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@ApostateMage I was just thinking about this ad. One of my favourites.

It feels like GamePass was their only plan.
It's obvious that they're a tech company and not an entertainment company, but surely marketing is important regardless.
Really worrying about XBox now.

I enjoyed the first beta in the end, but it's not looking good is it?
Makes me wonder what will happen with Fairgame and the rest.

Edit:It sounds more and more like Sony need to launch it on PS Plus and give anyone who pre-orders the digital or physical versions a founders package or something.

@Czar_Khastik 😂😂
Never change.

I'd be pretty hyped about getting it, but I won't complain if it's delayed to 2025 either.

Happy to let the story tellers tell their story and see where it goes.

Excellent list. The top three especially. I wouldn't argue with any of this. Delighted to see Unicorn Overlord in there too.

Now I'm hyped to play Rebirth again. I just need to get through Erdtree, Stellar Blade, Unicorn Overlord and Rise of the Ronin first...

I'm being reminded of Paragon now - A perfectly good game that just couldn't pull in a player base.

Personally I'm happy to pay €40.00 upfront if it means all additional characters are added later at no extra cost and without the need to grind for them. If I had to pay for characters later I'd be complaining that it's just a P2W mess.

I think there's a misunderstanding here - The article is not declaring that anyone who doesn't like the game is a hater.
It's a reference to legit haters who say the game is terrible without trying it or checking gameplay. There's a lot of that going around for Concord atm.

@AinsleyE I can absolutely see why hero shooter regulars might not be bothered with this.
Being speculative, I feel like maybe Firewalk are going for the entry level crowd here. Everyone says it's too difficult to pull players away from the established service games, so perhaps they're just making it easier hoping everyone else will give it a go instead.
Again, that's just pure speculation on my part.

Personally I don't go for 5v5 hero shooters because I haven't the skill or the patience to be good at them.
Trying Concord over the weekend, once I got used to it and found a character I liked it felt easy because it's slower than all of the twitch and hero shooters that I suck at.
At times I felt like I was playing Golden Eye.

It's nothing special mind. Just a little bit of fun.
It'll live or die based on the post launch roadmap I feel.

@Atreus97 I've seen the same - People talking about how they haven't played the game and never will in one breath and declaring that it's trash in the next.

Not liking the game is fine and perfecly valid. I didn't think I'd like it, but it's more or less won me over at this point.
I'd like to see more from the other game modes before I'm 100% convinced, especially the solo time trial mode, but for now at least I'll be keeping my pre-order.

Been giving Concord a go and getting back to Helldivers a little too.
But mainly I'm playing Erdtree. Exploring is fun as always and I'm feeling pretty op with my new swords.
Every frame looks like the cover of a 1980s fantasy novel. I can't get enough.
It's probably the game of the gen for me.

@AdamNovice Was thinking the same. That little bit of backstory about the origins of the Freerunners had me craving a campaign mode. Would love to see something more from the ip.

Was on a bad streak with one of my friends just now. We were playing terribly in a few games.
5-30 or something nuts like that was a highlight score.
We were so bad I was going to cancel my pre-order.
Then I picked Star Child for the first time, he picked Duchess, and we just vibed with it.
We played one more round and won our first game with those characters, sticking to each other like glue.

It could be a fun game to play for an hour or two on a Friday night. I'm leaning towards keeping the pre-order now.

@UltimateOtaku91 @get2sammyb Agreed with both.
The only counter I would offer Sammy is the slow pace is what draws me to it.
Sure lots of hardcore gamers won't like it, but I suck at rapid PvP shooters and the slower pace here makes me feels like I'm actually in with a shout during a match.

And man, the music is so cool.

So far it's looking like a very well put together 7/10 for me. That said, I'm not sure if I'll be buying it yet. I'll see what those single player time trial modes are like in the full launch before I commit.

@Czar_Khastik The modern era in a nutshell right there.

@Zeke68 Maybe it's regional.
I can still see it, and it's still listed for PS5.

