gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 thoughts?

[weirdfeline]

Live from Cologne, Germany join Geoff Keighley and Sjokz for gamescom Opening Night Live 2025, featuring the worldwide reveal of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, a new reveal from Resident Evil Requiem, news on Fallout Season 2 and more.

Streaming live Tuesday, August 19 at 8p CEST / 7p BST / 2p ET / 11a PT.

This show is typically about two hours long so it should have something for everyone. 

[kamikazekeeg]

Glanced through a twitter feed of releases, but nothing I was excited to check out specifically or were games I already knew about and don't need to see anymore like Resident Evil.  Bubsy 4D is funny, but actually looks fine, He-Man could be fun, but there's kind of a lot of these these retro property games happening ever since the TMNT game and they only seem okay or in the case of GIJOE, not very good.

[bikingjahuty]

Overall pretty disappointing. They even made me less interested in Silent Hill F and RE9, even though at the moment those are both day 1 buys for me.

[weirdfeline]

It's interesting that Bubsy 4D is releasing for PS4 but the collection isn't. I wish it was a different developer because Demon Turf is one of the ugliest 3D platformers I can think of and this Bubsy game looks ugly. Bubsy 3D's art style is genuinely more appealing to me than this. It almost looks like a Demon Turf mod in some parts, like when the screen is entirely red or purple. Bubsy's character model looks bad so I guess that's why they included the Bubsy 3D character model as an option since it looks way better. Voice acting and writing is more Gex than Bubsy.

Neverness to Everness still looks good.

Time Takers having a chimpanzee with a banana grenade seemed interesting.

Fate Trigger didn't show gameplay here but it's a battle royale with a decent amount of polish.

LEGO Batman and Black Ops 7 seem good.

[dhaabi]

So, how about Kirby Air Riders, right?

[weirdfeline]

So, how about Kirby Air Riders, right?

The $70 price point is pretty funny. I guess since Nintendo is selling multiple games for $80 that $70 is their version of a discount.

Mafia: The Old Country just released for $50, what a value.

[dhaabi]

So, how about Kirby Air Riders, right?

The $70 price point is pretty funny. I guess since Nintendo is selling multiple games for $80 that $70 is their version of a discount.

Mafia: The Old Country just released for $50, what a value.

As for the game itself, I think it looks okay. I'm not a Kirby fan nor have played Kirby Air Ride, so it's a little difficult for me to assess if it's a game I'd really enjoy. I also didn't watch the entire announcement since the published video on YouTube post-livestream was faulty. Concerning its price, I think $70 is just the standard first-party price for Nintendo game now, so it's not that unexpected. It's not a value I agree with, but I can think of many other games at that price point with far less content or content that's severely lacking in quality.

I definitely agree, even if Mafia isn't a game for me.

[telekill]

Maybe He-Man?

I expected nothing as I always do anymore so a maybe is an improvement.

[kamikazekeeg]

I'm sure Kirby will be fun, I've never played the Air Ride series myself, so I have zero hype and with already anticipating playing Mario Kart World eventually and Sonic Cross Worlds, I'm not as eager to check out yet another racer whenever I get a Switch 2, which I'm hoping will be in a few months if I feel I can justify it.