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Another capcom anime, Devil May Cry Has to clear a pretty low bar to be better than the 2008 anime This got announced way back in 2018, always seemed like it was supposed to capitalise on dmc5 release a bit

Blakey's Japan trip explained I suppose

It's coming to steam now. Should have started there really, I doubt the epic exclusivity helped things much for this game. Highly overlooked in a sea of remakes https://store.steampowered.com/app/2395210/Tony_Hawks_Pro_Skater_1__2/

I wish the life paths mattered more, they add very little and feel missing in the first act which has weird pacing. I'm doing street kid on 2.0 and it and nomad feel like more fitting onramps to night city but could have benefited a lot more from a faction focused approach, as a kind of tutorial maybe. I think nomad is the only path that had something of a mission attached to it, the other two mostly being NPC interactions It also changes your relationship to Jackie i suppose but im not sure the story reacts to it much

Yeah, I need a new phone. Maybe this is also boomer tho but I also don't like the idea of not owning one. I did look at those fancy fold phones in person the other day, one variant is like a fliphone from the early 2000s. But that's an unjustifiable price tag for me. Makes iPhone look cheap

Sony seem to get hacked an awful lot

The problem is these fucking things are so keenly integrated into society in a way that makes it difficult to not have one I was at Dublin Airport and past US preclearance on Saturday when my phone wouldn't turn on. Fuck, oh what a cunt, how the shite am I going to get from the airport to my hotel cause I sure as fuck don't want to flag down random taxi drivers outside the pick up zone. No, I need uber or a certain app that at least makes the driver somewhat verifiable Eventually it turned on, got my uber, but my fear was proven accurate I feel by my coworker who paid 160 dollars for a random dude who worked PHL security to drive him to the hotel. Apparently cause it was a busy night, the dude said, but that sounded like some real horseshit to me. I told him to install Uber ahead of time but the dude is like the Irish version of Och, contrarian to the extreme. Well, his wallet is a lot lighter now

He's not playable at all in that sequence in the 1997 game, he attacks automatically. In rebirth you directly control him, you can move him around and make decisions, thats new Not watching these new videos, think ill just wait and hope this new game feels a bit better paced than the last one

I usually focus on one at a time. Recently tho I've been putting things on hiatus, like Baldurs Gates 1 and 3. 3 cause i heard act 3 was a bit shit right now and 1 in its 5th chapter cause of Starfield. I'm usually able to get back into them easily enough. Sometimes I think a big game actually benefits from a long intermission so I dont actually see it as a bad thing to get distracted. I'll see to the Iron Throne eventually

Watched guardians 3 to try and deafen the sound of screaming children on a plane. Fairly mild fluff even by mcu standards but not hard to watch either. Apparently thats it for those characters. Kind of a low key send-off. Wish they would have made another gotg video game because I would prefer to see this particular story in that I've decided that MCU films are long plane trip filler now. Until they get to the cg finale, which is inscrutable on plane bitrate, they aren't bad

Yeah, those versions are still turbo fucked by the looks of things

Idris Elba here to remind everyone that 'the game is fixed'

Kind of seems like a game made with considerable constraints on its scope tbh. Every Itsuno game is like that tho, all resources on combat mechanics and nothing else. That's where my expectations have been set for this even before it was officially announced. I really wish though when they made gameplay footage they would do a better job showing off the mechanical interactions and enemy behaviours. The coolest thing in that video is the bit where the arisen is holding onto a harpy or something and falls from a height and is rescued by a pawn. If mechanics like that can be relied on it allows for lots of interesting approaches. Like, what if fall damage was something you never had to think about, and the crazy risky things you could do with that. For that reason, I think it is a shame it doesn't have an optional co-op mechanic to its pawn system and I don't completely believe it's a design choice they're making there, more just to control the scope of things a bit. I think otherwise they would put it in, I mean they put it in DMC5 for some reason. No way that wasn't supposed to be in this, well that's my theory anyway The main thing I hope for is a bit more enemy variety when it comes to the larger enemies, a few less cyclops this time

