Current Events > November has been a shitshow for gaming, huh?

(+) Yeah! (+)

-Blizzard announces Diablo Immortal and following up with all their lead devs working on mobile games.
-Pokemon Let's Go coming out this month and is dumbed down (for a Pokemon game lmao) every time they let out new info.
-Fallout 76 proving to be mediocre from a gameplay perspective and horrific from a technical perspective on every single platform.
-Valve announcing Artifact's pricing plan which looks like some of the greediest shit I've ever seen for a CCG.

Am I missing anything? Because each passing day into this month it's looking worse and worse for video games lmao.
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Hitman 2 makes up for it.
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GujinKami posted...

-Blizzard announces Diablo Immortal and following up with all their lead devs working on mobile games.

blizzard didnt say all their lead devs are working on mobile games, they said "we have many of our best devs now working on mobile titles across all IPs". which means nothing, it's PR speak. they're not going to say "we have our mediocre and shitty developers working on mobile titles, I honestly don't even know why we keep them on payroll"
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Romulox28 posted...

they're not going to say "we have our mediocre and shitty developers working on mobile titles, I honestly don't even know why we keep them on payroll"

They could have not said anything as a safer alternative.
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GujinKami posted...

Romulox28 posted...

they're not going to say "we have our mediocre and shitty developers working on mobile titles, I honestly don't even know why we keep them on payroll"

They could have not said anything as a safer alternative.

someone asked them about their approach to mobile games in a Q&A
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Preposterous.

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And Flashback 25th Anniversary will be out on PS4 in a few days.

Those two alone make my November.
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Diablo III Switch is legit
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What's Artifact's pricing plan?
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brotrrwinner posted...

What's Artifact's pricing plan?

$20 for the game, $1.99 per pack (can't get packs in-game) and ~$5 for competitive play, via draft or ranked.

If you just spend $20 though you can play with preconstructed decks with friends and against bots.
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Overkill's Walking Dead bombed.
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GujinKami posted...

brotrrwinner posted...

What's Artifact's pricing plan?

$20 for the game, $1.99 per pack (can't get packs in-game) and ~$5 for competitive play, via draft or ranked.

If you just spend $20 though you can play with preconstructed decks with friends and against bots.

That sounds like pay to win.

X-Pac_Heat posted...

Hitman 2 makes up for it.

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X-Pac_Heat posted...

Hitman 2 makes up for it.

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L0Z posted...

GujinKami posted...

brotrrwinner posted...

What's Artifact's pricing plan?

$20 for the game, $1.99 per pack (can't get packs in-game) and ~$5 for competitive play, via draft or ranked.

If you just spend $20 though you can play with preconstructed decks with friends and against bots.

That sounds like pay to win.

It's how physical card games work. You buy packs and stack your deck with the best meta cards. Just the way it is.
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Literally one of the most amazing months ever, hopefully, once I FINALLY get Darksiders 3.

Spyro tomorrow. Plus, we've known that Let's Go was gonna be dumbed down for a long time now. It'll still be a fun little game. Appetizer before the main course next year, etc etc.
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Battlefield V is looking to be real good!

The dumb release schedule is pretty bad though.
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Not every month can be a banger. This year has been pretty good for games. I'm just glad we'll be able to finish the year off with a new Smash game.
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Sunset Overdrive is coming to PC this week according to Amazon.
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OBCD posted...

Literally one of the most amazing months ever, hopefully, once I FINALLY get Darksiders 3.

Had no idea that comes out this month. I thought it was sometime in 2019.
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I think Let's Go looks like a fun retro diversion back to Gen 1, with nice graphics.
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snesmaster40 posted...

Sunset Overdrive is coming to PC this week according to Amazon.

hype
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Im gonna defend GO cuz all of yall are getting salty over a game meant for casuals

Its not for you competitive (lol) pokemon veterans, that shit is coming out next year - this is for casuals who want to experience their first pokemon game and it eases them into the experience

Also, Im p hype cuz pokemon has been stale for me since X/Y so Im getting it with the pokeball

snesmaster40 posted...

Sunset Overdrive is coming to PC this week according to Amazon.

I don't really play games on PC, but I can already imagine how sweet the mods will be for this game. It's a lot of fun.
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soulunison2 posted...

Im gonna defend GO cuz all of yall are getting salty over a game meant for casuals

Even the casuals think it looks like garbage lmao. The only people it appeals to are the extremist drones that will buy anything Pokemon and people who don't play video games.

And besides, despite it being made for casuals, they left in the competitive statting for Pokemon with nature's, EV's and IV's. This product exists to piss everyone off.
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BF Vagina is coming so that will be the Apex
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GujinKami posted...

soulunison2 posted...

Im gonna defend GO cuz all of yall are getting salty over a game meant for casuals

Even the casuals think it looks like garbage lmao. The only people it appeals to are the extremist drones that will buy anything Pokemon and people who don't play video games.

And besides, despite it being made for casuals, they left in the competitive statting for Pokemon with nature's, EV's and IV's. This product exists to piss everyone off.

The YouTube comment section says otherwise lol

Like I said, Im far from a pokemon drone (last game was X/Y) but Im getting it, game looks dope

Darkninja42 posted...

OBCD posted...

Literally one of the most amazing months ever, hopefully, once I FINALLY get Darksiders 3.

Had no idea that comes out this month. I thought it was sometime in 2019.

I think the game should release in March or April of next year. Its going to get overlooked coming out at this time of year which is a shame.
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I think this year as a whole has been pretty good for gaming, though. We've had shit announcements, but we get those every year and there have been less exciting titles to balance the scales in the past.

Like sure, Diablo Immortals was a shitshow of an announcement. Fallout 76 has been railed on for looking dead and mediocre, I couldn't tell you from experience but I'd rather play a singleplayer game like 3. The next Pokemon games aren't gen 8. Sure.

But we've also had Monster Hunter World, a Monster Hunter game that managed to break into the mainstream to the point that my friends spent like 100+ hours playing it despite never playing a MH game before. We got God of War PS4, a game that I was so sure about being bad before it released, anticipating a reboot where Kratos is taken by the Norse gods so you had to play as the fucking kid - and it ended up blowing me, an absolute skeptic, out of the water with how well it was handled. We got Spider-Man PS4 as well, which has been well received by most. Puddlegate was a fucking farce though, perpetuated by total fucking losers.

2018 has had its ups and downs for sure, but there's been a lot of good to come out of this year and I think that's worth acknowledging. We can sit in the dark bitching about how games are kinda shit this month and how badly handled a bunch of stuff is, completely valid arguments of course, but there's been enough decent content coming out throughout 2018 that's worth talking about and reiterating.
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