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Fantastic line up! I bought Outlaws at launch, and enjoyed it but something else new came out I wanted more, so traded it in to help with costs. I'd love to jump back into it though, especially a good few patches on

This is like how Subway workers are called 'sandwich artists' - they produce formulaic bog standard output at budget.

Now Subway is fine, if you want a quick snack it can hit the spot, but you're never going to be blown away, you're never going to have the best meal of your life.

That artist is going to serve you exactly what you expect, and nothing more, with all the enthusiasm of a Penguin gifted a wet sock.

This is incredible work, loads of updates to look forward to. Unfortunately, I've not seen anything about the save glitch that hit me and struck off a weeks playtime.

I really don't want to go back to it and hit the same issue again, it's one of the few glitches (besides obvious game breaking ones) that really kills my enjoyment of a game.

I'll hold off a little while longer just in case.

@DanX666 Damnit. Every day I stray further towards middle age, and closer towards shouti v at children on my lawn. Luckily I'm three stories up so no lawn just yet.

This looks absolutely fantastic - sure 'another Yakuza game' but it's got fantastic settings I can't wait to explore, it seems cinematic on a whole other level, and has very interesting sounding dynamics.

This might be the closest thing we have to the best Yakuza film released in years.

I completely forgot about this - one of those games made for me, sounds a bit short but I'll treat it like going to the cinema at a pretty comparative price.

I'm all for a world that feels lived in, with plenty to see and do with engaging stories. Witcher 3 had some of the best quests and writing I've come across.
Just really hope they nail that aspect - I'm a bit concerned the protagonist and main story will be bland.

I am really looking forward to this, I just feel like there's a 6 or 7/10 lurking and I'm not quite sure why. I'll be very happy to eat my words though

I'm not a prude, nudity is great, live your life - selling a 'skin' for a nude teenager and joking about the size of their junk feels a bit...off though. Just me being over sensitive?

@Balaam_ I had a similar thought, and it's an interesting one to ponder.

In many ways our access to information was more limited, I typically got the official PlayStation magazine, occasionally dipped into others.

Same as you, the previews gripped me. The little nuggets of information that couldn't afford the big spreads, just a screenshot, a bit of text, could hook me.

I think also the fact we could rent games made a huge difference. Spending £3.50 to rent an intriguing game meant it was little issue if it was bad, you might even finish it over a weekend.

Now people have to decide to spend £50-80 on a new game, you largely have to be sure either:
A) you're going to like it - if someone you 'know' and/or respect likes it, you probably will.
B) if it's bad, you're not an idiot for thinking it would be good, everyone thought the same. You can commiserate with company and communally bash it.

Over 100 comments on this, I'm sure it's very balanced and thoughtful and not full of people the game developers are pandering to.

Thank god the male fantasy gaming fans are traditionally a progressive bunch that fully respect women and diversity in their worlds.

These do look ridiculous, but if there's outrage it should be shown towards things like Steller Blade too (worse, as it's based on a real model), the plethora of free-to-play games sexualising young-looking 'women' and similar.

I agree, it's silly, it's dated, it's pandering to men who seem to forget porn exists, and the older designs look both better, cooler and I dunno, a tough lady in practical armour is hotter to me than someone in 3 conveniently moulded golden bars and a smoulder.

But fantasy aimed at men is fantasy aimed at men, it'll be the last thing in the world to change.

@get2sammyb thanks for the review Sammy!

Just a couple questions, how deep is the business management part of it? It sounded interesting.

And how's the vehicle handling, is there any vehicular combat? They seem to be a big part.

This sounds fantastic - the con list is exactly what I remember from way back in my Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow days, so perfectly happy with them.

There's something innately rewarding about sticking on an album or three, chilling, grinding, then coming in swinging at a boss built for someone half the levels. But then I grew up on 90s/00s JRPG's.

I love RPG's, turn based combat, beautiful worlds but I bounced off this.

The combat is quite stressful with a sometimes really challenging parry system I wasn't expecting, save systems meant I had to wait until I had a chunk of time to play, and disappointingly the characters were dull as dishwasher.

HOWEVER I hear it really picks up, and I want go back to it. It clearly had promise, great soundtrack and world, an interesting hook. Hopefully the characters get a bit more engaging and relatable/likeable.

That's really cool! You know what else would be cool? If they fixed the bloomin' game they broke again with the last patch. It's horrible to play at the moment.

I suppose Tarot might tell me if it's worth keeping the game installed.

@somnambulance that's disappointing to hear. I'm planning to play through the series from Before The Storm onwards, so hopefully by the time I get to Reunion at least they'll have ironed out some of the issues.

I'll still definitely play it, but in my head the comics were a perfect end for me, I'm just treating this as a bonus

Day One, you can be a pig. I'm sold.

