Shepherd_Tallon

Delighted to hear it. Some of us were looking forward to this one for effin years, and it didn't disappoint when it landed.
The boss battles are amazing at times.

Just a shame it seems to have flown in under a lot of radars.
If you like anime and ARPG, you'll like this game.

A good first-person survival horror game with an optional VR mode would be nice 🤞

@AdamNovice Been thinking about this too. If it's a statue of one of the X-Men I won't be able to say no.

Nightreign and Death Stranding 2 for me after this Lions game is over.

Surprised by how much I'm loving DS2. I couldn't finish the first game, but this one feels very special so far. That opening was quietly epic.

The screenshots give me Gamesmaster or Movies, Games and Videos flashbacks 🥹

Waiting for original Resi 2 and 3. Was hoping they'd be this month 🤞🤞🤞

Excellent timing on the PSA. 🙇
I would have watched that trailer on my lunch break.

Very excited for this.
I love seeing all of the fantasy and dark fantasy games we're getting lately, but more often than not they end up being a hardcore experience.
As I've mentioned before, I tend to limit that kind of exp to FromSoftware titles so I don't burnout on them. So it's great to see a solid action fantasy title that I can chill with.

I'm looking forward to trying the PvE mode.
It's a great little title. Such a shame more people don't seem to be aware of it.

I've been getting my Kings Field fix from PSVR2, and Undead Citadel was just announced today so I'm well happy.

🤷‍♂️

Looks almost exactly like what I want.

I've been craving a swords and sorcery or swords and sandals type game from Naughty Dog, or at least in their action adventure style, for years. Nice to see a few starting to appear.

Between this, Echoes of the End and Phantom Blade Zero, maybe we're at the end of the SoulsClones era? I love me some Souls, but I tend to limit myself to the FromSoftware releases so I don't burnout on the genre.

@Titntin Agreed with this.
This gen I have more unfinished games than I've had since the NES era. And back then I only had a backlog because I wasn't good enough to finish the likes of Solstice or Battle of Olympus.

I got into PS1 for the third party games at the time. I didn't think much about first party until PS3. Maybe it's a generational thing, but I just don't feel let down by the lack of first party games when there's so much of everything else to play.

Plus, Death Stranding and Ghost of Yotei are how close?

Looking forward to this.
Same time as Lions Vs Argentina though. I'll check it after.

Edit: Got my days mixed up.

Death Stranding has taken the place of Final Fantasy in my collection:

• Epic
• Gorgeous
• Confusing af

@Oram77 That makes a lot of sense given how things have been going.

Just give me Alundra 🙃

@Oram77 Floaty, best way to describe it.

@Oram77 Fair comment. I've bounced off of the story a few times and I find it hard to listen to the dialogue in EN, but the levels look fantastic and combat is something else entirely.
Timing a dodge just right feels amazing.
Has to be some of the most exciting combat I've played in the last year or two.

My main issue with it is that watching her run or jump makes me feel like I'm constantly about to break my own ankles 😂

@Ravix I hadn't heard that but it explains so much. You get the sense that there was a serious change of direction at some point.

It's a shame because when it first appeared it was interesting.
I'll try it at some point I'm sure.

@ShogunRok It's always the same sad story;

• Mgmt unable to perceive feature creep
• A lead who can't accept that a direction is wrong
• "Our studio is magic and it will come together in the end..."

@AdamNovice I hadn't heard they were offered Syphon Filter. The IP is a bit obscure by now, but a decent reboot would have pulled me in on nostalgia alone.
A shame.

@ChrisDeku Hammer the ignore button. That's clearly someone's "other" account.

@Perturbator If you take the first letter of his first name and swap it with the first letter of his last name you get... Robert Ramsey!
Coincidence??? Not likely!

But yeah, this game is on my radar for all the wrong reasons unfortunately. It feels very half baked.

Definitely an 8 for me. I finally have a team of three to play it so it's a lot more fun now. It really shines when you're all partied up together and talking to one another.

The lack of two player mode at launch is disappointing, but at least they've addressed it.
It is what it is.

