Random Gaming Talk

[Nintex]

Add that one to the latest rumor that Skull & Bones was $800+ million 

But my bro said that $400 million for Concord is a low estimate. They really expected to create a multi-billion dollar franchise.
So he wonders if that $400 million figure even includes the CG trailers, Season Passes / DLC, "supervising" the Amazon TV show and all the other Concord initiatives at Sony, like the Limited Edition Controller and cameos and DLCs for other games. There was going to be a Concord x Helldivers tie in for example. 

But yes video game development has gotten crazy expensive because with global releases and multiple platforms QA is basically all hands on deck these days.

[Nintex]

It looks like the Dragonball Z game is going to outsell everything else.

All 3 versions of the game are trending above COD on PS5, #1 on many top sellers lists like Steam and Amazon.

[HardcoreRetro]

Tried like 25 of the games in UFO 50. Not really feeling it so far.

The best games I've played so far are on the level of a good flash game you'd play on Newgrounds back in the day. Think the critic score just set my expectations too high. It's like a bunch of 6/10 games, some 7/10 games and the occasional 8/10 game. Still a good deal for 50 cents a game.

Maybe there's a game that'll really hook me in the other 25 games.

[HardcoreRetro]

Got the crt hooked up to play some Silent Hill 2. Blows me away how good these old games still look when you play them on a crt. 

Playing them on a hdtv really does them a disservice. You go: " Wow, I don't remember these games looking this bad." and you're actually right on that assessment. Back when you played them in 2001 you had the tv to match.

[Nintex]

Depends on the quality of the CRT and the method of input though. SCART RGB is always the best in PAL land.

With the right TV and cables 

Too much hassle to hook up a CRT for me though. At some point I got a RGB SCART switch, modded RGB cables for the SNES/MegaDrive etc. and barely used any of it.
Sure Sonic 3 & Knuckles is cool but not cool enough to pull all that stuff from storage. I also fear that by now most cartridge batteries are dead so if I keep the SNES RPGs in storage I can pretend they are still working until they've all been remastered in some way.  

My OLED luckily has a good scaler for everything that's not HD on Switch. Most folks have poorly calibrated their 4K TVs. They're always surprised that if I fiddle with the remote for 5 minutes I can improve how it looks by a lot.

[Nintex]

Like a Dragon : Infinite ∞ Wealth (89)
Persona 3 Reload (87)
Unicorn Overlord (86)
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (87)
Metaphor ReFantazio (94)

SEGA / ATLUS becoming Capcom-tier?

[MMaRsu]

Metaphor is already goated. Probably a real GOTY contender. Dont sleep on it.

Releasing a fighting game in 2024 without crossplay and most of the reviews don't mention it. 

Fucking hack reviewers. None of them can be trusted to fight for consumers.

[Snoopy]

I was going to buy New World Aeternum. I enjoyed the beta but apparently it's servers are dead. It barely gets updates and there's no future road map. So Metaphor it is.

[Besticus Maximus]

Metaphor is absolutely incredible. A dream game.

[MMaRsu]

Absolutely. That first moment when you step out of the big city into the rest of the world, accompanied by your vehicle, is wonderfully amazing. A nice stop at a beautifull location follows. Now I'm in the next little village, helping out on a quest to find a kidnapper.

I would post some screenshots but I don't want to spoil too much.

[D3RANG3D]

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Is there a way to experience xenogears in a movie format?

It really liked the story from it but I'm not playing that bullshit again .

[benji]

Is there a way to experience xenogears in a movie format?

I think it's called XenoSaga and is on PS2.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[DocWager]

Looks like they fixed the visuals on Rise of Ronin. Hope the big enemies don’t look like retards anymore, and the bosses stopped being cheap.

Edit: Fuck it, it’s just PS4.

[Polident]

I miss those early days of PUBG. A janky mess with all the ARMA quirks, but having these tense long matches with maybe a minute of combat. The hell bridges that had gamers yelling slurs. When you got lucky and found great weapons and armor but still get one shotted out of nowhere.

[HardcoreRetro]

Christ, Ubisoft is absolutely retarded. They got rid of the Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown team.

Get rid of your only team that could still make a decent gameplay loop. Gotta use that money to hire more consultants that are into pedophile shit and fanfaction black myth Yasuke.

[HardcoreRetro]

I can't believe Metaphor: ReFantazio culturally appropriated us Dutch. Cribbing a bunch of enemy designs from Jheronimus Bosch.

They should've hired me as a consultant. I know nothing about Bosch, but that seems normal for modern consultants.

[MMaRsu]

Brehs



God help us

[HardcoreRetro]

Amazing.

[D3RANG3D]

[D3RANG3D]

[benji]

[chronovore]

Maybe they're just making "speed" sounds in Swedish?

[HardcoreRetro]

Apparently Astro Bot only sold 1.5 million copies. Glad to see actual good games be rewarded. 

[Potato]

The PlayStation crowd isn't really interested in "good games". PlayStation has always been sold on being "cool" or whatever equivalent word the kids say these days. However, it's hard to remain cool when you've been the incumbent leader for a long while. 

Although it might not seem like it now, Microsoft have an opportunity in the next generation to pull off another X360 moment, if they can sort out their hardware and their messaging problems.

[MMaRsu]

[MMaRsu]

[booomer]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 preload just started on my Xbox Series X (146gb). Can't wait to play it next week.

[Nintex]

Two shadow drops

Half Life 2 20th Anniversary Edition (FREE)
They combined Half Life 2 + Ep 1 + Ep 2 into a single game, patched things, plus added Gabe commentary.

https://www.half-life.com/en/halflife2/20th

Warcraft Remasters
Warcraft I, II and III remastered have been released.

[Potato]

Wtf is this shit? 

What is this trailer? 

Is there a game that fewer people asked for than this?