Every few years I go back to "Age of Empires 2" and I'm currently in one of those periods. Sometimes you need to destroy entire cities with canons.

Every few years I go back to "Age of Empires 2" and I'm currently in one of those periods. Sometimes you need to destroy entire cities with canons.

The more I play Lies of P the less I like it. It's honestly not a good game and I decided I wasn't having much fun and uninstalled it. I should have trusted my gut when I played the demo and didn't think much of it. Now I feel like I've wasted 50€ and 20 hours of my life.

Long story short, it just copies every From Software Game in the worst way possible. The red blocking stuff they copied from Sekiro doesn't work at all. It's unreliable and unfair. The weapons are all hideous and have weird move sets that feel useless. The shinobi arm they ripped off from Shekiro is completely useless too and haven't used it at all.

Overall combat against uninspired enemies is super bland then you'll suddenly find spongy enemies that insta-kill you with unblockable attacks. You can't block those attacks because the system they implemented is a lottery, there is no way to learn it. It just doesn't work. Sekiro was flawless in thar regard, the system worked and was demanding but very rewarding. This combat system just feels like a chore and doesn't reward you. Doing a perfect block means nothing, you have to perform like 10 in a row for it to be even remotely useful. You will also randomly get hit while evading, which feels super clunky and unreliable.

The story is also dumb as fuck. The game lore and maps are inconsistent too, The industrial revolution stuff doesn't mix really well with the medieval crap they try to pull off, and then there's some stuff that is supposed to be Lovecraftian in style that is just super bland mutation/sickness enemies. Some of the robots are also hideous, what where they thinking?

It's like they tried to mix Dark Souls, Sekiro and Bloodborne into one and they managed to get everything wrong from each of them. This is a 4/10 game at best.

I'm sure I'm going to have a shitload of minute-to-minute fun while simultaneously getting incredibly annoyed by the story of Rebirth whenever I get to play it.

Unfortunately my tax return wasn't enough for a PS5 so I'm gonna have to wait a while to actually be able to play it myself.

Team Ninja always make me feel like this is their last game I will buy then I always buy the next one because I'm dumb. I admit it, it's my fault entirely.

Rise of the Ronin is the most Team Ninja game ever: the combat is pretty cool but everything else is just mediocre. Horrid performance, last gen graphics and animations, uninteresting story and the open world is worst than in any Ubisoft Game. Every second spent playing this game I was wishing I was playing Sekiro or Ghost of Tsushima instead.

Yea, I heard it referred to as a "Greatest Hits" of all the games you mentioned in a review and I'm done with this. This game has already been made a bunch of times. The ancient Japan setting is becoming stale. They need to change something if I'm gonna spend money on these games.

In a completely unrelated topic, I'm moving towards full on obsessed with Slay the Spire. I never would've believed in a million years that I'd like a video game that is basically playing cards, but here we are. If you're looking for something new in video games and sick of the endless games being created with open maps and pointless never ending side missions you might want to give this game a try.

It's not the most complex, but if you like action RPGs you might like Shadow of Mordor, I found the gameplay to be quite engaging and the leveling system to be interesting enough that's not just a mindless hack and slash by any means. Admittedly the load times on the PS3 version can be a little much but it's still a quality game. Though you may have already tried it as it is a pretty well-known games. I never really tried too many more obscure PS3 titles so I probably won't be much help beyond that.

I honestly don't mind the ancient Japan setting, I'm a sucker for a good samurai game. This one is just so-so. Team Ninja really neds to change a lot of stuff and ditch the Dark Souls formula entirely. It doesn't work as good as they think. They also need to spend way more time with each game instead of half-assing each one. I'm surprised Sony paid for such a 6/10 game. I'm so dumb I didn't even buy a CD so I can re-sell it.

I'm honestly considering re-playing Ghost of Tsushima again at this point.

^ That "London" mod (more like a new game I suppose...) seems nice for FO4!

Has anyone played Witchfire yet? Any thoughts?