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Yes. You will get to sell it or salvage it in town. Just drop some items if your inventory is full. It's not worth much unless rare items.

He means stuff like Forspoken. ... Oh wait!!

Yup agree 👇

That would be a huge win for them.

It's a sandbox game, not a hoard shooter. A lot of previews are praising their getting out of comfort zone and making a open world with Arkane style gameplay.

Don't remind this to people all the time. It's sensetive matter 👇

Hiding behind metascore and awards? That too while criticising Arkane titles doesn't make sense. They are critically highly rated, multiple award winners as well. Besides, Arkane games don't click with everyone, immediately. Their sandbox nature not everyone gets it.

I have a ton of material I can post in Ragnorok thread.

Game is not for everyone. Everyone harps about how addicted they are to optimise their build. Personally I never got to that point in Diablo 2 or 3. I will get it for over the top bosses and coop action. Might skip it and get MHR Sunbreak. It has similar addictive loop of optimising build, over the top battles and coop action. It also features overall best melee combat system ever. So it has a lot going for it as well.

Played for 1/2 hrs today. I don't think you absolutely need battlepass. At least till you play story content. Base game should be fine Now to decide whether to get this or Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak.

You cannot make ips like COD, Minecraft, Doom etc. They will have to get into acquisition game.

Played a bit. Gameplay feels familiar. Is lore heavy so that's a good thing. Diablo lore was very interesting but they never explored it properly. Thats not the case with D4. Waiting to see how it works. If it's worth it, might get it.

It's going through apparently. MS has played their cards right then.

Just skip it dude. It's a time and money sink. And Blizzard doesn't care for players either. Just wait for release, it will be unplayable for at least a month. They are basically just western Nintendo. They also have very good cosmetics. And a battlepass. And story expansions. Budget 10k for it if you wanna play it properly. I will get it later after understanding how it all works. And is on a bit of a sale.

PC games coming in cardboard boxes were the best.

Exclusives are ok if you make them. Of course MS, Sony, Nintendo they all are trying to push their ecosystem. If they put effort to make a game, it's fine to make it exclusive. But fooling innocent (and possibly dumb) Japanese developers through marketing deals like Square Enix is not cool. Japanese Dev's don't want to get into Western market cause they don't understand it. So they take Sony's help with marketing in exchange for exclusivity. This limits their potential market resulting in less sales. I am hearing Forspoken had huge marketing push and ads were everywhere. Mostly due to contractual reasons.

Classic Arcane. Hyped.

Unless it's Fallout 76 type of launch, scores will not be deducted. As proven by all their previous launches. Also its looking like it has made some progress in latest showing. It could launch is decent state, we never know.

I was going to reply point by point, but it took too long. So i will just say this. Pedigree of studio is important. This is not Xbox One era where just making a competent game would be enough. First of all, Bethesda is a pioneering studio. I have Skyrim installed right now. Whatever Elden Ring / Breath of the Wild achieved, they did it in 2011. That is, landmark based exploration. You see interesting city/settlement/landmass right in front of you, that you wanna explore cause it's interesting. Not just to put a checkmark in the map. Outside of that, just the scope of the game is immense. True RPG elements, ship building, ship combat, 100s of solar systems. I will be highly surprised if Insomniac made any improvements beyond graphics, lip syncing, side quest stories etc. I mean, that stuff is nice to have, but hardly something I pioneering studio would be satisfied with.

This is hilarious to read. Make smaller posts, I will get tired replying to this. Taking it to VS thread.

Am talking about game development. Starfield is being worked on since 2016. Development seems to have been finished and it's mostly about play testing/ polishing. We have seen multiple videos. Insomniac on the other hand released 2 games after 2020. They have two teams. Must be scrambling/ crunching to finish the game in September. On top going against competitors big game would mean extra pressure.

Bold to go up against Starfield like that. Insomniac has their work cut out if true.