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The inclusion of Hogwarts Legacy is honestly hilarious, HFR should have definitely taken its place.

@Adol-Bannings Poor you, if only triple A multiplatform games existed... Alas, you are reduced to playing SNES.

A hilarious final twist completely ruined an otherwise mediocre game. Wouldn't really recommend even for free, story-wise it's one of the worst deck/dontnod games up there with twin mirror.

I doubt it will ever release or look and play even remotely close to the trailer so I'd say it doesn't really matter.

Only final fantasy xvi, sorry.

@iBashar141 I have never heard a more ambiguous metric than "lacking the fun factor". Really doubt the game without the fun factor would get 90+ on meta.

@grumpypotato Cage is a bro, I highly doubt you'll see anything among those lines from him. And yeah, he's more than relevant.

@mousieone nope, I'm hyped for Fuga 2 too. The first game was great even if on the easier side than it should have been to fully work.

@Kaloudz no, it's more like a degraded version of desperados, only in real time, with a bigger focus on a relatively mediocre narrative.

"critics are on board" is a very rich statement, considering that the game only has literally two reviews from very random unknown sources.

Ghostwire is a great meditation, Benedict Fox is just plain terrible. Didn't play anything else.

@BRT15 well, duh, every Bethesda game coming out this year has been greenlighted and in development long before the acquisition

Looks like another vaporware akin to The Day Before.

@FraserG Which makes it completely unclear because almost nothing is actually confirmed at this point, some games are not even announced properly and some likely won't ever come out. The article is toying with the line between random guessing and false advertising.

I think I get it, this is the avant-garde of game journalism.

What is the point of this article, I'm flabbergasted.

@Shigurui with a description like that, what's not a walking sim.

@Jevarel Really not sure how "compulsive disorder" factors in this case, we're not talking about gacha or anything, there's literally nothing to "collect" with these tickets.

It's a bit scummy for sure but the game is way too good to get too hang up on this.

Already played it on ps5, it's pretty great if you enjoy the setting and set your expectations right.

Would be nice to see Fatal Frame in the subscriptions, it's a game that I don't really want to buy but would definitely try on GP or Plus.

Well, wo long was fine and fun enough, didn't care much for anything else, despite RPGs and fighting games being my thing. But those games are just... Yeah.

Game pass really is surprisingly light on games this year.

Giving VS goty award of any sort always sounds like a completely mad decision, in the worst sense.

@Phornix I meant soulless in a funny way as in "not souls-like", relax mate, this is too big of a discussion for purexbox.

Relax, whiney kids, this is not a souls-like at all. Just a completely soulless map cleaning marker-based open world. Fans of Forspoken will love this.

This is not a massive lineup at all, so many games omitted

@JayJ
Nah, it's ridiculously easy on, well, "easy". An absolute overkill, you'll easily complete it in a few hours and will be left wondering what the fuss was all about and why this game is on any GOTY lists.

@theduckofdeath Yeah, if you played it on "easy mode" you pretty much didn't play the game at all, got no real experience out of it. And so now the internet is full of people claiming that Sifu is shallow and nothing special. A very disappointing situation all around and a horrible example of "easy mode" in a game that lives or dies on being invested in its learning curve.

"easy mode" pretty much destroyed the game's perception, it's better to just stick to your principles.

@GamingFan4Lyf sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to call you out personally

@GamingFan4Lyf
A lot of people play with online functionalities even in a single player, you can implement an infinite number of leaderboards or even simply ask to connect to online to get metrics like some games do and not force the game and players to always be online and make it unplayable without an internet. That's like completely beside a point.

Only the most naive person would believe that extremely half-baked "explanation", man.

@somnambulance
I am too excited to play new sh stuff, but I do believe more in Townfall and F.

Silent hill 2 is a perfection that is very easy to mess up by a team like Bloober's.

@Bricktop33 Well, duh, and they'll just soon delist them like Shadow of the damned, syndicate and bad company 1-2. Your point is?

What's even the point of backwards compatibility if major publishers behave like that.

@GamingFan4Lyf
This is the silliest reason they could have brought up while clearly trying to simply wiggle out of the sticky situation. 100% sure that's not one of the main reasons at all, maybe not even a small one, as they get a whole darn lot telemetry from the coop play, more than they could ever hope do anything with.

@somnambulance
Nah, I have a feeling that SH2 will be a huge flop, unfortunately.

@Green-Bandit you can easily download a show on Netflix and watch it later without an internet connection, no?

@BrilliantBill
Netflix is usually very dedicated to screwing things up so eh.

@pip_muzz well, hi-fi rush is absolutely on the level with those, review-wise.

A hipster hobo Paul, now that's a new look.

It actually kinda shrinks, considering that consistently more games seem to leave the service rather than being added.

@KaijuKaiser what games sales exactly are you talking about here.

@Kevw2006 yeah, me too

@Dezzy70 nope, honestly they are not critical at all, we have so many games around or over 90 that it's a bit ridiculous. But they did become at least a little bit more critical than ten years ago which is a good thing.

Soul Hackers 2 is a great addition, actually very excited to play it.

@Sebatrox everyone else is just there for the lulz. I should know, I'm one of them.

@Romans12 it's a really high hurdle to just find a "shooter GOTY contender", let alone on GP.

@Sebatrox you are probably the last person on earth who cares about ign reviews

Well, wild hearts if badly optimised for pretty much anything so there's that.

Time to play crown trick.

The pointless post at the start of EVERY Hogwarts comment section feels like a weird trolling at this point. C'mon, be better than that.