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I signed up for the beta & played about a hour. It seems ok. I already much prefer it to Team Racing. But they’re still missing what made Transformed so brilliant. Played 4 tracks and they’re nicely designed. Although I think they’re a bit too short. The Crossworld stuff is a cool gimmick first couple of times but doesn’t actually add anything really. I still miss the SEGA IP themed levels. These are quite generic really. My biggest issue is just how chaotic everything is. & I put that mainly down to the item economy. I haven’t watched the above video but I guess they’re saying the same thing. Item boxes are way too frequent & are constantly being fired with shit just happening constantly. There’s not much time to breathe and actually race. It ends up not being fun. The item boxes respawn immediately too so everyone’s got an item all the time. & due to the courses being so short you the noise is always there. My last complaint is more personal, but I’ve never liked how Mario Kart has gone down the kart customisation route. I want the characters to have their own attributes and specific karts. This has copied MK so now you can customise everything. I can place Sonic in a big 4x4 truck if I want. In theory this is good but I just don’t get on with it. & I just don’t want to be fucking about customising stuff in a kart racer. That’s not what I’m here for. I can ignore it I guess but feel like I’m missing something or at a disadvantage if I don’t engage with it. Yea, don’t think I’ll bother with it when it’s released TBH. I might give it a try when it’s heavily discounted.

It’s definitely challenging but it’s not that difficult. No need to feel like you need to cheese anything that’s for sure. As long as you’re decent at action games you’ll be fine. It’s pretty forgiving with the i-frames in the dodging and it’s really good at telegraphing enemy attacks - loads better than Elden Ring in this respect IMO. I’ve beaten a lot of the bosses in 1 try. The only one which was very difficult was the Tiger boss in Chapter 2 but that still took me under 10 tries.

Part way through chapter 4 now. Chapter 3 was a hell of a journey. So many different sections to it, just kept ramping up. Looked beautiful too. The prison section can get fucked though! That was frustrating but thankfully it was only a small part. The chapter boss was a brilliant and varied multi part battle. Love the new character it introduced here too. Chapter 4 has been a bit more simple again which is a welcome change of pace following what came before. You’re fucked if you struggle with to spiders and other creepy crawlies in games though! No arachnophobia mode here and you’d definitely need it. Im absolutely loving this. It’s been massively underrated and overlooked IMO. In the west at least anyway.

GOTY has arrived.

Just a forum FYI, the deluxe version with all DLC is £8.74 on PS4/5 at the minute. I’m curious enough to give it a try at that.

The regression of Physics stuff like that for canned animation stuff is one of the most disappointing things that’s happened with new hardware. I always dreamt of extra power being used to create more destructable environments akin to Red Faction Guerilla in more games. Instead the opposite has happened.

Love the look of that!

The first 6 months do look quite good actually. Especially from Xbox. No great surprises for 2025 as yet but looks decent enough. Most months have got something im really interested in trying at least. Obviously still don’t know what’s coming from Nintendo really. But they’re not my type of games anyway so don’t see them swinging it either way for me personally.

This is insane to me. Sega don’t know what to do with a good thing. They do it with Sonic all the time. Like with Mania and until recently Generations. Everyone agrees All Stars Racing Transformed is the best Karter apart from Mario Kart & some of us prefer it. Why they won’t do that again is mad. This is definitely closer than that last crap, but surely when you’re digging into your vault for upcoming games - Shinobi, Crazy Taxi, etc. Hell, even SoR4 isn’t that old this would be a great way to introduce/reintroduce people to those IPs.

Game of the Year 2025. 1 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 2 - Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawai 3 - First Berzerker: Khazan 4 - Ninja Gaiden 2 Black 5 - DOOM: The Dark Ages 6 - South of Midnight 7 - Sea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker 8 - Mario Kart World 9 - 10 - Games not from 2025 discovered in 2025. 1 - Black Myth Wukong 2 - Ghost Of Tsushima 3 - Earthbound Beginnings Most anticipated game of 2026. 1 - Onimusha Way of the Sword 2 - Romeo is a Dead Man 3 - Wolverine 4 - GTA VI 5 - Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls

Put a couple of hours in. This is immediately much more interesting than the first game IMO. The story is grabbing me far quicker (helped no doubt by being familiar with the terms now). Having a crew is great, having some action choices during the text sections and them being decided by your class strengths adds a surprising amount more involvement. I like having a ship and being able to fly to other areas. I’ve had 3 new ‘locations’ already, giving some much needed variety imo. Just has a few more variables in the normal dice based gameplay bits too. This is so much better than the first. Surprised I’m the first to post about this seeing how I was the most down on it in the other thread. Anyone else playing it? I will say it’s crashed on me 3 times though in my short time with it. Luckily it’s saving constantly so I lost basically nothing but that’s still incredibly shitty.

Chapter 2 completed. Seeing what happens with the headless guy was interesting! If you’re not interested in playing this (which is most of you by the looks of it), please still watch this (chapter 2 end scene). It’s beautifully done.

I’m fully on board! That looks awesome. Not usually a fan of the whole creatures fighting for me thing but hopefully they’re just special ability attack animations & not something you have real input over. The voice acting is painful though.

I watched the Gamespot review. Says the enemies are really spongey. Especially as you progress. I hate that in games so it’s really put me off. Gamepass though so still going to try it.

Well that’s scuppered my plans of playing it now too. Back down the pile.

DMC 1, 3, 4 and DmC all have decent environments IMO. But 5 was really bad for bland samey looking environments to the point it really hurt my enjoyment of that game. It was so boring to look at even with all the fancy slashing on screen. This immediately looks more interesting IMO.

The way they’re climbing around the moving enemies along with flashy combat is very God of War 3 so I’m very interested in this.

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I like the transformed elements and the swapping between worlds mid race is really cool. I’m really hoping it is more SEGA and not just Sonic though and they’re hiding that stuff for now. That will be really disappointing if they just stick to Sonic characters again.

Very meh. A few small highlights though. Sonic racing looks like they might be going the All Stars Transformed route and the portal stuff is cool! Fuck yes. Shinobi game looks awesome! Going against Ragebound now though. Hope it can hang. Onimusha gameplay. Yep, can’t wait. Tales of Annihilation gave me some classic God of War vibes. Especially when platforming on that giant enemy thing. Very interested. Dreams on Another - Classic Sony weird game. Miss these. Not sure I’ll like it but it’s interesting and visually incredible. Couple of things we already knew about but good to see are coming fairly soon - Midnight Walk and Minds Eye are intriguing.

This! I’m constantly left speechless by this type of shit. People just want to be taken advantage of…

You bout to get 3 90kg hits to the face.

Shut your fucking mouth! Still, looks cool. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Got to say it doesn’t look much like NMH to me though?

Fuck yes please!!!! I’m not sure why Sony seem to think it has to be a remaster when 90% of people would be happy with just a 4k60 update. That would shut the majority up & a sole person has managed it basically so can’t be too difficult for them. It’s insane.

Games require too much input from the user. Mechanics, game feel, responsiveness etc. all matter in games. Games can be broken. It’s not just what the game is. Whereas tv, film and music are all passive and can be interpreted almost anyway you like and can be viewed in a much more subjective matter. There’s an underlying mechanical quality to games like Mario where the basics are right so even if it’s not for you (the recent 3D ones have really disappointed me for example) you cant really give it a bad score still.