breakneck

probably would've put it higher but a MP game is only as good as its community and HD2 got toxic and unfun fast.

Blue checks going nuts in the final week of the month. Unsurprising. Rent is due soon need the engagement.

Push Square Astro SWEEP INCOMING!!! YAAAAY!!

Also, it really does suck that Ubi messed up the marketing so bad because having just beated The Lost Crown 2 days back it is my second favorite game this year! Best Ubi game since Watch Dogs 2 for me.

I vote Astro Bot as best action game! You get an axe, a pistol and a bow and arrow!

@Mostik Mine was "Impossible Climb" lol it took me 30 mins. All that just for Sargon to have bragging rights.

@Rich33 Okay so it is perfect for the April to June period when new game releases cool down a bit. The length has been my biggest concern

@Rich33 It's currently 40% off on the PS store which is very tempting and I plan on getting it next. How long is the game?

@Mostik I too preferred Saga's sections over Alan by quite a large margin.

Prince of Persia The Lost Crown- Got the Platinum trophy. A 9/10 game where the major negative is the 2.5D characters. Otherwise a genuine top 5 game for me this year. The best metroidvania I've played since Hollow Knight with much better controls and art style than Metroid Dread.
I think my top 5 games I played ranking would be:
Astro Bot (goty)
Armored Core VI
The Lost Crown
Stellar Blade
Jeanne D'arc

@kyleforrester87 The base game Witcher 3 is generally meh outside of The Bloody Baron and Witcher Hunt side quests. The two DLC though? Some of the best gaming experiences I had in that generation. The base game is just another open world but with horrible controls, dull villains and weak/unrewarding exploration.

I really don't understand why they're already doing so much PR stuff (the hype building backfired heavily during CP2077) when they're clearly extremely early in development. You just regained your rep now shut up and make sure your next project isn't a ***** up at launch.

@Dragoon1994 Christie, Hitomi, Mila, Ryu Hayabusa (please let me date him). Also, is it me or do they keep reducing the number of women with each release to sell later as DLC?

Ah Crap Metaphor and Veilguard at reasonable prices already. I still have finish The Lost Crown and DLC then play System Shock remake and Sexy Brutale all of which I bought last month. It's hard being a gamer who loves multiple genres.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I wouldn't go that far. It seems like she left because she wanted to have more freedom.

@Dodoo exactly. Right now it is just hearsay.

I get why Game Science were emotional. TGA do matter no matter how much people joke about them, they're still prestigious and I'm glad the devs are competitive and believe in their product enough to get affected by losing.

@Godot25 She just had a vid recently that said she quit and is now a freelancer

Not going to be like the other geriatric folk on this site screaming at clouds while forgetting the edgelord crap of our time.
It is cool that Fortnite clearly know who their main audience is and keep providing constant content and updates for them. It is fascinating just how well Fortnite have in-grained themselves into modern culture.

Neither because they're barely characters in Rebirth. Both are Manic Pixie Dream girls.

@zhoont art direction in a linear game is very different to art direction in an open world with a real time day-night cycle.

I mean giving items for free will just make it worst. They've already pandered and shifted the power dynamics so far in the favor of the player base that every minute issue will have over-reactions because AH have shown how easily they can be bullied.

Also, AH really need to start plugging leaks. It is kind of insane how much gets found out in advance.

Apparently this was not an SIE mandate but Arrowhead who chose to release it like this. As per Playstation Lifestyle

@nessisonett It is apparently very bad if you live near it since it is always on. There were videos doing the rounds when it had just opened.

@UltimateOtaku91 After winning GOTY I doubt it. I think they wanted to scale up Asobi from what I watched during an interview with Doucet but they've been hiring only as necessary and he said if they ever decide 100 people they'll probably do two projects instead of one super-sized AAA project.

@get2sammyb True Sony is quite friendly with Bandai too as we are seeing with Freedom Wars Remastered and the massive PS promotion Sparking Zero.

@PSDeckSwitchOwner They said going to play a bigger role in distribution of Anime and Games. So maybe something over there. Maybe the end of Bandai x FromSoft team-ups?

@Lup For the same reason Nintendo doesn't put Mario on PC. It sells the hardware. As a company it is easy to understand. Why players would want it? Bragging rights I guess?

Basically I see this as them learning from ZEE, Bungie and Firewalk. Work with them. See how mis-managed or well-managed they are. Accordingly invest more or keep it the same.

