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Hopefully I'll get some time with Ichiban's first adventure, on chapter 8 so making good progress.

Went to the NieR concert on Wednesday just gone and it has filled my heart with yearning for 2B and friends so I may have to play some Near All Tomatos

The subtitle screams warhammer 40k to me. Not so sure about the Intergalactic bit

@BranJ0 What I loved most about 13 Sentinels is it just kept getting more and more bonkers but somehow still made total sense.

I wrapped up Yakuza 6 and now I'm ploughing through Yakuza 7... I wish I'd taken a proper break though, I'm enjoying it but getting used to Ichiban's world view and the silliness of substories bleeding into the main story is rubbing me in the wrong direction slightly.

As someone who loved Nioh 2 but felt a bit disappointed with Wolong I cannot wait for the next combat focused Dev Diary.

What I'm hoping for from Ronin is for something with a similar high skill ceiling to Nioh but with more of a Ghost of Tsushima feel (with a with a lil Sekiro thrown in)

Wolong failed there (for me) because it ended up feeling like diluted Nioh with the parry-spam as a replacement to the deep loot+skills builds of Nioh 2.

I'm every so slightly bummed by this, but in the grand scheme of things I reckon I'll be fine with the package we're getting.

I'll be jumping in to see if they've managed to make it not dull... the last beta i was in was boring.

I'm hoping for success but if I'm being really realistic... expect another delay being announced on the 13th

@Voltan people did and rightfully so... This feels like the death of a franchise move. The only reason I ever bought CoD was for the super polished campaign and the well designed mp maps... Open world is the wrong direction

It'll be interesting if it is the whole catalogue coming over... What I'm actually expecting is that the traditionally multiplatform stuff will come over and games like Starfield that started as multiplatform and later became exclusive will also make the jump... but the firmly entrenched IP like Gears, Halo won't make the jump.

I'm also expecting and okay with MS titles taking a chunk of time to come over with a few exceptions - I waited a year for Rise of The Tomb Raider and it was worth it.

English it is then because I quite liked the UK based VO

This is probably down to my limited exposure to the language outside of several K-dramas that I really enjoyed on Netflix, but in games I always find Korean a bit flat, like they could mourning a loved one or reciting their shopping list.

If anyone has recommendations for something with solid Korean dubs I wouldn't mind acclimatising to the language outside of live action stuff.

Yeah, that's (almost certainly, like 99.9%) a lie.

@Porco I shouldn't laugh, but that damned door still haunts my dreams!

My Yakuza franchise rampage continues! I started Yakuza 6 yesterday and so far I am deeply worried for Haruka, I just hope they don't give her the Yumi treatment and bring her back at the end of the game to just kill off...

If I finish it I'll be jumping back on Avatar

With it being on game pass I'm doing a speedy playthrough and I'll do a Platinum run of the inevitable FES/Golden/Royale edition

Not yet but I will be soon!

Think I'll grab this tomorrow when I get home. See if it makes me do a little wee.

Looks like a grand ol time!

Now I just need to decide if I'm playing this or DD2 first!?

Oh I can see ATLUS doing this and then doing a whole other game with the FeMC... because it just gives them more versions to be sold

Base game
Base game + The Answer DLC
FeMC base game
FeMC base game + The Answer 1.5 DLC
Persona 3 Re-assembled Ultra Deluxe

Gods, I hope I'm wrong.

There is no Solid Snake without Hayter. Russell is one of my fave actors but, like Keither in mgsv, he would've been too distracting as Snake.

I enjoyed all three of their games but they never came close to fulfilling their mission statement.

Hopefully the team finds success elsewhere in SE

The sentiment I've been seeing pop up is that it is soulless except for the cutscene... Which matches expectations.

I just hope that if it does flop WB reverse their stance turning everything into a live service ***** show.

@Onigumo I honestly don't think I'd call 4 bad, just my least fave of the bunch so far. I'm at the half-way point in 5 now and it is almost like the writing team had a massive upgrade in some respect... anywho, time to go be Haruka and do the Idol nonsense the poor girl has to suffer through.

Feels like Khayl might not have played the Respawn Jedi games and is just assuming they tell their stories like a normal souls like.

I would love an actual Remedy Jedi game, that would be one hell of a trip!

All I really needed out of this was a proper look at Rise of The Ronin, everything else is just a bonus.

There was a weird 'leak' that points towards maybe a new JUDAS trailer and other stuff... so fingers crossed

If it's a locked 30 then it's fine, consistent frame rate is all that really matters. I do look forward to the digital foundry lads coverage.

@thefourfoldroot1 Just got to the finale of 4... It hasn't been terrible not by a longshot but it is definitely my least fave of the bunch so far. I'll be finishing it in the morning and then cracking on with 5.

Knowing Atlus and their history I do wonder if they'll do the same double release for ReFantazio... will we get a Re-Election edition in a year?

With P3 Reload I'm probably going to do a fast and loose playthrough on Game Pass and save the completionist run for when the FES/Golden/Royale edition comes out because it will happen - they cut too much from the old complete version not to.

