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Zenith: The Last City

Finally got around to this VR MMO and felt I had to play it now in case its eventually shut down completely from a lack of players. I'm having fun playing it solo, while saying hi to a few other players here and there, mostly Quest players I guess.

It's a standard MMO in most ways, but the VR interactions make it shine. I'm playing the Cyber Ninja class which has access to a bow that can be split into two halves and used as dual schythes/kamas, as well as a grappling hook and temporal invisibility and backstabs - its almost like my Skyrim VR build!

Aeterna Noctis

Another week, another Metroidvania... Just started so I don't have a firm opinion apart from that the graphics look wonderful and that it plays pretty well. It's supposed to be a very hard game so we'll see how it goes.

Well this reminds me of that time Roger Ebert stated that video games can never be art.

Going F2P in 3....2....

Damn... buying Bungie for $3.6 Billion might prove one of the biggest mispurchases in gaming history.

Sony must feel like that guy who funded Rapsittie Street Kids.

Sure, then I might be able to play it in VR eventually, if someone makes a mod.

I thought it was inspired by Alien 3 pregnancy and the human-alien hybrid newborn of Alien Resurrection...

Slasher's Keep

Roguelike Dungeoncrawler game. Enjoyable but a bit grindy, in that you're supposed to die again and again and get slightly stronger every time you restart.

It's got good weapon crafting, lots of unlockable skills and a pretty enjoyable loop if you're a fan of the genre.

Whatever the actual reason for its failure is, I'm guessing that Sony bigwigs only lesson from it all will be that PVE games like Helldivers 2 sell and PVP games like Concord don't.

Putting it on my wishlist, although I still have the first one in my backlog!

I went to Beijing during the PS3 era and in order to find consoles or games you had to go to these big markets where they sold imports and bootlegs and stuff.

I had to ask to see the PS3 games and the clerk would find a selection behind the shelf in some secret compartment. Felt like I was buying some black market nukes! But times have changed it seems.

I enjoyed Love, Death + Robots so I'm looking forward to it.

Hope they get the creative freedom they need from the license holders to make each episode as memorable as that show.

Set my Gamescom alarm for 23:00 CEST tonight and will fast forward most of it.

This looks pretty good. Looks like a total combat overhaul to a weighty Souls/MH style instead of the more MMO-style Black Desert combat.

@DrVenture69 Hope you enjoy it too!

Indivisible

Metroidvania platformer RPG with fighting game mechanics. Gorgeous visuals and great character designs (Indian JRPG style) but a somewhat lackluster story.

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Great little horror game with early Disney characters and some good Bioshock vibes. I'm playing it with the VR mod on PC which adds a lot to the already gloomy sepia-colored atmosphere.

I'm guessing you'll just be holding down X while moving the stick upwards to enable all these cool moves, in typical AC fashion?

Personally I prefer when the parkour requires some well-timed precision input from the player, like in Mirror's Edge, Titanfall 2, Pseudoregalia etc.

I finally got to try Forza Horizon 5 after hearing so much praise for the games, but was severely disappointed. It looks very nice but the car handling and racing feels similar to the NFS open world games that I don't like, and the vibe/announcers are just really annoying.

If the Forza 5 rumors are true, then Sony, in order to restore cosmic balance, should release Concord for XBOX as well.

@PuppetMaster I enjoyed it. Although it mostly recycled familiar Alien story beats, it had some great scenes and was overall pretty good. A 7/10 from me.

Game already looks fine. Give me a Parasite Eve 1+2 remake instead.

@PuppetMaster Good to hear, going to see it in about 3 hours!

I usually play PC games on controller, but unfortunately the controls were so clunky on this one I had to change to mouse & keyboard.

I hope I gets a VR adaption someday, as it would undoubtedly be one of the scariest games ever on that format.

This looks nice. I don't think I'll ever tire of post-apocalyptic settings, thb.

No thanks. From all accounts, the real talent at Bioware left years ago.

