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Modern Video Games / Summer Game Fest 2025

« on: June 06, 2025, 01:29:57 pm »

We can just use this as a general catch all for anything happening this weekend, but SGF proper is in a few hours and I'll post anything that's new and notable that shows up.

Was gonna live post some of the reveals, but it's a two hour show and I kinda realized I'd rather not.

Not a ton of stuff blew me away personally, but it did end on one of my big wants, which is Resident Evil 9 or Resident Evil: Requiem. Damn excited for that and it's got a Feb 27, 2026 release date with gameplay being shown off at Gamescom. Looks like it'll involve the bombed out ruins of Raccoon City.  You play as I think a reporter, to investigate a mysterious death, in a place where her mother was killed, her name being Grace Ashcroft.  That name probably means she's the daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft who was an investigative reporter that was from RE: Outbreak. Very excited for this.

For some other neat showings...

Mortal Shell 2 - I didn't play the first one, I heard it was just alright, but more of a proof of concept than a full game, but this looked great.

Sonic Racing: Crossworlds - Initially I was bummed that it was Sonic only, because of how much I liked Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed, but they are adding guest levels and characters.  Yakuza guy, Hatsune Miku, Joker from Persona 5, and Minecraft Steve, probably more also.  Hopefully this is decent.

Atomic Heart 2  - Was one of those games that had good ideas, but poor execution, and with this insane trailer, I'm hoping they can kinda properly nail it now.  There's also a multiplayer game set in the universe called The CUBE, though not 100% sure what type of game it was.

Lies of P: Overture - Surprise shadow drop of the DLC for today, looking forward to it down the road, I played it on Game Pass, so I need to actually buy the game before I can do the DLC now lol

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Modern Video Games / Playstation: State of Play 6-4-2025

« on: June 04, 2025, 05:40:01 pm »

Mostly just gonna point out what is actually new and looks cool.

Final Fantasy Tactics getting a remaster is cool.  It's getting voice acting and a new visual look, though you can play it the right away, with classic sprite art and such.  Out in September.

A Mortal Kombat collection is happening, out this year and looks like it has a tons of games and different versions, apparently at least 20 different versions, from MK1 to MK4.

Nioh 3, early 2026. Demo out today.

Sea of Remnants...I have no clue what this game actually is and I feel like nothing they showed was real gameplay despite trying to act like it was lol I only know of this because of the music video trailer they did before that I dig.  Slightly interested in due to the art style and if it's maybe going to be a an open world pirate game, I guess.  Out in 2026.

Sword of the Sea, August 19th, same folks as Journey and Abzu.

James Bond Jr. is finally getting its game adaptation after all these years lol Third person action game about Bond's early days by the Hitman devs.  First Light: 007, 2026.

Arcs System making a Marvel fighting game is crazy lol 4 v4 tag fighter. Man, with this and Marvel Rivals, we have some of the best looking Marvel games ever.  Out in 2026.

There wasn't much at this show for me specifically in terms of new games, Arc Systems Marvel fighting game being the standout just from being really visually awesome, but I'll probably not end up playing it most likely as I'm not a big fighting game player, even if it looks sick.

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Modern Video Games / Nintendo Switch 2

« on: May 17, 2025, 04:21:19 pm »

Figured we could have a new thread for the system coming up, all the current news and such related to it for people to discuss since it's releasing soon.

