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Did I miss the review for this game from this site? (Not that it matters to me. My game will be here in a few hours. )

Glad they showed a lot of the past releases. Although some of it as a multi system gamer aren’t “new” releases, it does help show what games have come out and the cadence. That can get lost if you own the game on another system already. Nice to see what is in the pipeline.

I refuse to buy vengeance at this point but I will play for free.

Got south of midnight preloaded already!

If I had to pick I would say Morrowind and Redguard. But honestly Bethesda could just bankroll skyblivion and save some time.

It would be funny if the rumor was actually just Skyblivion and some leaker got confused.

I think it is too early but I also think this has been a lackluster generation (I'd argue so was the xbone) but time marches on, So if they have the tech for it, I suppose they might as well as move forward. I'm going back to PC (waiting on TES6) so I will be an observer next gen.

Never played a snowmobile game. Will take a look. I miss extreme winter sports games.

It would be nice if UPS would show up early… lol. Anyway, my series x is ready to go!

Gonna tackle the mail-lady. Gimme mah game!

I am hoping the sound direction will be great as I may get some new music to cover.

Is it time yet!? I swear it has been a bit since I have been this excited for an assassin’s creed game as valhalla did absolutely nothing for me. Anyway. Mine just shipped and should arrive on release day. Work is insane so I can’t play until the weekend. Gonna get some snacks, order a pizza and become one with the couch. Been slamming chores after work so I can do nothing this weekend. Between this and xenoblade I should really be set until august or so. Hope that by then ghost of yotei will be out. Will probably cancel gamepass for a few months. (Will have to buy coral island though).

The setting, characters and brotherhood type aspects means this is likely gonna be my favorite modern AC. (1 is still my favorite in the series overall).

Not to knock or compare but I think that this game will better explore themes with Naoe that I wished had been done with the blade twins in rise of the ronin.

Edit: I am so stoked at what sounds like a real return to the option of stealth gameplay. I plan on doing a playthrough as each character but I am looking forward to becoming a deadly shadow with Naoe.

Might purchase the yakuza games. Problem is I already have them on ps3/4.

@darylb24 Thanks! Ok that puts me on the books for 4 playthroughs.

Co op is an instant no for me. Hope others enjoy though.

@FraserG Do y’all know if it has Japanese language options? Trying to find out if I need to import a copy as well.

Just waiting on mine to ship!! So excited! Already cleared display space for the CE.

Edit: just shipped!

The console is hideous. Controller kinda looks nice but I would hate to pay taxes on that thing.

Just waiting on my shipment notification from gamestop. Booked PTO already.

I would buy it again personally. But the gamer brigade dislikes this game.

Any step closer to an xbox OS has my vote. It’s based on windows anyway. But I would love to be able to pay MS for an OS license that allows me to turn my PC into an xbox with disc support.

Weeelll, I hope whatever happens doesn’t result in layoffs but other than that I am not impacted. Ubisoft has closed internal studios that I liked and the last franchise I was invested in, I will be departing after the new game hits my mailbox. Most of the franchises I love lost their original creators so I don’t expect sequels to be good if they happen. I have a ton of Ubisoft games to replay and beat. Super excited for AC shadows but that’s it.

Hey if that allows them to put money into franchises I care about (AA, Onimusha, SF, Kunitsugami) then I am all for it. Go get your bag!

At this point I am stepping away from xbox and sony for next gen (ROI has been on steady decline for me and with Sony investing in PC, no need to keep buying boxes that I can play all the same games on PC) and moving back towards PC, so if anything I hope a "PC like" xbox means better integration with windows and PC gaming.

Let me marry Hadrian!!!

Are we at the point that the series x has been used to its fullest potential? Doesn’t feel like it to me.

