Well there goes my educated guess about an english release of P5R in Jan-Feb
https://gematsu.com/2019/08/persona-5-royal-launches-spring-2020-in-the-west
Please don't be April, I can't possibly make time for this and Cyberpunk in the same month. And as massive Atlus fanboy and usual defender of them, I can't help but feel let down again, even March would already be a 5 month release gap, so RIP their supposed ideas of being more efficient with localizations.
Just beat Alan Wake meaning I'm done with 9 (or 7 rather since I choose not to finish two games from my list).
Alan Wake 8.5/10
I'm very pleased with Alan Wake, I think it is a very well made game that does some of the best work that I've seen when it comes to making 'cinematic' games, since I usually dislike how much other games in that vein compromise to make a flashy experience, but this one was just right.
Add to it a very compelling narative that definitively wanted to make me go on, a good mix of characters to color the story, fantastic presentation and entertaining gameplay, it makes for a really great package.
The ending is certainly a bit of a bummer, and some repetition is present that drags things down just a bit, but I also feel they made a good job of not stretching things too much, so even not a huge deal in my mind.
Lisa 7/10 DNF
Pony Island 7/10
West of Loathing 6/10 DNF
Alan Wake 8.5/10
Prey 8/10
Alice: Madness Returns 6/10
D4 Dark Dreams Don't Die
Deadly Premonition
Grim Fandango 7.5/10
Mark of the Ninja 9/10
Trails in the Sky 9/10
The Silver Case
To me Trails in the Sky, The Zero Escape trilogy and Danganronpa, and aside from that I would make the argument that Persona 3, 4 and 5 could be considered a trilogy given how different they are from the other games.
As so many people have pointed out on in the youtube video Ian really did make this unpleasant to watch. I know is a pointless remarks as he is just seeing it as a fun thing for himself and he is very good at failing to see others perspectives, but stuff like this really puts a dent into something people look forward to and goes against the spirit of what it should be. Maybe he doesn't care as it is not important at the end of the day but as something the audience has really bought into and something we look forward to it is extremely disappointing to see something like this.
Well it seems I erased most of my answer before posting so RIP me I guess, I'll look into it later
Visual Novels
Virtue's Last Reward
9 Hours 9 Persona 9 Doors
Danganronpa V3
Action/Adventure/Others
Catherine
GTA San Andreas
Dishonored 2
Does are the main ones I can think of for now, so I'll leave it at that.
@dmcmaster I'm pretty sure they had mentioned a few games, Destroy all Humans, Sponge Bob, BioMutant, Darksiders and an unannounced one if I remember correctly.
Ninja Gaiden 2, I was doing ok with it but then I reached a boss that was like a water dragon which you fought in the middle of a lake or something, easily like 50 tries and not in one of them did I feel I was even close to making significant progress, I've meant to go back to it but my 360 is not looking super hot and haven't plugged in in a while.
Other than that, not that many I just cheat and look online what I have to do when I run into roadblocks.
You could do like me and use it to play PSP era JRPGs with your brand new +1000$ PC ....
For real though, even mentioning which genres you like there's too much too choose from on PC.
A good amount of new trailers from the China Joy event, this one in particular looks really interesting to me.
@shoulderguy Not sure how much confidence I have in the game, but damn does it look beautiful
It's kinda hard to believe they just coded an error into the game, but oh well whatever it was it seems good they are getting rid of it.
I'm sad to say I'm giving up with Lisa, I'm just not interested in playing it anymore, and I already watched a silent playthrough to see the ending, it has some interesting stuff to it, but it is just not a game I enjoy in most ways.
Lisa 7/10 DNF
Pony Island 7/10
West of Loathing 6/10 DNF
Alan Wake
Prey 8/10
Alice: Madness Returns 6/10
D4 Dark Dreams Don't Die
Deadly Premonition
Grim Fandango 7.5/10
Mark of the Ninja 9/10
Trails in the Sky 9/10
The Silver Case
That makes it two games from my list I will not finish, which is not ideal but I'm at least glad I gave them enough of a chance and they just didn't pay off for me.
I don't really know what the hell xcloud is, but I haven't seen much support for either option tbh, neither of them are appealing to me whatsoever tbh so I don't really pay them much mind, but even in the best of cases I would be cautious with Stadia and what they are advertising.
@hanabi I would have some faith tbh, Sega has been repeating recently how they are looking to dive back into their backlog of franchises so this would be very consistent with that.
@bam541 maybe it's just me but Hollow Knight was not a good game too binge for me, specially since I struggled with a few bosses so much, only to put the game down for a day, pick it back up and beating them in the first try. In the end I didn't even finish it even though I think it is very good, but yeah I would have a hard time binging that one.
@dipset same is happening to me in a way, but that's why I was very deliberate in picking games I knew wouldn't be a huge commitment, and next year that's gonna be even more important.
I'm close to done with Lisa which is the 8th from my list, has had some pretty good moments but overall I don't think it is great.
@mbun I imagine you are referring to Kyoani (nothing is loading for me) and yes definitively appropriate for this I would say, I'm so incredibly sad to hear this happen, since I'm a big fan of a lot of the stuff they've done (my icon being a clear indication of that) and thinking that those people have made stuff that have brought so many feels and joy to me and others have gone through something so horrible is simply heartbreaking.
Cold Steel 3 delayed a while, apparently to pull it out of the crowded September time slot which makes a lot of sense, and gives me plenty of time to catch up on Zero and Ao so I can't say I'm even slightly sad.
I think it has to be a toss up between PS2 and PS4 in large part because those have been the main consoles at times I've gamed the most, in high school and now, also on the previous gen it was previously spread across 360 and PS3 to go with one over the other.
An unfair advantage for the PS2 was also that most of my SNES gaming was actually in the PS2 with a bootleg collection of 500 SNES and older games.
I throw in a top 10 jus because it is easy right now, and I don't feel like thinking beyond that right now.
Among the other 15 a few that would be in there for sure would be DA Origins, Undertale, SMB3, Paper Mario Thousand Year Door, Trails in the Sky SC