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Wasn’t expecting an Alt Right rant, the people treating marginalised groups as human are, historically, on the wrong side of history apparently.

But back to Final Fantasy, I agree - I too hope we get plenty of sexy, seasonal and revealing costumes for Freya in the remake and subsequent DLC’s.

Lost records?! A brand new game, and another great game. What’s going on, is Sony dying?

Thanks for this list, some great choices that I’ll mull over. It runs until next payday, which is dangerous!

Looks like I’ll be waiting on this one, I’m sure it’ll be amazing when fixed and they’ve released a DLC or two.

Interesting! But…PS4, not PS5?

My score has shamed me to go back and finally finish Rift Apart. I loved it but got distracted by every other game

@Rich33 exactly the same for me.

It looks like a really impressive achievement, and I’m sure once you’re on top of things it must be amazing, I just don’t have the time for save points and all the sim side of things these days - I struggle enough in real life.

@NeonTiger there was an entire film built around muscly women, so take your pick from any actress in ‘Love Lies Bleeding’, Brie Larson I think would be great, Katee Sackhoff, even Emily Blunt. There’s plenty out there.

But I was being snarky, it may just be the actor physically can’t bulk up in the same way, and if you find the right actor that’s what matters.

I wouldn’t have chosen the lead 2 actors, but they do a great job and capture the characters despite physical differences, I’m sure it’ll be the same this time.

Is it because the loud minority throw an absolute hissy fit over women with muscles, the sort that would embarrass a toddler?

I have a sneaky suspicion it’s tied into money laundering - put out enough games it looks legit, then let the money flow in staff, advertising or development costs. But I’ve probably also been watching too many exciting shows.

I’m sure the reason so many get through is Sony not wanting to hire enough people to check them though.

This sounds amazing, huge, immersive as anything.

But I was completely and utterly hopeless in the first game at combat, lock picking and basic things I needed to play the game. And that’s when I could find the time to plow into it, which I don’t really have much of these days.

I fear I may have to sit on this one, unless they have made the combat a little less unwieldy.

Did not have this on my 2025 Bingo Card

Yoooo new Care Bears dropping in March, why’s this the first I’m hearing of it?! Come on Pushsquare, step up your efforts

@Quintumply thanks for confirming! Looks like it’s worth it, I’ll pick it up and treat it like a novel.

Only if it releases with 120fps 4K ray tracing.

I need to check out the first, it sounds a really intriguing set up.

Is the text narrated at all, a la Disco Elysium, or will my eyes have to do all the work?

@LavenderShroud I thought I was going mad, I’m glad I didn’t have a very convincing fever dream

@code45709 mate you can become supreme overlord of a wealthy nation doing that, go get that $$$ bro

@Max_the_German you answered your own question

What I meant is we’re only just moving away from games being built for both PS4 and PS5, it feels like there’s still room for the PS5 to be pushed and explored and built on.

I’m not saying there’s been no impressive games, just that we’ve not seen the best it can do yet

@JB_Whiting haha I didn’t, it was 200! 100 is a tragedy, 200 is a really great 5* police chase in the making.

Is the PS5 showing its age? Feels like it’s still not gotten started, like a lot of games really haven’t pushed the boundaries. It also feels like every developer has en masse decided to ditch haptic feedback/triggers.

But as long as we get a stable frame rate as we blow up 200 cars and orphan a hundred children, I’ll be satisfied

Holy crap they’ve really outdone themselves this month - I can’t think of 3 more underwhelming games.

I’ve been hurt too many times by poor technical performances or over-hyped games, but when this releases if it gets a 7 or higher I’m there as soon as possible. It looks really special, and they seem a passionate studio, fingers crossed for them!

You can never have too many x-ray vision bollock Nazi kill cams, if anything the world needs more of them.

I’ve not played one of these games since 3 (maybe 2?), but seems like I missed out on some of the best entries, I’ll have to dig back in.

@ChromaticDracula oh it’s such a superb game, if it does you’re in for a treat!

It’s very short, with little replay value outside of enjoying the story/charm again, but it has those in the buckets full

This looks really superb. But I have a concerns about the performance, even in that trailer things looked a little choppy - I wonder if the frame rate might be a bit inconsistent.

But the art style, the weirdness, the graphics, the gameplay, the characters all seem very, very promising. I won’t preorder, but I will keep money back for when reviews and a patch or two drop

@__Seraph I think that’s exactly it, had the same thing with God of War: Ragnarok. Both due a revisit this year!

Fittingly, they look just like FF town NPC’s, you know, immediately forgettable.

I loved the first one, but bounced off the second for sone reason - it didn’t grab me in the same way. I’ll go back to it though, and check this out eventually. You need to support child sacrifice, it’s a dying art.

I imagine part 1 will end on a big cliffhanger, happy for it to fall into two parts - still very excited to see what it has in store!

