@fabisputza00 Yeah not a big fan of the stealth sections either haha. Although the PS4 review was a little different because that game was miserable to play through. Constant crashes and the frame was never stable. Made me physically ill to play it at points!
@thedevilsjester I would expect digital-only BUT limited run games did the PS4 version of the game not too long, so if they start doing PS5 games as well, I wouldn't be surprised to see this pop back up!
@Amusei There was a discount in place if you bought the new version, not sure if that's still going, but it was unfortunately never free as far as I know!
@Wormold That is what they're doing. 3 songs a week I think? Or 4? You can buy them individually still too
@GeneJacket They're in a bit of a catch 22 because if they wait too long to start the DLC train, no one's gonna keep playing, but if they start soon like this, now it looks bad for just how much money the game costs upfront if you want everything. TOtally agreed though, not an easy way to tell how the songs would fit into mixes.
@alphadrago5 @blacklivesmatter Yeah I'm probably waiting for a sale too haha. That day 1 bundle is a solid deal (1 song from that is cheaper than 1 song for Rock Band 4), but this new pass, ehhhh. I don't really care about the cosmetic stuff, which kinda skews the value proposition for me
Folders were my big one. The first thing I did upon booting up was I tried to find where the folder creation tool was, only to discover that it didn't exist. Kinda flabbergasted by that one. I guess it wasn't day on the PS4 either, but it's too useful to not expect hopefully soon.
@RogerRoger Yeah the opener was a delight. It was wonderful! I too have that fear! But I will say this, as far as just sitting there and watching a show for a bit, that 2nd episode is my favorite of the whole series to date! I thought it juggled all the different tones and things it's aiming for especially well on that one!
Yeah, can't skip out on any chances to make money. Maybe that's why the game opens on Geonosis. See? We started when Phase 1 armor was still there, so none of the inconsistencies are actually a thing! We showed this era so you literally can't complain ever! Ooo that's a good point about Rex. I dunno if I ever really thought about that! Ooooo be careful about mentioning the you-know-what's!
So, that's the newest reason why I don't like Tatooine. "If there's a bright center to the galaxy, you're at the place farthest from it, yet literally everyone seems to go there always?!?!?!?! But the biggest reason I never liked it is I just find desert biomes super super dull. And the fact that's the one that pops up the most is kinda annoying. Jakku, Crait, all of it. Gah, I hate it! It's NOT a coincidence that the ONLY Star Wars movie to not go to Tatooine/Desert Place is the best one. Just saying.
Perks of being a professional voice actor haha. And A damn good one at that! Mark Hammill's just so wonderful. Already loved the guy, but all those interviews after Last Jedi, where he could barely contain the fact that he also didn't like the movie tickled me haha.
It was a losing battle out of the gate, trying to give Revan one definitive story, unfortunately. I appreciate the effort, but I think he's better suited to just kinda being mentioned once in a while, very vaguely. As a nice little easter egg. That way no one gets upset.
Definitely a bigger backlog than 4 now. I have 4 disc games I'm behind on now, let alone all the downloads! Miles Morales was the first thing I installed, COD should be here tomorrow. Download speeds are much much better, so that's something. Honestly, even if I don't like the new COD, it's just...something to play. I'm not a diehard fan of the series, but the Black Ops games specifically I historically like a lot more (Except Black Ops 3. Yikes.)
All the back and forth, Bioware must have been reading this convo! Three more games and then some! All the DLC too! Basically, an extra game all told. So 4 more games haha. But at least there's an official announce of it. What are we gonna talk about now though?
Even more important this generation with Sony's 3D audio push! 3D audio's the real deal though. After all the uses I've seen of it in VR, I really hope other people get behind it! But like you mentioned, sound design's important, and given how Sony's emphasizing it this time, bad sound design is only gonna get that much more obvious!
Oh god, I forgot to bring up Sean Connery! That one hurt to hear about
I am pretty glad I held off on playing them in a way now. Especially Tsushima. Since it'll benefit from the PS5. Squadrons I guess it doesn't matter, cuz I'm playing that in VR for sure! I keep adding onto the pile though too! Just scooped up Maneater at Best Buy because they had a crazy good sale for it. The backlog never goes away. I think I was 100% caught up on my backlog literally once in my life. Late 360 era I think haha. Republic Commando <3 .The memories! I played the demo for that on my Xbox like a thousand times and begged my mom for it for Christmas. Loved it. Used to have LAN parties to plan the MP mode with my buddies during sleepovers and such too!
Funnily enough, it arrived today. Several days late, but in one piece! Haven't really gotten to spend much time with it yet between trying to transfer everything over, and getting started on reviews. I was surprised by how large and heavy it was though, I'll say that!
I know exactly what you mean! Yeah that feeling definitely contributes to it being really tricky to making a proper recommendation of it to people. It's like an all or nothing experience. People either love it unconditionally or loathe it (like a certain Last Jedi hehe), and I haven't really seen much in the way of middleground. I also agree that and compliments or criticism of it are pretty well-founded though haha. It's obviously even from like 1 trailer, the game is catering to a very specific niche. I happen to fall under the "indie hipster trash" group for sure (that website being further proof haha) whose favorite show happens to be Twin Peaks which KR0 heavily reminds me of at times. I'm convinced Cardboard Computer just sat down and decided they wanted to make a game specifically for me. And will do! I haven't started it yet, but eventually, I'll have to take a pause on Star Wars books haha.
Yeah in season 1, there's that shot of a spur on the Tatooine episode and my first thought was "that's the cowboy man from the aftermath books!" and sure enough. (Those books are extremely underwhelming by the way haha. Probably not worth it. They just tried to clean the empire up in one big tidy fight, so Disney could shove First Order stuff in basically). I could do without that certain someone popping up, but I do like a healthy balance of cheeky references and new stuff. The most recent episode hit a very good balance on that front! From the bits of Star Trek I have seen, that's the vibe I got from them. Well the shows, not the Abrams movies haha. "There's more here and if I dig further, I could probably find some cool connections," right before I just don't dig any further haha.