@GamingFan4Lyf assuming that is (rounding up) 600k after taxes I would pay off my debt, then lock 50% into high interest CDs, give my folks 20k each, stack my emergency fund to cover two years plus moving expenses, invest 10k into domestic bonds and foreign stocks. Funnel 100k into my 529 (education investment account), put 100k into a HYSA to save for a house down payment (I would keep adding to this while I look for a house and wait for the housing market to dip), get a new eye and maybe a new custom eye, new glasses and keep 20k as fun money (would spend half of that on new taiko and a second shamisen) and then slowly feed the CDs (I would have them stagger) onto the stock market so I can buy on dips but not shed/burn money since the stock market looks terrible right now. Not life changing but I could free up the leverage of my salary (plus correct the Millennial setbacks) and it would be life changing for my parents at this state.

@TheGiraffe Nah you aren’t alone. It just tends that people that like games spend more time playing than talking about them. Negative people tend to spend more time telling everyone why they dislike somebody/something, how nobody else likes it and how the company should go bankrupt. Happens with everything really.

Geez between merch and the game I have dropped 900 USD. Lol 😂 no regrets.

Might have convinced myself to get that Kassandra statue I keep talking myself out of.

@Lup open world? I would say no

There is the Ghost series (only one game out now)
If you lump time periods you can say rise of ronin (as it is focused on the Meiji Restoration) and way of the samurai 4 (kinda it isn’t open world in the ubisoft fashion) also the Like a Dragon spin off games (not open world though).

While not truly open world the rest of the way of the samurai series (minus katanakami). And Okami. Granted that is older than the sengoku period and is based on Shinto.

Nioh and sekiro are mission based so not open world…

Honestly I would say no. I would also say there has been a massive decrease in stand alone games that focus on feudal Japan as well with only staples like Nobunaga’s Ambition, the Samurai Musou/Warriors series being modern examples. A lot of the ancient Japan themed (as in set in Japan) games faded after the PlayStation 3/vita era. Some games are coming back like Onimusha which makes its lore in the sengoku era (well the the third game has time travel…) and Okami is getting a new sequel. But until Ghost there hasn’t really been an attempt at an historical simulator. Likely because some countries ban samurai imagery and Japanese devs didn’t want to deal with that. I am not really surprised that the historical simulators that are open world like this are made by western studios. Japanese devs tend to like “inspired by” games so they can be loose with culture and make changes for global audiences. I think a lot of times westerners lump “inspired by”(onimusha,shinobi,ninja gaiden, goemon) games and say “oh that’s feudal japan”. But that would be like saying the early Final Fantasy games were medieval europe.

I am not who you tagged but I tend to gravitate to these types of games so wanted to respond.

I haven’t been this excited for an Assassin’s Creed game for a long time. Went all out (CE, two statues and hidden blade. May buy the tankard). Ubisoft has (based on what I have seen with hands on previews) made the assassin’s creed I have been waiting for. This will be my last (the story has long gone off the deep end so I am no longer as invested…I feel like I am the only person that actually cared about the modern storyline.) but what a way to go! I plan on 3 playthroughs. My only hope is that it has a Japanese language version. If it doesn’t I will also buy a Japanese region version.

Edit: oh snap they made a shogi board. So glad today is payday. Hahaha just bought it.

Cool, looking forward to what Bethesda has to share.

Got my “you better have my money” email from GameStop today. Can’t wait!

This is where owning so many dev studios pays off.

@tobsesta99 whoops forgot to reply. Well here’s hoping that you can make a nice independent project.

@themightyant agreed and thanks for the convo. Most don’t indulge my rambles. This was fun. You have yourself a wonderful day!

Also I love the museum and NASA base lore.

@themightyant oh yeah. I think because a game world is under the full control of the author it makes those that play want “the full story”. Imo sometimes it is best when games remain ambiguous (I think Mass Effect got worse the more we learned about the Reapers, same with Dragon Age and Assassin’s Creed-simply the narrative not the bandwagon reasons people have issues with those games. ) as it allows for focus on the present and gives the writers options for future content. Zelda’s approach allows Nintendo to reveal (read:create) more lore as new ideas hit them because they don’t write themselves into a corner. But it isn’t FromSoft ambiguous. Bethesda lends well to this because they do a lot of environmental storytelling.

