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You know... it's not bad, but i just couldn't bring myself to finishing it. The pacing is frankly horrible. It's designed like an anime where each episode aka island is it's own little adventure and without a central plot i lost interest.
This was on the 3DS remake. This new remake looks better but i still remember how bored i was of it all. Ofc, copious amounts of grinding.

Well... are they planning a branching timeline? That would be cool.
I played the original and have no interest in replaying but the new scenario may make this worthwhile. It's a way to get out of the V3 series ending.

Sounds like "ambitious" will be the excuse for not releasing a new game in 5+ years. It's already been 5, i don't see this releasing before at least another 2 years, if not more. Actually, i bet it will be a cross gen game with ps6.

That's ok. Doesn't bother me.
People shouldn't expect pre-release reviews.
Actually, it's preferable this way cause the review gains more legitimacy if it doesn't have the cloud of having to please the publisher for future acess, over it.

Finally... this one took a while.
I know these guys don't make the best remakes, but it is a more modern look as an option. I still got the saturn games, so i don't mind the additional version.

It would be insane if they remade Panzer dragoon Saga next.

I worry about the consequences of this on game quality. I never went for these console services, quite honestly they are bait and switch schemes.

Oh no... that's not gonna work out.

I mean... yeah, i don't think it's shocking. FC is only the first half of the story.
Would be like releasing FF7 remake part 1 and leaving it there.

This studio is getting closed.
Everyone sees the writing on the wall.

Unless they somehow manage to pivot to a single player game.
But, with Raymond fired and the game director jumping ship, it's obvious the ship has sunk.

Even if there is a hero wanting to lay out a plan, the downsizing will come. Sony won't want to bury more money on this.
The game directors always know what's coming and they typically are the first ones to jump ship.

Ok... it is kind of bad. That doesn't inspire confidence.

With that said, a couple of lines do not a whole game make. I will reserve judgement.

If it was the case, Sony would be positioning both PS6 products competing with each other.
Given they both had different specs, it may not even be accurate to be calling both a ps6 as the portable was more a portable ps5.
So... this will just be what the psp and vita were but with backwards compatibility with ps4 and ps5.
If this device is to run ps6 games, the next generation will be more hamstrung than this one.

Hmm... maybe when it's on heavy sale. I do love ffxvi. If it's anything like it, i will enjoy it.
I will get around to playing the demo.

Cold fear was alright from what i remember.
Dunno if it has franchise potential though.

@Czar_Khastik The game goes on sale fairly often. I do think that with these free updates the goodwill has translated into sales.
Me and my partner bought it just recently and i got it on both pc and switch 2.

My issue is that as soon as a new hardware launches they start creating tools that hog the computational power for little gain and we get sub par gaming experiences under 60 fps.
That is my issue. We are always chasing the 60fps and always purposidly denied.

We should be having 60fps as the standard and then add new techniques if it doesn't affect it. Otherwise we keep buying the next system to run the games of the previous system at 60fps. It's exhausting.

I already hear the next scam "path tracing". Like "ray tracing" wasn't useless already.
Just do your lighting manually and create a masterpiece. Heck you can probably get an AI to do most of the work already. It doesn't make sense to tax the system to do it.

So, do i want the ps6? Yes. I want to play MH wilds and dragon's dogma 2 at 60 fps.
Will it be the last console i buy? It probably will be. I am tired of being screwed around with by these companies. I've got enough games to play till i die. Give me a gen with consistent 60fps and i'll think about it.

Tbh the 3DS game was pretty good too.
I played the demo and this is a pretty modern and gorgeous take on the formula. What they did with the combat was especially unexpected. Shinobi didn't typically have deep combat.

With that said, it felt too much like a vanillaware game to me and i know i get bored and frustrated with those. I apreciate it, but i don't want to play it myself.

The Shinobi i liked best was actually the GG "game gear" ones. In particular the second where you hard for levels and challenging design. In the end of a level you would unlock another shinobi with a different playstyle and this could be used to acess new areas and make bosses easier. Actually, kind of like the megaman formula.
Playing this game, even though it's gorgeous, i can't help but get super meat boy vibes. There are many of these nowadays. The messenger also comes to mind. It's fine. They are fine games. It's just not what i feel like playing atm.

You care too much about the PS5 pro. It's a small part of all PS5 users.

Hmm... odd choice to focus on getting the GBA games no one cares about instead of mk gold.

