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My favourite of the year is definitely Expedition 33, but I feel that Kingdom come deliverance deserves some special praise. One of the best open world games I've played, although admittedly I can see why the overly "realistic" nature woukd put people off

I might snap this up. I missed out on atlas during the ps2 era, although my friend did show me nocturne back in the day and also digital devil saga, but I only played them briefly. It's only after playing P4 golden on the ps vita, back in 2012/2013 that I started becoming a fan of Atlus' work

@JB_Whiting oh yeah I completely agree, a more nuts and bolts look at the game running was definitely needed after the absolute strangeness of the other trailers

@JayJ yeah he does seem to be getting more weird but I'd hardly say anything in mgs 2 or 3 was anywhere close to grounded. In 3 there's a man who shoots bees and also someone who's essentially dead. And mg2 has a literal vampire in it. Although they do go back on that by mentioning nanomachines in subsequent games. But I completely understand why people may have gone off his more recent work, I just personally still love it

@JB_Whiting to be fair I'm glad we're finally getting gameplay, but I get why he does the "arty farty" stuff as ypu say. MGS 2 and 3 are some of my favourite games of all time, and a big reason for that is the story, especially how weird it gets

@Mattock1987 if they did, they hate gaming (which based on the Internet, most gamers do) . Although there was arguably no "massive" announcement there was a variety of games shown off and many of them looked fantastic

This quickly became one of my most anticipated games. I love Arc system works and I'm a big fan of Marvel (even the "bad" ones are entertaining) so to have Arc developing a new Marvel fighting game is a dream come true. I wad hoping for a new Marvel vs Capcom, but this is even better, I think

I'm glad they're doing that. Price of Persia the lost crown was fantastic and deserved more sales. This is a good idea as a spin off, and then the next mainline God of war will be back to normal I imagine

This is fantastic news. I hope they actually have the funds and infrastructure to survive and thrive and actually release the games that they love to make

I still think we .might get a small trailer at Keighley's show, with "See the full reveal on our IOI showcase..." etc

I think overall it's a "meh" selection, but I'm looking forward to playing Alone in the dark

@themightyant I agree to an extent, but usually by this point the console would be a lot cheaper and the games will be purchasable at a hig discount. Obviously it's a little different this time with the PS5 prices somehow increasing. But you can still pick up a lot of the games really cheap now, so I still think it would be worth getting one

I do think that the console is a bit expensive for its age, but it does have a great catalogue of games, most of which are a few years old and therefore can be picked up second hand for cheap (if you have the disc version) or have deals regularly on the PS store. And we still have plenty of games to come, such as Death stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, hopefully Wolverine. And of course GTA 6

I hope the rumours about project 007 being there is true. It's been one of my most anticipated games since it was announced, after how much of a fantastic game Hitman 3 was

A new death stranding trailer (probably launch trailer) is a guarantee, but I'm wondering if we coukd maybe get another trailer or reveal of something from OD

I liked Battlefront 2, but if I was to go Star wars games (which I might thanks to Andor), I'd rather play the Jedi games, or even rogue squadron, which I really enjoyed. Very happy for the people who are back into Battlefront though. It's definitely improved a lot since release

Looking forward to playing this on PS5. I played it a little back on gamepass when it first came out but fell off it. It's definitely not as bad as people say though, I think it's better than Fallout 4 personally. But Bethesda have been surpassed by newer RPGs such as The witcher 3, Cyberpunk, Elden ring, etc. Heck, even Red dead 2 has some great RPG elements

@Odium yeah it's definitely up there for me. Such a great game. Infinite was really good too

I like the fact that 2K, because they are owned by Take-Two interactive, are actually allowed time to make their games and not forced to release their games until they're ready. Even the sports games don't have to follow quite such a rigid annual schedule. The benefits of having a ridiculous amount of money I suppose

I must admit I never played it back in the day, although I remember seeing it all the time in Blockbusters. But all I hear about is how good it is, so I'd definitely be up for picking these up. And I love to support older franchises, so that we get new games greenlit

@slips666 I am looking for more small games from them, but I love their AAA stuff. Rebirth was easily my favourite game from last year, and I really loved 16 too. Be nice if they coukd find a balance like other companies manage (Capcom seem to be really good at this)

Still have this game on my backlog, but it's great that it's coming to another audience soon . I recently bought a portal so have been playing a lot more games portably, and this looks like a perfectly acceptable way to play this game too

Can't wait for this. I think Virtua fighter is slept on as a franchise, compared to the likes of Street fighter, Tekken and MK, but Virtua fighter 4 is one of my favourite fighting games of all time

@Alps_Stranger that's the one thing that worries me, all the writers leaving. But the trailer seems to have that usual GTA style, so I'm cautiously optimistic. I was also worried about how good the world would be but so far they're killing that

I gave it a 9 so far, but I'm only about 2/3 of the way through. Am fully expecting it to be a 10 when I've finished

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.

