Poll: How Would You Rate State of Play for September 2025?

Wolverine out of 10

Solid B. PS studio games looked great, you can see the difference in quality.

Nice showing of Deus Ex and some of the other 3rd party stuff.

So yeah decent enough.

And who really imagined the day we would see MS in a state of play!

I thought it was excellent. There were a few games that I will definitely buy:

Saros
Code Vein 2
Wolverine

And possibly:

Crimson Desert.

Definitely interested in a set of those Pulse Speakers for my games room

Providing they're not priced ridiculously high........ who am I kidding..... it's 2025 if course they're going to be astronomically expensive

it was going to be a d score until the wolverine trailer at the end.

Wolverine looks promising, that'll do me, my backlog is big enough!

It was weaker than May one and overall mediocre. Other than Wolverine I didn't care anything. Saros looks like a joke. Just call it an expansion or make a better first impression.

Maybe that metroidvania inside a book and Crimson Desert as two more games.

Best in several years. 2026 is gonna be incredible tbh

SAROS/Nioh 3 and Wolerine out of 10

It was okay. Saros looks cool, excited to see what Insomniac does with Wolverine. The most hyped thing I’ve seen though would probably be the Deus Ex remaster. I’ve only played the PS2 version of that game, so I hope this new version includes all the stuff that port was missing.

Saros is basically Returnal 2, even the sounds are very much the same, it’s perplexing. Certainly a good game.

I'm definitely picking up Tekken 3 and Soulcalibur 3.

I thought it was excellent to be honest and Wolverine looks insane.

Wolverine is Australian for like a third time lol Overall I ranked it Okay. Can't believe they showed a Kratos remote followed by no GoW news 😆

Somewhere around Poor-Okay.

Saros, Wolverine, Crimson Desert and Chronoscript were the only games that interested me.

Also, all of the 2-D god of war rumors that I’ve been seeing for two months or so and then to see that controller was disappointing.

Damn there's hate for Saros already?? classic internet I guess

No new announcements from first party studios but Wolverine did look good.

Saros to me just looks like a Returnal reskin. Not a bad thing but I personally wanted something different.

Still pretty barren outlook overall for PS Studios.

rated it okay, only four games i’m interested in, three of which i ready knew about. plus no high velocity bowling 2 announcement is a slap in the face to playstation gamers.

I get people have different tastes, but I've never watched a SoP where so little interested me. I think Crimson Desert and Saros (even then I'm conflicted because roguelike), that was basically it for me.

I thought it was fine. Happy to see Wolverine and my boi Spartacus playing him but nothing major outside of that and the metroidvania book looking game for me.

Very good start and end
Filler and multi-platform stuff in the middle.

On a good positive at least we are getting 2 Sony studio games in 2026, let’s hope that drum beat continues now going forward.

Very good! A solid 8/10 for me. Definitely hyped for Saros and Wolverine. Also the Octo game or whatever. Damn already forgot the title.

Oh and i will be visiting nostalgia lane with Tekken 3!

@Scottyy If it ain't broke don't fix it, Saros looks like a great continuation of the Returnal formula in a new world, hopefully crossing over with the first one, would love a Selene return!

Spartacus playing Wolverine - nicely done.

Well if I'm to compare it to the last main SoP and Nintendo Direct then this was very poor. Honestly nothing interested me at all until the Wolverine reveal which by the way looks incredible. But yeah the rest i have no interest in, either top down indies, shooters, souls like and gachas, even with Saros it may look great but then I remembered it's a Souls Like Rogue Like which is just a combination of two genres I hate.

So yeah, a 5/10 from me and that 5 is purely for Wolverine, like I said looks incredible and I trust Insonmiac to get the quality right on release, early candidate for 2026 GOTY right there.

They say Halloween is approaching so now they proudly announce the “Halloween game,” which in fact will only come out a year from now. Oh, and it’s already the umpteenth Dead by Daylight clone. The only thing that really interested me was Wolverine, and maybe Saros.

Literally just Wolverine for me. Not excited about anything else that I saw. Pretty underwhelming overall.

It was decent, Wolverine looks great. I want Dynasty Warriors too. Not fussed about Saros if it makes the same mistakes Returnal did.

Just glad to see more Wolverine stuff after so long and now a release window, one more year to go! Happy to see flight simulator coming over as well I've wanted to try that for awhile

Only Wolverine for me.

Uninterested in most of what they showed, but was happy we got a Saros date, which I'll probably get day one.

Otherwise, it's cool Deus Ex is getting updated officially, although I'd love to see a more thorough remake, cause the game while excellent, definitely shows it's age now.

Wolverine looks pretty solid at first blush. I know it fits him, but kind of taken aback by the violence. I think being a dad now my first reaction is, "well, guess this is a 9pm or later game..."

