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Where did you even hear that? I had no idea either lol. I love it because it's how I always interpret those kinds of mechanics in shooters. For example, I've always viewed regenerating health in something like Call of Duty as getting shot while wearing bulletproof gear rather than the Wolverine-like healing people would often complain about. ------ Oh and while I'm here, today was the day.

Don't the Crossbell games have fairly long scripts? If it's all being done by the same crew then I could see Hajimari + Crossbell taking a few years. Also, unless I missed the announcement (entirely possible, I've been pretty checked out on gaming the past few weeks) I don't think Ys IX has been confirmed for an english release yet. Anything non-Falcom, your guess is as good as mine. Basically anyone could've hired PH3. I'm not getting my hopes up for Persona, though. I've honestly given up on that.

Could be anything. Could be NISA (and by extension PH3) just got a few more games from Falcom... ?

Oh, nice. Actually looked to see if there was an online version of the game and couldn't find anything, although I didn't look that hard. I've been playing Jackbox with friends every friday night since the quarantine began so this might be a fun alternative to mix things up.

Seeing Animal Crossing all over the internet for the past couple weeks has made me finally get around to trying My Time at Portia a few days ago and holy crap, I had no idea what I was getting into. Despite buying Stardew Valley at launch, I never actually played it so I was not prepared for how much of a time blackhole these kinda games are. It's only been like 4 days and I've already put almost 30 hours into it. The way you constantly have a short-term goal you're working directly towards and a long-term goal you're always thinking about is so fucking addictive that there's always one more little thing I wanna do before turning the game off and I inevitably end up playing for an extra hour or two without even realizing it. If I never post again, it's not the virus that got me. Just assume I forgot to eat and starved because of this goddamn game.

I guess we technically are right now but not for long lol. Some quick googling tells me Zero Kai is coming later this month, Ao Kai in May and Hajimari is also set for this year. So we'll very soon be 3 games behind...

I don't see how it could be a joke, tbh. Everyone is expecting them to release it, doing a "prank" announcement would just piss people off and at this point they need all the goodwill they can get. Plus, given current circumstances, any kind of April's fool joke is kind of in bad taste. Good to see PC acknowledged right away this time. I'm tempted to get CSIII now that I've canceled my RE3 pre-order but I just can't quite pull the trigger. I need to do CSII NG+ anyway and I'm still hoping we get those Crossbell remasters. Plus I'm still kinda not feeling video games but maybe a long-ass JRPG is what I need to lose myself into right now. Kinda kicking myself for missing that launch week edition, though. Some of those bonuses are no longer available, I think... ? edit: Yeah, gonna go with real.

Ended up refunding the pre-order. I'm having a hard time justifying paying full price for games these days and while the review scores don't really bother me (80 is by no means low lmao), what I've been hearing about the shorter campaign (and there's only one), plus Nemesis being mostly relegated to scripted encounters, makes me feel like this is one where it might be wiser to wait for a sale. I'd love to take that money and put it towards Doom instead but, unless I want a Bethesda launcher key (lol), then I'm locked into paying 80$ on Steam. So yeah, more backlog while I wait for sales, I guess! Maybe Humble Choice on friday will have something interesting...

Well, at least COVID doesn't turn people into flesh-eating zombies or horribly mutated monsters.... yet.

Haven't bought ( or played, really) a game in a couple months, so I figured I just wasn't going to get Resident Evil 3 at launch. Then yesterday I figured what the hell and played the demo. Yeah lol, I don't know who I thought I was kidding. Gonna be weird as fuck playing this in the middle of a global viral pandemic, though. I'm honestly a little surprised they didn't delay it considering how sensitive people tend to be about these things. Smaller, more isolated tragedies are often enough to postpone even just a trailer for a violent game. But nah, let's launch this game about a literal deadly viral outbreak right now! ?

Is it really, though? From what I've been hearing, it sounds like games like Hades sold more on Steam in a week than they did on the EGS in a year. There's no exact numbers so it's hard to say if the investment was ultimately worth it for Epic or not but I don't think it's been quite the resounding success Epic would like us to believe. Not with the way devs seem super eager to jump ship as soon as the exclusivity deals are up. The deals also seem to have slowed down significantly, to the point where I honestly don't remember the last one that actually bothered me. Most of the recent ones have been smaller indie or niche titles that I'd never even heard of or just didn't give a shit about. I think the last major one for me is still Control and that was over half a year ago. You're right that a lot of consumers are impatient but I think those are the ones most likely to say fuck it and get the console in the first place and maybe even double dip once the PC release comes around. My point was that porting a few games here and there isn't going to convince PC-only gamers to jump ship to Playstation. There's a reason why late ports like Bayonetta, Vanquish, Yakuza and Catherine have been doing fairly well for SEGA.

