| Night Dive do great work. I'll pick this up! That soundtrack was something. Also, pre-commonplace-Internet I rrmem being unsure whether the soundtrack really was NIN or if that was just my friends and I getting overexcited... |
| @stigdu I would still buy it, the effect is pretty subtle, but it's a shame. |
| @Badgerthwart Haha wow, yes, I just checked mine and it's like that too! |
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I love Hanabi. I recently bought the physical game after enjoying it on Boardgamearena. I think my copy (bought on eBay) might be a fake though - satisfy my curiosity - is the printing of the box not very straight? Even weirder, is one of the numbers on your red "1" cards slightly discoloured from all the others? |
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@rogueTempo Hey! Yeah, your mileage may vary but a few things: *I have a big thing about "thematic consistency" really mattering to me in story-based games. For me, Lone Echo felt like a consistent world and everything within it felt like it belonged. In contrast, for me Alyx just feels a bit random, a mish-mash of stuff that's cool but doesn't really gel into a believable world. * Exploring the Kronos 2 felt amazing to me - it feels like the ship has been designed with some real thought. Having always enjoyed films with cool spaceships (Sulaco, Nostromo, etc), it felt amazing to explore one. * I really liked the voice/mocap actor(s) for Liv, I found I cared a lot about her story. I do think Alyx is a great game though, don't get me wrong! |
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Take your time, based on the quality of the first one, which I only recently discovered, I am hoping for a lot. My favourite story-based VR game, significantly better than HL:A (for me, at least). |
| Sounds very interesting... I hope it turns out well. |
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Probably an unpopular opinion but mini/micro/rerelease consoles are a pox. We collectively binned millions of these machines years ago, and now we're making them again so we can do so all over again. If you want to retrogame, do our environment a favour and use an emulator, or buy a second hand original machine and look after it for future generations. |
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Someone always appears in threads about trypophobia to invalidate people and tell them it's not a real thing. It definitely is, I suffer from it. Luckily it's fairly easy to avoid for the most part, except when it pops up randomly like in this case. I haven't seen the FF14 icon... Thankfully! Just to add more, it's not just holes (for me) - it's clusters of holes that look organic. Oddly not all of them though. For example coral, which you would think would be a no-no, is fine, for me. My guess is it's a fairly logical revulsion to something that looks infected. I'm making myself a bit sick just thinking about it, that's enough for now! |
| @captain-T-dawg I bought it a couple of days ago at the discount price and it is SO good. I'm taking my time with it and loving every minute (so no spoilers yet please!) |
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@cowell I've always hated games that have no thematic consistency... They tend to feel like someone just chucked in everything in the Unreal or Unity asset store in and gave it a stir. BUT, that being said if you're going to do it you might as well be audacious, this does sound fun. |
| @PickledShogun Sorry about that on behalf of my fellow consumers! |
| @ChrisTapsellEG Yeah I see your point. Perhaps my original point was a little knee-jerk 🙂 |
| @ChrisTapsellEG Thanks, it doesn't change my comment though. |
| @dazcox5181 I have, it was noticeably laggy, and I could see compression artifacts. |
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@wyp100 We, the gaming community, should always take the word "embargo" to mean that the thing/game/service is awful, until proven otherwise. I know not everything embargoed turns out bad, but it's an anti-consumer practice, in my opinion. Essentially keeping your customers in the dark on purpose. |
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My only interest in the PS5/SeriesX version is to see what they've been able to achieve technically. I can't wait to see the comparison videos. As for the game itself, I'm totally uninterested, it's not 2013 anymore. |
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@ambershee I think there are a lot of people on the bandwagon who will cancel preorders later when the excitement wears off. Happy to admit I could be wrong though. |
| @BigOrkWaaagh I choose not, but I am very glad to see some competition in this space. |
| A fool and their money are easily parted. I don't have a huge issue with the individuals running the bot farm. I do have an issue with EA and other publishers who enable them to make money in this way, and with gamers who are so far from the light in terms of understanding what can make games great that they actually buy this crap. |