I’m a bit fed up of these events now, it’s the lack of focus on studio games, I’d rather have a tease or something to be excited about coming down the line. The military shooters and random remasters were honestly just poor. Saros looked fine but Returnal was just too damn difficult I bounced off it.

Not really too much for me. Wolverine looks cool. Saros, I'll probably pass since I never was really interested in Returnal and it looks pretty similar to say the least. Nothing in the middle really caught my attention either. Good month for PS+ though at least.

Edit: Oh yeah Crimson Desert getting a date is cool though. I'm interested to see how that one turns out.

Wolverine looks amazing the rest looked meh wolverine saved it for me this generation has been terrible

@Gazray exactly I'm fed up of 3rd party games being shown

Wolverine Day 1!! Best part of the show

Wolverine made the show

This is the best one of the year so far.

SAROS - Super excited, loved Returnal, looks like a great continuation

DW3 Remastered - I wanted a traditional DW Experience in the new graphics engine, looks like that is gonna rock, probably should of been DW4 though!

Wolverine - OMG that looks amazing, Insomanic Games does not miss!

Ni-oh 3 - Looks great, love the over the top dub because why not.

EDIT: Crimson Desert looks pretty dope to

Solid 7 from me!

Outside of Saros and Wolverine, that was the worst State of Play I've ever seen. Depressingly abysmal. Even Saros didn't look that great, in my opinion. It looks like a Returnal conversion mod.

chronoscript looked the most interesting and original game for me. vaguely interested to see how Crimson and Nioh 3 turn out even though they are not 100% my thing. maybe Saros, despite the hate. plus Wolverine but that's a year away so....

Honesly a bit underwhelming for me, PS Studios just seem so barren. Dont get me wrong im really looking forward to saros and wolverine, but I dont know...Saros is not a major release (it feels like its gonna be expanded returnal, which is all i want from it really, but it isnt a blockbuster), and so there is nothing left from ps studios until wolverine. I mean at least announce games even if they're smaller (GOW ))

It was 'Okay' to 'Good', until the Wolverine trailer pushed it up to 'Excellent'.

It was very very mid. Not fantastic, not terrible, just serviceable.

Saros looks fantastic and Deus Ex Remastered was a nice surprise.

I'd give it an ok to good. I do acknowledge that I just don't typically play the big mainstream games anymore, so these presentations usually have limited appeal for me.

4/10,with Wolverine being the only saving grace.

Nothing from Marvel Tokon really soured my feelings.

@Oram77

Yeap, it was a weak way to show of the game for the first time. Nothing new other than a shield so far. They should show more to why this is a "new game" and not a sequel or expansion to Returnal.

Am I the only one who thought Wolverine only looked ok. I mean it looks like it will be good but nothing to get too excited for. Need to see more of it.

Kinda meh to me. I liked the dive into wolverine, and love ff tactics, but everything else was not especially exciting. Not bad, but not good.

I thought it was pretty bad but maybe they're just switching these shows up from new reveals to just more on already announced games. Cuz tbh this was all that it was. I think the only real new reveals were remasters and some more 2d indies. That said wolverine definitely looked good

Also that part where they mention how they revealed ff tactics made it seem like they were gonna do another big ff reveal only to just talk about the game some more as if it wasn't already about to release lmao

That sucked! Wolverine looks great tho!

Hearing the gow music then it's a controller thanks Sony.

@stocko

Well, it didn't convince me at all being a new game with this showing. Literally felt like a reskin instead of the evolution to Returnal. They needed a better first showing.

It would've got a poor only for those speakers which look cool and of course Wolverine looks amazing , saros is just a reskin of returnal

Saros and Wolverine 10/10
Everything in between 1/10

I'll say good. Nice to see a lot of stuff that isn't coming out in the distant future.

And for all you God of War fans: Surprise, here’s a low effort controller!

Glad I didn't waste my time watching it given what was here. And Wolverine looks.....fine it looks decent but not good enough to justify the stupidly long wait I'm glad it'll be gory at least as a Wolverine game should be but it doesn't look mind blowing. I'm really burnt out as a Playstation fan at this point to be honest

Wolverine and Crimson Desert release date carried it. 8/10.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I just feel people have completely flipped lid on it because it plays like Returnal..... you know the game that put HouseMarque on the map, I just don't understand it.

I was fully expecting Capcom to round off their latest flurry of trailers with a Leon S Kennedy reveal here... Disappointing to not see that. Also the GOW 20th anniversary controller and no news of the remakes or a new game was criminal. At that point just leave the controller out of it. At least Wolverine looked decent but lets be honest we all knew it was going to be there. Overall I would give it a 5.5-6/10

Saros and Wolverine bookended the whole event with complete filler junk between and even they don't look that spectacular. What's the point of showing games that are literally releasing in a matter of weeks or even days from now. A complete waste of time.

