Mythologue

I don't love or hate Fallout 4, but it was this game which taught me that the franchise seems to have had enough. It's mostly spent, ideas have been realised, and I don't think there's much potential left.

Elder Scrolls should be the focus right now. TES VI is probably about as globally anticipated as GTA VI. I don't think there's nearly as much excitement for a new Fallout.

Deltarune for me. I've been playing it on and off, now having mostly just started chapter 3.

Borderlands 4 and Unrailed with the GF.

I also want to see if I can get The Crew Unlimited working at some point, maybe this weekend.

@Rhaoulos You seemed pretty serious to me.

@Rhaoulos I would say that's absurdly unlikely, but this is Amazon we're talking about.

That is one ugly controller.

@Matthewnh Fable is hugely nostalgic to me, and seriously one of the best RPGs I've ever played (even by today's standards.) I know it might be hard to access for some, especially exclusive PS gamers, but it surprises me that some people have just never touched it.

It's available on Steam and can probably be run on an advanced potato. Highly recommended.

As for the remake, I'm not sure about that. There's the reboot, which will probably just be an out and out new game, and Anniversary, which came out a good while ago.

They predicted it using gyromancy

For no reason in particular, I picked up WWE 2K25. I don't watch wrestling. I don't really know the first thing about it. But I wanted to play it. So I bought a game I know almost nothing about with subpar reviews on Metacritic. I haven't really regretted it so far, though. Played it with the GF and will be playing it solo soon to check out other stuff.

We also played Unrailed. Strange game but very clean, reactive, quirky and quite a lot of fun. Great frantic "couch co-op."

As for other stuff, I tried NirvanA Initiative. The series is so bizarre and packed with innuendo but the plot is legitimately unsettling and dark. I've heard that it gets even darker later on.

On top of that, I just found out that the revival project to bring back The Crew launched about a month ago. I might have to look into it.

This obsessing over graphical fidelity is sort of a relic from 2012/2013, right? Does anyone really care any more?

If it's so flimsy that it broke in transit, it was never worth more than £30.

Cyberpunk is one of those rare RPGs which I've never felt motivated to play through more than once. The game felt a little too streamlined. It was fun for the first time, but I can't stomach going for an additional run.

I like the PS5 for what it does (especially fast loading and the crisp UX) but it's a really expensive piece of nothing special. I can't recall the last PS5 game I played that couldn't be played on the PS4.

I'm less bothered about the choice and more about the fact that every role seems to have to be filled by a recognisable name these days. Why not let someone have their breakout role as Lara Croft?

All that said, it is Amazon, so of course, it's naturally ghoulish.

It's the first and only MGS game I've played, and it's mostly just okay. The world just wasn't very interesting at all. Intro was great, sort of like The Evil Within.

But the rest? Eh.

I don't remember much about the game, but I do recall that it was mildly entertaining. Not brilliant, but a good time waster. I'll consider the remaster only if it counts the physical edition for the discount.

@Laliob There was actually a GOP bill proposed recently that would have banned prawn o graphy. Can't say that screams "woke" to me.

I felt that it was a lot like the Arkham games going by the brief gameplay showcase. Skywalker's open sections were quite entertaining, and combining the Arkham level structure with LEGO feels a bit like how Undercover was basically LEGO GTA.

Quite looking forward to how it turns out.

The PS5 hasn't even really successfully outshone the PS4 yet. It's not a matter of if Sony are going to release the PS6 at the expected time (around 2027) but more a matter of if they really should.

Personally, I may have been alright skipping this generation entirely. It's been massively underwhelming.

I enjoyed FH4 (especially the setting) but I'm starting to find the festival component tired and forced at this point. It seeped into The Crew with The Crew 2, and I feel like it's ruined the whole arcade racing atmosphere since.

This looks utterly abysmal.

I could never get into it. The world is sort of ugly and the voice acting is subpar. The combat is unintuitive and the control scheme, in general, is unnecessarily clunky. It's a weird game, all in all.

@ozkrmz Brands don't usually work, because they don't typically allow for proper deformation in collisions. A game like Burnout needs proper warping of car bodies, like in Flatout and Wreckfest.

@TheArt Most people are commenting beneath an article regarding a guy from South Korea, about a guy from South Korea. I think that's called relevancy.

We could also just talk about Bobby Kotick for no reason. But this article isn't about Bobby Kotick. It's about a guy from South Korea.

There seems to be a lot of furore over this article in particular. One way or the other, is it really worth the time and energy to argue over a subpar game like Stellar Blade when there are much better games to argue about?

@nessisonett Well, it's a good thing that the games industry doesn't have a proliferating issue with harassment and ab-

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Just returned to Sims 4 for no particular reason.

