Mamoulian War

Isn't that the main selling point of all open world games? *shrugs*

Fookin' crazy. I have like 7 or 8 unfinished PS4 games, and my most anticipated games for the system: Ni No Kuni II, Yakuza 6 and Dragon Quest XI aren't even released. Then, I might pick up Kingdom Hearts III, and the hack games. I haven't even bought Tales of Vesperia yet. I have Indivisble pre-ordered (backed on IGG). (There are tons of other games that I won't even bother mentioning.) If I ever buy a PS5, it sure as hell won't be before 2020. Man, I feel same way. The Japanese games are having new renaissance. To much to play and to little time all of them :'( I have most of games you've mentioned on my watchlist as well...

I have really big itching to start this one up. I have it on my backlog for a very long time :-P

Played this in Japanese already. Honestly, everything that it does, Yakuza Zero does better. There's no reason to buy both unless you're a major fan of the series. RTS against other players is a pressure cooker, but I enjoy the campaigns etc. against the computer. There's more time to relax, play with units etc. I wish there was a new RTS with an awesome campaign a la Warcraft 2 or Starcraft 1 (You know, when the writing was still good). Isn't Kiwami remake of Yakuza 1 on PS2? I've never played PS2 titles, but enjoyed all Yakuza, I've played so far.

There have been already some rumours about PS5 and 2018/2019 introduction/release flying around the web...

Oh I see, for some reason, I always thought you are living more to the west. I remember though that Paradox was one of two or three, who had regional prices for my region, when Pillars came out. But for some unknown reasons, it was still much more expensive compared to Sweden or Norway :-/

Where are you living? The cheapest I can get during this sale is 16.89EUR :-/

Yeah Saints Row learned a lot from Yakuza :-P

Yakuza Kiwami new trailer

/yawn

Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel releasing on August 2 on PC. Both Steam and GOG release. http://www.siliconera.com/2017/07/19/legend-heroes-trails-cold-steel-pc-launches-august-2/

Ok, I have just checked 10x experience NG+ for you. People rushing the game and skipping some skits were able to get the Platinum with 10x EXP under 100 hours O.o Edit: Xilla 1 for me was around 135 hours, so you can save a lot of time compared to me :-D I'll say go for ToX2 too ;-)

To be honest, I think it should be doable under 200 - 250 hours, maybe even less. I have spent a lot of time doing stuff which were not needed for platinum trophy. I just like Tales of games a lot, so I enjoy trying out a lot of optional stuff, and sometimes I have some special house rules for my blind playthroughs, like always trying to play on hardest difficulty, even if it means doing some bossfights over and over, until I find a way how to beat them :-P If you will do only stuff, which is required for Platinum, and don't bother with farming stuff for Cameo Weapons, you should be done much much faster with the Platinum, than me. How long it took you to Platinum the first Xillia? Edit: oh, and use for my New Game + in Tales of games only double experience. If you spent grade for 10x experience, you will save crazy amount of time compared to me. I just rather play one good game twice, than two mediocre games once :-P So I never rush :-P

Finally finished my way to the Platinum Trophy in Tales of Xillia 2! It took me little bit more than 302 hours, more than double the time for Tales of Xillia 1 Platinum, but 30 hours less than Tales of Graces f Platinum The Last trophy, which I was missing was the cameo coliseum fight Trophy for Cameo Ending, where Despite getting to level 200 was little bit longer than expected, I have really had a lot of fun doing various task for getting some of the harder trophies, but now I am just without an idea, what game to play next. I am still missing few trophies in Project CARS GOTY, but they are the most grindy one, and I am kind of to tired of racing in last few months :/ Well, one of the options would be go for the Final Fantasy XII Zodiac Age, because it was really long time, when I have played it last time, but there are still some PS3 games, in which I really want to find out some secrets including Dark Souls games

Jotun for free on GOG. https://www.gog.com/game/jotun

My first playthrough is always blind. I love surprises :-D my second playthrough is always NG+, even if I manage to screw up little bit my blind build :-P More fun that way for me :-P

Reached level 200 in Tales of Xillia 2 with Ludger, and immediately got the trophy. Other characters are 2-3 levels behind. Game is 97% complete and only 1 trophy missing for Platinum. Need to finish hardest coliseum fight to get it, but before it, there is one more EX superboss hunt, which I want to finish before the end of game.

