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Really want to give this a try at some point.

Steam box, or Steam Link?

Played more HOB, should be near the end now. I've got a few minor gripes, but overall, it's a great game that gets better with time. I'll do a write up in the indie thread when I'm done.

I've beaten 16 backlogged games just this year. The pile still may outgrow what I can burn, but new game prices will hold higher than normal for a while due to the generation transition. Gives me an excuse to catch up. It's usually what I do.

Comes out in 3 days.

My list, based on what I currently own that was released this gen. I came into the generation late, and waited for bargin bin price drops and freebies. So that's my excuse. It's not quite as bad as I thought... I'll probably aim to beat most of the primary list games. PC Primary Yakuza series (PC releases of 0 and 1) Dark Souls Remastered AC Origins Doom Crash Bandicoot 2 & 3 Witcher 3 Okami HD Halo Master Chief Collection PC Secondary Prey AC Odyssey Black Mesa Megaman 11 Tales of Beseria Batman Arkham Knight Shadow of Mordor Ni Nu Kuni 2 Sonic Mania Spyro 2 & 3 Kingdom Come Deliverance Remnant from the Ashes The Surge Watch Dogs 2 Sony Primary Shadow of the Colossus The Last Guardian Horizon Uncharted 3 remaster Uncharted 4 Uncharted: Lost Legacy Bloodborne TLOU remaster God of War (finish up) Sony Secondary Tearaway Unfolded Final Fantasy XV Kingdom Hearts Final Mix Persona 5 Nintendo Primary Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze Captain Toad Yoshi's Whooly World Octopath Traveller Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle Nintendo Secondary Wonderful 101 Rayman Legends Mario Tennis Aces Xenoblade 2 Torna (waiting for Switch Pro) Starfox Zero NSMBU Indie Primary Wargroove Dead Cells Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair Into the Breach Guacamelee 2 Life is Strange: Before the Storm Night in the Woods The Messenger Subnautica Hyper Light Drifter The Talos Principle AM2R Pyre HOB (playing now) Indie Secondary Furi Superhot Underhero Bright Memory 1.0 Shadow Tactics Snake Pass World to the West Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap Axiom Verge Moonlighter Never Alone Iconoclasts Obduction Invisible Inc. Vane Headlander One Shot Battle Chef Brigade Blazing Chrome Pikuniku Momodora The Turing Test Chroma Squad Etherborne Tooth and Tail Redout Bad North Minit 20XX Wuppo Valley Poi The last category could still go on and on. Thanks Humble, Amazon, Epic, Steam wallet credit.

Man, I never finished Human Revolution. I got to a point where the game forces you not to stealth and said fuck it. Might have been near the end.

Based only on what I’ve played, I’d pitch prioritizing these. I’d probably make LiS my number 1 for what it offers on the whole. It goes wild places. Even more than Edith Finch. You could put off the 3D platformers a while if you’re not that into the genre, but the those three are top shelf. Though be warned, they’re all a bit collection heavy. You could swap Xenoblade out for DQXI later this year (I know we’ve talked about that). I adore both games. Pick Xeno if you want more exploration and plot, pick DQXI if you want something more light hearted and traditional. You’re getting Switch graphics either way, lol.

Most new releases have next-gen versions or upgrades planned (Nintendo exclusives excepting). 2020's been a huge help for my backlog already, but there's still so much left to cover. What do you all hope to get around to before it gets forgotten about? Wii U games could count as well, if that's a question.

Never played the original, but the PS4 remake is sitting high on my backlog currently.

Spot the flash in the pan.

It'll be good at telling us what each of the platforms can do with reflections at least. Then Control will tell us more.

Yup, which means a lot of puddles to start with. It'll be striking until it's not. Reconstruction techniques could get better as the gen goes on, but the specs games are built for will also get more demanding. It's going to be interesting to see how a truly 'next-gen' game deals with RT. Even Control is still current gen in scope with RT layered on top. Same with Cyperpunk.

Looks like a match for DMC and Spiderman MM. Just no 60fps mode that we know about.

Not if you're tying to maximize elemental bonuses and blade synergy. When and how you switch between blades becomes the focus in the late game. And that's very much dependent on the battle situation. What element orbs does the enemy already have? What blades elements do you and your party members have equipped? Do you go for riskier elemental chains or topple combos? Can you do both to maximize damage? What about healing? Etc. By the end of the game I had that elemental flow chart pretty much memorized. There's a ton of the character/blade abilities and pouch items that make auto-attacks less needed and charge arts faster too. Last thing I'll add is that I really do think the auto attack changes from XB1 matter. You talked about that game having issues with just sitting there and not pressing buttons. In XB2, there's the Mario RPG style timed hits, in addition to left stick taps to cancel animation frames. Or you can decide to stop your attack strings to chase health pelletes. It's not as direct as an action game or even FF7R, but it is way more involved than the movement in XB1 mainly being about attack position bonuses.

Hard disagree. There’s many more layered systems to juggle in XB2. Timed press bonuses for basic attacks, elemental combo chains, seals, ‘blade‘ swaps and cancels, animation cancels, break-topple-launch-smash, elemental orbs, health pellets, etc. It’s quite satisfying to stack multiple elemental bursts into one massive chain attack. You need it against most of the late game and end game bosses, unless you find other ways to cheese it through the gatcha and blade leveling (there are a couple). For better or worse, XB2 addresses simplicity concerns by overstuffing it with systems to manage and optimize. I think I might be the only one here who actually beat it? Shame since it’s really worth seeing through to the end. XB2 is also highly relevant to this thread in what it changes to combat, how many more abilities you have access to, there being no real downtime once you discover how the cancel systems/auto-attack timing bonuses work, etc. Have you played it @Bacon? I never found XB1s combat bad, but we’ve had that discussion before. XBX is the game that’s mostly more of the same in combat. Traded off visions and more unique combat styles (like Melia) for homogeneity, with slow ass Skell combat and a color bonus system you can’t really strategize around. It’s worse overall, IMO. But also much more samey than XB2.

Not to cramp your style, but maybe we make this a thing?

Few hours into HOB. Great game so far.

People with brand loyalty, a preference for the UI, the controller, the hardware, the backwards compatibility ecosystem, etc. They could drop the ball on a ton of things and still maintain better than the Wii U or Dreamcast. I think the Xbox One launch proved that much.

We're talking about Nintendo here. The company that has long maintained that a rush to the bottom devalues gaming. They don't even let GeForce Now on the Switch when they partner with Nvidia. I doubt Xbox hardware would go anywhere unless Microsoft pulls the plug. Might mean less market share.

In other words: We don't have to ship these games on Sony's console to recoup investments since we offer plenty of choice ourselves. Take that as you will.

There's a brief snippet from the Xbox Series S reveal. We haven't seen any PS5/Series X footage yet. No clue if the S has any raytraced reflections, but Ubisoft confirmed that the Series X version will have them. Who knows what that looks like.

Yup. At the risk of overhyping it... don't pass on it.

These consoles haven't launched yet. Future tense. It was in response to others joking people would write it off for being a cross-gen game at 4K60. Well, there's cross-gen games that do more with the hardware at 4k60. AC's excuse is being a massive open world game that for whatever reason, didn't have time for WD3's raytracing tech (etc). I'm okay with waiting for the ground-up next gen AC to blow us away, at whatever performance/resolution it targets. Valhalla never needed to be a next-gen showpiece. Let's just not pretend other games aren't doing more in the meanwhile. The smaller scale stuff is more nimble to adapt and wow us early on. (most recently, NBA2K21)