@somnambulance Dragon's Crown? 👀

Black Myth was maybe the first of these "too good to be true" looking games, coming out of Asia. Wouldn't surprise me if people were quicker to jump on it for wanting proof. Now we all know that good games are getting made, but I suspect a few people are waiting for the physical release (myself included).

Sad news. I thought this looked ace in the trailers, and it would've been cool to get a standalone Yakuza style game, without 6 or so episodes of history to have to get through.

My main in VF back in the day! Not so sold on the character design, but he looks as much a b*stard as ever, both in and out of the fisticuffs.

But I thought it was all an issue about the consoles selling so fast, that the demand had outgrown supply! 🙄

All the better to admire the shadows of your swinging d*ck! 😅

For what it is, I don't think it looked too bad to begin with, but I got tired of the survival mechanics. Would have just rather a straightforward, multiplayer, action rpg!

@IntrepidWombat I think the secret to playing this well is actually to be VERY aggressive, rather than purely reactive. You can parry out of almost any attack animation, and on new game +, if you're spending half a boss fight waiting, they're gonna take forever.

I also enjoyed how easy the mobs were to kill. Keeps things flowing quickly, and they offer a chance to perfect the techniques that will see you through harder fights with relatively less risk. A lot of the enemies have somewhat similar attacks to certain bosses, so it's a great way to practice issen timing, amongst other things!

@Rich33 Agreed on the main open area feeling a bit bloated, yeah. I'd say also that, generally, all the bosses felt pretty easily surmountable in 1 or 2 tries, but agreed, a few of the final ones took a bit longer. The last boss, certainly took a few swings.

But, by time I got through them on carnage, everything seemed to click a little better for me, and I actually feel they were 'easier', because I knew how to respond to the given tells better. With the final boss, it was practically a flawless run, but I won't pretend it didn't take 20 odd tries to get there. (As you say, because 1 or 2 hits can completely ruin an attempt!)

@Fiendish-Beaver the latter option!

Edit: Well, there technically are combos, but it's all free-flowing and feels very fluid. Square x 3 is a combo. Triangle x 2 is a combo. You can square square triangle (for example) to start a quick combo and end it with a hard strike, etc.

It's all pretty intuitive, and feels and looks good, but no need to remember how to pull of certain combos or special moves.

@Rich33 I'd largely agree. The masked boss (as you called em!) I thought of as just a palette cleanser afyer the admittedly harder challenge, and I feel that's intentional. Would have been a slog going back to back to back doing the 3 hardest bosses, so a break between was a good idea.

The final hurdle was a pain, but actually, inevitably, I enjoyed the test, in the end. Played on carnage; beat the boss challenges on carnage, and got my platinum trophy. By the end, after 2 playthroughs, I was going back to fight harder bosses again with my heightened skills and wiping the floor with them, so actually, I think it all came together very well!

@MFTWrecks I actually also really enjoyed Wukong. I'm a big action game fan, and also played Stellar Blade. Have the platinum trophy for both, too! I'd say SB does play very well, but they're really very different games. Sure, Wukong might suffer from some design elements, but I still enjoyed learning to master its combat system, and the overall spectacle of the boss fights.

If you can, make sure to find and beat every secret area, before arriving at the last chapter. The secret boss fight for the alternate ending is unlike anything else! Essentially turns into Final Fantasy XVI

Had my eye on this for a while, but now it's coming to PS5, might just be a good time to get it!

All those suckers saying a physical edition wouldn't happen... FOOLS ON YOU! 😉

Recently got the plat for Onimusha. Initially thought the final few combat challenges would be a bit of a chore, but actually had such a blast, I went back a few more times to perfect them, post trophy! Such satisfying gameplay!

Surprising... looks every bit like a mobile/ gacha spin-off title, and I don't imagine the story will hold up to the mainline titles (not that the 7 remake series has been anything to write home about in that front!).

Why does her voice sound like that? 😂
I only ever heard the Japanese dub from T8, so it feels strangely out of whack...

