clvr

Lol this must be one of the worst takes of all time, but then again what do you expect from an out of touch a hole who designed games with ridiculous stories and can't even understand a basic Metroid room?
If anything, Starfield is a terrible game on so many fronts, story included. Characters are cardboard cutouts, factions are nearly indistinguishable from one another, the worldbuilding is atrocious unimaginative, and completely at odds with itself (grounded Nasapunk but also space magic? Sure), and the central mystery is never resolved.
If that's a great story to him, I hope he never approaches a writers' room.

I've been playing it for a couple of days and I've already sunk so many hours into it.
While it technically isn't my kind of game, I consider it to be one of those incredibly rare perfect games.

Tried and got bored of it soon enough as I'm not into MH, but I definitely recommend it to anyone with a passing interest in this as it's not often you see a debut game so polished and innovative, way more than any recent AAA game.

@Isolte this is wrong on so many levels.
If you design around consoles first (as Rockstar do) and can't optimise decently for those because of "scope" and "size", well, you gotta rethink your priorities.
Then again, Rockstar games are the most overrated in the whole business, with the same stale and dated gameplay and the excruciatingly limiting mission design, and I don't expect any of that to change with GTA VI. It'll just be prettier.

@Kieduss people like you, who jump to absurd, borderline conspiratorial conclusions based on no evidence at all with the smugness of an expert, and on top of that spew out generalized judgements on a whole group of people, are actually why we can't have nice things.

@clvr I was being ironic.
Do you really think a 3rd person Blade game is a good fit for Arkane?

@Ricky-Spanish I don't even know how to reply to such a non-sequitur.
Did you even read what I wrote?

I'm so freaking mad.
Machine Games is one of the best studios around, so let's not let them do their own thing, no, let's force them onto a stupid license that doesn't fit them so they can deliver a mediocre game based on an outdated series of mediocre movies, great idea!
I'm so looking forward to Arkane's Blade game 🤬

Seriously, **** MS and this industry.
You got a successful new IP like Tango? Closed.
You have a successful series in Wolfenstein? Make stupid Indiana Jones.
You made some of the best immersive Sims ever? Let's throw you in the live service mines, then shut down one studio and have the other make a 3rd person Blade game, perfect fit.

@Tasuki yeah let's blame the players, makes sense!
Just because an infinitesimally small percentage of the community buy this crap doesn't mean all of the community wants it, I feel daft even having to say that out loud.
And let's not forget that they wouldn't buy them in the first place if they weren't offered to them.
Supply decides demand in these cases.

Oh and the "unrealistic" remark makes no sense.
Nicky Minaj and Snoop Dogg are realistic models, but they're still wildly out of place.
It's a matter of having an identity and style of your own compared to being a kitchen sink of nonsensical crossovers, which both Cod and Fortnite have devolved into.

A couple of matches of The Finals are my go to, otherwise it depends on what I'm playing at the moment.
Usually boomer shooters are also good because they tend to have short levels (and I love them to bits lol).

@K1LLEGAL 😂😂😂😂
I bet he's also enhanced now that PS5 Pro is out lol

Definitely Wolfy TNO, and it surely won't be toppled by a stupid licensed game.
I'm so sick of seeing some of the very best teams in the industry forced onto safe, licensed products instead of being able to create their own thing.
Who knows how long we'll have to wait for Wolfenstein III or a new IP because of freaking Indiana Jones, which I personally never found the appeal of.
The nail in the coffin was the announcement of a 3rd person Blade game by Arkane. That's just throwing darts at a wall for sure.
Sorry, rant over.

@Fiendish-Beaver not missing much to be honest.
The fun factor of the PS2 games is completely gone in favour of a "realistic" movement system, that, coupled with the still abysmal controls and average at best gameplay, make for a very clunky experience.
The story is embarrassingly bad, with no satire or bite whatsoever, and not even a shred of coherence.
I could go on but I think I gave you a rough idea lol

Seeing GTA 6 and especially Borderlands 4 at the top is disheartening. Not unexpected, just disheartening. Two of the most overrated and unfun series ever.
Also, they're publishing and giving updates on Judas, but what about Bioshock 4?

@PapaGlitch haven't played Gears so can't comment on that, but I 100% agree on Halo.

Forza: I'm not into cars or racing games.

Gears: I'm not into cover shooters as I find them boring and dull, and the dudebro aesthetics are just terrible to me, so that's one series I have literally zero interest in playing.

Halo: where to even begin...I was hyped to try out this series for the first time via the MCC a few years ago, and I came away with my personal second biggest disappointment (behind Starfield).
None of the games clicked with me as I found very little variance, especially in the first three, and the level design is just abysmal in my eyes, being used to playing tightly-woven boomer shooter levels. I even replayed all of CE in co-op, but both the other player and I came away pretty disappointed.
Infinite I completed and I found quite mid.
I'll always concede that the basics of moving and shooting are very good: I'm not one of those who think Halo sucks because it's too slow and floaty compared to the classics of the '90; on the contrary, I enjoy them and think they give the series its own personality.
But literally everything else, well...is just not for me.

The whole withholding review codes thing is a definite yikes, so not sure how positive the reception actually is.
Not to mention the actually negative reviews from trusted reviewers such as SkillUp.

@Fenbops tell me you don't know what communism is without telling me.

Remedy games just don't do it for me personally.

@CallMeDuraSouka exactly what I came here to comment.
These people have to stop saying "but we are proud of it, we worked hard!". Of course you do, but that doesn't automatically make the game any good.
You can work hands to your bones, but if you have no direction, no design doc, and the single most uninspired "sci fi" setting ever (if we can even call it that), well, the result is not going to be good, and of course it wasn't.

