DiggleDog

@AhmadSumadi the God of War live service game that was foisted on them and then cancelled by Sony.

Layoffs all over the shop.

Another Last of Us edition and a Horizon kart racer ought to smooth this over.

Genuinely have to wonder what the state of video game fandom will be like in the future. How are people supposed to get attached to franchises when half their life comes and goes between releases.

@LifeGirl makes sense. Forever onto the next big thing in order to make content (which is not a criticism, it’s their job).

The arrival of a new machine unavoidably creates a sensation of FOMO. Even with the discipline of knowing not to buy at launch, the worry that your hobby is leaving you behind is there. Given how much this generation has stalled and how expensive everything has become, I completely get why no one wants a new console and count myself among them.

This man seems to have a comically myopic view of gaming for someone who created one of its landmark series. A God of War metroidvania just makes an insane amount of sense.

I’m not particularly interested in this but it does fulfil one of my big wishes for Sony: smaller, inexpensive first party output with quicker turnarounds to ease the long waits in between big releases

Horizon is a funny series. The core games sell and review really well but any attempts to spin off or broaden the IP go down like a lead balloon (that Lego game was a misfire too).

Too many people treat metacritic scores as some sort of priceless currency. The idea that one person’s opinion could materially impact a game’s success is hilarious drivel. Products don’t need their honour defended. Obviously, blatantly misrepresenting something isn’t ethical but that seems exceedingly rare.

I’m hoping it’s in a similar vein to the Beyond Good and Evil 20th Anniversary remaster. Rayman was my first game. It holds a special place in my heart so I’ll support it, provided Ubisoft doesn’t cancel it.

Return on Investment

When was the last time Ubisoft was in the news for something good? Clown show company.

I feel as though a big part of E33’s underdog story is how it really went against the grain in virtually all respects. It’d be crazy of them to homogenise now.

This game was easily my most pleasant surprise of the year. I grew up with Layton and wanted to support Level 5 but I did not think I would lose my entire June to it. Now, if grinding and crafting to unlock more grinding and crafting isn’t your cup of dopamine, you probably won’t see the appeal, but otherwise it’s a dangerously addictive experience.

I was the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the TV meme when I saw the Rayman bot.

Seems like a very iterative sequel which feels underwhelming given the length of time between 11.

EA is Dead Weight.

I really enjoyed the remaster last Halloween so I’m all in.

Beyond development hell

Call of Duty is a parody of Triple A game development at this point. I’m glad people are aware of its hard pivot into slop and are actually doing the vote with your wallet thing.

They’re a bit on the bland side for my taste but these games are undeniable show pieces for PlayStation hardware. I like Zero Dawn well enough but wasn’t in love with it. Bought Forbidden West anyway it was the game that sold me on the PS5 as a generational leap.

No can douken.

Mr. Spencer, tear down this wall

What?! No squat mini game?!

Always happy to see Rayman get some love. Such a criminally mismanaged IP. Cool to see things happening but would have been nice to see them come to fruition in time for the actual anniversary.

I feel like this is a hard plateau for most people when it comes to entertaining eSports as an actual athletic contest. Capcom is trying to portray this as some massive fight night event and it just isn’t lol.

Clair Obscur seems to have done quite well for itself despite the shadow drop of Oblivion. I understand the frustration, and yes some games are just going to absorb more attention than others, but this call out culture for the crime of doing business seems silly.

I enjoy the Mafia games but I’ve yet to play one that hasn’t had some major caveats. I’ll probably grab this around Black Friday time.

Life hasn’t been this worth living since Ronda Rousey said she played Majora’s Mask.

Is a man not entitled to a remake of his game?

Ubisoft is actually a parody

The timing of this announcement is morbidly comedic, given every other crumb of news coming out of Xbox.

@DennisReynolds this is such an underrated part of all this. The game is sensational but, more importantly, extremely accessible by today’s pricing.

Coming up on 100 hours and showing no signs of wanting to stop. Most pleasant surprise of the year for me.

Loathe as I am to admit it, I think Mario Kart World may have beaten Garfield Kart: All You Can Drift.

My dream job in gaming is to be the person at Capcom who comes up how to sneak the sequel number into the title of whatever new Resident Evil is coming out.

Game looks phenomenal.

Oh wow, this is exciting. Loved Silent Hill 2 Remake so I will be watching this with great interest.

@nhSnork real hardcore gamers with expensive houses and beautiful girlfriends remember when Crash Nitro Kart had anti gravity mechanics back in 2003

It is sort of a dark age for Doom in that sense

Was talking to a mate about this. Imagine being Ubisoft, known French publisher, and the game that has electrified interest in the French gaming industry is Clair Obscur, a game spearheaded by a Ubisoft refugee who hated working there.

The Last of Us 2 is an interesting game because it doesn’t ask us to consider the possibility that the hero of our story might be the villain of someone else’s. Instead, it confronts us with the reality that this is the case and rips Joel away from us in a way that leaves us as shocked and unprepared as real world loss. I think it perfectly exemplifies the brutality of the story’s setting. It’s a purposefully controversial and bruising decision but so many people refuse to acknowledge that there is a distinction between not looking something and something being objectively bad.

And let’s be real, Joel, the stoic masculine action hero emblematic of the PS3 era, being offed so that a lesbian and another woman could take the spotlight was always going to drive the usual suspects demented.

I was “wheeee” but this makes me “whoooo”

Gears of Console War

LittleBigPlanet was the game that made me beg my parents to get a PS3 all those years ago and the game that convinced them because they appreciated how it stimulated creativity and problem solving. Sad times indeed.

A well deserved success that shows you can improve on perfection. Capcom has to be the most consistent publisher in the triple A space right now.

Exceptional vision, spectacularly realised and at a price that’s too good to be true for modern triple A.

Expedition 33 will absolutely go down as a stone cold classic of the generation.

8/10 for me. Naturally, being invested in the source material elevates it. Definitely greater than the sum of its parts. The individual systems and mechanics have been done better elsewhere but the overall experience of role playing as Indy and seeing his world so expertly and lovingly rendered in another medium more than makes up for it.

The collectible relics and artefacts are tedious and content for content’s sake but mercifully they’re optional.

Pre-order locked and loaded. I haven’t played the previous 32 Expedition games but I’m excited to jump in with this one.

Getting Dragon Age for free when it’s ordinarily €80 feels like an honest to god life hack.