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The number of big games has been highly disappointing, and the games don't do nearly enough of what I hoped that they could and would to improve upon prior generations. The focus is far too heavily on the wrong things, IMO.

I'm excited for all of these, but I'm not going to jump back in yet. Its a very good game, but I'm looking forward to Ghost of Yotai next, and I'll probably start over with AC Shadows sometime down the line where there is more expansion content. That's what I did with Odyssey and Valhalla.

I honestly wasn't interested at first. I had a SNES, and the whole launch ad campaign was too "in your face" for me, plus the games weren't my style. I bought one used a few years later when ff7 was out. Then I pretty much only played FF, Gran Turismo and sports games that gen. However, I've been a Sony guy ever since. The PS1 wasn't a great generation, but it was a great start.

The idea of a separate, detachable drive makes me extremely uneasy. It seems like something that will break easily and screw the whole system up.

I would have liked to used it, but they never brought it to consoles, which seems bizarre. I'm not going through my phone for something Playstation.

One of the greatest video games ever made. The story, characters and dialog is unmatched. The visuals were stunningly groundbreaking at release and today's games haven't improved on them tremendously since then. The world is huge and beautiful, and offers a large, satisfying playthrough time. The combat is challenging but generally fair and enjoyable, and its (sadly) one of the last big games with realistic graphics to offer a large scale weapon and armor creation system that allows the player to have Geralt look and have stat boosts to your particular play style. Something I desperately want back in newer games.

I just want more of everything. While I did certainly love GoT and love my time with it, its not a very big game, and there isn't a lot to the various elements. So I want a longer game, bigger world, more settlements, more quests, more gear, deeper crafting, more puzzles, things like that.

@Ravix Skyrim is naturally available in both first and third person. I've played it in 3rd since the week of release. PS3, PS4 and now PS5.

@CthulhuFhtagn I see a lot of people say that about the combat, but I feel that its just right. The character control is a bit stiff compared to some newer games, but overall I think its very good.

@Ravix Thanks for the tip, but I did try that one, and I just can't do it. I struggle completely with first person perspective games, and I couldn't even make it out of the opening intro sequence area. Tried for hours. Its just completely unnatural for me. I'm just a third person, slow paced guy.

Ten years since TW3. Thirteen since Skyrim. We went a decade between DA games. I truly didn't know it would be so bleak the last decade for these types.

I've never played it. Skyrim is my favorite game of all time, and I was curious about this project, but after reading a lot yesterday and watching a few videos, it doesn't match what I'd want, so I'll pass.

They've done an excellent job of getting the vibe of the characters and the world, and retelling the story. Pinpoint on that.

But as a game, for fun, they're severely lacking. Its much more of an interactive story than the fun exploration and leveling up experience of the original. Even as an open world, the experience is still PAINFULLY linear.

I've been playing RPGs for 35 years, and this game has THE BEST party-based action combat of anything I've ever seen. It is so well done, and the physics of the character models - how size and shape truly effects how they play and move, is something I've never seen elsewhere. On a basic technical level, its one of the best games ever made.

Unfortunately, the story and characters are paper thin, and feel like they were written by teenagers, or perhaps children, and that's really what holds it back. The quest system and most other RPG aspects are also bare bones and horribly out dated.

Eagerly waiting for my copy to show up in the mail. Its been a long five year wait since the last real game!

Skyrim is my favorite game of all time, and I still play it 13 years later. There are a lot of things about Fallout 4 that I don't like, but in spite of that, I have replayed it several times to scratch that Skyrim-like itch. If Starfield is anything like that, then I want to give it a shot as well.

@McBurn That was my thought. Hopefully the PS6 will be designed to play games like this from the get go.

For me, who had been playing the series since the original launched in the US, it was the beginning of the end of them making games that I enjoyed. And that was after 12 was the absolute peak of JRPGs. Its unfortunate, because I want more games, but they just aren't making them the way I want them to be any more.

A good game will give me four to six weeks of enjoyment per playthrough. 100-150 hours at 2-4 per day is a great experience.

I've played the AC series since the very start, and this is one of the games I've been looking forward to the most since the launch of the PS5. I cannot really grasp the hate that its getting in some corners. Origins and Valhalla were awesome games, and Odyssey is one of my very favorites of all time. Fingers crossed that its more of the same, but even better graphics and character control.

I'm never, ever going to do something like this through my phone. If they ever actually bring it to the PS5, I'll check it out.

@Logonogo Ah, my bad. I played it in January. Forgot exactly when it released.

1. Infinite Wealth
2. Dragon Age Veilhguard
3. Dragons Dogma 2
4. FF7 Rebirth
5. Hogwarts Legacy

I'm finishing Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth very soon. Then I know that my wife has bought me one game as a gift, which I'll jump into after that.

