Makes sense. I guess it’s a matter of how much detail one is able to absorb/tolerate. 

Sorry for the omission! Yup, this is the PS5 version. Hope you get to enjoy the game soon :)

I found myself very visually overwhelmed by this game at the start. It just felt like every little detail was trying to grab my attention, so I couldn’t make out the whole picture.

If anyone else feels this way, what I did to relieve the issue was to switch to performance mode, which at least made the animations more…

Hey, that was a fun fact, indeed! Thanks for sharing.

It made more sense to me back when I was a kid who never experienced tabletop gaming, thinking it was spelled “Roll Playing Games” because of all the dice rolls you had to do everytime you did an action. When I was corrected, I was like “Role? What role??”

Wasn’t expecting to see these games on the list, but was still sad hahaha. Basically PC oldies that will age me:

Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man:

Sad not to see Odd Taxi much in the comments because this series blew me away. Think Hello Kitty on Prozac. It’s on top of this (randomly arranged list probably) for a reason.

I mean... G.R.R. Martin IS involved with the game, so...

This came to mind for me (although I’m sure they used more CG here). I wonder if it’s the same team/director.

GOG is your (problematic) friend! https://www.gog.com/game/dungeons_dragons_krynn_series

Hibiki! I wish that Last Blade got more love than it currently does, but seeing Hibiki appear in other fighting games always calls for a celebration in my heart.

My personal pick is Bullets Per Minute. While Doom undoubtedly raised the bar when it comes to heavy metal soundtracks on a videogame, the music used in BPM was proper metal and served the game mechanics well by providing beats that are easy to follow and fun to listen to after multiple, multiple playthroughs.

Not to mention the deceptively harmless pool at the bottom. “Jump in! The slime is fine!”

Hey, if it can scare off more investors from giving the execs a raise, I’m with you!

I’m just happy the ghost of Origin Systems can finally rest in peace (I hope)

Lyrics are definitely important, but so is delivery, melody, rhythm, and anything else that makes up a song. I mean, isn’t that why videogame marketers take pop songs and twists them into emo rock for their trailers? Even if you’d never heard a James Brown song before seeing this trailer, you can already feel the…

Yeah, most of the time hearing licensed music in game trailers elicits an eyeroll from me. But this one just hurt my brain.

I’ve never been so focused on watching a trailer as I was with this one, only because I was totally desperate to find a reason for that song choice.

At first I thought “Ok, so it’s one of those games that doesn’t take itself seriously.” Nope. Even when one of the developers was insisting the game was comedic, the game…

No Fall Guys costume yet?! Come on, internet.

Yeah, Aloy really felt like a different kind of video game character. I’m excited to see what they have planned for her in the sequel.