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« Reply #32160 on: January 19, 2023, 11:24:32 PM »
As for Nintendo, as I predicted they're going all out on Switch this year building on the momentum of their theme park opening, the mario movie and a fuck ton of first party games and another big push from Square Enix.
https://twitter.com/6d6f636869/status/1616229065194901506
Potential price drop?

Potential whimsy increase :miyamoto
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« Reply #32161 on: January 20, 2023, 02:57:37 AM »

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« Reply #32162 on: January 20, 2023, 03:00:04 AM »
Feels like Nintendo is deliberately doing this as a "fuck off" to those Switch Pro "leakers" :dead

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« Reply #32163 on: January 20, 2023, 05:14:56 AM »
How about they make an update with controllers that don't break. I've been exclusively splitpad pro for years cause the joycons are such dogshit.

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« Reply #32164 on: January 20, 2023, 01:07:04 PM »
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« Reply #32165 on: January 20, 2023, 01:38:38 PM »
no it ll hit Gamepass soon enough or wait to buy till 10 or less
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« Reply #32166 on: January 20, 2023, 02:39:55 PM »
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1846380/Need_for_Speed_Unbound/

Already 50% off.

Is the game worth it at this price?  Reviews are pretty mixed.
It's the best Need for Speed in years. Scratches that classic Underground / Most Wanted / Criterion vibe. Unlike Horizon which is a gacha game disguised as a racer this game doesn't give you 50 cars within 30 minutes by just spinning wheels or showing up.
Instead you have to tune, upgrade, master your starter car and squeeze it to the limit before you can afford a new car. The car handling model could've been better though.

Also it is very 'zoomer' your opponents aren't a gangster or ex-cop but rather a they/them TikTok dancer, soy hip hop artist or anime nerd.
There's also a lot of current events political drama on the radio that I'm sure will tie into the story at some point in a Need for Speed game.
On the positive zoomer side there's a lot of creativity in the art, UI and overall presentation with a lot of energy which really sets it apart from other dull racing games.

I don't know what EA was smoking trying to sell this at 79,- at launch. I got at it 40 about 2 weeks after launch which seemed about right.
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« Reply #32167 on: January 20, 2023, 06:05:26 PM »
Marvel Avengers last content update will drop March 31st, all support for Marvel's Avengers ends September 2023.

All cosmetics from the marketplace will be gifted to players for free.
The remaining balance of marketplace currency will be converted to in-game items.
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« Reply #32168 on: January 20, 2023, 09:57:15 PM »
Getting big "Massively-Hyped WoW Killer Goes F2P" vibes

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« Reply #32171 on: January 21, 2023, 06:00:01 PM »
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« Reply #32172 on: January 21, 2023, 06:30:14 PM »
It reads as a threat more than anything.

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« Reply #32173 on: January 21, 2023, 07:32:01 PM »
For the staff I suppose





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« Reply #32174 on: January 22, 2023, 01:21:04 AM »
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1846380/Need_for_Speed_Unbound/

Already 50% off.

Is the game worth it at this price?  Reviews are pretty mixed.

EA Play on Steam is a great deal. All games over 6 months old are free to play, and new games you get 10 hours to test it out.

I only pay $30 canadian a year. I hate EA, but man is it a smoking deal.

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« Reply #32175 on: January 22, 2023, 01:50:52 AM »
For the staff I suppose

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I hate this shit. A bunch of vague drivel with a promise to never elaborate any further yet a demand for others to somehow address these vague demands. In this case from a woman who left seven years ago hopping on the latest news to lecture everyone about her own personal experience in the past. And with the obligatory "trauma/panic response" crap too.

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« Reply #32176 on: January 22, 2023, 04:15:42 AM »
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1846380/Need_for_Speed_Unbound/

Already 50% off.

Is the game worth it at this price?  Reviews are pretty mixed.

EA Play on Steam is a great deal. All games over 6 months old are free to play, and new games you get 10 hours to test it out.

I only pay $30 canadian a year. I hate EA, but man is it a smoking deal.

