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@Northern_munkey Friends always seem to get in the way of having fun, eh! 🙄😉

@Mostik Oops! You're probably right, hehe... I just thought maybe I'd missed something and actually got it totally wrong all this time!

Will delete my former comment! 😉

@nessisonett I quite liked that one, too!

@Ralizah Is that right! As a long-time, old school Poké fan, I've always wondered what the best playstation equivalents might be... my friend spoke highly of Persona, and I've known of SMT, but never really looked into the series. Will take a peek, and maybe grab 1 or the other!

Well, your big main man is also his wife, and s/he caused the shattering because someone (you know!) assassinated their favourite god/child, in order to disrupt the... order (the golden order, that is!). A bunch of crones, led by some giant fingers, point the way to follow the order, but everyone is also trying to destabilise it? All roads point to the erdtree, but a lowly tarnished isn't welcome, so you burn it all down anyway, and only once you've solved/ smashed the riddle, and united the great runes can you choose which path to follow...

@Cloud39472 Digging to the... Crisis Core, you might say? 😉

@Cloud39472 I think no one will complain if they don't change too much 😉

@B0udoir I'd say the easiest way is to find his shackle. Use it mid fight and he gets bound to the floor for long enough that you can smash his health down pretty low. Once he's up, use it again, and he's almost dead, before he's even gone into phase 2.

@rjejr I think all the videos have been pretty apparent that you need to have beat this one boss before you can access it... it's all about Marika and Miquella, (who was just a sleeping egg in the base game.) and Mohg is the gatekeeper of the sleeping prince.

I think you've got the right guy though- contrary to everyone else's opinion... I'm sure he's the only Mog/Mohg that's close to a river of blood.

@Melee_Ace 🤣 Best comment!

@themightyant I wonder if it's a selection of 3 skills for each companion and the player? Hard to say! I suppose if you change your group up and mix abilities, there's some variation, but maybe risks becoming a matter of just choosing the same "best" abilities in every fight.

@Xaessya I believe that's the case, yeah

Looking more Dragon's Dogma meets Mass Effect than Dragon Age. 3 abilities doesn't seem very much to choose from at any one time, and unless there's a bit more depth, I can imagine it getting very samey after a while.

Remains to be seen if the all action approach to combat works out well, with the focus on also harnessing allied abilities. Sounds very Guardians of the Galaxy still. Not saying that was bad, but maybe ill fitting for what people expect of Dragon Age?

I can see them doing a Suicide Squad, and giving this more time to cook after the overwhelmingly negative response. But I also don't see them being able to change it much, other than by dropping all the bright, campy, aesthetic and making it grim-dark. Seems most people prefer their high fantasy like that, which is fair. We all know which was the better trilogy between LoTR and The Hobbit...

Isn't it more of a predator than a rambo reference? Just for the burly handshake at the end, anyway... all very 'broforce', in any case!

Damn. It's like, maybe they should have made a squad based, single player (or coop at a push) melee focused game.

@edgar14 Shouldn't have swallowed those tadpoles, sunshine 😉

@Gamer83 It's not that it's crap, per se, because yes; SoR is a great game. But it's crap, because everyone who likes/ wanted SoR probably already bought it, and presumably have no interest in the other 2 titles, making it effectively a dud month. I say that as someone who voted crap! Haha

Given the response to the "free to play" label, I wonder if numbers will show Sony that they've put their eggs in the wrong basket, by issuing the statement that games as a service will be their focus moving ahead...

Free upgrade?

Looks like Dynasty Warriors is doing a Wo Long.

@Titntin Ah, I see. As I say, I'm lucky to have a tech friend to fix it, but I guess we can't all be so lucky! 😉

Picked this up on pc (one of the few titles I ever did), as I was too eager to wait. While some campaigns can get a few limited/ repeated scenes, the overall game is exceptionally well done, with a great sense of atmosphere and it's great to see legacy characters come back to later episodes or campaigns. Very recommend for anyone who likes turn based/ tactical rpgs.

@Titntin I don't think you need to throw a controller away due to stick drift. I only recently got a case of it in 1 of my dualsense (presumably from it being carried in a bag and held in that position), but I gave it to a mate to fix, and now it's right as rain again. Supposedly, they're actually not that hard to open up and sort out. It voids your warranty, yes- but if you were gonna chuck them out anyway, you're better off trying to fix it and saving yourself 60 quid.

Of course SoR 4 is a solid game, but realistically, who hasn't played or bought it already, if they were curious? It's about 4 years old, and it's not even the complete edition with dlc. A shockingly bad show for essential, as far as I'm concerned.