Oh man, more Cad Bane sign me up! I am so there! God, that Filoni, man's made an awful lot of great Star Wars characters. More great characters than even Zahn maybe? In the Bad Batch, the show could be cool. Did they mention in passing or something, or would he just be a natural fit you think? Hot Toys? And cheers I had a shot the last time you told me about him but I missed it haha.
@themcnoisy the campaign mode scores you based on how "on-beat" when you new things to the song, how many fan requests you get correct. The online mode has a scoring system, but I honestly can't tell what determines it haha. It's "whichever one sounds better" but there's no on-screen point system for the co-op stuff so It's hard to tell what they're going for
@alphadrago5 I didn't have the highest expectations either, but honestly? Absolutely blown away! The amount of creative freedom allowed is insane, and I'm still nowhere close to having mastered everything!
@Anti-Matter Yeah, there's not quite anything like this in there yet haha. Although honestly even just listening to a little bit of this, I could see this slotting into the game extremely well!
@Anti-Matter Honestly not a ton of stuff that I'd normally listen to in the game either. Maybe 5 or 6 songs? But a lot of the songs I wouldn't have any kind of interest in normally, offered pieces of their tracks that made things so much better! It's wild!
@nessisonett There's a little bit of everything from a lotta eras, but it does lean on the '80s forward a lot more heavily. As for those specific sounds of techno, I don't recall anything that fits into that showing up quite yet
@God_of_Nowt But of course! I was absolutely blown away by it honestly!
@HotGoomba___Rebrand Between you and me that's what I was expecting out of the game at first too. But that's a secret! shhhhh
@Shigurui Yeah didn't really start hearing about this until closer to the end of the month, but chatter about it's really been picking up lately! I should give the music a spin!
@Amnesiac Always brings a smile to my face to see stuff like this! Thank you! I love writing these!
@Rob_230 Bahahah, just a smidge late! Absolutely agree with you, the project feels completely cohesive and finished despite the insane amount of turmoil and tragedy behind the scenes!
Also absolutely agreed, I'd be shocked if this corner of the Walking Dead universe isn't revisited, might be a few years, but it'll be back! I do really wanna play that Walking Dead VR title though! Saints & Sinners I think it's called?
@RogerRoger Mando was.....fine? It was a fun episode, and I really like Timothy Olyphant, and he's playing the Marshall more or less exactly as I had him pictured! I'll wait for confirmation of you starting, but I will say, as much as I enjoyed episode 1, I'm definitely still nervous haha.
Yeah pivoted from green to purple as I started getting older, and you better believe that my lightsaber choices changed with it! I always thought the attempt to reconcile the tech difference that the prequels did was kinda neat. Obviously, it was so they could make extra toys, but it was kinda cool, even if they didn't look as good. The EP II ones just look SO GOOD. I love them! I wish they got more attention. And weren't in the worst film in the series. Although a certain Episode 9 could give it a run for its money. Everyone gets one. Don't you dare mention the original trilogy again this year. You've hit your limit! The mouse is watching!
Yeah the original version of the ride is wonderful! All the stuff was done in the style of the original movies too! Tons of insane practical effects, miniatures, stop motion all of it! And then all the news ones are CGI. Pretty good CGI, and the ride's a ton of fun still, but eh. I got the pod one my first time, but I just HATE Tatooine so much, so I was disappointed. I managed to ride enough times to see every single piece though! Until the Disney movies started getting added at least. Absolutely bending over backwards to incorporate stuff that doesn't make sense, it's fine though honestly. I get it. Ironically the comet was my least favorite part haha.
Okay going back listening specifically to hear him, oh yeah, it's in there. I don't know how I didn't notice that!
That terrible horrible Revan book tried to kinda make there be a definitive Revan, but by doing that it made almost no one happy. Which I should have expected but I was still young and stupid haha.
Just gotta start the quality of animation there instead of building to it next time haha.
Launch lineups are generally unimpressive, but this one's...okay? I'm gonna get COD to play with my friends, and then I'm absolutely getting The Pathless, and Miles Morales of course! I'm glad my backlog is smaller than 70 haha. It's like 4 I think? Waiting I absolutely get. Especially this gen! The fanfare just isn't there, and the leap doesn't feel quite the same yet. It almost doesn't feel real at all haha.
Oh yeah, absolutely it's both dramatic, sometimes too much, but my god does it look incredible.
@RogerRoger Apologies on the super long delay this time! Helping work on launching a couple websites!
I haven't even started it honestly. I dunno what it is. I've got a buncha games that I just haven't dived into that I shoulda. Never even booted up Ghost of Tsushima or Squadrons. They've been sitting on my table for ages! The soundtrack is good though! There might be an article relating to that soooooon. Hmmm.
Syphon Filter! Hell yeah! I haven't played that in so long. Loved it back in the day though! And Kentucky Route Zero <3 It's unique in a way that makes it extremely hard to recommend, so I hope you love it!
Nah just buy the cereal for the cereal inside BUT ALSO the cool stuff in the box. Bring that back. That's the real problem in the world right now.
Huh you know I don't think I knew that about Deep Space Nine. I do tend to forget just how many different Star Trek series there have been too. I think of the original series and TNG, but there are a lotttt of other ones. I don't even know if I knew Voyager...existed? I can't say for sure I knew that was a thing before right now haha. Yeah it's pretty daunting, especially considering just how little of it I've actually already seen, at least at present probably easier to just keep letting Red Letter Media tell me about all of the good stuff in Star Trek, until I eventually (most likely) dive in myself. It's only a matter of when!
Oh man, late-night Wookiepedia dives. I know that feeling! That's happened many a time before. Honestly, there's almost literally nothing I can recommend about Resistance. Like, at all. Yes absolutely get the books! Books books books! I swear sometimes that's all I buy beyond games some months haha. Usually Star Wars too. (And one book that I got recently that apparently is like Kentucky Route Zero but a book! Haven't started yet though.)
