KilloWertz

Unknown 9: Awakening

I know this was a massive failure and got review bombed online, but after a few hours I've been enjoying it so far.

It doesn't take long to get used to the 30 FPS, and I'm not sure why some people had such an issue with the game kind of feeling like a PS3 game. That generation had some of the best times, so I'm fine with that.

Resident Evil 7

With the recent announcement of Resident Evil 9, I'm going back and playing the last two games I never played. I'm deep into it now, and aside from a couple of very frustrating boss battles (mainly Jack), I'm enjoying it.

I liked the first game well enough to get the sequel, but it would take a really special game to get me to even consider paying $80 on day 1 for a game. I'll just wait.

@MasterVGuides Given Microsoft's history of not putting anywhere near the full game on a disc, I wouldn't hold my breath that the disc will be nothing more than a coaster like Indiana Jones and Doom are.

Since this kind of a State of Play has been massively disappointing in the past, I'm keeping my expectations the same as I always do with these now... I'm not going to bother watching it. I'd rather spend my time playing something than watching what I usually end up being a waste of time.

If it surpasses those expectations like the one did that had Resident Evil 4 and other games in it, then great. I can watch the trailers later.

@OldGamer999 Why? As greedy as Nintendo is being with the Switch 2, they don't deserve anything.

Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card DLC

Now that I'm finally done with Baldur's Gate 3, I have moved on to something else. I know Star Wars Outlaws was a popular game to crap on, but I always enjoyed it. Now going back to it after all the patches were applied, it is basically what the game should've been from the beginning. I also am finding the Wild Card DLC to be fun so far.

It's guaranteed that the viewership would be lower for the finale no matter what excuses Sammy and other people come up with. There's no denying that a portion of the viewers stopped watching after Joel got killed. They weren't going to suddenly come back for the finale.

I continue to watch to see if they can actually turn around some of the portions of the story from the game that I disliked, but so far they've basically streamlined a lot of the story in Season 2 and not for the better.

It's going to be real interesting to see how many non-gamers stick with the show next season when they realize they'll be watching a season that will be dominated by Abby.

I'll happily claim Alone in the Dark and Bomb Rush Cyberpunk. I know the reviews for the former weren't great, but I'll still gladly play it for free. I'll claim NBA 2K25 and probably not play it like I do most years with NBA 2K.

@EfYI I don't think I ever did that intentionally, but that is kind of funny.

I intentionally spoiled myself going into the game, so I knew I was going to have to play as her at some point. I came to terms with that, but then it just kept going on and on and on. Obviously the last straw was, like I said, then turning around the one fight scene from earlier in the game and making you fight Ellie instead.

I'm glad people enjoyed the game, but unfortunately the story killed it for me. Just judging the game itself, it was actually better than the first one. The story though? Not even close.

@Ironcore One could make the argument that both Ellie and Abby are each the bad guys, but imo that is a major problem I always had with the game. I'm all for realism in games, but at the same time it's a video game. A video game I bought to play as Ellie. I don't care if her actions were bad. Of course they were, but again, it's a game. A game where the last straw for me was forcing me to fight Ellie as Abby.

The viewership for Season 3 is going to be really interesting given how likely a decent amount of people stopped watching after Joel got killed off so early and given how much of Season 3 will likely be just Abby's story. Obviously, just like the games, people were watching for Joel and Ellie. Well, I guess them making Ellie unlikeable, taking what they did in the game too far, makes it a bit easier I suppose.

I've always thought it was a pretty poor rewards system, pretty much leaving anybody who doesn't buy everything digitally out in the cold. Same goes if you don't buy games day 1, so I rarely got the rewards points you would get for playing games either.

All in all, a perfect example of PlayStation this generation. I've still enjoyed my PS5, but even the rewards system that could've easily been more useful for more people if they let it was severely flawed, and that goes hand in hand with this generation as a whole.

@roe Same here. I intentionally spoiled myself during "SpoilerGate" for Part 2 to make sure I'd still be alright with playing it. I had no idea Abby's part would be so long, or that they would literally flip things around and make you fight Ellie as Abby, something I didn't want to do at all because I was playing the game to experience the story as Ellie.

