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[nnodley]

So I guess you missed that it was delayed...


edt: wtf fudge it wasn't? yeah no hype anywhere

lol I honestly wasn't expecting it to be releasing so soon since I've seen almost nothing about it.

Maybe it will do better when it releases on ps5 in spring

[Legend]

lol I honestly wasn't expecting it to be releasing so soon since I've seen almost nothing about it.

Maybe it will do better when it releases on ps5 in spring

Yeah I just mentally thought it was the xbox release that was in spring.

Guess I'll at least try it though since I've already paid for gamepass. Their last game was just so so bad though. I didn't even make it a full hour.

[BananaKing]

Yeah I just mentally thought it was the xbox release that was in spring.

Guess I'll at least try it though since I've already paid for gamepass. Their last game was just so so bad though. I didn't even make it a full hour.

What was their last game?

[kitler53]

So, uhhhhhh...is there even any hype for Indiana jones since it releases this week. I've barely seen anything on the game except for the trailers PlayStation puts out.

Personally no.  

Still hate it is first person.  Kind of interested in the statements is has "hard puzzles" but i'm guessing it means hard for an uncharted game and not hard for a puzzle game.  But i'll read some reviews post release.  

Typically don't trust previews because they always trend too positive.  

[Legend]

What was their last game?

Wolfenstein youngblood.

Gameplay was fine but not good enough to make me suffer through everything else.

[BananaKing]

Wolfenstein youngblood.

Gameplay was fine but not good enough to make me suffer through everything else.

What was wrong with everything else?

[Legend]

What was wrong with everything else?

I'd never played a wolfenstien before, but the writing and acting were really bad. You played as the two teenage daughters of the regular guy and they were just all over the place. Like I remember them throwing up because they killed their first person, and minutes later they're jumping around hi fiving that they're killing nazis. Everything felt so fake.

[the-pi-guy]

I'm trying to write up my top 50 games list for le Chartz. It's kind of a struggle.

The top 10-20 is relatively easy, because I feel like I have a set preference. The top 10, I'm like "I wouldn't want to change hardly anything about these games". Past that, I feel like more and more I'm comparing very different games with very different issues. And I'm clustering a bunch of games from the same series. 

My two challenges with the top 20:

In the top 20 there are a couple of games that are old that are probably more nostalgic picks. Super Mario RPG, I've frequently put in my top 5 all this time. When I played the remake, I had a great time. The fact that I finished a playthrough on it's own is a big deal to me. But when I played,I didn't get the feeling I was playing one of my favorite games ever. 

The biggest struggle i have with the top 20 is probably Elden Ring. Last year I had it at #9. It feels like very high highs and very low lows. Over the past 3 years I've put like 200 hours into the game. And most of that was top 10 material, maybe even top 5. But there are aspects to the game that drag it down hard. 

[Legend]

That's way better than me. I just have games I love and I have no idea how I'd rank any of them.

[the-pi-guy]

Been playing a little bit of Witcher 3, and I've been enjoying it, but also ugh. I'm only a couple hours in. 

Probably would have been better on PC. A lot of the controls don't feel particularly natural to me. Game is kind of glitchy. Roach glitched in and out of a house.
Some UI stuff I've hated. I clicked too fast through some tutorial things, and got stuck in the menu; because the game doesn't give you any indication of what you're supposed to be doing after that. And you can't leave the menu until you've done what it wanted prior. 

I'm enjoying the story quite a bit though.

[Legend]

Been playing a little bit of Witcher 3, and I've been enjoying it, but also ugh. I'm only a couple hours in.

Probably would have been better on PC. A lot of the controls don't feel particularly natural to me. Game is kind of glitchy. Roach glitched in and out of a house.
Some UI stuff I've hated. I clicked too fast through some tutorial things, and got stuck in the menu; because the game doesn't give you any indication of what you're supposed to be doing after that. And you can't leave the menu until you've done what it wanted prior.

I'm enjoying the story quite a bit though.

Roach is well known to be funky.



Don't remember having any issues with controls though. Maybe it's just because I ignored most of that extra stuff.

[the-pi-guy]

This'll be a strange take. 

But I feel like The Witcher has more in common with something like the Batman Arkham games, as opposed to something like Skyrim. 
I guess it's really closer to Horizon as a game in terms of how the game is structured - quest wise, npc wise. I'm probably just thinking about the fact that Geralt is a bigger guy who has a weightier feel to him. 

The Witcher has a better story than Skyrim, and does some things better.

But it's not really the same kind of RPG. It's more structured. 

A big thing in Skyrim is that like 99% of the items and 99% of the NPCs have some kind of depth to them. You can pick up almost anything, almost everyone has a name.

Skyrim feels like a sandbox RPG, whereas The Witcher is a very structured RPG. 

[Legend]

This'll be a strange take.

But I feel like The Witcher has more in common with something like the Batman Arkham games, as opposed to something like Skyrim.
I guess it's really closer to Horizon as a game in terms of how the game is structured - quest wise, npc wise. I'm probably just thinking about the fact that Geralt is a bigger guy who has a weightier feel to him.

The Witcher has a better story than Skyrim, and does some things better.

But it's not really the same kind of RPG. It's more structured.

A big thing in Skyrim is that like 99% of the items and 99% of the NPCs have some kind of depth to them. You can pick up almost anything, almost everyone has a name.

Skyrim feels like a sandbox RPG, whereas The Witcher is a very structured RPG.

Bethesda and Obsidian seem like the primary devs that care about skyrim type rpgs. Almost everyone else makes them like the witcher imo.

[kitler53]

I bought baltro for my phone:

1. this game is perfect for mobile.   I would hate to have it for ps/PC/switch/ect.

2. it is fun but I feel like it was over hyped.   this doesn't not deserve a spot in the GotY awards. 

3. the runs are too long.  I've been on my current run for 3 hours with no end in sight.  maybe I'm just really good/lucky but I feel undefeatable.

4. i feel like it consumes battery at a rate too big for how simple the game looks/plays. 

5. I hope they add in some better accessibility options.  For me specifically the font size is a bit too small.


anyways. would recommend.  Its pretty fun to play.  Really easy to play in short bursts which is why it is soo great for mobile.  I likey would not want to play for hours at a time.

[the-pi-guy]

The Pirate Software guy was caught cheating on puzzle games. Acts like he figured out the puzzle, while checking his phone.