Fans: Haha Microsoft. “Wait, that’s illegal”

AI ends up recreating the meme in the next Halo game

Gamepass is good if you also have a good PC

If not, PS5 is more premium experience in my eyes. So much fun to be had. The haptics make any game that much more fun

Brother definitely made a obscure superhero Wii game we never got. There’s so many

Yeah but no one talks about games like Pizza Tower anymore

Companies know this already but SBMM style modes keep engagement. Honestly that’s what people like. People now just want SBMM style modes because people find casual modes irrelevant.

It’s a simple fix. Instead of rewarding competitive play (even if games have no rewards, atleast you’re building up to a rank, casual modes usually gives no incentive). Reward casual modes. Let competitive be the mode people play for their satisfaction.

No game does this. You usually get no special rewards when you play casual.

They will not add non-sbmm modes & justify it by saying no one plays them, which is true. For games like Valorant that do have casual modes I see many of my friends never touch them. People find casual modes irrelevant these days. But you add rewards to them & instantly people will be there.

Well it’s more about the structure. That means you’re pretty just completing the tutorial. The game is incredibly slow paced. And as I said the first 14 hours or so are good. It then becomes extremely grindy as you redo the same side missions

Witcher 3 took me a year to complete. But it didn’t have this problem.

That strict a time schedule does not deserve any of those AC games IMO. And I like AC

You much rather would try the new AC Mirage as it’s so short or older AC titles.

Judging by you spending about an hour every day on it. It’ll take you about 8 days to just get the title cutscene to show up in AC Odyssey (although the game is pretty solid for the first 12-15 hours)

Valhalla you should throw away right now. It’s far & away the worst of the franchise

The maps are definitely the most important parts of survival games. It definitely did not work. I’m not sure but it seemed like it started as a DLC, it honestly should’ve been a paid DLC

The setting would be digestible if the game, UI, mechanics were the same. Everything changed so drastically with the second one.

The third just needs to go on the firsts path. Open map, clear goal, clean UI & a main character that doesn’t talk.

The thing is with Half Life I feel Valve always wants to do something revolutionary. Not too different from how GTA sort of sets the standard for open world games. With Half Life Valve wants to change a part of the industry

Half Life Alyx was huge for the VR. Now I wonder they want something new like this for Half Life 3. I thought it was a game that could be seamlessly played in VR or with mouse/keyboard. Just something we’ve never seen before.

It’s definitely coming one day tho I feel Valve really wanted the pressure to be lighter. Alyx did just that.

It’s a brick/cement house with thick walls. To do permanent wired connection I’d have to scrape and dig holes in the walls throughout. It will cost a lot to do that + plastering/paint costs later for just a port.

It’s something I can only think of when house wide renovation is taking place.

The safety stuff is absolutely true but I have a thick brick cement wall house. To get the wires in-walled you’d have to dig holes and scrape into the walls. It takes a lot of money & time.

I don’t care unless it’s way more expensive & slightly more inconvenient in the excuse of being more accessible.

Same happened with Headphone Jacks. Bluetooth pods are fun but I still miss the simplicity of wired earphones for my phone. You could get decent wired earphones for cheap.

Good chargers are important & are already expensive. Not sure what happens when you’re forced to get expensive ones.

The Last of Us 1/2, let the scars form early

I beleive the fact Arcane did this on purpose so in future they’re not asked to do it

Look at Rocksteady. The Suicide Squad game is getting a bunch of backlash but Rocksteady are committed to it, so WB is also committed that that’s what they’re doing with all their properties now

If Rocksteady from the start decided on making a shitty game and just pushing it out. It definitely would’ve changed the mindset of the execs

To me the more bizzare ones are like Saints Row. Same company, they had the budget, seemingly had the time but it’s just made to be like a shitty fusion of a bad 2009 game and a bad 2023 game.

I just hope GTA 6 can match that

Some new games just feel empty to me, regardless of how many state of the art graphical techniques they use, GTA 5 just felt right and RDR2 is the same. These games look better than games released years later.

Starfield is the best example, it just don’t look as good. They look unpolished graphically. Starfield looks fantastic in some aspects but not great in other aspects.

Even more so after GTA 5. Not only did it span a decade & different age groups, GTA Online became a totally different beast, many kids don’t even know GTA is a single player game

We’ve experienced this in different areas but the release of GTA 6 will have all this concentrated in a single time window. If Rockstar nails it the amount of hype will be unheard of definitely.

That’s what I’m hoping for. I don’t care if GTA 6 is still 3 years away but I hope Rockstar makes sure, like every GTA release since GTA 3, this release redefined the industry. GTA 5 was on the forefront of animation and game design pretty much until RDR2 was released and then some Sony titles got that level of detail in linear games. No open world game has matched even GTA 5’s detail IMO.

The standards increasing will be a good thing for us if Rockstar can nail it.

The sequel to a huge AAA title made on the biggest superhero franchise. Seems about right

All of this gaming industry data seems to interest me in what GTA 6 can do. Like what lengths are even left at this point. GTA 5 set all the records already for the longevity.

If GTA 6 is optimized on release it might break all records again

I never liked jumpscares, I always liked horror movies that try to scare you with their ambience and psychology of the characters more. One of my favourite movies is BlairWitch Project (not the new one)

So in that sense, The Forrest was absolutely fantastic.

I mean these are some of the most popular games everyone likes. I’ve not seen the whole list so I’ll just share some you might not have played

Ghostrunner 1/2

Hades

Cult of the Lambs

Magic Survivor/Vampire Survivors

These are all still pretty famous games. I too am a CS fan and nothing really comes close. Not working well in CS2 currently but once they’re on, tryouts the community server side if you’ve never explored that. HS Only DMs, Custom Maps, 1v1 servers, bhop, surf…