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At least they didn’t put tits on a spider, eh

Shut up, Saga is great!

Let’s call it “middle-bro”

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seen a lot really ambivalent press for this one so if nothing else I’m glad they spent so much money on something so goofily 90s

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I too feel the need to play the new AC game. It just seems like big dumb fun! I know I’d never finish it but I’d like to know what it’s like

This came out of Wisconsin! I met some dudes who worked on it and they said it was definitely a passion project for some Japanese director. I’m not really sure anything more than that, but I feel like that’s kind of like select buttony

Oh! I thought Human Head went defunct after Prey 2 was cancelled, but it looks like they’ve been scraping by on work-for-hire. Good for them.

Though, ‘Square sends autocratic Japanese director with delusions of auteur-ship to wayward American studio’ is the horror story former Airtight games employees tell about the fire that consumed Murdered: Soul Suspect and destroyed the studio.

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What the fuck is actually going on with this game

Why is he smashing people’s heads in car doors and moving towards shoving a gas pump into a man’s mouth??

You know who I should invite to my music performance tonight? That deaf guy

Needs a little bit more “what costume can I dress Rudie up in this time?” for true BFoV-core, but I sense the aspirations, yeah.

the 90’s are back, baby!!!

These 30 seconds of gameplay pretty much sold me on this being something so bizarre that I need to at least try it out at some point (should start at 6:43). At the very least I kind of enjoy trying out these games that are very obviously trying to Do Something, even if they so clearly are missing the mark and you aren’t sure what the mark was in the first place.

Was Murdered: Soul Suspect actually that bad I feel like I heard it was better than it’s lukewarm pre-release reception implied.

It was okay. Several frustrating design decisions and some laughable parts but I liked it enough to finish it.

My understanding is that either of the two possible games, the American detective game Airtight wanted to make, and the ??? game the Japanese director wanted to make would have been more interesting and cohesive. The final game has enough odd steps that it’s a bloated muted example of weirdo-chic (my groove too, but ideally in leaner form).

The working conditions, though, followed typically aggravating, throw-that-out-and-do-it-different, though-I-just-told-you-to-do-it-this-way, no-this-directly-conflicts-with-another-design-of-mine-but-that’s-your-problem-to-figure-out style.

Forza Horizon 4 has the best title screen in like a decade.

how so?

it’s gorgeous

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