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Love how they’re spreading the games across genres. Will defo check this out as they’re finally capitalising on the great universe they’ve created.

@pharos_haven I think that’s the best description I’ve heard of it, totally agree.

Not a fan of the genre in general (other than Destiny mp) but SkillUp’s preview made me interested in trying it out, ngl. Could be a lot of fun given the sheer chaos of the map constantly changing. Plus it’s objective based rather than bloody battle royale,

Really like the visuals. Interesting, will keep an eye on reviews.

Quite interested in this. Looks a nice sub £20 pickup but let’s see reviews.

Tv show I’m guessing. Like CSI Miami but from the criminals’ perspective?

@NEStalgia Don’t think it’s a weird take at all, can understand where he’s coming from. When they developed the games, they thought they were developing RPGs. Then they hear that actually, their RPGs are not treated like other RPGs, they’re treated like their own thing, JRPGs. But from their perspective, they didn’t see why it should be treated differently. Anyone who has ever felt otherised will understand, when you think you’re just taking part with everyone but then someone picks you out to feel different. There’s no ill intent behind it and I don’t think he’s suggesting that people were discriminating against them, he’s basically explaining how the term initially felt otherising to developers. Perfectly reasonable take if you get their perspective.

Bittersweet since we (ps5) will never see the sequel. Loved the game, gave me what I wanted from a Fallout game.

Thank god I wasn’t the only one. I watched it live and thought it was absolute dross but haven’t checked what the discourse was. For a second I thought I was becoming jaded, but glad everyone else thinks it’s *****.

All for a steady supply of horror games and giving smaller developers a platform. Might see some really interesting things come out of this. The movie record is spotty but they do have a couple of gems.

Looks like a lot of charm and fun.

Bit melodramatic, especially with the music, but still looking forward to see how this reviews. Definitely looks like one to play with Japanese audio.

True, it would have been cliche at this point but I’d be interested in seeing a timeskipped Atreus searching for the giants

Really curious to see how this reviews. At the moment, it’s a try on sale but it looks great.

Looks really cool. Surprised not more games have tried to emulate the Persona sim formula

Returnal meets Remnant From the Ashes. I’m totally in for this, let’s hope it reviews well.

Ah shame, does not look appealing. If this is any indication it will likely be stripped back in RPG terms. Ah well, on to Baldur’s Gate and Owlcat games for my fixes now.

Will keep an eye on this. Would never turn down more XCOM-type games, we should have more tbh. So many different franchises could do with an addition in the genre.

@Nem I know I don’t have to play it. Wouldn’t you like to see something new? Not everything has to go on forever. I’m just not sure what else there is to do with Uncharted. There’s an opportunity cost to making it.

Just let it rest, jesus. Not everything has to be an infinite franchise, and I say this as someone who loves the games.

They need to fix the game resetting all your settings if you have too many saves, absolutely pissing me off now. Never had this issue previous gen.

Oh that’s awesome. Great guys.

PushSquare have clearly said they’re looking forward to this. I’m not, but the state of this comment section looking for a reason to be mad is quite a thing. Literally no one is telling you not to be excited for this in this comment section yet most of the comments are about that. Also, everything is political, you can’t avoid it so seems silly to harp on about keeping it out of games.

Here we go again. Why can’t they keep the hype down this time? Totally unnecessary thing to let out into the public because expectations are going to be high once again and they won’t live up to it. Just say “we’re really looking to make this the best expansion we’ve made”.

Screams “buy it when it’s under £20” to me.

@ZachCantWin You have a lot less freedom in combat than you do with Divinity (i.e you can’t teleport barrels on to people’s heads) but combat is great with a lot of build variety. The writing is better imo and the RPG and mythic elements really get you to craft the type of character you want. I loved DOS2 and loved this so I don’t think you’ll go wrong mate.

Oh sweet. Debating whether to wait for all the dlc to come through, but looking forward to another play through for sure. Did my first as an Azata and thought the specific interactions and quests were really cool. Looking to try Angel and maybe Devil.

I hate early announcements. Tell me when it’s out in 6-8 months. Knowing about it longer than that seems pointless to me, other than to get investors satisfied.

Sounds like a wait for sale. Suits me. No need to rush to get it really.

