April's round-up. A little late as I was busy most of Easter weekend.

I think it makes sense as everything is stored on the Battlenet servers.

Yikes, the reviews I’ve read gave no mention of microtransactions whatsoever. Looking at metacritic, people aren’t happy. Really not sure about picking this one up after FF7, not least because I didn’t get on with the first Dragon’s Dogma at all. Yep, the big issue with DD2 is that they implemented...

Sly Boots wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:30 pm

Lol... 6 weeks after release this is discounted by nearly 50% on Steam

Still £30 too much.

Backpack Battles A really fun inventory management autobattler. I played a fair bit of the demo last year and was looking forward to seeing what they added for the Early Access release and it was a fair amount. There are two extra classes and a ton of new items. I do love a good autobattler, I put ...

Yeah, open world games when done right are fine, they're not to blame for anything. There's a massive demand for them, a lot of gamers prefer them to shorter, linear, story-lead games. Or at the very least want to experience them along side each other. They used to be priced very reasonably on PC t...

Open world games have a lot to answer for and are I think one of the main drivers behind the increase in the cost of games. It you are not spending masses of resources on making a huge open world you are trying to fill your game with loads of things to do in order to compete in terms of bang for buc...

March!

Animalmother wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:27 pm

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68434599
The ever growing trend of just laying off hundreds of staff rather than maybe the higher ups taking a pay cut. I wonder what the Star Wars FPS was going to be.

Rumoured to have been a Respawn Mandalorian game.

Animalmother wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:38 pm

I assumed it was for PC as well. That's a shame.

There is still an exclusive arrangement with the Epic Store on PC, so Microsoft couldn't have it on PC. It's possible that it arrives on PC Game Pass when that exclusivity expires on the 22 April.

Buy Pentiment if you haven't already, it's great.

Wrathbone wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:11 pm

Shadow of the Erdtree coming out 21st June.

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Dixons no longer exists.
You could add Simply Games to the list.

Balatro I've been waiting for this poker based roguelike for a while as I really enjoyed the demo. Ended up playing for a few hours last night and really enjoyed it. First run I managed to get a win but subsequent ones didn't quite work out as I struggle to build synergies into the deck. It's going...