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@Decimateh I don't know about that man. It seems super unlikely that Xbox players review bombed an Xbox game. 3.4/5 is very high compared to my completely legitimate review.

Hi-Fi Rush was robbed

This is so hard for me to decide. It’s not my type of game but it’s supposed to be a masterpiece so why not? I’m concerned about console UI but people I trust love it. The world and lore look amazing but that’s true of Divinity 2 and I’ve owned that for years without bothering to play it.

@robe That's a good point. I'm not a big RPG person, and don't personally get much satisfaction from building up a character, so CaRPG mechanics might be especially lost on me while fun and enjoyable for others.

@robe People should be constantly complaining about the car leveling feature at every opportunity. I just did my first my first showcase which should be a big moment but a lot of the excitement is diminished by having to use basically the stock version of the car. This is the experience most people will have... driving stock versions of cars in career mode. It's silly that they were so dogmatic about "earned not bought" or whatever their dumb marketing phrase was.

@Fenbops I felt like they were much easier but they are not easy. Their attacks are super fast and relentless. It often felt like I was just trying to hang on as they did never ending combos with very small punish windows but they don't hit as hard as earlier bosses and seem to have less health.

One small caveat is that I understand these bosses to be especially hard for people who had been relying on dodging rather than parrying.

This game is amazing. I hope they drop some tough new bosses. After getting my ass kicked by the mid game bosses, I was a bit disappointed in the challenge of the bosses in chapter 11, though they were still super fun, so I am hoping they provide some final challenge bosses in DLC.

This is perfect for their hardcore fans who love to be dismissive of other games. As of now their fans can only arrogantly dismiss soulslikes as derivative and failing to match FS quality but in they future they will also get to be dismissive of new FS games and talk about how they prefer the games that came before FS watered down its staff.

FM has so many problems but I think the biggest issue is it’s just so bland. Nothing feels exciting. F1 which is a similarly dry racing game makes each race feel like an event thanks to the commentary and much better pre race shots of the track.

The game seems to be designed with online as the focus and single player being a place to grind out car levels so the majority of players will only ever get to experience sub-optimal vehicles. How did they miss the mark so badly?

I really hope we are nearing the end of companies chasing GaaS money.

@Dan1283 It's a bummer. I want to play more but don't want to have my experience tainted so I decided to delete it until they fix it. Playing games at launch is becoming an increasingly questionable decision.

I hope some of the upcoming content includes a game that doesn’t crash every time I try to play it.

What is even the point of a police sim if I cannot harass black men for fitting the description? That and stand and stare at their cell phone is like 98% of what cops do in my city.

@Balta666 I think the problem is less that they are tanky and more that the punish windows are almost always only long enough for a single attack. I normally play dex builds but switched to heavy for this because even with a light weapon it’s hard to get more than one hit in so the fights become slogs. I imagine even more so for you as the combat is predicated on staggering bosses via parrying.

@Balta666 I wish I had it in me to quit a tough game. The unrelenting difficulty of Lies of P bosses has sapped some fun out of the game but I'm just going to keep pushing that boulder up the hill. I don't normally have issues with souls games(beat Melania second try) but this game is hard AF for me.

@BBB That's interesting. I've fallen out of watching racing so I didn't consider that things might be handled differently these days. I think the inability to go door to door is the rub for me. It's weird that trading paint side by side gets penalized, especially during the initial ***** at the start of the race where I will often get sandwiched between two AI each trying to push my off the race line from either side.

@Titntin I think I figured out the issue with Forza AI. It seems like the cars just want to be magnetized to the ideal race line and will try to take it even if you're already occupying that space. They constantly force me off the track this way and then I get penalized with a 1 segment slowing the already frustratingly slow car progression.

@BBB I would argue that stock car racing, or at least NASCAR, which I grew up watching, is very much a contact sport. But this is just a different challenge and that’s fine.

I wish I could at least use a classic NASCAR technique of drafting into the car in front of me and pushing them forward so we could chase down the lead car, without being penalized CP, since Forza games always seem to handle difficulty by just making the first place car drive away from the pack so that when you clear the field they have an impossible to close lead.

@BBB The game seems to be really pushing clean racing which doesn't vibe with my rubbing is racing philosophy. It's fine, I also enjoy the challenge of keeping it completely clean but it is annoying to get a 1 segment score when the computer crashed into me.

@Mighty90 "I don't like these reviews about a video game, it must be because of those wokes." LOL what a silly way to process the world.

@Moonglow Why should it be on the consumer to slog through the boring part of the game and not on the developer introduce its story and systems in an entertaining manner? Tutorials and story setup don’t have to be boring and in many games they are exciting.

@OldGamer999 Sure options are great but I still don’t think it’s an attack on anyone’s preferences. I like the sort of game that Starfield is but some of their design choices turn me off so I just move on to games that give me what I want rather than being offended that it doesn’t cater to me.

@Romans12 I thought the demo was easier than most of Elden Ring. I think a lot of ER fans struggled with it because it’s asking you to parry rather than dodge. I saw a lot of ER streamers struggling because they kept trying to dodge exclusively even though the game seems to actively discourage dodging by making it as hard to use as parrying is in ER. I’m sure you could learn it if you wanted to.

@OldGamer999 I love when developers do this to gamers because I love the challenge. Why is them making a game for other people something for you to be upset about? Why can’t it just be okay that not every game is for everyone?

I definitely think this is the best year for games ever but it’s oddly a bit lost on me. FF16, Starfield, SF6, MK1, and BG3 are all not for me. Plus some games I anticipated ended up reviewing poorly for reasons I think would bother me if I tried them. As a result I loved 2022 way more than this year.

Hoping Mario, Alan Wake, lies of P, Ghostrunner, and Gunbrella turn the tide.

