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@Fiendish-Beaver same here! I’ve recently played ME legendary, and I am of the opinion that BioWare has had a penchant for corny writing and dialogue for decades, even if DA cranks the dial on that a bit. That said the gameplay and exploration bits I feel were done pretty well in DAV and have been having a blast with build crafting despite the game’s warts

While I think all corporations need oversight and to be called out for their disregard for their employees welfare, this argument makes little sense to me.

I can certainly acknowledge that the remaster has improved the texture work and the ambient effects significantly, I feel like something is lost with the color range. The original looks so much more stark and unique in its lighting compared to the remaster (at least in the video above and what else I’ve seen) it’s just a preference thing for me which is why I’ll stick with the original

I don’t really like this as a precedent. A game looking and playing like crap on current gen consoles because there’s a mid gen upgrade that allows you to play an acceptable version of the game. Should be the mid gen upgrade allows for more bells and whistles, not being the only viable way to play the game.

Anyone finding themselves locked by a progression blocking bug during a point in the game involving a certain rotating object?

The combat looked interesting if a little muted in terms of impact. My biggest gripe though is the traversal system. I really don’t like the system where jumping, climbing, falling only where the devs clearly marked and made interactive. It’s been really overused lately and is really artificial.

Had a damn good time with the game on pc, started ng+ but seemed to perform worse after every patch they introduced ironically. Have to give it another go to see if it’s better now

I generally like difficult games, elden ring, ds3 and the like. That said I’ve definitely not finished a few games due to the difficulty, bloodborne being one of them. Still love it though and find myself going back to it from time to time even though I never beat it.

Just started and damn it is walloping me. Maybe shouldn’t have started using a ng+2 character but I’m not about to go through the process of getting there with a new character

I get why they made the choice to nix the open world, but part of me doesn’t like that. Gives me ffxvi vibes and I really didn’t enjoy the structure of that game

Excellent game, one of the few souls likes that I’ve done multiple play throughs in one go (without taking a long hiatus in between). Certainly had its issues with encounter design but overall really fun and just superb world design

Yeah I remember the combat being a bit clunky. This doesn’t seem much better though based on the look of it. Reminds me of KOTOR(never played DAO) and the combat is not what I remember most fondly about that game

I’m about 50-50 at this point, PC game prices for nonPS exclusives are almost always way lower than PS Store plus. Basically my ps5 is where I play exclusive games or games that are terribly ported on PC (ie jedi survivor)

Played this last year and while I totally dig the concept, as it’s pretty close to an immersive sim, I could not get a grip with the gameplay. Not sure why exactly but it didn’t click with me.

The story and the theming was great in the demo. Didn’t love the gameplay too much, but had some interesting mechanics.

Played a bit like a budget plague tale. So not terrible but not amazing either.

I may end up buying it to support the dev depending on the cost

Wasn’t DBZ Kakerot already on the service?i
I swear I played it on there

Honestly didn’t find it too bad. There was some corny VO and theming around the high school stuff that felt pretty trite, but it also had some heavy hitting stuff as well. As for the last chase sequence can’t argue with that one being frustrating as hell. Overall I didn’t mind the 90 minutes I spent with it. That said I didn’t grow up with silent hill (no interest in horror games as a child) so I guess I have a bit less invested in it as a property.

Damn, just damn. This looks amazing

Playing enshrouded in early access. Got sucked into the hype even though I usually don’t like survival games. But I gotta say this is one of the best I’ve played. I’m enjoying even more than valhiem because of the npcs so it doesn’t feel as lonely and isolating (yes I know that’s kind of one of the main points of survival games 😜)

Seems like this is the new direction for live services. Instead of “we want you playing for years to come” it’s “we promise to keep it running for one year”

Just finished my second play through on lords of the fallen. Probably will put that down for a while. Alan Wake 2 is far and away my game of the year, but lords of the the fallen was definitely a sleeper hit and probably my second choice. I did not expect to love it as much as I did, even with some of the issues it has.

I’d spend 14 bucks on a month of extra to try this out.

Level design and world design in lords is absolutely amazing. 50 hours in I still find myself having holy crap moments with all of the twists and turns.

Man those proper nouns though!

Talk about trend chasing. It used to be looter shooter now it’s extraction shooter. Still not going to be any good no matter how with the times ubisoft tries to be

@Texan_Survivor totally agree with your sentiment. Saved up enough to buy a halfway decent gaming laptop last year and my purchases for PS5 have taken a nosedive. It just feels like I’m being fleeced by Sony. Only time I buy ps5 games nowadays is for the rare exclusive or if I happen to see a physical game at a decent sale

I’ve been interested in trying generation zero, but that review is pretty scathing. Curious if it’s better now after a few years of patches and content updates

That is so crazy that they’d wait until there’s no longer support for the game to do this. I bought it a few years back but didn’t really find anything compelling enough to keep me. The dev tools were pretty cool, but very unwieldy with a controller. I always wondered if it would be easier with the move controllers over traditional.

