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I didn't watch the first season, and presumably won't watch this one either, but I did enjoy the games. Don't really see why they would choose to step away from how the character is in the games though? If it's already divisive, why invite further criticism by deviating from expectations? I want my butch Abby back! 💪

@RBMango Agreed. Barbarian was good for the first 30 mins, bit then turned to the ususal trite clichés and 'monster' route...

Not so optimistic about this one.

@Kidfunkadelic83 Yeah, World was full of things to do, content-wise, but the fact you still can't just have a coop campaign with friends, and all share progress seems a bit... wild.

@Kidfunkadelic83 Unfortunately, I think coop is still locked off behind cutscenes and story beats? Might be easier to jump into someone else's hunt, but not to make a kind of coop lobby and start hunts together, etc. (Haven't played it yet, just from what I've read elsewhere! Also my biggest gripe with the game...)

This makes me sad 😔

Oof! Uncanny! Now that's a game no one can complain about. (Sonic, obviously. 😉) Glad I held off from buying, as I was curious to play it, but not 70 quid curious.

In the last 5 years, a Pinocchio soulslike, and a horror film. There's already a Winnie the Pooh game that's apparently quite ominous. Bring on the mega-hard, twisted Peter Pan game next, I guess. Pending title: Escaping Neverland Ranch 😅

@ShogunRok I just asked those very questions about coop, but I'll delete my other comment! Cheers!

@Rabid_Gamer Big budget, or even, less budget, 'Single player action games' just don't seem to drop in price on ps store! Wukong, Stellar Blade, even Sekiro, basically stay at release price all year round, except for possibly a 10% reduction on sale.

@Nyne11Tyme Yeah, I was playing it locally, with a couple of mates only last year, and kept running into some weird bug at the same point on the 1st level, so it was basically unplayable. Such a shame!

@commentlife Wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment! I felt it was what Streets of Rage 4 was lacking, alongside more characters, which I guess they somewhat rectified with the dlc. But I feel like having this level of rpg style progression really gives a game like that extra legs. Castle Crashers and Scott Pilgrim are 2 examples that did it well.

Problem is, all the Japanese devs insisted that the Western market was the one they needed to crack, and started making games purely to attract that scope of audience. (Im looking at you square enix!) Now they're surprised that their software isn't shifting in the home country, because... you guys pretty much decided you didn't want it to!

Nintendo have never really changed their approach, or style. Plus marketing a console as also being a handheld makes it easier for the commuters to enjoy. But they certainly never said "we need to appeal to audience X more, so we'll start doing things differently".

It's about bloody time. Really, I know a lot of people (myself included) who are perfectly happy to play on a 1080p TV/ monitor. I don't need 'the best' graphics; I want fun, original, gameplay and innovative ideas.

@jgrangervikings1 Nice recommendation! I'm a fan of the Trine series, and this one missed me by completely! Will check it out, for sure.

Game just shouldn't have been made. Releasing against more popular titles, that essentially do the same thing, but better, and are more established, e.g. Lego. It was destined to fail, and the only ones at fault are the people who thought this was worth making, (or at least, weren't prepared to make it good and market it thoroughly).

Added to my collection for free, and still never got round to playing it. Would/ might bite for the 10 quid update, just to show support to the devs, before finally giving it a go!

A little Shadowheart for your Final Fantasy XVI. When Clive just doesn't cut it, it's time to bring in Gwyndolin 😂

Who knew English culture was coming back in such a big way for the Asian market!

Looking interesting with the environmental attacks, and seemingly ways of manipulating the enemies with parries/ stances. I'm confident Capcom will smash it!
And probably would have played with the Japanese dub, regardless of the bad cockney accent!

@MFTWrecks I was playing Stranger of Paradise yesterday, and after platting FF16, I immediately felt the combat was off. Took me a second to realise, it was because there was no 'jump' button! It's like playing Elden Ring for the first time again, after other souls games, and realising how much of a difference being able to jump away/ over/ towards things really adds to your sense of freedom in combat!

@nomither6 If they do go the batman route, I would also prefer it be set in the 'future' universe. A big, tech-based city, full of skyscrapers and a cyberpunk aesthetic, with Terry as the player character.

"Execs we're not confident about creating an original, narratively complex, game and instead decided to double down on copy-paste 3rd person action material, and chasing live service trends." Gotcha! 😉

It's almost as if they thought a turn based, traditional, rpg wouldn't sell many copies... and it did. Who would've thought. And all this time, they keep pushing the narrative that only 3rd person action games sell well these days.

Looks very 'free to play' to me. Giving some Genshin Impact vibes.

@soyabean135876 When I saw the first preview, I thought it looked like combat would run it's limit very quickly. I've held off from picking it up (the only DA game I haven't played immediately!), and I'm not that keen to get it, but I think a lack of nuance is a criticism that could be levelled at the whole game.

@Pat_trick I don't know man... everything I hear about Zaslav, from Warner Bros, makes me think he might take the cake!

I was always a big fan of the Onimusha series, and I feel it would have been great to get an actual remake, a la Ninja Gaiden, rather than just a remaster. Certainly the latter entries would benefit!

@RBMango I literally bought an Xbox just to play the original Fable, back in the day. I even bought the game first, to inspire me to save for the console. If the next Fable comes to PS (and is good!) I'll cry tears of joy 🥲

They need to bring the experience closer to the original NG 2! And then fix the camera... 😉

Keep the good extra content from sigma but make the enemies more aggressive and more numerous, but with less health!

The game was all about mastering technique and risk/ reward. Every enemy should be absolutely lethal- but so are you! Ryu has incredible speed and skills, so why should it take 5 minutes to batter a grunt? (Exaggeration)

I feel like the new GoW games have this issue, where enemies are so spongey, it doesn't make sense, and makes Kratos look weak in comparison...

