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I never actually got to the point of using it. I did a lot of the side content but then decided to just finish the game and then go back in and 100% it on New Game Plus since I'd already missed a few things anyway. So I suppose I'll never know what I missed out on.

I'm listening to the soundtrack right now in the office. Superb stuff.

No less than a 9. Maybe a 10. Finished it yesterday. Excited to do new game plus for the platinum. Loved the story, the characters, amazing music, wonderful combat. Excellent stuff.

This is a massive shrug of an announcement for me. But then I'm not the target audience so what does it matter? I just can't care about whatever this is. Hopefully they manage to get one of these multiplayer things to land and it works out nicely for everyone. Maybe this is it.

Dreadful studio name though. On that we are in total agreement.

Calling it now - 100% this game has you playing as both characters, they have a falling out, and then you have to choose which one you play as for the final stretch to take out the other.

That's nice. I would have preferred a trilogy but the sensible money is on separate releases so I won't judge them for it.

I might play it at some point, but Borderlands 3, that Tiny Tina thing, and the New Tales From The Borderlands game really soured me on the whole franchise honestly.

Finally. Now we can get release dates for all the others games coming out this year now they don't have to avoid GTA.

I'm not at all into these deep dive State of Plays. I usually don't watch them. I'm usually sold or not on a game pretty quickly and then I just don't watch trailers etc. since they spoil half of the game these days.

I'm definitely not at all into these deep dive State of Plays if they're about Borderlands. I just can't care any more.

This is exactly the sort of game that I buy and then never actually play.

I've had Balatro for ages. I'm playing it right now in fact. I'll almost certainly never play the other two.

I like arcade racers but I don't like open world racers so this is a bit of a maybe. I'll probably try it if it's cheap but it's not something I'd rush out to buy.

@Kidfunkadelic83 I've played two gacha games - this and Zenless Zone Zero and the difference between them is astonishing. ZZZ is very much a game where nearly all the cast is female, they're all very bouncy, some questionable attire choices for battle etc.

Infinity Nikki is actually really wholesome. It's like a Disney story or something in tone, and in terms of the clothing etc. it's not pervy at all. Even the clothes that are part of the "sexy" category are like old school jazz singer outfits rather than anything weird.

Mostly it's just about a wholesome, let's be nice people and make the world a better place story with lots of dress up and customisation. Very easy to play. Very charming and likeable.

Honestly, I love it when an update is a disaster. I'd rather have the apology and the compensation than a smooth launch day.

It is totally broken though. The DIY workshop barely worked for me yesterday. It seems better today. It's crashed a few times. The multiplayer stuff is bizarre and glitchy. The UI is cooked.

New outfits rule though and I like the new area.

Sue Storm nude skin and it's just nothing - $20

I'm really not into the whole biker thing or the story or the characters or anything, but I did like just going around and shooting the don't-call-them-zombies and stuff. It's a shame they bury all the best bits - i.e. the hordes - at the end of the game, but once you get there it is really good.

I'll probably play this one again for another platinum at some point. I don't know when.

Unless PaRappa comes on stage and does the "I need the toilet" rap I ain't going.

I don't know why anybody would care about this. It's obvious. PlayStation gamers buy games. Xbox gamers don't. Why wouldn't you market it for PlayStation?

I can see why the comparison is being made because five or ten hours into Clair Obscur all I could think was that this was what I wish Final Fantasy had been for the last two decades. I love Final Fantasy, but I'm really not into the action focus in the combat at all.

How are they reducing the platinum grind? I've got every trophy except the iridescent eureka one. I have six of those do only 94 to go. Hopefully they've drastically reduced how many you need or how hard it is to get them.

Not even watching the trailer. I'm already in.

Seems expensive for a lick of paint to a game that's rougher than a badger's bum to play. Still, I'll end up paying it. I guess that's why it's this expensive.

My girlfriend loves this game so if this thing gets shadow dropped I'm gonna end up undergoing open wallet surgery this afternoon. Cheers, Bethesda.

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.