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@KeanuReaves Overtime is a financial and emotional plus when you like working more than not.

@Oram77 High pay and prestige = desirable

@RoomWithaMoose But it's more fun to play armchair business person who loves to second guess economic decisions by firms.

@Jayslow More like poor understanding of capitalism. Losses (including jobs) are just as important as profits in a market economy.

@IOI Agree.

@IOI Consumer tastes are erratic as the "we want new IP" vs "please remake this game" comments here demonstrate. Businesses try to gauge demand and often get it wrong (greed is irrelevant).

@amatmulisha Not a fan of turn based either. The dodging and parrying made it an exception to the rule.

@JoeNobody Lots of Monday morning corporate quarterbacking by people who don't understand business or economics (losses are actually just as important as profits).

I really want to get it but it seems like a "play for a few months" game like Elden Ring; Crimson Desert is out next month so need to make room for that.

@Andee Not a terrible state but a valuable lesson for the gaming industry. Markets are essentially large, ongoing experiments: millions of people try ideas, products, and ways of working to see what actually creates value. Profit is the reward for getting it right, while losses are the signal that something isn’t working and resources should move elsewhere. Mistakes aren’t a failure of the system—they’re the mechanism by which it learns. Over time, this trial-and-error process tends to favor better solutions and discard worse ones.

Maybe new FromSoft game announcement?

@mac_da_man Same for me but more of a big concern. Hacking with my thumb on the PS5 controller doesn't feel natural during a fight and grew tiresome.

I wonder how much releasing a month before Christmas is a factor.

I feel like I've seen enough that I will enjoy it even if it suffers from some issues like low framerate.

"Thanks for nothing Geoff" lol

Apparently they didn't pay more for that spot. So strange.

Geoff must be really into these type of games or he has lost touch with where gaming sentiments are at the moment.

Have a difficult decision coming up with this and Nioh 3 releasing within a week of each other.

@Scottyy I just finished Returnal for the first time a few weeks ago and it's shot up to one of my favorite games. It was difficult at first but gets fairly easy once you get the rhythm down (turning on "always run fast" was key). I can see getting really frustrated without being able to save the game that was implemented later.

I tried Demon's Souls shortly after Elden Ring and it felt extremely dated especially the soul crushing runbacks after you die. I bailed about 5 hours.

I picked up Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 on sale and it's feeling tiresome and repetitive after about 90 minutes. Does it get better? I'm just shooting and swinging away at everything that comes at me with no real thought or cleverness along the way.

First Berserker seems worthy of a nomination.

It's becoming white noise and will soon become irrelevant. Same thing is happening with table-top game art and I'm sure other areas I'm not aware of.

Stacked year!

1. Ghost of Yotei
2. Clair Obscur
3. Death Stranding 2

Geoff got bribed ending with this one. lol

The final Highguard premier was a real buzzkill. Not sure what Geoff was thinking saving that for last. Way to end the show with a fizzle.

I just started Eternal a few weeks ago, and wow, did I sleep on it for years. It's starts off pretty brutal but becomes a very addicting game loop once you start making progress.

@ThomasHL "Consolidation is always bad". Silly. Acquisitions often allow assets to be used in more efficient ways including necessary streamlining. Does is always work out? No, but that is not important. Mergers and acquisitions are the means to determine whether a more efficient firm can exist. Knowing the outcome in advance is impossible because the market information doesn't exist yet. +1 creative destruction

@old_gamer74 I'm rubbish at it too but I actually don't mind losing over and over since the game loop is so fun. Hades was kind of like that for me too.

I picked up Returnal on sale, and wow, I slept on that one for years. 9/10 so far.

Demon's Souls run backs got old quick.

@LeeBB_Art I think the anti rich sentiment comes from the zero sum mentality of getting wealthy at the expense of the poor. An economic fallacy for sure, but a common one unfortunately.

@Medic_alert That is the point. You want to empty the homes the rich live in now by building more new supply. The more supply, the more affordability. Agree with you on education mostly being a rip-off (not for doctors though who will be rich in the long run). And agree again on foreign aid that should be zero or only provided in rare circumstances.

@D6rkLordS6t6n Greed is a worthless explanatory concept. You won't find a chapter on it in any economic or business textbook. Care to guess why? I'll give you a hint. Ever hear of "gravity" as being the cause of plane crashes?

@Medic_alert "Abject poverty" in the US is upper middle class in many other countries. What matters is income mobility, and as I said before, wealth is mostly associated with age (the young will at be top when they retire; the extremely wealthy don't hinder this outcome). Inequality is natural and good in a market economy. Equality would mean the same wage for every job and person. Housing and taxes are different topics. With housing, you want to increase supply by making it very easy to build (not the case now because of regulations). The wealthy would move to new housing that would free up old homes that the young can afford. Have you looked at a US projected debt chart lately? This country is facing default/bankruptcy in a few decades. The debt is expected to be 200% of GDP by 2040 (banana republic levels). Increasing taxes won't come close to fixing. Huge entitlement reform including "cuts" will have to occur to avoid.

@D6rkLordS6t6n 100% agree with you in cases of accumulating wealth through cronyism, which does not expand the economic pie.

@Medic_alert False narrative. The US is EXTREMELY rich compared to other countries. The US is an outlier with its high per capita GDP. The middle class has been shrinking over decades but not because the middle class has become poorer but because it has moved into high income quintiles.

@LeeBB_Art $500-$600 billion philanthropic money per year. The rich care about legacy and like their names on buildings, parks, charities, etc.

@LeeBB_Art And what do people think the rich do with their money? The spend it (more jobs), save it (more loanable funds), fund parks, hospitals, libraries, museums and charities. Less of this is better? Silly.

@nessisonett Society becoming richer is better than becoming poorer and being "rich" is mostly attributed to your age (i.e., income mobility). The poor are young who accumulate wealth over time.

@D6rkLordS6t6n You can't stop it though. The end result of AI and automation is a society where everyone is "rich" in the sense that it will mostly be a leisure society since basic needs such as housing, food and transportation are zero or nearly zero cost. The transition will be the tricky part with stuff like basic minimum incomes assisting along the way.

@nessisonett As an economic concept, AI is a technology whose effect is automation.

Seems inevitable and will soon be forgotten as controversial as the grocery check out machines.

@Oram77 It was weird. You could tell it was an adult pretending to be a kid or some sort of audio modification.

@Futureshark Maybe the GOTY snub will help.

@Tatarimokke I'm not a fan of turned based either but the dodging and parrying was the element that made it work for me. If that sounds appealing, there is a good chance you will enjoy.

I see these nine as having the best chance:

-Expedition 33
-Donkey Kong Bananza
-Death Stranding 2
-Ghost of Yotei
-Hades 2
-Hollow Knight Silksong
-Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
-Blue Prince
-Split Fiction

Fans will inevitably be upset by the three excluded assuming six are chosen.

One of the worst in recent memory

Picked up Nier Automata 60% off.