@AdamNovice 100% this. MS tried to use the Edward Bernays playbook to convince everyone of the new reality. The "Normalise playing ten games at once" social media posts from Xbox a few years back were enough to make me feel burned out.
It could never last - sub services seem to need constant growth, but there are only so many people in the world.

For myself, if you want my money regularly you need to regularly sell me something that retains some kind of value when I'm done with it.
For the likes of Netflix, Prime and Disney, subbing a month or two each year usually gets me through everything that I really want to look at.
Cut back on the fomo stuff and there's really not that much there that I "must see".

@WafflingHearts Ah feck, I was doing that exact same campaign. I completely forgot about it.
Maybe it will come back around.

I think it was a collectible. The boat wasn't it?

@DonkeyFantasy Ah fair. I never thought to do the obvious and check it.

@DonkeyFantasy I noticed that too. Stay Puft is in my collection but I didn't earn it.
Everything else looks right though. Extra points were added for purchases and no collectibles were lost.

I'm just starting a week off work and it's all going to be about Elden Ring and Bulwark.
We have a brewery tour this afternoon, then Ireland Vs South Africa (I have little hope), but after that it's 9 days of PS5 and Switch.

@Kanji-Tatsumi Had the same thought.
I have nothing against a live action adaption, but I think From Software IP in general is a perfect fit for dark fantasy anime.

There's a lot to play atm, but when I get through everything else I'll be going back to Helldivers.
I expect it to be on my PS5 home screen for a long time yet.

@freddquadros Well I've had no electricity this afternoon so I watched the first episode on my phone, and yeah it was perfectly fine.
Not the best television I've ever seen, but it was a decent watch.
I'll keep going until the power comes back.

@Mustoe Ah feck.
tbh I don't follow much of the online banter so I didn't know it was causing a fuss.
I haven't been in a Star Wars mood for a while either. Might just skip it and see what's on Crunchyroll instead.

You just saved my Saturday morning ✌️

Elden Ring and Bulwark for me.
I'm might give Star Wars Acolyte a go too on Disney+
I'm kind of burned out on Star Wars, but that cast looks great.

Astro
Lego Horizon
Dragon Age
Vampire Survivors
Behemoth
Until Dawn
Marvel Vs Capcom collection
No Rest for the Wicked (hopefully)

I watched some gameplay earlier. It didn't look as frantic as other 5v5 games, and the gunplay looked snappy like Destiny.
It gave me the impression that I might actually last a minute or two before someone dances on me.

I'll try the beta. If I enjoy it I'll keep my order.

@zidane4028 Nice. Thanks for the answer.
So chances are this emulator will be improved upon too.

Is this the absolute final version of the emulator?
Or can/will they be updating it going forward?

I'd love to see King's Field, Shadow Tower, Resident Evil: Outbreak or Onimusha come to this. Tall orders, I know. (Shadow Tower Abyss never had an EN version😭)

Good shout.
I'm loving these first person arpg games we're getting lately. Legendary Tales on PSVR2 is another great one.
They're all giving me a King's Field itch though.

Time is sacred to me these days, but if it's a franchise that I've loved for a long time I'll happily take whatever they're offering, and I love almost everything FromSoftware does, regardless of difficulty.
New franchises trying to emulate what FS does will have a difficult time getting onto my shelf though. I only have enough time for the ones I already know I'm going to love.

@DogPark Nioh 2 was particularly brutal.
I reached the second last area and just stopped playing.
Great game, I just burned out on the painful boss fights and difficulty spikes.
FromSoftware games on the other hand, if I die it's usually my own fault. No complaints. Either I walked blind into a wide open area or I failed to realise that the thing that looked like it could step on me was in fact going to step on me.

@get2sammyb Do you think it's going to flatline though?
Limited Run Games and the likes do well, and collector's editions seem to be here to stay.
There's a relatively small but dedicated base for it.

I can't remember the last time I bought a physical game in a store.
I buy everything from Amazon or ToyMaster now.

@PSme Brick and mortar game stores are dying.
Physical games have a fair bit of life in them, so physical die hards like us don't need to worry just yet. The main way to buy physical is online storefronts now.

tbh I only have so much space anyway, so if we did switch to an all digital future based on the gog.com model I wouldn't complain.

