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Please for the love of belt buckles, just retire Nomura

@dskatter I 100% agree with this. Not only that, but Nintendo allocates it's extra manpower from its studios to NEW games! Grezzo, normally known for remasters, is co developing the new Zelda. Monolith Soft has an entire B team devoted to learning through helping out various 1st party projects such as Breath of the Wild, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, etc. These situations are not even remotely the same.

Sony be like "Pay has no limits 🤑"
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Hot take, but a lot of these criticisms could also be said of the main game itself.

@Deljo Every one of those games from that "pure crap" list is sitting between an 75 to 95 on metacritic. Name a more consistent publisher.

@OthmaneAD What an insane take. You might not like what you've played but you can't deny their catalog:

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
Hohokum
Stray
Neon White
Solar Ash
The Artful Escape
The Pathless
The Unfinished Swan
Kentucky Route Zero
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Telling Lies
Outer Wilds
Journey
Gone Home
Donut County
Gorogoa
What Remains of Edith Finch

One of the best publishers out there honestly.

Question is, are these actually prospective Pro buyers, or just scalpers?

8 is still my favorite after all these years even though I think 9 is probably the best one. 10 is a close 3rd though.

Feels weird to be putting out guides for a game before the review has even been published 😅

I feel like this game is 9 parts anime and only 1 part fantasy. When the game is trying to sell you on a character's personality by saying "she relishes in eating unconventional food" it makes me feel like they're just randomly drawing anime tropes out of a hat to assign to their characters rather than writing an actual personality.

I think the problem that more players are having isn't that these games are difficult, but HOW the developers have chosen to make them difficult. The Souls genre has been going for a while now and every entry the development team has to come up with a fresh way to keep players on their toes so the series doesn't become stale. I think this has lead to some design choices in Elden Ring that some players just don't agree with.

@Zeke68 Oh no worries at all. It stands for Shin Megami Tensei. It's the older brother series that Persona span off from.

Let's be real here, a Souls style JRPG would be very close to SMT in a lot of ways. Punishing difficulty, dark and oppressive atmosphere, abstract story telling based on differing ideologies and recreating the world where no answer is correct , silent protagonist with fully customizable build options, multiple endings based on your decisions throughout the game. There's a reason I keep recommending SMT to all my Souls loving friends

So someone paid to say the game is good says the game is good? Neat.

My only issue with the Portal is the Touchpad interface. Double tapping the screen is just very unintuitive and not ideal. I would really like the option to be able to remap it whenever possible.

They could've gotten away with just releasing Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 alone honestly. Great announcement.

Feels weird that this game got a higher score than SMT V: Vengeance 😅

@Tecinthebrain My mistake. It looks like Push Square just scores lower in general. It mostly seems to depend on who's doing the review

I gotta be honest, it's getting a little annoying that Push Square always scores lower than everyone else if the game isn't a major Sony exclusive.

I'll be eagerly waiting on this one. The story is definitely my biggest concern about this game. Hashino's games don't exactly have the best writing, the best probably being Persona 4 and Digital Devil Saga

It feels so dishonest to market the new Dragon Age as Dread Wolf, the conclusion to the story in Inquisition, only for them to be like "Just kidding! We didn't actually make that game so we're calling it The Veil Guard now!" as soon as it's almost ready to be released. Just a real bait and switch.

This was a fantastic presentation! I also appreciated the nod to Etrian Odyssey. I'm so excited that turn based combat is based on the Press Turn system from SMT! In fact, it's very exciting to see a lot of these mechanics being taken from Digital Devil Saga 2.

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Art and creativity is dead 😅😅😅

Sounds like someone is jealous of Stellar Blade 😂

Should've been called Wade Whipple & Knuckles

I've been playing this the last few days and it's been a lot of fun. I especially appreciate the writing style compared to modern JRPGs. I agree with basically everything in this review. For those of you looking for a return to that PS1 and PS2 era of JRPGs, this game hits just right.

What this article doesn't mention is that this was just the shipping cost for the standard physical edition (which for PC backers, is just a code in a box). Those of us waiting on extra goodies as part of our pledge, like art books, T-shirts, soundtrack CDs, will be facing additional charges since they are shipped separately from the game itself.

Finally a 3rd person action game. It's what we've been waiting for people!

