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@rjejr They've already confirmed a DLC story expansion featuring Joker & Harley as additional playable characters, plus 3 other DLC packs. All 4 DLC will include 1 skin for each of the base 7 characters, plus a new batmobile.

@spikes91 People always find ways to cheat on console, it's just harder to do & more limited.

Time for Division 2 to reclaim the DoA Extreme name and give us a proper Extreme 4 with more beach v-ball, more jet skis, more butt fights... and dudes in tight swimwear.

That's assuming the AI bubble doesn't pop in the next few years.

Hulst should be fired for blatant mismanagement of the studios under his care.
Bluepoint is a specialty studio for remakes, remasters and ports, it's as valuable as Nixxes is to the operation by filling a particular niche. There's 100's of projects they could be doing, like an Ico remake, or remastering Puppeteer or Bloodborne for PS5.

I think it's nice that it's specifically building on the groundwork set by Ready at Dawn's PSP duology. The characters of Deimos and Calliope really only exist in those games (they're basically just plot devices elsewhere), also really nice that they brought over the voice cast of those games for this.

7 is a good score and as much as I love the series it hasn't exactly maintained a consistent quality outside the main Pentalogy.

That's a really gorgeous box, I really like displayable boxes. I'll never understand super expensive collector's editions not including a disc copy of the game. Not asking for a steel-book, even just a regular copy of the game would be fine

That's a lot of weird mistakes for a release that's supposed to bring back good will towards the franchise, and fix past mistakes, in anticipation of DoA7. Upgrade paths for owners of the old version and all the DLC are easy wins to reward loyal costumers, and cross-play is a must have for MP games nowadays, especially for niche games like DoA. I hope the DLC thing just means that it's all included in the base version as unlock-able.
Losing guest character rights is a bummer, but understandable in light of SNK's deal with Capcom.

This will just make it a big pain to re-download, specially for PW on the Vita. The purchased list lacks search or sorting options, so anything not still on the Store Page becomes a huge hassle & damn near impossible to find (ej. my HD Collection copy).

There's been reports that RDNA5 (what PS6 & Xbox 5 use) and RTX6000 series GPUs are likely delayed too, so it should be fine for PS6. As long as everything is getting pushed the PS6 won't be "late" tech wise.

Capcom is pretty good at keeping game sizes reasonable.

If you're remaking the Greek Trilogy there's little reason to tone down the gore, nudity and sex. The over-the-top & gratuitous nature of it all is a big part of the identity of those games, and a good contrast between the Sagas.

Would the 2 women touching themselves watching you bonk Aphrodite fly nowadays? Probably not, I can see that changing to something breaking like in the other games (maybe a big ol' pillar in the room). That said, they do serve a narrative purpose in showing Kratos state of mind and also his treatment of women & sex at that point in his life. In GoW1 in particular the post-sex CGI cutscene is an early character moment for Kratos, though I'd move the mini-game to be before the cutscene & reward you after you make port.

I like the idea behind it, but I really don't get why it's getting made at the same time as the other Horizon MP game. Double dipping into basically the same concept just seems like a bad idea.

I half like the art style, I think the world & it's people looks nice and vibrant, but I don't think it's a good fit for the robots who's main game aesthetic point is busy & hyper-detailed.

Big Suda51 fan, but as usual it's better to wait for a handful of patches before dipping in.

It's a fine fighter just light on content, not helped by half of it being locked out at the start. It really needs some proper single player content, like just an Arcade mode to unlock stuff & get battle pass xp would be nice. Could be a fun way to unlock the stages, grinding away at the arcade mode.

Having Jinx unlocked from the start would make a TON of sense both for the zoner players who currently get nothing and for the Arcane fans who would be a big part of the target audience.

20 is a good number, should allow for healthy team variety. I was worrying they haven't revealed a new character in forever.

Interesting, for perspective the end of GT Goku Jr time-skip takes place around Age 880 and Xenoverse 2 is 852, so this is going pretty far out into the future for the series.

That's a LOT of Tenkaichi 3 carry overs. I'm happy to finally have them, but crazy a lot of it wasn't there to begin with. King Piccolo, Grandpa Gohan, Tao Pai Pai and Kame House should have been Day 1's! Finally more alt outfits too, this is looking like a great year for the game.

I hope the Switch versions reach parity by the end of the year so any future DLC packs can come to all platforms at the same time.

Somehow Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still not cancelled!
Rayman is neither an open-world adventure, nor GaaS, so I guess that's cooked.

"highest paid fighting tournament" maybe they should have taken some of that excess money and spent it on the marketing team budget. That was real bad.

What a shame, both Sanzaru and Armature were really good studios that languished under Facebook ownership. I own most of their Vita games, even though imperfect, I was happy to play them there.
This paints a dire picture for VR gaming if Meta's money machine can't bother to keep their premier studios open.

The anthology approach is better and allows for more creativity. Max and Chloe's relationship post-LiS1 has already been explored a ton in the comics to pretty great results (in plenty of timey wimey ways), I always thought that was a great idea to continue following the characters while the games kept on the anthology aspect.

