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I’m feeling this will be a flawed release performance wise, maybe glitch-heaven and a sea of generic side quests you drown in.

But I’m also feeling it’ll be one of those games some people, including myself, will absolutely love, warts and all.

I’m not going to preorder, but I’ll keep my money ready for reviews and a couple patches down the line.

@1970sGamer this sounds like you’ve never shook a fist at a cloud. You’re missing out dude.

With Suda51 games you can guarantee you’ll have a uniquely frustrating but mesmerising experience. Definitely interested but I’ll wait for a sale or PS+ drop

I’m intrigued, The Last of Us is a superb adaptation, but this also seems a bizarre choice.

The amount of variables involved, whichever they go for it’ll disappoint fans. Or they go for a multiverse, which has been a bit overdone and can negate stakes if not handled well.

Also if they can’t get the OG voice actors for the main cast, fans will hate it. AND you’re dealing with the notorious WotC licensing.

Still, intriguing!

@AverageGamer That’s exactly my point though - the issue is the people wanting more and more at an equally or faster rate. It’s not on businesses to make their employers work later and later, harder and harder, to satisfy a hunger that only grows.
Gamers need to just get used to waiting, it’s frustrating but it’s not life threatening to wait.

Looking at general work practices, there are different expectations elsewhere. Japan has one of the most demanding work ethics, for example, but it also has multiple people literally dying from being overworked, high suicide rates, rates of alcoholism etc.

At the end of the day we’re humans, we can work hard but we live in a modern world where we shouldn’t have to work ourselves to exhaustion. And especially not for something not life threatening. If people are impatient it’s their issue.

@AverageGamer it’s impressive you can put that time in, but it’s also not healthy for everyone, and at those hours it can start to really impact life outside of work. For some, that’s absolutely fine, but it should be a choice not an expectation. I was working late every day for at least a year, unpaid OT, and eventually burnt out for 3 months

I personally never mind about delays, games take as long as they need, or you get a Cyberpunk 2077 situation.

I think the answer isn’t people throwing themselves towards burnout, but more an issue with people’s attention spans these days, and out of control business mindsets of getting as much money as quickly as possible, ignoring the impact to employees.

People before profit - simple line, rarely followed. In regards to games, wait an extra few months isn’t going to kill anyone, people need to just suck it up and wait.

@AverageGamer it’s not being soft to enforce good work/life boundaries, especially given how hard fought our workers rights are.

We should never feel bad about enforcing and upholding them, not for company profit (healthcare etc. is different, but that’s not the gaming industry).

This game looks interesting though, likely employing a huge amount of people. But I don’t like the way live service games have you feeling like you HAVE to play them regularly for your perks and bonuses, so will see if this has any of that.

Are they actually scared of leaks? What could be spoiled, it’s GTA, people don’t buy it for the plot.

They know what they’re getting each game - there’ll be a few new additions, everything will look and play better, but there’s no spoiler I can imagine ruining my enjoyment.

Unless you’re now playing a cop and it fails your game if you kill an NPC with a grenade launcher to the face. In which case it should be spoiled, save people the purchase.

It’s gutting that it’s taken almost two decades and IF it comes out in our life times, it won’t even address the bloomin’ cliffhanger ending of the first game. Bet we get a film before then.

Looks very clunky, shield bash and all, but if there’s decent freedom and roleplaying this could be a lot of fun. A bit of a ‘Warriors of Might & Magic’ vibe.

I do get what he’s saying, but:
A) I love your teams output, but please stop riling people up for no reason Sven
B) This takes away the agency of individuals - if I read a good review it’s clear what I do or don’t agree with, I’ve read some 4/10 reviews where I know the game is 100% for me, and vice-versa with 10/10 games.

The answer isn’t to rely further on what others tell us to think, it’s to call out specific bad reporting (including personal attacks). Otherwise, no matter the love and effort, if a game is bad people need to know before they spend out £50-80 on it

Sounds like weird, unpleasant fetish content to me. Happy to be proven wrong, maybe it’ll be a powerhouse of storytelling.

