GymWolf
Gold Member
Pretty much the same.
This one looks better and i'm probably gonna buy it because i love the genre but their past game was super meh.
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This one looks better and i'm probably gonna buy it because i love the genre but their past game was super meh.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Man, you’re literally in a thread of ‘final previews’ where nobody is ‘hyping it to death’ as a BG3 and Skyrim killer.
Yep. Right after I dropped a lol emoji on your salt encrusted post.
Raven77
Member
So Skyrim comes out 10+ years ago and we're celebrating a NEW game that is a mini version of it? Mini?
You've had 10 years of technology improvements and all you can make is a SMALLER version of a decade old game?
As a lifelong gamer since NES I feel that this is the worst period in gaming since it's inception. Remakes, games that barely look better than last Gen, hardly any originality due to bloated game budgets, Games as a Service shovelware, 5+year dev cycles.
Nintendo is the only company left that truly feels like a videogame company. They're not perfect but at least they've stayed true to themselves and their history. All the others just seem to be chasing dollars and tripping over their own feet.
MS has been a wrecking ball to the industry. Buying countless companies and in many cases ruining them, bringing a subscription service to the market and mishandling it, along with their studios, to the point where the brand as a major console is now dying.
Sony I can't figure out, they used to be incredible and still do some great things. But then you look at how few games their studios are releasing, along with a recent games as a service travesty, and it makes you wonder what the future holds.
Bye for now.
You've had 10 years of technology improvements and all you can make is a SMALLER version of a decade old game?
As a lifelong gamer since NES I feel that this is the worst period in gaming since it's inception. Remakes, games that barely look better than last Gen, hardly any originality due to bloated game budgets, Games as a Service shovelware, 5+year dev cycles.
Nintendo is the only company left that truly feels like a videogame company. They're not perfect but at least they've stayed true to themselves and their history. All the others just seem to be chasing dollars and tripping over their own feet.
MS has been a wrecking ball to the industry. Buying countless companies and in many cases ruining them, bringing a subscription service to the market and mishandling it, along with their studios, to the point where the brand as a major console is now dying.
Sony I can't figure out, they used to be incredible and still do some great things. But then you look at how few games their studios are releasing, along with a recent games as a service travesty, and it makes you wonder what the future holds.
Bye for now.
Schmendrick
Member
purely visually and from the gameplaysnippets shown so far this still looks utterly
Complistic
Member
Previews are ads, but I'll still try this one for sure.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
So Skyrim comes out 10+ years ago and we're celebrating a NEW game that is a mini version of it? Mini?
You've had 10 years of technology improvements and all you can make is a SMALLER version of a decade old game?
As a lifelong gamer since NES I feel that this is the worst period in gaming since it's inception. Remakes, games that barely look better than last Gen, hardly any originality due to bloated game budgets, Games as a Service shovelware, 5+year dev cycles.
Nintendo is the only company left that truly feels like a videogame company. They're not perfect but at least they've stayed true to themselves and their history. All the others just seem to be chasing dollars and tripping over their own feet.
MS has been a wrecking ball to the industry. Buying countless companies and in many cases ruining them, bringing a subscription service to the market and mishandling it, along with their studios, to the point where the brand as a major console is now dying.
Sony I can't figure out, they used to be incredible and still do some great things. But then you look at how few games their studios are releasing, along with a recent games as a service travesty, and it makes you wonder what the future holds.
Bye for now.
Little Chicken
Gold Member
So Skyrim comes out 10+ years ago and we're celebrating a NEW game that is a mini version of it? Mini?
You've had 10 years of technology improvements and all you can make is a SMALLER version of a decade old game?
As a lifelong gamer since NES I feel that this is the worst period in gaming since it's inception. Remakes, games that barely look better than last Gen, hardly any originality due to bloated game budgets, Games as a Service shovelware, 5+year dev cycles.
Nintendo is the only company left that truly feels like a videogame company. They're not perfect but at least they've stayed true to themselves and their history. All the others just seem to be chasing dollars and tripping over their own feet.
MS has been a wrecking ball to the industry. Buying countless companies and in many cases ruining them, bringing a subscription service to the market and mishandling it, along with their studios, to the point where the brand as a major console is now dying.
Sony I can't figure out, they used to be incredible and still do some great things. But then you look at how few games their studios are releasing, along with a recent games as a service travesty, and it makes you wonder what the future holds.
Bye for now.
Topher
Identifies as young
I'm excited, it looks like it will be fantastic.
Cue the tsunami of "boring, bad graphics, bad gameplay" comments, despite the INCREDIBLE previews
Hell man....folks could just copy and paste your posts from Sony threads and create that "tsunami".
Either way, don't lean to hard on previews. Hopefully the game is great, but previews are generally always positive.
balls of snow
Member
This being a lean 30 hours experience is awesome seeing how packed feb is for me.
