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Love the blatant "inspiration" from Golden Axe! Really hoping to see She Ra make an appearance as well

You'd be surprised.

Oh hell yeah — I'd happily pay for a proper remaster.

"You think you're solving a case? What if the case is you?"

What if the real case is the friends we solved along the way?

@PuppetMaster @Kidfunkadelic83 yeah I already have the base game so I might just end up picking up the physical when it goes cheaper

@Kidfunkadelic83 Yeah, I looked on PSN and the first two character passes (4 characters each) are £27 a pop — which seems a bit steep, especially given that the Years 1-2 Fighters Edition is actually cheaper than both combined. You think there'd at least be a bundle or something.

@get2sammyb I've a broad, somewhat basic question about season passes in general (as I've never gone in on them) — do you basically pay for each individual Year/Season, and the new characters are trickled out until that season ends? If all I want is the new characters/levels, but don't care about cosmetics/in-game currency, what would be the thing that I need to buy if I already have the base game?

@CDCYPER00 Yeah, if I was coming to the series new I'd be all over these, but these are games I'd be unlikely to revisit any time soon

Ah that's a shame — I would happily pay to be able to upgrade to get the extra goodies, but I wouldn't double dip on a full purchase, AND not be able to transfer my dozens of hours of progress over (I think that's the ultimate clincher — how much disposable time do they think players have??)

Oh the bandaid has already gone a bit gross, in fact it fell off quite some time ago, I just don't have the heart to throw it in the bin for good.

This is how you do a retro collection

@get2sammyb yeah, World Tour Mode would be pretty sweet

I'm pretty sure the ship has sailed long ago, but if they can somehow manage to cram in the collective hardware of the PS1/2/3 for full native back compat, I would snap up a PS6 in a blink.

Retry Battle and Dialogue Auto-Advance were the two things I was really itching for whilst playing — great stuff!

It's a shame that this is reviewing badly, but whoever greenlit it surely must know that the market is utterly oversaturated with cosy/life/farming sims at the moment - and unless you're selling it as a AAA genre-definer, slapping the LotR licence on one isn't really going to cut it.

Sword of Sodan, now that's a name I've not heard in a long time...

Phew! Somebody dial down the yoga flame...

Considering how much AI slop already exists on the storefronts, I would like to hope that people are voting with their wallets, and acknowledging the difference between what's good and what's bad, but people can be fickle. Just because developers claim to be using AI in some capacity, doesn't necessarily mean that what they put out will be actually any good.

I (somewhat ill-advisedly) worked my way through the GoW games in the lead up to the release of Ragnarok, but burned out after the third one. Even now though I would like to see the studio try something new, but given the state of the industry, I can see them relying on something tried and tested.

But would you buy it for a dollar?

Does using the disc drive to play 4K Blu Rays count? I've only done that once, but I have no interest in firing up and running my PS5 for streaming; I can do that through my TV.

@Max_the_German yeah I'll definitely be picking it up on Switch over PS, it just feels more natural as a handheld game

@Kidfunkadelic83 Yeah, very cosy/charming/low stakes JRPG/crafting tomfoolery.

On the one hand I'd like to see a full, ground-up, 1:1 remake in the vein of Spyro/Crash, but I just worry that they would turn it into some needlessly overwrought and bloated as the FFVII Remake series.

It's definitely a con when a simple platformer/puzzle/rhythm game makes you sit through reams of mediocre dialogue — I've encountered that quite a bit in certain games lately; for the most part I've just found it overindulgent, unnecessary, and utterly kills the pace. If you're going to have a narrative-heavy game, the writing had better be A-class quality.

I'll choose secret fourth and fifth anwers: I'm interested in playing it, but only after playing Part 1

Loved Resis 7/8, super keen to see where they take the series next.

It's a series I've definitely dropped off from, having been a big fan of the PlayStation 1/2 era - I think the triple whammy of the underwhelming XIII trilogy, the MMO XIV (a format I'm really not interested in), and the fact that the release of XV was drawn out and drip-fed with piecemeal, mid-story DLC just killed my enthusiasm for a series that used to be held in such high regard.

Is the text skippable at all? Also does dialogue autoplay, or does every line need to be advanced manually?

@themightyant Yeah, it's a sad state of affairs that actually having the full game on the disc/cartridge is now considered a bonus to be grateful for.

Naaaa na na na na na na na Katamari on the swing

Super looking forward to this — RE has been one of the most consistently entertaining series since the PS1 original

Give it a few months, it'll likely be under half that price in second hand shops, and will almost certainly have appeared in some sort of sale on PSN

Yep, same — marvellous little invention isn't it?

@Dragoon1994 They Shinobetter than that.

@Dragoon1994 in a way that's kind of a relief because it takes away the temptation — also I've seen games appear quite comfortably on Amazon UK that are ostensibly rare/out of print in the US, so picking up a standard edition is never that much of a headache.

@PuppetMaster Yeah! I've got most of those in some capacity — although I have been meaning to nab a second-hand disc of Ninja Scroll on Blu Ray while I can (I believe it's out of print)

@CutchuSlow basically, yeah — it doesn't matter if a game has a really vocal fanbase, if it's not making money, I imagine it's just cheaper to shut the servers down.

@PuppetMaster Looove Patlabor! And I revisited Ghost in the Shell (my first 4K Blu Ray!) for the first time in years last week — dang, that film holds up.

Yeah, it's not too far removed from "I'm sorry that you're offended, but..." — keep digging, Randy.

@wiiware Yeah, Type 4 was peak Ridge

@Futureshark Oh dang! I should have read the runes...

@Stale-Bread yeah, there's a whole host of classic EOA games from the 16 Bit era that are just ripe for a compilation: Road Rash, the Strike series, The Immortal, F22/LHX, hell even some of the older EA Sports titles like Hockey and PGA would be worth a revisit

Switch owners: "First time?"

Very nice - I was holding out for a potential physical release of Thank Goodness You're Here - although I think sixty notes is a little rich for my palette, but I'll certain keep an eye out to see what other releases they bring.

@dellyrascal or Youth Hostel Simulator with Chris Eubank.

@PuppetMaster heh, I'll survive

@get2sammyb thanks — I did a bit of hunting and couldn't seem to get a straight answer if it was or not

@get2sammyb Is the physical release for this in the US only?

Yeah, with Switch cartridges, which are expensive, I can understand why you'd want to use Game Keys beyond a certain file size, but when Blu Rays can apparently hold up to 100GB, there's really no excuse. Was the person in charge of burning the Doom discs late for dinner that day?

@twitchtvpat Yeah it would be nice if they could get that to work — although with the PS3 there was very little I used the home screen for (and that's actually true of PS5) outside of launching the game.

@nomither6 Yeah, I had a final sliver of hope that that's what the PS5 Pro might have been — for £700, that might just have clinched it for me, given I'd be trading in like three consoles to get credit to pay for it