[Malankazooie]

Malankazooie, on 13 September 2021 - 07:23 PM, said:

Checked out that subreddit that brings together links from popular game sites that post reviews of video games. Dang, Deathloop is getting GotY love.

It's wonderful having "The Sess" back reviewing games. Case in point, quotes from his review of Deathloop:

"Feels like Dishonored and Dark Souls had a weird baby that was raised in 1960s London and chain smoked Gauloises with a cigarette holder."

"The design of this game is so fun. It feels like what would happen if you invited a bunch of French graphic designers to an island with an open absinthe bar and no WiFi."

[Aptorian]

Deathloop's world feels like a bad day in Rapture in Bioshock, only the day keeps repeating itself. It's all hedonism and mayhem, which suits me just great. In the Dishonored games I always felt penalized because I got the maximum chaos score for my playstyle, but here you can murder to your hearts content and not feel bad about any of it, because they're all sickos and they'll be back to life the next day.

Bonus points for giving the player a duke nukem style kick that launches people off ledges and buildings like in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.

[Mentalist]

Not-So-Great-Raven, on 15 September 2021 - 10:04 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 10 September 2021 - 12:53 PM, said:

Not-So-Great-Raven, on 10 September 2021 - 11:58 AM, said:

Started playing The Frozen Wilds DLC for Horizon Zero Dawn, immediately hooked as I was with the original game when it came to PC.
I do hope the next part of the series finds its way to PC..

Forbidden West is a cross-gen game, meaning it doesn't require PS5's "magical SSD" to run; so we'll most likely get a PC port, the question is just how long it'll take,

I mean I'm not going to run out of games to play while waiting, but would be nice if we didn't have to wait years until they port it
(I already have one of these magical SSD's installed in my PC so that wouldn't be a problem).

Oh, and just heard rumors that Battlefield 2042 might be delayed until next year. Good. They better implement a working system for community servers.

Battlefield delayed until November.

Dying Light 2 slips into Feb 2022

[Malankazooie]

How many games is that now moved to February 2022? Man, that's going to be a crazy month.

[Mentalist]

Malankazooie, on 16 September 2021 - 04:05 PM, said:

How many games is that now moved to February 2022? Man, that's going to be a crazy month.

Yeah, starting with Elden Ring Q1 and Spring 2022 are pretty packed

[Mentalist]

Sony leaked a Destroy All Humans! 2 Remake announcement.

One of the 6 games to be revealed today at the THQN showcase.

Got my fingers crossed for Darksiders 4.....

EDIT: well that's not a thing (yet)

Jagged Alliance 3 and Outcast 2 are cool surprises though

EDIT: Also, THQN continue with the best trailers

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 17 September 2021 - 09:11 PM

[Aptorian]

Nintendo Direct tonight.

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Tune in 9/23 at 3 p.m. PT for a Nintendo Direct livestream featuring roughly 40 minutes of information focused mainly on Nintendo Switch games launching this winter.

I hope they pull something unexpected out of the hat, like more Zelda ports but I think they'd have announced them by now if they were coming 2021.

Rumor has it that Gameboy is coming to Nintendo's Online collections this fall. That has me excited.

Off the top of my head I can't think of any Gameboy games I deperately need to play but there's stuff like Tetris and Warioland, that I will definitely need to check out.

What I'm really interested in is DS stuff but who knows when that's coming out.

[Mentalist]

Aptorian, on 23 September 2021 - 02:58 PM, said:

Nintendo Direct tonight.

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Tune in 9/23 at 3 p.m. PT for a Nintendo Direct livestream featuring roughly 40 minutes of information focused mainly on Nintendo Switch games launching this winter.

I hope they pull something unexpected out of the hat, like more Zelda ports but I think they'd have announced them by now if they were coming 2021.

Rumor has it that Gameboy is coming to Nintendo's Online collections this fall. That has me excited.

Off the top of my head I can't think of any Gameboy games I deperately need to play but there's stuff like Tetris and Warioland, that I will definitely need to check out.

What I'm really interested in is DS stuff but who knows when that's coming out.

Castlevania Advance Collection was rated in Australia, Taiwan and a few days ago, by the ESRB. Good chance it'll be revealed tonight.

Also would be nice to get a Silksong release date.

[ContrarianMalazanReader]

Is there a thread dedicated to the Dragon Age game series? If so, I would appreciate if someone posted the link.

