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@KingPev You got that right. 😁😁

@KingPev Haha such beauty and the voice acting is just incredible! Other female characters I love right now are Katherine of KCD2 - gosh the beauty and our Lune of Clairrr Obscurrr hehe.

@Marquez I play most games with Ray Tracing on, performance is nice but a bit overblown or somewhat overrated on the internet depending on the game. A game like HFW plays like a dream on performance but others not so much. No wonder devs didn't really pay attention to it for a time and most games were just 30fps. I am highly enjoying Elden Ring with Quality and RT on.

KCDII, KCD1, Cyberpunk 2077 - haha Panam is still one of the best, TW3, Elden Ring, some RDR2 probably. Just a bit of a whole lot.

People will hate on others buying only sports games, yet if their underground game starts topping charts, same people would say "ah this game has lost it, it's gone mainstream, it's gone soft.*

Definitely for attention more than getting information, and looks like he got it.

Bully as much as I loved got a bit boring at a point, don't remember why. Ridiculous how some people can doubt his reason, I can imagine what it took to pull off GTA4 when the graphics was night and day from San Andreas, managed to bring another masterpiece 2 years later - RDR. Still managed to risk a new IP a year later which became a classic LA Noire. Then the titan GTA V 2 years later. The expectations kept rising and they had to pull all the R* studios together to create legendary RDR2. How is any other IP going to fit in there...unless they go back to the ridiculous but nice simple graphics of GTA3/VC/SA, game development is going to take so much time.

@Kidfunkadelic83 @pyrrhic_victory Hmm wondering if rocket launchers are still going to be in pockets in GTA6. I love how RDR2 minimized this with a few guns on you and the rest on your horse with all of them having straps. Gotta give ND credit for sticking to that particular realism with Uncharted and TLOU.

@Shepherd_Tallon Haha I think I personally feel From Software games deserve multiple playthroughs with their multiple endings. Sekiro though I know is hard with its different approach to leveling up so considering a 2nd run isn't easy, but if you can - go for it 😁. I see myself going for a should I say 3rd or 2nd in future.

@Shepherd_Tallon Should be months, probably from the beginning of this year 😁. Didn't even use a single prosthetic equipment in the battle, saved all my spirit emblems for that bloody slash move which did a number on them.

@Shepherd_Tallon After we talked about Sekiro, I had the urge to go back to it and try the final battle again - which I didn't know was the final and voila...beat it! Was surprised to see the credits roll and read it's the shortest endings called - Shura. Yeah cause I realized a chunk of the places I went in my first playthrough was just cut off. It was brutal beating Emma with 1 life and Isshin Ashina with 2 lives in a row but I did it. 😁

Finally beat Sekiro, got the Shura Ending. Read it's one of the hardest in the way of final battles, no wonder it almost felt impossible. Back to the lovely Cyberpunk 2077. Plus my GOTY Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 - which I'm really taking my sweet time savouring it all, what a beautiful game.

@Rich33 Yeah they dared to try something different instead of the same old black box. Series X looks too simple, the S, the One and even 360 look a bit more thought out.

@Lowdefal @MysticWangForce Lol the design grew on me and now I think it looks cool, I think they've been going for document type design since PS2. Book design - PS2, two slabs - PS4. A white document file/folder with the base held at one end - PS5. Don't really know what the PS3 looks like though. 😁

It was quite predictable this would be in the 86-88 range on MC which is great but I'll just wait for a sale.

Elden Ring has no Photo Mode yet I have about 800MB worth of screenshots no videos. Funny because the games with actual Photo Modes, I don't take too many screenshots. Ghost of Tsushima's art style looks really good and it's looking to look even extremely better in Yotei.

@Shepherd_Tallon And now I picked a horrible path fighting Emma and Ishin - feeling almost impossible, my first run path was easier. I don't think From's games ever burn me out tho, they're just so nice to pick up and play anytime.

@Shepherd_Tallon Haha Yeah I remember you saying you bounced off Metaphor, it was getting tiring a bit for me too with that typical Atlus text. I managed to beat it this year though, when I've been playing from launch day sigh. Woah bravo on Sekiro! I still haven't finished it on my 2nd run after meeting sword saint on my first and my saves getting corrupted.

@Shepherd_Tallon You still haven't finished Sekiro and Metaphor though. 🤣

This makes sense. The unlocking of uncountable number of characters in Genshin Impact ruined it for me. You couldn't relate to any character cause you were just going keep on switching to the next new character. In the end everything kind of felt meaningless, like what am I playing for...

I'm even more surprised the folk I thought only cared about money haven't released an Xbox Series X X.

@LogicStrikesAgain Well said. I've been a PC gamer before and I'm convinced PC is never going to win over console, ever.

Only if cars could bounce off walls and objects IRL like GT, there would've been less to zero crashes.

Mm it's only like 11 reviews though.

@EfYI Yep so overwhelming didn't know where to start from, matter of fact the entire game can be overwhelming tbh but I love it!

All I know is Kingdom Come Deliverance is one of my favourite series right now. Playing both back to back. Got to Kuttenberg in KCD2 felt so overwhelming like reaching Baldur's Gate for the first time in BG3. Feels like they are the only games closest to RDR2.

