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Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

JBP posted:

loving Americans.
FF15 and Kingdom Hearts 3 took a million years between the first trailer and release and both felt unfinished. Americans or not, I think he knows his audience's worries.

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RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




CharlieFoxtrot posted:

The lead developer of FFXVI has said "if we put out a pre-rendered CG trailer Americans would be saying the game isn't coming out until 2035, that's why it's in-engine"

https://twitter.com/chuchumcgoo/status/1310232314950098945?s=19

No, stop it, bad Yoshi, caring about America is a fool's errand, Disney already did that for way too many of their remake movies and they've all sucked aside from like three so far.

Caring about rando internet comments only leads to things crashing and burning anyway.

Shirkelton
Apr 6, 2009

I'm not loyal to anything, General... except the dream.

Quantum of Phallus posted:

I'm awake. WHat do you want!!!!


I just started playing Dragon Quest XI Definitive on the Switch, it looks really good! There's a PS4 version out very soon. It has the best music I've ever heard in a game

I'm pretty tempted to get that, but I already dropped full price on the standard edition on PS4 a little while back, how does it run?

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Shirkelton posted:

I'm pretty tempted to get that, but I already dropped full price on the standard edition on PS4 a little while back, how does it run?

About how you'd expect, a little bit worse graphically in general but fine otherwise. I'm nearsighted so I don't know if that has something to do with it but there's something weird with the rocks and cliffs on it that's really unpleasant to look at on it. It's like...greasy, and shifting oddly, I don't know how to explain it well.

Aside from that, it's got a ton of great features that I hope they don't abandon in future releases.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
It's not directly related to games, but in other regions than Japan have the output of new themes dropped to almost nothing and new avatars dropped to absolutely nothing? The most recent avatar on the Japanese PSN is from April.

Edit: and the last hundred or so of them are from some mobile game called Briks 2 that I have no idea what it is other than it's about big boobed anime girls.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Shirkelton posted:

I'm pretty tempted to get that, but I already dropped full price on the standard edition on PS4 a little while back, how does it run?

Yeah runs fine on Switch so far. I think it looks great. A bit softer than the PS4 version for sure but overall the art style looks great.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Samurai Sanders posted:

It's not directly related to games, but in other regions than Japan have the output of new themes dropped to almost nothing and new avatars dropped to absolutely nothing? The most recent avatar on the Japanese PSN is from April.

Edit: and the last hundred or so of them are from some mobile game called Briks 2 that I have no idea what it is other than it's about big boobed anime girls.

Wow, I thought those types of games died out during the 360 era.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
Playing FF12 again makes me think, how did they do the character skin coloring and how come no other game can do that? given this is a video game and you can't make people's skin look perfect anyway, this is just the best thing.

Edit: except during pre-rendered cutscenes where the characters look dumb as hell in comparison.

infraboy
Aug 15, 2002

Phungshwei!!!!!!1123
I'm at about chapter 14 in Yakuza 0 and this game is making me sad, I know it's probably going to get worse , I should've started this series sooner.

JollyBoyJohn
Feb 13, 2019

For Real!
I promise Dragon Quest 11 will be the Dragon Quest I dont abandon after 4 hours!

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Quantum of Phallus posted:

I'm awake. WHat do you want!!!!


I just started playing Dragon Quest XI Definitive on the Switch, it looks really good! There's a PS4 version out very soon. It has the best music I've ever heard in a game

The ps4 version is foing to be a switch port and is a graphical downgrade from the original release.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Mr Hootington posted:

The ps4 version is foing to be a switch port and is a graphical downgrade from the original release.

But better in many other ways from what I gather (speeding up battles, music )

Akuma
Sep 11, 2001


JollyBoyJohn posted:

I promise Dragon Quest 11 will be the Dragon Quest I dont abandon after 4 hours!
Lol good luck with that, I said the same thing and dropped it at almost literally 4 hours.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
I enjoyed DQXI so much and I've never played the franchise before. It's so comfy and fun.

On Terra Firma
Feb 12, 2008

JBP posted:

I enjoyed DQXI so much and I've never played the franchise before. It's so comfy and fun.

