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I don't get the changes they've made really. Presumably, it's because they're not going to finish the story of the game in one season so they think they've got to spill the beans on some things earlier. But it kinda ruins the entire pacing of the story. There's a reason we're not supposed to know these things yet. But here they're just like LET ME EXPLAIN EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING RN

Control was alright but I'm not into it enough to play a multiplayer shooter I'm afraid.

Just imagine that I could be bothered to go and google a .gif of someone doing a massive eyeroll and then posted it here. I can't any more.

Baldur's Gate 3 is one of the easiest 10/10s I've ever played. I don't mean in difficulty, I mean in saying it's a 10. I get why it might not be for some people. Not every masterpiece - be it movies, paintings, whatever - is going to hit for everyone. But I would think even people who don't like it because it's not their kind of thing would have a hard time arguing that it's not an incredible piece of craft.

I'm probably going to go back in for another run at it somepoint in the near future. A really special game.

This should not be drama. You only have to look at it for like four seconds to see what sort of level of power we're dealing with. There's arguments about stuff being under the hood that's better than PS4 etc. etc. etc. but the end result is that when you look at Switch 2 games they're gonna look more like PS4 games than PS5 games.

I'm surprised any Nintendo fans care about this. They've been looking at straight garbage for the best part of a decade. Be happy things are getting better.

I'll probably play this at some point because I love Indiana Jones but my enthusiasm for it was dampened quite a lot once I found out it was first person. Still, I shall get around to it eventually.

It's not a surprising statistic. I mean, it looks bad. But when you start thinking about it there's obvious skews here. How many people started visiting this site because they were deeply invested in live service games? How many people bought PlayStations for God of War, or Ghost of Tsushima, or The Last of Us? More casual gamers are right into Call of Duty or Fortnite or whatever but are they coming to sites like this?

Marathon is launching into a hostile environment. The most hardcore of the PlayStation fanbase isn't just ambivalent towards live service games - a lot actively want them to fail so developers stop making them. It's the more casual, silent majority that will make or break the game.

All that said I do think this thing is in trouble. Extraction used to be a game type within a multiplayer mode within a package that included a single player campaign. Now you're expected to pay for it and you get nothing else, with less content available at launch so they can sell it all to you later.

Eventually people are going to say enough is enough. Concord already went down in flames. Marathon might look pretty but otherwise asking people to pay for a package this slight is a tall order.

So America tanks the world economy and everywhere else gets a price hike okay then

I'm not really sure why they moved stuff around. There's a reason why you find things out in the order that you find them out in the game. It's still good though.

I'm unironically in the "you'd have to pay me to play Marathon" camp. I've been over multiplayer shooters for years. Pretty art doesn't change that.

Even as someone that no longer plays multiplayer shooters I can still see a lot of problems here. Charging for it being the first problem. Seems like it's launching with barely any content being another.

It looks nicer than Concord and it doesn't have the hideous character designs and toxic word of mouth working against it but I do think this game could struggle. Maybe the Bungie name will help it. God knows why.

Otherwise, I just don't care. At least they're not wasting any of their single player studios on this.

If this game costs anywhere close to full price - if it's even a bus ride away from $70 - it's absolutely cooked.

I like the colours. Other than that there's nothing about this that is even tangentially interesting to me. Massive shrug.

I'd rather have a Fable collection because my girlfriend keeps telling me to play Fable but I don't want to have to hook the 360 up to do it so I'm betting on a collection at some point so I don't have to.

But I do like Gears, so I'll happily take one of these. I would like Gears 4 and 5 to come too though, since I've never played those.

I don't really like it. It's the rare case of a game that has something in it that I hate so much that it actually retroactively ruins everything else for me.

The parts of the game where it stays close to the original are fantastic I think. And I love the voice acting, the music, the combat is fun. Once the plot ghosts come into it I could start seeing the cracks, and then the whole ending... man. All the Kingdom Hearts pish really ruins the whole thing for me. Not as much as Rebirth, but it's still bad here.

I think what I hate the most is that it's so close. The bits that are great are so great. And there are moments playing it when it's like exactly the remake I wanted. But I just can't with all the nonsense. The meta stuff is really, really bad. I sat on the ending for a long time trying to convince myself it wasn't embarrassingly bad because I wanted to love the game. I was kidding myself though. Rebirth really helped in that regard, because that was even worse so there was no convincing myself after that.

It's okay. I've still got Final Fantasy VII. This was just a massive wasted opportunity.

So many questions about this. Why did they render it in the first place? Why did they change it? How did anyone notice the change? Why are people mad about it? What the hell is going on?

Weird times.

Sweet. I love a wallpaper.

I like the art style and the colours and everything but it's just not my type of game. I don't care online multiplayer shooty shooty games. I'm over them, and no amount of pretty colours is going to change that.

To be fair to them, they said it a lot better than Don Mattrick did.

The only thing I care about is whether or not this thing has a friendlier Platinum Trophy than the one in the original Yakuza 0. That thing asks a lot.

This seems wildly unnecessary since surely the Switch 2 would outsell the PS5 in Japan by default regardless.

No game, ever, in history, has been better for the inclusion of a weapon durability system.

This all seems a bit dramatic for a shooty shooty multiplayer game. I do like the art style though.

Shenmue walked so Yakuza could run to the local hostess club for a drink, inexplicably become the new manager of the establishment, and then take on an evil empire of other hostess clubs in the Cabaret Club Grand Prix.

It was underwhelming even after From Software turned up.

@Th3solution I should clarify, when I say value I don't just mean hours played even though that was the only example I gave. Value isn't just time spent to me. Ten hours spent wonderfully is a better value proposition to me then sixty hours in which half of it is tedious busywork.