Used to love Ecco the dolphin on the Megadrive, so this is welcome news that I never saw coming. Hopefully they play as well as I remember. And so glad that an actual new game is coming too

Also it shoukd show Square Enix that you can make a great game on a smaller budget, especially with the easy access to unreal 5, and still create a great game with really good graphics, on a smaller budget, so that when they sell 5 million for example, they're not considered a failure

Glad to see this doing well. I'm loving this game so far (just got to act 2). It's an absolute masterpiece and it has potential to be one of my favourite games ever. I love the story, the characters, the music great gameplay, and the French-ness really makes it unique. I'm glad it's getting a big following, especially for a game made by such a small team

This is a gane I'd love a remake to. I remember playing a chipped copy of this back in the day. It was in Japanese, but the gameplay was fantastic. Considering all of the other games that have had remakes and re-releases, I'm surprised there's been no new Rival schools in so long

@Blackbluto I agree with you to an extent, it's not been a stellar generation. Although personally for me, even if 10 great games came out every year, Ghost of Yotei would still be one of my most anticipated games, along with Death stranding 2

@charbtronic you won't regret it. It's been one of my "must buys" all year, so I picked it up. I'm loving it so far, and if it continues like this it might end up being one of my favourite games ever

@voltum3l agreed. Absolutely loved Rebirth. Oneof my favourite Final fantasy games ever

I downloaded it last night but was too tired to play by the time it downloaded. Will be playing a few hours tonight though. I completed it back in the day but that was nearly 20 years ago now (!!!???)

I'm so glad to see that this gane has lived up to expectations. It's been in my top 3 most anticipated games of the year, but I was expecting a 7 or an 8 out of 10. To see it in the low 90s on metacritic is fantastic, especially for a debut game from a smaller studio. Can't wait to pick this up now

@graymamba to be fair, with the portal I was on board straight away. I live in a house with 5 other people and the TV is regularly in use (when we'renot out doing ither things), so I only got a few hours per week to play. Since having the portal I'm able to get at least a couple of hours per day, so I'm playing a lot more than I have in years

This looks fantastic. I love Xcom (and Star wars) so will definitely give this one a go

I'll be honest, for the last 2 years at least, Microsoft has had the best showcase of the year in terms of how interesting amd varied the games look. So now that pretty much all theor games will come to PS5, it's even more reason for everybody to watch

I would love a new Deus Ex, but for some reason not enough people seemed to play it, so I'm not holding out much hope. Would love to be proved wrong though

I love rivals schools. One of my favourite original ps1 fighting games, it needs a full on remake/reboot

I'm very surprised (but happy) at this. I personally loved the game, although I fell off the original and came back for the upgraded edition on ps5. But I can certainly see why people didn't enjoy the game, it's definitely an acquired taste

Still looking forward to picking this one up on sale, the reviews are decent and the whole "controversy" was always a non-issue. All in all it seems like the best AC in a while

I have to agree. Most of my favourite things from Japanese developers is how unique they are and how ridiculous at times. The nest parts of Like a dragon are the silly side quests

I'm not overly excited this time, although I will be stopping my playthrough of POP the lost crown on Steam deck and playing on my ps5. But to vote it's a crap selection just shows how limited people are in what they like. There is a decent variety and most of the games reviewed well, ao not sure what more people expect

This looks intriguing, to say the least. Hopefully it's not another one of those games that comes out and disappoints. Also hearing Ella's Toufexis voice again makes me really want a new Deus ex

Barbarian is one of my favourite horrors of the last few years, so I'm hoping he can be the first to make a genuinely good film of the game, that both gamers and non-gamers can enjoy

I must admit I'm not surprised at this statistic. Although I love my Steam deck, and play it almost every day. I have a terrible PC so it allows me to play some more modern games

@ThomasHL yeah I agree, the story and characters are the one area where I would put 5 behind the other 2 (only slightly mind you) but everything else was pretty much honed to perfection. Can't wait for Persona 6, whenever we end up getting that

I hope this is true. Even though Persona 5 is a better game in almost every way, and I loved P3R, Persona 4 Golden is still my favourite Persona game, and in my top 10 favourite games of all time

@StrickenBiged I was thinking the same thing. Even though the only correct way is the way explained by the people in charge, who made the decisions. Same as the X being cross. We can still call it Ex. And no-one (not even Sony) will argue. But it's still wrong

@Oram77 not gonna disagree, but I have loved pokemon since I was a kid and now my kids are into it. Not gonna lie, I haven't watched much Digimon anime, and the only game I'm played properly is the original Digimon world on the PS1, which admittedly was one of my favourite games as a kid. I also gave Survive a quick go but never got onto it fully. That being said, I really want to get into Digimon more, and this game looks fantastic, so I might have to get the kids to watch some of the original series with ne