Love Silent Hill 2 but I don't think the remake will be good. Would love to be proved wrong as more good games is always better.

I think fundementally, above art style, is the convergence of controls and game genres in this era that would hold it back. Everything has to control like a streamlined 3rd person shooter with efficient camera controls. So much of what made specific genres work in the ps2 era was the specific controls and camera that put less emphasis on action and more on the games intent. These days I think people would fill a diaper if a game wasn't controlling exactly how they expected.

Control gimmicks are awesome and we need more diversity in how we play games. Motion controls on the Wii were great with games like Sin and Punishment 2 and Wario Ware Smooth moves being absoulte bangers. But the best control gimmick I can think of is the NeGCon on the PSX! It's depressing to think that all racing games are categorically terrible because they don't support use of a PS1 controller. Not to mention I'm sure indie developers could make great use of that twist motion in all sorts of ways if it was standard.

Returnal is up there for best game of the generation so far. It's that and Elden Ring are the top two for sure. Tough to order them.

Only negative is the trophy list. I didn't go for the plat because it's uninteresting. Just grinding for collectables. Why not give us skill based challenges? All biomes on one life? Beating bosses with specific weapons that are hard to use? A speedrun?

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This couple. I was expecting kind of a God of War style knock off game but I got way more than that.

The story and main characters are just entertaining to follow and it's just a good tale about ghosts, spectres and the afterlife.

The gameplay like I said, could be seen as a God of War knock off but it's actually more like an RPG where skills, items you carry and weapons you collect start stacking until you can do some insane amounts of damage. This makes fighting the unforgiving enemies a ton of fun.

The UI in this game is sublime: everything is made to make it easier on the player and to be as simple as straightforward as it can be, without ever feeling hand holdy. Systems that seem complex like having towns with quests in between are just plain easy to navigate in this game, everything was made with the player in mind.

Compare it to Suicide Squad where the UI there would make baby Jesus cry.

Yeah I saw this at my local library on ps5 and borrowed it thinking it would probably be mid but worth a few minutes of playtime and yet I got hooked pretty quick. I think I'm definitely going to beat it.

I tried to like it but it's totally ruined by loot. Loot makes any game terrible if you're not a degenerate gambling addict. I literally have a math degree and find all the various stat buffs and debuffs and numbers confusing.

One thing about human suffering in the games industry is at least it scales well. Like if 1000 people have to suffer for GTA 6, but literally 10s of millions or even possibly 100 million people love it, it balances out. Also you buying the game doesn't cause marginally more harm to anyone; the damage is fixed in order to get the product to market.

Compare that with eating meat; every bite of beef is marginally more suffering for animals. Or using a car: marginally more carbon with each trip. I think it's worth worrying about ones actions when you consider the scaling factor. Eating animals for meat: suffering scales with consumption. Testing medicine or products on animals: suffering is a fixed value, go use products tested on animals all day!

Heck, you don't even need to do a trade in to aleviate *some* of the cost. Usually on facebook marketplace or craigslist, it's easy to find people who will straight up do a full trade game for game when they're both new and worth roughly the same. It's a win win because both parties get to play a new game.

Garbage. How are you supposed to play 4K blu rays which have better picture quality than any streaming service. Given the amount gamers care about image quality you'd think would be a huge deal

It's kinda wild what a difference a few percentage points of interest makes. Just a few years ago they were in a fever pitch of spending wayy too much money on aquisitions. Now it feels like both companies gaming divions are total failures with bleak futures. Kinda sad really.

I hope it's not true. Resident Evil has a perfect balance of not being a linear coridor move only straight game and also not a bland directionless Ubisoft Map cleaner. They have some dense multipathed spaces you get to learn. Like the Racoon City Police station/RE1 mansion or to a lesser extent the villiage/castle of RE4/8