I agree. Like, you know what's gonna happen if I'm close to the 2-hour limit and haven't decided yet? I'm gonna refund and move on.

I played the open beta. It arrogantly reintroduces gameplay problems PES and FIFA resolved long ago:

1. Directional inputs are relative to your constantly moving camera, not your player.
2. Camera locks onto the player, not the ball.
3. The off-camera ball tracker completely falls apart in scrambles/when the ball is close since you have to stop and play camera operator to know what the hell is happening before deciding what to do.
4. Completely ignores motion inputs in favor of situational inputs when performing skills, which severely limits the number of skills you can do. You can essentially do cooler shit in PES2017, never mind any FIFA Street.
5. No off-camera teammates tracker.
6. No indication which team is in possession off camera.
7. No power gauge for passes/shots.

And it does not add anything new in terms of gameplay other than removing fouls, offsides, and throw-ins/corners/goalkicks, which literally was a mode in FIFA98.

Rocket League can get away with some of that because you essentially play with s balloon, not a football; whereas Rematch feels like an awkward version of the 3rd-person camera in PES.

This is the only reason I don't play Xcom/Shadowrun. I love the worlds/concepts, but I refuse to waste time negotiating with RNG.

Asura's Wrath? I'm pleased to find it's more than a playable anime, but I'm playing on hard and so far it feels easy? If the main draw is the story and visuals, I probably won't end up liking it.

Still playing P4AU: one combo away from beating all Ken's combo callenges! Super fun fighting game—I think I like it more than Under Night In-Birth now.

But I'm paying Microsoft if I buy it now, right? I wonder how Tango feel about that. Like, I wanna buy it, but I cannot justify giving money to Microsoft.

Capcom's Kunitsu-Gami reminded me of this. I didn't really vibe with either. Like, I don't see the selling point:

1. If it's an RTS, I'm not into that.
2. If it's an action game, it's kinda boring.
3. If the draw is the atmosphere, I'd rather rewatch Pick of Destiny 😂

Happy to see a combo counter. I may be interested if it's an action platformer, not a roguelike or a metroidvania.

In RL there is an indicator on where the ball is and the ball cam works really well.

And the ball is bigger and slower/more floaty than an actual football—it's neither in this game.

I think the 3rd person perspective and RL-looking field make you think it's RL with people, but it's just PES with the camera set to 3rd person.

FIFA is arcade-y as shit, this is why PES fans hate it. It still looked like shit.

Like, I obviously haven't played the game, so IDK for sure if it's fun or not. You're doing the correct thing saving your judgment. All I'm saying is it hasn't shown anything new/revolutionary, and that rubs me off the wrong way.

Take it from someone who grew up almost exclusively playing PES and FIFA: this looks ass.

Also, PES always had this camera angle? It's fucking horrible. If you control the entire team, you absolutely want the sideline view, not that wonky 3rd person one.

Even if you control one player, it's just much easier to keep up with the constantly moving ball with a much wider angle. You don't want the ball coming from off screen like they show in the clip when the player scores a header—higher likelihood you're gonna fumble the timing, and if you move the camera to track the ball, you may miss the keeper coming out/a defender coming at you.

And what's up with those rules? 😂 They're comically generic.

Unless this game has a ton of cool ideas hiding up its sleeve and not showing it in the trailers for some odd reason, this looks so obnoxiously arrogant and I have no idea what the selling point is, if any.

And let me add: I stopped playing FIFA and PES because they both suck, so I'm literally the target market. But this doesn't remotely look promising. Like, they didn't even solve the animation issuss… players look so stiff and seeing how they receive the ball is jarring.

How do you feel about Gigabash?

I was cursed with an extremely narrow taste in video games so there isn't a lot for me out there in general.

"Fighting in favor of PC gaming monopoly"

Jesus Christ, the drama. If anything, I'm fighting for Debbie Downers like you to let me enjoy my favorite shit in peace.

I promise you when Capcom publishes Viewtiful Joe on Itch.io, I'll buy it there. Now please take your bullshit elsewhere.

Nah, best they can do is Concord.

Just convenience, really.

You could just let me be and reply with your "I need these games ported to PC" list if you have one. No reason to turn everything into an argument.

Hmm… I couldn't get into it at all, TBH. I tried it long time ago and here's what I remember: "go to X on the map and talk to Y to progress" really put me off, and I didn't enjoy the combat enough to put up with it.

I've been thinking about giving the prequel a shot though. Is it any less nonlinear?

Thank you for taking the time to include links! Very helpful.

So I'm familiar with all of these, but you encouraged me to give Aces Wilds and Brigador a real shot. Thanks again!

I'll comment on the ones I played and found interesting:

Furi and Nex Machina got really close to becoming favorites. Only criticisms I have: Furi's moveset is a bit too limited and I have an issue with visual clarity in Next Machina.

I freaking wish I could get into Vanquish! High-level play looks so cool, but apparently I'm allergic to aiming 😅

Strider is fun combat, but I can't get into the vania side.

ZeroRanger is great, but the horizontal segments put me off. Not a fan of horizontal shmups.

I'm familiar with Lords of the Fallen, but I don't enjoy souls-like combat. I'm a big fan of old school death metal though (Autopsy, Brutality, Immolation… etc.) so I'll check it out to see what that is about. Thanks!

I grew up a big fan of 30 Seconds to Mars, but this creep can fuck off.

And FFS, stop trying to make shitty Tron movies. You don't have the balls to make it campy because that's not gonna make you money, and anything else is gonna feel forced AF.

I just set up Kingdom Hearts 2 on PCSX2 to try and decide if I'm gonna buy it on Steam.

Other than that, I'm finishing my The Wonderful 101 Hard playthrough on the way to 100% the game, and trying to beat all of Ken Amada's combo challenges in P4AU—27 down, 3 to go.

Bro, I thought people will finally shut up about this goddamn game ☹️ I just need the Silksong bitching to stop…