AgentMantis

A lot of entitled whining in these comments. CDPR made the stylistic choice for 1st person, they felt it was the best way to experience the work of art they created. Begging for 3rd person modes is just crass.

I was pretty gutted it was so crushingly mid after enjoying the CRPGs.

EA(I), it's in the game

@TrollOfWar probably not. It'd be a lot of work just for no one to buy them. Xbox gamers have been trained that games have no value and to never step outside of Gamepass.

@VanguardKaiser CoDs primary audience is on the PlayStation, though figures are hard to verify previous estimates have been as high as 82%. It's a disaster for MS to lose the Playstation audience as they actually have to pay for the game. The alleged lost $300m in GP sales last year and would have needed 15m new 1 month subscribers to cover the short fall. CoD's addition on attracting new subs was basically negligible.

I not sure why people are shocked, it's exactly on brand for CoD and I doubt 99% of their player base cares.

I want this to be good but they're still obfuscating their revenue model days away from launch. The vague cosmetics, battle passes and some gacha don't cut it, these are standards of F2p and can scale from relatively innocuous to apex predator, they just need to come clean about it all. The poor technical quality, even if its an earlier build, is unexpected, its looked great in preview trailers.

It's EA, hard pass anyway

No. Yet more Xbox deflection for absolutely tanking their own brand.

I played it back in the day and have no interest in revisiting it.

My son has only recently got into games and obviously missed this on Extra so he will be pleased!

@Vaako007 Guerilla has already stated that they were of bored it and have zero interest in returning to the franchise.

That's a name I haven't heard in years. I played the demo on Demo Disc 1 but never got any of them, I'd be interested in giving them a go. The PS1 had some great fighting games, hopefully Tobal no.1 or Star Gladiator will see the light of day once more.

It's amazing that these people still have jobs let alone think they can give advice after overseeing the demise of an entire brand.

While objectively this is a great month, I've already played everything I would want to.

They've never been great but this year's was a low point , I have zero faith next year's will be any better

I'm looking forward to it, hopefully it reviews well.

If only someone, anyone, could have predicted this

Being the most powerful console each generation is a marketing strategy that hasn't really been relevant since the PS1/Saturn/N64 era. Every generation Microsoft makes the most powerful console and every generation the Xbox sells even less

Hopefully the install becomes optional, I have zero interest in this. It's obviously something that felt couldn't stand on its own two feet and have bolted it onto to Genshin in the hopes there's some crossover.

Classic Atlus.

Persona 3 remake

Neither Skate or Dead Space really have the brand appeal to be charging those kind of prices. But if you are buying EA games you deserve to get fleeced.

Maybe I'm being cynical but without an obvious way to crowbar live service MP into the franchise Rockstar is simple not interested in a sequel or remaster

P3r finally made it off the backlog

EA are exactly the type of company to take Saudi blood money without a shred of conscience.

Is push square being paid to advertise this game?

While I enjoyed the beta, I had my butt handed to me in most matches!

Do you hear that noise? It's the sound of their lawyers clutching at straws.

It was a lot of fun until Epic bought it and immediately began the enshittification process.

I fell off in act 2 and am not sure why

They are not objectively crap but many of them are targeting specific audiences and lack any kind of wider appeal.

New Genshin update

“impressed […] with the breadth and the depth of the mythology that’s involved in this video game"

Sounds very much like someone who hasn't played the games.

@Hurblyburbly I couldn't have been more shocked if I had woken up and found my head sewn to the carpet

Unicorn Overlord

@tselliot to be fair to Genshin the story is mostly well written and is like TV seasons, each has it's own arc while also having the overarching plot slowly ticking along. Nod Krai is the beginning of the end, the plot is now drawing together and heading towards the finale.

It was pretty generic, nothing really hooked me to want to play more. It's a shame as it had potential.

@UltimateOtaku91 it's a well polished Metroidvania and it launched when steam wasn't absolutely flooded with them. Crucially, it's difficult so the toxic "git gud" crowd latched onto it and worked themselves into a froth over it.

The same guy who bragged about making 220 people redundant and then spent $2.4m on classic cars. Good riddance. They should have fired him and not given him the grace of making it seem like he left of his own volition.

Really fun game and a reasonably gentle entry into srpgs

Laughably misjudged. No one wants this, BF is going to murder them this year.

Why do I keep doing it to myself? I go in every time thinking it couldn't be worse than last time and yet here we are.

Looks like Odin sphere will never make it off of the backlog, started Unicorn Overlord this morning

Unicorn Overlord and MK1 is more than enough for me. I've been intrigued by Indika so I'll give it a go as well.

The problem is that Path of Exile 2 exists and simply does everything, outside of telling a story, better. D4 pretty much shows you everything it has to offer in the opening hours, it then holds your hand through the rest of the game as you fight level scaled trash mobs and samey boss battles until the finale. Enemies explode in showers of near useless loot, character builds are streamlined to near linear and the end game loot is gimped by the need to keep powercreep as minimal as possible so they can drag it out as a GaS for years. PoE2 goes the other route, it's not beginner friendly but it lets you experiment with insane builds, loot is actually meaningful and combat is challenging.

While the gameplay issues, ropey animations and potato faced NPCs could be fixed the larger issues are baked into the core of the game. Too much of the game is just boring, the plot is thin and poorly written, the procedurally generated content is busy work and fast travel absolutely robs the game of a sense of exploration, arguably Bethesda's biggest USP.

@PuppetMaster everything is tied to the HoYo account, you can log in on any supported device and everything is there.

BG3 second run

It's a great game that's only really held back from being an all time great by the heavy handed approach to open world box ticking activities.