@Slayer25c absolutely, but I meant I’m a bit confused specifically why they’d remake a Dynasty Warriors game. They’ve all been really similar, besides each games novel extra mode.

But they’re always fun, so whatever, happy for it - just a bit puzzling.

I’m still wondering why this is being made, but more Dynasty Warriors is more Dynasty Warriors - it’ll be good fun whenever it arrives

A whole 11 minutes and they didn’t answer the only question anyone cares about: Can. You. Pet. The. Dog?

Looks great - characters seem a bit cheesy, but the gameplay looks a lot of fun and dramatic.

Isn’t it rather scary this is possible in general?

Not to sound like a conspiracy nut, but there’s no way birds are rea-…I mean, what if this wa used by more nefarious groups as a tool/exploit in the future? For an existing or new game?

I remember seeing genuine gameplay of this years back. I wonder if that was completely reworked.

Still, I enjoy the annual snippet of BG&E2 news. There’s something mesmerising about hauling a corpse around, occasionally grabbing its arm to wave at people, before carrying on its ceaseless journey

@Dimey thanks! I just saw it in the trailer watching it a second time too. Hopefully it’ll be developed nicely, loved how it was implemented in 3

Wonderful news, was really hoping for this. The game looks fantastic! I hope they bring back the property purchasing, with more personalisation and depth possibly.

Also werewolves. Dear gods are we lacking in werewolves in videogames, don’t let us down Chicken Chaser!

The first game reminded me of Dragon’s Dogma, in the sense it’s a deeply odd game.
I enjoyed my time with it, but it had some baffling design choices.

I’m definitely intrigued by this, will wait for reviews. I wonder if they’ll drop the bizarre (and rather…distracting) accent they invented for the elves.

Please add a spoiler warning for this c**t. Some of us experienced Bubsy 3D at a formative age and still carry the very real trauma to this day.

@Oxy the irony of the frames being too fatal.
It is locked at 30fps, but for horror I think it works well being a bit more rugged. As long as it’s stable.

@nessisonett he’s pro LGBT+ and generally a solid, left-wing bloke, so he upsets people of a certain inclination. Might be the case here.

This looks a fantastic remake. So good, in fact, there’s no chance in hell I’m going to play it. I could barely make it through the demo of the original.

Superb game, genuinely fun mechanics, but too upsettingly tense and terrifying for this scaredy-cat. Hope it does well though!

Sounds like a really interesting idea - but you are putting faith in people. I feel there’ll be a lot of murder hobo-ing if given half the chance.

But it’s a great idea, I’ll keep an eye on this.

I have a couple of the Extra games already, but I’d happily play any of the others, and actively interested in half of them. Excellent month!

@Bramble that’s true! Normally when you see that much horny the writing isn’t the priority, but who knows, maybe it’ll be an emotional roller coaster that skewers tropes and turns them on their head.

…or it’ll just be a bunch of questionable character designs of dubious age and attire, with fun-enough standard 2D action. Could be enjoyable though

A loli for every occasion…except my hard earned money. That’s as aggressively anime as it is uncomfortably horny, like Tarantino shoving feet in your face every other shot

I think I’ll be getting my 2D action elsewhere, thank you.

I’ve still got Double Exposure to finish, and I never clicked with 2.

But the first, before the storm and True Colours are fantastic, and all had moments that strongly resonated emotionally with me - in ways few things have.

It’ll be great to see Chloe again, as long as it doesn’t negate the impact of the first game. The comics handled it well though, wonder if they’ll follow suit

Excellent month for Extra - I own RE: Village, but will definitely dive into a Quiet Place and Darkest Dungeon 2.

I’m sure the first will scare me silly and the latter will infuriate me to the point of tears, but it’s always good to feel something

I didn’t realise Meta owned game studios, but they’re a huge corporation so of course they would. Hopefully the talent will be snatched up by worthier hands

Great to see ‘Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy’ in this list - was a real surprise quote how excellent it is, and how little you hear about the game.

Superb, emotional story, very funny dialogue, really fun gameplay. Only negative it has is there’s not more of it.

@TrollOfWar that’s a good point, I hadn’t thought of those, hope for the future!

