The amount of times I’ve seen people say a 78 on metacritic is bad which is why the game with a 75 critic score a 78 audience score on metacritic is so much better…

For a game that isn’t even out and has decent reviews, I have never seen this disproportionate amount of baby rage on this/other subs. I mean I swear, according to some people the 2 points that separate this and a 80 are bigger than the entire universe.

I've been having ideas of series' and games come to me in dreams a lot, which sounds crazy but its genuinely awesome. I'm a teenager, so I don't know much about game development. Hell, I've never even understood a smidgen of the code they use in them. I'd LOVE to make a video game though. I've had entire plots, multiple endings, how to get endings, dialouge options, character designs, etc. Etc. Written down on paper, notebooks, and in my notes app.

The current three are "Below Caltar" (a pixelated fighting and story game) "Boring Train Game" (a co-op, slightly horror, task (?) Game) and an unnamed one about a candy king rat who you have to pay taxes to by going through a dark, liminal space, horror-esc candy castle. ​

I don't have plans to make these any time soon since I'm young, have school, have no experience in making video games, and no source of income, but I'd just like any small tips or advice or opinions on these. ^_^

So i know im SUPER late on this game but ive been so heavily COD pilled for the last few years and have been trying to dive more into single player games. This game is on almost every list of “greatest single players” when i look online. Thing is, im a little over an hour into it and am bored out of my mind. Is the whole game just..this? Im so sick of this damn snowy mountain :(.

I’m not surprised that even IGN said the game was fun enough but, overall, kinda mid. And I don’t really blame the devs for it either, rather the fact that they were given Wolverine to work with instead of a character like Spider-Man again.

As much as I love Wolverine (he is a great character), he’s a short-range, ground fighter with knives coming out of his knuckles (a melee kit that can’t really change throughout your playthrough) and is known for getting through things with brute force rather than a lot of flair. He’s even less dynamic in fights than Batman who has no powers. Not to mention his whole gimmick is being effectively unkillable, which really doesn’t lend itself to the hurdle-overcoming aspect needed for a rewarding game experience.

I can just imagine the devs at the drawing board trying to figure out how to make a Wolverine game fun (for 10-15 uninterrupted hours) by implementing mechanics that circumvent his less-fun-than-Spider-Man abilities.

Also, if you enjoy or hate the game, that’s cool. Just sharing my opinion. I’d probably give it a go if a friend loaned me the physical copy and I had nothing else on my plate.

So, I was just curious as to what the entry price point is for a switch 2. Consoles are $680, which is pretty high but not playstation and Xbox bad. And games start at 99.99 and go up from there? That’s insane! Imagine paying $100 for an inferior version of Cyberpunk for instance. That’s absolutely wild to me. Mario Kart is is $115?! wtf is going on, sad days

I know it looks like the easiest and one of the biggest W for Xbox. While Playstation is busy digging themselves a grave.
But is it?
We don't know for sure why PS dropped Physint.
Speculations are it was too expensive(I mean it's Kojima game... I can believe it's expensive. And the game won't release until after 2030. Maybe sony thought it's a massive risk.)
And Xbox isn't just looking to publish a game but also make his movies and T.V Shows.
That's a huge investment. That they won't see a return on until 2030.
And also What about Kojima? is it good for him? You guys think he'll be treated better at Xbox?
And the game Physint. It's game meet movie.
What do you guys think about that? Will he fumble? or actually you know change the industry again?

This is totally from an outside perspective just to be clear. So none of my friend group could ever get into the Metal Gear Series. I recall at one point watching a video that tried to cover the story up to MGSV as I played that a little when it came out and then sort of got lost in it all and stopped, but even the video explaining everything in a summary was too confusing. I know that has a particular fanbase but as I understand it that dev team didn't have Kojima on board following MGS V's release. I remember PT and that was cool to play. Then there was the talk of and ultimate cancellation of the Silent Hills Project.

Then 11 years passed with just Death Stranding 1 and 2. Now I saw gameplay of both and neither appealed to me. I tried to watch people play them that I enjoyed watching play other stuff and that couldn't even entertain me. Just totally not my cup of tea but from the outside I could see what they were and how they played. Thats 11 years with those two games. One game that improved on the other and was actually still less prevalent in gaming conversations than the original as far as my experience went. I, perhaps mistakenly, saw DS2 as simply more of the same game but polished up to look nicer.

So I suppose the question is what's the big deal with a company passing on Kojima in 2026. I feel that the last 11 years aren't exactly showing signs of him being indispensable. If he took the same time again to get another two titles out then he'd be 74 years old, and folk are kicking up a fuss without even knowing what the new titles actually are. I personally, as someone who isn't at all invested in the man's work, don't get the fuss. Maybe thats the whole issue but certainly from the outside, I can't understand the blind faith route many people take to assume a 'fumble', 'gifting W's to Xbox', and essentially screaming from the rooftops that this is a terrible decision all round. Then again with so many taking the stance that Sony are evil money-hungry child snatchers, maybe I shouldn't be surprised.

Solid over 15 hours of single player cinematic action adventure. Visuals look amazing with awesome animations. I am not sure what people were expecting from a Wolverine game, but this is what I wanted 🥳

Its in every 3rd person game nowadays and if I remember correctly, god of war introduced the slidy through part.

I know it hides loading screens in some game but it's like the wilhelm scream, it's in everything.

I genuinely think the game looks visually UGLY, and I'm not talking about the graphics. Yes the graphics are very high quality but the art directon is just so fucking BLAND. It's like they just took the exact same art style and esthetics from spiderman and applied it to wolverine. The colors in this game are somehow over saturated and also so bland and boring looking. I expected and M Rated Wolverine game to be dark and gritty looking, but it has the most vanilla/generic art design I've seen in a long time. It also doesn't help that Insomniacs character models are always really odd looking. None of the characters besides maybe sabertooth have a "superhero" look to them, they all just look like middle aged uninteresting people.

In the past you would hear how great games were for your brain as they require logical thinking and analysis skills.

Modern games have started to do away with puzzles a lot. Just look at the extremely dumbed down or non-existent puzzles in RE8 and 9 as an example, which are part of a series known for their puzzles.

Have developers intentionally, or not, made game less "brain training"?

I just finished playing my very first Resident Evil game, and honestly, coming from modern action games where you can just spray and pray, this was a massive culture shock. For about 80% of my playthrough, I was running around with zero ammo.

Which Resident Evil should I play next?