Trippy
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Official Gameplay Reveal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Huy2cdih0Coming January Februrary 22, 2022. Looks like Dark Souls 4, unsurprisingly, despite being a new setting co-created with George R.R. Martin. Still has From's trademark janky animation work. Edit: Delayed a month
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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dat hair tho
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Falconeer
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This looks much better than I could possibly anticipate.
I wish GRRM weren't involved, and if I had to bet on something that could ruin this I would say it's GRRM and/or more traditional storytelling. But the trailier is incredible, makes me feel pretty sure this is gonna be fantastic. Like every single Miyazaki game.
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Korachia
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I could see myself playing this. That world building is quite enticing.
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Trippy
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Review embargo has lifted for those invited to the Closed Network test and impressions / previews / gameplay captures / etc. are coming in fast and furious.
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Official Gameplay Reveal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Huy2cdih0Coming January Februrary 22, 2022. Looks like Dark Souls 4, unsurprisingly, despite being a new setting co-created with George R.R. Martin. Still has From's trademark janky animation work. Edit: Delayed a month It does look like Dark Souls 4 and to me I am totally down with that. Loved all of the souls games and their different iterations. Some of the best replayability IMHO of all the recent AAA games. I hope From fixes magic though. Its kind of a bummer IMHO that magic wasn't very viable. I am also not sure that I liked the announcement about invasions not being a thing. I liked those personally. It gave the game an edge.
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Born too late to explore the new world. Born too early to explore the universe. Born just in time to see liberty die.
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Trippy
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In the Closed Network test magic was apparently OP according to some who played it.
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Falconeer
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Zero chances this isn't great.
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MournelitheCalix
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Zero chances this isn't great.
God I hope so, but I also thought that of Cyberpunk 2077. That being said I preordered this today.
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Born too late to explore the new world. Born too early to explore the universe. Born just in time to see liberty die.
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I am still not sure I understand the hate for Cyberpunk. It wasn't Robot Jesus but I had a good time.
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Exactly. I suppose a lot of people were really expecting robot Jesus so felt betrayed and grabbed the free pitchfork laying around.
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People were expecting it cause CD Projekt RED was promising it. And CDPR kept lying, especially about the previous gen console versions ("We had no idea the previous gen versions were unplayable!"), even after it was revealed they had been lying all along. They lied so badly about the state of the previous gen versions and pissed off Sony so much by promising refunds that were not theirs to promise that Sony pulled the game from its store for *6* months because it was such a trainwreck and handled so badly by CDPR.
Edit: kept
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I can sit here and repost every valid complaint I had about Cyberpunk, or you guys could just look back through the thread and remember "oh yeah, there was actually a bunch of stuff that was broken, unfinished, or unbalanced in that game, especially at launch which is why CDPR is still working on fixing it and keeping pushing back their timeline on DLC and current gen console versions".
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At this point, CP is way, way, way past the point of redemption. Not even Witcher 3 was this buggy.
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"No man is an island. But if you strap a bunch of dead guys together it makes a damn fine raft."
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Ya, the hype for CP, a lot of which came from CDPR themselves, was stratospheric (they claimed it would be the next generation of open world games), and the delivery did not match.
But to the thread at hand, I am not really a Dark Souls fan, but this first reveal tentatively looks really really promising.
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A poster signed by Richard Garriot, Brad McQuaid, Marc Jacobs and SmerricK Dart. Of course it would arrive a couple years late, missing letters and a picture but it would be epic none the less. -Tmon
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The thing about Elden Ring that I'm liking in the early commentaries is just that I can go where I want. The area transitions in Dark Souls games is what made them feel like world-like and more like action/puzzle.
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This is incoming on Friday. I haven't played a game that stuck with me for a long time, actually since HZD. Hope this is worth a long playthru and a lot of swearing at the TV.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Steam preloading is available now. 48.25 GB download.
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XBOX was last week... suckers.
Past gen consoles are reporting only ~30gig download and next gen is same as PC ~49gig
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Reviews coming up out of embargo now. Lotta folks calling it great, the best, all that, but also saying it's as hard as any Souls game if not harder in the boss fights.
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Trippy
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Lotta folks calling it great, the best, all that, but also saying it's as hard as any Souls game if not harder in the boss fights.
That doesn't sound right. Or more accurately, from what I've read and watched so far, because it's a true open world game, you can make boss fights easier or harder depending on how much you explore because of the gear you can find that don't involve the big boss fights. I.e. those that are complaining the boss fights are harder probably weren't exploring and trying to get through the main story as quickly as possible. Also build diversity was drastically limited in the review copies.
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This is what I have heard to date as well. Which is good for me, a Johnny ten thumbs. Or would that aid in a game like this? Maybe a Johnny ten pinkies.
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A poster signed by Richard Garriot, Brad McQuaid, Marc Jacobs and SmerricK Dart. Of course it would arrive a couple years late, missing letters and a picture but it would be epic none the less. -Tmon
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Yeah, I hope so--I am 100% a Bartle-type explorer so I'm often happy just foodling around a big world and avoiding complicated boss fights if I'm allowed.
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Anyone getting this on a PS4 Pro? Undecided on whether to play this on the smaller but better PC configuration or enjoy the larger presentation but sacrifice some load times and frames.
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-Rasix
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01101010
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XBS here... gave up on Sony.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Anyone getting this on a PS4 Pro? Undecided on whether to play this on the smaller but better PC configuration or enjoy the larger presentation but sacrifice some load times and frames.
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Rasix
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My office is an actual office nowadays 24/7. The PC aint movin'.
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Trippy
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3 1/2 more hours until unlock for PC users:
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Sky
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You're WFH but haven't set up a dedicated work space for the tax bennies?
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Getting it on the PS5. Might double dip on the PC at some point.
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And…still not available. GJ Valve.
Edit: need quit Steam because, reasons, and now it's patching.
Edit2: Okay either patch 1.02 is humongous or Valve fucked up the preload because it's downloading 50 GB.
Edit3: misread downloader, it's was unpacking and then downloading a small patch
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There's no tutorial and am dying on the first mini-boss since I'm way out of practice No DLSS support so can't run at 4K at 60 FPS on a 3060 Ti which is too bad so currently have it at 1440P. Am seeing the stuttering people are talking about so expected but unfortunate. Bloodstains don't seem to be working or maybe they are disabled cause their backend can't handle it right now. 99% of messages are trolling, at the moment, which is annoying. Edit: fucked up and hit the wrong button again and lost all my souls to earlier "trash mobs" *sigh* Also no native PS4 controller which isn't unexpected because, shitty FROMSoftware PC ports, but annoying. Edit2: to be clear I meant the mini-boss that's in the cave near the start. I somehow wandered right past the real (closest) first mini-boss initially.
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There's no tutorial
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