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A game takes as long as it needs, unless it’s Elder Scrolls VI. But if they want to push it back to deliver a better product, rather than pull a Cyberpunk 2077, I’m all for it. Too many games to play this year as is.

It captures every bit of the wonder I felt when first playing it, I must have put hundreds and hundreds of hours into the original.

This remake/remaster has been done with a surprising amount of love. It captures a real sense of exploration that Skyrim somehow lost, and the guilds feel like real institutions with interesting storylines.

I can understand the 7/10, it’s clunky and still gloriously broken, but it’s also a game responsible for far too many late nights before work.

I was always very much a proponent of turn-based in FF, but then 16 turned out to be the best FF since 10. I think just give us good characters with good voice work, a good story and a bit of spectacle and adventure, and FF fans will be happy.

12, 13, 15 all dropped the ball on one of the above. The gameplay has largely been the least important part of the games.

This is a nice gesture, but it’s a bit like pushing someone over then offering to bandage their cuts.

Releasing a hugely popular RPG that will take a significant chunk of time to complete just before a brand new IP that’s fought hard for recognition is a bit of a dick move.

@ryan_nil you’ll absolutely not find the challenge in a game like Oblivion. Combat is fairly simple, largely easy. What the game does well is a huge world to explore, lots of dungeons to delve into.

It’s more a game to chill to, than to test your reflexes. But if you let it, you’ll lose yourself for hours, days, months to it.

If you want a halfway point between a Soulslike and Elder Scrolls, you might like Dragon’s Dogma 2 though. Tough, chaotic fights and a bit of old school design in save points and such.

That’s confirmed the Day 1, thank you!

@Northern_munkey I think it’s a bit unfair to criticise 3 reviews without naming the names, and to say it’s a ‘slight’ upgrade in visuals from the original is very much a stretch. Have you seen the original? Argonian’s heads are just a blob vaguely molded into an anvil shape.

I do agree sometimes it feels like we don’t get the full picture, there was little mention of the severe drop in quality in BG3 Act 3 at launch, but I’m also sure the staff here do put in as much time as they possibly can into games.

But it’s a fine line between getting an in-depth review, and getting a review out in time, a lot of people will complain if a review isn’t out around launch. So I think you are being rather harsh.

There’s something suitably intriguing about delving into a remake we know little about, fresh discoveries and horrors await!

Co worrying the original thrived off its glitches, as long as this generally functions it will at least live up to the original

Is that not on the UK store yet? Feel like I’m going mad but can’t see it - I don’t really have the money so may be good and patient until next payday…may be…

@GirlVersusGame I stand happily corrected, thank you!

I think folks are getting ahead of themselves, even IF this does drop soon, it’s Bethesda owned by Xbox - there’s no guarantee PS5 will be included. But fingers crossed on both accounts!

The way the game reacts and has an answer to every little completely wild idea you have is truly stunning. Playing other RPG’s, I feel I constantly compare that aspect. It can be challenging, fun, creative. It’s a real masterpiece.

It does however have one unfortunate flaw, the main story is bollocks. “Crew of weirdos must beat evil thing. Why is evil thing there? To be evil. Can you stop it? Oh, looks like you can, well done.”

That’s what they can improve next time. But with a lot of classic fantasies, it’s the journey and characters that count.

Wasn’t it “Definitely” going to drop last week? The whole thing still seems very odd. Still, can’t wait for it to finally drop as a Switch 2 exclusive

The graphics overhaul is huge, it’ll make a wheel difference

Good month!

I wonder if I can play Bloom & Rage without it completely eliminating all trace of my save if I dare delete a recorded clip in the in-game function to do so.

If I can and Tape 2 doesn’t have the issue, excited for that!

The Skyrim levelling was a bit of a step down, they over simplified a lot of aspects that Oblivion had, itself a simplified step down from Morrowind. On the other hand, there’s been huge updates to the actual gameplay itself.

I’d love to see better combat/gameplay, but with the more in-depth RPG elements of Oblivion and Morrowind.

Also if you can’t climb paintbrushes don’t even bother remaking it.

This was a lot of fun, the 30 hours I sunk in without paying a dime - it was generous and fun. But my god, did the addiction get unhealthy quickly. You’re encouraged to log in daily, I’d feel bad if I missed my run, or if I played another game.

I like to play games, not be played by them, so got out of dodge. Now I just stay up until 3am playing another game, but I’m not encouraged to spend money, and I can go a few days without gaming happily if I’m up to other shenanigans.

“It’s coming out nooooow….nnnooow…now….N-o-w….now, it’s gotta be now….im telling you, it’s without a doubt now…it’s probably just held up in traffic, we’ll get back to you.”

I found myself pretty captivated by the sheer unhinged insanity of the demo.
I couldn’t wait to see what the next mascot was, and they all had a wonderful ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ group of absolute weirdos that band and grow together vibe.
Looking forward to being one of those 12 people that won’t shut up about it.

I’m sort of expecting it’s just a remaster where they’ve upped the frame rate to 60fps and given it a bit of polish. Things just got wildly out of hand with someone being overheard out of context in a pub

I think it’s common for a lot of gamers to wait a couple months for things to be patched, and if the price goes down there’s no hurry. It’s important we keep pushing for physical releases, when it goes all digital we’ll see fewer price drops I imagine.

But £80 is too much for a lot of people, £70 is a lot, it has been great for the popularity of indies though!

