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@get2sammyb @UltimateOtaku91 Have either of you played Astral Chain? The story, setting, etc seems very Astral Chain but I haven't seen anyone besides me bring it up.

My wife is not going to be happy watching me play the lingerie sections. 😂 It's bad enough the boobage in this game. I'm hetero but come on, Patty and Bianca should fall over. At least Mint and Hokori layer their clothing so it isn't so out there. At least the kids thankfully seem to have different character models.

I'm really liking it so far. It's kinda ZZZ 2.0 in my head. Well Astral Chain 2 as a ZZZ gacha game. There is so much stuff though. I'm ignoring almost all items right now. I did figure out food trapped in a room under a tunnel fighting a level 20 roll of film monster while at level 5, not fun, and then I had to teleport out of the room b/c no exits. And Patty's storyline was meh. And the scooter driving is awful - no car yet.

It's kinda amazing I like it as much as I do. Kinda abandoned 7DSO for it, and Infinity Nikki is on the back burner after yet another To Be Continued screen.😝 So I'll at least keep playing this one as long as the anime story continues, really digging my new found family at Eilbon. Though if I can afford a room in Toshi's skyrise I'm outta there. 😂 Not sure how much longer they can keep the voice acted storyline going, I just finished level 9 main story, but as long as they can is great by me. I lose interest quick when I have to read. And yeah waiting for the bottom arrow to appear can be a drag.

So, anyone know what that green smoky circle in battle does? Looks like it should be health but not healthing. Jellyfish girl has what looks like health for her R2 move but it ain't healthing either, maybe on her? I got addicted to AoE health in 7DSO.

So much to learn.

I think it's safe to assume he's "rounding up", a lot, he probably should have said a vague "about 2 dozen" instead. And by full play through I think it's safe to assume main story beginning to end. And he has the "skip cut scene" button on by default. And he isn't site seeing or exploring b/c he knows what everything is and what it looks like. And he probably has some sort of God mode on so no Game Over screens once he's gotten the balancing just right.

So sure, in his head, 40x, but it's probably closer to like 3 Complete and the rest speed runs.

The fact that he wasn't asked "how long did each of those play thrus take" isn't on him.

But the main story and most of the side quests are probably done. Did he say what device he has been playing on? Probably high end PC so he isn't worried about FPS and resolution. If there going to release this simultaneously on PX5, Xbox Series S and Switch 2 they might still have a lot of work ahead of them to make it playable.

Fortunately Rebirth is already up and running and if they're smart it's the same engine, and the same characters and a lot of the same locations, so it should be manageable.

So yeah, 40x, he did a thing. More or less.

Wow, impressed they went with the Champion as the foil, that guy is so old school. Guess he's shown up a little lately but he's not exactly Doom, Thanos or the Beyonder.

Wiki entry if anyone wants some Champion back story, his biography is a fairly short read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_of_the_Universe

It's too bad I don't play fighting games b/c this 1 does look really good.

Somebody has to be the next No Man's Sky come back story, I guess they think it's them. Not sure anyone else does, but they must.

Considering all the cancelled games and closed studios these days I say more power to 'em. I don't think it will work, but it's nice to see them believing in themselves and trying.

I still haven't played it since the holiday, though I have been letting my PS5 continually update it, but I'm not sure what Fortnite needed was more Star Wars. I feel like there has been plenty of SW content already. I'm really surprised the article didn't make a joke about AI Darth Vader seeing as how well that went.

No mention of the Mandalorian or Dragu is an oversite on Epics part. Oh well, Disney has to spend it's $1.5 Billion on something I guess.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/07/disney-to-take-1point5-billion-stake-in-epic-games-maker-of-fortnite.html

I stopped playing ZZZ right before the end of the first chapter main story, I was spending too much time on the board. I'm only an hour into NTE so who knows but so far it feels like ZZZ but without the board, which works for me. The story is basically Astral Chain but I'm guessing a lot of people here haven't played that. I do miss the bang boos, yhet were cool, but other than that I'm good w/ NTE for now. We'll see what happens when ANANTA releases.

I've been staring at an eclipse in Infinity Nikki for the past week, starting to think it may be more of a world eating black hole than an eclipse, maybe I'll know more after finishing chapter 9.

This is pretty cool too. 😁

Considering how much time has passed since Injustice 2 in the DC movie universe going from Synder to Gunn a could be a new game with the same but different characters.

