Announced during Sony's State of Play showcase, Ballad of Antara is a world-ending action RPG slated for PS5 in 2025. This free-to-play, brand-new IP from developer TipsWork Studio will strive to achieve the "highest fidelity" possible.
Over on the PlayStation Blog, studio head Yang Yang explained what players can expect from the game: "Ballad of Antara is an action RPG with multiple playable characters. These characters possess the power to traverse the two worlds of normalcy and unimaginable. We call them Emissaries. Each Emissary has its own unique class, gameplay capabilities, and enticing, mysterious story we want to tell. Finding and rallying these Emissaries across the world, strengthening your forces, and discovering the truth behind the calamity of this land are your primary goals in Ballad of Antara".
What do you think? Does Ballad of Antara strike your fancy? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Ah man…I was interested in this until I saw “Free to Play”
Free to Play = Safe to Ignore
Too bad, it was one of the games that stood out to me.
@GamingFan4Lyf Same. I'll probably still give it a go, but I'd much rather pay full price and have non of that free-to-play faff.
For a second there I hoped for a great soulslike. Turns out it’s another “free-to-play” slot machine
Moving on…
I was slightly interested when I seen the trailer but less so now maybe if it survives a few years and has a decent expanding story I'll try it but the case with many games like this is most of the story effort goes into the initial stuff and the later stuff is just generic grinding quests.
Yah, "free to play," just killed any interest in this for me.
....Ah. Well.
Count one more who thought this looked like it had a lot of potential, a varied and distinct group of playable characters, a distant tugging nostalgia at the back of the mind, the feeling that we don't see very many games of this style with more than one or two main, fully playable characters nowadays.
All that promise and potential in the trailer, for it to be a live service gacha. Urgh.
Welp, that's it then, my final results are in and Monster Hunter was the sole saving grace of the lineup.
This doesn't look like a free to play game, so I wasn't expecting it. This looks more like a AAA single player game worth £50+. After reading free to play, now I'm expecting it to be gacha like genshin impact.
Holy crap why does it had to be free-to-play? It look so good and the tease of an apocalyptic suffering story of those two no name characters seem promising. Now my interest had dropped to low.
Wow and this was one of the games that looked intriguing to me! so I went from I want to see more to pass I don't care to see anymore of this F2P garbage 😒
One of the games that piqued my curiousity. Managing my expectations since its Free To Play but will still give it a shot
@GamingFan4Lyf same…
Man, so much free to play stuff. Not that I'm instantly writing it off, but still a bad trend. I think I'll be to busy with zenless zone zero anyways. Since these are such time sinks studios need to be aware that this is a winner takes it all business.
@GamingFan4Lyf same here....
Oh damn, I was interested in this...
Damn this was one of the few games that caught my eye…
They had to go and ruin the best trailer with a "free to play" label, such a letdown...
Damn kinda surprised they didn't mention that this game was free to play during there trailer...
But after seeing these comments, I get why! LoL
Damn N I thought Genshin was one of the top games on PS
Given the response to the "free to play" label, I wonder if numbers will show Sony that they've put their eggs in the wrong basket, by issuing the statement that games as a service will be their focus moving ahead...
Wait, this isn't some soulsborne single player game? How is it a F2P RPG? I don't get it. This was one of the few games that REALLY piqued my interest in the SoP. Hearing this really drags my anticipation down.
As many are saying, looked like an interesting Soulsborne copycat until it was revealed to be F2P. I'm very much an old school Sony gamer: single-player, AA or AAA, polished goodness. Online multiplayer, F2P and/or gacha games (the GaaS umbrella basically), are not for me at all.
Looks nice, but free to play? Will have to wait and see on this one. Free to play isn't all bad but I would pay for the game stand alone if it was good.
Free to play kill it and burn it. Its a pity that thet could kill my interest so fast.... 😢
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