Porting Bloodborne would basically be free money, though. It's guaranteed to sell gangbusters on PC (like every other From game), which it sure as shit no longer is on PS4. It probably wouldn't generate an insane amount of profit but it's certainly a great candidate if they're looking to put a strong foot forward in the PC space. Plus, you just know it's going to be the most requested title now that the flood gates are open. And let's be real, people that didn't buy a PS4 to play Horizon likely aren't going to buy a PS5 to play Horizon 2, especially not if they have reason to think it'll come to PC a few years down the line. I know I won't. I mean, I'm sure they expect to sell some hardware but I don't think this is their sole goal in doing this. I wouldn't be surprised if they required a PSN account and eventually had their own launcher. Selling ports and remasters each gen is all well and good but porting their games to PC after a couple years is a great way to keep them generating revenue for years to come with a one-time, minimal development effort. If Microsoft can see this then so can Sony. Also, I've seen that quote and the "put a few minds at ease" part kinda makes me think they might just be paying lip service to the rabid fanboys. I'm sure they're aware of how their audience can be, I mean, they're the ones that cultivated it... Either way, at the very least it'll be interesting to see which titles make the jump and which don't. If it wasn't for folks like Jason Schreier confirming that more titles will be coming, I would honestly just assume Horizon is happening because of the work Kojima Production did on the Decima engine with the Death Stranding port.

Don't know if I care to try the demo, tbh. I don't think I'll even be buying the game at launch. It's coming in just a couple weeks and I'm just not ready to jump into that kind of game. I still need to finish Witcher 3 Blood & Wine, which I haven't touched in a few weeks. I'm still not sure if I'll get RE3 at launch. I dunno, I just kinda don't want to spend money on games lately. At least, not full priced AAA kinda money. I did just buy all those Konami collections on Humble cause they were only 5 bucks a piece... I was tempted by that physical edition NISA has on their store. But it's 99.99 USD and I went to checkout just to get an idea of what shipping would be and it's another 50 USD lmao. So that's a big nope.

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The only reason I've been able to get through so many is I tend to get tunnel vision when I set my mind to something like this lol. I cancelled Netflix and, other than a quick Picross session the other night, I haven't played any video games in like two weeks. It's been good for me, though, even in ways I didn't expect. Turns out going to bed with a book makes it easier to fall asleep than staring at a computer screen until the last minute. Who could've guessed?!

Oh hey, didn't realize we even had this thread. I started reading again this month (or back in January, I guess) and this time I actually managed to stick with it and have been burning through books at a pretty brisk pace. Last time I tried, I was reading Metro 2033 which was alright but not exactly incredible since I ended up never finishing it. What got me started was wanting to read the Witcher books because of both the Netflix show and Witcher 3. I read the first one on my phone, which is a short story collection and then moved on to Neuromancer, which I had bought with google play credits a while ago. I also read Annihilation because I loved the movie and those sequels sure as shit aren't getting movie adaptations and wow, that went in a different direction. I enjoyed all three although Neuromancer was more of a bummer than I expected it to be and Annihilation was kinda... I dunno, just weird. At this point, I decided I didn't like reading on my phone, so I ordered some stuff from Amazon. I wanted to try out some fantasy and heard about this Brandon Sanderson guy. Read his first book Elantris, since it was standalone and I didn't feel like committing to a 5+ book long epic thing. I really enjoyed it and I'm eager to read more of his stuff now since it's supposed to only get better from here. After that was Ender's Game which I finished last night and wow, I was not prepared for how much I would end up loving this one. It starts out slow and eventually it becomes clear that it's not going to pick up any kind of speed. It kept getting more and more interesting as it progressed but I was not prepared for those last two chapters. Man, what an ending. I'm half curious to check out the movie now but I can't imagine it's going to work anywhere near as well. After I finished it, I immediately ordered the sequel (along with the "sequel" to Neuromancer) and the first three Wheel of Time books, because I'm stupid like that. Holy fuck, they are some thicc bois. These three could probably last me over a month all on their own. I'm gonna be reading this series all year, aren't I?

Oh, definitely. I remember this one tweet from last month, when Cyberpunk was delayed and people were naively going "Whatever it takes to avoid crunch!" And this guy was in QA. I don't even want to imagine how much worse it was for artists, coders and the others actually making the game.

Why settle for selling infinite copies every 5 years when you can sell infinite copies every 2 years or so? It really doesn't work like that and companies like Rockstar only sell that well because they can afford to take their sweet ass time making these unrealistically massive and polished games. But publishers can be a special kind of stupid in their greedy pursuit of more money. They would rather tank a brand prematurely for short term profit rather than maintain a stable, reliable source of infinite money. So yeah, none of this is surprising to me. I don't think this is necessarily related to the Dan Houser thing, though. I read that he had been away for a few months before leaving and I can kinda see how taking some time off from a company like Rockstar could make someone not want to return to the endless crunch. Especially when they're as filthy rich as I assume Dan Houser to be.

