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[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Atomic Heart have the potential to be the game of the year for me alongside Elden Ring. It just ticks so many boxes for me.

Atomic Heart Combat Trailer

[XJDenton]

Atomic Heart have the potential to be the game of the year for me alongside Elden Ring. It just clocks so many boxes for me.

Atomic Heart Combat Trailer

Looks like the bastard child of Metro and Bioshock.

[Stadler]

Atomic Heart have the potential to be the game of the year for me alongside Elden Ring. It just clocks so many boxes for me.

Atomic Heart Combat Trailer

Looks like the bastard child of Metro and Bioshock.

You had me at Bioshock.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Atomic Heart have the potential to be the game of the year for me alongside Elden Ring. It just clocks so many boxes for me.

Atomic Heart Combat Trailer

Looks like the bastard child of Metro and Bioshock.

You had me at Bioshock.

Definitely influences from Bioshock atleast. I love the previous trailers and it's art style of surrealism and how weird, diffrent and original it feels.
Mick Gordon is behind the soundtrack, he did the OST for the recent Doom games.
I will probably play this game in russian with subs if that's an option to capture the right feeling because english felt off.

The game has been in development hell for ages and it's awesome that it finally has a target window of october this year.

Atomic Heart trailer

[ErHaO]

Please be good, I really like the trailer. But as with any medium, trailers can be bullshit. The developer is new, 5 years of work does not seem that bad.



Also, talking about games that share things with Bioshock, I recently wrapped up Prey (2017) and recommend that, thought that one is a less action orientated than Bioshock. It is kinda like System Shock 2 mixed with Alien Isolation (though I never played System Shock 2 much).

[XJDenton]

Prey is on my list of things to buy. Would have got it on the quakecon sale if I hadn't lost my bank card.

[orcus116]

Prey is great and after recently finishing it I decided to do more immersive sim games and played through both Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided which I both enjoyed. It's sad we likely won't see more from this genre as I've grown to love how detail oriented the world's generally are.

[ReaperKK]

Atomic Heart have the potential to be the game of the year for me alongside Elden Ring. It just ticks so many boxes for me.

Atomic Heart Combat Trailer

I'm super excited for this game but I'm really skeptical. I hope it's a good game that runs well but I have my reservations.

[Skeever]

Prey is great and after recently finishing it I decided to do more immersive sim games and played through both Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided which I both enjoyed. It's sad we likely won't see more from this genre as I've grown to love how detail oriented the world's generally are.

I really do find it baffling. Both the new Deus Ex games were generally disappointing as "Immersive Sims" but I do think that they were still very fun and the best we're gonna get for awhile.

[ErHaO]

Prey is great and after recently finishing it I decided to do more immersive sim games and played through both Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided which I both enjoyed. It's sad we likely won't see more from this genre as I've grown to love how detail oriented the world's generally are.

I really hope Microsoft let's Arkane keep making games close to it.

Not sure what the experience of Redfall will be. It is from Arkane Austin, which did Prey. It seems to have many immersive sim elements, but is also more catered to coop than previous titles. The devs did promise it will still be fullfilling as a singleplayer experience. I assume the part of Arkane that did Dishonored 2 and Deathloop (Lyon) will make another game that is at least close to the genre.

Anyways, both teams have shown to be able to make great games that have much in common with what people call immersive sims.

It is unfortunate Prey got lukewarm reviews and did not do well (I really don't understand how this title reviewed). Deathloop was a success, but I haven't played it yet.

Also, Deus Ex has been bought from Square, I do expect to see the ip return, hopefully in capable hands.

[Dublagent66]

I think Prey is another game I have that never got finished.  I have so many of those. 

[orcus116]

Prey is great and after recently finishing it I decided to do more immersive sim games and played through both Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided which I both enjoyed. It's sad we likely won't see more from this genre as I've grown to love how detail oriented the world's generally are.

I really do find it baffling. Both the new Deus Ex games were generally disappointing as "Immersive Sims" but I do think that they were still very fun and the best we're gonna get for awhile.

