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@Puketapu I'm aware that some of the staff are ex employees but every one of their games just ape Journey to the point of that I can't see them as anything other than inferior clones. Abzu and The Pathless were decent games but nothing more. It doesnt help that the Journeylike genre is overstuffed with titles that live in the shadow of it.

Another Journeylike indie that'll be unable to get anywhere near that timeless masterpiece.
Still, it's probably the first I'll play out of that menagerie.of games

@twitchtvpat Planet Coaster 2 Bloodborne DLC.

@twitchtvpat Bloodborne 3 seems more likely

Never seen ODST used so many times in an article about ODST.
Makes me think of an overdosing Atari

If it's bug free at least then kudos to the team. One awaits Bethesda's port of Starfield however, like one would await a tap on the shoulder from the Reaper.

Sony's bungie rope snapped.

And yet the ability to vote a tyrant in is to be dropped to 16.

@ShadowRJ There's no end of astonishment at the route Nintendo saw fit to take with the Key Card fiasco.

Meanwhile over at Bethesda...

If more people can enjoy a wider selection of games on different devices then it's excellent news.

@nessisonett I never buy into the idea that if you don't set it in the US it won't sell. Rockstar could set GTA7 in Crianlarich with a game world that only stretched to the station at Rannoch and it'd sell millions. Set it in Birmingham with rival factions being led by a digitally accurate Stewart Lee, Lenry Henry, Noddy Holder and Armando Iannucci can be the Scottish kingpin who's behind it all.
Plus Britain is as ripe for satire as the US is.

@nessisonett In agreement on your UK point. I just wish devs would have the confidence to set a open world crime caper in somewhere other than London. Cardiff, Birmingham or Glasgow would be great.

A sprite based beat 'em up based on Toxic Avenger, Radioactive Reporter or Street Trash would be most welcome

@Keyblade-Dan You are aware that these are multi billion dollar companies with dollar signs for pupils oui?

The game's incredible art style already makes it looks like an interactive comic book so if Sony doesn't get Arc to design and add PS IP characters like Kratos then I'll be most definitely miffed by the decision making at HQ.

@ThorsHammer The franchise is, for me, not scary anymore and just too overdone, reminding me of the Christmas Vacation turkey.
If I was to choose an 80s movie that'd be a perfect fit for a game it'd be the very underrated Running Man.

There's not been a good Hellraiser movie since the second so I'm certainly not putting tuppence ha'penny on a game bucking the trend.

@Hylian-Likely It's close but not quite correct. It's actually FloodMorne Kos, although some see to say Kosm. They just accidentally put the wrong consonant.

The new indie title by Met Offce Games called 'How To Avoid Sunstroke Whilst Still Getting A Nice Tan'. Involves plenty of ice cold Thatcher's (the cider and not the ex PM)
Idiocy aside I'm going for Cyberpunk 2077 on PS Plus. I put it off until it was fully fixed so I'm now planning on a full playthrough.

Hopefully theres an Ichi The Killer reference somewhere in there (or Gozu for a deeper cut).

I beat Orphan of Kos quicker than that goddamn final challenge.
Cloud"s Omnislash was worth all of the finger ache though

Where the devil is the demo located? I cant find it in the Store anywhere.

TLoU2 Chronological Edition Remake coming to PS6 at launch

So far it's about a 7. It currently feels like peak Kojima ergo some good ideas and some pretty bad ones too. I'll wait to reserve full judgement.

@naruball I saw them when they toured the Black album a year after Megadeth toured Rust In Peace in 90/91. They really were rather disappointing. They also had no support band whereas Megadeth's set was fantastic and they had Alice In Chains and The Almighty as hors d'oeuvres.
Completely unrelated to your argument however.

And I thought it was bad for the line judges at Wimbledon

There are two cast iron classics in that list and also some excellent ones but I'll never budge on my judgement of 4. It's a dreadful, incoherent mess and the runt born of a noble litter.

