AgentMantis

Instead buying more studios they should focus on improving what they've got, many of these studios have so far put out average at best efforts

@jcvandan the gacha is pretty generous tbf. Every 70 pulls on a banner takes you to the soft pity cap, every 90 guarantees a 50/50 pull on the banners 5* character. If you lose the 50/50 you get another 5* character and your next 5* is guaranteed to be the banners character. The pity count continues between premium banners as well, so you don't start over each time. The next banner has Zhongli, the best shielder in the game and definitely worth having a crack at. Uid: 701713997 if you want to add me.

@jcvandan Yep, nearly every character is viable in the over world. You'll only really struggle in the monthly hardcore dungeon which is completely optional. I'm 100% f2p and have defeated everything the game has to offer so far. It's a great game that's only gotten better since launch.

Great game, the shooting dragged it down a bit in the second half though

@Athrum No card packs to buy. It's just an easy way of introducing a bit of randomness into each battle, same with back 4 blood. Arguably it's not a bad thing though, xcom became a joke with certain skills.

Tales of Arise, it's finally made it off of the backlog

Geoff is back with yet more space horror games

This game has car crash written all over it

Finishing GotG and getting stuck into the summer Genshin event

Aaaand I'm out

@UltimateOtaku91 You can drop the world level back by 1 now and farm. Anything under level 50 team compositions don't really matter that much, start getting beyond that and you're going to start needing optimised teams.

@nessisonett "It’s largely cringey fanfiction levels story wise." That's being incredibly generous

Who won E3 is and always has been fanboy nonsense

@kpenders that's a good one 😂

Much of what people are loving about Elden Ring was present in DD. Tough enemies, great bosses, distinct combat builds, an inventive world that is begging to be explored and a plot that's happy to sit in the background letting you engage with it on your own terms. It baffles me how it sank without a trace.

Starting to bounce off of Elden Ring so mainly Genshin, Mass Effect LE is staring at me from the shelf though!

So these guys signed a contract saying they wouldn't do it and they went a did it so Sony called foul. That seems pretty fair tbh. They were willing to take Sony's money and the terms that came attached.

Finishing persona 5 strikers and pushing on in Elden Ring

Great day for people who like bad games

Elden Ring and a bit of Genshin.

Genuinely good games but hey, all the cool kids are ***** on Sony these days so...

Everything I've seen from SE over the last few years re-enforces my belief that the senior leadership has no idea what's it's doing.

Lots of speculation Ubisoft is about to be sold or will put themselves up for sale very soon

Elden Ring and Genshin

I love oddworld but only managed a few hours on Soulstorm. Too many glitches, janky controls and an ill advised crafting system. I had to restart a level three times because of assets not loading correctly and Abe getting trapped.

Nothing, got the builders in and the PS5 has had to be packed up for a few days. Might go outside if I get desperate

BL3 proved they had run out of ideas so I don't have much hope for this. Even if the series was still flying high I'm not sure I'd pick it up, Tiny Tina is easily the worst character in the series.

It needs crossplay to be able to just about scrape together a 4 man team

How have codemasters not sorted the music out yet?! It was so poorly implemented in Dirt 5 I'd genuinely thought the game was bugging out.

It's not great. It looks good but its about as generic a cyberpunk world you can get. The plot and characters could be torn from a cyberpunk-101 writing manual. Gameplay gets boring very fast with endless trash mobs and more padding than fat-suit, especially in the second half. I wanted to love this game as I love both Ruiner and Diablo but this was straight up generic tier trash.

Looks good. I won't be buying it but I'm glad the people who will be seemed stoked.

Cyberpunk 2077, going on holiday so HFW will have to wait until I get back. I don't want to be spending the whole trip thinking about it after playing the opening few hours!

The Eden project is lighting their domes to look like Aloy's glider they've announced on twitter

FFVII remake, Genshin and Back 4 Blood

I love Disgaea but general consensus is that it is the worst mainline game. I'll probably pick it up when it's on sale.

It looked interesting but they just couldn't decide what they wanted it to be. There's a Mass Effect shaped hole to fill but no devs seemingly want to step into it.

@jgrangervikings1 wasteland 2 & 3 and Torment: Tides of numenera are strong contenders

Just finished it. I loved it but won't return for a while. The load times weren't game killing but definitely noticeable on the ps5, but it's the same with all Unity games.

Got covid which sucks but it means I've been able to tackle the backlog a bit. FFVIIR PS5 is on the menu at the minute

Is this the same interview UK Edge mag last month? It's sounds pretty much identical.

Disco Elysium still

Microsoft's product this gen is gamepass, the series x/s exist to showcase it. If they openly stated they want to bring it to Playstation they'll have backed Sony into a corner, plenty of PS gamers would be furious if they turned it down. Once they've hooked most of the market you can guarantee all the ridiculous deals they are always offering on the price of subscription will vanish.

The specialists break what battlefield was about. Everyone working in a fireteam had a defined role and was easily identifiable by how they looked. Now no one is really sure who does what and solo 'hero' play is the default. It also feels like the trailer with all the crazy stuff happening is only achievable by only the highest ability players, everyone else just exists for them to rack up their kills and make them look fantastic on their streams

At what point do antitrust laws kick in?

Disco Elysium and Back 4 blood

Gonna start disco elysium

DA:I was a good, not great, 30 hour game stretched out over 90 hours. I have little hope for any bioware game, EA gutted it.

It was painfully generic though. It did nothing bad but you'd be hard pressed to differentiate it from the millions of zombie titles out there.

Spiderman remastered and genshin