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This is insane to read.
You could already read some of the crazy expectations put on OWL in Jason's book about Blizzard. Blizzard thought they were going to sell teams like they were football teams and had a lot of billionaires that don't give two-***** about games invest into it, and then it failed to provide the profits people were expecting.
It was sad to see Jeff leave, he was a great game director (also for WoW) but this couldn't be good for him and his health.

It's called a "SURVIVAL HORROR" game. Makes absolutely no sense for it to not be scary.
Would be the same of having a first person shooter without the shooting, a driving simulation game without the driving, etc.

"At launch"
I'm sorry mate, but this stinks to high heaven. I really want the game to be good, but it wouldn't hurt to just show it running on consoles before the release, IF the game runs as well as they say.

"By the end, the playtime split feels much closer to two-thirds as Leon and one-third as Grace."

This is a bummer I was afraid that having the 2 very different styles was going to be jarring and it kinda sucks to read that most of the game is just an action shooter and not a survival horror.

Asha Sharma isn't just coming from an AI department. CoreAI is Microsoft's Development Tools section that was renamed, you know...before all the doom and gloom

@Max_the_German I agree, it was one of the reasons that made me bounce of from that game.

At least we know what Santa Monica's going to be doing for the next 10 years

@species Just out of curiosity, what you would consider an RPG with good writing?

He already made a crappy show about a game that I love, why not another?
All that's left is MGS3.

@species What's a "normie"? Someone that doesn't play D&D?
I don't, but I love the Forgotten Realms and I loved BG3 for it's story and characters. Gameplay was fine, but Divinity 2 had a better gameplay and it didn't use any D&D rules.

I like the artstyle, but not for Horizon. I'm out.
I am interested in trying Steel Frontiers though.

The demo for this game was super cute and fun, gave me the feeling of old school zelda games.

@get2sammyb I do think it's a neat art-style, but not for Horizon. I actually prefer the NCSoft one compared to this, at least it looks like an Horizon game.

I just want them to make Pillars 3, but it seems that's not gonna happen, this studio seems destined to keep churning "bethesda-like" RPGS for better or worse

I really liked the combat and I have to say that the artstyle is quite amazing (kinda wish we got a proper JRPG with these looks), but holy crap the story is bad.
I'll keep going through it until I get all the trophies and then I'll probably stop. So far the only of these games that managed to keep me going back was Honkai Star Rail.

Just like the thread in Resetera (where this article was pulled from) you missed the whole context of the tweets by leaving out the rest of the message that he posted.

Cannot wait for this. The Project Zero games are very cool survival horrors, especially Crimson Butterfly and The Tormented.

The only one I played constantly was Honkai Star Rail because the story was actually quite fun the first couple of areas, but I'm not much into the gacha aspect.
That said, holy crap the art style looks so good on this game.

It's so odd that this is the one game where they drew the line about simultaneous releases. I think it may end up hurting them in the long run, since GTA6 is going to hog most people's attention

@tselliot Larian was always quite transparent on how they develop their games, and it's actually quite refreshing, I wish a lot more studios were like them.
The probably is that the people that have gaming as a hobby are generally not the most well adjusted kind of people, and then you get situations like this.

Honest question, does Limited Run Games have dirt on a lot of the CEOs of these companies? How the heck do they keep getting these deals when people keep complaining about their services?!

Him saying that "we'll talk about it" probably means more trailers but not a release in 2026.

@AinsleyE Came here to post that gif

I thought it was very good, but there was a point there where they went basically 1h30m without any awards, and that kinda blows a bit.

The episodic release worked because you were getting 2 episodes every week for 4 weeks, you didn't have to wait months or even up to 1 year like you did with old Telltale games and LiS games.

Let me guess, they're going to revive another dead character, probably Mine this time, since you have a short story about him.

Is this version digital-only?

The 2 major things that made me stop playing was the introduction of Eververse and later the "You had to be there" mentality that causes story to disappear basically making you buy those season passes for 10€ due to FOMO.

this game is probably 5 years off

I'm really looking forward to this one. It's made by ex-Bioware vets, looks a looot like ME and the lore so far has been pretty cool. I read the Archimedes Engine and it was pretty dope.

As a TV show, I would give it a 9. Love the story, the characters and the humor.
As a game, it's barely a 6. You can miss all the QTE's, the dispatch minigame, the hacking and not choose any dialog and nothing major will change.

Looks very nice, but 80+ euros is a tad too much for me.

A bit odd they're doing this, since there's a PS4 version

I'm still going through the Cold Steel games (at the 3rd one right now) and I'll only get to Sky after I finish those.
Granted I should do it after Reverie and Daybreak as well, but I don't have the mental fortitude to wait.

From the game details in the game's website, it seems it's going to run at 30 FPS in consoles, even on Pro, which is odd.

@get2sammyb people will still get mad they didn't announce TLOU3, God of War Egypt and Bloodborne 2

@ShogunRok does this version have the original voices?

Not playing the second one. I played and beat the first one, was kinda fun, but it still felt like an offbrand Fallout with worse combat, and the most vanilla companions ever.

Always wanted to pay 1000€ to play games on a screen the size of my wallet.

Ridiculous article from IGN. 99.9% of humanity has and/or will experience grief, that's just part of life. So having it in stories with human characters or human-like characters is the most natural thing in the world.

@get2sammyb Oh these are getting scalped to high heaven, dude.
The crappy part is that instead of making a bundle with the characters they're dividing it into several, probably with cards no one wants, just to stretch the price.

It looks cool, lets see if it's good.
If "losing creative minds" makes the game have less of his head up its own ass, I'm all good for that. The first game was a bit pretentious at points, to say the least. I still really liked it though.

Where are the rewards? All I saw was a store.

Funny that they're asking if you want more info about MGS Collection Vol.2 since they haven't give any info.
My sources at the time told me there were 2 volumes, but they said that the games would be divided between Solid Snake games and BB games (which wasn't true), so now I wonder if we'll ever get the volume 2 collection.

@Jammer dude 6 could've been great if they just killed Kiryu off

Nice for people who haven't played it, but Yakuza 3 has the worst story of the series, or maybe tied with 5 for worst story.

I played the demo and it was really really funny. I'm looking forward to it, but I'll probably wait for a physical edition or buy it for peanuts on PC

In my country, the covers have been sold out since yesterday. Bummer.

There's a camera option at the start of the game where you play a curated experience selected by the devs, this leads me to believe it will swap between first person and third depending of the areas you're in or maybe the characters you play.

@get2sammyb Sasaki Ganryu (or Sasaki Kojiro) was Musashi's rival, so you can bet we're going to see a lot of him during the game.