@nessisonett I have my own life long illness that for years had people like myself thrown into the asylum or burned for speaking with the unholy one so no, I dont deny any of the wonderful, life changing, pioneering work that has been laid down by people willing to want to know how systems work or better people's lives. It's made life for myself and fellow sufferers better. You're completely missing my point and assuming I'm some contrarian who thrives on disrupting conventions. Epilepsy isn't just people frothing at the mouth or just grand mal vs petit mal. It's as complex as smells, deja vu, derealisation, hundreds of two second absences etc. At the time however, it was just that. It took people willing to delve deeper to understand. Ergo challenge popular expert opinion. By falsifiable I am not implying that advancement is redundant. I'm pointing to theories not being set in stone once discovered. It can and hopefully will be expanded upon.
I get the point that many a contrarian is contrary for no point other than to annoy but not everyone can be lumped into that same bracket and I find that line of thinking unfair.
I'm also not comparing this to string theory in the slightest. It was an example to show that people are willing to challenge the accepted norm. Not to dismantle it but to aid progress.

@EVIL-C There was a counter movement anongst the string theory community when many realised that it was being taken to be gospel, despite being nearly forever untestable.
The point isn't that there climate change is not evident. My point is you can't just lump everyone is the same bracket because they don't toe party line. It's far more convoluted that merely saying 'I'm right you're wrong'

@nessisonett The evidence for the ice age shows that too. The evidence points to it fluctuating for large parts of the earth's existence. The evidence points to dark matter and quantum uncertainty. These are generally accepted and of that one does not debate. Science is still falsifiable though. It is built on that very foundation.
What also could said to be factual is that insinuating people on here are dumb because they are using their freedom as an individual to question something doesn't exactly help anything other than hinting at intellectual aloofness.

@nessisonett All science is falsifiable. Challenging orthodoxy is how pioneers further their respective fields of expertise.

Is there a drone minigame where you can watch the diggers laying waste to the Amazon rainforest for the giant road that they're building for the next big summit?
I don't deny climate change but I sure do deny the need for 20,000 entities to gather in the same place to reheat the same message.

@LifeGirl The first and third game are legitimate classics and along with PT they're a Kojima restrained but still firing imaginatively. MGS4 however, is utterly terrible in every aspect.

@AdamNovice Having the character arc of Meryl be that she's marries the guy who spends the entire series filling his britches with a continual stream of brown water is definitely genius writing. What creative visionary at Ubisoft is so devoid of ideas that he didnt think to insert that level of exposition into Assassins Creed XXVII?

@KundaliniRising333 People have a habit of saying he is gaming's Lynch/Kubrick/Eggers but I don't buy into that at all.
He's as inept as he is talented.

Even if it sold 30 million it would've underperformed in Square's eyes. They have some rather ludicrous targets that they set. Also, they have a bad habit of complaining about external factors for the product not meeting it's target.

When I was a youngster you had to sit above the wheel arch of a big diesel engine double decker bus to get an involuntary erection. Games amounted to some rudimentary indescribable objects on a screen that bore no resemblance to humanity anatomy. Even out of reach, top shelf magazines were named after motor cars.
Kids today will just not get the opportunity we had to get confusing involuntary erections.

@get2sammyb Report said about 60% of PC sales were from China

@Bionic-Spencer I fully completed it and thought the game was an utter chore by the end, perfectly encapsulated by that insufferable epilogue.
Many aspects of it are unmatched and yet other aspects however, are laughably bad.

I'm all for a good bonk.

@PuppetMaster What I class as proper video game core mechanics usually executed without fault. They're like virtual chess but with your butt clenched tight enough to crack walnuts.

@Northern_munkey Its one of the few games I class as essentially perfect. An unsung masterpiece

There's the assumption that side scrolling, or twin stick shooters are simplistic affairs but if you watch videos on YouTube of a pro playing something like Nex Machina on Master difficulty it's any but. Looks more like video game poetry in motion.

'The game delves into the themes of exploitation, company towns, and abusive management, showcasing how capitalism has negatively impacted the Halcyon system. Players will encounter situations where workers are exploited and live in company towns designed to keep them in debt. The game also features characters who are critical of capitalism, reminding players that individuals raised in such systems may not understand alternatives to their current lives'
In a game you have to pay £80 for

I'm still in a lobby....Snake Eater

It's one of my personal favourite PS1 games. Voice acting has obviously dated badly but the atmosphere is still denser than a neutron star

Numbers not even ZRodent can compete with

Got a selection of good gameplay options on sale stranger