I’ll be buying it this weekend after I play through Mafia: The Old Country.
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I’m planning on buying it for next week after I get paid.
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Might want to see the below first.
Nah, I’ll just play it see if I like it and drop it if I don’t.
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Watched this earlier. He rated the game a good 7.0/10 which is right around the low 70’s score it has on MC/OC. For an AA game at $40, I think it looks pretty good and watching the 17 minute gameplay walkthrough a few weeks ago sold me on the game. And I do like Embracer Group so that’s another positive for me. Hoping Metal Eden can score around the same and also be priced at $40. I will be very happy if it does and is.
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The Metal Eden demo was pretty good, Jesse said he had some issue with the aiming on consoles but I didn’t think it was too bad.
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I guess it’s for the best, but after E3 it seemed like there was a really good word of mouth for it.
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Agreed. I also enjoyed the Metal Eden demo and am looking forward to the full game.
Not surprised about Crimson Desert getting delayed to early 2026 which is better for me as I prefer to not have any new game releases in December/January because it then allows me to catch up and get evened out going into the new year’s worth of new releases.
Crimson Desert is day one for me regardless of when it launches.
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IIRC it’s a really ambitious game, so the delay makes sense. According to the website they just delayed a quarter to Q1 2026, and they’ll still be at Gamescom and Tokyo Game Show. 2026 is now looking to be quite an ambitious year.
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Interesting to me how 7/10 has become “bad” to a lot of online circles. I guess it speaks to how oversatured the market is and how hard it is for games to pull players away from the forever games. A solid 7 is no longer “good enough” to a lot of people. Which is sad because a video game is just meant to be “fun” which is entirely subjective and people will miss out on things that would’ve just been “fun” for them looking for that perfect game. Funnily enough it’s like what my professors said about a university degree. Because everyone’s been pushed to university a bachelor’s is less valuable and a master’s is becoming increasingly necessary just to get a desirable starting job. That’s of course more expensive for individuals to obtain and more expensive for companies to aquire and keep as employees. It’s the same in gaming. Standards are all over the place and that’s pushing game development costs up and pushing up the price of games all while people will attack the reasonably priced games of reasonable quality for not being extraordinarily good.
A 7.0/10 is good on my personal rating scale and there’s been a few games rated in the high 60’s/low 70’s (Atlas Fallen/Steel Rising just to name two of them) yet I rated both of them an 8.5/10 overall. Games that rate lower have a better chance at scoring higher for me personally than 90+ rated games actually scoring the same from me.
One aspect I will kinda disagree with is the “fun” aspect. Yeah, I want the games I play to be fun and enjoyable but at the same time, for the game to achieve that, it has to be a good or better overall package or at least close to it. I don’t mean perfect or anything. I mean have a good story with interesting and well written characters, great combat, excellent visuals and audio. Give me a good or better overall package that I can fully enjoy and have fun playing through.
To expand on that, a perfect example for me is Nintendo games. yeah, they’re a shit ton of fun to play but when I look at them, I see them as games that don’t look all that great when compared to games in general, if it’s a Mario/DK/Zelda game, it has the same damn audio as it did 30+ years ago, the combat and gameplay is simplistic and boring after a while and don’t have any type of meaningful story.
I’m not a souls guy at all but I completed Lies of P last week (granted, it was on very easy) and the story/characters were great while the combat/gameplay (outside of one boss fight near the end being a pain in the ass not just because of how the fight was structured but also because of the camera during the fight) was excellent, the game looked great and sounded great. It was a great overall package which in turn made the game a lot of fun to play through to where I will be buying the Overture expansion later this year.
With Echoes of the End, my expectation for me personally is a 7-8 game but I won’t know for certain until I play it which won’t be until Sunday at the earliest. I am however looking forward to playing it and the $40 price tag definitely helps because if it was $60 or $70, it would be a no go or wait for a 50% off sale.
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Now i just need Powerwash Simulator 2 to actually come out this year and I’m set! Who am I kidding, I’m set already with this backlog, lol. But I do want PS2 badly.
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It should be fine as long as the games play great on it. I’d imagine it will be available for all to test and if it has the same effect it had on Khalif , then it’s sure to be huge this holiday. Silk Song will be playable on this.
This will be the third title in the Arcade Archives 2 series, following the releases of Ridge Racer and Air Combat 22.
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I saw a random ad for this game on Reddit or something and it actually looks interesting. Never heard of it before now.
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