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  Most Violent Scenes in Games
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  I feel that at 14:39 of this Lost & Damned video was quite excessively brutal and uncalled for: Youtube Video
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  LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
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  Shulk is canon in star wars confirmed Youtube Video
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  The PS5 News and Info Thread
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  Australia still gets shafted because our shitty internet lol. stupid gumment.
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  State of Play
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  @yoshi yeah I already said I would do that lol.
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  Tell Me What You Think
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  Got a PS5!!!!!
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  @damiendada I was content with my PS4 pro until recently when Horizon came out and clearly looked superior on PS5. I think its perfectly reasonable to stick with PS4 for now if you just cant find a PS5 but sometime in the next year, I think the gap is going to widen. Whenever God of War comes out, I think the visual fidelity, detail and performance are going to start actually result in better response time, gameplay etc. I was playing Elden Ring on PS4 Pro until I landed the PS5 and I was loving it...but once I played on PS5 the framerate is so superior that I dont think I could go back in retrospect. But again, theres so much to play on PS4 still that its not a tragedy not to have one...yet.
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  Fighting Games
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  One last update for Street Fighter 5. Also it's adding the Cap-Jams tracks Youtube Video
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  Monster Hunter Rise (Switch/PC)
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  Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak releases on on June 30th. Youtube Video
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  The EZA Community Top 20 Best of 2021!
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  Guilty Gear Strive Metroid Dread Bowser's Fury Nier Replicant HM) Wonder Boy: Ash in Monster World HM) Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart HM) Kena: Bridge of Spirits HM) R-Type Final 2 Im happy with Metroid Dread making it so high on the list. It's a great return of the series.
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  @weent19 never heard of you.
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  Skull & Bones (PS4/XB1/PC)
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  I'll believe it when I see it
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  Videogame and Open-World Videogame Expectations
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  Most open world games do nothing for me. It's why I rarely bother with them anymore. I enjoyed Ghost of Tsushima and Miles Morales. Before that, the last sandbox game was GTAV with my big bro in 2013.
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  Horizon's Backseat?
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  @oscillator Like, Mbun said, the BOTW comparison and "open world Souls" is really just a quick and dirty shorthand. What you point out is absolutely correct, BOTW and TES have far more simulation aspects built directly into the game and one's enjoyment of the game. BOTW to Elden Ring really isn't an apples to apples comparison and people gotta stop relying on that so heavily. BUT, Elden Ring does do a lot of what it's predescessors do and expands on it. And there, the comparison is fair. For example, exploring the world to whittle down Shrines in BOTW is similar to the emergent exploration in Elden Ring. How you traverse and explore the world is completely different. In BOTW you obviously have the ability to do anything through mobility, elixirs, etc. In Elden Ring, you have limited mobility but gain some with your horse (than can double jump and leap up mountains). I think the competitive spirit of these comparisons comes from what is in Elden Ring's world versus other games. If BOTW and Elden Ring both have a core loop around exploring wherever your heart's content, Elden Ring pushes the bar really damn high because there is so much custom bespoke content naturally dispersed throughout the world. Whereas BOTW has a similar approach, but the Shrines and dungeons feel a bit samey. So I think the core loop is where the comparison comes from, but the approach is really different. In the end, I think the comparisons are mostly healthy based on what I've seen, but calling Elden Ring the "killer" of a 5 year old offline single player game is hilarious to me. Who cares?! -- On the topic of open worlds, the Triple Click Podcast (Jason Schreier, Maddy Myers, Kirk Hamilton) have a really good open world discussion where Kirk presents this really great classification system: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/triple-click/elden-ring-and-open-world-games/ They go into recent experiences like Elden Ring, Horizon, and Dying Light 2 and you kinda start to see more connecting tissue between many games, even if it isn't immediately obvious.
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  Horizon Forbidden West (PS5/PS4)
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  I don't know how many hours I spent so far, I just did the main quests in Plainsong region and now finishing up the side stuff before moving on to the next regions. I'm still suprised that Guerilla took the Rockstar approach with the dialogues and stuff, opting to record a monstrous amount of dialogues not just including the main casts but every random NPC, as well as incorporating facial animations in even the smallest side quests. In that way it's much closer to RDR2 than any other open world game. I'm not complaining tho, seeing the big budget of this game manifest is awesome. I'm loving the game so far, I probably wont finish everything like I did with HZD but I would try my best to do so.