It's a weirdly balanced game I think that sort of feels like they wedged a classic isometric take on Fallout into the Bethesda framework. I don't actually know what I think about it overall, and it feels a bit compromised by how they had to go about it. Makes me hope though that the success of Baldur's Gate III will open minds a bit to designing a new Fallout game in the fashion of the old ones, even as a spin off.

imo you should create a thread for the Pathfinder games. I have the first one in the cart on steam deck in case I get a hankering for some DnD as I've a flight on Saturday

I'll say again that out of these three games they're remaking, this is the one I was really looking forward to. It really does have almost all the best moments and character beats and a much more expansive world. Shame we had to wait so long to leave Midgar, what took 5 hours in the original took 4 years. I'm not even that bothered by the finale installment tbh, especially as that one is probably going to be very different to how it was in the original game. It's all about the second half of disc 1 Watching that footage, there's stuff now where you can swap characters in and out of the party during combat, like FFX had. Weird it took so long to bring back that (excellent) mechanic, especially with how well it works for this. It just seems like it's going to be a really mechanically deep game with all the groundwork done with VII Remake

People are saying Vincent won't be fully playable in this, yet Sephiroth is. Which is pretty weird (he was not controllable in the original or Crisis Core) Cool, but weird. Makes me think there will be more than one section where he's playable

Once I got to the end of this game, I was hammering the space key through all the companion dialogue cause I just did not care. They were so uninteresting to me and the most ridiculously clinical and uninteresting cast of Bethesda characters ever. At the very least, with all its problems, I would never say that about Cyberpunk. Its characters were great, and the first person presentation of its cinematics and how its sequences were paced were on another level to this game. Still though, you can't be a space cook. So Starfield is a bit better.

Interesting documentary on the original release, English subtitles https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/inside-the-game-cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty/inside-the-game-cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-english-version/ard/NGVjMjk1MDktMmZjOC00NWNhLTg2NWUtMmY3NDNmNTJhN2Vj Reviews coming in for Phantom Liberty, another RPG knockout for 2023 it looks like Though with the caveat that these are PC reviews, not that that's likely to be a problem but worth pointing out considering last time edit or not, the PC that RPS reviewed on is significantly weaker than a PS5 all told https://www.metacritic.com/game/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty/critic-reviews/?platform=pc

Yeah. I mean it's clearly still going to be a great game. It's just I like remakes that give a good reason for a new playthrough (eg, RE2). Whereas this feels better aimed at people who've maybe never played it. I just don't think I could do another 100 hours of something that looks pretty close to what I've already seen.

Well, the PS2 version didn't have Persona 4's soundtrack either Anyway I dunno, this is one of those remakes which definitely feels super unecessary to me. Just doesn't seem to look or play that different to the original tbh. Kinda looks like OG with a bit more flourish

Vagabond x Onimusha Swan was looking for Japanese stuff to watch, Takashi Miike's stuff is good (mainly films, not anime). Though not for viewing with company. Don't know why he's doing Onimusha though

There's also a new Dishonored in that leak, as well as remasters of Oblivion and Fallout. But it's a very old leak saying things like Starfield being due for release in 2021, Elder Scrolls VI in 2024 With how into the NPC memes the TikTok generation are though, Oblivion could be quite the zoomer hit 🤖

I saw a suggestion that they should make stopping drive rush a punish counter state, which seems like it would balance the risk/reward a bit better when it's between players who are a decent enough skill level. Juri's medium kick, I think it's medium kick, has two hits in it and is very active and can fish for your hurtbox that's trying to stuff it very easily. Here's a funny video of that with IDOM, I think he pressed lk and his startup frames of that check get blowed up I think in general while they scrub up pretty well in the lower to mid levels, grappler characters in 6 aren't super privileged by how much the game rewards oppression but doesn't punish it as much. One thing I tried to get better at in the Manon matchup was keeping that in mind, and being more ignorant and random. When you play passive, you're playing their game. Interesting how drive impact sort of stops being such a problem after a point. The only time it's really threatening I think is corner situations when you're conditioned to respect the opponent's pressure.