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If you're on Steam or GoG get yourselves Divinity: Dragon Commander.
It's a fairly light RTS game with some very nice RPG elements. Fun for a long weekend if you can get it on sale.

@McSavage All of this and more made me hate the guy. Steve is the worst character in the history of the franchise for me. I loved the game, but hated every second he was on screen.

Edit: It's not that his dialogue has aged badly. It wasn't even good at the time.

One of my favourite Resi games. Would love to see it remade.
Maybe just make Steve less... Steve.

@omadeli Yes! I need either re-releases of the first two Outbreak games or a new Outbreak game entirely.

@Oram77 I haven't gotten the plat for Rebirth yet specifically because I can't bring myself to do the last few VR fights. Just thinking about it now even is giving me stress tension in my neck.
Such a nightmare.

I abandoned it a few months after launch, but I'm planning on going back after Crimson Desert. We'll see...

I'll do another run through both games before the third one comes out. I'll definitely give these options a try then.

I've already got the plat for Remake, but out of curiosity do the settings impact trophy progression? (I'm sure that's been asked before.)

I played the crap out of it and had a pretty op character by the end. I enjoyed it for what it was, but yeah it was very flawed. It seemed to lack any real creative direction other than fly and shoot.

The fact that a large chunk of the dev team didn't know what they were even making until they saw the first reveal trailer sums it up for me.

Nothing for this weekend.
Doing a bit of a detox before Resi comes out next month.
I might look at some gameplay for Avowed later though. I'm still trying to decide if I want that.

There might be a D&D session on the cards for later too.

I remember shoveling sheep "slop" one summer when I was younger. I could have called it "roses and lillies" but it still would have been sheep shhhhhlop.

Mario Kart on Switch 2, Flight Sim on PS5.
Happy New Year, all! ✌️

Mario Kart World mostly. (Lost to my brother on Christmas Day, disaster).
And after watching the new Stranger Things episodes I'm seriously considering Microsoft Flight Simulator on PS5 for the Hawkins map.

Happy Christmas, all!

A little bit of Helldivers, a little bit of Nightreign maybe if my crew are free, probably some Yotei, but mostly I'll be taking it handy now until Mario Kart World on Christmas Day.

Have a good one, folks! ✌️

The same month as Crimson Desert, and then Saros is out in April. I'm interested but I think I'll be a late arrival.

I've been drifting back to Helldivers over the past few days.
I really need to get back to the extra content in Nightreign though. I've hardly touched that.

And Yotei NG+ too.

@UltimateOtaku91 Same.
If it was Friday going into Saturday sure. But you get to an age where it's just not worth staying up until 12:30 Thursday night / Friday morning with work the next day.

Cosmic Invasion, the Tokon closed Beta, and Ghost of Yotei.

@pyrrhic_victory You fiend! 😭
(Minds blown if it turns out to be Deep Down though)

Yotei NG+ for me.
Having a great time with it again the second time around.

@themightyant Can't argue with much here 🤔
I go back and forth over which is better between VI and VII, but that's it.

@Oram77 Oh they absolutely were.
They talk about it themselves in one of the documentaries about how the teams were begging the engineers to reign it in, but they were of the opinion that the console would be so good that people would buy it anyway.
I would say absolutely deluded with a touch of arrogance for sure.

I think it might be discussed in the "From Bedrooms to Billions" documentary. I can't fully remember though.

But that was a hard learned lesson. I'll be stunned if they make that mistake again. Rising costs of production might force their hand, I can understand that I guess. But the "everyone will want it" line is likely to get people slapped at Sony now.

@Oram77 Agreed on this. I didn't get a PS3 until 2011 because of the price.
It was a crazy launch price for the time. They completely overengineered it. There are people who were at Sony back then who would tell you the same thing.

@Oram77 Given their talk of making next gen more affordable, and the complaints from a few third party publishers about the price of consoles blocking people from buying their games, I'd be surprised if it costs too much more than PS5 did at launch.
I wouldn't be looking to PS5 Pro for an indication of the price either. That's a niche, premium tier product. Not a launch tier intended for the masses price.

They seem to be relying more and more on AI and software solutions for visual performance now too, which I'm imagining will help keep hardware prices lower.
Maybe.

Indie devs who have to plan the timing of their releases carefully to avoid these blockbusters won't thank them for it.

Nothing for me this weekend. I'm on the annual family Christmas brewery/distillery tour today.
I'll be blackout hammered by the time the Ireland V South Africa game starts, and tomorrow I'll be in a teary hungover hoop when I wake up dying and remember SA handed us our own tón.

But Monday I'll be starting Yotei NG+.

I have a little bit of reserved hype for it.

I think if there's a version that comes in at around €600.00 I'd consider getting it with the controller. I only really play old or indie games on PC, so really this could last me 10 - 15 years.
It would be a nice supplementary system to have alongside my PS and Nintendo.

I have the PSVR2 PC adaptor already, so no need to get the new headset.

Yeah it could be nice.

It's a shame if true, but tbh I wasn't making much use of it.

Does anyone know if we let our subs expire during the discount window, and then resub, would we get the discount?
Technically we'd be "upgrading" from having no sub.
No?

Battlefield 6 and Ball X Pit.
I still need to get the plat in FFVII Rebirth at some point too.

It's very nice and I'm hoping it does well, but I don't feel that it's going to muscle in on PlayStation and Nintendo, nor do I think it's trying to.

For myself, if I wasn't already entrenched in the Nintendo and PlayStation ecosystems I'd absolutely get one of these, but as things stand I don't need it. I have a Steam Deck that is criminally underused too, so definitely no need for me to get this.