I find it funny how yesterday everyone was still saying "Returnal to this day is still one of the best games on ps5". Now today everyone seems disappointed that Saros looks like its just Returnal 2. lmao ok! You don't want a sequel to one of the best games of the generation???

YAY WOLVERINE LOOKS SO COOL OMGGGGGGG

Y’all are TOUGH to please!

@OmegaStriver i used to read rumors like every one else , your life will be better if you take all those rumors with a grain of salt and wait for things to be officially announced.

With Saros and Wolverine alone, i give this SoP an 7.5/10. Other than that, Deus Ex remastered, Chronoscript, Let it Die, and Tekken 3 + Soul Calibur 3 would bump the score to 8/10.

I enjoyed the show but a bit dissapointed no Marvel Tokon new character and that GoW 20th anniversary controller without showing a GoW game feels weird lol.

Okay to Poor. For none of interest to me and even with respect fair showing of things even if they don't interest me.

Lost Epoch showing, no date, oh still good.

GOW controller, what a red brush stroke it is. XD Very bland, they can do better. Very NES controller image imprinted effort.

Saros looks fine but it just makes me think of Dishonoured to Deathloop but for Returnal to Saros. Different but similar. Also more 'fit in with the others' from Housemarque. Pass.

FF Tactics release date sure.

Let it die seems ok.

The Speakers are fair but also PS Link, I get it, it may have less interference but also seems like an excuse for Sony proprietary connections/encryption, Sony customising storage then making it propriety but doing it with wireless connections, sigh

Code Vein 2 was ok.

Kaz with the we finally added tracks not just cars/events for GT7. Also Spec 3 naming returns. I almost expected a My First GT type of announcement (not as in updates to it but project). Also Yas Marina and others, eh. Forget having more OG GT tracks or other fictional ones compared to those for GT Sport i guess, got to drip feed other licensed tracks, boring.

Microsoft giving PSVR2 support love, yet Mojang cuts PSVR1 for Minecraft and being lazy, whether mods on console or not they couldn't be bothered to add a VR toggle. I guess they know audiences really are stupid (or the devs are stupid) hence experimental settings warnings modders remove in Java, because players don't get how 3rd party content works & 1st party isn't responsible for it. The mentality, sigh. That aside Flight Sim on PS5 is cool/great PSVR2 support. That Sony won't offer even as side modes like Eye Toy/Move/Kinect did in the pas, not all have to be full game VR support. But the studios can roguelike modes post launch...

Fair Zero Parades. Fair to show. Not my thing, but fair from that studio.

Fair Nioh 3

Dynasty Wars 3 sure. Not my interest for fighting games on Deluxe. Deuz Ex Remastwr with Asyper that's confidence with a great game like that.

Rest was ok. The book one, fair artstyle, subpar gameplay. Good artstyle, eh movesets, has ink areas, weak potential used.

Wolverine was a hilarious segment. Good showing but oh the brutality, it's tame compared to the Punisher tortures segments of PS2 era, it's not supposed to be that dark either & I think that's a good thing (not just because Marvel has their expectations too) but it's hilarious Insomniac says it how they did. Like we hadn't seen Punisher/Manhunt being even more violent then this, or we don't get the extent of the tone Wolverine 2026 has, like come on. This game won't reach that extent, we already know that. Yet Insomniac seem to not know that we already know that. What confidence from the staff of how intelligent they think the audience is.

But I haven't been impressed with their games for years either so their staff's confidence/baffling gameplay decisions/story writing also just continues to make me just sigh. It's the most dark Insomniac game yet but what a bunch of snowflakes. What marketing/confidence.

Also after the PS6 character model showing and no scars or beauty marks, will we see that here or just blood. Not that I care about visuals but why these clean looking models yet no actual detial or have they not gotten skin or animations right yet?

i'm hyped i loved tekken 3 and soul caliber so seeing those classics return , not to mention i had no idea about the wireless 3d speakers i'm down for that too. also Wolverine , lets go , and we finally have a time frame down.

@Glider8 that was a joke really

Thought it was good. Flight sim was a nice surprise!

Honestly, this was an awful State of Play, in my opinion. Easily the worst they've done in a while. Aside from Wolverine and Saros, there was almost nothing I was interested in. Usually these State of Plays have some exciting third-party reveals, but here? They were practically non-existent.

The fact that Sony wasted time on FF Tactics, a game that's coming out in a few days, and showed us an update for GT7, as well as some speakers, proves that they were really just padding this State of Play out.

Dynasty Warriors 3 Remastered and Deus Ex Remastered were neat announcements, but most of the other games they showed, even if they looked good, were things we've seen a million times already. Like Crimson Desert and Battlefield 6.

@Dodoo i love flight sim i wasn't 100% sure if i'd dive in with the ps5 version , but the fact that it supports psvr2 makes it really tempting.

Overall it was pretty meh for me, but the Wolverine look was exactly what I was hoping for. Very excited about that game.