Would have rather had Beta Ray Bill, but given he's in Cosmic Invasion, I'd have taken frog Thor instead. Venom's a bit played out by this point, so not much excited by his addition, and while Jubilee's a fun choice (even if her power sucks), I would have rather had Nightcrawler or Gambit.

@trestan Wukong got a physical release. I literally bought it on disc, and have lent it to a friend...

That's a shame. As a series fan, I think it looks very cool, and has some nice ideas. With a few tweaks and patches, maybe it'll be a better experience to play!

@PsBoxSwitchOwner A friend of mine, who is by no means a 'high profile' celebrity or online personality, did in fact recently have his whole psn account hacked and sold off. Think he was a victim of a data breach, and foolishly had shared account names and passwords, so they got his psn and several other personal bits of info, including email address.

He went to a lot of pains to get his account back, and it still seemed someone else was playing, and trying to download, games from his account. He's had to completely remove all card details, change his info, and essentially keep his psn offline.

You could, but do you really want to? 😉

@Glider8 Like GoW: Laufey?

Or more like TLoU?

I hear Spiderman 3 is gonna replace Peter and Miles with Gwen, too! 😉

Sony need to put that man back in charge

@Wiceheid Bingo! Part 2 was already full of terrible sides characters and constantly slowing the plot with filler. It's not just about the quantity of the side activity, but the quality - and yes, it's optional, but most people who buy a game like to see everything it has to offer. That doesn't contradict wanting your time to also be respected.

Read Dead 2 is the kind of game that can be played infinitely; side content is open and discoverable, but doesn't add or detract from enjoying the main experience. FF7 remakes are not the same type of game as RDR2.

@lindos I wouldn't have even thought of that, fair point!

He ain't wrong. Most exciting thing about Laufey is apparently a talking cube... 🤢

(And a jump button)

And that's 200gb of fantastic, non-filler, content, right? Right?!

Yeah, this guy clearly did not get, or did not understand, when people said Rebirth was full of pointless chaff.

Ni No Kuni (WotWW) is one of the few titles that genuinely compete with Pokemon in an interesting way. I'd have loved for them to stuck to the 'creature taming/ raising' part and just fine-tuned combat. It was a bit tricky, with resource management being as important as time management as important as positioning.... all a bit much.

@BonezKnowz I agree, but to play contrarian, we're literally talking about the artistry of film, as a more mature medium, on a thread about a guy who is having trouble escaping/ shooting lots of zombies, haha. And for every 'artless' game (that may still be fun!), cinema gives us an Anaconda, Transformers, or Sharknado.

Certainly, I think most games appeal to the market of just fun, but there's definitely some solid and thought provoking games in the mix, too! The opening of The Last of Us is straight out of cinema, and Disco Elysium is really something else, too!

Picked up Jedi Survivor not long ago, and the sort-of flimsy, whimsy, 'locked in an animation' combat took me some time to get used to, after playing fast paced action games more regularly. It actually made me better at lightning quick parry timing, because of how janky it felt to play, that other, harder, games felt easier in comparison.

Point is, if Witcher 3 can improve on the fluidity of combat, and revamp the rpg systems, it might very well feel like a whole new game; more like a sequel, in an old suit. Makes Witcher 4 an even more exciting prospect, if they can nail it.

@QuantumCipher_69 If you didn't get on with Nioh, I don't imagine you'd be so into this. It's the same team, and a very similar style of game, but with a bit more free-form combat and tied to Chinese, rather than Japanese, mythology.

@QuantumCipher_69 contrary to previous comment, I'd say it more-so is. More action combat oriented, than slower paced, but it is pretty tricky and you lose currency on death. Levelling up isn't as important as gear/ equipment, mind and there are ways to raise your power level in each stage (at least, in the 1st there was.) But it's still very much a masocore game that will throw all manner of tricky level design, traps and b*stard enemies your way to end you.

