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At this point you could leave a blank where it says Final Fantasy, fill it in with pretty much any long-running series, and you'd still be correct. Younger audiences skew towards the same three or four popular multiplayer titles and that's about it.

After Yakuza 0, Judgment and (to a lesser extent) Lost Judgment are my favorite RgG stories. I'd even throw Ishin in there as well.

I'm hoping Stranger than Heaven will be yet another side project that breaks away from the narrative trappings of the main series. I always enjoy those mainline games overall, but none have come close to repeating the electrifying magic I felt while experiencing Y0 - their spin-offs, however, do.

On top of potentially more narrative freedom, StH also brings a whole new setting/era and combat style. It could do wonders to revitalize the RgG universe when it's needing it the most.

Here's to thirty more years.

I'd say my favorite is RE4R, followed by RE4 and RE9. I absolutely love the new direction they've taken with Requiem (both in gameplay and characters) and I hope its success will convince the devs to stay the course for the eventual RE10.

I welcome having a smaller amount of worthless clutter to wade through when browsing sales.

Although I maintain that having the option to manually Hide any games I'm not interested in would be far more effective than waiting for Sony to get rid of a bunch of shovelware every once in a blue moon.

If it isn't Claire then Chris is gonna have the temper tantrum of the millennium. Or so the RE community memes would tell you, anyway.

It'll go back up after they see the sales and (most likely) the players' reception.

Games media has had it out for this game from Day 1, reviews were always going to be middling no matter what the game offers. Ultimately it'll be the average gaming fan who decides whether it's a success. Looking forward to trying it out myself.

@ear__wig How's that gallon of Kool-Aid taste?

It fills me with a little bit of hope that for every brainless AI slop guzzler there seem to be ten people who viscerally hate this.

From Grace to Gross.

If you think she looks good there, all I can say is congratulations on being part of the AI problem.

Wukong did this as well.

I think it's a good way to avoid spoilers via trophy descriptions, if nothing else. Being unhelpful for unlocking hardly matters anyway, because there's gonna be like ten different guides out there.

@danzoEX 'Fixing the issues' here would mean making a different game altogether as Starfield is flawed on a fundamental level.

I hardly ever get spoiled on games due to people getting early copies and posting about it online, courtesy of barely touching anything that counts as social media.

I know many people do get spoiled, though, so I see the point. I also get the opposite argument from the game preservation angle. Basically, this is the right move for the best launch possible here and now but a bad move in the very long term. Your mileage may vary on which matters more.

I agree the site is redundant as it doesn't provide any new information. I disagree with calling people "game anti-fans" just because they want specific videogames to fail.

The immense majority of people with this attitude simply want more games they like being made and less games they don't. There are more reasonable and more stupidly vitriolic ways to express that, but at the end of the day only a spare few have stopped enjoying games altogether and just feed on misery.

I think acknowledging the reality that many gamers are fed up with current industry trends (especially live service garbage) is more productive than adding to the mindless online discourse by classifying them all as "unemployed anti-fans" or whatever. That dismissive attitude is how duds keep getting made, mind.

It doesn't change anything for me. The practice itself is scummy as hell, but I expect no less from corporations. I'll just keep buying games when the price I see feels right.

Are the bills in the room with us right now?

I'll give ya tree fiddy.

Kind of hate that jailbreaking is taking off on PS5 to be honest. Probably won't be long before cheating is rampant.

Excuse you, whippersnapper, I'm a sprightly 32 years young.

Next time I stub my toe I'll blame it on Rockstar too.

I think the performance concerns are valid given precedents in the industry.

I also think games media is pushing unusually hard against this specific game.

Hiring echo chamber specialists across all our studios to ensure everyone believes our live service games are perfect until they crash and burn on release.

It's super dead. Maybe Sony will get the memo one of these days.

@nessisonett It's just as embarrassing that you can't picture playing something like this without developing an addiction.

As it should be. People who cheat in multiplayer games will almost always cheat again, the blatant lack of consideration towards other people's gaming experience shows they're beyond help.

I really want to play this one but I've also got plenty on my plate, so April works for me.

@Scottyy Was thinking the same thing. While their target audiences aren't necessarily the same, it's still smart avoiding a launch on the same day as a game that might be huge and dominate the discourse for weeks.

Yakuza Kiwami 3, mostly. I just completed the full Training List for the main game and I'm close to finishing the story too. Not sure how long it will take to do everything in Dark Ties, but hopefully I should be able to wrap up the game before the weekend ends.

If I've got leftover time after finishing Yakuza, I'll probably start Death Match Love Comedy, which arrived in the mail a couple days ago. It's from the writer of Raging Loop (one of my all-time favorite VNs) so I'm pretty excited.

Forced to waste their talent for years on a doomed live service project, then unceremoniously shut down. "We thank Bluepoint for their creativity and craftsmanship" my ass, you drained both of those dry for nothing then kicked them to the curb.

Didn't think my interest in upcoming PS first party output could possibly get any lower yet here we are.

Now your nothing burger can have three extra pixels and NPCs will only bug out 96% as often.

