Poll: How Would You Rate State of Play for September 2026?

The first section could've been an email, tbh. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that was genuinely the worst PlayStation presentation I have ever seen. A complete waste of my time

I knew it would be bad, but my God.

It was good if a bit bland.

Keeper. Almost out today… in a couple of hours…?

They showed a trailer for Dragon Quest Monsters, so that was a high spot for me. The rest? Could've been better, could've been worse

First SoP portion I'd give a 6. Was ok, had enough to look forward to. SoP Japan fared a bit worse though imo, a bit average. I'd give that section a 5.

But Ai Fairouz is a straight 10. No, I won't stop going on about it 😁

I was really hoping to hear something on Cronos: Lazarus

The Japan State was better, but both were aggressively mediocre. Even the FF7 Revelation gameplay kind of sucked. It didn’t show anything interesting at all.

Great aside from the NOT Resident Evil movie trailer

Rhapsody in Scarlet totally stole the show for me. Konami really has their redemption arc. If Wolverine is corporate game, how very accurately was pointed in the other comment section, than this and Showa American Story is polar opposite.

@Metonymy When was it? I thought it was tonight, I'm guessing when we were chitchatting away it was playing. I was sure it was tonight.

For me it was only just good/ borderline okay, a few dates I wanted to see, a few games I'm interested in.

My main gripe was the whole 'Ooooh look a game we'll show more of in the SoP Japan!', it felt like burning time that could've been filled with other games.

I thought this was a fun and very cool show. And the format works a ton better than the 90 minute or 120 minute "TikTok Style" formats that just throw trailer after trailer at you without any real meaning. This was great!

@Dalamar How nice would it have been if we got more Showa in the Japan portion? The showcase generally seemed to miss things like it.

There wasn't anything wrong with the games exactly, but it didn't feel like there were any exciting announcements. There's a few games there I'm definitely getting but for a livestream where excitement is the core measure of success, it fell a bit flat. Somewhere between 4 and 6 out of 10 from me.

Excellent state of present

The one nice surprise was Keeper, which y’all ended up spoiling for me. Happy to have a release date for Until Dawn 2 and Metro. Other than that the show was an easy 1/5 for me. Turned it off as soon as they introduced Final Fantasy and didn’t even bother with the “Japanese” one afterwards.

Maybe just do fewer of these broadcasts, and wait until you have enough content to warrant a really hype show.

Found it interesting that a grand total of zero execs show up. Usually Hermen Hulst pops in. Guess they damn well know exactly what the crowd's current sentiment is.

Didn't watch.
That makes it an instant fail for me.
Happy to see Maneater get a sequel though.

Maneater 2 and metro 2039 were the only ones that looked appealing to me. Not a good show from my perspective. I dont plan on playing any of the games shown on my ps5.

Underwhelming, bland, not even a little bit exciting... The worst State of Play I've ever watched.

Overall pretty meh.

Maneater 2, that was it, but will get that on non Sony machine. 2 out of 10

Almost underwhelming but CONQ saved it. Already GOTY for just the name

I would really like to see Sony actually have a show where they had meaningful content from their first party studios. I actually had a thought that Sony would really go to town with this event since they have had a sustained backlash for ages (and rightly so), but this was a whole lot of nothing new, sprinkled with a couple of cool bits and then finished of with some more nothing new. Maybe it’s time to stop watching these shows live and simply catch up later. Definitely save me some time.

I would rate it using a numerical scaling system, or how you've done it is fine too.

What was the point of putting the Japanese one after the Western one? They were basically the same games but in different languages.

Tying myself in knots over Rhapsody in Scarlet because I have a huge aversion towards ring a ding ding big band roaring 20s mafia New Yoik jazz bollocks but the game itself looks custom built for me to love. Urggg why could it not be an original setting? Why did it have to be jazz?

GT7 ❤️❤️❤️ was great

@LemanRusk would you have preferred snakes?

I find it a bit odd how they’ve done this. Surely GT7, FF7 revelation, FF resonance should have been in the Japanese SOP?

Have they just used this “back to back” state of plays as a marketing tactic? I mean it was just one long SOP to me with Japanese games in the “western/normal” section. I found the whole thing a bit weird and once again underwhelming for Sony first party output.