Dont forget ‘Promise Mascot Agency’ out on 10th April, possibly the most exciting game to come out this year!

Clair Obscure looks alright too, I suppose.

The furrybait is real with this one

This is sounding better and better, a game as long as it needs to be. I only played the first three, but I remember them being well crafted, dark, exciting and atmospheric, so sounds like we’ll get similar!

A lot of these sound interesting, but I haven’t heard about them before - I like the snippets from the store descriptions, helps get an idea to look into more. I’ll keep an eye on reviews for these.

Robocop is an underrated blast, but I already own it. I might check out the Digimon game sometime though

Gritty fantasy Zelda sounds like the sort of complete car-crash I’m 100% down for. But it could surprise us.

@Llamageddon I agree with you here.

Promise Mascot Agency is absolutely bananas, but it’s got interesting, unique gameplay and a real unique feel to it from the demo.

This just looks like a really dull, basic game hoping the premise of panties will turn a quick buck.

I’m not sure I agree with the broad point of ‘gamers being less tolerant of punishing gameplay’, Souls-like games are incredibly popular.

But personally I appreciate a game that’s more fair, just because as you get older your time for gaming is reduced, and I want to get further than between 2 checkpoints in a free evening

Robocop is really under appreciated - it’s a fantastic game that captures the films perfectly. Janky I’m a lot of ways, but a lot of fun and surprisingly decent story. Lots of explosions too.

This sounds fun and interesting, my only concern would be making it clear what point triggers a story beat, so you don’t accidentally miss out on a chance to explore somewhere fully before being whisked away. But that’s only if it ever cuts you off from backtracking.

Surely if they’re making a change it should be the opposite, the one going for the throw but blocked should take minimal damage? That would add a fun element of risk

I’ll never understand how a nation where literally everything is, or at least can, kill you is so heavy handed in its censorship. But as someone else said, great advertising for a horror game!

Here’s hoping for some solid werewolf content - it’s ridiculous how little werewolf rep we have on console. I’m also looking forward to where they’ve chosen to include the singular use of F**k

Square have been particularly ridiculous about this game, the way to drive up sales is not constantly whine how it didn’t sell as many as you, as a business, wished it would make based on some abstract, obscene number plucked from the air.

It’s a fantastic game, the best single player FF since 10 easily, they should be proud of what was achieved.

Very intrigued, it’s the only game I’ve been really excited for since last year. I’m still waiting for reviews though, but if it’s a 7 or higher I’ll pick it up ASAP

Calling it now, we’ll get a live service game set in a future Baldur’s Gate with steampunk aesthetics with a roster of handsome younger men with easy smiles and abb-jiggle physics in their 40s after a life of ket-filled mornings.

This could be be superb, incredibly hammy and terrible or incredibly hammy and wonderful - I’m intrigued, they just need to get Kratos right and the CGI

This should be standard really. It’s expensive, and any case they bring to court will be lengthy and difficult (you have to prove both the threat, continued harassment, and psychological impact on the victim/s). But there have been multiple cases of death threats, extreme racism and sexual assault threats against anyone involved in games, which can affect real people on the other end.

They’re not planning to whisk people away in the night to unknown facilities, leaving their late-term pregnant wife and lawyer to spend two weeks hunting their location down, for speaking out a year ago, this isn’t suppressing free speech or 2025 US we’re talking about.

What do you gain from bullying a studio with a failed game? Nothing, except looking like unpleasant bullies.

Stupid move, especially when you see the positive public reaction to studios supporting others.

I blame one person for horrific nightmare content like this, and it’s Mr. Junji Ito.

I’m currently playing Atelier Sophie 2, it’s a lot of fun but it’s a bit tough to handle the aggressive anime-ness of it all.

Every woman in the game has the face of a child and skimpy almost school or nurse outfits with a chest that could support medium towns atop them.

This game looks similar with its blue fox girl, but I’m sure it’ll still be fun if you can look past it.

The atmosphere is THICC in that trailer. Character models/graphics look a touch ropey, but the art direction and feel looks fantastic.

I can’t wait to play this in bursts of 45 minutes before I get too scared each night after it releases.

Really odd choice if this is true - there’ll be demand for it, sure, but something about this whole things seems off.

Either’s it’s nonsense, it’s a remaster that got out of hand, or there’s not enough confidence in it to start that hype train. Without hype might it fall a bit flat?

@EfYI that’s similar to how I felt, so it’s great to hear it did click for you later on. It’s ‘free’ now, so I’ll dip back in and rush a bit instead of exploring every nook and cranny for hours.

@EfYI can I ask when Veilguard really picked up for you?

I’m a leftie snowflake etc. kinda dude, so I wasn’t put off by the ‘politics’ if people want to call diversity that. But found the characters and story just bland and predictable after 20-ish hours.

I hadn’t got all the characters yet, I haven’t met Taash, Emmrich not sure about Davrin. I’ll go back to it at some point, but not in a rush atm

Not the wholesome triumph over existential evil I was expecting to read today.

If the Oblivion remake releases so soon without any advance notice I’ll eat my own tutu.

Looks interesting! If it’s cheap I’ll be interested, looks like it won’t be long but possibly a memorable one.

I’m glad this is reviewing well, it really looked interesting in its promotion. I’ll check out the price and see if I can pick this up before next payday, I need something relaxing and thoughtful.