But also if this does well maybe they'll get another chance at sonething a bit more daring and unusual like WiLD was shaping up to be - real shame about that one.

I reckon they'll charge a fiver, they'll still make an immediate profit and hook even more onto GTAVI online.

This is looking more and more like, funnily enough given the name, Crimson Desert.

If they get the writing chops of The Witcher, with the fun gameplay of Crimson Desert, wrapped in a glorious gothic blanket, I'd pick this up in a heartbeat.

But it's that writing which will seal it, and I think that's what I'm bouncing off right now - we've not seen much, likely as it's not typically something that makes exciting promo material.

@Deadhunter always thought this too. Greedfall 1 is so unique, weird but ambitious and gripping.

I've not played 2, though I am intrigued.

But Greedfall felt like a demo for something that could have been something really special if they had the time and money. From what I've read, all their games have been similar - excellent premise, but missing the mark based on limited budget/time.

@THEBrew whilst I appreciate your service in getting one drunk at minimal cost, could you find an alternative nickname for our backboneless leader that doesn't equate being bad with being a woman or having a speech impediment?

But no, I couldn't, unless they were asked to by someone with their hand in their honey jar.

@nomither6 no, not yet, I'm not even middle aged! I've not even begun to peak!

This is a good excuse to go back to the game though, it was like the end of a JRPG era for me. I remember being pretty disappointed with a bunch of JRPG's that followed, when I'd devoured every one I found from the late 90s onwards.

It has its tropes, but in terms of overall story and the 'big bad' it's still pretty unique and compelling. Blitzball had no right being that involved and addictive (and frustrating) too.

I don't like this. I absolutely adore the game, one of the last great FF's before 16 reclaimed much of the glory. But it is not 25 years old.

I don't remember clamouring for more screenshots in the latest gaming magazine, being blown away by every moment of it, having the single weirdest nightmare of my life about Blitzball.

Or if I do, it was last year, when it first came out.

Filing this one under: highly likely incredible game I will never play.

I played like an hour of the first and spent the next twelve years hiding behind my couch.

@Fyz306903 I only watched a few episodes to be fair, but honestly it was most of the actors for me. Seemed like a fair bit of 90s fantasy tv overly hammy or wooden acting (facial expressions, dialogue etc.).

HOWEVER that was years ago when it first came out, maybe I was too harsh at the time or it gets better. I'll definitely give it another proper go soon, I've heard the show (and books) are superb overall.

@Truee fittingly, very true!

Those are my thoughts exactly. This reads to me more like "get PS fans panicking so they buy more Microsoft games, to keep us multi platform, then when we have new hardware out that can actually compete, we'll pull the rug"

No hate on that, it's marketing and I'm sure it'll work. But hopefully they do keep games multi-platform, it'll depend if they have to tone down games to run on PS5 next-gen, and face the same disasterous issue they had between Series X and S.

This seems very much like a modern day 'True Crime' game, and I'm seriously down for that. A GTA that plays it straight to even funnier heights, fun gameplay and, I hope, a great soundtrack would be perfect, jank and all.

The idea sounds like a lot of fun, but the art style looks like some sort of mobile porn game advertised on FB, and the gameplay doesn't look a whole lot better.
But if it's decently deep sim gameplay I can see this being a guilty pleasure to people.

'People of Note' ironically conpletely slipped me by, and I'm very intrigued by that.

Looks like perfect anime nonsense, they had me at dragons tbh. I'll keep an eye on it, might scratch a specific itch

Owlcat do have an unfortunate habit of choosing some truly heinous, among some truly fantastic, voice actors - looks we got two Lann's to lead the charge instead of two Wenduag's. But nothing that can't be updated, or the character might grow on you.

Though fittingly faithful to the TV show - which manages to both be thoroughly compelling, whilet boasting some distractingly godawful acting.

Please give us a content warning before flashing this c*** in our face. Some of us are still in therapy over the trauma Bubsy 3D caused

I didn't mind the jank at all until I hit an issue where it deletes your saves and resets to a random date (for me a week ago, others, weeks).

Can't see it in these patch notes so I'm still a bit apprehensive about going back. Fantastic game, I love it, but not enough to replay a week's progress multiple times.

This continues to look a tonne of fun - but a couple things seem a bit clunky, the animations look a bit stiff and the enemy AI looks questionable.
Someone popping up from hiding behind a table, saying something like "Hello, I'm George, I'm here to sweep your chimney" would be a tad suspicious.

But it does still look a riot, a proper Uncharted action film vibe, as you swagger around using cool gadgets, so I'd be happy with that.

Personally excited to see how wide the projects extend, imagine: Vampire On Ice, Vampire Phone, Vampirebook.
The possibilities are endless with 15 /projects/

It's also amazing they were able to put the game out cheap enough everyone can afford it, and it's since turned that profit. The indie (business) dream.

