Raz Review: "I have been waiting, no, praying for a KOTOR/Mass Effect-style RPG from Bioware to hit the PS3...and here it is! In fact - here is quite a lot of it. This thing is bloody massive.
I'm not talking about the world of Ferelden, which actually looks deceivingly small - I've visited about 3 major towns and it's taken me almost a month to get that far. As ONE character, I haven't even looked at the other origin stories yet. My dear sweet lord; there is a lot of conversation in this game. You might almost say that conversation is the game, spiced up with battles and loot and magic and upgrades and missions and a storyline. If you're the sort to forge ahead, just skipping all the encounters with liberal use of the square button, then it's unlikely you're the sort of person who'll get much out of this game unless you're into real-time group management combat.
People like me, however, LOVE this kinda stuff. It's called 'building character', and no, I don't mean in the traditional leveling up way (though there's certainly plenty of that, Final Fantasy style w/tactics, powers, potion-making, trap-making and dungeon crawling). I mean in the way that one of those old 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books would allow you to begin with something generic and end up with a nuanced person as the end product of your choices and interactions. And of course, you've a camp full of women (and men!) who just might be a little sweet on you; so there are romantic options to explore as well (thank you, Bioware, for remaining true to that added dimension. Now when are we going to get a proper, uncensored love scene? Even softcore nudity would be nice..).
It's KOTOR, Mass Effect and Final Fantasy in a medieval setting. How can you go wrong? Complain about eye-candy if you want (water effects, framerates), I don't care. Because the people who enjoy this game will enjoy it for the story, the characters, the dialogue, the detailed RPG elements and the voluminous depth of interactivity - the very best RPGs will always get these right, and actually make you care what happens enough to go back and reload an old save so you can take a different path."
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Rated: 9/10
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
A renowned industry insider has suggested the rumored PlayStation May 2024 showcase featuring Silent Hill 2 could happen this week.
Bogus!
Why would Sony do that and how would this benefit them?
1) It would piss off their media partners (IGN, Gamespot, Edge, etc.) since they would have to allocate resources fast to cover the event.
2) Risk of not having great coverage or proper coverage from the various source
3) It could give the impression that they are not confident in their own stuff.
4) They would miss the chance to hype the event losing viewers and losing free marketing time.
Again I'm calling it bogus unless it's a small showcase before the big one or because they want to announce that Hellbalde 2 is also coming on PS5.
As far as I can remember, they typically give a week heads up for these sorts of things.
Last year it was a weeks notice.
https://blog.playstation.co...
May 17th announcement for may 24th show.
Nintendo always tweets that a direct is happening tomorrow but no one cares.
Sony gives a week or days of notice and we get anti sony type fake outrage like this.
But good luck trying trying to get some Sony hate going...
You just mention it!
Sony gives a week in advance NOT just a couple of days.
So I fail to see what Sony's hate movement I'm trying to start when it's a basic business strategy to not piss off your partners (ask Sega).
And I doubt it's hate to ask how it would benefit Sony in doing so.
@Versus
Huh? What?
Bro you really should relax, if what you read was some kinda negative against Sony.... seriously, is that what you got from the comments?
Bro, he was debunking the rumor, and gave perfectly good reasons why it would be unlikely, and your Nintendo Direct comparison is different, as this is supposed to be a BIG Sony showcase, not a surprise 20 min direct, and Sony 's pattern has been one week.
Slow down warmonger.
@thesoftware730
"1) It would piss off their media partners (IGN, Gamespot, Edge, etc.) since they would have to allocate resources fast to cover the event."
That is implying Sony is preventing them from doing their job properly therefore negatively affecting their business...but i guess that's a reach in your mind?
And it's not like they need that many resources to cover the stream. They just need 3 people to react to the stream live and make some easy articles made up mostly of summaries of Sony provided press releases. They would have enough time to "prepare" if it was announced with one days notice.
Before I get tons of replies for Sony given a week in advance, my initial comments are related to the notion that the Show could happen this week as the title mentions.
Now to be fair the complete article mentions that Jeff said the Show could happen later in May giving time for Sony to give the normal 7-day notice.
Again not trying to start a negative thing here just thinking that it's bogus that Sony will have a show this week
Yeah as much as I’d like to hear what sony’s 1st parties have cooked, it’s not their style to shadow drop a showcase.
Still waiting for ghost of tsushima 2, I’m ready whenever man..
Going in with no expectations but likely will see something that resonates with me.
Here is a look at the new Joker Trailer. Warner Bros. Games today released a new MultiVersus trailer revealing the first look at gameplay for The Joker, who will join the roster as a playable character when the upcoming free-to-play platform fighter videogame launches on May 28th.