I never mind developers taking longer to provide a more robust product these days, not after the shambles some games have been rushed out in

@Johnnycide I apologise in that case, sorry I completely misunderstood. I’ve gotten too used to people talking similarly to hide negative views on media/entertainment for those views.

But I completely agree with you in that case - veilguard I thought was very lazy writing, uninspired and dull. And like you, this game looked similarly a bit unappealing story and character wise from what was shown.

There’s a way to do smug and arrogant protagonists, Nathan Drake for example (or BG3, a fair few of the party) where they mature and it’s their character flaw they have to overcome. But you’re right, done poorly it’s just unpleasant.

@RoomWithaMoose they’re all saying the game failed because it had a woman protagonist, and someone not-white at that, they’re just all too insecure and pathetic to say it.

It failed because it had poor marketing, and didn’t look inspiring or interesting, it looked too much like Forspoken. People don’t have much disposable income now, so a fun-ish but bland game just doesn’t cut it like it used to.

It could probably just be John Wick 2 or Crank with more shooting than hand to hand - what was the plot to them? Who knows. Were they great action films? Absolutely. They need to hire Danny DeVito as the lead, though.

That sounds like a satirical joke they’d include in a fake in-game talk show or advert. It is becoming more expensive to create games, but I don’t feel it’s $100 a game expensive. Wonder if the top dogs have reduced their cut in the last few years, before cutting staff

I love these games, but I’m not sure I can quite fork out for it this month, plus my backlog is screaming at me. I’ll look forward to it in the future though

Veilguard was immaculately bland. It was perfectly playable, but everything was so uninspired. The jokes were flat. The characters were bland. The story was bland. The combat was fun enough.

I had no real complaints about the 20-30 hours I sunk into it before selling, but I never finished it and haven’t looked back. I’ve since sunk 115 hours into a second playthrough of Inquisition and enjoying it a lot more than first time round.

20th Century: The Robots will take over the world, they’ll take over nuclear sites, rise up in self awareness and kill us all
21st Century AI: Can’t count r’s in strawberry. Robs artists and creatives of their livelihoods. Plays games for us.

This is not as exciting as we were led to believe.

@ShogunRok great review, thank you, exciting to see it back!

I was just wondering if you can customise your character at all, or are you stuck with generic Musou Man?

Depending on practicalities, this is great and should be standard across developers/publishers. The sort of harassment and/or bullying that can be levelled at individuals can destroy their lives, for no reason other than doing their job.

How’s the haptic feedback? Are the brakes intelligent? I want to feel like I’m rocketing to the moon as I gently break for the zebra crossing

@Illyrian me trying to shorten it too much - Fascistic Militarism. the two concepts of fascism and militarism that often go hand in hand. The idea of expansion through military means, for a shared ideal that your nation is the superior while denoting your areas of ambition as inferior and/or in need of rescue, with the aim to bring them under the same ideals.

@Illyrian I dunno, looking online it seems like an open and direct parody of militaristic fascism. That’s the impression I got too from what ive seen. What makes you say it’s not?

Tone is lost in text, but just to clarify I’m not being smug, I’m genuinely interested in the debate.

@Illyrian I’ve not played the games so I could be wrong - but aren’t people being made to fight The Other in the name of ‘democracy’, as they pose the only threat and obstacle to a better life, fuelled by propaganda that hides the truth from the masses?

I’m genuinely asking as my only knowledge is from what I’ve read online, so I could have completely the wrong impression.

Really not sure how this will work, a big part of the game is the vast, empty expanses, the guilt it makes you feel as you kill the colossi even though you feel compelled to progress.
I don’t think a film can capture that - the Last Guardian might work better

@nessisonett my thoughts exactly. It is absolutely bonkers. It’s purposefully cheesy in its classic set up.

I think it got a bit unfairly battered by reviews, and it’s hard to take a beloved character and fill the game with other new characters. I haven’t finished it, maybe it tapers off, but I loved what I played so far - they captured Max’s personality well, and her dealing with grief.

I think the only real criticism I have is the limited environments, which lacked the charm of other games’ locations. A generic university with a generic LGBTQ+ bar. Some larger locations with more to explore, or more characters to get to know may have given it a bit more life.

Are ‘rowdy’ people mad about it being a woman, or wasn’t there something about pubic hair in the sequel that enraged the vocal minority? It just feels like there’s some silly insecure man things bubbling underneath all this

Always shut down, I imagine it saves energy. The only time I use rest mode is if I’m downloading a large update or new game overnight on my glacial internet connection.

Imagine if it’s a serious story, hailing fascism as the only way forward for mankind and something to be honoured. Bring the whole thing full circle with the starship trooper book to film journey

An excellent idea by Localthunk - making use of the Indy fame! Indy games have really taken off the last few years, in terms of reaching the mainstream.