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There's also no point in the messages if most of the gameplay /content is randomized anyway.

Monster Hunter in 14th is actually criminal. Y'all are hella uncultured.

"there wasn't a single PS Studios game for the headset in 2024"

As someone who doesn't like VR, so I don't follow that stuff at all, this is still absolutely wild to me. I'm curious how much in general released for the thing then, because I would've figured Sony would have AT THE VERY LEAST a handful of (smaller) projects for their own darn hardware ready each year this early in its life.

Right?

And today on "gross losers' stupid twitter takes"...

JFC, I just can't anymore with the chuds.

I still disagree that there's ZERO justification for Erdtree in the GOTY category because that was just a wholea** videogame, imho. Like, if it was the size of the other Soulsborne games' DLCs, I'd be with y'all. Sure.

But we're talking 30h of new content here.

Yeah, gotta agree with the blurb on DD2. The story is..not good. And they somehow managed to tell it in an even worse way than the original's one.

But the game is just so...fun.

I spent more than 100 hours on it because the adventure/journey itself is just so good. Sure, enemy variety could be better, I'd love to have one or two more attack skills at a time and there's...no dungeons this time, which is odd. But all that doesn't matter to me when I actually sit down to play it. The game just immediately takes hold of my attention when I jump back in in a way DD1/DA didn't manage to and I think a lot of it has to do with how seemingly effortlessly Dragon's Dogma 2 delivers on moment to moment gameplay as you travel and it feels SO good to absolutely body enemies.

It's a shame that it ultimately fell so short in certain areas. And even more so what it did to the fandom and how incredibly toxic it could get.

I think the writing was absolutely on the wall with concord after seeing the cast. Not because of some dumb horses*** like DEI, "wokeness" or whatever but because the character designs were all INCREDIBLY bland in a game that's supposed to pull you in with its roster and also because the genre is just...dead, mostly.

You're either an established hero shooter or you sink like a rock. The only reason why Marvel Rivals is as popular as it seems to be is because IT IS MARVEL

I think I'm officially too old for internet discourse because this looks...cool to me.

It's absolutely wild to me how anyone could jump from this straight to "concord 2", which seems to be all I see...anywhere else online really, and even wilder how the main character apparently looks like she's supposed to pander to whatever the hell "modern audiences" are in some of those crybabies' minds. Internet brainrot at its finest.

I wouldn't name it my game of the year but after kind of..scoffing at the thought of a flippin' poker rogue like being in the running for the award before I gave it a shot...
Yeah. I can see why it's this successful and how it got so much praise. The game is damn great as a little time waster if you got five-ten minutes to kill.

And even for an hour long session in the evening, admittedly 😅
Kind of nice to wind down with after work.

It's not even difficult, just tedious. These trophies for new game plus on games that can last A HUNDRED HOURS are dogs***

MonHan. 100%. I'm not gonna spend the ENTIRE time with the beta, I'm not that desperate to play Wilds, yet, but it's so much fun to just figure out what's new on the weapons and I really like the selection of monsters in the demo. Game's gonna be amazing.

Apart from that I'll continue to try to get more of Metaphor's trophies. I THINK I missed the debates a second now but I should be able to get the rest, at least. I hope. Game's really fun but I don't think I can go for a third run..

And here we go. Let's turn every dumb take online into an article.

Forget the waifus.

I'm hyped for Knightboo and his majestic steed

I've not beaten it yet, so I'm not gonna rate it just yet, but if I had to put a score on what I've played so far (up to the fourth town/big dungeon, haven't done much there yet) it's probably a 9 tho.

Takes all the good stuff from persona and gets rid of all the things I dislike about that series with a HEALTHY portion of SMT in the sense that the game will punch you in the lower regions, repeatedly, if you don't pay attention to what it tells and teaches you.

