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This is hilarious. Why are they pushing Aloy so hard!? The supply is way, way above the demand for a bland protagonist like her, and frankly the IP as a whole. Out of touch.

Other devs need to take a leaf out of RGG's book

Yes Khayl, what we all need from Sony is Concord 2.

And we definitely need Sony to focus on soulless cash grabs instead of being passionate about what they do and innovating.

How many people bought the LEGO Horizon game?

Have you considered that she's disliked BECAUSE she's pushed so much? Makes her seem like an industry plant.

Just started Cyberpunk on Boxing Day and been playing It Takes Two with the missus

Just finished this game and got some proper belly laughs out of it. Highlight of the game is the guy with the big head

@Darude84 I wish I could go through Bloodborne for the first time again

Gonna treat myself to Cyberpunk with all the trimmings

Queen Michele - Debra Wilson

Please! You don't need to convince me anymore!

It's very simple. Alanah Pearce spread fake news on her channel and in the footage from the game awards you can clearly see the Game Science devs in the background smiling, not crying.

People have already done breakdowns of this on YouTube.

I know of multiple people that refunded BL3 directly because of the millennial writing and reddit humour. Kind of explains why that game is always on sale for 90% off. The Borderlands movie isn't exactly going to help change people's expectations either

Still playing Nioh 2 and loving it. Might take me ~80 hours to do all the main and sub missions but I'm over halfway now

I'm so glad hitstop is back in, combat would have felt off without it

@DonJorginho He's a shill for pointing out a blatant double-standard? Okay, cope.

@somnambulance I don't get the negativity either. This month seems much better than other months this year at the very least.

I think it's a good month overall which I haven't thought for a while!

@DennisReynolds MKX is arguably the best NRS game purely for the combat system and the roster. Ask anyone who plays fighting games regularly and they'll likely tell you they're favourite is MK9 or MKX. To say MKX is easily the weakest game is absurd.

Haven't long heard of this game but it looks sick, definitely gonna play it

Deserved. The entire dialogue surrounding Chinese gamers buying it always seemed weird, like as if they didn't count or something? Maybe those Chinese gamers only like to play games that look fun? They didn't all sprout out of the ground at once JUST to play Wukong.

Plus the PS5 sold really well in China, so a lot of Chinese gamers are probably playing on that not PC so Steam numbers aren't a direct indication of a sudden Chinese wave of players either.

@Deemo37 Well it couldn't have been that bad, it sold 25 million copies in a month. I compared it to Hogwarts Legacy because it was the best selling game of the year. If it wasn't nearly as popular I doubt Nintendo would have bothered filing their insidious patent just to spite them because they've had the monopoly on that sort of game for decades and wanted a slice of Palworld's profits. Notice how they didn't file said patent when the likes of Nexomon or TemTem were infringing upon the claims of that patent.
I take your point that it's hard to place it in any one category though. Possibly a nomination for best indie or game direction because of the approach they took to that genre of game that clearly appealed to millions.
Either way, I thought the comparison to Hogwarts Legacy was interesting and justified.

Seems like Palworld has been given the Hogwarts Legacy treatment and has been crowned "Most Controversial Game" this year or "Too Controversial for The Game Awards".

I also think Rebirth might do a Spiderman 2 from last year and get nominated for a bunch of awards but not win any.

Spark the Electric Jester 3

Veilguard being nominated is a joke

Nioh 2
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Little Nightmares 2

Are the accessibility options good enough to enable one-handed play? Just curious.

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and Little Nightmares 2.

Not sure what to play after these two but there's plenty in the backlog.

@LowDefAl BotW and Elden Ring outsold both Horizon games and there wasn't anything stopping Guerrilla from bringing Horizon FW forward. I'm not heavily invested in the matter though, I just think its funny as a meme.

Horizon stans are adorable

Horizon devs take note

The only live service Horizon I would play is Forza

At this rate they'll push it back to August 6th or 9th the way they're going iykyk

Got over 60 hours in Hades with 20+ successful runs and I'm still hooked. Trying to unlock everything now. Probably the best game I've played this year.

I can't believe this is a real game. Absolute genius idea

Let's separate the fans from the consoomers

I don't think most people think the big takeaway from the Concord fiasco is "live service = bad" and I don't think arbitrarily trying to define what the term means is productive or necessary.
Concord failed spectacularly because it was late to the hero shooter party, didn't offer anything new, was less fun than the alternatives and wasn't free to play. Nevermind that Sony decided to create a roster from scratch instead of doing what Marvel Rivals did and use existing, well known characters that people would naturally be intrigued to play. There's a bunch of other reasons as well.
Being able to update and patch games on the fly sounds great until the dev abuses that ability and releases an unfinished mess with the intention of finishing it later because it's clueless, impatient investors needed their ROI yesterday. Hence, very few games nowadays are feature complete.

One of my favourite devs. If he's able to produce a better product in a new environment then God speed. Now that DMC might have had it's last entry, a new character-action game IP from Itsuno would be amazing

Good review @LiamCroft

Metal Gear Solid... for the first time

@ChrisDeku As a result of modern game journalism

It's almost like real gamers like immersion and escapism and dislike propaganda. Crazy!

I'm having to stop myself playing DMC5 and Balatro to get through my backlog, starting with Like a Dragon: Ishin.
Also been playing Teardown which is something a bit different

1. Hades
2. Balatro
3. Vampire Survivors
4. Enter the Gungeon
5. Dicey Dungeons (Very hard)

Haven't played Returnal or Dead Cells yet and my personal favourite isn't even on PS5 and that's Into the Breach! Cult of the Lamb is pretty good but it's a rogue-lite so not included.

I think right now the genre is over-saturated but the best rogue-likes always seem to be ones that are the most addictive

I'll always remember how blown away I was by the first game. Thematically outstanding. A personal favourite of mine.

@TheAmbienWalrus Big fan of the profile pic. IYKYK haha

Tunic
It's like classic Zelda meets Dark Souls, so as you would expect - fantastic level design!
Didn't think it would be this good!

I haven't been able to put down Chained Echoes for about two weeks. It's stellar

sigh goddammit

oh my Christ they actually did the corporate pizza party meme
could Microsoft be any more out of touch

Just finished Evil West so moving onto Neon White. Been playing some Peglin on mobile too, would recommend

Well deserved, fantastic game

Foolishness, Dante. Foolishness...