@MFTWrecks Sounds a bit like Intruders: Hide and Seek. Indie game (made by students) but pretty intense in VR at least.

No interest in ever watching it.

I am, however, watching Alien: Romulus in the theatre Wednesday. In this brand new venue (just look at those comfy seats!):

Loved Void Bast@rds so I'm very interested!

@everynowandben I think that one arrived after my playthrough, but if ever play it again I would give it a shot!

Will they ever remaster those PSP GoW's? Wouldn't mind playing them again.

Weird West was fun...for a while until it got a bit repetitive. But that was partly my own fault since I did too much exploring with the first character.

I would prefer a first person viewpoint for their next game though, as that tends to make immersive sims more...immersive.

This is a fair remake to me. Acclaimed series of games that, let's be fair, look very aged in 2024.

@Victor_Meldrew I saved her, I saved her, it's true! Oh hi, Mark.

@Mikey856 It's very good if you like the genre! Pretty short though, at about 6 or so hours.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

Atmospheric point and click adventure that made me feel like the 90s again - good stuff!

They Always Run

Action platformer with a 3-armed mutant. Great artstyle but controls were a bit finicky.

The Invisible Hours

Whodunnit VR mystery where everything happens realtime on a small island with 8 characters. A bit similar to Deracine where you move around as an invisible voyeur.

Pseudoregalia

Platformer-metroidvania with PSX graphics and nice atmosphere and music. Feels like playing Mario64 in a Team ICO castle with the move set of Mirrors Edge.

Nice one, right onto my wishlist it goes!

That's good news, I like the series. As for ranking them I would say DS1>DS3>DS2. Haven't played the top-down one.

Her hair looks a bit strange in those pics... like a plastic toupee.

Bungie is like a dam that finally bursts, and all that spews forth is sewage.

Sony has made a lot of dumb decisions over the last few years, and buying Bungie for $3.6 billion in some panic shopping spree after MS bought Bethesda, was definitely one of them.

If you enjoyed Slay The Spire I dare say you will enjoy this one too.

Unless, of course, you have some inexplicable hate for monsters and locomotives, just like those damn TERHS (trains-exclusionary radical homo-sapienists).

@Rich33 C'mon you haven't attempted even one little Hadoken in a real street fight? This is my signature move if someone tries to mess with me on the hard, cold streets of Norway:

I had this on PSP but I admit I never finished it.

But I find it weird that Sony never remastered the PS3 Killzones for PS4 and PS5 (and perhaps PC)... they're quality games that deserve to be played!

Already on my wishlist but good to hear that it meets expectations. I played Good Time Garden by the same devs and I'm ready for some more charming weirdness.

Fun concept, reminds me a bit of weirdness of Noby Noby Boy.

will be "reconfigured" into something smaller and "more personal".

Translation: It's now a movie about the hacking mini game.

If you guys happen to own a PSVR2 headset and a slightly capable PC, you really should consider trying Subnautica in VR with the Submerged mod (mod that gives you motion controls).

It's one of the most immersive gaming experiences ever, I promise! Even RE7 on PSVR wasn't as frightening as diving ever deeper into the abyss in a tiny submersible.

Borderlands 2: The Remake.

Pre-order bonus: Randy Pitchford's USB stick

Well let's hope its good then. Otherwise I fear Bluepoint will have to pack up their brand new AAA offices and crawl back down to the remake basement at Sony HQ.

No I've been a fan even before Soulslikes was a thing since I imported a US version of PS3 Demon's Souls before it was even out in Europe.

Golden Rule: If you don't like em, don't click on articles about them. That's what I tend to do with stuff I don't care about like Soccer or Sims or MMOs etc.

Silent protagonists work well if the game is constantly seen from a third or first person perspective, like Dead Space 1 and Half-Life 2.

If there are cutscenes from different angles where other characters are talking and the player character just stands there moping, then yes they will appear to be mute or somewhat stupefied.