Mega-Gazz

Reminds me of that old 90s Star Wars game, the one where force grab was so OP I played as a pacifist by disarming all the troopers.

As much as I’d love Jedi-Souls, another good fit would be DMC.

Seikero and DMC 5 both on sale! Neither very deep sale though.... hrrrm....how cheap am I?

I’ll take more nier. More borderlands 3 wouldn’t be bad, either.

Looking forward to having a kart klone for my kids

Playing through BL1 right now. Having to read quest text is sooo last century. Jumping to bl2 will be nice.

Table stakes...

I played dmc 1-4 recently, but prefer the reboot - I find with turbo and hardcore it has better combat than the originals. I’m curious to see how dmc 5 measures up or if I’ll still prefer the reboot.

@get2sammyb you know you’re going to create a poll-post.... you know you can’t resist

@Gamer83 it’s not LIKE Sony gave him a blank cheque and said do whatever you want, that is LITERALLY what happened.

@Gamer83 I’m still in that same place too, except I only consider msg1 and maybe 2 great. More recently I remember him as the guy who thought “she breathes through her skin” to be a legit reason for the only major female to a naked with a big gun.

(I do hope the game turns out, but I’m skeptical)

Hopefully seikero goes on sale

If they let creators monetize this game, it’ll explode and the industry will never be the same.

This and his comments about violence before (“there are violent elements”, implying that it isn’t the primary focus) makes me wonder if it’s like Journey where you meet anonymous players while chasing your objective? I’m sure it isn’t a walking simulator or anything though.

The rope metaphor is central to unravel too, fwiw.

@viciousarcanum I wouldn’t say consistently talented. MGS1 was amazing, MSG2 had nice graphics but the cut-scene to gameplay ratio was way off and the story wasn’t great. MGS3 and on was mediocre at best, and MGS5 was practically offensive and derivative, certainly not good.

@kyleforrester87 I wouldn’t say Nioh Devs were auteurs, but they make great games in the right way (transparency and listening to feedback). In the strictest sense of the word, Kojima is an auteur (link to def’n) because he exerts control over the end product.... but not in the common sense that he’s a visionary above and beyond normal.

In contrast, we have hours of footage for Nioh 2 and they’re actively gathering feedback to shape/change how the game will work. Meanwhile the supposed “auteur” won’t even give a straight answer as to what genre his game is, much less show gameplay. I know which will get my money.

(PS, he hasn’t done anything revolutionary since MGS1, so I’m not sure he deserves the title of “auteur”)

The empty red bar under the ki, what is that for?

I like the visualization of the samurai skills...

Edit: Blue graves are benevolent graves to “request assistance”? Does that mean souls-like coop or NPC?

@TricksterZero it was a reference to a previous soapbox article on this site.

I’ve never understood why headsets are said to benefit more than a proper surround sound setup....

@Heavyarms55 ps3 used a radically different processor and physical architecture, I believe, which will make backward compatibility that far not feasible.

For some reason it reminds me of transistor....

@kyleforrester87 subscription pricing for day-0 AAA games would be intriguing (PS++?) but I can’t see publishers going for it yet.

7/10, so complete trash, right?

The thing is, if you have good enough internet to stream a game, then you have good enough internet to download the game in minutes. What is this solving? Hardware power on the console? Never been a pain point. Hard drive space? Only becomes an issue when my backlog is huge, because sony won’t let me sort uninstalled games into a backlog of played/unplayed.

@get2sammyb the question isn’t if it is worthy of a 10, the question is, “does it go to 11”?

crikets

Seriously though, I’m sure they’re both fine games, just not worth the opportunity cost of spending any time on them whatsoever, given all the other games you can play with that time.

At least my backlog won’t grow this month.

Borderlands 1 remaster is on sale.

I don’t think the facts agree with this article. Just take a look at distribution of scored on metacritic, and you’ll see that 70 is significantly below the median score, and likely a full standard deviation below it.

We may want 50 to be average, but the reality is that 80 is closer to the average.

People are correct then to take a 70 as a sign of caution, given limited time to play games.

@ShogunRok

Oooh dmc1-4 HD! Been waiting for a sale.

Aside from the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, this is starting to sound closer and closer to a walking simulator with 30 minute long existential cutscenes.

Very interesting ....

When was the last JRPG from ps+? Seems like we’re due?

I’d like DMC1-4 collection.

Was hoping for the DMC 1-4 bundle to go on sale . Spyro is the only thing tempting here.

@get2sammyb have they specified the ram? 8k textures will take up a lot of space, and if they’re aiming at load times.....

Also did they talk about frame rate? 8k at 30fps would be a crime....

Half life 3 confirmed

It’s power is exceeded only by it’s mystery

@Mgene15 29$ Canadian, so your wish is basically granted

Ooh, good. Didn’t want to pay for the surge but will 100% play it, that’s a win.

Don’t recall Conan. Will have to look it up.

Frankly, sounds better than last month, but that’s just me.

@DreamerAbe86 Star Wars quote noted.

@Neolit @JJ2 I do agree he has something to prove. I still don’t award him blind faith. Heck, I don’t even give hidetaka miyazaki blind faith, and THAT man deserves it (much more so than kojima)

@themcnoisy as you point out he was forced out. And as you point out he was isolated before that. Let’s assume Konami aren’t sadistic and self-destructive for a second - they were driven to the point of isolating him from the development team for a reason, and that reason isn’t that he took direction well or was a team player. The coverage was one-sided but there is obviously more than one side to the story.

MGS was amazing, no doubt. MGS2 had breathtaking graphics, mostly. After that the games had nothing really “new” or “genius”, and certainly not a coherent plot

@Aaron101 waiting doesn’t offend me, the cult of Kojima does.

@AdamNovice I disagree. He’s a Diva that Konami couldn’t work with or get to come in line, and no matter how badly they handled that situation, they didn’t get fed up with him for no reason.

On the other hand, he’s the guy who thought “she breathes through her skin” was a totally legit explanation for having a mostly naked female sniper.

He certainly delivered something special with the first MGS, but since then I’m not convinced he’s magic.

@AdamNovice open world is nigh meaningless - bloodborne is open world, so is AC, so is GTA. “Exploration with passive combat elements” sound a lot like a walking simulator... or something else?

Buyer beware is all I’m saying.

@AdamNovice most games this long after announce have shared at least what type of game it is.... what you do.....

..... well except No Man’s Sky I guess.

STILL don’t even know the genre of game or anything about gameplay. So over that.

@Octane @Ralizah I think you mean that we have until April 24th to steal their hearts or Atlus will forever act like Square-Enix.

I want the DMC 1-4 collection, but that may bleed DMCV sales so unlikely....

Last month we had a shooter and a puzzle game. So likely neither of those types.
Jan/Feb both included AAA Ubisoft games (Steep & For Honor), so I’m looking to other publishers.

Maybe The handsome collection to coincide with BL3 announcement?
A racing game like GT sport or project cars?