Name: Depends on what I pick, I can fill whatever role.
Class: See above
Timezone: EST
Times: I raid with my mainraid tuesday-thurs, so weekends would be best for me.

@Light Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the extent of Dark Souls multiplayer that you can see the shades of other people's mark on the world around you? Like echoes?

I've never played Journey, so no clue what a Journey-esque experience is, but my understanding of NMS was that if I ever even set foot on a place where another human being had been, all I'd ever see was what that person named the shit on the planet because the chance of not only running into them on a planet, but at the same time was near astronomically impossible.

I have an issue with reviewing a video game on price, solely because video games are luxury products, and thus wholly aesthetic. You don't need video games. Whether you're getting "value" for money is an important concern in every day utilities and conveniences, like, say, a dishwasher, or a car.

But one doesn't say a Monet is overpriced solely because you don't need to buy a Monet. Likewise, I don't need to buy a video game every month. I could never buy another video game again, and I wouldn't be being denied something fundamental - I'd merely be denied a greater appreciation of an art form I admire.

I have a problem, in general, with the whole idea of price delineating a "triple A" game, and thus pushing some sort of expectation of quality on a game. What this results in is indie games which either have a decade-long development cycle, or are inherently shallow gameplay loops (think Nidhogg), or are small, compact, very focused experiences. Meanwhile, the "triple A" games rack up massive budgets to get the graphics and sound design and voice actors and story writing and depth that will earn that stamp of triple-A status, and then they'll neuter all these things in hopes of hitting the widest audience to recoup the budget. Hence, the new Tomb Raider being a "flop" despite selling insanely well. Of course, these are generalizations, but not many games stray far from this dichotomy. Even Undertale took forever and a day for its 1-man team to put it together, but because we weren't aware of it til it happened, it seems like this wonderful, organic experience and an indie darling which we want all indie games to be.

So then, a game like NMS, which is simultaneously really ambitious but also really niche, is left out in the cold. Either it limits its scope entirely to be a true indie game they publish on their own, or they do what they did, get backing from Sony to push the limits of what they could do.........and then be limited by release schedule and quarterly expectations and marketing costs.

An indie game should be able to be 60 dollars, and be experimental, and push limits (and thus probably have the flaws we don't see in most triple A games). And it should be judged based on what it did, what it's trying to do, and where it's trying to go. Price should have no impact on reviews at all.

@Mbun It's an exploration/discovery game. I think they had to shroud it in mystery, because that's literally the whole game. What do you want them to do? Put out a public beta, and let people get bored of it pre-launch? Or maybe just say, "Yeah, it's just a harder version of the 'outer rims' of the game, it's a sort of end goal, but not really"? That's not selling a game. What they said about it: 1) there's a center of the universe, and 2) some players will want to go there, and 3) it'll be different than where you start.

This game is only limited by your own imagination. Was it overhyped? I guess - but in the 2 years+ I've been following this game, I've never let my expectations get out of hand. I didn't expect multiplayer, I didn't expect narration or even a guided experience. It is almost exactly what I expected.

It's a job of a company to hype up their game. It's your job as a consumer to be informed about the reality of it.

I'm exhausted being a person of color living in an urban center. The last few years have been literally life-draining, and now things are blowing up in a bad way. Ugh.

I'm on Team Instinct. I guess we're the Hufflepuffs of this plac.e

Unfortunately, I have to work and have been unable to play as much as I want. I tend to work around 60 hours a week which means not much time to catch the Poke Mans unless I take a break.

I'm Team Instinct, but that's because every Asian person I know (myself included) decided to be meme-tastic and embrace Team Yellow.

This could literally be a new trend in gaming, if the hardware is cheap enough. It's like RARE Replay but with a replica system attached.

None of the other consoles really have that design aesthetic Nintendo always has had though. The Playstation looks different, but from PS2 onwards they've all looked roughly the same.

I have an original NES, but I still think I'll pick this up. My cartridges are all worn down from being jammed down in that one fashion to make 'em stick. All you oldtimers know what I mean. ;)

If you were going to buy an NES and then all these games, that would be ridiculously expensive. This is the price of one AAA game. Totally worth.

Also, is Super C not a Konami game but Contra is? IDK what the deal is there.

I literally have two frames, a max rank Excalibur, and a rank 8 Banshee. I have nothing. ;-)

It'll be awhile til I can do anything worth doing, I just wish there was some "old returner's guide." I know how to shoot and wall run, I don't know where to be shooting and wall running, or what my goals are.

edit: Same steam name as here. I'm in the EZA Steam group as well.