Ooooo Cad Bane figure's pretty tempting. The actual coolest Bounty Hunter. Not Boba Fett (more on him later). And what?!?! I didn't hear about Nihilus until right now. Damn, it appears to have already sold out far as I can tell haha. NOt nearly as expensive in the aftermarket as Revan though. Hmmm. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that one! Jar Jar
@TadGhostal Right back atcha! Always had a softspot for the Yotes (probably cuz the Kachina's are the greatest jerseys of all time!). Kinda bummed Hall didn't really seem to work in Zona
@Anguspuss @Kidfunkadelic83 And also the sports leagues themselves. They don't have to say yes to exclusive deals with one publisher like they do, but they probably make more money that way
@GamingFan4Lyf The music stuff I definitely get haha. I know just enough to have conversations like these interviews, but not really any further haha. Kafka though is the writer that inspired the game! Writer of the novella, Metamorphosis. That's what is directly being referenced in that Spaceballs quote too!
@IronMike The best iteration of a franchise and the best sports games are not mutually exclusive. The only hockey game that I would say merits mention on that list from this gen would be Super Blood Hockey. This is just the best that the EA license has looked on a PS4
@TheFrenchiestFry I did I believe all but 1 of the NHL reviews we wrote this generation, and yeah there were some dark times in there! NHL 15 was especially awful!
@TappityTap Well naturally haha. I wouldn't want people to base their opinions solely on my reviews when they're live either! I do however respect @LiamCroft opinion and find that we think about games in a very similar way fairly often, so that review did at least dampen some of the excitement I may have had!
@BrettAwesome Yeah the John Williams stuff stood out to me too! I did an interview with the composer about the game a couple weeks back on here, and brought that up!
@nessisonett Absolutely blow away by that Mafia score honestly. It's so good!!!
@RogerRoger If we get a software lull from the 'rona (the impacts of that on game software haven't really landed yet so who knows how it'll go) might be a good time to visit some older games I'd always meant to play! Could spend some time with Tomb Raider then! Every time we talk the rumors for Mass Effect always change too! But they never go away! That's gotta count for something!
Hoo boy, yeah this is a very different experience from the Vegas games haha. All of them are great though, so definitely still a reason to play those older ones too! The series looks verrrry different now haha
@RogerRoger I did the same! I basically changed it the second I could. But I'll be honest, some of that is because I just find blue lightsabers kinda dull at this point haha. My fav color's purple so I changed Cal's to purple the second I was able to haha. Yeah! Don't have to constantly re-release the unaltered ones but dig 'em out every once in a while and let all the people that want those get their hands on them! Yeah, don't let Disney hear you! If you so much as mention the original trilogy, I heard you get fired on the spot!
Wait, is Jar Jar really one of them? That's kinda great in a way! I glanced at the new ones but I musta missed that haha. A new Thrawn figure too! Although it's not in the fancy Black Series box, it's in the other style. I do kinda want that vanilla clone trooper though. The Episode II clone trooper design is by far my favorite! I think I'll pass on Jar Jar though haha. I do still have my Phantom Menace jar jar toy somewhere after all.
Ya Netflix, you're right. I haven't watched it cuz the trailers made it look a little too kiddish, but interestingly, I've also actually heard it's pretty good! Might be worth giving a look-see at some point.
Yeah, Disney's attention to detail at parks is unparalleled by such an insane margin. I still have a soft spot for the original Star Tours, pre-randomization, but honestly, the one with all the new locales added to it is pretty great too, although I don't think I've been on since any of the new movie's locations had been added, so I'm lucky there in a way haha.
God yeah, Bane being incorporated properly woulda been great too. So much great stuff with him in the old canon too. Arguably more than Revan? Because Revan's influenced by people playing the game differently, but the Bane stuff was all book and it was just really really good instead! I don't think I knew that about Mark Hammill though! Neat! Yeah using the Clone Wars as connective tissue for uniting every era woulda been amazing. I get it, but at the same time, it woulda been cooler. Clone Wars looked great by the end though agreed, which is funny given how much people hated the visuals in the beginning haha. Yeah just combine multiple reviews to make everything 10/10!!!
I do! I think the price is more or less fine. Given how long they waited to reveal it honestly, it's cheaper than I was expecting. The launch lineup sounds....decent? The controller seems great, I'm worried about the longevity of the hardware though since the power just doesn't seem like it's gonna be there? Raw specs, the Xbox smokes it, but all the rumors of PS5 games struggling to even manage 4K is pretty concerning. Although games at launch look way worse than what we get by the end, so it could just be those early bumps. Plus the software's gonna be great! I did get a pre-order opening day though. After many many hours of refreshing the same page over and over haha. But I did get it!
My photomode tendencies are definitely more all over the place haha. I usually have like 2 or 3 for most games, then Sony's 1st party stuff usually somewhere between 50 or 100, and then The Last of Us 2 I have 400! I think I took like...30 for Fallen Order? Something like that.
@RogerRoger Still nothing But hey, Squadrons had its soundtrack drop day 1! That's something. Maybe they're learning (probably not though)
Definitely very interested to see how wildly divergent these versions of the movie wind up. The Whedon stuff definitely didn't feel like it worked this time like it did when he did his Marvel stuff haha. Yeah, sticking Thor with the Guardians is brilliant, although those characters are also all really funny, so Hemsworth's gonna have to work his ass off to stay as funny as usual!
Predator's totally a feel-good movie! If feelgood is explosions, gunfights, followed by abject terror, and brutal, gut-wrenching violence. Or like...Pixar or something, I dunno...
Yeah, I want there to be a reason to rip that cereal box to pieces and dig something fun out! A toy. A trading card, a mini-comic, something! I don’t wanna scan my damn box! Where’s the fun in that?!?!?