So I would pay more for The Last of Us Part II, for example. I relatively short game but one that I think is the best at what it does. I'd pay a lot more for What Remains of Edith Finch than whatever it costs.

I agree companies should be exploring the spectrum of pricing more. It's ridiculous that we just decided AAA games cost £70 and that's that. Some games are simply worth more than others and if you've made The Witcher 4 and you're confident in it and you think you can sell it for more, then I say sell it for more.

I'm not bothered about £75 games, really. There's loads of games where if you looked at how much I got out of them they'd be worth way more than that. I got Cyberpunk 2077 for £12 and I got the DLC free. I've played it four times. I've spent hundreds of hours with it. It's a disgrace I got it so cheap. I should be able to buy it again because I feel so bad about it.

It's all about value. Would I buy Mario Kart World for £75? Absolutely not. Because I'm not going to sit and play Mario Kart for more than five or ten hours. It ain't happening. I'm 40. I'm not sitting and playing Mario Kart with friends. I'm gaming in my pyjamas and talking to my cat.

But a GTA VI? Sure. I can see the value. A Witcher 4? I can see the value in that. Honestly, if you told me The Witcher 4 was £100 I could make a case for it because I know how many hours I spent - and loved - with The Witcher 3. Different games have different value to me and so it's a case by case basis.

Nintendo selling a tutorial is absolutely wild. I respect their grift.

£75 for Mario Kart is wild. But then I guess people who play Mario Kart probably play a lot of Mario Kart. But it seems pretty out there. There's no way I'd pay that for Mario Kart.

I thought it was a really underwhelming showing, but that comes with caveats. First, I've never cared about Nintendo hardware and I don't like Nintendo's motion controllery, gimmicky side. I only buy the consoles to play Nintendo games.

Second, I've already played most of the great ports they showed. So I suppose if you only play on Nintendo you were probably excited about Hitman and Elden Ring and whatever.

But for me it was pretty weak, with the high points being Gamecube games on the system and a 3D Donkey Kong game. I'll get one when Mario or Zelda comes out probably.

I'm assuming this is timed because From going Nintendo only seems like an incredibly bad business move. But even if it's not... I mean, it looked rough, right? Kinda like ALDI brand Bloodborne.

This is a weird one because if this had released day and date it probably would have sold a lot, but since everyone is kinda over Starfield now and the reviews were pretty underwhelming and it turns out it wasn't actually the most important RPG of the decade or whatever, I wonder how it will sell on PS5.

I'm trying not to be excited because I don't want to be disappointed but I'm totally excited

I love an Everybody's Golf but we gotta do something about those hideous characters.

I don't buy physical games so I don't think this really bothers me in any way, but this seems incredibly silly.

I guess spending years making a live service game without doing basic research into what it takes to actually keep a live service game running is probably a bad idea.

Bloodborne fans constantly getting their hopes up for an announcement is far more masochistic than actually playing the game.

I really want this to be good, mainly because the original is one of my girlfriend's favourite games, but I suspect it's going to be a total mess. That's fitting of course, given how the first one launched.

I've played a lot of Assassin's Creed games but Valhalla was the only one I've ever really, really liked. Probably because it's not really anything like a normal Assassin's Creed game. The problem with it was it was still an Assassin's Creed game and it had to shoehorn all the Assassin's Creed garbage into it. Microtransactions, future storyline nonsense, overarching series lore, busywork, etc. It would have been better as a standalone viking RPG.

Anyway, the point is I just can't with Assassin's Creed anymore. Even if it looks cool I just can't sink any more time into this series. I've got way too many things to play.

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I can't get excited about this because the ending of Valhalla really soured me. I loved that game right up until the last minute future nonsense that made it feel like the historical bit had a bit of a non-ending.

Anyway, I'm glad it's good, mainly because it'll annoy people who want it to fail.

What even is this game

Honestly, I'm confused about what the drama is surrounding this one, and I also don't care at all. It'll just be idiots like Grummz and Melonie Mac ranting because there's a woman in the game and she doesn't look like a supermodel or something. But I'm not on Twitter anymore so I won't see it. Delightful.

I own the new Saints Row for some reason. I've never played it though. In fact, I don't think I've ever made it past like half way on a Saints Row game which is unusual because I finish everything. So I must have been really bored.

I don't know what the point of this is or what it is even for and yet I still want one

@MeerkatSimples I haven't played the demo but the full game starts with a full party but then goes back in time to explain how you got there and you recruit new friends over time. So assuming the demo is the start of the game, that would explain that.

I don't think that what I'm about to say is entirely or even mostly to blame for the soft sales - I think Life Is Strange has maybe just had its time.

But as a massive Life Is Strange fan - except for 2, which sucks - I know why I haven't bought this game yet. It was the weird staggered release where if you bought the more expensive version of the game you got the first two episodes a couple of weeks early.

I wasn't going to pay extra to play a bit of a game early and then have to wait for the rest of it so I just didn't preorder it. Then the lukewarm response to the first two episode from fans meant that I wasn't in any hurry to pick it up upon full release when I had other stuff to do. And then I kinda forgot about it.

Honestly, if they hadn't tried to nickel and dime people for partial early access I probably would bought this on day one.

This is like going on Takeshi's Castle and pointing and laughing at someone for falling in the river just before you're about to have a go.

It's weird thinking back to when Xbox was saying stuff like "one of the most important RPGs ever made" about this. Even then it seemed like a bad idea. Looks even more idiotic in hindsight.

On the plus side I like Bethesda games and I like space so I'll probably pick this up.

@AFCC You control Yumia by default but you can switch. Each character has something unique about them, skills, etc. You don't have to switch if you don't want though. I mostly stuck with Yumia and ran into no trouble.

That's kinda hideous.