At a time where Sony needs to entice gamers with solid, interesting titles as it's policies alienate it's gamer base, they failed miserably. They should have called in sick for this one.

It was ok. Rhapsody in Scarlet was the best game of the showcase. Wasn’t offensively bad I suppose.

It's was alright. I thought Rhapsody in Scarlet looked really cool. I'll definitely keep an eye on that one. RevNoir looked okay too. FF7 Revelation looks fantastic too. Overall, I'm happy.

SoP western was kinda okay borderline mediocre, i give it a 6/10. But SoP Japan was pretty nice, i give it a 7.5/10.

This is just me but i'm more interested with Rhapsody in Scarlet over FF VII Revelation. 1920 New York with mafia, jazz, and magic feels pretty fresh idea for a Japanese game.

@GirlVersusGame I logged on this morning and saw it was happening so I caught what I could while at work. Usually these things play in the afternoon here so I was a bit surprised. I didn’t catch it all but seemed like an okay show.

I was still undecided if I was going to vote 6 or 7 expecting a scale of 1-10 when I got here so I went with good. Probably should have gone with ok b/c I’m not convinced it was actually “good” and not just “ok” but looking at the words ok seemed to represent a 5 and I wasn’t going 5. Good seems 6-7, very good 8-9, excellent 10.

So I said good, b/c it was like a 6-7, not an ok 5, but it was just ok.

Good things it had.

Variety. Variety is good. I don’t like when every game looks the same, like they picked a theme - dark, 1st person, fantasy - and stuck with it. This had variety, like it or not.

A few surprises in Scarlet and DQ maybe.

Ending with FF7.

Bad things.

Movies and Legos and so much dlc, oh my.

No Intergalactic or Laufy or Kena. The games people want to know about and some of us are looking forward to. If you’re announcing a SoP show your games, not controllers for a game you didn’t even show.

I didn’t stick around for the follow up so this only covers the first one.

I feel like this could have just been a State of Play Japan alone since even the regular State of Play was mostly filled with Japanese and Asian games.
That said the show itself was okay. If a handful of titles grab my attention I consider a game show to have succeeded.

Though I do have to ask what in the blazes that The Eminence in Shadow game was doing here? As much as I love the IP itself, it was immediately apparent that the game is going to be bad, overpriced jank IP slop. If you ask me it had no place in the State of Play. Was Kadokawa really that desperate for the exposure the State of Play brings or was Sony unable to find any other game to fill the slot?

I thought the first one was good. It was more or so updates on games we know about/a partner SOP which they do once a year so I'm always surprised when people are pissed about them. They have to do these every one in a while.

Yotei DLC looks great, Until Dawn 2 is going to he amazing. Also props to Housemarque with the DLC for Sara's because it looks good. GT7 isn't my cup of tea but they work their ass off with the game and I admire that.

Rev Noir and Rhapsody in Scarlett look like they will be a fun time. Rev has that Scarlett Nexus vibe(which needs a sequel) and Scarlett looks like a crazy fun time.

Also a lot of cool demos and games in the Japanese State of Play which I will play and probably enjoy this week. Those games all looked cool.

I'd say 7/10 for me easy. Wasn't expecting it be a big SOP by any chance. Happy with what I saw.

I really thought they might come out swinging this time to combat the recent run of bad press they've had but it was pretty meh. Until dawn 2 is looking good and Maneater 2 was a nice surprise. Personally have no interest in FF so the ending meant nothing to me. I thought having a separate japan show would mean less Japanese games in the main show but I guess not

The 1st one was meh, the 2nd one was way better but still not amazing. Konamis 2 new games were the most interesting for me

That being said I'm not that disappointed becuz this time I expected what I saw. A bunch of updates for games we already know exist. I'll always be of the opinion these shows should be for new game reveals 1st and foremost. If you don't have anything new to show by September then don't do a show. Or I guess you have to but at the cost of everyone being extremely negative so there's that. The only shows to look forward to are Geoffs then

I usually like to watch these, but this one was really really bad. That together with all the negative feeling towards PlayStation just made it a chore to go through.

@Gelloh agreed. To me it just reinforced the notion that they’re not the Sony they were in past generations.

