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Oh man I need that Rey-u Mysterio on my shelf

It really depends on the game for me. If it’s a game I’ll play for 100’s of hours, sure.. that’s still an OK ROI for me. However, it being a green light to just charge that much for every release is a DAFT idea that I really hope blows up in their faces. I was thinking about grabbing the Switch 2 Mario Party release this week, but it’s 115$ CAD. That’s ridiculous. It’s a collection of mini games that might get cracked open here and there when friends are over, not a frigging chance in hell.

I can only imagine what they’re going to sell that thing for next gen when they don’t have any real competition

CEO is clown shoes after those statements and that stupid hat

Not everything needs to be a franchise

THPS 3 was an obsession of mine the year it came out, so I am super excited for this because of that. I have never actually played THPS 4, and this feels like a bad way to experience that game for the first time. I’m very conflicted by this, it feels like it should have been two separate releases if they were really that concerned about cohesion.

It’s funny because I didn’t hear about this movement until I saw that PirateSoftware drama about it. For something he wanted to actively work against, he sure brought a lot of eyeballs to it.

I’m convinced the second you put CEO next to your name, it rots a hole in your brain.

The industry is in roughhhhhhh shape right now. Burn it all down and rebuild, I say! Put the industry back in the hands of people who actually care about the hobby and know what the heck they’re doing. I saw something on PCGamer that EA has set a user target of like 100,000,000 people for Battlefield 6. These suits are too out of touch for this to continue.

I don’t think the C suite at Microsoft feels the same way about Phil Spencer as the rest of the gaming community does

“Microsoft: Spectacularly Failing Upwards Since Windows Vista”

But seriously the company’s never been more successful, their net income increased by 7.5 billion since 2023, the year they acquired Activision/Blizzard. It’s easy to point to that as the cause here but I think it’s a bit more nuanced than just that, although I’m sure it has a part to play.

So how does Microsoft deliver value to shareholders when so many of their products appear to be stinking hot garbage water? Operating efficiency. They have a 46% operating margin, which is incredibly “efficient” to an investor. It’s kind of their style, and this is how they achieve it, gutting their divisions, hands off project management, all the things we rail on about are actually intentional things to this company, even if they’re resulting in substandard products. The point isn’t to make good software, it’s to sell shares of their company and making sure those shares continue to go up.

At the end of the day, it sucks, and Microsoft hoovering up companies was terrible for those companies and their products, because now their products are being made (or not made) the Microsoft way.

David Dastmalchian is going to kill that part

I love a good arcade sports title but this doesn’t look great.

I made it a good chunk of the way towards the platinum in this game and had to give it up, it became super tedious. I love the game but I don’t love it THAT much, apparently.

I think this is the biggest problem in some of these live service games that fail, they feel like the concepts were designed by a bunch of suits who never played a game before in their lives. Meanwhile, when it’s a fresh idea by passionate people, like Helldivers 2, they’re a runaway success. Let creatives be creative.

People saying there’s no story to Elden Ring really surprised me. What game did y’all play? The story plays out in every inch of that game.

The game’s alright. I just don’t think that cuts it right now.

A wee bit of hidden inflation, stop rewarding people with discounts

I remember when prices of a console went down this far into their lifecycle. Crazy times!

Probably one of my favourite games of all time. Everything about it is perfect.

That’s a really solid lineup in my opinion. ARK has a lot to offer if you can push past the jank, probably one of the deepest games I’ve ever played. Balatro is a 10/10, full stop. Boltgun rips if you like boomer shooters.

get rich or die trying

The weird celebrity cameos cheapen the vibe, I don’t think there’s any coming back from that no matter how much money you throw at it

When are companies going to realize you’ll just need to let Fortnite have that space?

I never think to try this. Mouse and keyboard on PS5 without the PC cheaters is probably the best way to play some of these games.

I think I preferred the pixel art of the first one, but I’ll check this out. I still fire up One Strike with friends sometimes, it makes a great party game because it’s so stripped down.

I’m all in shrug

Facts have really become irrelevant, haven’t they?

I really wish they’d do a multiplayer overhaul but that would probably take much, much longer to implement. It’s my only complaint. Friends I previously played Rise and World with have so far opted out because of how convoluted the whole thing is. It’s crazy to think it’s sold 1/3 of World’s lifetime sales already. What could it be selling if it had normal, accessible multiplayer?

While there is a broadening of the space into different platforms and delivery methods, I can’t take these CEOs seriously at all. They have a vested interest in blowing whatever smoke up your you know makes them the most money or pleases their investors. It’s everywhere in tech as a whole. Oh SaaS is the future, GaaS is the future, AI is the future, digital only is the future, streaming is the future, blah blah blah. Don’t let these people tell you what to like, it’s all just market manipulation.

I can’t wait. The first season was fantastic.

Someone should tell them you’re supposed to PLAY the games to have fun, not complain about them on the internet. OOPS! Everyone makes mistakes.

It is sadly just a fact of the technology. Most storage technology, in fact. Games preservation will never involve original media and needs to exist on transferable storage devices that can be modernized and updated when those storage devices begin to fail.

@Rhaoulos oh, you mean the episode that won all the awards and got all the attention? Yeah, sure hope they don’t do THAT again…

Easy 9/10 for me

I’ll be playing it eventually, looking forward to it. I just recently finished It Takes Two and that was pretty great.

Well deserved, great game. Performance has been fine on pro. There is a lot of talk about this game online that is just plain false in my opinion. Luckily it doesn’t seem like too many people are getting caught up in it.

Bit of a W for the pro, I’ve yet to have a single moment that’s pulled me out of it

Started it up last night, it’s good. The combat and gathering and traversal all feel great. The story is typical MH cheese. Performance mode on PS5 Pro seems pretty smooth so far. I’m happy with it.

I think “discourse” is too good a word to use to describe the internet, it implies there’s some sort of intelligent conversation happening.

The trick is to never pay attention to people on the internet, myself included.

Interesting, I might try this out now. Not enough belt scrollers experiment with some meta progression elements. I really enjoyed that recent Double Dragon game that had some roguelike/progression elements in it. It’s a genre I would love to see more innovation with. Dragon’s Crown is still one of my GOATs.

It’s a tough space with the quality some indie titles are bringing. 40-50$ titles with sometimes less quality/content than a 5-20$ title is a tough sell. My two longest playtimes of any games ever were Valheim and Project Zomboid and I got both of them for less than the price of Gravity Rush 2 at retail. Vampire Survivors can keep someone occupied for 100 hours or more probably for the 100% play through and I spend more on coffee before noon most days.

Would be nice if they rescued VV from doing Blizzard support for this one

The tech industry as a whole is in such shambles, it sucks to be a dev right now. Mass layoffs and hiring freezes have been the norm for a few years now. There’s a lot of factors at play.

They likely adjusted some sliders on the build step and called it a remaster.

Returnal is still my top PS5 game, I can’t wait for this.

It was aight. New Housemarque really has me excited, though.

I’d be dead in a week with that kind of money

Loved it. Happy to see Philly take it after Trump backed KC haha