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Sweet! Exactly what I was predicting for Like a Dragon too. Nice!!!

If only I had looked into the Sherlock Holmes remake more and saw it is being done by a company in the Ukraine... Stupid political agendas messing w/ video games!!

On the positive note, this is interesting.

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That's not a good sign

Oh wow. Definitely not a good sign. I think the embargo was a few mins ago. We should have reviews coming in shortly.

Open Critic is at 72% with 60% of critics recommending it.... Not looking great.

OP updated with scores for Atomic Heart. It's currently at 75 on Metacritic from 22 reviews. Honestly not too bad. I expected way worse after that PowerPyx post.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/atom...

Yikes, that made my final short list... Dodged a bullet there

Crap I was afraid of that. Still 75 isn’t terrible for Atomic Heart. I was expecting 80s but I’ll settle for a 75. I’m glad it’s on Game Pass though since I do not feature on spending full price for it since it sounds like a clusterbang.

I just realized I forgot to put Lies of P on my list.

Archer wrote:

I'm not expecting it to do that great, outside of From Software those games usually don't score that high

Kommie wrote:

I'm just exited to play Bloodborne 2.0 I guess. It might not review well. But damn does it look great based on the gameplay footage from the other day.

I hadn't even heard of Lies of P until I saw it on a couple of lists. Couldn't find any footage that really did much for me, but I'll have to check out whatever they posted recently because Bloodborne 2.0 is...whoa!

Also looks like Company of Heroes 3 is reviewing well. No one has it, but It's currently at 84 from 20 reviews. I had it on my shortlist but it didn't make the final cut.

This one has the strongest BB vibes from the combat. Plus it looks like it as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yDx7Px6yMU

I think Lies of P is another Game Pass title at launch too. It doesn't look that amazing to me like Bloodborne, the king of kings, but I may check it out on GP.

Reviewing surprisingly better than those initial reports.

OP updated with scores for Kirby’s Return To Dream Land Deluxe. It's currently at 80 on Metacritic from 57 reviews.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/kirbys-retu...

I thought the rules prohibited remakes and remasters.

SupremeSarna wrote:

Remakes are allowed. Remasters and ports are not.

Which category does Kirby fit into, though? I know it has a bit of new content, but more of those reviews call it a remaster than a remake. I personally thought it was the former. I'm fine with it counting though and either way I'll be skipping it because they couldn't even be bothered to add in online co-op like how they did for the Super Mario 3D World port.

Its a remake.

Personally I think it's a little silly to have to distinguish between the two for the fantasy league.

Do remasters typically score as high as the original? Or does the passage of time mean the gameplay is beginning to show its age so they typically score lower?

Unless remasters are consistently high scorers, it seems like including one on your list would be a "safe" 75+ pick rather than a good 85+ one.

Metroid Prime Remastered says hi.

bonham2 wrote:

Yes, that's one example, but not a great one... because the people who would have picked it the last 3 years it was rumored to be coming out would have scored zero in all those years.

Could eliminate remakes and remasters entirely next year to simplify it

Frank wrote:

Welp there goes 60% of modern gaming

3hitcombo wrote:

Fantasy League 2024 Hard Mode

I went to metacritic and looked at the first 50 results that popped up when I typed the word "remaster" in the search bar.

Seven of them score 86 or higher.
Twenty of them scored 79 or lower, including four that were in the 60s and one that did the get enough reviews to be ranked.

So it seems they are almost three times as likely to be poorer performers than they are to be excellent. But just over half are in the 80 to 85 range.

Frank wrote:

Get rid of sequels too while we're at it if you really want hard mode.

Thrn the challenge is coming up with a list of 12 games at all!

benstylus wrote:

Damn man, that would be Hard Mode. I'm good with it the way it is

Lol yeah maybe it’s time to get rid of remakes so we don’t have this debate anymore.

In other news, I just watched the gameplay stuff they showed for Suicide Squad and I honestly can’t put into words how disappointed I am. It looks awful to me. It’s like Avengers meets Anthem meets Crackdown 3. Gross!

Sounds like what I expected..... Another crappy live service game made because of a popular IP

Kommie wrote:

Redundant wording.

It's Ike when you're in Kentucky, you don't have to call the famous chicken chain restaurant KFC. You can just call it C because 1 you are in the state, and 2 fried is the default food option here.

Heavyd814life wrote:

I don't really care too much either way, just curious, why would you prefer this over just allowing remakes AND remasters?

Heavyd814life wrote:

I regret putting this as my 2nd alternate. I saw Rocksteady and thought the guys behind the Arkham series couldn't possibly screw this up. I guess I was wrong.

Scott wrote:

I don't even remember anymore lol. I think it's because when we started this up 6 years ago, we were in that phase where there was a new remaster being released every other week. They didn't feel like new games and the idea was that since a remake is something built from scratch, it really should count as a new game. But even that definition doesn't work anymore because while something like FF7 Remake definitely feels like a new game, something like The Last of Us Part 1, which is built from scratch, doesn't feel like it should qualify.

This year, you have games like Kirby and Advance Wars that kinda blur the lines between remaster and remake, but since both are marketed as remakes, they qualify. So I don't know what everyone would like to do moving forward. I'm cool keeping things as they are or we could just scrap remakes as well to simplify things.

I'm good with keeping them.

Geez all this over Kirby

Welp, Clive N Wrench getting some bad scores. This is why I have trust issues, the game looked so good!

Cevil wrote:

Plucky developer tries to win the hearts of consumers by invoking the nostalgia of Rare's N64 platformers (back when Rare was at the top of their game)...

...Finished product ends up feeling closer to a 3rd party ps1 platformer.

But hey at least it ain't bubsy!

3hitcombo wrote:

Lol nah. This happens every year.

Cevil wrote:

I've had it wishlisted for years! That's a real shame.