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[nnodley]

So no need to worry till all of them are out!  

Pretty much. At least they aren't months in between like before.

[nnodley]

Also finished episode 1 of The Expanse.  Its decent. Its great being able to see and play some backstory to Drummer. Couple bigger decisions that you make that don't have really any short term consequences but I'm curious to see how those decisions play out later.

[nnodley]

Immortals of Aveum Critic Reviews for PlayStation 5 - Metacritic

Welp not surprising given the reviews only came out a day before.  I was hoping it would score better.  It looks decently fun, but who knows if i'll get it or not. I have about $25 in rewards through sony so maybe i'll get store codes and try it out.

Sitting at 69 on metacritic

scratch that 70 now. lol

[Legend]

It's a game I wanted to do well but had zero interest in playing myself.

[nnodley]

I think i may give it a shot

i bought it.  Usually my opinions are more in line with scores from gameinformer and IGN and they both gave it an 8 so I bet i'll enjoy it

[nnodley]

So i'm not really that far into Immortals of Aveum, but so far the combat seems pretty good.  Lots of versatile options.  Character models and animations look great, but the environments, while they look really good and are pretty dense, theres lots of low res stuff here and there.  For it being UE 5.1 I was expecting them to leverage nanite a little more and make things that are round actually round with enough polygons or any curvatures be a little higher res.  But oh well.  Distance objects look pretty good too

[nnodley]

Ascendant Studios who made Immortals of Aveum had to lay off half their staff from poor sales.  Not surprising, but quite disappointing because I genuinely thought the game was pretty good.  Yeah it wasn't the greatest, but I thought the story, gameplay, and VO were all good.   But hopefully they are able to bounce back and potentially make a sequel(if they do) 10x better.

I think I'd give the game a solid 8/10

[kitler53]

Ascendant Studios who made Immortals of Aveum had to lay off half their staff from poor sales.  Not surprising, but quite disappointing because I genuinely thought the game was pretty good.  Yeah it wasn't the greatest, but I thought the story, gameplay, and VO were all good.   But hopefully they are able to bounce back and potentially make a sequel(if they do) 10x better.

I think I'd give the game a solid 8/10

i think we'll see a lot of developers go belly up the next couple of years.

gamepass and ps+ extra is going to kill a majority of devlopers that try to do direct sales.  especially in the indie and AA space.

[Legend]

Ascendant Studios who made Immortals of Aveum had to lay off half their staff from poor sales.  Not surprising, but quite disappointing because I genuinely thought the game was pretty good.  Yeah it wasn't the greatest, but I thought the story, gameplay, and VO were all good.   But hopefully they are able to bounce back and potentially make a sequel(if they do) 10x better.

I think I'd give the game a solid 8/10

That sucks.

i think we'll see a lot of developers go belly up the next couple of years.

gamepass and ps+ extra is going to kill a majority of devlopers that try to do direct sales.  especially in the indie and AA space.

Yeah it's gonna be similar to movies at theaters nowadays.

If you can't make your game/movie an event, people will just stick to stuff on their subscription.

[kitler53]

That sucks.
Yeah it's gonna be similar to movies at theaters nowadays.

If you can't make your game/movie an event, people will just stick to stuff on their subscription.

that soo accurately describes how ps+ extra changed my behavior this year.   i hate it and yet i do it anyways because why wouldn't i do it.   

all the more reason gamepass and ps+ extra should be viewed as bad for the industry.   those indies that are praising to the heavens how gamepass helped them are ignoring the part where if MS said "no thank you" to their game their entire studio would have been destroyed.  

MSony have too much power and it's going to bad for everyone in the long run.

[the-pi-guy]

that soo accurately describes how ps+ extra changed my behavior this year.   i hate it and yet i do it anyways because why wouldn't i do it.  

all the more reason gamepass and ps+ extra should be viewed as bad for the industry.   those indies that are praising to the heavens how gamepass helped them are ignoring the part where if MS said "no thank you" to their game their entire studio would have been destroyed.  

MSony have too much power and it's going to bad for everyone in the long run.

I've generally been leaning towards Sony not acquiring a publisher. Stuff like this makes me second guess that.


- MS is acquiring publishers. There probably is some worry about being able to compete with that, and worry about MS acquiring more publishers.
- Just like MS needs a lot of developers to feed their service, Sony might need that as well.  

Makes me wonder if this year has just been things going back to normal a bit, or if it's just the calm before the storm.  And come January 31st, Sony is going to announce something huge again.

[BananaKing]

UFC 5 will have adesanya on the cover? Ugh. Lame.

[Dr. Pezus]

Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty is actually very good! Anyone interested?

[Legend]

Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty is actually very good! Anyone interested?

Nope I don't trust its reviews lol.

Cyberpunk was broken to its core and glitches were not its biggest problem imo, at least when I played after a lot of patches.