The reason I'm not "feeling the Pro" is that the POS doesn't even come with a disc drive. The price is ridiculous, mind, but not being able to play physical media out of the box is a deal breaker and I doubt I'll ever get a 100% digital system, even as someone who DOES like the convenience of having digital copies of certain games (my dumb fanboy ass usually buys monster hunter twice..one to put on the shelf, one to fire up without having to switch discs, I'm obsessed and lazy like that with the series)

Well, I'm actually real happy about Dead Space after I thought I'd get essential for Plucky Squire and that game just...sucks. Thought it'd be a fun little Zelda-ish playing title but it's incredibly bland, all style over substance.

I just don't see the value in the thing. I own a bunch of physical copies of games that would be useless without the disc drive and I do not believe a slightly crispier image is worth close to 1000€, if I also want to continue to be able to play those games.

Thing is hella overpriced and beyond content creators and people like the pushsquare staff, who kind of.."have to" be able to report on how the thing is, it doesn't seem like something for regular customers.

Well, besides those with too much money and too little gray matter, maybe. Legitimately think you have to be a bit of a dumbo to support that insanity.

Midnight again..oh well, gonna catch up in the morning like usual.

I'm sure fans of a Lovecraft inspired action game will take this well.

I might get a month of extra for Plucky Squire. Depends on how much time I'll have in the coming weeks.

When the reviews popped up I was expecting people to exaggerate. It obviously wasn't gonna be bad or even mediocre. But GOTY material? My cute little robot platformer?
Well, I'm about two thirds into the game - 200ish out of the 304 bots saved - and I gotta say.

This is ACTUALLY game of the year material. The cynic in me wants to attribute that to an absolute dogs*** 2024. Rebirth was great, DD2 was fun but ultimately failed to do what we were told it would.. Uh, what else released this year? Wukong, ig, no interest. I love ZZZ but it's not really a GOTY contender, I'd say.

But Astro Bot does nothing wrong. It's just doing it's thing, which is being pleasant and cute. And it NAILED that. It's a joy to play, there's even a couple challenges to be had here and the bosses are great examples of how you can take Mario's base and improve aspects of that (Mario games suck at doing bosses, without exception)
All the little animations, the music, THE LEVEL DESIGN..it's just a good ass platformer in an industry where we only get indie shlock and 1 (one) Nintendo platformer every couple years if we're lucky. The last good 3d platformer we had was either Kirby Forgotten Land or Crash 4, both released YEARS ago.

I legit hope this shows all those AAA devs that there's a market not only for lower budget projects but also platformers with AAA quality outside of Nintendo's ecosystem. If Astro Bot isn't a success it's only because people have bad taste and Sony could've marketed it even harder lol

Godspeed, cute little robot game. Hope you clean house during award season.

I know I shouldn't but I think I'd actually be willing to drop cash on Caesar.
It's 100% the monster hunter, sword and shield main brainrot but she looks amazing lol

Never been as enthralled by a gacha game as with this tho. I tried Genshin, Starrail AND Impact (the latter even before Genshin was a thing) but none of the three big Hoyo games ever did much for me. I can see why people enjoy them, they just don't grab me.

ZZZ had its hooks in me from damn near second 0 (heh..), it just does so much stuff I enjoy all at once. This update is legitimately the most excited I am for anything gaming related this remaining year atm. Which either says a lot about me or the rest of 2024.. 😅
Regardless, I hope my luck streak continues. So far I actually haven't lost a single 50/50. Knock on wood.

Sony are absolutely out of their mind, 950€ for this nonsense if you have a physical collection, which I assume most on here do.

I'll just stick with what I have, thank you very much.

@GymratAmarillo at least until Gta 6 inevitably sells an absolute f*** ton and all the suits and investors scramble to have their own billion dollar, mega game that "will surely be just as successful".

These people - the decision makers - called Concord one of their biggest projects alongside stuff like God of War and Last of Us, like, two or three months ago. Those guys are not just out of the loop, they're COMPLETELY disconnected from reality.

