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Just pull the plug already. I have a PS5, Switch and decent gaming rig. Never saw a need for an Xbox this generation and apparently I'm not the only one. Several of these choices aren't even Xbox exclusives. Deathloop?

English dub? I know that's not everyone's cuppa but having the option is better than not having it.

Livin' it up in Hawaii with Itchy Balls Kasuga.

@Pranwell My point of view is the game is it's supposed to be one of the longest games, yet. If you really think you'll feel like playing back through the game fully powered, just wait for a sale. For a long RPG, with probably the same characters, a replay through fully powered seems like a waste of time but I get if people want to do that.

It's arguably the most marketed Yakuza game ever made. I (ashamedly) never knew much about Yakuza games until I heard there was this weird little turn-based RPG game on sale for PS4 called Like a Dragon. Not knowing much about Yakuza but turn-based RPG being my favorite genre, I picked up this little novelty. I've since immersed myself in Yakuza games, including some of the earlier games, both Judgement games, and more recently completing Gaiden and Ishin! (and wow!) RGG has quickly became one of my favorite game studios. I know, I know, you all knew about it already, but I can't believe I slept on these games before now.

Well, to be fair, Last of Us is pretty much a cultural icon, at this point. Prince of Persia, had no way of competing with that. Yes, most anyone who has been a gamer for most of their lives, knows the IP, but you'd be hard press to find public or casual gamers that know anything about it.

Spent December playing Like a Dragon Gaiden and this month playing Ishin! Can't believe I slept on these. Should be finished just in time for Infinite Wealth.

@IOI I think he is thinking of the original from way back.

Good thing about having kids is you don't see the need to pay more money to get yelled at by a bunch of teenagers.

@inconspicuoususernam I'm more excited for this than a Call of Duty 29 (or whatever number they are on). I am as perplexed about people getting as excited about those as you are for this. This game is in the genre I play the most. Being excited for something doesn't mean it will be good and, yeah, Ubisoft being atttached makes me a little concerned but guess we'll see. Still excited to see what comes of it.

Time to let Tolkien rest in peace.

@TheCollector316 Mount up, Regulators!

Boy, that screen is busy AF.

Am I the only feel like I'm having a stroke reading the title of this article? I've read it 5x and till don't know what it is trying to say.

Oh god, say it ain't so... I found there is usually two types of gamers in this category, ones that worship rouge-lite and ones who absolutely hate it. I'm in the latter... Love turn based, hate random dungeons and rougelite.

Yikes, that list...

Okay, I'm convinced in 2023 we are just making up phrases... Overly exclusionary???

Ugh, I still remember the Switch Pro rumors.

Short?... yeah, I'm out. Takes a decent sized DLC to get me to refire up a game.

@mariomaster96 I didn't vote for Octopath Traveler 2 because I played it on Switch and will probably vote for it on the sister site, but definitely a top 5 for me. I actually slept on the game for a while and just started it up after playing Alan Wake 3. I was a little late to the party because I couldn't get past the first couple of hours in the original.

Different and breaking boundaries is a little scary. I mean nobody wants it completely the same but let's don't go too crazy.

AI was written... by real people.

Damn, thought this was a second Tales of Arise game. Having to remember the base game is too much for me. Seems like it's been a couple of years, or maybe it just seems that long.

If I'm going to pay $70, I definitely want it to be longer than a <20hr game.

@SlipperyFish See my comment.

@OldGamer999 I think MS killed and saved themselves (simultaneously) with Game Pass. I have a PS5, a Switch, and a pretty beefy PC with Game Pass. I have zero need for an Xbox. Don't get me wrong, MS is still making money off me but not on an Xbox. I think MS might be the first to bow out of the console competition of the big 3. They don't really need an Xbox, neither do I.

@Loamy Alan Wake 2 might be my surprise GOTY contender for that genre. Never played original. Thought I'd give this one a try and was a little worried about 30 minutes in I wouldn't like it. Then couldn't put it down.

What about Gollum? LOL

Bring on the pain! Playing through Persona Tactics now. It's a pretty good 8, IMO. No Persona 4 R but nostalgia is hard with this one. Side stories for quests are definitely a fast forward.

@Discol76 Are they? I mean I know it's selling out from scalpers but are they actually selling their inventory?? Coul be. I honestly don't know.

The TV show Last Man Standing's youngest daughter. I'm going to go out on a thick sturdy limb and say it's not something most people in these comment sections would watch.

@Dekker451 the scalpers will help them the first few months

@cuttlefishjones Yikes. That's a very necessary feature left off. Sony is about as good at Bluetooth as Nintendo is at online services. (Hint: they suck)

@Discol76 I bet a majority of that was scalpers. Which is great for them, artificial scarcity leads to higher demand and they can charge more. The scalpers create the problem they profit of. Not sure a special circle in hell is even a bad enough place for that scum, and a lot of states have laws regarding scalping tickets, but it's almost totally ignored. Needs to be fixed and apply to new retail items as well (within a certain period.) It's almost as bad as racketeering just at an individual level instead of at a company or mafia level. I kind of get you pick one up at the store and then decide to sell it but we're not dealing with that. These are highly sophisticated bots affecting almost every industry. Maybe make that part illegal and akin to strict cybersecurity laws. Okay I'm off my soapbox, I just really hate scalpers.

@Xeno_Aura Yes. This lines up with the way Remote Play has ALWAYS worked. There is no local only option, never has been, that I'm aware of. Granted it's probably just a handshake on internet side but it's required to play, period.

@Luigia "Wired into your router" makes no sense to me. I get the concept but limiting where you can play, makes it almost more useless than it already is.

@Titntin I have no interest in this device, as I have two handhelds already, but I hope the scalpers lose their ass in this. So bad, they are begging for food on street corners. No empathy for them whatsoever. Period.

@Luvstagrind Speaking of second hand, this device, just from pics, doesn't look like it hold up to too much abuse. Be curious to see what the used market looks like for one of these in the future. Probably a lot of luck of the draw.

@LordVile I'm gagging from that weird '90s flex, like the commenter who was actually first.

@nessisonett Forgot the /s but suppose it was obvious

We think we got it right, finally. Can we get another few twenty dollar bills from you??

Anyone who played the game saw that writing on the wall and even MJ could use a little more Peter and a little less Spider Man. (No pun intended)

Love my PS5 and Switch but probably get the Switch version of Star Ocean. I can't imagine a more suitable game to be able to choose to play on a portable system.

@harchibald You're spot on. The story in this, while maybe not exactly new ground in canon for the Spider Man world, beats the pants off most of the drivel these sites give 9s or even 10s. I think games are being judged a lot on potential and less on comparison of other games. On whether that's a right or wrong approach, they could have scored this a 5 and I would have still played it day 1 (and probably blocked this site on my firewall.)

As a slower, relatively older gamer, and somewhat of a completion-ist, games usually take me 3 or 4 times what it takes normal players to play a game but like a book you can't put down, this was that game to me. Literally had trouble putting the controller down, even to sleep. Definitely took a game-cation from work to play this one. Really enjoyed my time with it and only wished it lasted longer. I'm already counting down the years until the inevitable addition to what I assume will be a trilogy, for at least the mainline series.

@__jamiie They are garbage to me but one man's garbage...

Ugh, an over saturated genre game. Oh well, free is free. Wonder if scalpers are going to let anyone buy it at MSRP anytime soon. Hope whoever tries to scalp it, mortgages their house and loses it. HAHA. JK, kind of.

@eltomo Excellent question. The fact we haven't seen them anywhere in a while makes me think they may be remake material.

I'm so angry, I'm seeing red.