Very ok State of Play, but there were mainly a lot of updates rather than new announcements. I can't call it a D, there was interesting stuff there, but definitely not the show they needed. But I bet even a good show would still have a lot of negativity around it just out of bias

A couple updates to first party games, confirmed release dates and a "shadow drop".

Perfectly fine show to let everyone know what else might be available to them in the current crowded season, and into the new year.

Japan showing wasn't for me but has it's audience, and plenty of games there.

People crying above need to manage their expectations significantly, it's getting a bit sad tbh.

What can I say, 4 out of 10. The Ghost, Saros and Gran Turismo updates were nice to throw in there I guess. More Crimson Desert content is nice. I don't care about seeing another FFVII Revelation trailer at this point even though im looking forward to the game. Slash Zero looked interesting to me as im a sucker for those types of games so i'll check out the demo that is suppose to be out today. Other than that, there wasn't much excitement from this, id say it was actually poor.

It doesnt matter, as this is my last playstation after the discs thing.

It was boring. Just a bunch of DLC announcements and accessories

It was awful might as well not had one

I found it annoying they didn't highlight which games are coming to Switch 2 and XBOX. 😉

@Metonymy I think I went to bed around four in the AM, those journals I mentioned to you, I stayed up all night reading them. I was sure State of Play was tonight, even moved things around to make the live-chat, hopefully next time. I'm reading the announcements now.

It was a solid SoP (best highlight was FF) but also gave the impression that Sony's going to announce PS6 in late February/March 2027 for a November 2027 release.

I figure they'll do a SoP in December once the GTA6 hype has settled to focus on promoting early 2027 games alongside having Laufey + Intergalactic at the Game Awards.

A perfect SoP for people who feel the PS3 era was peak and lament PlayStation isn’t Japanese enough.

Easily the weakest State of Play this year imo. Konami and Square Enix saved it from being really bad. I knew we were in trouble when it began with a movie clip.

I don't know why Sony bothered to hold one if they didn't have Kena 2, God of War Laufey, or Intergalactic ready to show off. Kena's and Laufey's absences were particularly bizarre.

Pretty much abysmal and nothing new we didn’t already know. They continue to bury their head in the sand.

It was okay. Personally, one of the worst one i’ve seen though. Could of made use of one new announcement. But hey, if its not the right time yet then its not the right time 🤷🏻‍♂️ There’s already plenty coming up that i’m looking forward to like Wolverine, Until Dawn 2 and God of War Laufey.

Uncanyon also looked pretty cool!

I didn’t watch it. But based on the Round Up and the comments here, I made a wise decision.

I don’t think there’s enough outrage for the sheer disrespect of opening with a movie trailer on a games’ presentation for a franchise that isn’t even Sony’s…

I don't see the point of lumping all these trailers together when 90% of the games had already been announced. A SoP should cover new stuff otherwise just release the individual trailers and don't bother with a presentation.

We really need to stop expecting Intergalactic to show up.

@IllusiveMan I believe they co-own the rights to the films though.

But yeah that was my reaction in the chat as well, that it wasnt a good sign they started with a movie trailer. Although, i thought it was a cool scene!

That was potentially the most boring SoP I've seen. What on earth are Sony's first parties doing.

The best announcement for me was probably a port of an Xbox game.

Now it's a super long wait to the next one likely in Feb. At least TGA is usually quite good.

Did not watch at work.
But wow what a low score from you all.

@Vertere I like Japanese games, just not the anime style RPGs. I'm sure they're great for the people that like them, but they're all really samey for me.

I would rate it "completely pointless/10"

Going disc-less ? Fine. Whatever. But going game-less is a wild choice man- digital or physical you have to have games consumers want to play. Modern Sony is a mess.

My expectations were very much in check, it was good overall. Nothing mind-blowing, but good showings of cool games

Rhapsody in Scarlet was the only highlight for me. The showcase overall was okay-ish at best imo.

@Ooccoo_Jr unless they are going show new stuff i see no point of these state of plays at all

Saros and GOY DLC was cool, the other is stuff we already knew about, and it was boring otherwise. POOR!

Pretty poor for me. When the highlight of a presentation is a Gran Turismo update you know its a clunker lol.

the worst i remember

Pretty much worse SoP in recent memory if not ever.
Only game that was interesting to me was Metro 2039.

