While I can see that side of the argument, I am definitely strongly in the opposite camp. I’d guess that most people have multiple controllers (I know I do), so it’s easy enough to just grab one off the charging dock or whatever if the one you’re using dies. It’s also easy and fairly cheap to get charging cables that…

My guess is AC: Valhalla, but I’m not positive...

My big ones are leftovers from last year’s list: Dragon’s Dogma, God of War and Dark Souls 3. I crossed quite a few games off in 2020, but there are still quite a few to go. Unfortunately I keep buying games that I know full well I won’t have time to play anytime soon (looking at you Divinity: Original Sin 2) so the…

I second this. I went into it thinking “let’s see what this controller to do” but ended up very charmed by the game itself. While it’s a fairly easy game, the studio should get a lot of credit for their design creativity. It’s much more than just a tech demo and I’ve been glad to see it make several critics’ lists.

Seeing all of this itemized is really shocking. I’m very glad I decided not to preorder this game (I was tempted, mostly just to see it on my PS5). BUT I will say this: there is tremendous potential for CDPR to pull a complete Hello Games/No Man’s Sky with this game and turn it into what they promised eventually. It’s…

Was Anthem actually pulled from the PS Store? I remember it’s release being a disaster, but I didn’t think it got pulled. I was so underwhelmed by the demo I stopped paying attention, so you could be right...

TIL...

Wow. That’s pretty shocking. I can’t remember a big game ever being pulled from the store. Crazy.

PLN is the currency abbreviation used in their financials.

I know very well that things can look different from the outside, but CD Projekt is a public company so I pulled up their financials in about 5 seconds. In 2019, they had plenty of cash on hand - almost half a billion PLN (and that’s just cash, not other assets). Between currency conversions and the differences in pay…

Hope you’re both okay!

You talk like CDPR is only able to pay expenses out of current revenue, which is not how this business works. My guess is that they have pretty substantial cash assets to fund production (after all, Witcher 3 made a metric fuckton of money). If not, they still have the option to raise more money from investors or just…

I agree with this. They’re a big, wealthy company that’s not struggling to make payroll. Would it have upset shareholders to delay the game again? Yes, shareholders want to see revenue now, not later. Would it have been better for consumers to delay? Absolutely. They weighed their options knowing exactly what they…

Frankly, I think it’s a wasted mechanic in DeS. You want to be in “soul form” for nearly all of the game, which means you have to pump levels into Vitality in the early going for survivability and/or wear the Cling Ring for basically the entire game (I mostly did both because I need all the help I can get). But the…

I don’t disagree with that. Those strategies are encouraged in all of the games to some extent, it just felt like DS2 was leaning on it a bit too heavily. The game clearly wants to make you fight crowds of enemies more frequently than the other games do.

I’ve finished DS: Remastered, Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls (just this weekend!), played a couple hours of both DS2:SOF and DS3, and haven’t played Sekiro. Of the games I’ve played:

This is definitely true, but I also just think the direction of TLOU2 was... not great? Like, I think that the story would have landed much better for me if the game had been shorter. The way it dragged on between story beats really lessened their impact for me. This is something that squarely falls into the realm of…

I beat Demon’s Souls last night and then carried on to beat the first boss in NG+ before finally discovering that enemies in NG+ do a LOT more damage and dying a bunch of times. I’ll try to push on a bit more, but I’m also tempted to just start a new game to try a completely different build. I’d like to at least beat…

I’m a lapsed Destiny player, but from what I’ve heard, it’s in a pretty good state right now and the onboarding stuff for new players is the best it’s ever been. I’m considering going back because, man, the movement and shooting in that game feel incredible. Like, better than any other game I’ve played. So yeah, have…

I didn’t watch and don’t care very much BUT I have two things to say: