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I see no signs of a switch in their business model. Nintendo is still a toy company, and that’s super alright with me. They exist together but separate. Personally, I’m pumped.

It actually kind of turns me off of playing it tbh, one of the things that’s got me sick of open world games and massive RPGs lately is the amount of filler content. There’s no way all of this is impactful to the experience. Give me smaller, tighter games that are well-crafted head to toe. I want an emphasis on solid mechanics, not how big your map is or how many words you recorded for it.

It’s prettttty fun with a group of friends, I would recommend to anyone that liked Gang Beasts or Human: Fall Flat

Bit of a stroke of luck, though.. innit? If Blizzard didn’t absolutely bumble Overwatch/Overwatch 2 over the last couple years, would it have been as popular? With games taking 5-10 years to make these days, it’s almost impossible to do that kind of market analysis to make the right game for the right moment. There is a very plausible timeline where this game releases and fizzles out due to OW2 being more popular at the time of release. Live service is still an absolute crap shoot.

How do I become an analyst? Seems like easy money. Do I just start spouting whatever comes to my head and the money starts coming in?

Returnal is still such a stand out for me for the PS5 generation, and my first platinum ever. It’s such interesting storytelling if you 100% it.

That’s an eye-watering number, golly. How sustainable is this current trajectory of AAA development? How many billion dollar budget games can remain profitable?

LOL people actually use the ignore button on here?

That’s certainly one way to ensure a digital-only future. This kind of rug pull is 1000% intentional IMHO and totally in-line and on-brand for PS5-era Sony’s late stage capitalistic money grubbing.

I would be stoked to see a Helldivers spinoff in a different genre, perhaps an XCOM-like game with a cool war strategy meta game.

It’s actually so embarrassing to call myself a gamer these days, wtf happened to you lot?

The upside is that these certain online circles will probably never contribute to the gene pool

These comments! BIG YIKES.

I love it, I wish we would see more smaller games from big studios in between their bigger titles

Oof, this discussion. All social media is a damn cancer.

I’ma try all of these

I’ve shipped enough dead code in my career to know these things can be less than nothing

I’m such a junkie for these games that I preordered against my better judgement. Hope it doesn’t suck!

What an absolute joke this entire gen has been. Sony needs competition or this is what we end up with.

You had one job!

I’m glad they’re still trying original things, hope this doesn’t deter them too much.

This could end up being absolutely massive

Oh, won’t someone please think of the scalpers?!

I really hope it’s all just a matter of final polish but I dunno, after the state of DD2 at launch, I’m worried. Whenever a AAA company garners too much unchecked consumer praise (ie. all the CAPGOD fandom), they inevitably squander it and start coasting on their success (looking at you, SONY).

This is up there with landfills full of ET cartridges

My hopes aren’t high for console performance after the state Dragon’s Dogma 2 launched in.

I am very interested in seeing how this turns out. I’m a big tabletop gamer and this looks like it might be great.

There is pretty strong evidence that some of the Palworld assets are directly modified Pokémon assets, that’s a step beyond just copying some mechanics and art style in my opinion. It should be interesting to see how it all plays out. I think Nintendo only brought this case out once it was pretty damn solid.

Naw. This gen has been a HUGE disappointment, and performance had nothing to do with it.

This comment section wasn’t quite the dumpster fire I was expecting. Is the world healing?

Race car levels of performance? Give me a break…

Those other 5 better be absolute bangers.

Concord f2p rerelease date to close the show /s

Wasn’t there meant to be a series of animated lore videos that released periodically? That’s likely what contributed to such an enormous production budget. Either way, what a disaster. Out of touch doesn’t even begin to describe PS5 era Sony IMHO. That’s what not having a competitor does to a company.

I wish Xbox was putting up more of a fight, Sony would have to try harder. They've gotten away with some bs this generation they never would have if there was more competition.

lol 60fps GTA6, maybe when it releases on PS7 ultra deluxe definitive edition in 13 years time. This is the same reason Dragon’s Dogma 2 likely won’t be THAT much better on PS5 Pro, it’s a CPU throttling issue.

The art direction on this game was the least of its worries

More whale hunting from Sony, thoroughly disappointed with their priorities this generation.

I hate mid-gen upgrades. It takes away that parity of experiences that I like about consoles that doesn’t exist on PC. It’s also just another excuse for devs to never optimize for consoles.

I bet he’s a real joy to work with.

This is actually fascinating, great article

This game’s got some heavy lifting to do

This is historic, can’t wait to read a good post-mortem on what happened here. Sony really fumbled with this one.

@Enigk that’s a great analogy

The only way you peel enough people off of an existing title in this space is by innovating in some way, and I’m not sure the AAA’s know how to do that anymore, frankly. Releasing clones isn’t going to cut it.

Give us 3-4 you cowards

One of the best games of the last decade, easy. I love everything about this game’s story too. Solo dev, originally built in friggin’ JavaScript (since ported to unity, I believe), his background before this was casino games and it totally shows. 10/10 for me but I’ll accept a 9, great review.

Not only was the trend chasing a terrible idea, but the game is just kind of bad. Sure, there’s a lot of internet haters and disappointed Sony fans who never wanted this type of content from them, but that doesn’t account for numbers THIS low. A poor product in a sea of really competent ones does, though. Especially when the rest of the lot tend to be free to play. I’m worried they’re going to double down to try to rescue it, pump resources into it, make it f2p, to try to justify the costs sunk. It’s either that or it gets turned off in a couple months.

I think some games probably deserve a higher price point, but my problem is with the precedent it sets. So while GTA6 might have an argument for a price increase where it took a decade to make and offers a certain amount of value, it will also raise the price of whatever yearly shlock EA or CoD spits out.

It’s a great month, even having played Cult of the Lamb at launch.