johncalmc

Whoever let Guerrilla waste time and money on this needs to be stopped.

The only way I could be less into this game is if it appeared on the Epstein list.

See this is exactly the sort of nonsense I like.

Sounds like an unrealistic expectations problem.

I refuse to buy a PS5 Pro because the small inconvenience of having to move my old PS5 and transfer stuff gives me the fear.

There's some fella sat in an office at Sony HQ just thinking up the maddest things he can think of and then patenting it. What a life they must lead.

This is kinda weird because as someone who writes reviews I kinda feel like reviews are borderline worthless. Like, I don't read them. I just look at games and then see if I like the look of them. Occasionally, if I don't know, I'll have a read. But I'm not reading every review to see if the game I'm interested in is getting the scores I hoped.

The point I'm getting to is that a lot of people put way too much stock into reviews. People think they're paid for or "for clicks" even though reviews generate virtually no money for most websites compared to other things like guides, and reviewers aren't all driving around in sports cars.

At the end of the day, it's a person on the internet you don't know telling you if they liked a game you haven't played. I have absolutely no idea how people get so wound up about them. But they do. Like, some of the hate mail I've received and I'm not even a big reviewer... it would raise your eyebrows.

It's not my type of game at all. I just have no interest in multiplayer shooters. So it's kinda hard for me to even know if it has a chance or not. Based on my limited knowledge, it looks pretty much the same as every other multiplayer free to play shooter. Except there's horses. I don't know. I won't be playing it though. Good luck to it I say.

I played the first one and honestly the character creator had no business being as good as it was. Still, I'll probably play this because why not.

Time to set myself unrealistic expectations for what they'll show off and then get annoyed when they're not met.

I feel like Watch Dogs almost the same way I feel about Assassin's Creed. It's a fantastic idea, but then they had to go and Ubisoft it up.

It's not my type of game so there's no chance of me playing it, but I am quite curious to see how it does. I wonder if the morbid curiosity factor might actually work in its favour - if it's any good of course.

Yeah I'm not sure this screenshot is really worth the drama.

That's nice but I would really just like the three old games porting over.

What I want to know is how much of the money that Push Square generates Sammy is taking to fund his ludicrous gacha obsession. He's got to have his hand in the cookie jar.

Highguard, I dub thee Horse Concord.

It's not particularly surprising. Ubisoft is so cooked.

Final Fantasy VII Remake guide:

Download the original Final Fantasy VII. Play that.

This one is absolutely on my radar. Had it on my wishlist since I first heard of it. I'll get to it at some point.

I'm so in on this I probably won't tease myself with the demo. Literally the only thing else I want to know about this game is whether Dark Ties and Yakuza 3 are considered two separate games with separate trophy lists, or if Dark Ties is a menu option like Majima Saga. Hoping it's separate for more platinum fun, but I suspect it's the other.

Didn't everyone tell at the time? Aside from the usual hypemongers, I'm pretty sure I recall the response to the game being pretty tepid.

Definitely, DEFINITELY, do not start with Yakuza 7 if you're going to jump into the series. It is a new start for the series but it's not a clean break - most of the best bits of the game hark back to things/characters established in previous games, then the next game in the series The Man Who Erased His Name leans heavily on past events, and the game after that Infinite Wealth is literally 40% reliant on things you won't know anything about.

It's kind of annoying, I guess, that realistically, the only good places to start the series are either Kiwami or 0. It's not exactly friendly to newcomers. But then the Kiryu games are better anyway so really... that's where you should start.

It's pretty wild that they took a game like Marathon with a truly eye-popping art style and then they made a controller for it that looks like a four year old's school art project. All it's missing is the dried macaroni glued to it. Truly dreadful stuff.

Yeah I'm alright thanks. I'm not gonna bother.

Shocking how many times the first I hear about a game is when it's delayed or cancelled or shut down.

This is weird. Yakuza 0 was less egregious for me because 0 and Directors Cut are basically the same game. I still don't like it and you should have both options but they're basically the same.

Kiwami 3 isn't the same as 3.

Won't trouble me in any way since I own 3 (4 times, I think) but it just seems pointless.

Wow, Sonic Chaos! I actually had that on the Master System I think. They're out of control.

