Archaeokaiser

@nathanSF 🤣😂 you been living under a rock?

I just got Darktide Imperial Edition for 15 bucks, so it’s literally changed nothing in how I shop for games.

@MaelysSedisia you’re splitting hairs and embarrassing yourself. Everyone knows you’re a contrarian. I get it. It fills your life with purpose. And though your opinion is valid, your take is not.

@MaelysSedisia just for context again about your “no one is calling it a hero shooter” complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26OCr59xnjA

@MaelysSedisia that’s not exactly true. There’s an entire thread on Reddit discussing this exact topic. It has hero shooter elements. You could call it “classes” if you want. I can call it a hero shooter if I want. Both are opinions and neither one of us will be able to convince the other one that our opinion is right, so why fixate on that?To me, there are distinct features of “hero shooters” that appear in the structure of the characters in this game. If it still bothers you, take the word “hero” out of my comment. Doesn’t bother me any.

Can’t wait to play it! The backlog is thick!

It’s a really good hero shooter. If I was to get into a hero shooter, it’d likely be this one. I just don’t really have the interest. That doesn’t make it a bad game to me though.

@trev666 well it’s not your review is it? 😂

It’s the exact opposite of what Xbox would do. So. They’re making the right decision. Jokes aside, in the short term, yes, they could go for the money. In the long term, though, that would eventually make the PlayStation console obsolete.

Shoulda called it Project This Is An Xbox. Oh wait.

@nomither6 that practically no one on PC was actually playing it. 🤣

Sony and Nintendo should absolutely still be console exclusive. Xbox is acting like they’re going to go that route now, but there’s no way they’ll survive it.

@TheEnygma sure, but the demand for a good city builder is probably quite a bit higher than another cookie cutter pay to play vehicle dressed as a hero shooter. It’s not a bad game, but I’m also not saying that it shouldn’t be made. I had enough fun with it during the Server Slam. My worry is that it is another wasted moment from Bungie that will cost a lot of hardworking talented people their place in this shrinking industry, and with that I wonder WHYYYYY?

It’s ***** like this that shows how out of touch the production leads and publishers really are. How long did they spend on this completely unrelated fluff rather than optimizing the game? How many play testing hours were sacrificed for this episode of Secret Level?

I burned myself out on golf with 2k23 and the Road to the Masters game. It’s probably pretty fun tho. I’m also waiting for Stories 3, so Rise is not a priority for me right now. Otherwise, both of those would be instant grabs for me.

@SyntaxParadox 😂🤣😂 my god, guy, you going through it in your personal life or something?

To each their own, ya know? I bought more physical games last year than any other year in the PS4-5 era. This year will be less because I’m a Premium subscriber, but I will always buy the big games physically, so I hope they leave the light on for those of us who do!

Did I love it when I saw it? Nah, not really. Does this clown need to STFU? Abso-freakin’-lutely.

I’ll save PGA and Rise to my library, but I burned myself out on golf games back in 2023 and I’m already set on the new Monster Hunter game, so I’ll probably never play em. Gotta say though, this is the most meh month in a looooong time for me personally, so I don’t really feel that bad about the selection.

@OmegaStriver agreed. It’s a good looter/shooter, but what does that actually mean, ya know? I get so bored of this style of game so quickly. The gameplay loop is just so simplistic and the skill gap gets so wide that I’d rather be mastering a combat system in a single player for 70 hours rather than dropping in on the same map for the 100th time with the same plan as last time. I can barely dump 20 hours into them before I find myself hovering over the icon while considering deleting it. And it seems like that’s a pretty general consensus. Arc Raiders and Helldivers 2 are exceptions in that I got bored playing them after 40 hours. They’re great community games where friends can run around together, but they’re just not sustainable.

@Alps_Stranger just posted the theme song and can’t believe more people aren’t going for the Chicken Boo reference!

🎼 He wears a disguise
to look like human guys
But he’s not a man
He’s a Chicken dude! 🎶

@Frmknst you are just full of contradictions aren’t ya?

@OmegaStriver good points. I don’t think Marathon is bad, but it’s not as good as Arc Raiders. Hope they still find a following, for Bungie’s sake haha

I’ve had a good time thus far. Shooting feels good, combat is spicy, particularly against other teams. Any decent looter/shooter does that well. Would really like to see the time it takes to open a chest or dead drop to a liiiittle quicker. I know they want it to be a little more time consuming. But still. The classes are interesting but still a bit imbalanced, but they’re working on it. The feel of the world is cool though. It’s gaudy and I dig it.

