Board 8 > August 2023 Video Games

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arti said it so I did it

30XX for me.

TIL they're making a Rhapsody 2.

Wait...

TIL they already made Rhapsody 2 and are making Rhapsody 3

ARMORED CORE 6 babyyyyy

Wow I couldve sworn Moving Out 2 was next year. Ill be grabbing that for local multiplayer with family and Sea of Stars Ill have access to through PS+ tiers

Fort Solis & maybe Goodbye Volcano High

Where is Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

Yikes, another rough month of games

Underleveled posted...

TIL they're making a Rhapsody 2.

Wait...

TIL they already made Rhapsody 2 and are making Rhapsody 3

Actually, they already made both Rhapsody 2 and 3, but this is their first official release outside of Japan

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood

Probably won't pick it up until later this year or early next year though

Baldur's Gate III, Sea of Stars, WrestleQuest, and I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival all have my attention. I will not actually buy any of them in August.

Sea of Stars, Baldur's Gate and Armored Core (in order of how likely I am to play them).

I'm kind of broke at the moment,so I'm probably just gonna work through Fire Emblem (GBA) and the Oracle games on Switch Online.

Nothing I'm interested in this month thank goodness. I have such a backlog with the last few months having non stop great games.

Go WrestleQuest and Sea of Stars

Baldurs Gate 3 and Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Armored Core also a possibility

Armored Core and En Garde! if I'm going to get anything.

As a huge fan of Mega Man and Mega Man X...
Should I care for 30XX?
I dunno it and 20XX looked like cheap copies :|

ac6 is going to be so good man

i wanna pick up rhapsody 2/3 too

also shoutout to OU as well which is my top priority pick-up this month https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLkh-U7uic

also interested in Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (surprised it didn't make the poll honestly), Banchou Tactics, Sclash, Enjoy The Diner and Harumachi Troidal

AC6 about to reawaken an entire genre, can't wait

https://twitter.com/skyboundgames/status/1688712585175261184

oops

30XX for this poll. I'm interested in the coop function.

30XX.
Mega Man vibes.

Nanis23 posted...

As a huge fan of Mega Man and Mega Man X...
Should I care for 30XX?
I dunno it and 20XX looked like cheap copies :|

It's out! and nobody answered my question :(

Anyway
I dunno I looked at the trailer again and something looks....off
Maybe it's because the zoomed out camera compared to Mega Man games? I dunno the level design kinda puts me off as well
It feels very uninspired, random, and just a plain mess.
Like I wouldn't be able to tell a randomally generated "roguelite" level to a "static", handcrafted one
If that makes sense

I usually just click "No Video Games for me thank you"

But this month there are several I want and it feels kinda weird.

I ended up getting I Am Future, cozy little post-apolypse survival game that came out in early access the other day.

Might also pick up Jumplight Odyssey later in the month too.

I'm tempted by AC6, but I'll need to hear from some of the longtime fans before I spend the money.

Changing my answer to Baldurs Core

gonna be a hell of a back to back launch

armored core is my most hyped game, but baldurs gate looking like essential day 1. Reviews are keeping pace with TOTK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yt6rGze3zU

SHINE_GET_64 posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yt6rGze3zU

I trust only your opinion

30XX here.

How do people feel about 30XX compared to 20XX? I liked 20XX quite a bit but got tired of it pretty quickly after the first time I beat it. Still want to play 30XX soon though.

oh i didn't realise Affogato was this month

still haven't managed to pick up the stuff i mentioned from earlier this month (Bancho/Diner/Sclash/Toroidal) but definitely getting this one now

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2192620/ghostpia_Season_One/ psa psa psa

go buy it go buy it go buy it

(unless you have a switch that version is probably definitively better because of the godtier rumble)

ironically since i'm still very much holding onto money for rhapsody/OU/AC6 i doubt i'll be getting this for a long while myself even though i totally want to buy it again anyway. maybe next steam sale

Extra mention oh i guess alice escaped is on console now

Also while AC6 gets tragically low (for what it is) 85 averages now and less reviewers taking interest in it than Blasphemous 2 (at the same score), it feels like a good time to bring up how other stuff is actually reviewing again

BG3 at 96 as everyone probably knows

Sclash on the other hand sitting on a poor 60 average from 3 reviews (a 4/10, a 3/5 and an 8/10), with criticism drawn to its undercooked mechanics and lack of online play on launch

unfortunately all the the stuff from the start of the month i'd mentioned has been entirely missed by reviewers (even banchou tactics). that said I can say on steam at least harumachi toroidal has a 100% positive rating (from 27 reviews), 98% for enjoy the diner (from 83 reviews, it got one negative review from somebody saying they refused to even open the game once so lol, guess they were never going to enjoy it), and banchou has 80%. also of note, xenotilt also has 98% (from 129 reviews)

Verne: The Shape of Fantasy apparently came out this month (i didn't notice till now) and has a modest 5/10, 6.5/10 and "worth your time" rating, for what it's worth, though it definitely sounds more lacklustre than i expected

Affogato sitting on a modest albeit markedly better 72.5 from 4 reviews, mostly criticising a lack of side content in its hub world and poor sprite work on it (both are valid really, the hub was of clearly minimal focus the whole time throughout development despite how integral it is, understandably considering the small dev team already having their hands full with the core game, art and voice casting)

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk also appears to have fairly middling reviews with an average of 70 from (surprisingly only) 6 reviews to date, despite getting overwhelmingly positive reception (98%) from over 4k reviews on steam. I guess that's the power of jet set radio's polarising reputation

And it's not out till next week but OU got a preview on gameblast already and... unfortunately it's also sounding solid but flawed with a 65 (6.5) score, accompanying critique on its limited environmental interaction, repetitive structure and typos in the english localisation which are all not good signs

Also since it's out on all the platforms it was announced for now at least, i figured it'd be fine to also check on ghostpia s1, which is now at a 78.5 average from 8 reviews, with most of its lower reviews amounting almost entirely to "i won't rate this higher because it's not a video game" (there was still one who just couldn't get comfortable with the tonal whiplash it focuses on which is fair)