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Sniper Elite 6?? SWEET More Nazi hunting!!!!I didn't realize there was a new Sniper Elite game coming out. Cool. I'm about ready for another stealth-action game.
Sniper Elite 6?? SWEET More Nazi hunting!!!!I didn't realize there was a new Sniper Elite game coming out. Cool. I'm about ready for another stealth-action game.
Comes out next week. You know it's going to be good because they apparently skimped on marketing to devote as many resources to gameplay as possible.Sniper Elite 6?? SWEET More Nazi hunting!!!!I didn't realize there was a new Sniper Elite game coming out. Cool. I'm about ready for another stealth-action game.
Comes out next week. You know it's going to be good because they apparently skimped on marketing to devote as many resources to gameplay as possible.Sniper Elite 6?? SWEET More Nazi hunting!!!!I didn't realize there was a new Sniper Elite game coming out. Cool. I'm about ready for another stealth-action game.
This goes directly on my Wishlist.
Not at all. I played the last one on Game Pass. It was very good.Comes out next week. You know it's going to be good because they apparently skimped on marketing to devote as many resources to gameplay as possible.Sniper Elite 6?? SWEET More Nazi hunting!!!!I didn't realize there was a new Sniper Elite game coming out. Cool. I'm about ready for another stealth-action game.
This goes directly on my Wishlist.
I always thought these were kinda gimmicky -almost flash games. Might have to check out a recent one.
Yeah. I mean the woke stuff does have an impact. Sure, the roader way of people int he culture war and all that crap. But also on me.LOVE Sniper Series!! 3/4/5 are great. And each one improved on the previous one. Fun times killing Nazi's.Played last sniper 2 or 3.
Last Sniper 5 was free with my PS5 account.
They fixed a lot of the glitches and it's really well done. Having a blast. I'm not very stealthy but try
Yeah the Wokeness in DAV was extremely obvious. And one of the lead designers I believe is a Transgender. So to their demise they killed the buzz of this....fantastic game. I don't make a big deal outta all that crap.....but I get the sentiment of it being forced down people's throats ad-nausea the last 4 years.So Dragon Age: The Veilgaurd missed its sales expectations by about 50%, which caused EA stock to fall about 17% today.Dragon Age: The Veilguard launched two days ago. It hit a peak of ~77K concurrent players on Steam over the past 24 hours. For comparison, Baldur's Gate 3, which launched over a year ago, peaked at ~73K concurrent players during those same 24 hours. It's all-time peak hit 870K.
So in just the second half of 2024, we've seen the failure of a new open world Stars Wars game by Ubisoft, an 9-figure GaaS by Sony, and a new Dragon Age title by Bioware. And the new Assassins Creed was so obviously doomed that it got pushed back to spring.
These are all massive, high-profile AAA or AAA+ titles by major companies, and they're failing one after another, some in truly spectacular fashion. Concord, for example, now probably holds the record for Biggest Videogame Flop of All Time, depending on how you measure that. (I'm sure the gameplay was better than ET, but more people bought and played ET.) In previous years, each of these big fall releases would have been titles that consumers were eagerly anticipating, and studios would have been hoping to position their titles for GOTY consideration. Instead, the company that made Concord has already been shut down, Bioware is probably done, and it wouldn't shock me if Ubisoft failed next year. I know Ubisoft is big, but I don't know that they're big enough to survive Outlaws and AC Shadows.
This industry needs a good controlled burn to clear out the deadwood, and it looks like we're finally getting it. What I'm hoping to see next are a few things:
Larian Studios created a fantastic single-player RPG that genuinely moved the medium forward. FromSoft has a long track record of the same. Studios can do this if they want to. Or they can keep setting money on fire. It's up to them I guess.
- Less ideology crammed into games. I don't want to be preached at, and religious fundamentalists generally don't produce good creative products. (See Christian movies, Christian television, and Christian music -- this stuff is painful).
- Far fewer $200M+ titles. If you're making a game that expensive, it's too big to fail, which means the people calling the shots get way too risk-averse. Ditch the paint-by-numbers Ubisoft model. Ditch the paint-by-numbers Bethesda model. This stuff was innovative 10-20 years ago. It's played out now. It's slop.
- On a related note, AAA+ games increasingly rely on in-game monetization to make back their production costs. In-game monetization sucks. Another reason to make games smaller.
- Bring back the 12-16 hour single player game. You know who likes those games? Adult male gamers, who have disposable income to spend on games.
