As someone who grew up playing 3D PS2 games as my first kind of games, I always had a much lower interest in 2D games compared to 3D ones. Not saying that I don't play 2D games at all, I just have to be more convinced to try them out. It's a part of the reason that I didn't get too invested in certain genres. My questions are: what is your preferred perspective in games, and does it affect your enjoyment/interest in any genre of games?

One of these genres for me is metroidvanias, where I felt like most of the games that people revere are 2D ones like Symphony of the Night and Hollow Knight. It's only up until Control that I got to experience what a 3D metroidvania would feel like. Surely there's other 3D games that have metroidvania influences, but I never felt it so strongly like in Control.

Another one is Bullet Hell shoot em up games. I was watching some of the gameplay from the recent previews for Returnal, and boy I'm so excited for it. I have played and enjoyed 2D bullet hells before (used to waste a ton of cash on them back in the days of the arcade), but seeing those bullets in a 3D space just makes something really click in my brain.

I also have a preference of persepctive for fighting games, but on the 2D side this time. 3D fighters like Soul Calibur and Tekken are just too complex for me to learn. They're still fun of course, but I only try to seriously learn 2D stuff, most recently Street Fighter V, which I came back to after not touching it since near launch.

The DICE Awards 2021 just concluded, and Hades & Ghost of Tsushima were the biggest winners, with 5 and 4 wins respectively. My predictions were quite off tbh, but I'm just happy that TLOU Part II won best story, and GoT won best soundtrack.

Companion stream for episode 5:

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None of the previews mentioned length yet, probably have to wait for reviews. Brad said that he'll be reviewing it, really excited to hear his thoughts.

@el-shmiablo them announcing it this early certainly makes me feel that they're quite confident about this game, but I just hope that it doesn't fall in line with Sony's abysmal multiplayer games track record.

Let the acquisition wars begin. Not really happy about this whole thing tbh, I personally would prefer to keep more devs making multiplatform stuff. On the bright side, Jim said that Sony will continue working with more Japanese devs, hopefully it can be enough to take the sting out of Japan Studio's loss.

Also, Gran Turismo is included to be a part of the Olympic Games. So awesome!

I remember trying out Freedom Wars back when I first got my Vita like 2 years ago. Absolutely infuriating game. I don't know if I ever felt so much disgust towards a game in my entire life, lol. There's nothing fun about it.

Little Simz back at it again. Absolutely amazing song and video. The epic orchestral section adds so much to the whole thing.

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