EA Play is included in Gamepass which is only 10€ a month...
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« Reply #32177 on: January 22, 2023, 05:14:56 AM »
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1846380/Need_for_Speed_Unbound/

Already 50% off.

Is the game worth it at this price?  Reviews are pretty mixed.

EA Play on Steam is a great deal. All games over 6 months old are free to play, and new games you get 10 hours to test it out.

I only pay $30 canadian a year. I hate EA, but man is it a smoking deal.

EA Play is included in Gamepass which is only 10€ a month...

Ok well i pay $2.50 a month. Gamepass PC is shit. When it comes to Steam I will sub.

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« Reply #32178 on: January 22, 2023, 07:00:29 AM »
For the staff I suppose

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I hate this shit. A bunch of vague drivel with a promise to never elaborate any further yet a demand for others to somehow address these vague demands. In this case from a woman who left seven years ago hopping on the latest news to lecture everyone about her own personal experience in the past. And with the obligatory "trauma/panic response" crap too.
I did not feel safe in this gamergate environment, being pressured to work on murder simulators. However I felt a glimmer of hope when I was moved to the game design team. I isolated myself from the others and spend my days prototyping a pacifist mode for HALO which would broaden the audience. In my prototype players would talk and argue with the covenant to share their perspectives on important issues like equality, diversity and gender roles. Then management scrapped all my work saying that it would be too expensive to retool the entire game. I knew it was the QA testers that were responsible, I remember seeing them smirk at me as they entered the elevators.

To make matters worse after a performance review management moved me over to manage the team in charge of the ice biome and I hate winters as well as talking to people So I panicked. The team would refer to me as their 'Ice Queen' as I slaved away making this dumb game until I couldn't take it anymore. Of course it might be a bit much to compare myself to the French resistance during WW2 but following those gendered insults I did enough to delay work on the ice level so it would get scrapped for the release prior to my departure. When the level designers found out they refused to talk to me afterwards. They were soooo toxic, constantly nagging about a 5 year gap on their resume that would be hard to explain so I had to set all my social media profiles to private.
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« Reply #32179 on: January 22, 2023, 02:26:40 PM »
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« Reply #32180 on: January 22, 2023, 02:27:10 PM »
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1846380/Need_for_Speed_Unbound/

Already 50% off.

Is the game worth it at this price?  Reviews are pretty mixed.

EA Play on Steam is a great deal. All games over 6 months old are free to play, and new games you get 10 hours to test it out.

I only pay $30 canadian a year. I hate EA, but man is it a smoking deal.

I have no interest in anything else from them, otherwise that is a good deal!
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« Reply #32181 on: January 23, 2023, 09:22:10 AM »
A 67 average for Forspoken.

Lmao

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« Reply #32182 on: January 23, 2023, 09:32:16 AM »
the latest sent-to-die AAAA masterpiece from Squeenix, pick it up for $20 next month at your local Gamestop dumpster!
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« Reply #32183 on: January 23, 2023, 09:55:27 AM »
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« Reply #32184 on: January 23, 2023, 10:49:27 AM »
 :cac
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« Reply #32185 on: January 23, 2023, 02:37:24 PM »
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1617532717045846017

10/10

Is he aware that tons of real life surnames have equally mundane origins? Including his own?

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« Reply #32186 on: January 23, 2023, 03:06:30 PM »
Jason is an idiot. Nothing should surprise you about how idiotic he is...
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« Reply #32187 on: January 23, 2023, 05:42:57 PM »
I like how he courts a certain audi nce, but works for fucking bloomberg :lol
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« Reply #32188 on: January 23, 2023, 09:39:50 PM »


 :cornette
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« Reply #32189 on: January 23, 2023, 09:42:06 PM »
A commercial for Forspoken just came on- no actual in-game footage shown whatsoever.   :brain
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« Reply #32190 on: January 23, 2023, 09:48:16 PM »
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Maybe that's why she was left in Holland Tunnel.   :derp

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« Reply #32191 on: January 23, 2023, 09:54:57 PM »
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« Reply #32192 on: January 23, 2023, 10:36:31 PM »
Please be patient, I was released by Square-Enix.
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« Reply #32193 on: January 23, 2023, 11:19:02 PM »
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1617532717045846017

10/10

Is he aware that tons of real life surnames have equally mundane origins? Including his own?
I would doubt it because the tweet very strongly suggests this is something the game went out of its way to highlight and that's how it drew his attention even though Holland is well, you know, another actual place. I would go further and ask how he proposes to name an abandoned child in a superior way.

