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While I'd love to see this happen, there are a few things that do stick out.
Has anyone else played it lately? If you've played any other souls game it's immediately apparent that they were finding their feet with this one.
It's good, don't get me wrong, but the systems and combat aren't a patch on DS1 onwards. The world tendencies in particular are obtuse to the point of being unnoticeable, and some of the areas are a bit of a slog.
While it could be cleaned up graphically and have some gameplay elements easily changed, would that not run the risk of alienating the initial fans of the game completely? Change too much and it'll feel too different. Too little and it'll feel too dated.
If bluepoint are working on this- and I really hope they are- then they face a really difficult task here. Still, if anyone can pull it off it's them!

@ApostateMage needs to be cooked properly. Done right it's damn good. I use it in curries, sandwiches, stir fry... Long as you remove any excess water it'll absorb any flavour you throw at it, and go nice and crispy if you fry it.

@Nickolaidas yeah man. I meant I was hungry. Made a crispy chili tofu, sriracha, and violife cheese toasted sandwich. It was the damn nuts!

Dammit now I want tofu.

@JJ2 yeah my reply to you was a bit unpleasant there. Apologies.

What I mean is that I work with a lot of people who are really big on gaming, and most of my friends are as well. Nobody is talking about this game. To me that says that there's not much interest.

@Cordeceps as I said, I would like this to be another hit for Sony. However, I can't see it selling as well as they'd hope due to there being zero interest from anyone I've met. It'll be more of an order 1886 than a God of War, sales wise. Not Game Wise, but sales wise.

Good to hear, but I still don't think this is going to sell as well as Sony hoped. Not because it doesn't look well made, just that aside from on this site I haven't met one person who's bothered about it.
It's like I instantly forget it exists the moment I leave the page. It's just so cliche and has nothing to make it stand out.

It's played too straight to be campy, and too cheesy to have that "cool" factor.

I mean, it's even got Sam "Pouty Mac Charmless" Witwer as Town Bike or whatever his name is. It's the very definition of bland.

I mean I'd love to be proven wrong, and if it turns out to be the next Last of Us then great! However, it just seems like SoA meets Walking Dead. Two franchises which need to just be put out of their misery completely and-even as of about five years ago- are more stale than the shambling wazzocks trying to eat your brains.

They just got announced.

They suck.

I don't want this to go free to play. I want this to fail so spectacularly that it makes Bethesda think twice about releasing garbage like this ever again.

I enjoyed FC5, but I'm not sold on this. Looks like DLC and has a sort of "design by committee" feel to it. Are the twins the protagonists? If so that's a huge issue. I like my player characters quiet in these kind of games.

I'm in. This looks like the game Fallout 4 should have been.

@Vegetto yeah you can. I've been playing crimsonland and got a bunch of them.

This is good, I've got a weeks trial on at the moment and there's some good stuff on it

Nah I don't think anyone gives a toss tbh.

MOAR YAKUZA.

Since the site forced me to think of something else, I was coming home from work yesterday and there was this lovely old German Shepherd on the train with his owner. He was obviously very excited to be around so many people, but my fellow commuters seemed annoyed at his exuberance.
He could barely balance himself due to his tail wagging so much and the movement of the train, but the look of sheer joy on his little face was incredibly heartwarming, and after a long day at work really lifted my spirits.
He was looking at me so I gave him a pat on the head and said I was pleased to meet him, and his owner grinned, acknowledging that I was seemingly the only person who looked pleased to have this bundle of fuzzy happiness on the train at this time.

It was a short interaction, but I know that it made both this dog and his owner that little more comfortable in the glare of disapproval from grumpy passengers.

This hasn't sold then! Good. I'm absolutely made up that this failed as hard as it did. A nasty little cash in which insulted player's intelligence by simply existing.

Yeah my excuse is that I think my gf got me it for Xmas so dammit I can't! Ah well, back to Yakuza.

@ShogunRok so I heard! I'm looking forward to the rest in the series if I can tear myself away from battering Rina at pool!

What a staggering display of mediocrity. It's no surprise that the AAA games were the most downloaded, but I miss the days when Plus gave away stuff like Vanquish, Demon's Souls, Spec Ops: The Line etc. Games which didn't sell amazingly well, but we're still relatively big titles which deserved a bigger audience.

With that said, I was very pleasantly surprised at Yakuza Kiwami. What with @shogunrok and @MC_noisy raving about the series I thought I'd give it a try. I'm about 20 hours in now, and it's bonkers but very addictive. I'm aware it isn't a great entry in the series, but it's still a lot of fun, even if those first few hours were a bit of a slog.
Playing this has me excited to get hold of Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise.

@Enuo I love this comment.

I remember being a kid and having this video with Spiderman and Fantastic Four on it, with Stan Lee doing the narration at the beginning and end of the episodes. I must have worn that tape out from watching it so much.
He made such an indelible imprint on my childhood, and millions of others, and it's just not right to be cynical about something so pure and good. RIP.