@AdamNovice Freakazoid would be siiiiick!

Surprising absolutely no-one...

@Kingy More local support is definitely something this game needs. Options to play with a variety of human and bot configurations across all modes.

@mckracken I don't think there's any such thing as a "good" God? Don't all the stories, across the Greek and Viking pantheons basically illustrate how terrible/ capricious all the gods are?

Played them all, complete them all, platted just about every one in the original series. Personally, GOW 3 stands up as the best. I'd put the 2018 remake next, ahead of Ragnarok, which, while fun for the combat, had such terrible pacing issues. Also, not a fan of Kratos' character change. I understand they're stepping away from what made the original games (Greek drama, rife with family backstabbing) but Ragnarok just felt off and unnecessarily padded. If they could use the new combat system, but strip the game back a bit and keep the intensity up, they'd be onto a better formula.

@Ainu20 Totally off the point, but I only discovered that album from your pic late last year, and it's sensational! Kudos to you!

The cards were absolutely a problem. Deck building games had got a lot of hype at the time, and these guys decided to chase the trend, instead of doing something more natural and nuanced. The presentation was also totally lacking, in that it looked like a ps3 gane half the time, and the story and character interaction was so exceptionally cringe. A solid game, at its core, mired by all the trappings.

You might say, news is coming in the... Nier future...? 🫠

Remember seeing the trailer for this a while back and thinking it'd be an indie sleeper-hit. Hopefully, not such a sleeper, after all! Looks solid.

Didn't it turn out to be a disappointing load of sh*te anyway? No skin off my teeth/ fangs...

Might try hopping on to get a seasonal hard-core character to lv 50... ideally need more things to do and less of a grind to get my main from lv 70 up to 100 though!

All them casuals just couldn't cope with the masocore God that is Nioh 💪 😉

@Paper_Yoshi Definitely not for solo adventures! At least, 2 people would be needed to really enjoy it, but a whole crew makes for a much smoother experience, given it allows for use of bigger ships, where every person has a role to play. On your own, you'd just get lost or sunk very quickly, or it'd be a very slow process of having to keep switching your task (steering, navigating, sails, fixing up the boat, etc.) with very minimal progress.

I know a honey by the name of Millicent who would love a bad boy like this... 😉

A sublime amount of hype, controversy and coverage (or lack thereof...) for a game that is really not that sensational. It's like half the fanbase just bought into it for the promise of cleavage. Well, no such thing as 'bad press' they say.

I definitely noticed the input lag in the demo, and found it made perfect parries much more difficult. Not ideal in a fast paced action game that demands precise timing.

@Kanji-Tatsumi I feel like it's been touted as "the first essential ps5 game" and there's been some rambunctious hype about it for ages, so an 8 out of 10, by no means a bad score, feels a bit lacklustre for how much it's been pegged. For myself, I played the demo, and thought it was fine, but did nothing so new. Certainly not jumping to spend £70 or so on it.

@BIG3 🫨 Sacrilege! (But fair enough!)

I'd recommend just playing with character classes some? I know it's always going to be subjective, but I personally had a great deal of fun playing a barbarian, and just throwing enemies at each other (or into the void). But if you just don't like turn-based combat, I guess there's not much to be done!

@BIG3 Why not just play it on easy/ story mode? Fair enough, fights can stretch out for some time on harder settings, but you can always quick save and come back, if you're short of time. For me, the combat is as much a part as all the rest, and I enjoy the strategic aspects of making solid builds and experimenting. You wouldn't want someone else to chew your pudding, would you?

I could've killed that many single-handedly 💪😉

Maybe time for a new coop/ splitscreen Dark Allianace game, instead of that online multiplayer trash version that we got?

@EchoRange I still don't understand Tetra Master. Every time I thought I grasped it, some sudden curveball would flip 5 of my cards, haha.

Still waiting for some truly boundary pushing games that make use of what tech the ps5 actually has. Astrobot was great- but nothing has come close to using all the features on display! Haven't had a game use and fully intergrate the gyroscope since... the ps3? And half the games are still shipping with a very poor performance mode.

All this focus on graphics- I'm still waiting for something that really feels like a generational leap! Best thing about the ps5 is the shockingly quick load times, haha.

@DaniPooo No, the complexity suits me fine, really! I've played (and platted) remake, and am a big fan of the OG 7. Truth be told, all the whisper nonsense really put me off playing the sequel, but if it plays "better" than 16, I'll stick it out.
Think it was probably all the particle effects and enemies attacking from offscreen that just threw me off a bit, but I'm always prepared to learn and get better.