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« Reply #32194 on: January 24, 2023, 12:25:03 AM »
Please be patient, I was released by Square-Enix.
Wait till you see her dog.

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« Reply #32195 on: January 24, 2023, 06:14:31 AM »
Please be patient, I was released by Square-Enix.
Wait till you see her dog.



I love the FF13 dog.

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« Reply #32196 on: January 24, 2023, 08:24:54 AM »

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« Reply #32197 on: January 24, 2023, 06:08:21 PM »
https://twitter.com/RPGSite/status/1618017547798089731

Maybe EA can hire the HALO team?

How it started
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HALO: 2001
HALO 2: 2004
HALO 3: 2007

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Metroid Prime: 2002
Metroid Prime 2: 2004
Metroid Prime 3: 2007

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Mass Effect: 2007
Mass Effect 2: 2010
Mass Effect 3: 2012


How it is going
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HALO Infinite announcement - 2018
Joe Staten comes back to save HALO - 2020
HALO Infinite (lukewarm release) - 2021
HALO Infinite split screen cancelled - 2022
Joe Staten bails out - 2023
Campaign team fired - 2023
HALO is not dead announcement - 2023

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Metroid Prime 4 logo - 2017
Metroid Prime 4 moved to Retro Studios - 2019
Metroid Prime Trilogy port rumor - 2020
Metroid Prime remaster rumor - 2021
Metroid Prime remake rumor - 2022
Metroid Prime 4 (release) - ?

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Casey Hudson returns to fix Mass Effect - 2017
Anthem releases - 2019
Mass Effect 5 announcement - 2020
Anthem (officially) dead - 2021
Casey Hudson leaves BioWare - 2021
Mac Walters leaves BioWare - 2023
Mass Effect 5 release - ?

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« Reply #32198 on: January 25, 2023, 03:23:13 PM »
Looks like MS is still sticking to their awkward "infomercial" format for their shows.

HiFi rush gives me big "Insomniac got bought by Sony so naturally, we asked horror game legend Mikami to make Sunset Overdrive 2 for us" :lol

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« Reply #32199 on: January 25, 2023, 03:28:29 PM »
Well its releasing tonight so thats a massive win
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« Reply #32200 on: January 25, 2023, 03:30:44 PM »
Shadow drop huh. They're a relatively small studio and released Ghostwire and a mobile game lat year. This is probably gonna be half a millimetre deep.

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« Reply #32201 on: January 25, 2023, 03:33:23 PM »
Looks like an uprezzed licensed PS2 game  :foxx

After how much of a fucking stinker Ghostwire was and whatever the hell this was, I don’t know what to think about Tango anymore :goty

Admittedly, maybe this is actually good, but I won’t be playing it anytime soon.
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« Reply #32202 on: January 25, 2023, 03:37:04 PM »
Redfall  :lol fuck off
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« Reply #32203 on: January 25, 2023, 03:37:20 PM »
Looks like an uprezzed licensed PS2 game  :foxx

After how much of a fucking stinker Ghostwire was and whatever the hell this was, I don’t know what to think about Tango anymore :goty

Admittedly, maybe this is actually good, but I won’t be playing it anytime soon.

You clown no it doesnt did u even ever own a ps2
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« Reply #32204 on: January 25, 2023, 03:51:45 PM »
No, I just owned your mom ayy lmao
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« Reply #32205 on: January 25, 2023, 04:01:15 PM »
 :larry
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« Reply #32206 on: January 25, 2023, 04:28:29 PM »
Mikami always pushed for diverse titles, gave developers like Kamiya and Suda a platform for their weirdest ideas, TEW was the opposite of what he wanted to make with his own company orginally and that's why it always felt mid.

