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Beat the fantastic It Takes Two. Fares deserves all the success and Gotys he got. Absolutely incredible with imaginative scenarios and a very moving, earnest story. At most I can criticize some of the humor for being a tad cringe but it made me cry by the end. 9.5/10.

Star Wars Zero Company: I think I am on the final set of missions as it seems a certain Clone Commander needs help. Enjoying the game a lot though I think it lacks the depth and I can already feel myself getting anxious to finish it. So far it's between a 7.5-8.5 for me.

I also have Wolverine Pre-installed. Will likely start it today or tomorrow, Also going to buy Resonant: A Control Story today.

In gaming Adjacent news- I saw RESIDENT EVIL (2026) and it was a solid 4/5. A great movie with a weird ending but a very interesting conceit from the PoV of those who leave the tapes and journal entries in the game.

First screw RE purists for bullying one of the best up and coming horror directors of recent years into leaving franchise films forever.
Second cannot wait to see it tomorrow evening in IMAX.

Don't really care for this feature. I don't play GAAS and I already know what games I want to play through sites like this and trailers on the PS YouTube or Nintendo YouTube.

@Espectro2410 no disc no buy went the way of Concord lol

@Bionic-Spencer I know it's in jest but when you see the number of releases and re-releases and the number of spin-offs and it's multiple versions it crosses 100+ titles. It's actually kind of shocking it took this long to hit those sales considering it's reputation.

@Oram77 agree. It's been the same for. At since 2018. They have amazing artists lol. Change it up

Mixed. In presentation and polish it's one of the best of the 2000's but as a narrative? It falls apart very fast. It's characters are one note the moment their plot ends. The perving on Ann is upsetting given her story arc.

For a JRPG the length and quality of the narrative hurt it to make it a 7/10 for me.

@TrollOfWar Somebody already tried that and Sony shut them down. The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival was the name

I mean wasn't this obvious, you cannot make money on someone else's work.

Poorly written from PushSquare by removing the true context.

@Llamageddon it's interesting. Death Stranding merch and music events do well but the games don't sell too hot. I wonder if this is similar to the Sega situation where more people watch it than play it. But Sega profits of every Kiryu and Joker toy they sell.

Kojima wins because all the merch and concert profits benefit him as the IP holder but Sony who invested in the game that flopped get nothing in return.

ZERO COMPANY: unlocked second specialisations. So Hawks is now a Heavy/Assault operator. Run into combat using Bull Rush, taunt and retaliate. Easy peasy. Game is great but I'm getting a little tired of enemies constantly getting reinforcements in a mission. It's okay for some side content to be quick. Not every fight needs to be padded by adding half a dozen B1 Droids.

It Takes Two: near the end I think. Trying to turn the relation-***** into a relation-Ship (little Hakim jiggles as I say it). It deserves all the awards it got. Freaking love these coop games. Will try to get Orbitals soon.

Today or tomorrow i will buy Wolverine. I am in the mood for something more blockbuster-y after these puzzle based games.

@LogicStrikesAgain i was gonna say something on the same lines but with far more cuss words but you've summed it up perfectly

Sad to hear since Moss was very charming. VR gaming is in very bad shape and a lot of the top dogs are out of business now.

I think they might be onto something here with Payday x The Finals. Art is also improved. Still they need to really get the feel right and they need to price it at 20-30 bucks or put it as f2p.

Until Dawn 2
Laufey
Fable on Gamepass

Couldn't care less for the others. Unless Nintendo has some bigger surprises lined up.

@Fyz306903 oh i think it's sarcastic about how people who buy GTa for 100 get price shamed.

@SegaBlueSky keep the palm trees on the touch pad remove the VI outlines and it'd look great.

@Boxmonkey I think they learned when Until Dawn Remake got poorly received with the price being the main criticism. This way they're competitive with SuperMassives Dark Pictures games.

278hkd or 35usd equivalent in Hong Kong so very reasonable.

@johnedwin It's a 50% co-production with Nintendo.

My issue is more how bland the aliens and environments look so far.

@get2sammyb I'd play that but I think with the amount of unhealthy "venom" Insomniac seems to get from a very certain crowd, it could spiral out of control fast.

Both on PS5
Star Wars Zero Company: A very very good X-com game 10 cycles in but as PS mentioned in the review some very jarring technical issues which are surprisingly rare for a game this price in this generation. But the characters, tactics and early story are great.

It Takes Two: Completed a bit inside a kaleidoscope and the visuals would make Remedy weep with how trippy it is. Fares and Hazelight are truly one of the standout developers of the generation.

@get2sammyb has Europe ever been a major player for fighting games? Outside of Mortal Kombat?

Spider-Man 2 continues to have strong sales especially with the new movie.

@get2sammyb Once again a great reminder that most of the graphical touch ups and polish happen in the final year of development. Extremely excited for this

@themightyant Thing is I also wonder if by being multi-platform SE is doing it as a "parity" move between Xbox (which cannot use 100gb bluray) vs PS.