@ShadowRJ Absolutely. Sounds like they had such a popular IP, they were more worried about getting it comfortably into as many hands as possible, rather than making the core experience an actually good, and nuanced, one. Having deeper combat, with greater technicality and variety; more interesting level design, and so on. A combat heavy game needs the underlying foundation to be solid, and to grow as the game progresses, which it sounds like this does not.

I still think they should disable trophies, if/ when used. Seems ridiculous that so many people pined for the plat, that they couldn't get through legit means, and then 'cheated' their way to an easy victory, that others earned. Not like cheese strats didn't exist, for those that needed them, to beat the harder challenges, either!

I can say I got my plat, and after 200 hours, I worked damn hard for it!

It sounds, predictably, that it's going to be filled with just as much, if not more, of the open world bloat that partly impeded the pace of the sequel. As mentioned, Ubisoft seem to get flack for that design choice, but the FF remakes seem to get a pass? Not from me.

@Citrus_Architect How old are you, may I ask?

Half the games coming out these days have some degree of gore, or dismemberment, or otherwise. Most people aren't that fussed by fake violence, when the real world is actively engaged in genocide in various countries, as we speak.

I'm not trying to be rude, but... c'mon. If you can't put up with red pixels in a videogame, perhaps spend less time online.

Might look good (looks like an average horror to me), but it doesn't look like "Resident Evil"

@CutchuSlow I'd assume you probably don't hold all 3 buttons, but rather, hold circle, and then either L1 to block a left sided attack, or R1 to block to the right. Might be why Sammy couldn't get to grips with it?

Had no doubts that this was gonna be a great release!

@GirlVersusGame I mostly played Magic Archer in the first, but haven't played DD 2.

If I remember rightly, the levelling system was a bit weird, and you'd get stats for whatever class you're at, as you level up. So, I started as a mage, (to level up my magic), changed to a dex class for a bit, (for crits and dagger damage increase), then went back to sorcerer to (level up magic again). By time I went back to magic archer, I was doing mad damage pretty regularly, and it became a very strong class.

Sadly, don't think that's been incorporated this time, and stats change to whatever class you play as, which is a shame!

When I watched the GTA trailer, I thought "damn, they're good at this". But watching the gameplay here, I couldn't help but think they looked a bit more amateur; missing shots, getting hit and hardly any use of cover! 😅

Not so sure about the blue man group, either. Haha

Ooh yes. I was putting off a new playthrough, after jumping into new game + midway and realising I hadn't a clue what I was doing.
A fresh start, with a fresh coat, and double dlc sounds a good time.

If the magic system works well to really offer a lot of freedom in how you approach situations, rather than just the illusion of freedom, it could be pretty special. I like the idea of playing as a bit of a spell-sword.

@ShogunRok FFXV did pretty well with their secret boss fight against the adamantoise! 😂

But it was also an hour long battle (at least!) And Noctis could fly, so...

@RoomWithaMoose I was wondering myself what PS sales figured were looking like... somehow, I feel it's been a bit of a commercial flop. Doesn't look great for Sony's long term live-service plans at all.

Chained echoes has been on my wishlist for a little while, so pretty pleased with that!

Woah, it's almost like... wait for it... the gamers who buy games actually enjoy solid, single player, and offline experiences? Who would have known!

@symmetrian I'm with you on this! I loved Tekken Tag, because I could team up with a friend. So many tag fighters, yet none ever let you team up cooperatively. It's a damn shame.

I jumped in and launch, and I have to say... it didn't feel great to play. Compared to Tokon, and the flawless work that arcsystem put into animation, 2XKO felt like it was missing half the frames, and it looked and felt jittery to play, in my opinion. Not ideal for a fighter.

Being free, it's a shame, because there were some cool ideas, but it never seemed to have the love needed to make it really pop.

@Can-You-Believe-Sith Sounds a bit like what GoW Laufey is gonna be doing... much prefer the overall tone of this, however!