| @George-Roper Haha it's fair to say our interpretations of this news are... Different. |
| @imagonnawin That thing is going to flop so hard, I would bet my house on it. |
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Small correction: "Codemasters, of course, is known for..." Should read: "Codemasters, of course, was known for..." |
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@_TheDarkSide_ For some reason I got zero sickness from Wipeout in VR, even in full pilot-cam (not that clever hybrid mode it had)... Also I was faster in VR than normal even. Brag: https://youtu.be/rGMuZweU_8o |
| @Majestic-Manatee Yes! It also has exceptionally sophisticated handling. It's often portrayed as an arcadey game, but that's just not true of the handling as most who have played it properly will tell you (it is arcadey in some other ways though, to be fair) |
| Stinks of viral marketing to me. |
| De-wishlisted. Oh well, next! |
| I'm looking forward to it, I always have a good couple of evenings' fun from these games with a friend. |
| @CheekySun Yep I'd take a £100 bet that this won't sell more than 100000 units. |
| @wyp100 To present the opposite viewpoint, I loathe "M"TX but I have now played 30+ hours of Warzone online with friends and have had a huge amount of fun with it, and I've not spent a single penny. |
| Until such a time as it's possible to actually buy these things, I'm not too interested. |
| I don't know if I've got used to the noise cancelling on my headphones or if it's stopped working, but I seem to hear everything through them now. I'm not sure whether an upgrade would help or if it's just that you get used to the effect. |
| @Return-of-Jafar You expressed that perfectly! |
| @GamerGuides Oooh cool, I didn't know that was a thing! |
| I hope it still has the totally unfair stone/paper/scissors boss fights. |
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@Blue_Lou Thanks, love it. The marketing around Wipeout has always been really interesting. This viral thing they did was fantastic too: https://youtu.be/Zqmdv5iyIOY Disclaimer: huge Wipeout fan, opinions imbalanced, feel free to ignore me! |
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Hmmm my Deluxe Edition is not feeling very deluxe now. To be fair there is an insane amount of content in these games. |
| @Wrathbone You're right! If Microsoft had handled Skype right, we'd all be using it now instead of Zoom. |
| @drxym Yes, I agree that the inconsistency in the way they seem to apply the rules is a big part of the problem. |
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@benjacobs It sounds like you just want to deliver a lecture, not have a discussion, so yeah, carry on on your own, I guess. Also, you should read this, you use them a lot: https://thebestschools.org/magazine/15-logical-fallacies-know/ |
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@benjacobs That's an interesting point, thanks. However the difference is that there are many nightclubs, in many countries, and each can have a slightly different view of what is acceptable/cool/fun. The customer gets to contribute to the decision by voting with their money, or choosing not to. Steam is a global monopoly, or very close to one, and it therefore has the potential to prescribe a single monoculture on its entire global userbase. Fair? |
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For me, this is a tough one. I'm not sure where I stand. I personally would not buy this game. It does sound pretty awful and not like it's contributing much value to the world, but I also think society is becoming socially very staid and traditional recently, and I'm not sure I want outlets of digital culture such as Steam being the arbiters of taste. |
| @up_the_ante Yes, I'm confused how I feel, as I bounced off the former and loved the latter! |
| I've had a lot of fun with this already, both in VR and flatscreen. With some quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and a bit more variety, it could be something really really special. |
| I'm quite a VR enthusiast, as well as a previous PSVR owner who sometimes gets PSVR-related emails from Sony, so I'm amazed that I somehow didn't know this was happening... |
| @Immaterial I choose to believe this because I want it to be true. |
| I still have my launch-day *Wii* plugged in. In fact, I played it with my kids yesterday (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)... |
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I'm old enough to still think of games programming as hyper-optimised wizardry to get the most possible out of the machine. Of course, that still exists but it is very much the exception. It's a little depressing. |
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