Video Game Hype Thread

re: Battle chef brigade

If you got the game free as part of the twitch prime special it auto-upgraded to the Deluxe version.

I liked Spelunky, but I never got BIG into it like I know some people are.

Spelunky 2 is coming out. Demo playable at PAX this weekend.

https://youtu.be/ZuBDPkOpiaY

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There was a period where I was pretty into it but it only lasted like a week and I never actually beat it in any capacity.

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https://youtu.be/IJ_I8SSVKto

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This shit has me rather worried about artifact (larger thread beyond the link):

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Goose Game stole the show at PAX West. Check out this commentary with the creators:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNLSwlTve0

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https://twitter.com/sarugetchuu/status/1037599843210981376

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8HAOF0_BR4

A review of the hip-hop Noir detective game, STONE, that includes about 15 minutes of narrated gameplay.

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Hype is decreasingā€¦

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1NwL75xLQ

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WTF is up with this? After Amazon failed to release Breakway, the game designed to be eSports first, I donā€™t trust them for shit. Also no way this can get ahead of that new Fallout.

Without getting into details because I donā€™t want any reason for the Amazon legal hammer to come down on me, there were a lot of good reasons for canning Breakaway while it was still in pre-alpha (I donā€™t remember if we called it that when it was playable by the public, but for all intents and purposes it was basically Early Access). I played a lot of both games, and New World has always been a better game in my opinion, and I donā€™t even like that genre particularly. Iā€™m curious to see how much theyā€™ve done in the past year and more since I last played it. The comparison to Fallout 76 is apt though, so weā€™ll see if it can compete.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fID1sE2xfwU

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muffled Kenny Loggins music in the distance

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKHhvFSAXJg

I donā€™t think I can actually play this game. Too stressful. Still, very unique and good idea that Iā€™m sure will be fun for many people. Maybe Iā€™ll just watch people stream it.

This reminds me of early PC titles like ā€œAir Traffic Controller Simā€

At 0:35-0:38 that some dodgy UI design for an Emergency Response sim. If Iā€™m dispatching emergency vehicles I donā€™t want to have to scroll through police cars when you need fire trucks.

I guess this goes here but I am unsure:

Publications have been putting out articles about how Rockstar has been doing 100-hour work weeks to finish Red Dead Redemption 2, and I am fucking aghast about how basically every single one of those articles are putting it as ā€œdedication to the craftā€ and other such BS. All I see is a studio that absolutely failed in planning, works its employees to the bone and is overall terrible for the games industry.

Maybe RDR2 is a nice game. Maybe Iā€™d like it too, considering I enjoyed the first one. I am certain as shit not ever going to buy it.

Sadly if thatā€™s the stance you take regarding crunch, you pretty much should stop buying anything but indie games. Crunch is how pretty much all big time studios do game development under pressure from the publisher who is under pressure from investors - the shit is rolling downhill. It sucks, itā€™s a shit way of doing things and it needs to end but really the only practical way that will happen is with unionization. Boycotts just make publishers think ā€œNo one wanted this game so we wonā€™t make more like it.ā€ and turn the teams to making mobile gacha drek or just fire everyone. Boycotts are useless in the modern world where your consumer base is international and itā€™s impossible to get enough people to care.

I didnā€™t call for a boycott. I simply voiced my personal buying decision regarding that game. Yes, unionization needs to happen, but I donā€™t work in the games industry and this is basically all that is left to me: whether I buy a game created under extremely shitty work practices or not.