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@Blaze215 well said, I adored Remake and was so excited for Rebirth. I kept lying to myself saying I was crazy and that I DID actually love Rebirth, but I finally had to accept that I just wasn’t having fun with it. I hit 30+ hours and took a break. There is just far too much mandatory bloat in this game. I wouldn’t even mind doing all of the open world bloat if I wasn’t forced into a mini-game every half an hour of story time.

That’s a good way to tank the quality of your beloved product

This is so petty and ridiculous … I love it

Just when I thought this couldn’t get worse …

I swear I’m the only gamer on the planet that doesn’t love this game, in fact, it ended my love for AC. I haven’t touched one since.

Never heard of this, but it has my attention now.

I’ve gotten burnt out after 40 hours of Mini-Games the Game, I mean, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, so I’m stepping back for now and jumped into Stellar Blade. I’m loving it so far.

I’m only a couple of hours in so far, but so far it’s a solid 8. There’s things I love and things I think could be better. It’s no Nier Automata, but that’s my all-time favorite game so I’m bias.

@Goat_FromBOTW I’m glad I’m not alone on Wendy, she was just annoying, they set her up to be that obnoxious but funny character, but they seemed to have forgotten to funny part of that. The rest of the show was a lot of fun though.

@CooCooKaChoo or Half-Life 3

I played this on Xbox and loved it. As someone who usually can’t get into survival games, I thought it was VERY welcoming to new players, so I’m surprised to see that as a con.

@Kidfunkadelic83 it’s been a while, but if I remember right give times total. Each time gets quicker though. It is well worth going through all of the play throughs.

Nier Automata is my all-time favorite game, so I doubt it will be for me, but I can’t wait to possibly be proven wrong.

Unicorn Overlord at 9 is criminal, that game should be higher up, in my opinion. Rebirth, Unicorn Overlord, and Helldivers 2 would top my list. Either way though, it’s only mid-April and this year has already been incredible!

I’m still working through Rebirth and am obsessed with Unicorn Overlord on Switch right now. Also a bit of Helldivers 2 to get my friend off my back who keeps harassing me to play with him because I’ve been too into Rebirth.

I’m about 3 hours into the demo and can’t wait for my copy to come in. The game is absolutely phenomenal. I wasn’t sold when I had first seen gameplay but when they were discussing it on Summoning Signs they sold me on at least trying the demo.

1. FFVII Rebirth
2. Unicorn Overlord
3. Helldivers 2

It’s a better game anyways 🤷🏼‍♂️

I’m still taking my time with Rebirth and a side of the Unicorn Overlord demo on Switch, which is fantastic and one I’ll definitely be grabbing soon.

Immortals of Aveum is a ton of fun. It’s a seven but it does all it needs to. Well worth the time to play it.

@Jedihillis I came to say the same thing. Since you beat me to it, I’ll have to issue a stand down. 😉

When they add Brave Fencer Musashi they’ll have my money, until then, I’m good.

Glad I moved off of Helldivers 2 and on to Rebirth!

@IslandLogic I was going to reply with the same comment

I hit the open world in Rebirth last night and got VERY distracted running around.

Still less egregious than War Gods Zeus of Child

Helldivers 2 and maybe restarting Death Stranding on Steam Deck

@ShogunRok thanks! I had a feeling that was the case but I wasn’t positive. I’ve tried getting into it a couple of times but it hasn’t really held my attention, so I was hoping I could skip it.

@ShogunRok you might have answered this already but how crucial is it to play FFVII Crisis Core Reunion before Rebirth?

@Nepp67 awe man, I’m sorry to hear that, what a let down!

@Nepp67 I couldn’t agree more. I rocked the SM1 suit a good amount too, I had forgotten about that one. Most I just found to be insanely over the top, I like Spidey’s design for its simplicity, the same goes for Miles. I don’t need over the top cyber punk looking fever dream suits.

@Nepp67 if I’m being honest, I hated most of the costumes in this game. I basically stuck with the black suit and the Miles costume with the jacket and hood on, for some reason I’ve always loved that design. Most I didn’t bother even looking twice at after they were unlocked.

@REALAIS I’m in the US. My son will probably like the new suits and I’m always down for helping a good charity, so I’ll likely grab them.

I might get it just for the charity, but man, those are ugly.

While I’m sure some players are doing this to selfishly be able to jump right back in, that’s not always the case. I had 40 minutes to kill yesterday so I jumped on for a match and I was still in the game from yesterday because I didn’t logout, I’ll be honest, I don’t play online much so I’m not used to it. I made sure to logout yesterday to make sure others could jump in, I’d bet a lot of people have accidentally done the same thing.

@Sequel I’d love for them to go back to Killzone, they were such great games.

This game is an absolute blast. Nothing like accidentally nuking your team during extraction because you didn’t know your friend loaded one into the artillery cannon.

Helldivers 2 when the servers let me participate in saving democracy, also some FFVII Crisis Core Reunion on Steam Deck

@Rafie from a gameplay perspective, I’d say it’s a huge step forward from the other two games, but with that said, I didn’t love the story and found it fairly predictable. It felt more large scale and bombastic, but that took away from the deep character moments like we got between Peter and Octavius. It also felt more bloated with side content than the original, which I chose to skip, so that isn’t exactly a big deal to me.

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The MJ sequences played better than the first one but she was also far more powerful than Peter or Miles because she could basically one shot almost every enemy, which came across as a disjointed choice, in my opinion.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a very good game, but it came out in a year filled with incredible games, I just don’t feel it holds up against many of the other games that came out last year.

Spider-Man 2 was a good game but it was barely in my top ten last year. I have to respectfully disagree with so many of those awards that it won. Spider-Man 2 having better characters than BG3? Not a chance. Spider-Man 2 having better sound design than Hi-Fi Rush or Alan Wake 2? I … no … just no. FFXVI was far more gorgeous than Spider-Man 2 and it didn’t have janky facial animations. I honestly think Spider-Man 2 is the most overrated game of last year, it’s good, but it’s not THAT good.

@JaBrony123 that’s awesome! I’m glad to hear it. I actually just bought it again for my Steam Deck and am really looking forward to jumping back into it after I finish Crisis Core. It’s such a unique and relaxing game to just kick back with.

It was an underrated game in my opinion

I’ve been on complete blackout on every thing since the reveal trailer. No demo for me. It’s a day one buy … too bad I have to wait several days to play it because I’m going on a cruise the beginning of March and there’s no point in me starting it just to stop.

I’m at the end of Sea of Stars and maybe a bit of Granblue Fantasy Relink

@NinjaNicky that makes me miss the old school Thief games when you could use moss arrows to soften your footsteps, water arrows to put out torches, distract guards by clanking arrows off of things. I’d love for them to go back to that style with that game.

Okami and Marvel Vs. Capcom would be my top picks if I can choose from anything, but with that said, I’ll honestly take anything Capcom wants to do. They are in their absolute prime right now, even if certain games aren’t for me specifically, they haven’t released a single game that’s come out recently that I thought was even close to bad.

@Stickleman you have to pay for the game, it’s not a full $60/70 game though, it’s only $40 or your respective currency.

I watch the first reveal trailer and that’s it. I’m on complete black out for this game.

@Valkyrian I never said it wasn’t the other way around too, but Xbox to others is what’s being discussed here. If PlayStation or Nintendo start throwing their exclusives onto other consoles, I’m all for it. I’m not one of the people that complained when PlayStation games started migrating to PC, I personally think it’s a good thing to branch out after a while.

She’s gorgeous and I couldn’t care less, I just want awesome gameplay and a good story.