ShadowofSparta

The combat animations just looks so context heavy and specific, doesn’t make sense unless the game is extremely linear to funnel you but they’ve said it’s open world. It looks cool, but there’s something sus about the gameplay, would love to see a live demo/walkthrough.

@SeaDaVie There’s all sorts of sampling bias surely. That 51% could have already been part of the initial 40% that were going to buy it. Seems like an absolutely meaningless stat.

Lovely gesture all round.

@tameshiyaku No we do not, have you not seen the millions of people protesting and turning out for marches? What the hell are you even talking about?

This comment section is a travesty. People trying to find nuance for a guy who admitted to sexual harassment and has a fairly long trail of incidents in the news. Absolutely shameful.

@PuppetMaster In a normal world it would have nothing to do with a music label though, the guys producing the anime would just go with who they like. That’s the point - in this world, the pool of who they like is going to be limited because of the new label association.

Looks insane but also feels a bit all over the place. I still not convinced by the combat, doesn’t look like it has that visceral feel but we’ll see I suppose.

Need a demo for this. I still need to be sold on how it feels to play and what the overall loop is, as it looks crazy in scope.

@Frmknst Insane take. People like you pave the way for enshittification, happily paying for less and less features as long as they give you a line to trot. They give you less clans and less RPG mechanics but that’s all good to you.

@Dorkthrone You can hire a writer. If you like immersion and exploring new worlds, good writing is critical. Mass Effect, Dragon Age Origins, New Vegas etc would be nowhere near as big if they didn’t have great lore and immersive writing. It doesn’t have to be the best thing ever for it to work, so when it’s clearly positive for it to be decent, it’s disappointing for people like me to see it’s not. You don’t care, good for you, more games out there you’ll enjoy.

Hype, the demo was excellent so would love another similar instalment.

@AndroidBango Disgusting behaviour, locking two base clans that the original would never lock behind a $30 hike. I’m sure someone here will defend it, but I hope this flops just for that.

@Can-You-Believe-Sith Looks more horror-y so imagine will be very different vibe.

Definition of subscription game - worth playing but there are far better and more interesting things to spend money on.

Don’t usually buy stuff like this, but I just might for this. Wonderful art.

@Lup it’s insane. As if a video game costing nearly a third of the minimum wage is healthy in any way, shape or form.

@LogicStrikesAgain And have wages kept up with inflation?

@RudeAnimat0r Their writing is generally very strong so I have some confidence in this. Excellent studio that hopefully starts to cover up the cracks they’ve shown in the past.

People just have low standards, and as such we’ll continue to get messes like this because actually, the strategy works. Build a Rocketboy have made some money back.

Looks deeper than it seems on the surface, going to check this out.

I do want to try this one out, gameplay actually looks unique. Creative.

Day of the Devs was much better.

Looked interesting but can’t be doing with FTP, shame. Would have liked to see how all those elements came together in the loop, but now there’s very likely going to be timers and currencies and inflated grinds…meh.

Looked really cool, I knew it was Suda once the blood started gushing everywhere.

@0niguy Looks like a straight mission based game with a heavy story focus. I was hoping for something more like Alpha Protocol + Hitman, but let’s see a proper gameplay loop, which we’ll get soon enough it seems.

Not much of a fighting game guy but it looked really cool. Could tell people would get excited, and it’s nice to potentially have more competition in the space. Designs are phenomenal.

Disappointing it’s a gacha, but then again I’m not sure the IP is good enough for a traditional RPG. Other than a couple of great and unique characters, the setting and story are fairly generic and forgettable. Would love to see some take the concept and really do something unique with it.

So so hyped for this. Owlcat are brilliant, just need to iron out their bugs at launch.

@Propaperpusher Garland is a decent writer. He isn’t just going to lift what’s in the game. If anything, there’s a lot of lore in Elden Ring and he’ll likely make it far simpler to understand.

Love the setup. Will wishlist.

@Khayl Thanks for the review, pretty much lines up with what I saw in the demo. Any plans to review Tainted Grail as well? Enjoyed that demo too.

Inscryption is absolutely amazing, please play if you haven’t.

@PaperAlien Not a souls-like, more like Oblivion but with better combat and seemingly more mature. Check out the demo, tried it this weekend and it got me intrigued. There’s something potentially very compelling there.

@Orishibu How is it not? Can clearly see a number of people in the community are glad to know this about a game they love.

@lazarus11 They are not review bombing it. Negative reviews do not mean you are review bombing. The last patch had some awful updates and people who have put dozens of hours into the game are rightfully giving feedback. It’s extremely annoying that any negative reviews are seen as review bombing when most of them are pretty thorough and exact.This dev is a donkey.

We’ll get to a point where we only get one childhood defining game from some studios. We’ll stop using Gen Z etc to define generations and just go by GTA releases. We won’t see GTA 7 until we’re all grandpas.

@Boxmonkey This is Obsidian. They’ve so far shown no inclination.

@trev666 You can do it in EAFC.

Perfect game for a demo.

@DonkeyFantasy What an unnecessary trivialisation. You could say the same about all artistic jobs and it would be stupid. If it genuinely is so easy then why aren’t you an acclaimed voice actor?

@heavyartillery56 How? This is an awful take.

Excellent. Just picked this up recently and looking forward to trying it with the update.

Owlcat seem a bit busy at the moment, with around 2 big games in development iirc so hard to see them picking this up as well, although I agree they would be excellent.

This could be awesome.

Good review. Story sounds better than I usually expect from these games, so may check it out down the line.

Personally art looks fantastic, quite unique. Curious to see what the farming mechanics look like but already loving what I’ve seen of the combat. Also the story looks interesting, with a lolly or vying factions.

Been waiting for a moustache to complete my spectacled Charisma outfit. And I’m still not in Kuttenburg city, so time to spare.

Refn? Guess I’ll be checking it out. Also curious to see what folklore is used, intriguing.

Dig the concept. Hoping you can craft some broken combinations. Will keep an eye on it.

Will try the demo, just the type of off-kilter we need more of.