Looks interesting, but I have some worries about the player not even finishing one quest in his 3 hours of play. Far Cry games had a great system where you would be walking by some lake & a crocodile would just jump out at you, or you'd be infiltrating an outpost & a leopard would randomly run out of the jungle & start causing chaos. That was fun... until they leant into it too hard. In later games, you could just throw a piece of meat to spawn a leopard out of nowhere & Far Cry 5 was probably the worst example of not trusting the world to actually provide fun for the player without spawning 6 dozen cultists every time you faced even a moment of downtime. You couldn't hand in a mission, or just go fishing without the game forcing some kind of chaos upon you.

I'm not saying Dragon's Dogma 2 is going to be that bad, but I just hope they don't turn the random encounter dial up too high.

@treechopper88: The gameplay is engaging, the story has all sorts of twists & turns, the battles are all hand-crafted & the characters are well-written. I don't know where you've been looking but likely people are avoiding spoilers & letting you play the game to find out what characters are like for yourself.

If you're not into CRPGs & only want to play action-packed shooters, that's fine. This game is popular for a reason though.

This game has a cool aesthetic but it's kind of a shame that they went with a standard Soulslike formula. It would have been interesting to see swords working well against fleshy enemies but maybe having to use some kind of bludgeoning weapon against big metal monstrosities. I guess Soulslikes are still in vogue but having some faster paced combat with weapon switching could have been a nice revival for the spectacle fighter genre.

It's on Game Pass, so I'll probably resub for a month & give it a go. I'll see how long I tolerate the Souls stuff.

@noodles227: Review scores are dumb. Look at the content of the review (from multiple reviewers) & figure out if it's the kind of game you will enjoy. Expecting a single number to determine how every single person will enjoy a game will only lead to disapointment.

@boobytrap: Yeah, it's a real shame. I could tell the PS5 was underpowered when it launched & we're seeing its limitations now.

I look forward to this being released on PC. Good games deserve to be played at smooth framerates. Considering this is more action-based, not turn-based, a solid 60fps should be the minimum standard.

@olddadgamer: Wow, gamers are mean.

Yeah, you can jump in at any one. The FF games are numbered, but they're not direct sequels to each other, except for a few like X & X-2. FF games have similar mechanics & themes & a few character names pop up regularly, but they're not set in the same universe.

@mooglestar: I don't know if you ever game on PC, but Steam in home streaming has been around for a while & it's very responsive. Maybe not quick enough for Street Fighter, but those guys are playing on their CRTs anyway.

Your tweet calls that thing a cloud handheld gaming device, but in the video clip they say that it will stream games from your PS5 over WiFi. In-home streaming & cloud gaming are two very different things. You might want to fact check that.

Oh great! Tolkein's written some new stuff to be adapted to film. I think it's been a little while, but glad to hear he's publishing again.

XD

The first season was incredible.

Then they got greedy & decided to stretch out the story & go for as many seasons as possible, rather than a tight narrative. Now we won't get to see the end to that story, which I'm kinda bummed about, but also kinda not because I don't know how well planned it was anyway.