@JohnnyShoulder TLOU2 is one of my favourite PS4 games, and Uncharted 4 was great too. I have no doubt it will be worth playing when it comes out, hopefully not too long from now.
I also think ND has done trailers really well in the past, in such a way that they don't really spoil the game. So I'm more than happy to watch a few more. Other than that, I don't really watch all the trailers if I know I'm buying a game regardless. For some studios their track record is enough.
I have made a few bad purchases this year, so maybe I should reevaluate my criteria though haha.
@Jimmer-jammer Thanks, bud! DS2 was definitely a major investment and a great ride. I’m glad I didn’t skip it like I was tempted to.
And yeah, agreed on the faith generated for ND to come through after their consistent track record.
@Herculean I watched the first two seasons of Mandalorian and never kept up with it. I did like the vibe and enjoyed many aspects of it but just got bogged down with trying to keep up with all the supplementary Disney Star Wars shows and how they related with one another. But that’s a whole separate topic 😅. As for the ‘Lone Ranger’ wandering gunslinger approach to character development and storytelling, I actually really liked that. Intergalactic might be something similar, we’ll see. I didn’t get that from the trailer, but it’s definitely a very small bit of info to judge from. Like I mentioned, first impressions were more of a Returnal / Selene going rogue and investigating a planet she wasn’t supposed to go to, and then running into a bunch of enemies and a weird psychedelic story behind the planet Atropos. Again, a great game (actually one of my favorites this gen) and an intriguing tale for its open-ended and trippy nature, but definitely a whole different approach from a traditional story and characters.
But like others have said, Factions 2 aside, Naughty Dog doesn’t really miss and I can’t imagine them straying too far from their strengths.
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But in general, I think that a trailer exists to create some hype and start people talking and theorizing. I don’t see the harm in talking about the game in an open-minded way. Obviously no studio wants to tip their hand too soon, but they absolutely make these trailers to be talked about. And the fact that ND (and all of Sony’s first party) have been so quiet for so long about what they are working on has certainly placed this trailer under a microscope even more. But if they’ve been working on it for 4 years, then we are probably in the home stretch on development and so new information will be trickling out in the next few months, now that the cat is out of the bag. It would be really a bummer if they release that trailer then say nothing else for another 2 years and then just shadow drop it. 😆
@breakneck what gets me is how deeply offended people seem to have become about a change that can probably be written in competently to a game and story set many years after the books ended, in a series of games that have already included some 'quite large' changes for the sake of making a game out of it, whilst still respecting the books in a way we rarely see.
It's not like it's going to s*** over the lore in the books for the heck ofnit, it's going to make an exception for one character with new knowledge after the fact in a way we dont even know yet, and we can learn why/how when we actually play the game.
Wheras, something like the tv adaption, which is supposed to follow the lore and events of the books to a greater degree: Well... that incompetently brought changes for no real reason and led to an overall decrease in the quality, it lessened the impact of events, and missed the actual point of a lot of the things that were happening. There were even clear signs that they had written the script for the earlier series before actually finishing reading the novels, which meant they didn't really know about future character arcs, so didn't know how to really set up the characters in a way that can lead to those arcs being fulfilled 😅
Recently I've been listening to a lot of the hip hop artist, Jay Royale, the jazz guitarist, Max Light, (apparently he is influenced by Coltrane, Davis and Meshuggah in equal measure!) playing jazz guitar, watching a bit of the multi-format cricket series between South Africa and Pakistan, and playing Sekiro. In Sekiro, I recently obtained 'Flame Vent' for my shinobi prosthetic and am looking forward to gaining the ability to set my katana ablaze during battle.
Speaking of Returnal, I watched a WatchMojo video which had it as one of their top 20 hardest games of all time. Ha! it really isn’t that difficult.
Of course they aren’t the most creditable source of info.
And regarding The Witcher 4, there was a video with the devs and they were mentioned that they have greatly (might not of used that word) expanded the combat repertoire which is what I wish to hear as that was where W3 was lacking imo.