@SlySnake0407 particularly when they already had early access before releasing the "finished game"

I guess in BG3's case that just meant "we have endings now" and not that they were done. These near constant additions of new story beats and endings honestly kind of turned me off playing more of the game at the time, I think I clocked around 150 hours, total, and never actually did the final boss. Altho that's prow more due to act 3 just being...kinda boring to me.

At this point, and knowing what kind of stuff ATLUS put in their trailers at times, I'll just wait for reviews and to find out how well (or how badly) they handle the time management part of it.

If it's like persona - and you either need to play with a guide or finish it multiple times - and as long as I expect I'm probably gonna pass.
A game has to be an absolute banger of an action game, which this isn't, for me to even consider doing more than one run at this point in my life. I don't want to sit through lengthy RPGs multiple times.

I already have a full time job.

Expecting a date for Wilds there.

Wilds looks f***ing amazing in all the weapon previews, I seriously hope we get the gamescom demo as download after the convention is closing.

So.. Yeah. That's my pick.

@NEStalgia it's digital only in Europe.

"Changed the placement of the bosses in the re-fight against the Golden Hippopotamus and Commander Gaius bosses to be in the same position as in the first fight."

Praise the golden will, that fight was (/is) an absolute s***show and the enemy placement is a HUGE part of that. I'd have liked to see them fix his hitboxes, too, tho. Because as it is you straight up cannot hurt gaius during a couple of his attacks which completely invalidates ranged options during those moments, the worst offender is his charge that tracks you and keeps going until it hits you.

That could be a major turn off for me, if the game ends up being 80-100 hours long.

These guys seriously need to learn to respect their players' time.

@Korgon while I do agree that the dlc definitely feels fair for 99% of it (Gaius just sucks), I'll argue that elden ring as a whole is entirely over designed in some areas.

I've beaten all of the bosses in the base game and most of the dlc ones (still playing through that) but some absolutely do feel like they're playing by different rules from the tarnished and that just sucks. It doesn't matter if you can overcome that gap or not. It's bad game design to have almost every single boss "cheat the system" in some way.

Some breeds of Souls fans will ignore every mechanic and tool they perceive as "too helpful" and then whine about not being able to adapt their ten year-old playstyle to the latest game's design..

That would actually make me WANT to play in coop because the current system is complete dog..

They seriously need to consider getting rid of some their more pointless /irritating design "quirks". And I say that as someone who's played these games - multiple times in most cases - and is generally a big fan of the overall vibes and structure of the "series"

@ShogunRok many people actually suspected the account changed hands after the first "break from leaking" because "Midori" suddenly threw a ton of info on different publishers beyond SEGA out there.

Turns out we were...technically right about that not being Midori lol
But technically correct is also the best kind of correct so yay for us.

@Milt it's fairly cheap considering it's basically offering the same amount of content and quality as DMC and Bayonetta do within the genre.

If you can fit it into your budget for gaming/hobbies and enjoy character action games it's a no-brainer and it also has a super unique, fun twist on top.

Did we really need two TLOU and GoW and THREE Spider-Man titles in this?

Edit: didn't notice Horizon for a sec, so much variety..

Oh no!!

...whatever. The game looks great in the footage released so far, I'm sure I'll forget it runs at 30 two hours into it.
Or until I pop something in that does 60 somewhere in between playing DD2.
Would I have preferred 60fps? Of course. But I've been gaming long enough to know it's not gonna make the game magically feel like it has tank controls/feel jank as hell.

I am, however, looking forward to reading some meltdowns later today.

@Yuyukirby there's nothing unresolved about that s***, mate. The only shameful thing here is that they didn't pull the trigger WEEKS ago.

There's five TLOU games by now.
Three of them are remasters.

What the hell, ND?

Makes you feel really appreciated.

Even when the last couple rumors talked about it being "just" a remaster and not a full on remake in the style 2, I was pretty excited about the idea of the game with updated visuals and the potential of new, modern features.

This **** is just sad.