I'm still on my Yakuza series playthrough kick I started last week... I started Yakuza 4 last night (I'm focusing main story so I don't get burnt out on the side story stuff) and I'm not sure how I feel about this entry so far, but I'm sticking with it. Game Pass has them all up to LAD;Y so I'm good for a few more weeks.

If I need a break I might fire up Avatar FoP for a bit OR finally jump... heh climb on to Jusant.

I'm in the middle of rampaging through the series... I started on Yakuza 4 earlier on and plan doing nothing but playing it all weekend. Not sure how I feel about four protagonists yet.

Going to be interesting to see what that station wagon looks like by the end of this road trip.

I'm chipping away at my second BG3 playthrough to get the Platinum, just need to not ***** up Karlach's romance... My Durge also needs to get drunk and kill people, which should be easy enough.

Besides that I'm going to jump into Palworld with some chums to commit war crimes against the local wildlife!

AAAAAND I had the realisation that I don't remember anything from the first three Yakuza games so whilst I have Game Pass I'm going to bomb through them focusing on the main story - I'm half way through Yakuza Kiwami

It's a game I want to get around to but there's other stuff I want to play more, so I'll end up picking it up for a fiver in 6 months.

Having the radial face generator where it gives you similar faces to rapidly tune what you're looking for is going to be a great way to cut down the time needed in character gen.

Hopefully they keep these tools for Monster Hunter Wilds

@mwatcher seriously;

Perry (born April 10, 1794, South Kingston, R.I., U.S.—died March 4, 1858, New York City) U.S. naval officer who headed an expedition that forced Japan in 1853–54 to enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the West after more than two centuries of isolation.

The big open world is just replacing the big open world map... So instead of trundling around as tiny cloud we trundle as big cloud!

Seriously though, it is looking great.

This should be my final weekend of BG3 tunnel vision, last night I saved just before the point of not return. I have all my ducks in a row and they are armed to the teeth and as ready as I can make them.

If I finish today then I'll be taking a break before starting a Dark Urge run by playing some Avatar FoP!

Even though I'm going to be there day one I still wanna jump on the demo... I think there's some unlocks or something.

@UltimateOtaku91 they are at the moment, 100% a good time to jump back on.

@johncalmc after what I saw in Matoya's basement the Pictomancer spell effects look spot on for the job. I'm just happy that Krile's getting her moment in the sun, poor lass deserves a bit of fun.

P4G is like distilled joy, I wish I could get my regular gaming chums into the Persona games but the required playtime is a big ask but boy do I think their lives would be 'bettered' from the addition.

That being said I am going to wait for the inevitable Golden/Royal/Extra edition of P3 Reload... I need but, but I also do not have time to play through two different versions of it - there are too many long-ass games to play currently.

@TheArt once Monster Hunter sinks its claws in you there is no escape... Good time to get hooked on World as well with the whole 'Return to World' thing, I'd jump back on myself for a fresh start but I can't afford to black out for three months again.

I am on weekend 251 of playing Baldur's Gate 3... I have entered the House of Hope and may have been shagged to death.

I'll also be playing some Avatar FoP and flapping around Pandora on Floof the Ikran.

@Grumblevolcano even if people play their third party games on a different system, they still look at a varied exciting list of multiplatform titles and go 'Nah, it all looks like *****', and it'll be because they only play specific franchises

@BIG3 yeah, that's too nebulous to be on a list of games that all have full dates or at least months for their release.

@BIG3 I reckon that's because we have no inkling of when in 2024 it'll appear. All the games on the list have firm release dates/windows.

I'm currently suffering from Immediacy Bias, having Granblue so close has me vibrating with excitement.

Rise of The Ronin also has my attention, the lack of Team Ninja's usual alpha/beta combat tuning feels off though and maybe it means it won't be as deliciously tough.

Then there's Dragon's Dogma 2... Oh Dragon's Dogma 2 how I can't wait to throw my pawns off of cliffs again instead of waiting for the AI to figure out a way down.

@themightyant absolutely spot on with Hyper-focus on first party and the deluge of quality games from elsewhere. It's like when you read comments on 2024's upcoming games and people go 'Oh nothing on there for me' and I just end up thinking 'what is wrong with you, are you even into gaming as a hobby?'

My backlog has ballooned because I decided to jump on Baldur's Gate 3, that one game has swallowed two months of my gaming time.

And now we have the tsunami of chonky games for Feb/March looming over us.

I've started prepping my NG+ Elden Ring save for the expansion, which boils down to me being a menace in The Lands Between.

I'm also enjoying being a big blue cat person in Avatar FoP

Aaaaaand I got talked into Warframe!

It's hard to believe just how good it looks and sounds, as a massive Granblue fan I cannot overstate how excited I am!

@Sil_Am I can tell you the most likely reason... you haven't had much Korean or Chinese language media to acclimatise to so it sounds 'odd' to your ears and because you're a perfectly average human you won't go out of your comfort zone to change that.