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Glad they went with unknown's, this is the type of franchise that can build careers, and I'm certain Ganondorf will be a big name to balance it out. Not sure about the Link actor, need to hear his most obnoxious "well excuse me, Princess" before I feel confident in him.

"Problematic age gap" discourse is going to haunt this movie all the way up to release, even though they're certainly not going to be a couple in this.

PC keeps getting FSR, DLSS and XESS updates to the latest versions and consoles are still stuck on FSR2. I pray that it's just something they overlooked and we actually get updated to 3.1 too.

I'm surprised it took them this long to implement it, this seems like it would have been an obvious value add for the Remaster. As long as it's done with care it should be a really nice way to play it. I still think Beyond's chronological order is the way to go if you want to understand the story, even if it's lazily done and doesn't account for simple stuff like tutorial placements, as it just jumps too much around Jodie's life to make much sense or events to have real impact.

Maybe not the intended and ideal way to play, but I bet this mode here will be great for Abby's character. As it's easier to enjoy what they're doing with her when the change isn't abrupt halfway through. The tv show in particular would have greatly benefited from this approach as it better suits the medium.

It's going to be another 7-Village case where Chris was playable for a little bit, but with Leon. Hope all the Racoon City leads gets a little spotlight and not just Leon.
The series kinda taking place in real time does mean that the old guard is quickly aging out of lead roles, need to build up a new class of characters to carry the next couple of decades, right now that's Grace and Rose. I guess they have the weird thing going on with Jill's aging to keep her as an open option going forward.

@get2sammyb I need Vega & his swimsuit in the game, asap!

I just want some new BlazBlue related thing.
At this point maybe just a couple BlazBlue guest characters in Strive could be interesting, it would undoubtedly be Ragna or Noel, but I'd love seeing more unique (to play) characters like Nu-13 or Hakumen.

Could have sworn I read an article about Death Stranding also getting an anime adaptation. Love the game, but this is quickly becoming too much.

Raised by Wolves was fine, some pretty interesting ideas that just felt underutilized, at least in S01 never bothered with S02.

I believe it, it's big turbulent times for WB and all the big media conglomerates will be testing the waters. That said, it's doubtful WB would be interested in another merger or buyout. This is the chunk of WBD that they expect to keep on swimming, succeed and grow, while the tv portion (left with the biggest chunk of the crippling debt) will sink and eventually sold for parts.

If anything Sony should have bought Monolith Soft from them after the shutdown, like the PUG guys did with Tango Gameworks.

I bet when it releases later this year it will be as Early Access rather than a proper 1.0 release.
It's just releasing after a lot of turmoil and failures from the live-service division so whatever good faith there was early in the push is long gone. Sony cutting Concord's cord in a month rather than giving the team a chance to right the ship would also deter the doubtful from putting money forward early on. The only way Sony gives them a chance is through an Early Access release that would give them breathing room to find an audience.

look how the massacred my girl! (they gave her shoes)

I'd guess his fear is more that he over-corrected with making it more approachable when DS1 was too abstract (story-wise) & he doesn't like making games like that. His last easily approachable game was MG2 (again, story-wise).

I ADORE the puppet characters! really gorgeous art direction is hard carrying my interest. Game-play wise, it looks like Skull & Bones with turn-based land combat attached.

MGS Collection Vol.2 announcement would be ideal here.
I hope PW, GotP, and TPP are the 3 main games in it, while Twin Snakes, GZ, Revengeance, Acid, Acid 2 and PO/+ round out the package as the nice to haves.

I'd imagine a Castlevania 3D Collection could be also announced, with Lords of Shadow trilogy, Legacy of Darkness, Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness, and Judgement too. Completing the series ports into modern systems.

Games looks very good!

Crazy how after the GTA6 delay the backhalf of the year is starting to get very populated, very fast.

