Ronnie

You don't hear that take every day.

This is how I felt about the first Spider-Man on PS4, that the openworld felt incredibly dated. Towers with no compelling reason for them, copy/paste encounters and outposts, etc. Horizon's was even worse, pretty but overall a bit meh. As someone who was keen to try GOT it's disappointing to hear the negative reviews here.

Excuse me? I was replying to Will's post, whether you so disrespectfully regard it as useless or not.

All looked and sounded good, big initiative for Lucasfilm! My only concern is that these Jedi all sound a bit too perfect. Nothing to do with the tedious Rey argument, I love Rey as a character, but hopefully the various leads have plenty of depth. Anyway, I'm about to order Light of the Jedi. Not a big novel-reader but I'll give this a go.

Looking forward to it. One of my favourite YouTubers, Star Wars Explained said Light of the Jedi was one of his favourite SW books ever, so the whole thing sounds promising.

Yeah that was a great nod to the sequels.

This. There's plenty of international condemnation but the UK media concern themselves more with UK politics, funnily enough, and Trump's actions atm are a US issue.

Yeah, BOTW done plenty for me. Looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts on Immortals though, I'll be waiting for it to be as cheap as possible tbh (joys of buying a house)

Some info... - Team Cherry like Castlevania Lords of Shadow!- Hornet will have the ability to perform tasks for NPC's, keep track of tasks you've completed through noticeboards around Pharloom.- Not replacing organic quest lines from the first Hollow Knight.- Instead of rescuing Grub's from jars, now you rescue fleas, that get themselves into little scraps.- Hornet's Crests are fully customisable, can be easily changed to reflect your play style.- Trying to create a game that's accessible to new players, but also matches the difficulty of the original game.- 'Tricks' such as Sting Shards, Pimpillo Bombs, straight pins, can be crafted at benches from shards gathered from defeated enemies.- The objective of the game is to climb to the Citadel, but there will be 'many other lands'- Hollow Knight composer Christopher Larkin returns- Start off the game having lost many of your powers – Team Cherry approached the enemy design differently since Hornet is a fast and competent fighter– Enemies are more complex– Many early enemies and falling hazards now give out two hits to the health bar– Hornet can heal with Bind, an ability that uses the silk she gathers by hitting enemies to bandage wounds (Three masks instead of one)– Team Cherry’s Ari Gibson: “… you spend more time either at full health or almost dead, and the gameplay is kind of snapping between those two states”– There are around 100 different benches that come out of the floor when approached that act as save spots– Difficulty intended to be around the same as the first Hollow Knight– Hornet lost her traditional strength after time being bound in a cage, and is now sort of restoring it; the Weavers are helping her– Silk Spear: get a superpowered forward lunge and cut through sticky web barriers; uses part of Hornet’s silk supply - Team Cherry's next game will not be Hollow Knight related- PC and Switch only at launch, release date TBA. Shame no release date, it's either still a while off, or Nintendo will be the ones going all out to push this. Probably both

2020 games: 1. Paper Mario: The Origami King - brilliantly fun adventure with an amazing soundtrack 2. Animal Crossing New Horizons - this made lockdown manageable, 350+ hours of pure charm 3. Astro's Playroom - The most Nintendo-like game I've played on Playstation. Just wonderful 4. Sackboy: A Big Adventure - Beautiful visuals, lots of unique platforming 5. Spider-Man: Miles Morales - refined an already great game Played in 2020: 1. Paper Mario: The Origami King 2. Shadow of the Tomb Raider - another refinement of an already great formula 3. Control - left a better impression in the first half, but what an experience, brilliant world-building 4. Guacamelee 2 - hilarious, gorgeous and tons of fun 5. Ori and the Will of the Wisps - beautiful game from start to finish

Haha if only. There's so many great games to play that even an awesome good 7/10 one sadly doesn't really make much of a dent for me.

Just looked more into Maneater, 68% on Metacritic, starting the year off strong

Was hoping for a better PS5 game but never mind. I 1000/1000'd Shadow of the Tomb Raider at the start of the first lockdown, that game got me through those first few weeks. Highly recommended. Would love to see them do a 4th game.

If anyone is playing this at the moment and fancies grinding some multiplayer trophies I could use some help

Lovely, not sure about the 45M Switch sales in 2020 though!! More like another 20-25 surely.

Just watched the LEGO Holiday Special, thought it was brilliant. Lots of fun :-)

Present for 11 year old nephew sorted! (Well, this and Star Wars Squadrons on Xbox) It's my first time baking, as you can tell Also...

Apparently I would enjoy a game called Lonely Mountains Downhill, thanks Nintendo? They think I like Adventure, Action, Platformer. Pretty much my exact three genres. 440 hours played this year, but 340 of those were Animal Crossing

I enjoyed the combat but I feel like it could have done with another step in complexity, because once you line everyone up it's pretty mindless to just kill them all. Maybe bringing timing of button presses more into it or something.

Great post

Think it'll drop even more than that in a few weeks.

Sorry I wasn't suggesting it wasn't obvious that he would do one, I just find his whole act really tedious.

To me it's not the bugs and performance issues at all, it's that the game doesn't sound quite as good as I expected it to be. I was thinking this might be another Red Dead Redemption 2 in terms of the openworld but it seems it's not that at all, with NPC AI being really poor that stuck out specially. Naturally.

For sure, I'm not saying most of it isn't justified, but generally when something gets on the wrong side of the internet, it's pretty much destroyed from all corners, with new things discovered given extra attention.