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I would just like to be able to play coop with friends, seamlessly, regardless of quest, mode, or respective player progress... 🥲

Please don't butcher my baby! 😭😭

@Ravix Witcher 3 did this brilliantly, I felt. It took practically till the end game before you started to feel flush for coins!

Hmmm.... debatable... 😉

I never expected this to deliver a 'games as a service' type model, and between playing the campaign 3 times (with 2 other friends), and then hopping into the missions with them to level up a few classes, I've had a good time. Some more enemy variety, or a few new additions would help to keep things fresh, but I think it's a solid game to come back to every now and then, and I still havent tried the pvp mode yet.

People are just used to rinsing always online multiplayers, putting in hundreds of hours, and are expecting this to have the same longevity as a live-service title, which it isn't.

@Cutmastavictory You can play with bots online, if you want, but they're not particularly useful at higher levels unless you're very good!
There is also something of a 'mage' class, with shooting lightning and popping enemies' heads. Not quite a necromancer, but a fun time!

As a longtime Tekken fan, this seems a strange decision. Haven't booted up 8 in a while though, so remains to be seen how it'll feel when I (eventually) get back into it. I just hope they don't nerf my boy (bear?) Kuma - the secret best character. 😏

Aside from the art direction, there wasn't really much to make this game stand out for me personally. Perhaps the attachment of the IP will draw in a few fans, but from the demo, it just felt like a lacklustre game without very satisfying combat. At a time when even AAA games are failing, was it really a good decision to make this?

@graymamba I will absolutely give you, that, while FF16 did initially turn me off it a bit, with its push to all out action; once I got into it, I very much enjoyed it as an action rpg, and thought the presentation, story, and acting all throughout were pretty stellar. Not my favourite FF game, but a pretty awesome game, nevertheless.

@Onearmbandit The 1st is a lot of fun, but my God, if it doesn't feel like the RNG and systems are actively working against you half the time! I really enjoyed it, but that was slightly cheapened by the number of times my squad died of heart attacks mid way through a dungeon...

This is going to be terrible, and we'll just have to accept it. People just don't seem able (generally speaking) to do video game adaptations well. Or, it's always the wrong people getting to call the shots, who have no implicit understanding or experience with the source material. Truly baffling.

Yeah, it's alright. Haven't completed it, yet, but I really haven't been as blown away as the reviews suggested. It's fun, and there's been some amusing parts, but the gameplay is also quite shallow at points, and the storyline really doesn't interest me much- though I'm certainly glad to be rid of a certain, obnoxious, talking book. I give it a 7. Not something I would usually pay full price for, but would've given a higher score if it were cheaper/ a ps plus game.

@Colour The game/gun play was good, and the set pieces were cool, but the writing and characters were god awful.

The game I'm most looking forward to right now! Always keen for more coop action/ adventures, to take me back to the good old days of playing BG Dark Alliance with friends.

@NeonTiger No worries! Deleted mine as well - good to know we can all appreciate a joke! 😉 🙌

@Shinnok789 Just got unlucky with the first comment! Haha

@Shinnok789 I'm guessing he's aware of that, and is being humorous or ironic?

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!