They should have gotten that award for making UMDs.

I hope Horizon does well but if Spider-man included other spiders (Mayday Parker please) then that is a great loss. If it is more pete only… I have plenty of those games. I’m tired of games feeling like the first two eps of a seven season show.

Tokon is the only game I care about in this list.

While I prefer Oblivion and its magic system better, I lived in skyrim for a long, long time. I still get the urge to wander but just don’t feel like putting the time into console. My PC hasn’t been set up yet because I still have boxes everywhere.

Bethesda still makes the best “be who you want, go where you want, do what you want” games (including Starfield) to me. Everyone pans the creation engine, but nobody has made a game like theirs yet. I am still hyped for TES6!

Put it on a toaster!

The new dungeons sound tempting. Might get it on switch 2. But I’ll keep my PC version as is. Mods are delicate.

@GirlVersusGame Oooh Lady, we gotta talk. I didn’t want to mention all the action figure stuff I liked because I don’t always find a woman with similar interests. I grew up on biker Mice from Mars (I love motorcycles so it was a no brainer. Charley was so cool. ) Don’t sleep on Gargoyles. Especially the comic revival/continuation.

I will say I absolutely loathe Batman, but I don’t rain on the parade of his fans. But aside from Superman (and depends on the writer at the time), Static Shock and Black Lightning I prefer Marvel over DC (but I switched to manga decades ago to find more meaningful stores after comics bored me for a while). But I do like some characters in the DC universe such as Nubia (current Queen of the Amazons), or Jo Mullein (Far Sector version is best).

My mom tried the whole Gender Lock thing but it didn’t work at all so she quickly gave up so long as guns weren’t involved. (and I really think she initially did it out of peer pressure from other women/grannies and aunties because she wasn’t like that herself.) I have one GI Joe and that’s because it was a Barbie doll made by Mattel and he was Black. I still had to basically do a powerpoint to convince her. But yeah, when your daughter is running around pretending to be a sailor or a ninja or wanted to be a warrior scholar as an adult (still on that path) yeah the pretty princess thing didn’t work (My Disney Princesses growing up were Pocahontas, Nala (she counts), and Mulan. I respect Belle’s bibliophile factor even though I don’t like her story though.) And Toy Story… finally a movie that had play that made sense (as in playing with a bunch of mismatched toys but having the best time… Plus adult me got the ultimate heroine with Alisha Hawthorn!) Besides, my mom realized I was more well rounded than she and society thought because I do like fashion (not makeup though) and cool, intelligent, graceful, badarse women. (Which is funny because I simply role modeled my own mother but it took her years to realize that.)

I always questioned the idea that women were limited by our biology except in practical terms (unless the job requires me to impregnate a woman I feel there isn’t any job I can’t do because I am a woman, lol). No I can’t lift as much as a man, I can still fight one if need be though.

I feel those cool characters were out there, you just had to dig for them. There is some commentary that can be made about that, but I’ve learned to enjoy what I enjoy and pick my battles elsewhere. I don’t know your age group but Barbie was a doctor or a skatebaorder and other jobs in the 80’s and 90’s when I would have cared. They just didn’t have
a ton of visual variety. Skipper (Barbie’s cousin? I think) had a Black and I think a Latina version. I have always thought the Barbies based on famous/historical women were cool. I’m not fighting with collectors to buy them, but for folks in the know, they were amazing options.

Sailor Moon armory means I have all of her weapons, items and brooches. Basically the stuff she kills the bad guys with, hence armory. I am anti gun for personal reasons, but trained in several forms of martial arts and the weapons that come with them.

@GirlVersusGame Eh, Barbie isn’t the only game in town and I had some pretty cool dolls. But getting one in my skintone was fantastic. My mom was not happy getting that MC Hammer doll though. i know I said knock off, but they were of similar quality (at least to me. I’m sure a doll collector would dispute that) My favorite Barbie was the Olympic Gymnast Barbie and they had a Black version. Still have her.

