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First GT I’ve never bought or played. If I can’t own it, I don’t want it. No reason they couldn’t have put the base single player portion of the game fully on-disc; all that bologna about ‘protecting the competitive aspect from cheating or manipulation’ is a load of crap. Just make the competitive portions server dependent and the rest not.

No smiling Mad Goro avatar? Some avatars based off the boss masks would have been cool too 👺

Perfect, they can use Pig Pen’s stank cloud graphic on the Marathon box art without worrying about violating some intellectual property rights.

‘Let’s design the lead heroine with long, flowing locks like Rapunzel—‘

‘No, takes too long to animate, just make her bald.’

This is a much more accurate reflection of reality than what we got at the game awards.

Good for Geoff, he seems like an ok guy jus trying to carve out a space in this gaming landscape. Whether you agree with the final winners or not (and this year I definitely do NOT ), the shows are usually pretty entertaining and occasionally have some neat reveals.

Hey, at least the eventual 15 rereleases give higher odds that at least one of them will contain the full game on-disc 😆

Hopefully the guy leaving was the person responsible for shoehorning that awful legends multiplayer slop in a game where it doesn’t belong and ruining an otherwise perfect single player trophy hunting paradise of an experience. Fingers crossed the new management makes better decisions.

I think this is one of those games I’ll have to try before I buy, and I’ll know right then and there if I’ll like it. Everything looks promising except the idea of a second character piggy backing the whole game. Escorting NPC’s is a cardinal gaming sin and something I detest. Between the added tedium of worrying about managing their health to incompetent NPC ai, it’s nothing but frustration.

If she’s invincible and for all intents and purposes ‘part of the suit’ so to speak, then it might be able to pull it off. But if you need to micromanage her, that pretty much kills any desire I have for this game on the spot.

No trophies > poorly designed, anti-trophy hunter completionist trophy list.

I’m at about 2/3 correct prognostication rate. Sadly. Wish I was wrong about a good-albeit-overhyped game winning GotY ahead of more deserving titles, but I was not wrong to bet on the popular opinion of the masses to push it farther into the limelight than warranted.

This is irrelevant since I have no intention of getting involved with Marathon, but I see they’ve done something right at least. One of the myriad of reasons I dislike live service games is the fomo element when it comes to battle passes, in-game unlocks, timed rewards etc.

So seeing them state upfront that battle passes don’t expire and previous stuff can be repurchased at a later date by new people coming into the game is a big ‘win’, if you want to call it that. This way of doing things is obviously the best way as it screws over the least amount of players, and I wish all these games operated under this structure.

One of the greatest real-time combat systems in a 3D action game, no question. It took me longer than anticipated to platinum, simply because I would seek out mobs and field bosses just for the sheer enjoyment of the battle system. As far as I’m concerned, the Shift Up ceo deserves every bit of praise.

At this point I’m wondering which will launch first, Little Devil Inside or Bloodborne Remaster

Really looking forward to Phantom Blade. It grabbed my attention from the very first debut trailer, and it’s looked better each time they’ve shown it.

I bet the executives have that same look in their eyes that Xerxes had in 300 after he was wounded and his divinity called into question.

Ghost of Yotei, KCD2, either one should have won GotY instead of Claire Overhypa. Technically there are a bunch more qualified titles like MGS3, THPS 3+4, Oblivion, but remakes and remasters shouldn’t count in GotY runnings (although I’d be willing to break that rule if it meant knocking an overhyped game out of an undeserved position).

Plenty of mumble rappers win Grammy’s so this type of unwarranted accolade is nothing new.

I need to get to LotF1. It’s been on my radar since first revealed, but the state of the launch build was unplayable. I think it clocked in @ sub-540p base resolution at spots. Hopefully it’s been optimized with patches by now, and I’m really hoping this new one isn’t a technical disaster when it launches. The game itself looks pretty good, let’s pray the tech is up to par.

Feels like it’s 2011 all over again.

Physical, full game on disc without any online download/check in required or not a chance. I have too much backlog to bother with anything not putting the end user first.

I’m not a ‘watch guy’, but I’ll admit these look pretty cool

It’s 2011 all over again. Skyrim somehow inexplicably beat out Dark Souls for GotY, and now Expedition 33 will beat out the more viable contenders. It’s good (I do love my turn based RPG’s) but not that good, not GotY good.

Fitting, it takes a bunch of chilled monkey brains to mint a disc with no data on it that requires an internet download.

Agree 100%.

Square today is not the same Square I grew up with during the golden era of RPG’s. Priorities have shifted with the company, both in business related performance metrics and what they’re looking to achieve in the corporate world, as well as elements within the games themselves. When discussing the shift from turn based combat to fully real time combat in FF16 it’s clear it was a strategic, calculated act targeting the tastes of a specific audience. That’s just one example of the transition Square has undergone, moving from a company filled with auteurs making the games they want to make for themselves to a company more interested in designing a product to sell to a target demographic.

Are they making more money now than ever before? Idk, probably. Are they making the games I want to play? Mostly no.

PSA for anyone wanting to play it, and though it may sound inconceivable for a game made in the past 20 years or so, but there is no option to invert the Y-axis in Concrete Genie. One of the many reasons I test any potential game I’m interested in on a throwaway alt account first.

