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I remember seeing this, never played the game but Holy Capitalism, Batman.

Maybe don’t include terrible vanity projects from the man that tanked Twitter in a day, was sued for calling a man a pedophile whilst throwing a hissy fit, and is generally a terrible Union-busting employer.

I don’t envy any developer facing the combined forces of a Star Wars gamer fanbase - you’re always going to have to put up with a lot of harsh criticism. But if I can make my own character and pew-pew some aliens and speed around in a vroomy vehicle I’ll be happy enough.

I had the urge to return to this recently. Somehow my dog is the sole party member that’s ended up in jail after a critical fail on a roll. Not many games will just throw the unexpected at you on every playthrough.

I enjoyed the demo but not enough to dive into it. I think I’ll wait for the inevitable PS+ drop, or a discount. I wanted to like it more than I did, but I’m
Sure I’ll be in the mood sometime for it

@KillerBoy from what I’ve seen, the story looked pretty good - it was the dated gameplay that sunk it

I’m just excited I can put the console into rest mode without it freaking so hard you need to unplug it from the wall and TV to fix. That was a fun launch quirk that lasted a year or two.

I’ll reserve judgement until we see how it plays out, but hopefully there will be some depth and moral ambiguity in characters, story and choice still.

@LikelySatan I mean, that’s a fair summary of Star Wars, but they’re saying it’s a bad thing to fight space Nazis? People are weird.

@MFTWrecks “politics” is always a funny thing to see in gamer comments - it always translates to either:

• a black person is in the game
• a character is queer
• there is a story where the big bad is someone who persecutes others abd what’s wrong with that?

I’ve put in like 30 hours and spent £0.00 on it, so, like, I’m happy. I’m sure I’ll get bored at some point, but if it doesn’t cost me a penny nothing to complain about, and every day if you put in an hour or so you’ll get a few free pulls on the gatcha

@Mikey856 important thing to note, not sure if others have said, is that was 50 million across multiple consoles, PC AND, most importantly, mobile.

The game is a lot of fun by itself, lots of mini games and the combat is snappy and fun, if button-mashy. But if you don’t like anime it’ll probably lose a lot of its appeal, in art style and cutscenes.

But its also free, so a lot of people will be downloading it just to try it out.

I’m downloading it ready for tomorrow - my first free to play gatcha, I’ll see if my internet can handle it, but it looks fun and stylish

I’ve never dug into the Trails series, despite being an avid JRPG fan. I felt I’d missed the boat and would have too many games to play before the latest - but looks like I can finally hop in and see what the fuss is all about!

I’m tempted to start my first gatcha addictio-…game. BUT my internet is atrocious. I’m guessing this is an ‘always online’ game, with no offline option?

Important question: can you finally play a furry, or do we have to settle for horned folk?

Very excited to replay this game, it’s been many years, I suppose around 21!

In the kindest possible way, if an alien ever needs a crash course in Japan, that 1:58 minutes will do it.

I loved it, FF8 was the first game that really sucked me in and I’ve been a big fan of the series ever since. But 16 was the first game since 10 I truly enjoyed - great characters, story and spectacle. Though Jill is an incredibly dull character who had so much potential early on, wasted opportunity to give her a real arc.

@dskatter I’ve not heard of them before, are they dodgy?

A head of security and AI Governance called ‘Hedman’ sounds like an AI already - I reckon they’re being run by AI already. It would explain their decision making over the years.

No. NO. YOU WERE DEAD. You should have STAYED dead! Don’t you dare come back. Do t you dare!

I’m pretty sure Bubsy 3D killed a part of me as a child, over 25 years later and it still fills me with a white hot rage, sadness, coldness. I can’t believe someone would inflict that on a whole new generation.

In no way a criticism, but excited to see the return of the Sphere Grid! Looks like it’s taking a little from various excellent RPG’s.

The other games were a bit of a pastiche too, and if they nail the dialogue and characters should be every bit as good as the others (if not the best yet)

Bet it’ll be a live-service loot shooter - on the plus side, hopefully they’re taking the approach of not announcing anything until we’re about a year or less out from release, which I’m all for!

That’s disappointing, it was looking interesting. It also looked highly ambitious, even by Paradox’s publish standards, so it’s not a stretch to imagine it taking longer than expected.

Just a shame it wasn’t possible to give it longer, it’s a guaranteed high seller with the talent behind it, and I would have thought Paradox would have the money selling their 2 million full price DLC’s for their various games.

