XxEvil AshxX

The base model WILL be the discount.

Sounds like a crush list, imo.

Smart move.

The way I'm seeing it is this:

Sony didn't give a shit that the game didn't have a PSN account tie-in.

Then the game sold millions on PC, which Sony didn't expect.

Then Sony realized that if they suddenly mandated PSN accounts for all those Steam copies, then PSN would see a huge upward spike in PSN accounts, which looks pretty nice at investor meetings.

Then Sony tried to make PC gamers do something they didn't want to do.

Then Sony realized that's probably not a good idea.

Then MS laughed and said, "Fun ain't it?"

But we can almost guarantee that several of the games on his list, FFXVI, FFVII Rebirth, and Spiderman 2 are almost definitely coming to PC, and his argument starts to fall apart, since he's disqualifying multiplats.

I've been having a blast this "gen" but in fairness, I don't really give a shit if a game is considered "next gen" or "current gen" or what... I've recently gotten back into ESO which is a 10 year old game at this point.

I guess if you're a Sony-Only Pony then he's right.

Luckily I have the luxury of not limiting myself to one gaming platform, so the idea of generations is pretty meaningless these days.

how can you put that much effort into animation and that little effort into naming.

I hated both of them lol

99

exactly how many problems i got.

I feel like the general consensus on it is that it's visually quirky and interesting, but also boring as shit. I'll wait for more impressions.

Well my thing is that I have such a gigantic backlog that I will buy a game when it's new but then it's old by the time I actually get around to it.

PS5's attach rate is still about 10% right now, iirc. Games like Spider-Man 2 and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are "under-performing" compared to their prequels, but those prequels released on PS4, which had 100+ million units out there. PS5 has like, half that. 

Even if a game only has a 10% attach rate to a specific console, that's still 10% you wouldn't have access to. Xbox is somewhere around 25 to 30 million consoles (from what I hear) and that might not sound like a lot, but that's still 2 or 3 million potential copies sold of your game that you're choosing to ignore by not supporting it.

If the devs don't see the value in it though, that's their choice.

4 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

I wouldn't count on it. According to the video this sounds like a Dragon's Dogma to Dragon's Dogma 2 situation where he says, "This is the game we wanted to make the first time around" the first time was 11 people now the studio is 250 people. Then goes into the in depth mechanics of the game like how people will judge you by your actions and you can build a reputation and get yourself in trouble and at the same time you can play any way you want (combat, theif, sexy man) which is a red flag for people who don't like to think for themselves but want to do what they're told.

This is one of those games that sounds great to me on paper, but I will probably fall off of pretty quick if it feels like every small decision or action is being graded or judged. I like to fart around and do stupid shit. I don't want to be punished for having fun.

I would personally like to see Larian take Divinity back to a third person ARPG. I enjoyed Divinity II. I did not enjoy the flying dragon parts though. Maybe they could ditch that part.

How about making the Dark Alliance sequel that everyone wanted, instead of the Dark Alliance sequel we actually got? They literally have a winning template to work from. BGDA might have been great back in the day, but it's since been improved upon exponentially by all of the ARPG's since. All they have to do is take Path of Exile and drop it into the D&D setting and you have a winner. But alas, it's WotC. Leave it to them to fuck up a relationship with probably the most successful dev they've partnered with in recent memory.

No dev in their right mind is gonna touch a Baldur's Gate 4.

Man I hope I can get into people's garages and piss on their boxes.

No Singularity 

CoD4 was a great experience at the time, but after you play it through once and the new car smell wears off, you realize it's pretty much  just a series of scripted events in which you are merely participating.

I bought this not too long ago. I think when Valve was having its Half Life anniversary or something. Got it for about $5. 

My first realization was that controller support was awful. My second realization was that holy shit my GPU has a hard time with it. After settling for mouse and keyboard controls and tinkering with graphics settings to a point where the game didn't crash right when I got off an elevator at the beginning, it actually seemed kind of cool. But I was tired of restarting the game over and over testing it to see if it was going to crash before tinkering with the settings some more, I set it down and will come back to it... someday.

On 4/7/2024 at 12:47 PM, skillzdadirecta said:

 

10. Days Gone

9. Quantum Break

8. Warhammer 40k Space Marine

7. Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen

6. Ass. Creed Unity

5. Spider Man Web of Shadows

4. Deus Ex Mankind Divided

3. Divinty Original Sin 2

2. The Last Guardian

1. Alpha Protocol

 

Bonus games:

Spec Ops The Line

Watchdogs

 

I see this list of 10 games I should go back to, and raise it one list of 250 games I own but still haven't played yet.

This is one of those remasters that can actually justify its existence, since it was only on the Wii and probably looks and controls like ass by today's standards. I still have the Xbox 360 version of Epic Mickey 2, which I.... don't think I've ever played.

14 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Transgender Kyle Katarn?

It was more a point at what they were saying about the main character possibly getting force powers at some point. Scoundrel/smuggler turned Jedi is pretty much exactly what Kyle Katarn was in the Dark Forces - Jedi Knight series (although in kyle's case it was ex-empire turned smuggler turned spy turned jedi).

So if it did happen I would probably just call her Kylie Katarn.

Also... a weird side note. Did anyone else feel like the main character's animations and lip syncing were... "off?" in this video? I mean everyone else looked alright, but she didn't. Like the animations didn't match up. She definitely didn't look mo-capped.

4 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

You run into a force user who transfers their power to you and you become a force user.

Kylie Katarn

4 hours ago, Brick said:

 

I'm pretty sure @XxEvil AshxX was joking. 

I forgot I even made that comment lol.

59 minutes ago, LazyPiranha said:

I mean, it is technically true and people do care about collecting trophies/achievements.  It is a little odd for a game this popular and new to take essentially half of the content and remove it from the equation for an unknown amount of time.  
 

I could see removing it from the war effort or whatever but leaving the option to play private matches in some capacity.  It just strange to think that someone buying the game today is getting half the experience everyone else did a week ago.

Interesting. I was considering hopping in but this little bit of news just convinced me not to. Fuck that.

This is gonna need a demo.