Overworking people leads to worse health, worse efficiency, and more mistakes. There's real long term health implications for people overworking consistently (ej consistent stress is not kind on the heart). I work in healthcare where we're the biggest hypocrites on this, since long hours & sometimes even multiple days in a row non-stop are mandated, but it's always good to keep in mind.

As other have said, a deepdive into Hoyoverse working culture could make for a very interesting read.

AI or not, such a obvious mistake shouldn't be making it into the game. Is there no quality control over there?

Give the car a GT7 mode and let me drive in-game using the wheel & pedals of the actual car.

Earning some goodwill back in the home market is a solid start, which it seems this cheaper model is doing, then you build on that. I think the eventual gasha-game bundles with the cheaper model will work wonders too, like how we get Fortnite bundles in the USA.

Jak & Daxter made the cut this year! Always enjoy most the ones that celebrate the studio's history.

I adored the demo for this, it's very unique, fun and heartfelt. I will buy it when I can spare the cash.

If the necklace is any indication I'd bet the remake handles a transition to merge both CD continuities. I wonder about the size of the time skip, Catalyst Lara looks noticeably older than she does in the other games.

She's a great VA, can't complain about that choice.

Really nice that we get free access if we bought any of the pieces earlier. I wish you could level up the collab weapons, even if it's just to get camos.

Fully expect his role to be like Chris in RE8, mostly in the periphery while getting a segment or 2 of playable action to represent the old guard, rather than getting the full co-protagonist treatment. Hope Jill and Claire at least get cameos, get the Raccoon City cast together for a bit.

@themightyant it's likely just a country size difference. Japan is densely populated but fairly small, while China is BIG in every way. So there's just more people to throw at any & every problem while having a similarly bad work culture. Their decision to mostly work with open engines like UE5 & Unity means on-boarding any random new hire is faster too.

It's interesting how both companies differed on the state of the project, T2 saw a salvageable project while MS saw a lost cause, to the point T2 would outright hires the leads and gives them their own studio. Assuming they make a big game in that PD style they were cooking up we might get the answer to that question.

Could see DMC start getting the remake treatment, & given how 3 is the most popular game I can see them do them in chronological order, so 3 -> 1 -> 2 -> 4. Hopefully with a DMC6 thrown in there somewhere.

I've recently been in a similar state of mind, just want to enjoy games I can chill with or engage in a different way. Been playing Sword of the Sea recently and having a blast exploring and doing tricks at my own pace.

It's a fun game to mess around casually & I really enjoyed playing through the story mode & doing a bunch of the challenges, but it really feels like it was a sort of trial-run to gauge interest in the Tenkaichi games (there's a lot of lack of care & content in it) and if it did well enough it would get a sequel that served as a proper continuation of the series. Now it did crazy numbers and Bandai is stuck supporting it long term.

I get the same feeling from the recent Bleach fighter, a solid foundation meant to be built upon in subsequent releases. Like the last 2 DLC characters feel more developed than half of the cast.

Ready to spend the whole game blowing out kneecaps. They may never walk again, but they'll live.

200K copies seems very achievable for the next game from the Shovel Knight team.

I really enjoyed the demo, but even there with the abundance of flying enemies I felt almost required to bring a flying hero into the fight. I kept whiffing my air shots with Wolverine, but had an easier time lining up with Phylla-Vel once I had her fly up to their level.

@get2sammyb I think there's a place holder mistake in the second to last paragraph with "NAME HERE" in place of the shop name.

Been playing Rocket League on-and-off since it first released and finally got the Platinum last year, first trophy earned in 2015. 9 years of slowly grinding to earn it, I'm proud of that one.

I'd be curious to see if there's an uptick of disc-drive sales following this.

@Orpheus79V True, technically there's 3 different version of Persona 5 available in the store since Royal PS4 and Royal PS5 are sold as 2 wholly separate products.

Why remove Yakuza 0 availability on PS4? Enough people still play on PS4 to warrant keeping a version circulating on the store.

Could never get it to stop crashing on my PS5, even after I started a 2nd character to get the last few trophies for the Platinum (clean up of ones I had on PS4), but I still love it so much. One of my favorite games!

Craziest part of this is that OpenAI is deeply unprofitable while doing this, they do not have the money to gobble up 40% of the world supply of DRAM on top of their usual spending, but are doing it anyway.

It's a nice upgrade, just wish it actually brought some new content like an Egghead map to go with the DLC characters, or the missing pre-time skip Straw Hats from the older games.

Also copying forward the PS4 save data unlocks most of the trophies too, except like 6 gameplay ones you can easily get in like 20 minutes.

@nomither6 I wholeheartedly agree. Games shouldn't be announced if they're over 18 months out from release, maybe 2 years at most.

2026 is pretty packed for Playstation already. Saros & MLB in spring, Wolverine in the summer, Marvel Tokon and (likely) Marathon are due out 2026, then finally the GTA6 partnership means Sony will promote that in the Autumn. It makes sense for Intergalactic to lead the 2027 year.