Making this game into a Hollywood style movie in my opinion is a waste of ℱpotential. It would fit to make it a movie no one👍 understands at the beginning but then it becomes a cult classic

Elden Ring might be the biggest star ever for FS but it might also pull them down in like 5 or 10 years. Actually, if it wasn't From Software I would be sure that game developer releasing such a mega magnum opus would simply burn out in a few🙈 years due to comparisons to previous games and constant expect🥀ations.

But something is happening in their studio and as you've said their cycle consists of one standard project and one creative. So we might see t𓃲he biggest creative project in upcoming years and maybe this story will have a very happy ending - very interesting time to be a gamer

I think that going back to King's Field would be a little too obvious, not meaning it wouldn't be good. After reviving Armored Core it seems to be one of the most realistic choices but making a sequel like "King's field 5" after almost 25 years is a little like not incl🦋uding all this value in between. Brand itself is also rather more sentimental than of real market value nowadays. But first person dungeon crawler with some acknowledgment towards old precedessor sounds appropriately ambitious. Something like Bloodborne was to Dark Souls.

SotE won't win because a lot of players/experts/everyone thinks the same that DLC isn't an independent game. I think it's 🤪just to show appreciation for hard work in FS. Wukong would﷽ be another surprise as a winner because experts had their chance to rate it without any prejudice and it ended with 80-ties. A surprise that I can see happen if game awards are really worldwide show. About the rest, it's Japan, Japan, Japan. Instant thought "Tora, Tora, Tora". And LocalThunk guy. I honestly can't imagine Developer of Balatro to win with asian Devs.

As always in case of awards I can't think of any predictable logic not being a journalist. But four japanese games with highest scores say for themselves. SotE is DLC, Balatro a fun spin on poker and Wukong is an ape. This leaves three contenders for me, FF7 is a classic, Metaphor is modern jRPG and AstroBot is a very universal game for everyone. I didn't play Metaphor but I think it's a game worth an award more than others. Because it's new, polished and great next step for Devs behind Persona. Big, bold, origi🅰nal. It can fight with Wukong, this just leaves question whether sales choose or experts.

Privately I have two more contenders I would put even higher than most of mentioned games (just from trailers and hands on game🦩plays) but they have yet to be released...

I didn't play TC2, only Motorfest, but I was active on Crew subreddit and watched some videos from TC2 (mostly shorts). TC2, in my opinion, is a great game for USA lovers - it has it's own value when you grew up on hollywood movies and can see how it looks to be a driver in America. I don't like gigantic games and after playing Motorfest I don't even want to try climbing up the ladder ꩲin TC2 - in Motorfest it took me 90 hours to finish most playlists, do some challenges and try most of the things, but even af🌃ter 350 hours I still didn't try everything and most of my cars still have some potential to unlock (over 100). It's a well designed game and I really liked discovering tricks and best lines on my own.

And now there's whole new islan🎐d to discover. To be honest, I don't think this Maui addition will some gigantic gamechanger but from what I saw in videos and ss it seems to be a very strong base to build on new races, new events, activities and ideas. If they will support this game for next few years I think that there won't be any doubt which game is better - Motorfest is still one year old, TC2 is fully grown product.

During my early years with games I tried to finish everything or played as long as I could learn something new. Now I play most games until I'm overpowered, I like starting regions - most of the time they are the best so I clean them very thoroughly and when I reach some coꦦpy pasted region in mid-late game, and my build is simply purging ever൲ything without me looking then I quit. Game is completed when I don't think of it anymore

I don't think that any setting is p𝓡layed out. Post-apo games might be very repetitive not because they are the best possible games copied many times but because they are intentionally made awful to disencourage players of thinking about risking of such things to happen. I think that post-apo games are made in a way li💛ke cigarettes have some horror images to lower demand.

What happened after World Wars? Depressio🌼n, stagnation, suicides, no hope, fighting for survival? Or Baby boomers, rebuilding🐈, helping each other, reparations, hope, will to live happily?

The bigger new games get the higher risk that they will backfire. It's financial liquidity of entrepreneurship, you think what should be helpful or attractive in 5 years, what you need to do and the bigger investment is the bigger is the risk. Simply put, until now gaming industry grew all the time, number of players grew, number of games sold grew. That's why every studio sold some game copies, there was less flops, less cuting projects and less dev teams because their number grew every year. Now gaming market (copies sold) stopped growing so there's less place for new dev teams, new games and producers will have to fight each other for every customer. That's natural, but it's not about crisis - it's this moment when lots of investors sꦡtill thought that market will grow, they took the risk and misfired. Market always reaches full growth at some point - I think it's now.

In my opinion modern games began with one growing centre of games - a kind of global mentality. Maybe it was Steam growth but above all it might h🔯ave been smartphones, global Internet and global forums that standardized some basic thinking about games. The stronger is leading narration the more difficult is to change perspective. That's why I would call modern games not based on console generation but rather on basing this on leading formula of making games. Who's biggest now on the market? Nintendo, Bandai Namco, Rockstar, Bethesda, Ubisoft, maybe CDPR etc.. Not to mention Steam as a platform. Most biggest game series that I know of began their careers around 2000 - 2010. I remember playing Need for Speed games over 20 years ago, GTA games, Assassin's Creed games, Elder Scrolls games, Witcher games, From Software Souls genre, Tomb Raider games, Deus Ex games - it all began around this millenium before 2010 and still goes on - that's a leading concept. And in my opinion that's what I would call modern games overally because they are made from same roots and philosphy.