ffxiv
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fwiw, came back home w/ a huge haul of new PS5 software:
Sonic & Sonic & Sonic & Shadow Generations
Wukong - hey, it finally got a physical disk release, weyhey
that unknown #9 Bandamco game
OnePiece Odyssey for 20 bucks (Motoi Sakuraba!)
now with the exisiting velocity of cleaning my backlog, this should be enough to tide me over into 2040 or 2042, i guess 
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let me know if you get anything interesting out of wukong, I found it really confusingly slight. it looks good but it has pretty spongy combat, uninteresting buildcraft, and boringly naturalistic level design to the point where I feel like its popularity is fairly astroturfed and then amplified by people who are afraid to accuse them of astroturfing.
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I just want to know if the PS5 port of Wukong is as borked as people say or if it is just people overly concerned with framerate being loud again.
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The fact that Granblue Fantasy and Trails through Daybreak arenāt on here feels damning.
@wren made HD2 worth while
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fwiw, with moi ā¦ letās call it eclectic taste ā¦ you probably will not be any wiser when i report back, Iāve made it 40+ years in, and still cannot tell consistently why something clicks with me (or why it doesnāt).
Also take it w/ a grain of salt whenever i talk about anything that touches KoeiTecmo related IP in some aspect (Songoku is the disneyāfied character that turns up in their games regularly) because i have def spent more time with Samurai Warriors 4&5, Warriors Orochi 3&4 and Dynasty Warriors 8/Zelda Warriors/some spinoff/Persona Warriors in the last decade than, say, with the mainline FFs (FF15,16,FF7R#1+2). So if the arenāt dropping the ball HARD, i will probably enjoy my time w/ it, i guess?
in somewhat related terms:
Since i also checked yesterday for a list iām sharing w/ friends, was amused to realize there was another trend that seems to be true for me:
- my GotY '22 was Sonic Frontiers (which i didnāt even finish there&then, but Boss #3 was enough to claim the crown)
- Armo(u)red Core 6 was '23 pick (which i havenāt finished even once until now), which won on pure merit of the Dub (SO SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT)
- and GotY '24 ā¦ not sure yet which it will be, but if it is Inscryption, thatād be the first i have finished in the same year for a while now
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Inti Createsā Umbraclaw wins the coveted Game Whose Release I Feel Guiltiest About Missing Award:
apparently this game came out like 7 months ago
given the amount of umbreons iām friends with, iām pretty much contractually obligated to give this game a playthrough (also itās directed by the same director as the BMZ trilogy)
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Victory Heat Rally coming in hot as one of my favourites from 2024.
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Unforunate there are two āretro aestheticā drift-based racing games with Rally in the title and they came out within a month of each other so have to compete.
Oh damn, what was the other one?
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iām no expert, but that is 87% of the same game, and Sonyā¦ decided ā¦ to split it across three entries?
whatās going on hereā¦
Oh, well, thatās easy to explain
One of those is the PS5 demo and the other is the PS4 demo
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45 hours in the demo?
What is this 1995???
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it was a long and stupid January.
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Itās a fun game, but eventually I had to call it. I can only beat the same boss so many times before my eyes cross
listen, those two endgame weapons for every character arenāt going to ascend themselves
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i canāt go that far. I lack the discipline.
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