Just as the showrunner made the obvious mistake of putting Joel's death early on like it was in the game, he's also going to be left with a MAJOR problem in Season 3 when most of it is Abby. There's going to be a solid portion of the viewership out there that isn't going to want to watch almost a whole season of Abby with a little Ellie and friends sprinkled in. That is if they cram a lot into this season's finale and are only doing 3 seasons.

Baldur's Gate 3

Finally getting a bit burnt out on it after 180 hours. I think I'm going to just try to wrap up the story along with a couple of side quests and call it.

Like others have said, if it maintains the quality of the first season, then keep the seasons coming.

Microsoft has been doing this for a long time. This is maybe a new low, but even a game such as Gears Tactics required you to download a large portion of the game even though the whole game could've easily fit on the regular Blu-rays they still lazily use on the Xbox consoles.

Yes, there are a lot of games that require you to download a day 1 patch and all, but at least there's a decent portion of games that you could play out of the box if you chose to with the full v1.0 being on the disc, especially since PS5 games release on UHD discs instead of the old Blu-rays.

In the end, it's BS what Microsoft is doing, but at the same time I'm also still happy that they are releasing their games at all on PS5. Sure, this wouldn't be an issue if they didn't buy ZeniMax, but I'll still be happy to play some of their games since I did accomplish what I set out to do this gen and get myself down to just one platform. No more Xbox or Switch ever again.

Baldur's Gate 3

It's the game that never ends...

I was a huge Gears of War fan back in the day. I may get this at some point, but like others have said, it would've been nice to get the whole original trilogy or even the whole series. I say was because I'm pretty pissed that they decided not to finish the current trilogy's story in favor of doing a prequel instead.

Baldur's Gate 3

I'll finish this... someday.

This just guarantees I won't buy a single Xbox game at launch ever. Once the inevitable price increase hits PlayStation games, that will be the case with them too. The only game I'd buy regardless of price would be Horizon 3 because I'm a huge fan, but otherwise there's not a chance in hell I'm spending $80 for a game. That's just greed.

Baldur's Gate 3

Still going. A couple of frustrating almost unbalanced battles are making this take even longer than expected. I want to rescue Shadowheart's parents, but it's so frustratingly unfair even on Explorer difficulty that I may have to stop that mission and move on.

Imo, the themes are more important than the boot up. The boot up was cool, but it also added several seconds to the system's boot up.

I'll definitely get this at some point as Oblivion is one of my all-time favorites. Definitely no time soon though since I have plenty of other games right now. By the time I'm ready, maybe it'll be cheaper, which will work out nicely.

Hard for me to agree with the attack on Jackson village being so good when it was extremely noticeable that at least half of the zombies you could see had no makeup on whatsoever. It actually felt lazy more than great.

The whole dramatic bit where Tommy survives by having it still keep going and then just drop down right in front of him rather than just fall over like it would've in the game was unnecessary. I know what Craig was trying to do with that, but it looked silly that it still kept going and then just all of a sudden dropped.

The change from just hitting Joel over the head with the golf club to kill him to now stabbing him was a completely unnecessary change. It was already extremely graphic enough in the game. It added nothing seeing him laying there dead with half the golf club stuck in him.

This is one of my all-time favorites, so I'll happily buy it at some point and play it all over again. I have enough games to play right now, but definitely sometime in the future.

Baldur's Gate 3

I might as well just copy and paste it at this point since I've been playing it for a couple of months now.

Good to know it's coming soon. I was waiting until the 2nd one came out to do Wild Card.

I'll definitely be getting this at some point. Definitely not anywhere near release though as I'm still making my way through Baldur's Gate 3. I also still have Assassin's Creed Shadows to play and the upcoming Clair Obscur Expedition 33.

Yes please. I enjoy these types of games, and a Star Wars one makes perfect sense. I'm surprised nobody did one sooner.

Baldur's Gate 3

Still going. Fairly early in Act 3 finally.

I didn't feel like waiting any longer, so I started my playthrough over a month ago. I'm still early on in Act 3. Oh well. I'm loving the game the way it is.

Photo mode would've been nice, but that's about the only thing I really wish was already in the game.

