Video game thread

It really would have been neat had the Nemesis system been allowed access to Bethesda, Remedy, or Sega.

Watched Mario Galaxy 🤩. Good thing, because YT is already bonbarded with spoilers 😒

Crimson Desert has been doing well. Its last announced milestone was passing 4 million sales.

People of Note, a game I’d never heard of before today, launched to 222 players. There doesn’t seem to be a consensus within the access media about this one. MSN and CBR think it’s the bee’s knees, but Gamespot and Polygon are much more blasé in their reviews.

Starfield’s PS5 release went very badly. By all reports, it’s as broken as Cyberpunk 2077 was, without being funny. Sony has been inundated with requests for refunds.

Pragmata is out. Its user score is doing pretty well so far.

Pragmata has sold over a million copies in its first two days of release. That’s comparable to RE Requiem’s speed, but without a legacy IP behind it.

I’ve been playing Pragmata. It’s fun. It has a really nice tone to it.

Alien Isolation 2 is in early development.

GTA 6 just went into preorder. $80 base, $100 ultimate edition. GTA Online 2 sold separately, content in the single player game paywalled behind the $100 edition, and no disc in the physical box, just a download code. Hopefully this doesn’t sell as well as it looks like it’s going to. Western AAA will be intolerable if everyone tries to emulate this sales model.