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Didn’t Dead or Alive do this like 20 years ago?

That’s a lie Yoko, or we’d already be busy traumatising ourselves with Nier 3 by now - which would generate far more money than a collab.

But I do like the man has a sense of humour, and doesn’t pretend something is what it isn’t….unless it’s in his games where he’s setting you up for a twist that would make Shyamalan piss himself.

“New game features woman, white male gamers lose their minds” is about as reliable as the sun rising each morning. It’s amazing how entitled they feel for people so insecure.

This looks like the most JRPG a JRPG can be, if it’s relatively cheap I’d definitely be tempted.

Red Dead Yotei - looks incredible!

It’s a lot of fun, with great graphics and lots of different units, but I put about 50-60 hours in, had my fill, then felt no urge to carry on and complete it. But I enjoyed the time I had with it

Excellent news! Edgerunners absolutely blew me away, it’s a great world and aesthetic, I’d love anything we get

If we can get an emotional scene soundtracked by black metal again I’ll be over the moon though - I’ve still never seen it done before or after Edgerunners!

@gamer2004ama my dude, I missed the whole debate I was talking about Yoshi P. But I’m sure the reason he doesn’t want sexy mods, and I agree, is that the game has minors in.

The adult characters, sure, whatever floats peoples boats but that’s better outside the game, for the above reason.

But I see my comment came at an unfortunate point

My man, it’s too late - there was fan art before the game even came out

I’m replaying ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ after a long break, and it’s blowing me away with its story-telling all over again. ‘Immortals…’ was a technically sound game, with interesting world building that lacked a spark.
I think with their talents combined, they could cook up something very interesting.

Bland, soulless, generally unnerving cash-grab. Sounds a very faithful adaptation to me!

This continues to look fantastic, looking forward to seeing how it all turns out.

@ShogunRok I hadn’t heard about this, it looks interesting!

Is the gameplay all about light platforming and discussions, or is there any combat or puzzling involved?

Selling it without a disc drive or even vertical stand at premium price, when developers haven’t even begun to unlock standard PS5’s potential is a bit silly. But £550 I think would be fair for first time buyers without a PS5 yet.

I had an extended break from this game, so that’ll serve as a nice call back to its wonderful, weird arms.

A bit more razzle dazzle for £700 that doesn’t come with a disc drive, or, I’ve heard (and the internet never lies) a vertical stand? Sir, I started gaming on a Sega mega drive, a spit shine and polish wont sell me. Mostly because I don’t have the money, but still.

Based on the fact most PS5 games are coming out on PS4 too, at least you’d likely get many years of mileage on a pro console. Might even take you up to the release of Elder Scrolls 6, probably not up to the PS9’s Beyond Good & Evil 2 though

FFVIII was THE game that got me into gaming, led to an obsession with JRPG’s and really blew my little mind. It also absolutely completely ***** me over, when I ended up in a place you can’t escape under-levelled. Took a year and the use of a cheat disc (remember those?) to get further.

It’s still a surprisingly wonderful game, if a little more dated than, say, FF9, with its more ‘realistic’ graphics.

As long as you can punch Nazis I’m sold.

It doesn’t do anything wildly innovative, many of the systems in place are pretty basic and there’s sone dated ideas at play. BUT it’s also a lot of fun, been playing for about 10 hours and no technical issue, and it’s only getting more fun the more I play.

A solid 7/10 from me, I don’t regret the purchase at all.

The trailer had me at the 🦈 - this looks like it’ll be a lot of fun and fun-frustration

Hah great, I hope they lose an incredible amount of money, and give the sales a little boost for the hard work developers put into the game.

Scalpers are modern day con artists, absolute soggy plums

@PuppetMaster I don’t get your point, the AI looks perfect to me. What sort of Star Wars game would have stormtroopers able to hit their target?!

In all seriousness I’m really enjoying the game, they overhyped it and many things could be improved (and it’s not really ‘open world’). But the game is really enjoyable, lots to do, a great world to run around in. People forget 7/10 games are perfect for a low-pressure romp.

6/10 I think was a bit harsh, but the review raised fair points and you won’t always agree with a review.

@riceNpea I haven’t, and I haven’t seen the well-received tv adaptation either. Is it worth it?

@riceNpea had a similar thought, something about it makes be a bit uncomfortable. But as long as it’s not like “look at how bad a country owned by Japan would be”, and more an interesting bit of flavour and ironic/tongue in cheek, it could…still make me uncomfortable with that chest hair.

