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Finally bought the bullet and ordered an 2TB SSD expansion drive for my PS5. With everything set to come out this year I'm going to need the storage and am not going to juggle installs anymore.

Also the rumored specs of the Switch 2 have 'leaked' through a Taiwanese Insider report.

Seems more like a Switch 1.5 than a full on upgrade, but Nintendo knows it will still sell by the truckload.

Also a preview of the new No Return mode for the upcoming Last of Us 2 PS5 remaster.
 
Helldivers 2 crossplay between PC and PS5 now confirmed in latest teaser.


EDIT: Someone finally explains what Pacific Drive is all about.
It reminds me so much of the book Roadside Picnic.

 
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Just found out a new Tactics game inspired from Ogre Battle and Fire Emblem is on its way for all platforms March 8 from Vanillaware. I'm all over this.

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Am I the only one that Thinks Helldivers looks really REALLY empty in the previews? Kind of dull open environments? Am I just spoiled by the overwhelmingly dense Darktide maps? LoL
 
First person? That feels like such wasted potential. I was hoping this could have been a counterpoint to the Uncharted games except with Indiana Jones.
first person but when you climb stuff it kicks back to third person. Yeah I think since Indy is more of a punch people guy an fps was a weird choice. We shall see...Maybe someone else is working on a third person Indy game. The franchise should be on a yearly release with different genre's of games.
 
Meh. Troy Baker does a decent Ford impersonation, but this looks...old. Like, parts of it are really pretty, but the animations seem clunky and the gameplay looks kinda ho-hum.

On the other hand, there haven't really been good Indy games since...what, Fate of Atlantis? I never finished The Infernal Machine, and didn't play anything else.
 
Lucasarts just couldn't get it together with that franchise for whatever reason. It's crazy how ILM was so advanced and Lucasarts never really got it together after games went 3D and adventure games vanished.
 
Lucasarts just couldn't get it together with that franchise for whatever reason. It's crazy how ILM was so advanced and Lucasarts never really got it together after games went 3D and adventure games vanished.
I will say I am one of the few people that really liked Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom on the NES. That was one of my favorite games for a while and I still have it somewhere. Never did beat it, but got pretty far.
 
I will say I am one of the few people that really liked Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom on the NES. That was one of my favorite games for a while and I still have it somewhere. Never did beat it, but got pretty far.
I only remember the game they made using the Jedi Knight engine and the brawler game that came after that. I think both ended up being pretty average. They did have that cool trailer for a new game when they announced TFU but the rumor is they never had anything more than a tech demo.
 
First person? Really??? For Pete's sake it's not that hard. Just make an Uncharted game with Indy. Done. I don't need another Far Cry, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Star field type game. There's more than enough of those. Uncharted was the first game I played that felt like I was playing a movie. I always figured it was a matter of time before we got an Uncharted style game with Indiana Jones. Imagine taking a character that is the epitome of action/adventure cinema and choosing to limit him to a fixed perspective. Sigh.

On a lighter note, it's hilarious that they ignored listing the last two movies in the intro.

Meh. Troy Baker does a decent Ford impersonation, but this looks...old. Like, parts of it are really pretty, but the animations seem clunky and the gameplay looks kinda ho-hum.

On the other hand, there haven't really been good Indy games since...what, Fate of Atlantis? I never finished The Infernal Machine, and didn't play anything else.

It's going to feel very dated (heck, it was dated at the time) and very clunky but you could try giving Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb a shot. It was decent. Also, if you can track down a copy, the Indiana Jones trilogy for SNES was great. It was the same engine as Super Star Wars. Or emulate it if you don't have a SNES lying around.
 
The Indy and Brody voices in there are perfect. And a Wilhelm!

Alas, X-Box exclusive. I'm a PS owner....
 
The Indy and Brody voices in there’ll are perfect. And a Wilhelm!

