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Maquette looks amazing - that's the highlight for the month in my opinion. FF has never really appealed to me 🤷‍♂️

I'll get it when it's on GamePass

That was underwhelming to say the least. Woof.

@orson Where?

I'd love to see Observer: System Redux, and/or Avengers

Never played Borderlands, but I tend to enjoy these types of games. Would it make sense for me to play this?/Would I enjoy it despite knowing nothing about the franchise?

Walking Dead Final Season is the best season since the first IMHO - highly recommend if you like those kinda games.

@Fyz306903 Animals are not morally responsible for their actions - humans are.

Has Second Extinction already been forgotten? Just because it's not announced for Playstation doesn't mean it doesn't exist

@GrimWillows That's Jack the Pumpkin King. Seriously though, how incredibly unoriginal. If the title of the game is that generic and derivative, I don't have much hope for the game itself being anything special.

Dude on PureXbox gave it an 8. Either way, I'll play this eventually as I enjoyed the first one. With so many great games to play, I'll probably just slide this one down the list and wait for a good sale.

An absolute masterpiece gets even better? If you haven’t played this yet, it looks like there’s never been a better time to start.

Probably should just put it on PS Plus and Game Pass if they want more people to play/invest

A step in the right direction - well done 👍

Doesn’t look good at all in my opinion - I’ll stick with single-player campaigns for my Resident Evil experiences

@OneManDroid Hmm.. I gotta disagree with your assessment here. I found the shooting in Control to be anything but boring, and vastly superior to Quantum Break in both weapon, and enemy variety. The launch mechanic is also tons of fun, especially after all the upgrades. Character movement variety I would say is about equal, but being able to fly around in Control I thought was more fun than the different things you can do in QB such as super speed running or freezing enemies in place. Both great games, and to each their own for which is better 🤓

@fingalf “There will be full DualSense support, including haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, while the release will also support PS5’s Activities system.”

-The article above 😋

Awesome! Cannot wait for more details. The reboot trilogy are some of my favorite games of all time.

I haven’t subscribed for over 5 years now... I’m back in 👍😎👍

Are there lives? Any punishment for death besides resetting to checkpoint?

@Lumic I suppose I’ll have to give them both a go then - I appreciate your response, thanks!

@Wolfie_Pie I also felt a little queasy playing this - I turned off the camera movement wobble in the options, and that helped quite a bit. Still, resolving the camera stuttering issues would of course be ideal.

Finally finished RE remake last night (with the help of a guide) - it only took me what, 4 years?

Had to take a break from it after putting in about 25 hours, but now I'm ready to jump back into Horizon Zero Dawn later today.

Thinking about playing RE3 Nemesis soon... Anyone have an opinion or recommendation on whether or not I should play that before playing RE3 remake? Is it worth it to see the differences (how different is it?) or is the remake so much better that I should just skip the original?

If a remake is too similar to the original, it doesn’t justify its own existence imho.

Also, why would they skip remaking Code Veronica? You know, a game that would actually benefit from being remade...

I initially enjoyed this game, but I saw the trappings and decided to force myself to give it up after a few hours before I spent any money, or became too invested and stuck treading water for countless hours of my life. However, I may return to it some day when it’s actually possible to complete the story/beat the game.

In case anyone actually takes the trolls seriously, I just want to say this looks like it plays extremely differently than Sea of Thieves and the comparison is about the equivalent to saying that Halo is a rip off of Contra.

@theMEGAniggle Imagine if Nex Machina was played from a 3rd person perspective - it would still be an arcade style shooter - that’s what this looks like to me.

@theMEGAniggle For me it’s because it looks like a glorified arcade game. Perhaps I’m wrong, and I would honestly love to be wrong here. My interest is piqued by the style and setting, but I’m also very cautious because so far I’ve seen nothing showing this game to be a large scale adventure. Looks like a mid-size $40 game to me - at least, so far. I think people just need more info - I know I do before I make a decision on this one.

@playstation1995 Wha? It’s almost nothing like Outlast 2.

It was a better idea than a game (in my opinion). I liked the presentation much more than the actual gameplay, and was a bit disappointed after finishing it. I saw it through because I loved the story and watching the cutscenes was a joy, but the game itself... meh. Whenever I see a game with fantastic style, I always think of this game and wonder if the gameplay will actually be as good as the game looks. Hopefully a sequel would polish and flesh out gameplay mechanics, and it will actually be fun to play as well as look at. Would be very cautiously optimistic for a sequel.

So far on my PS5 I played through:
Astro’s Playroom
Walking Dead Final Season
Magic Circle
Arkham Knight
and I just started Horizon Zero Dawn

So yeah, 99% PS4 games, hahaha..

Just started Horizon Zero Dawn this morning

Played through the entire Arkham series for the first time over the last 6 months - cannot wait for more! I just hope this game will be enough to scratch the itch!

Let’s have a new poll where we vote on whether or not Horizon Zero Dawn should be considered an exclusive 😋

I play a couple games that offer them, but I’ve never felt compelled to buy one. Rather spend my money on something more substantial - like a different game.

Even more strange when you consider Microsoft owns (okay, technically will own) Doom, yet Fall Guys isn’t even on Xbox

Picked up Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for $9.99 😎

The haptic feedback is cool and all, but I honestly prefer the DS4. The Dualsense is a little too big/wide for my tastes. Also, and maybe it’s just me as I haven’t heard many complaints about it, but I’m not a huge fan of the awkward/uncomfortable 45 degree angle cutoff at the bottom of the grips. I’m glad they abandoned the light bar though!