Oh is the older run of Star Trek like that too? I always hear the newer show leans into nonsense technobabble to cover up its inadequacies in other areas, but also hear nothing but glowing, endless praise for the older runs. Although the sources I hear from are usually biased haha. I did watch the entirety of Star Trek: Enterprise though, and honestly kinda liked it, though I’m not sure what the general consensus among Trek fans is on that one. Probably not good haha. The Cylons are just so cool! I love everything about their design. It’s a shame the original show isn’t really popular anymore. Now it’s all the new crap! The Noghri aren’t hyper intelligent in the same way that Thrawn is, but they’re absolutely depicted as intelligent free-thinking creatures, but with a collection of “oppressions” let’s call them, that Thrawn uses to maintain their control. They have their moments where they come off as animalistic, but they’re more depicted in like an archetypal “native” style. Subservience and respect for the land, tribal living. That kinda stuff. Maybe I just misinterpreted the Noghri when I read the books, but they definitely don’t act how I expected in Rebels! Honestly, just entirely skipping Resistance wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world 🤣
It’s bad. Like. Really bad. You are kinda right that it might suit your current mood though. Definitely a little lighter fair, outside of a couple of key moments.
As for Mando, I am both excited and nervous. Exited in that, season 1 did so much right and there are so many fantastic ideas to build off of, but concerned cuz that first trailer didn’t really allay my fears about them expanding the scope too wide, and just adding 8 million different characters cuz “we know them” especially with all those rumors about one of the actors that popped up being live-action Sabine? Ahsoka popping up still makes sense if he needs to learn about the Jedi, so that one I might be able to stomach. But eh. We’ll see. Good Star Wars is just so hard to come by now. But hey, bright spots show up once in a while. That new Thrawn book that just came out? I finished it a couple of weeks ago, and I might go so far as to say that it’s Zahn’s best star wars books to date? It’s extremely good!
@ellsworth004 Right there with ya! Around when I started college I noticed my interest in games kinda shift that way too. I still love all the AAA stuff, but all the games that get me most excited tend to be the smaller ones! "Indie Trash" as lots of people like to call them lol. When I think of most of my favorite experiences this gen, almost all of the ones I think of right away are indie games!
@ellsworth004 It'sbasically point and click. There are a couple of areas that function slightly differently, but in the broadest sense, yeah it's point and click. Most of the weird little other things it does are variations on that same formula too!
@lacerz It's without exaggeration my favorite game of all time, extremely excited to hear that! Oh I am absolutely gonna play it. It's one of those games where I just need to dig in and start it because once I start I'm not gonna play anything else. That's usually how I am with open-worlds games. I definitely high expectations for it before even starting though!
@lacerz I have meant to start Ghost of Tsushima for ages haha. I bought it day and it's been sitting right next to my PS4 ever since! I've meant to start it basically every day since! Glad to hear you read that review too! One of my personal faves that I wrote!
Pretty hyped about this. Honestly between this and the Be A Pro mode actually genuinely being revamped, this year's NHL might be pretty...good? They seem to have actually gotten the time to do stuff this time.
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Re: Observer: System Redux (PS5) – A New Coat of Paint Can Do Wonders
@fabisputza00 Yeah not a big fan of the stealth sections either haha. Although the PS4 review was a little different because that game was miserable to play through. Constant crashes and the frame was never stable. Made me physically ill to play it at points!
I think I prefer to play this version lol
Re: Observer: System Redux (PS5) – A New Coat of Paint Can Do Wonders
@thedevilsjester I would expect digital-only BUT limited run games did the PS4 version of the game not too long, so if they start doing PS5 games as well, I wouldn't be surprised to see this pop back up!
@Amusei There was a discount in place if you bought the new version, not sure if that's still going, but it was unfortunately never free as far as I know!
@dark_knightmare2 a 3 😬
@phil_j not any more!
Re: The Pathless (PS5) - Giant Squid Avoids the Sophomore Slump
@Svark For real! I absolutely love Abzu already, but I love this even more!!!
Re: The Pathless (PS5) - Giant Squid Avoids the Sophomore Slump
@R1spam Of course!
@daveofduncan That wouldn't surprise me either!
Re: The Pathless (PS5) - Giant Squid Avoids the Sophomore Slump
@Th3solution it has a ton of really exciting stuff in there! Animal companions when they work, sure work well though haha
@Artelous Because it's a launch title? A launch title isn't only allowed to be a launch exclusive. The Pathless
@AFCC @Arugula 🤣 oops!
@Abarth_71 The PS5 version was definitely worth holding off in my opinion!
Re: Fuser 2020 Backstage Pass Kicks Off
@Wormold That is what they're doing. 3 songs a week I think? Or 4? You can buy them individually still too
@GeneJacket They're in a bit of a catch 22 because if they wait too long to start the DLC train, no one's gonna keep playing, but if they start soon like this, now it looks bad for just how much money the game costs upfront if you want everything. TOtally agreed though, not an easy way to tell how the songs would fit into mixes.
@alphadrago5 @blacklivesmatter Yeah I'm probably waiting for a sale too haha. That day 1 bundle is a solid deal (1 song from that is cheaper than 1 song for Rock Band 4), but this new pass, ehhhh. I don't really care about the cosmetic stuff, which kinda skews the value proposition for me
Re: Mini Review: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - A Wonderful Treasure from Star Wars' Glory Days
@RogerRoger Definitely definitely evil. Let's make a Quiet Man sequel happen!
Re: Mini Review: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - A Wonderful Treasure from Star Wars' Glory Days
@RogerRoger
https://youtu.be/slAhuh21ii8
hmmmmm, what's all this then
Re: 10 Things PS5 Needs to Improve
Folders were my big one. The first thing I did upon booting up was I tried to find where the folder creation tool was, only to discover that it didn't exist. Kinda flabbergasted by that one. I guess it wasn't day on the PS4 either, but it's too useful to not expect hopefully soon.
Re: Mini Review: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - A Wonderful Treasure from Star Wars' Glory Days
@RogerRoger Yeah the opener was a delight. It was wonderful! I too have that fear! But I will say this, as far as just sitting there and watching a show for a bit, that 2nd episode is my favorite of the whole series to date! I thought it juggled all the different tones and things it's aiming for especially well on that one!
