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Day one if true.

I really want to love FFXIV. The gameplay and world is brilliant! But the journey to level 50, even if it can be done entirely via the story is too much of a slog.

I would strongly argue that grinding for hundreds of cars over 8 tracks isn't much fun after a while compared to the massive World Tour found in the brilliant PSP Ridge Racers launch title.

So what you’re saying is I’m actually in a better place having not played the game.

It sounds like they’ve gone in the direction of Xenoblade and I couldn’t be happier!

@Regalia776 I’m hoping for a world map but then wider areas around the locations to explore. Maybe a tighter Xenoblade.

Some Quen armor sets would have been nice….

One question: Do you get the Focus device? Surely being able to physically gaze around with the in-game AR interface is made for VR!

Destiny 2 remains a fine FPS game buried under so many mechanics as to make it impenetrable to new players.

The game needs a full Destiny 3 reboot. This means tidying up the story, having more classes with more granularity in the levelling and making the weapon system a bit more RNG.

Basically what they need to do is make Diablo 3 in space. This game is a classic for a reason with wonderfully streamlined post-game mechanics and plenty of room for experimentation in classes.

Sadly the best Syphon Filter is still a terribly middling 3rd person shooter.

Done! (Just in case its an error)

Genuinely brilliant!

Do Test Drive Unlimited?

@nomither6 Like the cartoony kiddy graphics of Akira?

@SplooshDmg Blood and gore normally scream “Hello teenage audience.”

A unique art style (which is really what it is) makes Fortnite great as it means me (a man in his 40s) can play squad games with his kids and not worry about the content.

The amount of people getting wound up over the graphics looking a little cartoony on a piece of software they have never played or have no interest in playing is downright hilarious.

The world in Crew 2 is too big and devoid of any character. The one thing NFS gets wrong is setting things in a big city.

Forza Horizon is probably the sole reason to buy an Xbox over a PS. The series is that good and all 5 maps have features cities but miles of well constructed open countryside between them.

There is sadly nothing on PS that even comes close.

Given the bewildering amount of stuff in D2 I’m amazed anyone can keep track of anything. I loved it when it first came out but now it’s incomprehensible trying to get back into it. The onboarding is atrocious.

Great news! I really enjoyed Run Sackboy Run. Looks like a fun time waster.

I feel the poll doesn't reflect context: this won't be for the existing model but instead the slimmer (or shorter) one coming later this year. In which case yes I would buy one because I like to have physical ownership of my stuff.

I am genuinely looking forward to the revised PS5 model. I really want one but it’s just too big to sit under my TV and I’m not leaving a gap (and stashing it away) or buying a new unit.

I know people seem to rap on the PS4 for having so many big open world single player titles but honestly it’s these games that keep me on PlayStation and I hope Sony keeps cranking them out (although I’d still appreciate a new WipEout)

I just want one that will fit under my TV without having to replace the whole unit.

If XVI is the tent pole summer release and Spider-Man the winter one then surely VII-2 will be a 2024 game? The release schedule for 23 is already stacked up as well.

If they can reduce the length by 100mm I’ll buy one straight away as it will finally fit under my TV.

@ItsBritneyB_tch Avatar the lame-o blue people or Avatar: The Last Airbender? Because that last one I can get behind!

I can see how they didn’t want to repeat the last end of chapter event but they should have let us play the opening against the Herald at least before going in with some classic POI nostalgia on the fragments.

It’s classic Epic: they put all these teasers into a season about some impending villain or collapse with no backstory or real payoff.

For a game set on an island it has a lot of narrative parallels with Lost, ie it often seems like the writers have no idea where they’re going.

Easily. I was an Xbox gamer for years so I’ve got a huge PlayStation backlog to deal with still.

However I’d like to see Sony roll out phone streaming via a browser. Now Google’s not a competitor in that space they have a software engineer team they could outsource the whole thing too.

I’d be on that like a shot.

The team behind the original dirt left years ago and formed Playground Games and went on to make Forza Horizon, the best racing game of the PS3/360 gen. Bullet dodged.

This contrasts with Atlus comments on Persona 5. What western gamers enjoy is Japanese titles aimed at that market but released over here. Aiming for a global or predominantly western audience tends to make such titles quite dull tbh.

Xbox fans are in for a wake up call. Persons 4 is one of my favourite games is an time but I'm also a man nearly 40 who probably wouldn't dare play such games outside of a handheld.

@Flaming_Kaiser People just assume that because it’s a mobile title it will end up bad. This isn’t true.

@Milktastrophe Don’t get me wrong I can’t wait to play it. It’s just that mobile gaming in China is a hell of a lot more popular than consoles so it Nantes sense the mobile version looks at Chinese history.

They need to be careful though with who they make the bag guys though. I have no idea who the current regime admire from a historical standpoint. Over here in the uk it was a bit distasteful to suggest Alfred the Great was the progenitor of the Templars as he is a revered monarch often thought of as the best King of England who ever lived.