I reckon the old Ciri moves have gone (ie no lightning dash) and she has what you would expect from a Witcher game plus a few more in a similar vein/class/tree/whatever you wish to call it.
Looking forward to it.
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Indeed. I love that game but combat is the weakest aspect.
I’m actually thinking the same about Kingdom come deliverance 2. In KCD 1 you can use a bow but I never got used to it even at max level, why? The lack of crosshairs (yes yes realism) and the arrow never seemed to go where I thought it would.
There is a trophy for x number of headshots so I would knock people out and then headshot them from a foot away, even then I missed on the odd occasion.
With kcd2 you can have a crossbow and use the iron sights, much better (hopefully).
My old primary school was mentioned in an article on the BBC’s front page…. in the context of an article about gangland violence and the time a guy got shot outside it. Along with a guy who went to school with my uncle and got assassinated in an Asda car park. Greatest city on the planet!
@JohnnyShoulder I don’t know. I’m a simple man. Woman alone in a spaceship going to mysterious planet. It must be the exact same game! 😜
@colonelkilgore Thanks! I completely forgot about the seasonal avatar change. Where’s @kyleforrester87 to remind us? He usually has his Santa hat on by early October!
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I'll stick this in chit chat as its not about books any more:
@FuriousMachine well, you must make yourself familiar with it 😉 (KCD for nosey people wanting context) I'd put a decent sized bet on it being a game you'd enjoy once you get stuck into it. The Witcher without Witcher Senses, Skyrim without Dragons, perhaps I could now coin it as the Medieval Mass Effect 😅 it may be a push, but you get the drift. It's an RPG made with love and passion, at the end of the day.
It's a game I can only describe as: if you've played RDR2 and felt an emptiness after, then played the Witcher 3, but felt an emptiness after, this game fills that hole and leaves you feeling the same way by the time you're finished. And since then only Elden Ring and BG3 have filled the emptiness left by KCD. I.e it's an all time gaming experience, hidden in this weirdly specific passion project, pretty buggy, and with a certain degree of difficulty, but forgivable for all its endless charm.
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@Ravix hehehe, that was a pretty hard sell, my friend The main reason I've avoided it is that a historical accurate medieval sim doesn't really appeal to me all that much (I prefer bright and rosy fantasy elements with my medieval settings; the real thing was, by all accounts, dirty and troublesome) and the secondary reason I've avoided it is that I keep mixing it up with that online game where you fight as either vikings, samurai or medieval knights in a huge MMO brawl.
But, silly secondary reason aside, your excellent sales pitch has weakened my main reason and I will put it on my backlog the next time it gets a deep discount.
@FuriousMachine ah, well, Bohemia is a lot less dirty, swampy and muddy than say, Velen, for example, but maybe just as troublesome with the bandits. There's a good split between peasant and noble interaction, too. So you aren't just grubbing it up with common folk 24/7.
I'm genuienly intrigued if you've accidentally missed out on something you'd really quite enjoy, so it will be interesting to hear when you play it.
Henry and Co. are actually framed as pretty relatable lads and lasses too, which is probably why it doesn't feel like something that is ever stuck in the past, despite it having very old fashioned themes and traditions in religion and noble houses. It also does a good job of showing how little difference there is between noble families and common bands of thugs when money and land is removed from the situation. This year's nobleman is always potentially next years bandit.
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@Herculean it depends if you consider cities or the countryside - old architecture or modern architecture "nicest, most beautiful or whatever" tbh 😛
I feel if you mention a few things here that you usually consider worthy of your time away people will be able to suggest things better. Places you've been to before that you've most enjoyed etc.
You could always tour the local Greg's and Wetherspoons if you want to see a slice of modern English culture. Visit many of our empty highstreets. Check out some roadworks that only seem to lead to further roadworks in future. Boris Johnson handbuilt 50 hospitals, a modern marvel of engineering. Then cap it all off by sailing down dead rivers, and taking in the sights of yet more crumbling buildings built of inadequate concrete, and probably lagged with very flammable materials 🫡
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