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Actually played a bit this year getting actual vacation time from work! 637 hours of play.

Most played are a bit embarrassing 🙈

Final Fantasy 16
Street Fighter 6
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Final Spelling Bee
God of War Ragnarok
God of War

@somnambulance Your son has good taste

And… I am loving it! Is it just me or this some pretty good gaming? Can I have this mode for FF16 now?

Downloading! I missed Kratos

@BIG3 have you tried the ranked league tournaments? You will fight (if you don’t get disconnected - that is annoying!) someone of about your same skill. There is one tomorrow if you want to join. You can join only specific tier with characters you have in that tier. So you can join silver with a silver ranked character and gold with a gold ranked one etc.

Also: love your avatar - so hyped about SB

Oh ok! Between this and GOW Ragnarok: Valhalla (hyped for the game but the name is terrible!) they really don’t want me to start the Crisis Core remake 😂 I wanted to go through it before rebirth

Yay, one more reason to play it! I just got the platinum in Street Fighter 6 and this will be a short but sweet diversion from all those online matches

It looks so cool! I will be on a friend’s sofa watching this and patiently waiting for DS2 news.

May we bask in the light of perennial 60fps and let the terrors of the long 30fps night become a legend we tell our nerdy children to scare them before bed time

I have been ready for this for the last 15 years. Please don’t make me buy another console as you did with JSR Future and PD Orta 🫶🏻

What a year is in store for us…

My picks:

FFVII Rebirth
Dragon's Dogma 2
Granblue Fantasy Relink
Tekken 8
Metaphor: ReFantazio

Honorable mention not on the list: Stellar Blade, that is safe to assume will be delayed to 2024? Shadow dropped in a stealth State of Play before the end of the year?

@HMazzy111 this is so patronizing but it honestly made me chuckle 🤭 I have never played COD but I don’t think it’s that bad 😂

Wow the title art is great!
I finished it today and agree with everything.
It is short but it fleshes out the “fallen” lore, gives you nice equipment and lets you enjoy the combat, visuals, and characters once again (not you Jill, your meek, cardboard-presence is as useless as ever )
Very enjoyable, I was honestly sad I couldn’t hop on the next adventure right away and I had to part ways with Clive once again. It’s like that good book you just want some more of.

@AndyKazama I was in a similar state and got to level 100 in the expansion. The enemies scale a little bit in this game so you’ll be fighting level 90+ enemies.

@TheCollector316 @slips666 yes I’d say 3 - 3,5 hours

SEGA could launch a console right now lol between Persona games, Yakuza games, Sonic, these revivals …it’s insane

@Mikey856 yes, that one is for clearing the game on FF mode, this one requires you to beat the final boss of the new area but only on final fantasy mode (wouldn’t pop after beating the boss on normal)

It looks so good!

@Mikey856 yes, 6 new trophies (one specific to playing the game on final fantasy mode) - got them all just playing through the DLC. It’s short and sweet and gives you some nice equipment

@Jaz007 playing it right now - it starts with a mission you can take at Charon’s shop once you have Origin on the world map. Very easy to pick up. Having a blast, though this is obviously DLC it fits well in the lore.

I feel it has been pretty sweet! I didn’t get to see what I was expecting to see (Stellar Blade and Death Stranding 2) but so many nice surprises like the SEGA trail (that was deserving of a show of its own) and the shadow drops and really a couple of new games on my impossible list for next year

3 on 3?! Nice! I need to redownload this

Darn, I have finished the second playthrough like 36 hours ago! 😂 was midway through FF1 pixel remaster but I guess I can finish it pretty quickly

Both Jet Set Radio and Shinobi’s snippets looked absolutely gorgeous! Excited.

I hope there’s some Valkyria Chronicles on the horizon as well, though the absolute dream would be a new single player Phantasy Star 💫

And it is out in the fall like a good boy 😊 the February/March nonsense is bumming me out.

Looking amazing

Roguelike absolutely rules! 🥳🥳🥳

I still think we will get a PS5 only GOW down the line

I want them to instant-drop Stellar Blade 😗wishful thinking.

