Mal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdY2m9FSUpw Maybe I should go through the classics.

Sure the chat can be toxic but when it's cordial, it is pretty nice. Last night I had a 20 minute game and everybody was praising each other for such a good, intense game. While my team lost, we got about 4500 in exp. I can only imagine what the winning team got. As for McCree, I'm toying around with Roadhog and watching McCree trying to kill me is kind of amusing now. I think I can heal faster than he can kill me. I just wish my aim was better than it is. It would help with the hook and such. I think my main problem is that I'm not leading my targets enough.

Console players don't have to deal with super awesome Widowmaker players dominating a match so that's a plus. I can't say for console but on PC, Overwatch is a neat game to hop on for a match or two then hopping back off. Perfect for shortish breaks from stuff. I have good fun playing solo since the MMR is pretty decent at pairing you up with similar skilled players. Solo play though do keep you depressed on the MMR scale so chances are you won't be running into the super good players. I recently hopped on to play with some folks who usually play in groups and I was for sure a weaker link in the team. I usually get one or two gold medals but during that session, nothing. Rarely bronze or silver. That group's casual sessions are sessions where I need to hustle. Great fun though and for sure humbling. So in general, for solo play, expect generally relaxed games sprinkled with the occasional intense clutch moments.

Unless things changed from the few interviews that happened a month or two ago, this is also coming to PC. PS4 just has a timed exclusive. Sucks but it makes sense.

If they head back to survival horror then I'll be happy. Going to the atmosphere of RE1-3 and Veronica I can buy. Imagine going from the demo to RE6. Really all I want is to make children scared again. I think I mentioned over here before but I think of the greatest failures of 4-6 is that little kids weren't scared like most kids were with 1-3. For adults, the only thing I can think of that made us pause were the Regenerators and Iron Maidens from RE4.

New balance patch came out for PC. Widow and McCree nerfed. Widow now cannot take out Zen or Tracer with a fully charge body shot (150 hp to 120 hp). A semi-charged follow up shot will be needed. Her headshots remain the same which is fine. McCree is no longer the tank-busting machine he was. With how the numbers plays out, he can no longer kill a fully healed Roadhog (600 hp) with even two Fan-the-Hammers (540 damage). Anyhow, here's some math someone else did. Widow might need some more nerfs (she still has no sway/knock back, semi-auto, decent at close range and can get out really quickly) but it's a start.

The other things are foul beasts, kin to Hadean and Olympian monstrosities. Anyhow, it's an interesting direction they are taking the series. I just hope it's inspired since this Norse ground has been tread before.

Re: Ayra's storyline

From Death Stranding's trailer.

No release date yet but oh my god, the sieges has been improved quite a bit. The AI is still pretty janky though.

With a rewatch, yes, there are zombies and what I assume to be Plagas infected human set in what I assume is Mississippi/Louisiana. Not sure how this will all work towards the (horribly disfigured) canon but it is an interesting turn for the franchise that I love and hate. Seems to have gone way back with the survival horror aspect with a VR twist... Jesus Christ. Am I going to relive my childhood again of being scared shitless by zombies again? Anyhow, it seems like a sequel since it could easily be a mishap/bioterrorism that cause this outbreak. Hell, maybe shit really did hit the fan this time and the bioterrorists won... they've infected a large portion of the world.

Bummer. Well, there we have it. A PS5 game.

I'm thinking 2018 at the earliest. Seems like they got some sort of game engine going already and Kojima might've been planning on a game like this for years. Making MGS games for so long had to kind of suck... so yeah, he just finally got a chance to do something new that he had in the back of his mind. Then again... we'll see. He was only let go late last year and game development takes a lot of time. @Cowboy's post Even though I have no interest in the Spiderman game but that sucks.

I'm sorry Cowboy, those weren't Resident Evil or God of War.

Days Gone has quite a bit of character models on the screen. I might not be interested in the game itself but that's quite impressive. Resident Evil 7 is odd. God of War is odd. Death Stranding... weird but can't say much until maybe E3 2017.

I'm really liking how you can hack into anything including what looks like a VW T2 van (my housemate drives a T3, an awesome problematic van). I'm guess everything is connected now...

That hurts FLD. Why do you have to relay this micro-aggression over to us?

I think we've seen like five deaths from Steep that they're showing off.

@TN

But of course the PC port for the Berserk game will be hot garbage... but it's Berserk and a Musou game so I don't know if I can hold myself back.