AgentMantis

The fact Genshin isn't on this list is a crime. The Inazuma soundtrack was near perfect.

This is much more like it. Looks like they'll hang the story on Uncharted 4's bones. Still terribly cast though.

@michaelf persona 5 is one of the best games of last gen, the original edition is free as part of the ps5 collection

No man sky, gotta get the Normandy!

Genshin and finishing off Kingdoms of Alamur, might even have a few rounds of fall guys

Genshin impact and moonlighter

If you consider the GTA trilogy "cult classics" maybe you shouldn't be the editor of a videogame website

I bought it on release and loved it. It wasn't perfect, the main plot is dire and, outside of memes, it's characters are pretty forgettable but few games match it's sense of discovery. I played the ps4 re-release and wasn't as keen, its just not aged particularly well, especially when held up against The Witcher 3.

They announced games that didn't exist, almost as if they needed to draw attention away from something...

It reminds me of Nightmare creatures, I loved that game back in the day

@hurblyburbly hopefully so! I'm in England as well, prime time games are a killer.

Genshin impact as always!

I'm completely burned out on Marvel.

It wasn't a beta or demo though, it was an unfinished game they had no choice but to release. Once FIFA came out they were never going to make up ground from behind. They had two years and screwed up. Unlike cyberpunk they have a direct competitor, patch it all you want the players won't be back this season.

https://www.rockstargames.com/GTATrilogy link for the video, it's not on the preorder page for some reason

Video is up, it's better than I was expecting but I still have several doubts

GTAV's controls just about get the job done but they aren't exactly the gold standard. With the amount of money Rockstar throws at their games I don't understand why they keep using the same janky control scheme.

Something with more meat on it than dirt 5! Ditch the tacky gymkhana modes and focus on making the sp campaign more than padding. The biggest issue I have with dirt is how faceless each track and car is, they need to learn how to make each race and actual 'event' and each car more than c-s stats. I enjoyed d5 but it feels like a game from 10 years ago and takes absolutely no risks with the genre.

Genshin and finishing the banner saga trilogy, why did I sleep on this game for so long?!

PS4 Genshin and the Banner saga trilogy (sat in the backlog for years!) as my PS5 controller has been sent away for stick drift repairs.

Genshin and trying to blast through Judgement before it leaves ps now

Haha, hand in your press credentials

Nice that we are getting this, I love a good mecha game. Chromehounds was one of my favourite games on the xbox360, way ahead of its time and we never got a sequel, FromSoftware must be busy with other things I guess...

@tharsman Two point hospital got its DLC bundled together and released on disc as the jumbo edition so it's not unknown

Played it, hated it. It's cut and paste CoD, I don't know why I expected the WWII setting to see the series step out of its beige comfort zone. The story trailer was painful, absolutely nothing we haven't seen done to death before and everything felt so last gen. Gonna pass this.

Personally I wasn't sold on the Fortnite graphical style or the painful hipster gen-z characters but I'm willing to give it a chance. If this was a 'new' game there wouldn't be half the blowback, by slapping the Saints Row brand on it gamers rightly or wrongly have an expectation that the trailer obviously didn't meet for many.

Judgement was the main reason I went for the ps now for £1 a month deal. It's not that much different from Yakuza but that's not a bad thing!

The game was great but take off the rose tinted glasses. I tried playing it recently after digging out my PS2 to introduce my son to some classics and its aged poorly. I was actually shocked at how bad it played but by far the biggest problem for me was the story and how out of date, trope laden and basic it is. I kind of wish I'd left my memories of the game intact.

The series doesn't really need to reinvent the wheel. I had more fun with DQ11 than any FF since X. Sylvando is one of the best written and voice acted RPG characters of all time.

The only game breaking bug I encountered in the demo was the bot teammate refusing to leave the minigun alone and get into the safe house. It was fun but it had obvious issues.

With the CCP going to war with tencent and the crackdown on games as "digital opium" there's no guarantees on any game coming out of China

I had good fun with it but it still needs a bit of work

The people still playing (and paying) GTA online have killed the SP for the rest of us.

It's an absolute joke that routinely gets a free pass for blackfishing because "she's Italian". Ten years ago she was white, now she performs alongside Nikki Minaj and is visibly darker than a black woman. It's not just the skin colour either, its her style, that she now speaks with a "blaccent" and uses "hood" imagery for her lyricism.

Persona 5 (again) and Genshin

@Milktastrophe Dunno what you're talking about! Two banners a month carry previous 5* characters and there isn't any story content that can't be beaten with 4* characters. The gap between them isnt exactly a gulf either.

@SilentS the initial load is maybe 10 seconds max, after that it's near instant

@themightyant Honestly you'll be hard pressed to find a more enjoyable 100 hours in gaming

I'm playing it at the moment, it's a flawed gem. The modest budget means all areas basically look the same, including internal mansion layouts, and the combat isn't particularly deep, you'll be fighting the same half a dozen enemies the entire game but the role playing is great. How all the quests interlock and affect each other is something AAA RPGs could learn from, the Age of Sail setting hasn't been done to death and plot/characters are compelling enough to keep you pushing forward. One tip to immediately improve the game is too lower the camera stick sensitivity.

Once they "click" for you From Software games are not especially difficult, the problem is the time it requires to get to that point. At this stage in my life I've got work and kids, I'm not going to spend my limited gaming time banging my head against the wall until I "git gud". Not adding a difficulty option plays well with the established fanbase, Dark souls was designed for a small group of specific players and it blew up along with a toxic false sense of superiority, but Elden Ring is AAA mass market game and it needs to reflect that in its accessibility.

Straight up garbage, considering some of the franchises they are sitting on this was bordering on an insult and they seem hell bent on driving the FF series into the ground.

Aiden was one of the blandest characters in a game I've ever encountered, even mute protagonists have more of a personality.

How can anyone be surprised by this score!? There were massive red flags all over this

After the hot messes that were Fallout 4 and 76 I have zero faith Bethesda can pull off a must play game.

About right for Ubisoft, they know all about predatory behaviour.

Subnautica and ABZU.

A word of warning to anyone who can suffer motion sickness The Witness is one of the worst titles for triggering it. The anti-sickness patch didn't really help either.

The game was good but not great, too much open world box ticking bogged it down. Players can easily get bored while taking a break from the plot and drift off. Low completion rates are always championed as the death of SP and justification for moving towards games-as-a-service and MP focus but there's obviously more to it than that.

It's not as simple as one is better than the other. Yakuza and GTA are very different games in what they are trying to achieve.

So glad Weiss isn't part of the narrative, pretty much all of the FFVII spinoff content needs to go in the bin.

I've put in 80 hours on the PS5 after 1.1 with maybe a dozen hard crashes, a few minor glitches and no bugged quests. The game is great. It's no where near the hot mess many would have you think.

Timing is everything, this would be DOA. The f2p/games as a service space has more than reached saturation point plus Governments are starting to wise up and bring the ban hammer down on loot boxes.