I mean, I'm not sure what people were expecting.
A Phantom Liberty happens once in a blue moon.
This game was always a travesty too big to solve with a simple DLC.

Ok, but what about that leaked Sebile controller with gyro and updated haptics? Have they given up on that? Cause I'm honestly bummed Xbox doesn't have a gyro option, otherwise it would be the best controller hands down.

The beta was admittedly fun, so I may track down a used copy down the line. (I don't have Gamepass and I like my games to be physical lol)

The greatest disappointment ever for me personally.
I've never been a Bethesda fan (I'd only played Skyrim before and thought it was ok at best), but for some reason I was super hyped for this game, and I was so looking forward to becoming a space pirate and contraband shady stuff all over the galaxy.
The red flags were there, so it's on me as well, but the game really ended up an abysmal mess.
Nothing coheres, nothing makes sense, the universe is so unimaginative it could've been set in 2035, every single system is shallow at best and pointless at worst, and you're constantly railroaded through a series of false choices that end up meaning squat in the grand scheme of things (but even in the small one too lol).
The writing is (again) unimaginative and terrible: there's a whole universe you can fill with all sorts of societies but no, let's default to two identical capitalistic models that oppose each other for no practical reason other than buzzwords.
This game has such little bite it won't even stop you from joining a faction that's rivals with one you're already affiliated with. You can't kill "important" NPCs. I could go on.
Oh, and one thing that bugs me to no end but I never hear criticized: why is there space magic in this game? Wasn't this supposed to be a "NASApunk", "grounded" take on a sci-fi universe?
Because that's what drew me in in the first place.

Makes a mediocre game at best, and is surprised by the lukewarm reception?

Absolutely not, I couldn't be less interested in a game than a SW Ubi game.

It has insta fail stealth. In 2024.
Explain to me how this is an 8.

Oh look, a band aid on a flooding dam lol

I've been in a DOOM mood (lol) recently, so I'm replaying 2016 on my Steam Deck and I'll also play Legacy Of Rust there.
On Xbox I'll certainly play The Finals, I'm basically addicted to that game lol

I mostly play alone but I use it often to play FC or Hypercharge with my friends and my cousin.
Also used to use it a lot more before my ex dumped me out of nowhere.

I've always been interested in this one for its uniqueness and setting, but it looks a bit too daunting to get into for me.
If the onboarding with this new version is done correctly, I might bite!

Never found any appeal in the character or movies, so definitely a pass for me.
Someday I'll get Wolfenstein 3, someday...

Edit: also, I'm so sick of these super talented studios making safe, licensed games instead of being let do their own thing.
I'm still salty that Arkane is being wasted on that stupid Blade game nobody asked for, and doesn't even look a good fit for them.
First Redfall and the closure of the Austin studio, now this, I guess Arkane will never be back to making it's usual GOAT material.
And to think I was so hopeful they would have a lot of creative freedom under Xbox, silly me.

My Series X is my first Xbox console and I absolutely love it as a piece of hardware, but I gotta say no high point for me so far on the first party games front.
I was hoping for it to be Starfield, but that ended up as my biggest disappointment in gaming ever. Seriously, it's so boring, outdated and all over the place it really makes you wish design docs were a thing at Bethesda.
Halo Infinite was the usual slop, although I did have some fun with its campaign compared to the MCC ones.
I'm not into cars but I guess Forza fans at least have been eating good, and the same goes for Flight Sim fans.
Me, I'll wait patiently for Clockwork Revolution.
It really looks to have all the hallmarks to be an all time favourite for me, but I don't wanna hype myself up too much lol.

I'm super happy for them! I bought it day one and have been having a blast playing through it with my friend! Much deserved!

There's a new Doom game announced, what kind of question is that? Lol

Not sure why they wouldn't just reboot Quake as everything seemed to point to...but yeah I'll take anything Doom and be happy with it, I'm just curious and unsure about the direction they're gonna take it in after TAG2's ending seemed like a send-off for the Slayer and the series for the time being.

Another mention of The Finals and still no review, just like PS 😭
That game is so freaking awesome!

Nope.
I'll only be interested if they add meaningful interactivity with the world, the controls don't suck, and the mission design isn't pulled straight from 25 years ago.

Doom is one of my favourite series ever, so don't get me wrong I'm super excited, but I thought it was a given we would get a Quake reboot next, after the remasters, the story of Doom being complete after TAG 1&2, and comments byHugo himself that suggested they'd move away from it for the time being.

@Traygor same, and I'm a bit ashamed of confessing that it's basically the only game I've played since it launched lol
I've always been a single player guy, never been into online multiplayer, but man is this game something else entirely.
The mechanics, the aesthetics, the lore... everything's just so well made and polished, not even mentioning how innovative it is.
I've always hated the F2P model, but Embark being an independent studio I can totally see why they went that route, and it's that exact reason that compelled me to buy some currency (never bought any micro transactions ever before), because they are independent and honestly deserve all the success and money they can get.
The way they constantly update the game weekly based on player feedback is just the icing on top of an absolutely delicious cake.

No The Finals. Shame on you.

The makers of Prey. One of the best games ever made, probably the best immersive SIM ever.
Shut down, like this.
I'm speechless.

Nah, I dropped it ages ago.
Halo is not my thing in the first place, but I had decent fun at the beginning.
But with The Finals out now and Embark doing basically everything right, I can't see myself playing any other multiplayer FPS for a very long time, aside from maybe trying out XDefiant when (if?) it launches.

No One mentioning Timesplitters? That's a real shame lol

@NintendoByNature because some opinions simply have no merit by not being based in reality: opinions are not created equal.
Also, noone is name calling anyone, people here are attacking the GOP's draconian political agenda (and rightly so), not individuals.