They did come out to say that there will be games with free updates that will improve performance and visual clarity.  They are doing it in the Nintendo way though by only having a limited number of games right away, 12 of them.  It seems that updates that may add "content" are what will lead to the upgrade packs, though in the case of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, that "content" is a garbage, useless, app to justify charging money. It's very skeezy.

https://www.gematsu.com/2025/05/nintendo-details-free-switch-2-updates-for-12-first-party-switch-games

Was bummed to see that they are doing very little for something like Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, I thought that maybe they could do an improved version of the game, fix its many issues, but seems right now it's only to improve it's clarity, framerate, and are gonna have a few more Pokemon visible at once, but it still looks awful and likely won't fix any of the other issues that game has.  Guess there's no reason to when they already sold 30 million copies of the game and their new one is about to release.  Such a half-assed franchise.  Sorry, I'm venting, because I want to like Pokemon games again, but it's a real struggle with all their terrible choices lol

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Off Topic / Movies/TV Show/Music - A Year in Review 2024

« on: December 31, 2024, 09:23:19 pm »

Similar to the game one that always get posted, here's a setup for other stuff we enjoyed this year.  Feel free to leave out categories you don't have anything for and I'm not gonna post general categories to keep it from getting to big.

Favorite Movie Released in 2024: While Godzilla x Kong gets close to the top, with Deadpool & Wolverine behind that, I think it's gonna be Furiosa.  I wanted this to be good, I didn't know if it would be good, and I think it turned out to be close to, if not as good, as the original Fury Road.  It might also have my favorite role for Chris Hemsworth, he's chewing up every bit of scenery with his scumbag character.  My love for Godzilla is strong, and I did really like Godzilla x Kong, I think my want for a pure Godzilla movie that is less over the top than what we got kinda lowers the bar on it just a smidge, and Furiosa itself is such quality.

Favorite TV Show Released in 2024: It's a strong battle between Penguin and Arcane Season 2 for sure.  I don't know if I can choose as I like both for very different reasons.  Ones a high quality crime drama, the other a high quality animated show...I might just give it to Arcane for the sake of it doing so much interesting stuff visually, but again, it's hard to say.

Favorite Album Released in 2024: Unfortunately I have to bow out of this one as I don't think I listened to anything new that released this year lol It's actually hard to find new albums I feel, as I use Amazon Music and it's garbage for showing me new album releases from bands I like or may like and most of what I listened to was stuff from last year.  I guess Trollslayer from Wind Rose counts, but I only got around to listen to a few songs from it lol

Lease Favorite Movie Release in 2024: I might say Civil War, it's got a good idea, but it's kinda middling in places and the ending flopped for me.  Could say Beetlejuice Beetlejuice also, same thing where it does have a lot of practical effects and charm that I like, but story wasn't good and I think some characters missed the mark.

Least Favorite TV Show Released in 2024: Stars Wars: Acolyte is definitely the choice for this.  I think it has good characters and story, but utterly failed with it's tone and pacing.  I think it could've turned things around with a second season, but it got canceled, so we'll never know.

Sleeper Hit of 2024 (Pick any Movie/TV Show/Album): Terminator Zero might be it for me, I expected nothing as Terminator media is mostly trash anymore, but this turned out good and is probably the best Terminator thing they've done in years.

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General / A Year in Review - 2024

« on: December 31, 2024, 07:51:41 pm »

Here's the roundup post for games played this year to send things out on...

Categories:

Favorite 2024 Release: What's your favorite game that you played released this year?

Least Favorite 2024 Release: On the opposite end, what's your least favorite game released this year?

Favorite Game Played in 2024: What game this year earns your spot for best game ever?

Least Favorite Game Played in 2024: What's your least favorite game that you played this year?

Sleeper Hit of 2024: If you have one, what's your personal sleeper hit for 2023?

Favorite Gaming Moment in 2024: What moment in a game you played this sticks in your head the strongest? Was it something awesome? Something tragic? Something completely over the top? Keep spoilers to a minimum or mark them if you can.

Proudest Collection Accomplishment of 2024: Share a story about a cool find from this year!

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Modern Video Games / The Game Awards 2024

« on: December 12, 2024, 07:35:22 pm »

Don't care about the awards, but there's usually good game announcements.

