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Oh shit, a bullet hell game with high production values? Yes, please Looks like this game was announced 2 years ago but I couldn’t find a thread for it. Not sure I’ve seen it before but it’s on the radar now.

New gameplay trailer. This game looking better and better. Putting it on the most wanted list Gamepass day 1

I said it at the beginning and I still be saying it today this game looks sick. Putting Square’s 2D HD engine thingy they’ve been using to shame as well

I don’t know Baiken’s instant overhead that well but isn’t it like Millia’s where you only get a combo with meter? In this case yes but that’s half the time, less than half the time someone has meter? From what I can tell overheads are like soft punishes for someone just sitting there. But generally they don’t seem to do much beyond that. Seems like all fighting games follow this balance, and I don’t doubt it’s the best way to go. I just don’t understand why it is that way

Well, in terms of Strive I think certain characters are just nightmare fuel when applying pressure. But most of it is due to guard crush or visual confusion. I still think for the most part you can get away with holding back/low and just looking for grabs and dust. Not trying to say that’s easy but I don’t really fear overheads in that game (Unless they got meter) But it seems to be the same in all fighting games that overheads are weak. Slowest moves that rarely combo. Yet the more dangerous moves are blocked by the same position. Since all the games I’ve seen work like this it makes me wonder would it really be that much harder to defend? I remember something about Tetris where someone said that game is perfect because if you took away one type of block it would be too easy, but if you added another type of block it would be too hard. Similarly would that be the same for fighting games. If you added one more thing the defender had to do like block mids and lows separate or worry about overheads more would it just make it too difficult? I dunno. I just wonder why all fighting games seemed to have settled on this game balance of back/low beats mids and lows and overheads are weak.

How insanely detailed are your notes. I’m still a year in to trying to remember to do 214S if 6H is blocked lol. Cool shit. But yeah I was less talking about pressure being difficult and why blocking is “easy” (Not easy, but relatively speaking) Would blocking just be too hard if overheads were good, or if back/down didn’t cover mids?

Why in fighting games does block low cover both mids and lows and yet overheads are still kind of rubbish? Is blocking considered just that hard by game designers? Not only does one option cover 2 attacks but the 3rd attack also has to be handicapped? Maybe I haven’t played the right game or the right players but generally I think blocking is easier than pressuring someone blocking. It’s much harder to learn block strings than it is to sit there holding down/back Except for grabs I can’t tech a grab to save my life but I’m leaving those out for the minute

Should have guessed they’d be doing Spider-Verse again. Hopefully they do actually end the Spider-Verse and send all these characters away. It’s weird that there’s a “Spider-Family” except they all hang around with each other and not Peter. Also I really like Mark Bagley drawing Spider-Man when it was Ultimate Spider-Man, but the same art style for a different, older version of the character. It doesn’t look bad but it doesn’t really fit. Not to moan about it up and down, I hope it’s good. Just my immediate thoughts

I would take the remake over the TV show, but I don’t watch TV.

It does look amazing but I still think Last of Us is all story. And I already know the story so for me £70 is a big ask

I think whatever comes to Xbox will come to PC. They sell a subscription on PC, they want those numbers as high as possible PlayStation, though 😈

I want the next Elder Scrolls and Doom or whatever else they bought be Xbox exclusive. I love the upsets.

I’ve liked this game from the start. It’s the movement I think . I like free flowing, slick, acrobatic games which this looks like it could be.

I was more thinking about single player titles and not just activision games. I’m only reading the quote in the tweet but I take that to mean there’s going to be a lot less Xbox exclusives going forward. Which is like what is the point in making an Xbox then. And I’m hoping he means just Xbox and not the other 2

Speaking of console wars, I really like them. I like seeing companies try outdo each other, I like seeing people get mad about it, I think healthy competition is good for all facets of video games. So stuff like this I think is bad news Fewer exclusives? 🤔 Then my reaction is what’s the fucking point? I guess he isn’ talking for PlayStation and Nintendo. They need exclusives. Nintendo especially. I would have thought they also need exclusives, or at least timed exclusives for Gamepass. From a small quote it’s hard to know how wide of a range or material what he’s talking about is, but he’s the head of Xbox I doubt there’s people more clued up on future trends than him. I say fuck that. More platform exclusives, more next gen exclusives. I want fire not soft

No, I want it, though. Think it’s £16 on Xbox or something but I really want it on Switch. I agree with the art style, though. I was happy to see a new OlliOlli but the look of it was a bit err…

How far is chapter 3 I can’t remember. Is that in the second zone?

Looks excellent. Day 1 Gamepass too https://www.eurogamer.net/xbox-gamescom-booth-lists-bizarre-pinocchio-game-lies-of-p-for-game-pass

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The action right at the end looks interesting but that trailer is waaaay too long

I only caught the second half which was full of stuff I’ve already forgotten. It Gotham Knights, Where Winds Meet, Phantom something or other looked cool. Ending on Dead Island though 😴 When will people give up on first person melee games there’s no good in it

Story trailer The small action shown from the levels looks better, and overall it’s a well put together trailer. Shame we already knows what the bulk of this game looks like otherwise I would have said this was promising. Although, on the single player levels, they fucked that up in Sonic Forces too so even that’s not a guarantee to be good at this point either.

The fact they have Geoff reading off a card, to throw to a video, then the video has 2 people that throw to another video, makes you wonder about the live part of the show. Surely the point of the OH MY GOD GIVE ME THE POKEMON CAR I CAN’T EVEN DRIVE BUT I DESERVE IT

Just got back from exercise so watching it now.

Neither do I which is why I have to watch so many videos. I’m thinking if I should get one it should be the C2 but I wasn’t really looking to spend a £1000 this month. I only phoned my mate up to see how to sell a TV and now here we are