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Post by Raid » Tue Feb 28, 2023 2:51 pm

Final Fantasy 16 looks like a slightly mad combination of Elden Ring and Devil May Cry, and basically nothing like the series prior to maybe 15 (the road-trip one with the teleporting swords).



Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't see how you're meant to actually take in any of the information it's giving you. It's throwing up hundreds of numbers when you hit things and seemingly the only way it thinks you can time some strikes correctly is by pausing the scene until you hit a button prompt. It's certainly spectacular looking, and the previewer sounds quite positive on it, but from a ten minute video it's just pure assault on the senses.

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Post by DjchunKfunK » Tue Feb 28, 2023 4:35 pm

I wish Square would come up with a better font, the one/ones they use in their FF games always looks like placeholder. It looks even worse when there are about 20 numbers flying about on the screen.

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Post by Raid » Tue Feb 28, 2023 5:09 pm

Agreed. I think they've been using that one (or something very similar looking) since 13. Maybe it fit that game as it's fairly futuristic looking, but it really jars with the setting in that video.

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Post by Snowy » Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:03 pm

So Kerbal Space Programme 2 has been released into early access (at full price), but from what I am reading is barely at an alpha stage. What the fuck happened there, how could they class it as a shippable delivery?

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/kerbal ... ess-review

Quite an entertaining read, rare these days from RPS.
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Post by Raid » Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:29 pm

The funny thing is they originally wanted an early access launch in early 2020. Three extra years, granted with the pandemic happening right at the start of those years, and it still launches in an alpha state. The concept of an Early Access launch really can be a piss take at times.

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Post by Snowy » Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:43 pm

I love the original for what it is, and despite being utterly hopeless with it have still had a lot of fun. Not so sure that I need anything more from the title though tbh.
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Post by DjchunKfunK » Tue Feb 28, 2023 7:03 pm

Raid wrote:
Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:29 pm
The funny thing is they originally wanted an early access launch in early 2020. Three extra years, granted with the pandemic happening right at the start of those years, and it still launches in an alpha state. The concept of an Early Access launch really can be a piss take at times.
Especially as this is basically a Take Two joint now.

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Post by Raid » Tue Feb 28, 2023 9:46 pm

Snowy wrote:
Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:43 pm
I love the original for what it is, and despite being utterly hopeless with it have still had a lot of fun. Not so sure that I need anything more from the title though tbh.
Same. It's one I've meant to go back to for ages, but when they announced the sequel I think I just decided I'd give this a go when it was released. It's obviously not in a state I'd buy it yet, not that I have the money at the minute anyway, but it's disappointing that it'll still be ages. I'm almost certain this release will lead to an uptick in sales of the original, and frankly I'm more likely to go back to the one I own (which is a very different game to when I played - I don't think there was even a career mode when I was sending poor Kerbonauts to their doom).

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Post by Alan » Wed Mar 01, 2023 7:28 pm

A man who could tell more truth and eat fewer pies.

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Post by DjchunKfunK » Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:43 am

Alan wrote:
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https://www.pcgamer.com/former-eve-onli ... ym4fe9f6wv

I’m listening :-k
Sounds a lot like Albion Online. I have concerns whenever a developer tries to make an MMO without a publisher, they require so many resources that you often need to scale back what you are making in some way or you end up running out of money and either put out a broken, unfinished product or cancel the game.

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Post by Animalmother » Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:49 pm


Health bars and damage number on enemies now seem to be the norm, I really hope that can be turned off. And of course it has a card system which I'm never a fan of. The gore looks magnificent though :lol:

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Post by Snowy » Fri Mar 03, 2023 7:35 am

Oh that's a pity, why on earth did they go that way? Didn't need it in the previous titles and the games were all the better for it.
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Post by Animalmother » Thu Mar 16, 2023 7:53 am


There's a definite influence from the Dune film in the video. The sound work is also great

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Post by Lenny Solidus » Fri Mar 17, 2023 2:27 pm

Seeing as though we never got a true sequel to what I consider a genre classic in Darksiders II, I'm very much loving the look of the following from the developers of Lords of the Fallen & The Surge...

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

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Post by Sly Boots » Fri Mar 17, 2023 2:31 pm

Lennyquantum wrote:
Fri Mar 17, 2023 2:27 pm
Seeing as though we never got a true sequel to what I consider a genre classic in Darksiders II, I'm very much loving the look of the following from the developers of Lords of the Fallen & The Surge...

Watching this as we speak!

Yeah, I thought the reveal trailer looked promising, so although he was a little down on it for not being a Soulslike - for me that's a definite plus! Will be keeping an eye on this one.

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