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound - Strong start with this, classic pixel art styled sidescrolling hack and slash from the team behind Blasphemous.
Dave the Diver: In The Jungle - Expansion? Sequel? Not sure exactly, but more Dave the Diver is cool, I really enjoyed it.
Thick As Thieves - From Warren Specter, a multiplayer thievery game where I think you compete to steal an item while dealing with other thieves.
Shadow Labryinth - Oh god, they turned that super weird Secret Level episode of Pac-Man into a dark metroidvania.  So dumb lol The game could be fine, but what a weird thing to do.
Witcher 4 - I just hope this game has really overhauled combat, I wanted to like Witcher 3, there's a lot of good there, but the combat was not particularly well done.
Elden Ring: Nightreign - Some sort of...Elden Ring multiplayer game coming out next year.  I had an inkling it could be due to the encroaching BR-styled circle they showed, but it looks like it's built around a co-op experience rather than I think a PVP setup, fighting enemies and bosses together, even including previous bosses from other games as they showed the Nameless King from DS3.  I'm kinda done with Elden Ring after not really liking the DLC, but curious to see what this is.  Never cared about the multiplayer before in their games, but could be kinda interesting.  This is also a standalone game, it's not an expansion or update.

Game from the creator of ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian.  Going for a scifi vibe instead of the usual fantasy setup, involves something with large machines of some sort. No name yet.

The Outer Worlds 2 - I really hope this game is a huge leap forward from the first game, the characters and such were good, but I thought the gear, looting, and exploration was lacking compared to something like Fallout.  Out next year.
Split Fiction - New co-op game from It Takes Two devs.  Idea is a scifi VR experience jumping around futuristic and fantasy settings.
Steel Hunters - Peoples spirits are put into giant mechs to battle.  From the Wargaming team, PvPvE game with 5 teams of 2.  I'm mildly interested.  I almost thought this was another mech shooter game I played a test for earlier, but I think that was a little more...anime-esque I think.  I can't remember the name of that one now.
Borderlands 4 - Not sure if I'm interested in this or not, but I'll keep an eye out, they kinda need to do a lot to get me excited again.
Tekken 8 - Clive from Final Fantasy 16 is a new character, which isn't surprising since Noctis was Tekken 7.  They gotta do Tifa one of these days lol
Mecha Break - This was the game I was thinking of before that I play tested lol It was kinda fun, but I'm a little more interested in Steel Hunters over this as while I love anime mecha, I also like abit more rough and tumble mecha designs.  Spring 2025.
Virtua Fighter - New VF game, special presentation tonight for it in a couple hours.
Project Century - Seems like a Yakuza styled action, set in 1915 Japan, very interested in that setting.
Turok Origins - Co-op third person shooter.
Helldivers 2 - Finally getting the new aliens faction that I think have been teased for awhile.  New update out now.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword - 2026 release

This Berserker Kazahn trailer has weirdly great visuals and action, but terrible audio design lol

Stage Fright - 2 player co-op from Overcooked devs.
Game of Thrones: Kingroad - Action adventure game out in 2025.
Double Dragon: Revive - Oct 23 2025 release
Screamer- Racing game of some sort.  Odd mixture of CG visuals with almost anime or at least cartoon characters for the trailer, but I'm somewhat interested in new arcade racing games.
Den of Wolves - Cyberpunk Payday pretty much.
Sonic Racing: Crossworlds - If this is more of a return to the Sonic All-Stars Racing games, I'm super on board with that.
Okami 2 - Hideki Kamiya is back with a new studio "Clovers" with Capcom to make the sequel.  This is pretty cool.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet - Naughty Dog is finally working on something new for the first time in like a decade I think, super 80's inspired scifi game, might be an action game due to the final tease of the trailer.

I think Okami 2 might've been the only big "Oh that's an awesome surprise" for me at this show, as I never expected to see it return, but there was a very decent spread of games shown for sure. Decent show this time, felt better put together than last time, like there were a few small bits going on with the Muppets some celebrity stuff, but not nearly as bad as last time and they kept up the pace with awards and reveals pretty steady. 

