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zero interest in such a machine. matter of fact, i find myself drawn more and more to nintendo systems and handheld gaming in general. AAA just feels like a massive letdown these days, with a couple rare exceptions. with the switch 2 on the horizon and the steam deck providing my most comfortable and versatile gaming setup, this half-generation leap will be made without me.

@nessisonett they're just tekken the p*ss

Kingdom Go is a day one purchase for me

Quite happy with my swol' boi, thank you! No shame in sporting all those teraflops.

Here for it. There for it. Wherever it needs me to be for it.

WOW. Just finished the demo. Honestly... I'm blown away. The climax.... WTF??? It's Game of Thrones meets Devil May Cry meets Final Fantasy. Truly superb voice acting and writing. Incredible action set-pieces. Graphics and atmosphere are exquisite. What a package! I can't wait to pick up where I left off in the full game. Holy moly!

I found Trek to Yomi to be a gorgeous game with bland, repetitive combat that ultimately put out the flame for me. Worth experiencing for the art direction, though.

CGI trailer from this particular company was not the vibe. The whole thing feels kinda gross, but for the sake of the fans, I hope it turns out all right.

Good! Nothing against it, but who needs a "reveal" of the 12th, er, 1st game in a fighting series?

I'm crying Tears of the Kingdom over this.

GRID Legends is quite a solid racer, and I love the campy live-action scenes in story mode. Don't pass it if you're a racing fan!

@XOF Well said!

Beautiful experience, Tchia. Oftentimes these games lack in their moment-to-moment gameplay, especially when controlling the character, but Tchia is very polished in all its aspects. I'm barely paying attention to the main story (which is good!), instead roaming around the gorgeous world, launching myself from the tops of trees and commandeering birds to soar over the islands (and poop on other animals). What a unique and wonderful game!

The original is a stone cold classic. If they embrace the camp the same way the recent Mortal Kombat did, I don't see why this one can't succeed as solid gold entertainment.

Ouchie. Good thing I asked for a 2TB SSD for xmas last year. Bring it on!

A powerful handheld that could play my PS5/4 library would be incredible. 100% on-board. Remote only? No thanks.

I've had a wonderful time with Gabbuchi and will be sorry to see it go. Fun, lighthearted gem that one.

Yes please! Great F.I.S.T. vibes!

Can't wait to jump into this one! Looks exactly my speed.

I was hoping you'd start a feature like this similar to purexbox's gamepass updates. I find it quite handy. Thank you!

@Leonhart Thoughts on Code Vein? Love me a good ARPG but I seem to recall playing a demo and thinking both the dialog and the combat a bit stiff. Will definitely jump in when it hits the service.

Uncharted, Tchia, and Ghostwire? Amazing!

Beautiful game, neat premise, absolutely horrific writing and voice acting. It's so bad I quit and uninstalled the game. I've never been so turned off by video game writing before. It completely ruins the experience for me. It's peurile, unimaginative and toxic. Turns what could be a compelling immersive sim into a truly insufferable experience.

Wake me up when they announce the next generation PS handheld that can play my entire PS5 library. They would make a killing!

Good lord people, it's hilarious when you call those FPS games boomer shooters precisely because it wasn't boomers playing them. But it WAS a while ago now, and those of us who were playing video games when those games came out feel old AF now. We ain't boomers, but we feel like it sometimes.

@hulkie Exactly right. That's been my experience. The timer is only running down while you've got the game booted up.

@JimmyRiddle Can't speak to this particular trial but in the few I've tried, your trial counts down when the game is booted, including menus, but when you exit the game the counter stops.

@MatthewJP Ahhh, thank you, that was never clear to me! So Extra is basically PS Now/Game Pass. But PS Plus is still "a handful of free games every month that you get to keep forever - if you claim them."

I'm still confused about this, and I've been a subscriber for two years now. There's a one-month window to download or "claim" these games, and under the revamped scheme, there is also now a window, though a longer one, to play them after you've claimed them? Do I understand correctly that most games will at some point in the future be removed from the service, at which point, even if you've claimed and downloaded them, you won't be able to play them? Red Dead Redemption II and Slay the Spire were both games on the service, and now they're not, and even though I downloaded both of them, I no longer have access to play them. What's the point of that initial one-month window, then?