Hoping for a new short but sweet GOW game

@themcnoisy I am loving SF6, currently in Diamnond with Chun and Platinum with Marisa but most of the time I am just goofing around with all the characters so I doubt I’ll get much better before Tekken 8 😅

It’s a lovely plan you have, might do a version of it next year

@themcnoisy Hey mcnoisy! Sounds nice, maybe we will be playing around the same time then. Ragnarok was sooo good, you will have a blast.

I’ve never played this but it will have to wait till after the great barrage of Japanese games of 2024

Stoked to see how they will build upon the actually innovative and underrated gameplay of the first one

Serious font/colour problem there with the logo, it really conjures up anything but a fantasy vibe

I just watched a little bit and it’s looking good, though PS5 is spoiling us and this looks kinda graphically dated by now, will be probably playing day 1 if the reviews are positive!

But this, Persona 3 Reload, FFVII Rebirth…it’s all a warm up before Dragon Dogma 2 kidding! I look forward to SOMEHOW play all of them.

The biggest problem imho is that you can’t buy exactly the amount of Fight Coin you need. And this is by design.

These are all very well made and nice but for me it’s a pass as I have 250 FC and there is no way for me to top up the 50 I would need to get one costume for my character 😩

I would even throw 20-25€ at a bundle with all the costumes since the quality is so high but these prices are insane! This needs to stop across many many publishers

Honestly, the much maligned SFV did things better with fight money you could earn and direct purchases from the PSStore

I actually play arcade mode from time to time to beat my score and I have a blast with it. The game really plays better as DMC or Bayonetta than as an action-adventure.

@Deityjester I don’t think Microsoft is going to get out of console business easily, but if their trajectory stays the way it is, they basically have to. And I think Sony would eventually allow GP on their system at that point. Another way would be just publishing on PlayStation as well.

But either way (Microsoft publishing on PS or Sony allowing GP on PlayStation) Xbox consoles would become even more redundant than they appear to be at the moment to the general public.

@Smash41 here is my MacBook Air (2020) review: 2,5

CONS

• requires electricity
• doesn’t make coffee
• has an apple on the cover but doesn’t actually taste or smell like apples
• does not turn into a printer
• won’t say hello to my friends on the ski slopes

Awaiting Push Square’s review, as I know it will be fair! I am in the market for these but yeah air buds can be tricky. I absolutely despise the commands on the Pulse Headphones though the audio output is pretty legit.

I think a watered down version of Game Pass, offering first party games only, would be welcome by Sony if Xbox pulled out of the console market altogether, and let’s face it: at this rate they are eventually going to do that.

This is my Skyrim, looking forward to get lost into this

Do we need this? Hardly. But hey, some of Nintendo’s smart phone offerings have been alright.

Almighty CapGod, let it be April or May. Show us humble Japanese games appreciators some mercy.

This has a lot of potential imho. It’s all down to how the game actually turns out: hopefully it’s good!

While it clearly makes sense, it feels like something was lost! As many commenters, I still need that new (or very old) game or board game under the Christmas tree to feel like it’s the holidays. My husband is wise enough to know it and actually never fails to choose something right.

I feel like PS5 owners who like JRPGs cannot physically keep an eye on anymore games.
Vonimir doesn’t look half bad tbh

Nice read! Even being a tad older than you, I can relate to that feeling of discovering an entire new world through JRPGs.
Playing the original Phantasy Star series as a child alongside my older sister compelled both of us to learn English (debatable) and later on Japanese and eventually become flight attendants to visit this land where all these games and stories were created.
And it all started with a Sega Master System cartridge we picked from the shelf on a whim because it had a girl brandishing a sword on the cover and what appeared to be a fighting cat.
So thank you, Sega, for changing our lives forever and taking us far away from our home, both figuratively and literally.

These all look so good they could be each character main costume. Well maybe not Juri’s 😝

Also those little sketches and drawings are art book quality…Capcom design for this is on another level

Healthy competition is always nice but I am going to be sincere and admit I am glad to see Xbox’s “let’s spend Sony out of business” plan is not working out at all.

Their marketing team has been super
annoying and I find Phil Spencer unbearably slimy

Grandia and Klonoa are made of joy

I Have got to postpone Persona 3 because I waited for Granblue so long and no way I am skipping Tekken or FFVII. I want to play Unicorn Overlord as well.

But of course Dagon Dogma is a must …I sincerely hope it is coming out in June

Gorgeous, gorgeous game