So uh, this happened today. Seems there's no point in backing it because it destroyed its goal in like a couple hours, along with the first set of stretch goals, but yeah, I'll definitely take The Wonderful 101 on Steam day one! Platinum also have 3 more announcements they teased, this one being the first of four. Please let one of them be a port for Bayo 2. I always hoped that SEGA still being the IP holder made it possible but if W101, fully owned by Nintendo AFAIK, is happening then Bayo 2 has to be doable as well.

I'm not getting my hopes up because the last time I did we got NISA. It now looks like that ultimately worked out for the better but things looked pretty damn grim for a while there. As for the change, all I can say is I have no issue with them making small changes or retcons to account for subsequent games. They couldn't possibly plan for every little detail over a decade so if they have the opportunity to go back and update a few things here and there, I don't really see the problem. Especially if it's a completely inconsequential aspect of the game like a random NPC.

I went back to the copyright infringement well for more bullshit. Might try that one tonight. I'll make sure to update as I can tell you're all fascinated by my video games craft beer adventures. Update: It was pretty damn good! Definitely recommended as a beverage while playing Vermintide 2 with friends. I'm usually not a huge stout guy but I really liked this one.

Dark Souls is the no-brainer answer for me because it's one of the very few games I've actually felt like replaying multiple times this decade, more than any other and I'm not even done with it because I still have to play the remaster. It also cemented FROM's spot as one of my favorite game studios ever and anything they make has my interest going forward. It came out in 2011, at the very start of the decade, and I'm still struggling to find another game that even comes close for me. That being said, it's hard to argue against Witcher 3. I seriously missed the boat on this one and somehow managed to not play it until the decade was over but I can't not acknowledge it because holy fuck, it has been consuming my entire existence for the past two weeks. For years now I've thought that there was something about RPGs that just didn't click with me enough to bother with the excessively long ones. At some point I inevitably lose interest and stop playing them. I had to take a 6+ months break in the middle of Dragon Age: Origins years ago and I've had Divinity: Original Sin sitting in my library unfinished since October. Even Trails, which I think might actually be my favorite video game series at this point, can sometimes kinda drag and feel like a chore when you're just trying to get to the next good story beat. But here's Witcher 3 with its absolute metric fuckton of content. I'm just about to cross the 100 hours mark and I'm not even done with the main quest, I still have a bunch of witcher contracts and side-quests in my journal AND there's the two expansions after that. With any other game, I would be overwhelmed and exhausted by the sheer amount of shit I still need to get through. But this fucking game has me sitting here thinking "Is... is this enough content? Is this enough Witchering?", which is a fucking ridiculous question. Hell, it even got me to finally start reading the Witcher books! So yeah, my game of the decade is Dark Souls but also Witcher 3.

As happy as I am that REmake 3 is happening and coming in just a few short months, even that doesn't come remotely close to Cyberpunk 2077 for me. Especially now that I'm finally playing Witcher 3 and finding it to be, somehow, even better than I expected. The closest I can think of would be MGS5 or MGS4 before it. And even Death Stranding I'm having a more measured level of anticipation for now that the mystery of what it actually is has been lifted. I'm super on board for a weird Kojima game and on any other year the PC release would be my most anticipated game. But Cyberpunk, man. It's not even just that it could be a replacement for Deus Ex, which is pretty much confirmed to be dead again. It's that if Cyberpunk fully delivers on its potential then I might not even need Deus Ex to be a thing anymore. Cyberpunk actually looks like it could easily be my favorite game of all time and I genuinely can't remember the last time I've had expectations this high or been this excited for a game. And then, as if that wasn't enough, they went ahead and put fucking Keanu Reeves in it!

Well, I really hope you're right. I gave up hope of playing Crossbell before the end of Cold Steel a while back but I still really want to play them. Honestly, after fixing Ys VIII and seemingly doing a decent job on Cold Steel, if NISA ends up giving us Crossbell as well then they'll have won me over entirely at that point. As for Atelier, I know for a fact that Durante would love a crack at them because he's a huge Atelier fan and he's said as much. That would require KT giving a shit, though. IIRC he tried reaching out to them in the past and nothing ever came of it. The Sophie port was good enough for me, especially once they went back to it and fixed the 2D assets resolution issue. No idea about the rest of them cause there's too many to keep track of at this point. All I know is the remasters that just came out are supposed to be in pretty rough shape.

Hahaha yeah, I've seen people point that out after I posted but I'm not sure he was being coy. It's probably safe to assume he is (or will be) working on CS4 but the Crossbell remasters aren't even out in Japan. So unless Falcom have really changed their ways there's no way Zero is already in the hands of their partners. Unless he's working on the old versions for some reason, which would be weird but not exactly the first time Falcom has screwed over partners by not keeping them in the loop about their plans. Then again, I was going through his AMA yesterday and one of his answers did mention being contacted by companies other than NISA and XSEED and nothing coming from it so far. So who knows. Not sure what XSEED could have hired him for at this point, so he may have multiple projects with NISA.