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I played the original and it really was quite good, I wanted to play Royal too at some point but I don't feel like the PS4 was worth keeping just for that.

Maybe it's because I've always been poor, but I've never really understood the point of having a television (and games consoles) on anything other than a dedicated TV room or Bed room at least if its just one person living in there, of course big families are their own thing.

Like do you really need entertainment in a kitchen of a freaking bathroom, I know a person who does that personally and I still don't get it.

I'm guessing its for the sake of trying to avoid confusion/mistake purchases, but yeah, this decision is a bit iffy between the inferior graphics and gameplay chances. As long as there is still a tiny merit in the original over the new edition, the option for both should still exist.

Nah, there's no exclusive games that really interest me (turn based RPG and/or Strategy or fighting games), the price is really high and I personally found the PS4 to be very disappointing which leaves my current opinion on the PS brand a bit on the low side to begin with.

I have my Switch and a "gaming" laptop which at the moment gives me coverage of mostly everything I would want.

If they were to bring back the PS Classics offerings from the PS3 store that would be a big move in piquing my interest for the system again.

One of the biggest disappointments about the PS4 was with how they eliminated that.

Game is good and one of the better roguelikes I've played for sure, but really tough with the randomness and the mechanics forcing you to keep moving and only having limited time to make decisions. It's good in short bursts.

Happy birthday PS2!

My father bought the system around the time Final Fantasy X was released here in europe. I was a huge Nintendo fanboy at the time (and being a dumb pre-teen kid "supporting" both was out of the question) so I sort of dismissed the system beyond whatever games my father happened to buy for it. So it wasn't until some years later when I had finally gotten over my silly fanboy self and finally started to actually see what an amazing library the system truly had, I've been doing pretty nice job collecting the games that I've missed out on that interest me but more and more hidden gems seem to pop out at every turn, a truly great system for a huge fan of RPGs such as myself, and being backwards compatible with the superb PS1 library is a huge boon as well.

I stand by that RPGs should not go for straight up sequels ever. As I understand this series in particular does eventually get rid of the anime high school angle that the first coldsteel game had, but seeing as the story between all the games is connected I cannot just skip that one either, instead being forced to cope with the highschool if I want to get to the actual intriguing parts of it.

Even for this developer YS does it much better since the main plot between each installement is mostly always self-contained as I understand even if the main character is the same.

I didn't even know that the controller had such features, sounds pretty gimmicky but undeniably interesting.

I wonder if anyone at Square even remembers that Final Fantasy used to be a RPG, not an action game. Lesigh...

I dunno why but there's something incredibly cursed about that fake cover art.

Nah, I was like 7 years old I think when my father bought the PS1 from one of his co-workers with an assortment of random (mostly racing) games. I know it was after Final Fantasy 7 had come out because he bought the system mainly to play that at first and it was by the time the time that game had received its platinum re-release because that's the version we had.

Being a dumb little fanboy kid I was very much against playing with the system at first because "muh Nintendo" but I got over it pretty soon and it's good thing I did because the first playstation has one of the finest video game libraries in any game system ever. Certainly moreso than Nintendo's competition at the time anyway.

PS4 ended up being a rather disappointing system for my money to the point where I ended up selling it, Persona 5 is really the only exclusive that I'm going to miss on that one.

PS5 is going to need to do a lot to impress me and so far they haven't really done anything to attain that. Like I guess Ratchet & Clank might be cool for a bargain price but it's certainly no system seller.

It needs exclusive turn based RPGs, turn based strategys game and fighting games for me to start caring.

Nah, I'm kind of really sick of super heroes at the moment on all fronts. I played Ultimate Alliance 3 on the Switch back when it came out and that's only because my friend bought it and I got to play it with him on co-op.

I don't even have a PS4 anymore so I couldn't really play it even if I wanted to.

12/20, some pretty specific questions, but I guess that's how you differentiate the super fans from just fans.

I did enjoy watching a let's play of this some time ago, but it's really not the kind of game I would be interested in playing myself.

That's be great, it was probably my favorite game on the PS3, no other beat-em-up ever has been as fun as this one and has such a kickass artstyle, feel and soundtrack.

Though if they do re-release it, I wish they fix some of the jank/glitchiness that, that awful online update introduced to the game.

Played it on the Switch for a few hours, it's just all around below average, I wouldn't recommend it at all.

Nah, I don't have my ps4 anymore, it'd be pretty interesting if I got anything from sony.

Yeah I found out that's the reason why my pledge won't go through. Sucks something fierce, just earlier this summer it was still totally fine when I backed that switch drawing program.

Well at least the game got backed so that's good, but I really would've loved to be a part of it. Suikoden 2 is like my favorite game of all time.

I've been trying to put down my pledge but I keep getting an error after entering all the card info and pressing pledge. Never had an issue with kickstarted before, I hope they fix this soon because if there ever was a project I'd want to back it's this one.

I used to like it a lot more when I was younger but the grindy steal mechanic and so much content being hidden behind that godforsaken Chocobo minigame do make it a bit grating to pick up sometimes, like many classic RPGs I'd also like if it had just a bit more in the way of customization. At least the modern releases helped with the slow load times and slow battle animations thanks to the faster loading and speed-up feature.

But still it's a classic for a good reason, the music is really good in this one and I find the world fun to explore.

I think 10-20 hours for a game with a lot of replay value is perfect. For a longer more story based game that you're likely only going to play once I'd vager 40-50 hours is the sweet spot, even Dragon Quest 11, as good as it was I was starting to wish it would end at around that point.

