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This industry is such a leaky boat, that we already have a pretty good idea if a game is gonna be trash or not long before review copies go out. 

A product of its time, for sure. Eager to get past the first two here so that I can play some of the more modern renditions...

We're still trying to beat it on Easy.

Is it just me or does the new one look like a fancy Earth Defense Force?

Ubi used to be one of my favorite publishers. They had three of my favorite online franchises, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, and Splinter Cell. The trifecta.

Then they turned Ghost Recon into Far Cry. Then they turned Rainbow Six into Counter-Strike.

I'll concede to the fact that Rainbow Six eventually became extremely popular and that gamble paid off for them, but that game could have succeeded under any title. The fact that it was called Rainbow Six had nothing to do with it. It could have easily co-existed in the Clancyverse alongside RS.

I don't trust Ubisoft to make a good Clancy game anymore. The Division was good, and I would definitely play a Div 3, but even then it lacked that pick-up-and-play quality that the older games had, when you could get a group of people together in a lobby and just play individual missions. So much easier than culling down your group to four guys and asking them to devote a few hours to trudging along an open world doing... whatever.

I've lost almost all faith in Ubisoft as a developer. And as a publisher they don't even fund 3rd party projects anymore. They're such a boring company now.

To be fair, there's an entire generation of gamers that have never played a Prince of Persia, and don't have any nostalgia to fall back on.

The ones that are old enough to remember are stingy old farts like me. And Ubisoft is infamous for putting shit on sale for like, 40% off within months of release.

About damn time. 

It's interesting how Kojima can crank out two Death Stranding games and announce a new game "after he wraps up with DS2" while Microsoft has gotten nothing more than a teaser trailer for OD years after their supposed "partnership".

MS been sucking him off while he makes winky eyes at Sony for too long now. I'm not expecting this "interactive experience" to be anything more than a social experiment.

I'll also note that I have absolutely zero interest in anything he does and haven't enjoyed one of his games since MGS2. I think he enjoys the smell of his own farts far too much and the Keighly/Sony/Microsoft circle jerk over him is pathetic.

I think they wasted way too much time on Death Stranding 2 in the State of Play. It doesn't matter if you see 30 seconds of a Kojima game or 30 minutes, you're still not going to have the slightest clue what's going on anyway, and I hate that these game showcases waste so much time on him. The Kojima fans will play anything he shits out regardless, and the people like me will try it for an hour, realize it's still the same nonsensical bullshit he puts in every game, and move on.

I'd rather that time be spent on smaller developers and projects that actually need the attention.

/rant

Apparently I've been holding this in for a while now.

Looks like the GOG version is gone now too. 

Sucks. I beat it back in the day though so I'm good. It's been on deep discounts multiple times over the years so if you kept passing on it, that's on you lol.

16 hours ago, ShreddieMercury said:

 

You won't suck at the ones that remember to be a fun game first and a sim second.  Unfortunately at some point in the past generation or so racing fans decided that realism is the only factor that matters, so you get boring, punishing, and unfun games that are solely designed for people with expensive simulation rigs.

Dirt 2 was one of my favorites. That game was arcade racer first and sim second. It had a great blend of circuit races and rally races. I played the shit out of it. Unfortunately Dirt 3 focused more on that gymkhana crap and it was all downhill from there. Dirt 5 was... weird.

I'm not so much a rally racing fan as I am an off-road racing fan. Rally just happens to fit in the category.  There's even this knock-off Dirt game called Baja: Edge of Control that's not great but it's actually more enjoyable then it probably should be. And it goes on sale for like, $5 all the time. My only gripe with it is that there is this one race type event where you need to drive through gates and they're flanked by barriers that will slow you down. The game is literally called "edge of control" and they're expecting you to be going balls-out and threading a needle. It's frustrating to say the least.

I like 'em.

I suck at 'em.

17 hours ago, Xbob42 said:

I also played the demo. I'm not even sure what this game is supposed to be. Is it supposed to be a Monster Hunter style game? If so, the story missions seem weirdly out of place and filler-y. Is it supposed to be a big exploration-based JRPG adventure? If so, the Monster Hunter shit seems weirdly out of place and filler-y.

 

I also think the UI is unbelievably obnoxious, the abilities are too flashy, especially for how little they actually do, there's too many systems layered on top of each other that are both simplistic (attack to fill gauge, hit button prompt to trigger different levels of "big attack") and unfun, as they break up the pace of you actually doing the fighting yourself.

 

The game doesn't seem bad or anything, I just can't get a read on what I'm supposed to expect. I really don't feel like playing anime Monster Hunter right now, but I wasn't convinced by what I did play that there's going to be a big JRPG adventure, either.

I was actually thinking the same thing. I couldn't tell by any of the written previews what the game was supposed to be, so I downloaded the demo on PS5 and played through all three parts and I still don't know wtf is going on.

40 minutes for 15 games? That's less than three minutes per game.

Still I guess it will be nice to finally be reminded why I have this big white behemoth sitting on my shelf.

The only thing I remember about Stellar Blade was that after the reveal, the developers had to defend their decision to give their character a hot ass.

23 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

 

Microsoft: So guys, umm, how are those Switch ports coming along?

 Most of those studios had to be big enough to crank out a major CoD release every two or three years. If CoD is no longer going to be an annual release, the size of those studios is probably no longer necessary.

That's just me trying to think like a major corp. though.

I'm perfectly fine doing a media blackout for this one.

Sounds like this guy was expecting it, but at the same time not prepared for it.

That describes most of my purchases.

And yeah that consists of a porn game or three. But at least I know why I bought those lol.

On 1/23/2024 at 4:50 PM, Remarkableriots said:

What are the odds of this ever being released on PS+ free monthly?

I wouldn't count it out, but keep an eye on Game Pass. Because there's no way MS would release it on PS+ first. Once it hits GP, then the possibility of it coming to PS+ gets more real.

Can't wait to pre-load this so that I can play it a year from now after I finally get around to the other 9 Yakuza games.

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The strange thing in this scenario is that there are some scary fanatical Pokeman fans that are literally going to do the fucking legal work Nintendo, one of the most litigious and anti-consumer companies on the planet. And these weirdos will defend them with their lives, it seems.

"Unforetold"

Because "Nobody Saw That Coming!" doesn't sound as mysterious.

Every once in a while I'll get sucked into a game where I don't want to play anything else until I finish it. But it's rare. Alan Wake 2 was the most recent, and whenever a Resident Evil comes out. But other than that, I'm usually bouncing through multiple games. 

At the moment, I have Warhammer 40K Space Marine and Yakuza 0 going on the Deck when I'm away. When I'm home, I'm bouncing between Starfield and Call of Duty. I'm rolling through a co-op campaign in Remnant II with a buddy, so when he's around we're chipping away at that. Unless our other buddy gets on, then we're likely playing Diablo IV.

That's not even counting when I boot up something like Forza Motorsport just to get in a race or two.

So don't flop down in my chair like a 300 lb sack of potatoes. Got it.

Man, I rented practically every NES game I could get my hands on back in the day, and most of them were terrible. But as far as games that I actually purchased, I'm pretty sure it was a N64 games.

Actually, there is one that sticks in my head.

I remember seeing this game in a GamePro ad and remembering Shadowgate from the NES. I saved my allowance for like, a month to buy that game, and the day I bought it I sat down and played it, and then beat it in like, two hours.

Fuck that game. To this day I still want my $65 back.