Disclaimer: If you played DA:V and liked it, and you don't own stock in EA, great. It's a single player game so there's no immediate reason for you to care about sales. You got to enjoy the game. Thumbs up.
With that out of the way, this was predictable. And we've had a bunch of these in 2024. It was hyperbole a few years ago, but "Go woke, go broke" is literally true today, and you can point to several high-profile examples from just this year. I have a hypothesis that any game that was in development in 2020 is just DOA at this point. GTA6 is the obvious counter-example, but I have fairly low expectations for that one too, because there's no way a GTA game made it through that development cycle unscathed.
Things are going to change in that regard. And that is how this country and most of the world works.
Money talks and BS walks. Woke is proving to be a destroyer of business. And big Corporate America is finally taking notice....for better or for worse.
I just play the games....if they are great....I don't let that crap ruin my enjoyment. I just roll my eyes and move on.
Yeah that's how I ended up playing five. I was googling games that were coming out this year and the new sniper elite popped up and in the review it said it would be hard to improve on one of the best games in number five and then I saw five was free for me and I'm glad I downloaded itComes out next week. You know it's going to be good because they apparently skimped on marketing to devote as many resources to gameplay as possible.Sniper Elite 6?? SWEET More Nazi hunting!!!!I didn't realize there was a new Sniper Elite game coming out. Cool. I'm about ready for another stealth-action game.
This goes directly on my Wishlist.
Preordered on PSN.Comes out next week. You know it's going to be good because they apparently skimped on marketing to devote as many resources to gameplay as possible.Sniper Elite 6?? SWEET More Nazi hunting!!!!I didn't realize there was a new Sniper Elite game coming out. Cool. I'm about ready for another stealth-action game.
This goes directly on my Wishlist.
Yes it was great.Did you guys play the DLC for 5
Downloading now.Hahaha and agree Ghost of Tsushima was a top 5 for me all time non sports title.DO you mean Tshushima?:Sehorn:
Just got my kid a gaming pc. He wants to start dabbling in Unreal Engine. But he's gotta come up with the other half of the money before he gets to mess with it. In the meantime I added Steam and want to test it out so I'll be watching this thread as well. I haven't really done PC gaming since Quake 2 circa 1998. Have any of you played the Ghost of Sashimi? I've seen great things about it and thought it would be a nice start. I'll add Subnautica too. I was eyeing it on Switch for a bit.
If so one of the best games ever done imo
Unless there is a raw fish game I'm not aware of ...![]()
Loved it start to finish.
Picked Zelda 2 up again this afternoon, will hopefully get the thing finished before the end of the year, then work to getting a complete speedrun of the game done
Now that I have all the DLC I've been replaying Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The prologue is LOOOOONNNGGG. I had to restart a few times since I kept dying. There was some weird glitch or something and there was a Cuman right in front of me. Didn't really like A Woman's Lot and I gave up but I suck at stealth and archery (this is NOT Skyrim archery). Can't wait for 2 but I wasn't going to get it early anyways.
Now that I have all the DLC I've been replaying Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The prologue is LOOOOONNNGGG. I had to restart a few times since I kept dying. There was some weird glitch or something and there was a Cuman right in front of me. Didn't really like A Woman's Lot and I gave up but I suck at stealth and archery (this is NOT Skyrim archery). Can't wait for 2 but I wasn't going to get it early anyways.
I've been playing the original now too. I really like the game, despite you being pretty low power. Like you say, this isn't skyrim archery or combat or anything like that.
I'll wait a bit on 2 to see what QOL upgrades they did - I'm about 60-70 hours into the first but I'll jump to 2 if it's a little more day-to-day friendly. Like can I please wash the blood off my sword in a stream so I don't panic the gate guards every time I walk into town?
Now that I have all the DLC I've been replaying Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The prologue is LOOOOONNNGGG. I had to restart a few times since I kept dying. There was some weird glitch or something and there was a Cuman right in front of me. Didn't really like A Woman's Lot and I gave up but I suck at stealth and archery (this is NOT Skyrim archery). Can't wait for 2 but I wasn't going to get it early anyways.
I've been playing the original now too. I really like the game, despite you being pretty low power. Like you say, this isn't skyrim archery or combat or anything like that.
I'll wait a bit on 2 to see what QOL upgrades they did - I'm about 60-70 hours into the first but I'll jump to 2 if it's a little more day-to-day friendly. Like can I please wash the blood off my sword in a stream so I don't panic the gate guards every time I walk into town?