Yeah, can't skip out on any chances to make money. Maybe that's why the game opens on Geonosis. See? We started when Phase 1 armor was still there, so none of the inconsistencies are actually a thing! We showed this era so you literally can't complain ever! Ooo that's a good point about Rex. I dunno if I ever really thought about that! Ooooo be careful about mentioning the you-know-what's!
So, that's the newest reason why I don't like Tatooine. "If there's a bright center to the galaxy, you're at the place farthest from it, yet literally everyone seems to go there always?!?!?!?! But the biggest reason I never liked it is I just find desert biomes super super dull. And the fact that's the one that pops up the most is kinda annoying. Jakku, Crait, all of it. Gah, I hate it! It's NOT a coincidence that the ONLY Star Wars movie to not go to Tatooine/Desert Place is the best one. Just saying.
Perks of being a professional voice actor haha. And A damn good one at that! Mark Hammill's just so wonderful. Already loved the guy, but all those interviews after Last Jedi, where he could barely contain the fact that he also didn't like the movie tickled me haha.
It was a losing battle out of the gate, trying to give Revan one definitive story, unfortunately. I appreciate the effort, but I think he's better suited to just kinda being mentioned once in a while, very vaguely. As a nice little easter egg. That way no one gets upset.
Definitely a bigger backlog than 4 now. I have 4 disc games I'm behind on now, let alone all the downloads! Miles Morales was the first thing I installed, COD should be here tomorrow. Download speeds are much much better, so that's something. Honestly, even if I don't like the new COD, it's just...something to play. I'm not a diehard fan of the series, but the Black Ops games specifically I historically like a lot more (Except Black Ops 3. Yikes.)
All the back and forth, Bioware must have been reading this convo! Three more games and then some! All the DLC too! Basically, an extra game all told. So 4 more games haha. But at least there's an official announce of it. What are we gonna talk about now though?
Even more important this generation with Sony's 3D audio push! 3D audio's the real deal though. After all the uses I've seen of it in VR, I really hope other people get behind it! But like you mentioned, sound design's important, and given how Sony's emphasizing it this time, bad sound design is only gonna get that much more obvious!
Oh god, I forgot to bring up Sean Connery! That one hurt to hear about
Re: Mini Review: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - A Wonderful Treasure from Star Wars' Glory Days
@RogerRoger It's been going swimmingly, thanks Launched a couple of days ago! Obligatory link just in case haha:
https://www.utopiadistrict.com
I am pretty glad I held off on playing them in a way now. Especially Tsushima. Since it'll benefit from the PS5. Squadrons I guess it doesn't matter, cuz I'm playing that in VR for sure! I keep adding onto the pile though too! Just scooped up Maneater at Best Buy because they had a crazy good sale for it. The backlog never goes away. I think I was 100% caught up on my backlog literally once in my life. Late 360 era I think haha. Republic Commando <3 .The memories! I played the demo for that on my Xbox like a thousand times and begged my mom for it for Christmas. Loved it. Used to have LAN parties to plan the MP mode with my buddies during sleepovers and such too!
Funnily enough, it arrived today. Several days late, but in one piece! Haven't really gotten to spend much time with it yet between trying to transfer everything over, and getting started on reviews. I was surprised by how large and heavy it was though, I'll say that!
I know exactly what you mean! Yeah that feeling definitely contributes to it being really tricky to making a proper recommendation of it to people. It's like an all or nothing experience. People either love it unconditionally or loathe it (like a certain Last Jedi hehe), and I haven't really seen much in the way of middleground. I also agree that and compliments or criticism of it are pretty well-founded though haha. It's obviously even from like 1 trailer, the game is catering to a very specific niche. I happen to fall under the "indie hipster trash" group for sure (that website being further proof haha) whose favorite show happens to be Twin Peaks which KR0 heavily reminds me of at times. I'm convinced Cardboard Computer just sat down and decided they wanted to make a game specifically for me. And will do! I haven't started it yet, but eventually, I'll have to take a pause on Star Wars books haha.
Yeah in season 1, there's that shot of a spur on the Tatooine episode and my first thought was "that's the cowboy man from the aftermath books!" and sure enough. (Those books are extremely underwhelming by the way haha. Probably not worth it. They just tried to clean the empire up in one big tidy fight, so Disney could shove First Order stuff in basically). I could do without that certain someone popping up, but I do like a healthy balance of cheeky references and new stuff. The most recent episode hit a very good balance on that front! From the bits of Star Trek I have seen, that's the vibe I got from them. Well the shows, not the Abrams movies haha. "There's more here and if I dig further, I could probably find some cool connections," right before I just don't dig any further haha.
Oh man, more Cad Bane sign me up! I am so there! God, that Filoni, man's made an awful lot of great Star Wars characters. More great characters than even Zahn maybe? In the Bad Batch, the show could be cool. Did they mention in passing or something, or would he just be a natural fit you think? Hot Toys? And cheers I had a shot the last time you told me about him but I missed it haha.
Re: Fuser (PS4) - A Bold New Frontier for Rhythm Games
@themcnoisy the campaign mode scores you based on how "on-beat" when you new things to the song, how many fan requests you get correct. The online mode has a scoring system, but I honestly can't tell what determines it haha. It's "whichever one sounds better" but there's no on-screen point system for the co-op stuff so It's hard to tell what they're going for
Re: Sony Sent PS4 Queue Hero a PS5 Ahead of Launch
I was watching that PS4 stream with my buddy while we were in line to get PS4's of our own! Good times! Seems like just yesterday too!
Re: Fuser (PS4) - A Bold New Frontier for Rhythm Games
@alphadrago5 I didn't have the highest expectations either, but honestly? Absolutely blown away! The amount of creative freedom allowed is insane, and I'm still nowhere close to having mastered everything!
Re: Fuser (PS4) - A Bold New Frontier for Rhythm Games
@Anti-Matter Yeah, there's not quite anything like this in there yet haha. Although honestly even just listening to a little bit of this, I could see this slotting into the game extremely well!
