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Pushed ahead.

It’s $6 for each month. So I’m at the mercy of what they pick for the next two months. Still not bad.

You Suck at Parking - Overhead driving game where you 'park' whenever you fully stop. The goal is to stop in parking spaces, and you have limited gas to get there. Works in concept, but once they ramp the difficulty up with boost pads (that waste gas) it becomes a pain. Nine Sols - It's not a Metroidvania, but rather a straight up action game with some story layered on top. Combat boils down to executing parries then a specific follow up counter to do any major damage. It's slick in presentation, could end up being great, but I'm not the biggest fan of its gimmick.

Another haul. Spent more than I usually do (~$35), but the bundles and price drops justified it.

Got a 3-month for $6 deal email for Humble Choice. Sounded about right for Pumkpin Jack, Call of the Sea, etc. But now I've got an extra Star Wars Squadrons Origins key. Anyone want that?

Yeah, it might not be ready yet... One major downside I forgot to mention: the music is trash. I still prefer Koa to it on the whole.

Raytracing would inevitably cut into performance budgets in other ways that could detract from the visual fidelity on consoles. I don’t think every developer is ready to, or should be making those compromises to be ‘next-gen.’ Maybe not using it is the wrong call here. But hey, at least it’s still an early gen project from them.

Hell Pie - I really wanted to like this, and to its credit, the controls feel pretty good. But instead of being like Conker's Bad Fur Day, it just tries to be gross and unappealing without hurmor. It also veers into standard 3D platformer visual territory (see the above). Not a good combo. Frogun - Completely opposite Hell Pie in the best possible way. You can grapple onto any wall you point at, grab items and enemies and throw them like Yoshi. The retro look works well for it, since it matches the gameplay style well. Give it a shot if you're at all interested. Turn off the ugly default filter.

Was it bad? Still in my backlog.

High on Life is a first person Metroidvania, similar to Savage Planet. That makes me a bit more interested.

Slopecrashers - There's some real potential here. It's like if Snowboard Kids was more like SSX. Some parts of it definitely feel low budget, but they got the controls mostly right, which is what I care most about. Hopefully they spruce it up a bit and don't rush it out. Koa and the Five Pirates - A slightly more polished Mail Mole. Generally speaking that's a good thing. Should be one to watch of you liked 3D World/Land, but I'm not expecting it to be a must play. Agent 64 - I enjoyed an older demo, and it's only improved since. They somehow make it look like a modern N64 game without being gross or too pandering. The controls are literally perfect as well. Play this, it's fantastic and fun, even if you have no nostalgia for Goldeneye. Spark and the Electric Jester 3 - Feels slightly better than modern Sonic in some ways, but it comes off as cheap knock off due to the poor level design and environment visuals. Bit of a let down, but not totally unexpected. Beneath Oresa - Yes, yes, yes, good stuff. My highlight so far. The visual presentation is damn cool, and the card game elements seem like they work well, if not quite as elegantly as Slay the Spire. I wanted to play more, but they cut the demo off before the first 'boss.' This is definitely on my radar. Anger Foot - Need to play it further to form a solid opinion. It's Hotline Miami in first person essentially. I feel like I suck at it though, so that dampened the fun a bit. It's definitely worth trying out. Verge World - Crap controls, ugly game. Skip.

@stepee Mail Mole spiritual successor. Try it. Didn't hit me at first. Then I realized you could dash boost on landing.

My playlist so far: - Beneath Oresa - Gestalt Steam Cinder - Ghost Song - Anger Foot - Agent 64 - Verge World - Spark the Electric Jester 3 - Lego Brawls - Cursed to Golf - Nine Sols - Slopecrashers - Hell Pie - You Suck at Parking - Midnight Fight Express - Frogun - NAIAD - Koa and the Five Pirates

Some sort of press embargo on platform announcements expires on Tuesday for games in the showcase. Not that surprising.

Live now! Anger Foot is on there too.

Scrubbed through Gurilla Collective Day 1, this was one of the few to catch my attention. Indie Snowboard Kids spiritual successor:

Ghost Song is in this? Okay, I gotta try that out.

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There's too many variables to say this with any assurance IMO. We haven't seen enough of games like Jedi Survivor, Alan Wake 2 or Spiderman 2 for instance. Heck, EA and Ubisoft didn't even show up to this. The only thing I truly doubt is that a UE5 game fully utilizing the engine, like the Matrix demo, will release before 2024.

Mostly smaller indies and such, but Sonic Forces and SF6 are covered.

It's in the running for sure, but that demo last year didn't impress like the teaser before it, IMO. I don't think that's totally accurate. We're starting to see quite a few more games announced for release soon as next-gen only. Some of them seemingly because of optimization issues. Others for marketing purposes, perhaps. Still others that started development with next-gen targets. But change is starting to happen across the industry. The big 1st party games Sony and Microsoft brought to these showcases are next-gen only as well. You can't even play Redfall on Xbox One.