I somewhat agree so far but you can't demy that it's all very cool and spectacle like, I've never been so amused and emotionally twisted so early in an FF game before. But this isn't like an FF game, it's like they built side content for FF14 online but polished it to high heaven and forgot to but in the full list of cool downs. 

I'm having very bavk luck picking games after Stellar Blade despite their scores on OC. If WuKong and Astrobot faul to impress me I'll be very disapointment with 9th gen, well I am fairly disappointed already. Weird thing is, despite DD2s flaws I feel a pull to return to it and finish it. Oddly enough. 

FF 16 looks incredible. The VA is incredible and all the production value. Astonishing actually. The story is gripping so far and far removed from old FF because of how madly dark it is but I wonder if this is anything I couldn't get from watching a no vommentary playthrough of the game on YouTube. I'm not so sure, It has shown me little in the way of gameplay mechanics thus far the tutorial was basically, learn to dodge and swing a sword. There is little else to it beside hitting square square triangle but where as if you do that in a game like GOW it feels good and never stops feeling good. Here it's like you aren't even hitting the enemies, almost like they are a backdrop. I'm confused as to how this is a video game as they've leaned so heavily on the video part of that and less on the game. I'll see more into it but good lord, I wish soke complexity would occur soon

Okay. Redownloaded Dragons Dogma, to grind cause I was having fun and I bought Astro bot. I have a problem right now, I can't stop buying games I don't need and they keep stacking up. God Astrobot better hook me, I can't take the feeling in my gut again of buying a game and it not being very good. Fuck aggregate sites.

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade on my new gaming PC - its glorious in 4K 60 FPS.

Niiiice. Congrats man. Give us the specs, what are ya rocking? What's your monitor/TV specs too? 

All the better to view Tifa with ;)

The computer specs (The White desktop in the picture below) are

My monitor/TV is a 85 inch Sony X90CL 4K HDTV

You're gaming in stye and with substance, great TV. May I have your old PC...? 😉

Thanks!

And No, I'm gonna be using my old gaming PC still :P

Let me know what you think of DS when you get around to it.  I played it for 5 hours straight yesterday.  Made it up to something like delivery #15, and am sick of the game. I probably won't go back to playing it again.

I cannot in good conscious recommend DS.  I consider it and Horizon Zero Dawn to be my biggest disappointments of this gen. I wish I hadn't bought them both on blind faith years ago.

Here's what I don't like about DS: too many cut scenes, especially at the start, and they all feel like their too long (nothing new for a HK game).

A main story that doesn't interest me.  Complicated controls, way too many options, clunky combat, and uninteresting enemies.

At the end of the day, it is what people have said: a walking simulator. It is nothing like the MGS games. No thanks.

You need to play more sword games :P You'd open up whole genres with the most interesting, satisfying and addicting gameplay loops (both moment to moment loops and extended play gameplay loop) and much that don't have the hint of a cutscene in them, just pure gameplay focused.

Also, I think you're being a bit too harsh on DS after 5 hours  that game gets legit great, it kind of sucks you in and holds you hostage after a certain point but I suppose it depends on your personality, if you have any sense of being zealous about exploration, building networks, optimising said builds, or want to get in a really relaxed flow state of pure zen doing just that it really does pay off. For us who put 100+ hours into it and I've talked to many we all praise the game for one core aspect, that you become zen and get an very much opiate high and taken into a meditative trance while you play with occasional pretty cool cutscenes to break you out of that. Exploration on foot, only then to create paths which you can half the time to then further lessen the time until you're literally zipping though the most optimised route and ordering where you're next deliveries go and weighing up what routes to take is one of the most surprisingly satisfying and dopamine heavy things I've experienced with games even though on paper it's boring as fuck. If you enjoy a Platinum this is one of, if not the best there is. I only wish it took double the length to obtain and DS had more content or DLC so I could continue it. Thankfully I can get a ps5 platinum now and intend to do so and regain that amazing cerebral zen state of this amazing gameplay loop.