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@Michael2008ish It became popular with Yakuza 0. People liked the brawler gameplay not boring turn based crap. Incidentally, 7 was the beginning of the decline. Now the series is just complete wacky nonsense and utter fanservice including in resurrecting dead characters. And the writing has got considerably worst.

@Judal27 Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are the two best selling Zelda games of all time and critically acclaimed. Saying the Switch gen for Zelda was less than stellar is crazy talk lol.

@Frmknst First good vampire game since Masquerade? Legacy of Kain Defiance came out that same year and since then, there's been Vampyr.

@Oram77 Crimson Desert being released in the same way is just speculation on your part. It's been in development for years and iirc was delayed presumably for polish.

@JimmyRiddle @dellyrascal Sure and there's Americans who have lived in America their whole life and who would probably say they've never felt unsafe or even seen a shooting. Doesn't change the facts of gun crime in America just as the facts of knife crime in the UK doesn't change.

@Dom_31 Yes and that's why it was voted into first place. Wukong was good.

@Frmknst I think you mean the greatest games are only avaliable on Nintendo.

Because PlayStation games are on PC now and there's not that many exclusives from Sony anymore in the first place.

@Enuo This plays exactly like Ninja Gaiden is supposed to so a Team Ninja game and it's good. I've been enjoying it so far.

@Rich33 Ninja Gaiden has never been about the environment. It's about the gameplay. Interesting environments are fine but something like Lies of P just seems boring to me from a gameplay perspective.

Tekken 8 is still alive? Thought this game was dead after being considered such a huge failure.

@hisownsidekick Nothing about her looks Madagascan.

@lazarus11 Silent Hill f wasn't that good unfortunately. Held back by its ham fisted writing, absolutely terrible endings (the default one being insultingly predictable and obvious from the heavy hints the game keeps throwing at you), the poor combat and the extreme reuse of enemies.

Going by discussions online, it's as divisive as Silksong. I give it 6/10 if I'm being generous.

@Lowdefal Nintendo and Capcom are franchises? Lol

@lazarus11 Seems that way. People were pretending it crashed Steam too even when it didn't come close to the peak player counts or sales of many other games. Now, 1 month later, all I see are people saying Silksong was mediocre.

Some people must like getting sued by Nintendo.

@Dalamar They don't hold meaning anyway. They're meaningless digital awards for a video game.

The Crapcom era continues with this game.

Just as Hideaki Itsuno is Japan's Todd Howard. The Yakuza franchise has become the CoD of Japan, yearly releases without much change to the now stale formula. Even the writing hasn't changed...

Just as Hideaki Itsuno is Japan's Todd Howard. The Yakuza franchise has become the CoD of Japan, yearly releases without much changes to the formula.

@Acquiescence Cringe + cringe. They're two perfect fanbases united.

@PuppetMaster Capcom has actually entered into their Crapcom era again with Dragon's Dogma 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds.

As for Platinum, they're working on Ninja Gaiden 4 alongside Team Ninja. It remains to be seen if losing studio directors has any big impact on them.

@captainsandman Yeah, the NG games are known for being challenging, the person playing is really good which is why this is titled advanced gameplay.

@1UP-HUSKY Nah, Nintendo is the most creative of all because they don't often stick to the same formula.

The entire Zelda franchise is constantly changing and evolving including with the artstyle. Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword and then Breath of the Wild. These games all look different and play differently with entirely different combat systems. Tears of the Kingdom like Majora's Mask was one of the exceptions. Being a direct sequel of BoTW like Majora was of Ocarina and therefore keeping a lot of the same things such as the artstyle and combat system. Either way, Tears still introduced a lot of its own unique gimmicks.

Every 3D Mario game is different too. Donkey Kong Bananza shouldn't be surprising then because that's something Nintendo has been doing with Mario & Zelda in constantly changing them up rather than sticking to the same thing.

In comparison to Sony, we know God of War Raganok's followup will play exactly the same as the first two games. We know it will keep the same artstyle. We know it will have the same combat system. Same seems to be true for the upcoming Ghost of Yotei vs Tsushima which was already something that was done before in all the Ubisoft games that inspired it.

Pete Hines had nothing to say about Bethesda being the first company to add microtranscations to a single player game.

And both Shawn and Sony wouldn't know if Game Pass is sustainable since they're basing their logic on PlayStation itself failing in terms of its subscription service...a service they themselves created first. Xbox just was more successful at it.

