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@LavenderShroud I thought I was going mad, I’m glad I didn’t have a very convincing fever dream

@code45709 mate you can become supreme overlord of a wealthy nation doing that, go get that $$$ bro

@Max_the_German you answered your own question

What I meant is we’re only just moving away from games being built for both PS4 and PS5, it feels like there’s still room for the PS5 to be pushed and explored and built on.

I’m not saying there’s been no impressive games, just that we’ve not seen the best it can do yet

@JB_Whiting haha I didn’t, it was 200! 100 is a tragedy, 200 is a really great 5* police chase in the making.

Is the PS5 showing its age? Feels like it’s still not gotten started, like a lot of games really haven’t pushed the boundaries. It also feels like every developer has en masse decided to ditch haptic feedback/triggers.

But as long as we get a stable frame rate as we blow up 200 cars and orphan a hundred children, I’ll be satisfied

Holy crap they’ve really outdone themselves this month - I can’t think of 3 more underwhelming games.

I’ve been hurt too many times by poor technical performances or over-hyped games, but when this releases if it gets a 7 or higher I’m there as soon as possible. It looks really special, and they seem a passionate studio, fingers crossed for them!

You can never have too many x-ray vision bollock Nazi kill cams, if anything the world needs more of them.

I’ve not played one of these games since 3 (maybe 2?), but seems like I missed out on some of the best entries, I’ll have to dig back in.

@ChromaticDracula oh it’s such a superb game, if it does you’re in for a treat!

It’s very short, with little replay value outside of enjoying the story/charm again, but it has those in the buckets full

This looks really superb. But I have a concerns about the performance, even in that trailer things looked a little choppy - I wonder if the frame rate might be a bit inconsistent.

But the art style, the weirdness, the graphics, the gameplay, the characters all seem very, very promising. I won’t preorder, but I will keep money back for when reviews and a patch or two drop

@__Seraph I think that’s exactly it, had the same thing with God of War: Ragnarok. Both due a revisit this year!

Fittingly, they look just like FF town NPC’s, you know, immediately forgettable.

I loved the first one, but bounced off the second for sone reason - it didn’t grab me in the same way. I’ll go back to it though, and check this out eventually. You need to support child sacrifice, it’s a dying art.

I imagine part 1 will end on a big cliffhanger, happy for it to fall into two parts - still very excited to see what it has in store!

I never mind developers taking longer to provide a more robust product these days, not after the shambles some games have been rushed out in

@Johnnycide I apologise in that case, sorry I completely misunderstood. I’ve gotten too used to people talking similarly to hide negative views on media/entertainment for those views.

But I completely agree with you in that case - veilguard I thought was very lazy writing, uninspired and dull. And like you, this game looked similarly a bit unappealing story and character wise from what was shown.

There’s a way to do smug and arrogant protagonists, Nathan Drake for example (or BG3, a fair few of the party) where they mature and it’s their character flaw they have to overcome. But you’re right, done poorly it’s just unpleasant.

@RoomWithaMoose they’re all saying the game failed because it had a woman protagonist, and someone not-white at that, they’re just all too insecure and pathetic to say it.

It failed because it had poor marketing, and didn’t look inspiring or interesting, it looked too much like Forspoken. People don’t have much disposable income now, so a fun-ish but bland game just doesn’t cut it like it used to.

It could probably just be John Wick 2 or Crank with more shooting than hand to hand - what was the plot to them? Who knows. Were they great action films? Absolutely. They need to hire Danny DeVito as the lead, though.

That sounds like a satirical joke they’d include in a fake in-game talk show or advert. It is becoming more expensive to create games, but I don’t feel it’s $100 a game expensive. Wonder if the top dogs have reduced their cut in the last few years, before cutting staff

I love these games, but I’m not sure I can quite fork out for it this month, plus my backlog is screaming at me. I’ll look forward to it in the future though

Veilguard was immaculately bland. It was perfectly playable, but everything was so uninspired. The jokes were flat. The characters were bland. The story was bland. The combat was fun enough.

I had no real complaints about the 20-30 hours I sunk into it before selling, but I never finished it and haven’t looked back. I’ve since sunk 115 hours into a second playthrough of Inquisition and enjoying it a lot more than first time round.

20th Century: The Robots will take over the world, they’ll take over nuclear sites, rise up in self awareness and kill us all
21st Century AI: Can’t count r’s in strawberry. Robs artists and creatives of their livelihoods. Plays games for us.

This is not as exciting as we were led to believe.

@ShogunRok great review, thank you, exciting to see it back!

I was just wondering if you can customise your character at all, or are you stuck with generic Musou Man?

Depending on practicalities, this is great and should be standard across developers/publishers. The sort of harassment and/or bullying that can be levelled at individuals can destroy their lives, for no reason other than doing their job.

How’s the haptic feedback? Are the brakes intelligent? I want to feel like I’m rocketing to the moon as I gently break for the zebra crossing

@Illyrian me trying to shorten it too much - Fascistic Militarism. the two concepts of fascism and militarism that often go hand in hand. The idea of expansion through military means, for a shared ideal that your nation is the superior while denoting your areas of ambition as inferior and/or in need of rescue, with the aim to bring them under the same ideals.