Alas, X-Box exclusive. I'm a PS owner....
Well don’t put too much faith in the phrase Xbox exclusive anymore. It’s looking more and more like MS may be conceding the console war and going 3rd party development, services and publishing sooner than later if the latest remarks from the higher ups are any indication.
 
Do you trust him more than EA? that's a tough question.

I'd trust EA at this point. With them I know what I'm getting. With Bethesda, I trusted them and they robbed me of $69 under false pretenses. :lol:

Lucasarts just couldn't get it together with that franchise for whatever reason. It's crazy how ILM was so advanced and Lucasarts never really got it together after games went 3D and adventure games vanished.

Lucasarts started out working with ILM on Star Wars Bounty Hunter and then they worked on The Force Unleashed. I'm not sure when the company started bombing, but at one point they stopped actually making the games and became a publisher. I'm just glad the old SW games still hold up, because I don't see anything that cool coming out now. I don't think we will ever see sequels to any of the popular SW game franchises. (Dark Forces, Empire At War, Republic Commando, etc.).
 
I'd trust EA at this point. With them I know what I'm getting. With Bethesda, I trusted them and they robbed me of $69 under false pretenses. :lol:



Lucasarts started out working with ILM on Star Wars Bounty Hunter and then they worked on The Force Unleashed. I'm not sure when the company started bombing, but at one point they stopped actually making the games and became a publisher. I'm just glad the old SW games still hold up, because I don't see anything that cool coming out now. I don't think we will ever see sequels to any of the popular SW game franchises. (Dark Forces, Empire At War, Republic Commando, etc.).
LucasArts, I'd say, started its downward slide around 2000ish.

But that was also the point where they shifted from development to publishing.

As for the new stuff, the Jedi series (Fallen Order and Survivor) are terrific games for what they are. Survivor in particular was a hell of a lot of fun. That said, they're really well done Jedi games, and nothing else. If you want, say, a space combat game, the closest you can get is the single player experience of Star Wars Squadrons (which was a lot of fun, but short). The MP experience has...degraded over time. It was terrific when it started, but that game was a victim of nobody really believing in it enough to keep supporting it, coupled with a matchmaking system that, in hindsight, was doomed to fail.

Outside of that, Star Wars games have been dominated by the Battlefront series, which had a good-but-not-perfect initial release, and a horribly supported coulda-been-great game with Battlefront 2. People talk about Battlefront 2 like it's this amazing game, but I gotta be honest...it ain't. It never was. The core of that game was solid, but it was a victim of microtransaction greed and terrible support (which is par for the course with DICE at the helm).
 
LucasArts, I'd say, started its downward slide around 2000ish.

But that was also the point where they shifted from development to publishing.

As for the new stuff, the Jedi series (Fallen Order and Survivor) are terrific games for what they are. Survivor in particular was a hell of a lot of fun. That said, they're really well done Jedi games, and nothing else. If you want, say, a space combat game, the closest you can get is the single player experience of Star Wars Squadrons (which was a lot of fun, but short). The MP experience has...degraded over time. It was terrific when it started, but that game was a victim of nobody really believing in it enough to keep supporting it, coupled with a matchmaking system that, in hindsight, was doomed to fail.

Outside of that, Star Wars games have been dominated by the Battlefront series, which had a good-but-not-perfect initial release, and a horribly supported coulda-been-great game with Battlefront 2. People talk about Battlefront 2 like it's this amazing game, but I gotta be honest...it ain't. It never was. The core of that game was solid, but it was a victim of microtransaction greed and terrible support (which is par for the course with DICE at the helm).

I played the first Jedi Fallen Order game and ended up quitting because I kept getting to places where they'd be like "Good job finding this, but you don't have whatever you need to go through here!". Yeah that happens in a lot of games, but in that game it seemed like bad design vs. a game mechanic. It turned out my nephew quit playing in the exact same place. I only played the Battlefront 2 campaign, I had no interest in MP. I thought it was pretty decent storywise, even though I could care less about the Sequel stuff. And Janina Gavankar, so...
 
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