Honestly surprised that Astro Bot won, and that's not meant negatively, but just happy to see a nice charming platformer experience win it and we kinda emphasize to Sony that "Hey, this is what Playstation players want".

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Modern Video Games / 2025 Games To Watch For...

« on: December 10, 2024, 06:14:59 pm »

Since it was showing up in the other thread, what games you looking forward to next year? Some massive games are coming out next year, and for me personally, I'm not even talking about GTA6 lol

Monster Hunter Wilds - Didn't care for Rise too much, but I loved World and this looks to be the game I really want.  I'm likely to become super absorbed into it.

Death Stranding 2 - This and Monster Hunter are my likely GOTY of the competitors, both are huge for me and after replaying DS1 recently, I can't wait to see what they do with the sequel.

Switch 2 - While there's no supposed games I'm all that excited for right now (Pokemon is kinda nothing for me now, not a huge Metroid Prime fan), I am very interested to see the next system and hopefully get a game I can be really amped for.  Hoping we get like Super Mario Odyssey 2 or something like that, a proper big full 3D Mario game.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater - It's unfortunate Kojima isn't with the series anymore, I'm hopeful this remake is still really good, MGS3 was a great game.

Ghost of Yotei - The first game wasn't a favorite, it was still a very solid game and I'm hoping a sequel can make the game a little more interesting as I thought the open world experience was a bit bland and basic.

Doom: The Dark Ages - I think I preferred the first game over Eternal, so I'm hoping this one can balance the two a little better as something I preferred was actually picking up health, armor, and ammo, and not having to rely on certain types of kills to get that instead.

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Modern Video Games / Playstation 5 Pro

« on: September 10, 2024, 03:26:47 pm »

Damn, Sony is having a year.  From the Helldivers 2 mess, to the much bigger disaster of Concord, to a little bright light with Astro Bot, to announcing that the new Playstation 5 Pro is 700 dollars, with no disc drive that is sold separately, along with the stand, meaning the full setup would cost over 800 dollars.  It sounds even worse people outside the U.S. from what I'm reading. 

I'm both a console and PC gamer and as someone that just got a new PC, I have little reason to get this for the likely small performance boost it'll offer.  They talk up all the GPU and AI upscaling stuff, but I haven't played a game on PS5 so far that I'm like "Dang, I wish I had a better system for this". I don't even think they were taking full advantage of the PS5 to begin with as I think games nowadays are optimized super poorly.  They push to hard for graphic fidelity and not actual performance.

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/09/playstation-5-pro-announced-launches-november-7-for-699

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Off Topic / General Movie/TV Show News Talk

« on: September 04, 2024, 05:17:06 pm »

I think we use to have one of these threads at some point, but this is just a general talk thread about current movie stuff, less about what you just watched, which is for the other threads, but more on  trailers, news, etc.  No spoilers for movies other than what trailers show, so no talk about leaks or the early previews and such.

I'll kick it off by being both surprised, but also not surprised by how bad the Minecraft trailer looks lol To me I got Spy Kids vibes, where you have this excessive amount of CG, but then throw in real people who don't match into it at all.  It's wild how we've had decent game to movie stuff lately like Sonic, Mario, FNAF, Detective Pikachu, and then we still get such outright major disasters like Borderlands and I don't expect too much better from this. 

Not that this will be Borderlands bad, that movie seemed to have suffered through development hell from the sound of it, and the director for this is the guy from Nacho Libre and Napoleon Dynamite, so he can at least do something kinda funny, but the visuals are wildly distracting to me.  I'm also a big softie for Jack Black (Not even he can get me to watch Borderlands lol), but this is maybe the most "Jack Black" I've seen him in a movie, where it feels like he's doing an SNL bit or he was brought in to be in a Youtube Minecraft video, rather than playing a character.  Jason Momoa is also doing something with his look, but I have no idea what lol

I expect it to do well, like it's Minecraft, the children yearn for the mine, and if the kids like it, that's all that matters, but this was such a weird direction to take things lol

