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@kyleforrester87 Whoa, that's nice! I guess the EW2 budget got spent on that? haha

He looks super fun over a naff season 2. I'm... actually excited for him?! Might even be an instant main. Love me some cool old dudes.

Going to say this though, despite my thoughts on sales drops recently: Bethesda's marketing is awful. Prey, Death of the Outsider, and Evil Within 2 have suffered from some awful, awful pushes and very little ads wise.

When Deep Silver does more marketing than you, you have a problem.

@FullbringIchigo Oh man, I really like the look of that DQ skin.

@get2sammyb Yeah same to be honest. I bought D2 when it was £20 and just a few days later it went down to a tenner. Bethesda are really struggling to shift games that aren't Elder Scrolls or Fallout.

But I'm honestly not buying any new releases full-price around November. We've got a glut out and you know deep discounts are coming. It's becoming commonplace - most people can only spend the same amount on games each time, but there are more games than ever on the market, so companies are seeing less sales and making deeper cuts to try to compensate.

I saw GAME doing a promotion where you get a tenner off when preordering, which I've never seen them do. Must be struggling which is a shame because the first one was a flawed but fun romp.

Def the worst in the series, with characters like Sharp-corner Freethinker really dragging it down.

AC's DLC has always gone a bit wild. King Washington, Jack the Ripper and steampunk, Da Vinci's machinegun.

As always, I'll probs get it in a sale as I have with all AC games.

@ShogunRok Ah cool, as long as it's not only a chronic lack of certain gundam. I guess G Gundam has the dev afraid of putting any in for tone sake, same with Dynasty Gundam if I remember correctly.

And I guess Seed Destiny because no-one liked it.

2/10 too much content.

@shogunrok So with no G Gundam (Super disappointing) and no Seed Destiny, what are the choice cuts? Iron Orphans is obviously in it, but is there any Unicorn? Thunderbolt? Even Age?

SPARKING! Believe your own energy!
SUPER KING! Get by my hands!
SPARKING! Now open your wing!
SUPER KING! You can do it!

(Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up)

The issue I have with microtranscations is even the good ones normalise the bad. How many times have you heard "But it's optional!" and now we're seeing Injustice 2 hide moves behind them, Forza and Tomb Raider hold game options, War for Mordor an ending.

I read that intro as "dinosaur building simulator" and was VERY DISAPPOINTED when I realised my mistake.

Looks to be a game I miss then. Gotthe first one when it was on sale for The Force Awakens' launch and didn't manage to keep it up for long.

I'm more annoyed it's obviously cut because they're super polished characters, are in the story, and one of them is a main villain...

Fruity Delicious, Delicious Fruity! You decide! Bah Gawd, they're Skittles! https://youtu.be/PFIewQRbu4M

@Feena That looks really nice, glad to see they're giving Bengus some time off too

Likely the Season 3 leaks being old characters will be true then. Woo hoo etc

Every Knackolyte needs to buy 3 copies to compensate.

Really disgusting that Capcom keeps doing this. 3 out of 3 fighting games this last few years have had content pushed back as DLC and low budgets.
Gettin' sick of being blatantly nickle and dimed, And that makes me want to support them less.

Really want Battle Chasers, but with the delay on Switch I'm holding off for now. Super glad it's getting good reviews though.

@Flaming_Kaiser It played it more straight. When Capcom Vancouver got the series from the sequel onwards it became more keeeeer-aaaaazzzy

Spitshining a turd, fellas and ladies, spitshing a turd.

@starhops Bpws
Thanks, I'll be here all week, try the veal!

Think I'll rush playing this then. I recall the original GR1 costume cost an obscene amount of tokens. Shame, really liked this game but I guess it didn't do well?

It's nuclear, it's WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILD

Mad amount of miscommunication here, especially when people were thinking that sales in only a few states would actually go to the family.

@Flaming_Kaiser Yeah reall true. I think that's why we saw the SUmmer drought not happen this year, dev are relasing their games early to avoid the black friday slump.

@Fight_Teza_Fight Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Last year Dishonored 2 dropped to about £20 in just a few weeks, so did Infinite Warfare. Why buy full price now when Black Friday sales will be happening soon.

Looks like the mold wil actually play a part in the DLC, which is awesone. Reminds me of the level in Black Ops where you had to be careful your gasmask wouldn't break. Excited!

Hopefully, if this is true, this version will actually have character endings unlike, say, MvCI?

I think I'm one of the only few people left who enjoyed playing as multiple characters in Adventure. I loved Knuckle's treasure hunter levels in both 1 & 2.

Challenge accepted.

Okay I'm going to be serious here: How long do you think they held off to not make it seem like a total failure?

Who's your favourite function, Sammy?

To me, the biggest things holding this game back have always been the poor roster choices, and the awful artstyle. While the DLC leaks could be interesting, that bland drab art is always gonna make me wait for a sale.

SFV was the same too, I think it's a big issue with parts of the FGC really hating anime styling, despite the fact that these 2 series' are pretty damn anime. Give me Capcom characters that create manga effects and kirby-dotted Marvel characters shredding paper as the attack. Just give me SOMETHING interesting to look at apart from meme worthy faces.

All the special edition PS4s have been MIGHTY ugly recently. Is an intern designing them?

Really good article. I'd argue that what makles a good open-world game is focus - lots of developers treat the optional activities as meaningless checkpoints or rush them through, but a good OW game gives them equal treatment to the story, unique activities, strong storytelling, great characters.

A good open world fleshes out the game itself, and poor on is just bland filler.

Love it, but I hope we hear more about Vanillaware's mecha game at TGS too...

Nice gif

I've already got it on PS3 so I won't pick this version up, but if ypu haven't

Just get it.

I can't believe the first Splatoon clone is a Senran game.

Probably Poi and maybe Ys depending on how Nisa handled this release. Considering I saw Dishonored 2 for a tenner in a brick and mortar store today I'll just wait until DotO is the same price or there abouts. I've got about 4 games I'm close to beating this week and want to focus on them instead.

More a fan of the far more affordable NECA figure. With real kung-fu action.

There's a lot of Japanese people on the online courses, I guess it's super popular with all sorts over there?

Glad though, really enjoying what Everybody's Golf offers this time!

Wow I completely forgot about this.

Played the original release. It's bad to be frank (West)

> Not including holding aloft the sacred platinum chalice of Knackology

Seems we only have a low-level acolyte here.

Quick Sega, port Persona 5 to PC so we can make a mod with that costume replacing the MC so we can call it Fursona 5

Knack was a sorta naff game that was part of a sorta naff launch lineup following on from a period of really meh games and money squeezing practices that were all the rage between 2012-2013. Barely anyone was excited for the Xbone and PS4 until a year or so after launch.

There's also the fact that launch games are usually pretty bad - I think the 2 that avoid being completely forgotten are, what, Mario Bros and Mario 64? They're the ultimate weird games that play like shinier previous gen games. Look at Resistance and how much it plays like a PS2 shooter and compare it to PS3 shooters that came out even a year later. Night and day.

Good titles, though I own the PS4 selection already, so it's a month to focus on my backlog instead!