I'm not getting my hopes up since that shadows die twice bobbins. We could have a sequel to one of the best games of all time, but nope. Bionic nioh and whatever the hell this nonsense is. Such a shame.

I'm glad it's terrible and I hope it fails.

Stick to what you're good at, Bethesda. There are precious few publishers churning out AAA single player releases as it is. Don't go chasing that live service dollar.

Oh I'm definitely into this! Undertale is one of my all time favourite games.

@ShogunRok so no mention of microtransactions. Does that mean the single player doesn't have them?

ATREUS! TO ME!

That end bit got me. Amazing.

it's not often I say this, but I really want this game to fail.
It should never have been made, and it reeks of a needless cash grab. Bethesda should be better than this.

@DiddyWahDiddy that did not pass me by. Though you're a braver man than I for singling out a favourite song by him. I know I couldnt! Even his worst album has some amazing songs.

@LN78 mallrats has aged very well! I watched it the other week.

There was an old comic called Johnny The Homicidal Maniac which I quite liked. I had that as a name on a few forums and ended up shortening it to what I have now. It also sounds a bit like Genocide, so it works ok as a username.

I'm not planning on changing it to be honest. My real name isn't even John, it's infinitely more embarrassing than that.

@Tulio517 same. I don't know anyone who's even mentioned it except on here. Tbh I find bikers and zombies cringe worthy so it's not a game I'm interested in, but I guess if you still like SoA and the Walking Dead then it's an easy sell.

Ten years ago this would have been massively anticipated but now it's like they just phoned in the idea from 2008. I mean Protagonist #7832 or Chad Strengthface or whatever we're calling him this week was the main fella in The Force Unleashed, so it's like the subject and content of the game is retro before it's even released. I just don't get why this is being treated as a huge tentpole release 🤔

I'd love to replay demon's souls with a nice remaster and an active online community. It passed me by the first time around as I only picked it up through Plus. From then I was completely hooked.

Dark Souls 3 is continuing to be my go to game at weekends. I've found myself drawn back into it and it just seemingly never gets old. Love it. That and I might start Lords of the Fallen when I'm done, plus I've been playing Lego Harry potter again with my gf- and enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would!

Oh that's it I'm going to get VR.

I don't think this is going to be nearly as popular as Bethesda would hope. Not quite Lawbringers bad, but definitely no Destiny. It'll likely do For Honor numbers and be labelled a failed experiment.

Borderlands 2, Dark Souls 3, and I've been playing the Lego Harry potter games with my girlfriend (shut it, she loves them) and have found myself actually enjoying it. Pancakes, coffee, and Lego games. It was a good time!

Mechs look VERY Kojima. HUD and crosshairs are straight out of MGS, and the font at the end is the same one used in the menus of Phantom Pain.

This is either Death Stranding gameplay, or something else he's working on. Either way it looks good!

Yeah.... Nothing for me this month. Still, the last few have been excellent so I can hardly hold one dud against them.

EDIT; I quite like the look of Read Only Memories to be fair. Looks like Snatcher and I like the art style. Nothing amazing like but I'll definitely give that a go.

It was still going?

I'd be happy with The Surge. It's not a game I want to particularly buy, but it's a soulslike and I dig souls.

Hmmmm.... I'm just not sure I have the time for this now. I used to love D2 and then got burned by it, so although this looks good I'm just not going to go for it.

@jacobia that's a shame fella, it's one of the best single player shooters in a very long time. Excellent story and nice, fast paced, gunplay.

Very happy about this. New Order and New Colossus were two of my favourite shooters this gen.

It gave KSI a career and so should be banished to the dustbin of history.

Having had to cancel my own wedding this year I feel for the bloke. It's a shame, but sometimes these things just don't work out. It was nice if insomniac to do that, but I think the lesson here is: don't get married. It's a terrible idea 😂😂😂
Another lesson we can learn is that Taylor Swift apparently wrote "we are never getting back together" about Maddie's legs.

@kyleforrester87 U ok hun?

Streaming and lag on bloodborne? Ouch. No thanks....

I've decided to concentrate on my backlog for now. I've got stuff I've not even played yet, so I've been steadily hacking away at that for the last couple of months. It's saved me a fair bit of cash as well!

I'll probably pick up Spiderman at some point but not on release, and I'm waiting to see if RDR2 is crippled by extraneous gouging before dropping the cash on it. Apart from that, nothing coming along that I'm particularly excited about.

My nan done a war and she had a robot hand. It's very realistic.

Ok @shogunrok was that tagline a Mitchell and Webb Sir Digby Chicken Caesar reference? Well played if so.

Yeah I'm not bothering with it anyway. Soon as I saw it was another samurai game I was immediately turned off. I got halfway through nioh and couldn't be bothered, I know it's good and all but the aesthetic just leaves me cold tbh.

This is quite honestly the most Ramsey article possible. Take a bow, sir.