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@SoulsBourne128 Lol that's hilarious considering Code Vein 2 looks like an actual gooner game.

I'd be embarrassed if I was that guy too. Code Vein 2 is already forgotten while Nioh 3 is currently the 3rd best seller on Steam. Something like Code Vein was never going to compete against Nioh especially since Code is just a poor man's anime Dark Souls.

@Ainu20 I put the Nioh games above all From Software games. They've always felt like complete packages to me due to the quality of content, replayablity and the actual effort put into not only making each NG+ different but having actual end game content.

And of course, the gameplay is far superior.

Nioh isn't a Dark Souls copycat, it's it own thing and Nioh 2 was already a better game than Elden Ring.

@Leinad7 Most of these Chinese games haven't even released yet for anyone to say "they're crap."

Not surprising. I remember playing the demo of the first and it was bad. Typical anime garbage too with the characters and voice acting.

@Eadgar This is really the only "Soulsborne"/Soulslike mentioned here.

Nioh really is its own thing.

@AgentMantis The Fable series has always been painfully dull with half assed mechanics, a simplistic combat system and false marketing from pathological liar Peter Molyneux over hundreds of features that aren't in the games. The two games I played in the series were awful.

RPG wise, the games are barely RPGs. Nothing you did actually had any consequence in the games and the story still proceeded the same way. NPCs are largely scripted around the player, repeating the same dialogue and nothing random or dynamic ever happens between them. So the games didn't even come 1% close to achieving what Way of the Samurai did (which Fable claimed to be inspired by).

This game doesn't look any good either and I have no idea why they even bothered to create a new one in the series after the last two were flops that sunk the original studio behind the series.

My most anticipated game of this year and it looks great. Definitely will be my GOTY if it's as good or better than the first two games. Nothing really comes close to the Nioh franchise's combat and this one looks set to expand the gameplay even further.

@Dalamar Those weapons are in the base game for Nioh 3.

@KundaliniRising333 I fail to see how it's a problem. The filter literally takes a few seconds to set, furthermore, what you're asking for doesn't exist in any loot based game. Every loot based game has you come across a lot of the same equipment with the differences being their tier, appearance and stats. Plenty of us enjoy loot based games, nothing lazy or sloggish about.

@nomither6 They were saying Nintendo is for kids not that they target kids as a major demographic. They also target adults.

@nomither6 Sony shouldn't be charging for online either. No console should. Never understood it considering playing online is free on PC.

@GamingGod @rhyno_888 Switch is brought by adults too. Also it's a hybrid console not a handheld solely. I'm sorry but saying this stuff is like a cope to try and pretend Sony isn't losing against them.

And Sony is trying to compete against them. First by making their own similar family friendly games (Astro Bot, Sackboy, Lego Horizon Adventures, Destruction AllStars etc), secondly by trying to add that hybrid experience with PS Portal and finally trying to reclaim a foothold in Japan by with their cheaper PS5 Japan only model.

@get2sammyb I thought the story was pretty weak especially compared to 2. F was extremely heavy-handed in all the symbolism to the point I figured out the ending long before the finale. And the initial default ending is so cliché that it's horrible.

Having the more unique ending locked behind two new playthroughs is annoying especially because F isn't really that enjoyable to play through in the first place with its combat. Well I watched that ending on YouTube and while that ending is somewhat better than the first default one, imo it's still not that good.

@LifeGirl Well, that's what awards go to: recognising the artistry and skill from a human mind and human hands.

Devs can use Gen AI but then they shouldn't be upset over not getting an award for using it and also apparently lying and saying they never used it. This awards organisation had that in their terms of conditions that any game using Gen AI is ineligible for nomination.

So there's an vendetta here but it's not from those decrying Gen AI.

@Mr_Singh Nobody would be upset over somebody not using AI.

People still praise artists who use a paintbrush despite digital art existing.

@DeepSpace5D Add bad writing and bad combat to that list and that defines every Bethesda game. They've always been pretty bad.

Halo 3 just won GameStop's GOTY Awards and beat Expedition 33, despite Halo 3 being an old game.

It's hilarious watching people get very defensive over what organisation awards are somehow more legit and if they're objective truth.

@somnambulance I wouldn't have understood Baldur's Gate 3 steam rolling anything either. That game is highly overrated.

Again, no idea why people place so much stock in this award ceremony when it's mainly decided by a handful of gaming journalists.

Also it's American so I kinda consider their taste irrelevant

Looks like another failure from Crapcom.

The Yakuza franchise has significantly declined since Nagoshi left, its kinda become a parody of itself especially with the increased emphasis on silliness and reliance on an outdated engine. This looks way better graphically and thematically than anything RGG Studio has shown for years. Hopefully the gameplay matches its quality.

Getting tired of devs modelling characters on their actors though and using famous actors.

Isn't that exactly the problem with Sony's few actual games nowadays? That they're movies rather than games?

@bluemage1989 I couldn't care about the game release, give me the court date and drama since that's more interesting than anything Rockstar has ever produced.

