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Seeing as 2k is actively ruining their game, I’d love to see a college bball game made by someone else. College brings some unique stuff to the table: recruiting, a huge amount of teams, rankings, and of course March madness. Remaking some of the amazing college venues with the crowds going insane will be awesome. I really like how they implemented the college atmosphere and the impact it has on the game in NCAA football.

@Chupa_loyzer understood, it’s a remaster or however you want to define it. If you’re not going to improve anything and it’s just a re-release, then just pop the original on the ps store. Just saying after 30 years the grandad of SRPGs deserves better.

30 years later and I can barely tell the remake from the original graphically. Not impressed.

I was stoked to hear they’re offering a physical release, but $289 for the collectors edition? Come on.

The Precinct looks really good. Giving a lot of old Police Quest vibes, always wondered why there hasn’t been something new like this.

It’s WaltON Goggins is it not?

Nocturne is excellent and superior to the very good main series. It’s no blue eye samurai, but as far as animated shows go it’s up there. I enjoyed it more than Cyberpunk.

Rose Leslie? Why not have an accent.

Fantastic but pretty glitchy game so hopefully this patch cleans a lot of that up. That said I loved it and will try to talk a buddy into another go at it co-op. I didn’t get into Wrath of the Righteous but thanks to Rogue Trader I’ll be trying that again as well. For pure strategy RPG goodness I’d rank this game right at the top. Can’t wait to see what Owlcat does next.

The combat in DA2 was nothing like DA:O. Dragon Age 2 was total garbage, Dragon Age Origins was one of the best CRPGs ever released on console. Everything after origins has been useless and this game doesn’t look any different. The only impressive thing is how long they’ve milked the Dragon Age brand after putting out one fantastic game way back on PS3.

@LifeGirl what don’t you understand? I can play my ps5 anywhere in my house, on my deck, in bed, wherever. If you don’t mind handhelds, it’s certainly cheaper than buying a second tv and ps5, and cheaper than a phone good enough to do the same thing. It’s not the most practical thing I’ve ever bought, but I certainly use and enjoy it.

Luckily the game really sucked so none of this matters.

No biggie not like I’m opening it anyways.

Hopefully they laid off all the nba2k MyTeam devs. They’ve been actively destroying the mode for a few years now.

Owlcat would be my choice to take the IP to new heights strategy-wise. Rogue Trader is nowhere near as polished as BG3, but it’s probably close in scope, and strategically it’s on another level. Probably too complex for a lot of people’s taste honestly. Either way Larian and Owlcat have set themselves apart as the 2 very best SRPG devs out there in my book.

I paid for the deluxe edition at launch so I could play this over the weekend with a friend, and now I’ll gladly play for the physical edition so it can sit on the shelf next to my copies of BG1 and 2 and the expansions and strategy guides. This is one of the best games ever made and I’ll easily get 200 hours of playing time out of it eventually. From that standpoint, a couple hundred bucks is a very reasonable price to pay in my opinion.

@tedinthepaint you either love Vanillaware art style or you don’t.

@General_Disarray I have to agree with you. Having played several D&D based games, this was still a challenge to grasp everything. If you’ve never played any of the old Obsidian games or the Pillars of Eternity games, this is going to be a steep learning curve. Be prepared to get your hat handed to you over and over.

If they both came one-disc physical version with all the DLC and a nice steel book I’d probably be in.

This was my worst sports game purchase I can remember. Had not bought a madden since 21, so I skipped 2 of them to give the game time to actually change. It is EXACTLY the same. Minor adds here and there, but otherwise this is literally the same game. All the same plays from 21 and the same plays that worked then work now. I was bored to death after 3 glitch riddled franchise games and slogging through the laggy menus. Deleted it when BG3 started preloading.

@LifeGirl yeah well square enix doesn’t like guaranteed money. Instead of Vagrant Story and FF6, we get Front Mission and Saga Frontier. They missed an entire console generation (ps3) with kingdom hearts. They’ve been making financially baffling decisions for many years.

When I bought final fantasy 3 on SNES in 1994 it was $70. Games are one of the few things on the planet that haven’t gone up in price since then. I feel lucky when I gladly hand over $70 for Elden Ring, a game which I played for 250 hours. Renting 250 hours of movies would cost $5,000+.

The problem is playing these games at launch is completely different than playing them 5 years later. I beat D3 3 or 4 times with my friends at launch and there wasn’t a ton to do after that. Now obviously there are a million things to do in the end game. I just don’t have 5 years to play the same game, and that’s where I agree with @SgtTruth. 10% of D4 players will be the ones grinding this game for years.

When I saved up and bought final fantasy 3 on SNES in 1993, it was $70 at toys r us. The gaming community has exploded which has helped keep the price of games down, but the fact that a new game still cost the same or less 30 years later is insanity. This is why I laugh when people cry about RE4 remake having some optional paid content. I paid $60 for that game on PS2 20 years ago. Nothing else on earth costs the same that it did 20 years ago. I know there are a lot of reasons why that is the case, but we the gaming community have been incredibly lucky to have prices remain more or less constant since the inception of the home gaming console.

@kyleforrester87 at the time, the story was the best rpg story ever by a wide margin. ff6 has one of the most cohesive plots ever. It’s complex and has a ton of characters, but it’s very easy to follow. Even FFX, which has an absolutely amazing storyline, gets a little confusing with the sin and jecht stuff. And if you look at what came before FF6, having that amount of characters and no real “main” character, and the amount they’re all developed, was insane.

