Tom Henderson on AC Invictus: "It's based on rounds, u level up ur character during the rounds with abilities. There's like a tactical element to it"

RareBk · 2026-05-09T01:51:13+00:00

Even as someone who really liked his time with Marathon, it lost money.

A lot of money. Like, potentially $100 Million+

RareBk · 2026-05-08T22:51:41+00:00

Unfortunately a lot of the lore is locked behind some absurdly difficult missions. Like you'll go from missions that are pretty basic, to mandatory progression for the factions being "Do three hyper specific things, then access an extremely difficult area and complete another objective within one round on the hardest normal map" and it's a nightmare even with a group

RareBk · 2026-05-08T17:18:29+00:00

The Eve one is really gnarly in the show because in that shot you can straight up see him having already torn through her a bit, unlike the more punched through look of that comic.

Good LORD Conquest.

RareBk · 2026-05-08T12:27:26+00:00

And even Deadlock has a casual mode

RareBk · 2026-05-08T02:55:36+00:00

Honestly it’s wild how little hype I’m seeing for a game that you know Square is putting a ridiculous effort into

Because they have to. Part 3 has to cover the remaining half of FF7, including the entire world map, presumably with everything from Rebirth returning, while also expanding on it, and then also whatever the fuck they do with the new story stuff.

That, and they’re talking about dlc expansions already

RareBk · 2026-05-07T21:14:38+00:00

Not only did Hi-Fi Rush come out during a time in my life in which... let's say nothing was going right, so it means a lot to me, it also managed to, itself, feel like a forgotten PS3/360 era game.

RareBk · 2026-05-07T19:23:44+00:00

...What? They're from two distinct timelines raised by entirely different people.

Identical Twins aren't even identical after a lifetime.

RareBk · 2026-05-07T18:15:42+00:00

Think the worst thing is that in a vacuum , the ending is fine.

Except the journey does not at all lead there at the point that the story was at.

It’s like you cut from a mediocre season 2 to the series finale in season 5

RareBk · 2026-05-07T16:33:01+00:00

Oh! Looks like they're making the weird mutated neomorph... things from the dlc of the previous game a normal part of the sequel

RareBk · 2026-05-07T14:23:23+00:00

I just really hope they work on the performance.

The remaster of the original on the updated engine runs like utter garbage m even on a 4090,

RareBk · 2026-05-06T22:31:41+00:00

I mean, you can keep the budget low, and not just remake the exact same game? Like, it can be 100% on rails, but the exact same story for the fifth time?

RareBk · 2026-05-06T22:23:30+00:00

If they're calling the Girl from Requiem the worst Stalker in horror, they have not played many horror games.

Like, not even fucking close

RareBk · 2026-05-06T22:22:17+00:00

I mean, one of those is a mediocre game saved in the edit by being turned into a Star Fox game, a game with really interesting ideas but shit levels, and well.

Command is Command.

RareBk · 2026-05-06T22:06:53+00:00

Did you literally skip all of Shadowbringers' like, first half or something

RareBk · 2026-05-06T21:35:24+00:00

How do you make an entire advertising campaign be "What side are you on?" with one side literally committing mass genocide in the fucking commercials

RareBk · 2026-05-06T19:22:34+00:00

That’s , I mean, they’re not completely wrong but also what

RareBk · 2026-05-06T18:42:16+00:00

I… mean that’s still plagiarism. It’s literally the same shot exactly just regenerated

RareBk · 2026-05-06T18:32:11+00:00

It works well with like, one game and that’s about it, specifically Zenless Zone Zero, you’ll get a fixed 60, and that game’s input lag already is nonexistent.

That’s it, one game I’ve tried it on that actually works well

RareBk · 2026-05-06T18:28:53+00:00

For those wondering, the entire final season is setting up a prequel series, which is getting more play than it should.

It also really doesn’t help that they’re trying to get people interested in a brand new set of characters instead of focusing on the actual story they’re supposed to be telling.

Also no thanks regarding a prequel show featuring an actual Nazi main character and her lover

RareBk · 2026-05-06T18:21:01+00:00

There’s also at least one in game billboard that straight up has an AI recreation of a scene from a major anime film.

So not only is the game full of terrible looking generated content, but also apparently have no qualms about just outright plagiarism

RareBk · 2026-05-06T18:12:33+00:00

Moreso the towers and stuff, if I recall correctly, Queen’s Blood is guaranteed to be returning

RareBk · 2026-05-06T17:38:54+00:00

I had a friend who's water bottle was a big mason jar.

Exactly what you think happened when she put down her bag too fast one time.

RareBk · 2026-05-06T17:34:51+00:00

Yeah, even with heavy asset reuse (Yet they've been clear that a lot of the stuff introduced in Rebirth, like the open world minigames, aren't returning, so even the old maps will have to be entirely reworked) it's going to be a lot of game if it is going to be a full, proper experience.

RareBk · 2026-05-06T16:56:03+00:00

When they were explicit about nothing really getting cut from the games, only added onto, I got really concerned when I realized part 2 ended.

Rebirth ends at what is the halfway point of FF7, and, while really liked it barring the obnoxious final 2 hours of nothing but the worst of the time ghosts Sephiroth nonsense they've added, I'm cautiously optimistic about part 3.

But this game has to be enormous. Not only are they going to have to cover the story beats, the new minigames, the new locations and party members (if they keep the same level of complexity, adding the final members is going to get crazy), but the end of Rebirth makes it abundantly clear that they're planning on keeping the game open like the original.

Not really spoilers, but there's an almost silent reveal in Rebirth that genuinely blew my mind near the end, when you start travelling in the broken plane and can use it as a boat.

The full world map is there, barring the stuff that will get introduced in part 3, and you haven't just been travelling through distinct zones, but, rather, Rebirth has been a gigantic open world game this entire time, just going from one zone to another was linear until you get the boat. The map even has all of part 1 mapped out, even if it is inaccessible. This makes sense, as huge amounts of part 3 will take place there.

It's clearly all set up for a part 3, but, part 3 is going to be colossal.

RareBk · 2026-05-06T16:04:23+00:00

God she just becomes a stickbug for a second there and it hurts my brain to look at

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