Applying oils from the radial is pretty great, that got very annoying on death march having to navigate the menus every 30 seconds during a monster showdown to apply oil

@rjejr just finished the game last night and have quite polar feelings about it. The game has some insane spectacle and really high highs, but incredibly low lows as well. At the end I couldn’t bother with the side quests because it felt detracting from the experience. And I’m one who usually avoids finishing a game so I can do all the side stuff. Like you said it’s very oddly paced, in a way that I didn’t like.

I certainly enjoyed my time with the game a couple years back, that said it always felt like the campaign kind of just sputtered out and randomly told me that I was doing the final mission and felt like it was very anticlimactic. So I’ll check it out after to see if it sits any better

This is my renewal month, so I guess I’m not resubbing

Dragons Dogma 2, alan wake 2, and that intriguing phantom blade game make it a 7/10 for me. No real first party games besides spidy was disappointing though

While I do think it’s good value objectively, it really just doesn’t suit me as a gamer with a limited amount of free time. I’d rather spend money on a game I know I want to play and will enjoy, rather than gamble on a subscription where there might be some games added in a given month that I could play and possibly enjoy. That’s why going forward I will pay the markup for a monthly or 3 month sub when something that I want is announced rather than pay for the year and hope that I’m not disappointed each month. Is it rational, maybe not, but I’m generally happier for it.

Love love love the premise of the first game, but I can’t play it no matter how hard I try. Don’t know if it’s a combo of the platforming + the difficulty, but I just get way too frustrated for my own good. Hope this is another gem for those that do play it though

I’ve changed my habit to instead of subscribing for a year at 100 bucks hoping maybe to get some games I might play throughout the year, I now wait until there’s a game I actually want, and spend 15 bucks for the month or possibly 3 month sub max then let it lapse. Works for most single player games. I don’t think I’ll ever have a lasting ps+ sub again. Just way too much of a gamble each month

Literally unplayable for me after the spider thread update, crashes every 30 seconds even after reinstalling, clearing cache, and rebuilding database from safe mode. Actually enjoyed what I played before that more than I thought I would, so a bit of a shame really

This game is unplayable for me. I can’t run it for more than two minutes without it crashing since the update. No other game crashes this hard on my ps5. I tried clearing console cache and reinstalling the game and nothing seems to fix it, anyone experiencing anything similar or have tips on resolving it?

Anyone experiencing a LOT of crashing since the update? Don’t think it crashed once in the 15 hrs I played prior, but has crashed thrice in 20 minutes since booting it up after

So far I’ve been enjoying my time with it. I think expectations being set low by reviews helped me play it for what it is and not what people thought a Tango game should be

Yeah I do think the game as a whole is very well put together and obviously the characters and gameplay are great as is expected from SSM. That said, I have a greater fondness for the first game for some reason that I can’t quite put my finger on where I’m more likely to play through that one for the third time over giving GOWR another go

Enjoyed the game decently enough overall, but the last few acts felt really rushed so left kind of a sour taste in my mouth. Don’t think DLC could bring me back to it.

I think the main difference in my opinion is Sony has never seemed coy about how they go about their business of putting out exclusives. It’s pretty much their whole strategy. Xbox seems like they are pretty wishy washy with the whole case by case thing, but then ends up making every big release exclusive

As a huge fan of ffxv despite its shortcomings, and someone who didn’t really take to the linearity of Remake, I’m a bit saddened/concerned by the change in direction, but I get why they are going that route based on general sentiment

It’s not the first i tried, but it’s the first I actually beat, which gave me the confidence to go back and beat Dark Souls 3. DS1 and Bloodborne are next, but those 2 are proving way more difficult than the former in my opinion.

Can’t friggen wait!

I played the whole demo and while I certainly can’t deny the combat and traversal was fun in that very lizard Brain sort of way, the world was a bit of a letdown in more ways than one. Aside from the usual checklist open world format, it’s honestly worse than what Ubisoft puts out. It just seemed a bit slapped together without much thought to environmental design or storytelling. Also the one objective where it teleports you into a fort that’s like 100 feet away, says you went back in time and have to protect static character models from the zombie dudes for 3 minutes is straight out of a ps2 game. I was literally laughing that this was something squeenix decided to show in a demo.

What do you know they added a glider and a chocobo

Anyone know if some of these deals are EU specific? For example been interested to try out Outcast 2nd contact but it is still showing 14.99 in the us store mobile app

I don’t think it needs a remake to be ‘playable’ it has better combat than Skyrim ever had and people are still paying 50 bucks for that one 11 years later. Hope they paid the folks well for the mods they’re using.