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Per Push Square's recommendation on where to start with Resident Evil, I recently finished 7 and loved it. Currently looking at 2 and 3 to finish before grabbing 4 once it's polished with a few patches. Never would have guessed I'd love a horror game series but here we are.

I haven't tried VR yet, would love to get a PSVR2 demo to potentially add it to the list of purchases to make later this year. Does anyone know if Gamestop or other retailers will have demo stations available, and if not, what is the best way to try it myself without buying the headset?

How long is the main story, and how much time do you think the open-world icon-clearing adds to the game?

Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight soundtrack is fantastic, it has some great catchy bangers.

What did I just watch? Let me replay it just to make sure but it looked awesome.

Ubisoft is not in a great spot going forward: AC Valhalla was massive but now that the support ceased, I predict it will go down in price massively fast so they can't expect too much money from it. MIrage is most likely (hopefully?) be a one-off experience in a tired franchise, and the next big AC game may or may return to what Valhalla did with a sprawling open-world. This could be the straw to break the camel's back.

Far Cry is also in a weird spot. Far Cry 6 didn't make any waves in terms of innnovation (even though Guillemot is trying to spin it as such) and unless something major changes, I don't see the next installment saving Ubisoft from the brink.

Tom Clancy games are all over the place. Frankly, I feel slapping the author's name on that many games diluted the brand to the point where it is now just a generic term with little appeal, and no guarantee of quality.

What I would love Ubisoft see do is to focus on smaller, experimental games and take more risks, innovate. A sequel to Valiant Hearts would be awesome, with sufficient budget and good marketing. What's happening with Rayman? Legends was great but released in 2014. What about Scott Pilgrim? Seeing as River City Girls has been revered by many, maybe it's time to revisit it.

There are so many great franchises Ubisoft could tap into (Call of Juarez, South Park, TrackMania), yet I don't see any of them in the news.

I played Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout and enjoyed it immensely even though I'm not normally a fan of JRPGs. Currently waiting for a good discount on Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy, preferably somewhere around $25. I may have missed a discount during the End of Year Sale, oh well.

Dragon's Dogma is a great game for the price, so much content and fun with different builds you can try and pawns to hire from other players.

I wonder if the recent PS Store price reductions (the game was discounted to $9.99 for the longest time, and only recently dropped lower) has something to do with the sequel coming. Or simply that the game was released 6 years ago on PS4.

Seeing Red Dead Redemption 2 makes my heart ache. The only PS5 remaster I'd pay full price for day one.

Does anyone know how big is the download? I don't feel like waiting for hours for it to download only to play for an hour and be done.

EDIT: Oh wait, this is for PS Plus Premium only. Nevermind.

Remaster MGS3 and MGS4 for PS5, you cowards!

Both P3 and P4's soundtracks are available on Spotify for your listening pleasure.

I don't want to post links in case this is not allowed but Persona 3 soundtrack is available on Spotify, and it's great background music.

The real question is: will TLoU Part III be released on consoles before the (highly speculative) third season of the TV show, or will the show go its own way after covering Part II? We know how that turned out last time someone tried with a well-known property...

I wonder if the trophies were added by someone from Bend Studios (the original developer), or by someone from Sony while making the game work on modern consoles. The trophies look barebones enough where I wouldn't be surprised if they were added almost as an afterthought during the porting process.

This looks like another proof that pushing more pixels doesn't automatically mean having more fun. There are reasons why Bloodborne, even with its terrible performance in places, is still a benchmark very few (if any) other games can reach in terms of being engaging and fun.

When I first read the title, I thought the game has something to do with the movie Wanted with James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie. Frankly, curving bullets, however ridiculous it is, should be in more games than the one released as a tie-in to the movie in 2008 because it's can look so cool.

Anything in the vein of Mass Effect is great news. I need to have more of these big-budget story-driven games.

I was blown away by how good Kid A Mnesia: Exhibition is. I downloaded it because I remembered the trailer from Sony's State of Play, expecting to delete it in a few minutes. Instead, I spend all day wandering around and listening to songs from a band I'm not a fan of, with visuals I'm not accustomed to. I have since downloaded it again recently and enjoyed it as much the second time.

Also, the amount of content stuffed into Warframe is frankly mind-boggling for a free-to-play game. I tried it a few months ago fully expecting to be assaulted by microtransactions but instead found it having fantastic production values with only light paid elements. I already decided that 2023 will be a year of finishing a bunch of long games, and Warframe may just make the list as a "turn off your brain for a few hours" kind of experience.

I will be starting Resident Evil 7 this weekend, eventually planning to earn all trophies. After a bit of a kerfuffle where the PS Plus version was not eligible for a PS5 upgrade. I finally bought it during the recent sale and an now ready to experience my first Resident Evil game ever. Exciting!

I'll dip into Axiom Verge 2 since I already played Fallen Order on PS4 and PS5, and Fallout 76 doesn't interest me.

First time I'll be playing RE4. I'm thinking of buying RE2 and RE3 remakes sometime before RE4's release and get a Resident Evil marathon going.

Fortunately, while the list of looks absolutely bonkers, there are only few games which interest me:
1. Layers of Fear
2. Marvel's Spider-Man 2
3. Oxenfree II: Lost Signals
4. Resident Evil 4
5. The Wolf Among Us 2

This is good, though, because I finally caved in and bought Elden Ring (DLC in 2023?), and with The Witcher 3 PS5 port just released and my backlog from 2022, I think I'm covered for the whole year.

Persona 5 Royal Ultimate Edition for PS5?

Merry Christmas.

Looks like the US PlayStation Store went to sleep early today and is giving out errors when adding games to cart and downloading so let's hope it's fixed soon.

Cyberpunk is on sale right now but the Phantom Liberty DLC releases soon and I'm sure CDPR puts out a Complete Edition for (hopefully) a reasonable price a bit after that which I'll snag on the cheap to get the complete experience.

The backlog beckons!
I'll be hopefully starting Hyper Light Drifter which I bought last year, and The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel which I started in 2021 and promptly abandoned for something else, thus forgetting what little I got from the story.
I also have Ace Combat 7 to finish so we'll see but I suspect I will also buy one or more (let's be honest, more) games on the current sale, that Resident Evil 2 and 3 collection looks mighty tempting.