Also, Sony: Very few people care about your speakers during a State of Play presentation.

@Westernwolf4 i disagree i think the speakers look pretty cool , and you know they announce more then just games during these things right?

I'd say it was overall a decent show. But how long do we have to wait for PlayStation to reveal a new title, already?

Wolverine won the show

@twitchtvpat

1.Glad you are among those who enjoyed it. Hope they work great for you.

2.I am well aware of what these presentations entail. You know the focus is usually games right? I mean, I saw a lot about speakers and GOW controllers in all the predictions threads. People were just crossing their fingers for that next revolution in sound.

Still can't believe that comments are still saying awful or its the worst.

Like what are you actually expecting? Its a serious question.

We got 2 first party game reveals. Some decent 3rd party showings, a decent announcement for ps plus.

I literally dont see what exactly people are expecting.

I really feel as though every single game Sony first party have has to be in a state of play for it to be any good.

That isnt reality.

It was a excellent show just for the fact we got to see housemarque new game and a pretty lengthy look at wolverine.

People saying speakers and a controller? They were 30 second ads the rest were games and nearly everyone had a date attached.

Top quality Showing.

You really can't be disappointed that we got only 2 first party games.

Surprised they are not doing a smash like roll out of Marvel Tokon chatacter reveals at these things. Thought for sure we'd see a new character.

Overall show was ok. Wolverine looks great . The wait for Final Fantasy 9 and Persona 6 goes on. Possibly this week at TGS?

The worst thing is the brand that's dead in Japan (Xbox) will have a longer showcase and more Japanese made games shown, just baffling as this was Sony's chance to show some big Japanese games to get the Japanese fan base interested again. But seems like Sony got the scraps with these third party reveals, are third parties just not interested anymore as they are guaranteed sales on playstation anyway or are Sony just not willing to pay for them since they are in a position of having no competition that they don't feel the need to try.

Wolverine looks amazing but judging the entire presentation as a whole? It was alright.

@Bez87 @RoomWithaMoose what do you mean a new title?

Naughty Dog have revealed a new game
HouseMarque have revealed a new game
Insomniac have a revealed a new game
Were just about to get Ghost Of Yōtei
AstroBot was released just last last year.
Horizon 2 only came out in 2022 with burning shores releasing in 2023.
So the 3rd game prob looking more likely 2027 first look next year.
God Of War ragnorak was 2022,
Those games its only been 3 years since release. With a 4 to 5 year development cycle we are still a bit off.
Sony Bend are always slow.
Sony messed up blue point.
And topic off weve just had death stranding 2.

Im not sure who else is out their for first party.
3 new ips is pretty good going for right now.

Nothing that interested me until Wolverine at the very end, a lot of very generic looking things for the most part. Even then, I wouldn’t say I was blown away by the Wolverine trailer the same way I was when they first revealed Spider-Man, but I trust Insomniac to deliver where it counts!

Best one in a while

Saros, Nioh 3, Code Vein 2, Crimson Desert, Wolverine. No big surprises, but getting release dates for most things was very nice.

I enjoy the state of play.it was really good.word up son

Very good SoP. Some nice reveals there the Mega Man DLC for Sonic Racing CrossWorlds and Deus Ex Remastered. It also seems that SoP continues the path of 1st party games being within about a year from reveal. Saros was revealed in February 2025 and ended up with a March 2026 release, Wolverine re-reveal in September 2025 for a Fall 2026 release.

The show was also paced well with the exception of a few parts like the speakers and GoW controller.

It's good. If you like marvel and roguelikes. I don't.

@Bez87 I'm specifically talking about announcing a new game. Wasn't the last one Intergalactic, from a year ago? This year started with Wolverine, Saros, and Intergalactic to look forward to. And it looks like it'll end the same.

Very Good to Excellent. Not sure what people can complain about. There was a nice variety on display and some fantastic looking games coming.

I feel like Saros is Returnal without the rogue "run" aspect which is what turned people off? Im super pumped for Housemarque and that game. Wolverine is Spartacus and as gory as the show lol. All in. Deus Ex Remaster, the Chrono game looks brilliant. People just can't be pleased anymore. Imagine being a gamer when ET for Atari was the next big release and experiencing that. We stay eating good.

Meh. Dynasty Warriors 3 is a game I spent dozens and dozens of hours playing in my youth. That's a big maybe for me.

That was so bad it is saddening! Wolverine did look amazing.

@Nyne11Tyme I was sooo utterly disappointed with Returnal. I think I'm still mad. If Returnal was a normal ***** game Returnal would have been one of the greatest games of all time.

Returnal and Deathloop was early warning signs about how bad this generation was going to be!

Saros and Wolverine were excellent, rest of the show didnt get me excited.

@Dalamar Same here. Saros looks cool, but potentially being a roguelike makes me hesistant.