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Modern Video Games / Xbox Showcase 2024

« on: June 09, 2024, 01:06:23 pm »

This was last minute, but I'll see if Xbox has anything...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - set in the 90's, they are keeping CoD on all systems and will be on Gamepass Day 1. October release
Doom: The Dark Ages - Medieval, but not, Doom lol Looks sick.  2025. Will still be on PS5.
State of Decay 3 - I always wanted to really like these games, but they never really turned out to be quite the survival, community building, games I wanted. No date, probably next year. Hopefully it's better.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard - Fall 2024 release.
Starfield: Shattered Space - This looked pretty cool, but that it's a Starfield (I thought it was a new Prey at first lol), so I'm not that interested in this.
Fallout 76: Skyline Valley - New map expansion, play as a ghoul.  I wish I liked this game lol
Expedition 33 - Very gorgeous turn based rpg, not the type of game you usually see in this style, thought it was gonna be an open world action game. 2025
South of Midnight - The art style is interesting, I don't adore the framerate differences between cinematics and gameplay, but neat.  Cool action game though. 2025
World of Warcraft: The War Within - August 26th
Metal Golid 3 Remake - This was a surprise.  Looks cool.  No date...come on...
Sea of Thieves: Season 13 - July 15th.  Wish they got their offline mode better sorted, I remember it had some obnoxious limitations.
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn - July 18th, cool looking action game.
Age of Mythology: Retold - September 4th.  Nice to see RTS games back around. Never played what this was remaking, though I thought it was Age of Empires at first lol
Perfect Dark - Damn, never thought to see this show up again.  Adding like platforming and more spy stuff. No date again.
Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred - Well that was terrifying lol October 8th.
Fable - Wild that this is Fable with these graphics lol I remember these games being way more cartoonish.  2025
Fragpunk - Sick name, cool style...Hero shooter, but the ability stuff is slightly more interesting.
Winter Burrow - Didn't 100% tell what this was, a little bit of survival and farming I think 2025
Mixtape - Story driven game, kinda reminds me of Life is STrange, but very different art style and very 80's/90's soundtrack. 2025.
Flight Simulator 2024  - Lots of job/mission stuff? Is that new? I don't know this series at all lol November 19th
Elder Scrolls Online - Gold Road June 18th, play all the DLC for free for a limited time.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure - Speaking of Life is Strange lol October 29th
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Possibly bonus missions reliving other Jones moments.  2024
Mecha Break - More actual gameplay to this, this is looking super sick. Dangit, 2025 again
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers - So many souls/sekiro-likes lol Looks neat. 2025.
Avowed - 2024
Atomfall - Fantasy alt-history WW2 era FPS.  2025
Assassin's Creed: Shadow - Didn't expect this here.  Getting actual gameplay though.  Looks sick.  Going between super ninja styled gameplay, or heavy, hard hitting Samurai action.  November 15th.
STALKER 2 - Yes, more gameplay...I'm so amped for this game lol Looks so damn good. My most anticipated game this year. Love seeing the same mutants in high end graphics now. Still September 5th, getting so close.
Digital only Series X, 1tb harddrive, so it can hold like 3 games lol They also kinda confirmed next gen hardware in the works.
Gears of War E-Day - Prequel I believe.

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Modern Video Games / Summer Game Fest 2024 - June 7th 5pm EST

« on: June 06, 2024, 12:22:42 am »

Another year, another lack of E3, but also another year of Summer Game Fest.  Geoff has downplayed the event, which I can't believe the dope did that, but it seems he's trying to curtail expectations so that people don't go in expecting crazy reveals.  That being said, Monster Hunter Wilds is confirmed to be getting a new trailer there, so I'm on board for that at the very least.