@Mikey856 Luckily I'm not worried about getting the platinum. I just crossed 100 hours recently, so no way I'd spend the time to get that.

Baldur's Gate 3

I guess I lied when I said I was about to finish Act 2 last weekend. Still going, but I think I'm really about to finish the second Act this time.

I know Sony is greedy, but Nintendo seems to be taking it to another level. Locking what should be basic features behind a paywall and also forcing you to purchase games all over again that got upgrades. Yes, Sony has released far too many remasters and such, but at least a lot of them can be upgraded for only $10. That along with 1st party games that are really old still going for nearly full price most of the year.

The real kicker for me though is the fact that the Switch 2 will only support expensive micro SD cards. No longer the basic ones, so I can't just transfer over any Switch games I have. Considering how poor the internal memory is on both systems, that's a deal breaker for me. I'm not spending hundreds of dollars on top of $450 just because they didn't want to let it work with both.

People will still flock to it and it will sell incredibly well all over again, and people will buy millions of copies of the same games over again because when it comes to Nintendo, their fans don't care about the greed. The dock for it is great, but there's no way in hell I'm buying it as my secondary console.

Baldur's Gate 3

Still going in Act 2. Just polishing off some of the quests I didn't finish before making my way to Moonrise Towers.

@Zeke68 Alright, I'll give that a shot and see if that clears it up.

I don't own GT7, but I'm sure there will be something eventually that needs an update.

@Zeke68 No, I responded to the right person. You said all games on the home/start page automatically update and that's not true from my experience. I'm just going by my experience, which I'm not sure why it would differ so much from your's.

I didn't say all installed games on the internal drive. I figured I didn't need to say that since the discussion was about games on the home page. I could've been clearer, but again, there was no reason to.

I didn't single you out either. Again, I responded to you because what you were saying differed greatly from what I've experienced from the PS5 with games automatically updating on the home screen like they should for years.

@Zeke68 It does not automatically update every game on your home/start page. If you move any of those games to extra storage, whether internal or external, it automatically detecting an update is sketchy at best. I almost always have to do it manually. Games on the regular internal SSD? Sure, that automatically downloads 99% of the time.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to play it day 1, but I have had it pre-ordered for several weeks now.

Baldur's Gate 3

Still working my way through Act 2.

Nice to see something that's actually different turn out to be pretty good. There's no way I have time to play it anytime soon, so I won't be buying it at launch, but I'll definitely keep an eye out for it down the line.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare You can't go by the user reviews on Metacritic. Sorry, no matter how you spin it that's not a barometer. It average is around the mid-70's on all platforms from the actual reviewers.

It's easy to assume that's why the game bombed, but that would be without putting any thought into it at all. It released in October, a loaded month. Square Enix is more to blame than the game itself for it bombing. Of course it wasn't going to sell going up against Call of Duty, Sonix X Shadows Generation (which was bigger than expected), Silent Hill 2, etc.

I bought the game and actually enjoyed it.

They pretty much sealed the fate of the game by releasing it in an absolutely loaded October. I know other companies have done it too, but Square Enix must be run by some of the biggest idiots in the industry if they expected it to somehow still sell.

While I like some of the other games in the series better, I still enjoyed Double Exposure. It's a shame Square Enix pretty much sealed the fate of the game, as I'd be shocked if this wasn't the last.

Baldur's Gate 3

It was far from perfect obviously, but I still highly enjoyed it. I have yet to play the two sequels, but I would like to eventually. A shame in a way that it was even treated like the red headed stepchild of the series by Square Enix for so long, being the only game not to even get re-released on PS4.

Already have this pre-ordered. Looking forward to it playing it on release, which is rare for me nowadays.

Baldur's Gate 3

I've progressed into Act 2. I probably missed some side quests in the first Act, but I wanted to get into the second Act as I started going around in circles.

It being kind of easy to get a little lost at times would be one complaint, but I'm still loving it regardless. Once I got back on the right track, then it's always all good.

Good for them, but I only care about Horizon 3. I hope that's coming along nicely as well.

@Dragoon1994 Prepare to not play anything else for months.

Baldur's Gate 3

Approaching 40 hours in and still loving it. I'm still working my way through the Underdark towards Moonrise Towers, which is naturally taking a while.