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Can't say I'm a big fan of the series in general but out of all the games in the series I've played I consider the Xillia games easily the best.

Haha, that was awesome!

It will not. Not for me anyway, as soon as they showed it's going to be an ARPG instead of actually being the same genre as the original the game was dead to me.

This is definitely worth dusting out the PS4 for, can't wait.

Oh. Well RIP Switch version then I guess.

It's really good to see Zasalamel, or rather, his weapon return. Will be used for plenty of custom characters.

Yeah, saw this on NL, I got excited because I didn't properly read the article and I thought it would be like those Shining Force games on the genesis, but I looked at some gameplay and it looks like trash to me.

Sure that's cool. Character creator when? I'm sorry but as great as this game looks it's hard for me to get hyped until that gets confirmed.

Any fighting game without offline multiplayer is pretty much doomed to fail in my eyes.

@NinjaWaddleDee
This. Sliding anime portraits only goes so far in piquing interest.

I really enjoyed both of the Sonic & Sega racers so I wouldn't be opposed to this one.

Hopefully this one is 60FPS though, Transformed being 30FPS was probably the weakest part about that game.

I thought Jiren together with Android 17 was already confirmed...

E: Probably I'm confusing it with Xenoverse 2 Dlc or something.

As a super casual player King of Fighters 14 is numero uno for me, I consider it one of the best fighting games ever made.

Well aside from Smash Bros, but that's more of a party game in my eyes.

E: And apparently KoF14 is getting some new DLC fighters still, I didn't see that coming.

So how about those custom characters? I can't fully get into it until those are confirmed to be back.

I love fighting games but for whatever reason Street Fighter just has never done it for me. I think it's a little bit too slow paced and I just don't like the characters much. Even with Street Fighter 4's last version which had a staggering amount of characters I struggled to pick more than 3-4 that I actually liked at all.

I'm going to wait for the reviews on this one, I loved Dissidia Duodecim on the PSP, but this one sadly sounds rather gimped compared to that one, I don't agree with the focus on the team based battle system in the slightest and by the sounds of it the game is also lacking in single player content.

Seriously? That's a real shame, I was actually looking forward to this game too. No way I'm supporting the game in that form.

Once again, why the hell are they making this into an action RPG is all I can ask.

OG Final Fantasy 7 is my 3rd favorite game ever made and I couldn't be less interested in this one.

I was hoping to get this on Switch and all (because I just prefer it as a console), but 60 FPS wins me over this time. Seriously that should be a prerequisite on all action games.

I couldn't care less about the character but his theme is pretty metal.

Crash Team Racing Remake would be super dope. I don't care for the platformers but CTR destroys Mario Kart in my opinion.

Yeah... I was hoping I would be able to get into this series. I partially knew what it was about, with the random level ups, skill gains and whatnot. But the open endness and almost complete lack of story and character killed it for me.

I did enjoy the music though, so it's not all bad.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on the Switch. Game certainly has problems with clunky menus for example and is a bit too "anime" for my tastes, but I'm enjoying it well enough. The soundtrack is one of the best I've heard in quite some while though, freaking Mor Ardain map theme, hits all the right notes for me.

This was a really weak year for the system as far as I'm concerned, I tried Nier which ended up being really mediocre in my opinion and Tekken 7 was just a huge disappointment overall after the stellar Tag 2. FF12 is weird, I like it but at the same time it just feels so long winded at times, not goty material in my eyes.

I would probably enjoy Yakuza Zero but I can't really say as I still need to finish Yakuza 5 first.

None of the other top games really caught my eye in the slightest.

Actually I see Sonic Mania in the list, I played that on the Switch but I'm sure it's the same on the PS4 as well, I'd say that would probably be my game of the year for the PS4, it was really good and the soundtrack was awesome, it's not that far behind in being my goty overall.

I love RPGs and all but unfortunately I kinda went and ruined the Persona series for myself by playing 3 and 4 back to back, I was so tired of that style of gameplay by the end of it that I don't think I could ever play one of these games again.

Dissidia is the big one as far as I'm concerned. Though admittedly I am a bit worried that the team play aspect has completely gimped the 1v1 battling.

Still need to complete 5 before I get to this one. My friend told me that this particular insallement was really good so I'll be looking forward to it when I finally get to it. Probably won't be any time soon though.

What happened to game number 9 though? Did I just miss the article about that?

