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This reads like a lot of fun!

Veni, veni, venias, gloriosa
Ne me mori facias generosa
Se-phi-roth!

Panda 🐼! I am so happy, nice roster addition.

I memeber! Fun stuff 🩵

That’s not sad and delusional at all 🙃

Microsoft Xbox failed to make the leap from hardware maker and publisher to game developer that Sony PlayStation pulled off through the years creating many recognizable and influential games.

Can we have Sega back and forget about these rich kids with no talent?

Relink It is looking more and more amazing. Kinda wish they give us a twin pack for the two games to save some money 😅

Ps5 is really a JRPG machine.

Rebirth trailer is the best videogame trailer I have seen in the last few years. Mind blowing in scale and revisiting so many iconic moments while getting everything right! Awesome stuff.

You could get thing so so wrong reworking Cait Sith or Vincent Valentine for modern graphic standards …

Much better than expected. Final Fantasy Rebirth looks insane and Capcom really wants to make me buy stuff I will use just for their games.

I kinda liked the second anime game as well

Taking a break from SF6 for Tekken 8 beta and FFXVI

Totally in the market for this as I don’t want to choose between 4K and 60fps but as long as they don’t shoot themselves in the foot like Xbox with Series S, actually making it more complex and time consuming to develop and optimize games for the platform.

@cburg A Pc version is probably coming down the line, Sony actively helped with development and going multi-platform would have taken much more for the title to release.

I still can’t get over the fact he is named like my biology teacher from junior high school 😅looking cool, Saint Seya vibes.

Hahah It’s an amusing coincidence and both movies are benefiting from it.

Also movies from Cannes Festival are steadily releasing across Europe this month so let’s cleanse our palette with red wine after enjoying this Coca-Cola.

Happy to have him back as I think he was one of the most memorable newcomers in V, along with Laura and Menat. Hope to see those two as well in future seasons!

@SgtTruth Actually no, Nintendo famously screwed Sony up that time. They revealed they intended to go with Philips on the same day Sony unveiled the snes CD add-on “PlayStation”.

I am not saying there are good or bad guys but if you look at their arc Sony actually blossomed into a videogame developer, making their own titles, something people have latched onto…Microsoft is just buying pre-existing assets by other companies.

It is interesting that while Sony evolved from electronic goods company, to console maker, to video game publisher and developer, Microsoft is basically paying someone else to write a thesis and somehow get a degree 🤔

Final Fantasy XVI (tried arcade mode and OMG imho the game would have worked even better like that, they chickened out)

Street Fighter VI 💜

Digital games are so convenient and I hate plastic cases but I’ll still buy physical games until digital releases are decently priced! Can not drop 70£ for a digital game on day one when I can easily save at least 10£ ordering a day 1physical copy that I will also sell when finished…

It’s cute! And made by a well established brand too.
Would love to see my grandma’s reaction if I poured this in her boiling water getting ready for a Sunday lunch.

Are these mac… fusil…farfal…? grandma.exe stopped working.

Yay! Loved this!

I can see some MH similarities and they did killzone…seems like a good fit.

Luke hasn’t found the right foundation shade for his skin tone.

Such a neat idea! I wish Sega would have done this before with the Sega Ages series.

I never played karateka and I would like to try it!

@Anke I wouldn’t call XVI boring by any means but yeah XV was a far more ambitious, complex and interesting videogame for me too. XVI is very good at what it does but it’s like we are applauding a guy for walking in a straight line while booing another because it did not land elegantly after a triple backflip.

Street fighter 6! It doesn’t seem so but it is underrated. Finest game I played in years.

Baldur’s gate III will probably be awesome as well.

FFXVI is a great game but it is missing “that something” for me.

@Cordyceps middle eastern and south asian people are represented in the game, as are various sexual orientations, so it is hardly about bigotry. Let’s not just jump into ready-made bandwagons. As the director explained, the small geographical setup and restricted travel featured in the world building would just be a lot less believable and powerful if the population was highly multiethnic and cosmopolitan.

Would definitely play and ATB combat sounds perfect for a mid budget release, just improving on how it was!

