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Urgh. Netflix is a pretty rubbish service these days. Would prefer for them to keep well away from games.

Cool concept.

I'd really love a nature photography game. It could be awesome with modern graphics. I remember there was one set in Africa on the ps3 but I never bought it.

I'm more excited for this game than I probably should be. Day one for me.

Hopefully with their IPs. It would suck if they just sat on the IP like Konami does.

Isn't that how dungeon crawler rpgs generally work?

Wonder if they'll just keep them doing re-releases or if they plan to let them make something of their own. Maybe have them update a bunch of the ps4 first party games to utilise the ps5 hardware. Bloodbourne first please....

Am I only one that felt this game was too clunky and cheap feeling to care about? I played it a little bit but Idk, it felt like a budget game with too much ambition. There's way too many games out there for me to bother with stuff like this. I guess if you're dying for a RPG along these lines it might do the job.

Absolutely. Definitely earned a day one buy after the last outing.

Really hope it's a 1 and 2 remake.

I didn't expect much. They delivered exactly that. Ubisoft is the most generic company in the AAA market.

It looked terrible imo. Dream/hallucination stuff in media is a huge pet peeve of mine. Just a bunch sequences that don't matter because it's all a dream or vision. Random stuff occurs just because and everything looks weird. I hate it. This looks like a whole mode of it. No thanks.

Not to mention how much they overestimate how good their antagonists are. Yes, Vaas was excellent. The Tibet moantain guy was okay. The hillbilly was them trying way too hard and just ended being cliché af. It feels like they're trying to gaslight us into believing they're iconic characters people cares about. Sorry Ubisoft, banging on about how great they were doesn't make it so. It's really not a surprise coming from the people that think the final boss of generic protagonists, Aiden Pearce, is an iconic character...

Haven't played in a while. Does it still have terrible pop in?

Lol. I can't wait to buy the same games for the 8th time!

Very interesting. I wonder how this will be recieved by long time fans.

I played the demo on XBSX. Was not impressed. Terrible art style. Boring, cliché setting, story and dialogue that feels like a bad kids cartoon and the ship stuff felt like Sid Meier's Pirates! with none of the charm that made that game a classic.

They also call different cannon shot "bullets". I know it's a small thing but if you're making a pirate game and don't bother to have even the most basic knowledge of the genre it doesn't bode well for the final product Imo.

It's reviewing worse than my expectations. Such a shame. It looked like it had potential.

I had an inkling it wouldn't be great when I wasn't seeing a bunch of early gameplay impressions. If you've got a new IP and have faith in the final product if think you'd want to get it in the hands of some people a couple of weeks early so they can put out gameplay footage aNd let potential customers know it's a product worth being interested in. I didn't see anything like that. I think they knew what they had.

@2cents It looks incredibly promising yet I'm worried you're spot on. Definitely waiting for impressions before I buy it.

I'm in no rush to buy it. Played it before and the upgrade doesn't look like it'll blow my socks off so I'll just wait till it's really cheap.

So it's still a bit janky? That's a shame. Will probably wait for a deep sale.

I'm kind of interested in the game and refuse to pay the $125AUD asking price for it.

Cool. Very interested.

@Hypnotoad107 I've been waiting for that patch since The Show 18. Any day now...

I was playing VF in Yakuza: Like A Dragon the other day. I think it was VF V. Is the series really that slow paced or is their something weird in the emulation in Yakuza? It felt so much slower than any fighting game I'm used to.

That's an interesting way to compete with gamepss. I don't hate the idea. Wouldn't pay more for it as I'm already subbed to too much stuff but for free I think it'd be a good value add. I've got Gamepass and an Xbox though so I'm happy with the games I get across both platforms services already.

Anyone else get the feeling that we're going to be having the same conversations we're having about Days Gone atm about this game in a couple of years?

@God_of_Nowt Who says the people that think this guy is a clown and those asking for petitions are the same people? You do realise that different people can express different opinions?

If you want to make a sequel make a game that people want to play at launch, not months later on sale or free on PS plus.

Crazy we're talking about e3 already. This year is flying past.

Looks interesting. In my experience the 2D plane skating games tend to fair better than attempts at full 3D when it comes to indy's. They're also far more limited though. Might give it a shot of it's the right price.

