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If they do include the novel at retail here in Europe, then I'll definitely go physical for this one.

That's cool. If I ever get around to the game I'll absolutely be playing it with the Sicilian audio.

Nah, I've got enough on my plate at the moment. But I'll definitely get the game sooner or later, everything I've seen of it appeals to me.

That's a very good pick for the service. When it comes to the Day 1 games selected for Extra, they've done very well pretty much every time.

I feel like I've got far better options available to me whenever I want to play retro games.

The extra appeal of a retro game coming to PS5 usually comes down to said game being fully 'integrated' into a modern system - downloadable, with trophy support, etc. Playing stuff via this service would kind of negate that for me.

I hate streaming games period, too. Had to do it for some PS3 Classics such as ICO since there's no download option for them - and the stuttering, while occasional, is a complete and utter deal breaker.

What do you wanna bet that 'April' season peeking out of the roadmap will stay in the drawing board?

I play on the system about as much as any other year, but then again a lack of big first-party exclusives doesn't mean much when you try to play games of almost every genre and size. There's always something for me any given day.

Happy for the devs, I hope Krafton will respect their creative freedom.

I'll maybe try to play Midnight Fight Express before it's gone.

Funny how the ripoff is almost 4 times as expensive as the real thing when not discounted. Exactly zero shame.

Nice, I've been hearing great things about Nine Sols.

Possibly something that improves and expands upon the Clan Battles from Yakuza 6 and Kiwami 2?

It'd be fun if they tried out turn-based strategy instead of RTS, though. Like a Dragon: Fire Emblem.

Sweet news, I enjoyed Queen's Blood.

@PuppetMaster The whole negative discourse surrounding Rebirth and its optional content is incredibly weird and tiresome.

People are getting increasingly incapable of either taking their time to enjoy the smaller things in games, or simply moving on from them without getting annoyed at their mere existence. And heavens forbid they've got to engage with a secondary activity for all of five introductory minutes over the course of the critical path.

Cool, I was waiting for this sale to come back. I'll grab one month and play both Dead Space and Jedi Survivor.

Thanks for the heads-up, PS.

Big thumbs up for Ender Lilies.

Just checked out the Direct store for Europe and, while everything else is indeed discounted, PSVR2 is still being listed at 599,99€.

It's not often at all that I see a trailer for a brand new IP and instantly go "yup, I'm getting this one at launch". Absolutely fantastic-looking game that I can't wait to see more of.

All that being said, I'd argue the kind of combat they're going for is reminiscent of Ichiban's Like a Dragon games, although they might go deeper still with the real time integration aspect.

Off I go to read the full article.

All-in on Jeanne d'Arc until I complete it - currently on Chapter 6 out of 8, I believe. What a delightful little strategy game out of nowhere, now this is the kind of 'classic' I want to see more of.

The make-or-break factor here will be whether or not Kiryu's actor can deliver a performance that feels true to the character.

I'm not a big fan of live action adaptations generally speaking, but there is potential for some fun times here. Plus, unlike other media, Like a Dragon's pretty close to reality already.

Nah, I appreciate how I always have a bunch of them available to play if I'm feeling like it, and I enjoy making my way through the ever increasing selection one at a time. It's a neat subgenre.

I would definitely feel burnt out if I played several of them in a row, but I tend to pick one up every couple months or so, and that pace has worked well.

Pretty good price cut.

Unfortunately this thing is still worth the full 600 bloody euros where I live.

ProZD's Chairem Anime videos come to mind...

This might be mean to say, but it'd be kind of funny if the Concord controller outsold the Concord game.

@naruball Spoken like someone permanently in a hardcore gamer bubble.

The mainstream audiences don't even know nor care to know about all the forum posts and half-baked YouTube essays saying a game is worthless and/or doomed. Their main interaction with these products is Sony's marketing, and in this occasion said marketing failed to entice them.

All pointing fingers at a handful of angry nerds accomplishes is making them feel as though they've got more power than they truly do.

"The problem for Concord is that many PlayStation fans have had their pitchforks out for the project since the start"

Not really. People with strong enough feelings about this type of thing are always a vocal minority, they do not doom a game by themselves.

"Many have complained about the Japanese giant’s decision to charge $40 for this title, but considering the current demo is free for everyone to try, it suggests there’s a level of apathy surrounding the release that may be hard to reverse."

See, you had hit the nail on the head on your previous paragraph. It's not the vitriol of a few, it's the apathy of many. Whatever the individual reasons may be, most people simply don't care about this game.

I'm actually going to upgrade to Premium for the remainder of my month-long subscription just to play this one. Finally something good on that tier.

Finally, a Like a Dragon rhythm game featuring songs from across the entire series.

I'm only half joking. Quarter joking really. I want it.

Rebirth, easily. Even though I really enjoyed other games as well, such as Infinite Wealth and Stellar Blade.

Metaphor for me.

@Specky I rarely buy games at launch myself, but there's little doubt in my mind LiS/DON'T NOD fans would get both if they were released, say, a month apart. Not everything is about ourselves.