Can you play this without playing the first? Doesn’t seem the first was too story heavy.

So pay extra to hit all the bugs that will be ironed out for the main launch?

Having said that, it will be hard to resist

There’s always going to be exceptional hype and expectations around Star Wars, no matter it’s medium, and they’ve done a good job of hyping this up even more than it’s name alone.

I doubt it’ll meet those expectations, but if it can provide a fun 7/10 experience that’s all that matters to me, but I imagine it will be disappointing on launch to many (though I’d be happy to be wrong!)

At this rate they may as well scrap the sequel (if there’s anything to scrap), option a TV series or film, generate some buzz, then just remake the first. All five of us fans would be ecstatic with that.

@dcaeuildzt we don’t have freedom of movement anymore, we can’t leave ;(

Also it’s a joke dude, the UK has had economic difficulties and one little joke tagline about the government on the website is easily skipped.

This looks very interesting, I love the look and speed of the turn-based fights! It’ll be interesting to see if it’s quite linear or opens up.

The first game and last had pretty formulaic stories that were super cheesy, but ultimately the characters had depth in an interesting world.

I’m willing to see how this plays out, I can forgive a cheesy, weird CGI trailer for now. As long as we get an indication of their being proper meat on the bones

Absolutely very very excited for this, WOW, Max is back! I can’t remember being so excited for a game announcement in quite some time. Interested to see if the comics are made cannon and factored in or not.

@BrettAwesome as always, thank you for the irony my dude, looks like there’s only one person ‘flying off the handles over a bit of skin’ and it isn’t ’a positivist’

You’re not telling us a free-to-play game was trying to rip-off its players and back-peddled when it was caught out, the shock, the horror!

@WolfyTn that just sounds like you want to justify it. Sorry dude, but there is none to be found.

I remember the game as a kid, it was definitely janky, and a bit scary for early-teens me, but it also did things I’ve not seen in any game since. The risk of one of your men turning was always tense, and when they did it was always scary.

Hopefully it’ll be a remake though, even at the time it was janky.

Looks like a fun game and really nice art style, though I’m not sold on a trailer that’s about 2 minutes of someone walking slowly in one direction, with a few seconds of not walking slowly at points.

Wildermyth is a fantastic strategy game, I’ve sunk a co side table chunk of my life into the PC version. You end up with a real world full of weird and wonderful characters, and the stories can be surprisingly thoughtful. I’m sure it’ll do great on console.

In some ways it doesn’t seem the comment was a big critique, but it’s a huge name back-handing a studio that’s not huge, the sort of comment that can affect sales in a turbulent world for gaming.

But does also seem a bit of an overreaction from avalanche, getting personal, when they could have polite cleared it up - sounds like an old hurt prodded one too many times.

Before we saw Cavill in action I was skeptical, it’s a bit weird seeing Liam in there now but folks should give the man a chance - it’s not like he forced Cavill out himself.

@Mythologue I think you’re right, and visually things can only advance so far.

But it’s certainly capable of some heavy processing, a few games have tried pushing the limits, like the latest Ratchet & Clank. Instead of ever larger open worlds, I imagine there’s a chance for adding incredible detail and intensive processing to present something interesting.

Also, side note, White Pony is amazing

I can’t wait until we start to see what the PS5 is really capable of, it still feels like it’s in its infancy 4-odd years on.

Give us a real mind-blowing spectacle that would be impossible on past gens, and tell developers the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback exist, they keep forgetting!

Sounds like it pretty much nailed what it was going for. It’s looked strange and fascinating from the start, so I’ll definitely check it out in the future

The first was a very weird, oddly engrossing old school RPG that was clunky in more ways than I can describe. This looks like very much more of the same, and I’ve no doubt it’ll find its cult appeal again. Hopefully they tone down the frankly unhinged accent they gave the elves in the first one though.

Considering what they removed, they’ve essentially raided the bargain bin for these. RDR2 is of course brilliant, but it’s old and most folk will already own it.

@The_Wailing_Doom Pah! It’ll never catch on.

This would be great! The first one had an incredible atmosphere, and some of the most intense boss fights I’ve seen.

@shonenjump86 same, like a new game featuring rap battles with characters voiced by Kendrick and Drake, if only!

I keep reading this headline and it keeps making me feel feelings I can’t put into words fully, a sort of sad disgust. Please bury every mention of funko-pop, give it an opt-in filter and someone find whoever decides to make this game and blacklist them from ever coming near video games again