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If it wasn't for the animal iconography I would say it's related to the new Darksiders. The faces look like the collectible souls, there's a bunch of skeletons in armor, and I would absolutely be using the throwing glaive to stab that giant eyeball thing to open the door.

I rated the library as great, but not for anything Sony has specifically done. It's been a really good run for 3rd party RPGs these last few years. The console itself has been really good, but I will never forgive how big and ugly it is.

The answers are all always a bit nuanced. I won't play mobile games. That's just a me preference. I don't care if they make mobile games. To answer the actual headline question, I don't think they will be successful, because mobile or not, they are just pushing their GAAS agenda on a different platform. Who knows though, maybe they will get lucky. Being a giant publisher with all the money in the world still guarantees nothing.

I finally completed my Legend of Heroes journey by finishing Daybreak 2 this last week. I am now completely caught up with the series. So what do I do to celebrate, I start Trails in the Sky FC Remake. Honestly, the battle system is kind of a breath of fresh air. You get the free move system Daybreak added, but with no weird SCM positioning constraints, no Boosts required for S-Breaks, everything is simple and open, at least in the early going.

I already bought a little mini-pc running bazzite for the older lower resource PC games in my backlog. I don't need a second one.

@REALAIS People play a lot of games that I personally find very boring. shrug

I just realized that I have 1000xRESIST and Hundred Line Defense Academy confused. I don't know that I necessarily care about either, but oops anyway.

This has me thinking now. I get that the high-stakes action style spy novel wouldn't work as an open-world game, but what if it were lower stakes, cold war maybe. Just wandering around, setting up listening posts, sneaking in as a plumber to drop some audio bugs, spend a while doing some stealth surveillance with a camera through a window, maybe leave some dead drops. Do all the boring spy ground work that James Bond never seems to actually do because he's a super hero and pretty bad at actually being a spy. Would it actually be fun, I dunno?

I don't really care what they do with multiplayer, just let me backup PS5 saves locally and easily for goodness sake!

I don't really like "horror" games, I have too much anxiety as is. But I do like action games with horror elements like Control.

I started the first one and got side tracked like so many other games. I plan to go back to it eventually, and I will pick this up eventually assuming I enjoy the first one.

This is one of those surveys where the question could have been worded a little better. Is TikTok in competition with games, at least for time and attention? Sure of course. Is it in competition for my time? Not at all. But I have accidentally lost hours to Youtube instead. That's because I have an Android phone, logged in with Google, and Youtube is automagically installed, so I open it for a very specific purpose and then the algorithm happens. Games are, for me specifically, more in competition for my time with streaming services with longer form content though. That's where I purposely spend the time I am not gaming. That hasn't really changed over time though.

I will play it some day on a deep discount as a nostalgia fest, but I am not buying it day one. I never even owned an XBOX, but enough good times were had in the multiplayer playing at my friend's house that it still gives me a little bit of the feels.

I am definitely on the higher end of games purchased. I drop a lot of stuff in my wish list and then buy it when it's on sale, even if I don't really have time to play it. I play a lot less games than I actually buy though which is definitely a me problem. Clair Obscur was such a breath of fresh air, only being in the 30-40 hour range, considering I still have Trails Through Daybreak 2, FF Rebirth, Baldurs Gate 3, and Metaphor Refantasio, all 100+ hour games, to get to at some point, and that's ignoring the rest of the backlog.

Yeah, and no. I think the selection is good, but I just finally picked up Cocoon on a sale last month.

I think this is kind of a cute idea, but calling it a "rewards" program is a complete misnomer. This is an elite merch club.

Looks nice. I need to play the last dozen "search adventure" games I bought. I really like that term.

The look is there. Time will tell if the writing is.

@ShogunRok Walking all over Liberl like you do in the first game definitely gives the world a sense of space that you start to lose in the later games.

@ShogunRok Response to #33, I still haven't finished DB2. The time hopping is part of it, but the actual dungeons and combat almost feel like they've been forgotten about. You run around a new town, talk to everybody, story beats for an hour or two, even the side missions are just running around and talking to people, and then finally it remembers to give you 30 minutes of a non-descript sewer or warehouse dungeon. If you want more combat, go run the Marchen Garten... again. I like the story bits sure, but you have to balance it out.

EDIT: Also, does Zin feel sufficiently big? I feel like between his original Trails sprite and his DB 3D model, he lost too much bulk.

I was in my PCMR phase at the time so I wasn't especially interested until FFVII came out, but after that it was one of the best RPG boxes of all time. Admittedly though, I missed a lot of those games until later.

I mean sure, I already watch all the terrible non-video-game war movies, what's another one on the pile?

Good, now I don't feel bad for buying the original version. shrug

I am still in Daybreak 2 because it's been a very long couple of months with very little gaming. I am skipping the Sky remake. I don't need to play it again, however pretty it may be.

I watched some of the promo videos because somebody's name attached to it was notable for some reason (I can't remember now) and they all looked generically 3rd person hack and slash. In a universe where everything is trying be a "maybe it's a Soulslike" that's not enough. And then I read the reviews and they basically all said the same kind of thing, "decent game, lots of caveats" and that was enough to make me decide I had better things to play.

The plot is hilarious but the look of the game is kind of "we have ZZZ at home."

