LikelySatan

I will when the real game is released!

AoD has an unofficial patch that makes it passable. I thought it was worth a play. I wonder if Aspyr will have the cajones to put any of the botched content back in? Earn back some much needed good will.
https://youtu.be/LYAN7DKb_wk?si=Bu9JTzflZTqUo3WI
This would be cooler with Anniversary.

@Dalamar @BIG3 I meeeeean, I was here and on other sites and nearly every comment about SB was "The wokes want to censor our game!" I saw maybe two or three people saying the character was eye rolling/cringe. There was basically a French article no one read and about a billion responses to imaginary enemies. Are we also going to rewrite that whole thing as if there was any real controversy?

Jar Jar is the key to all this. If we get Jar Jar working...cause he's a funnier characters than we've ever had.
So many vistas!

@ApostateMage Zing!

@FuriousMachine is that said anywhere? All I'm seeing is someone saying there aren't spiders.

@grubsteak fairly certain that's kind of a thing. Meek inheriting the earth, turning the other cheek, being as a lamb, etc.

@dark_knightmare2 there's cartoons on Sunday with sodomy jokes, prime time slot. You can look up literally any depraved act in the world, anywhere, at any time. Calm down, bro.

I hope this game is wonderful...but I might wait for Avowed. Obsidian is up there for me. It's the writing and humor.
There's just always too much competing for my money. I haven't even caught up to 2023. So if I'm buying a big game, I have to be really picky.
Looking forward to the reviews.

Not my thing, but I'm glad it turned out so great.

There's too much out, and too much to catch up on. I would love to play it on a spooky night w my teenagers, but $$$.

@MrPeanutbutterz I usually have a big open world game, an RPG or tactical game, and a few twitchy arcade games or fps going at once. I definitely skew towards more arcade stuff, but when I want to relax I'll throw on a big open world thing to just zone out. Works for me. I keep trying w AC. They've all felt so milquetoast, and like they play themselves. At least Origins is in Egypt?

@Ralizah yeah, yeah... and then they'll go and spoil it all by releasing Sonic, lol.

I'm stoked for future me, who picks up the finished game in a year.

@Kidfunkadelic83 lol, exactly what I was going to say.

I've never played Dead Space, so I'm really happy. Perfect game for spoopy month, and I'm glad they gave it some thought.

@gollumb82 I've said out loud several times while playing "I think I love this game." The haptics when shooting on the Portal feel amazing too, which is something I wasn't expecting. I am really glad I decided to give the game another shot. It's also hilarious, which is tough to nail in a game. I'm pretty surprised.
Zero chance I would say Starfield comes close to the character and charm of TOW. I also just don't dig the giant procedural world as opposed to TOW's curated one. I'd like some more fun traversal, but that's my only gripe so far. I want to fly around and perch on things and snipe, things like that.

@rusty82 I just played a bit of it and didn't notice the tearing at all. I'm on my dadstation portal, but still. It was very pronounced before, and seems to be gone.

@rusty82 Akimbot is good, but I hope they've patched it. The screen tearing was reeeeeeally bad at launch.

The Outer Worlds, still. It's funny that I've heard this game is super short and I'm over fifty hours with like thirty percent completion. I don't fast travel all too often in games like this, and I guess that might affect the total time...but I still have a ton of quests to do and I've barely touched the main quest line. I love the game so far. I'm really glad it clicked cause I've been having a hard time finding something that I can get invested in.

@zupertramp it is a fine enough pizza-adjacent food stuff for my kids.
$7 is highway robbery, but I guess laxatives are pricier.

@Pranwell
I'm sure your own farts will elevate the temp.

@OldGamer999 for nine months.

There's cheaper ways to be miserable. You can get terrible diarrhea for $5.99 from any Little Caesar's. HD. 8Kays.

@ProfessorNiggle ehhhhhh, but also, and I keep saying this....but aren't a good deal of the people complaining about Yasuke, torii gates, and historically incorrect architecture etc the same ones that scream about DEI and Sweet Baby Inc? Cause those kind of things considered culturally insensitive are why firms like Sweet Baby exist. To screen for things like a one-legged torii gate that invokes maligned historical events. It's a huge game set in a period that probably takes a lot of research to nail. Spread over probably thousands of developers "From all creeds, religions, races, whatever," right? I'm not here advocating for Sweet Baby or firms like them, but these people acting all upset about the sanctity of architecture need to understand that creating feudal Japan might be like, hard.
I don't care if someone is offended by a game, and I'm about as left as they get. Changing goal posts is getting old, and just shows how performative it all is.

@Yousef- replying to how you'd die for a new Castlevania. Are you sure that's a good idea, from Konami? I agree with the sentiment, but I look at what they've done with Contra, and I hope Konami keeps their mitts off my Castlevania. Unless they hand it over to Joymasher, Tribute, Lizardcube, or some other young, hungry studio.