What to actually expect?  Sounds like from what he's talked about, that it's going to be more upcoming releases, not "Here's a CG trailer, see you dummies in 2028!" type stuff, more already known things, so DLC content, and gameplay trailers for games coming out within the next year.  I know the Silent Hill 2 Remake is out this year, but apparently the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake was going to happen this year too.  Can't see that happening so close to Silent Hill 2, but we could at the least get gameplay for MGS3.  I'm cautious about that one, because I think it's Konami's first foray back into serious game development that isn't just a small release, collection, or one of their yearly release things (Silent Hill 2 is a third party developed game).

One thing I was reminded of, Sega reviving like a half dozen of their properties, so guaranteed we get something on one of those games.  None of the properties are big ones for me, but I'm interested to see what comes out of Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio in particular for just something different gameplay wise to check out.

This could be where the next Resident Evil game is revealed, fits the right timeframe if it's going to come out by early next year.

If I had to throw out something as a surprise, it's been over a year since the last Mega Man collection, so give me Mega Man Legends.  Mega Man Legends 1, 3, and Tron Bonne, with some cleaned up visuals and performance, some updated controls, and I'm golden, could not be happpier.  That's my big "this is just for me, that isn't unrealistic, but would make me overjoyed" prediction lol

Oh and this is a Geoff event, so probably something Kojima.  Maybe more Death Stranding 2, but I'm avoiding anymore reveals for that game.  Also probably like the final trailer for the Elden Ring DLC with that out in 2 weeks.

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Hardware and Tech / New PC Talk...

« on: May 11, 2024, 06:32:01 pm »

I never went through my previous upgrade I thought about a couple years back and with most of my PC being 6 years old, it's time for a fully new system.  Performance on games is functional, but getting a little rougher, honestly surprised I've done as well as I have on some games with a GTX 1060 still, like Helldivers 2 can play pretty decently.  New Egg has a nice handy PC builder setup now, and so just wanting some opinions on this build.

https://newegg.io/994a71f

I think the only thing I'm missing is that the initial build guide didn't give me any extra fans for the case that I can see, the cooler comes with a big one for up top, and then I'd just need like 4 more for the side and back.  Is Windows 11 a must yet for new systems or can I do just fine with Windows 10 for now? Cutting that out would save me 140 bucks and I can just grab that whenever if I need to upgrade.

I'm still probably fine with my 144hz 1080p monitor I bought a couple years ago, though I'll maybe see about a 1440p or perhaps 4k one here eventually and just make this one my secondary.  This is my general budget, like 1600 to 1800.  I was gonna try and be ready for Memorial Day to see about getting on some sales, but might not make it till next month, but figured I'd get some opinions on the build for now.

*EDIT* Ack, just realized I put this in Off Topic and not Hardware, if a mod could move it for me, that would be helpful.

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Modern Video Games / Pokemon Presents 02/27/24

« on: February 20, 2024, 05:41:17 am »

This was a known thing to be coming up, they usually have one on "Pokemon Day", but funny enough, I'm more interested to see what comes out of this one than the Partner Showcase, out of sheer morbid curiosity. 

Do we get a shallow, middling to bad, next generation (Pokemon Generation that is) release that may or may not, but most likely will flop in many of the same ways the last two mainline entries have, while still releasing it in an obnoxious double format that was never actually a good idea but is now horribly annoying? Do we get a shallow, middling, but mildly entertaining spinoff release that isn't great, but I kinda like despite its issues? Do we get a shallow, middling, remake with a boring art style that probably doesn't have all the content it should and doesn't bring anything all that interesting that is new? Or do we finally get New Pokemon Snap DLC, because I had absolutely charming time with that game and I have zero complaints with that release other than I wish they would give me more content, because I will pay for it? lol

Eh, I'm just a bitter old fan who stopped playing after Yellow and kinda hoped the Switch era would be so much better and great jumping back on point, but has mostly been middling to bad releases and New Pokemon Snap.  I would like to be surprised and something really great shows up at the event to make up for how terrible Scarlet/Violet was, but I just don't see it happening, it's not really possible unless it wasn't Game Freak making it and this new studio had a proper development run...but that might be too much to ask for, who knows.