Very excited for this - I don't know why, but I can't shake the feeling this'll end up a 6/7 overall, that something will hold it back, but it'll still be a unique, charming game. A bit of a Crimson Desert.

As long as they nail the atmosphere, character/s and story it'll be great - I could put up with lacklustre gameplay if we get writing closer to the Witcher games. So...the opposite to Crimson Desert, in that regard.

Owlcat making a game only 30 hours long is incredibly hard to believe - but I'm sure they'll nail the roleplaying. Their games always have an incredible degree of roleplaying, things to miss, things you can lock yourself out of hours down the line without even realising.

They're also, traditionally, terribly optimised at launch - hopefully the beta will give it time to develop, and we'll just be left with the diamond their games end up as.

This is turning utterly surreal - the management sound like they're having a psychotic break, seeing enemies everywhere.

No excuse for spying on your employees - but if they have studios in Europe and the UK, clearly this is a breach of GDPR and thoroughly illegal I would have thought, even if they only applied it to their US branch I think GDPR still applies?

Hopefully employees can get some answers and the top brass can get removed and given help.

Very interesting news - with the budgets they can wield, and the respect their name garners, they could attract some serious talent. Excited to see what they decide to embrace

@dskatter aye unfortunately, they've quite significantly sciffed what was meant to be a little graphics upgrade.

For some reason introduced a bunch of options/sliders to match PC, but it's caused zooming to be all over the place (Sniper/gun zooms are hyper sensitive, Scanning is painfully slow), weird issue where if you try and mark a target you crouch instead (if using a certain layout), and the black bleeds a lot now so it's super visually dark unless you whack up the lightness, and deal with that on menus.

I'm not fussy, I brought the game at launch and loved it, but it's borederline unplayable atm with my sniper netrunner build.

So Sandland it is...hopefully not as dull as others said here

Damn, some games I've dragged my feet with there - might have to drop everything and check out Sandland. Won't be hard with my current games screwed by a bum patch (Cyberpunk), and just hit a nasty save glitch in Crimson Desert that's gaslighting me into believing a week of progress never happened.

Very tempted to pick this up, fun gameplay that doesn't outstay it's welcome, unique mechanics and an interesting looking world.

It'll be interesting to see how much a profit they turn. I'd love to see some more high concept, SP 10-15h games from big publishers.

I find these sorts of games just inherently untrustworthy. I get they make their money from people buying currency for pulls, but I still feel uncomfortable about anything pushed as 'free-to-play'.

At best they're designed to rinse you clean with shady gambling mechanics (but somehow less regulated), at worst they do that and harvest details. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if there was even some money laundering tied into it all.

Game does look sick though.

Horizon, Warriors, Motorfest - lots of variation, all a lot of fun.

Anyone who's not played it, Monster Train will eat your life up - but hundreds of hours into it on steam and still finding new strategies and ridiculous strategies to pull off

"I only buy Call of Duty games for the plot" - David Ellison, probably.

A Generative AI proponent and man who's hosting a dinner specifically honouring Donald Trump.

Wow. Can't wait for this winning combo.

The motion capture looks stunning, I'm hoping it's a bit more than a Souls-like boss rush, but it's clearly putting in the work to honour tradition and badass kung-fu & wuxia entertainment. I bet the OST will be terrific too

Looks very stylish and could be a lot of fun - I get the impression we're not looking at much V.O. Work, and I wonder if there'll be much of a story to speak of (get the feeling not). But stylish, fun fights with customisable crew and mechs is plenty.

Does progress carry over in the demo?

Sounds a perfect run & gun dip around bigger games, maybe it'll be less tedious in the long run if you're not having to play it through all at once. Definitely intrigued

Great selection, I'd happily play all of those. A lot of variety, three I've been interested in but not enough to put money down on - exactly the sort of games that are perfect for PS+

@TheDarts well that's peaked my curiosity, is it Iliberal in a particular way?

Having been one of the poor sods that bought Cyberpunk 2077 at launch, and got to BG3 Act 3 before their patches did, I'm not sure I'd call this game unfinished. But it wasn't exactly primed and ready to go too.

It's very playable on a base PS5, it's very fun, but there's some real annoying issues (like fiddly controls) that hold it back.

I doubt they intended to release it in a worse state, people have held off buying it because of its issues, but I also think praising a company releasing a game a bit too soon before it's fully ready should be commended. But I'm glad to see updates rolling out, and I'm looking forward to jumping back in

€30 each for a simple port of a series 20-25 years old is a bit...optimistic, I feel.

But I would love to try Gothic 2 at some point, when it's on sale /PS+/£2.50 on Steam.