@MrStark I didn’t get that impression from reading the article. I inferred that Xbox made the right choice at that time (and arguably the choice most of their fanbase wishes they’d be making with all their former exclusives at this very moment). Times changed, a $70 Billion~ splurge needed to be recouped and so this game along with many others went multiplatform. Aside from maybe highlighting some questionable business decisions, there isn’t any Xbox hate in this article.

This is how you develop and release a dlc, and all other developers should be forced to take notes. People come crawling out of the woodwork to buy it by the millions, and yet there’s not a single added trophy in sight. Anyone who invested time and effort to obtain the platinum can tackle this at their leisure, if they even want to, without worrying their hard earned trophy progress was artificially knocked down from 100%. Those with other time sensitive games to work on can carry on without any added anxiety, and those looking forward to this can hop in right away all the same.

Platform holders should ideally put all dlc trophies in separate SKU’s for this exact reason, or else finally allow users to permanently remove games with partially completed trophies from their accounts (not just those at precisely 0%).

@Nepp67 not everything needs to be ‘new’ or ‘innovative’. Doing something already established, and doing it better than most is a viable strategy a great many highly regarded games stick to. I don’t think this looks interesting myself, but it could possibly have ended up being an excellent take on its genre had it been completed. Nothing wrong with that.

Yeah unfortunately Expedition 33 will win GotY. It’s good, but not that good. Considerably overhyped. Several other titles should be in line ahead of it but will miss out, like Skyrim somehow inexplicably beating out Dark Souls in 2011.

This one’s been on my radar since the very first trailer. Looks highly promising, can’t wait!

I want to live in the alternate universe where the article title reads “PS4, PS5 Game Accusations Have Killed AI Just Two Days After Announcement”

All I have to say about this is the recent Netflix UI change is pure trash. They made GIGANTIC TILES THAT TAKE UP MOST OF THE SCREEN and end up providing less info to the viewer. It’s unbrowseable. I have to use my phone app to actually see what’s there and then search for it directly on the PS5 app to actually watch it on my nice tv. Their UI designer should have been fired immediately on proposal of the UI downgrade. Let’s all hope Netflix doesn’t try to influence what their newly acquired game UI should look like, or everyone’s in trouble.

Switch: Major League Baseball
PlayStation: Minor League Baseball
Xbox: softball during recess

Saw a random commercial for this. Thought to myself, ‘what a laughably irrelevant product, who would buy this instead of a console’. Never underestimate the power of advertising to the ignorant masses!

Played the demo, pretty good! Reminded me of some PS1 rally racers I liked back in the day.

“Fortnite artist”—something about seeing those two words side by side seems a little off. Sort of like saying someone is the lead singer in a screamo band.

A trophy hunter’s paradise. No multiplayer in sight! I only hope they exercise the same good, pro-gamer judgement when the inevitable RDR2 remaster finally sees release. I would have easily bought the PS4 launch version, but that multiplayer slop shoehorned in where it doesn’t belong was a complete turn off. When R* does right by trophy hunter completionists, I’ll happily give them my money.

@Enuo I wish. Not much here for me personally. I went with SpongeBob because I liked the cartoon at least. The rest are either sports or multiplayer focused, neither of which appeal to me.

I’m sure CoD or Fallout76 would be happy to take those excess GB’s to add to their ever ballooning install sizes

The director felt Kojima did a good job with the voiceover role.

”He played it like a damn fiddle!”

Sony: It’s phenomenal. Now make it better.
Sucker Punch: Yes.

Hope to god they axe the awful multiplayer portion if and when RDR2 gets ported to current gen. That stuff should always be segregated and set apart from the core single player portion of the game so as not to ruin the trophy hunting experience for everyone with less than no interest in the MP.

That’s what it’s teasing? A live service game? I’ve immediately lost interest.

The design language and visual aesthetic in Fortnite is pure slop to begin with. Trying to determine if ai was used is like looking for a specific dog poo in a public sewer

Cool idea for a series of articles!! I myself don’t care for rocket league as a game, but congratulations on the platinum. As for things I’d like to see in future articles, perhaps a legitimate discussion as to what should be acceptable trophy criteria and what shouldn’t be permitted.

…No complaints! I’d add Elden Ring and perhaps 1 or 2 others, but everything that’s here is absolutely 10/10. Very pleased to see What Remains of Edith Finch listed; it’s one of my all time favorite indies.

Sunliiiiiiiiiight!!

If you know, you know.

I’m more impressed by the series S numbers. Or whatever word is the extreme polar opposite of impressed. Japan is home to literally millions upon millions of people and only 30 of them decided it was worth their time to buy a series S this month. I almost wonder if they’re mostly Americans working overseas who felt like they wanted a touch of home in their gaming?

Wow. Just wow.

I appear to be in the extreme minority in that I found GoW:Ragnarok to be a massive disappointment. I loved GoW 2018, but Ragnarok is a colossal step backward—particularly in the writing/dialogue department. Much of the spoken dialogue teeters on the border of ‘bad writing’ and just plain anachronistic. (Was the F word even a thing in Norse culture of that time period?)

The game itself was mostly alright aside from some occasionally confusing level design, but the dialogue just deteriorated over the course of the game to such an extent than I half expected Kratos to bark out “Boy! Let’s hop in the dogsled and bounce out this joint!” The discourse between the various characters did not at all feel ‘of the era’ if that makes sense. Idk whose job it was to write it, but I highly doubt the individuals that wrote GoW 2018’s lines wrote the sequel’s. I only hope they don’t write for the next game.