Deep breath

Mmm. Smells like the 2010s.

At least its mostly timed exclusives these days.

Portal 2 imo. Stephen Marchant makes everything better

But I’d still argue the solution is to cut costs, not increase prices.

This is the solution moving forward and is probably what most studios are doing right now (see: publishers shelving low-profit studios, massive layoffs, etc.), but the issue is that the games launching right now with $70-100 price tags have been in development for years. Their budgets were written under contract during the boom a few years ago, they can’t just “unspend” that money, but at the same time, they’re probably seeing that gamers are being a lot tighter with their wallets these days.

I’m obviously never one to praise higher prices for the same thing, but I at least get why major releases are feeling justified to charge a higher door fee for the base game than to gamble on the freemium market (See: Concord).

Wut? We’re mad now about not getting DLC? GTA V was a great game that’s still a blast today. I spent many evenings in front of my PS3 playing the single player for years, never touched GTA: O once and never felt the need to and still believe I got my $60 back in 2013 out of it.

Similar story with RDR 2. Unless GTA 6 is a huge step down from both those games in single-player playability (I’ll wait for reviews obv), I’m not going to lose much sleep over spending $20 more than I spent 13 years ago for the previous game.

And you may ask yourself “my god! Where are the games?”

Trick question, does a release of all releases containing itself make more money for a 12 year old franchise with 2 stories but 7 releases?

It’s not a complete collection unless they include all 7 games.

The Last of Us

The Last of Us Left Behind

The Last of Us Remastered

The Last of Us Part II

The Last of Us Part I

The Last of Us Part I + Left Behind Remastered

The Last of Us Part II Remastered

I had no idea. Even if I never watched Jacksepticeye, this would’ve been awesome to see. Markiplier, please don’t let us down on the Iron Lung movie

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I wish i could get another phone the exact same dimensions as my iPhone 4S tbh, which i consider to be the best smartphone ever made. If Samsung came out with an S series in that form factor, I’d probably go back to them.

Came here to say this too. No shame to OP, Fatal Frame is an awesome series and if this is inspired by it I’m sure it’ll be great!

Res contracting so… honestly worst case scenario is i get a lil sawdust on my tongue

This reply made me chuckle

this is always how it starts. first a post, then a whole announcement

Obviously homeboys first HL3 hype round. I will boil and eat my work boots on livestream if anything called “Half Life 3” gets released in 2025. Screenshot this

Alannah Pearce namedrop i love that Aussie she was the best part of Funhaus

I played through My Friend Pedro over the weekend when I had a few hours to chill. I can’t promise that it’ll keep you preoccupied for long but I really enjoyed it

The Witcher series

The Metro series (Exodus is the most open-world)

The Assassins Creed series

The Far Cry series

All have plenty of titles that are playable on a 9800

Sony has the worst track record of anyone to be talking about “safety”

Yeah lol. This seems to be a popular opinion in the larger gaming community. They really nailed the pirate life

Black Flag, followed closely by 3. It doesn’t hurt that those were released right at the peak of my interest in gaming, but I replayed BF within the past two years and it still holds up super well

It’s actually pretty crazy just how hard that game flopped. I would have always thought that a company like Sony could’ve just brute-forced such a big project to achieve some success (or at least break even), but 25,000 units sold is almost unheard of for a game as expensive as Concord.

Definitely #1. But you can’t ever make any reference to it looking like Big H in the game. Just make it so people say “… is that supposed to be Hitler?”

Funny because I noticed the haptic feedback for the first time recently after owning my PS5 for over a year and was instantly looking for ways to disable it. I don’t trust an unnecessary vibrating motor not to fuck up the parts of the controller I actually care about keeping functional and the Dualsense battery life is abysmal enough as it is

Once you make it to Valentine (youll know when) the game pretty much gives you the reigns, but until then, as others have said, the tutorial is pretty long and guided

I don’t know of anything but this sounds like something I could use a lot too, so I’m commenting to remember to check this thread later

Man, I’m glad that people are enjoying the game as much as they say they are but I tried my first play through earlier this year and it was terrible. I saw almost no difference in the amount/type of glitches between what I experienced back in January and what I saw online when the game first released a few years ago.

Oh yeah, massive props for the guy for what he did. I’m sure he had some idea that he was crossing a line with those comments and made them anyway. But still, he was the community manager and “hey guys, refund this game” surely wasn’t how Sony wanted their community to be managed.

Guy seemed to forget he was the community manager. Of course you’re going to get sacked when you use your position in the company to tell people to refund and leave a bad review for the place you work for.

2004-2014. That captures the great tail end of the sixth generation of consoles and the golden days of the seventh

Ngl I just love dishonored 1 and 2 so goddam much

Arkane might be the last great major developer

We need to come up with a new phrase for this kind of LLM-spouted word salad that just manages to set off your linguistic uncanny valley response and use just about 20% more words than it needs to.

I want you to know that I put this video on while I shaved my balls and didn’t even realize that whole video was only 4 minutes. So much content in such a short amount of time. The phrase “script economy” gets thrown out a lot in cinephile communities, but this clip might be one of the most effective examples of the phrase that I’ve ever seen.

This is fucking hilarious I’m sorry

The Last of Us: “do i look like a fucking joke to you?”

The gameplay loop seemed to devolve into just the same mini games over and over again. I got to the seahorse racing stuff and just gave up when it became too much to handle. Plus I definitely mismanaged the restaurant and just could never make it back to the green which kinda sucked

Glad to see its getting a larger release, this is a gem of a game. While it took me a few hours of play to realize it wasn’t for me, I’m glad that more people will have the chance to experience it.

I played Watch Dogs (1) for the first time last year after pre-ordering it back in 2013 on console and coming across a game-breaking bug and never being able to complete it. It’s honestly a really fun game that I think gets more hate than it deserves. Obviously the stuff with the graphic downgrades between promo and launch were/are shitty, but the gameplay was fun and the story was pretty entertaining. Plus the spider tank.

Never played the sequel, though.

I think anything associated with Amazon puts a lot of people on the defense right out the gate, myself included. I would’ve loved to see a different studio handling this adaption tbh

This will literally be worse than 911 Holocausts

Agreed. I tried my first playthrough after upgrading my PC around the holidays and dealt with constant crashes and texture/model issues. No idea what people say about this game being “fixed,” when the problems I experienced were the same ones I saw on clips years ago.