But I’m more of an action figure fan anyway and Disney has been feeding my inner child. Marvel toys, with some of my favorite heroes Captain Marvel (Rambeau not Danvers, though I don’t dislike Danvers), Storm (sans Mohawk ugh I hate that Mohawk), Shuri/BP, and don’t get me started on the mint I have spent on Gargoyles toys. Elisa Maza is still so badarse. I wish DC would get on the bandwagon because I would do something crazy for a good Nubia (my current profile pic) action figure. Or Jo Mullein…even if the Absolute version is character assassination. I gravitated to Sailor Moon as a preteen anyway as they focused on young women with myriad personalities and backgrounds but the whole team were warriors. I have essentially a Sailor Moon Armory in my home.

Good to know Barbie from Brooklyn is in the games on offer. I have other stuff I want to play first but I’ll snag this eventually.

@Dogbreath Hmm, as I still didn’t want to spoil the game I did a skim of some level gameplay (you were so insistent you were making me think there were T poses everywhere) and it looks pretty good. Nothing I haven’t seen before but the main character was beating up the bad guys and had some cool looking magic. So actually you increased my interest. So thank you. I may pick this up sooner than expected. I don’t know about return to form but it felt like older games that have combat section focus and then move on to a puzzle/find this section and then some story. I miss smaller, focused games like that.

I know you aren’t trying to sell me on the game as you seem not to like it, and that’s cool, but honestly after looking at it and not seeing any issues (and what I did see looked similar to the PS review) that prevent game play, it looks like a nice weekend romp. So thanks for the assist, seriously. It’s so hard to find new games to play when the deluge of new games drown each other out or the backlog kidnaps you.

Go create a game? Yeah, I don’t have the funding, time or interest for that. I do have a project I’ve noodled on for a few years, but nothing I can really sacrifice time to, so the BBC won’t be calling me anytime soon lol.

I mean I would say what makes any dev special over me is money. If I had funding sure, I would love to bring some of my ideas to life. But heck I say that as I slowly clomp my way through grad school. I’d love for some angel investor to sponsor my education. Not gonna happen though so I’ll keep plodding along.

I’m buying these but I will need to take a year or two to actually play them.

I keep saying no as I rejected these games as a little girl out of principle (I only had like 3 Barbies growing up as the knock off dolls had more skin tones and hair). But I have sorta come round to the thought that Barbie can be anything and these could be fun games to noodle around in. Not everything has to be serious business. Plus, I wanna meet Barbie from Brooklyn if she is in one of these games (Looks like she is based on the cover). I’ll wait on a sale though.

@Dogbreath Ok. I’ll I still don’t see anything that says the game is functionally broken. So I’ll give it a go when it is on sale.

I don’t really get the correlation about BBC marketing the game. I don’t know enough about it nor have a seen any media back peddling. But since a review requires a game to be played and the pushsquare review described a game that is flawed but functional, that doesn’t sound “comically bad”. I find out when I try it. Let’s plays are nice, but they spoil games. I don’t have enough concern about the functionality of the game to spoil the story for myself.

You seem to not like this game but can’t really tell me why, so I am just going to assume it wasn’t to your taste which means it is still worth trying to me. I may like it, I may not. However, if I didn’t play games because others don’t like them my game library would be much, much smaller. Thank you for the attempted heads up though. I’m gonna move on now.

I just hate seeing work and effort go into the trashcan. Happy everyone is still employed though.

Loving those Ghost of Yotei numbers, I have greatly enjoyed that game. Will jump into the DLC once I finish up some other games. I’m dragging my feet on HFW because I want to wait until the sequel is out (if it ever comes out).

@Dogbreath Veilguard got an 8. No, I don’t see a pattern. If the game is functional and fun enough; I’m fine giving it a try. Which the review stated it was. I didn’t see anything in the review that suggested the game was broken. Just an obvious freshman attempt due to linear designs (which isn’t a negative depending on what one wants to play) and lots of lore (which is a selling point for me). I’ll likely end up enjoying the game, wishing it got a sequel, but happy I got to play what came out.

B and C list games often are enjoyable but flawed experiences. I’ve bounced off a number of beloved AAA games.

