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Selling it without a disc drive or even vertical stand at premium price, when developers haven’t even begun to unlock standard PS5’s potential is a bit silly. But £550 I think would be fair for first time buyers without a PS5 yet.

I had an extended break from this game, so that’ll serve as a nice call back to its wonderful, weird arms.

A bit more razzle dazzle for £700 that doesn’t come with a disc drive, or, I’ve heard (and the internet never lies) a vertical stand? Sir, I started gaming on a Sega mega drive, a spit shine and polish wont sell me. Mostly because I don’t have the money, but still.

Based on the fact most PS5 games are coming out on PS4 too, at least you’d likely get many years of mileage on a pro console. Might even take you up to the release of Elder Scrolls 6, probably not up to the PS9’s Beyond Good & Evil 2 though

FFVIII was THE game that got me into gaming, led to an obsession with JRPG’s and really blew my little mind. It also absolutely completely ***** me over, when I ended up in a place you can’t escape under-levelled. Took a year and the use of a cheat disc (remember those?) to get further.

It’s still a surprisingly wonderful game, if a little more dated than, say, FF9, with its more ‘realistic’ graphics.

As long as you can punch Nazis I’m sold.

It doesn’t do anything wildly innovative, many of the systems in place are pretty basic and there’s sone dated ideas at play. BUT it’s also a lot of fun, been playing for about 10 hours and no technical issue, and it’s only getting more fun the more I play.

A solid 7/10 from me, I don’t regret the purchase at all.

The trailer had me at the 🦈 - this looks like it’ll be a lot of fun and fun-frustration

Hah great, I hope they lose an incredible amount of money, and give the sales a little boost for the hard work developers put into the game.

Scalpers are modern day con artists, absolute soggy plums

@PuppetMaster I don’t get your point, the AI looks perfect to me. What sort of Star Wars game would have stormtroopers able to hit their target?!

In all seriousness I’m really enjoying the game, they overhyped it and many things could be improved (and it’s not really ‘open world’). But the game is really enjoyable, lots to do, a great world to run around in. People forget 7/10 games are perfect for a low-pressure romp.

6/10 I think was a bit harsh, but the review raised fair points and you won’t always agree with a review.

@riceNpea I haven’t, and I haven’t seen the well-received tv adaptation either. Is it worth it?

@riceNpea had a similar thought, something about it makes be a bit uncomfortable. But as long as it’s not like “look at how bad a country owned by Japan would be”, and more an interesting bit of flavour and ironic/tongue in cheek, it could…still make me uncomfortable with that chest hair.

I’d love this to be the death of shedloads of live service games, but I know we’ll still continue to see them shoved on us. Great studios forced ti pivot into them, spending years chasing over, by time of release, long-gone highs.

But it won’t. Big-wigs won’t look at the Suicide Squad’s and Concorde’s, they’ll look at the Helldivers 2, and still go all in.

I’m really into rogue lites but for some reason bounced off this, that was late early access though so I really should give it another go - maybe it was just the wrong time

I’m playing it and very much enjoying it, but I’m not a huge Star Wars fan. It’s just good fun, yes a bit basic but just seems a more old school charm with a wonderfully realised world.

Looks like the kind of game where it’s exactly what you expect, which makes it easy to tell if you’ll enjoy it a lot or not. I will, so I’ll pick this up - I like a good, fun, no thrills romp here and there, to relax to.

You don’t get to be an Amazon Exec without being either:
A) a moron
B) a nasty little arrogant soulless gremlin
C) both

What do you get when you throw Final Fantasy, Nier Automata, Scavenger’s Reign and Shart into a blender? One of my most anticipated games of 2025, apparently!

I guess they realised no one would buy the Quidditch game, so decided to force it on us. More money to fund the witch going slowly insane from black mould to boot. Aside from that, an alright selection, Little Nightnares 2 will be fun!

Lots of fun without pushing the boat out is much appreciated these days - give me something I can jump in and out of after a hard days work and I’m sold. And maybe old. And, if I may be so bold, not short of the gold this side of the month

I’ll be waiting for the reviews, but I’m primed to pick this up if it reviews well, it releases just in time for my birthday this week

Looks like good, classic action adventure combat with nifty fantasy spells. As long as we get plenty of character building, dialogue choices and interesting worlds to explore im down.

My only concern is with all the combat shown it turns into a corridor action brawler, but hopefully they’re just showing off the exciting part. A 10 minute video of two characters talking isn’t going to win over the undecided.

@ShogunRok great review, thanks! Just wondering how long roughly the game is, or how long it took you to complete at least?

I’m only interested if it has a robust fishing minigame. Preferably from horseback. I’ll accept hot air balloon racing instead. They were in the teaser I think.

Yeah it looks fun! GoW meets Darksiders, hopefully the story and atmosphere can set it apart, but looks a perfectly fun palette cleanser at the moment.

