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Absolutely amazing game!! Really scratched that morrowind itch for me!

Oi, not loving the art style. Reminds me of Fortnite mixed with dauntless/monster hunter gameplay. I thought their multiplayer venture was going to be more mmo rather than monster hunter.

I loved the game, and think it should be higher on the list. The 2nd half is way better and more interesting from a story perspective, but progression curve totally falls off a cliff after the 1st half when you’ve amassed a kingdoms worth of gold and have all the best gear (finished the game before the hardcore mode came out). Does playing on hardcore level this out?

@graymamba absolutely was astounded by this. Has the best level design and art direction of any non fromsoft souls like

Returnal with a bit more narrative juice (not that there wasn’t a lot to dig into with the first) Sign me up!!

This game was a huge surprise for me. I thought I would hate it but I absolutely dig it.

And the DLC has so many surprises (at least from what I’ve come across so far). Not just in the new shifting earth and characters but how they’ve modified stuff in the main map.

Classic fromsoft to totally undersell what they are selling (can’t think of any other developer that does this consistently)

Playing avowed right now, so this seems to read like a sci-fi skin of that game. I’m enjoying the exploration and combat enough, but the writing/characters/story is just not captivating at all so the rpg decisions/choices don’t really land. Sounds like this has a similar shortcoming, so will probably wait until this is on a deep sale

Edit: and characters with fake Mediterranean accents can get in the bin. Ubi games ruined those for me

I don’t really understand how they can do this. Does the game have mtx or another monetization scheme, or are there really still enough people out there who have not bought and end up buying when these updates are released? Genuinely curious

Stephanie Sterling said it best, the worst game I ever loved, love it for its weirdness despite the warts.

Tsushima is one of the very few plats I’ve gotten, just loved being on that painting of a world. I will probably pick up yotei a bit down the line after I’ve cleared my backlog a bit

Crow country and conscript are solid adds. Have also been curious about the fate samurai series but never bit as JRPGs are always a gamble for me. Might have to buy in for a month

Why announce something two years ago when it’s still not even being actively worked on (still). Basically they announced that game creator has an idea for a new game. 🤯

I played the PC demo a few months ago it was a bit janky gameplay but the atmosphere and exploration was spot on. I’m also weird in that I hate when modern games don’t give you a jump button. I get it it’s all part of a design philosophy, but dudes got knees, he should be able to give a little hop when I press x or triangle

Yeah it looks super good so far, except for the dinky skill tree. Kind of don’t see how it would be an RPG with a skill tree so barren (I’m hoping they just hid a bunch of skills on the UI). unless they are calling it such from a choice/consequence perspective moreso than the gameplay side

@get2sammyb do they throw the baby out with the bath water (can game, close studio) or do they fall into the pit of sunk cost fallacy (release something because it’s cost so much already). Neither option seems real promising.

Probably get it on sale at some point to relive some nostalgia. I’m not looking forward to the combat though

While I enjoyed my time with the first, I hope they tone down the overly satirized tone in this one. It became cringey after the 10th time in as many minutes that I was reminded “Corporations are bad”. I certainly agree with the sentiment, but I don’t need to be reminded every 30 seconds.

Also that gameplay snippet from ign didn’t really do much for me. I feel like they need to show more overworld exploration stuff to see how/if they improve on that.

I don’t know if it’s for me, but sounds like an objectively unique take on the souls formula. Hopefully it pans out for them.

They always had a penchant for atmosphere and artistry, but lacked actual game mechanics in pretty much everything up until SH2 (haven’t played the medium so can’t speak to that) pretty excited for what they are cooking up and looking forward to hearing more

@Fiendish-Beaver same here! I’ve recently played ME legendary, and I am of the opinion that BioWare has had a penchant for corny writing and dialogue for decades, even if DA cranks the dial on that a bit. That said the gameplay and exploration bits I feel were done pretty well in DAV and have been having a blast with build crafting despite the game’s warts

While I think all corporations need oversight and to be called out for their disregard for their employees welfare, this argument makes little sense to me.

I can certainly acknowledge that the remaster has improved the texture work and the ambient effects significantly, I feel like something is lost with the color range. The original looks so much more stark and unique in its lighting compared to the remaster (at least in the video above and what else I’ve seen) it’s just a preference thing for me which is why I’ll stick with the original

I don’t really like this as a precedent. A game looking and playing like crap on current gen consoles because there’s a mid gen upgrade that allows you to play an acceptable version of the game. Should be the mid gen upgrade allows for more bells and whistles, not being the only viable way to play the game.

Anyone finding themselves locked by a progression blocking bug during a point in the game involving a certain rotating object?

