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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.

So happy this is shaping up to be great. Obviously reviews will be the thing to seal the deal for me but I’m excited to get behind a big, ambitious and original new title.

Very excited for this one. Expedition 33, Indy and Doom back to back to back, good grief.

I feel like a lot of the accolades heaped on the Souls game come with hindsight. They are excellent games that altered how we talk about the medium, but if I was an exec during the height of Call of Duty, Halo and Uncharted and you showed me Demon’s Souls, I’d also probably be like “wtf is this”.

Doesn’t help that the marquee announcements get leaked like clockwork. No doubt in my mind that Metal Gear Solid 3’s release date was meant to turn heads but people just mindlessly gobbled the headline 2 days beforehand and said next, causing the actually curated reveal to lose all impact. On what planet does the imminent return of Metal Gear Solid elicit shrugged shoulders?

If I was a dev, I would seriously hate to have my game broadcast on one of these things, only for the Internet to call it ***** because Sony hasn’t made a new Killzone in a while.

Psychonauts 2 looks very tasty

Indiana Jones? 👉👈 Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2 release dates would also be most welcome. Lots to look forward irregardless. Feels like after stalling initially, the floodgates are finally opening for this gen.

Usually a month with said RPG being the only game in rotation. I don’t like juggling multiple titles and dividing my attention.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth took me all summer but I was going for the platinum trophy which really skews the playtime (don’t go for the platinum trophy). Cyberpunk took me all of December and that’s factoring in time off for Christmas to really get stuck in.

Oh, for ***** sake lol

Finally got around to playing it throughout January. My first Silent Hill and I loved it. The original is held aloft as a sacred cow so remaking it was no easy feat. Bloober Team did an excellent job preserving Team Silent’s secret sauce, modernising the recipe where necessary and putting their own stamp on it. The success is well earned and hopefully bodes well for Silent Hill and other Konami IP. Enemy variety could have been greater but I’ll live.

@nomither6 Please tell me you did not just insult Terry Bogard from Super Smash Bros!

Joking please nobody kill me. The SNK characters are clearly a labour of love for the SF6 team. I think they would be less polarising if they arrived late in the game’s lifespan and not while players are anxious for SF characters to return in what are smaller content seasons compared to less time.

Been very much looking forward to this. Between this and Doom, I have much to look forward to.

I’ve heard nothing but good things. However, one has to wonder what the long term plan is at Ubisoft. Games don’t just appear out of thin air. What was the point of Skull of Bones (bad as it was) if another, more popular Ubisoft pirate sim was going to come along and steal its thunder?

Game dev has gotten slower and more expensive. It was frustrating to see Sony overly push the live service stuff when it was unclear what their studios were actually making. Insomniac, Asobi, Santa Monica and Guerrilla have now brought the goods and we now know what Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch are cooking. Sony clearly hasn’t abandoned their bread and butter. Concord was a high profile dud but there are enough successes elsewhere to suggest there’s room for more than one kind of game.

Game dev seems like the most problematic, stressful and miserable profession there is. I don’t know why anyone does it.

Microsoft is already in the PC space with Windows so I think it makes sense they would use that platform to supplement their gaming business. Nintendo can manage on their own, I reckon. Sony remains to be seen if development costs continue to rise.

Capcom feels like the only AAA company that doesn’t have a miasma of instability surrounding it.

Wasn’t it confirmed a while ago that MediEvil is getting some sort of adaptation from PlayStation Productions? I could see that prompting a new game to tie in with it, same with Twisted Metal.