It's been a while since I've played either of them but I don't recall John Cena's Peacemaker, who probably has a following now after 2 seasons of the show. New Superman and his clone. Jason Momoa's Lobo is looking pretty good in the Supergirl trailers. The Black Adam movie wasn't great but it wasn't the Shazam movies either. Blue Beetle was so good DC basically forgot he exists so I wouldn't expect him in the fame but maybe as dlc later. His geandmother should be an assist character.😂

So yeah, I'm in. I want to see Nathan Filkiins really bad Green Latern haircut. 🤣

Spent 45 minutes playing tonight (well maybe 25 playing and 20 watching) and it's sleek so far. I stopped as soon as I could, it's late, but it looked and played better than I was expecting. Admittedly I spent most of my time referencing all the similar games - lot's of Astral Chain and Zenless Zone Zero - but I'm excited to get back to it. Not sure how long I'll play it - so many collectibles - but as long as it's a playable anime I'm in. Once the story stops and the pulling starts I'm probably out.

1/4 of the games getting 2/3 of the votes is pretty good, I guess we all know why we're here. 😁

Is GTA actually going to release in November? Feels like it's already had at least 1 big delay, if not 2, but I'm not that familiar with their work.

Would it's scheduled November release be bad for this year's CoD or is that a different market? Things seemed a little off last year for it though that might have been Gamepass related.

You guys left out the option for "All of the above" b/c we all know there's going to be more than 1 version of the game.

With all the money they make with online game should probably be free to start, but I'm not expecting that to happen.

Cheapest version will be $69.99US digital, most expensive will be $249.99US physical, but that won't include the game. The most anyone will pay for it is probably like $150,000 by some online addicted crypto bro. 😂

Man I hope it releases in 2027, I don't know how much longer I got. 😂

@Northern_munkey Yeah the whole "license" thing is suck a crock. We "purchase" a license to access a game is ridiculous lawyer speak. We own it or we don't, and if we don't own it we shouldn't be paying full price to buy it. But if we make a copy we stole it? How does making a copy steal something we can't even own after purchasing it? Capitalism is a scam.

And I don't blame people for not knowing any of this, it's how we're taught, to be unquestioning consumers. 🤑

@ElectricWizard "remember the rootkit they used to put on music CD's."

I am old and now that you mention it yes. Don't think that went over well. Consumers really are always treated like garbage, aren't we. 😝

@CielloArc "but since the 7th gen your disc drive does have a DRM, one time activation only and CMOS related"

That sounds, not ideal. 😩

@Bramble "i guess because of the snail pace of the main quests"

I see what you did there. 😂

2.0 was good for about 20 hours, each small bit after that for 1-3 hours, 2.5 should be good for a dozen or so.

I don't consider these gaccha games to be my main games over time, but they do work like a once a week tv show. And the price is right. I apparently don't have the addiction gene, I never spend any money on any of these.

I do wish I had more main games to play like back in the day, but every game takes like 3-5 years to come out, if not longer. DQ12 was announced when? Wolverine? Haven't had a new 3D Mario in 8 years. Hopefully FF7 Part 3 releases before they decide to make it a PS6 launch title.

Thanks for putting all the codes in 1 place. I'm going to give it a try but I would have preferred it waited another 2 weeks as I'm busy w/ Nikki 2.5 and 7DSO 1.2. Though I suppose the sooner they get out ahead of ANANTA the better, it looks better in almost every way.

"There had been confusion about whether the PS5 was affected by Sony’s alleged new DRM, which requires you to connect to the Internet every 30 days in order to verify your game licenses."

"Can’t use this content. Can’t connect to the server to verify your license. Wait a while, then try again.”

"In the current scenario, if your CMOS battery were to fail and Sony had taken its servers offline, your purchases would be rendered worthless."

"It’s worth reiterating here that there’s no evidence whatsoever of your licenses being revoked if you fail the check-in; this is also only affecting newly purchased games."

Here's some copying and pasting from update 2. Should be pretty clear what the real problem is here. All of our game purchases are actually just leases, we don't own squat unless you own it physical. And even if you do own it physical it's probably still just a license, but at least you own a coaster, and probably can even figure out a way to play it, unless they've secretly been putting call in DRM on the discs, but that's probably not a thing.

So as I said earlier, game companies should start being upfront about how we are paying them to use thier software, we aren't buying or purchasing anything, it's all just rentals.🤑

I consider X to be the last good FF game. 12 was good as a post game Monster Hunter game but the main game was kinda meh. 7 and 8 are still my favorites b/c nostalgia, but I recently watched my kid play 7, 8, 9, X, not in that order, more like 9, X, 7, 8 or something random like that, and really X was the only 1 that still held up. Sphere ball still sucks though. 😝

X-2 is one of the worst games I've ever played, still don't know what they were thinking, but I don't hold that against X or what came after, it was a spin-off game they kinda shoehorned into the mainline series.