The combat looked interesting if a little muted in terms of impact. My biggest gripe though is the traversal system. I really don’t like the system where jumping, climbing, falling only where the devs clearly marked and made interactive. It’s been really overused lately and is really artificial.

Had a damn good time with the game on pc, started ng+ but seemed to perform worse after every patch they introduced ironically. Have to give it another go to see if it’s better now

I generally like difficult games, elden ring, ds3 and the like. That said I’ve definitely not finished a few games due to the difficulty, bloodborne being one of them. Still love it though and find myself going back to it from time to time even though I never beat it.

Just started and damn it is walloping me. Maybe shouldn’t have started using a ng+2 character but I’m not about to go through the process of getting there with a new character

I get why they made the choice to nix the open world, but part of me doesn’t like that. Gives me ffxvi vibes and I really didn’t enjoy the structure of that game

Excellent game, one of the few souls likes that I’ve done multiple play throughs in one go (without taking a long hiatus in between). Certainly had its issues with encounter design but overall really fun and just superb world design

Yeah I remember the combat being a bit clunky. This doesn’t seem much better though based on the look of it. Reminds me of KOTOR(never played DAO) and the combat is not what I remember most fondly about that game

I’m about 50-50 at this point, PC game prices for nonPS exclusives are almost always way lower than PS Store plus. Basically my ps5 is where I play exclusive games or games that are terribly ported on PC (ie jedi survivor)

Played this last year and while I totally dig the concept, as it’s pretty close to an immersive sim, I could not get a grip with the gameplay. Not sure why exactly but it didn’t click with me.

The story and the theming was great in the demo. Didn’t love the gameplay too much, but had some interesting mechanics.

Played a bit like a budget plague tale. So not terrible but not amazing either.

I may end up buying it to support the dev depending on the cost

Wasn’t DBZ Kakerot already on the service?i
I swear I played it on there

Honestly didn’t find it too bad. There was some corny VO and theming around the high school stuff that felt pretty trite, but it also had some heavy hitting stuff as well. As for the last chase sequence can’t argue with that one being frustrating as hell. Overall I didn’t mind the 90 minutes I spent with it. That said I didn’t grow up with silent hill (no interest in horror games as a child) so I guess I have a bit less invested in it as a property.

Damn, just damn. This looks amazing

Playing enshrouded in early access. Got sucked into the hype even though I usually don’t like survival games. But I gotta say this is one of the best I’ve played. I’m enjoying even more than valhiem because of the npcs so it doesn’t feel as lonely and isolating (yes I know that’s kind of one of the main points of survival games 😜)

Seems like this is the new direction for live services. Instead of “we want you playing for years to come” it’s “we promise to keep it running for one year”

Just finished my second play through on lords of the fallen. Probably will put that down for a while. Alan Wake 2 is far and away my game of the year, but lords of the the fallen was definitely a sleeper hit and probably my second choice. I did not expect to love it as much as I did, even with some of the issues it has.

I’d spend 14 bucks on a month of extra to try this out.

Level design and world design in lords is absolutely amazing. 50 hours in I still find myself having holy crap moments with all of the twists and turns.

Man those proper nouns though!

Talk about trend chasing. It used to be looter shooter now it’s extraction shooter. Still not going to be any good no matter how with the times ubisoft tries to be

@Texan_Survivor totally agree with your sentiment. Saved up enough to buy a halfway decent gaming laptop last year and my purchases for PS5 have taken a nosedive. It just feels like I’m being fleeced by Sony. Only time I buy ps5 games nowadays is for the rare exclusive or if I happen to see a physical game at a decent sale

I’ve been interested in trying generation zero, but that review is pretty scathing. Curious if it’s better now after a few years of patches and content updates

That is so crazy that they’d wait until there’s no longer support for the game to do this. I bought it a few years back but didn’t really find anything compelling enough to keep me. The dev tools were pretty cool, but very unwieldy with a controller. I always wondered if it would be easier with the move controllers over traditional.

Applying oils from the radial is pretty great, that got very annoying on death march having to navigate the menus every 30 seconds during a monster showdown to apply oil

@rjejr just finished the game last night and have quite polar feelings about it. The game has some insane spectacle and really high highs, but incredibly low lows as well. At the end I couldn’t bother with the side quests because it felt detracting from the experience. And I’m one who usually avoids finishing a game so I can do all the side stuff. Like you said it’s very oddly paced, in a way that I didn’t like.

I certainly enjoyed my time with the game a couple years back, that said it always felt like the campaign kind of just sputtered out and randomly told me that I was doing the final mission and felt like it was very anticlimactic. So I’ll check it out after to see if it sits any better