@GirlVersusGame I really liked the 60 or so hours I put into Crimson Desert, but it went into my "wait until they are done cooking pile" with Tainted Grail, etc.
You are going to have a lot of fun tinkering with the retroid.

I won't buy anything in any kind of blind pack or box. Never understood how anyone could do that.

@GirlVersusGame check out Twilight Princess: Dusk. It's incredibly cool and easy to get running.

@Oram77 seriously. I loved playing Astrobot w my 7 year old and explaining all the references, but there were definitely some moments that felt like dancing on graves.

@GirlVersusGame I play fifth gen games on my Retroid more than anything else, lol. Seriously. And because it is android based, I can have a scan of an old guide open on Internet Archive while I play. It's really nice.

Also, on Resistance, they are cool because Insomniac made them. So you know, rad weapons like Ratchet and Clank. Otherwise they are pretty brown and grey...as was the style at the time.

@twitchtvpat Tools are much easier to acquire and use, and I am not asking for big budgets.
They can keep making the walk and talk Sony Uber game, they can keep gambling on live services too, but my chief complaint is their samey output. Like I am talking more Motor Toon Gran Prix than Primal.

Remember Playstation and Playstation 2 games? Make games like that again. Literally that's all.

Maybe the worst lineup I have ever seen.

Ugh. Guess I am grabbing this ass well. Looks incredible.

I decided to grab Onimusha, so that. So far I am really into it.

@stocko eh, either way I shouldn't get so annoyed at something so silly. Wolverine just hit a nerve for whatever reason.

@stocko it is not a low score. That's the point.

Same as Wolverine lolol. What a joke.

@Mes_Urson if you've been playing that long, you probably have some good ideas for the series. I have tried really hard to get into these games. I even got both of the Hyrule entries to see if that would work.

Unless they have something brilliant and innovative planned, I am with him.

I'll watch it on YouTube.

It's funny how my tastes have changed. I used to live for import Saturn games, and I miss those days. At the same time, I don't think I would be interested in something like Sakura Wars anymore.
Bring me Prikura Daisakusen or Princess Crown.

These games are not for me. I always hear that they are power fantasies etc, like you kill millions of dudes and pose out all cool after you ult. Feels more like you are a giant stepping on ants. Badly animated ants. That don't fight back.

I started it several times, but (like Crimson Desert, Stardew, etc) put it down when CDPR announced some patch/DLC/etc. I am glad to hear this does the original release justice. I think I might like the color temp in the original though.

Ragebound is pretty excellent.

@GirlVersusGame Oh, I know Fugitive Hunter, lol. We used to throw it on the demo kiosks at the Gamecrazy I managed to mess with people. Funny also because I ended up joining the ARMY after that place went under. I had buddies that would play the irl ARMY/"tactical operator"/gun-dudes-with-beards-and-shades type games. I never liked that stuff.
American Fugitive has some really cool things in it. Robbing houses, escaping on a train car, etc. It just lacks an interesting aesthetic and the story is pretty milquetoast.

@GirlVersusGame I liked their previous game American Fugitive a lot, but it lacked personality. This looks moody and rad af.

I just don't want to simulate being a cop.

@LordOfTurnips being esl is not an excuse to act like a pos.

@LordOfTurnips You insulted my intelligence while sounding like you were scrawling it in big red dyslexic crayon on the classroom wall. That's why I called it out. Because your comment read like you just suffered a stroke while trying to come across as superior.
...and without addressing any of what I said. It's kind of ironic that you tried to spin that on me, since you got obsessed about the grammar thing.

@AdamNovice yellow paint, Aloy spouting solutions to puzzles and encounters, focus ability markers/holograms, etc. It's not Wolverine, but it is egregious imo.

@TrollOfWar man of taste etc.

@TrollOfWar Roguecraft is great if you haven't tried it. And Gaelco Arcade 1 has some sleeper bangers. Love my Evercade. Also Turrican Collection has one of the coolest manuals, with a lot of historical facts and interviews.

Twilight Princess: Dusk on the Retroid, Alien Trilogy and Breath of Fire 3 on my SP clone, and Sprawl Zero on the PS5. I mayyyyy grab Onimusha, but not super sure yet. Hope everyone has a great weekend, if you get one.

@AdamNovice ...people did complain about the day one DLC in ME3. So much so that I did not buy it because of the day one DLC. And just because people have different criticisms than you does not mean they are invalid.
I don't like when games are condescending.
...that's when someone talks down to you...
Your pfp is Aloy. You probably do not mind the hand-holding.
AFAIC Marvel's Sony's Wolverine: The Video Game is a barometer. I probably don't share many folks' tastes that defend the babying.

I wanted to like it.

@Jey887 Vandal Hearts is so great. Highly recommend grabbing a 4:3 portable (like the RG SP from Anbernic) and loading it up with allllll the PS1 RPGs.

@LordOfTurnips shrug
And I think your grammar makes you seem a little soft-headed.
Anywho, it took too long for the gameplay to get interesting. A GOOD NFS game (since that is the example you went with) is fun from the beginning, but I don't think the analogy is great.
I willlll probably try Control again though. It's on the shelf so I might as well.
I don't care if you agree with me but I do appreciate you premptively apologizing for being a pr*ck. Thanks!

A return to old-school musuo, eschewing the numerous enhancements of recent installments like...
(Crickets)

You play as a highschool student. You go to classes and make friends and date. There are randomly generated dungeons. The music is embarrassing.
This was all leaked when Persona 3 came out.

@Fallon yeah it obviously set the world on fire lol. If that's the legacy for you that's neat. I didn't find much of those games interesting, besides the gross monetization.

@D6rkLordS6t6n Oh right, I guess that was out of character.

@AdamNovice Not really how that went down at all. Halo 3 was a huge game and released like a month and a half before CoD 4.

Yeah never buying a Sony or MS game again. They've both crossed too many lines, and there are just too many games elsewhere released by devs that don't require some Faustian agreement to play.

@DennisReynolds my thoughts exactly.

It's so sad to me that Monolith went out after these games. I personally thought they were awful.

@EfYI if we are born into a society we are not allowed to exclude ourselves from, it does owe us something imo.

"Stay frosty, Chief."
Lolololololollol.
God, the world is trash.

It seems like SE is repeating open world design mistakes that some other devs have resolved.

I decided to wait for the patches. Looking forward to when I can get to it though. Rn Sprawl Zero is calling me.

@Stocksy that's just a bad analogy. You might be the perfect audience for Wolverine!

@trev666 my theory is they didn't spend that much, and that the game had a fairly massive scope adjustment after Sony started tightening the belt. There are a ton of out of bounds areas with collision, details, buildings, etc. The lack of fail-states in the QTEs, stuff like that. Seems like they were rushed to release something toward the end of production.

@AhmadSumadi that's not completely accurate, but his Veilguard review definitely became a meme. The line "Every character speaks like HR is in the room" was brutal. There were also not many reviews from big outlets that called out the ridiculous handholding in Wolverine.
His reviews are great, but I prefer reading This Week in Videogames (Skill Up's site) over watching reviews.

"We can't patch that out, our players are too stupid" is what I heard.