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It's more likely that the execs identified a gap in their bank accounts and want to pit out a monetization driven live service game.

This looks great!

I had a good time playing through it, but let's be honest, almost all of the game is filler/bloat.

I'm never planning to revisit the game again and I'm not even sure if I would play through the 2nd part once it becomes available on PS+

So I guess everyone who doesn't already own a PS5 will get priced out now, great move by sony.
Console prices should go down over the course of its lifespan, not up...

Funny how the word "premium" has lost all its value.

I might check out Hogwarts Legacy, Blue Prince and Lost Records. Overal a pretty solid month, but not sure if any of those games are gonna stick for me.

Oh no, I can't look at the panties of a (probably underaged) anime girl no more. What will I do with my life now 😫

It's almost like Nintendo forgot what happened to the WiiU

I really don't like the slow paced soulslike combat that poe2 is trying to pull off.
It really doesn't fit the arpg genre imo.
I'll probably just play Last Epoch on pc this season.

"Our hobby is getting increasingly expensive, folks, and it’s unclear what any of us can do about it."

I would argue it's cheaper than ever.
The game market is so oversaturated that you can get almost every game for dirt cheap if not free if you're willing to wait.

You can get a full gaming library on the Epic store alone for free.

Subscription service offer a wide array of games for a pretty low cost.

There is literally no reason to pay for full price games nowadays.

The only full priced games I buy are €20 indies that I really want. PS plus extra usually has everything I need.

I won't support Nintendo on this, hopefully the Switch 2 sales will suffer because of it.

Nintendo has always been a company that thrives when it's struggling imo, they always seem to mess things up after a huge succes.

My biggest issue with the switch were never the specs, but the flimsy feeling of the device and the terrible joycons.

I wish they'd gone with a thicker studier console.

Right now I see the switch mainly as a holiday console to play indie titles on.

Netflix boss is full of BS.
But what I do think is that each newer generation of consoles is becoming increasingly pointless. Gameplay has barely changed in the last 3 generations of consoles.
With the graphics approaching realism we come to a point where there just isn't anything to upgrade in the traditional sense.

Huge dealbreaker for me. I have a terrible sense of direction and I really don't want to play more games wheren I'm lost all the time.

I don't really care anymore about soulsborne games. I finished DS 1 through 3 and got progressively less interested in the genre.
So I tried Bloodborne for a few hours and it's just more of the same in a setting I don't like.

Never cared about Assassins Creed and I don't like open world games, so I'm sitting this one out.

Guess I gotta hurry on with my Animal Well playthrough

PoP looks nice, but I'm just worried what is gonna leave the service this month

@Northern_munkey The clunky combat that's balanced around the dodgeroll is way more inspired by soulsgames then any other arpg

I love me a good ARPG. But I really dislike soulslikes.
I fell off PoE2 pretty hard because of the soulslike elements. So I probably skip this one.

Never heard if the game and I still don't care

I love jrpgs but I find it really hard to get into the trails games. I might check it out in a sale sometime tho

Just Prince of Persia for me. Btw wasn't that 2nd chapter of Lost Records supposed to be released on PS extra this month?

The 2 minute format feels like such an outdated mechanic. It was the major reason why I quit the 1+2 remake.
So I doubt I'll be getting this one.

Pretty excited to try out dragon age after work

I hope it reviews well as I love these kind of old school survival horror games.
The trailer looks really bad tho.

I'd kinda want to get back into Monster Hunter at some point. But for now it's just too big of a time sink.

So the only reason DA: V tanked is because some snowflakes got offended?
I'm definitely gonna check it out!

PEGI 12 is still way too harsh for Balatro imo. But I'm glad they changed it.

I doubt these PEGI changes will finally start giving PEGI 18 ratings to games with predatory lootboxes, but one might hope.

@Markatron84 the thing is, the AI doesn't know how many fingers an image has.
It's not intelligent at all.

It just copy/paste works from its database together to create some frankenstein image. But since hands are always in different positions it doesn't really know what a hand looks like.

I just started my first Yakuza game and while I enjoy it, I doubt I'm gonna binge the whole series.
The insane rate in wich they put out bew titles is a major turn off.

So what, you feed it some youtube Let's Plays and you get your own ***** version of said game?
Oh boy, that won't flood the stores with even more shovelware

Shinobi looks like the only game I could see myself actually buying (if it's not a full price release).
I'm really burned out with AAA games lately so it's hard to get excited for those anymore.

It's mostly a ***** month because we're losing all the Tales games

Was looking forward to Tales of Arise, but I'm not gonna rush it.

The biggest problem with the roguelike aspect in Returnal was that it wasn't rewarding. There weren't any cool builds to explore, it just evolved into getting your favorite gun and as much health as possible.

The malignancy/malfunction system is really cool in theory, but the rewards are kinda dissapointing for how brutal some malfunctions can be. Once I realized that I just should ignore any malignancy, the game got a lot easier and my runs became more consistent.

I was really hoping for some new JRPGs to enjoy, since most of them already left PS+. SaGa frontiers remastered doesn't sound very appealing.

It was kinda annoying that the game I was playing (Temtem) just gave a black screen and no indication that it was a PSN outage. So I reinstalled the game a few times and got on with other games.

I hope the Ori games come to PS5 at some point.

One of the worst months in a while although I will try out High on Life.

The first one was fun, so I should definitely check this one out.

Loved the gameplay of Returnal, but hated the rogue-like aspect of it.
Hopefully this game can do it better.

Pretty hyped to try out High on Life!

I fell off pretty hard since the game is still in a very rough shape. I'll probably check out the patch tho.

Well guess it's time to finish the first GoW so I can start preparing for Ragnarok.

Nintendo excels at screwing up after a major commercial succes. So let's just wait and see if they can break that cycle.

It really sucks that RE2 is leaving. I wanted to platinum it at some point.

Pretty terrible to put that requirement in single player games. Then again it doesn't affect me because I'm never buying it anyway.

Hopefully the movies are better then that Frontiers game.

None of those titles really seem interesting to me