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I'll be waiting for the PS5 release but I think it's a good idea to keep low expectations with this one.

Alright I think I'm gonna grab it. There doesn't seem to be anything of interest coming out in January for me so perfect opportunity to play the first game right before the second.

Everyone play Koudelka. That's all I have to add.

I FORGOT VINCIENT NOOOOOO

Oh cool, I just saw this on sale today and bit. Guess I'll wait for the update to start playing.

Resident Evil 2, Final Fantasy IX, Silent Hill, Koudelka, Klonoa, Final Fantasy VII, Atelier Elie, Mega Man Legends 1,2, & the Misadventures of Tron Bonne.

Some throats are simply too powerful to slit. The blade breaks upon impact.

We'll all be long dead before Ryo gets his revenge.

Doing more research, the original Venus Vacation is free (Koei Tecmo free aka riddled with additional purchases) and has native English supported as well. If you're willing to jump through some VPN hoops to get past Steam's region lock you can play it no problem.

@Keyblade-Dan Looked it up, this one's surprisingly a sequel to ANOTHER Asia exclusive DoA dating sim. The original had 9 initial characters which included most of the DoA mainstays, then DLC added an additional 20 so I wouldn't be surprised if the same happens here. Prepare to shell out extra for Kasumi I guess.

@Gunnerzaurus I don't think people ought to enjoy or be positive about things they either don't care about or don't like outright. The thing you nailed on the head is that OP has already come to a conclusion that the things he doesn't like are objectively bad, and he's clearly not willing to hear out an alternative perspective, that's why he answered his own question in his comment.
I'd say attack bad criticisms rather than saying don't ever make criticisms.

These look like the characters out of touch market teams put on energy drinks and doritos bags to try to appeal to gamers so that checks out lol.
That spiky green ***** is giving real "redeem code for 2000xp in-game" energy something bad.

But is this anything new? I know one of these ***** shooters has Nikki Minaj or some lady pop star as a playable character and I'm not thinking of Fornite. Seems like integrity to the war setting went out the window a long time ago, why expect CoD of all things to make it suddenly return?

@Icey664 Stellar Blade AND Unicorn Overlord unfortunately. They'll get relegated to nominees for "Best Action Game" and "Best RPG" respectively. Emio - The Smiling Man is my GOTY, but there's no dimension where that shows up for anything, let alone game of the year lol

@Azex I think these are the best guesses, with the exception that I would replace Tekken 8 with Silent Hill 2 due to recency bias. I've noticed that unless the game is INCREDIBLY mainstream, games released near the end of the year get billing over games released earlier. An example from last year I think Alan Wake II only got nominated because it was released a month earlier and still fresh for the journalist sites who cast the votes.
I also think they're going to try to sneak Veilguard in there, but at this point I believe there's too much pushback on the game's reception for anyone to buy it's a GOTY contender. Like at least TLoU2 was a divisive game, Veilguard seems to be outright rejected by the wider audience.
Guess we'll know on Monday.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I'm convinced Square Enix won't be satisfied with sales numbers until all 8 billion people on the planet buy their game.

@AhmadSumadi Imo I think it's second only to the combat. People love customizing their player character, and there's a lot of appeal in a game that comes with a truck load of unlockable costumes where usually those are relegated to paid DLC. You really don't see it that often, only other (current gen) game off the top of my head like it is Mario Odyssey.

This game is getting content updates ALL the time, it's crazy! Stellar Blade isn't my GOTY and I'm like 95% sure it won't be nominated for the Game Awards. But idk, at this point with how good the base game is plus all the post-launch support it's getting, I think it deserves to be in the running at least.

@somnambulance Bro could you imagine? You give me the kind of crazy and inventive games that were coming out for their consoles in the 90s I'd buy a new Sega in a heartbeat!

Veilguard is certainly looking like a 3/10 from the playthroughs I've been watching so I guess at the very least the user score better reflects the actual quality of the game.
I don't condone review bombing one way or the other, and that includes when a bunch of cherry picked journalist sites overrate a bad game.

Are there any notable differences that should compel me to not just buy a used copy for the PS4? That seems to be the way to go.

