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@themightyant I think the gif was from PS blog so all honor to them

Trinity Fusion

It's a roguelike platformer that I hear is similar to Dead Cells (still haven't gotten around to that game) and it's enjoyable so far. 3 different player characters and a ton of weapons and modifiers. The kind of game that goes well with listening to music on the side.

Also more Asgard's Wrath 2 on Quest 3, but I imagine I will be playing that for a few more weeks as it is a big game. Awesome game of course.

And that's the weather forecast for this week, we now return to PushSquare:

Looks good. I feel some Porco Rosso vibes here.

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Doesn't matter, XBOX isn't really a competitor anymore.

"The problem is, most of the skins in the game cost 1,120 LUX, so you’d need to buy another pack – like the $5 bundle for 500 LUX – in order to get one."

that's super scummy. Even for f2p games but especially for paid games.

@themightyant Blood and Truth is very good, especially if you're new to VR. It's a game I wish was available on PCVR as it would be perfect to show friends what VR can do. It's more like a lightgun game where you move node to node, with very impressive shootouts and scenery.

PSVR Without Parole (youtube) is a very good source for PSVR best-of lists of games. You'd have to watch some older best-of lists before PSVR2 came out, though.

Black Skylands

A top-down steampunk adventure that feels like a mix of Hotline Miami and Bioshock Infinite. Good stuff.

To be honest, I much prefer Steam rating system with Recommended/Not Recommended, and just reading a few reviews of each to see what users have to say.

The star system on Playstation and Meta never really says much about the quality of the games in my experience, and the 1-10 ratings of Metacritic are often just 1s and 10s anyway.

Pushsquare readers are so old we should start having a weekly Bingo every Sunday. After lunch nap, of course.

Meanwhile, at Sony's Pricing Department...

Around 86K on Steam at launch. That's 1/3 of Arc Raiders launch numbers as far as I can tell.

So I'm guessing not a total bust but also not a mega hit?

Never getting another controller without Hall Effect. Last gen I got drift issues on 3 PS4 controllers, as well as on a XBOX controller after that.

It might help dissuade some Playstation owners from jumping ship to PC (especially now that hardware is becoming so expensive), but I doubt it will entice many PC owners become console gamers.

Asgards Wrath 2

This standalone VR (Quest 3) action RPG is seriously impressive and one of the best VR games I've played to date. Great VR interactions, exploration, weighty combat etc etc. Makes me very sad that Meta just shut down the developer Sanzaru games.

Tyrant's Blessing

Turn-based fantasy SRPG that plays similarly to Into the Breach. Nothing very special, but an OK way to spend some hours.

Marathon
Tried the Server Slam. Nothing particularly wrong with the game but also can't see anything that makes it stand out from all the extraction shooters already on the market. Will be interesting to see how it does when released.

Bloodborne just needs a remaster with some higher res textures and better fps, not a full-on remake.

It's sad that Bluepoint wasn't used to do the GoW remakes, those would have made a lot more sense.

I've never read a preview that is so different from my own experience with a game. Glad they held this beta so people could decide for themselves, though.

@LifeGirl Tried it yesterday and that's pretty spot on. Game looks great and play very well (like Destiny) but otherwise very generic.

Remains to be seen if players are willing to walk away from other similar games (Arc Raiders, Hunt etc) and pay $40 for it.

This is an SNL sketch about the show, right?

Edit: Also missed opportunity not having Hasbulla star as Atreus.

Maybe Sony should make their own Steam like store and platform on PC?

I've gone to PC after PS4 (and never coming back tbh) but if I still have a lot of games on my Playstation account so I would be using it to access the PC version of those, and perhaps buy some Playstation exclusive games as well.

In that case Sony wouldn't have to pass 30% of those sales to Steam or other stores like they do now. I would absolutely buy Astro Bot and GT7 if they were available.

Tried a couples of matches with randoms. It's alright. Looks very stylish with nice colors while the gunplay feels good. Actually it feels very much like Destiny to the point it could have been a mode in that game.

Besides from that I didn't feel like it did much to set itself apart from other Extraction Shooters I've tried. If I had to choose I would probably rather play Hunt or Arc Raiders, both which have a bit more character and more interesting enemies and locations, imo.

I will try it again tomorrow, perhaps with some friends in co-op to see if that changes things. But otherwise I don't think I'll have any further interest in it.

It's niche but not dead. There will always be a hardcore user base for VR like myself. But as for the mass market appeal that isn't there right now.

