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Angie

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Just gotta dodge spoilers for another week. At that point I probably won't even visit any forums or Youtube until I finish the game. That strategy's served me well for TLOU2 and Ragnarok, and I think it'll continue to serve me here. Might bounce on the forums even sooner once the reviews drop if folks can't help themselves with their posts and thread titles.
Too late for me.

Someone went out of their way to spoil it for me
 

yhgtu

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There's a special type of hype when you preload a game and it's waiting for you on the menu. The SM2 music is so good.
 

Kyle Cross

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With the sequel coming I decided to finally return to and finish Spiderman. I'll never understand why this game didn't click with me. I've loved Spiderman since I was a kid, and this should've been a dream game for me but alas it somehow didn't resonate with me and that makes me feel so alien considering how beloved it is as well as my own interests... I'm onto the DLC and then Miles.
 

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SM2 pre-load is done.
The wait is excruciating

But I've got Honkai: Star Rail to play so...that'll keep me busy.
I should also get back to Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2.
 

g-m1n1

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Going to be 'exciting' months ahead of us, after the ABK closes, there will be more moves.
Apple, Amazon, Disney, Sony, Nintendo, Tencent, Microsoft, etc. All of them could try to grab publishers.
 

Syne

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Going to be 'exciting' months ahead of us, after the ABK closes, there will be more moves.
Apple, Amazon, Disney, Sony, Nintendo, Tencent, Microsoft, etc. All of them could try to grab publishers.
It will never end I swear. I'm already seeing people absolutely giddy at the thought of "who will ms buy next"
 

Izanagi89

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I should have known better to not click it.

But it's fine, takes nothing away from how hyped I am for the game

That's good. Shitty people like that piss me right off but I'm glad it didn't detract from your hype. Jerks like that can Spider-Man-handle deez nutz
 

Kadzork

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With SM2 spoilers in the wild and the ABK deal closing (with the insufferable reactions that will follow) I might just log off era and avoid it for the next week.
 

Jammerz

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Not gonna be able to play sm2 until end of November due to going abroad.

Gonna be avoiding getting spoiled then I already have for an entire month.
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Ariakon44

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With SM2 spoilers in the wild and the ABK deal closing (with the insufferable reactions that will follow) I might just log off era and avoid it for the next week.

Yeah already seeing people calling for Sega because wouldn't it just be awesome if the majority of people who play Sega games suddenly had them pulled from their platforms of choice
 

Izanagi89

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Do I get to merk those Cicadas that plague every Anime in existence

Lol it's summertime dude/ Embrace the haze, have a ice lolly and put on a sunhat :p

"We don't only have Splatoon, we also have Pikmin at home"

ROFLOL This needs to be the OT name for this game if there ever is one.

Yeah already seeing people calling for Sega because wouldn't it just be awesome if the majority of people who play Sega games suddenly had them pulled from their platforms of choice

Ignore those dorks lol Acquisition fanboys gonna come out in full force, best to not take note.
 

AndyVirus

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Yeah already seeing people calling for Sega because wouldn't it just be awesome if the majority of people who play Sega games suddenly had them pulled from their platforms of choice
Who cars about removing toxic Bobby or reviving great ABK franchises when they can move onto the next names in the studio acquisition war list.
 

Ariakon44

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Lol it's summertime dude/ Embrace the haze, have a ice lolly and put on a sunhat :p



ROFLOL This needs to be the OT name for this game if there ever is one.



Ignore those dorks lol Acquisition fanboys gonna come out in full force, best to not take note.


Fair enough it's just bad that it kind of is open season on publishers right now. At least while the challenges were ongoing it felt like we didn't have to worry about a big chunk of games suddenly getting pulled from one platform or another. Big gaming news used to be like system A gets a $50 price cut, not "Giant Publisher X has been bought and will never make games for anything but Y" lol.

At least the game release schedule has been excellent this year.
 

Deluxera

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Yeah already seeing people calling for Sega because wouldn't it just be awesome if the majority of people who play Sega games suddenly had them pulled from their platforms of choice
The internal documents from Microsoft about their plans to acquire Sega stipulated that they would keep the games multiplatform. But those were relatively old documents, plans may have changed.
At this point the goal for Xbox is not necessarily to have more exclusives (they already have by sheer number of studios) but to steer the industry towards digital-only and subscription services. Each year from now when Call of Duty releases and Sony sells it for 80€ while Xbox proudly says that you don't have to buy it because it's included in your Gamepass subscription service, that's a free marketing win for Microsoft every single year about the biggest game in the US. That's like what happened when MLB The Show came to Gamepass but on a vastly bigger scale.
 

Damien1990

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The internal documents from Microsoft about their plans to acquire Sega stipulated that they would keep the games multiplatform. But those were relatively old documents, plans may have changed.
The documents were from shortly after the Bethesda acquisition closed and with that they pivoted from IPs with a legacy being multiplatform to just breadcrumbs from older remasters. Even with ABK they originally offered all ABK games for a handful of years on PlayStation (something they knew Sony would reject as it isn't that long) to just CoD after the markets approved the deal.

Best to just assume the worst and that Sega games will be console exclusive with marginal chance of them continuing to make games for Nintendo platforms to make it go through easier in Japan in particular.
 

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The documents were from shortly after the Bethesda acquisition closed and with that they pivoted from IPs with a legacy being multiplatform to just breadcrumbs from older remasters. Even with ABK they originally offered all ABK games for a handful of years on PlayStation (something they knew Sony would reject as it isn't that long) to just CoD after the markets approved the deal.

Best to just assume the worst and that Sega games will be console exclusive with marginal chance of them continuing to make games for Nintendo platforms to make it go through easier in Japan in particular.

Yeah will be a "case by case" basis I am sure.
 

Izanagi89

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Fair enough it's just bad that it kind of is open season on publishers right now. At least while the challenges were ongoing it felt like we didn't have to worry about a big chunk of games suddenly getting pulled from one platform or another. Big gaming news used to be like system A gets a $50 price cut, not "Giant Publisher X has been bought and will never make games for anything but Y" lol.

At least the game release schedule has been excellent this year.

For sure. It's a reality for the industry right now and honestly it's hard to predict what is going to happen in the future. Thing is, Xbox could very well buy Sega in the future and it'll be absolutely shit but honestly, there's not much we can do. Just gotta enjoy the games coming up and ignore the noise. All these acquisition fanboy dorks mostly just wanna console war without explicitly console war. With Spider-Man coming up there's honestly not much to be upset about.
 

asd202

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Approved on Friday the 13th. You cannot make this shit up. Dark day for gaming.
 
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