Sensationalism sells.

Bloober said Piotr’s actual words were: “The Steam version has generated considerable interest, and we believe that, in addition to PlayStation (for which the game was initially announced), the Steam version will also be a success. Both we and Konami are pleased with the collaboration and are confident that this is not the end of our journey together.”

“That’s not what we said! What we actually said was [AI generated PR statement].”

Yeah nah, this is 100% trying to save face for Konami. Not that I really care much either way coming from Bloober Team, but still.

Hopefully supporters remember The Game Before the developers next one lol

Okay, and?

He’s definitely got OP magic abilities. And a huge harem. Its a romcom under the pretenses of a fantasy adventure, 100%.

Nintendo fuming

Big shock. This game has had a lot of red flags, and not the good kind one would expect from a Japanese themed game. Everything about this game from the marketing to the merchandising has been bad at best, and outright offensive/borderline racist at worst.

People have been dreaming of a Japan based AC game since the first one. Ubisoft could not have picked a worse game to mess up this badly than this one.

Finally, let me address some of the polarized comments around Ubisoft lately. I want to reaffirm that we are an entertainment-first company, creating games for the broadest possible audience, and our goal is not to push any specific agenda. We remain committed to creating games for fans and players that everyone can enjoy.”

I do not believe you Yves. You say you are committed to making games everyone want to enjoy, but your last like 4 games have released to awful sales because basically nobody wanted to play them. If you were committed to making games everyone wanted to enjoy then your sales would not be garbage. Your words and your data do not match. I mean, you literally just said Ubisoft remains committed to the GaaS model for games, thats pretty much the opposite of being player committed.

GOTY 2024, this one

Sure.

You give Hololive your money in exchange for the music!

Is there a specific ablum you’re trying to buy, and are you sure it is available in your destination country? Is it a physical or digital good?

With money

No, it will be fine. It doesn’t need a case.

Real game hours

Wait, its not Nintendo this time?

Stellarblade is requesting Shift Up and Sony be prevented from using Stellar Blade or any other similar name in the future - and that all Stellar Blade material in their possession is handed over to be destroyed.

LOL. This is rich.

Im just a person pointing out that this site has issues. Make up your own opinion, I don’t care.

Average modern games “journalism”

I suppose, but the player could very easily overlevel themselves to make the bosses very easy in Elden Ring. Can’t do that without a big, boring, repetitive time investment in Dark Souls, farming the same enemies in the same location.

He doesn’t hate diversity, in games or anything else. He is annoyed by forced diversity, like most normal people.

Just make cool stuff without trying to check boxes, its not hard.

Interesting, but its based on user generated input, so this data could easily be manipulated by someone that doesn’t like particular games creating a few accounts to add bad data.

Its more than nostalgia. The games actually look better because thats what they were designed with.

Nowadays people seem to use “nostalgia” as some hand waive to dismiss something as unnecessary or invalid. But in this case it is actually necessary, old games just do not look good on any display technology other than CRTs. Shaders come extremely close, and if you have an HDR compatible screen that gets bright and vibrant enough, shaders can be nearly comparable to real CRTs.

The thing that makes Elden Ring much easier is the fact that there is always somewhere else the player can make progress. In Dark Souls, you follow a more or less linear path and if you felt underleveled you had to grind enemies because you could not make any further progress until you pass where you got stuck. In Elden Ring, you can go to a different area completely and make a bit more progress there. From Limgrave, the player can choose to go to Stormveil, skip Stormveil and go to Liurnia Lake, go to Southern Limgrave, or go to Caelid if they’re a psycopath. This is in addition to all the helpers From has given players. Strong magic (compared to Souls games), Summons that are available to the player literally anywhere on top of the same Gold Message Summons from the Souls games, two moves that give players i-frames, etc.

Sure, if you play it like its a Souls game then it might seem hard, but if you play it as the action adventure RPG it is designed to be, the game is significantly easier than Souls games.