AgentMantis

@KingPev it had been in development for 10 years, essentially rebooted twice during that time. EA and bioware couldn't really agree on the direction of the game and the franchise as a whole. As development time increased, and following Anthem landing with a thud, Bioware was downsized and lost a lot of it's talent. The series lead writer fled and was then critical of the teams culture and EA's hostility towards the narrative team in general. Many assumed VG, or Dreadwolf as it was called at the time, would end up as vaporware and would bring Bioware down, which the less than stellar sales could still do. While I'm not making any comments on the quality of the game, the fact they even managed to get a title out of the door was an achievement.

The fact anything got released at all is an achievement after it's tortured development.

@Oram77 I think it found it's audience, it's just not a game with massive mainstream appeal.

None of the extended universe stuff for FFVII landed for me, most of it reeked of edgelord. AC was the worst offender, it was straight up shonen anime nonsense.

Who has time? I'm locked into my current live service games and don't have any capacity for anything else

It's estimated 75% of all Xboxes sold this gen are S models. MS can't abandon the majority or their already relatively slim user base.They're hamstrung by weak hardware, no wonder they want to push for the next gen to start early.

I got it for Xmas and started it yesterday.

While good, the story hinges on having played most of Kiryu's games for it to hit home. Kasuga's narrative was a big nothing. Push Square has consistently swung and missed with their end of year lists.

ZZZ and Metaphor

I was gave it a go but without the option to invert the Y axis it's basically unplayable for me. How a game can launch without it is unfathomable.

Zenless takes it for me. I'm not sure how yet another Lego game, even if it's a new IP, is even in contention.

"Plucked from their hands" Black Myth was a slightly above average souls-like with good graphics. Nothing it did was original or really stuck with me after the end credits.

As bad as skibidi toilet is, it's still less jarring in Fortnite than Nikki Minaj was in CoD.

The graphics were never the issue with HFW, it was literally everything else. It was just so dull, making a game about fighting robot dinosaurs so boring takes real skill. Easily my biggest disappointment of this gen.

I have serious doubts that those numbers are accurate.

She looks older and sounds older, more aggressive and world weary. Judging by the trailer the new VA will be great.

The game was utterly broken on launch, launching a season 2 when most of the issues still remain is madness

Everything Geoff fronts is genuinely terrible. A half dozen interesting trailers sandwiched between endless filler and ads.

I'm not sure I can afford another F2P

@RagnarLothbrok it's a license to print money if you land a hit. Genshin's top banner generated $46 million in 3 weeks, it's estimated to have made $6.3 billion over 4 years. Executives who have no real clue to what gamers want see those figures and need to change their underwear.

The base game had zero issues, I'm not really sure how you could improve on it meaningfully. I'm really disliking the current tone that the base ps5 is trash and the pro magically fixes everything.

Overall the voice acting is pretty bad, it was the same story with Dragon's Dogma 2.

Paimon's voice has been toned down significantly since the early days. The English voice cast is top tier with Itto being my personal highlight. I fully support the strike, threatening to automate the creative processes behind games will only end in tears for us gamers.

Bloomberg did a deep dive in the summer on the massive problem with peados on Roblox. Some truly awful stuff was unearthed and here we are again. Zero accountability and zero solutions.

Gotta drive those share prices lower for the takeover. Next week it'll be work place harassment and toxic culture.

@thefourfoldroot1 is it a legitimate complaint though? "This character isn't sexy enough for me. I like my women reduced to a single defining aspect that's catered specifically towards my demographic."

Saber is about as mid as it gets, 90% of their output is ps+/Gamepass fodder

The graphics were fantastic and arguably only part of the game that needed no extra work, everything else was crushingly dull. Easily my biggest PS disappointment.

@JokerBoy322 it's nothing to do with Sony, this is squarely on the Devs who released a terribly optimised game and can't bail themselves out without brute forcing a solution

Ubisoft titles are discounted faster and heavier than any other publisher. I fully expect to be able to pick it up on black Friday for less than £30.

This is nothing to do with satisfying gamers, this is all about share price, they can't afford the bad publicity at the moment. If the share price was riding high you could guarantee they'd be willing to serve up a dog's dinner

I'm glad they moved on from Jin, his story was told and I'd hate to see it watered down by forcing character motivation for the sequel. LaD:IW is one of my favourite games of this gen but they had to bend and retcon some of the stuff from the first game to make it work. Besides, I'll sew myself to the carpet if we don't see Jin appear as some kind of spirit guide when the protagonist reaches rock bottom at the end of act 2.

The Plucky Squire, I'm on chapter 9 and hope to finish it over the weekend. I had high hopes but it's kinda of meh, it's nowhere near as inventive or fun as the trailers made out. Its incredibly linear and every puzzle solution well signposted. The only times I've been stuck is when stuff fails to load into the level.

RGG: Gori Majima...
Me: sold.
RGG: but you haven't heard the pitch
Me: Did I stutter?

The new DA was the main feature of last month's EDGE mag and the devs talk about how janky and how many corners they cut during Inquisition's development for various reasons, there was very little faith in it from BW or EA. Personally it was ok at the time, but way too much filler and weak plotting. When the Witcher 3 came out it blew it out of the water, DAI looked absolutely archaic in comparison.

I have zero faith this will turn out well

As time passes I'm more and more convinced that a large part on why no sequel was green-lit was Sony had just had enough of this idiot.

It's not met their sales expectations either, even after they downgraded them following it's luke warm critical reception. I think I know what the lead title in Black Friday sales is going to be this year.

Playstation owners want single player games. It's that simple. Until Sony start delivering on that front, every single live service game arrives with a target on it regardless of its quality. Titles like Concord and Fairgames might of found a much warmer reception if we weren't all starving for what brought us to the playstation in the first place. The rumoured state of play later this month is starting to feel like make or break. Sony needs to lay their cards on the table, they've bungled the entire PS5 generation and need to start giving reasons to stick around.

At this point the number or articles telling me it's flopped exceeds the entire player base. Everyone knows it failed, we don't need hourly reminders.

Trash month. My backlog is full thankfully.

@Arkham24601 because they did when the games went into production, now when they're ready the market is saturated and no one is going to jump from a title they've sunk hundreds of hours into already

I'm still angry about THPS.

I'm not too fussed, as soon as I'm sucked in I can't tell the difference.

Automatically noping you out is always much more preferable than just assuming they can sign you up for whatever. Stars was poorly conceived and poorly implemented. They should just go back to the drawing board with the whole scheme.

Side stepping all the negativity around the game itself, 8 years is just too long and it's not the only game to take that long. An entire career in AAA game development results in 5 games, lessons learned between releases take an entire console generation to be implemented. As much as AI is maligned I really can't see how the AAA continues without it.

The non stop quest for growth, there's a term for that, cancer.

@WizzNL statistically in this case Chinese users would be an outlier and excluded from data sets as it would skew them! As China represents a small percentage of the Steam's user base, its equivalent to the very vocal minority. Outside of China, and within the average user base, the game has had a good but nowhere near phenomenal reception. Using skewed figures paints a warped picture of the reality.

It looks so very dated, both gameplay wise and graphically. This is a series that prints money, has a budget that most games would be lucky to see a tenth of, and it looks like a mid-gen PS4 game.

Crossover media always feels like homework