Shadow of the Erdtree, maybe some Helldivers, and then I'll probably read some X-Men stuff while I watch the euros.

@twitchtvpat That's what I'm thinking too.
First party single player games on Nintendo a gen or two later, that makes sense.
Putting them on XBox though would surprise me.

Multiplayer games on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they turn up on XBox.

It's probably just a matter of time before Helldivers is on XBOX too.
You'd also be putting a fairly safe bet on PS4 games going to Switch 2 when it launches.

@naruball Same honestly. I'm having a great time with mine, and I still have to start or finish Call of the Mountain, Arizona Sunshine 2 and Legendary Tales.
As I understand it, Sony has funded the RE games on PSVR2. The focus is very much on third party.

Also, Behemoth remains one of my most anticipated games.

@Amnesiac it's a fair observation.
I remember it was right after the second challenge when it died, and I've never had any problems with it before now.
Maybe that's it.

It's a shame it happened right in the middle of Days of Play.
Lots of nice collectible campaigns were popping up alongside the deals.

@FinneasGH Same. It was fun popcorn fodder. I don't think it was trying to be more than that.

I'm excited.
Sure the cg trailer wasn't the best, but the gameplay and setting look excellent.

I was almost relieved when they said the settings were more linear than Inquisition. There's been a lot of open world stuff on my list already this year, with Erdtree on the way, so I'm definitely in the mood for something a little more linear in that regard.

But yeah, put me in the excited af list.

I'm hooked on the anime.
Watched the latest episode last night. The intro and outro tunes are in my head all morning.

@CaptD Yep. Behemoth and Astro for me.
They were the two big games for me in the past few weeks.
Pretty excited for Dragon Age too.

Just Bulwark this weekend. Setting up those trade routes.
I had to restart last night after I realised I had been playing it wrong. Such an addictive game.

Edit: Might skip Bulwark and start Stellar Blade instead.

@Jimmer-jammer Agreed.
I mean I know there's a lot of painful readjustments happening after the COVID hiring sprees, bit as far as the games are concerned I keep saying, and I will keep on saying, that I feel like I'm back in the PS1 days.
There's just so much to play atm.

@Jimmer-jammer Yes I ended up writing far more than I intended 🫠
I've been in a Friday daze at work.

Agreed, we've had fantastic games this year.
I'm just getting to Bulwark now and I haven't started Stellar Blade, Unicorn Overlord, Rise of the Ronin, V Rising... With more on the way I don't know where I'll make the time to play them all.

@Jimmer-jammer I was just thinking something similar.
Take away the optics and the entertainment value of a show, and just put the games all in a row. That's all I care about at 40 pushing 41.
The big dramatic E3 reveal moments were crazy exciting, until they just became ammo that the fanboys could fire at each other. I can live without all of that.

I still overall prefer Nintendo and Sony's approach of only saying what they need to and just showing me what I can play in a given year, but I'm starting to itch for a hint of what else is coming beyond that too.
In that regard and as far as an entertaining show is concerned, XBox had it. They've bought so much IP recently that they couldn't fail.

But focusing just on the games, XBOX and PlayStation had two games each for me:

• Avowed
• Fable
• Behemoth
• Astrobot

And then DragonAge on both platforms.
If Avowed comes to PlayStation I'll give it a go for sure. It's looking much better than the first gameplay reveal.
But Astrobot is the game that I can't stop thinking about. There were a few other games shown in the last few weeks that I'm excited for, but Astro was something else.

When I think about that game I can't even remember the shows.

@GymratAmarillo Honestly I think this is what it is.
Either Sony are afraid that it won't sell well outside of the enthusiast demographics, thereby taking some of the shine off of the game's rep, or they're holding it back for when it can have the biggest impact.

The comic book series is ongoing so the franchise is alive in their minds, but something is holding them back.

In my wildest, most unrealistic dreams they're holding back a PS5/pc port so it can be announced alongside a sequel reveal.