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« Reply #32207 on: January 25, 2023, 05:30:54 PM »
HiFi Rush mid launch title vibes  :obama
Minecraft Legends (April) :snore
RedFall (May) looks better than Red Steel :yeshrug
ESO: Rectum (June)  :trash
Forza Motorsport (2023)  :whoo

Biggest year of Xbox but this didn't have to take 45 minutes.
Great launch line-up 3 years into the Generation :idont
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« Reply #32208 on: January 25, 2023, 05:51:34 PM »
Not sure why people are so excited for Forza when its just another fucking Forza. They didnt show anything besides shiny graphics and people say it jumps out.

Instead a fun original game like Hi-Rize gets shit upon lmao.

Just played it for a bit and not only are the graphics great the humor is there too, gameplay seems fun
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« Reply #32209 on: January 25, 2023, 06:38:46 PM »
As per Keighly that's it for Xbox until E3?

https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1618351161555456000
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« Reply #32210 on: January 25, 2023, 08:00:01 PM »
https://www.trueachievements.com/n52617/marvels-avengers-ending-support-delisted

You've got until September to play this. I can't imagine it runs without the internet, considering its GaaS focus.

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« Reply #32211 on: January 25, 2023, 08:09:52 PM »
https://www.trueachievements.com/n52617/marvels-avengers-ending-support-delisted

You've got until September to play this. I can't imagine it runs without the internet, considering its GaaS focus.
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Then, in September, Crystal Dynamics will be ending support for Marvel's Avengers entirely and delisting the game, and while it states that both solo and multiplayer play should still work fine after support ends, it does so with the caveat that any issues after this time will likely not be fixed: "The changes we are making to how the game functions will ensure as long a life as possible. However, after September 30, 2023, we can’t guarantee that we will be able to address issues that occur due to unforeseen circumstances."
This is like $7 on Humble right now ($10 for the one with the outfits) and I considered getting it but decided to wait for under $5. Hopefully they won't bump the price as delisting approaches like some other companies...

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« Reply #32212 on: January 25, 2023, 08:21:02 PM »
Thanks, I defo should have RTFA'd.

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« Reply #32213 on: January 25, 2023, 08:43:48 PM »
I read the articles because it's usually exactly what they don't want you to do. :rollsafe

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« Reply #32214 on: January 26, 2023, 01:37:16 AM »
Watched Max play through a level of Hi-Fi Rush. Actually seems like a lot of fun despite the obviously low budget. Even the humor hits better than it did in the presentation. Don’t have an Xbox or a PC that can play anything released within the last decade though, so I can’t play it myself unfortunately.
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« Reply #32215 on: January 26, 2023, 01:41:14 AM »
What kind of a game is it?

Sandbox?
Level-based?
Action?
JSR?
Rhythm?

Can't tell from the trailer.

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« Reply #32216 on: January 26, 2023, 02:01:52 AM »
What kind of a game is it?

Sandbox?
Level-based?
Action?
JSR?
Rhythm?

Can't tell from the trailer.

DMC game where you time your attacks to the rhythm of the music.
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« Reply #32217 on: January 26, 2023, 04:32:29 AM »
Hi rise or whatever its called is actually great. Scottish robots? Lol

Cant wait to play more tonight, graphics and performance is insane too
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« Reply #32218 on: January 26, 2023, 07:22:10 AM »
https://www.trueachievements.com/n52617/marvels-avengers-ending-support-delisted

You've got until September to play this. I can't imagine it runs without the internet, considering its GaaS focus.

I'm good

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« Reply #32219 on: January 26, 2023, 09:37:42 AM »
What kind of a game is it?

Sandbox?
Level-based?
Action?
JSR?
Rhythm?

Can't tell from the trailer.

DMC game where you time your attacks to the rhythm of the music.

How deep is the combat compared to stuff like DMC?

I might resub to game pass for a month for this. Not sure if I want to shell out $30 blind on it, but for $10 sure.