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Even though I still haven’t completely finish the excellent Clare Obscure and Gordian Quest, I got Hades 2 and can’t stop playing it.

Definitely recommend Monster Train

Put it on my wishlist. Will likely get it after I’m finished with gordian quest, as long as it’s priced reasonably.

Edit: I’m told it’s £25 on Xbox, so guess it’ll be the same. They do get a 14 day sale price of £20 though. Would grab it at that price certainly.

Edit2: ok, it’s only £20 so I bought it. Couldn’t resist.

@Bot_Bot_69
Why would having more staff mean they would demand a bigger project rather than let their staff work hours conducive to personal happiness and sanity? Oh yeah…

How about, instead of crunch, you hire, train, and retain more staff right from the beginning of the project…but of course that would cost money rather than people’s personal lives.

@Balaam_
I’d also tend to use “need” when referring to a company as an entity rather than as a collection of a specific group of people.

This is a fantastic game. Highly recommended. And one of the few where I actually bought the DLC (Breaking Dead has some nice automation options). A fun Platinum too. Great to hear there’s a sequel.

Oh, I thought they were doing something good with them that might transfer to PlayStation - but it’s literally just how they are presented to other people. As a solitary gamer with nobody on my Friend list other than my wife, I have no interest in that.

@RyPal
I mean 6 months after PS release, obviously. What’s with everyone rushing? I’ve got a huge backlog and I thought everyone else here did too. Never buy digital games at full price.

Will give it 6 months to be balanced and the bugs be fixed, then I’ll get it at a reasonable price of about £45. Unless they make a PSVR2 mode, then I’d pay anything day one.

I’m happy with smaller games. Few can hold my interest these days for 60+ hrs. Still, at that price I would be annoyed if it took anything less than 30hrs to fully finish.

@Fluberuper
Nah, he’s safe, I can’t leave my basement and keep my obsessions to gooning over the fictional, lol.

@Almost_Ghostly
Just so you know, whenever I come across a new person online whose first comment on me is a simple insult with no elaboration, as was yours, I look at their post history. Having seen that the majority of your first page posts are you arguing with people, rest assured I won’t be replying again after this. Hope you have a better day.

Let’s hope the world still accepts “immaturity” in the spirit it was intended. Unfortunately many parts of it are so up themselves they’ll fight it I’m sure, but I have to believe, for my own sanity, that they are just a vocal minority.

@Almost_Ghostly
Nope. In fact I’m old enough that I’ve long since gone past the mind frame you’re demonstrating and caring about the opinions of those that hold it. You’ll get there in time.

And so she should. Make her a skin in every game as far as I’m concerned.

Sounds like a trophy put in by people who hate trophies and object to the requirement. The devs of Don’t Starve famously admitted to doing the same. It baffles me why more ways to challenge and entertain the player is considered a bad thing, but I think it’s because of the whole propaganda about trophies being trinkets for the vain, and the challenges adding nothing.

I remember loving the the original but didn’t really look at this. I think it’s because the original I played in VR, and I don’t know if the sequel is available to play outside of pancake mode.

@nomither6
Well, PlayStation is less than half their revenue. I always thought it was financial services carrying them, and least for a time.

So, same guy saying same thing, still without proof?

Why can’t a piece of art or entertainment just reflect what it reflects? Why does it have to be pushed into a wider social context? There are gold diggers around. They are represented in this game. It doesn’t say all women are gold diggers or all men weak victims.

@Fritz167
Exactly. How do they have a list of PSVR2 games releasing and completely fail to add games to the list when they update it, and then push it to the front page?! At this point it seems the only conclusion is that they are doing it deliberately. I’m not one for nutjob conspiracy theories, but it’s unreasonable to believe they are simply this incompetent.

Please stop with the exaggerations. Just because you don’t know about or cover PSVR2, doesn’t mean there aren’t many great games you are completely oblivious to.

The more Stellar Blade the better. Game of the generation for me.

@Ichiban
The Arch is a surprisingly great burger.

I don’t understand any experienced gamer who buys a game on release. Haven’t we all learned yet? Games at release are the worst price and often broken.

In my view, one of the main problems is that publishers are no longer happy making millions with single player games that then finish and leave room for others to be successful. Instead we have “forever games” that rake in billions and make investors chase that unrealistic dream of doing the same, and these games just get scrapped if focus groups, internal or external, are not immediately addicted.

A new DE could have made money, but woildnt cover the opportunity cost in investors eye.

@Balaam_
You are a bit trophy crazy, but I agree broken trophies should not pass certifications neither should patches be passed until it’s clear they haven’t broken trophies. Even things like this should be protected against (I remember a far less impactful situation with some mini games in Yakuza 3 I think).
But then, Sony don’t care if they can get away with it. Most don’t care about and won’t notice issues with trophy challenges. Same with VR, I remember Xing wouldn’t even save properly and Sony still let it through, figuring nobody would notice I guess.
I too have skipped games because a trophy campaign was completely broken. Not because I wanted to protect my 40% completion rate, but simply because of the lack of a fun trophy campaign.