I have such a love-hate relationship with this game. I really like the freedom, but I am crippled by the anxiety of completing the time sensitive quests. I have serious FOMO when I’m in the middle of one quest and then there’s an alert says I only have X amount of days to start/finish a different quest.
Also, as much as I like Henry, I’d like to roll my own character and role-play that person
wrong franchise."eat fireball, maggots!!"
Gave this a shot (no pun intended) and I absolutely suck. First time playing the franchise.Comes out next week. You know it's going to be good because they apparently skimped on marketing to devote as many resources to gameplay as possible.Sniper Elite 6?? SWEET More Nazi hunting!!!!I didn't realize there was a new Sniper Elite game coming out. Cool. I'm about ready for another stealth-action game.
This goes directly on my Wishlist.
I think I'm pretty decent but there's definitely a learning curve. Sometimes I'll just hold up in a corner and empty everything I own in ammo as guys just rushing. It's probably a bit of a cheat but I'll just sit there for a half hour lolGave this a shot (no pun intended) and I absolutely suck. First time playing the franchise.Comes out next week. You know it's going to be good because they apparently skimped on marketing to devote as many resources to gameplay as possible.Sniper Elite 6?? SWEET More Nazi hunting!!!!I didn't realize there was a new Sniper Elite game coming out. Cool. I'm about ready for another stealth-action game.
This goes directly on my Wishlist.
Not sure I want to drop 60 bucks on the game since I literally just finished the other one. But one thing I feel like I do super great at finding everything on the map and then I get done and it was like 12 of 25 things found LOL.... I have definitely waited at the top of a stairwell for 45 minutes. Just picking guys off as they are searching for meTook me over two hours to finish Mission Two on the new Sniper Elite.
Playing on Sharpshooter and everything on medium difficulty.
I looooooove this game and series.
I really take my time. I am a stealthy lethal killer. Love doing lethal take downs. So satisfying.
Not sure I want to drop 60 bucks on the game since I literally just finished the other one. But one thing I feel like I do super great at finding everything on the map and then I get done and it was like 12 of 25 things found LOL.... I have definitely waited at the top of a stairwell for 45 minutes. Just picking guys off as they are searching for meTook me over two hours to finish Mission Two on the new Sniper Elite.
Playing on Sharpshooter and everything on medium difficulty.
I looooooove this game and series.
I really take my time. I am a stealthy lethal killer. Love doing lethal take downs. So satisfying.
It’s the same exact formula of the last 2.Not sure I want to drop 60 bucks on the game since I literally just finished the other one. But one thing I feel like I do super great at finding everything on the map and then I get done and it was like 12 of 25 things found LOL.... I have definitely waited at the top of a stairwell for 45 minutes. Just picking guys off as they are searching for meTook me over two hours to finish Mission Two on the new Sniper Elite.
Playing on Sharpshooter and everything on medium difficulty.
I looooooove this game and series.
I really take my time. I am a stealthy lethal killer. Love doing lethal take downs. So satisfying.
FWIW- The Review I saw for the newest one was that it felt like a DLC for the last one. Said it was fine just not worth the full price.
I'll definitely get it at some point. Just probably not going to pay full priceIt’s the same exact formula of the last 2.Not sure I want to drop 60 bucks on the game since I literally just finished the other one. But one thing I feel like I do super great at finding everything on the map and then I get done and it was like 12 of 25 things found LOL.... I have definitely waited at the top of a stairwell for 45 minutes. Just picking guys off as they are searching for meTook me over two hours to finish Mission Two on the new Sniper Elite.
Playing on Sharpshooter and everything on medium difficulty.
I looooooove this game and series.
I really take my time. I am a stealthy lethal killer. Love doing lethal take downs. So satisfying.
FWIW- The Review I saw for the newest one was that it felt like a DLC for the last one. Said it was fine just not worth the full price.
And I love the formula.
Went with an AM5 build with the 9800X3D and 64GB of DDR5 6400 RAM. Skimping meant picking up a generic MSI 4060 8GB for now while I watch the prices on the 4070 Ti Super. I'd like to get a card with 16GB of VRAM so that this build will hold for a solid 5+ years. With the RTX 50 series out and driving nerds crazy, I'm crossing my fingers and hoping to snag one if they drop in price. Of course, waiting could just end up costing more so it's a weird tightrope walk for now. I'd say it's 50-50 that I get screwed but there's only a 10% chance of that happening.Building a new PC on Thursday. My GTX 1080 Ti is finally crapping out. Skimping on the video card for now (well, kinda. Still a 4060) but otherwise getting back to a gaming beast.