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  EZA Forums' Noteworthy New Games of March 2022
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  I have already pre-downloaded Gran Turismo 7. I also splurged and bought the Pulse 3D Headphones for PS5. Most of March will be split between Elden Ring and GT7, with GT7 being a sort of ongoing game throughout the years. SuperGT put out his review of GT7 and it's very informative: Youtube Video His focus on the "Physics" section was pretty great to hear. GT Sport really encouraged a lot of corner abuse and there was too much of a car-meta since the game didn't have tuning. So it's extremely encouraging to hear that different models within the same group of cars drive quite differently. Gone are the days of taking a 90 degree right turn flat out and not spinning out. It is also great to see that bumps in the track or weather conditions are all on the fly considerations. The game just seems so much deeper than before in the best way possible. I know I'll start out as a bad driver and advance to a slightly better than bad driver and I can't wait to give it a go. Digital Foundry review: Youtube Video
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  Elden Ring (PC/PS4/PS5/XBO/XSX)
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  I don't know how many hours I have, but I still haven't fought a main boss. I'm just exploring the initial area. This deals with exploration in a very BotW style. The world is built full of intention, visual cues are the main motivator for exploration and you know you're about to find something at any moment. Then you have that Skyrim vibe where you'll come across a cave or a temple and you know you're going to have some kind of cool adventure exploring it, I love that feeling and ER just nails it. My first hours were hilarious because I had no clue on how to use the runes, so I just kept doing my thing while managing to never lose my souls... runes, in panic that I could lose everything before being able to upgrade. I eventually stumbled on how to do it. For now I think it's the easiest of all my souls experiences, the game gives you a lot of tools that are fun to use. I'm usually very conservative playing souls, I almost never use items or magic, but here for some reason I'm using and enjoying it. I did beat a ton of bosses or big enemies in that initial area but no main bosses, so difficulty might change. But for now it seems like the perfect game for a new player. At the very least you can have 10h of relaxed fun. Really like the execution of some big fights, very impactful and stylish presentation, with a enjoyable balance between challenge and accessibility. But I need to get my ass kicked soon. Found a chest that after opening it, transported me to some mines near an hellish swamp. Nice trolling.
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  I agree with Dipset with regards to the setting and general atmosphere, the combat and general control/movement however I find almost indistinguishable from Dark Souls III, not that that's a bad thing mind. Obviously they've added a few new mechanics in there which are unique to Elden Ring, having pretty much cleared the entire first area now though I must say that there's been no new learning curve here for me and I think that would go for anyone who is experienced with Dark Souls.
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  Pokemon Scarlet & Violet
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  @DemonPirate Legends Arceus is a pretty different style of gameplay focused on catching if you've always preferred catching to battling, but if you prefer the trainer battles, then yeah stay away. It is funny to hear you say it looks boring and lifeless though, because specifically with Legends Arceus and now with Scarlet and Violet they're making more of an effort to make the Pokemon more naturally blend into the world and seem like they belong there. They've also been improving their models, like you can clearly see with Seviper in the Scarlet and Violet trailer, as well as the animations and movements so you don't have dumb looking Pokemon pivoting 180s on a dime anymore that people mocked for ages. That second part is already in Legends Arceus, and it makes them look way more natural moving around in the wild. I think with alot of people the low res textures are just a turn off that's hard to accept, but with the level of action going on in the new style of gameplay, on top of being built as open world, sadly that's just where the Switch is at right now. I noticed in the Scarlet and Violet trailer how in the cave scene the walls have decent looking textures for the floor still doesn't, and that's probably because being more enclosed they can afford to get a bit fancier there. Meanwhile you see the town square with the type symbols in that one scene with more NPCs moving around, Pokemon living in the town (which you can catch in the town itself now!), and other various complex geometry with the buildings and general decoration, so the floor texture is hilariously muddy looking as a compromise to ensure a rock solid framerate even in that environment. @yoshi said: Arceus Legends gameplay is definitely the start of the franchise's future instead of the same old 8 gym leaders and elite four as usual Scarlet and Violet will probably be a mix of the two. I think Gyms are too iconic to the series to fully get rid of forever, but they'll iterate on them and change how they work similar to Sun and Moon from time to time. @DMCMaster You missed most of the actually worst rivals, like the awful crew from Gen 6 and Hau from Gen 7 who is like a purposeless Hop that does nothing but stuff his face with Masaladas in every town you visit. Bede in Sword / Shield was GameFreak answering fans who wanted a new jerk rival, so I don't mind having Hop there too even though he doesn't really pay off until the postgame. Marnie was the rival in Sword / Shield that felt absolutely pointless to me. I feel like GameFreak was doing commentary on the fanbase falling in love with emotionless husk characters with Team Yell worshiping Marnie, but instead of getting the joke Marnie just became popular like the rest of the emotionless husk characters. Marnie's brother Piers actually has interesting stuff going on, but then at the end he just hands the Gym down to Marnie, who immediately foregoes the interesting aspects and becomes an ultra generic replacement.