I found the game a bit disappointing personally. I didn't agree with the introduction of super moves in the slightest, the story mode is one of the worst I've seen in modern fighting games (and it came at the cost of a decent arcade mode too), of course there are also the missing characters (LEI), but even more puzzling is the omission of team battle mode, which has been in since the beginning. Assuming that the FF15 kid will be the last of the season pack, I'm going to also call the season pack a waste of money also.

It's better than Tekken 6 but it's a straightup downgrade from Tekken Tag 2 in my opinion.

Dissidia, Soul Calibur and Dragon Quests are the big ones for the PS4 next year. I'm currently fanboying so hard over the Switch that I'm buying all of the "lesser" releases on that console just out of preference, but I'm sure the PS4 will have plenty of use again once those games come out. There are few games coming for the 3DS as well but I surmise it will be the last year of relevancy for that system.

Cool, now do Crash Team Racing, that's the Crash game I want to see.

I actually still haven't played this game myself but I've backseat gamed this with my friends and watched a few twitch streamers streaming it also. I dunno if I myself have the patience to play something like this, but I can definitely see the appeal.

@ShogunRok
Pretty much, I'm not really a Metal Gear fan so I don't really care but I can understand how the fans might feel pissed. Back when the Metroid Prime Federation Force fiasco was a thing, I was a part of the angry mob, so it's kind of interesting to see things from this perspective.

Cool I was hoping Beerus would get in, don't care much for the others.

Combat in the game is good and at least for the time the enviroments looked really nice (might've had something to with that this was my first PS3 game). The music from what I remember is also pretty cool, at least the battle themes were.

Story and characters though, hoo boy... This game has one of the most irritating main casts I can recall in recent memory, and the english dub is just godawful (and not in a good way), anyone who wishes to preserve their sanity, I implore you switch to the japanese dub asap. There is still a lot gringe to be had though, so don't worry. Other problem I have with the game are the dungeons, I recall them being WAY too long and not exactly exciting either.

All of this is from memory, because I'm not sticking this game on any console ever again.

I completely understand the choice from the story perspective, but I hope returning to roots doesn't mean omitting the custom characters.

I can't imagine a SC game without those any more, it's a bit worrying there hasn't been any word about that yet.

YES! This is now easily one of my most hyped games for 2017.

Hopefully they comfirm the character creator is still in, because honestly, that is probably my favorite part of the series.

I'd really like a new Soul Calibur, hopefully a less rushed one this time.

Yeah, I have pretty high tolerance for english dubs and generally prefer those, but this was a case where I was forced to swap to japanese, it was that irritating.

Still SO4 didn't do much for me, it was one of my first games on the PS3 so I recall being very impressed by its graphics at the time, the battle system was fun and Motoi Sakuraba's music was decent but the story and characters were total garbage and the dungeons just DRAGGEEEDDDD! I have no interest in ever returning to this game.

Just make a Final Fantasy that plays like a Final Fantasy again, I didn't fall in love with the series because of the pretty boy protagonists, I fell in love because of the classic turn based JRPG gameplay. It saddens me to see the series turn into action games.

@ShogunRok
Yes, a petty one too.

I am excited for Dissidia, but this guy will join Lightning in the group of fighters I refuse to even try.

I really couldn't care less about DMC but if a new Soul Calibur was really coming it would make me very, very happy.

This is probably the first game that has made me curious about VR.

Still, I'm not dropping 400+ for a single game.

Much indifference. I guess it could be worse.

Where is Lei though?

Love it, currently this is the one game I'm looking forward to on the PS4.

This is par for course for both ASW and Bamco so yeah...

Meh, if they're not going to revamp the gameplay then I'm not interested. The first games' combat system lacked any sort of meaningful depth, and the Boss "AI" had a complete lack of situation awareness causing it to do dumb stuff like buffing itself when it said buff was already in effect, basically the bosses were nothing but big HP dumps for you to wail on. And the Digimon itself lacked presence, it didn't feel like I was playing a Digimon game, but more a mediocre JRPG with Digimon tacked on it.

Huh, I always understood this was like a timed exclusive for the Xbox? Is that not the case after all?

I liked the Stick of Truth, but the superhero themed south park episodes never did anything for me, so I really don't care for this game either.

I played one of these games on the DS, I thought it was very boring and lacking in any real depth. The only enjoyment I got was from the completely bonkers story, where in true anime fashion it somehow turned into "we're going to save the world by playing football!" towards the end.

Admittedly the game concept is interesting though.