While I feel BioWare suffered from poor management (both fiscally and internal projects), were spread too thin, had way too much executive meddling, not settling on a coherent game design style, and relied on repeating similar archetypes (all their games have similar characters and stories) and an over reliance on their reputation (BioWare Magic)… I don’t know how much of that applies to this now defunct studio, nor do I think that could make the game unplayable. After all BioWare still produced many enjoyable games of varying quality.

What pattern am I supposed to see? Have you played this game? What am I missing here?

Hmm game got a 7 here; I will give it a go when it is on sale.

pleasepleasepleaseplease!

Looking forward to being a sword saint.

AC1 and Liberation are the only games I’d play a remake of.

Good luck to those that lost their jobs.

I’m pretty good with exiting with Shadows. I love that game and it is a good stopping point as I started with the franchise beginning. I don’t feel Ubisoft is truly interested in wrapping up the templar vs assassins fight and they are instead pivoting to it being a war that will exist so long as humanity does. As such it’s not for me.

I’m from the US. Time off is rare and sacred. I’m not wasting it on GTA.

I need Tokon to get below 50 bucks and I’ll jump in.

I’ll be heading to PC next gen. Yes it will cost more but there is no reason for me to have a dedicated console when I don’t have a lot of games to play. Most of the franchises I love have wrapped up or are in limbo (so it makes sony’s reversal on PC sting way less) and everything else is on Nintendo or PC so I’m focusing my money on filling out my PS3,4 and 5 libraries and then I’m done.

I’m middle aged now so I go where the best and most immediate value is. Sony would have to pull an exclusive holy grail game out to bring me back. Same with MS though so I’m equally disinterested.

I want Atsu and Aloy, but not enough to roll the dice on these.

It’s an easy way to build stock. Most of the folks with the money will buy new anyway, GS gets some profit off the desperate folks but primarily the higher trade in price will draw in sellers and then GS will have a pile to sell when stock is actually scarce. They do this from time to time. The sticker shock is also useful for “sales” and trade in promotions.

GTA6 season should net them a tidy sum.

I’ll be back once Fire Emblem lets me go. Atsu and Oyuki will be breaking faces!

Oh those look nice. Atsu is so cool!

I tend to run around in the Lady Snowblood color set…because Lady Snowblood, but I will give these a try.

@AdamNovice Woke actually has a specific meaning in the African American/FBA/Black American community and African American Vernacular English that has been hijacked by people outside this community in a deliberate attempt to dilute how members of this community speak with one another and how they are perceived as a whole. It isn’t a new term in this community, simply others are aware of it now. So it won’t disappear because it will still be used by members of this community for its intended communication purpose, even after others stop using it as a dog whistle/ bucket for things they don’t like.

It isn’t lazy vocabulary, simply linguistic modification for a group that has had any original cultural languages (as there were several) destroyed and unlike many other communities in the United States, can’t fall back on a native, non English language to obfuscate or communicate with cultural resonance to other members of this community.

No different than folks using Spanglish or switching fully to their cultural native language if they have access to it. Many Indigenous people who grew up outside of reservations (where they would have had a greater chance of language and history preserved) and had a similar language culling, modify American English in the same way.

I’ll wait on it to hit the bargain bin. I’m not particularly inspired to play.

I really just want an X-Men game.

I watched a let’s play; not particularly enthused for this one. I’ll get it when it is super cheap.

Nooooo they just ported to switch 2! Sorry to hear that. Hope the devs land on their feet.

I didn’t play the original and anniversary was enough for me. I am sad Survivor Lara is essentially being benched.

OG OoT came out in Nov in most territories and it is the 40th anniversary (that Nintendo will celebrate for a year); they wouldn’t move the release even if rockstar moved to day and date on purpose. Different audiences. Nintendo isn’t thinking about GTA.

Getting Zelda.

(If anyone lucked out it was Fable getting kicked to next year.)

This is all I ever wanted from sony and ms. If my PC is more powerful, just let me play there. Ima still buy the games anyway. I’ll wait for companies to get a clue.

