I agree, I grew up with the excitement of unlocking characters and it's just as fun in this game. For the record, you get a new one for about ten minutes of match time (I think). I had about 15 unlocked from 3 hours of vs matches and classic mode. Reluctantly switching it off for the day now. 

I've been playing for the last few hours, and unlocked about 15 fighters. I'm not sure if there's any order or logic to which ones you get, but I've only had 3 newcomers so far- Inkling, Simon and K.Rool. Although K.Rool was the very first one I got.

It turned up a day early in the post this morning, and yeah it’s pretty unputdownable. The game throws new challengers at you for basically doing literally anything early on, and slows down with that once it sinks its claws in. This ingeniously makes you play with the whole roster quite evenly as it builds. Early…

That’s all very well. But it doesn’t stop the game being soul-deadeningly unfun to play.

I completely forgot about this! Off to play it right now on Switch in handheld mode. 2018 has been a damn good year for video games.

Demon’s Souls has the fan-created Fextralife wiki which was/is so good that From turned it into an amazing book that they bundled in with the European special edition of the game. Best of both worlds!

This is one of the few reasons my PS3 is still set up. I play it a couple of times a year, it has the most interesting world and lore of any From game (although Bloodborne is a close second). I urge anyone who hasn't tried it to pick up a copy.

Actually you're right there. This seems.. right somehow. If they were playing as Fallout 2 or NV characters in 76 my rage gear would've engaged. But keeping all the shit grouped together is A-OK!

This would be funnier if the game wasn’t dire.

People still use own as a gaming term in 2018?

I think Jim Sterling said it better in his video on this- the problem isn't that the protagonist doesn't understand what's going on, it's that the player doesn't. This game appears to be a narrative catastrophe because of the crack-handed, insensitive, messy and smug presentation, not because of what the protagonist…

She gives you an heirloom ring, easy to miss as it flashes up just for a second.

I ran into that woman too, I was on the road going somewhere far away from valentine and ran into her. Helped her out, then realised you can offer her a lift. I couldn’t leave her there, so I took her all the way back to valentine. When I got her back to the hotel, it was dark and raining and muddy. Rather than going…

Giving absolutely no spoilers, but I've been playing all day and the emotional connection and atmosphere is extraordinary. Literally the only issue with the game is that I can't imagine ever enjoying RDR1 as much after this. The world, man. It actually feels alive. I keep forgetting I'm playing a game.

Is there anything written in the Magna Carta saying what could happen to this guy? Old school high treason?

I agree, what an extraordinarily beautiful piece of writing. Hope the game lives up to this review!

Those toys look as shit and unimaginative as Call Of Duty. So I guess they got it about right. Call of Duty is the Mega Bloks of video games, after all.

I have played the various demos, and it’s basically a first person crime scene investigation with time travel twist.

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers.

Revisiting my own post 3 years later to add that I now live in Wells, Somerset- where the entire film was shot. Everyone and their mums is packin round here!