Just popping in to recommend Leo's Fortune, a terrific platformer with a very odd protagonist and wonderful/ridiculous story. You can complete it in a couple hours. Don't miss it if you're a fan of 2D platformers!

Judgment PS5 (got maybe 20% through the PS4 game before it was pulled out from under me and removed from the service). Gigantosaurus The Game (vibrant 3D platformers are my kryptonite). Pinball Heroes (does anybody else remember the golden era of 3D Ultra Pinball?). And maybe Heavenly Sword. Certainly enough to keep me busy through the holidays!

The video game industry has enough problems without tax-dodging, labor-abusing, community-destroying mega-corporations getting involved.

Would have preferred Lost Judgment, but I'll definitely mess with the PS5 version of Judgment. That's pretty much it for me off this list.

@jrt87 I'm hoping Insomniac is willing to mix things up enough to renew and sustain the interest of franchise fans. I would love to leave New York City (I live here lol) and make the storytelling more mature.

Sans context I think the demo does the gamer a favor but not the game. Bland environment, lugubrious controls, messy combat visuals, and maybe the worst UI that I've ever seen.

It was sad to see so many great actors pressed into service for so tired an idea. Chuck Norris was there too.

I found the opening hour phenomenal cozy fair, then encountered a game-breaking bug that forced me to start over. Which I will not. Hopefully a patch arrives. Why else would I reinvest time when it can happen again?

Biomutant was a dud for me. Mass Effect is over on my Gamepass sub. Good picks though for those who've been curious about Biomutant but smart enough not to throw coin at it! Will hope for anything I want to play when Premium titles are announced.

@Americansamurai1 I think we'll see Kratos in old age reminiscing about his lost strength and agility... Bod of Yore.

In other news, TIME magazine is still a thing! And they ranked The Quarry above Elden Ring. So, grain of salt, y'all.

My second playthrough has been paused a few months now in anticipation of this release. Looking forward to jumping back in!

DiRT 5 is a phenomenal racer, but everything stitching it together is puerile junk. Sorry to see it go as moment to moment it's just tons of fun. Perhaps down the line it'll re-emerge with a new spirit but the same solid bones. So it goes.

@Fiendish-Beaver Thanks for adding your experience here! I loved Portal 2 but never finished it. I loved Q.U.B.E. 2 but never finished it. I look forward to loving The Entropy Center and never finishing it!

@djlard Thank you!! Everyone knows the snow levels are the worst levels second only to water levels. Maybe we'll get underwater Witcher

@SamMR I too have been craving some solid hack 'n slash action, so I recently booted up God of War III for the first time through my PS Plus sub, and man, this game does NOT disappoint. It's fascinating to see the maximalism that's baked into this series' DNA, and how Barlog and crew managed to evolve it into in 2018's reboot.

@MFTWrecks I had the exact same experience with it. For some reason I still recommend the game to folks despite not having finished it. What I did play I (for the most part) enjoyed immensely. It was good until it wasn't. Its fatal mistake for me anyway is the game seems to squander your investment in the characters and story for a late-game difficulty spike combined with punitively sparse checkpoints. A much-improved iteration of the same basic setup is a no-brainer to me. These devs clearly have something special, and it seems like this time around their means have matched their ambition. Can't wait to boot this one up.

If Sony's new set is under $1500, now would be a good time to announce it!

@sonicmeerkat knack knack knackin' on heaven's door

Loving the blend of hip hop and anime cultures. Street Fighter 6 also leaning into this. Cultural updating is long overdue across all genres. I'll be very happy to leave those ridiculous "edgy" vibes behind.

I've put many hours into No Man's Sky but perhaps not as many as most. I don't feel I've done much actual advancing, though there has been some. Most of the satisfaction I derive from this game lies in simply inhabiting its universe. Exploring, gathering materials, blasting around space. I avoid combat and I delve reluctantly into base-building. I once tried a new game on Creativity mode, which allows unlimited resources, and quickly grew bored. I'm curious about this relaxed mode, whether it'll be too far in the direction of Creativity mode and won't keep me engaged, or whether it'll be just right for the experience I enjoy.