@Enriesto I'm looking at Free Roam gameplay on the Kit & Krysta channel right now. Looks like such a chill time.
I'm not looking at any gameplay for the new tracks though. I can't wait to try them for the first time. "Hype" is an understatement.

Had it pre-ordered with Mario Kart World (MK is a top 5 franchise for me), but cancelled it a week before launch. I still want it, but there are too many games and other things coming up in the next month.
I'll definitely pick it up over the summer though.

Instant nostalgia for Mick and Mack: Global Gladiators.

I'll be playing Nightreign myself, but I'm feeling the need to take a break from games for a week or so and read something instead.

@Nekomichu A friend of mine has been playing that all week. She absolutely loves it.

@Titntin To add to your point about third party at PS1 launch - With an assist from Capcom, Sony added additional hardware to the console specifically to make Street Fighter run.
Back then I bought PlayStation for Resi, FF and Tomb Raider.

First Party on PlayStation didn't become something I thought about at all until The Last of Us on PS3. I think maybe Syphon Filter, Alundra and Legend of Dragoon were the only first party games I played on PS1, but I don't know if I even realised they were first party.

I'm always hoping for Alundra, but getting Resi 2 and 3 is very nice.

@AhmadSumadi Right? That was seriously impressive I thought 😌

@ShogunRok They're my favourite dev but I don't disagree with any of this. It's definitely starting to come across as a little obnoxious.

I was just happy to see the cloak hang over the rear of the horse instead of clipping through it 😌 I'd settle for that.

@Czar_Khastik Tenchu, Alundra and Vagrant Story I think are the last franchises I love from the early PlayStation days that are still stuck in limbo. If they brought them back on Premium even I'd never ask for anything on that tier ever again.

@Czar_Khastik Tenchu collection would be pure bliss. Don't tease me.

I want to get stuck into Nightreign, but I have my favourite gun at lvl 24 in Helldivers. I'll keep going with that for now until I hit 25, then jump over.

I feel like he thinks he's charming or something.

@jFug Agreed. There are plenty of mistakes to talk about, but this is the most entertained I've been since the PS1 days.
I can't keep up with all of the games. I bought Expedition 33 at launch and I have no idea when I'm going to be playing it. There's no time 🤷

I like FromSoftware.
I like PvE and coop.
Seems like a safe bet for me...

I played it years after it came out and really enjoyed it. I think I was expecting it to be awful after the critical reception it received, but it ended up not being that bad.

Funnily enough this was the game at E3 2013 that steered me towards PlayStation after spending most of the previous gen on 360. It reassured me that PlayStation was going to be the console that would continue giving me big narrative experiences.

Myst and Riven? There's a nostalgia blast.

@Jenny_Jones
Same. I enjoyed both when I was about 14 or 15, but could never finish either of them.

I enjoyed it for both the collectibles and the wallet cash, although I had been paying less attention to it recently.
I don't really mind seeing it disappear since they've said we get to keep the collectibles. If they were taking that away too I'd have been pretty annoyed.

Mostly Helldivers, but I've gone back to Stellar Blade too. The first two or three times I tried to play it I bounced off of it, but this time I think I'm sticking with it. For now at least.

@get2sammyb @ChrisDeku @AgentMantis
Very true.
Even as recently as Dragon Age Inquisition, I remember people slating the multiplayer mode as tacked on garbage that drained resources from the campaign.
Factions kind of bucked the trend because it was so good, and I loved the ME multiplayer too, but even in those cases at the time they were slammed by people in the core community as junk.

In 15 years similar voices will probably be slating the holodeck and remembering gaas with nostalgia.

Kill it and give them Factions.
It's not as simple as that I'm sure, but... Kill it and give them Factions.

@themightyant To add to your point, I would wonder if the majority are even aware of the showcases.

I was loving my time with it, but after 20 hours I stopped to wait for a patch.
No complaints other than that though. I'm eager to get back to it.

Paul Tassi!? Super Earth is under attack and we're all sitting around talking about Paul Tassi!

Get in your effin Hellpods!!!!!!

Makes sense. I was expecting it early to mid ps6 gen.

Helldivers 2.
The new update is nuts. Feels like the chaos from launch all over again.