I have zero interest in Marvel, I'd much rather have a new Ratchet and Clank.

I thought it was good. I love the PS plus updates during these. Especially with the classic games.

@Propaperpusher Your loss, I gave up on Returnal for a year because I didn't like the roguelike aspects, but when you get into it, it is amazing. But each to their own, you can't please everybody.

I don't there's been a single SOP/Showcase where there's less than 4 or so games I'm into, and this show was no exception.

I’m not sold on them yet but wolverine and saros look cool. I’m hoping soon we’ll get to see whatever game media molecule has been working on.

Soooo much filler. Reternal 2 is what it is and will be fun to play but looked like the same hollow environmental design. Wolverine definitely looked 'Spiderman insomniacified', with blood, so that could go either way. Sony is literally just collecting marketing checks by putting on these mediocre trailer fests.

The format is so corporate and sterile as well.

They really need to pivot into a new pr operation strategy. This ain't it.

I liked we are getting Soul Calibur 3 soon and Tekken 3 so that was like sweet I say about a 7

Biggest reaction out of me was for Soulcalibur III lol. Saros looked cool. Wolverine was a movie trailer, no gameplay no care.

@UltimateOtaku91 I guess every so often different ones to partner with each State of Play, the prior ones they didn't have anymore more to show again so the next ones and the next.

But yeah, not all the big ones if the rest of those publishers want to show things off themselves or at Xbox or whatever the case but even still it felt like they were the AAs they hadn't gotten around to covering yet or the other odd Indies they could fit in.

So it was a fair mix but I don't deny I get what you mean it does feel like that which who/which they choice to put in here of the big and those others they mix in from time to time.

I mean many Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco projects here but at the same time yeah, some fair Japanese Indies among the others.

To me even seeing Seven Deadly Sins in here again confuses me even besides the Gamescom appearance. I mean some fan service series do tone their movies and games down so to me it's just like wait what is this. Never seen the series but from what I hear and other fan service series I have seen the movie/game dynamic differences from the source materials/anime adaptations it is very weird to me.

@Bez87 For me respecting what's here of 1st/3rd parties, it was fair, for genuine interest, none at all, even the paper/book like one, good artstyle, subpar gameplay. The moveset and level design look boring. Other then artstyle/ink moments, what does it actually do, not much. Structurally barely anything noteworthy. Yet you'd have flash games with more crumbled paper and drawing a line, enemies that fit the theme/are anomalies or other gameplay ideas or presentation. There is a lot you can do with this game, it does the bare minimum of author/books setting/presentation, with generic can be put into any other game gameplay or platforms/other theming. Even if it were accessible for skill reasons of combat/level design, it's still bland. There is a reason movesets/level design matter to me and why some Indies are just as bland.

I can't say for everyone else what their story, graphics, gameplay, other IPs and so on expectations are. But mine is gameplay.

GT7 having a presence to mention Yars Marina/2 tracks (I assume multiple layouts then just that being 1 track and I missed the other, but assuming 2 layouts was the point of it).... What because other updates were cars/events added prior, what a worthy segment Kaz had to be there for. Do all State of Plays need to have GT7 for track announcements. XD It was not necessary to be there, it could have been an article/blog post like any others. But then again most racing games don't impress me these days anyway of modes/tracks/progression anyway.

Wolverrine looks good, it's clear how much an Uncharted type experience it will be (not in a bad way i think it's a good thing to focus on that for the character/world). Though I felt the 'we aren't making it that violent' made me laugh, like audiences don't already know that or Sony not just Marvel's expectations let alone this being Insomniac's darkest game tonally yet. It made me question why the staff had to even say that, like it wasn't obvious. Do they think were stupid. It's not the Punisher/Manhunt and we know it's not. As if claws into someone's head is that bad, it's not torture to the enemies in this game, it's just some finishing moves.

They are decent or great showings of sequels or next projects or more follow ups or whatever the case.

I am not the target audience for many let alone any of these games shown here, I do know most of them, so I do respect them, that and my gameplay stance as well to put behind things when seeing showcases like this. Respecting the business side/those that showed up and offering some great stuff here.

I don't care for Sony 1st party at all and haven't for years since PS3 or early PS4, I hated middle/late PS4 IPs from 1st party and 3rd parties so to me they have the presentation and console expectations they do meet, but the gameplay isn't my thing at all or the camera angles, so I never buy any of them. I know people that do, but I have no interest.

I mean seeing Dynasty Warriors 3, understandable. Others here, make sense to the PS audience.

To me Saros is just how I saw Dishonoured and Deathloop, different IPs, very similar still. If I already didn't care about Returnal (which is a good game yes) why would I care about Saros?

I can respect the devs, and distance myself from what I'm interested in no doubt.

I submitted okay as what was leaked was there and it was almost blatantly propped up the whole show from SAROS and Wolverine.

