Alright, that was an amazing show. I was disappointed Kojima never showed up, but to expect an announcement of anything new with Death Stranding releasing less than a year ago was incredible optimism lol.
The design of the new console is incredible. Console design has gotten quite boring over the past couple of generations and seeing the curves on the PS5 makes me think fun instead of boring lines. That's not to say I hate console design that is simple, there is a special elegance with it and I certainly enjoy the look of the Xbox Series X, but this is something special.
The optical drive version is a little bit on the chonky side, but damn do I love it. Plus, a necessary evil for me since any game I can buy physically is always on a disk.
The games.
Horizon Forbidden West
I still haven't played the first game despite purchasing it on an Amazon Prime Day sale last year. I know its good I just haven't found the time to commit to it. Holy damn does the second look amazing. A theme throughout the panel is me asking why they don't put text in the bottom of the corner of the stream indicating what is in-game an what isn't because it is seriously hard to believe this tech is possible on a console now. I think it is crazy that some people are going to have a console that blows their gaming PC out of the water this year.
Very pretty looking game though and as long as the mechanics are similar, I'm sure it's going to be an amazing time.
Ghostwire: Tokyo
This looks like it'll be an interesting horror/psychological game. Graphically speaking A++, and the Tokyo theme will always be a favourite of mine. Tough to say much more though... I guess that's a common theme here since we haven't really had a chance to see much gameplay of anything shown today.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Okay, what the hell. Seriously, how are we rendering these games on consoles?! I'm very intrigued by their trailer (linked below) as this looks like it'll be a fun fast-paced adventure. The lighting is absolutely amazing, the little black puffy things are adorable, and I look forward to hitting stuff with magic and that sexy bow.
Sackboy
I've never really gotten into Little Big Planet much, though this looks like this will be fun. A lot of co-op gameplay which will be great if anyone else ends up getting this though I wonder if we're getting an editor. Graphics yaaaaasssss.
Returnal & Deathloop
Seriously? Two games with the same time loop mechanic? I'll pass on them.
Stray
RIP Humans =(
I'll play cat simulator though. I'd love to know a lot more about it.
Ratchet & Clank
Was never big on the series but there is no way I'm ignoring this one. The action looks like a ton of fun though it was a little painful to watch the gameplay since it is so obviously on a console with the slow turning LUL. Excellent use of the ray-tracing as far as I can tell!
Spiderman Miles Morales
I still haven't played Spider Man on PS4... yet I own it much like I own Horizon Zero Dawn >.>
Should be dope af! REALLY want to see more of the game.
Gran Turismo 7
The game clearly looks better than Forza Horizons 4 with the car interiors, tracks, and of course the sexy beasts the cars themselves, though I don't think I can get into GT again. After playing sim racing in virtual reality, there just isn't any desire to play super sim on the TV anymore. Forza let's me play arcade racing with as much sim as I want to add on to it, and I know GT lets you do that to a degree as well, but the game is too serious imo.
The trailer today really makes me look forward to the next Horizons on Xbox Series X and PC, so thanks Polyphony!
Project Athia
Square Enix displays, you're already going crazy in your mind wondering what tricks they have up their sleeve today. No signs of a release date means this is at least a couple of years out but daaaaamn that dragon looks INSANE.
It sucks that we didn't get more of a look of a lot of these games but at the same time, that wasn't really what today was about. There's some really cool stuff to look forward to though so that's awesome! I'm really curious to see what the launch lineup is going to look like since that still seems to be in the air, as it the price of the console. I'm hoping its a $100 discount for no disk drive so they can get pumping out those units to get people onto new hardware asap and studios can start to use these consoles as a solid baseline that will only further improve what we have available on PC.
I'll always be a PC person at heart, but damn the PS5 is ballin'! These graphics are just so incredible and honestly, that's the summary of this post. I just really wanted to be able to link these trailers since I think they're the highlights.
If anything would push back a set announcement, it would be coronavirus related would be my guess. I think things have become more normal though recently with people adjusting to working from home and the like so hopefully it is business as usual.
KANSAS too, and from the same giveaways! Turns out its pretty easy to win something from the MTG and Card Design giveaways when they had lower numbers of entries.
Damn, we had so few entries on the MTG side of things that you almost won just by entering lol.
I believe they're keeping Arena Standard for now since Demon Hunter has fewer cards than the other classes.
The new game mode coming sometime during the next expansion is almost without a doubt a rotating set of constructed sets, much like what they've been doing with Arena. It'll push the older wild-only sets into interest again and with it rotating which sets are in the format every couple of months, it should make for some very interesting Hearthstone for those that have larger collections.
You know, there almost was going to be a baking stream. Things were just too chaotic though to even seriously consider doing it. At some point in the future though I would love to do that.
Thanks, Thraxus! I wish there was more time to relax but as luck would have it, stuff be busy, yo! Still have to finish up some work on the grand finale tomorrow.
There's always a chance we could, but I also don't want to burn people out on them. Some form of regular occurrence though seems like a no-brainer at this point!
Alright, that was an amazing show. I was disappointed Kojima never showed up, but to expect an announcement of anything new with Death Stranding releasing less than a year ago was incredible optimism lol.
The design of the new console is incredible. Console design has gotten quite boring over the past couple of generations and seeing the curves on the PS5 makes me think fun instead of boring lines. That's not to say I hate console design that is simple, there is a special elegance with it and I certainly enjoy the look of the Xbox Series X, but this is something special.
The optical drive version is a little bit on the chonky side, but damn do I love it. Plus, a necessary evil for me since any game I can buy physically is always on a disk.
