This year's TGA is looking quite stacked, no?

Blue Prince
CO Expedition 33
Death Stranding 2
Split Fiction

And we still have at least 4 strong contenders (Bananza, Ghost of Yotei, MP4 and Silksong) to come out.

Bought it. Game better be worth the price, it has already soured me and I haven't played the game yet. I was going to buy The Alters and Soulstone Survivors but I have to buy this cause of spoilers and that feeling to be able to discuss the game along with everyone else, I'm sickened by that price tag and the fact you don't get the game on release day at that insane cost. 

Edit. Ended up getting the Digital Dulexe edition to avoid further spoilers and I feel so dirty, like a cheap whore. 

Holy shit, Death Steanding sold 5 million copies and 20 million have played on some service where it was free. That's wild, DS2 could pull 10 million with these scores.

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Had 6 hours in it, it's...hmm. It's not bad so far but it's not so good as to warrant 90 euro. I'm sure I'll fall into it but deliveries are a pain in the ass so far. I've been massively spoiled already and this us giving me a feeling I need to rush the game, thankfully the Spoiler was just for the first chapter and I now that I don't have to wait for it to happen I should start to be able to enjoy the story. All I can say so far is Kojima was lying or being Japanese humble about the graphics, there is a clear difference in what he said would be the weakest part, the characters models. I have never seen a game have this much detail and run so well. Game feels better in 30fps too, it's one of those rare accurances where it does not effect the camera nor obscur detail (not too much anyway) and the gameplay doesn't need it, obviously things feel more fluid at 60 but there's a cinematic feel that's lost, alas, I see little difference in quality between the two. I would assume if someone was coming from 8th gen to PS5 with this game that this would be a next gen feeling moment, other devs certainly have no excuses now for poor image quality even open world simulation games at 60fps 8f they didn't already with Forbidden West. One thing that is severely bumming me out is that the random music isn't hitting the same way the Low Roar stuff did in DS1 which sucks, the first OST part in the opening chapter did hit however.

Oh my good God the cringe. The criiiiinge. I spent half the game rolling my eyes and then some cool shit would happen to offset it, now while cool shit is still happening and it's cooler I'm full body cringing, I litterally just cringed so hard multiple time I fully contorted into physical pain so I've went and passed the game, I'm in chapter 12 or 13 or something. One minute it is the coolest thing ever and then the next it's so fucking terrible, I think Kojima gets off on pushing how strange he can get or perhaps he wants to see how far he can push the boundary to see if people will still call him a genius. One things for sure, he's never getting funded big again, no wonder Sony released him. This shit is bonkers.

The entire plot of Metal Gear Solid should've prepared you

And people wonder why his relationship soured with Konami lol

Also what do you mean by Sony released him?

Metal Gear has nothing on this. Hell DS1 has nothing on this. Everytime you're invested in the world and all the weirdness becomes normality Kojima goes out of his way and you can tell he goes out of his way to break that immersion. It's laughable but that's exactly what he's going for, it's very much intentioned, he sets it up so you're in the middle of feeling something deeply and then bam, you go so fast to cringe you jump out of your seat, I've never played anything quite like it. It's certainly a rollercoaster but it's too far man, it's Too Farman. 😆 but it's certainly cool, man. It's Coolman. 

He got the option to buy Death Stranding's IP mid DS2 development, is what I meant to say.