Requiem for Pablo

Most anticipated games power ranking (updated) 1. Fable ↔️ 2. GTAVI ⬆️ 3. Control Resonant ⬆️ 4.Marvels Wolverine ⬆️ 5. Gears of war: E-Day ⬆️ 6. Onimusha Way of the Sword 🆕 7. The Blood of Dawnwalker 🆕 8. 007 First Light 🆕 9. Star Wars Zero Company ⬆️ 10. Halo Campaign Evolved 🆕

@ThrillaRilla369 Simple… I ate what my mother made for dinner

Be honest because I’m proving a point When you were a child if you didn’t want to eat what your mother made for dinner What happened?

@thatstarwarsgrl I got you: lenscrafters.com/lc-us/eye-exam…

Hollywoods obsession with Zendaya is something I’ll never understand

@imbratorX @CrimsonDesert_ BOTW revolutionized the modern day open world sandbox game with gameplay and exploration … Crimson Desert just took those things and put it in their game. It’s not rocket science, Brator

Journalists are literally doing the Place, Japan meme 💀 ✅ rich open world ✅ deep combat loop ✅ varied game side activites ✅ physics-driven emergent gameplay ❌ non-existent story ❌ tedious traversal padding Crimson Desert does it: bad. Zelda BOTW does it: good.

@GamewithDave Rainbow six siege. I’ve been playing it since 2015 with very little breaks

What’s your most played video game ever?

@mcclayusa @TheMafiaPoint This is what happens when you just say shit to say it.

@TheMafiaPoint Better. Better budget. Better producer. Better director. Better editor. BETTER.

Is Casino just as good as Goodfellas?

@TheMafiaPoint @Bestofsopranos

YouTuber content creators get the same access, preview opportunities, and review copies as journalist who work in major publications. So what’s with those same content creators piling on the IGNs of the world? What’s the difference between the opinion of a major publication journalist and a YouTube talking head?

@GamingSinceNES It’s bad game design when you have to wait for the game to get good. Especially when I’ve seen people say “after 8 hours….” That doesn’t sound like fun to me.

Crimson Desert is suffering from something we see all the time when players don’t have a clear understanding of what a game is trying to be, a lack of aligned expectations from the audience. As I read through so many of its reviews, I keep hearing it get knocked for things like having a bad story, taking too long to get good, and just many other things. But the people who keep pushing to understand the game end up having a really good experience and realize that the intended focus of the game, exploration, combat, puzzles, open world, are all excellent. Now to be clear, even within that paradigm, I’m sure you can find people who bash those mechanics too, but my point is that the game is being docked points for expectations of being something that it isn’t. Picture a world where the Souls genre didn’t exist. Now picture that in that world, Elden Ring launches. You’d have reviewers complaining that there are hard bosses right from the start, forcing you to start over countless times. You’d have people saying the story makes no sense. You’d have people frustrated that unlocking new areas is maddening because the game doesn’t give you enough direction. You’d have people complaining about the lack of checkpoints. Essentially, you’d have a game that broke their expectations for what an open world action RPG should be, something closer to The Witcher. And those reviewers would have dragged down the overall Metacritic score because they wanted something from the game that they didn’t get. But that’s not what happened with Elden Ring. Elden Ring had trust. Elden Ring had a deep fanbase of its style of game already ready to review it. Elden Ring had reviewers who understood the type of game they were getting into, even if they had never played a Souls game before. Take the point that one of the repeated criticisms of Crimson Desert is, “it takes almost 10 hours to get good,” and that alone made people drop off. “I’m sorry, if it takes a game 10 hours to get good, that’s not a good game.” I think there’s a valid argument there somewhere, but it’s also extremely reductive because if the ask is to give the game time and it then provides over 100 hours of a fantastic experience, the onboarding becomes a trade off for that payoff. JRPG fans understand this well, being hand tied for hours before the game really opens up. And of course, Death Stranding is a perfect example of this too. I’ve seen so many people drop off because they felt the game was too slow and there was no hook in the early hours. All of this is to say that expectations seem to be the real killer when they don’t align with what a game actually is. It’s a natural phenomenon though. We, as people, look for patterns in our everyday lives to help us make decisions. We tend to buy the same brands because the last thing we bought from them worked. I had someone argue with me not long ago that the game needs to have a good story because it’s an RPG. Just a modicum of research would have told you that this is not an RPG. But that’s the problem with expectations. Also, fk K-Med 🖕

@Durrtydoesit You pick two games with incredible narrative depth. Tears of the kingdom entire world and main narrative are among the best of the series while Elden Ring has one of the most in-depth and expansive lore and world building of any game. Have you played either?

@ShutUpPabs Nope. You couldn’t be more wrong. Simply asking them to provide a barometer to gauge my expectations better since these games have been constantly compared in the media.

How’s the narrative depth in Tears of the Kingdom and Elden Ring???

@Ramez05 Reviewer has played over 110 hours. I think they are qualified to give it a review score so far.

IGN has some nerve to give a review score to Crimson Desert when they haven’t even finished it. 🤦‍♂️ Meanwhile Marathon has been out for 2 weeks and they still refuse to give it a score! 💀

@GermanStrands This is true. I enjoyed all 3 of those games

Some of my absolute favorite games from the past few years have a Metacritic score around 80.

@TheBatHome It’s probably a nothing part with the promise of it being more down the line?

I’d really like to understand why so many actors are turning down the role of Christopher Dent, it makes no sense

@arfa2706 If it were that easy to dethrone Elden Ring then Elden Ring wouldn’t be special

I don't think we will see another open world game on the level of Elden Ring in this decade

@JakeBaldino @KevinKenson 8 hours is a crazy amount of time before it gets good. But glad you ended up enjoying it

CRIMSON DESERT starts rough. I honestly disliked the first 8 hrs. Once it opens up and you get more power + abilities, it's a TON of fun. So many gameplay systems but they don't feel cynical or half-baked. I wish there was a better story but combat/exploration hooked me 1/2

@PaulTassi But why even do this. The whataboutisms aren’t going to convince people you’re right. It’s an opinion. It’s cool if not everyone agrees

am I gonna get murdered if I say that the lead character and story of Skyrim were also not its greatest strengths

@Arron_TK Depends on the game. For example, a game like crimson desert where it looked promising but so many unanswered questions. I look for a pattern of things from many reviews to make up my mind. But an established series or studio it usually doesn’t factor

Genuine question, How much do review/critic scores affect your purchase in a video game?

@BrokenGamezHDR_ The same way people are headhunting the next GaaS to be DOA people are crowing games the best of all time before they release. The internet has ruined nuance takes. Everything is either the worst or greatest all time.

LMAO when you tried to call out the fact that this game just looked like a buncha structureless random activities people called you a hater and contrarian. All it took to convince yall was a Jetpack, An RKO, and big ass empty map. I been gaming long enough to know.

@tommysantos14 Let’s say JD Vance wins or any other Trump sycophant… what makes you think that they’ll relinquish any of these powers? Trump is doing this without consequences. Why would those people do anything differently?

When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

@Okami13_ The marketing for this game is weird. It’s as if housemarque has nothing left to say about the game? I mean all those features are great! But they are standard features in most if not all PS5 first party exclusives. Weird trailer

SAROS | PS5 Features Trailer • Immersive 3D audio • Adaptive triggers • Haptic feedback • Near instant loading speeds This gameplay looks amazing, Returnal fans eating good!