I'm absolutely fine for a demo on this one. No need. They had me at "Yakuza".

It doesn't look right to me. It just looks like Sansa doing cosplay. I'm not sure it would look any different with a different actor. It's just weird.

I've played it three times and I didn't even really like it the first time. I don't think I'm going back in for another go.

Please be excited.

Dressing Kiryu up like Ichiban is like dressing up Mulder and Scully as those other two FBI agents that replaced them in X-Files. Actually, they wore the same clothes pretty much. So the analogy doesn't work. But you see what we're doing here.

"Bloodborne Mentioned" should be a regular feature that rounds up all the times Bloodborne has been mentioned by prominent figures.

I feel weird about this game because I simultaneously love that they're taking a risk and doing something unexpected, and I imagine this game will be sufficiently bonkers, but I can't help feeling disappointed that we're not Jesse anymore and it's not a melee game.

Infinite Wealth is a banger and Village is alright but I own them both already and the rest of the list I don't really care about. The perils of buying games I guess.

PS Plus Premium is like that fantastic Nintendo Switch Online thing, except it is apparently managed by a dozen chimpanzees throwing darts at a wall to decide what game comes next and when.

I don't know. Hate seems a bit extreme for what is ultimately just a pretty crummy video game. I think what I don't like, ultimately, is that the time and effort and money spent on Anthem by BioWare could have been spent making something that is more their thing. It's wild to me that people with money making big decisions can't see that chasing trends rarely works, and you probably shouldn't use storied developers to do that.

I hope they announce the next game in the series is Persona 5 2.

Just to clarify on the outfits - I thought I made it clear but maybe I didn't. The problem isn't the sexy outfits. The problem is that the outfits contribute to the overall confused tone of the game.

Stellar Blade worked because the outfits - whether you liked them or not - aesthetically fit with the world (mostly) and felt in keeping with the stylish action. Here it's like they just threw some saucy outfits in without rhyme or reason. And that's why I said they're fine if you like them but can be ignored if you don't, and even listed customisation as a potential positive at the end.

I just found them bizarre but if you want to play the game as a sexy secretary then go for it!

I never really got the hype for this one. It looks like an Elder Scroll but doubling down on the bits that I don't care about in Elder Scrolls and not doing the thing I do care about in Elder Scrolls.

@FredBiletnikoff Ha! You're totally right! Can't believe that one slipped past the goalie. I'm going to put that one down to post-Christmas blues.

If anyone has any questions about this game for some reason you can ask and there's a good chance I'll answer them because I have nothing else to do today.

Makes sense. GTAVI is going to obliterate everything else released in the same window. There's probably no worse time in human history to launch a game than close to GTAVI launching. Sensible move is to watch it like a hawk and plan around it. Avoid late 2026 and early 2027.

They really dropped the ball not having any of these projects ready to coincide with the TV series. Probably would have gotten a substantial bump.

I haven't played the latest Life Is Strange yet, but outside of the terrible Life Is Strange 2 I really, really like the series. I rate all the other games quite highly. I don't know if we needed to go back to the Max and Chloe well but whatever, I'll take it!

Oh good. I like the Wolfenstein games. Plus the second one didn't feel final enough. I was worried they were leaving Wolfenstein behind when they did Indiana Jones.

The uncle is going to be the baddie. Calling it now.

Media blackout is probably sensible. Not much point putting stuff out if there's just going to be millions of comments calling it Horse Concord. I guess the best move for them is just releasing it and hoping that reviews/morbid curiosity helps them out.

Don't make me turn my Switch on, Kodaka.

It had to be really. There's not been another single player game this year that has made this kind of impact. I've seen people comparing it to Final Fantasy VII - and that seems hyperbolic to me - but there's no denying this is a game that has stuck with players, and has introduced people to a genre they might not necessarily try.

JRPG purists might sit twirling their little moustaches and decreeing that other games have done all of this stuff before and that's fine. I've played a billion JRPGs. I get it. But this one really opened the door for newcomers and it stuck. You can imagine people cosplaying as these characters and writing fanfictions and getting tattoos. It hit.

Of course, regardless of the wider impact, the game was just really, really good. Great story, wonderful characters, superb music. Fantastic stuff all around and a deserved winner.