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Awesome news… and makes up somewhat for the disappointment that Lost Souls Aside appears to be.

Wow they did BB doity!

It does sound tough, let’s hope that my reaction-time is still up to the task by the time I get around to it 🤞

Probably a bit of co-op Aliens: Fireteam Elite… solid multiplayer fun, especially when on a difficulty with friendly fire 😅

Anyone know when the review embargo is up?

#worstpurchaseever

Been fascinated by this since its first reveal a few years back… and I just feel more and more sure it’s gonna be a banger with every subsequent outing. Morbidly stunning!

I love it how the biggest fanboys and console warriors out there, are always the first to hurl the first stone /s

Although Streets of Rage 2 was my favourite game at the time, whenever I think back to those halcyon Megadrive days that saw me through pretty much my whole Comprehensive School years… it’s The Revenge of Shinobi that stands out the most. I’m looking forward to this!

@Stevemalkpus the $ is the only thing that is officially cancelled to this point 😏

I already own everyone of them other than Mortal Kombat 1… and that’s the way it’ll stay.

Finished off my first run on RE: Revelations yesterday and thought it was just a real solid survival horror fair play. Another playthrough on Infernal difficulty now… and then an absolute boat-load of co-op in the Raid mode. As someone who generally prefers the more solitary gaming endeavours out there, I’m actually quite looking forward to some jolly co-op with this one.

@SeaDaVie nope, just appreciating that they’re making single player games with really high production values.

Thank the lord, us single-player fogies have China, Korea and Japan meeting our needs!

GTAVI will be one of the rare games I’d have to play at release… and I have a backlog that would see me through to retirement anyway, so I’m in no rush. Just get it right.

Absolutely no rush… and that’s from someone who is very excited for this.

I’ve had the original trilogy for ages but haven’t found the time to play them. I will play at least the first one before I play the sequel… it’ll be a minute though, fair play

Daammnnnn right! 🍿

Unsatisfied with FBC sales after positioning it on both major console subscription services… hmmm 🤔

Looks awesome! I’m just glad anyone is willing to put it all out there for a non-live service banger… I don’t care where they’re from or even what the genre is, just that they’re doing an old school solo game with new school levels of production!

@rusty82 🤣 I take it you have a large backlog of news articles to get though?

I just played the original again on PS3 back in May, has aged more than I expected tbh but still enjoyed it.

Made a start on Resident Evil: Revelations on Wednesday, so looking to get further into that. It feels a little sluggish and janky but… I quite like it tbh. Reminds me of Dead Space for some reason (although nowhere near as good). Looking forward to trying the co-op too!

PS7 release window

I’ll probably play it eventually as I quite liked the original. It’s disappointing that the actual gameplay was scaled back from the original if anything though… you’d think with the extra capital that would’ve been made available after being purchased by MS, that the gameplay would’ve been the area targeted for expansion. Weird choice 🤔

Imagine if they went onto to reboot these in the way that they rebooted Doom with 2016! 🙏

I love it when the plan comes together /s

Really interested to see how this turns out as I’ve heard conflicting opinions in some of the previews. I’ve become quite the fan of character-action games these last few years so if this is a 7 or above, I’m on board!

I might end up giving it ago one day. After Outer Worlds I thought I’d never play one of these Bethesda/Obsidian rpgs ever again… but i felt a bit of nostalgia to go back to New Vegas last year and thoroughly enjoyed it again. So that has made me think I’ll slip one in every now and then… 😉

I’m saving the Part 1 & 2 remakes just in case Part 3 ever gets announced… in which case, the outbreak-athon is on!

I don’t mind low-fi graphics in AA games at all… but I just don’t know why everything has to look babified 🤷‍♂️

Yup, never heard of it. The Remasters are crazy rn!

Hadn’t heard of this one before but I’m quite interested in what I see. I’m a sucker for third-person shooters and I liked the Bloodborne-esque dodging too. What with the disappointing news that Outriders 2 got cancelled, with a bit of luck this could possibly fill that void.

Huge fan of Nioh 1 & 2. I’m yet to play LoP which I’ve heard is amazing, so for me the Nioh games remain the elite souls-likes not made by From Soft. The announcement of 3 was a great surprise!

Right at the end of my 100% playthrough of Assassins Creed: Rogue with only the cheat trophies left… well those and the Dedicated Employee trophy which is notoriously glitchy and unfortunately glitched for me too. So once I get the 4 remaining cheat trophies, it’s back to starting a new playthrough from scratch to redo 35 Abstergo Challenges.

Game of the Generation y’all! 😏

I finally played the original Darksiders earlier this year (it and the others have been in my backlog for years)… and I bloody loved it! Psyched to play through the rest of the series and then get to this!

@TrollOfWar well I wouldn’t personally say no to $15.5 million but I might if I was Sony. As I said in my original post, it’s a decision between potential earning vs potential damage to the brand. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it isn’t happening, just that I personally wouldn’t be traversing this route if I made the decisions for Sony.

@TrollOfWar it’s not just profit though, it’s the potential percentage of profit (the risk/reward dynamic). For instance, hypothetically let’s say porting Horizon: Zero Dawn to Xbox would cost x… and the subsequent sales would amount to revenue of x+£1 (or £1 profit… as I know you guys seem to have an issue differentiating between revenue and profit), it simply wouldn’t be worth it. Now obviously I don’t think that the example shown would only make £1 profit but it paints the picture that profit alone is not enough, the potential profit percentage has to be acceptable.

And the only people who know what that acceptable percentage would be is the Sony board. All I was trying to do was to show that Microsoft porting games to PlayStation is a completely different prospect to Sony porting games to Xbox. As you said PlayStation has over double the user base and there is a far higher propensity for those users to make purchases. On the other hand Xbox has under half the user base and the likelihood of that smaller user base actually making purchases is demonstrably impacted negatively by Gamepass. I didn’t think I needed to break it down that far if I’m honest… but obviously I did.

@TrollOfWar it’s not as if I’m making any outlandish statement like 🤣 you only have to look at the sales figures dude, the sales on Xbox are dwarfed by those of Switch, PC and PlayStation.

If there was the potential for massive sales I’d get it but with the buying habits of the general Xbox populous being what they are post-Gamepass, I really don’t think the juice is worth the squeeze at the expense of the brand but that’s just me 🤷‍♂️

Yeah a good year for Essential no doubt. I see some people negatively comparing this to Gamepass… and moaning that Gamepass had LoP at release yaddayadda. Essential is not the comparison for GP, that would be Premium or Extra… and then fair play GP has been considerably better than those in 2025 but keep it real… it’s disingenuous to compare it to Essential to spin your narrative!

Already own Lies… but that on essential is crazy! A great get!

@Gremio108 Object-chan! Another law based pun but including some Asian sprinkle 🫰for ya 😉

@themightyant amen 🍻

@UltimateOtaku91 yeah I know the article states that but having followed this since its first reveal and watched a few videos from people who’ve played it, they made a point of saying it isn’t a souls-like.

@UltimateOtaku91 pretty sure this isn’t a souls-like tbh

Glad it’s done well. While Ubi clearly has its issues behind the scenes, the games always hit for me… even with genres I don’t normally try. I honestly feel miffed by the general negativity towards their games if I’m honest.

story of my life - the 9th gen

I just picked up a couple of games that were both on sale and on my wish-list to get me over the 1250 £5 line 😅. I was gonna get them at some point anyway, so may as well 🤔