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What's the point of this? I want this three minutes of my life back.

I haven't played a street fighter since they first introduced Cammy and the now defunct Fei Long, but I see all of the good things about this game, and it makes me want to jump in. I heard the accessibility options are incredible for people who struggle with the combinations. I'm a masochist though, I just play games until I get good and I usually start somewhere between terrible and god awful.

Also, What's wrong with a battle pass? It sounds like an expansion; you pay for more game and its optional. The concept behind the rewards sounds pretty cool, actually, especially if the rewards are worthwhile. It's a simple if you don't want to, you don't opt in. It's just paid DLC.

@KundaliniRising333 I'm curious about the marketing budget specifically but I think a "preview from SE" helps...

Budget - too much
Sales - below expectations/ not enough

@Cashews Absolutely. Ask again when it doesn't still have that new car smell.

@Ralizah I almost had a whole comment Copy pasting that paragraph and saying that's only 4 games.

But it's not highlighted when you cut and paste it. 🤣

@Ralizah It is there, it's just not highlighted.

@Max_the_German haha. I like you mate, cheers.

I always love it when stuff comes west. The fans will eat well.

I love all things samurai, but this sounds like every other AAA game. Open-world, Ubisoftish side quests, Souls reference, par-for-course.

I'll wait for reviews and maybe it'll scratch an itch while I wait for more Jin Sakai.

Not even two weeks? FFXVI is all hype.

@Darude84 But do you truly conquer hollow knight without ascending the pantheon of Hallownest? 😈

Still waiting on my Vampire Hunter D metroidvania

Afterimage got Boss Rush patch, so checking that out.

Cult of the Lamb for the Relics of the Old Faith patch

Grime for NG+

Damn and I thought I was done with all three!

Anytime I've ever seen any kind of article or instance of a PlayStation 5 overheating, it's been poorly ventilated.

But if sony actually helped create a game that melts its own system that's hilarious.
Highly unlikely.

I've been losing a lot of sleep over how the Terrible Tech company that can't do video gaming Can't seem to acquire the most ethically challenged and morally bankrupt gaming company there is.

Eh. It's no $16K Terra on Magitek Armor.

As much as I love HR Giger, I'm not at all interested in this after the various reviews and gameplay videos I watched.

More Giger influencedart is welcome. Have a lot of Lovecraftian art, need more Giger.

Wishlisted. Looks great, dunno when I'll be able to get to it. Might be different enough to just throw in the rotation, though.

Could be cool I like the movie. Annapurna is pretty good for the most part.
Yes i'm talking about stray

@starbuck2212 They're supposed to be working on that, actually.. Allegedly in development as of May.

This looks like a fun tactics game. I might finally make a foray into the persona series, but it'll be because of that cat.

The cast of high school kids doesn't really do it for me. 13 Sentinels was an exception, But persona is a big deal, So maybe I should check it out. Cave in to the (non-existent) peer pressure.

Nine dollars for a screensaver that gives you trophies? This is peak civilization. Just unplug the simulation now.

@Razrye888 Because they're typically hemorrhaging money. They'd be dead if it wasn't for FF14.

@Foxx_64740 hardcore agree. Way too many red meat articles around here.

Man, I'm all about having my soul destroyed by Endling. Looks like an amazing game but i'm sure it's a real heartbreaker. I'll try to steel myself while it's part of the package, but I don't mind paying for it if I can't get around to it.

So Yay Alan Wake

That Noob game looks charming in a bravely default kind of way. That's the most appealing to me this week

FFXV took 5 years to sell 5 million and had a more successful launch. Time will tell whether or not sales "didn't meet expectations". The PC port will boost numbers

Definitely nabbing this.

Yeah I mean that's capitalism for you

@NEStalgia The other thing that's proper confusing is the promotional marketing from pro athletes.

I still maintain that spirits within was just ahead of its time

@NEStalgia I don't really get it either.

The best explanation I have is there's a group of fans out there that just rubber stamps everything Square enix puts out as gold, the same way we could once upon a time trust Squaresoft when making a purchase during the golden era. I feel this group of fans thinks they are living in a new golden era.

The two sides don't agree on that. Or much else.

Regardless of if this is or isn't the new golden era, they aren't doing it without the true golden era remakes.

I mean this is a remake of the golden era.

@themightyant @fabio78 I highly recommend Afterimage if you feel MV and haven't checked it yet.

More p(atch)olished version? Can't wait to see what that actually means, as I am hype for this. Don't see the logic in this claim though. Less production costs = more money elsewhere maybe?

@Hylian-Likely @CVCubbington Cocaine is a hell of a drug. That's what happened.

@KundaliniRising333 @NEStalgia I think it's funny you refer to it as spirits within 2 and I refer to it as stranger to paradise 2.

I think as time goes on the cracks in the veneer are going to show rather rapidly on this installment. It's already started.

In the end, this is just a mids action game to boost playstation 5 sales with a legacy brand attached. The number of people who say it feels dated is quite surprising given how much they talked about how this graphic powerhouse was not even possible without PS5.

I would say that skill up review is a must, length be damned.

Hope you all had a great weekend.

I'll probably check it out because i'm a big MV guy, but I'm still all about afterimage, so probably down the line in a sale.

Yeah let's see if it can hold that spot for longer than two weeks.

@number1024 That's a great one liner, thanks for that.

This looks like a day one for me.
Great art. Road Warrior influence. JRPG.
Tank destruction. Sounds fun too

This is so weird. Back in the day, The jocks would beat on us (me) nerds for playing Dungeons & Dragons and final fantasy.

But now they're going to sell that stuff back to us.

Because it's not a game for the nerds anymore it's a game for the jocks and the popular kids? This is the most tone deaf marketing I have ever seen.

Pretty sure the crossover between sports and final fantasy is a miniscule sliver.

@neon-xxiv This place is pretty much an echo chamber. Unpopular opinions are immediately labeled trolling. Which means if you hold enough unpopular opinions you're not really in the right place.

@TeapotBuddha Not to be a broken record or anything but The Wire is legitimately the best series of all time.

This game is actually a sequel to Crystar and has absolutely nothing to do with the game mentioned in the tagline and the article.

This is a really poorly presented piece of media.

I know you guys don't like me mentioning you constantly shill for square-enix, but you are mentioning them front and center in an article (and tagline/subheader) about a game from their competitor, in which you fail to mention the previous game in the series.

It's kind of a quality dip when you talk about rumored remakes from S-E daily.

@NEStalgia I think you're awesome, you keep it real and you articulate a lot of points much more politely than I do.
From one old school fan (who gets it) to another, you're not alone, and keep preaching.

To me, It's really not a mainline final fantasy without a party system.

It's not the spells or the creatures or the summons or any of that that define a final fantasy because Most of them weren't present from the beginning, and most of them are in kingdom hearts or any other spin-offs like chocobo GP.

Most of the people who push back on you are cult members anyway.

This is the first time I think the 2DHD doesn't do the game justice, and in fact, makes it looks worse than the original.

That looks downright bad. Those sprites do not fit those backgrounds at all, that looks terrible.