@SeaDaVie I don't think it's got anything to do with the culture wars or weirdo gamergate types. I think the reason Final Fantasy 7 just isn't selling that much is because it's just not that good. Same reason Astro Bot only sold 1 million.

Now that the fanboyism has died and FF7 is multiplatform, it's interesting to see public opinion shift so quickly with a lot of criticism towards these remakes.

Saying post-Silksong implies the game was a masterpiece but isn't the consensus that it's a disappointment to most? All that overhype to be forgotten after a month after release too.

@Michael2008ish It became popular with Yakuza 0. People liked the brawler gameplay not boring turn based crap. Incidentally, 7 was the beginning of the decline. Now the series is just complete wacky nonsense and utter fanservice including in resurrecting dead characters. And the writing has got considerably worst.

@Judal27 Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are the two best selling Zelda games of all time and critically acclaimed. Saying the Switch gen for Zelda was less than stellar is crazy talk lol.

@Frmknst First good vampire game since Masquerade? Legacy of Kain Defiance came out that same year and since then, there's been Vampyr.

@Oram77 Crimson Desert being released in the same way is just speculation on your part. It's been in development for years and iirc was delayed presumably for polish.

@JimmyRiddle @dellyrascal Sure and there's Americans who have lived in America their whole life and who would probably say they've never felt unsafe or even seen a shooting. Doesn't change the facts of gun crime in America just as the facts of knife crime in the UK doesn't change.

@Dom_31 Yes and that's why it was voted into first place. Wukong was good.

@Frmknst I think you mean the greatest games are only avaliable on Nintendo.

Because PlayStation games are on PC now and there's not that many exclusives from Sony anymore in the first place.

@Enuo This plays exactly like Ninja Gaiden is supposed to so a Team Ninja game and it's good. I've been enjoying it so far.

@Rich33 Ninja Gaiden has never been about the environment. It's about the gameplay. Interesting environments are fine but something like Lies of P just seems boring to me from a gameplay perspective.

Tekken 8 is still alive? Thought this game was dead after being considered such a huge failure.

@hisownsidekick Nothing about her looks Madagascan.

@lazarus11 Silent Hill f wasn't that good unfortunately. Held back by its ham fisted writing, absolutely terrible endings (the default one being insultingly predictable and obvious from the heavy hints the game keeps throwing at you), the poor combat and the extreme reuse of enemies.

Going by discussions online, it's as divisive as Silksong. I give it 6/10 if I'm being generous.

@Lowdefal Nintendo and Capcom are franchises? Lol

@lazarus11 Seems that way. People were pretending it crashed Steam too even when it didn't come close to the peak player counts or sales of many other games. Now, 1 month later, all I see are people saying Silksong was mediocre.

Some people must like getting sued by Nintendo.

@Dalamar They don't hold meaning anyway. They're meaningless digital awards for a video game.

The Crapcom era continues with this game.

Just as Hideaki Itsuno is Japan's Todd Howard. The Yakuza franchise has become the CoD of Japan, yearly releases without much change to the now stale formula. Even the writing hasn't changed...

Just as Hideaki Itsuno is Japan's Todd Howard. The Yakuza franchise has become the CoD of Japan, yearly releases without much changes to the formula.

@Acquiescence Cringe + cringe. They're two perfect fanbases united.

@PuppetMaster Capcom has actually entered into their Crapcom era again with Dragon's Dogma 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds.

As for Platinum, they're working on Ninja Gaiden 4 alongside Team Ninja. It remains to be seen if losing studio directors has any big impact on them.

@captainsandman Yeah, the NG games are known for being challenging, the person playing is really good which is why this is titled advanced gameplay.

@1UP-HUSKY Nah, Nintendo is the most creative of all because they don't often stick to the same formula.

The entire Zelda franchise is constantly changing and evolving including with the artstyle. Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword and then Breath of the Wild. These games all look different and play differently with entirely different combat systems. Tears of the Kingdom like Majora's Mask was one of the exceptions. Being a direct sequel of BoTW like Majora was of Ocarina and therefore keeping a lot of the same things such as the artstyle and combat system. Either way, Tears still introduced a lot of its own unique gimmicks.

Every 3D Mario game is different too. Donkey Kong Bananza shouldn't be surprising then because that's something Nintendo has been doing with Mario & Zelda in constantly changing them up rather than sticking to the same thing.

In comparison to Sony, we know God of War Raganok's followup will play exactly the same as the first two games. We know it will keep the same artstyle. We know it will have the same combat system. Same seems to be true for the upcoming Ghost of Yotei vs Tsushima which was already something that was done before in all the Ubisoft games that inspired it.

Pete Hines had nothing to say about Bethesda being the first company to add microtranscations to a single player game.

And both Shawn and Sony wouldn't know if Game Pass is sustainable since they're basing their logic on PlayStation itself failing in terms of its subscription service...a service they themselves created first. Xbox just was more successful at it.

Truth is, the games that fail on Game Pass just weren't good anyway and if not for Game Pass, nobody would be playing them anyway. There's plenty of success stories like with Clair Obscur.