Atlus is just on FIRE this year. Persona 3 Reload, Unicorn Overlord, SMTV: Vengeance, and then Metaphor: ReFantazio to close things out. Hopefully all four of these titles find success. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go break the bad news to my wallet 😅😅

@TheFakulty Yes, completely turn based. Think Pokemon meets Monster Hunter with all the Monster Hunter DNA you love like equipment and weapon customization, tracking and trapping monsters, learning monster's habits to best them in battle, Quest Board, etc plus in depth monster raising like Pokemon.

Man Elden Ring DLC releasing the same day as this really has me worried for SMT V:V's sales. I just feel like all the new PlayStation fans that would really enjoy SMT V's world design, lore, moral choices, and difficulty, will all be playing Elden Ring instead 😅😅

RIP SMT V: Vengeance 😅😅😅

Wooo! I'm excited for PlayStation fans to FINALLY have a mainline SMT experience again. The new content and improved visuals and performance look good here and I can't wait to see more. Hopefully this helps grow the series.

If you add all the Switch hardware together (Original, Lite, and OLED), it's actually more than the combined PlayStation 4 and 5 sales. Just wanted to add some perspective

@AccessibleDaydream That's awful that you and your family had to go through that. I'm glad it was enough income to get you out of that situation at least.

I wish everyone who does this in real life would just play this video game instead 😅

Just finished this. While the ending is a total treat for fans, the gameplay feels even more jank than the base game and begs the question if this was even play tested before release. The difficulty is all over the place, with some of the earlier challenges being far harder than the later challenges. Certain challenges require you to reload your save in order to retry because necessary platforms disappear and don't respawn. The new characters only highlight how much this game and it's camera weren't meant for precision platforming. For those turned off by the difficulty, I'd say just YouTube the final boss fight and ending.

@thetraditional Lol must be because he's had to focus on his director roles. I do miss The Bouncer though!

Eww no. Can Nomura please be put in charge of designing zippers instead of writing stories?

@Quintumply Ok the big question. This or Chained Echoes?

My backlog is too large to justify spending $70 on a remake of Persona 3 that doesn't even come with all the content from the previous versions but WILL have day one DLC. I'll wait for a sale

Everyone voting Cloud should really play Xenogears. It's the same character done way better

@Diowine Because this series IS very niche. There's been 15 Armored Core games and not one of them has sold over a million units in it's lifetime, with most entries selling between 200,000 to 400,000. The studio itself was very niche until the success of Dark Souls in 2011. These games just kept being made because at the time, they were just barely keeping FromSoftware afloat. For comparisons sake, Dark Souls has since gone on to sell over 33 million copies while the last two Armored Core games, which released in 2012 and 2013, have sold under 1 million COMBINED. That means that just Dark Souls alone has sold more than five times the amount of the entire 15 game Armored Core series.

These games have always only had a small following and the only reason you're seeing so much coverage now is because after the success of Elden Ring and the rest of the Souls series garnering wide appeal, FromSoftware is pushing the hell out of its marketing team to try and make Armored Core 6 stick.

@BusyOlf Here ya go:
Gameplay Trailer: https://youtu.be/SlSfr6Wa5sc

Gameplay Footage: https://youtu.be/6_9PYUXQ9Qw

@RedShirtRod Thanks. That makes way more sense haha. Weird that it was absent from the Wikipedia page.

@Sekijo What's funny about that is Skyrim is not even in the top 50. You'd think across all of its releases that it would have sold better 😂

@LifeGirl I don't really think the comparison to GTA V is meant to be impressive or unimpressive, rather it's just meant to put things into perspective a bit. GTA V is the 2nd best selling videogame of all time and by a wide margin. I see it as a bit of a fluke and I honestly don't think Rockstar could replicate it's success if they tried.

@Matroska I just had this conversation with my friends! Apparently this was fairly common back then for a creator to tell the story they wanted to tell in their game but include H scenes to ensure it sells. I still remember the old Studio Deen adaptation of Fate//Stay Night trying to skirt around a sex scene by making a giant fever dream dragon appear instead 😂. Wild times.

Combat feels brain dead so far. Small enemies don't fight back to the point where you don't even have to use the dodge. Larger enemies and bosses are damage sponges that only seem to serve the purpose of showcasing the stagger mechanic, which makes the only enemies in the demo who actually fight back...not fight back, so you can continue mindlessly wailing on them in peace. In fact, I'm just gonna say it. Combat is better in Forespoken. So far I'm not sold on this.