Yes a few other games looks okay or pretty good too but either was too early or has a terrible release date.

Haven't had time to check everything out yet. Wolverine looks good (no surprise there). Will look through everything else when I get the chance.

Good overall show. For me personally, Wolverine and Crimson Desert were the highlights. Very pumped for both of these.

Looking at the votes, 81% combine of okay, good, very good, and excellent which means the majority of PS members did enjoyed the show and looking forward to play new games.

Meanhile 15% who votes poor and very poor, i don't know what they're looking for. But looks like they are sticking with their "out of this universe" or "supernova" level of expectations. I guess some people has fetish of drowning in pain and misery? But hey, i'm not judging 🤷‍♂️

It was meh. Only Wolverine for me.

Best showcase of the year. Saros is my most anticipated game of 2026 and now I'm hyped for Wolverine as well. Nioh 3, Code Vein 2, Deus EX Remastered are also on my wishlist. I'm really excited about 2026, tbh

@PuppetMaster i read some negative comments about this showcase (including a few from someone that is always writing horrible takes about everything, though i never interacted with this person and I never will) that made me roll my eyes. Some people are just miserable, i guess lol

Nioh 3 and Soros - beyond excellent SoP in my opinion. (plus Code Vein 2 ofc). I preordered Nioh 3 so I'm set!!

Aaaaaand: Last Epoch !!! At last, hopefully it's cross play so I can save my characters from their hell on my crappy laptop.

Edit: Best SoP in years and I haven't seen a second of it, just saw the State Of Play section on my PS5 and started pre-ordering... LOL

Only games shown I'm excited for are Code Vein 2, maybe Flight Sim and maybe that viking game with dragons and mechs in.

Wolverine looked better than I expected it to be but I'm still not excited for it. I'm sure it'll be a good game, but I'm just not on the hype train at ALL

Edit: Forgot to mention that I rated it ok. Thought it was about on par with the last one they had.

Thought was great. Somehow my biggest hype was Dynasty Warriors 3 as was one of the games I played most on OG Xbox as a child 😂

As usual lots of sequels and remakes but going by the comments thats what people want. Wolverine looked good and liked the art style of the book game but apart from that not a lot for me personally.

Saros and Wolfy with a nice bonus of AW2 dropping on the service.

Solid show.

The Returnal expansion looms very Returnal, which isn’t a bad thing but hopefully we’ve moved past the rogue lite or whatever that genre is.

Insomniac has my faith, so Wolverine is Day One.

Flight Simulator with PSVR2 support? I wanted this and it’s happening! And VR support is post launch, so it’ll most likely be on sale when I get it.

Those 3 made it a good showcase for me.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner ...and not just MS in a State of Play, them supporting the PSVR2 hardware when Sony apparently isn't directly!

There was something for everyone. I was expecting more in depth look at Saros but good to know it's adding to the already stacked 2026 pile of preGTA6 game releases.
Was only turned off by the GOW controller announcement - it looks good but it's also a lazy design.

By far the best think from the presentation were the speakers. Too bad they will be overpriced and most probable closed source.

Saros and Wolverine both look excellent, can't wait.

Other than that not much seemed interesting to me specifically (and trailers for games that release this or next week seemed redundant).
I will admit Flight Simulator footage from PS5 Pro looked very impressive though.

Here is me hoping and wishing for a WipeOut remaster. Come on Sony I’ll never forgive you is you don’t.

Very good showing overall with some nice additions to the platform.

Wolverine, Code Vein 2, and Nioh 3 are the highlights I will purchase 100% and the bonus announcement of Alan Wake 2 for October is a nice treat.

Crimson Desert has potential but I would want to know more before getting to interested. Saros doesn't look my sort of thing, but it still looks like it will be a solid release.

I doubt I will play FS 24 but who knows, what I do find interesting however is that with VR support PS will have the superior console version of a MS game.

7 Deadly sins was the other game I was interested in because I really enjoyed the series, but I have a feeling this will be your standard lackluster cashgrab MMO which will be content light and die out within 12-18 months

The biggest joke of the show goes to that GoW controller which is not only a lame announcement, its also a terrible design.

OK I was wrong about the Xbox showcase, that was just as bad 😂

@Oram77
Same highlights as me dude, Nioh gets passed on way to much, it's an incredible series!

Thank God wolverine was there

@HotGoomba meaning,1/10?

very good for me. Saros, Wolverine, Crimson Desert, Nioh 3 all look great. Only letdown when they showed GoW gamepad and then I expected new GoW game (at least rumoured metroidvania one) will be shown to us, but no - that was mean Sony!

Ofc I wish more 1st party games, or proper showcase, but there is not enough to show I´m afraid (Bluepoint give me something already!), new IP from Cory would be also great...I hope Sony will bring something to Game Awards later this year...

