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XBOX 2024 Direct Officially Announced: January 18th (Featuring: Indiana Jones, Avowed, Hellblade)

Bkdk

Member
obsidian made avowed looked like it's done by piranha bytes. Perhaps they feel the need to send them a tribute lol. It really doesn't look promising at all.
 
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When did games stop being about fun and gameplay and more about feelings, 'lived experiences' and mental illness?
We really living in the worst timeline.
Everything is so pretentious nowadays.
The little combat they showed did not look much better than the shit they provided in the first game.

Graphics look great and story might be good but I also want to PLAY a good game if I'm spending 70 bucks on it.
 

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
Great to hear that they changed the combat. interested to see if its improved.

I dont care if its 4 hours or 6 hours or 12 hours. It needs to be good. FF16 was 60 hours and it sucked despite having probably the best 15 hours of the year in there somewhere. I am so sick and tired of 30-50 hour campaigns. The stories these games are telling just cant last what is effectively 3-5 seasons of episodes. If this is 6 hours then i wouldnt mind spending $10-15 for it on gamepass.
 

Laptop1991

Member
Avowed doesn't look great to me, not actually bad but it just seems a little off, the game play might be good, but the art style seems a little bit poorer than i would expect from Obsidian.
 
Hellblade 2, a PlayStation exclusive that’s is only on Xbox ecosystem. Got to have a walking simulator too. No matter what, that what the reviews will complain about and give it a 6 out of 10
 

rofif

Can’t Git Gud
Better than avowed and more gameplay than hellblade... but still not the best showing for square enix
 

MacReady13

Member
We are ALL a character when that character is a female. We are all NOT a character when it is the same generic white guy. This is woke gaming today…
Also, is it meant to be a game we control or a short movie we watch? I want gameplay, not fucking movies.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Can't wait to ride on Pickle
 

bender

What time is it?
They should have spaced out the Senua and Mana sections.

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jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Can't wait to ride on Pickle
 

Jigsaah

Member
I loved the Mana series back in the PS1 days...I'm not sure this is really for me...at 42. I'm more interested in Granblue honestly. I'll still give everything shown today a try...though I'm only really considering buying Hellblade 2 on Steam.
 
Hellblade 2 is straight fire. Expecting
a Plague Tale Requiem level experience. Avowed looks ehhh but still gonna try it on the strength of Obsidian pedigree.
if Indiana Jones looks good then yeah cool lineup for 2024.
 

JackMcGunns

Member
Hellblade 1 was an amazing game. Didn't play it with headphones, but with surround sound it was an outstanding experience all the same.
I actually loved the combat as well.

HB2 seems to be the same, with some upgrades.
But that's all it is, more of the same. It'll be a great game, but not the system-seller people were claiming it's going to be.


Guardians Of The Galaxy GIF



Like you said, Hellblade 1 was an amazing game, and if the developer said they had very good ideas that they couldn't really implement because of their limited budget and are now given practically an unlimited budget, wouldn't you be excited to see those results? I think that's the impression, everyone is really excited about it and it's now an Xbox exclusive. I don't think sales figures have ever been brought up.
 
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