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@TruestoryYep So you narrowed down a whole nation with hundreds of millions of people to a simple definition. Also you're factually wrong about these games selling well only in America, especially KCD 2.

You're in my top 5 most unpleasant first interactions with a human being ever. Congratulations.

@Frmknst You rated Silksong 5/10 and 6/10 for KCD 2.

You might be the first person on planet earth with objectively bad taste.

It baffles me they had no idea a huge empty map with 3 players on each side would feel...empty!

5v5 or 6v6 seems much more interesting, but with the complete drop in interest, I don't know if they can recover.

This game needed an extra 6 months of development and betas for player feedback. Look at Marathon and how much they changed their game because of feedback. It went from a guaranteed failure to a possible success.

This looks too good to be true in a good way. If this game is 50% of what it looks like to be, it's already an amazing one.

I think the only negative at release I can see it's the performance. I doubt it's going to run well on consoles and mid range PCs.

@Jaz007 I unfortunately think you're right.

I love Fable, but I thought it was really weird how excited people got after a trailer that showed choppy framerates, blurry graphics and very little actual gameplay.

The combat also looks very clunky.

It's really hard to make a fantasy game, blend it with the office style comedy and not be absolute Millennial cringe.

Hopefully they know what they're doing.

Watchdogs never had much of a hook to it.

It's one novel concept stretched to infinity.

It didn't look great but hopefully it's good.

I'd rather have a healthy gaming market with lots of options and competition than a monopolised one with 4 games. It ensures quality.

Final Fantasy VII ReReReMake.

I agree it could look better, but this screenshot seems purposefully bad.

What are the graphic settings this person is playing at?

I've played it on base PS5 and it looked MUCH better than that screenshot.

"How can we bring our games to the largest audience possible?"

Not on Xbox, that's for sure.

It looks really good, it runs like a slideshow.

It looks great but it seems like another GoW like.

Not a big fan of the modern GoW games, the camera and linearity are claustrophobic.

I'll wait for more gameplay and reviews on this one.

Very important warning to anyone who liked the first game: This game came on PC as early access 2 years ago and almost none of the bugs and issues have been fixed until now.

I would advise waiting for reviews and post launch gameplay videos to see if it's finally been improved.

And I should believe them because?

This is clearly corporate PR speak.

The game looks very average and if the trailer was released at any other point in the Game Awards the outrage wouldn't be this intense.

Geoff Keighley was trying to help a game he liked and unintentionally ended lowering its chances of succeeding.

It's the game I'm looking forward to the most this year. I need to fill the fantasy medieval open world void left by a lack Elder Scrolls, Witcher 3 and Elden Ring.

Even if it's not perfect, the combat itself looks like will be more complex and satisfying than traditional open world games.

Great game but I think Elden Ring has a larger cultural impact.

@beltmenot They risked it by changing genres, let's see if it pays off. Whilst I love Destiny, I absolutely despise extraction shooters so this game is already a hard pass.

The only thing I don't like is that they basically ruined and abandoned Destiny 2 for this. It would've been safer and healthier for the company to still invest in Destiny 2 instead of putting all of their eggs in a very iffy basket.

@MrPeanutbutterz I'm not. But thanks for notifying me, arbiter of truth.

Btw, how's the virtue signaling going?

I bet it's really dangerous up there on that high horse.

Marathon is not my kind of game, but this controller design is slick.

I've said in a post months ago that Yakuza 3 was the one that needed the remake treatment the most.

The combat was clunky and it didn't look that great.

Yet underneath it there was an amazing story.

I'm really glad they're remaking it as it could elevate it compared to the original a lot more than any other game in the franchise.

@RoomWithaMoose It's not numbness, it's simple acceptance of the horrible belicose nature of mankind.

I've never attacked anyone and I wish harm to no one, but a lot of people and governments crave violence and power. It's the inevitable reality.

People have been saying WW3 is going to happen for such a long time and yet nothing has come of it. People always say a world conflict is inevitable but do not understand that conflict never stopped, it just changed ways.

I would never handwave people dying, I'm handwaving people like you who think they're arbiters of truth and reality.

What happens in warzones is awful and it should never be allowed, but both you and I are incapable of changing it, the difference between you and me is that I accept it instead of screaming into the void.

I do what I can with a few donations when I have spare money, but the sad reality is that I won't change the mindset of those in power.

I admit the violence of human nature, that does not mean I agree with it or condone it.

The media does alarm us of "the end of the world" weekly and it's a good way to keep out attention from the changes that we can actually action.

@MrPeanutbutterz Yes, because USA is the world. Again, you have such a limited scope of reality. Lynchings were common 100 years ago. What's happening is nothing compared to the atrocities men committed over history.

Yes, what's happening is nothing special. Russia and the US and other powerful nations invade and destroy nonstop all the time.

I'm not minimising the suffering of your supposed friends, but under a global perspective, it's nothing new.

Humans suck, war always happen, people get killed and it would be amazing if this would change but it doesn't.

The main difference is that everything gets reported now because of the internet while in the past people suffered in silence.