@Illyrian I dunno, looking online it seems like an open and direct parody of militaristic fascism. That’s the impression I got too from what ive seen. What makes you say it’s not?

Tone is lost in text, but just to clarify I’m not being smug, I’m genuinely interested in the debate.

@Illyrian I’ve not played the games so I could be wrong - but aren’t people being made to fight The Other in the name of ‘democracy’, as they pose the only threat and obstacle to a better life, fuelled by propaganda that hides the truth from the masses?

I’m genuinely asking as my only knowledge is from what I’ve read online, so I could have completely the wrong impression.

Really not sure how this will work, a big part of the game is the vast, empty expanses, the guilt it makes you feel as you kill the colossi even though you feel compelled to progress.
I don’t think a film can capture that - the Last Guardian might work better

@nessisonett my thoughts exactly. It is absolutely bonkers. It’s purposefully cheesy in its classic set up.

I think it got a bit unfairly battered by reviews, and it’s hard to take a beloved character and fill the game with other new characters. I haven’t finished it, maybe it tapers off, but I loved what I played so far - they captured Max’s personality well, and her dealing with grief.

I think the only real criticism I have is the limited environments, which lacked the charm of other games’ locations. A generic university with a generic LGBTQ+ bar. Some larger locations with more to explore, or more characters to get to know may have given it a bit more life.

Are ‘rowdy’ people mad about it being a woman, or wasn’t there something about pubic hair in the sequel that enraged the vocal minority? It just feels like there’s some silly insecure man things bubbling underneath all this

Always shut down, I imagine it saves energy. The only time I use rest mode is if I’m downloading a large update or new game overnight on my glacial internet connection.

Imagine if it’s a serious story, hailing fascism as the only way forward for mankind and something to be honoured. Bring the whole thing full circle with the starship trooper book to film journey

An excellent idea by Localthunk - making use of the Indy fame! Indy games have really taken off the last few years, in terms of reaching the mainstream.

I’m sorry I can’t read 70+ comments - but are there some babies in the comments crying because a studio is making a game including women with muscles?

Absolute turnips going on the attack on a brilliant studio for such a pathetic reason.

Never mind that, what can you Torgal in? He DESERVES a tutu

Still a completely absurd game in concept, a game that doesn’t really get going story-wise until you complete the 40-ish hour prologue twice and opens with an hour long boss rush without a save point.
But that third playthrough puts everything into focus, and then pummels you relentlessly with spellbinding drama, tragedy and existential ideas.
Plus you get to run around as a maid and a bishi twink in a great fun action RPG in between, and occasionally a mech suit

Like Kubrick and the lot, it may get great results but I wonder how many people’s mental well-being were sacrificed to the alter of perfection. But the results are undeniable!

@Logonogo not a fan of the game then, I take it?

No love for ‘Life is Strange: Double Exposure’? It’s broader themes of trauma and recovery are well told, with a wonderful return to an excellent character in Max. Not as good as the original, but little is story-wise

I really enjoyed plowing about 40 hours into Unicorn Overlord, but then suddenly just got really bored with it. Yes, you get different units, but the stories rubbish, the characters are dull as dishwater and it’s basically the same thing over and over. Still, it itched an itch at the time!

How’s the action/combat? It looked incredibly rough and dull in the early access, is if more exciting then running in circles shooting glowy balls at enemies that soak it up until they die?

The organic bond you build with your bunch of weird pawns, ambling around before pliéing through complete carnage really makes this game. I completely understand why it’s not for everyone, but I fell in love with it. Then I got distracted and now it’s been 5 months. I’ll have to dip back in in the new year

I wonder if you’ll hear his mate screaming from within the walled up tunnel as you rattle past.

DD2 is wonderful, really feels like a proper adventure fantasy game. The story is rubbish, and it’s quirky as anything in pretty much all respects, but the combat and sense of adventure getting from point A to Point B is superb. The Pawn system is excellent too.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 all the way. The gloriously bombastic random nature of wondering around is unparalleled. I stumbled into a three-way battle after bringing down a gryphon I’d ended up clinging to as it took flight, somehow we both survived but ended up fighting the dragon we’d almost collided with before bandits for some reason joined the fray. How many games have that kind of unscripted carnage?

I love that LiS: Double Exposure made it, it’s a wonderful game I’m eeking out, enjoying each chapter between breaks. I forgot entirely about Zau, those responses sound great so I’m definitely intrigued now!

I’d very much enjoy jumping back in, the guild quest lines were all fantastic, but I really hope they’d fix a few things:

• make the Oblivion gates less annoying, either more fun to close or less persistent (I know it’s the main threat, but they were annoying af)

That’s it. The rest I’m happy with just a spruce up. Hopefully any remake still lets you climb up paintbrushes

Very excited to see what this studio puts out, and Okami 2 is an absolute dream of an announcement. The original game is incredibly special and holds a big space in my heart. I still have a page cut out of the original when it was first announced in PlayStation magazine.

Not sure about the VA work, sounds a bit flat. But anything that lets you smack a bear in the face with a pulse rifle, while controlling time, in space, is going to be a novel experience.