I think I have been on "Essential" since the very beginning. It used to be easy to buy multiple years through incredibly cheap, discounted keys, and then that went away. I have gotten a billion free games. I think I have played maybe three. I don't really play multiplayer games. At this point, I think I stay subscribed since they have locked PS5 saves into this weird limbo where there isn't a good way to archive them any other way than paid cloud saves and I am paranoid about losing them all through a catastrophic failure of some sort.

@16BitHero She's wearing those boxing gloves just to confuse her opponent.

Oh thank goodness! I am still trying to finish Daybreak 2. I have stalled a bit.

After watching Bungie flail around trying to figure out what to do with the Destiny games for years now. Why would I be excited to see what they do next?

I imagine it's easier to remaster the newer games onto the current consoles, but I discovered Tales during the PS3/XB360 days. I want to play the ones that came out before then.

@Kienda Oh no!

@Kienda I think if I had watched it as a teenager, I might've made it through ok. Instead, I accidentally waited until after I had a kid. That movie destroyed me for a week.

Lol at the arguments over the bewbs. I like pretty ladies. I don't mind if they are scantily clad. When artists draw their chests like this though, it reminds me of Rob Liefeld's feet. They just look silly.

I won't play it because it will be a gatcha ridden hellscape, so it's all irrelevant anyway.

The money for points for money was convenient, but I didn't really bother with any other part of it.

I still have Doom 2016 on the shelf and haven't got around to it. It seems like it will be fun, one day, when I have the time.

It may be THE open world game, but I don't like open world games. I get overloaded, wander around a bit and then get bored. The longest I have spent in any of these games was Vice City because I liked the music and aesthetics, but then I got to the tank mission, and well, I just drove around in the tank for a few hours and decided it would all be downhill after that.

I haven't played any of them, but Clair Obscure is the only one I am really interested in.

Hmmm... I don't know how I feel about this. I played the Steam release a few years ago (also on the SNES when it was new) and I still think it holds up, moreso than a lot of the games from that time period. Maybe give it a good pixel remaster once over to make it look a little better in higher resolutions and then port it to modern systems and I think it's good.

I have been watching the gameplay of CO and I don't know how I feel about the QTE stuff. I turned all of that off after a while in the accessibility options when I played through Sea of Stars because I was terrible at it. For myself, Trails Through Daybreak's semi-strategy turn-based system is where it's at. I actively dislike and avoid the action system they put in, although I hear that is improved in the second game. I am almost there. Also, generally, I have always appreciated that the Trails games have always given you a turn order and lots of ways to manipulate it.

I don't like the Elder Scrolls games. I don't like first person. I don't like open-world. I don't like the absurd amount of jank those games have for as much as they cost to make in time and money. I don't like the idea that those games pretty much require mods from the community to be playable. I didn't necessarily even like Morrowind, but Oblivion felt like such a step down in how imaginative the world was. I think I got Oblivion free with a video card and still couldn't be bothered to play more than a couple of hours of it. Anyway, sorry for the negativity, hope everybody is having fun.

@Lowdefal And I figured as much. My problem with open world games is that my completionist brain starts down the side content hole, I wander off the beaten path and then I just get bored and quit. The obvious thing to do would be to laser focus on story and ignore that stuff, but I am weak and my willpower is low and I self sabotage.

Honestly, I really liked Remake, but after trying to start Rebirth a couple of times and falling off of the open world design that I have never really enjoyed in any game, I appreciate Remake that much more because of it. The linearity complaint about XIII never held a lot of weight to me, and I feel like Remake cements that a linear world and story can very much work when done correctly. I do still plan to try Rebirth again, especially now that it can take advantage of my Pro, but I will have to push myself through it and I will probably just ignore and avoid a whole lot of the stuff that I know will bog me down and be a detriment to my enjoyment.

Ugh, the app broke today and it popped at least a dozen notifications to let me know that Tales of Graces F is, in fact, on sale. Thank you PS app, I appreciate you letting me know... over and over and over again.

Hey! I have them in the US, but it mostly just reminds me I don't really play or care much about the first party games and went back to the Pro one. Give me animated backgrounds from games I actually own and we'll be getting somewhere.

Eh, not interested in multiplayer whatever. I really like the colorful aesthetic though.

@dancingstar93 I played the originals, that's why I am debating on whether I need this in my life or not. I played FC on the PSP and waited years for SC to come out. Despite there being a very slight time gap between the two, I still consider that transition to definitely be a steep cliffhanger.

@ButterySmooth30FPS To be fair, any time Google announces anything, I just assume it will get shut down in two years anyway. RIP Google Reader, Podcasts, Play Music, Glass, Stadia, Hangouts, whatever three things were before Hangouts, open-source Android, search that isn't garbage, etc. The roads around me change a lot because of construction and I am pretty sure Maps' is mostly just in maintenance mode and the data is never getting updated again. I use Android and most of Google's apps and I still think everything they do is half-assed garbage. Anyone who didn't think they'd shut down Stadia was deluding themselves.
I still don't think streaming is the future, but I think Stadia isn't a worthwhile example. I would take more the fact that I have never heard a single person mention Amazon Luna in a sentence.

@opo02 Well I guess it's not a completely a one-off anecdote then.

@opo02 I don't know if that's good or bad, I don't know who that is. I guess I will go look them up.