With Saros gameplay being shown it was always going to be a 10 🥳

Saros and Wolverine looks great and are games I can’t wait to get. Otherwise it was very boring and I just wanted them to move on to the next thing. It’s was a alright show. About time we saw Wolverine lol

@SuntannedDuck2

Very fair points for someone who isnt interested in playstation games.

I think people have forgotten though, that at different times of year, they have to cater to different types of gamers.

This actual showing is linked to Tokyo game show. So many maybe more aimed at japanese gamers.

I mean the book style game seemed OK but for me those games arent for me.

Its like hollowknight, honestly I feel like thst gameplay is pretty bland and honestly dont understand the hype for it.

So what in your mind is games you are interested in?

@Bez87 Thanks, I more focus on the business side nowadays. PlayStation games aren't bad or anything just different.

Games can be coded or designed anyway with with rules, so to me I don't like grounded as to me it's boring lack of potential or possible creativity of a product. I can't code 'much' but even still from playing games or understanding coding a bit it's enough for me like any structure or tropes, trends or anything in media to make me go what am I looking for.

That or padding or enough time or angle they handle something or whatever.

I also just got more used to thinking outside then about myself and my wants. That or I just look at behind the scenes or at the business side of media, their tropes, the structure, for TV shows/books it's writing, for games it's gameplay.

Looking at past trends as well, what did things well, what didn't. Which with collecting or researching past consoles, tech (PC space even need to more mobile phones as well), and games. Not a lot in the books/tv show sides as much.

Yes they do which people do forget. They mix in Indies or the major 3rd parties they can or the gacha studios for a reason, to go between audiences they want to appeal to/whatever companies they can get in contact with to appear in the showcase.

Many are likely aimed at Japanese or other Asian gamers more likely.

With a few others mixed in. That or because Sony wants to bridge the gap of Asian studios which has been the case the past few months or year now and i can understand why.

The western 3rd parties have their moments and the odd others fit theirs in from time to time.

Varies per yes audience, demographic, etc. for sure.

Hollow Knight I get the appeal but to me I'm not big on Metroidvanias but even then I think it's got the atmosphere and difficulty, that or youtubers/stremaers talked it up too much too, but I'd rather play any other Metroidvania. So to me I couldn't care less for it.

Me, that's a tricky one to explain.

For me I'm all over the place since i expanded to Tactics, Hack n slashes, visual novels or arcade racers over the past few years let alone retro consoles.

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For me it varies. Is this some market research? XD

I play any genre (almost) but I'm more open to settings these days then used to or story telling it's mostly just gameplay nowadays. It's how they do it.

I'm open to AAA, AA, Indie, or Anime or cartoony or other types it just varies.

Sure started with Spyro/Ratchet, Gran Turismo, SW Battlefront 2004, Monsters Inc Scare Island, other PS2, Xbox platformers or shooters or racing games. Odd games like Metropolismania a visual novel/city builder. So I have played a weird mix of things.

B grade PS1/2 era platformers even are more my favoruties these days.

Sure played COD PS3/360 era to BO3 I think and dropped off, even buying the older PS2 era ones (same with Medal of Honor).

Odd city builders/strategy/puzzle games from time to time not as much.

Same with music, for me it's about the sound design I just prefer electronic sounds/used in interesting ways, or particularly used piano/drum patterns, calm or chaotic but the odd instrumentation I may notice and find appealing.

Movesets or level design matter to me, not lived in worlds or being cinematic/realistic or padded like many games are to be accessible as to me I just zone out.

Like sure I played Another Code Recollection with the mindset of the audience it's targeting but I still had some issues with some changes even if haven't played the original.

I enjoy mostly 3D obstacle puzzle games (many I discovered on PSP) or odd minigame types then I do a Tetris/Bejeweled clone.

Even played Bouncing Bullets 2 more as an Indie stealth game due to low bullet counts scoring.

Usually because of platformers I find myself structuring what I'd like to see in games with movesets/level design, not mimicking reality with boring tasks of talking, collecting and more that aren't fun to me at all.

RPGs don't interest me of stats or quests or bland locations to walk in unless contextually interesting. So I prefer tactics games more not only for the combat but also the level design.

Odd combat that's turn based like Conception 4 sides approach put a spin on it that I preferred compared to traditional turn based. That or the Neptunia (not bought them yet) or Eternal Sonata style move over and gauge distance/radius I don't mind.

I don't mind fan service games or shows at all. So I have played Gal Gun/Senran Kagura.

That or human, animal, alien, etc. movesets being fun, cartoony, or fair fiction even if realistic artstyle. It matters to me what they allow you to play like then what the characters look like or have personality themselves.

I haven';t played many arcadey sports games. I have Virtua Tennis like World Tour on PSP, for it's minigames (got another on PS3), or Everybody's Golf 1st PSP game or Mario Tennis New Play Control version of the GameCube one in the last few months.