Yes yes yes, my body has been ready for this wave for years. Loving all these CRPGs recently. We get enough output of games in other genres, some of us crave these. Looking forward to this, though would like a look at the dialogue system since the snippet they showed of that binary decision in the trailer raises a few questions about the writing.

@Tyrii I’m playing Wrath now and controls are mostly ok, but there’s a lot of UI bugs and crashes. Not necessarily because it’s a CRPG, but because Owlcat aren’t really great at optimising. Having a blast with it though, annoyances aside.

I do like that this is a step forward for Firaxis, with much more of a character and narrative focus. That said, I’m a bit sceptical about how deep it will be considering it’s their first real attempt, but looking forward to it nonetheless. Will be difficult to decide whether to get this or Callisto first for December.

@Khayl You’re my kinda guy with all these references. The type to like mum’s spag bol.

@Darude84 Why does it have to go from one extreme to the other? Quite frankly if you think the game has technical issues, don’t publish a review score until it’s resolved. You can still review a game without a score (SkillUp does it all the time and his reviews are fantastic), there’s nothing wrong with that (didn’t push square do that for Cyberpunk?). But games getting an 8 out of 10, given that adhering to scoring means you have some standard of what an 8 out of 10 is, seems ridiculous if you compare it to other 8 out of 10s without performance issues. They’re arbitrary until they’re not.

@Luigia Agile way of MVP releases works for most software but I think video games need to be treated differently. The impact of releasing an unfinished product is far more drastic than say releasing an online shopping experience without a cart. Its often not just about cut content, but genuine performance and technical issues that hamper the base experience (i.e non-functional requirements not realised). It’s an interesting one to think about, I may need to spend more time on it but feel like it’s worth an essay in itself. If anyone on this site is willing, it would be an interesting one to ponder.

So why did they release it? This trend really needs to stop and we need to stop giving these companies so much grace.

@tameshiyaku Origins still kinda holds up (just about), well worth a try if you don’t mind older games. 2 was ok and I wasn’t a fan on Inquisition.

It looks pretty bog standard. Vox Machina managed to get past its bland animation by being funny and irreverent. Edgerunners was helmed by Trigger so it was always going to be special. Arcane was visually stunning and brilliant.
This doesn’t look that interesting on the surface but maybe the plot is at least good.

@stefan771 He’s one of the very few actual journalists in our industry. It’s not all about leaks, but he’s fairly comprehensive in his deep dives and I think does his part in helping out those on the ground floor of development get their voices heard. He’s exposed a lot of horrible industry practices. We should be thankful to have him, as much as I may disagree with some of his takes.

It worth it at all until there’s a decent library or some truly outstanding/revolutionary games at launch. Otherwise you’ll use it a bit to start of with, then it gradually fade into the background until something good comes along.

Insane. Major props to the guy. Might look into his loadout when expansion hits.

Really cool concept. They’ve poured a lot of love into these games and deserve a lot of credit.

I was hoping for something more elaborate and tied to the main campaign but doesn’t sound too bad tbh. May check out the companion and Kenabres ones.

Let’s hope this helps the leads who were fired. If I were Sony I’d be trying to snap them all up, there just isn’t a vision like theirs out there at the moment.

Lol Taro is such a gem. Gaming world would be less interesting if these guys weren’t pushing to get their vision out.

It shouldn’t have a second season, but there should defo be more anime. Lots of stories you can tell in this world.

Haha that’s pretty great, does make sense when you look at it from that light. Luffy is a pretty special character, not a bad idea to spin off him.

Lol until they change the writing, combat and banal activities, regardless of whether they’re repetitive or not, it ain’t make the game more enticing.

@sentiententity I do wish there were more games with a strong RPG focus and a good narrative, but I do think you’d lose something converting this into an action RPG for instance. All the dice rolls, modifiers, feats etc seem like they’d be difficult to pull off if it wasn’t more turn based and strategic. There’s a whole base to the build crafting etc that would look quite different I guess. Ideally we’d have lots of both types of games.

Absolutely loving it so far, we’ll worth the wait for it to come from PC. Narrative is always a strong part of these Adventure Paths and the characters are fantastic. Mythic implementation has been pretty cool so far.