I prefer the new style of gameplay, but they should absolutely preserve the original style in the remakes.

What's the point otherwise? If they want to just make another 2018/Ragnarok-style game, might as well create a new setting and story instead of wasting dev time reiterating Greece.

"Maybe I’m increasingly out of touch"

Yes.

Tech improvements show clear diminishing returns and most people are not thrilled to shell out probably close to 1k (if not more) on a new system that is barely an upgrade just to play the latest games, and merely a few years after the previous system.

Not to mention that with how long dev cycles are getting the damn thing would probably launch with close to no games and have frequent droughts of first party content.

Sounds good to me.

When talking games I kind of hate the step of having to contextualize which difficulty everyone in the conversation is playing on, often makes people's experiences incompatible and the discussion boring. Talk about games like e.g. Souls continues for years partly because everyone faces the exact same challenges and it's the players' approaches that wildly differ.

Since Crimson Desert has a big focus on combat, this will help keep its community engaged with its systems.

I won't particularly care either way in this specific case, but generally speaking I'd much rather remakes not remove content from their originals. Honor the original and maybe add to it, do not subtract.

As for whether they'll actually remove them or not... Most likely yes, and we'll never hear the end of it.

I really enjoyed the original Kena, especially the boss battles (played on Master). Looking forward to whatever they're cooking for the sequel.

Same guy who got stuck at the beginning of the Metroid II remake and got clowned on by the entirety of the internet. Self-reflection is nonexistent for people like Jaffe so surely he must have decided there and then that all side scrollers suck (not him - never him).

While I enjoyed Returnal, personally my main gripe with it was that most of the upgrades felt like they sucked. If you didn't happen to get one of the handful of solid power-ups during your run, it quickly devolved into a situation where you couldn't build towards anything fun.

Interesting synergies between your pickups are the lifeblood of roguelikes/roguelites. While these permanent upgrades in Saros will help the game, I really hope this time they'll work on making the temporary upgrades more entertaining.

I participated just to add my drop to the ocean of people telling them that the cartoonish Fortnite-esque artstyle is a massive turn-off for most people who aren't into Fortnite, and that those who are into Fortnite are just going to keep playing that.

There's no saving this game's visuals now that it's so far along in development obviously, but maybe if enough people tell them, they won't add yet another one of these to the pipeline in the future? Maybe, just maybe, a future MP spin-off of a PlayStation IP might actually respect its mainline visual identity?

Now nothing can topple over my system. Thanks Sony.

I'm halfway through Chapter 6. Generally don't mind it but I'm not exactly having a blast either.

The auctions lack excitement and emotional weight, the twists are very telegraphed (with weak delivery too) and the characters, while generally okay, could be a lot better. I also feel like they didn't get too much mileage out of the Hitler-related setting, and the handling of it often feels rather gimmicky.

I'll reserve final judgment until I'm all done, but it's feeling like a 5.5 to me at the moment.

I don't know anything concrete about those story changes, but either way Yakuza 4 and 5 are nowhere near dated enough to warrant remakes, so it's good they're stopping at 3 and focusing on other projects.

McMillen and bangers go hand in hand. Super Meat Boy is my favorite platformer ever and I enjoyed my time with Isaac as well. The End is Nigh was also good stuff.

When/If Mewgenics comes to PS, I'll check it out for sure.

Just got 100% on Wo Long. Solid stuff, not as enjoyable nor difficult as the Nioh games but still a good time. Some of the third DLC's bosses were quite the challenge.

Yakuza Kiwami 3 is coming out soon so I don't want to start any other long games now, so I might go back to Balatro for a bit (still need to get all golden stickers).

Oh, and I'll try the Nioh 3 demo.

Great for people who like to skip through games instead of actually playing them. 😉

Overwhelming apathy. I've played the two main Horizon games and thought they were alright. This one just isn't for me.

@McBurn A studio as creatively bankrupt as the current Bethesda wouldn't come up with something like this in a million years.

Stupidity debunked. So much for trusted sources.

I'll get it as soon as the performance improves. Game looked very promising from the moment I saw it, glad it's doing well.

On the one hand, Wo Long. I've been taking it slowly, doing one or two missions per day, but I'll probably pick up the pace starting now.

On the other hand, Dark Auction. Quirky new visual novel I'm playing on the side when I don't quite have the energy for Wo Long's action.

@TheArt Kiryu's "forever angry eyebrows" issue is fixed by actually playing the games and seeing what the character's like. Probably too tall an order for you I'm guessing.

Thankfully, every non-leaked game this month turned out to be more interesting than the leaked one.

I don't exactly hate the idea and sites for other media already do it anyway. Devs' feelings aside, giving trash reviews less visibility helps other users.

If someone on IMDB posts a garbage review, most people are gonna choose the option to say that their review was not helpful. Exact same thing could be done with people on Metacritic and whatnot who are e.g. mindlessly hating on stuff they clearly haven't even played. Even if their "criticism" isn't removed, it can be made less visible.

Probably not a popular idea for a site which chose to hide downvotes, though. 😉