I don’t know if it because I take a more scientific approach to Startfield due to its setting but I no longer really need to know the origin of the Artifacts. Again, I have theories but I am perfectly fine with the unity cycle as is. For me the game is more about what you do in each cycle anyway. Which is again very human despite this being a game. It, for me at least, makes me feel less chosen one and more human. And considering that Bethesda games are all about being the chosen one, it feels like a good shift. For instance the Kid Stuff perk. I love the parent characters. They aren’t mcguffins like in fallout 3 or a faction in fallout 4, yet they add nice flavor to make the character feel more like a person and less like floating hands.

As gaming enthusiasts we play a lot and are sort of numb to everything but the games that hit us in the feels all the time. But for a non gamer or a gamer looking for something else I can see how the story of Starfield plus the relative freedom can make a game that is objectively not the best, feel like the best. Plus people play games for different reasons and thus can be satisfied differently. I feel that way about Oblivion and Skyrim. Or The Wonderful 101 because it felt like a high octane movie to me.

@themightyant So I say this with the caveat that despite the fact that I play games "for the story" I don't really have a "favorite" narrative as IMO there are too many holes and inconsistency in game writing that I don't think game narratives stand on their own as high art.

However. I do enjoy Starfield's plot in part because it is neatly self-contained and the motivations make sense based on human nature. I'm a trekkie (for the diplomacy not the bunk scifi) but acknowledge that unless there is an alien threat to force cohesion, humanity would likely devolve to warring factions much like Starfield. (we don't do well on the same planet together....sharing the galaxy would not end well). But all the motivations are realistic (imo), greed and lust for knowledge with no ethical oversight, damning Earth, others making decisions that will assure that only the wealthy and the fortunate survive, temporary cohesion...and that breaking right up in a short period of time, war, religious and patriotic zealotry. Even the Starborn are hilariously realistic because it makes sense that given what going through the unity does, and the powers it bestows, that it would result in another version of a war and apathy for other humans. It’s also deliberately meta commentary which is fun as well.

The part of me that wants to know everything of course wants answers to the origin of the artifacts (I have theories of course) but I realized that the story feels complete without that still because it really is just "human nature in space": the game. I do love the sense of exploration and the glimmers of kindness as well, which is enough to keep me quite engrossed. So while I won't say it is the best story I have ever seen, it is an enjoyable one.

I will be playing AC Shadows but I have South of midnight preloaded already.

I hope it turns out well but it will be a while before I build a PC than can run this.

Looks good. Hope the Heroine is like Sparrow’s ancestor (like grandma or something) as I thought the fable 3 time skip was too much. Even though it was only a generation. Also I love her freckles.

As JE is my favorite BioWare game, it hurts that we never got to see a version built for the 360. Yet kameo (a good game mind you) went from game cube (my gamecube box has footage of it) to 360. In some other universe this is swapped. Although I wonder if the suggestion was made to make room for ME (if it had been pitched by then).

I am kinda glad Assassin’s Creed got delayed to this year now. Pokemon Z-A is probably gonna be my holiday game at this point. Too early to tell though.

If that is the case then it isn’t odd that companies are chasing the live service money cart.

@themightyant when I say devs I am referring to the full studio, leadership as well but I will amend my post.
Edit: done.

Kinda makes me wonder why people would want to go into game development.

Dev studios/publishers have got to stop announcing games so early.

Edited for clarity.

PC for me starting with TES6.

I’m a little bummed since I bounced off of Avowed, but this year is still stacked for me so no harm, no foul.

Ok…so AC Shadows, south of midnight and Ghost of Yotei are my tentpole 4K Twins games. Well, means I can focus on smaller games and try to take a weedwhacker to my Switch backlog. Delays can mean better product.

Good news for the devs!

Some folks simply don’t have the money right now. A lot is going on in the US.