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Slay the Spire is so addictive. Be careful people 😂

An anime-based RPG as opposed to an arena fighter?! Please be good!

@Gloamin Kind of there with you. Borderlands just feels like the quintessential looter shooter and I'm sort of bored with those at this point. Looking past getting guns every second, you realize how boring it really is to get hundreds of common and uncommon guns every second with the occasional rare that you realize you already have. Willing to try this one when it's on sale because it has more of a focus on magic and such but still. Meh.

I remember War of the Monsters! My brother and I rented it a bunch from Blockbuster... Does anyone remember Blockbuster? 😂

@PenguinL Isn't that Arkham City?

@MFTWrecks Since 2008 sort of. They took two gap years but they've almost consistently released a new game every year

EDIT:Scratch that. Apparently since inception they've been aiming for annual releases with some games having a gap year

@Rural-Bandit Not sure if you Nintendo at all, but before January I would've said Pokemon can contest with that 😂

Looking forward to Sonic. And I highly recommend Ark to anyone who has been put off by what online players have said about it. It's a fun ongoing game for me... But only in single player. You'd have to be a massive masochist to try playing it online 😱

I've had it on my shelf since release and I'm ready to dust it off and give it a try. I don't really fault the devs, as apparently they were making a game they thought would be ready in 2022 and it was the marketing department that went wild with the promises. So it's 2022, I imagine what's being released is what their vision was supposed to be.

Is this that game where the creator reportedly kept having them start over whenever he came up with a new idea? And then he quit? If so it makes sense why this happened.

I skipped this one but played the Jump Force before this. It was so bad. I don't get how they keep messing up something that should be a guaranteed money printer.

Hey, as long as the gameplay's good. I was pleasantly surprised by the promise of dialogue choices and all that, but that was never my initial draw. Give me more parkour zombie killing!

Nice! Planet Coaster and Tiny Tina were games I wanted to try but didn't want to spring money on. So seems like a good time.

@thefourfoldroot "MS going with the 'drive the competition out before ramping up the price' strategy it seems."

100%. This stuff is textbook. Like, literal social studies class textbook (I keep saying that because I'm shocked at how many people don't understand what's going on). And not just microtransaction-riddled, but watered down in quality because "Who cares? We've already got your money!"

@Rural-Bandit I dig the optimism, and if that's what happens, great for all of us. But again, if you look at what's been going on, Microsoft's moves have been weird. I remember a while back that they admitted they don't profit from the gaming side of things. So when they have a service like Game Pass, which almost certainly is a loss for them (People staying on the subscription rather than buying new games) it really does seem more like a long-term maneuver than a sound business practice. I want free games like the next guy, but I've always understood why Sony dragged their feet in matching Game Pass. It really does seem like since dropping the ball with the Xbox One, Microsoft has been content with losing money for long-term gain. Granted, Sony got greedy this gen and fell asleep at the wheel, but I'm not entirely sure how this will play out for us.

@Pixelated Thaaaaaat's not what Communism is. That is by definition what late-stage Capitalism is. But I agree with most of the other stuff you said 👀

@Americansamurai1 Doubtful. The government tends to overlook things that they perceive as... "childish" for lack of a better term. Part of the reason the internet was the Wild West for a decade was because the government allowed phone companies to buy up everything related to it, then refused to regulate anything because they perceived the internet as a passing fad. If you're looking for the government to stop monopolization of entertainment, look no further than Disney to understand why that won't happen.

@Rural-Bandit I agree. I'm not saying Sony is the "good guy" in this by any means, but it's clear to see what's going on here. They've been pressuring Sony with Gamepass for a while and now all the acquisitions. Sony will still have plenty of options, they have their exclusives after all, but in terms of consumers, most only have 1 console (maybe 2 because Nintendo IPs, and Nintendo consoles are cheaper). So when consumers start weighing which console they want down the line, most are going to want the console with the boatload of games.

Xbox fans are celebrating but they clearly don't know how monopolies work.
1.Company introduces super awesome product at an extremely reasonable, almost detrimental price (Gamepass).
2. Company starts buying out/acquiring smaller companies to build themselves bigger than their true competition.
3. Company continues to offer and introduce services/products that the competition can't compete with at a price the competition can't compete with
4. Competition fails and/or is bought out by the company.
5. Company raises prices and/or yanks the extremely reasonable service.

And ladies, gents and nb's, we have a monopoly. We learned this in social studies people, come on. Microsoft is clearly at step 2.

@lolwhatno Awww thank you 😁 Legitimately made me smile. Yeah it's from the Mario Party Rap by Starbomb. When I found out you could have gifs as your pfp I just had to do it 😂

@Rob_230 Not exaggerating, I'm thoroughly shocked at how fun it is to play. And you're right about the soundtrack. Lately I've gotten into the habit of playing spotify over my gaming but I havent done it once yet on this. If it werent for Arceus coming out pretty soon, I'd jump straight into the sequel when I'm done.

I played a quarter of the way through Final Fantasy XII before realizing I was just fast-forwarding through everything (The gameplay and story's fun, but give me a FF button in an older game and I'll use it). Currently 10 hours into YS VIII and I'm absolutely hooked. It's such a fun game. I'll be playing that this weekend.

I beat Kena yesterday so I'm currently trying to figure out what to play next. It was going to be Watch Dogs Legion but I got bored after an hour and most likely going to trade it in.

90% of the time: Hard no. And everyone talks about how interesting the texts in Skyrim and Fallout are for world building, but who has time for all that?

