Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

What's everyones favorite games so far this year?

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@ItsATM If we're talking games released this year, Returnal easily.
If we're talking games I played mostly this year... also Returnal, I guess - but accompanied by Mortal Kombat 11.
Immortals: Fenyx Rising was also good and I'm currently back to it, playing the DLC.

@Voltan

Oh man, I LOVED Returnal. I didn’t realize the game would be so lengthy after hearing “you can complete a run in a couple hours” because my first run of the game got me to the 3rd boss where I died, and that was a 5 hour run. I thought I almost beat the game but that was only the halfway point lol

@RogerRoger Hopefully there will be more coming for you this year that you want to play! I know this summer is already stacked and we haven’t even seen E3 yet haha.

My favorites have definitely been Returnal and an oldie that I missed growing up called The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. Honestly so good, I wish Capcom worked on more Zelda games!

its the first day of my favorite month of the year , im happy ( no pun intended lol ) . summers almost here !

along with the slew of summer-shovelware-games until the heavy-hitters release in the fall , lol.

The Aloy discussion is absolutely baffling to me. It's like people have been locked up inside for too long and have forgotten what actual people look like.

@Octane A similar (but not this extreme) thing happened recently with Returnal - there were people saying they don't want to play the game because the protagonist isn't good looking - and that games should always have good looking protagonists because that's who gamers want to play as. Luckily that's a minority.
And let's not even mention the whole Abby (TLOU2) thing.

@Octane
Yet another example of sexism and how toxic most of social media is. It really is disheartening to see.

@Voltan
I guess they won't be playing the upcoming Gollum game then. Although to be fair, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Personally I love a good mech game, I think they look awesome, so I'm not sure what that says about me..

The Abby thing was indeed awful. And the reaction to her having those impressive muscles was just crazy. I still remember that bloke on Twitter who said he was a doctor zooming in on her calender showing some workout days and proclaiming it would be impossible for her to have achieved that level of muscle mass.

It's just, what the hell is wrong with people? So bizzare. If the character had been a male, you know these same people would have said nothing.

@Voltan @LieutenantFatman @Jecht_Ultima Yeah, the discussion went straight back to Abby in the NLife PlayStation thread, and it seems people are forgetting she is also modelled after a real person.

And I don't even get it. Like, it's a video game, not a porn site. What are people using video games for these days? Am I missing something?

@Voltan The character from Returnal looks a bit like an older Ripley from Alien, so it's perfect match if you ask me!

@Octane
I suspect them knowing there is a real person there would make little difference to their awful behaviour.

@LieutenantFatman I know there is a real person that made the model but does that mean I have to like it? I really like the model of Aloy but I really dislike the one for Abby.

What is so wrong in disliking something without throwing brutal insults at it? I really hated Dina's model as well but it grew on me and I did not mind it that much now, Abby on the other hand I still dislike.

Not everything has be pink and perfectly positive in order to be right. Still I do not want any models to be changed. I even was quite chocked that they remake Sonic's model in the Movie after the crying.

"I dislike the model" =/= "I want it to be modeled after a pornstar". At least for me.

@Zuljaras
Comes across as rude and creepy to me, a bit like looking someone up and down and then giving them a score out of ten and telling them what they should change.

@Jecht_Ultima
Yeah, the desperate attempts at trying to justify the hate went to another level on that one.

@LieutenantFatman everyone has some criteria about beauty. Unfortunately most people like the so called "cookie-cutter" stereotype. Still every opinion is valid. The problems arise when they do not match but still it is funny.

Many people(males) that I played WoW with prefer to play as female characters. I ask why and they all say the same thing "if I am to play as someting all day at least I want it to have nice female butt to look at". I never understood that logic but as you can see people like eye candy and sexapeal.

Rudeness and creepiness are not a real issue as they are just unpleasant not harmful in any way unless people are waaaaay too sensitive

@Kidfried
Agreed, well said.

@Zuljaras
I place high value on good manners and kindness. If that makes me way too sensitive then so be it, no doubt in some people's eyes that is true.

@Thrillho I have tickets for day 5 of the Eng v NZ match, so hopefully it'll continue till then, if not I'll see the whole match on Sky Sports.

I think today can officially be classed Flying Mount-Gate. Quite ridiculous and I don't quite understand what all the fuss is about.

@JohnnyShoulder I think it stems from the fact they apparently said they wanted to do it in the first game but couldn’t due to the PS4 not being quite powerful enough. So the fact the sequel’s also on PS4 implies the same applies here too. The difference is that we always knew this would be a cross-gen game unlike, well, everything else.

Must admit, I didn't realise it was seen as such a big deal to have flying mounts in. I wouldn't have thought it would be that game changing personally, unless they really focused on it and built a lot of the game around it.

@nessisonett Oh I've seen the documentary (some time ago mind so i didn't click initially), but I still don't get some of the reaction to it and that people are still latching to it as long as they have. Along with Green Screen Aloy, Fat Face Aloy, Woke Trash Aloy etc, it is just all a load of nonsense that doesn't really deserve that much attention.

@Kidfried I didn't know we had so many experienced developers as part of the community...

I was a bit disappointed when I heard the next God of War would be a cross gen game, but then I thought it is awesome for everyone that has not got a ps5 and to be able to continue the story. One of the reasons I'm a bit annoyed that it is very likely the next Outer Worlds will only be on Xbox, so I won't get a chance to experience that. Buy hey ho, I have dozens of other games that I can play instead.

Some called Sony anti consumer for the whole 'we believe in generations' (which I think has been slightly misconstrued if you read the full statement) thing, so they really can't win at the moment.

Personally I just think it is bad messaging on their part, which they have have been like even before Jim Ryan stepped up. That is something they do need to improve on as they do keep slipping up on that respect.

@JohnnyShoulder It’ll be interesting to see how well GoW plays on PS4 though.

Shadow of Mordor was a great early PS4 game that was also available on PS3 but removed the most unique feature in the Nemesis system! I doubt it’ll be that big a difference but load times between realms, better frame rate etc will make a huge difference if nothing else.