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@PuppetMaster they're cousins who grew up as step siblings, Patricia being born after Alex got adopted by her father.

It's just weird AF. There's not a single good reason to add this to his character background.

I don't remember these for any big announcements or trailers so...I'm probably gonna pass. Who even does these?

Trashy as hell, not gonna lie.

The titles aren't even written in the exact same way, not to mention that the comic's title isn't just Clair-Obscur. The artstyle is a far cry from the game, the subject matter is probably completely different.

Who the f*** would ever confuse the two properties? And what do they think they're doing acting like that about a generic art term?

The first two games were both decidedly too long, the gameplay/boss fights couldn't keep up with how powerful your character and monsters could become by the last third of the story and it got beyond dull, especially in 2 with its abysmal "story".

The demo is already more engaging than anything in either of the previous games, if they keep the level of presentation up and cutscenes/story beats are similar to what's in the introduction to the story it's already the a massive win to me. Especially sicne they seem to have gotten rid of the AWFUL, tacked-on multiplayer features that only ever served to lock better skills and gear behind the most atrocious implementation of coop I've ever seen in an rpg

Are we going to get an Eva series that's actually well written?

That's crazy...

I wasn't even aware that this HAS a coop mode. Granted, I'm not interested in the game in general, so I never checked out PR blurbs or the psn page, but saying it has multiplayer in both and then requiring you to finish the game once to unlock that is beyond idiotic.

At that point half the magic of playing a game in coop is gone because one person already knows every level, the enemies and the story. I know many people these days see multiplayer games as something you jsut bumrush with friends but a huge part of the coop experience, to me, has always been experiencing those things together. And for the first time.

Isn't this the loser who couldn't figure out how to shoot a ceiling in metroid?

Definitely ended on a bit of a...wet fart here.

Looks bland as hell, ESPECIALLY with Konami revealing Castlevania right before it.

Afaik evil empire made the rogue prince of Persia, right?

If so, I hope this more motion twin than them because that game was...boring as hell after a handful of runs.

Upgrading now would be THE dumbest thing they could do. Part 3 is probably going to be revealed this year and be out by the end of the next, because they have this expertise now. They have a team that 100% mostly stayed the same. And they also have assets ready to go for areas from Remake and Rebirth to return to/reuse.

A lot of that is also why companies like FromSoft are as efficient as they are about their dev cycles. Yeah, elden ring took a while after 3 and Sekiro, but a lot of what's in those games has been repurposed and reused over and over, again including the expertise they gain with each new project.

"it's been over seven years since The Elder Scrolls 6 was officially announced"

This is 100% going to end like Starfield.

@Oram77 iirc, people were outright mad about the A-1 adaptation /seasons 1 and 2 and I guess the monkey's paw went a little too hard on their wish for a new studio.

Netmarble listening to player feedback, what's next? EA getting rid of Ultimate Team mtx?

ATLUS are so unbelievably lame when they're not making actual, new games.

No MonHan nor Khazan has me a little bummed, not gonna lie.

Out of the picks on offer I'd choose the boring answer, though. Clair Obscur is just great (almost) all around. Ironically the characters are the thing I like the least about that game.

Time Stranger is incredibly average and outdated in many aspects.

I'm not getting my hopes up.

No monster hunter, y'all have no taste /j

I really like Grace just from the very, very few actual personality traits we got a glimpse of of her so far. And maybe it's because I'm a little b***h myself when it comes to horror games but I think that's because I can 100% sympathize with being scared out of my mind lol

It's easy to dismiss their explanation /goal for having two very distinct playstyles in the game but they're not doing this since yesterday, and 7 - and parts of 8 - are proof they know how to craft some genuinely terrifying, tense moments.
I also think Grace outright allows them to have those in 9 at all, because I can't see Leon ever reacting as strongly as someone like grace or even Ethan to even some of the scariest parts in both of the previous games. And I'd argue he's been that way since his introduction, including his portrayal in RE2R. He's been Mr. badass cooldude since damn near hour zero. If grace turns out a good, interesting character having her alongside Leon probably makes both characters more engaging in requiem, given they have some pretty solid setup to play off of each other.

"But as hunters made their way through the main story and eventually stumbled into endgame hunts, the cracks started to show"

Lol, lmao even...
Technical issues on PC aside this is THE best high rank only game in the series. I hope people who rode the world train into the ground eventually realize they just don't like monster hunter

I'm stuck in an eternal cycle of getting excited whenever I see Bub in a news thumbnail only to be let down when it's another Bubble Bobble game, and not Puzzle Bobble 😢

Looks interesting, would need to play it for myself to tell if gameplay is fun to me, of course, but I will probably check it out.

Hope it's not a gacha, kind of just want them to use their genshin money to make some "full" games like the Nikke(?) devs with Stellar Blade.

If the price is close to what you have to spend on a low-mid range pc with similar specs it's going to be for the people who want a pc but not have to build it and keep up to date with the usual rat tail that comes along with gaming on PC /through steam. No one else.

And that crowd is miniscule.

Deck was a nice additional thing for enthusiasts who game on PC. This is only for convenience or for people who want to break INTO pc gaming, no one who already has a powerful setup is going to buy this unless they literally have more money than brains and it's going to be an ICNREDIBLY tough sell for "casuals" if they don't price the machine competitively.

Anything beyond 600-700$ is going to tank.

Monster Hunter 👏 Isn't 👏 An RPG 👏

Never has been, either.

And.. After feeling like the year has been kind of stacked, seeing the nominees makes me realize how...lame 2025 was, imho.