Or Cosmic Smash on Dreamcast.

I have tried a few skating or snowboarding games to see how they differ from Spyro 3's skating or just to see how some sports games are. They are fair I need to look into them a bit more though. I can see why they have appealing goals/progression besides the moves.

I don't care if anything is grounded, just a good what if. Like alternate history, or just pure fiction, make it whatever for the sake of personality in the world or movement.

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I enjoy linear games mostly due to their need to give good context for why a game is linear, so movesets to me justified that, I wanted to see what they would do next.

Open worlds just don't do that for me and the side quests or actions are repetitive or limiting and I find them empty and boring, I don't find lived in worlds fun if the tasks to do in them are boring and I don't care how many NPCs there are or what they are doing. Also if I control like a human why I can't have some super human or if not some silly moves. Pitfall Lost Expedition is a cartoony explorer series and that entry is a metroidvania and it's so much fun regardless of the 2000s and older era story writing. Silly attacks and charm.

Him and Mario can have varied movesets yet other human characters a grounded.... unless they are a superhero or something.

Uncharted to me balanced it's puzzles, gun play and story moments, so I didn't mind how grounded Drake's moveset was, the characters were funny, it was an adventure movie but it balanced what it did to not be boring.

So many open worlds don't interest me while Sunset Overdrive (let alone even tower defence over outposts or platforming side missions not just regular side missions made me care about Sunset Overdrive more then Spiderman 2018 despite the lab puzzles or task master missions or the ground pound/laser grid ones, 2 side missions I enjoyed in that entire game, the story was good the common stuff was so boring to me), Infamous Second Son (side missions were fun, ok story) or Gravity Rush (good mix of combat/movement based side missions besides regular ones) did in their side missions.

But most modern Indie platformers don't impress me they feel more nostalgic then gameplay compelling. Too fan game or inspired but just don't have the gameplay, they nail the worlds/characters but the gameplay is either too Crash, Spyro, Banjo, etc. inspired or they miss the mark on being 'their own thing' their own potential.

Racing Indies also can feel the same, too much motorsport or 'were inspired by this but this other way due to our skills/budget and we have unlicensed but recreations of those real life tracks but no fictional ones we came up with ourselves' which really disappoints me. Some are good like Inertial Drift and has enough of it's own style, modes and quality, but others are.

It varies on a progression system or modes to me, or making the requirements for an event strategic like GT/Forza do.

To me it's about mentality, with the design of any AAA or Indies not the budget.

Shooters I've found many of the PS3/360 or even older ones to be appealing with their mechanics and themes. Time powers, bullet bending or a weapon wheel or certain other things, they all vary.

So been collecting many old platformers, shooters and racing games to understand what they did back in those trends mechanically. That and because many of them look fun.

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Tactics games like Disgaea or Valkyrie Chronicles made me enjoy the Geo panels (feeling like Chess or some Scrabble with RPG like effects, Triple Word Score or others being Invincible square or attack buff square or whatever they want, most RPGs I find just boring adventures, so to me it gave stats a more level design interesting purpose which is why I like it, that and the humour, even other games before Disagea had gameplay first interesting ideas despite looking similar they controlled anything but), or throwing enemies or how classes work or characters traits besides the anime style world war 2 angle they were going for.

Even Mario vs Rabbids did a good job, I think the 2nd one got me interested with more hub based ones. Mutant Year Zero had it's issues but I respect it even if I need to learn it better.

Hack n slashes vary but I just enjoy the combos, don't mind the challenge and the silly stories.

Some games can be cinematic but most I am not big on.

Visual novels/dating sims I enjoy reading from time to time. They aren't the best stories in the world but do enough with charm. I do not get invested into them I more laugh at them then anything but still enjoy them.

Racers whether anti-grav, arcade, sim/simcade or kart racers vary. Just look at any from the 2000s, same with platformers or shooters and if you look mechanically that's why I'm interested in them.

I've mentioned how I think Foamstars could structure itself with modes then how it did. Biomutant's gas immunity (NMS comparable for it's extreme planets) was cool but lack of animal interesting moves disappointed me despite and ok open world, Splatoon 2's grapple and level design impressed me compared to other games with grapples.

Wreckfest I found it and miss. Project Cars 3 same thing.

Besides their artstyles. To me it's not nostalgia it's quality.

Some Indies I do play or buy on PS4/Switch 1 and get a fair amount out of them.

Usually visual novels, odd tactics games recently.

It's a lot but hopefully i listed a few game examples or what angle I 'can' think with games.

I collect a lot or think back and forth so these aren't definitive or anything. I won't not play some games but to me sometimes these can be factors.

To me Yotei I think uses the changes it has for good, but it still isn't my kind of game.

If counting Indies purchases recently out of curiosity. Absolute Tactics is ok, XEL seemed fair, Lacuna is ok.