Gordian Quest for about £1.50. Highly recommended. Been caught in Clair Obscur for 3 weeks now, so needed something a little different for a bit.

Funnily enough, I see this as making an early PS6 release more likely. If the components cost a huge amount anyway, Sony needs a way to justify these kinds of prices. They aren’t going to be able to sell units to those with less disposable income as time goes on like they used to, so might have to start with the enthusiasts again.

@Foxhound
To be fair, it will be fast to learn the language needed for system settings, downloading etc, all games that have English language options will still ship with English language options, it’s just the console itself that is Japanese language locked (I think, could be completely wrong, but as the games aren’t region locked and there aren’t multiple versions per language…)

I try to get through blue reflection at least once a year, but never quite managed it. The gameplay is too basic and easy, and the tasks too monotonous. It’s a shame as I like the story and, ahem, “aesthetics”. Still have the first two on disc, but doubt there’ll be any type of upgrade path

Don’t usually do free to play but I do like the look of this. Hopefully there is a story campaign to complete, or at least a fun trophy campaign that doesn’t require anything timegated. I like games to have an ending, not constantly look to distract me from playing all other games I’m interested in.

Grave Seasons, Stranger than Heaven, and Hades 2 out of these.

Sounds like there will be a great PS6 remake down the line.

Or maybe they just aren’t ready to go live with a rebrand yet. Might coincide with a marketing push. But strange to just call it PlayStation, especially if they ever want to add non gaming anime or films again.

Could have been interesting. But avoiding controversy I guess.

Hopefully AI will help speed up the coding and concepts. Yes, I know that’s unpopular, but this is truly a ridiculous situation where massive projects mean massive risk and then immediate release of staff after release.

We know they will swing it as “some lucky customers get extra savings!”, but it’s fundamentally unfair in my opinion, and just shouldn’t be allowed. Fair enough offer a better price to people if they buy more games in an order (or maybe go back to the stars system, so the more you spend the more you save), but do that after checkout based on clear criteria; don’t do this.

Will definitely get this. Just not £60 digital, obviously. If I can get it for that physical fine, otherwise will wait for a digital sale.

I hate trophies that require an entire new playthrough, especially if no new fun way to
Play is suggested, instead, in this case, it’s just tedious work. I agree, this trophy is just terrible, to the point I’d suggest the devs are one of those that hate having to add new trophy challenges and sabotage the deliberately.

I’m feeling this maybe a game to come back to when it gets a PS6 update (I’m not buying a pro for a few games). Or just play its sequel as certain aspects of the gameplay and narrative sound underwhelming.

Gone from a meh to a must buy. Hopefully the implementation isn’t lazy, but doesn’t sound like it is.

This sounds perfect for me. The thing I love about rogue-likes is that you do get that reward and sense of progression for your character. Sure you can get better, inevitably will get better, in all games just by playing and learning them, but it’s not the same and that will still happen anyway.

Thus way you also constantly have options to change things up with new skills and modifiers to keep the game fresh.

I do like a challenge though. Maybe there will be trophy challenges to beat the game in a certain more difficult way, which I can go for if I like the game enough.

It won’t change anything for me. But it’s an iconic brand name so it’s not the best idea. It will lead to a more unified system, with them trying to sell anime and movies etc, but this won’t be a great thing for the service.

@PuppetMaster
Fair points, thanks for the important context.

@DennisReynolds

Cool, I have a nickname!

And I said “seems like” which is the pertinent thing - I have no idea who the person you mentioned is as I don’t take notice of such things. I’ve not seen anything new in this game, and most reviews seem to concur.

As we haven’t played it though, we’ll just have to wait and see.

Edit: just did a quick bit of research; seems he’s a looter/shooting live service guy. Mostly Destiny. So not this type of thing, but admittedly a gamer (who also reviews TV and Films). Live and learn.

Seems like Forbes and vive had reviews by non gamers for whom this is new, and most of the rest made comments that made me feel like this is the first AI driven game, in concept if not execution.

@get2sammyb
It became the artists intent when the devs made the changes. And it will be their intent when they design around its use, or do not, moving forward. Artistic choices are made within technical boundaries, when those boundaries move so can artistic visions.

Plus the changes I’ve seen are universally for the better in my subjective opinion, let’s not presume the devs don’t think the same unless they say otherwise, they know best the original compromises they made within original technical boundaries.

Would you complain about me turning off chromatic abberation, depth of field, and motion blur on all games that allow me to because it isn’t the devs artistic vision? This is just a toggle for users too.

Lasted quite well as live service games go these days. Not my genre so I never played it, but was generally well received, even without the aim controller and some late patched features.