Between okay and good

It was okay but leaning towards poor. Very little of interest and the second SoP right after just kinda...showed the same games lol. Probably the most boring that I can remember but there was still some interesting stuff. The highlight was probably the interview with the voice actress for a game I have never played, so take that as you will.

They announced almost nothing new or exciting, Just trailers and DLC for games we already heard about. It almost felt like watching a Nintendo Direct except without the big 1st party announcements that salvage those showcases.

Total waste of time.

Just a big load of "meh". I generally try to stay positive but there is very little reason to be excited with PlayStation right now. This State of Play did exactly nothing to change that. Some might say we shouldn't expect first-party announcements, but after such a barren generation it feels almost insulting to suggest we should expect even less.

The continued absence of Intergalactic has me very worried, to be honest. I'm starting to get this gut feeling the game might be in trouble. And I don't think Naughty Dog can afford another failure after the Factions debacle. In short: I feel less optimistic about Sony than I did before the State of Play. Not good.

The
Worst one in recent memory( and maybe overall)

It wasnt the best but it wasn't the worst either, I voted for Good.

@ThroughTheIris56 No way you're more excited for that lighthouse game than Until Dawn?

Just caught up, but that was poor! It didn't really seem to have a point and starting off with a movie trailer? I mean it looks good but LMAO the only other good thing was the surprisingly good Until Dawn 2 trailer and release date.

Sony really back in their DGAF era.

unbelievably bad. but 7am on the west coast kinda told you not to expect anything good

I really don't know why they bothered to be honest.

There is absolutely NOTHING that warranted a 'State of Play' Showcase, nothing that couldn't have been covered in a blog post and/or the usual Social Media outlets which would have been more than enough for news/magazine channels to make articles and spread the 'news'.

Take Keeper for example, that 'leaked' and an update to the article that generated to let people know 'when' it was out, as well as showing any 'new' trailer would have been as effective and arguably less 'disappointing' than watching State of Play.

I think Showcases set up expectation of something 'more' than what we got. This felt like it was the average daily news story from any Magazine style gaming channel on youtube - a collection of the daily gaming news and video trailers you see almost every day rather than something Sony themselves would do.

I guess a lot of shows are like that, but it really didn't feel like a Sony show or felt like it was Sony specific, something that Sony themselves would be announcing but a generic daily gaming news show...

The majority was updates on already announced games (I really didn't need another Wolverine trailer) and the rest was mostly small stuff, so it wasn't very exciting.
That being said, the Konami NYC game looks interesting and also some of the indies looked cool

That was two very boring shows. Japans was even worse that I stopped watching.

Wolverine is the only game that vaguely interests me, but that probably says more about me these days than Sony's lineup.

@PSGamer69420 Yeeee. I enjoyed Until Dawn with friends, and would happily play the sequel with them, but wouldn't really say I'm excited. Keeper looks like an awesome vibe though.

@Dodoo 100%, but to be fair, none of these companies are anymore. It's shameful.

It’s obvious that Sony have now decided to move away from showing much or anything live service related. That unfortunately leaves very little for any decent showcase. Will be years before the Sony we know recovers

The Lego set is pretty cool, i’ll def buy that! Huge Lego fan!!

95% "oriental" games, why did they even bother stating the show is split in 2 parts, i do not know. Why did they even make a SoP now, if there's no important announcement to make, is an even bigger mystery.
At any rate, very disappointing👎

Rhapsody in Scarlet, Maneater 2, Keeper look interesting enough to give it a go. I am NOT Playstations target, I dont play the following:
GTA ANYTHING
GOD OF WAR
HORIZON
FINAL FANTASY
And if you dont play anything Marvel related (like me, Spiderman is so overrated) a lot of what they have is not for you...So with Wolverine and GTA6 and GOW being the main focus right now, meh....

PlayStation seems to be completely out of touch with their customers

@LiamCroft out of interest is this the lowest rating a SoP poll has ever received on pushsquare?

@LiamCroft honestly I'm surprised we didn't see a trails in the sky 2nd chapter trailer or a dynasty warriors 3 remaster trailer either

Yeah, it certainly wasn't great, and I wasn't exactly going in with high hopes. And the more I have thought about it, the more negative I am towards it.