Not a big year, but very much looking forward to AC Shadows, Civ 7 and Ghost of Yotai.

Nope. Waiting on the PS6. What the Pro offers doesn't move the needle for me, even if it was the exact same price as the regular one.

@get2sammyb How does it compare to older Lego games? My wife and I absolutely loved the games in the PS2 and PS3 eras, and played them with our kids. But we felt that just about everything after the Force Awakens games have been poor to awful. Does this capture the magic back from what came before that?

Fingers crossed that all of the DLC will still be made. I bought the versions that had the season pass included in Odyssey and Valhalla and was glad to be able to.

No. I'll never play a horror game.

Even for free, I have zero interest in a one directional, short zombie game. No thanks. There's just nothing about the games that looks appealing whatsoever to me.

It honestly does so very little, and I need to have a disc drive, so unless my current PS5 died and the price difference was very small, then no.

Even if the price were only slightly higher than the regular PS5, and it included a built in disc drive, it doesn't seem to offer much of anything that I care about in the way of making games better.

Broadly speaking, the focus of games in this generation - shinier, faster, throwing more at the screen at once, just isn't what I want it to be. I want better graphics and lighting, but on games that are as massive and deep as the ones that were common at the end of the PS3 and early PS4 eras.

Yes absolutely! I was eventually going to buy The Show once it went on sale, so this is great. First time that's happened with PS+ in a while.

Dragon Age 4 has been at the top of my list for a decade now, but I'm now hesitant after seeing what we're getting. Hopefull, but not as excited. Similarly, the three AC RPG games were among my very favorite on the PS4, and I've been dying for another, but am worried that Shadows will be smaller and less satisfying.

I've decided that it will be the first mainline FF game that I never play, and I've been into the series since the very start.

I don't care about The Last of Us at all, but I've always loved Uncharted. If its not more in the style of what we had with Drake, I do hope we get more fun adventure games that aren't horror.

IMO, the weirdest part of this whole issue is that the games that are clearly wrong on my end are Sony exclusives. GoW Ragnarok, Gran Turismo, Ratchet & Clank, etc.

The weirdest is when my save file itself, within the game, tells me that I have signifigantly more time played than the PS5 says. Like, its right there to use!

I love games that offer a long playthrough, but I'm a single player, offline gamer, so I guess this news doesn't really have any direct bearing on me. I'll just hope for more of what I enjoy.

No. It looks far, far too fast and zippy for me, and the world of the game seems a lot darker and more gloomy than I want to play.

So when are they bringing the program to the actual consoles? Why make it a cell phone thing?

AC Valhalla, Outer Worlds and Lego JP are all terrific games that I bought years ago. But Tales of Arise was one that as soon as I saw it, I thought "That's one that I'll wait to show up on PS+". and here we finally are. Patience pays off.

Truly, before the Bethesda deal, the one and only Xbox franchise I had the slightest interest in was Forza. Had the future ES games and Starfield still be on PS, I wouldn't have ever cared about this at all.

@NotSoCryptic I'm sorry if I was unclear. I meant the first game in the FF7 remake series.

Either way, the experience that I really want is one more akin to the older games - through FF12 - where you controlled the whole party, switching characters as you desired most of the time, leveling them up, building their skill trees, buying/finding weapons and armor, etc.

Sadly, the more I see of, the game, the less interested that I am. I was pretty disappointed in how the first chapter went. What I want is a massive party based RPG where I can use all of the characters, and this seems to just be turning into more of an interactive story with action elements to it. Thats not why I used to love FF games for such a long time.

Over the years, there have honestly been very few Xbox exclusives that I've felt that i missed out on. And some of those, like Mass Effect 1, have eventually come to Playstation anyways. At this point, the only current ones I'm very interested in are Starfield and Forza, but the big daddy of them all, ES6 down the line, is the one I care about the most.

It looks a lot faster than I want games to be. I'll keep an eye on it and maybe check it out in a year if the price gets low.

This absolutely made my worries about the combat go away. That looks just right, and the graphics are good enough - it looks like a fine PS4 game. Now the question for is whether its too linear or whether it gives the player the freedom to go where they like and choose the order of quests or not, and just how much game there really is in the end. Its absolutely moved from a game I was hopeful for to one that I'll probably eventually buy.

I've played The Show since before it was The Show, but I never go full price any more, and I don't buy it every year either. I'll keep an eye on the new features and how it plays, and then decide if I want to get it once it drops to $30 later this year. As someone who LOVES single player offline franchise sports games, but realizes that developers don't give a crap about people like me any longer, its a frustrating side of my gamer life.

I've never played anything from the series, and I haven't really been into fighting games since the 90s.

I will absolutely, eventually get to it. But I have one game I'm playing now and three more that I haven't started yet in line after that one. Maybe I'll find a good sale on Infinite Wealth later this year.