If Playstation 5 requires 2 discs, Xbox Series needs 4, Switch 2 needs 2-3 64gb cartridges. Considering they've gone aggressively multi-platform maybe this is just another way to cater to that. Not to mention it makes it much cheaper

@XenonKnight That's good. Support independent journalism

@Max_the_German It's a paywalled article I got the news of reddit at the time. Archiving doesn't work sadly.

@Enuo I wonder too since his profile shows he gave it a 4/10.

@Krlozgod they still have to print the second disk plastic for the case, they need to print the disk,the weight increase while miniscule alone adds up when you're dealing with 100,000 plus copies which increases freight.

@Max_the_German manufacturing a physical console game copy costs roughly 15% of the suggested retail price, coming out to about $10 to $11 per disc for a standard $70 game

As per Gamefiles investigation. No reason for Square to eat such a stupid cost when they're just starting to make money.

@Max_the_German i mean it's the same thing. Square Enix don't want to waste money on paying for printing 2 disks. Disk manufacturing isn't cheap when you include the logistics and printing costs.

@PSGamer69420 The devs who made Dispatch

I think this and Laufey is how they should do marketing in the future. When it's basically in the polish stage with the game and the release date is near.

It's so much better than waiting a 2-3 years for the next update

Edit: AdHoc worked with FireSprite on this! Holy moly it's definitely day one now!

Problem is if it was anyone but Linneman or Alex from DF saying this I would lend it more credence but he's heavily in the Does It Play camp where he's completely biased in certain topics.

They're welcome to but, I just bought Zero Company, Yotei DLC, Wolverine and Control Resonant Digital Deluxe. All digital. I use my playstation to game share with my brother who uses a Portal.

I would like to see more Intergalactic and Until Dawn 2. I would also like to see Media Molecule, Kena and whatever X-Dev America is working on. Ooh more on Yotei DLC too.

It'd be interesting to see Laufey again given how much they've promoted it so far but, I also think they should avoid doing an Xbox and over-exposing their game.

I think Bend is still too far out and I think Break In/Fairgames will be shown outside the SOP like Hunter's Gathering

@ShadowRJ I would agree but the moment the physical crowd promoted Asmongold videos and called people sheep, R****** and far worse, I think they lost the right to be given any dignity. Ooh lets not forget the images of Sony's genetalia in the mouth of a person which they love to spam.

@SuperSilverback Yotei DLC, Galactic Racer, Rayman Remake, Control 2 to add a few more. It's incredible and very sad because we are spoiled for choice but some games will get hit hard.

This trailer was much better than the actual gameplay reveal. Clear and concise.

I only play the single player so this alone makes Take Two and R* better than Capcom who love spamming that crap in single player games. For the online modes nickel and dime the idiots.

It seems like this is Japans idea for dealing with high dev costs.
Sega wants Persona, Sonic and Yakuza to be annual franchises

Square wants a new Final Fantasy every year

Capcom already does it with RE.

@asdfghjklz It's a cool addition and it really is a pretty balanced list of games overall. Wobbly Life is the only one I don't know about but co-op cozy friend game is a good choice in this era.

@ShogunRok The characters or rather the walking tropes killed that game for me. What was a fun game became a chore.

The remake's still six months away and we've been battered with every kind of trailer you can imagine.:

I've been thinking about this a lot mostly with regards to how much XBOX shows their games versus Nintendo or Sony but, it also got me thinking about all the major Japanese Developers. SEGA, CAPCOM and SquareEnix have all been spending stupid amounts of money on marketing. The only one that seems to have benefited is CAPCOM.

I think Persona and Yakuza (also Metaphor) have all struggled to break beyond the current hardcore playerbase who are ride or die for the games. It isn't a surprise that despite going multiplatform, they still seem to be stuck in the 2-3 million sales range

Outside of Persona 5 (I think people don't realise how much it is Joker who carries this more than the game itself), I don't think the popularity has really carried forward to the Persona ports or remakes. I think Sega is nervous about this since the games still review decently but other devs using their UI are seeing the benefits.

I think it is pretty clear. Forza Horizon will release in a quarter where Xbox doesn't have a major blockbuster because they game will sell well and boost their quarter. It is a sensible business approach.

Weirdly enough FH6 seems to have disappeared from the news faster than FH5. What's the consensus on it from the playerbase now?

Also, I kinda like that Xbox is being a petty little twerp again. Let the console wars reignite. Xbox may not have a future but I do prefer seeing them fight and push their console. I just think as long as they see Steam as a viable platform they're doomed. If Playstation and Nintendo are rivals, Steam has to be seen as one as well.

Sadly ALL consumer electronics are stupidly expensive because of the shortages AI makers (including MICROSOFT) have created and the War in Iran which has led to oil disruptions.
People will have no choice but to live without new electronics and hope the bubble pops or buy the stuff using credit cards or BNPL schemes.

@TDHorizon He's on every playstation Youtube video commenting about how he won't pay for a licence. You could give Cyberpunk or The Witcher and he'd still complain.

I only recognise two of them but I don't really look into the VA scene these days. Liam O Brian and Aaron LaPlante.