There will be the usual snobbery about mobile games from people who don’t bother to actually play the good ones but the last one, AC Identity was actually pretty good so this could be a good shout.

They’ve however obviously set it in China to crack that market.

It sounds like it would have benefitted from a ‘Mobius’ imagining with the chequerboard blocks and all. They could have done an open world remake of Sonic 1 and it would have been glorious.

Like every other F2P JRPG of the era it starts out promising enough but soon collapses under the weight of its own mechanics forgetting that the best thing about the Dreamcast original was its simplicity

FFXIV at least gradually introduces Game mechanics as to not overwhelm the player; this does not do that.

@Anti-Matter So you dislike the garbage on mobile but happily enjoy playing such games on consoles?

@Anti-Matter That’s blatently untrue. Whilst the majority of mobile titles are terrible cash grabs the same does actually apply to console and PC titles.

But just as the AAA games rise to the top on console and PC, mobile is also choc full of quality gaming experiences, from well adjusted ports of titles like Final Fantasy Tactics and Disgaea to timeless originals like Tiny Wings, Rolando, SpellTower, Trism, Part Time UFO, Pokémon Go and Horizon Chase.

This is a no brainer for Sony who have a swathe of PSP titles easily suited to mobile play. If Square Enix can make the premium model work with JRPGs there is no reason we can’t have $10 ports of Locoroco or Patapon.

Unfortunately it probably won’t end this well and we will end up with some sort of hack job that always requires an internet connection.

Any chance they can reduce the chassis size so I can actually fit one under my TV?

If Sony lowered their cut they should pass the increase in profit onto developers, not lower prices for gamers.

Day 1 PS+ releases for Sony’s big single player titles only serves to lower the profits they will bring in and they don’t actually add anything to the service. For Sony’s bottom line and the perceived value of prestige gaming they should stay off the service for at least a year.

What Microsoft has done is design its first party games around the service paradigm. Titles like Sea of Thieves and Forza Horizon 5 are built around the idea of long-term player engagement rather than a short-term with the idea of seasons and constant updates, something a lot of Sony players would balk at.

Of course the outlier here is Nintendo who not only releases a steady stream of single player titles but also manages to make them evergreen with constant promotion years after initial release 😂

These are virtual items though and therefore only as ‘rare’ as the amount of times the devs decide to list them for sale.

@AverageGamer The Xbox 360 had an excellent library of 1st party exclusives that ticked all the boxes. I used to use my 360 for everything. It replaced my cable box as well as my other games consoles. Kinect was a lot more fun that many ever realised and great fun with the kids.

The Xbox One went in the complete opposite direction: they killed all the really interesting multimedia functions due to a minority backlash, shuttered most of their studios, canned loads of great looking exclusives and then created Gamepass because they really had nothing left to lose.

That worked out in the end but the Xbox One compared to the PS4’s phenomenal library is night and day, and I say this as someone who games mostly on an Xbox One these last 7 years!

Sony would be better off leveraging its franchises and making sure it has a console that still ticks all the boxes when it comes to family titles. The PS5 did this well with titles like Sackboy right off the bat.

The biggest selling console of the current market? The Nintendo Switch. Call of Duty titles for the Switch? Zero.

Gamers buy it for Nintendo franchises and families buy them for couch multiplayer titles and games they can trust their kids to play. The lack of family titles has always been a gaping hole in Microsoft’s library. Sony have the big franchises and the family titles.

I wouldn’t mind seeing Aloy have to visit what is left of Hawaii to help solve some problems in a Quen colony. Their homelands are, we assume on the other side of the Pacific and whilst this could be Polynesia they refer to their homeland as ‘The Delta’ (as in river) and if you look at the world map occasionally summoned by Gaia, Florida is missing and clearly underwater implying that during the Clawback, the sea levels still rose. Polynesia would be destroyed by this.

Elden Ring has the plaudits but it has little by way of accessibility; you're either good or bad, there is no halfway and no options to tone it all down.

Horizon by comparison has made great strides in accessibility. You can turn off all the handholding options and go full-on hunter challenge or turn them all on and play it as an action game and enjoy the story.

(I tend to switch on Story difficulty if caged into a boss fight. I find the open hunting options combat utterly enthralling and to take it away for an fight of attrition isn't much fun)

Sony could use this to relaunch a new version of PS Home. Instead of creating an Avatar, they could release a line of code devs can inject into their games to allow their character models to be exported to the Home world allowing gamers to play as their choice of skin.

Rather than some IAP the only requirement for skin unlocks would be owning the requisite game eg you want to play as your in-game Aloy just buy HFW.

I really think Nickelodeon overestimates how much fondness people have for its 'franchises'.

@PhhhCough There will be a lot of people out there who have never even heard of Game Pass so this whole thing is new to them. It does get quite confusing with the different tiers.