I only bother to read the texts if they're in my face (like an item) and brief, like in Control. Or if they're stories. But if it's just a fictional journal that's laying open and you have to angle the camera just right to read it, where some random character who died before the game happened is just rambling. I admire the devs' devotion but I'm good.

LIAM! I'm calling you out! I googled it and Resident Evil fans do NOT call themselves Resi Heads! I feel so betrayed...

Ok from top left to bottom right, I recognize: Gato Robogato, Bomberman, Enter the Gungeon, ________, Kena Bridge of Spirits, Cuphead, 2B from Nier, Shovel Knight, Untitled Goose Game, and __________.
Who are the two I'm missing?

Probably a good idea. Aside from taking more time to develop, January-March are going to be absolutely packed with huge games many people have been waiting for. If they want this game to succeed, probably not a great idea to toss this into the mix.

@ShaneReactions Same, it's led to a nightmarishly huge backlog. But it's led to some fun surprise moments when I've had friends over or my partner asks, "Is there something we can both play?" Then I just scroll through like, "Lets see... Oh! How about this?"

In any case, not redeeming them feels like just chucking money into the trash.

For what it is and for how soon it is, Kena's a pretty solid sale. Went ahead and scooped it and NEO The World Ends With You (It's 50% off)

@mariomaster96 Meh, this is the time of year for sales. For me, I tend to clean up at Gamestop and/or Best Buy for their After Christmas sales where their deals are RIDICULOUSLY low. Thats usually when I get all the games from the previous year that I missed out on.

Finishing Shin Megami V on the Switch. I love the game, but 60 hours in, the difficulty is kind of exhausting. Probably going to take a break from turn-based games after this one.

Exact reason why criticism is important. Not abuse, but criticism. Remember people, they are a corporation, they live and die by the dollar. If they don't do right by consumers, or in this case, small developers, we need to raise our voices and that's how change happens. Not by shutting up and taking it because we like their products.

@JJ2 I was thinking of Outriders when I saw this. Everyone said it would be bad because of the visuals but I remember being kind of baffled by that, especially when the demo came out. I feel like with the increased focus on frame rate and graphics this gen, people forget how good a game can feel. And honestly, even if it turns out to be rough around the edges, this game looks like it has the potential to be a blast to play. Decimating enemies with amazing spell combinations? Come on people, this looks like it'll be so much fun!

Im a magic junkie in my RPG's and this game looks like it'll be the first thing to scratch that particular itch since Skyrim and Dragon's Dogma 😍

Maaaan that cosmic red on black though 😍

@fR_eeBritney Snippets like that made me kind of shocked that the movie got such mediocre reviews. I thought that was a brilliant way of addressing how we've discovered that dinosaurs are more bird-like than we originally thought.

Man that is a great poster!... Weird enough, the only part of it I don't like is Jim Carrey. It almost looks like he was awkwardly photoshopped in there. Bit of a touch up though and it'd be great haha.

@bighal I mean IS it entitled? It's always so bizarre to me how giant corporations have people jump to their defense them like this. Because end of the day, every Playstation Plus subscriber is a customer. Whether you paid for a month, three months, a year, you paid for the service.

I'm not even a person that's up in arms about the Mortal Shell thing, but it does seem weird to me that they're like, "Oh you paid for our optional (but not really because if you ever want to play with your friends, you HAVE to subscribe) service? Here's a game! Oh, but we cut out the main part of the game, you want the full version, you gotta buy it. But you can have another game! Oh, no no no, not the upgraded version. You want that, you still have to pay full price".

@The-Grezzly-Bear Relatable. Isn't it great to be a gamer nowadays? 😂

Fingers crossed the rumors were true and it's that open world Sonic game... Extra fingers crossed for the return of a Sonic Adventures 2-esque Chao Garden

Not that it can't be improved, I trust the devs of this game, but I kind of liked the combat against humans in the original. Yeah, you sliced through them like paper, but in terms of the roleplay, it made sense to me when I spent most of my time hunting robot dinosaurs that I'd be way more powerful than other people. At the very least, it felt visceral.

Unlike Avengers, I believe this. The main problem with Cyberpunk was that marketing ran wild with the possibilities while the devs thought it would be ready in 2022.

Flapping flotsam! 50% off Deathloop!?

Well good for them for trying to leave the arena fighters... But what I'd like to see (not from the Dragonball IP's) is more anime games copying Xenoverse instead of copying Ninja Storm or Dead by Daylight

Big yikes for me. My adaptive triggers on my first controller broke in between gameplay. Like, I had it on the charger, and when I picked it up, the triggers felt extremely loose. This game should be avoided like the plague.

Man I saw that younger Batman concept art and the Batman Beyond theme song instantly started playing in my head. I'd definitely buy it if they made it.

Question though: Does this one have more hybrids? The first game only had three I believe.

@nessisonett @themightyant Agreed. Companies and corporations speak the language of money and I feel like the message the spike in sales gave out was that people liked the free DLC and Black Panther (And it also got launched on Game Pass so people could buy it for free). But people don't like trying to be peddled stuff while playing their superhero video games.

And a spike in sales leaves out context, like how many people stayed engaged with the game, how many sold/traded their games back and stuff like that. Remember, within a month of the initial launch, the game lost 90% of its players

@naruball I mean, Square Enix has been in charge of several games as well without microtransactions. They're one of the main RPG gaming companies. So again, good question, could be either company, but I'm leaning towards Crystal Dynamics.

@naruball Good question, but I'm leaning Crystal. Square Enix was also in charge of the Guardians game, yeah?