@Oram77 I’d be interested to see if any Xbox-derived games will enter PS+, it might not be contractually possible. But fingers crossed!

I’m going to wait for a deep sale on this one too - it looks fun, but possibly a big time sink that ends up a bit forgettable.

XIII was absolutely savaged by the single worst VA inflicted upon the word. Vanille is just painful to listen to, as well as just being an annoying character, and she’s the narrator.

I really tried with the game, and there were parts to like, just that VA was so distracting it was hard to take the rest seriously.

But I’ve not played it in many moons, maybe it’s not as bad as I remember. Had great music and chocobos though.

Using it based on your own assets is how it should be, that’s a perfect use of it. The issue using it at concept stage when it’s using stolen assets is you end up with recycled, soulless ideas, and Larian isn’t short on either.

That’s a shame, this was quietly looking an absolute blast. I mean how do you screw up shooting dinosaurs in the face in space with a shotgun?

If the gameplay was fun I’d be tempted, but I’ll wait for the inevitable PS+ drop instead. Ridiculous stories that take themselves too seriously is one of the great joys in life.

Fable would be glorious, maybe Fable Anniversary too. I miss those wonderful games, and what we have seen looks promising

@Petrecis24 I’m a huge fan of LIS, particularly the first game and Before The Storm, so I really enjoyed Double Exposure as it felt like seeing an old friend.

It does have odd pacing, and it feels a bit like a hollowed out B-Movie - dialled down, and no new character particularly grabbed me. But it’s still Max and it’s still LIS. Give it a go, it’s pretty cheap these days.

But this new game sounds intriguing, hope we get new spaces to explore. It cheapens the end of the first game, but they can make it work similar to the comics with multiverse shenanigans.

@Leeg it’s not pointless, we just don’t know.

It’s good to have an update at the year’s start, I found it interesting, and it’s equally interesting that we don’t know what a lot of their studios are working on.

This’ll be interesting, almost feels like picking up a games magazine and flicking through - you might see something big, or a lot of smaller things that just slipped your notice before.

Translation: “we put loads of money into it, stop being poopy heads it’s eating into our profit predictions” but whined with a toddler stamp or two.

Stop making slop, put in safeguards and support then politically where required, and prevent it cutting real people from real jobs, and the views on it might shift more positive.

@sorteddan I know you meant the game, but what a beautiful line that is. It could be a line from an Indie romance

@Balaam_ look we all wish PAW Patrol Rescue Wheels: Championship won platinum, but some years we have to give other franchises a chance

Looks a bit cheesy but outside of combat looks to have its own wuxia personality, I’ll keep an eye on this one. Certainly looks pretty.

As you rightly said @Oram77 Lost Odyssey had a similar atmosphere, and Legend of the Dragoon and the Shadow Hearts series (Covenant particularly) had timing based turn-based mechanics.

Clair Obscur brought a lot of sidelines mechanics together beautifully, and showed it’s still relevant and popular, but it wasn’t completely unique gameplay-wise.

I’m still playing through this but many hours in. It’s beautiful, fun and a wonderful world to lose yourself in.

I wish they’d been a bit bolder with the story though, I’d love it if the Yotei Six weren’t comic book villains, and the Vengence was closer to TLOU2’s savagery - instead of just killing obviously bad guys doing bad things

@MrStark including Forza 5 or Indiana Jones would be a little odd - they came out on PS5 this year, but they’re not new games, the latter’s technically 4 years old.

I think it’s an interesting top 10 so far, games I might have missed that would be good to check out.

I loved Dispatch myself - it’s a bit short, but the characters shine through with solid arcs, and a great fun sense of team camaraderie (despite minor questionable stammer representation).

@EfYI I forgot Bloom & Rage came out this year completely, good shout.

Unfortunately I got very near the end of the first half, then hit by the glitch that wiped your save and never went back. I will in the new year though, great story and, as you say, art direction

Monster Train 2 is mine - seems to have glided right under the radar somehow, but it’s every bit as good as the original while feeling fresh

@Svark that’s great to know, thanks! I’ll take the dive next year when my backlog is down a bit.