Stardew Valley is another that's drawn me in. It's one of those games where its complexity and intricacies aren't immediately obvious. It's deceptive that way, and quite surprising. A real stroke of genius in my view.

E33 will possibly be my next main thing. Still haven't bought it, but it's getting increasingly difficult to resist.

I've never, not once, seen AI employed in a legitimately impressive way.

I really feel like Sony have been riding the waves of an effective monopoly, at best an oligopoly, because of a lack of any serious competition.

If Valve decided to release a console, unlike those weird Steambox things, I'd probably move over for the next generation at least.

Sony isn't the best to me. They're just kinda the least worst.

I'd like to see them point to specific examples of this being the case. GP is still able to get day one releases. It's not even something I usually consider subscribing to, but at least they have that.

Can we just ban AI from the storefront? Or at least have an AI filter?

I haven't played it yet but it's on my radar. It's one of the only games released this year that I'm actually interested in playing. And from what I've heard, it's got GOTY written all over it.

Wreckreation is one that I'm cautiously optimistic for. Dangerous Driving felt like it had a vision, but the execution was utterly dire. Maybe with the backing of a serious publisher, they can finally get the polish they desperately need.

I just hope it's not simply Trackmania. And that there's a robust single player component beyond the obvious multiplayer appeal.

I haven't really properly played a Resident Evil since the remake of the first. I'd love to see what this is all about.

Modern battlefield is always fascinating to me. Not too fantastic, like theoretical futures. Not too antiquated, like world war settings. The ideal medium, somewhere between 2000 and 2025.

Battlefield 4 was also great fun in multilayer. Levolution was a silly thing, especially the travesty of that name, but it was actually phenomenal in action.

So I'm actually cautiously optimistic to see how this one turns out. I don't know how hopeful I am about the campaign, though.

I still need to play it. I'm looking forward to it, especially given that it seems like it's projected to be the year's most celebrated title.

It seems like it's an immovable derivative of the original, so I guess it's a hard pass for me.

Is this the games industry in its final form? Apologies about misleading about a remaster of a game that released late last generation?

Rust is a game I'd meant to play for a while but never got around to it. I'm looking forward to seeing how S&box turns out.

System Shock 2 also has me interested.

But not much besides those.

Valhalla. I think it might be a case of "locality bias," if you like. But I love the locations in the game. Wandering my hometown and stumbling over familiar places is always really surreal. Valhalla is also the best realisation of these places that I've yet seen in a game.

That being said, not including Lindisfarne in a viking game is a crime.

VR always seemed like a PC thing. A range of software and tools, rather than just games, is where the appeal probably comes in for the majority of the audience.

VR games are good, but I don't think VR is intended for games exclusively.

@zhoont They're some of the most creative horror games out there. 2 is especially resounding, but each is phenomenal in its own right.

It's a game that I never really bothered with for the sole reason that I didn't really think the original required a sequel. I liked the open-ended nature of the ending in the first.

Which is funny, because I actually own the game.

Is this more advanced than typical resource gathering, or are they really passing off a 360-era mechanic as revolutionary?

I always thought that Death Stranding would've made a much better film franchise or streaming series than a game franchise. The world building is fairly intriguing, but the game itself just feels like a slog.

Shadows is the only game I've played from this year. It's typical Ubi grind, but the combat is really quite entertaining. As is traversal. Looks phenomenal as well.

It looks like they're introducing the one thing I was hoping for; swapping out weapon components.

Locking these to individual weapons seemed like a waste. Mixing and matching parts seems like a vast improvement. I like holding onto weapons for longer than just an hour. This might be the way.

@Exerion76 I never thought of it that way, but that's a good point. The mainstream actors were one of the most off-putting things for me in the original. And this sequel also.

I was never really a fan to begin with, but I feel I would've been much more so had the actors been fresh talent, obscure and underrated. If you translate Kojima's words to something digestible and practicable then you'd think that's exactly what he'd do.

But no. Big name actors and high budget, cutting edge tech, yet...it's not supposed to be mainstream?

Can't believe people swallow this.

I guess if the game is good, then it won't really be a true Death Stranding sequel. We'd all feel robbed.

FFXVI is just weird, really. It's like an identity crisis from end to end. Pretty strong and fluid combat, non-existent RPG elements, poor story, stilted voice acting, forgettable characters, beautiful world, boring side quests, linear progression, far too easy...it's hard to know who it's aimed at.

I finished it, but it was a weird chimera type of thing. In the moment, in combat, it's brilliant. Looking back, besides the actual action itself, it's just sort of tedious.

I guess that might translate to purchases. Who is it for? No idea.