VenomousAlbino

Best gaming-related decision I ever made was jumping from PS4 to Xbox One and getting subscribed to Game Pass. It opens up access to games that I otherwise would have been hesitant to spend money on and gets me to try games that might be outside my usual comfort zone.

• Just Dance 2022 will undoubtedly be shown and its slot will be a complete cringe-fest.
• Skull & Bones will be conspicuous by its absence.
• Beyond Good & Evil 2 will get another irritatingly vague CG trailer.
• Assassin's Creed something.
• Something entirely new will be unveiled and will either be utterly mind-blowing or absolutely underwhelming and nowhere in between; it'll be one extreme or the other.
• There will also be Far Cry 6, Riders Republic, Prince of Persia Remake and new content for Rainbow Six Siege and The Division 2.

@SegataSanshiro Sorry, I must have wrongly assumed that by "they're kinda counting on this game to float their company" you mean that they were in financial trouble; how silly of me. 🤔

I'll reiterate, though: the Witcher 3 and its expansions still sell, plus they have GoG, plus not too long ago news broke that they are the most valuable European videogame developer today. They don't need Cyberpunk to float the company.

Call me a cynic, but something tells me the demo would be staying right where it is if Balan Wonderworld had reviewed favourably... 🤔

@SegataSanshiro That's not entirely true. They put out two Witcher 3 expansions in that time, plus there's the small matter of GoG. CDPR isn't in financial troubles.

Rims! 🤣 I'm literally dying.

We're going to be reading/hearing about patches and updates and hotfixes for this game for years, aren't we? I haven't read about a game daily like this since Fallout 76.

@FraserG At least it's not a third world update this time. 😆

It definitely looks better, even if it doesn't necessarily hold up against modern games. To be honest, I'm more interested in the gameplay enhancements/improvements than I am in the visuals; I was pretty lukewarm on the prospect of replaying ME 1 and 2 (never played 3) but the more I see and hear about the supposed gameplay updates, the more I want to revisit these games.

It's possible, but it wouldn't surprise me if Sony had chucked Square Enix some money on the quiet a while back to secure further exclusivity. I hope that's not the case because I'd be down to play it.

I'm not a sports guy, but I have more interest in NHL than, say, NFL. I even went to a hockey game when I was in high school; literally the only sporting event I've ever been to. 😆

Can any hockey fans recommend NHL 21 or would I be better off going to one of the older ones that are also on EA Play?

@WCamicase I mean... very few developers actively try not to make a quality game, unless that's the joke.

I remember Sonic Unleashed not being well-received at the time; I certainly remember it being bad when I played it. When did the consensus on it change? I feel like an 85-year old man wondering why racism isn't cool anymore.

@Carck You and I have VERY different views on what constitutes as "good". 😆

@Carck Am I thinking of the wrong game? The one with the god-awful werehog sections and open world padding between stages?

@Royalblues 25-30% of Sonic Unleashed was a good game.

SEGA can't seem to maintain any semblance of quality when it comes to 3D Sonic games, so a remaster of one of the few good ones is probably the best we can hope for.

I. Want. This. Game.

2K really needs to pull its finger out this year.

I was crap enough at Halo PVP and now there's going to be console players using a keyboard and mouse? I'm out.

@teknium_ That's when I got it, as well. I've hardly put it down since buying it.

@GamingFan4Lyf I got more Donut County vibes watching the trailer, although neither are bad things to be reminded of, in my opinion.

@Medic_Alert doesn't sound very financially viable to me, the one and only Jim Ryan.

@StylesT PGA Tour 2K21 plays a great game of golf but you can tell in its presentation that it doesn't have the biggest team or budget behind it. If 2K and HB go all out for 2K22 (which I assume will happen as they went and got the Tiger Woods licence) then it should be a cracking game.

I wasn't going to bother with this but the more I see and read about it, the more I want it. And I did never get around to playing Mass Effect 3...

I won't lose sleep if I end up never playing this game. I certainly won't pay for it and I probably wouldn't bother looking at it if it were to come to Game Pass tomorrow; why reward CDPR for an 8-9 year-long clusterf*ck of monumental arrogance and bad decisions?

Battletoads are loveable?

Treated myself to Life Is Strange 2 (which I didn't get around to finishing while it was on Game Pass), Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled and PGA Tour 2K21, the latter of which I've properly gotten into.

Brand new release reliant on servers (and also on Game Pass) runs into issues? Shock!

I'm not interested in sports games bar a select few, but of course I still acknowledge that the selection on offer within Game Pass is top notch. I wouldn't expect every game to appeal to me personally for the service to provides excellent value; on the contrary, it's better that not every game appeals to me because that means that Game Pass is catering to a wide audience, which is how it should be. There are already more Game Pass games than I can feasibly play, so bring on the sports titles if it results in more people subscribing to the service and subsequently more games coming to it.