I’ll always have Remember Me and Banishers. I haven’t played anything else recent from them. (backlog is drowning me as is) Good luck to the devs.

She just needs the skull cap that Deathstrike always wears.

Again dudes are looking for aliens.

King in Black pretty much broke Venom for me. (I would never play as him anyway because Eddie Brock is a monster but still). I’ll wait on another Marvel franchise.

I’m playing as Oyuki and Atsu. Time to break some faces!

That being said if they are dragging up zombies, I am surprised Lord Kitamori isn’t playable.

I’m waiting for Dark Arisen before I jump back in, but this is exciting. I just wish they would stop nerfing dragonsplague (the cure; I like that it seems to make pawns more reckless and powerful).

Hmm, I might jump back in this weekend.

Oh! I love a short haired Queen!

ok, focus…Still very curious about this game. My hope is by the time it launches, I’ll have some space in my gaming rotation.

Onimusha is back! Looking forward to getting this.

uh oh. Gonna pass on this one. I wasn’t really sold by the trailers anyway.

Fable has never been long. The focus is really the main story and even the side quests are almost checkpoints than long side adventures. There isn’t a lot of bloat beyond the time it takes to own all the property (most game that system) and perhaps looking for buried treasure or legendary weapons (much of that was streamlined in Fable 3 because the weapons morphed based on requirements). maybe the demon doors if you want to open all of them (but with morphing gone they may not be as restrictive).

The side quests are more you get to a part of the game that opens that region and you can quickly knock out the quests for that region and move on (with only a few that require you to come back later). At best if you want to make everyone your friend you may have fetch/escort quests but those are optional. As your combat is where the skill points are earned. There are good quests that make changes to a region but to solve them is often simple (paying Barnaby or giving the guard the wanted posters).

The hero is usually on a mission (all Fables are a personal quest that spirals into world threatening status in part because of Theresa manipulating the strings…) so they aren’t spending their time grinding on quests (as the guild is usually in a state where that isn’t how the world works by the time the player character becomes a Hero. )

Woo, those shorts look uncomfortable.

Horizon is weird for me. I don’t like the combat (simply because I can’t aim worth anything) but I respect it because it makes sense in the world that Aloy exists in.

I love Aloy, her story and the world building and it is rare to get a Lesbian protag in anything so that makes her doubly interesting. Horizon is interesting as well as it takes a desolate, pitiable story premise that is rampant with the greed and ego of man and yet there is so much hope even when you almost feel humanity doesn’t deserve it. My only hope is that the series continues to have Aloy grow beyond her origins and purpose as I suppose I am rooting for that more than saving the planet (again). Also more Seyka. Normally gameplay matters most for me, with coherent story second but Horizon has managed to happily drag me along, eager to see the story’s conclusion.

that being said I do think that HFW succeeded at being a good sequel in the general sense. The story was consistent but was moved forward without any weird pacing, Combat and movement were improved but still retained the flavor of the original game, it looked prettier and set up for the 3rd game.

This series and Ghost of Yotei (and the weird fighting game support sony gets) are the reason I have a PS5.

Welp, I guess the wider market will be able to bear $1000+ PS6.

Well at least they figured out how a boycott works. Walk away, stay away. If your numbers (read: company losses and consumer data points to sell) are big enough, they may listen. (doubtful at this point but if they actually walk it can prompt some sort of response.)

They need to do a year minimum if they want sony to notice anything. A week is like a gambling addict quitting for a week. We will see you in the casino soon! And the House still always wins. Fangless protest, really.

I’m sorta accidentally participating as I haven’t had anything to play for a while so I have not turned on my PS5 in about 2 months. Pretty sure Sony isn’t looking for me.

Gamers being weird again. How is the gameplay or story?

“The customer is always right, in matters of taste.” If folks keep giving sony their money, sony is gonna take it…like any normal business.

Caveat emptor should be rule of thumb. If customers are wary and accept that companies are there to sell a product no matter what and make money, then the onus is on that customer to decide if said product is worth their money. Instead of hoping that the company will cater to them because they want something a certain way. Nobody has to keep buying from sony or any other company.