I am hoping that the VR headset they're releasing alongside this will raise the bar for whatever Sony are planning for PSVR3 though. (Assuming there is a PSVR3 of course.)

@Korgon True! 😂
One of my friends was saying the same thing earlier!

@Korgon I've had the same thought tbh. I have some experience as to how these decisions are made (although I'm about 10 levels below the actual decision makers), and it's usually along the lines of not wanting to compromise on the experience of the primary market that the game is made and designed for.
And given how Sony have failed to make an impact in mobile before, they would just be going all in on this one.

The solution in my mind would have been to announce this alongside the coop game on PS5, then nobody would be feeling left out, but two different projects staying in sync like that would be difficult to manage too.

All of that being said, I think this is the first mobile game that has genuinely grabbed my attention.

@Korgon I'm guessing it was just a matter of prioritising resources and getting the mobile version finished. They want to capture a chunk of the mobile market in Asia asap.

I imagine there's a lot of pressure at PlayStation re mobile gaming. They of all people have had little to no success on that platform and have come across as having no idea how to approach it in the past.
That must sting for them.

This is their first mobile game that looks genuinely good at first glance (I haven't checked the Ratchet and Clank game yet tbf). I'll give it a go, and hopefully in a year or two the console version will launch and I can just transfer straight over with my save.
Hopefully.

Either way, there's a coop Horizon game coming to PS5 at some point that I assume will be built and optimised for a better console experience anyway.

It looks impressive!
This could be a mobile game that I might actually put more than a few minutes in to.

It's a shame it's not on console (been waiting for a coop Horizon version of MH since the first game), but I guess I'm getting a Backbone now until they port it 🤷

@Rich33 I'm picky by nature and have less and less time to play myself.
I went through a phase years ago of trying to play everything, but I burned out hard.
Being picky makes the games I do play far more enjoyable however.

My resolution this year was to play the crap out of games I love, and just skip anything my gut is uncertain about.
It's worked. Gaming is far more fun for me this way.

@Rich33 Yep! Completely agree with you.
I've been saying since before launch that this gen feels so much like the PS1 days to me.
I'm loving the console and the kind of games I want to play keep on coming.

It's had my attention for a while, but in the last few days I've decided it's a skip for me.
I have BF6 to play right now, the Nightreign expansion is a few weeks off, Mario Kart World coming for Christmas, Resi not long after that, Crimson Desert, No Rest for the Wicked, Phantom Blade Zero, Nioh 3 (maybe), Onimusha, Wolverine... That's just off the top of my head.

I have no room in the next year for something like Where Winds Meet.

The next online fantasy world I get lost in will hopefully be Light no Fire. I'm hoping that one plays like No Man's Sky and just let's me go about things at my own pace.

@gamer153 Just a suggestion on how to roleplay it. It's not a hill I'm going to die on or anything.

Play it however you enjoy it.

@somnambulance Executioners definitely had a version released on PSN. I have it installed on my PS5, but I can't find it in the store now for some reason.

I don't remember hearing about a demo that far back though.

Hopefully. I'm gasping for this game at this point, and a release date reveal feels like a shoo-in for tomorrow.

@HaveTheSauce I think what you get from it is subjective.
I occasionally enjoy a solo run on the base version of the maps and bosses, but I don't touch the more difficult versions solo. I prefer to play them with my regular group, and we always have fun.

Around launch there was a lot of people who would quit and leave you hanging if Day 1 didn't go well, but I don't see that happening as much now, so doing two or three player with strangers is absolutely viable.
Playing with strangers is how I found the best routes actually. They usually know something my regular group doesn't.
If you prefer a solo experience mute your chat etc and pretend they're just really advanced NPCs.

Probably some Nightreign but mostly BF6.
I won't be playing much else between now and Christmas.

Anyone who works for a company please remember — finish work on time and don't come in on your day off out of the goodness of your heart. Nobody in a suit will remember that you worked late out of loyalty to your team or that you finished a report on a Saturday instead of playing Mario Kart with your niece.

That second update especially kills any buzz I had for GTA6.

Amazing. This thing just keeps getting better and better.
Hopefully they keep supporting it through next gen too.

Shadowgate VR has my attention. Could be fun.

An X-Men game from Insomniac would be it for me. Every game after that would be just cherries on top of a cake I've wanted since '92.

If it's legit, it must be something they're doing with Epic and/or Steam and first party games. I can't see Sony going with their own launcher. The hardcore PC crowd would reject it.

I turned cross play off the very first time I turned the game on.
I stink at FPS games, so going up against players with mouse and keyboard and being killed over and over would be far more boring than risking the occasional game populated with bots.

But generally I'm just happy if I can get the tank and see a few things go boom.

Got the plat in Absolum during the week so my slate is clear now with the exception of new Dispatch episodes.
Until Christmas I think I'll just be doing Dark Souls III co-op. A friend told me the other week that she'd never played the expansions so we've been chipping away at them.

Alundra.
Just give me Alundra, you cowards!

Nothing changes for me either way.
The vast majority of my library is on PSN, Zelda and Mario Kart are on Nintendo, and I don't see either platform dropping the fee for online just because the next X-Box is going to be a PC.

@Buckeye4Life2015
@UltimateOtaku91
Same. I mostly pay the sub for the monthly games, catalogue and additional services.

When I was a kid the biggest competitor to my console time was X-Men comics, and the time we'd spend cycling really fast down really steep hills, then cycling back up so we could cycle back down again.

I don't know. Everything competes for our time really. But from Christmas onwards the biggest competitor for my PlayStation time will be the Switch 2.