Aguero9320
Member
I'm looking forward to this. Unusual in that it seems to be finished, and the release is being held back because Microsoft's schedule is too full... Wondered if we'd ever see that day, but it seems to be here... Hopefully they can keep it up, and we're starting the see the fruits of their acquisition strategy on their release calendar. Not watching the previews, because I already know I'll be playing it.
Salty Pickle
Member
I absolutely hate these clickbaity thumbnails, it always looks like they just had a ruined orgasm or a stroke.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
How soon we forget Dragon Age a mere handful of weeks ago.Hell man....folks could just copy and paste your posts from Sony threads and create that "tsunami".
Either way, don't lean to hard on previews. Hopefully the game is great, but previews are generally always positive.
I do hope this one is good, western RPGs of this nature have been slacking lately.
mayham2199
Member
Honestly can't disagree with this part to much. I heard COG literally talking about the audio immersion because he could hear a shimmering sound when he was near a chest. I literally laughed out loud that shit was in Dragon Age Inquisition in 2014.
Topher
Identifies as young
Some like it better than others. For me, it was fine, but forgettable.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
So.... i am afraid to ask.... but you i be aware of of any special pronouns with people involved on this game?
This is an average game that was incredibly quickly forgotten, and certainly not on the level of Obsidian, especially after Pillars of Eternity 1-2. I fear the same scenario here, but let's hope for the best.
My biggest fear is that it comes out on February 18th if I remember correctly. And Kingdom Come: Deliverance II seems to be on the 11th, two highly anticipated RPGs coming out so close to each other, and I'm just afraid that due to the scope of KCD2 they might run over them, since 7 days is extremely short for such a game due to its size.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
It'll be neat to see the next one in Unreal 5.
POKEYCLYDE
Member
I'll play it for myself and see. The benefits of having Game Pass.
evolve
Member
I don't think you should expect that level of depth from this game or any game that wants to appeal to a broader and more mainstream audience. PoE is a niche crpg game.
I just think you greatly underestimate KCD. At one time it collected almost 100,000 on Steam. It also sold 8,000,000 copies, and the last 2mil were sold right after the announcement of the 2nd part.
Believe me, this game is highly anticipated.
Topher
Identifies as young
ElFenomeno
Member
First of all, the previews of those websites who gave DA Veilguard a 9 or 10 must be deleted and not taken into consideration.
Secondly, this actually might be worth a play through ... though it looks kind of lethargic.
Secondly, this actually might be worth a play through ... though it looks kind of lethargic.
Roman Empire
Member
I'll just wait for the release. It looks better than the first preview but I have too many games already booked for february. If it turns out great I'll grab it before sale.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
That whole IGN preview is just them shitting on Dragon Age lol
Also I laughed out loud:
Dafukk is this hahahaha
Yeah, but aside from convention or showcase floor demos, there’s really no other way to demo to previewers except you send builds over to them, which seems like a recipe for disaster.
Not sure how else previews can happen without inviting folks in gaming media over.
evolve
Member
Oh, It wasn't my intention. But it's not common for games that are very deep in certain mechanics to become mainstream. Cases like Elden Ring or BG3 aren't common. Usually there needs to be a balance for the casuals to buy a game a lot (and especially on consoles), which is why most games just dip their toes into RPG mechanics.
KCD is also very cheap to buy. On PS you can buy it for literally 3 or 4 €/$ for the most part of the year.
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Sethbacca
Member
Yeah, definitely one of those games that got a level of unjustified hate from people that expected it to be something it was never supposed to be. I had fun with it.
This is all understandable, and yes, from the publisher's point of view, before the release of the second part, they naturally lower the price to warm up interest in the new release and attract new players. But the point is that, as it seems to me, the window between the two games is small, and this may have an effect. Usually, RPGs are released further away from each other, because on average, a casual player needs two weeks to complete, or three if they do everything and are in no hurry. Let's see what happens in the end.
But February is turning out to be simply brutal for them - Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Civilization 7, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza, Monster Hunter Wilds. They really are releasing the game in the most brutal month of the next year =)
Killjoy-NL
Gold Member
Another future PS5 release to skip.
The lighting looks good, but framerate is absolutely terrible (IGN preview), combat looks mediocre af, animations look mediocre as well.
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HUD and menus look like PS3 era. Just terrible.
The lighting looks good, but framerate is absolutely terrible (IGN preview), combat looks mediocre af, animations look mediocre as well.
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HUD and menus look like PS3 era. Just terrible.
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DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
From someone who suffered multiple strokes in 2021 I take this as an insult to stroke survivors
evolve
Member
Yup, they should've kept the original date. I think it was October?
Yes, but as they say... it's too late, they can of course move to March, it's calmer there. It's just that in February there are so many major releases and such significant projects, it will be very difficult to collect money and players there...
Buggy Loop
Member
How are these warriors still not banned? How pathetic.