Lol Destruction AllStars. Remember that?

@spottedleaf I’d say I was surprised that someone saying they’re autistic in their bio is throwing around things like that to a fellow neurodivergent person but I’m honestly not really. You don’t know the extent of people’s struggles and how psychologically damaging my lived experiences have been, and escalating to personal attacks because I challenged you on an opinion that you still haven’t bothered to elaborate on just proves that the initial screed really was lazy.

@spottedleaf ‘Overrated’ is a fundamentally egotistical comment. That implies that your opinion of something is correct, and that everyone who rates something highly is wrong. Your opinion matters as much as literally everybody else’s and you’re the one attacking a fairly well-loved game by implying that those who do enjoy the game are wrong, but with no actual reason being provided for that.

@spottedleaf Instead you put out a paragraph of lazy mean-spirited words about a game which is over 30 years old. You don’t have to expand on any of it, but it really doesn’t add much to any discussion to wave around hyperbolic nonsense and the dreaded ‘overrated’ critique which just means a game is well-liked.

@spottedleaf I dunno, I’m a bit sick of lazy contrarianism. There are genuine criticisms to be made of any game but ‘overrated’ is an empty criticism, you can say that about anything that people like.

@spottedleaf You say that as if VII isn’t also mostly remembered for the first 5 minutes as well as Aerith’s death. I like VII but nobody ever talks about the actual dungeon design because it doesn’t really do anything with it unlike VI having interesting gameplay quirks like the Cultist’s Tower or how sprawling the final dungeon is.

I don’t think 6 would work in that format or gameplay style. It’s a very ambitious game for its time and contains so many different styles and places and character arcs and so on that you’d take 20 years to make a remake.

Let me guess, nobody will save any money because of dynamic pricing.

@Rich33 Interesting considering that’s around when Christianity was really pushing out pagan beliefs across Scandinavia too. Mimir referencing Macbeth in that way also implies at least a chunk of time has passed since then too. Also Mimir is Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there’s a bunch of references to fairy kings and Titania and stuff.

@Balaam_ How is it anachronistic? What time period is the game set in? Genuinely point to a single moment in the Norse Saga that actually pinpoints the real life time period like the Greek games did. You can’t, it’s an entirely mythical setting and Mimir and Kratos’ stories imply that rather a few centuries have passed since GOW3.

Why tf are there special forces guys in what looks like Palace Midas? One of the best things about Tomb Raider 1 is how lonely it is, I’m pretty sure Larsson, Pierre and the 3 guys in Natla’s Mines are the only human enemies in the entire game. If they’re going to add things to Tomb Raider 1, combat encounters in the vein of the already too combat heavy Survivor games is not it. Like yes, Anniversary added superfluous box puzzles and a pointless dodge counter and ruined several boss fights with QTEs but it still understood the core identity of Tomb Raider 1 sort of.

If they want to make a combat heavy game then just remake TR2 with the Survivor combat. That would actually work! And it would be nice to see Venice in modern graphics tbf.

@JohntheRaptor Deathloop was great personally.

@Sunraku Everyone has their red lines. It’s very hard to actually stick to boycotts and the like and we’re all hypocritical in our own ways. I’m not going to give any money to JK Rowling despite having been a fan as a kid, and I’m not going to be buying the new Metro game despite being a massive fan of the older games but that’s my personal red lines. We all have a right to take a stand, and tell others why we’re taking that stand in case others are unaware of those reasons and may feel similarly, but it’s a very personal thing. Like similarly I’m not going to tell somebody exactly how they should vote, but I’ll happily debate or try to make them understand another line of thinking.

@Sunraku To play devil’s advocate, Microsoft weren’t on the BDS list when they bought Compulsion. They are now. HouseHouse aren’t releasing their new game on Xbox for that reason.

15 years of Skyrim is mental. Remember downloading it across an entire day trying to get Wine wrappers working on our Mac lol. One of the all time games for me despite obviously having loads of issues. I’m excited for anything Elder Scrolls to be honest, this is years away but I’ll be there regardless.

@get2sammyb That’s the exact same attitude that TV execs have, they assume that the audience doesn’t want traditionally delivered television and so they abandon it to focus on streaming slop in an attempt to ingratiate themselves with what they see as the ‘modern’ audience. Except The Traitors proves that people will sit down in their millions for appointment television if it’s something that they actually want to watch.

The same applies to games, you’re assuming that a smaller game won’t work from Sony but they don’t actually make games that would excite and entice the players. Was Concrete Genie ever going to sell by the bucketload? The issue isn’t with the entire practice of making smaller games because those sorts of games go massively viral on PC at least a few times a year. The issue is that Sony only know how to make sure bets succeed and lack the ambition and innovation to correctly market and package smaller games to make a profit.