Would they really delay their release more than two months (at the very least) just to keep it from clashing with another game, though? These are rather short narrative-driven games, a few weeks would be enough for people to have finished the game and also to have discussed it at length.

I think it's fair to imagine that they want to use the time for some extra polish as well.

I respect that, and also prefer it this way for the story they're trying to tell.

It's obvious that the ambiguous, evasive statement is just a way to avoid saying anything concrete, because if he were to say something concrete and true here, we'd have a Microsoft spokeperson admitting on record that the Series S is garbage and causes nothing but trouble.

I loved it. The stakes and dark tone take a nosedive towards the end of the story, but I really enjoyed most of it as well as the cast. Combat could have been harder and exploration is the game's weakest point by far, but overall there was so much for me to enjoy here that the shortcomings pale in comparison.

PSVR2 having funding to begin with is the real shock here.

Could have really used the points to have enough for one of the games that went on sale today.

Honestly, at this rate my Plus subscription will run out before it's back (towards the end of this month), and then I bet there'll be issues to even get the points for stuff I purchased while it was down.

I played the (excellent) fan translation of AAI2 ages ago, but it's still great to see the game get an official western release at last, since I rank it at the very top of the series together with GAA2.

I absolutely love the updated sprites, too.

He brings up a lot of good points when it comes to photorrealism and other resource-consuming pursuits that aren't really worth it, but cutting down on game length/content because "most people don't finish their games" is something I cannot ever agree with.

Why should I and other people who thoroughly complete their games get a shorter, poorer, lesser experience just because most players have zero commitment to anything they start? There's nothing wrong with developers making a long but rich main campaign, or putting proper effort into side content that only some will see. That is exactly where development time should be directed towards.

Games aren't movies, they don't expect you to necessarily go through an hour and half of preordained motions until the credits roll. Most account for people who want to enjoy them in different ways, explore off the beaten path, challenge themselves with content less neatly arranged for consumption than what the critical path offers.

From Soft games, for example, often lean into this. There will be huge, lore-relevant optional areas to explore (the access to which often isn't even evident), and for anyone playing blind, finding them feels immensely rewarding. The studio gets heavy praise for this kind of thing - and rightly so, because at their core that sense of surprise and wonder is what games are all about.

They also release games a lot more quickly than most of these other AAA studios with ballooning costs and dev times, mind. Because they're focusing on the aspects that truly matter, not on how detailed they can make the textures of every rock or on how much they can perfect a light reflection.

Nothing in there this month that I really want to play before it's gone.

Expedition 33/10.

Catfished by a... videogame leaker? That's a new one, folks.

Happy to see it doing well, they kind of needed a win after Wo Long sold poorly. And I think Nioh 2 hadn't done so hot either, which is a crying shame because that one's fantastic and a big improvement over the first.

So yeah, good to see Koei Tecmo on the up and up.

"This is how most games function these days"

No it is not. In terms of the totality of games coming out, live service stuff is still a minority - even taking into account all the dead-on-arrival ones. Regardless of the popularity of the successful ones, it's one hell of a hyperbole to suggest that this seasonal crap represents the majority of nowaday's games. That's 'reality' only for someone living in a Fortnite-shaped bubble or similar.

Yes, yes, these games make a lot of money and are here to stay whether we like them or not, etc. But let's not start pushing a narrative that this is the norm now and that "traditional" games with a clear beginning and end are now the outliers, when the sheer numbers of these projects still far eclipse live-service's own on any modern system, any month of the year.

I might try it out, mostly to see what Sucker Punch's early days were like.

This guy's got some balls talking about sliminess in business considering the messages from him that were leaked during the whole acquisition debacle. Or how about Xbox shutting down successful studios just to make their profit margins look better on a report?

You're all down in the mud together, Spencer. XBox, PlayStation, Nintendo, every big company. It's just the way you show it that differs.

I was just joking elsewhere that since I just completed Stranger of Paradise, three more soulslike were bound to spawn into existence out of nowhere.

Well, here we are I guess. I more than welcome Wuchang into my endless Soulslike To Play list, though.

Had the showcase playing in the background while gaming, when I heard Clive's voice actor. I turned around to see what it was and what I saw was an amazing-looking game out of nowhere.

Super high budget, turn-based RPG with beautiful vistas and interesting monster design. Yes please.

And thus Series S continues to be a blight upon developers and Xbox users both.

@Mythologue Not even in the same dimension as a scam like The Day Before. We'll have to wait for launch to see if it's truly good, but for starters it's evident that it is a real game with real effort put into it, unlike whatever the hell TDB was.

Also, why the "unproven Chinese developer", as though the devs' country of origin somehow makes them worse than any other "unproven developer"? Failed first projects can come from literally anywhere.

I've never cared for PlayStation's live service push and this is no different.

I feel a little bad for the developers who are getting their game rather excessively bombarded by negativity, but ultimately this game's failure would likely be for the better in terms of what PS chooses to focus on moving forward. Then again, they've got like three hundred other live service projects already in the pipeline, so...

Didn't expect to be going back to Astro Bot quite this soon, but I kind of welcome it.