@DennisReynolds
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1845910/discussions/0/4635985982183842922/?l=german
Seems like he's referring to this. I've never written a review on Steam myself but from what I'm reading only Valve can delete reviews and they only do it if the content of the reviews breach user policy (eg spamming hateful language) or if the reviewer refunds the game.
So that is more than likely the case rather than any sort of attempt at obfuscation.
This isn't an endorsement of the game on my part, I've been watching a playthrough and five hours in it looks just as crap as I assumed it would be. But I'd like to not entertain conspiracy theories about positive reviews and sales numbers over more sensible explanations.

I see a storm- a very familiar storm, brewing on the horizon.

@get2sammyb For $200 million they could've made three Gravity Rushs and SIX Ape Escapes, and they'd ALL still be on the PS storefront smh

@Loamy Lol yeah

Immeasurable amounts of shock. Who could have seen this coming!?

@Loamy They hit some and they miss some

Really hope the game is good, Machine Games is very hit and miss. Very mixed on what they've shown so far but we'll just have to wait and see.

ZACK MY BELOVED

@ATaco Same, it's a good strategy. I'm convinced the W-engine banner is a polychrome scam lol

Still have been lucky enough to get both agents. I really wanted Caesar and Burnice, only really interested in Lighter for 1.3, but at this point might as well pull for Yanagi anyways.

I do wonder how canon people think this game is nowadays, Carpenter included. It gives you a definitive answer as to what happens at the end of the movie that, from the DVD commentary between Carpenter and Russell, wanted to keep that ambiguous.

Now to be fair, I think that commentary predates the video game, so he could've changed his mind, but idk, I'm sure if you were to ask him now his answer wouldn't align with the events of the game.
Also very amusing that everything to do with The Thing is just titled The Thing lol, you couldn't get away with that for any other franchise.

Bummer considering it wasn't due to lack of quality that the majority of their games didn't sell well, it was just the market at the time.
I'm willing to bet a new Ape Escape or Gravity Rush, or an original IP entirely from them would do really well nowadays given better marketing and a platform with a larger and more receptive audience. Wouldn't do God of War numbers but they'd be getting consistent hits. But I guess we'll never know for sure.

Glad to hear the game will be on the shorter side as far as RPGs are concerned. 100 hr RPGs are nice every once in a while but there is typically a LOT of bloat throughout.

@JohntheRaptor That also caught me by surprise, but I looked it up and it was going up against God of War that year. R.I.P.

@LavenderShroud I have my trophy notifications turned off and I only check it after I've seen the credits roll. Then I'll start hunting if I want to keep playing the game or replay it.

Anime arena fighter let's gooooooooooo

I can't believe there's a game called Ultimate Battle 22, and sure enough, it's named that because there are 22 playable characters. You've gotta be ***** with me.

Lol at this point I've heard more about what won't be in this game than what will.

You're right, the 2001 game looks amazing!

Will relish the day when we can all stand together and admit that Ubisoft is just plain cringe. I find it hard to believe this studio of all studios actually gives a ***** about Yasuke and his history as opposed to they're using him as a tick on their corporate mandated checklist, and as an accessory to deflect criticism the same way Disney does.

Thankfully that hasn't worked out for them so far out of sheer buffoonery on their behalf. I would give the benefit of the doubt of a 'Yasuke game' to any company other than Ubisoft, but these guys I am happy to watch flounder, I'm not even ashamed to admit it.

Bass Armstrong bout to be grandfather frfr

@yazzika Maybe the game just sucks so much ass that more than one person dislikes it, food for thought.

For immersion of course.

There's actually a secret fourth question before these three being "Am I going to play this?" to which most people have already checked off "NO".

Culture war brain worms

These are usually letdowns, but fingers crossed for a THIRD Little Devil Inside trailer! That game is definitely coming out someday.

@get2sammyb I've heard all the RePop version does is water-down the gore. So I'm assuming all these issues apply to the "original" version of the game too?
Think it may be worth just picking up an old copy for the PS3?

They've had good momentum so far, there's always something new to do every few days, even if it's just something small. And it's awesome how much variety they stuff into this game, though I wish the various minigames could be a bit harder, all of them outside of the arcade games are piss easy.
I'll finally be able make team presets which was my most wanted feature! I've been getting super lucky with pulls, the only two characters I don't have right now are Ellen & Rina, and the only money I've put into the game has been the $5 monthly subscription. That luck's gonna run out but hopefully no time soon lol.

Lol the splash art at the end makes it look like the phone is playable too.
How many people here are still playing this game, out of curiosity?

I don't think the author knows the difference between a live service model and a content update.