Only 3 games really interested me. Marvel's Wolverine which is releasing in 12 days time, and question why it was there.

Then there was FFVII Revelations, which while it was pretty neat that we got a trailer, I do question if we should of gotten the gameplay, I've heard a lot of people say we've seen too much. And something tells me we'll be seeing a lot more from TGS and even The Game Awards.

There was no Kena: Scars of Kosmora which surprised me, and at this rate, I am under the belief it'll be releasing in 2027.

As for the Japanese State of Play, the only thing that interested me was DLC for Digimon Story: Time Stranger. And honestly, I would of preferred to have seen Bandai upload the trailer itself out of the SoP, or reveal it in a Nintendo Direct as I was forcing myself to listen, waiting for it to appear.

The Eminence in Shadow: Phantom Echoes did initially interest me, but then I read the article that it was a roguelike, which immediatelly squashed my interest as I'm not a big roguelike fan.

There was also Rev:Noir, but it is said to release in 2027, which seems to be a big year for RPGs.

Eh, it was okay, but not their best show. Maneater 2 was a nice surprise. Until Dawn 2 looks better. Final Fantasy VII Revelation looks great (not surprising). And Ratchet & Clank getting added to PS Plus is welcome (and long overdue) news. Otherwise, nothing else that interested me.

3/10 That might have been one of the worst ive ever seen. Why even have the SOP Japan following when you mainly only showed updates on Japanese made games during the regular SOP. Idiots 🤦‍♂️

It' was good for what it was. I went into it expecting very little and came away with a few demos and games that peaked my interest. I think Amy big big games they have will be saved for more prestigious announcements like at the game awards.

Good because of the tone, no more live service, ports are over with, it's all PS5 and they had three PS5 exclusives (Wolverine, Yotei, Until Dawn) as the highlights. Great to see them and Square Enix back on good terms, FF7 Revelation is of course one my most anticipated games ever, looks incredible.

They dug themselves a massive hole with the exclusives pipeline after the sins of the 2020s, it's gonna take time to get it back on track. The fact that Laufey & Intergalactic weren't shown and are also incoming is a miracle.

Dino Crisis 2 being the highlight for me, is probly not the best sign. Also something seemed off on the Human presenters. The brunette especially. Like there was an AI upscale filter on their faces or something. It was very distracting. The audio/lip sync seemed off.

This is the kind of SoP that makes me okay with not buying new PlayStation anything beyond 2027.

Not that great tbh, i had medium level expectations though but damn. At least ff7 gameplay was shown

Watched it on catch up and I am glad that I did. It had a couple of cool announcements that could have been on the PS Blog, and the rest was "meh," to be honest.

i was generous and gave the state of play a ok rating..

you cannot end your own state of play on a third party game no matter how good that game is..

The highight for me was Maneater 2, which ranks pretty low on the games I'm looking forward to, so that should tell you something.....

I see lots of people complaining that Playstation “doesnt have any games” or they’re out of touch, because of the lack of first party or exclusives at todays SoP. But i think people are overlooking the fact that some games (like Intergalactic), or even new announcements, might have simply been left out, because of other reasons. Such as timing, schedule, other events, to give enough breathing room to GTA6, or even because they might not want to risk the current negativity surrounding them to overshadow it.

For example, nothing was shown for God of War Laufey, but it still releases in February, so we’re obviously gonna hear more from them soon.

SoP’s are generally marketing agreements between third parties anyway. The fact that they havent shown much first party today doesnt necessarily mean that there wont be more games revealed for 2027 onward.

I also think people overestimate the amount of studios Playstation actually has. They actually have a decent release cadence for their size. Compare it to Xbox for example, which has more than double the amount of studios, but Playstation is still able to publish about the same amount of games as them this year.

And look at whats actually coming, Marvel Tokon just released, Wolverine releasing next week, then Silent Hill Townfall, Phantom Blade 0 next month, obviously november is GTA6 territory so noone really releases anything anyway, then Until Dawn 2 in january, God of War Laufey in february, and Kena 2 and Intergalactic are still due for 2027. And that’s just what we know of.

