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It’s very cool, but come on, “best merch ever”? It’s not 19” of Venom is it?

I wish we saw “Jeff Goldblum’s out of control again” on more games - it may not always be relevant, but it would be TRUE

Looks like it’ll be a perfect, great fun blast when it’s on sale or a subscription service.
There are enough games out there with great action sat on my backlog after a strong couple years of games

@Marquez bold of you to assume they aren’t your 16yo daughter. Bold of you to assume everyone besides you on this site isn’t the different guises of your daughter.

So do we NOT buy physical, to show them we don’t approve of this practice, or DO we buy to show there’s a market for physical?

Either way, after trying to peddle this for £80-90 initially, not doing this poor game any favours.

BG3 and Expedition 33 have shown a cheaper price, and a good product, will sell shedloads and win you good publicity.

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Rughteous mostly for me. Almost 500 hours in. Almost finished. Good gods, almost finished. As in, probably another 15 hours or so.

Then I’ll be jumping into a mix of God of War: Ragnarok, Baldur’s Gate 3, Rogue Trader and maybe something under 100-500 hours long if might be so bold.

With the torrential flow of issues around its development I’m not massively surprised, but I was hoping it would be a surprise hit.

Still, I’ll play it when it inevitably comes to PS+ expecting the worst and finding it surprisingly enjoyable. Looks like it might scratch an itch at some point

Looks very intriguing, depending on price I’ll keep an eye out for this when it drops.

Honestly this is of very little interest to me. I’d rather hear:

• Will the combat/gameplay be crunchier and more exciting
• and/or will we get stronger characters (or really any memorable character will do), story and roleplaying

I did enjoy the first game, but it was a bit flat in all areas, and I’ve never wanted to go back for a second playthrough. It had a lot of potential I hope this will realise though.

I’ve already got the fantastic Silent Hill 2, great addition for those that haven’t.

But I’ve been wanting to play ‘V Rising’ for ages, waiting for a decent enough sale, and the others look interesting too. Good month!

I have a strong feeling performance will be choppy and it’ll need some patching, but it looks like it’ll be a tonne of fun.

It also looks like it’s focusing on “what would be fun” and “what would be cool/ridiculous” - it’s not trying to reinvent the wheel, it’s not being overblown as such by the studio. If it has just focused on those, I think it’ll deliver. Probably looking at a very fun 7 or 8/10.

Finally, a game that’ll let us beat up a bunch of children without a morality system!

I’m a huge fan of the Avatar series, if you’re an adult and haven’t both Last Airbender & Korra are well worth it. Korra builds up to huge ends to seasons, Last Airbender builds up to a huge final season - it’s slower, but both have incredible character arcs, world and heart.

How are there 33 comments and no one’s mentioned the sunglasses-inside, yaoi-handed, Beetlejuice-shrunken-headed, kylo-ren-shouldered monstrosity of a man in the trailer? The lady with planet-sized breasts straight off the bat too.

Looks superb. I’m in.

@Jacko11 Walmart don’t own ASDA anymore, the majority shares are owned by some faceless group that’s probably a hedgefund.

But the merch looks fun, hopefully it does cross the pond to our fair(ly grim) shores

@Jammer can’t find anything linking him to ANTIFA, might be worth double checking that.

They’re the hot new target to pin everything people don’t like on, but it’s worth remembering they’re just a largely unorganised group who oppose fascism, although some might put on self-defence classes or help spread relevant information - which is, generally, a good thing.

On this video, it’s disgusting and must have really scared staff. A strange man lurking in the dark shouting aggressively is weird stalker energy. Hopefully enough to get him a police warning.

@nomither6 I’m not about to declare a thumb war on them!

They’ve jumped the gun here - I know people pay to watch golf, and that gives false hope, but e-sports benefits more from extending its reach rather than capitalising on its niche market.

Then again who knows, it IS a sport, maybe they’ll sell enough to make it worthwhile, and maybe it’ll in some strange way make it feel more an established event.