@Lightweight Is it possible that what you've identified is not hypocrisy and instead that there are hundreds of millions of gamers and some of them have opposing opinions?

Hell, I think it's even possible for the same person to completely reasonably think Redfall, primarily a shooter, is not okay at 30 fps but Starfield, primarily an immersive storytelling RPG is fine. For me personally Starfield at 30 fps was a deal breaker but 30 fps didn't impact my enjoyment of Zelda in the slightest. Different games and different people have different needs.

It’s a bummer that so few games have VRR implementation. It’s so good. Jedi Survivor ran so well with VRR that I wouldn’t have known it had performance issues if I had not read about it online.

@Tonmoy Yeah the thing about opinions is that they sometimes can contradict other peoples opinions. His tepid approval is just as valid as your glowing opinion. It would be absurd for anyone to accuse you of being a fanboy for enjoying the game just as it’s absurd to treat it like he was hating on the game when he was clearly just expressing some level of disappointment while still rating it as “good” and recommending the game.

@BBB Nice! I’m much more confident in my ability to win with a slightly suboptimal setup than I am in my ability and patience to personally optimize.

@Tonmoy The person who reviewed Starfield for IGN is a diehard Bethesda fan and even played Starfield in new game plus. I’m not sure what the issue is. He just didn’t love it. It’s an opinion and a well reasoned one if you read the article. Fair to disagree with their opinion but weird to consider it a problem based on not liking the score.

Trying to control my excitement. I love racing games but hate cars and have zero interest in learning to tune cars in a game so I’m hoping the RPG elements don’t require much mechanical knowledge.

6/10 - I gave it a go but the story and setting were not enough for me to put up with 30 fps shooting. You lose so much precision.

@Deljo That feels like a bad faith reply but I’ll take you seriously. Women account for 48% of Xbox owners vs 41% of ps owners. The average age of an Xbox owner is 33 vs 28 for ps. While the typical owner profile is the same across all consoles those are still significant enough margins to impact the tone of the communities.

@GrumpyDev You’re definitely right but there are degrees to this. Up until two years ago I had only ever had Nintendo consoles and decided it was time for an HD console. I didn’t have any prior allegiance but I ended up picking XBox because the PS community came across as incredibly toxic. I now own all three and frequent their communities across several websites and forums and still think PS is by far the most toxic. It makes sense when you consider that the PS audience is younger and skewed more towards men.

@evan23 It's crazy that RT was supposed to be a key feature of these consoles and now the only time I really ever hear about it is when it causes performance problems or is being used in very specific almost meaningless manner like looking at your cars in Forza. It's gorgeous but just doesn't work with the current console generation.

@lacerz Curious that you chose a bunch of mixed quotes and a quote about it being queer inclusive. It's almost as though you find inclusiveness to be a negative. Is that what you intended?

If you're upset about this you really need to take a look in the mirror and reconsider how you treat people. I am 100% confidant that I will never receive a strike.

@Ep_13 I don't know man, I just reread through this chat and it seems very 50/50 to me. It seems like to you the definition of everybody is the people who agree with you. People want what they want. And a lot of people want split screen. I don't understand why that is a problem for you? Do you own Microsoft stock or something?

@Ep_13 "The features you want are unpopular and can wait. It's the features I want they need to prioritize." He said to several people in the chat without realizing the hypocrisy.

@Pigrotto AAA, AA, and indie are basically shorthand for big budget, medium budget, and low budget. So much so that low budget games produced by major publishers like Ori or Good Job are called indie despite being published by Microsoft and Nintendo. Or Lost in Random being called AA despite being developed and published by EA.

@UndyingInsurgent95 I love AA games! I'm currently playing Remnant 2 and Plague Tale Requiem and loving both. That's part of why I would have felt compelled to play this at full cost had the reviews been the 80s. And I do agree with you that a lot of people seem to have a much lower barrier for dismissing non-AAA games but my comment was based on my gaming budget struggling to keep up with the onslaught of amazing games this year.

@RIghteousNixon I get what your saying but I do think engineers should strive to make the lightest controller possible without compromises. I think we have just all held so many crap electronics that are weirdly light, because they compromised quality, that we have a bias against them being light.

@UndyingInsurgent95 The aggregate score is currently sitting at 67, the same score as the widely mocked Forespoken. It received a lot of 4s and 5s from various outlets.

In a world with thousands of 7-10 games, it is very rare that I will play a 6. Having read and watched some reviews this doesn't sound like it is going to be a low scoring exception for me, especially at $60. Maybe when it drops to $10.

Also your response is needlessly aggressive.

@Fenbops I was just mentioning to my wife that it's weird to me that some people see weight as a measure of a quality electronic device. I'm holding it in my hand sometimes for hours, it should be light. That is premium to me and if it means leaving out a few bells and whistles I am fine with that.

Nope! I turn the trigger BS off on PS5 games because it hurts my hands and there is nothing immersive about a hunk of plastic constantly shaking aggressively in my hands, it's just distracting.

Plus most third party developers don't even try to do anything interesting with the haptics, Sony studios also seem to be doing less and less, so it makes the controller more expensive for nothing.

This is year is so stacked that I'm kind of relieved this came out to mostly bad reviews. It's the type of game that would have given me FOMO if the reviews were great and I didn't buy it day one.

@K1LLEGAL It only takes a few hours to beat and has the most generous check pointing possible so it shouldn't be too hard to knock out quickly if it is leaving.

@Jenkinss You Suck at Parking is a hidden gem. I need more driving based platformers in my life.

@Fenbops Those have been on my list for a while. If they are parry based, I definitely need to prioritize them.

I'm not normally pedantic but Deadspace-like? It's a survival horror game, no need to make up a genre.