Sure, some are console exclusives. But if you’re a Playstation gamers, i honestly think you are eating quite well these coming months.

The absence of games on a SoP doesnt suddenly mean that Playstation has no games.

It's unfair, I suppose, that there are so many presentations these days, that most of the announcements are spread pretty thin. We could do with maybe three for each major platform (four counting Steam), and then maybe one or two for indies.

That's all you need, I would say.

I would rate it 3 no disc no buys out of .69

Everything before FF7 trailer could've been an email.
They also didn't address the physical media thing.

I did skip the final fantasy stuff because i feel they've already shown too much, but i think this was quite poor, Keeper being the only cool thing for me really.

It was alright! Nice updates for good games, release dates and a couple of surprises.

Would say it was poor if I wasn't pleasantly surprised with the Maneater 2 reveal.

I didn't watch the show live and I'm glad I didn't. Scarlet Rhapsody looks potentially neat and weird, but nothing else interesting announced. A few other games shown I'm interested, like Metro and FF7R3, but these are games I will eventually buy and play and don't need further info about.

It's cliché, but I think any State of Play where Naughty Dog and Media Molecule are both still silent is going to be a wash at this point.

Closed the show on a stinker

Where the heck is media molecule

Not very good. Very poor showcase again from PS. I can't wait for Wolverine and Silent Hill Townfall both for PS5. Nintendo Switch 2 is my priority gaming console while PS5 and Xbox Series X is for trophies / achievements and depends their games on it as well some big IP games not on Switch 2 then get em on Xbox Series X or PS5. Love all gaming machines I own but Nintendo Switch 2 is my best gaming and most important.

You can clearly tell Sony is out of touch and only catering to shareholders. Absolute bad show.

I was just thinking why are so many of these games so oversaturated and ugly. Many of these games lacked visual style.

Meh to ok. Seeing more of Final Fantasy Resonance and Rev.Noir was great for me and Rhapsody in Scarlet appealed to me. I also liked to see more of Gundam Rogue Orbit also looks fantastic. Where the Seeds Fall also looked interesting.

Besides that nothing else captured my interest.

Besides that, nothing else interested me

One has to begin to wonder whether this Intergalactic game is a dud.... The length of time without showing ANY gameplay now is quite frankly astounding. Would have liked to see some RE game content instead of a trailer for the zombie movie Cregger is making with the name slapped on it. Overall a 4.5/10

Catching up on the news, I’m not sure we’ve seen a worse presentation from any of the big 3. Ever. If that’s not a 1 or 2 out of 10 then the scale is broken.

It was $h¡t in my opinion, there was no reason to split the presentation in two, both of them felt very different, together they were very long and many games were presented twice due to the two presentations. They could have skipped the LEGO set presentation and the trailer for the RE movie. I normally like the Play Station presentations but today it was an example on how not to do one.

It’s no wonder this State of Play presentation don’t make my heart race like the Nintendo Directs.

I added 22 games/DLC to my Deku Deals wishlist, so wasn't too bad!

It wasn't great in terms of new announcements, but I'm happy about the FF Resonance demo, and the MH Wilds expansion looks cool. FF7 Revelations gameplay was solid as well.

shrugs

Not amazing, but not a waste of time, either.

@Ainu20 Honestly I think we shouldn’t expect much at all going forward. There needs to be a launch showcase for PS6 and with close to 100m PS5’s in circulation there is no need as the CEO recently said to market PS5 aggressively. Sony are aware of the backlash to physical. The only way forward with the PS6 is an absolutely incredible launch line up. For that to happen I imagine PlayStation want to keep their powder dry.

Same games as already showed several times. No surprises. Nothing spectacular.

Expectations were growing, yet nothing new was shared.
I think I am getting used to these SOPs that do not bring anything new.

Due to the fact they wasted both time and money trying to create some successful live service games.. and failed.. we will be waiting long for any new and fresh single player games from them.

It's just okay. Made me look forward to Metro 2039 at least.

The circus is very interesting, and other people can buy some of these games on a different platform.

Question:

Why do we need a Resident Evil trailer during a SOP?

For a dedicated community of just Playstation players its just struck me how much the general shift away from Asian games has been. The sheer number of people here clamouring for a massive Western title and finding nothing else of interest has actually come as a slight shock. Like I knew this is what it was like now for Sony but holy *****.

