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@jFug yeah but if you experiment without first establishing a core foundation it can make a series look directionless.

With how fast they’re pumping these out I’m worried the series comeback will burnout too quick.

Pretty much the definition of good but not great. Some nice surprises and good gameplay shown off but also too long with a lot of filler. Solid, but not spectacular.

Hands up, who forgot Kena was a thing before this. Honestly though, it looks good but in a very safe way. I wouldn’t be surprised if a chart was involved in making it.

This really is Concord 2 isn’t it.

Oh that’s not good for a tag fighter.

So this will be multi platform right? Be stupid if this was exclusive.

Yeah I guarantee the run time is down to long gameplay showcases and talking head segments. Not much will be shown off but there will be a lot of what is.

@LikelySatan I know and nobody cares about them because there’s no announcements at them.

I mean let’s be honest no one is actually watching it for the awards. They’re watching it for the trailers. I’d actually like to see them do one without trailers as a test for how popular the show actually is.

Oh *****! Time to relive some memories.

Pretty sure that’s just a base Robit Master skeleton and not an actual idea for what the boss should be. It can be whatever you want.

Is this even worth reporting. This should be obvious.

Good for Expedition 33 winning so many awards. I didn’t get into it but it clearly resonated with a lot of people so the awards are deserved.

Except for best indie game. It should not have been nominated for that. It clearly had too much money behind it for it to be fully independent. I think it’s a sad sign when an obvious AA game is considered indie. We really need to start defining what an “indie” actually is.

Sad to say but AI isn’t going anywhere. Honestly though if it’s only used for this kind of profile art then that’s probably the best thing we can hope for. If you’re going to use it at least keep it for something minor and not anything in the game itself.

And yet he does not provide a number to go with that statement.

Am I the only one who thought Wolverine only looked ok. I mean it looks like it will be good but nothing to get too excited for. Need to see more of it.

Is anyone expecting much from this. State of Plays have never been that good.

@SuntannedDuck2 but if this is meant to be a Switch competitor then it misses the point. The Switch needs the dock because the handheld is the console. The dock is how you can play it on the TV. If this handheld is meant to be a companion to the PS6 then the dock is completely pointless. You already have the console to play on the TV, you don’t need it for the handheld.

Wait, if the handheld is meant to be a companion to the main PS6 unit then why would it need a dock? The dock is the PS6.

@PuppetMaster I agree but that’s because this series has historically not sold particularly well. I had heard this Guilty Gear was the one to break it into the mainstream and I’m not sure if I fully agree with that.

It sounds more impressive if you ignore the full context. Earning an extra million players in two years isn’t great. It shows how stagnant its growth has been.

@themightyant oh no I agree with you there. I don’t like cinematic games much but there’s room for all kinds of games. If you are criticise TLOU2, and there are things in it to criticise legitimately without needing to resort to hyperbole and bigotry, you should criticise it based on how the game is, not just the kind of game it is.

@themightyant not disagreeing with everything but I need to push back against point 3. While there are people who simply want games to be arcade style fun, I do not think they are against games being art. Nor do I think people like Druckman, Kojima and Blow elevated the medium to “art”.

Videogames have always been art. From Pong to Astro Bot it’s always been art. The idea that it became art to me shows a complete lack of respect for the medium. Yes games got more emotional over time, but that doesn’t mean they suddenly became art. Art is simply an act of creative expression, and videogames, even in the early days, have always been that.

Looks like Season 2 didn’t go as planned. Wonder if season 3 will actually happen now.

Yikes. That’s not a good look.

@SeaDaVie well therein lies the problem, you can’t really use statistical measurements to gauge the consensus on opinions. There are ways of doing so, like Rotten Tomatoes for movies, but they can never give you the full picture since the vast majority of audiences don’t engage with that kind of thing to begin with.

But really I don’t know why you’re arguing against this when the critical reviews of DS were mixed and even the people who liked the game said it wasn’t for everyone. Apparently Kojima reworked large parts of DS2 because play testers liked it too much. Meaning the games are designed to be divisive. I don’t know if that’s true but it would make sense given the response.

@SeaDaVie i remember the discourse when the game came out, and it was indeed very mixed. Just browsing this comment section is enough to infer that. Also, Steam Reviews aren’t 100% reliable either since those can be subject to things like review bombing. I don’t think that’s what happened to Death Stranding, my point is that using stuff like Steam Reviews to gauge a general consensus without looking at other sources will not give you an accurate picture.

@SeaDaVie dude I remember when it first came out. The reception was incredibly mixed. On Metacritic it has a 7.4 which is considered mixed so there you go. The steam release is also the Directors cut not the og.

You know the first game was divisive right? It’s not that uncommon for sequels to those to sell less than their predecessors. In fact, it’s not that uncommon for sequels to do worse in general.

This is the most defensive article I’ve ever read, and I don’t understand why? If it does well it does well and if it doesn’t it doesn’t. If you bought it and liked it that should be all that matters. It doing well doesn’t affect you at all.

Curious to see how this does with players. Will it be as divisive as the first game? Considering Kojima redid parts because people liked it too much it’s possible but we’ll have to wait and see.

I think that says more about how bad the PlayStation brand has been at turning a profit than it does the success of PS5

It’s dead. No way it’s getting released now, Sony can’t afford another Concord.

That is impressive, in a vacuum. But when compared to other presentations it’s actually really bad. I mean the last Nintendo Indie World presentation got that many views and those are of much lower profile. This isn’t evidence of them getting better it’s evidence of how much of a failure they’ve been.

It was an alright show but it felt like it was carried by the final couple reveals.

I think this is the definition of an ok presentation that ended great. The final reveals were amazing, minus the Ghost of Yotei tease that was lame, but everything up to that point was only just alright.

If this season goes where we all know it’s going, that audience increase could prove to be a curse in disguise.

I wonder what the reaction to this season will be like considering what it’s adapting. Livorno it or hate it Part 2 had some major structural issues and thematic or that aren’t easy to fix.

After the Netflix show is anyone upset this thing is dead.

This isn’t much of a victory.

I mean it’s not like there’s much competition for it. Not many other new big games are out there atm which is probably why they delayed it. Plus, say what you want about it, the AC formula is one a lot of people like.

@RoomWithaMoose eh, bit of column a bit of column b

Not surprised AC Shadows isn’t doing too great in Japan with all the controversy surrounding it.

@GymratAmarillo but then why bother with the Switch at all? Wouldn’t it make more sense to go all in on their own handheld thing. Then again these were probably greenlit before the portal came out so I’m probably overthinking this. Still it is weird Sony would do this when the could use more diversity in their exclusives, or just having more exclusives in general.

@GymratAmarillo but then why would Sony not capitalise on that. You’d think after seeing the success Nintendo hadwith the Switch they would try something similar. I know they had that weird portal thing, but that felt like a half measure.

This basically confirms we’re never getting a dedicated Sony handheld ever again. Much more profitable to just make games for Switch instead.

Why is the main villain a white rabbit from Wonderland? Even for this series that’s dumb.

@Ilyn Tbf I don’t think GTA is a good example of that since most who play it just ***** around in the open world. It’s probably better to compare DS to games more akin to it. But I get what you’re saying it’s not a perfect metric for judging these things.