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So Xbox Series X is going to launch in November with no flagship launch title? Am I understanding this correctly?
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Aug 11, 2020 20:21
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Coming tomorrow: “PS5 October 31”
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Aug 11, 2020 20:21
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Zushio posted:Aloy sounds like alloy. Which makes sense in my head because an alloy is a combination of metals, whereas Aloy is a combination of the old and new. I just assumed it was the female form of Aloysius but this makes some sense
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Aug 11, 2020 20:21
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Baggot posted:So Xbox Series X is going to launch in November with no flagship launch title? Am I understanding this correctly? Consoles don’t really launch with flagships anymore do they. I can’t remember anything good from the first year of ps4 games, it’s always placeholder stuff that is forgotten a couple of years in
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Aug 11, 2020 20:23
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knack had some staying power, in a manner of speaking
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Aug 11, 2020 20:25
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What's the PS5 launching with, Miles Morales? That's a tich better but now it's looking like Hyped Up Junk 2077 is gonna be the must-get launch title for the new console generation.
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Aug 11, 2020 20:25
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Consoles don’t really launch with flagships anymore do they. I can’t remember anything good from the first year of ps4 games, it’s always placeholder stuff that is forgotten a couple of years in PS4 had Killzone: Shadow Fall, which despite its reputation in retrospect was a first-party AAA shooter from a flagship studio. PS5 is going to have Spider-Man: Miles Morales, presumably.
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Aug 11, 2020 20:25
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PS5 also gets the pack-in Astro Bot game, but yeah Cyberpunk is gonna be the closest thing to a flagship-quality title at launch.Bust Rodd posted:Lmao bullying works COVID hosed the world months ago, MS was saying Halo in 2020 as recently as 3 weeks ago, all that's changed since then is widespread ridicule of the gameplay reveal. I really think we're looking at a Sonic movie situation here.
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Aug 11, 2020 20:30
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acksplode posted:PS5 also gets the pack-in Astro Bot game, but yeah Cyberpunk is gonna be the closest thing to a flagship-quality title at launch. From the Geoff Keighley PS5 controller stream it looked like Astrobot is a glorified tutorial for the new controller features, not a real game in any sense.
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Aug 11, 2020 20:45
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Red Warrior posted:From the Geoff Keighley PS5 controller stream it looked like Astrobot is a glorified tutorial for the new controller features, not a real game in any sense. It's billed as a smaller spinoff, and it's there to showcase the controller, but it's also explicitly a sequel to one of the best PSVR games by a mile, so I'm looking forward to it. I'm sure it'll be more than a glorified tutorial.
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Aug 11, 2020 20:48
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Ben Nerevarine posted:I just assumed it was the female form of Aloysius but this makes some sense There's a few different metal related names in there. Rost is rust, for example.
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Aug 11, 2020 20:53
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Consoles don’t really launch with flagships anymore do they. No. Sony puts out a few games they can take a hit on at launch, but ultimately there will be a couple of million PS5s in the wild and 100 million PS4s at release. they'd never make a big game a launch title unless it was cross gen.
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Aug 11, 2020 20:55
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Red Warrior posted:From the Geoff Keighley PS5 controller stream it looked like Astrobot is a glorified tutorial for the new controller features, not a real game in any sense. They've said that Astro Bot is a "multi-hour game" and not a tutorial.
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Aug 11, 2020 20:56
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Sony and MS openly said how COVID hosed up their game development pipelines so you have to imagine that some of the 2021 games they announced like Demon's Souls or Horizon: Forbidden West were originally intended to be launch/launch window games.
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Aug 11, 2020 20:57
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Demon's Souls maybe, HZD no way.
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Aug 11, 2020 21:03
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Baggot posted:So Xbox Series X is going to launch in November with no flagship launch title? Am I understanding this correctly? they always do that. hell so did sony for awhile. you know its hosed if nintendo dont bother (wiiu lol)
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Aug 11, 2020 21:09
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spider-man not 2 is gonna be a good launch game anyway, plus BUGSNAX is 100% launch
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Aug 11, 2020 21:10
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Bugsnax is on ps4 too
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Aug 11, 2020 21:11
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The thing is that PS4 launched without the features that Xbox were touting and then removing after their horrendous reveal for the Xbox One. It was cheaper than the xbox and it just blew away the competition even without games. Now we are like in a reset and not much is really out there to make a good decision to buy one of these, but xbox just lost its one big launch title and if you're going multiplatform and you're coming from a PS4 (hell or a xbox one) you will just stick with a PS5. Sony built a huge and loyal install base with PS4 that is going to pay off right now imo
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Aug 11, 2020 21:19
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I just started Spider-Man and it's, like, a greatest hits of open world mechanics. It's even got the "wiggle the sticks to manipulate a waveform" minigame
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Aug 11, 2020 21:21
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Bust Rodd posted:Lmao bullying works 
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Aug 11, 2020 21:33
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I have a PS4 poor that's very old and dying so getting PS5 to play PS4 games is not the worst thing in the world. Death Stranding and Cyberpunk would run like garbage on my current system, and Demons Soul/Spiderman 1.5 will keep me busy for a while.
