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I think they should allow you to play it in reverse chronological order

... a load of people battering each other that you have no sympathy for. Some people who used to be people but are now monstrosities that you feel pity for. Some guitar lessons. A really nicely rendered cinema. Then some golf. And finally a snowball fight at the end. They could then throw in some giraffes from the first game in the end credits to get people really confused.

It would go down as some kind of artistic masterpiece.

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Control was my GOTY in 2019 (lost out to Sekiro in the official one), fantastic game. Main story is around 12 hours, and about 30 to do all main game stuff.

Decided to download Diablo IV to give it a whirl. ~150Gb later, I started it up. Can't play the game unless you sign in to Battle.net. So had to create an account. Mid creation, it wanted me to prove I was human by giving me 7 puzzles in a row where on the right I had to click between 8 pictures of a different number of dice to match the number on the left picture. 7 of them. And not easy ones with single digits, 20's and 30's, spent ages! Must have got one wrong because they wanted me to do it again. When it worked the second time, the login had timed out so I had to do it a third time. I just clicked randomly and that didn't work, so I closed everything and nearly deleted the game. I said I'd give it one more go, and this time it only asked me to turn 3 pictures to match a direction a hand was pointing. Finally able to log in. Just have to connect my PSN account now… log in to that, connect, thankfully straight forward. Finally, I can play the game. Oh, all the while the narrator is describing what is on the screen, because you don't get to turn that off until you're logged in!

Started the game, longish cgi cutscene setting up the big bad. Cool. Character creator, pick a class (barbarian) straight forward and select from presets which you can modify the hair, tattoos, etc of. In game cutscene setting the start, and off you go. Couple of hints on how to move and hit. If you want to read more, go online because the in game help only updates when you discover/unlock stuff… I played the first level. You move and hold the attack button. At some point she picked up a hammer so everything was one hit then. Got to the last area, some enemies needed 3 hits. Health potions exploding from everywhere and I used 1 I think, at like 70% full health. Some loot drops, nothing exciting. Back to the camp… this is it? Obviously, you unlock other moves and skills, etc, but it's move and hold a button. Don't see any block or parry mechanics. I think I experienced the same feeling with Diablo 3. Boring. Not for me.

I've tried multiple times but i can't get my old brain around discord. Saying that, or games forum is my favorite place to chat about games in the whole wide web so I'll go wherever ye go.

I've to think of it like IRC rather than a forum. As I'm not online all the time I just accept that I'm going to miss some discussions.

dunno if we should use threads in discord or just post normally. Created one in game news channel for testing

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403205878423-Threads-FAQ

Do you want to get Luigi Mangione'd? Because this is how you end up getting Luigi Mangione'd.

Old School Rally coming to consoles and demo is live on psn. Serious throwback to sega rally and early Colin McCrae games. Feels good to play but not sure there will be much depth.

I am definitely interested in that as I love rally games.

Out of everything they showed last night, LoFi while I'm exploring is something I most certainly will not be using... ugh... the close up extra bloody combat is something I probably will use! I think it looks amazing and the exploration changes could be interesting. All these games that claim better exploring have so far been much the same as everything else, just less markers. Also heard the alleged open world GOATs, BOTW and TOTK are pretty empty, which doesnt add up to the love they get. Someday I may find out.

Thankfully it's not another pretty but repetitive Soulslike.

There is a lot of exploration and puzzle solving finding all the shrines and then solving the puzzles in the shrines in those games.

Finding all the shrines involved reading the landscape from very different perspectives. The glider and verticality of the world, especially TOTK, makes that a real treat. Plus you can climb and go anywhere.

There are some incredibly fulfilling puzzles in the shrines. A huge variety as well. Some of them are very deep. Took some very clever and experienced game designers a long time to design them all.

Then you've all the side quests and the main games are chock full of stuff. And the korak seeds are just mini puzzles along the way.

My nephew would disagree, but I haven't played them so can't comment. By the time I get to play them, something else will have done it better for me in the time since they released, no doubt, so I'd say they'd probably be lost on me in the end.

I loved the combat in GoT, I think they got it bang on for what they were after. Really looking forward to GoY as it looks to have built upon what made the first great. If ya don't like it, fair enough, but not everyone is a masochist and into NG games! And lol at saying picking between 6 different weapon types on the fly is (going to be) more frustrating than the die repeat combat of NG and Soulslikes… we have different ideas of what is frustrating! Good thing there's enough games out there, and coming, that suits us both! I'll settle for an option for the style of combat you want in these games in exchange for a difficulty selector in Soulslikes. Imagine if we had the option in every game! All games for everyone! Now that would be accessibility. And would majorly tick off one side, which would be a bonus! :pac:

I don't think I used lock on except for the last enemy and 1v1 fights, allowed a lot more freedom to attack in any direction/any enemy around you. Skill issue :pac: My frustration in Souls is the repetition required to learn. When I beat something like that, in any game, be it one of the Super licence 1 lap challenges in GT7, a hard Valkyrie in GoW, or even a frustrating level in something like Crash Bandicoot, I don't get the "that was awesome, I finally beat it, yeah!", I get "Oh thank fukkitty fluck that's done with so I never have to do it again" (and why I only have 1 Gold in that licence category!) That don't gel with Soulslikes or extra hard combat (I'm calling it that).

And yeah, GoT had it all if the combat was your thing. They used everything the PS5 had to offer and delivered a near perfect (for me!) game, haptics, sound, the wind as your quest guidance, the voice acting was well done too and a pretty ok story that doesn't try to overcomplicate things too much. GoT, and surely GoY doesn't want to be as bombastic as GoW or Bayonetta, it wants to limit it somewhat to realism without removing fun, and I think it does it well, because RDR2 proved too real is not as fun but if it was over the top like GoW it would be just another generic action game I reckon.

And it didn't peak with AC2 imo, ACIV was the peak of the original games, and Odyssey has been the best modern one so far where there was literally something to do and/or discover everywhere you went! Ye know my view of ER and haven't played Zelda so again I can't compare what they do to what AC/Ghost of, etc does. Some people said Immortals Fenyx Rising was pretty close to the Zelda format, and some reddit comments saying it's a BOTW clone with Ubisoft setting. I enjoyed IFR a lot, so if it's similar I'll probably enjoy BOTW/TOTK, but it didn't feel all that different from other open world games. I still think it's all down to personal preference, and no game will suit everyone. I am getting sick of open world games though, but I'll see if that's because they've all been a bit meh lately, or I am genuinely burnt out from them. He says as he's tempted to go back and finish Tsushima again before Yōtei comes out.