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I've never played it. Skyrim is my favorite game of all time, and I was curious about this project, but after reading a lot yesterday and watching a few videos, it doesn't match what I'd want, so I'll pass.

They've done an excellent job of getting the vibe of the characters and the world, and retelling the story. Pinpoint on that.

But as a game, for fun, they're severely lacking. Its much more of an interactive story than the fun exploration and leveling up experience of the original. Even as an open world, the experience is still PAINFULLY linear.

I've been playing RPGs for 35 years, and this game has THE BEST party-based action combat of anything I've ever seen. It is so well done, and the physics of the character models - how size and shape truly effects how they play and move, is something I've never seen elsewhere. On a basic technical level, its one of the best games ever made.

Unfortunately, the story and characters are paper thin, and feel like they were written by teenagers, or perhaps children, and that's really what holds it back. The quest system and most other RPG aspects are also bare bones and horribly out dated.

Eagerly waiting for my copy to show up in the mail. Its been a long five year wait since the last real game!

Skyrim is my favorite game of all time, and I still play it 13 years later. There are a lot of things about Fallout 4 that I don't like, but in spite of that, I have replayed it several times to scratch that Skyrim-like itch. If Starfield is anything like that, then I want to give it a shot as well.

@McBurn That was my thought. Hopefully the PS6 will be designed to play games like this from the get go.

For me, who had been playing the series since the original launched in the US, it was the beginning of the end of them making games that I enjoyed. And that was after 12 was the absolute peak of JRPGs. Its unfortunate, because I want more games, but they just aren't making them the way I want them to be any more.

A good game will give me four to six weeks of enjoyment per playthrough. 100-150 hours at 2-4 per day is a great experience.

I've played the AC series since the very start, and this is one of the games I've been looking forward to the most since the launch of the PS5. I cannot really grasp the hate that its getting in some corners. Origins and Valhalla were awesome games, and Odyssey is one of my very favorites of all time. Fingers crossed that its more of the same, but even better graphics and character control.

I'm never, ever going to do something like this through my phone. If they ever actually bring it to the PS5, I'll check it out.

@Logonogo Ah, my bad. I played it in January. Forgot exactly when it released.

1. Infinite Wealth
2. Dragon Age Veilhguard
3. Dragons Dogma 2
4. FF7 Rebirth
5. Hogwarts Legacy

I'm finishing Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth very soon. Then I know that my wife has bought me one game as a gift, which I'll jump into after that.

Not a big year, but very much looking forward to AC Shadows, Civ 7 and Ghost of Yotai.

Nope. Waiting on the PS6. What the Pro offers doesn't move the needle for me, even if it was the exact same price as the regular one.

@get2sammyb How does it compare to older Lego games? My wife and I absolutely loved the games in the PS2 and PS3 eras, and played them with our kids. But we felt that just about everything after the Force Awakens games have been poor to awful. Does this capture the magic back from what came before that?

Fingers crossed that all of the DLC will still be made. I bought the versions that had the season pass included in Odyssey and Valhalla and was glad to be able to.

No. I'll never play a horror game.

Even for free, I have zero interest in a one directional, short zombie game. No thanks. There's just nothing about the games that looks appealing whatsoever to me.

It honestly does so very little, and I need to have a disc drive, so unless my current PS5 died and the price difference was very small, then no.

Even if the price were only slightly higher than the regular PS5, and it included a built in disc drive, it doesn't seem to offer much of anything that I care about in the way of making games better.

Broadly speaking, the focus of games in this generation - shinier, faster, throwing more at the screen at once, just isn't what I want it to be. I want better graphics and lighting, but on games that are as massive and deep as the ones that were common at the end of the PS3 and early PS4 eras.

Yes absolutely! I was eventually going to buy The Show once it went on sale, so this is great. First time that's happened with PS+ in a while.

Dragon Age 4 has been at the top of my list for a decade now, but I'm now hesitant after seeing what we're getting. Hopefull, but not as excited. Similarly, the three AC RPG games were among my very favorite on the PS4, and I've been dying for another, but am worried that Shadows will be smaller and less satisfying.

I've decided that it will be the first mainline FF game that I never play, and I've been into the series since the very start.

I don't care about The Last of Us at all, but I've always loved Uncharted. If its not more in the style of what we had with Drake, I do hope we get more fun adventure games that aren't horror.

IMO, the weirdest part of this whole issue is that the games that are clearly wrong on my end are Sony exclusives. GoW Ragnarok, Gran Turismo, Ratchet & Clank, etc.

