Alps_Stranger

Like Mass Effect, I'm surprised at how little I care. Once beloved franchises that squandered all good will.

3 hours to go before I get home and start it up. Couldn't be happier for the devs over the outstanding reviews. Sounds like they learned all the right lessons from the first, which was my #1 game of the PS4 generation.

Warhorse be praised! Also it's Tom McCay, not Ben.

@Fartingale That's how I felt until I remembered the laptop gun. Bring it back!

@TimelessJubilee I actually never got around to it so I was unaware.

No Judgment? Odd. But yeah, this would be great.

I don't know how interested I'd be in revisiting the older Fable titles on PS5 but I'd really like the new one to be there eventually.

I've already told work that I won't be in on Wednesday. Making time for a proper deep dive.

I'd love to see it get made and maybe even have a fast food tie-in for some pork bun.

The fix for the quest Run This Town comes one week too late to help me. Glad everyone else will be able to make it through the mission without a fight though.

My outrage comes from the fact that it was BluePoint who was working on it, not the IP. If Bend had been working on a live service God of War, I'd have merely been disappointed.

The fact that a new Mass Effect game is on the way and that I don't much care is a testament to how poorly BioWare has been run in the past decade. I'm looking elsewhere to scratch that Mass Effect itch. I'm more likely to pre-order Exodus than I am this new Mass Effect game, coming in 2028.

If it's anything like the DLC for the first game, it'll be well worth it. And yeah, if you want to play the game once, probably best to wait for the "Royal Edition." But I know that I'll be going through this one multiple times so I'm still there day one with the deluxe edition pre-ordered. It's my turn to be part of the problem!

Does it include a monument that memorializes Percy_Verence?

Is it really a twist when anyone with even a passing familiarity with comic book storytelling saw it coming immediately? This is what anyone with half a brain has been expecting to happen this whole time.

Infinite Wealth was the first game that I played at launch in a long long time. It was great. But sadly, Kingdome Come Deliverance II is going to be the 2nd game that I play at launch in a long long time. Majima will have to wait.

Got my 4th playthrough of the first game under my belt in 2024. I am ready for this!

His comment itself is about as uncontroversial as one can get. BUT it was in response to a DEI question so of course people are going to read it how they want to. The lesson here: ignore every idiot who complains about DEI, make your game fun, the end.

Two weeks of Cyberpunk 2077 and tons of PSVR2!

If Kiryu is the protagonist, I play in Japanese with subtitles. If Kasuga is the protagonist, I play in English. I tried English with 7 just to try it, thinking I'd switch back after an hour. Fell for the game hard and never switched back. This new one... I don't know. Gonna be fun to find out though.

@Petrecis24 Executives learning the actual lesson? In what world do you live?

Still unclear as to why we couldn't vote for Dispatch.

Does anyone think they'll ever be honest and admit that they don't hate wokeness or political correctness, but just a baseline of human decency?

Why can't I vote for Dispatch?

Kumail Nanjiani!

Just because I'm there for the announcements doesn't mean I don't care about the awards. They're cool and it's great that we can recognize the great work from the past year. It's a tough balance that usually just feels off. Maybe he'll nail it this year. Maybe not.

I made the mistake of picking up the Complete Edition of AC: Valhalla this year and I spent close to 3 months playing little else. It was fun but it also made me swear off Ubisoft games for a couple years. Too much. I'm sure it'll rest comfortably atop my list when the traffic dies down enough to check.

This is going to be my Christmas break game so I'm glad they're still updating.

Creepy nightmare fuel in VR? Pretty cool.

Earlier I said that I'd likely play My First Gran Turismo for 5 minutes on PSVR2 before buying the full game. I was wrong. I was in there for a whole hour before I came out to buy Gran Turismo 7.

I look forward to another failed attempt to properly balance the trailers with the awards and recognition of the great work released in the past year. I have no idea what the correct balance actually is. I just know that, despite his best efforts, Geoff hasn't quite hit it yet. It's a tall order.

Just got a PSVR2 and wanted to try Gran Turismo and wasn't willing to pay full price just for a taste so this is perfect. The way things are going so far I'll likely buy it after 5 minutes but I still need to be sure.

@somnambulance Is it honestly that difficult to imagine a gamer who doesn't like RTS, MMOs, or multi-player only titles? No, you're right. People with different taste are whiners.

Holy crap, it's true! Just got the $5 I earned after loading up in the Black Friday sale.

There are other male characters in the series. Like a lot of them. Why are we assuming he'd be Shepard? I think he'd make a fine Garrus.

With the added time constraint on using points, of course they got rid of the "here's $5/£5" options. You now have to spend a lot more money to earn enough points to spend on a $15 or $20 game. It'll net them more money while screwing over everyone. Welcome to zero competition in the console space.

This is what the PS5 is for... prettier versions of PS4 games. PS5 Pro? Even prettier versions. New games? Look elsewhere.

Given that games release with a ton of bugs, I'm not willing to pay the developer for the privilege of being QA.

@xDD90x What loophole? Getting the PS5 version for $30? If they have to charge more than that for the PS5 version, then either don't offer the $10 upgrade or... don't make the game.

I don't know why you're playing this off as expected. This is the very definition of sleazy business practices.

Well... time to play the two games back to back again only to wonder why I did that to myself. And they'll finally get my $10 for the Part II upgrade.

More updates to the live service initiative please. You've gotta demonstrate that you've learned all the wrong lessons from Concord. If you don't, are you really a PlayStation executive?

This game has been sitting in my wishlist for what feels like over a year. It's about time. I think it looks gorgeous and I can't wait.

If a few million more people bought Concord, then we'd have gotten the vertical stand thrown in for free.

For that price, I'd seriously consider throwing a couple hundred more at it and just getting a beefy PC instead.

Well... Concord loss recovery starts today.

I recently got a Switch and even though it makes more sense to get this collection for a system where the touch screen controls are in tact, I got it for PlayStation anyway. That's where all my other Castlevania games are afterall.

Lots of reviews mentioning that the campaign is severely worse when played solo. Your AI squadmates suck apparently. It's either getting called out explicitly or is glossed over so quickly that I don't believe they played it solo for any real length of time (like this review).

I usually like the Jason Schreier post mortems on these things but I can't help but think this one will be the least interesting. The game works as intended. That intent was just way off base. But we've all known it was off base this entire time so what is there to say? Nothing that we won't be also saying about Fairgame$ next year.