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Pretty weak. I actually liked the Concord cut-scene well enough but once the gameplay started it looked utter dross. Astro Bot looks nice.

Honestly, the daft princess photo thing was the most interesting game they showed.

Concord got me con-BORED.

Haha, no but seriously it looks weak.

My prediction is that people are going to be disappointed.

All of this is meaningless unless I get SSX3 and Burnout 3 with trophies.

Obviously we've only seen one CG trailer for this and so it's stupid to say one way or the other whether this is gonna be a hit or not, but I'm gonna do it anyway and say this is gonna be a not.

I think it will be announced tomorrow and take place wednesday or thursday next week.

I watched it and nodded along like I knew what was going on but I really I didn't.

It's hardly surprising. Ticking along in third place forever might fly under the radar when you're a tiny part of a huge company, but when you spend $68 billion on swallowing up a publisher the higher ups are going to start paying a lot more attention.

Xbox will never, ever win. Might as well put the games everywhere and make more money.

@GMaster7 No, it's not scary. It's weird. And a bit creepy in parts. And rough, like it goes to some pretty uncomfortable places. But it's not really scary and certainly not super scary.

@Rudy_Manchego Okay but we gotta be clear I mean tonally. There are no nun heat actions in this game.

This might be the least excited I've ever been about anything ever.

@nessisonett It's like nun Yakuza. The tone makes no sense at all but somehow works.

@naruball "Nuns on the run" felt too on the nose.

This was inevitable. While the corporate cheerleaders were clapping like seals in celebration at Microsoft gobbling up publishers to prop up its feeble console it was frustrating trying to forecast impending doom only to be dismissed as a PlayStation fanboy crying about the purchases. Well, here we are. It's happening.

I didn't even watch the last season because I knew Henry Cavill was leaving after it.

I think this started while I was doing a raid. Entire party lagged and wiped out and some of the other people in fight said it was a DDOS thing. I haven't been back on since so I don't know if it's any better.

It's astonishingly bad.

South Korea is doing great work in television and movies and I guess music so it stands to reason that we'd start seeing interesting stuff in games from over there too.

Let this be a lesson: don't do a teaser trailer. Just send an email.

This is one of the most cursed things ever to be inflicted upon the internet.

Yakuza 3 is my least favourite game in the series but only because it's a chore to play. I like the story and the characters and the setting and basically everything but the combat drives me up the wall. A remake would probably be one of my favourite games in the series.

@Loamy there's smaller exhibitions - like glass boxes people can stand and look at - to house spiders, scorpions, beetles, snails, frogs, snakes etc.

Oh boy. See you later, summer. Hello Final Fantasy.

Remake and Rebirth both being top ten?

@ShogunRok Well, that's better than I was expecting I guess. I was hoping they'd learned from the padding issues in the first one though. Sounds like they could have just made one game rather than three by the time you take all the hours of padding out of these two. Oh well!

No spoilers obviously, but let's say hypothetically that I loved Final Fantasy VII Remake when it was retelling Final Fantasy VII pretty faithfully, and I hated it when it turned into sub-Kingdom Hearts anime hijinks: am I going to like this or is it going to make me flip my table over?

It's of no real relevance to me but I'd be interested to see it. I'd also be interested to see other more granular stats, like how many people beat certain games, how long it took them on average, how many people quit playing Bloodborne when they got to Father Gascoigne, that kinda thing.

I am gonna be all over this.

I noticed you picked yourself to review this one.

They handled that really badly. They needed to squash the rumours or confirm the rumours and they somehow managed to do both and neither. I'm incredibly surprised to see Xbox fans happy with this and somehow seeing it as a "win".

All I know is, I'll be playing Indiana Jones on PS5. Take that to the bank.

Finished it and got the platinum.

Overall I think it's really good. Big step up from Yakuza 7. I don't think the story overall is particularly good, and the villains aren't so memorable, but that's balanced out by the heart of the Kiryu storyline and his struggles, particularly in the back half of the game.

It really goes hard and it's quite upsetting in parts, but also hopeful and nostalgic and sweet. I actually shed tears, and for basically about ten hours of it I had a lump in my throat. My fiancee was hysterical as a huge Yakuza fan. I think your reverence for the old games and Kiryu in particular will dictate how much you get out of that stuff but for me it was a home run.

So all of that kinda balances out what on paper is probably a weaker Yakuza tale. Gameplay is great, side activities are great too. Fantastic music. Like the new characters. Not touching Yakuza 0 or 2 for me but really good.

If this is true I'll defo be getting the PS4 version. Doubt I'll bother platinuming the games anyway, but I don't want to support these types of shenanigans. I want my PS5 platinums.

@LiamCroft Oh man this concerns me as someone that plays these games mostly for the story. Oh well, we'll see when we get there I suppose!

@LiamCroft One of the other reviews for this criticises it for having an "incomplete ending". Without spoilers (obvs) is that a criticism that you can understand? No other reviews I've read seem to be complaining about the story.

Is the little dinosaur in it

I'm excited about this, not because it's good - it obviously isn't - but because the implication is that you won't need to play this game more than once to get the platinum. Some of the earlier Yakuza games required an obnoxious three playthroughs for the platinum so I'm glad this is potentially more in line with 7 than something like 5.

Thirty seconds a disc. Wild.

This couldn't be any less of what I want from a superhero game. Just gimme comic book characters to batter people with. I don't want to spend ages picking shoes for Harley Quinn so she does +4 damage when she shoots someone in the face.

I don't think there has ever been a video game in history where every single trailer or news story for it makes me more convinced I hate it like this one.

I like this, but it seems like an odd choice to have the paint look like this and not have it more in keeping with the art style of the game. I'm not really bothered though. I'm not one of those people who cares deeply about the integrity of the Final Fantasy XIV role-playing experience and gets upset when they see people riding around on motorbikes because it's not proper. Looks fun, I like it.

I'm surprised they're still doing the shooting themselves in the head thing. Fair play to them for not shying away from it to avoid any potential controversy. I don't need to be watching a trailer for this though. They had me the second it was announced.

@Clyde_Radcliffe If you don't want to ruin the storyline you probably need to play them in order. If you're on 0 - assuming you started with Kiwami - then you'll want to play 6, then 7, then Gaiden, and then Infinite Wealth. If you started with 0 then... well, enjoy the rest of your year

RGG are absolutely out of control.

I hope at some point Kiryu picks up a bicycle and beats cancer to death with it.

I assumed this drama was totally overblown and just a buncha internet people being internet people, but then I saw a video of the English dub of Kiryu singing a karaoke song at was actually astonishingly bad. Like, I couldn't believe nobody stepped in and said we can't do this. It's really quite something.

I always play in Japanese anyway so it doesn't bother me but c'mon.

They made the right choice.

What's astonishing to me is that when they started making an online Last of Us game they didn't realise that they'd need to make this decision. Online games require a lot of work to keep ticking and how did they not know that they'd have to decide between looking after that and developing single player titles?

Either way, I'm glad they picked the correct choice here, to focus on what they're good at rather than be responsible for another headstone in the increasingly populated live service graveyard.

@TrannosaurusBex I only sleep between 4 and 6 hours a day so I actually had even more free time than that. These are rookie numbers, all things considered.

@ItsBritneyB_tch You can accomplish anything if you put your mind to it.

My stats are absolutely outrageous.

3503 hours played.