FFX already has the “scale” of a proper 3D game so it would not become as gigantic as VII. They would need to spice up that combat and eliminate random encounters though!

Don’t know if it is the right marketing choice but I find it funny as heck. The bear’s face is so derpy 🤣

Looking forward to play this on ps5, my pc is so weak, I should really lose all remaining decency, embrace the nerd and try to assemble one following a tutorial.

@ApostateMage that battle theme was a masterpiece!

@Nepp67 I am not saying it is bad, it is so well executed, but FF series has incredibly high standards. Compared to other entries though I am near completion and there is not a single theme that I find myself remembering or humming. But as you said this is widely subjective! Been playing with headphones and all.

I am enjoying my time with the game (near the end now) but to be honest I found the OST a bit unremarkable for a FF game. As this is, but maybe it will grow on me…

@WhensDinner thank you very much, I will look into it on release

Question for anybody playing: is this worth it for the story and characters? Is the turn based combat addicting? I like my turn based combat but it has to have its quirks (I like something like Bravely Default or FF13 or Grandia II/III or even western games like Divinity 2 but stuff like Dragon quest 11 or FF10 or even Persona games tends to put me to sleep lately if I can’t turn up the difficulty)

Street fighter and Final Fantasy like it’s the good Nintendo years of yore

The price is steep but I really couldn’t imagine “renting” a game of this kind. PlayStation sales of this are going to be the lion’s share…I hope Atlus makes some better decisions in the future pricing and content-wise.

Capcom is doing some next level animations! That bouncing at the end 😨 great voice actor too!

@HonestHick I am generally winning vs modern control players and I think they are at disadvantage in neutral. That said, the fact that modern controls can punish a single whiff with an automatic combo complete with a level 2 or 3 super that will never drop is definitely OP and I hope it will be balanced out. It’s a nice option to welcome newcomers but needs to be fine tuned for sure.

Street Fighter VI keeps me coming back for more and easily takes the crown. It does old and new things right.

Enjoying XVI really a lot but not loving it, it is too tyrannical in its pace, like a Persona game.

Octopath II was superb though not really innovating anything.

The first battle pass was very unnecessary but really, really easy to complete. I upgraded form the free pass just when I had already completed all the steps and so I immediately got my 250 coins back…I will use those for all passes.

@DragonBl not at all, like P5T this will release worldwide on all platforms.

I am really enjoying the game a lot but speaking of recent ones I think I prefer XV by quite a big margin.

My top 5 would be V, VI, VII, X, XII in no particular order.

I don’t mind the side quests, you’re all crazy! Most of them tie nicely into the world building and are decently written. Try an average JRPG and tell me about it.

Day1! …+7

@ApostateMage because FF and Baldur’s Gate have always been the same kind of game…c’mon, let’s enjoy each for what they do best.

I love how the comment sections make it seem like the game is of somehow debatable quality…

…those are pretty big numbers!
Happy for Square Enix: FFXVI deserves everything and more. There are many JRPG series playing it safe and giving us a slightly updated version of the same game all the times - I love FFXVI and hope FFXVII is nothing like it

Looking forward to this, hopefully it is good and carries us until that leaked new JSR game.

Oh, I know one of them! I am so sporty lmao.

It is an exclusivity deal where they lose the console war only for 72 hours before the AKB buyout trial.

Going to sleep extremely pleased with what I played! The demo already sold me on the game even though when they first revealed it I was afraid it wouldn’t be my cup of tea. It’s just a great game overall.

@Synthatron_Prime of course the switch has (a lot) less horsepower but comparatively FF16, even judging from the demo, makes much better use of the hardware than TOTK does: it looks unremarkable AND it has a low frame-rate. I am very impressed by how unpolished it looks for a Nintendo title, especially considering it built on a game with the same graphic engine.

It looks fun but darn the hero is a masterclass in bad design

@ShogunRok Hahahaha <3 honest 9.2 game 😗

Very nice read!

P.s. I love how the very hard on the eyes (sorry, been playing it non stop but it is true)TOTK gets a pass on the technical side and we nitpick on this spectacle!

300 MB is almost nothing! Good job!

@Powerplay94 agreed