The games.
Horizon Forbidden West
I still haven't played the first game despite purchasing it on an Amazon Prime Day sale last year. I know its good I just haven't found the time to commit to it. Holy damn does the second look amazing. A theme throughout the panel is me asking why they don't put text in the bottom of the corner of the stream indicating what is in-game an what isn't because it is seriously hard to believe this tech is possible on a console now. I think it is crazy that some people are going to have a console that blows their gaming PC out of the water this year.
Very pretty looking game though and as long as the mechanics are similar, I'm sure it's going to be an amazing time.
Ghostwire: Tokyo
This looks like it'll be an interesting horror/psychological game. Graphically speaking A++, and the Tokyo theme will always be a favourite of mine. Tough to say much more though... I guess that's a common theme here since we haven't really had a chance to see much gameplay of anything shown today.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Okay, what the hell. Seriously, how are we rendering these games on consoles?! I'm very intrigued by their trailer (linked below) as this looks like it'll be a fun fast-paced adventure. The lighting is absolutely amazing, the little black puffy things are adorable, and I look forward to hitting stuff with magic and that sexy bow.
Sackboy
I've never really gotten into Little Big Planet much, though this looks like this will be fun. A lot of co-op gameplay which will be great if anyone else ends up getting this though I wonder if we're getting an editor. Graphics yaaaaasssss.
Returnal & Deathloop
Seriously? Two games with the same time loop mechanic? I'll pass on them.
Stray
RIP Humans =(
I'll play cat simulator though. I'd love to know a lot more about it.
Ratchet & Clank
Was never big on the series but there is no way I'm ignoring this one. The action looks like a ton of fun though it was a little painful to watch the gameplay since it is so obviously on a console with the slow turning LUL. Excellent use of the ray-tracing as far as I can tell!
Spiderman Miles Morales
I still haven't played Spider Man on PS4... yet I own it much like I own Horizon Zero Dawn >.>
Should be dope af! REALLY want to see more of the game.
Gran Turismo 7
The game clearly looks better than Forza Horizons 4 with the car interiors, tracks, and of course the sexy beasts the cars themselves, though I don't think I can get into GT again. After playing sim racing in virtual reality, there just isn't any desire to play super sim on the TV anymore. Forza let's me play arcade racing with as much sim as I want to add on to it, and I know GT lets you do that to a degree as well, but the game is too serious imo.
The trailer today really makes me look forward to the next Horizons on Xbox Series X and PC, so thanks Polyphony!
Project Athia
Square Enix displays, you're already going crazy in your mind wondering what tricks they have up their sleeve today. No signs of a release date means this is at least a couple of years out but daaaaamn that dragon looks INSANE.
It sucks that we didn't get more of a look of a lot of these games but at the same time, that wasn't really what today was about. There's some really cool stuff to look forward to though so that's awesome! I'm really curious to see what the launch lineup is going to look like since that still seems to be in the air, as it the price of the console. I'm hoping its a $100 discount for no disk drive so they can get pumping out those units to get people onto new hardware asap and studios can start to use these consoles as a solid baseline that will only further improve what we have available on PC.
I'll always be a PC person at heart, but damn the PS5 is ballin'! These graphics are just so incredible and honestly, that's the summary of this post. I just really wanted to be able to link these trailers since I think they're the highlights.
McDonald's Drive-through. In fact, just sleep inside the McDonalds and never cook again
I love the Planeswalker land frames so much! That's great for paper, I'm curious what flair, if any, they'll have on Arena.
Yeah, I thought it was very funny that half the people that were finalists received premium and really didn't need it. Staff rigged confirmed!
Oh no =(
Glad you got it fixed up though!
If you need to think about it a couple of days, don't worry about it! Grats =)
If anything would push back a set announcement, it would be coronavirus related would be my guess. I think things have become more normal though recently with people adjusting to working from home and the like so hopefully it is business as usual.
Get in touch with someone on the list that didn't win, or find a friend that plays! It is now your burden to find a recipient =D
KANSAS too, and from the same giveaways! Turns out its pretty easy to win something from the MTG and Card Design giveaways when they had lower numbers of entries.
Damn, we had so few entries on the MTG side of things that you almost won just by entering lol.
I believe they're keeping Arena Standard for now since Demon Hunter has fewer cards than the other classes.
The new game mode coming sometime during the next expansion is almost without a doubt a rotating set of constructed sets, much like what they've been doing with Arena. It'll push the older wild-only sets into interest again and with it rotating which sets are in the format every couple of months, it should make for some very interesting Hearthstone for those that have larger collections.
Looks like the leak is now confirmed!
For real. Shit was getting too quiet.
New game mode will come during the second expansion. This isn't it!
More than likely is that we'd see the removal of another tribe (or most of one) as Pirates were added in.
Battlegrounds definitely needs a bit of pruning so that they can begin to add on to it again :D
This is awesome to see, they turned out great!
You know, there almost was going to be a baking stream. Things were just too chaotic though to even seriously consider doing it. At some point in the future though I would love to do that.
Thanks, Thraxus! I wish there was more time to relax but as luck would have it, stuff be busy, yo! Still have to finish up some work on the grand finale tomorrow.
There's always a chance we could, but I also don't want to burn people out on them. Some form of regular occurrence though seems like a no-brainer at this point!
No problemo!
You want to use a direct link that ends with a file extension such as .png or .jpg
What you're trying to use is the album or imgur page itself's link.
The correct link would be https://i.imgur.com/BcRdMBZ.png
You can get the link by right-clicking the image and selecting "copy image address"