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Which is why, especially as a platform holder you need studios like Compulsion and Double Fine even if they don’t create mega hit makers. You need them for diversity in your library and to help fill in blanks in the release schedule. Also Compulsion is a relatively new studio, while South of Midnight wasn’t amazing the talent is there to really move up a level next time. New studios aren’t given the time to into something special anymore, 1 game shouldn’t decide their fate. Barely any of the top tier game studios came out swinging. It took time to build up their working relationships and iterate to making 10/10 games.

Rocket League. One of my favourite games of all time but I’ve reached my skill ceiling on it & it’s just not good enough. Still love it though. Sekiro - Another on my favourite games of all time list. I didn’t realise just how bad I was until I watched other people play it though. I struggled so much more than anyone else I’ve seen play it. Rest of mine are mostly genre based. Turn based strategy games - stuff like Disgaea, FF tactics, X-Com etc. I love these games but I’m really bad at them. Fighting game - Same as everyone else really. They’re great but I’ve never been above novice at them no matter how much I play them.

I’ll be honest, I don’t remember anything about that system. It might be one of those things which does nothing long term? Fuck knows.

I actually played Zero recently for first time. Even as someone who prefers the originals to the new Remakes I found that one really hard going tbh. It’s really bland and brown throughout. The item and character switching thing wasn’t as big an issue as I expected but it is definitely one of the worst ones with 5 and 6.

Yea, again I think exclusives are important & believe this would have been the best business decision. In a different time. But it’s just too late and the cost of things have made it so people aren’t going to buy a Xbox even if they released multiple 10/10 exclusive games. I’m definitely glad I got a Pro when I did now. This gen is going to have to last a very very long time. The next consoles are just going to be unobtainable. Which also means devs will be more likely to stick to older specs anyway so the Pro should keep me going at 60fps for a while yet.

The decreased stamina drain while dashing outside of combat should be universal or not exist at all.

I’m stuck in that shitty endgame area where everything has gone to shit. Took way too much effort or time to get back out of it to ever go back. I wonder if part of the update will make an easy way to get out of it then I may check DA out.

My expectations were low but holy fucking shit that was terrible. FF resonance looks gorgeous. I’ll be getting that. On a different console. Genuinely the best thing for me was that DK challenge thing. That’ll be fun for a bit. Ocarina remake… not sure. I think it’s best left in the past. & like Maf says it’s got such a huge legacy I don’t think it can live up to it for modern audiences. Need to see more but I didn’t like how it looked in that 5 second snippet either. Im not a KH guy but I at least think they’re very pretty games. IV though looks really bland & shit there. It looks like it’s leaked footage not ready to be shown yet. That can’t be what it looks like surely.

How the fuck did I miss this?!?! Holy fucking shit yes! Can’t wait to get stuck in. Going to play through this again on PS.

This would rule. Probably the only Nintendo franchise I could be excited about these days. A follow up to Metroid Dread without shitty Emmis would do it for me too.

Played the demo, yea it’s a lot of fun. Production values have been turned up a notch. I’m not 100% sure on the character switching though. Feels a bit awkward and ruins the flow a little.

Agreed. The stealth in the first 2 was actually pretty decent & relatively forgiving but I can definitely do without it.

Just watched the main showcase. Gears looks good, very weird seeing them without armour! My God there was a lot of old games with updates or DLC. Yawn. Clockwork game still looks great. P6 was a terrible trailer. May as well not bothered & waited until they actually had something to show. I’ll definitely be getting the new Plague Tale game. The first & 2nd reminded me of Uncharted in the jump in quality between 1 & 2. This looks to take it even further. Nothing else really notable but some interesting stuff there at least.

GoTY confirmed

Man I couldn’t disagree more about the combat. In Remake it was damn near perfect. I fucking loved it. Rebirth overcomplicated it a bit but the combat was still excellent. I’ll be getting this day 1. Rebirth was a massive disappointment for me. But I still feel I need to play this and finish the new story.