@dimi yep this is what concerns me too, just the edge is $250. Now way this thing is under $200 which is cost prohibitive in my book.

@OneWingedAngel it’s been a while but that is exactly what Ada was in the original. She was bored and half interested.

Seems odd to compare the ps5 launch to psvr2. One is the new seminal console that will last a decade, the other is an Uber expensive fringe peripheral that makes a decent percentage of the population sick.

I gave it a 9. Loved the original on PS2, perfect blend of action and survival horror. This remake is insane, so much fun. Literally beat it and started a new game right away which I never do. I knocked a half point off for the inventory management and another half point for bear traps.

@arsmolinarc none of that really occurred to me. Sounds like you’re the one being overly sensitive to this stuff. The point is they’re all just people. Race is no longer a factor when you’re just trying to survive.

Easily one of the best RPGs of its time. Dragons, zombies, vampires, werewolves and blood mages. And whatever that god forsaken thing was in the catacombs. Need I say more?

@JayJ I couldn’t agree more, well said. There has to be a line somewhere though. If I say hey murdering puppies is bs, am I being intolerant toward puppy murderers? Not saying I know where the line is, but it’s somewhere.

@JayJ PS is on the side of tolerance. Their opinion is it’s not cool to hate other people because they’re different than you. I don’t see why anyone would have a problem with that.

Been waiting a long time for this one. Beat DOS 1 and 2 with my bro, best co-op RPGs ever. Now next gen graphics and performance with a D&D setting? This is going to be amazing.

@Jimmer-jammer perfect example. The story was horrid, the characters were barely existent. Yet I had a blast exploring the world and building the ultimate weapons and armor. Never finished the main quest line but lucky I didn’t have to.

@TeapotBuddha try pillars 2 the combat is turn based. Amazing game. Also Wasteland 3 doesn’t get much love but it’s excellent, and you can play the entire game co-op like divinity.

It was like $8 to go from extra to premium for the rest of my subscription and it was an easy choice to stay with Extra.

Huh I’m in the minority, I thought the second season was amazing. I’ve played all the games but never read any of the books, so I just approached it as a big budget fantasy series and didn’t get caught up in double checking all the lore.

A truly excellent game forever marred by a horrific launch. One of the best story driven single player experiences ever, right up there with Skyrim for me.

Is this coming to ps5? For some reason I thought it was Xbox exclusive after ms bought blizzard.

My god this game keeps looking better and better. The battles in particular are breathtaking.

@riceNpea well it was an investor earnings call not an IGN feature. They have to come off like they have big plans to make tons of cash.

@riceNpea I think you’re getting a little carried away. They announced that they plan on having a story arc that spans multiple games. If developers didn’t think that far ahead we would never have sequels. I’d rather they formed the story with multiple games in mind instead of a hacked on sequel with a thrown together story. They know the Witcher 4 is going to be a massive success so why not create a massive, deep story arc that can be told across multiple games?

@Ashfordwasp @Svark you guys are doing it right, 5 years is probably a good time between madden games to appreciate a noticeable improvement in the game. Also a console generation helps. Unfortunately madden 16 featured an RPG like, exp based player progression system in franchise mode which has since been removed for a dumbed down simplified version. However, if you get lucky and the scouting system works for an entire season, it adds a nice thin layer of depth.

@GamesVanDerBeek if EA were trying it would be a different story. What we’re sick of is the same glitches and problems being in the game year after year, the months of lies leading up to the game every year (this year was touted as the most polished madden ever, then it released with all the same bugs from last year), removed features being added back in and hyped as improvements, etc. NBA2k pushes the envelope with new features and modes every year even though the game engine is largely the same. It’s possible to release an annual sports title and make enough changes to warrant a full priced game. EA has instead chosen to buy a monopoly and poop out trash every year.

@Blaze215 joes review also mentioned that IGN used the phrase “a step in the right direction” for like 7 straight years in their Madden review.

Here is what Push Square said in their 6 out of 10 madden 21 review (2 maddens ago):

“Atmosphere is flat on the field. Franchise mode needs overhauled. Playcalling menu is cumbersome. Tired gameplay and animations.”

All of those issues are exactly the same in madden 23. 7/10.

@get2sammyb because it’s the same game as the one I bought 3 years ago, which was the same as the year before. This review is the same as last year too. I don’t need to play the same game again, I see all the gameplay with the exact same graphics animations plays commentary etc.

This game is the exact same hot garbage as last year. I’ve loved madden since I was a kid in the 90s, but I haven’t bought the last 2 and I’m not playing another second until they rebuild the game from the ground up. I’ve been calling the same exact plays, hearing the same commentary and seeing the same glitches since 2013. NBA2K21 changed more from the ps4 to the ps5 version than madden has in the last 5 years combined. They toss in a couple half baked features that are either useless and broken (coordinators) or were already in the game years ago (precision passing).

Yeah this was just a bad show. My last episode was the one the kids spent the entire hour in the house solving clues like a teenage mystery novel. Pretty much the opposite of what I want from a RE show.

@Flaming_Kaiser I don’t see any way this comes out physically unless Limited Run gets involved. I’d love to own a copy as well though.