'll have a similar approach.

@TraCuz- unfortunately I haven’t played Hades yet but I definitely will when/if it comes to PlayStation

@TraCuz- @Voltan I hear a ton of praise for Hades, but haven’t played it either. I seem to recall a lot of people saying it should have received more awards last year

Just realized Monday after the release is May 3rd, which is a national holiday here in Poland. Longer weekend, baby.
Now I just gotta hope they don’t screw up the delivery on the 30th 🙃

@Th3solution Yeah I probably put about 15-20 hours into Hades, and pick it up here and there. Very fun game, although I'm not as hot on it as a lot of people I definitely see the GOTY potential.

@Th3solution Hades is absolutely brilliant. The fact that it elevated rogue-likes by that much is crazy. It’s like it took the elements of that genre and then filled in the blanks to make it a full proper experience. The story and character interactions are what make the game great which isn’t what you’d expect for a rogue-like. Plus it’s only about £20 😉

@TraCuz- @nessisonett really surprised there’s been no mention of a PS4 version yet... I’m starting to consider wrestling the switch back from the missus just so I can try it!

@nessisonett I honestly didn't know what I was getting into when I got this game, it was so interesting each time you die you learn something new and I always appreciated the dialogue when you pick up boons. Some favorite characters of mine are Nyx, Eurydice, and Chaos. Any favorite builds? I always like having Athena's reflective dash, and putting Zeus and Artemis on my special.

@colonelkilgore Yeah I don't know what's going on with that, and you might just have to xD.

@TraCuz- Athena’s dash is really really good so I always tried to get that. I love the adamant rail and Artemis’ stuff is great for that.

@velio84 Yeah it is a great game to dip in and out of. I liked the humour in it too, with all the pop culture references. Some of the guns are hella fun to muck around with. The Ghostbusters gun has been my fave so far.

Found this on Twitter:

Yes. It will sell. There hasn't been a big sp game since November I believe (c2077 doesn't count)

@LiterallyDoNotCare There was Hitman 3 this year. Immortals in December. Can’t think of anything else right now.

@Voltan Immortals?

Hitman is triple A but I don't think it's on that level of budget.

@LiterallyDoNotCare Immortals: Fenyx Rising, the Ubisoft game. Not as high profile as some of their others but still sold ok, I think. Aaaaanyway this might not mean much but it doesn’t look too bad 😉

@Voltan Yeah Immortals has dropped in price pretty quickly. I don’t think it sold as well as they wanted. If they kept the name Gods & Monsters it would have sold 20% better 😂. But actually, since it has a free upgrade to PS5, it’s a great deal for a AAA single player PS5 game. It looks pretty good actually, so I have plans to play it sometime after Returnal — probably during the gap until Rift Apart, FF7 Intergrade. and Kena in the summer. Also depends if I mix in Demon’s Souls and Miles Morales at some other quiet point, in addition to my oodles of PS4 backlog games.

Ok I am in, Pre-order done, Can't wait to explore with Selene.

Jeez a lot of people moaning about the price of games under that Days Gone article. It does seem like a lot of people say I'll get it on GP or wait till it appears on PS+ these days, I've always bought my games through official channels, Although I have came late to the party when it comes to certain franchises and developers and gotten great deals but that just means that if there is a new game from those developers I'll jump straight in if I liked what they've done in the past.