Vidya Games Thread

[MrProcessor]

So over the past day, people on r/HalfLife have been tracking the yacht that Gabe Newell lives on (1, 2, 3).
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The yacht is usually stationed off New Zealand, but right now it is actually off the coast of California and is currently headed for San Diego. This means that Gabe Newell has very likely traveled to California, for reasons currently unknown.
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Obviously, SummerGamesFest is today, and is held in LA. I'm also pretty sure that Valve does owe Keighley a showing after they reneged on showing HL:A at TGA 2019.

I do not mean to huff copium, but that's a rather funny coincidence. Of course, there are realistically a whole bunch of reasons why a billionare might do a trip to California, but this timing sure is funny. This could feasibly be the happening though, because if Gabe isn't on the yacht right now, it is very plausible that he may currently actually be on land, and will just meet up with the boat again tomorrow at the San Diego port once he's done with doing what he needs to here today.
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He's probably in California for the launch of the Steam OS set top box, rather than a new Half-Life game, but I could be proved wrong! There is still hope!

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

That Black Ops 7 trailer I thought was going to be something more interesting.

Sub-topic, but how much did they screw up Gears? Gears 5 wasn't actually that bad, but that "out of no where" dynamic choice clearly screwed up their ability to go forward. (I also really hated it because I didn't process there was suddenly a Choice Selection like 10+ hours into a game without them.)

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

That Black Ops 7 trailer I so thought was going to be something more interesting.

Sub-topic, but how much did they screw up Gears? Gears 5 wasn't actually that bad, but that "out of no where" dynamic choice clearly screwed up their ability to go forward. (I also really hated it because I didn't process there was suddenly a Choice Selection like 10+ hours into a game without them.)

The Second they brought back the Locust in 4 the series was permanently fucked going forward.

4 itself was fucked when the game spent 1/4 of its run time fighting robots which felt like a worse version of Binary Domain

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

The Second they brought back the Locust in 4 the series was permanently fucked going forward.

4 itself was fucked when the game spent 1/4 of its run time fighting robots which felt like a worse version of Binary Domain

They basically needed to do "Gears Universe" type of thing. New world, new story, similar game play. They ran into the Zombie World Logic issue.

 

[John Vtuber👁️]

Persona 4: Revival announced, Persona fans excited to (watch someone else) play it for the first time:



Atlus will remake every Persona game before actually releasing 6, please look forward to the next half decade of Kanji and Naoto discourse!

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Persona 4: Revival announced, Persona fans excited to (watch someone else) play it for the first time:



Atlus will remake every Persona game before actually releasing 6, please look forward to the next half decade of Kanji and Naoto discourse!

dude 5 just came out chill.

So how many "remakes" until the core cast is outnumbered by DLC characters who ill fit the games core narrative?

 

[reinigen]

Persona 4: Revival announced, Persona fans excited to (watch someone else) play it for the first time:



Atlus will remake every Persona game before actually releasing 6, please look forward to the next half decade of Kanji and Naoto discourse!

So 3 Reload was announced at the XBox showcase June 8 2023, and was released in January 2024. So hopefully this holds up the same release window. I'm probably going to hold off on buying this one however until someone gets far enough to assure me they didn't tamper with the Kenji and Naoto storylines. I'm SUPER worried about the Tumblrites getting a hold of that and fucking with it.

Edit: on the offchance there is ANYONE unfamiliar with this discourse.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

So 3 Reload was announced at the XBox showcase June 8 2023, and was released in January 2024. So hopefully this holds up the same release window. I'm probably going to hold off on buying this one however until someone gets far enough to assure me they didn't tamper with the Kenji and Naoto storylines. I'm SUPER worried about the Tumblrites getting a hold of that and fucking with it.

Kenji and Shadow Kenji switch places

 

[ValkyrieAce]

NRS-ass looking Invincible fighter.

 

[Thomas Talus]

dude 5 just came out chill.

Persona 5 was released on September 15, 2016. It has been over 8.5 years.

The gap between 3 & 4 was only 2 years.

 

[John Vtuber👁️]

The gap between 3 & 4 was only 2 years.

Same with the remakes! Almost as if creating a follow-up of a beloved game, with smart re-use of assets from the previous games, leads to shortened dev times!

I'll get P4R, since it's a better game than most releases in the past decade, and I can only hope that Atlus is properly wrangling their activist localizers and EN VAs. Sure, the core game from Vanilla and Golden should remain mostly unchanged - but much like P3R, there's most likely going to be *new* content, which is the main concern for (literal) gay ops!

 

[Smelliest007]

NRS-ass looking Invincible fighter.

It looks so bad.

 

[reinigen]

NRS-ass looking Invincible fighter.

It looks so bad.

Max seems to have an insider at the Devs. It appears to be from the Killer Instinct 2013 crew that came back to make another game, and he seems to have playtested it somewhat.

 

[Cantercoin]

Nintendo charging $80 for MK world opened the floodgates for this shit

 

[Smelliest007]

Max seems to have an insider at the Devs. It appears to be from the Killer Instinct 2013 crew that came back to make another game, and he seems to have playtested it somewhat.

That's good to hear then.

 

[Hotdogs Aplenty]

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Nintendo charging $80 for MK world opened the floodgates for this shit

Didn't people like the first one? Won't this tank any goodwill they have? They don't have Nintendo money or game so they can't ride it out or rely on fanboys

 

[Smelliest007]

Didn't people like the first one? Won't this tank any goodwill they have? They don't have Nintendo money or game so they can't ride it out or rely on fanboys

I think most of Obsidian's goodwill was destroyed with Avowed.
I think it is laughable they decided to go all in on Outer Worlds 2, a game most normal people who played it, thought was middling.
No money, no fanboys except a small sect of redditors who do not like any criticism.

 

[Cantercoin]

Didn't people like the first one? Won't this tank any goodwill they have? They don't have Nintendo money or game so they can't ride it out or rely on fanboys

at best people were ambivalent towards outer worlds when it finally released.
Some tinfoil hat conspiracy i've seen is that its partially to get more people on gamepass

 

[angry sushi]

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Nintendo charging $80 for MK world opened the floodgates for this shit

Wow I can't wait to see this on a steam sale for $10 next year! Praise Lord Gaben for course-correcting overpriced games.

 

[RestlessRain]

Didn't people like the first one? Won't this tank any goodwill they have? They don't have Nintendo money or game so they can't ride it out or rely on fanboys

Actually just looked up the Steam user reviews for "The Outer Worlds" and it's currently getting review-bombed, with the most recent lot of reviews being "Mixed".