I have continued to play Talse fo Xillia 2, and I have just achieved few moments ago the "Debt" or Hot Spring Ending for a second time . To get this one, you have to pay-off your debt, which you get shortly after the start of the game, and which is astonishing 20,000,000 gald. It's almost impossible to pay off during main story line, so you have to continue playing some postgame content. Especially the EX Hunts can give you some money to spend. As a reward, during paying off your debt, you get some items, which helps you with various tasks in game (new skills, friendship boosters, cat food, etc.) I have reached level 170 right before the Ending, and will need 30 more levels to get Max Level trophy and finish EX Dungeon and after that EX Team Coliseum Challenge, where I will play against the hardest cameo superbosses of this game. Then I will finally have Platinum for this game as well \o/

I am going for a build with a focus on intelligence and strength. I also invest some points in dexterity but my main goal are the magic weapons. I use an ether shield to block attacks, a short-sword for undead enemies and a mace for skeletons and such, I use the Pyro skill on tougher enemies and bosses. True, Demon's Souls was harder but using weapons in this game seems a tad more fun. Weapons have different damages on enemies based on the type of weapon you are holding and the type of enemy you are using it against. Did Demon's Souls have that? Seems sort of new to me since I noticed that the mace crushes the skeletons to the ground but the short sword doesn't. Demon's Souls had some kind of weapon and magic mitigation mechanics as well. I can't compare it to DS1, because it is really long time, when was the last time, when I've played it. If you tried to slash the skeletons in the world number 4 with a sword which had not any magic properties, it could take pretty long time compared to "force" magic spells or maces. I played Mage and used only magic and Crescent Falchion +5 for maximum "force" damage, so when a mob was resistant to the Falchion and Soul Ray, I smashed it with Fireball. I have seen the difference it made on some mobs. Now looking on stats of some mobs, they have Normal, Pierce, Slash, Blunt, Magic and Fire Defenses, so depending on combinations of different defenses, each mob was most vulnerable to different weapons and enchants or magic. But as I said, mage stuff was very powerful against anything except highly Magic/Fire resistant mobs.

What build have you decided to go for with Pyromancer? I have started to play DS1, right after I have finished Demon's Souls, but I had lot of troubles playing with Pyromancer, I just were unable to cope with the 8 "bullets" of fire in my hands, and my physical attributes were not on par with the monsters, so after I got destroyed all the time by Capra Demon, I just had to call it quit :-/ And I would love to start to play it again sooner or later. I have Platinued Demon's Souls in between other games, and IMO, it was harder game than DS1. Just the stupid Capra Demon is still the reason of my anger :-D

Well I would really love to see how it would end up, if Obsidian would ever had a chance to make their own version of fantasy JRPG :-D

Square Enix needed 5million sold copies of FFXV to break even... That means, it cost at least 300 million to get done...

I will respond to you all about 2016 games later this day or tommorow :-P Finally at home and unable to fall asleep :-D Anyway, if you ever wondered, why AAA games cost so much? A nice video sums it up :-P Unfortunatelly, I am somehow unable to share just the link to video only, so I have to share whole Facebook link to the FB post :-/ https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154831370818753&id=19374573752

The studio opened Paypal for pledges/preorders.

DOOM and Titanfall 2, featuring some of the best FPS campaigns I've ever played, both for entirely different reasons. For MP fans there's Overwatch that I'm not too fond of because it's MP, but.. Y'know. Hitman coming back to form with episodic releases of the Hitman games. When it comes to sequels, it wouldn't be me if I forgot to mention Dishonored 2 with generally stellar level design, but especially two levels come to mind that I'm rather unlikely to forget. XCOM 2 also seem to have been accepted rather well with some great improvements to the formula (and, arguably, some things being for worse.) As for indies, Firewatch showed us how to do walking sims right, Starbound showed No Man's Sky how to do No Man's Sky right and Darkest Dungeon was one of the best Lovecraftian games I have ever played, often to detriment of its own gameplay (for which it has my respect). Inside was also rather acclaimed and Oxenfree was ... Well, Oxenfree I guess? Incidentally, speaking of BF1, it actually featured a pretty damn good SP campaign as well. Hmm I thought Doom 4 was older my bad :-D and even though Titanfall 2 is good, I don't believe anyone will remember it soon. Not many people playing online nowadays. Hitman and it's episodic release is now praised as almost everything what is wrong in current industry trends. Overwatch. Ok I give you Mamou's approval of quality on that . It's crazy popular, but still, it is infested with worst kind of Microtransactions. I come back to your list shortly, my flight is just taking off