I have no doubt VR will be big in the future though, although it will likely look little like todays rather clunky headsets and controllers.

Has the world got you feeling all blue?
Like there is no point to anything anymore?

That sucks, I've enjoyed a lot of the games they published.

Got too many games to play in the backlog. I'm staying away from forever games after the too-many hours I spent (with friends) on Apex Legends.

Assassins Creed Nexus VR

It's AC. In VR. A bit small-scale though, since its on standalone (Quest) headsets. Environments are either linear inside levels or more open outside towns that are about the size of a small town in your average AC game. Climbing around is fun, although the game feels a bit too safe and handholding at times. The story feels uninspired and boring but its nice to see familiar places in VR (you play as Ezio, Kassandra and Connor). I'd like to see a VR version of a bigger AC game like Odyssey for PCVR/PSVR2, but I doubt it will happen since Ubi was unhappy with the sales of this one.

There is No Light

Top-down action game with some Soulslike ingredients and great pixel art. Has unexpectedly deep lore and story for a game like this. Very bleak (the title refers to the false religion the citizens pray to) and has some difficult boss battles. Been playing it on my handheld PC and its pretty good.

@get2sammyb Slap my perfectly shaped bum if I'm mistaken, but I remember reading that Bluepoint wanted to make their own games instead of remaking other games at this point?

A live service was probably not what they had in mind but that was what was being pushed at the time. Now the live service plan is flushed down the drain and Bluepoint goes with it... Sad that Sony couldn't just get them back to what they're good at instead.

Loved Annihilation, but the rest of that series was just alright.

Stalker was also a movie adaption of Roadside Picnic. Very atmospheric movie but also very slow.

I want to watch X-Files again as I only watched the first few seasons when they came out.

Neon Genesis Evangelion series I tried watching many years ago but got bored along the way.

You can never have enough Lynch inspiration, although I think Deadly Premonition did it better than AW.

All-in-all sounds like Control Resonant will be one to watch and I hope it will be good.

I don't feel sad. Compared to all the promising games that are released every week without any attention given to them by the gaming press, this one had every opportunity to succeed.

I see some accusations of these scenes being edgy and cringe, but did you guys even play the original games? GoW and Kratos himself were as Edgy McEdgeLord as you can get in gaming. He was supposed to be an anti-hero that often made shocking and unheroic decisions, and that was a large part of what made the games feel different than the goody-two-shoes heroes that came before.

The 2018 game remade Kratos from Conan the Barbarian into essentially Joel from TLoU/The Father from The Road, and that was just never the same.

They're gonna remove it.

While the original GoW only had to deal with the Bible Prudes, todays games also have to deal with the Neo-Prudes, a new breed of very loud, annoying people.

The main reason to remove anything sexual is to maximize the number of places it is allowed to be sold, though, and so maximize profits. Sony wants to be able to sell the game in UAE, China, Germany etc.

On the one hand, if anyone has the right to an opinion on the subject, it is him.

On the other hand, he made Drawn to Death.

Don't become old and bitter, folks.

Looks really good from what I've seen. Gives me some Wiepout Fusion vibes where the tracks would mostly be railed in, but then sometimes open into larger outdoor areas... love that in racers.

Think I might give it a shot.

Weird how Konami went from all-in Pachinko to all-in on games again... but hey, I'm not complaining!

If you have a PC you can get it and 8 other games for €12.61: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/love-you-to-death-bundle

Assett flip gooner games you make the rocking world go round.

Spiritfarer, a cozy but sad game about helping the dead enter the afterlife. Hits me right in the feels at times.

I've had this game in my backlog (on PC) for a while but I hope to get around to it soonish.

Isn't this supposed to be like a Monster Hunter type game? In that case I feel like Soul Sacrifice would have made for a much more interesting ip to use.

In time it'll probably beat PS2 as well, since the PS6 won't be out till about 2037.

@datamonkey I try my best

@ShogunRok Or you can say that of any game... and my homemade Tikka Masala.

On the subject of Korea, I've now become addicted to their Melona ice cream, so yummy!

Makes me wonder who will dare be next years Game Awards closer. That's gonna take some big dev cojones, to be sure.

The first game was flawed too but I ended up enjoying it nonetheless, and I expect to do the same with this one.

"The zombies themselves have then been given a facelift, as some will replicate the actions of the jobs and habits they had before dying"

Sounds similar to the zombies in I Am A Hero (manga).