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Re: Yes, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Is a Paid Expansion, Makes Headlines for Some Reason

Athrum

I usually don't defend game companies (all of them, and I repeat ALL are after your money, I mean this is business, not charity), but for the people that forgot are are the free DLC for Witcher 3:
Temerian Armor Set
Beard and Hairstyle Set
New Quest - 'Contract: Missing Miners'
Alternative Look for Yennefer
Nilfgaardian Armor Set
Elite Crossbow Set
New Quest - 'Fool's Gold'
Ballad Heroes' Neutral Gwent Card Set
New Quest - 'Scavenger Hunt: Wolf School Gear'
Alternative Look for Triss
New Quest - 'Contract: Skellige's Most Wanted'
Skellige Armor Set
Alternative Look for Ciri
New Quest - 'Where the Cat and Wolf Play...'
New Finisher Animations
NEW GAME +.

so, hardly anything to write home about. Both the expansions (which is what Phantom Liberty is) cost 20€ (40 if you bought the physical editions with the gwent decks), so I hardly see a difference between the 2 games.

Re: Project The Perceiver Is Equal Parts Ghost of Tsushima and Sekiro in Epic Debut

Athrum

Wait a sec.....just copying over my comment from Arad Chronicle here......juuuuuust about now...There we go

"Another Korean game that looks too good to be true. I'm still waiting for most of these games to actually come out/be good. So far we got Bright Memory from a Chinese dev and that was a glorified tech demo.
Lost Soul Aside, Stellar Blade, Lies of P, Black Wukong, Crimson Desert, they all look gorgeous but none of these has a release date."

Re: Arad Chronicle: Kazan Has All the Trappings of a Worthy Soulslike

Athrum

Another Korean game that looks too good to be true. I'm still waiting for most of these games to actually come out/be good. So far we got Bright Memory from a Chinese dev and that was a glorified tech demo.
Lost Soul Aside, Stellar Blade, Lies of P, Black Wukong, Crimson Desert, they all look gorgeous but none of these has a release date.

Re: Microsoft Claims That Insomniac Developed Marvel's Wolverine Will Launch in 2023

Athrum

@sjbsixpack Because I have a small grasp on how game making works. And sorry if that sounds rude, not trying to be. That game was waaaaaay in concept stage when it was shown to us. Even with Insomniac having 2 teams, the majority of their dev team will be working on Spider-man 2. Plus you won't see 2 Marvel games from the same studio come out close to each other, even if they're different styles.
My guess would be SM2 on the later half of 2023, and this one on late 2024.

Re: Talking Point: We Need to Discuss This Horizon Zero Dawn PS5 Remaster

Athrum

The (very dodgy) document is out. Its a remaster, not a remake. So, there's that.
Also, I still don't know why people get upset at this, if you don't like it, don't buy it. You can get the PS4 version for 10 euros.
And if you think that a studio like Guerrila that has....what? 300+ people working there, has everyone working on the remaster, then you really need to learn more about how games are made.

Re: Talking Point: We Need to Discuss This Horizon Zero Dawn PS5 Remaster

Athrum

This needs another option for No, because I'm not interested but don't think it is a waste of resources.

First, if you think they're doing this over a sequel for HZFW or DLC you're nuts.
Also I doubt it is a remake, probably more of a remaster, and if you have played or own HZD you're not the target audience.

Not defending Sony here, I don't care about what major corps do, but I keep seeing this discourse everywhere as if this is new in the industry. In the meantime Nintendo keep doing this every single generation and there's not even half the articles/posts/etc about it in most media places or twitter or wtv.
I mean Skyrim just got a new version a couple weeks ago. How many are those now?

Re: TV Show Review: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Netflix) - Hyperviolent Anime Is a Perfect 2077 Companion

Athrum

I think it starts really strong with a nice story and characters but it totally ***** the bed on the last 2 episodes by going waaaaay over the top, but that's Studio Trigger for you, they're basically the studio that churns shows that look like the parodies you see about anime.
Should've gone with studios that are more used to mature stories like Production I.G. or Madhouse.

Re: Talking Point: Is a PlayStation Showcase Really Happening This Year?

Athrum

Don't know why people still think there will be a showcase.
If you look at the 1st party studios you can take guesses at where they are with their projects based on industry knowledge alone and most of them have nothing to show unless you would like just CG trailers galore.
As for 3rd party, those games have been shown on other game shows already,

Re: You'll Need to Play a Lot of Overwatch 2 to Unlock New Hero Kiriko

Athrum

So by doing the challenges alone you need 61 days to reach level 55, which is the duration of the battlepass (2 months).
So basically if you miss a day, you get the hero locked, I wonder how do you unlock it afterwards, do the old BPs stay available like avengers, or do they rotate out and you need to fork over 20€ or something to unlock the heroes.