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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.

I have a fifteen year old. She does not care about video games AT ALL and never has. She has an XBox because that's where her friends were playing Fortnite and that was just the social event of that particular month. Once they stopped playing, she stopped playing. I think it's just her Netflix on a TV box now. I gave her my PS5 when I upgraded to the Pro and I don't think she has ever turned it on.

I will never catch up

I wish more IP holders would do this instead of just letting them rot. I get that after multiple games in a series, maybe the current developers just don't know where to take the IP anymore. It makes more sense for someone with a great idea to make an official sequel than to end up with the millionth copy cat that was influenced by the IP. As far as the jump to other platforms, I don't care, put all the games everywhere. I will pick where I want to play them based on my preference.

I still don't know what I am going to do with these. Part of me wants to play it, part of me wants to wait until 2nd Chapter is out at least, but then a third part of me is fine having played the originals and moving on.

It's the only FromSoft game that I have tried to play, because I love things that embrace cosmic horror, but the gameplay just felt so sluggish, like everything was moving through molasses. It pretty much just cemented that FromSoft was not for me and I gave up after a couple of hours. If this is the best of that, then what does the worst feel like?

This was a very cute video. I didn't buy anything because of it so I don't know if it succeeded, but it was an enjoyable five minutes of a silly man doing a silly thing.

@Contimaloris That podcast for me is Axe of the Blood God. I've been listening to them for about a decade now, starting when they were all at USGamer. I love my Playstation, but more importantly I love me some RPGs. Before about 2015 though, I was as staunchly against listening to podcasts as I was watching streaming video. I eventually came around on one of those.

@Contimaloris It's funny, because I sort of did it backwards. I appreciated how ahead of its time GiantBomb was with their focus on video, but I am an old, I don't want to watch things. So when he entered his cranky old man talking to himself phase, I was like, "now... now I can relate."

I guess I should try Sacred Symbols again. I've listened to it multiple times over the years and something about Colin's attitude always ends up turning me off after a while.

@Contimaloris I enjoy his podcast. It's effectively "old man yells at cloud about video games for three hours" every week. Once in a while, he does an interview like this.

I have played too many JRPGs. When you tell me it will have faith and religion, I am assuming I get to kill god. Do not disappoint me.

I just bought Veilguard for $20 on clearance so oops on me. I don't really care about the other stuff. I played the turtles games when they were new.

I tried one of the PSP games and bounced off so hard I have never had any interest in coming back, even though the new games seem barely even related gameplay wise. But it also seems like a game that would be infinitely more fun if I had friends, which I don't.

The Yakuza / Like a Dragon games have been talked up the last couple of years enough that I look forward to trying them, but I haven't actually had the time to pull the trigger on one yet, despite having several through essential.

Yay, a new bump for this article. I have now played the entire series up through Reverie (just started Daybreak) in the time between the first comment on this thread and now.

It's a lot! But every time I finish one, I need to know where it's going next.

There weren't any turn-based RPGs, so it sucked... or whatever... but then Daybreak 2 came out two days later, so who actually cares. The funny part of all the "where are the first-party games?" discourse is that I realize I haven't REALLY cared at all about Sony's first-party games since Legend of Dragoon. I suppose I will just have to keep being salty for another decade or two. Buy why, there are so many other great games to play?

@ShogunRok I will never stop being amused by the fact that the world of Zemuria has basically gone from the middle ages, all the way through the industrial revolution, and straight on into cyberpunk in something like five years of in-game time.

I just finished Reverie and started Daybreak 1, I am getting so much closer to caught up. The jump directly from Reverie to Daybreak was kind of jarring. I had gotten so used to the almost never changing party and battle menus after the last five games that it's taking me a long while to adjust.

It sounds like Daybreak 2 might be too close to Reverie without spending the time to earn it's coda style story. I will say that the Trails to Walk system in Reverie made the story go by so much quicker, so I definitely am cool with them breaking up the story that way again. I can't stop playing now, must get caught up.

I still haven't gotten around to watching it but perused the list. It's definitely going to be a year for 3rd person action games.

Shinobi looks very nice.

I don't think I will play it, it doesn't seem to be my kind of thing, but I am here for the memes that will definitely come out of it. It does seem like that kind of game.

At least they said "operational issues."
I assumed they were going to say they "improved stability."

The figures from some of my least beloved Final Fantasies look nice. I am sure they will cost all of the monies.

I got locked out because my primary PS5 is in my daughter's room at her mom's house. I really only game on my PS5, but I went and found something else to do, no biggy. For myself, it's just a reminder of how ridiculously arbitrary family sharing is on PlayStations, it's so silly. As for the compensation, it doesn't really make a difference to me. My essential plan has been on auto renew for so many years. I suppose my credit card will just auto charge five days later. And I have a million "free" games from essential I don't have time play, what would another one get me? shrug

I did think it was funny that around the same time I saw this article, DekuDeals sent me an email saying a handful of physical games on my wishlist went on sale at GameStop.

I was glad to see the GotG game so high up there. If anybody out there is looking for a Mass Effect game, it's about as close to the original trilogy's combat and story telling style as you will get. This game's version of the guardians is so much better fleshed out than the movies. It's too bad it got buried under the bad press from the Avengers GaaS fallout.

Heh, I just got a notification on my phone app that a game I installed two days ago completed installing and now my PS5 can at least load single-player games again without a license verification error.

@RoomWithaMoose I am not really complaining on my end, because stuff happens and I get that. But I am actually that person you describe. I technically have Steam here on my work laptop but I don't really own any games on it, because I mostly just buy stuff on PSN.

The part that sucks for me, is that I set the kid's PS5, at her mom's house, with the sharing and online setting so she can play my games, but it means that the one here in my apartment has been telling me that it can't verify my digital license for my single-player games all day. It would be nice if we could set more than one system to that setting... long sigh

All that being said, it's a good time to catch up on some reading.

@DualWielding In FFXIV, when you touch the pad, the mouse appears and you can move the cursor around the screen to manipulate stuff. It's ok for clicking on stuff, but it's awkward as hell to drag and drop stuff. I still managed to use it to rearrange my whole UI anyway.

I doubt I would use it to play a game, but it would make rearranging my FFXIV UI so much easier. Like others above mentioned, it would be nice if there were a list of supported devices because my Logitech K915 isn't supported either, which I just want to use to chat.

I got my first trophy in Trails into Reverie on December 7, 2024 and got the trophy for watching the stratum five daydream in the post game last night on February 4, 2025, so I've done right around 100 hours in two months. And honestly, I feel like even then I've rushed, since I've done almost nothing else for the last two weekends. I've played no other games. And that's doing very little of the side stuff, no Pom Party, no Vantage Masters, and I still haven't finished the Daydream stories or beat the "final" boss, which is my personal goal for completion. I love these games, but they are way too dang long.

I played it on Gamecube and couldn't get into it. I think at the time I was having my own personal backlash against turn-based games. Now I relish them when they come around so I could see myself enjoying it much more if it came back.

I will not bother with the demo because I will just play the game... eventually... after I finish Reverie and Daybreak 1.
I went back and checked achievements and I have apparently played 9.5 of these games in 18 months. I am too invested to stop at this point.

On the US PSN store, it already has a 10% discount on the pre-order, not that I would ever recommend anyone pre-order anything ever, but if you are going to anyway, you might as well save a few bucks.

I scrolled through that video and I can only gather that the inspiration appears to be "three kids in a trenchcoat trying to sneak into a movie theater."