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@dancingstar93 I don't count that, because the design template is an older FF game back when their games had proper cities. I'm also only counting the singleplayer titles. FFXIV does this fine.

First two comments: The duality of man

I'm excited, anything that takes the Persona formula is on my radar. I can't expect an indie team to be as slick, so it will depend on the characters

I want a good city. When was the last decent FF city? Rabanastre right at the beginning of FFXII? Too many FF games recently have happened in pretty depopulated areas instead of feeling like real living spaces

Hey baby, it was just a fling. Let's not get hung up about this

DON T NOD

~ that apostrophe is invisible

I'm happy about Nickelodeon Brawl, I agree that God of War feels cheap at this point.

I play games to the play the games. It's been years since I've cared about getting a trophy

For me, I mostly want to know if the game will still play like an RPG in dialogue / choices. Those were the best parts of previous Spider games

The dotcom bubble was full of companies who imagined people would like to go to a 3D virtual shop to buy something. They all went bust, because that's so much less convenient than a list of items on a website.

We don't need a 3D world for virtual conferencing. That's more awkward than teams. Online concerts potentially have some appeal (I've heard Fortnites are fun) but you don't need to go to a virtual space before the concert starts, and it's will never be similar to the experience of an actual concert.

The 'metaverse' is better done by a bunch of separate things which already exist.

It looks like it could be interesting, but I don't know how well this will play on s controller

I'm interested, it's always interesting to see tropes from a country outside of the usual.

@mucc I believe Sony does control the discount price of third party games. To get a game on a sale on the PS store, a developer has to wait for Sony to invite them to take part in a sale, and then Sony offers them a maximum discount percentage and the developer can choose particular discount levels up to that maximum.

@DEDE1973 even Steam sales don't tend to be as cheap as they used to. I saw some data while back that the 90% sales are rarely worth it for the developers compared to a 50% sale.

@Jeaz the only mainline Final Fantasy game in the last 20 years that wasn't dragged down by the scars of development hell was the MMO that they had to entirely shut down and spend a year re-making.

@thefourfoldroot That would be true if demos are a good indicator of the quality of the game, but that's often not true.

I've played plenty of demos where the game seemed rubbish, only for it to turn out to be good at release. It can be hard to fit big complex games into a short demo. Either you make the demo a tutorial (which is boring) or you throw a pile of mechanics at the player which haven't been introduced.

This is especially true if it's just the first 2 hours! Imagine if you played the first two hours of Persona 5. You wouldn't even have reached a proper combat section!

If I had any interest in the two indie titles, it would be fine. But dungeon crawlers do nothing for me, and the reviews suggest Tribes of Midgard doesn't pull off what it attempts. So a weak month

The story was a dead weight dragging down the game that was deeply unfunny and a bit cruel combining that with the cheesey shallow take on divorce of a Hallmark film.

This is of course subjective, so here is an actual line of dialogue from the game to help clue in how you'd respond to it.
"You don't have a relationship, you have a relation-sh**"

I hope they update the voice controls. They're atrocious!

People wisely told me to hold off buying the WWE game as the price always plummets immediately. Should I wait longer still?

@DETfaninATL it's not currently possible to run PS3 games on a PS5. What the cloud streaming they're offering here does is run PS3 games on different hardware and then send you the image of the game.

The reason why Sony won't let you do that for PS3 games you own is it costs money to stream and they don't want to sign up to giving away money so people can play their own games.

The discussion is whether Sony could make it possible to play your PS3 games on PS hardware, but even if it is possible, it would take a lot of time before we could do that because the PS3 hardware was very weird. Xbox hardware has always been more standard which makes it easier for Microsoft.

From the PS4 onwards Sony has been more normal on it's hardware design, so I hope backwards compatibility won't be an issue in the future.

@LiamCroft in the Italian books they translated the names for Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw as 'Red Badger' and 'Black Raven', so you're not the only one to get the colours confused.

This honestly looks like everything I've wanted, but I'm not sure if I'm comfortable supporting JK Rowling right now

@God_of_War_ The PS store (and probably a lot of others) don't really do 'sales' anymore. They're just games where the price has fallen because it's old, but they pretend it's still worth full price for half the year.

If you look at sites like psprices, most major games receive a 'sale' every other month, normally for the same price each 'sale'.