Your reward is merch at a standard price? That’s a deal so bad I sneezed 14 times.

There’ll be bootleg versions within a month, probably sold cheaper.

Will you be limited in how many you buy? Or coukd you bulk buy and sell on?

Just seems ill thought out, and a bit exploitative.

Looks a lot of fun, but I never trust anything ‘free’ - cosmetics funding I can’t imagine going that far, once everyone’s bought the swimsuits and bunny ears for $15, what else are they going to buy?

But I suppose if you have millions of playing buying them it’ll tot up. I’ll keep an eye on this lil smorgasbords of stolen ideas.

Time will tell with this one - Disco Elysium is a spectacular, weird, wonderful unique game. It’ll be hard to capture the same heart, humour and intrigue, but not impossible. Hopefully we just end up with two groups of people making similar, wonderful games.

Damn those are some expensive horse tacks.

But can’t complain when base game is £55 and almost everything else and game is £80, perfect pricing really - something for everyone.

Good, traditional arcade shooter with great atmosphere and a bit of emotion and mystery looks great.

It looks like a game that knows what it is, leans fully into it, and doesn’t try to pad it out with needless fluff.

Looks fun and interesting! I wonder how they’ll play into battles though, and whether they’ll be repetitive music-wise. But definitely intrigued, will keep an eye on it.

It’s a truly breathtaking game. Controls are a bit clunky, the platforming can be a pain, but so much atmosphere and heart.

I’ve never played a game that had such an organic feel to a bond between characters - the way animations subtly change, how Trico listens to you more over time, the sparse use of a powerful OST. All just incredible, artful work.

That said, I definitely can’t afford $1,500 for a very pretty statue, but I’m sure some people will be very happy with it.

@LiamCroft thanks for the review, cautiously intrigued for this!

Just a few questions:

• Are the save or check points generous?
• Do enemies respawn?
• And, if you can answer spoiler free, does the increase in action/violence, or enemy design, have a story/character justification, or is it just purely more action-y for the gameplay change-up?

@Artois2 haha it made me laugh too, but I know what they meant.

Someone who purposefully wants to ruin other people’s enjoyment of something, for their own amusement, is an awful miserable thing to do.

Luckily my Mum’s not that!

@Elfuggingjefe spoken like someone who’s mum didn’t casually spoil ‘The Sixth Sense’ when it first came out. They can really ruin the impact a good twist can have at first.

But they tend to be easy enough to avoid, especially for a game that’s well known but not mainstream in the same way a new big show or film is, it’ll only be big in gaming spaces.

@PuppetMaster that’s a fair point - I just remember the earlier games being interesting worlds, intense gameplay and atmospheric in their own ways. But I was like 14 when I first played it, over 20 years ago, so perhaps not the most reliable critic.

But it does look fun, if the gameplay stays diverse, fast paced and challenging it’ll be a blast!

Looks fun but very much a PS2-style romp - run around bland generic environments slicing and dicing to nu-metal, interspersed I’m sure by sone techno-babble story around an evil shadow organisation running a corrupt world.

I could be wrong, and if I’m right, it could still be a fantastic old school arcade blast.

I hadn’t heard about this before but it looks fantastic, will definitely keep an eye on this and if it’s technically sound I’ll dive right in.

I think an episodic structure can work really well, I just need to know it won’t destroy my save hours in just before the end of the episode (thanks for that Lost Tapes)

I think it would be a very brave, or possibly insane, person that wouldn’t bet on this being gigantic - regardless of personal opinion GTA 5 is a game almost everyone gaming ended up playing or buying at one point.

Personally I’ll hold off for reviews - I’m sure it’ll be a lot of fun, but I have a feeling a game that size is going to come out a bit of a mess until a few patches are out

I’d love a remake, but I don’t feel it’s coming. I wouldn’t mind a bit of a fancy remaster though, some halfway point. It shouldn’t be too expensive to do a nice remaster and it would sell.