A clip from a movie, a lego announcement, and teases for games explored more in the SoP Japan portion, made for a poor state of play.

Anyone know the reason for the time change? It's typically shown at 10pm in the UK but ended up being 3pm so I had my phone on at work watching it.

In terms of new announcements specifically, nothing interested me unfortunately. Crimson Desert expansion and Maneater 2 were the only reveals that generated any excitement for me personally.

@TDHorizon there was a japan one too maybe becuase of that?

@LemanRusk i used to love asian games when i was young but now i cant stand them its all the stupid non-verbal grunts, sighs, and gasps characters do people dont talk like that its bizarre. get why it was done originally due to hardware limitations but we have come a long way since then

Didn't care enough to watch it since PlayStation doesn't care enough about the customers to make us happy. No disc no buy. If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing. Will not be buying anything PlayStation until they give me a reason to do so. Going forward I'll keep playing on my PC and Lenovo Legion Go.

@Atreus97 what a miserable bore.

And I'm not talking about the State of Play.

It was mostly what I was expecting. The Japanese portion especially. It wasn't the best last time and a huge reason is that there's a lot more time spent with the interviews. But in all honesty, that part isn't strictly for everyone and it's very clear that they're banking a lot on the Host's popularity. Same goes for the voice actor of the main character in Yotei being there. It's clear they were definitely trying to push more sales in Japan and that might be a fair approach since the Ghost franchise's reputation there. Showing off Fate, Gundam, and more Monster Hunter is definitely a must too.

The first part of the SoP was definitely where the main content was though. I was only expecting updates on games coming out with maybe a few other new ones, but there was a fair bit. Definitely some odd ones though! Need some demos. But getting dates and major updates to stuff we've only seen once before was easily the best take away for me here. That and more China Hero Project games too. The choice of games for Plus was nice too and it's cool seeing the free updates for first party games go on strong.

I'd argue the actual worst part was the Konami show at the end. Way too Nintendo Direct-like, where it can make things that you're not interesting in feel like such a slog. Definitely doesn't help that we saw some things for a 3rd time there too. Saw a comment about phoning in above... this is the show that could have been phoned in or partially consolidated for sure. Doesn't mean I'm not still proud of them for being back in the game, but I don't know if that was really the time for those types of announcements. Then again, I have no idea what the reception was in Japan, so...

I didn't watch it. I'm not supporting anything PlayStation until they reverse their digital only decision. They should just give us the option. Clearly there are enough people that still want physical.

That Konami game was the only interesting thing!

Just watched all the trailers and have arrived at “Good.” 7/10. Lots of games I’m interested in but nothing earth-shattering.

They revealed Maneater 2. Which is great news for me as I LOVE the first game.

I didn't even watch it just read the highlights/round up article and still didn't care. Dates that could be showed at other shows, action games that were bland, puzzle games that who knows if the Marquette team pulls it off this time and not much else. 1 game, a puzzle game. Puzzle games are great but even still.

Tactics could be 'ok' but the rest, flashy nonsense or Indie 'seen many times' so not interested. I find it hard to respect Indies other then 'typical competition' which I should but look at the market. Oh wow that setting, insert nothing interesting to showcase of 'their entry' to the genre, gameplay, any of it. So why should I praise them?

Oh they got a chance in a State of Play, so what?

Yeah it was poor.

I didn't even know about the live chat as I didn't watch but not surprised what was posted in there.

I mean why should I watch flashy trailers, bland gameplay games? Nothing worth my time at all.

On the devs, sure, marketing teams are a joke and devs I'll have to say are a joke too, I have 'respect' for some' but Indie or AAA/AA I rarely give respect at all because of how boring gaming is right now.

I don't ask for 'scale' I ask for gameplay that's got good pacing and movesets. Bit much to ask for sure.

But if the only thing I care for is a puzzle game, that says it all right there that the others are so not worth exploring. I enjoy puzzle games though. But combat or moveset based games haven't been exciting in years. The bare minimum movesets is not interesting no matter how fancy your artstyles.

Animators/level designs/programmers aren't impressing me at all.

Marketers aren't either.

Artists are. That's it. Not very exciting.