I'm honestly still waiting for him to actually get a challenging role to see what he's truly capable of (Khazan is basically Clive but angrier and Clair Obscura didn't show off much). Remember Troy Baker in 2013 did both Booker DeWitt from Bioshock Infinite and Joel from The Last of Us. Both were excellent performances and differed from one another substantially.

Even now his performance as Indiana Jones is incredible where he sounds so close to Ford but also, doing his thing just a little.

@themightyant My big concern is Bungie generally struggles to maintain positive momentum and hype which is so important with Live Service games. I do hope with Sony having greater control things go better with Marathon and they don't make careless errors like deleting old content permanently making on-boarding for new players impossible.

@Balie3000 Ueda, Okami 2 or Onimusha?

The Queens funeral was entertainment for most of the commonwealth tbf.

Also, I did like the awards more this time. Still too long and too much weeb nonsense in the middle but started and ended very strongly.

Sony must've already gone through their own legal department to make sure they were secure before firing him. Such moves do not come lightly and go through various departments. Either way those are ridiculous amounts to pay a person from a ridiculous deal that still hasn't shown any return.
The fact that the entire Kadowkawa corp is around 4.5 billion (now it was cheaper back then) is even more signs of just how silly this deal was.

I've seen a lot of people wearing it in matches. So I wonder if this is a loud minority situation. It is on the expensive side though.

I hope the combat has some impact/response to it. It is surprising how many action games drop the ball on this including FFXVI.

Wait people still acting like horny teens and claiming tastefulness is censorship? They need help.

@PuppetMaster Could be an interesting for Nixxes who Sony really seem to trust and by the looks of it are already quite comfortable with Decima.

Bluepoint too but they seem to have graduated from Remakes/remasters now.

@Zeke68 I wonder if they'll even adjust the difficulty or mobs for Single Player as FromSoft are quite lazy when it comes to technical things.

@PuppetMaster It is this. Guerilla have openly stated they are done with it for now and we keep talking about how devs should work on what they love. The devs clearly love working on Horizon.

I mean Aloy was barely an adult in Zero Dawn and the most popular mods are bikini and nude mods. PC gamers are perverts and if that was a concern SE should not release their game on the platform like Vanillaware.

Looks like what I wanted Starfield and ME Andromeda to be. Definitely keeping an eye on it while being cautious that Pre-alpha gameplay means very little.

I think a overall lack of marketing hurt this game much more than anything else. We also have to look at the selling price of the new one vs the first game which was almost double the price for the same length of game. Even worse, it didn't review as well with gameplay and narrative both being criticised by many people.

The combat was a surprising step back. With Senua only fighting one enemy at a time now and the controls were simplistic. For all the nonsense people throw at GOW or TLOU those games have a lot of walking and talking bits but they also have some of the most polished combat systems in modern games.

I hope their next game is more gameplay focused. Their DMC game was very good.

I voted:
DEATH STRANDING 2
DOOM
GTA VI
YOTEI
MAFIA

A lot of other games there that have my interest but maybe wait for a review.

@OldGamer999 I'm pretty sure for ND this is something they can just shrug off after the disgusting vitriol they got during TLOU2. Still sucks that they have to deal with culture war nonsense though.

@Cloud39472 Lol I was going to say the same thing. I like the game but it's biggest flaw is it copied Nier Automata without adding any of the depth that made that game a modern classic. By the end of Automata 2B was human in my eyes. EVE never went beyond dress-up doll.

His name is.... ASTRO BOT!

@Jey887 I left Twitter for Bluesky but recently even Bluesky has so many people just putting screenshots of Twitter nonsense. Reddit is a cesspool too that I'm trying to reduce.

@NeonTiger If any other studio did it it would piss people off. Heck people complained about Astro Bots cameos for being too much of an advertisment.

@NintenGuy Most Japanese devs do it for their Japanese youtube videos because of vitriol. No reason why Western devs shouldn't follow suit

It is genuinely so tiring at this point. The outrage is so fake and manufactured. Oh it has product placement... maybe it is a part of the plot where commercialism and religion clash.
Protagonist is Black American/Korean heritage and a woman who shaved her head!!!! Horrible and insult to the world blah blah blah.

I saw an image today where they gave her the Aloy makeover and unsurprisingly they removed the black skin and made her look like k-pop girl.