Re: Fuser (PS4) - A Bold New Frontier for Rhythm Games
@Anti-Matter Honestly not a ton of stuff that I'd normally listen to in the game either. Maybe 5 or 6 songs? But a lot of the songs I wouldn't have any kind of interest in normally, offered pieces of their tracks that made things so much better! It's wild!
Re: Fuser - A Bold New Frontier for Rhythm Games
@nessisonett There's a little bit of everything from a lotta eras, but it does lean on the '80s forward a lot more heavily. As for those specific sounds of techno, I don't recall anything that fits into that showing up quite yet
@God_of_Nowt But of course! I was absolutely blown away by it honestly!
@HotGoomba___Rebrand Between you and me that's what I was expecting out of the game at first too. But that's a secret! shhhhh
Re: Interview: Godfall Composer Talks Elements, Inspirations, and Identity
@HMazzy111 Agreed, conducting this interview honestly got me a lot more interested in the game!
Re: Feature: Best PS4 Music of October 2020
@Shigurui Yeah didn't really start hearing about this until closer to the end of the month, but chatter about it's really been picking up lately! I should give the music a spin!
@Amnesiac Always brings a smile to my face to see stuff like this! Thank you! I love writing these!
Re: The Walking Dead: The Final Season - Episode 4: Take Us Back Is a Fitting Farewell for an Old Friend
@Rob_230 Bahahah, just a smidge late! Absolutely agree with you, the project feels completely cohesive and finished despite the insane amount of turmoil and tragedy behind the scenes!
Also absolutely agreed, I'd be shocked if this corner of the Walking Dead universe isn't revisited, might be a few years, but it'll be back! I do really wanna play that Walking Dead VR title though! Saints & Sinners I think it's called?
Re: Mini Review: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - A Wonderful Treasure from Star Wars' Glory Days
@RogerRoger Oh brother more! It's gonna be a launch title for the PS6 at this rate! Or the PS7 even.
Well, probably not 70 of them. Might be able to get it down to 50 though haha.
Wait you couldn't even hear the dialogue? What the hell? Yikessssss.
Holy moly 100! That's actually kinda nuts. We've been back and forth on this for ages now though. No complaints here!
Re: Mini Review: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - A Wonderful Treasure from Star Wars' Glory Days
@RogerRoger Mando was.....fine? It was a fun episode, and I really like Timothy Olyphant, and he's playing the Marshall more or less exactly as I had him pictured! I'll wait for confirmation of you starting, but I will say, as much as I enjoyed episode 1, I'm definitely still nervous haha.
Yeah pivoted from green to purple as I started getting older, and you better believe that my lightsaber choices changed with it! I always thought the attempt to reconcile the tech difference that the prequels did was kinda neat. Obviously, it was so they could make extra toys, but it was kinda cool, even if they didn't look as good. The EP II ones just look SO GOOD. I love them! I wish they got more attention. And weren't in the worst film in the series. Although a certain Episode 9 could give it a run for its money. Everyone gets one. Don't you dare mention the original trilogy again this year. You've hit your limit! The mouse is watching!
Yeah the original version of the ride is wonderful! All the stuff was done in the style of the original movies too! Tons of insane practical effects, miniatures, stop motion all of it! And then all the news ones are CGI. Pretty good CGI, and the ride's a ton of fun still, but eh. I got the pod one my first time, but I just HATE Tatooine so much, so I was disappointed. I managed to ride enough times to see every single piece though! Until the Disney movies started getting added at least. Absolutely bending over backwards to incorporate stuff that doesn't make sense, it's fine though honestly. I get it. Ironically the comet was my least favorite part haha.
Okay going back listening specifically to hear him, oh yeah, it's in there. I don't know how I didn't notice that!
That terrible horrible Revan book tried to kinda make there be a definitive Revan, but by doing that it made almost no one happy. Which I should have expected but I was still young and stupid haha.
Just gotta start the quality of animation there instead of building to it next time haha.
Launch lineups are generally unimpressive, but this one's...okay? I'm gonna get COD to play with my friends, and then I'm absolutely getting The Pathless, and Miles Morales of course! I'm glad my backlog is smaller than 70 haha. It's like 4 I think? Waiting I absolutely get. Especially this gen! The fanfare just isn't there, and the leap doesn't feel quite the same yet. It almost doesn't feel real at all haha.
Oh yeah, absolutely it's both dramatic, sometimes too much, but my god does it look incredible.
Re: Mini Review: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - A Wonderful Treasure from Star Wars' Glory Days
@RogerRoger Apologies on the super long delay this time! Helping work on launching a couple websites!
I haven't even started it honestly. I dunno what it is. I've got a buncha games that I just haven't dived into that I shoulda. Never even booted up Ghost of Tsushima or Squadrons. They've been sitting on my table for ages! The soundtrack is good though! There might be an article relating to that soooooon. Hmmm.
Syphon Filter! Hell yeah! I haven't played that in so long. Loved it back in the day though! And Kentucky Route Zero <3 It's unique in a way that makes it extremely hard to recommend, so I hope you love it!
Nah just buy the cereal for the cereal inside BUT ALSO the cool stuff in the box. Bring that back. That's the real problem in the world right now.
Huh you know I don't think I knew that about Deep Space Nine. I do tend to forget just how many different Star Trek series there have been too. I think of the original series and TNG, but there are a lotttt of other ones. I don't even know if I knew Voyager...existed? I can't say for sure I knew that was a thing before right now haha. Yeah it's pretty daunting, especially considering just how little of it I've actually already seen, at least at present probably easier to just keep letting Red Letter Media tell me about all of the good stuff in Star Trek, until I eventually (most likely) dive in myself. It's only a matter of when!
Oh man, late-night Wookiepedia dives. I know that feeling! That's happened many a time before. Honestly, there's almost literally nothing I can recommend about Resistance. Like, at all. Yes absolutely get the books! Books books books! I swear sometimes that's all I buy beyond games some months haha. Usually Star Wars too. (And one book that I got recently that apparently is like Kentucky Route Zero but a book! Haven't started yet though.)