Noice. Always interested in card rogue lites. Monster Train is a great game in the genre for those that like Slay the Spire and are interested in trying another. I don't think it's as good as Spire but tbf that's like comparing other top down rogue lites to Binding of Isaac.

Animal Crossing mixed with with Spiritfarer? I'm interested but probably on discount or Gamepass.

Doesn't look $125AUD good...

Wasn't their Rory McIlroy game rubbish? I'd say 2K has a strong advantage given they have the Tiger Woods branding and a developer that has been getting better and better at making golf games.

I'd prefer more PS2 stuff at this point. There's just not that much PSX stuff that I'm that interested in that hasn't been ported or remastered. MGS? Croc. Idk.

I'd also love for some of those ps3 HD collection games to get ported too. Sly, GoW, Jak etc.

Off topic but I'm getting a google ad for this game on the sites front page. Can companies target specific sites with Google ads or just types of sites? If they can target individual sites I wonder if they saw the article and pushed the ad or if it's just that the site fits their demographic.

Art style reminds me of Don't Starve. Looking forward to seeing more coverage.

Now it can be ignored on two generations!

I played several hours of this on XBSX via games pass. Really enjoyed it at first. It had fun puzzles, cool exploration elements, a nice narrative and it felt cool to draw your light saber of course.

It doesn't take too long until you realise that the combat is incredibly weak though unfortunately. It is really sloppy feeling. You don't feel like a bad ass Jedi. You don't even feel like an up against it soldier that can defeat anything if they're skilled enough like in Souls games. You feel like you're fighting the controls and mechanics themselves in order to stay alive. A great deal of the encounters do have that tense feeling of a souls game but only because the parry function feels off and your robot healing buddy only responds when he feels like it, usually a second too late and when you're in harms way.

It ended up being too much of a struggle for me to bother with and I stopped playing. It's one thing to be hard, it's another to be hard because of poor design. I'm honestly not sure how so many people overlooked how bad the combat was. It was game ruining for me.

Noice. Hopefully they learnt what the issue was and it will be the last time. I know what I'll be playing this weekend!

42% hate it? What a bunch of sad fan boys. It literally has no effect on anything.

Great value? $20 is what it should have been priced at all along. No idea how they ever thought it was a full retail AAA game in the first place.

I was bored after a couple of matches personally. Being free on PS+ was the only reason it got that much attention from me.

I really hope the upcoming Housemarque game Returnal isn't another case of over inflated value. They want $120 for that here in Australia...

@rumple1980 ooh, thanks for the reminder. Going to have to stay up. There's a few perks to being a night shifter...

Nice. Played a lot of the original but never completed it. Definitely keen to give this new expansion a try.

@Jeevz I think the real value of EA play comes in if you have an Xbox. You get access to the 360/PS3 gen games and it's free with Game pass ultimate. That said if you've got your eye on a particular game on the service it's fine value too. As you say, $5 to play Fallen Order is more than fair. Definitely cheaper than it would have been back in the day to rent it from the video store until you finished the campaign.

I don't think I'd pay for it separately long term though.

Nice. Played through a season of the quarter back mode on 20 via game pass so I'll probably give it a miss. Will give NHL 21 a go in April though.

Currently playing the SW Jedi game on XBSX and really enjoying it. Much more than I thought I would tbh. Will definitely give Squadrons a look.

@sonicmeerkat If you haven't played Demons Tilt I recommend giving it a look. I played it on gamepass and then bought it on PS5 on sale because they took it off game pass. It's a video game pinball deal along the lines of Devils/Alien Crush.

Not really sure tbh. No idea what's coming out on current gen for them to add. Tbh ever since I've gotten a XBSX with game pass I've been a lot less concerned with PS+ (PS5 is still my main girl, don't worry!). Hopefully it's something good though. A decent meaty indy or something. Would prefer if it wasn't another MP or party game.

Edit: seeing a lot of Disco Elysium comments. That sounds cool. Probably not one I'd buy for full price but would definitely give it a try on PS+.

Keep meaning to get back into this. Sounds like a good time to do so.

@Shepherd_Tallon Yes! Salt and Sanctuary was amazing too.

@danlk1ng fair point. Thanks for the advice.