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I'll believe it when I see it. They've all been pretty disappointing up until this point.

The whole bear thing was a bit of a viral shock story. Nothing wrong there, though. I imagine it's almost a parody of the romance options in RPG games. Just something a little bit silly, takes the edge off.

That aside, I can't imagine it was really a contributing factor to the meteoric rise of the game. Baldur's Gate 3 just has the appearances of a very good RPG, and they've let people test that by jumping in early. It's very promising, and I'm hopeful it'll shape up to be a solid entry.

@Jamesblob I can guarantee that you're wrong.

I imagine if people wanted to play these games, they've probably played them already. I mean, if you haven't already played Undertale, where have you been?

I absolutely would like to see how this game turns out. Only problem is that titles like Divinity, Wasteland, and Pillars of Eternity have never fully appealed to me. I never got along well with turn-based mechanics.

Like if an AI generator generated an AI generator, and then got fed data about cakes and pastries halfway through.

@trev666 It's for the Plague team, so it's pretty much a given that it'll be related to Plague Tale.

Nintendo are still practically playing a different game to Sony and MS when it comes to competing for a share of the gaming market.

I don't know what to expect from this. I'm hoping it'll be true to the Test Drive name and have all of the original features (property, garages, dealership showrooms, etc.) from TDU1 and 2.

I also don't really want to get my hopes up, because I don't think these developers have really proven themselves yet. I also really don't want this to just be another FH or TC.

It just generally seems like a swing and a miss to me. A great misjudgement with respect to whom this game might actually appeal. Is it for a Japanese audience, or a western (British, American, Cont. European) audience? Because, from what I've seen, it struggles to appeal to either.

In all honesty, I think I've probably had enough of RDR for now. RDR2 was so bulky and content rich that there's really nothing that could add to it. Especially since the original will now feel archaic by comparison.

The Day Before has a contender. In all seriousness, I'll regret the day when these awful knockoffs dry up. Like watching Neil Breen films ironically, it's a unique form of entertainment.

Amnesia would probably be my personal choice.

Depends on which of those three titles they lean more into. If Dark Souls, I'm all for it. GoT, ehh, maybe. AC, kill it with fire.

I've been using the PS5 for half a year now and I don't think I've even once come across this service.

I didn't really need a part II. The first game ended perfectly well. There's nothing inherently wrong with II but it just feels like a developer trying to drag out something that could just as easily have been a one and done thing, like SOMA.

I've never once spent money on virtual currencies in games, and I never will. It's a crying shame that others who are in the same boat are forced to accept MTX in games even though they consciously do everything in their power to avoid it, and to avoid encouraging it.

I haven't really found much worth playing on the PS5 recently so I'm back to playing DA:O on Steam, alongside my usual obsession with RS14.

Probably the first time in a long time I've actually been quite happy with PS+ games. Not massively thrilled, mind, but I've been meaning to play Alan Wake again and I'd like to give CoD a shot.

But it's a given that this is just going to be a soft remaster, in the sense that it's the same game with sharper resolution and more detailed textures, right? I can't picture this being a full reboot. In that case, I don't much care for it. Black Flag was fine, a solid 7/10, but that's really all I can say about it.

You spend forever fighting these bugs. At least it's honest on that front.

A live service game that is sold, not available as a free download, struggling to maintain even passing interest. These companies are genuinely delusional.

@Quintumply Well, I certainly walked right into that one. Well played.

Good in a sense. ME and DA are what Bioware do best (aside from the fairly catastrophic Andromeda). I'm holding onto hope that ME:A and Anthem were just hiccups. Can't imagine there's much lamentation for the inevitable loss of a prospective Anthem 2.

@Triumph741 Yeah, how many studios have they shut down in the past two decades? Something like four, five? I recall Visceral, Black Box, Pandemic, maybe a couple others (I don't know if Ghost are still around, Criterion has been gutted). EA might be playing the reaper yet again.

This is it. We've officially hit the bottom.

Seems like this game is its own A Machine for Pigs, or Penumbra Requiem: lacking in overall engagement with emphasis placed on atmosphere and puzzles, with little else to interact with or enjoy. Certainly seems like an acquired taste.

This seems to be a decent month, to my surprise. Alan Wake Remastered alone would be worth a go, and I'd been meaning to try this entry of CoD but didn't want to put money down on it.

