DC Murderverse posted:

It’s absolutely insane that at the beginning of the generation Nintendo released a new Zelda game that remains a high point of open world gaming that people have taken inspiration from every year since. then at the very end of the generation they did it again, in a different way but somehow using the map/controls/engine/world from the first

TotK is a miracle of game design

VideoGames posted:

01. BLOODBORNE (FromSoftware) (2015)
A BILLION POINTS, ALL THE TENS, ALL THE VOTES, EYES ON THE INSIDE

Regy Rusty posted:

yeah i was hooping and hollering throughout

VideoGames posted:

01. BLOODBORNE (FromSoftware) (2015)
A BILLION POINTS, ALL THE TENS, ALL THE VOTES, EYES ON THE INSIDE

Shard posted:

I have finished it 3 times and have 5 different save files going between the copy I bought on my computer and ps5.

Atoramos posted:

Such a tremendous amount of work and content, so many unique and niche things to discover, and incredible acting. RPGs will be compared to this for years to come.

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

loving hell I haven't seen a game so well executed in many, many years. It stands out particularly given the increasing number of triple-A disappointments.

Ulio posted:

I loved every second of it. If anyone told me the best part of a turn based game would be it's combat, I would call you crazy. But here we are.

Songbearer posted:

This game shouldn't have been good. It is leagues beyond good. It is disgustingly, insanely well crafted and made by a team that not only knew what they were doing, they wanted to show the rest of the industry HOW to do it.

Promethium posted:

I can see myself coming back to it many times in the future, especially with how it keeps being improved post-release.

Enrico la Spaniard posted:

It's difficult to express how important this game is. It represents what the modern industry is capable of, but consistently fumbles in accomplishing.

Jon Irenicus posted:

This is a love letter to the old school RPG with and updated modern sense of scale and adventure. More often than not your extremely dumb decisions will be rewarded and punished accordingly.

jusion posted:

You can do anything and be anyone in an incredibly immersive world that is gigantic.

iTrust posted:

To me, it delivered everything I wanted out of it and made a genre of game I love suddenly known about to the masses.

Anno posted:

Something definitive for a genre that's so singularly exceptional it makes you view some other games in a different light.

Overlord K posted:

I cant wait to do it all again next year with my friends after it has had even more patches and QoL content added to it.

Phenotype posted:

This was a masterpiece, an absolute triumph of game design, and its success shows the heights you can reach when you let a talented, creative dev team produce the best product regardless of the time it takes.

AngryBooch posted:

I was knee deep in a negotiation with a Hag that could go very wrong in any number of ways when I realized that these motherfuckers actually did it. They pulled it off. I was along for the ride for the next 80 hours after that.

xeria posted:

For me, it was always going to be this game.

MMF Freeway posted:

The super intricately detailed maps were such a joy to explore from the very start of the game all the way to the end.

exquisite tea posted:

It allows you to orient yourself in almost any direction and become wrapped up in a boundless adventure. The densely packed secrets and surprising interactions on every corner of the map both reward and test your curiosity in equal measure.

Baiard posted:

I spent so much time starting new playthroughs and thinking of new builds to play and how to address certain encounters.

SlothBear posted:

there is such a special joy in playing something you know was made by the same kind of nerd as you, for the certain type of nerd you are, and then see it become extremely popular.

bagrada posted:

Great graphics, gameplay, music, story, characters. A masterpiece really.

Cael posted:

a crowning achievement in the genre, 11 out of 10 because it goes up to 11.

Rosalind posted:

I played 400+ hours and I will easily put another 400 into it in 2024.

wash bucket posted:

A new era of 6 hour video essays is dawning.

Fix posted:

The game has in it so much possibility at a scale yet unseen in video games. That I can play a hundred, twenty hours of this video game to completion, turn on a television commercial for it, and not recognize 65% of the cutscenes shown in that commercial?

ChrisBTY posted:

I was curled into a ball, braced and ready to take the disappointment. But then it didn't disappoint. At all. It was almost everything I could have possibly asked for.

Commander Jebus posted:

There is absolutely nothing I can add to the discourse on this game that hasn't already been said better by others.

Dr. Fishopolis posted:

Nothing about this game feels like it should be possible. It feels like a trick of some sort. The choices you can make that are not just accounted for but accounted for beautifully seem infinite.

Barreft posted:

One of the best games I've ever played. I can't stop playing this game.

JackDarko posted:

The amount of reactivity in the world was incredible and made it feel like I was playing D&D with friends.

veni veni veni posted:

After 130 hours I am still thinking about the next 130 hours I want to put into it, and then the next. The game is just that good and that dynamic.

Arrrthritis posted:

The final product, however, filled me with such a sense of wonder and magic that it got me thinking "gently caress, I love playing video games."

Lucca Blight posted:

A stupid long RPG I can play with friends? Instant goty.

roomtwofifteen posted:

Every single design choice and gameplay element is cool as hell and super fun. I have not had a single un-fun moment playing this so far.

Foodchain posted:

It delivered on every expectation I had.

Levin posted:

I started my second run immediately after finishing my first which is incredibly rare.

CAR CRASH CRACKERS posted:

Play Baldur's Gate 3. Then play it again so you can appreciate the massive amount of poo poo you missed and all the weird little variations accounted for.

Jerusalem posted:

Realizing that Link was getting a chance to catch Zelda's hand that he missed at the start of the game was

Escobarbarian posted:

veeg will cry at this

Infinitum posted:

Top shelf Veeg. Cheers for your work!

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

good morning. did i miss anything?

Infinitum posted:

Arist posted:

didn't get quoted, oh well