I wanted to like it so much but nope.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Mr Hootington posted:

The ps4 version is foing to be a switch port and is a graphical downgrade from the original release.

square :allears:

imhotep
Nov 16, 2009

REDBAR INTENSIFIES
Outer Wilds is on sale for only $16, that’s quite a bargain for one of the greatest games ever made !!

But don’t just take my word for it-
Jason Schreier thinks so too https://kotaku.com/outer-wilds-is-one-of-the-best-games-ive-ever-played-1835801654
Polygon also listed it at #1 for 2019 GotY https://www.polygon.com/2019/12/13/21011871/outer-wilds-goty-best-games-of-the-year
The BAFTA for best game of 2019 was given to Outer Wilds as well https://youtu.be/Gh9WZn5RlIo
As did Eurogamer https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-12-31-outer-wilds-goty-2019
And the Guardian (who also have the same top 3 as I did, if you switch RE2 and Sekiro) https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/dec/17/top-20-games-of-2019
Even Giant Bomb gave it their GotY, and despite this, you should still play it https://www.giantbomb.com/articles/heres-what-won-in-2019-giant-bombs-game-of-the-yea/1100-5978/

imhotep fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Sep 28, 2020

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

punk rebel ecks posted:

Anyone else playing 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim?

I 100% intended to get it at launch but Hades came out of nowhere and is the only game I am playing and I am completely obsessed with it

This is a weird year because there are actually very good games coming out I want to play there just isn't the insane hype machine reminding me about them 12 months in advance

Srice
Sep 11, 2011

Shirkelton posted:

I'm pretty tempted to get that, but I already dropped full price on the standard edition on PS4 a little while back, how does it run?

The Switch version runs fine because they rebuilt the game around the Switch's capacities to such an extent that Square Enix considers it a remake.

It looks fine on its own, a bit fuzzier than the PS4 version but it's only an issue if you compare them side by side. And a minor graphical downgrade is worth it when the tradeoff is the added content and some really helpful quality of life changes.

Redezga
Dec 14, 2006

infraboy posted:

I'm at about chapter 14 in Yakuza 0 and this game is making me sad, I know it's probably going to get worse , I should've started this series sooner.

That's where karaoke and the thrilling world of the local slot car racing scene will save your day.

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


Imhotep posted:

Outer Wilds is on sale for only $16, that’s quite a bargain for one of the greatest games ever made !!/url]

It was very rude of them to release Outer Wilds and Outer Worlds in the same year.

Cause I kept getting them mixed up.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Square Enix is offering gamers a rare chance to prove they prefer gameplay over graphics with the console ports of DQXI S. If you're not sure you'll like it, the game is coming to gamepass on release day.

I thought it was a decently well polished 2/3rds that makes a complete, if mediocre, game and then a so bad I quit and will never finish 1/3rd story.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Imhotep posted:

Outer Wilds is on sale for only $16, that’s quite a bargain for one of the greatest games ever made !!

But don’t just take my word for it-
Jason Schreier thinks so too https://kotaku.com/outer-wilds-is-one-of-the-best-games-ive-ever-played-1835801654
Polygon also listed it at #1 for 2019 GotY https://www.polygon.com/2019/12/13/21011871/outer-wilds-goty-best-games-of-the-year
The BAFTA for best game of 2019 was given to Outer Wilds as well https://youtu.be/Gh9WZn5RlIo
As did Eurogamer https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-12-31-outer-wilds-goty-2019
And the Guardian (who also have the same top 3 as I did, if you switch RE2 and Sekiro) https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/dec/17/top-20-games-of-2019
Even Giant Bomb gave it their GotY, and despite this, you should still play it https://www.giantbomb.com/articles/heres-what-won-in-2019-giant-bombs-game-of-the-yea/1100-5978/

Most importantly, it was the #3 game in last year's SA GOTY competition

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Outer Wilds is an amazing game even if it is exclusive to the DESPICABLE EPIC STORE

Volte
Oct 4, 2004

woosh woosh

Escobarbarian posted:

Outer Wilds is an amazing game even if it is exclusive to the DESPICABLE EPIC STORE
Outer Wilds came out on Steam back in June

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003

Escobarbarian posted:

Outer Wilds is an amazing game even if it is exclusive to the DESPICABLE EPIC STORE

