The Videogame News Thread

[Mattias]

I'll believe Cyberpunk is coming out, when it actually gets released.

[Strange_One]

Hehe. With all the preloads and discs out. It'll be released. Just a question of how much of a buggy mess it'll be after the huge day 1 patch.

Benchmarks of the not quite release build is apparently glitchy and more like 30fps at their recommended specs.

[Aozaki-desu]

out of morbid curiosity checkec the game awards lineup
wow this year was bad
wow

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still wondering whether or not bother jacksparrowing cyberpunk during the weekend

[Deathhappens]

I made peace with the fact that my PC can't run it, and am looking into snagging the recently released Wingman instead (a Western-made Ace Combat clone, by all accounts).
Then I see the "fully VR compatible" label and I sigh some more.

[Mattias]

out of morbid curiosity checkec the game awards lineup
wow this year was bad
wow

I wouldn't say it's bad so much as many of the best games are for some reason locked into the 'best of' categories and not the normal best of the year ones. There's also some really weird stuff in those categories. Like why is FF7R in RPG when it's got less of that than almost any of the Action/Adventure games? Why is Yakuza 7 only in one category? Or 13 Sentinels? Why is Last of Us in every category when meme's about how pissed people off lasted longer than any discussion about the game itself? Why is FF7R up for best narrative when it's incomplete?

[weeblord]

The nominees are picked by journos and journos already aggressively picked their stance on last of us 2, they cant backpedal now. theyd compromise their integrity if they didnt have it dominate after all the crazy stuff they said about the game.

[weeblord]

People are unironically accusing the hacker known as 4chan for funneling all tlou2 votes into ghost of tsushima

what a circus.

[Rafflesiac]

Vote redirection? Not just botting?

Damn that's loony.

[eddyak]

Trump & the Trumpets have already yelled something similar, these nerds are third rate copycats.

[Solomos]

Lol Sephiroth for smash.

[Reign]

I would have preferred Smash's second FF rep be from a game besides 7 so that's not the only game represented in the series, but that said his trailer was really cool and I NEED to see Sephiroth Kirby.

[Mattias]

Can you imagine if they put in one of the Bravely Default characters instead? Or the Octopath ones, in full 16 bit? That would be amazing.

[Skull]

I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a million other people I'd rather see in Smash (even within FF) but damn was that trailer good.

That fake-out stab with Mario in particular had me dying.

[weeblord]

The anti anime swordsmen smash guys are gonna riot

but yeah cmon. Does it really need 2 FF7 reps. Hell does it really need 2 FF reps in general?

[Rafflesiac]

I like playing as Cloud so it needs at least 1. Also I hear it's got good music so here's to hoping for more than 3 songs.

[Mattias]

Wouldn't all the FF7 songs already be in there from Cloud though?

Unless they toss in some Remake songs, but I don't think Hollow is really an exciting fight song.

[Deathhappens]

Wouldn't all the FF7 songs already be in there from Cloud though?

Unless they toss in some Remake songs, but I don't think Hollow is really an exciting fight song.

Not One Winged Angel.

[Reign]

The anti anime swordsmen smash guys are gonna riot

but yeah cmon. Does it really need 2 FF7 reps. Hell does it really need 2 FF reps in general?

With a series as big and influential as FF I think 2 reps for it is fair, i just wish they weren't both FF7.

As lame as his game ended up being, Noctis would have been really fun to play in Smash. Or go for one of the more oldschool ones like Terra from FF6.

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Not that I'm not excited for Sephiroth he just wouldn't be my first choice

[Mattias]

I haven't played FFXV, but from how he plays in Tekken wouldn't Noctis just be another Byleth?

[Deathhappens]

I haven't played FFXV, but from how he plays in Tekken wouldn't Noctis just be another Byleth?

I have no idea how Byleth plays in Smash (lol lots of crossed wires in these posts) but Noctis in XV does a LOT of teleporting around, which I don't think is Byleth's thing.