Kilmari is still 1 of my favorites. One of the last non-human looking playable characters. Bunny girl Fran was basically just a girl with rabbit ears, but Kilmari was Kilmari. The all boy band in XV nearly killed me playing it. 😩 Vivi is still the best though, 9 is basically his game.

So yeah, X holds up, it's the height, the pinnacle, all lead up to there - Wakka still the best voice actor - and all downhill from there.

The 25 years doesn't phase me, I've been old for years, it's all downhill for me too for awhile now. 👨‍🦳

Thanks for the update. Though I still can't get over the word "expiry". 😂

For all the people defending this, for some odd reason, it is a bit more of the principal of the thing.

When you go to a car dealership to buy or lease a car you have different prices and different rules for each. If you buy it you leave, it's yours, do with it what you will. If you lease it for much less money you have to follow the rules and check back in when the lease is up.

The games industry pretends, PRETENDS, it is selling us a game by letting us BUY or PURCHASE a digital game, but then makes us jump through hoops like it's a lease. Then they point to the very small teeny tiny print about how we never actually bought or purchased anything, it's all just us paying full price for a game we don't own.

So there's the real actual problem, not the expiry and checking in, it's the companies charging us full price to "purchase" a game when they know we don't own anything, we have to keep playing by their rules.

So all digital storefronts should tell the truth, LEASE this game for $69.99, and then we all know what we're getting into.

I think the full time lie of the full price purchase of games on Stadia killed it more than the tech. The tech functioned, but it's a big bad bold faced lie to say we are buying or purchasing anything in the cloud. That should be illegal, full stop. Full priced cloud games is a hill I will die on. This is just their attempt to spread the cloud "ownership" lie to all digital "sales" when anyone can tell it's just a lease at a purchase price.

And I thought Sony and PS said PSN is no more,then why is it still in every article? 🤷‍♂️

@get2sammyb My wife and I spent lunch watching random "ANANTA vs NTE" videos on YT - plenty to choose from - and while there are differences, well the more people talked the more the games still sounded the same. I was surprised 1 used Unity and 1 Unreal, had assumed they were both Unreal, so I suppose they have that difference. I may have to play them both to find out. ANANTA will release, it's not Fairgame$.😝

Anyway thanks for getting back to me, I'll try and move on. 😁

@SMJ Yeah but there was a time when companies wanted our money in exchange for something. Like, we would give them money and they would give us something for it. Now we should just give it to them b/c that's how capitalism works and if we don't then we're the enemy. 🤑

@get2sammyb OK so I don't mean to keep bothering ya but I searched ANANTA on @Pushsquare and this article came up and since you once again didn't put the name of the game in article title I watched this NTE trailer and I swear if you put bunny ears on the main gray haired girl it's the ANANTA trailer I just watched. So maybe you and Shogun get together and make a comparison trailer between the 2 b/c I think I'm currently living in 2 dimensions and they're the same game with a different name in each.😂

OK I'm going to go play Speedstorm, Nikki and 7DSO now and leave you alone.😁

@get2sammyb re: Totopia

Watched a 2 minute trailer with the misses while I was making muffins this morning. She said it looked like Splatoon, graphically, which it kinda does, but why does every game need farming these days. She's OK w/ the fishing. I figured this article was about this game, even though you somehow managed to write an article about a game w/o naming it in the title. It's a maybe for us.

More importantly, we watched a 10 minute trailer for NTE and it looked really good. (YouTube was just auto playing trailers while I was cooking.) I told my wife you were spot on saying it was GTA like and she agreed, it was funny anime GTA. Then the screen went black and it said ANANTA. So now we're both confused. I mean it looked like NTE, same red car and everything, and I don't know what ANANTA is. So, that's a thing that happened. Maybe I'll skip NTE for ANANTA then. I don't know anymore.

I never borrowed the previous game from the library despite thinking about it every time I saw it on the shelf. If I see this 1 on the shelf some day maybe I'll give it a try, seems like they made it a little more approachable.

@SMJ Well that would be nice for a change. Thanks for sharing. 👍 I really don't follow Xbox all that much but to me their gaming decisions of late seem to be going about as well as Sony's live service game decisions. Though I suppose all big company decisions are just about the stock price. 🤑

Starting to think Asha Sharma is just the fall girl for whatever bad decision Nadella is going to ultimately make about Xbox going forward.