Thank goodness you're here is a must play. The game's only, like, 2-3 hours long and entertaining AS HELL. I'm not from the UK or a native English speaker so I'm sure a few references and jokes went slightly over my head but the humor is deathly hilarious and some of the scenes legitimately had me wheezing.

I honestly think it was worth full price to me and as a psplus freebie it's a no-brainer.
Unless you don't like having fun, that is.

I hope that, someday, we'll be past announcing games a decade before they're anywhere near ready for release.

Don't get why people get excited for these particular kinds of announcements, either.

VERY excited for Saros. Returnal is still one of THE best games of the generation imo.

@themightyant the fact that he's called Kiefer is hilarious to me, means jaw in German.

You can thank me for Crow Country, bought that last week

@CielloArc world had less unique monsters at launch and got one new one per TU, wilds already got one additional one in TU2, compared to that. The only reason Rise got multiple monsters in a couple updates was that the game was HELLA unfinished at launch.

Legitimately don't get what people expect from this series anymore but I can only assume it's the usual shtick of starting with world, binging content grifters' YouTube Videos and thinking these games are MMOs

I hope none of the people who bitch about the roster for the talisman rewards praise world's endgame because that s*** was abysmal. The only worse system were 4U's guild quests because you got f***all in those if you didn't play the game like your life depended on it.

Also, just in general, stop treating Monster Hunter like a series you play for hundreds, or even thousands, of hours, maybe. It's not. It's never been. And wilds is all the better for NOT having systems like that, imho.

Some people seriously need to touch grass.

If Beelstarmon won't princess carry the tamer, what are they even doing with their time and animation budget SMH

Playstation already knows how old I am, just f***ing put a flag in my online profile for 3rd party titles to check for and stop with the dozen accounts and launchers for every publisher under the sun. Just stop.

That's what psn, steam etc are for, isn't it?

I 100%'ed Lies of P and played through it up to NG+4 and I'm still happy as can be with that addition.

Means I can just download it and won't have to pop it back in every time I crave for more puppet violence.

They figured out that certain breeds of fans will fork over money for anything.
A behind the scenes book would've been awesome to have, probably super interesting to just get official info like that, at least to an extent that's possible for a studio like naughty dog.

But this? Feels like a cash grab, honestly. I can't wait for Intergalactic, and for ND to maybe, finally move past TLOU

It's funny as hell to immediately see who is just here to sling s*** and hasn't even attempted to read the article

I don't know squat about these kinds of things but all those buyouts sure as hell don't seem to pay off so far...

That's a take, I guess.

Also, way to talk about your actors lmao

@ear_wig afaik almost all of their non-pokemon titles are meh at the absolute best.

I think there's one exception on...Wii or NDS but that was close to 20 years ago now. They're not a particularly good dev studio and I doubt this will turn out that different from the rest.

Pragmata is the only one that intrigues me but I'd lie if I said it wasn't a damn good showing. A LOT of good stuff in that lineup.

Who are the sore, joyless losers who voted poor?

I played the companion game/predecessor to this, in a fairly high ranking guild, for a couple years and I seriously doubt this will turn out much better in the long run. Grand Cross/the other game is a constant barrage of new, highly limited characters, you have to spend a TON of the game's currency to even guarantee getting the new characters, power creep out the ***, systems upon systems for endless, mindless grinding just to keep up with whales who have significant advantages even if they don't outright max out characters.

I might give it a shot, just to maybe have some fun with my old guild mates - who almost all burnt out just as hard as me on the first game - but I'm not getting my hopes up. Netmarble have shown who they make the game for and it might as well not be a free to play game at all, if they keep the same stuff up with Origin.

Pretty pessimistic.

Damn, Sand Land and Soul Hackers are two I had my eyes on for a while. Great month just for those two (and I do legitimately not care about any of the rest)

Edit: I also missed A Wonderful Life in the list. Make that three games I was interested in.

@Hitoshura25 hard agree. As much as enjoyed FF7 Rebirth, I still think Remake is way better because it's a hell of a lot more focused.

By the time I reached Gongaga I was dreading to see what the literal checklists will be like.

So far, a 7. Probably. I never played it back in the days and I honestly don't think some of these quests would've blown my socks off when I was younger, either. It's quite bland with some good moments from what I've seen so far. I've not gotten too far into any of the factions yet, tho.

I can't find a physical in stores around where I live, I haven't seen anything but the trailer at Tga last December but I'm very intrigued and at 45€ it's easier to just jump on board "on a whim" (it obviously gets an insane reception, and I'm into the type of game so I'm probably gonna enjoy it a lot)

Might order it and hope it gets delivered when I'm actually home. Postal service in my area is dogwater 😅

@nhSnork aww, now I wanna see the world where Capcom doesn't do this and the charm marks people as losers in the game.

Leaderboard rewards have no place in Monster Hunter in the first place. I hope they actually got the message this time and stop with the f***ing stupid faux-mmo nonsense.

@AndyKazama BBI/Dark Arisen was made without Itsuno's involvement.

I'm not expecting s*** for DD2 and the people who keep shouting about an expansion or even just a collab with monster hunter are beyond delusional, but him not being at Capcom anymore doesn't mean we can't get another dlc like what they did for 1.

Betcha it'll be the best thing since sliced bread when it comes to ps5.

Until then? Trash, an insult to our ancestors and a slap in the face of loyal fans.

How many losers will whine about FromSoft "betraying" them, I wonder.