The good news is it means you're safe to wait. You don't have to worry about missing this particular sale

A strategy game and an SE game with an actual art style, I'm interested!

Another Square Enix game, another title that looks like it's made of store bought assets.

Has SE forgotten how to composite art objects? Even mainline FF games look like this these days, ever since FFXIII.

Haven has some of the best writing and music in gaming. When the game finished I felt hollowed out, I'd put so much of myself into it.

I played it during the first pandemic lockdown and living with my now wife for the first time. A game about being isolated in an alien world with your loved one hit home hard.

What a terrible time for me to unsubscribe from Funimation. Give me a that free trial anyway Sony!

I seriously hope this doesn't reduce the quantity and quality of dubs going forward

I prefer digital. Shelf space in a house is always at a premium these days.

It Takes Two winning is a sign of what a weak year 2021 was. The gameplay, whilst hit and miss, is fantastic but the story is so bad the cutscenes continually drain all the fun from the game. I've been playing with a friend and we're pushing ourselves to the end just for the sake of it.

It's only February and there have already been at least 3 releases in 2022 that would blow any 2021 game out of the water.

Ghost of Tsushima would have been good. One mode from GoT is very lame.

Not a fan of this month if this is it. I have no interest in playing any of those

The games' story was so good it put me off The Witcher Season 2 on Netflix. Half way through the show I realised I was watching the exact same story as GotG but the game did it much better.

And if a game is telling a better story than a TV show, why watch the show?

It's easy to forget just how old the Switch is now. I got one recently and was surprised that Fire Emblem looks more like a PS3 game than a PS4 level game.

@jrt87 it will until 2023 at least. The global supply chain for semiconductors is fragile, with only a handful of places able to manufacture the cutting edge chips. And it takes years to build new plants, so they've not got a good way to deal with a backlog.

It should have been free from the start (and not just on PS+). You can't have such aggressive microtransactions on a game people pay for

@TowaHerschel7 the visuals don't need to be passed through the internet. The servers track position and action data for every character and that is what gets sent over the internet, the actual graphics are all processed on your console from the data stored on the console.

Microsoft isn't close to breaking even on Gamepass, and I personally doubt the business model works. Netflix are raising their prices again, and they still haven't reached the point where they make a profit.

Games are harder because they'll always be more niche, production costs are high, and losing a £60 purchase stings more than losing a £10 cinema ticket. And films still make the bulk of the revenue in cinemas before going to streaming.

Microsoft are hoping they can drive their competition out of business, and then jack their prices up and cut their content down.

I clicked on this article assuming people were annoyed that Sony hadn't planned to go the full 10 years with the PS4.

There's no way Sony have compromised PS5 production for the PS4.

Mobile games are the big dogs now. Two mobile rhythm games making the list was unexpected!

I'm not particularly interested in another open world zombie game, so I'm glad they're working on a new project. Can't wait to see what they come up with!

@twitchtvpat I don't see it. Microsoft are all-in on gamepass. They're not going to let you play their games somewhere where you can't buy gamepass.

At this stage either Gamepass succedes or Microsoft stop making videogames.

@KidBoruto Assassin Creed games are the Dan Brown books of gaming. Everyone buys them, and then loads trade them in when they're done.

I've been waiting for this game to go on sale forever and it never has. Is it because it's early access?

I'd like to see what they look like in person. The PS5 is so damn massive it can make any colour look like an eye-sore.

I don't feel like the Mordor games ever put all the pieces together. The tone felt wrong for Tolkien, the gameplay was too repetitive, and the world felt like a gameplay level stuffed with enemies standing in groups rather than a real place. I'm excited to see if they can improve on it

I'm getting some Central American vibes from that design.

@Ken_Kaniff this trailer confirmed it was a MP live service game in my eyes. They're doing the thing where they use character dialogue as if it was party chat.

Great trailer music. It's interesting the way games are marketed has shifted. Multiplayer games are now sold as cool chillout spaces with friends, instead of serious 'badass' experiences. Fortnite led the way, and lots of marketing is following.

I don't think this games looks pretty. All Square Enix games these days look like they're made from store assets - the raw visual power is on display but it all looks misfitting and uncanny (the faces in particular). They don't seem to be able to make a cohesive art style.