I'm not as well versed in the genre but the freedom to play in many ways was satisfying. Despite the limited number of locations I had a blast exploring in Mankind Divided as there never seemed to be a shortage of nooks and crannies. I also played more stealth and non-lethal which is not my MO at all in games. I just never found a good enough reason to kill most folks in the game. The ending was kind of a wet fart though.

[XJDenton]

Prey is great and after recently finishing it I decided to do more immersive sim games and played through both Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided which I both enjoyed. It's sad we likely won't see more from this genre as I've grown to love how detail oriented the world's generally are.

Immersive sims are, when properly executed, some of the best games ever created. It is a shame, but I think part of the problem is that immersive sims only really work well if EVERY system in the game plays well together, and that becomes harder and harder as graphics, physics and AI become more and more complex.

[Stadler]

Prey is great and after recently finishing it I decided to do more immersive sim games and played through both Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided which I both enjoyed. It's sad we likely won't see more from this genre as I've grown to love how detail oriented the world's generally are.

I really do find it baffling. Both the new Deus Ex games were generally disappointing as "Immersive Sims" but I do think that they were still very fun and the best we're gonna get for awhile.

I'm not as well versed in the genre but the freedom to play in many ways was satisfying. Despite the limited number of locations I had a blast exploring in Mankind Divided as there never seemed to be a shortage of nooks and crannies. I also played more stealth and non-lethal which is not my MO at all in games. I just never found a good enough reason to kill most folks in the game. The ending was kind of a wet fart though.

So I REALLY liked Human Revolution, and have Mankind Divided ready to go.  Think I'd like Prey?

[orcus116]

It's a bit of a different game but my gut says yes. The story is interesting and there's still a lot of elements of needing to sneak around and minimal combat if you want although generally it's a bit more combat heavy than the newer DX games. Since it's set on a space station it's definitely more sci fi focused than the techy/cyber style of DX but the environments are impressively detailed which is something I think Arkane excels at. The sheer scale of some of the setpieces is quite cool which make sneaking around them a fun experience.

[XJDenton]

So I REALLY liked Human Revolution, and have Mankind Divided ready to go.  Think I'd like Prey?

Have you played the original Deus Ex?

[XJDenton]

Prey is on my list of things to buy. Would have got it on the quakecon sale if I hadn't lost my bank card.

It was still on offer at 7 euro, so I took the plunge.

[Skeever]

I bought Madden 23 this year, and man am I rough. I've never been good at Madden, but I haven't played it in over 5 years, and whatever they did to Passing/Defense has been inscrutable to me. I've thrown 10 interceptions in my first 4 franchise games. Granted, I am playing as the Jets, but still... 

I'm sure I'm just "not getting it", and in some ways, it's a good change (no more just rolling out and hitting a receiver with 10 yards separation, or having a slant work every single time). It's going to require me to actually learn how to play the game, read the defense, pick up defenders, etc. I'm just nowhere near there, lol. 

[Stadler]

So I REALLY liked Human Revolution, and have Mankind Divided ready to go.  Think I'd like Prey?

Have you played the original Deus Ex?

No, nor any of the mobile games.  Have the early DX games been remastered or released for PS3 or PS4?

[XJDenton]

Deus Ex had a PS2 port, and IW was released on XBOX. The original only really works well on PC IMO. The original is 22 years old at this point though so any PC made in the last 10 years would play it fine.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

I've said it before but Prey is such a underrated game. One of the best SP games imo. I loved the setting with the diffrent areas on the spacestation and the gameplay was satisfying. Getting chased by the Nightmare for the first time had me crap my pants.

[XJDenton]

Prey is on my list of things to buy. Would have got it on the quakecon sale if I hadn't lost my bank card.

It was still on offer at 7 euro, so I took the plunge.

This game is goddamn great.

[Dublagent66]

I'll definitely have to revisit that one...eventually.

[ErHaO]

I've said it before but Prey is such a underrated game. One of the best SP games imo. I loved the setting with the diffrent areas on the spacestation and the gameplay was satisfying. Getting chased by the Nightmare for the first time had me crap my pants.

It is one of the games that taught me to ignore ratings (over the years, though thinking about it the first instance was Yakuza 2 on the ps2 back in the day). Many people on the internet are passionate about Prey (2017) with good reason.

I want to try out the Mooncrash DLC one of these days.