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Off Topic / Music in 2023

« on: December 18, 2023, 06:26:34 pm »

We don't do as much music stuff around here, but what was everyone's favorite listens this year?

Starbenders - Take Back the Night: This was a newer find for me in the past couple weeks, but this is a great rock band.  Kind of a mixture of styles, some glam rock, 70's rock, alt rock, all with sort of a darker energy at times with some of the lyrics, but turned into a band I'm really digging now and need to look into their previous stuff.

Warmen - Here For None: Another recent find, album wise, I knew of the band, primarily the brainchild of the Children of Bodom keyboardist.  Mostly an instrumental band with some voice stuff added, but they got a proper singer for this album who with the first song, sounds very close to Alexi Laiho (RIP).  To me, the song "Warmen Are Here For None" is a definite homage to Children of Bodom as it feels and sounds like a missing Bodom song.  The singer isn't exactly Alexi, doesn't have that higher range, but it's good and the rest of the album is more of its own thing as it's not just trying to replace Children of Bodom, but the vibes are inevitably there because of who is involved, so if you were a Bodom fan, this is a must listen.

Dethklok - Dethalbum IV: It's more Dethklok and I've been waiting for that.  I still need to watch the movie that just came out, but this albums is fun as usual.  I still think Dethalbum II might be my overall favorite, but they are all good.

Ghost - Phantomime: Ghost always releases fun cover albums and this is another good one, my favorites being Jesus Knows Me and Phantom of the Opera.

Electric Callboy - Tekkno: Really goofy and fun band that I dig for their Metalcore/Electronic music mixture and the fun they have with songs.

I think that's the best stuff I've listened to the most album wise this year from what I can remember or find going off stuff in my library on Amazon.  I did try and get into a rising band called Sleep Token, as there's some similar vibes to Ghost with their execution, but I can't get into the music.  It's harsher Djent stuff, mixed with kind of a lighter modern rock sound that just doesn't work for me.  Good stuff in the music, but I don't think this will be a Ghost situation where I'll get into them with later albums and then retroactively appreciate their previous stuff as Sleep Token would have to drastically change their style for me (Which they very well could based on their new masks/look they just showed off).

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Modern Video Games / The Game Awards 2023

« on: December 07, 2023, 02:05:55 am »

Been abit since we had a game event with possible new announcements.  The awards themselves don't really matter in the long run, but I'm interested to see what takes GOTY just out of curiosity sake.  TOTK didn't have the same impact as BOTW, but it was still a very popular and successful game.  I've seen people say that Baldur's Gate 3 is an easy win, which I don't agree with, I don't think it's an instant guarantee next to Zelda, even though it sounds like the game absolutely deserves it.  My personal choice is Zelda, though I've only played half of the nominees (Spiderman 2, Resident Evil 4, TOTK).

As for game announcement stuff, anyone hoping for anything in particular? I'm always holding out for something Bloodborne, every event, doesn't even need to be Sony, could be an Xbox event, I'll hope for Bloodborne lol More realistically, I am kinda hoping for Monster Hunter World 2 (Or whatever the equivalent would be) to be announced.  Rise is done, Capcom supposedly has another big game meant to release for early next year (I don't think Dragon's Dogma 2 in March was supposed to be that, so I'm hoping it's this.  They could also announce another remake which would be cool (Just don't be Resident Evil 5), which I would be on board with.

Can't think of anything else off the top of my head other than something random like Banjo-Kazooie getting something due to some random talk being brought up lately, though Elden Ring getting its DLC showed off would be great.  Could certainly use an excuse to jump back into that after being away for a good while now.

One pie in the sky reveal could be Switch 2, it feels like we are coming up onto the timeframe for it to come out by March next year maybe, so this would be a decent event for it if they didn't want to just do it themselves, which they may.  I would be shocked if the Switch 2 doesn't release next year.