[Mentalist]

Remember how last spring at the Xbox "next Gen" preview event we got a reveal of that weird space shooter, CHORVS from Deep Silver? and then it went quiet and never showed up at E3 or any other event?


Well, apparently it's releasing in December, and here's a new trailer:



looks pretty neat, and it's gonna be decently priced (45 CAD on Steam), clearly not trying to go for a AAA price, which I like.

Maybe it'll finally scratch that Freelancer itch for me.

[ContrarianMalazanReader]

ContrarianMalazanReader, on 25 September 2021 - 10:18 PM, said:

Is there a thread dedicated to the Dragon Age game series? If so, I would appreciate if someone posted the link.

Anyone?

[Malankazooie]

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but using search, I found two threads with Dragon Age in the title.

https://forum.malaza...post__p__788846

https://forum.malaza...post__p__995042

[Morgoth]

ContrarianMalazanReader, on 27 September 2021 - 08:01 PM, said:

ContrarianMalazanReader, on 25 September 2021 - 10:18 PM, said:

Is there a thread dedicated to the Dragon Age game series? If so, I would appreciate if someone posted the link.

Anyone?

I remain deeply sceptical of a new DA title, though I would be very happy if it turned out good, or even decent.

[Maark Abbott]

Morgoth, on 28 September 2021 - 06:34 AM, said:

ContrarianMalazanReader, on 27 September 2021 - 08:01 PM, said:

ContrarianMalazanReader, on 25 September 2021 - 10:18 PM, said:

Is there a thread dedicated to the Dragon Age game series? If so, I would appreciate if someone posted the link.

Anyone?

I remain deeply sceptical of a new DA title, though I would be very happy if it turned out good, or even decent.

Agreed - having to buy the ending for the last one was a kick in the teeth. Fun enough game but you could really see the EA talons digging in.

[Malankazooie]

The way this was laid out really chaps my hide.

https://www.ign.com/...results-winners

[Not-So-Great-Raven]

Started playing We Happy Few, seems very 1984ish which is intriguing. Didn't have time to play it much yet, hopefully can invest some time into it today..

[Aptorian]

Metroid Dread and Farcry 6 both come out tomorrow. I'm tempted to buy both but also hesitant.

I've never played any Metroid games except Prime 1 and a bit of Super Metroid. So I'm not particularly invested in the series and I don't like the look of the game. Looks like the textures are all washed out to. Also don't like invincible enemies.

Farcry 6 seems to just be more of the same. I don't mind more of the same, because I loved 3 and 4. But I did not like 5 at all so I am a bit weary. I've been hurt before.

[Mentalist]

Tunic demo is SO GOOD

[Malankazooie]

Dang, is it me or does this seem to be one of the quietest autumn (going into to the Xmas holidays) release periods in recent memory? We're deep into October and there just doesn't seem to be any buzz. Sure there have been some heavy hitting AAA - Deathloop, FarCry, but where is the zip that accompanies the months of Sept - Nov? I guess maybe the CyberPunk hype and fiasco of last year has everyone with video game/holiday release PTSD? Also many games have been delayed until next year that were originally coming out in 2021. Still, it is strangely low-key this year.

[Mentalist]

Malankazooie, on 12 October 2021 - 05:38 PM, said:

Dang, is it me or does this seem to be one of the quietest autumn (going into to the Xmas holidays) release periods in recent memory? We're deep into October and there just doesn't seem to be any buzz. Sure there have been some heavy hitting AAA - Deathloop, FarCry, but where is the zip that accompanies the months of Sept - Nov? I guess maybe the CyberPunk hype and fiasco of last year has everyone with video game/holiday release PTSD? Also many games have been delayed until next year that were originally coming out in 2021. Still, it is strangely low-key this year.

Guardians of the Galaxy is out... next week?

Back4Blood came out yesterday. Metroid Dread also out last week, I think, and it's selling pretty well.

Microsoft still has Age of Empires, Forza and Halo to go; BattleField and CoD are coming.

Feels pretty typical as far as AAA releases go, tbh. Also a metric ton of cool indies came out in September, and there's gonna be another wave in November;

I mean, there's no big Sony game, but we all knew that. Kena, Deathloop and Jett are their latest exclusives.

Not sure where you're seeing lack of buzz, there's games of every flavour out there.