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I really really hope they do not import the melee combat system from Kingdom Come into this game

I find it hard to get excited for sprite art these days, but if the writing and gameplay are solid, I'll definitely be checking this out.

Separate lists for multiplayer and single player and I'll actually be interested in looking at it.

So praising the game (or reviewing it well) is OK, but criticizing it is somehow not "normal"? Is this a case of advocating "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything" ? That's weird to me, not the people pushing back on Mixtape's supposed greatness by pointing out how it's not even a game with it's no-fail mechanics.

Take-Two is a publicly traded company so aren't they obligated to maximize potential profits with every business decision they make (Or they can be sued by shareholders for not maximizing profits)? Of course it could be argued that a cheaper price point will bring in more money down the road with in-game transactions...

Good month, and I don't care at all about sports games.

Played the original last year for the first time, put me in the zero interest camp. It was OK and had it's fun but the Ubisoft formula wore me down eventually.

The most important aspect of an RPG is the writing, without that you have nothing.

They're going to have to attract more than the base game's fans for it to work. Fans of the single player games are not automatically going to translate into sales for the live service game. So they have a mountain to climb here, with multiplayer game loop feeling incredibly stale at this point, and single player fans simply not interested in a game that involves other people in their game and no real story arc in the way that they like.

I hope they spend a good portion of that budget on the writing, it's going to need it.

@Matroska Thanks for the explanation, you've re-enforced my notion that gacha is a thing to be avoided at all costs, lol

@AdamNovice Thanks for explaining, sounds like a nightmare

It has a "pity system"? Somehow I feel like that will be an apt name even if it was a typo...

Great writing made this game's janky mechanics endurable, really fun if you're already a fan

12 hours does seem kind of short, especially considering the development time.

The only thing they need to do to help discoverability is get rid of all the cheap low-effort crap games they let into the store. Get rid of those, and browsing an entire genre section suddenly becomes a non-burdensome task.

Someday when this game is $2.99 on sale I am going to buy and play it just to see the disaster myself.

Great month, I can't say I want to play Tomb Raider 1 yet again, but I would love to play II & III a lot. LotF and their chud lead exec can suck it.

There are so many games I'm excited to play and just don't have the time yet, so a game like this is one I will wait for a substantial discount on. I mean I know I'll get some enjoyment out of it, but the procedurally generated parts seem exactly like the kind of tedium that makes me bounce off games. In a few years, on sale.

I picked up Marvel's Midnight Suns Legendary Edition for $19.99 and Deliver Us Mars for &8.99

I'm seeing $39 for Astro Bot and DekuDeals also has that price. I wonder how DekuDeals and other similar sites will deal with this exploitative pricing practice. Same price after logging out too though cookies may be involved and I didn't delete those.

deep sale a few years from now just so I can check it out

Translation: "We really need the sales from PS fans" Yeah I'm definitely waiting for a deep sale on this one, oh , not what you meant?

My favorite meme I've seen so far: https://bsky.app/profile/pspolygons.bsky.social/post/3mh7vohavuc2s

I'm more concerned about whether it has a good story and characters and whether the actual gameplay is fun or just a lot of tedious tasking.

Is it going to put smokey eye makeup and lipstick on every face?

Someone will make a tracking site so that you can check how the prices are playing out for different people, and I will be checking that site before I buy anything.

Always wait for a patch if you care about a good experience, especially for single-player games. I get why Day 1 is exciting for multiplayer but these days there's really no reason to buy Day 1 for single-player.

As much as I want to play this game, I'll be waiting for at least (but probably more) one patch before I dive in.

Kratos looks like he has a dad bod, he should be ripped. Hard to tell with that pose though...

These are the kind of games that will sit in my library until it's the very end of the generation, when I'm running out of things to play in my back catalog, similar to where I'm at on my ps4, which I still boot up at least once a week.

Kratos was a parody of hyper-masculinity, it was supposed to be funny, same with the cartoonish violence. If they ditch that idea entirely it will not be the same game and they should completely re-do it keeping only the core story elements.

Disappointing on more than one level, the future of Ubisoft does not look bright (for me).

@EfYI I'm playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey on the PS4 pro, and then on another night will play Dragon Age Veilguard. I chose performance mode for the faster framerate though so I imagine the graphics could look even better. I mean the PS5 does look better but both games are beautiful and the differences in graphics don't really wow me.

I got a new TV and a PS5 Pro but I've only played a couple games on it so far. I honestly can't tell if PSSR is being used or not? I mean it looks a bit better than games on my ps4 (I switch back and forth regularly) but nothing mind-blowing. So I am rather indifferent to this news. Guess I'm not a graphics hound like some gamers are.

Bloodborne is my least favorite FromSoft game, though I haven't played Seikiro yet. In fact I can honestly say I struggled to finish it because I disliked it so much. Dark Souls 3 is still my favorite.

Th ranged telekinetics from Control were really fun so I am a little worried, but I loved Control and it's world so much, I am willing to keep my hopes up.

I'm good with a longer generation cycle over all, the the shortages are going to really hurt price-wise for a long time. And if the shortage ends, prices will still not come down, just like price rises from the recent egg shortage have also not come down (In the USA)

Nothing for me, but that's OK. I have way too many games in my back catalog to care.

What does early access matter? LOL, it's digital sales, infinite supply, for games that will be on sale over and over again for that matter. I mean, buy it now or buy it in January or even later next year when they're on sale again.

You completed the tutorial! Ding! Trophy! You completed a chapter of the game which you'd have to do anyway to get through the game! Ding! Trophy! You killed something with a weapon! Now do this 99 more tedious times! Trophy! Now do this with all 15 weapons in the game! Barf!

Trophies as a concept aren't a totally bad thing, but the way the super grand majority of them are implemented are what turned me off trophies entirely. I just ignore them. Notifications turned off. I don't need anyone else determining for me when I'm done with a game, I just know it.

I always meant to go back and do a 2nd playthrough with the characters I didn't choose the first time, this may well be the motivation I need.

I hope it ends the trend of traversal being an effortless walking/climbing sim. Climbing up used to entail some tricky combo moves. Bring back the gymnastics with double pistols and stupidly large tombs and I'm in. Although I can't say playing the original game is that appealing, I've played it and Anniversary multiple times already.

I loved Original Sin 2 even though it looked very much like a PC game (those giant dialog text boxes!) rather than a console RPG, but I am very excited for this. RPGs are my favorite.

There's probably a whole generation of gamers who haven't played, and won't play, Black Flag simply due to its age, so I have no problem with a remake. However I'm currently struggling with the repetitive grandiosity of Odyssey, which borrows heavily from Black Flag, and can say with confidence it's a remake I'll never play.

With Tencent's stake in Ubisoft and Saudi Arabia's EA deal, those of us who want to make ethical choices when buying video games are seeing fewer and fewer options.

@Sketti Well... "essential" is a matter of opinion I think. Even though I liked the graphic design and music the idea of spending 30+ more hours playing P5 is not appealing to me, the base game was long enough as it was. And I don't mean any disrespect here, but "true endings" are just a marketing scheme for the FOMO crowd. I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything playing the base game and have no desire to go back despite knowing there is more content to be had, or different endings etc. Don't feel "stiffed" at all.

But I agree that for fans of the series or any game, training them to wait for the complete version down the road was a bad business mistake. DLC was always about generating sales though, not about pleasing fans with more.

I got my Pro this week, finally - now just need to get a compatible tv. The prices are looking pretty good this week.

Sometimes I buy the base game even when a "definitive" edition is out because I consider the extra stuff to be just more bloat and I value somewhat shorter game experiences these days. Roller Coaster, not Small World.

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