Ooooo Cad Bane figure's pretty tempting. The actual coolest Bounty Hunter. Not Boba Fett (more on him later). And what?!?! I didn't hear about Nihilus until right now. Damn, it appears to have already sold out far as I can tell haha. NOt nearly as expensive in the aftermarket as Revan though. Hmmm. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that one! Jar Jar
Re: NHL 21 - The Best Iteration of the Generation
@TadGhostal Right back atcha! Always had a softspot for the Yotes (probably cuz the Kachina's are the greatest jerseys of all time!). Kinda bummed Hall didn't really seem to work in Zona
Re: NHL 21 - The Best Iteration of the Generation
@Anguspuss @Kidfunkadelic83 And also the sports leagues themselves. They don't have to say yes to exclusive deals with one publisher like they do, but they probably make more money that way
Re: Interview: Transforming with Metamorphosis Composers Mikolai Stroinski and Garry Schyman
@GamingFan4Lyf Fair enough haha
Re: NHL 21 - The Best Iteration of the Generation
@MaseSco Correct. The offline HUT "seasons" are still the Squad Battle thing. Likewise for hybrid controls. Fiddled around to see, and no luck!
Re: NHL 21 - The Best Iteration of the Generation
@Powerpellet @TadGhostal Go Avs!
Re: Interview: Transforming with Metamorphosis Composers Mikolai Stroinski and Garry Schyman
@GamingFan4Lyf The music stuff I definitely get haha. I know just enough to have conversations like these interviews, but not really any further haha. Kafka though is the writer that inspired the game! Writer of the novella, Metamorphosis. That's what is directly being referenced in that Spaceballs quote too!
Re: NHL 21 - The Best Iteration of the Generation
@IronMike The best iteration of a franchise and the best sports games are not mutually exclusive. The only hockey game that I would say merits mention on that list from this gen would be Super Blood Hockey. This is just the best that the EA license has looked on a PS4
@TheFrenchiestFry I did I believe all but 1 of the NHL reviews we wrote this generation, and yeah there were some dark times in there! NHL 15 was especially awful!
Re: Will FIFA 21, Madden NFL 21 Be PS5 Launch Games?
Well we know NHL won't be since 21 isn't even being made for next gen. I definitely expected FIFA and Madden to be ready for day 1 though
Re: Interview: Transforming with Metamorphosis Composers Mikolai Stroinski and Garry Schyman
@GamingFan4Lyf Any specific stuff you were curious about? I'd be more than happy to elaborate!
Re: This Is the Zodiac Speaking - A Great Idea with Underwhelming Execution
@Kerr1416 Same!
Re: Interview: Transforming with Metamorphosis Composers Mikolai Stroinski and Garry Schyman
@GamingFan4Lyf The interview took me a lot longer to put together than the Spaceballs reference lol
Re: NHL 21 - The Best Iteration of the Generation
@nessisonett nailed it!
Re: This Is the Zodiac Speaking - A Great Idea with Underwhelming Execution
@clvr thank you! Can't believe I missed that typo when going through!
Re: This Is the Zodiac Speaking - A Great Idea with Underwhelming Execution
@Kidfried Unfortunately no, but I do appreciate the effort. It's a subject that's fascinating, and games practically never do anything with it!
Re: This Is the Zodiac Speaking - A Great Idea with Underwhelming Execution
@Kidfried A couple of the achievements reference the film! And the color temperature of the game definitely goes "Fincher" haha
Re: Amnesia: Rebirth - The SOMA Team Has Its First Dud
@TappityTap Well naturally haha. I wouldn't want people to base their opinions solely on my reviews when they're live either! I do however respect @LiamCroft opinion and find that we think about games in a very similar way fairly often, so that review did at least dampen some of the excitement I may have had!
Re: Amnesia: Rebirth - The SOMA Team Has Its First Dud
@Navii__ Oh I'm sure I'll play it eventually no matter what! I've played everything Frictional's ever made.
Re: Amnesia: Rebirth - The SOMA Team Has Its First Dud
Damn, I had such high hopes too. SOMA was their peak for me so I was hoping to see that continue.
Re: Feature: Best PS4 Music of September 2020
@BrettAwesome Yeah the John Williams stuff stood out to me too! I did an interview with the composer about the game a couple weeks back on here, and brought that up!
@nessisonett Absolutely blow away by that Mafia score honestly. It's so good!!!
Re: Mini Review: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - A Wonderful Treasure from Star Wars' Glory Days
@RogerRoger If we get a software lull from the 'rona (the impacts of that on game software haven't really landed yet so who knows how it'll go) might be a good time to visit some older games I'd always meant to play! Could spend some time with Tomb Raider then! Every time we talk the rumors for Mass Effect always change too! But they never go away! That's gotta count for something!
Hoo boy, yeah this is a very different experience from the Vegas games haha. All of them are great though, so definitely still a reason to play those older ones too! The series looks verrrry different now haha
Re: Mini Review: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - A Wonderful Treasure from Star Wars' Glory Days
@RogerRoger I did the same! I basically changed it the second I could. But I'll be honest, some of that is because I just find blue lightsabers kinda dull at this point haha. My fav color's purple so I changed Cal's to purple the second I was able to haha. Yeah! Don't have to constantly re-release the unaltered ones but dig 'em out every once in a while and let all the people that want those get their hands on them! Yeah, don't let Disney hear you! If you so much as mention the original trilogy, I heard you get fired on the spot!
Wait, is Jar Jar really one of them? That's kinda great in a way! I glanced at the new ones but I musta missed that haha. A new Thrawn figure too! Although it's not in the fancy Black Series box, it's in the other style. I do kinda want that vanilla clone trooper though. The Episode II clone trooper design is by far my favorite! I think I'll pass on Jar Jar though haha. I do still have my Phantom Menace jar jar toy somewhere after all.
Ya Netflix, you're right. I haven't watched it cuz the trailers made it look a little too kiddish, but interestingly, I've also actually heard it's pretty good! Might be worth giving a look-see at some point.