That or she's completely powerless and they're just sending her out there as a mouthpiece. See Reggie at Nintendo.

I hope the story mode is better than the show. First season was awesome, but both seasons 2 and 3 felt like filler seasons waiting for Season 4. We'll hopefully season 4 and we don't get another filler season waiting for season 5.

Though season 3 ended well so 4 should be the one.

I'm old, I'm used to 22 episode seasons w/ a 3 month summer break. My brain just can't handle 8 episodes then a year off. I'll probably rewatch the entire series right before the last season and it will be great.

Edit: OK so season 4 ended 2 nights ago - currently don't have Prime - and there is a season 5 scheduled for next year but at least it looks like stuff finally happened in season 4. I'm OK w/ the show going on as long as they like, just prefer the story arcs to be completed in a season.

At what point in the game do you start training your singing group to fight interdimensional demons? Or are they saving that for the dlc? 😂

I read this entire article thinking it was about the Telltale game that released just last week on the Switch and man was I confused.

@get2sammyb Maybe what she meant by "game exclusivity" is moving everything from Microsoft Gaming to Xbox gaming simply by renaming it?

https://www.theverge.com/report/917485/microsoft-return-of-xbox-no-more-microsoft-gaming

Between the renaming and the 7,000 US volunteers to be unemployed I wouldn't be surprised if they just sell the entire Xbox Gaming division just to be done with it at this point. Maybe Elon wants it. Or PIF. Then they can just focus on AI like the rest of them.😩

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/microsoft-plans-first-voluntary-retirement-program-for-us-employees.html

Meta (Facebook) also cutting 10% of it's employees. Probably relevant to gaming and AI even if I can't tie it to Xbox, but the news dropped about an hour apart so... something about smoke & fire.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/meta-will-cut-10percent-of-workforce-as-it-pushes-more-into-ai.html

@Yousef- "70 pounds where you live"

Guess my New York accent needs some work online. Maybe I should start ending all my posts with word.up.son 😂

80 anything is too much though for a game. Nintendo must be killing you with those $80 Switch game ports, must be nearly 100 by you. For old Switch games with a new coat of paint.😱

@Yousef- Best I've come up with so far. Well it was either that or GatchaStation so admittedly the competition wasn't very high. 😝 I figure Sammy needed a backup plan in case Sony ever got out of the console business. I don't think mobile gacha games are ever going away, it's a guaranteed lifetime of work. I'm still work shopping the name. 😁 FTP are the majority of my gaming time these days as I wait years, years, for games I want to play to release. FF7 Pt 3, DQ 12, Wolverine, a new 3D Mario. So if Sammy makes a site covering that stuff better for me.😂

@Quintumply Do we know how they're going to try to monetize this yet? Ghost of Yotei just came out with a free dlc multiplayer mode for the main game called Legends. Maybe they'll make this a free add on to Lego Horizons?

I think this would have been much better received from Ubisoft as it reminds me A LOT of Gods and Monsters (sorry I forgot the new title I've always just called it that). Not sure why they'd make Hunters & Gatherers (I'm always calling it that) not look like the main game, the engine already exists. Or make it Lego.

Anyway just wondering if this is supposed to be a budget title, full price or free to play. Even the paid Fortnite is free now so it seems a bad time to start making people pay for what looks like Fortnite in those short clips.

@get2sammyb You're losing it kid. 😂 You should have saved this article for the launch of PullSquare since it hasn't even been announced for PS5 yet. 😉 Though I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that it being Hoyo means it will likely come. Not sure if you noticed or not but Hoyo doesn't play nice w/ Nintendo. Genshin Impact was mentioned awhile back but nothing. Personally I don't think Nintendo likes them or wants them.

This being PC and mobile maybe they'll go the Apple Arcade route as a source of income? Not sure about PC, don't game there much.

As @Yousef- pointed out Hello Kitty Island Adventure is on PS5 and it's as close to ACNH as you can get. I mean it is ACNH but with Sanrio skins and a much better story. Dreamlight Valley is kinda different. I'm guessing you haven't played HKIA but it's on PS5, PC, Apple Arcade and Switch 2. Don't bother w/ Switch 2 it's about a full year behind with the updates compared to Apple Arcade. You probably owe it to yourself to at least put in a dozen or so hours somewhere if you're going to keep posting about this comparing it to AC. Sanrio has 10 games coming out the next 3 years in case you missed the news over on NL.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/04/sanrio-party-land-announced-for-switch-1-and-2-more-sanrio-games-teased

Don't think this 1 is for me, graphics look like 1 of those Jakks Pacific kids toys compared to NTE. Maybe Hoyo is going for the 12 and under crowd w/ this, and even my kids have outgrown that.😩

@user0 Just Dance microtransactions are probably making them more money than AC.🤑

Weird to cancel it after 3 years. Maybe we're finally reaching a saturation point in cozy sim games like we have with the gaas stuff.