This looks interesting, and potentially the power coukd lead to great narrative whiplash. Seems to tie in a little with the comics too, but I expect more incidentally.
I do hope we see some of Max’s old character in the full game, the characters are what make the games, and it would be a shame if it brushes over it all.

Definitely peaked my interest! I’d like to hear how the story and mechanics are before I dive in, could be great, or could be a great idea executed unexcitingly.

@ApostateMage absolutely no argument, he is! I was thinking more the slimy OCP suits, not The Old Man, maybe Chip.

He’s such a token RoboCop villain. If you think it’s too volatile, maybe don’t keep buying studios and closing them before they’ve released a game.

Consistently looking terrific, really excited for this one - this and seeing Max Caulfield return has made the incoming winter a little less utter bollocks

I didn’t realise it was a live action gatcha game, bit of a turn-off but if there’s plenty to do without spending more than a regular game it could be lovely!

I’ve just started a resist dark urge playthrough, and loving it - it’s an incredible mix of laugh out loud dark humour and really shocking twists.

I’ll give an evil dark urge run a go when this updates drops, I’m not sure how much girth he’ll have, mind.

That’s probably the best I will ever do in one of these quizzes and at least half were entirely random guesses. Why can’t my luck be more profitable?

Also why isn’t the correct answer for Question 10 not “JRPG Rhythm Stealth Wrestling Dog-Piss-Simulator”?

It looks fantastic, I’m playing through ‘RoboCop: Rogue City’ and looks like it’ll be a similar ride - fantastic fun with a pulpy story (maybe less of a sense of humour). I’ll be keeping an eye out for the review

Literally just remove Vanille or her absolutely, unrelentingly, hauntingly horrific voice from the game and I’m sold. The rest I grew to enjoy as a deviation, but my god…that voice…it still sends shivers down my spine and pain rings through my ears just thinking about it.

@kendomustdie great, thanks for the heads up - sounds like a roguelike almost, I might pick this up when winter rolls around!

I like horror games but I’m universally terrible at them, how’s the difficulty on this - are you likely to be dying and replaying long sections regularly if you’re not amazingly effective under terror?

I don’t have a problem with this IF my companions aren’t absolute I’m imbeciles, getting stuck in corners or on ledges. I feel like they’re putting more weight on the AI with this, but happy to see, it’s not something I’ve ever cared about myself.

I forgot about this! It did look promising, especially with Michel Ancel’s involvement, it’s like he’s cursed to see his games crushed for eternity, unless it’s Rayman-related. Definitely a pact with a genie.

@Highlar completely agree, it usually costs less than a standard night out and keeps me entertained for at least a couple weeks, so tend to be good value. I might give it a spin if it’s cheap

Still not sold on Max’s design - obviously she’s not a teenager so will look different, but I don’t know anyone who changed THAT much in like under 10 years.

However, it’ll be down to personality and story in the end, I’m looking forward to it, and interested to see if the comics will be tied in. I’m not paying £75 for some T-shirts though.

Great news! I loved the second game, the exploration, story, atmosphere. The third game I didn’t enjoy as much, they dropped the more exploration-leaning gameplay, hopefully that’ll make a return

Frog-like game, to me, has several potential meanings:

• like Frogger - platforming with navigating a shifting environment
• a predominantly green colour palette
• as frogs are able to breath through skin, in essence, and must therefore be handled with care, perhaps the world will be delicate and liable to big repercussions from small actions
• including both land and water based dynamics
• characters will have very long tongues, which will be used as a way to recover lost health
• I have no idea what that means and it both confounds and delights me they used it so casually and innocently in a press release despite no one having a clue wtf it means

I’ve poured countless hours into this, well, actually countable as it’s on Steam - over 200. Each run you can always find new and fun strategies, the difficulty settings help you ramp up and keep things interesting, and each faction is really unique and fun to play with. On top of that near every run you’re unlocking something new and permanent.

I’d even say I prefer it over Slay the Spire as one of the best roguelites I’ve played, and with someone with a ***** Laptop that can’t handle much, I’ve played a lot.

For sone reason giving me strong ‘The Lost Odyssey’ vibes, maybe we’ll see what that game promised in its opening fully developed.

Looks fine, but the guns look to lack heft and the sort of game where enemies soak up damage before they flop over dead. Nice graphics though!

Bioshock has a lot of scope for something smaller and more intimate, but I can’t really see it working as a film.

A series following the steady decline of a utopia would have been fantastic, a film will have a lot to pack in.

Looks like Dynasty Warriors, with improved graphics and reduced frame rate, I’m sold!

This looks like one of those dumb games you pick up for a laugh then end up an emotional mess over because the storylines hit so damn hard out of nowhere. Yes, Hatoful Boyfriend, I’m looking at you.

This will definitely be picked up and fed into the Q-anon bollocks - the Trump gang are already desperately scrambling for anything they can use against her (also ***** the wannabe orange dictator)