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What the fuck is this in the 'coming soon' section?! NSFW warning.

Just caught up with this thread. To me, I guess it may come down to how you approach thread titles. Personally, I'm much more likely to click on a thread of a title of a game I don't know about than a catch-all thread. I tend to start threads for games that I know won't get much traction if I think it deserves it, whether it be an underrated gem or some nonsense that may be fun to read about. If it's just boring, then probably not. But that's just my feedback.

I got really in to the photo mode again... War on the streets of New York!

Outward is very similar, gameplay and presentation wise, to Risen - you start over super low skilled, very poor, and a whole bunch of enemies kill you very quickly if you wander off. So early leveling is going to be a bit of a grind. Notable too, the opening quest gets you kicked out of your home if you fail to raise a bunch of silver in 5 days or gain a tribal favour. Dying resurrects you after a time delay, which on my first effort, then took me beyond day 5. No retries either, as it just autosaves as you go along, so I took it as LFE (rouge like) , and restarted instead - only around 1 hr lost. Repeated again, then on third attempt went a different way, dodged some tough enemies, and picked up a tribal favour. So much better, and got me enough to spend on extra skills. Inventory mechanism is interesting, you get pockets and a backpack. You're encouraged to drop the pack for combat (as wearing it reduces stamina) but risk is, if you die, you'll be resurrected elsewhere and need to retrieve it. Also you need to eat, sleep and drink, crafting recipes and cooking. So all a bit involved, especially as there's no quest markers or clear notation of where you are on the map, just navigation by landmarks. So a decent level of realism, big absence of hand holding. I think I'm beginning to like it though.

Matt McMuscles has a Demon's Souls wha happun It's about problems in development and getting it over the line, was originally supposed to be an Oblivion clone. Imagine how boring that would have been Interesting to contrast the fact that Shuhei Yoshida sang a big song and dance about how much the game meant to him when he announced the Remake but here in this video he's quoted as calling the original a big pile of crap, lol. Really shows how key youtube and twitch became to the popularity of these types of games. Watching someone struggle with Souls is entertaining, compared to watching ppl struggle at just about any other type of game

A small, cool thing I didn’t know could be done

I played about 3 hours of Ashen on Game Pass awhile back @Rikzilla and absolutely loved it. Never went back to it though for some reason, but beat the first boss and explored all of the first proper area.

Yeah @Rikzilla Ashen is really good. A relatively short Dark Souls knock off that’s pretty stripped back in every way. Not as hard, more linear, less varied, more straight forward progression and direction. But also has cool ideas of it’s own like an AI companion that another player can seamlessly inhabit, exploring dark caves where balancing between holding a lantern and shield is key, and the atmosphere is very quiet and indie. For what it’s worth I really, really liked it. I played it on Xbox, though, so don’t know anything about the Switch version. It done got it’s own thread over this way, too

You can’t compare a linear game aaa graphics to an open world one.

I just watched a review for outward. I thought it looked alright but maybe a bit too involved for me despite the reviewer calling it simple. I’d probably give it a go for a fiver but at £14 (psn) on sale it’s a bit much for a game I might bin off after an hour. It looks like the kind of game that’d do well on switch but if they can’t get it running very well on PS4 then it’s probably not worth trying to port I guess. What I watched fwiw:

I think that needs its own thread. Not a fan of these catch all threads if I'm honest.