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Re: Round Up: What Was Announced at The Game Awards 2022?

arsmolinarc

Here goes my pesonal round up:

Death Stranding 2: Meh tbh. More curious if Kojima will change the playstyle. Keep the walking-sim extravaganza or lean more towards horror as he´s been recently implying? falling back to classic MGS gameplay? Only certainty is it will have cringe-worthy questionable moments that his fans will defend as "misunderstood", "quirkyness" or "social commentary".

Horizon FW Burning Shores: Would have loved to see gameplay. No opinion really, still haven't played Forbidden West but I had a lot of fun with Zero Dawn and its DLC and this is basically more of the same.

Judas: This one was a big surprise. I was just thinking the other day 'what ever happened to Ken Levine´s narrative legos concept?'
Looks very Bioshock-y but I'm more interested to know about the mechanics. Maybe something in the vein of Arkane's Prey: Mooncrash and Deathloop?
Very much looking forward to this one.

Armored Core VI: Game of the show right here.
New Armored Core by a Post-Souls From Software? SIGN ME UP.

Remnant II + Lords of the Fallen: Both of these looked pretty good and the original games had potential so I'm keeping my eye on these two.

Company of Heroes 3: This was a nice one because I very much wanted to play it but my potato laptop would have exploded if I tried to install it.

Space Marine 2: Not really a WH40K fan and didn't play the original game, but it looked like some nice visceral fun.

Hades 2: This one was a big surprise. Supergiant Games first sequel to their latest (and best). Very very looking forward to this one. (Ok, now: when the sequel to Transistor?!)

Final Fantasy XVI: It's looking insanely good. Not crazy about the j-pop/anime looks that plague every jrpg but the combat and enemy/creature design look superb.

Diablo IV: I should be more excited about this one. Going to need to hype myself up on youtube I guess.

Star Wars: Jedi Survivor: Not a Star Wars fan, won't get it. Now that we got that out of the way, it looked pretty good so for any fans this looks like a day one.

Suicide Squad: Another meh. You've done it, entertainment industry, you've milked Harley Quinn dry. Move along now.

Street Fighter VI + Tekken 8: As a superficial fighting fan both of these look like good fun.

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty: Still a question mark for me. Will they add more RPG gameplay and fidelity to the open world or is it still more pretty-looking window dressing? The casting of Idris Elba makes me wary CDPR is leaning towards the latter.

Crash Team Rumble: Why not Crash Team Racing 2?

Hellboy Web of Wyrd: Big fan of the mignolaverse so I'm looking forward to seeing more of this one.

Atomic Heart: Looks like one of those quiet games that comes out of nowhere to become a sleeper hit.

Banishers: Need to see more to form an opinion. Looks interesting.

Re: Microsoft Admits Its Games Are Worse Than Sony's

arsmolinarc

Underdogs? MS has had an unlimited budget to build up their first-party development and publishing arms and failed to do for almost 20 years.

The problem with MS has always been that they just buy studios and/or IP but don't nurture their growth. It's the reason franchises like Halo and Gears of War are shadows of their former selves.

Re: CD Projekt Red to Test Games on All Platforms Equally Going Forward, Not Just on PC

arsmolinarc

@Korgon and the Witcher 3 had a lot of performance issues when it released, like A LOT. The difference with CP2k77 was that it was still a great era-defining RPG without all the technical faults that were eventually ironed out and Cyberpunk Is, from what I hear, a great looking gamer with a good story baked on top of superficial systems. The problem is all the promises and hyperbole made by CDPR made It seem like the gamer was massively downgraded.

Re: PlayStation Bites Back At 'Inadequate' Call of Duty Offer from Microsoft

arsmolinarc

COD is leaving after PS5. The writing was on the wall since the sh*t became public.

Does anyone really think MS won't pull the carpet from under Sony?
MS obviously didn't like how the PS4 totally dominated the past generation so they do this anti-competition deals to buy publishers because that is the only way they can compete with Sony.

"If I can't beat you in the playground then I'm going to buy the best games so everyone plays with me and not you and declares me winner". That's MS basically: a fat rich boy with no friends x,,D

Personally I frankly don´t care. I have touched COD since World at War. I tried Warzone for like a minute: boom. Dead before I even touched the ground. Then the game tells me I was hacked. HACKED! LOL! The match hadn't even started. Uninstalled. Bonus: Tons of hd space.

Imo the only good COD was the first one and its expansion Allied Offensive.

edit: spelling