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This is a great article, a list at the start might be helpful but it’s great having a bit of text, sone screenshots and the price comparison.

That said I need to be sensible and not buy any of these this month, I’m already playing 3 new games at the moment.

I bought this at release, found it very hollow and bland, with characters that were fine.

However having in the meantime replayed Inquisition, maybe I’ll come to it more in the mood, and for free I’ll dive back in. Maybe the story and characters pick up after I left off.

I’m super psyched by these growing numbers - there’s nothing like the Fable series. Funny, truly magical worlds where you really feel lost in a fairy tale. Also, look at that Werewolf! When have we ever had a werewolf look that good? And the world looks beautiful in the footage.

Some folk are just hard to please.

Vandal Hearts III confirmed.

One day I’ll read those words, one day.

@Ilyn I’ve no idea I’m afraid, just visually reminded me of it a lot.

Goodbye Volcano High and BoJack Horseman in the same game, what is this, a crossover episode?!

Is the game where we had a big introduction from the Dev, a sort of Cozy-game deconstruction about mental health, or is this a similar but different game? Looks a bit more cute than what I remembered.

It’s all about Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, but I might dip into Silent Hill 2 remake then when I get too scared move over to Atelier Sophie 2, picked both up in recent sales…talk about whiplash

Gods I’d forgotten all about this show, genuinely is a blast from the past! Honestly it’s a wonder any 90s kid didn’t end up a furry, with this, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Raccoons, Biker Mice from Mars, Street Sharks. So many cool animal shows. So much pizza and root beer.

I don’t think I’ve seen much about this game, not sure id call it highly anticipated. It’s not more anticipated as GTA6 or the next Elder Scrolls. Seems to be more hype around Expedition 33 even.

Very much looking forward to this, I’m going to save it for the weekend but will likely blitz through it. I’ve only played DontNod games with all parts out before, so looking forward to getting the full experience of build up and pay off this time

Really excited but wary about this one - it looks so promising, I’m genuinely excited for it which I’m not for many games, but I’ll wait for those reviews.

I’m expecting some jank on release, it’s a small team and ambitious project, but I can put up with that if they stick the landing on story and atmosphere.

It was a good year to get into the game, but I didn’t realise it was only those 4 games - no FFIX! ;(

Edit: the full set WILL include all mainline games! Just these commander presets are the 4 games.

As standard then - releases in a perfectly fun but almost beta state, then after a few months to a year it’ll have the DLC’s to turn it into a full game at over £100. I’ll wait for a sale on the ‘Complete Edition’

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.