Truth is, the games that fail on Game Pass just weren't good anyway and if not for Game Pass, nobody would be playing them anyway. There's plenty of success stories like with Clair Obscur.

@somnambulance Both GTA and Silksong are largely overhyped games.

Now that this is released, finally won't have to hear much more about it. Now just have to have GTA 6 to release and be gone so I don't have to see those "we got x before GTA6" brain rot memes.

Half Life fans meanwhile have waited one million years for HL3 but they've largely stayed sane and non-obnoxious.

@ApostateMage Sure and Monster Hunter Wilds runs fine and is totally a optimised game lol.

@seinfeldfanatic This is Pushsquare not Nintendolife lol.

I'll stick with the true Metroidvania of the year: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.

Hollow Knight has never interested me.

@Nepp67 Dragon's Dogma 2 was "Itsuno's vision" fully realised. He said that himself. So it failed because of that. He had full reign over the project and it failed to deliver. There's no truth about Capcom screwing him over.

Truth is, Itsuno is the Japanese Todd Howard. I still remember all that talk about amazing NPC AI, he was literally talking as if he had created self aware conscious AI and then the game released and the AI was basic stuff that was somehow worst than the AI in the first game from 2012.

If Capcom was screwing him over, there was no reason for him to overhype and lie about features.

This franchise should have been in its grave long ago and I'm surprised there's still a fanbase...or a fanbase for any Ubi game at this point.

@johnedwin And? GTA6 still won't beat Minecraft.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare That's anime style voice acting for you. That's what it sounds like to me. I shuddered too over this voice acting because it sounds so cringe.

@Nepp67 It sounds like anime voice acting to me. Very bad as usual, no idea why this is still a thing for English dubs. I'll play it in Japanese.

@rjejr These games have a completely different engine, artstyle and higher graphics than Elden Ring. ER doesn't use Unreal Engine 5.

@Scottyy None of them are Soulslikes apart from Wuchang.

It'll be another Dragon's Dogma 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds unoptimised mess. Calling it now.

@naruball Sony's releases for PS5 has been pretty barebones. Nintendo Switch 2 will have more exclusives by next year than PS5 has had in 5 years.

@lazarus11 Anime is garbage just like K Pop.

@Zeroo I personally couldn't care less for The Witcher 4. I remember playing 3 and the gameplay felt mid to me. This game seems more ambitious and if it delivers, I think it will be in a league of its own.

Already the gameplay looks better than anything I've ever seen from The Witcher devs.

Ending sequence with the stealth takedown....the enemy nearly turns around and then instantly resets back to facing away when the protagonist initiates the stealth kill. Lol

Cool story Shawn Layden, but what's PlayStation's excuse for having so few exclusives? What's up with all the remakes and remasters? Creativity seems to be something Sony is lacking even without doing day 1 releases on PS+.

And let's not get started on the live service failures or how Sony still seems intent on following that to the detriment of consumers and their own studios...

@Scottyy Is it the engine that's the problem or Capcom being bad at optimising their own engine?

Either way, this is two strikes for Capcom now: Dragon's Dogma 2 and Wilds. For now it seems they're back to their Crapcom era again especially since these two games have other issues asides from performance.

@cainhurst94 Delay suggests they're focusing on releasing it in a playable state. Never understood why people get angry over delays. If Monster Hunter Wilds was delayed and actually finished for release, people would still be playing it but looking on Steam, it seems everyone went back to Monster Hunter World.

@neillaw It's going to be one of those games that actually delivers for sure. And unlike GTA 6 or Death Stranding 2, it's got more than graphics going for it.

@Trippylobster You're the only one here making piss poor snidey arse posts defending a literally unmade game that is probably ten years away. Hopefully by the time it releases, you're more grown up.

@themightyant No, in terms of gameplay, seems like a straight rip off of Dark Souls lol.

@nomither6 Looks way better than Metal Gear Rising.

@Oram77 @J2theEzzo

After seeing the hour long footage of Ninja Gaiden 4 on YouTube with Ryu that was just released, it looks exactly like Ninja Gaiden with its fast paced and frantic action and so for me, it looks way better than Phantom Blade.

Phantom Blade looks good too but it seems far more action RPG orientated, enemies take longer to kill and the combos are automatic.

The UK government to 16 year olds:

"Your old enough to vote and have sex (age of consent in UK is 16 isn't it?) but not old enough to play GTA Online, use Spotify or view adult content."

Make it make sense lol.