[orcus116]

I dipped my toe into Mooncrash but I didn't find the gameplay loop very rewarding. It's neat as a pseudo precursor to Deathloop but that's all I got from it.

[Skeever]

Destiny is free for awhile so I was playing it but it's still not right for me.

The main problem is it just takes way too long to do anything. If I'm going to play something like that I need to be able to get in and out within a half hour or at least save my progress toward things.

For me the Destiny experience has been like "45 minutes into a who-knows-how-long mission, really need to leave to do something else or get to bed, guess I'll just plough ahead and hope it ends soon" and then 15 minutes later it's still going. This is true of most missions but especially when you get to the level of activities that are more unique than strikes but not quite Raids like dungeons and presages and whatever else they come up with.

[Dublagent66]

Destiny is free for awhile so I was playing it but it's still not right for me.

The main problem is it just takes way too long to do anything. If I'm going to play something like that I need to be able to get in and out within a half hour or at least save my progress toward things.

For me the Destiny experience has been like "45 minutes into a who-knows-how-long mission, really need to leave to do something else or get to bed, guess I'll just plough ahead and hope it ends soon" and then 15 minutes later it's still going. This is true of most missions but especially when you get to the level of activities that are more unique than strikes but not quite Raids like dungeons and presages and whatever else they come up with.

I totally get that.  Sometimes I have to quit a mission only to start over at a more opportune time when I can finish it.  As much as I love Destiny, not being able to pause the game during a mission is less than desirable.  For me, I'm either all-out binge playing the game or not playing at all for a while.  It's on and off really with literally months in-between.  Never finished the last expansion and the next one is coming soon.  I'll probably be right back into the thick of it before too long.

[cramx3]

I find it fascinating that Battlefield 2042 is going to be in a great state by the time it's been out a full year 

They launched season 2 and while I haven't played it, I've read nothing but positives and season 1 was a huge move in making the game what it was supposed to be.  Sounds like season 3 they are going to rework the specialists into a class system (why wasn't it like that originally??) and by the time they finish the bare minimum of 4 seasons, the content between the added guns, maps, vehicles, and specialists, it will actually finally have enough content that I feel should have been there at launch.  Also, they actually fixed a lot of issues and added a scoreboard (once again, how was that not in there originally) and VOIP support. The gun play feels good.  It performs much better (although it can still be improved) on PC.  What a fucking failure of a game.  I'd be so much more open to playing it this fall, but it'll be in great state just in time for COD MW2 to come out and I will be playing that instead.

[XJDenton]

Sounds like season 3 they are going to rework the specialists into a class system (why wasn't it like that originally??)

They were chasing Fortnite/Apex Legends/Rainbow 6 MTX money.

[cramx3]

Sounds like season 3 they are going to rework the specialists into a class system (why wasn't it like that originally??)

They were chasing Fortnite/Apex Legends/Rainbow 6 MTX money.

They did, but they didn't build the game properly to do that.  Also, EA owns Apex so trying to be like a game already under your umbrella makes little sense. I had no issue with the game being a live service or the idea of specialists, they just completely failed on execution.

[XJDenton]

You're assuming video game execs have a coherent strategy beyond "make it like this thing that made us money".

[cramx3]

You're assuming video game execs have a coherent strategy beyond "make it like this thing that made us money".

Well, it's quite clear the people above pushed a release that wasn't ready and forced a change in a game that the fanbase didn't want (generally).

I mean, I don't even know how they can explain not putting a scoreboard into a competitive FPS game.  Who makes that decision 

It's just sad because EA might have killed one of my favorite game franchises with this release and the end result may actually be a pretty solid game after all the content and fixes.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

It's amazing/sad how little interest I have in anything related to Battlefield these days. I just don't care anymore.

Battlefield used to be the king of FPS games, not in terms of sales but content and quality.

[XJDenton]

Hopefully they will get back on top once EA gives them to actually make a Battlefield game again.

[Chino]

It's amazing/sad how little interest I have in anything related to Battlefield these days. I just don't care anymore.

Battlefield used to be the king of FPS games, not in terms of sales but content and quality.

All of those games just feel like a grind to me now. They feel like traps to make people constantly play. I don't like it.