As someone who probably has like 1,000 hours in ACNH, thanks covid, I like Hello Kitty Island Adventure more.

Maybe the announcement of 10 Sanrio games coming out over the next 3 years scared them off?

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/04/sanrio-party-land-announced-for-switch-1-and-2-more-sanrio-games-teased

I've played this almost every day since launch and I'm enjoying it, but promoting a $900 console w/ a free to play game still strikes me as weird. I haven't spent any money on Nikki and I can't see any reason to, don't feel like I'm missing out on anything, it's an offline single player collectathon.

@rockodoodle Played the demo on my iPad, not really for me. I can see it being addictive for the Balatro crowd, but I couldn't really get into that 1 either.

Do people buy Gamepass on a month by month basis? I feel like PS+ E, E, P are more of an annual price thing than monthly but I could be wrong. GP maybe got too expensive for a discounted annual offer?

Guess I can go do my own research, BRB.

Edit: Looks like all 4 versions of GP are monthly only, so no savings for an annual plan. Guess the price isn't right.

I just wish it was releasing in 2027 instead for the Zelda comparisons. I don't think they'll be anything alike except for "fantasy" but that would have been enough.

Comparisons will still be made but it won't be the same level of fanboi trolling.

PS has that really long Game Profile box, can you not squeeze in the price? Just put it in pounds and let us figure it out from there. When you guys do a mini review I expect a mini price but that's usually anywhere from $4.99 to $29.99.

On Steam it's $14.99 and I just downloaded it to my iPad for free but one of the reviews said $9.99 so it might just be a demo. Their website says it's also available on Android but I don't game on my phone. (I have a PS5 controller synced to my iPad)

Anyway I'm not into rogues or bullet hells but do like brick breakers and village building so will try this one out on my iPad before continuing further. Airplay puts it out wrirelessly to my TV so it's almost a console w/ the PS5 controller. 😁

As much as I abhor 2 part films , I wouldn’t mind them ending this movie after act 2 and expanding, greatly expanding, on act 3, in a sequel, as it seemed like an entirely different game to me. I could actually go for a prequel. Maybe as a series.

This looks good and I’m considering playing it, but promoting a $900 console with a free to play game seems kinda wrong. 🤑

Currently playing 7DSO and I thought it ended after chapter 5, which I finished last night, only to find out it’s 12 chapters, not 5, so I may just keep playing 7DSO and skip this. Game is getting harder and I need to start paying attention and doing stuff, rather than just walking through the main story.

But maybe Ill hit this up after. But not on a Pro.

@get2sammyb OK OK I'll play it. 😂

When you finally make the spinoff website for all the gacha games you play you should call it PullSquare for all the pulling you have to do. 😁 Sounds better than GachaStation anyway. 🤑

I hope their save data cloud sharing works better than 7DS0. If you started on PS5 you can't share with Android or iOS. And Dsinet Speedstorm just had an issue where if you updated the app on Android or iOS you couldn't share with PS5. So many problems.😩

Maybe in several years this game can be the one that unseats No Mans Sky from its continuous run of winning "best ongoing game" awards.

There OK, but they're no amiibo. 😎

https://www.gamestop.com/consoles-hardware/nintendo-switch/nintendo-switch-amiibo/products/pragmata-diana-amiibo/20032022.html

@Decimateh-xblz Long confusing battles. There are like 4 different character classes who's job it is to load missles? Maybe there's a mode so all the battles play themselves? 🤪

@Northern_munkey I WATCH everything, recording it all for prosperity is somebody else's job. There's no film in my camera. 😂 Though I suppose for the kids I should say the storage is full in my phone. 😝

@get2sammyb "They're all time sinks lol"

Fair. 😂

@Flaming_Kaiser My 55yo wife can probably name a couple of hundred Pokémon off the top of her head, and certainly name a lot by looking at them, and she's never played a game or watched the show. But she has 2 kids who used to test her on them, so she had to know. Only the first few gens though, maybe through X Y? But it's enough.😂 So many Pokémon.

I'm planning on checking it out even though I stopped playing Fortnite this past Christmas after about 4 years of daily play. I've always been curious about this mode. Think I'll play just long enough to get 1 trophy. About a thousand hours and zero trophies is kinda weird. 😂