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@XinGViruS you might start now, the game is perfectly playable in all scenes (even though it takes some time for enemies to think in big open areas if you try to burn the whole district down or smth like that). Even though it is kinda unclear about the next content addition, it is safe to assume it won't release any time soon, either way being some kind of a full-scale DLC or Director's Cut like Divinity games.

@Bentleyma I've touched it briefly, but won't argue - the game felt awesome. My main concern is lack of strong lineup of first-party VR games or at least any information about them.

Kinda sad that first party Horizon: Call of the Mountain could not make it into the list at all. And that 3 out of 4 games on the list of the best PSVR2 games are made by other studios. Hope next year will be better.

@lindos one can say "that ending" about nearly any ending he was impressed by.

That ending in GoW was amazing!
That ending in Spider-Man squeezed a tear out of me.

Souls influence... Guess, I'll wait for Ghost of Tsushima 2 to scratch my itch.

@StrickenBiged yep, it runs smooth now.

@ironcrow86 have a nice month or even two or three. My first run took ~200 hours

Baldur’s Gate 3 in the list - that's all I want to see

Great choice, even though I could not really get into Lies of P.

@Yusuo not the genre itself (even though amount of rogue-like games also increased), but some mechanics.

By the way, it is not a rogue-like game, but rogue-lite - some progress persists and increases in quality / quantity after each run.

Charity is good, though it seems to me that something is wrong with Alloy's proportions on this piece of art. Can't get rid of this feeling.

Happy for Baldur's Gate and Larian - insane game from amazing devs.

And even happier for Scratch! Petted him every time I've visited the camp with no exceptions.

Hope it will be good. Even though second and third titles of the series moved too far away from amazing Origins in my opinion.

>more fluid and detailed
Sure.

>Impressive
Nah...

@UltimateOtaku91 saving money is good, but will you be able to save enough time to play all those games in February?

@NinjaSixx nah, mate. Current reality is rude and harsh: mobile rip-offs and clones with battle-passes, in-apps and ADs can make you much more money than dozens of premium titles. Smartphones are everywhere: people walk with them, work with them, smoke with them even take a bath with them. And developers make hell out of them, creating "free" games with perfectly tuned difficulty, fun and sense of progressions. Which in their turn generate billions of profit. It is a different branch of gaming with different target audience, mechanics, etc. But it blooms and shines.

Just google financial reports of big companies and compare premium market vs mobile. I only hope that companies won't abandon AAA single-player games entirely as time moves on.

@Dragoon1994 Neverwinter Nights 1, Neverwinter Nights 2, Neverwinter Nights 3, Icewind dale 1, Incewind dale 2, Planescape Torment, Planescape Tides of Numenera, Lords of Waterdeep, Baldur's Gate 1, Baldur's Gate 2, Sword Coast Legends, Baldur's Gate 3 - those are just some DnD PC games that came to my mind.

There are dozens of them to be honest. The problem is at some point Wizards of the Coast sold adaptation rights to almost any studios. So now we have some epic RPGs alongside with mediocre (at best) titles. Hope after BG3 success they will pay much more attention to collaborations with decent developers.

@Nekomichu wow, sad to hear that! Hope Larian will fix the issue asap.

@Ravix great song and a great moment though

@Nekomichu when you've tried beating ACT3? Finished BG a couple of weeks ago after spending something like a month in third act. Even when I blew up a couple of buildings there were just frame drops for a couple of seconds, nothing more.

Just forget about this game till better times.

If it eventually comes out from ashes it will be a pleasant surprise. If not — you won't loose anything.

Just give Insomniac time and release Wolverine when it is ready.

Looking at amount of games they've made in last years it seems dev are working 24 hours per day.

@Maddie47 beg my pardon, but what exactly Xbox games are free2play?

@Triumph741 I guess, those who like it?

For example, I am not a huge fan of Elden Ring and would prefer HFW instead of it. Tastes differ, right?

That's a shame for any big company to recieve such low scores. But it was hard to expect anything else keeping in mind the time given to developers. Hope this failure will prove year-to-year model wrong.

@LiamCroft thanks for the review! Reading articles with low scores is as interesting as to read all the praises to awesome 10/10 games.

Wow, I remember that old japanese series. But can't even guess, how much time have passed since I saw it. Even though the game itself looks a little bit cheep, might give it a try just to scratch a nostalgic itch.

@ShogunRok thanks for the review!

Well, maybe one day I'll give this a try. But for now I'll stick to notebook + controller / steam deck + remote play. In rare cases when I really need to play PS from somewhere else.

With current production & release temp from Sony you might ask this question from year to year

Jokes aside easily one of my fav games from PS Studios, despite being a safe-kind of sequel.

I love how things in modern world become trending just after most of the audience got totally fed-up with them...

@Bentleyma hope some decent single player experience. The world itself and activities in story mode aside from main quests were dull and almost dead.

Hope GTA6 is something more than GTA Online 2

@AndyKazama I have a feeling it will visit PS Plus and GamePass sooner or later, so...

@LiamCroft glad to hear this! thank you.

@LiamCroft thanks for the review! Looks nice and I like the overall stylistics. Could you kindly tell, whether there is any kind of in-game photo-mode?

@BusyOlf yep.

@VideoGameBoy you are tired of two films in 2009 and 2022, right?

I've bought it in early access and had some great time... for a week or two. Pretty great time-sinker and relaxing game, won't touch it again

@Powerplay94 at this point I will likely stop buying new games at all. Luckily my backlog is already so huge and heavy.

>free-to-play action RPG

Hope one day F2P will go away and we will live in the world of premium titles with no P2WIN, slot-machines and all content available from the very beginning. One day...

Guess, I will give it a try after Spider-Man 2, just to see what have changed. End-game in season 1 was awful alongside with overall progression and loot. Hope now it is better.

@captainsandman Shadow of Moria sounds cool - imagine Talion traveling through enormous caves and giant halls of Khazad-dûm. Hope one day we'll see this title, too

Jokes aside Shadow of War was better in almost every aspect except the amount of grind if you wish to complete and max out all the possible things. It became too repetitive mid- / late-game.

Well, I have all the things from the list I am interested in. Could grab PlayStation Portal if it was on this page with one more DualSense (just in case), but not this time, I guess.

Had little faith in this one, still disappointed with final score. Hope one day Hellboy will get a decent game.

@JohntheRaptor sure they do. But at the same time they've made Ninja Gaiden before and it was far more different.

Hope Rise of the Ronin has combat different to Souls-like games. Got kinda tired of that .

@z0d15g0d but what's the purpose of that 30-minute grind everyday? To progress story a little bit further?

@OldGamer999 no problem with that, it is always consumer's choice whether to buy the game or not. This year is already packed with great games it is hard to justify buying another averagely good game for the full price when you hardly have time for it.

@OldGamer999 7 out of 10 is still a good score.

Nice thing to test some games before even downloading them to the device. Especially with some 100GB+ titles.

@CutchuSlow I am not that familiar with the series - played FIFA 2000, 2007 and something like 2020 or so. Each time I was pretty impressed with graphics that's obvious. But beside that fact soccer is soccer for me. Maybe someone who plays new FIFA every year could tell more about all the changes and upgrades, who knows.

@CutchuSlow well, Valhalla released in 2020... So it is 3 years since that moment if we are talking about pure games not DLCs. And even though I won't give most of AC games 9+ out of 10, they are still decent games which easily live up to expectations and have plenty of content.

@Lyedecker there is no need to do anything imo. And it is too late to save money on that. FairGame will launch and die in months like many other live-service games out there.