@Fyz306903 It’s pretty much the original of modern imsims so yeah, I’d say if you can get yourself in the mindset then you’d love it. It’s hard though!

So confused by this strategy. Why pay to go watch trailers for a game?

It’s frustrating but clearly the days of blank check dodgy money is over, see also the PIF pulling out of the golf and stuff.

This looks amazing. Big fan of Thief Gold so this package looks like the best it’s ever been.

There is no situation in which we, the consumer, are better off. Sony are in the business of making money, and more money than last year. You will always be getting fleeced in some way.

@ButteredCrumpet It genuinely does feel like COD games are beamed in from an alternate universe where Bush is still in power fighting the War on Terror. They really are relics. In the first Modern Warfare reboot they take a real life war crime done by the Yanks and attribute it to the Russians instead, this isn’t exactly new but I do feel like using an actual tragedy and blaming it on unrelated parties is insane.

I love this game but a second remaster is insane.

A new low. This tragedy had literally nothing to do with North Korea. It’s both disgusting to use real life deaths to prop up a fictional plot but also to attribute those deaths to another country.

@KeenAerondight Mind you, the feather hunt in AC2 wasn’t exactly any better but somehow having little markers on a bigger map makes it less interesting!

@Areus They’d probably ruin them tbh. I don’t mind Far Cries 3-5 but they’re, uh, a far cry from the original two Far Cries.

I think if there were games other than the open world ones in the works then I’d be fine with this. But as it stands, I’m a little disappointed because I don’t think we’ll really get more classic AC for a while.

@Areus @ppitchfork They both got patches for the PS5. A native version probably isn’t worth the effort and would also be priced a lot higher than they currently go for. 4K would be nice though.

Well that’s random. I think I got my fill of Valhalla with the very very long road to platinum but tbf I never did play the Paris expansion and I don’t think I even own the rather expensive Ragnarok one.

God £250, roughly accounting for inflation, for a console and all those games. Goes to show any talk of inflation with the PS5 price is just running interference for the AI vampires.

@AgentMantis Some games just sink without trace, destined to never be talked about again.

If I can play ET on the Atari and earn fan-made achievements, the actual developers can work out how to add trophies to their meagre retro offerings on PS5.

@Theamazing1 Yeah, I had one DS4 give up the ghost and I’ve had my navy one for years. I’m on my third DualSense.

Well I already have TR 4-6 but they are good fun. Actually didn’t mind a lot of the Angel of Darkness this time round but it still isn’t great.

@Theamazing1 My controller was bought in January. It already is struggling and that’s after compressed air and so on.

No point spending money on a special edition controller if it’s just going to drift though!

@Theamazing1 I can tell you right now, as someone who actually knows what they’re talking about, every single malicious bit of code being written this year is AI assisted. I’d stake my life on it. The next era of cybersecurity is just AI developed defences against AI developed attacks.

Isn’t it fantastic that AI makes it easier than ever to launch attacks. What a world we’ve built for ourselves, entirely dependent on systems that anyone can spend credits to circumvent.

@Madnurz No problem!

@Madnurz It’s probably something i’d want to play sooner rather than later with spoilers and stuff!

Really wish they’d done that Civil War game they had in early development. Baffling that it’s somehow controversial to play as a freed slave.

The plans looked interesting. But yeah, seeing the cuts to franchises like The Sims as well as BioWare getting shut down makes me think that Kushner/Saudis are trying to remove anything remotely gay from EA.

I just want the platforming to have consequences. Literally every jump in Tomb Raider 1 required skill and could potentially lead to a horrible death. I want that back, the newer ones have far too much leeway with jumps and became mostly just third person shooters.

@Madnurz It’s full price and I don’t see any way that’s coming down any time soon with how popular it’ll be!

If the console is that expensive then we’re allowed to do whatever the f**k we want to do with it. But expecting to be allowed access to Sony’s servers is ludicrous and anybody who’s jailbroken a console over the years knows that’s the price to pay.

Horrifying status symbol for tech vampires. Gutted about my actual Walkman’s belt snapping tbf, I’d fix it myself but the belts are a little expensive and I don’t have much experience with anything that old.

I’d take anything Burnout. The spiritual successors never really hit the same. EA used to be great, I beat SSX 3 a couple nights ago and you forget just how fantastic their output was. Plus that had DJ Atomika doing the ingame radio the same as Burnout Paradise.

They’re one of the few from that crop left. Black Isle are dead, in fact Interplay as a whole are dead, Looking Glass are dead and I’m pretty sure Spector is retired and Origin Systems died a long time ago. Eesh, it’s bad when you lay it out, the golden age of CRPGs pretty much has zero talent still in the industry.

I guess Obsidian are still around for now, who knows for how long given they got moved to Zenimax.

At least she took the uncensored racial slurs out of this one 👍

Hopefully at Christmas I can finally play it lol. Doubt it though.