Yeah, Disney's attention to detail at parks is unparalleled by such an insane margin. I still have a soft spot for the original Star Tours, pre-randomization, but honestly, the one with all the new locales added to it is pretty great too, although I don't think I've been on since any of the new movie's locations had been added, so I'm lucky there in a way haha.
God yeah, Bane being incorporated properly woulda been great too. So much great stuff with him in the old canon too. Arguably more than Revan? Because Revan's influenced by people playing the game differently, but the Bane stuff was all book and it was just really really good instead! I don't think I knew that about Mark Hammill though! Neat! Yeah using the Clone Wars as connective tissue for uniting every era woulda been amazing. I get it, but at the same time, it woulda been cooler. Clone Wars looked great by the end though agreed, which is funny given how much people hated the visuals in the beginning haha. Yeah just combine multiple reviews to make everything 10/10!!!
I do! I think the price is more or less fine. Given how long they waited to reveal it honestly, it's cheaper than I was expecting. The launch lineup sounds....decent? The controller seems great, I'm worried about the longevity of the hardware though since the power just doesn't seem like it's gonna be there? Raw specs, the Xbox smokes it, but all the rumors of PS5 games struggling to even manage 4K is pretty concerning. Although games at launch look way worse than what we get by the end, so it could just be those early bumps. Plus the software's gonna be great! I did get a pre-order opening day though. After many many hours of refreshing the same page over and over haha. But I did get it!
My photomode tendencies are definitely more all over the place haha. I usually have like 2 or 3 for most games, then Sony's 1st party stuff usually somewhere between 50 or 100, and then The Last of Us 2 I have 400! I think I took like...30 for Fallen Order? Something like that.
Re: Mini Review: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - A Wonderful Treasure from Star Wars' Glory Days
@RogerRoger Still nothing But hey, Squadrons had its soundtrack drop day 1! That's something. Maybe they're learning (probably not though)
Definitely very interested to see how wildly divergent these versions of the movie wind up. The Whedon stuff definitely didn't feel like it worked this time like it did when he did his Marvel stuff haha. Yeah, sticking Thor with the Guardians is brilliant, although those characters are also all really funny, so Hemsworth's gonna have to work his ass off to stay as funny as usual!
Predator's totally a feel-good movie! If feelgood is explosions, gunfights, followed by abject terror, and brutal, gut-wrenching violence. Or like...Pixar or something, I dunno...
Yeah, I want there to be a reason to rip that cereal box to pieces and dig something fun out! A toy. A trading card, a mini-comic, something! I don’t wanna scan my damn box! Where’s the fun in that?!?!?
Oh is the older run of Star Trek like that too? I always hear the newer show leans into nonsense technobabble to cover up its inadequacies in other areas, but also hear nothing but glowing, endless praise for the older runs. Although the sources I hear from are usually biased haha. I did watch the entirety of Star Trek: Enterprise though, and honestly kinda liked it, though I’m not sure what the general consensus among Trek fans is on that one. Probably not good haha. The Cylons are just so cool! I love everything about their design. It’s a shame the original show isn’t really popular anymore. Now it’s all the new crap!
The Noghri aren’t hyper intelligent in the same way that Thrawn is, but they’re absolutely depicted as intelligent free-thinking creatures, but with a collection of “oppressions” let’s call them, that Thrawn uses to maintain their control. They have their moments where they come off as animalistic, but they’re more depicted in like an archetypal “native” style. Subservience and respect for the land, tribal living. That kinda stuff. Maybe I just misinterpreted the Noghri when I read the books, but they definitely don’t act how I expected in Rebels! Honestly, just entirely skipping Resistance wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world 🤣
It’s bad. Like. Really bad. You are kinda right that it might suit your current mood though. Definitely a little lighter fair, outside of a couple of key moments.
As for Mando, I am both excited and nervous. Exited in that, season 1 did so much right and there are so many fantastic ideas to build off of, but concerned cuz that first trailer didn’t really allay my fears about them expanding the scope too wide, and just adding 8 million different characters cuz “we know them” especially with all those rumors about one of the actors that popped up being live-action Sabine? Ahsoka popping up still makes sense if he needs to learn about the Jedi, so that one I might be able to stomach. But eh. We’ll see. Good Star Wars is just so hard to come by now. But hey, bright spots show up once in a while. That new Thrawn book that just came out? I finished it a couple of weeks ago, and I might go so far as to say that it’s Zahn’s best star wars books to date? It’s extremely good!
Re: Kentucky Route Zero Has a Companion Album and You Can Listen Right Now
@ellsworth004 Right there with ya! Around when I started college I noticed my interest in games kinda shift that way too. I still love all the AAA stuff, but all the games that get me most excited tend to be the smaller ones! "Indie Trash" as lots of people like to call them lol. When I think of most of my favorite experiences this gen, almost all of the ones I think of right away are indie games!
Re: Kentucky Route Zero Has a Companion Album and You Can Listen Right Now
@ellsworth004 It'sbasically point and click. There are a couple of areas that function slightly differently, but in the broadest sense, yeah it's point and click. Most of the weird little other things it does are variations on that same formula too!
@lacerz It's without exaggeration my favorite game of all time, extremely excited to hear that!
Oh I am absolutely gonna play it. It's one of those games where I just need to dig in and start it because once I start I'm not gonna play anything else. That's usually how I am with open-worlds games. I definitely high expectations for it before even starting though!
Re: Kentucky Route Zero Has a Companion Album and You Can Listen Right Now
@lacerz I have meant to start Ghost of Tsushima for ages haha. I bought it day and it's been sitting right next to my PS4 ever since! I've meant to start it basically every day since! Glad to hear you read that review too! One of my personal faves that I wrote!
Re: Kentucky Route Zero Has a Companion Album and You Can Listen Right Now
@Kidfried The album's soooo good too!!!!!!
Re: NHL 21 Brings Back an Ice Cold SEGA Genesis Classic
Pretty hyped about this. Honestly between this and the Be A Pro mode actually genuinely being revamped, this year's NHL might be pretty...good? They seem to have actually gotten the time to do stuff this time.