Not really hyped for this all because of the lack of immersive mechanics in GoT, but it seems they've added some in GoY - like camping. I can never understand how there can't be a feature to rest and skip time in any open world, then that game has no business being open world if it's just fighting nonstop from point to point - it should be linear. I'll preorder if the reviews are extremely high, else I'll just stick the only 2025 open world game that has the type of immersion I want - KCDII.

Switched it on this morning just to like "heat up the engine" a bit after a while of no usage and saw the update.

@nomither6 Like you I'm not seeing any reason to keep the PS4 anymore when every PS4 game is looking and playing better on the 5 so that inferior comment...naah especially when the PS4 couldn't play PS3 games. I never felt overwhelmed with so much to play on the 4 but just the BC along with new games feels so overwhelming on the 5. If it's games you're talking about like none from ND or R* so far, then that's not the console's fault.

@Logonogo Yea I think KCD2 is a real challenger, played both but I feel because KCD2 being quite hardcore with a bit of a steep learning curve so some people don't want to bother.

Sat with a priest at a tavern hoping he'd tell about a confession from a criminal but he won't budge. It was late so had to sleep in some attic at the tavern, could hear echoes of people drinking and chatting downstairs. The next step was to seek advice from my lord across town, on the way met this stubborn soon to be lord who asked to go party at a bathhouse. Graphics got sharper from the effects of alcohol, woke up hungry had to get some soup from the next tavern - this is Kingdom Come Deliverance, and it's £4.99. And all that is made even better in KCDII. Going to be playing these 2 for a long time.

Raw graphics: Horizon Forbidden West. I mean it was Digital Foundry's best graphics of 2022. BG3 also looks really good!

Art Direction: Elden Ring.

PC- First devs can't really be relied upon to deliver a seamless experience on console. If your game is multiplat, start with console, CDPR learnt this the hard way and now developing Witcher 4 on console first.

Kingdom Come Deliverance at £4.99 is a steal!

Nah got the more expensive N64 instead from my Dad, later I felt I wanted The PS1 seeing games like RE, MGS, TR and Tekken, never got it. At least game changers like GoldenEye 64, Zelda Ocarina of Time, Mario64, DK64 & Mario Party didn't make me regret. After that it was straight to the PS2 no thinking twice - one of the best ever.

I remember how most readers on here were vocal about Old Country being linear a good thing yet see the votes pfft. I'm still enjoying the Mafia Trilogy especially the openess of 2&3.

@Max_the_German "Look at the 2025 GotM list, always the standard AAA stuff. Even a Silksong will have no chance against a Silent Hill f in September."

I mean let's not downplay the efforts of AAA devs, they could just as easily make indie games if they wanted to. And then what, the market is flooded with indies and just a few AAA, naah.

Here I am with a PS5 disc version and yet to buy a single PS5 disc. I ony have 4 physical PS4 games right now.

Wow the KCD1 is really good, heard it was buggy at launch that's why it was under most people's radar. Just love that sketch look of the Inventory and of course the whole immersion. I'll be playing alongside KCD2. Will continue my ACValhalla playthrough which I still haven't finished in over a billion years 😁. Plus some ER, EAWRC.

I see Daniel Vavra of Kingdom Come Deliverance was involved in Mafia 1 & 2. Got a feeling if he was still involved, he wouldn't have greenlit this linear Old Country. You wanna do linear at least make it look like 007 Firstlight. 😁

Low-key that's one of the reasons GTA6 is still delaying. They want as many consoles in homes as possible so they can break records on sales. I mean that's why there are a lot of crossgen games.

@Ravix I've always tried to play GTA V or RDR2 in first person but it's quite hard to stay in that perspective cause the 3rd person is just so good.

Got KCD for that attractive $5.99 just so I can understand where KCD2 is coming from. Such immersive lovely games. Plus some EAWRC and continuing my 4th run of Elden Ring.

@Flaming_Kaiser I think is Battlefield 6 shaking them up and not consumers.

It's coming up, it's coming up, it's dare!

This might just be the first free to play I'll download in a long while. Played the heck out of Skate. back in the day. It was a bit hardcore trying to pull off the moves but as satisfying as beating a FromSoft enemy when you were successful.

The game doesn't look like some graphical showcase or fast paced with a lot of things going on simultaneously yet it's struggling. Well I guess the studio is inexperienced, they'd have to take notes from Guerrilla.

Beat Clair Obscur after taking my sweet time and exploring almost everywhere, was quite overpowered the final fight was a walk in a park. Such an adorable, unique game overall. Missing the lovely music, weird enemies, everything already. Still on KCD2, one of the most immersive games out there but whose idea was with the lock picking design - too hardcore but a lovely game nonetheless. Playing Burning Shores, HFW is just too gorgeous and plays like a dream. Plus some EAWRC also, been a while what with all these RPGs I keep piling up.

@Kidfunkadelic83 @Czar_Khastik Yes yes correct! Thanks guys.

Great. I might just try it out. This is confusing me with some other series that looks like this, except it's strategy with tanks or something, can't remember the name...

£29.99 getting its own anime, cool. Sekiro is a unique game tho.

@LifeGirl Don't think I've seen anyone complaining about lack of trophies unless you're talking to the article's author.