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Aug 11, 2020 21:35
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Red Warrior posted:From the Geoff Keighley PS5 controller stream it looked like Astrobot is a glorified tutorial for the new controller features, not a real game in any sense. Same as it was on PS4 with Playroom. A mini-game collection showcasing the system features that no one else will ever use.
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Aug 11, 2020 21:37
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Fix posted:Same as it was on PS4 with Playroom. A mini-game collection showcasing the system features that no one else will ever use. Hey, Sucker Punch used them! For graffiti!
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Aug 11, 2020 22:34
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Pretty sure Ubisoft is just loving with us https://twitter.com/GameSpot/status/1293255295695753216?s=20
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Aug 11, 2020 23:14
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FlamingLiberal posted:Pretty sure Ubisoft is just loving with us I never finished the entire Splinter Cell series. Did Sam get brain damage at some point in the later games?
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Aug 11, 2020 23:17
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veni veni veni posted:I never finished the entire Splinter Cell series. Did Sam get brain damage at some point in the later games? No, that's just what Michael Ironside sounds like now.
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Aug 11, 2020 23:19
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acksplode posted:PS5 also gets the pack-in Astro Bot game, but yeah Cyberpunk is gonna be the closest thing to a flagship-quality title at launch. I keep wanting this to say "Astro Boy" and I'm disappointed every time. 
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Aug 11, 2020 23:33
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I am getting back into Ghosts of Tsushima now that I’ve finished Bloodborne. Before, every time I played GoT I felt guilty that I should be playing the more difficult and historically beloved Bloodborne. GoT is a relaxing open world romp with fun combat, in comparison. Also the photo mode is dope as all heck 
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Aug 11, 2020 23:43
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they patched ffxiv today and i played 10 hours of ffxiv today and I love ffxiv so goddamn much
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Aug 11, 2020 23:47
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Arist posted:they patched ffxiv today and i played 10 hours of ffxiv today and I love ffxiv so goddamn much hm, this
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Aug 11, 2020 23:48
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Arist posted:they patched ffxiv today and i played 10 hours of ffxiv today and I love ffxiv so goddamn much If I was starting FFXIV from scratch how long would it take to get to the good stuff I hear so much about?
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Aug 11, 2020 23:52
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Necrothatcher posted:If I was starting FFXIV from scratch how long would it take to get to the good stuff I hear so much about? There is good stuff throughout. It will take you hundreds of hours to get to this specific good stuff at the end, but most of that time will be spent with other also good stuff
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Aug 11, 2020 23:54
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Necrothatcher posted:If I was starting FFXIV from scratch how long would it take to get to the good stuff I hear so much about? So, with this patch release today they extended the free trial. You can register a new account (sadly, it has to be new, if you've bought the game or an expansion or paid the subscription at all you're no longer eligible for the trial) and play up to the 3.55 patch, which is the very end of the first expansion. The first expansion is widely considered to be a massive step up in quality in virtually all aspects, because the 2.0 release and following patches were made in a mad scramble to get as much content out as humanly loving possible after they had to relaunch the game following the disaster of 1.0. At the same time, the developers also cut a lot of bullshit fluff from the story quests preceding the start of the first expansion that was really only there to pad out the length. It took me months to get through that stuff, but they cut several quests and streamlined many more. Like, previously you'd have to fill up a bucket like six times and now you just get a full bucket. It's great. The initial pace is still quite slow because it's introducing MMO concepts to a Japanese audience less familiar with them, but once it gets going it's incredible.
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Aug 12, 2020 00:07
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I managed to do 90% of the available content in just over a month but I played it for 12+ hours a day every day.
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Aug 12, 2020 00:07
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Baggot posted:So Xbox Series X is going to launch in November with no flagship launch title? Am I understanding this correctly? Microsoft isn't dumb, they're just taking a high risk business strategy with Xbox. They're going for a service and ecosystem model whereas Sony is playing a classic console strategy.
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Aug 12, 2020 00:10
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I'll likely never buy an Xbox (due to PC existing) but Microsoft have me locked into the Xbox gamepass ecosystem now with their $1 promo and $5 ongoing sub. That's money I was never going to give them for products they're already going to make. I imagine if they can rope enough people like me into gamepass that running hard at the home entertainment manufacturer hoop will be less important.
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Aug 12, 2020 00:19
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Howard Phillips posted:Microsoft isn't dumb, they're just taking a high risk business strategy with Xbox. They're going for a service and ecosystem model whereas Sony is playing a classic console strategy. Yeah, but launching a big, expensive new console in the middle of a pandemic without any first party launch titles doesn't help with either of those. Shirkelton fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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Aug 12, 2020 00:19
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Man it feels like pulling teeth out of these companies to get any kind of release date info, the point where people are going off street dated boxes of supposed leakers.
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Aug 12, 2020 00:25
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Policenaut posted:Man it feels like pulling teeth out of these companies to get any kind of release date info, the point where people are going off street dated boxes of supposed leakers.
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