King is one of the only good people left on Twitter today. I used to read a lot of his stories (The Shining, Cell, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, etc.) back when I was a teen, so around when Alan Wake released. I'm glad he's managed to remain level headed to this day. Quality guy.

A risky manoeuvre given the relatively small install base of VR. It'll probably just be a tiny side project or glorified tech demo that people forget about after a month or so.

I think I'll start investing in a gaming PC so that I can keep up with the shifting landscape of MS exclusives. I have a feeling that might be my core platform in the next three to four years or so, since a number of Sony games and all (as far as I'm aware) MS games usually end up on PC anyway.

I am playing a fantasy, in fact. One of the greatest, most meaningful, most memorable, most influential fantasies in gaming history.

Dragon Age Origins.

EA, trying especially hard to reclaim their spot as worst company in the US.

People who own gaming PCs are just out there enjoying the drama, I imagine.

The one thing that JRPGs never seem to get right are the side quests. I always find them rather tedious. Even Yakuza 0 and Judgment, which are both stellar titles, are packed with needless filler. That's the one thing that's putting me off at this time. I'm going to wait for a substantial price drop.

@Matroska A while? It was mentioned once in a singular paragraph, and I think it's a legitimate criticism with respect to world building.

If I cared any less about this petty exchange, I'd fold into myself and form a singularity. Two corporate behemoths deciding who gets the shooty bang bang games. Quelle surprise.

I always viewed it as an uninspired Dead Space successor. There's just not a lot that excites me about it.

I would just like to know how similar it is to the first two. There are things I enjoyed (story, character development, combat, motion) and things I heavily disliked (collectibles and needless busy work, certain characters, generic open world filler).

After Elden Ring, I believe my standards for games have shot right up. Nothing as of yet has even touched it.

It's a shame that we're going to miss out on a cookie cutter endless runner and some base building game with timers that stretch into weeks and months. How could they do this to us?

Maybe two games I'm interested in trying (Far Cry 6 and Inscryption). The rest are pretty old titles that I already own (Thief and Deus Ex). There are definitely some decent games there, just that I imagine most people who wanted to play them probably already bought them (I think this is reflected in the poll).

Maybe I don't understand Diablo 4, but isn't it entirely cooperative? Are they really nerfing a non-competitive game? It seems pretty blatant what they're trying to do here if that's the case.

I'd rather know if the game is actually good first. There are rumours of MTX which would turn me off the game entirely, but they're just rumours right now.

Ah, typical Ubisoft. Synonymous with tone-deaf themes and mediocrity.

Most seem to be overlooking the rather obvious side effect of subscription services: you don't own the game. That means that you could spend hundreds on a service over more than a year / two years, play several dozen games or more, but then have to buy those games anyway if you terminate the service. So it's the cost of the games on top of whatever you spent on the subscription model.

That could, theoretically, mean that you either spend £100 plus, say, £35 (given sales and such) multiplied by the number of games you might still want to play, or £70 straight up, multiplied the same way.

It's a minute leap with respect to pricing, I imagine that's part of it. Even so, I've yet to feel any real incentive to upgrade. Claiming it's only a couple quid more I think doesn't really address the point, which is that the benefits of premium really aren't that fantastic, even for three pounds or so.

@Cordyceps Yeah, I want a GTA game set in (or near) Carcer City. I don't think the franchise has covered that level of absolute urban decay just yet, and it'd work pretty well I would say.

@Sil_Am It's actually roughly every three years. Also, if I'm not mistaken, they have two development teams (A and B).

If it's streaming, it's probably a hard pass from me. I'd love to play old games (namely, PS3, PS2 and PS1) but I can't stand streaming them. Then again, if it's a download, I'll probably give it a go.

I might be in the minority here but I can't imagine this is going to be the boost that people expect it to be (or hope it to be). The jump from the PS4 to the PS5 is arguably the least noticeable of any console generation. I've yet to play a game on the PS5 that matches the graphics of, say, RDR2.

Looks fine. I'm just tired of the whole "festival" trope. The Crew had a pretty tacky story but at least it was different from most other racing games at the time. There was actually something beneath all of the driving, some kind of incentive beyond the vacuous "be the best" goal.

Now, all racing games (FH, The Crew, Test Drive, Grid, etc.) have some homogeneous aim. Guess I just miss the days of corny stories like in NFS MW and mad combat racing like in Burnout 3. It all feels so safe today.