I want my screen full of dismembered corpses, and to feel like every combat scenario requires the full application of your ninja skills!

They dropped the ball so many times with this. At launch, it had hardly any local multiplayer options, and is still missing a good deal of stuff for offline play. The UI is a terrible mess, and the screens are horrendous to navigate. The coop mode was really pretty shallow, although they did do well with introducing the seasons. But ultimately, it being such a grind for characters, (and I know a few people who said they lost half their unlocks across the reboot!) And it constantly feeling like a half-baked work in progress, (constant matchmaking issues, rarely feeling balanced etc.) really ruined what had real potential to be a fun game.

@Hyena_socks The haptic feedback and the variable tension of the triggers are 2 of the things I was most hyped about the ps5, along with the increased load speed. And yeah, hardly anyone utilises it well! Such a shame. Ps3 had me hyped with the gyroscope, and beyond using the digital keyboard, I can only think of maybe 1 or 2 games that ever implemented it. Again, such a shame!

So much good and fun tech on the ps5, and all the devs seem to be doing is chasing instability through attention to details and graphics, rather than innovation with the hardware.

I dont need to see every snowflake in crisp 4k detail, with ray tracing... but I'd like a steady framerate and games that feel novel and interesting.

@Ainu20 In the dlc, the final boss boasts a few different weapon types that he introduces, and one would befit a Aztec/ Mayan theme, which could be cool... and would definitely bring more of an 'angry' Kratos vibe, I imagine.

@Oram77 I would second the motion for having angry Kratos back!

@dark_knightmare2 First point was for stating Tifa was the best, but the cherry on top was your perfect use of milquetoast! Haha, such a good word, tragically underutilised!

It shouldn't be this hard to make a good, adapted, RE zombie film... just some decently acted / grounded characters from the games, with guns, trying to survive and get their way out of a zombie outbreak. Please, no weird superhero thing going on!

And I'll say it again; it's no wonder that physical sales are flagging, when it takes 2 months (or more!) for a digital version to reach disc. If they released simultaneously, I'm sure digital sales wouldn't be as big a slice of the metaphorical pie.

More excited about this than Ninja Gaiden 4! One of the best 3rd perosn action games; we've gone from a dearth of classic ps3 era style games to a whole feast the past 6 months. 👌

I was a little disappointed, until I saw Ryu. But... the tone and the art direction seem very off to me. Not as maturely grim/ horror as it used to be?

@Marquez They already did 🥲

Funnily, there were several fashion articles that featured FF7 remake, at the time of it's release. Particularly the style of Rufus, but I believe big coats, straps, and white denim was big that season, and FF7 seemed to catch a lot of positive attention, for its casts' outfits.

Will be keen to check out the cross-platform functionality and give it another good go with a full party of friends for maximum chaos!
But big hopes for Divinity 3! 🤞

@Greifchen Sorry! Forgot the decimal in-between, haha. Will rectify!

@ChrisDeku While those games might represent the highest quality in production, they're all a bit 'niche' still. Ff VII Rebirth is a part 2/3, so people will either have not played the first, or, like me- fallen off from the nonsense that was shoehorned in. Indie is a console/ microsoft exclusive, (maybe on ganepass also, so of course there'll be low sales) and Astro, likewise another exclusive, just doesn't appeal to certain audiences, myself included. (Because it's very pricey for a 20 hour campaign)

However, Space Marine 2, a AA title, has already sold 4.5 million copies. It's also cross-play, and I've been playing it with friends across pc/ xbox and ps5.

So clearly, this isn't about putting money in to get money out, it's about understanding what has an appeal to the customer, and why. Bloated costs don't necessarily make a better (or more fun) game.

The portal in black looks so much neater and nicer. I really have no use for one, but this and the 30th anniversary edition look lovely. Way less chance of getting cheesey dorrito stains all over it, too!

@dskatter Well that is good of them, at least. Though I feel like it's the kind of game I'd ideally play online with a mate, to escape some of the drudgery - but then, our limited time is probably better spent elsewhere, anyway! 🤷‍♂️

Is SS gonna get taken offline before I ever even find the enthusisam, or curiosity, to play it? Probably. Somewhat tempted to not download it just to show my disdain...

@Brundleflies21 heh heh heh, thank you.

@Brundleflies21 What're ya buying?

@symmetrian No, for sure. I didn't play ZZZ, but I played the SB demo, and can see that it's actually a decent game at the core. It's precisely the people who want to seemingly use these games as an outlet for their fantasies, and then complain about not being able to see pants that I find a bit... dubious.

As you say- if that's what you want, there are plenty of other (free) ways to get it. But people paying for costumes, just to look at pixel pants, and then getting upset that you can't perv on the character anymore... I'd say it's time to turn that camera inwards, and reflect on some things, haha.

These are the same fans who proclaimed Stellar Blade to be their game of the year, I assume? And have likewise been playing with 1 hand all year...

I joke, but really... there's more to life than complaining about pixilated pants- or their subsequent lack of visibility.

@ Khayl I have to mention again, as it's the 2nd time you've called it a 'battle royale' in an article, but... it isn't? Theres no pvp, it's entirely pve, and the only similarity to Fortnite- or any battle royale- is the decreasing arena size. But, given the focus is entirely on cooperating to power up, while allowing for people to veer off in different directions, how exactly does it fit the 'battle royale' category? Again, I think that's a bit misleading to call it such, and Push Square seems to be the only site using that term to describe it (despite getting your info from elsewhere...).
Edit: To be more specific: it's a co-op rougelike!