Trailer did it a whole lot more justice compared to those low quality leaked photos, I'm not really a platformer guy anymore but I'm a little bit interested in trying it in the event that it reviews well.

I'd like to see Atlus start porting their DS/3DS catalogue, lots of amazing games there and the though of being able to play those games on the big screen in a convenient manner is just too good.

Nope, frankly I was pretty disappointed with the PS4 so they're going to need to work extra hard to win me back, Gran Turismo looks clean and all but that's not the sort of game to really entice me, nothing else on display really interests me whatsoever. It needs exclusive Fighting games and turn-based JRPGs, SRPGs & Strategy games. Those kinds of games are what sell systems for me.

9/15, some really obscure stuff in here, as well as all the shooter and flight games that are completely out of my expertise and I had no clue about those, I got a few lucky guesses that helped me a bit.

At least Dragon Quest has the decency to keep their massive genre shifts to spinoffs.

Meanwhile I'm just waiting to hear even a chirp about Shin Megami Tensei 5.

I played it on Switch, I found it decisively average just all around, wouldn't recommend it.

Been gaming so much lately, mainly focusing on classics I missed from the PS1 & PS2 that at the moment I am a bit burned out, and the games that I splurged for just keep coming. I may just take a bit of a break for now and focus on my SRPG Studio project for a bit.

That's a bit of a shame, at the moment this is the only upcoming game for the system I'm looking forward to. But if it means a better game in the end, it's always worth the wait.

I don't exactly know if it was the intention of this article but this kickstarter definitely looks of interest to me, as terrible as the console itself was I loved Art Academy on the Wii U and this looks like something very much similar to that. I think I'm going to back this one.

I though they were done with CIV6 for sure, I love that game so I'm very happy to get even more out of it.

Kudos for also getting the stuff out on all platforms at the same time.

Who needs next gen when I've got a perfectly functional PS2.

@AFCC
Yes, you can invidually change both the text and the voice acting into japanese.

Got super lucky and received my Switch copy early, got a good ~5 hours of gameplay under my belt now. I'm throughly enjoying this, the changes made to the combat system, namely in how magic and skills don't stop the gameplay in their tracks and don't require you to dig through tedious menus to use eliminate my biggest issue I had with the old entries in this series. I find the combat super fun, exploration is way better too since there's actual worthwhile treasure to find, movement is just more nimble in general since you can skip over a lot of terrain that you couldn't in 2D and also the map just makes navigating so much easier as well. The default normal difficulty felt too easy, but Hard difficulty does require you to actually pay some attention. The character models look great, the remixed soundtrack has so far been great and OG soundtrack is an option too which is something I always appreciate in these remakes. I find the menus a bit confusing to navigate but it's still a lot better than the slow-as-molasses-glitch-ridden menus in the original.

Honestly if it keeps being this good this is a definitely one of my first real GOTY contenders for this year. Squeenix has been killing it recently with DQ11 and now this.

These do look really nice, but even still I would find it hard to justify getting rid of the I am Setsuna theme I have, as much as I disliked the music in that game (to the point where is made me quit the game), but for a menu it just works I think.

On the subject though, can someone confirm what music track do these themes use?

Turning it into an action game took away any interest I could've potentially had in it otherwise.

I couldn't stand Last Surprise, the main battle theme of Persona 5, so that SMT4 costume DLC that replaced the main battle theme from the one from that game was necessary for my enjoyment of the game. The new battle theme they made for this rerelease is a lot better, though I still dunno if it's the main battle theme always or if they have different one for first strikes and such.

I think it speaks volumes how they made this game barely a year after the RE2 remake, it's just classic Capcom, they make something succesful and then they try to immediatedly capitalize with half hearted efforts. I'm expecting a new Devil May Cry announcement soon.

I'm going to be the first to admit that I didn't even give this game a chance and never intend to. The 3v3 aspect of it was such a huge turnoff and from what I hear they skimmed on features big time compared to the PSP Dissidia duodecim in favor of pushing the online. I would love to get something like similar to Duodecim again some day, that game was so incredibly packed with content and even had large amounts of stuff to do just for single player.

I loved Persona 5 and yeah, I'd say it was my goty for 2018, which was the year I played it in, but honestly I don't really think I'm ready to replay it quite this soon. Also I feel Persona is so reliant on its story that I don't think it's particularly suitable for replays unfortunately just in general.

Be as it may PS1 is one of the best consoles ever made whereas N64 is among the very, especially for Nintendo.

I got this game "free" on Wii U through the Mario Kart 8 deal, I tried it for like half an hour, failed to see the appeal at all.

Ooh, that would be very much appreciated.

This review actually got me curious and I went and purchased it, seems really fun from the tiny bit I got to play it before. Thanks for the reviewer for bringing this into my radar.

For the sake of the fans of who actually like these remakes I do hope they give this one the dedication it deserves. Sure they've got the engine they can just recycle but to me it really does seem like they're pumping this out alarmingly fast.

@Ristar24
That's what I was thinking.

They've added the extra CaS parts from season 1 at this point right? I dropped SC6 pretty quick after realizing that the CaS was a downgrade from the one in SC5 in terms of how many parts there were but if it's gotten better since then it might be worth checking. Did they confirm if the Season 2 DLC would include any extra CaS parts aside from whatever minor stuff that comes with the characters themselves?