Summon Sign Ep. 117 Thread
Added 2026-03-21 20:22:44 +0000 UTCComments
Sort it out: live service games really need to rein in how cluttered their menus have become. I bought Battlefield 6 at launch and only recently booted it up on my PS5 Pro, and the moment I hit the main menu, I felt completely overwhelmed. There were tabs everywhere, constant pop-ups, animated backgrounds, just way too much going on at once. What happened to simple, intuitive menu design? The kind where you can immediately understand where everything is, and just as importantly, ignore what you don’t care about. Even if the core gameplay is great, developers shouldn’t make their UI feel this loud and distracting.
ARGUS 4EVER
2026-03-22 22:02:12 +0000 UTCSup Willy Lickers, I assume you boys are going to list a tonne of problems with Crimson Desert. The main thing I wanted to know, as someone who's potentially interested, is can this game be elevated from good to great with some patches, or are the issues so fundamental that there's just no polishing this turd? Not sure if I should just jump in now or wait for a potentially better experience 6 months down the line. Have a 'patiently waiting for Colin to add a new Patreon tier granting crotch cam access' kind of day, Nick
Your Boi Nicky V
2026-03-22 19:16:30 +0000 UTCHowdy. Has poor writing ever been the sole reason you stopped playing a videogame? It's what happened to me with Crimson Desert. How can I be interested in exploring a universe when I feel its writers - assuming there were any - didn't really bother with plot, lore, and dialogues? Obviously, different people work on different aspects, but the lack of cohesion and direction totally killed it for me.
Jack S
2026-03-22 18:36:00 +0000 UTCHowdy boys! I’d like to recommend an oldie but a goodie for the audience. Rocket Knight Adventures is a 1993 platformer where you play as Sparkster, a possum knight with a jetpack who must repel an army of pigs and rescue the princess. This game is a huge part of my childhood and lately I’ve had the OST in my rotation, as it’s absolutely peak. You can either emulate it or get it as part of the Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked collection. Here’s hoping that with Konami making a comeback, my marsupial boy gets some much-deserved love. Take care.
The Joker, but the chemical vat he falls into enpubens his hair and enscrotums his skin
2026-03-22 18:20:43 +0000 UTCHello Summoners, here's a sort it out write in. SORT IT OUT, Dovetail Games, and your insane amount of microtransactions! This studio makes UK jank sims, this week they released a Thomas the Tank Engine sim. They are infamous for an insane amount of microtransaction packs, Thomas is a $40 game, and it already has a $17 character pack. On Steam, the Train Sim World 6 page has 147 packs, which total $1,791.08, which are all heavily discounted, the packs range from 30% to 80% off. Every game in the Train Sim World series has over a grand in microtransactions. Sort it out, you clown show.
Parker Luckenbach
2026-03-22 16:57:13 +0000 UTCHowdy my Flemish, SoCal and New Amsterdamian friends, I’ve got a sort it out for all the air time and digital ink dedicated to pointing out online negativity about games. The grifters have their audience, and you aren’t going to convince anyone to change their tune or stop following the grift. The best way to deal with negativity that you don’t agree with is to ignore it, not give it oxygen. All you can accomplish is to stir up a Streisand Effect and give the grifters more content, because they absolutely are making videos mocking people who gripe about the hate parades. You’re also burying legitimate criticism, because the haters of the hate are not immune from going overboard either. As Matty and Chris have pointed out, good games can weather a hate parade and find their audience. At that point whining from media outlets and developers only becomes a red herring distracting from the fact that they couldn’t make a game that was good enough to build a sustainable audience. Those of us who enjoy reading and listening to podcasts about games, but care nothing about the social media wars being fought by extremists on both sides are getting caught in the crossfire. The constant back and forth between the sides is becoming fatiguing when it escapes the social media cess pools. Learn when a horse is dead and kindly stop beating it.
TheHOOfan1
2026-03-22 16:02:46 +0000 UTCHowdy Dick Lip Super Suckers, Crimson Desert is Eurojank Tears of the Kingdom made by Koreans. Premo swimming in 7's. Keep stabbing waterfalls, boys
BigDumbStupidIdiot
2026-03-22 14:29:18 +0000 UTCHey fellas, just bought Crimson desert last night on my PS5 pro. Still doing beginning quests, and getting used to these weird controls. Game looks great. Only thing I get annoyed with right now is the stupid locked door animation every time you walk up to a locked door. Did they really have to make him hit the door 3 times EVERY SINGLE TIME? Other than that, being a dad with a 3 year old, knowing this game is huge, itll probably take me 10 years to beat. Take care guys! Thanks for the content!
EugeneLevyBassist
2026-03-22 13:39:19 +0000 UTCLet’s keep it up to Matty and Brad for speaking out against AI art. When I first saw DLSS 5, I was honestly blown away—especially that RE9 shot. The visual upgrade looked incredible. But as more info and screenshots came out, I started to get a little concerned. Things began to look… the same. Like games were losing some of their identity. So shoutout to Matty and Brad for advocating for artists and the creative side of the industry. Have a “cog will do anything to make Starfield a great game” kind of day.
Ding Dong
2026-03-22 13:32:22 +0000 UTCKEEP IT UP to VGP games. As a physical game owner/collector with fewer options I have to give a keep it up to VGP games. They're a Canada based video game store with a focus on rare, niche and limited printed games. I was a defender or at least neutral of Gamestop up until a few years ago when they stopped having anything in stock. Since then I've had many orders with VGP when I'm looking for niche or indie games that the big stores refuse to stock. Bonus, they always ship their games in a box so you know it will arrive in good shape. Give them a try when looking for new games as far back as PS3 to modern systems.
Zugdar
2026-03-22 13:25:21 +0000 UTC