3/10 is about 310 more than it deserves for even daring to whisper ‘Bubsy 3D’ in the year of our lords 2025.

Please, permission to strike this monstrosities name from the histories, my liege.

A few games there I’ve been interested in, but hesitated buying. Not a bad month!

Completely forgot about this one - is it a souls-like, or can I play it without risk to my sanity or replaying the same 20 minute stretch if I suck?

The fact we have a new Bubsy and no hint of a new Sly Cooper is an indication of everything that’s wrong in the world. I don’t know how, or why, it just is.

Wouldn’t mind seeing more of the game. Seems I’ve heard more about Paradox doing Paradox nonsense than about the game itself.

@rusty82 That’s a good point, sorry I thought you meant the first Life is Strange. But it is worked better into the character and story, completely agree.

@rusty82 you preferred the game with the very openly bisexual protagonist? It’s a great game, so not arguing, just find it odd reasoning.

Exciting news about this show though - it’s a superb, twisty, heart wrenching story. They’ll have to make some decisions, but they could always do a sort of parallel alternative reality concurrent story, before or a second season if they go for it.

Some of the slang is dated, but they’re both massive nerds, Max is dorky. The outdated slang works for the characters I think.

Are there more generous save points? And do you still lose pretty much everything on death, unless you go find where you died?

It really frustrated me in the first game (or any souls-like tbh)

One of my all time absolute favourite openings to a game - really stunning first half hour, but after that as the game opens up it just all feels a bit hollow.

I love media that plays around with genres, but the game also just had a little too jarring a mishmash of genres. Trying to show a gritty, intense story or mission while you’re zipping enemies up in balloons to go to your Animal Crossing oilrig was just a bit too odd for me.
The world was dull and samey too.

When it focused, it was superb though, but I actually prefer ‘Ground Zeroes’ - oft overlooked, very short, but absolutely incredible gameplay and story

Good review, and gives an idea of what to expect. Sounds like I’ll just stick with Expedition 33 for now - flashy, timing-based challenging combat but with none of the negatives mentioned here.

I have too many games I need to play not to want more than “the combats pretty fun”

‘Cold Fear’ was the first horror game I played to completion, fantastic game. At least that’s all I remember, thinking “wow that was exciting, maybe I CAN play horror games!” - 20 years later I can confirm I cannot, although I try thanks to Cold Fear and The Thing.

@Meowmixes98 “you should be able to kill the dog”
Truly, a Bioshock fan if ever there was one.

The game is looking better and better. Love the style, music, gameplay looks fast and exciting and the gameplay dynamic sounds interesting. I just hope the ‘rogue-like’ nature doesn’t come at the expense of story or length.

I also hope you do not get a beloved animal companion you then have to kill, as fitting a Bioshock-like end that would be

Still intrigued, looking forward to the final reviews. I feel like “we walked away not entirely won over, but certainly intrigued” is an apt description of the first.

I enjoyed my time with it, plowed in about 50 hours, but it definitely lacked something, maybe heart and characters you cared about. It was all decent, just nothing special.

All games I’d love to play, but Stardew costs less than a Tesco’s meal deal and the others aren’t much more expensive.

But all good games I’d happily play, so I’m not going to complain too much.

Yikes. The acting looks dreadful, and seems a bit fast paced hollywood horror more than the slow burn horror I was hoping for.

But good films get terrible trailers, and the first Silent Hill was surprisingly good, so I’ll still give it a go.

You shouldn’t expect anything less from Paradox really. They’ve made some great games, but they’ve built their business on DLC. We should be glad it’s just one DLC and not £100+ of it.

I played one, maybe two of the games - they were perfectly fun. But they’re just big, dumb (if very funny in their sincerity) action shooters - unfortunately it inspired a whole raft of better games in the years since.

Looks interesting - nothing I’ve seen has ever quite captured the books, the Hellraiser film was close but his writing really gets under your skin while blowing your mind with its creativity, and quite often beauty. Hoping this game nails it, looking more and more promising!