Seemed to be more content drops about stuff we already knew.
As a WoW player, i like seeing the new expansion, but it's all pretty meh. The war within was a lot of wasted potential.
Demon hunter void spec was dropped out of nowhere. There was only one boss created for the current raid with one. It's weird to mix fel and void, but whatever. I'm just salty that we keep getting these things no one asked for while the obvious tech based playable class is still nowhere to be seen.

Well... it can't be worse than 3D. 🤣

Yeah... it's a pass from me. They need to remaster the games that actually haven't released in the west yet.

AI is the biggest con being sold to investors. I am laughing at all the money they will lose cause they think AI slop can replace actual human content.
I mean... even the advertisement with real content creators is already cringe, much worse these abominations.

None of this is something we haven't been saying for years.
I knew it would end badly when Jim Ryan was promoted. He had been holding back SCEE for many years. We were treated like second hand customers when he was around.

It's a fair assumption though.

It's about the most boring choice they could've made, but not unexpected.

Ryo Hazuki would be awesome.

I imagine it will be characters from the current anime arc with vegapunk.

@ShogunRok As i said above, i prefer a plurality of opinions out there than just a few. It helps me make a more informed opinion than when the narrative is so overwhelmingly positive or negative that other opinions get smothered out and i find a nasty surprise when playing.

@Oram77 As someone who bought early, i didn't find the problems that prevalent that they ruined the game, while in the internet the issue would get so much atention it would've scared me from buying and enjoying the game.
So, i prefer to have user opinions out there as well and not just influencers holding the whole narrative.

Honestly, given the current situation with influencers, no publisher should be sending review copies early. There is a great reward towards negativity driving engagement and therefore revenue for influencers and it's important to not let them lead the narrative.

I am a big fan of how the Oblivion remake released.

@SenShin Why are you putting words in my mouth? I didn't say change is bad. I said i am not interested in the new formula. I don't consider it any sort of evolution either.
Whatever. I am still not interested. It's not what i want from DW.

I don't care for origins. I want DW10.
Remaster is interesting. I suppose they will start with 2.

Not sure what the point of the silhouettes is. They are very obvious.

Holy crap... they made him just like SF6. That looks a tad OP compared to the tools the regular roster has.

@Number09 The PS5 only recently overtook the PS4 in active users. PS4 is still relevant and from the rumours PS6 aims to recapture those players.

Basically the only game i may get from them.

Much hype. I was looking forward to this one. We will finally get the direct sequel to darksiders and now with all 4 riders.

@NieR_Dark Likely, yes. But i have hopes that they will shift to cards, like the switch 2. Those cards are about as fast as the ps5 SSD. Really short load times, which is something that is out of reach for disc drives.
Hopefully not key cards though. 😬

Sooner than i expected. I like that they are going with a more adult theme.
Fingers crossed the gameplay looks better and runs better than the last one. Hopefully no crashes too. 😅

Oh i will be complaining alright. I don't care how much content they add until they fix the performance and texture issues.

In all honesty, activity numbers have dropped off a cliff, which is probably why they are pushing this forward.

The Ori games fit playstation and nintendo way more than they ever did Xbox.
What he is saying is that he expects an Xbox payout cause things don't sell on xbox.

Its a god of war reboot wanna be. I didn't even know about it.
Mercury steam needs to stick to metroid and castlevania. 😅

I am skeptical. I'm sure i remember them saying stuff like this for the first game and it ended up being the same as other open worlds. The wind did little to change that.

I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt again. The open world that interests me this year is Crimson desert. The combat seems to be the cure for repetition. We'll see.

Which is why i haven't bought a ubisoft game since AC syndicate. So, i am clean of ubi soft dirt for a decade now. 🥂

Can we have a new Bloody Roar instead? :x

Oh, this s**t again!
Making games that run like crap on current gen systems. Why?! Why do they keep doing this? We have enough quality graphics. Just focus on performance and gameplay... jesus. Art direction is all you need for great graphics now. There is hardly any difference between gens. Give me ps4 graphics at 60 fps. It's all i need.

Honestly... it felt like playing an assassin's creed game. Just a sandbox filled with a repetitive list of chores.
The duels were cool though.

He was promised a new IP after doing 2 GoW's, right? Curious to see what it will be.

We had the anime as well, which was basically another story mode expansion.
ARCSYS is going hard on GG. I guess it makes sense since they must have the rest working on the marvel game.

They said the same about the first game.
The thing is that it's not true when you have experience rewards for activities and skill trees and achievements to do it all.
We will look at the map and we will see it as a groceries list, just like every other open world.