@TheFrenchiestFry I wouldn't bother trying to argue your point. If someone on the internet (especially on a gaming forum) already has an opinion of you or your character, no amount of reasonable, rational argument will convince them otherwise.

My top 3 from this list:

• Banjo-Kazooie
• Perfect Dark
• Kameo: Elements of Power

But Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is better than all those games combined.

Anyone else not had any achievement count towards the Top 10 card? I unlocked 3 achievements in Master Chief Collection after activating the punch card and nothing.

@Blessed_Koz I'm not sure what you think I'm saying, but I'll reiterate what I said yesterday: I'm not defending anyone nor do I have a horse in this race that I'm backing. I'm merely stating facts along with my opinion on the subject.

It's not me who's all too eager to jump down the throats of anyone who disagrees with me, defend my choice of console (this gen, Xbox Series X) and, ironically, come across as every bit the slavering, mindless fanboy. You and too many other commenters have that base covered already.

@Stocksy this article isn't bashing Sony for the sake of it. It's not bashing Sony at all; it's merely a writer offering his opinion on a subject that (judging by the heated discussion) a lot of fans of videogames feel passionately about one way or the other. Would you rather the website isolate itself within its own little bubble away from the rest of the industry? Because that sounds a lot like fanboyism to me...

@Murray Whoa, cool your jets, mate. I don't have a favourite company, nor am I "defending" any company's decision to do anything; I have no horse that I'm backing, now or ever. I had a Vita, it was great and I bought tons of games for it, but the writing was on the wall with that thing: Sony stopped supporting it and bugger all people bought it. If any developer making a game for it didn't cancel it years ago, I'm sorry but that's on them.

@UltimateOtaku91 You're probably right. How many people in the grand scheme of things are actually buying PS3, PSP and Vita games today? I bet it's miniscule. (Also, who the Hell is developing and/or releasing a Vita game in 2021 and expecting a return on their investment?)

The only issue I would have is if Sony were cutting off people's access to content they've paid for. But this isn't just a digital storefront issue; this is an issue that's encompassing more of the industry as a whole as more games rely on servers to exist. One day, that copy of Destiny, Anthem or any other live service game that you own physically is also going to be useless; we'll all be locked out of accessing that content regardless.

@torne Yes, because the game was announced way too early, in 2012, and CDPR kept reminding consumers that the game was coming. This leads to hype, which leads to people asking "when are we going to see/play the game?" repeatedly for 8 years, which leads to release dates being bandied about. Then, of course, the game is realistically nowhere near ready for release, which leads to delay after delay, which leads to unhappy consumers, management and investors.. all culminating in a game that was half-baked and buggy after 8 years of CDPR and consumers hyping it up as the second coming.

If CDPR had worked on the game, kept their mouths shut until 5 or 6 months before the game would realistically be ready and announced it then, they wouldn't be in this mess.

@SegataSanshiro 36/40, I'm calling it.

I'm just thankful the game has released; the reviews are in, now we can stop seeing it on upcoming games lists and stop pretending it was ever going to be a good game.

The last home console F1 game I played was F1 World Grand Prix II on N64, so I could go an F1 game about now, as long as EA keeps their mitts off and it isn't riddled with microtransactions. That concern aside, there's no reason to believe that a Codemasters-developed entry with EA money behind it will be anything less than stellar.

Yeah, scrap it and focus on bringing the game to the level of quality it should have been to begin with.

@Michu2951 playing the Xbox One version on Xbox Series X, the load times are already instantaneous. The only way they could get any quicker would be if it loaded you into the new area before you'd pressed the button to fast travel. 😂

I swear that Microsoft is doing it on purpose at this point; pummel Gold members into submission with less than stellar games until they give in and just get GP Ultimate. 😂

@OliverOwen Probably the same type of person who bought Stadia in the first place.

@Trmn8r Let me tell you about every 3D Sonic game ever made...

A lot of the reviews being from brand new accounts is indeed suss, but "unnatural and very broken English"? Mate, that's just the Internet. I've needed the f**king Enigma machine to decipher some of the user reviews I've read over the years.

More Skyrim, more Titanfall 2, more Slay the Spire... and that's probably it. I've gotten myself into a happy little rut lately games-wise.

Oh, and Art of Rally looks good, I guess. But something tells me that's not the most pressing issue anymore. 😂

Site's broken. It won't let me like my own comment. 😂

@FraserG doing the live blog and writing/posting news? Someone's due a raise.

@UltimateOtaku91 it's technically not. Shareholders and various stakes in Daedalic Entertainment have been shifting around for years.

Smart Delivery is fantastic, but it's wholly reliant on third-party publishers playing ball.