Pleasance

@Would_you_kindly Haha, I might have tried that same settlement. Though I got past the barrier to a Carja camp from an early sidequest. Managed to unlock the campfire up the mountain past it, which made for a pretty quick quest once I was actually supposed to be there.

I hope the geometry collision fixes don't thwart my attempts to break into areas I'm not supposed to be. This game is so fun to break.

@Ralizah Oof really? I haven't had the, er, pleasure.

It looks like they just used janky AI to batch upscale the backgrounds with no additional human touch ups or quality assurance.

@Voltan Maybe this clip is only 22 seconds long because that's all they could get before the console did it's best impression of a 747 taking off and then immediately crashing in a fiery blaze.

The new "it just works".

Quantity ≠ quality

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Gameplay-wise this does look like a big improvement over the first, which I found pretty shallow.

This is big? Could have fooled me.

Not sure I've ever seen the OG Splinter Cell in action. Visually, it seems to hold up astonishingly well.

Did we spot it? It wasn't particularly hidden. And, in my unpopular opinion, it was the only interesting thing in the trailer.

Disgusting!

Seems like they should have used the refresh as a chance to add more verticality to the map. Web-swinging mechanics, as good as they may be, aren't much fun on a map like that.

Gives me an icky feeling. Like it'll be among the first of many cases where companies won't want to give their game away with services like PSPlus, so they'll essentially put out a demo and act like it's a full game.

I believe in them, if for no other reason than they probably don't want this albatross hanging around their neck forever. It's also clear there's a good game in there.

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Square ain't got a prayer.
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Oooh baby. Color me intrigued.

Visually, looking pret-ty rough.

I know XIII-2 is gonna bomb this, but one can dream. Such an underrated game and definitely the most fun of the trilogy.

Art is subjective, but only to an extent. Chrono Trigger is objectively better than Burnout 3: Takedown.

"'Yeah, that’s lovely and great Naughty Dog, but what are you doing with The Last of Us right now?'

In short, we’re working on it - we see the community comments as many of you clamor for multiplayer and want updates. For now, we’ll say that we love what the team is developing and want to give them time to build out their ambitious project, we’ll reveal more when it’s ready! To that end, we’ve been busy growing our team inside the kennel since The Last of Us Part II launched and are currently in full swing of hiring for MP-related positions (hint hint), so if you or somebody you know qualifies for anything you see on our jobs page, apply!"

Got some Metroid Prime 3 going on Dolphin.

I'd rather not have it in the developers hands. Icons can become gaudy ads pretty quick. That said, lots of the defaults are pretty uggo.

The character design is so bad lol

@get2sammyb I remember being surprised by it when reading the Steam page for the game, like they kind of backdoor announced it. Either way, I'm excited. Thanks for the update!

The DLC episode was already announced. It was part of the deluxe/ultimate edition.

I hope this is implying it'll release as a separate, purchasable DLC for those with the standard edition, but it's not really clear one way or another.

Lol, that ***** kid's voice.
Looks fine. The bamboo traversal is neat.

Wooooooooof.

Nope. Not as a new full-priced game, anyway. And certainly not as a new full-priced game that becomes the only one available in the digital store. Seems like a real lazy and ***** way to keep prices evergreen.

Really ought to add "Rumour: " to the headline.

These poor devs owe us none of these explanations. lol

Conspiracies are fun, especially if a dead game I was excited for comes out of it. But the big hitch, for me, is that Abandoned's trailer really doesn't match the quality of PT.

I'm not talking graphical fidelity, that's top notch, but more art direction things. Things like how the writing on the sign looks like someone just searched "paint font" and chose the first free result. Or how the smoke effect on the fire - if you can even call it that - makes a game like Phasmophobia look like fine art.

The whole thing looks sloppy. And if Kojima is one thing, it isn't sloppy.
(I also realize it was an early in development tease for the game, but like... So was PT)

Oooooooooooof.

Really enjoyed this game the first time around.
Unskippable cutscenes make it absolutely unplayable a second time.

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The original was underwhelming and I hope this one tries harder, but I'm not expecting much. The combat was fun, but it can't hang its hat on that alone. The world felt dead, the graphics were hampered by horrendous artificial lighting and there was a disappointing lack of depth in the machine hacking interactions.

The lighting is still garbage, but we'll see where they might have improved on the other problems.

I really can't stand the artificial lighting on characters. Was hoping that would change from the first game with the access to ray tracing tech, but clearly not. Could look even more stunning, but every character has this effect like they're poorly green screened into the world.

Wish they didn't have to consistently ruin these with big obnoxious logos.

Wow, did Ratchet seriously look that jank?

Somehow, increasing the FPS gave the character movement even more of a creepy stop motion effect. I hate it.

@Steel76 The gameplay itself was great. Insofar as that of the combat and traversal. The gameplay loop ***** sucked.

I had no interest in this game, just based off its marketing. Thought it looked ***** stupid. Saw it on sale when I was waiting for the Last of Us Part II to release and figured I'd see if it'd scratch the itch until then. Ended up loving it. TLoU2's marketing did more for my interest this game than its own did. ***** this out-of-touch tool of a man.

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Always nice to be rewarded for our loyalty. /s

As should developers.

@Mpquikster Why, because it has a female protagonist and... Trees? Combat? Graphics? Yeah, virtually indistinguishable.

I had my fill of Deacon St John the moment I saw him, but this game was surprisingly great despite its characters.

I just want it to try a little harder this time. The first could have been really cool, but it played it super safe.