Yeah I got it in June on Steam :) It is a little weirdly screen teary for me but I am meaning to finish it! :D

UnfortunateSexFart
May 18, 2008

𒃻 𒌓ð’‰𒋫 𒆷ð’€𒅅𒆷
𒆠𒂖 𒌉 𒌫 ð’®𒈠𒈾𒅗 𒂉 𒉡𒌒𒂉𒊑


BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

hey assholes on the other side of the world: WAKE UP THIS THREAD NEEDS POSTS :siren:

It's 1030pm in the only part of down under where people live so we're going to bed too, sorry mate

imhotep
Nov 16, 2009

REDBAR INTENSIFIES

haveblue posted:

Most importantly, it was the #3 game in last year's SA GOTY competition

Yes, it was my number one in the SA GOTY poll. I didn’t realize how many accolades it got which is why I compiled a bunch of the bigger ones, because it seemed like it wasn’t getting reviewed at all when it came out, and the only people really talking it up were random Youtubers and then at the end of the year for some reason a lot of people/game journalists started noticing it. It’s just wild to me that such a small team’s first game could be that good, and I’m glad they won the BAFTA, etc. they really deserve it. I just don’t know how their next game could possibly live up to Outer Wilds, tho..

Infinitum posted:

It was very rude of them to release Outer Wilds and Outer Worlds in the same year.

Cause I kept getting them mixed up.

Outer Wilds was in development first, and had been for a while, so blame Obsidian. They talk about it in this Noclip video about the making of the game, and how they wanted to do an April Fools joke or something where they swapped names for a day https://youtu.be/LbY0mBXKKT0

Also this Super Bunnyhop video is good and also goes into the crazy physics stuff that the game is built around https://youtu.be/gZ5KzvW4Bys



Escobarbarian posted:

Outer Wilds is an amazing game even if it is exclusive to the DESPICABLE EPIC STORE

As others have said, you can now buy it! I bought it for EGS and on PS4, even.

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


I regret buying Borderlands 3 + Outer Wilds on the Epic store and wish I could just transfer them both to Steam.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
I kept almost buying Outer Wilds because I kept thinking it was savage lands.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


I can wait to play my first Yakuza game. Am I right that it's vaguely GTAish but instead of being a psychopath monster who kills everybody you're some kind of homer simpson idiot who beats up gangsters and helps children with their homework?

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

John Wick of Dogs posted:

I can wait to play my first Yakuza game. Am I right that it's vaguely GTAish but instead of being a psychopath monster who kills everybody you're some kind of homer simpson idiot who beats up gangsters and helps children with their homework?
There's no cars to drive at all, much less steal. I don't know if that's a big part of your definition of GTA or not.

Homer Simpson is a weirder analogy to Kiryu then I thought I would ever hear.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

John Wick of Dogs posted:

I can wait to play my first Yakuza game. Am I right that it's vaguely GTAish but instead of being a psychopath monster who kills everybody you're some kind of homer simpson idiot who beats up gangsters and helps children with their homework?

https://twitter.com/camperjon/status/905632458485276674

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003
Kiryu is one of the few protagonists I would like to hang out with. I love pocket racing!!

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


Kiryu is a pure innocent boi who has done no wrong.

Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

John Wick of Dogs posted:

I can wait to play my first Yakuza game. Am I right that it's vaguely GTAish but instead of being a psychopath monster who kills everybody you're some kind of homer simpson idiot who beats up gangsters and helps children with their homework?

It’s not GTA-ish, really.

Kiryu is not an idiot but he is massively naive and kind of clueless about women. He is a modern day honor bound samurai.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
I've never played any of the games and don't know much about them either but that has always been one of my favorite tweets

Jimbot
Jul 22, 2008

Xbox Series X previews are out there. Making me excited to see what Sony did with the PS5 on the system level.

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1310574755318202368

A taste of what loading times may be on PS5, if not better.

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


Playing 3D All-stars for a little bit longer, then planning on swapping over to Kiwami for my PS4 swan-song before trade-in.

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Shirkelton
Apr 6, 2009

I'm not loyal to anything, General... except the dream.
Those are all games through backwards compatibility, with no extra work done on them. PS5 games will be better.

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