@RoomWithaMoose My eyes are wide open. You're easily influenced by the alarmist media.

@MrPeanutbutterz Open a history book and read about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

What's happening in history right now is called a boring Monday.

About the explosion, I live in Edinburgh and whatever happened wasn't important enough to warn anyone outside of the area, so hopefully no one was harmed.

I'm glad I bought all of them a while ago, this practice is absolutely awful.

Yakuza's 3 jankiness is part of its charm and now it will be lost and replaced with a sleek looking modern remake.

Give people the option, some might even buy both.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner They're two different games. One is the original game with slight graphical updates, the other is a complete remake of the game with a different engine, gameplay elements and even some story differences.

@Bigumamiflavor Yes, and I replied to that, Mr. Don't read replies.

@dskatter Well, it's very hard to understand your tone by reading. Written sarcasm is a recipe for misunderstandings.

@dskatter The IP is owned by Sony. Not up to him.

It didn't deserve hate. It deserved indifference.

The setting is boring, the story is bad, the quests are repetitive, the characters are bland and the gameplay loop is also repetitive and limited.

It's one of the most 5/10 games ever released. But it was released by BioWare, so it hurt a lot more than if it was made by an unknown studio.

The narrative is a bit preachy, but the acting is great and the variety of choices and consequences are very interesting.

I played it through GamePass. Great combat, underwhelming plot and the cities are completely lifeless. NPCs barely walk and the cities don't look lives in. It's the opposite of what you would expect of traditional Obsidian.

I would wait for a discount on this one.

Remember when storefronts weren't absolute trash and you could accidentally find a good game?

I now use Deku Deals for absolutely every storefront because it's impossible to simply browse them hoping for something unexpected and good.

I never thought AVGN's beat-a-game button would become a reality, but here we are.

They proved their talent. They know what they want to do.
Let's just wait and enjoy what next great game comes from this studio.

Can I call him CEO Slop?

Sony just said: "Happy new year, now go f yourself."

It's a fun game, but the lack of story pull makes it worse than the original in my opinion.

With the original every class had it's story and quests, so everything you did felt it had meaning.

The new one is much more about completing checklists.

Hopefully the money they made from this game will allow to build a sequel that gives more crafting progression and options but also goes back to focusing on the story.

Certain individuals going hard with the virtue signaling.

AI is here to stay and when used correctly it's an extremely helpful tool.

The discussion has already long passed the point of "should we use AI". The moment now is to discuss how we use AI.

The game looks great but it plays at bit rough at the moment. Knowing the team's talent and track record, I'm sure these two months will make a better game for everyone.

@BloodEagle Agreed. The English VO is too westernised.

Poor guy took the brunt of hate on something he had no control over. Hopefully his next endeavor is less controversial.

It’s honestly frustrating to see this. Neil Druckmann explicitly said Naughty Dog wanted to eliminate crunch and that it was something the studio didn’t want to do anymore, a stance repeatedly highlighted in discussions around The Last of Us Part II’s post-mortem and internal documentary efforts to change ND’s culture.

Now we have reporting that Naughty Dog is forcing mandatory overtime on staff to hit milestones on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet for a mid-2027 release, directly contradicting Druckmann’s stated goals of avoiding crunch going forward.

Yes, overtime happens in AAA development, but when the studio leadership has publicly promised no more crunch and there’s this much internal pressure on employees, it is fair to call out the hypocrisy instead of accepting “overtime is normal” as an excuse.

Kingdom Come not winning anything is a crime.

Even though I liked Ghost of Yotei, I feel it was a step back from Tsushima.

Tsushima thrived on restraint, tonal consistency, and subtle storytelling, Yotei explains its themes and pushes emotion too hard. The narrative often tells instead of showing, which weakens all impact

Also Erika Ishii's delivery frequently over-emphasizes emotion, shifts intensity too abruptly, and uses a modern cadence that clashes with the historical tone. Rather than letting moments breathe, the performance draws attention to her. And if you saw how she behaved at the Game Awards, that makes a lot of sense.

His intentions are good, but the way he's presenting the argument is a bit flawed.

Calling generative art “soulless” misses the point. The issue isn’t spiritual, it's practical. Generative AI lacks creativity because it lacks agency. It does not form goals, or understand what it produces.

Its outputs are generated by optimizing patterns in existing data not by attempting to communicate or create new ideas.

Starfield is a fun game, but it never feels special. It’s competent across the board without really excelling at anything.

The biggest issue is how hollow the scale feels. It has thousands of planets but only around 20 points of interest and exploration quickly loses its appeal.

After going to a handful of random planets, you’ve essentially seen everything they have to offer, since they all look and play very similarly. Once that illusion breaks, there’s little reason to keep exploring.

I would recommend people playing through it once just to see if it's appealing to them. But it really reinforces the narrative that Bethesda doesn't understand storytelling and depth of gameplay anymore.

Expedition 33 feels less like a traditional indie and more like a AA independent game. Independent studio but with publisher backing and a mid-sized budget.

To me calling it indie isn’t wrong under modern definitions, but it does blur the line for smaller self-funded devs.