I’d love this to be the death of shedloads of live service games, but I know we’ll still continue to see them shoved on us. Great studios forced ti pivot into them, spending years chasing over, by time of release, long-gone highs.

But it won’t. Big-wigs won’t look at the Suicide Squad’s and Concorde’s, they’ll look at the Helldivers 2, and still go all in.

I’m really into rogue lites but for some reason bounced off this, that was late early access though so I really should give it another go - maybe it was just the wrong time

I’m playing it and very much enjoying it, but I’m not a huge Star Wars fan. It’s just good fun, yes a bit basic but just seems a more old school charm with a wonderfully realised world.

Looks like the kind of game where it’s exactly what you expect, which makes it easy to tell if you’ll enjoy it a lot or not. I will, so I’ll pick this up - I like a good, fun, no thrills romp here and there, to relax to.

You don’t get to be an Amazon Exec without being either:
A) a moron
B) a nasty little arrogant soulless gremlin
C) both

What do you get when you throw Final Fantasy, Nier Automata, Scavenger’s Reign and Shart into a blender? One of my most anticipated games of 2025, apparently!

I guess they realised no one would buy the Quidditch game, so decided to force it on us. More money to fund the witch going slowly insane from black mould to boot. Aside from that, an alright selection, Little Nightnares 2 will be fun!

Lots of fun without pushing the boat out is much appreciated these days - give me something I can jump in and out of after a hard days work and I’m sold. And maybe old. And, if I may be so bold, not short of the gold this side of the month

I’ll be waiting for the reviews, but I’m primed to pick this up if it reviews well, it releases just in time for my birthday this week

Looks like good, classic action adventure combat with nifty fantasy spells. As long as we get plenty of character building, dialogue choices and interesting worlds to explore im down.

My only concern is with all the combat shown it turns into a corridor action brawler, but hopefully they’re just showing off the exciting part. A 10 minute video of two characters talking isn’t going to win over the undecided.

@ShogunRok great review, thanks! Just wondering how long roughly the game is, or how long it took you to complete at least?

I’m only interested if it has a robust fishing minigame. Preferably from horseback. I’ll accept hot air balloon racing instead. They were in the teaser I think.

Yeah it looks fun! GoW meets Darksiders, hopefully the story and atmosphere can set it apart, but looks a perfectly fun palette cleanser at the moment.

This looks interesting, and potentially the power coukd lead to great narrative whiplash. Seems to tie in a little with the comics too, but I expect more incidentally.
I do hope we see some of Max’s old character in the full game, the characters are what make the games, and it would be a shame if it brushes over it all.

Definitely peaked my interest! I’d like to hear how the story and mechanics are before I dive in, could be great, or could be a great idea executed unexcitingly.

@ApostateMage absolutely no argument, he is! I was thinking more the slimy OCP suits, not The Old Man, maybe Chip.

He’s such a token RoboCop villain. If you think it’s too volatile, maybe don’t keep buying studios and closing them before they’ve released a game.

Consistently looking terrific, really excited for this one - this and seeing Max Caulfield return has made the incoming winter a little less utter bollocks

I didn’t realise it was a live action gatcha game, bit of a turn-off but if there’s plenty to do without spending more than a regular game it could be lovely!

I’ve just started a resist dark urge playthrough, and loving it - it’s an incredible mix of laugh out loud dark humour and really shocking twists.

I’ll give an evil dark urge run a go when this updates drops, I’m not sure how much girth he’ll have, mind.

That’s probably the best I will ever do in one of these quizzes and at least half were entirely random guesses. Why can’t my luck be more profitable?

Also why isn’t the correct answer for Question 10 not “JRPG Rhythm Stealth Wrestling Dog-Piss-Simulator”?

It looks fantastic, I’m playing through ‘RoboCop: Rogue City’ and looks like it’ll be a similar ride - fantastic fun with a pulpy story (maybe less of a sense of humour). I’ll be keeping an eye out for the review

Literally just remove Vanille or her absolutely, unrelentingly, hauntingly horrific voice from the game and I’m sold. The rest I grew to enjoy as a deviation, but my god…that voice…it still sends shivers down my spine and pain rings through my ears just thinking about it.

@kendomustdie great, thanks for the heads up - sounds like a roguelike almost, I might pick this up when winter rolls around!

I like horror games but I’m universally terrible at them, how’s the difficulty on this - are you likely to be dying and replaying long sections regularly if you’re not amazingly effective under terror?