Picked up The Walking Dead Final Season

Steamworld Heist is amazing - hoping for a sequel!

@PossibLeigh Shovel Knight is brilliant - I highly recommend it. If you think you might like it, you will. Top-tier level design you won't find in the classics. It gets compared to Mega Man a lot, and I can see why, but I don't care for Megan Man at all, and I absolutely love Shovel Knight. I also feel like SK's story and world building doesn't get enough credit - Yacht Club did such a nice job creating an interesting sense of place and character. The boss fights are fantastic, and moment to moment gameplay throughout just feels good. Obviously, its one of my favorites, but it really is amazing, and it absolutely deserves it's reputation as an indie masterpiece.

Oh no! That's too bad, I was looking forward to it.

Wait a minute... Spread too thin? Slipping quality? Poor technical performance? Where have I seen this happen before...?

...DONTNOD will should remember that.

@Badheelman Nice! Despite the screen tearing and frame rate issues, Enslaved is a pretty dang good game overall, and certainly worth your time to finish. Hopefully Ninja Theory returns to the franchise one day and makes a sequel!

What I played on PS3 in 2020:

Adventure Time: Secret of the Nameless Kingdom
Batman Arkham Asylum
Batman Arkham Origins
Bioshock
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)
Dead Space
Dead Space 2: Severed DLC
Dead Space 3: Awakened DLC
Dead Space: Ignition
Enslaved
God of War: Ghost of Sparta HD
Resident Evil 5

Yeah I definitely still play it a lot, hahaha...

Games I own:

Way too many to count, probably ~800 or so

Games I've beaten:

~450

Games I started but have not yet beaten (excluding: sports, racing, party, fighting (unless there is a "story mode" such as Injustice, SSBU, etc.), multiplayer only, and/or games I did not pay for):

~50

Games I own, but have not started (excluding: sports, racing, party, fighting (unless there is a "story mode" such as Injustice, SSBU, etc.), multiplayer only, and/or games I did not pay for):

~70

2020 has given me extra time to whittle down my backlog, and I've beaten a TON of games this year, but I'm pretty sure I'll never actually catch up. Certainly, there are some games I know I'll never finish because of high difficulty, or because I don't actually like them but also cannot sell them because I purchased them digitally. I haven't purchased very many games this year on purpose because I'd really, really like to get my backlog numbers down. If I can get down to less than 50 total left to play and beat, and less than 10 owned but not played yet, I'll be at a point I feel more comfortable with, but that's going to take a while yet for me to get there. There are just too many amazing games out there and not enough time to play them all!

@Feena I like Cuphead too - that’s the kind of difficult I can appreciate and enjoy. Unfortunately Hollow Knight uses a different type of difficulty mechanic. It’s not a perfect analogue, but imagine in Cuphead if when you died, it took you back to the previous level instead of letting you try again, and it also took away the power-up you were using, and the only way you could get that power-up back is if you made it to the same spot in the level as where you died, all on your very next try. If you died again before you made it back, you’d lose that power-up completely, and you’d have to replay the levels you already beat in order to get your coins back in order to buy the power-up again. I view that as a waste of time, and difficult in a way that is too punishing and simply not fun. However, I do understand that some people get a rush of adrenaline from that, since the stakes are so high, but I personally find it frustrating. Hopefully that makes sense and illustrates the difference between these 2 types of difficulty.

@Feena Just for the sake of a different perspective, I enjoy Metroidvanias very much, and found Hollow Knight was simply not for me, if not extremely overrated in general. The game's difficulty stems from heavy punishment for imperfection, which is something I don't appreciate in games. If you don't mind "souls-like" difficulty (for example, when you die in the game, you lose time, progress, and experience - potentially permanently if you don't make it back to where you were when you died - in an already difficult environment) then this may not bother you. I prefer difficulty that doesn't waste my time as found in games like Celeste for example, where dying means I can immediately try again with nothing lost. Starting over in a game with a few minutes lost is no big deal to me - starting over with 10 minutes lost, and then dying again and losing the last 30 minutes of experience is just not fun in my opinion. Different strokes for different folks though of course. I just wanted to mention this before you spend money on something you might potentially regret like I did.

@theheadofabroom I could, but it just kinda wouldn’t feel right. When I purchased MD, it was $4.49 like it is now, and the DLC was $2.99, but I wasn’t sure that I would like the game, so I didn’t get the DLC. Turns out I did like it, and since finishing it, I was waiting for the DLC to go on sale again - but it didn’t, even though the game did.

Sorry, hahaha, I didn’t mean for that to turn into a big thing! It’s not a big deal or anything, just a strangeness that I felt like pointing out in my original post 🤓

@theheadofabroom Sure, but I already played HR (Director's Cut).

The point I was trying to make is that Square-Enix via Sony put the game, both standard and deluxe editions, on sale for like 80% off, while the DLC (which I have not played) is still full price, and costs more than 3 times the price of the entire game (more than 2 times the cost of the deluxe version which includes that DLC). I was commenting more on the odd sales tactic rather than the quality of the game itself.

I just find it strange that they're basically excluding people who have already invested in the game; people who would possibly pay more for more content, but not so much more that one could buy the entire game 3 more times and still not have spent the amount of money they're asking one to spend for the DLC alone.

They’re just trying to put food on the table 😂🤣