The only real complaint I have is the community. Last night, the PS rating was around 4 and a half. I think even at 4.6ish. Today, it’s 3.19. Ain’t no ***** way that the people review bombing it actually truly played it from when I went to bed last night at 1 AM East Coast US time and when I had a chance to hop on and play it briefly today at 2:00 EST in order to drop it that much. It’s shambolic and one of the grossest things about being a video gamer.

Goodbye, XBOX. We knew you til we didn’t

Happy birthday to me then.

@ButterySmooth30FPS they’ve done great stuff, but you’re right. Demon Souls was a PS5 launch title, and we’re almost at the year the PS6 was originally going to launch in. I hate it for em, but as we are all aware, good games don’t guarantee longevity.

@djlard hah sorry misunderstood your PS3 comment. 😂

@8bitOG cool, but my guy, you’re in the absolute minority which means you’ll never be truly happy with anything, so I don’t think that we or the gaming companies really care what you have to say. 🤷‍♂️

@Northern_munkey of course! And we should make a stink about it. They should regret it, and it should be a mark against Hermie for the rest of his hopefully-not-too-long Sony career. But I’m not gonna throw my toys out the pram.

@Northern_munkey absolutely. It’s a great generation to me! I’ve played nothing but absolutely bangers since I bought my PS5, and my backlog just keeps growing. These crybabies? I ain’t got time for them. If they don’t like it, it’s because they’re playing generic F2P/live service slop.

There is absolutely no way that Xbox can return to anything that remotely looks like console exclusivity. Timed releases with Day 1 Game Pass PC “exclusivity”? That’s a bit different. But if you think that the PlayStation market is not of critical value to Xbox now, then you haven’t been paying attention.

Whyyyy would you say this? 🤣

This is total bunk. I enjoy playing around with 40k Tacticus, but no regular gamer with a taste for anything other than F2P garbage is getting lured like this. This is just an excuse for production companies to lean more into the gacha industry.

@lazarus11 lol right, I can only make an angelic “haaaaaaaaaa” sound so many times in one playthrough.

@8bitOG if you can only count on one hand over the years “good” games on Essential you either have too high of standards or can’t identify a good game when it literally drops in your lap for “free.” And you still didn’t answer my question. XBOX worth it? Nintendo Online? And sorry, most people don’t want to sit around for 2 hours optimizing every game they play or investing in a 2,000 dollar rig that they have to build themselves. Your sense of “value” is questionable and quite exclusive.

They can do this by increasing the value of elements that they are already monetizing. Make Premium truly worth it. Continue to drop excellent games on the Extra level. The “F2P” folks will take care of the rest. They’ll keep eating up the live service BS while complaining about it on Reddit.

@djlard my guy…I think a lot more than Premium’s price is holding you back if you’re still clinging to your PS3. Pull the trigger and upgrade!

@8bitOG it’s overvalued in comparison to what? And don’t say the Steam store. Exclusively within the console market, what is better?

@Katsuhono of course, it’s like dudes piling on their favorite sports teams despite never kicking/throwing a ball in a meaningful competitive environment in their lives. Everyone has an opinion and most of em stink.

@Areus oh boy 💩!

Say what you want about the Horizon games’ stories and Aloy’s lack of character development (I don’t mind either), but there’s no question that Decima makes
the best Open World games based on the look and feel alone.

It’s like watching a smart, uncoordinated person carry a tray full of expensive fine china… they know it’s not going to end well, but they’re trying their best to act like they have it under control, while the rest of us are just bracing for impact.

Difficulty settings is this many peoples’ cutoff point? What’s wrong with yall? Challenge yourselves! 😜

Damn. I just bought the Shredder’s Revenge DLC! 🤣

@Dogbreath the last part absolutely. The first two points…come on, man. You been playing games for way too long to still have such an immature and underdeveloped perspective.

They just had to go aura farm in the mobile game market for a while to get their money right!

Hope Kena gets tossed onto the monthly game rotation so we can all play/replay it before the new one.

OG Legends was one of the best free-to-play games of the modern era. Hope this is good. I call the ronin.