The weirdest is when my save file itself, within the game, tells me that I have signifigantly more time played than the PS5 says. Like, its right there to use!

I love games that offer a long playthrough, but I'm a single player, offline gamer, so I guess this news doesn't really have any direct bearing on me. I'll just hope for more of what I enjoy.

No. It looks far, far too fast and zippy for me, and the world of the game seems a lot darker and more gloomy than I want to play.

So when are they bringing the program to the actual consoles? Why make it a cell phone thing?

AC Valhalla, Outer Worlds and Lego JP are all terrific games that I bought years ago. But Tales of Arise was one that as soon as I saw it, I thought "That's one that I'll wait to show up on PS+". and here we finally are. Patience pays off.

Truly, before the Bethesda deal, the one and only Xbox franchise I had the slightest interest in was Forza. Had the future ES games and Starfield still be on PS, I wouldn't have ever cared about this at all.

@NotSoCryptic I'm sorry if I was unclear. I meant the first game in the FF7 remake series.

Either way, the experience that I really want is one more akin to the older games - through FF12 - where you controlled the whole party, switching characters as you desired most of the time, leveling them up, building their skill trees, buying/finding weapons and armor, etc.

Sadly, the more I see of, the game, the less interested that I am. I was pretty disappointed in how the first chapter went. What I want is a massive party based RPG where I can use all of the characters, and this seems to just be turning into more of an interactive story with action elements to it. Thats not why I used to love FF games for such a long time.

Over the years, there have honestly been very few Xbox exclusives that I've felt that i missed out on. And some of those, like Mass Effect 1, have eventually come to Playstation anyways. At this point, the only current ones I'm very interested in are Starfield and Forza, but the big daddy of them all, ES6 down the line, is the one I care about the most.

It looks a lot faster than I want games to be. I'll keep an eye on it and maybe check it out in a year if the price gets low.

This absolutely made my worries about the combat go away. That looks just right, and the graphics are good enough - it looks like a fine PS4 game. Now the question for is whether its too linear or whether it gives the player the freedom to go where they like and choose the order of quests or not, and just how much game there really is in the end. Its absolutely moved from a game I was hopeful for to one that I'll probably eventually buy.

I've played The Show since before it was The Show, but I never go full price any more, and I don't buy it every year either. I'll keep an eye on the new features and how it plays, and then decide if I want to get it once it drops to $30 later this year. As someone who LOVES single player offline franchise sports games, but realizes that developers don't give a crap about people like me any longer, its a frustrating side of my gamer life.

I've never played anything from the series, and I haven't really been into fighting games since the 90s.

I will absolutely, eventually get to it. But I have one game I'm playing now and three more that I haven't started yet in line after that one. Maybe I'll find a good sale on Infinite Wealth later this year.

No. I don't do horror, and there's nothing at all about the series that has ever made it look appealing to me.

For my tastes and the games that I like to play, it wasn't special at all. Two solid games that enjoyed, but won't ever go back to - BG3 and ToTK, and that's about it.

For me, over the last 20 years, it would rank in the bottom five.

Waiting on the main game to come to PS+ eventually.

I've played every mainline AC game shortly after release, but I'm absolutely not excited for this one. Going away from the RPG style, which was the best thing they ever did, is a huge gut punch for me. I'll eventually buy it on clearance or play it on PS+ sometime later on.

Zero interest.

I haven't played a MK game since the SNES. I mostly outgrew fighting games decades ago.

@Ravix He's supposed to be able to see 40 feet, but I don't know if that's happening. I've never played anything from this studio before and its a big adjustment. But I'm hungry for AAA party based RPGs, and pickings are ultra slim these days.

I just finished Act 2, and I give it a 7 so far. There are good things to be found, but the UI is a huge pain to deal with, and there are technical issues relating to actually being able to see what's going on any time the characters are away from sunlight. There are LARGE sections where even doing everything possible with the settings on the game, the PS5 and my TV, I'm still not able to see much of what's happening unless my character is actively holding a torch instead of a weapon, and then I only see what's right next to them, and its still blurry. Its made it a much bigger chore than most other games.

I'm going to wait a few months, see what everyone has to say about how it runs on the PS5, and hopefully get a few more patches and updates. Then we'll see.

Its the first month in a while that neither I nor my kids are interested in a single one of the game. Unfortunate, but you'll have that from time to time. Its been a good run up to this point the last six months or so.

Its outright bizarre that its taken this long. I play games on my PS5, PS4 and PS3. My cell phone has nothing to do with any of that.