@anoyonmus there's a ton. We are the ones saying "wow, I'm glad for Bloober Team."

Taking bets on whether James Stephanie Sterling will tear this to shreds.

Wow!!! I was pretty sure they were going to flub this. This will be so perfect to play with the teens for Halloween. I am very happy they went all out with dual-sense. Silent Hill 2 needs alllllll the atmosphere. I'm excited for Bloober team also. I really hope they learned a lot.

Xbox fans typically have issues with metaphors and other rhetorical devices. They've been lost since the console stopped looking like a literal x-shaped box.

@Doctor_BK I have Syndicate installed. I enjoyed what I played well enough. It just takes a lot for an open world to hold my attention.

@ProfessorNiggle AC Shadows is really interesting and depressing. They finally broke the emergency glass and pulled out the Japan setting, and everyone just let the fire spread cause the firefighter was a black dude. I mean it's a joke, right, but I want to hear some response to the outrage from Ubisoft once the dust settles. I mean real responses that we weren't meant to hear. I'm sure a lot of higher-ups were shocked.

@Doctor_BK 1-3 w Brotherhood and Revelations. Only finished 2 and Revelations of that lot. Black Flag, but I honestly thought it was the most overrated game I'd played maybe ever. I'm about 30 or so hours into Origins and might finish that one. I played a few hours of Odyssey. Like I said, they rarely click with me.

I think waiting on this was the right move. The Ubisoft logo was a dead giveaway! Can't fool me!

@Petrecis24 yeah Lego DC Villains. Unironically a much better SS game.

@Tobiaku I'd never read an article so obviously written in bad faith. I also wasn't kidding. Projects this huge should probably have some screening from a firm that knows what it is doing, if they want to avoid all of this. I personally don't care who is insulted. But it's coming to light that a lot of people who will support all of the nasty vitriol really like acting insulted. Or they have incredibly thin skin. It's like a need for attention I rarely see. At least a lot of bigots are learning some history and um, architecture? They need attention and a rigorous dedication to the sanctity of architecture. And racism.

@LuXifer it's a toe in the water (or, hand in your wallet) because of the AC live service BS they are building.

@Doctor_BK I have never been hooked by an AC game. Origins is legit though, and I might pick it up again some time.

I've never really cared about an AC game doing well, but I hope it sells gangbusters just to spite the toxic armchair historians out there, with their fake outrage.

@ThaBEN yet another person coming around on the idea of a firm like Sweet Baby to screen for these kinds of inaccuracies. Interesting!

@Paultall I'm trying to understand what this post means. White libs that start up a controversy and then hide behind...someone? Something? I'm about as liberal and white as they come. I work at a shelter and have DEI and trauma informed trainings. It's helped a lot in my work. I'm also a combat veteran and sole breadwinner with a wife and seven kids. One is trans, a few are gay. My wife does lgbtq advocacy while she finishes out her degree. We contain multitudes...
If you think our politics make us spineless, that's a shame. We actually live our values, which is more than I can say for most.

@Art_Vandelay I don't know which "side" is currently upset or happy about it or what, and I'll just call that a win for me.

@Tobiaku really odd someone would be looking for that. Especially to the extent of getting someone's photo and cross referencing. Gross.

@Shinnok789 Depends on what you play. $216 is more than I spend on their games in a year, that's for sure.

Im surprised that Star Wars fans didn't gobble it up, and guarantee all parties will take the wrong message from this.

The art style is great, but ofc they will take the wrong message here. Make it more bland!!!
I just felt like the game was slipshod. You'd go through an entire level full of enemies of a certain kind, and then fight a boss that was completely unrelated. It was really strange. Most soulslikes use the fodder enemies to train you.

I wonder if anyone remembers what a joke Fortnite's development was? It was an actual punchline, for years. People would go see it and talk about it and get hit with "that's not a real game, stop making things up" because it was floundering and rudderless for so long. Epic is lucky PUBG came out and gave them an idea. They were probably pretty close to giving up on finding the fun.
This won't last forever. Seems they've forgotten that.

I tried VI, but it just felt soulless. I like some hip-hop, but I'm not real keen on it in SF. All of the music in VI blended together in my brain. Everyone said the SP was like Yakuza or something. It's more like the open world mode in a 2K sports game.

@Art_Vandelay I don't have any social media so a lot of the time I'm behind on the terrible culture war mess, but was there really a "side" celebrating cancel culture? I can think of a few celebrities from the right and the left that were "cancelled" because they were poison to advertisers. I've just always kind of rolled my eyes at it. You become a brand, you get bought and sold.

@ButterySmooth30FPS I'm guessing because they were stupid. Same types that would return a movie to the attached video store if it was captioned. They had to put big yellow stickers on subtitled movies just so that didn't happen as often.