Really hope the protagonist can talk in this one, I like Rick & Morty humor, but the game forgot the fun in that show comes from the banter between characters and not just Rick monologuing for 30 minutes at a time. Your characters should vocally respond to whatever nonsense the gun and knife are saying from time to time.

Crisol is giving Spanish Bioshock vibes, which is no bad thing. Gunplay just looks a bit too clunky to be enjoyable, but that can be fine tuned.

Giving me Severed vibes with the aesthetic, that's all I need. Drinkbox are great devs!

Great little twist using She-Hulk, keeps the Hulk family representation without going with the more obvious choice and keeps the roster feeling interesting. Very glad they made her huge, an absolute unit, she's filling in the Hulk slot nicely.

Hope they keep the vibe going and reveal a lesser known X-Men character next.

Kenny Omega rocks that C Viper fit so well, gimme a cosplay Kenny skin for Viper. lol

Ichiban's car kinda looks Like A Dragon!

I’d love it if they finally fix the body perception breaking apart when showing skin, mods fixed it years ago on PC. Stuff like skirts, dresses or open shirts/jackets, or when you wake up naked after sleeping in during a date your body becomes a bunch of floating half formed limbs.

So it's possibly a God of War: Betrayal remake/reimagening?

I just want the tech demo to have Ciri saying "wind's howling".

Pretty great results so far for a cheaper side project.
Hopefully they'll use what they learn from the rough edges and the feedback to make sure Duskbloods is in much stronger shape from the outset.

It's lots of fun, but surely this would have benefited more from releasing as a Backyard Sports collection with multiple titles, maybe including the 1st from each sport.
At least Baseball and Soccer together since they don't feature real players from the major leagues, which I'm guessing is the reason on the delay for the ports of the other games.

I'm surprised more prepers don't use a Vtuber-like avatar and just show their face. The pizza guy could have been fun if he used a Vtuber sometimes, rather than always saying "sorry I wasn't there to greet you" as if he wasn't asking for pipping hot pizza to eat on the spot.

The only answer he should have had for anyone asking about price is "That's not in my hands to decide and Take-2 hasn't made a decision yet". That's it, you don't need media training or anything like that (which he's undoubtedly gotten) to know that's all you should and need to say.

I hope they eventually add bosses from Demon's Soul, King's Field (necessarily just in name & look only) & Bloodborne, eventually making it a proper FromSoft celebration.

Gimmick bosses like Storm King could be used as a night hazard were it does random flyby's to further screw your team. lol

I really hope they go remake the 1st 3 games after this one comes out. I'd love to play a version of P1 that doesn't force me into a fight every 3 steps in a dungeon.

@Veritas7Ax P4 is amazing, but remember the whole series has a silent protagonist. You won't be hearing much of JYB's voice outside the screaming of "Persona" and their names, just like with the P5 protag.

Tekken 8 has a very robust 32 char base roster, bigger than most other fighting games of its class & with T7's huge final roster too it makes sense that a lot of DLC would end up being repeats. But you got to throw in an lapsed fighter in there every once in a while to balance it out, like SF6 with Elena.

It really sucks when other greats like Street Fighter, Tekken and Guilty Gear are supported for much longer periods of time. This is the type of support I would expect for smaller scale titles like a new Darkstalkers, Rival Schools or Soulcalibur (SC6 got about 17 months of support!), not for one of the big 3 fighting games in the world (in sales at least).

I've had my fun and fill with the game since release, the story was meh, but the gameplay is very good and the kameo's can be fun to play with. It's not even been 20 months of full support, the seasons started looping after the 8th one ended back in November! They have been happy to nickle and dime us for klassic & new skins (outside the 3 themed ones most everyone got), giving Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Mileena a 100 of them while other characters starved. Most returning 3D era characters didn't even get a shot at a klassic skin, like Havik and Ashrah.

Since P4G's epilogue flows into it from the main game to the point you don't even get the standard or true ending, the story just keeps going into the dungeon and new endings, I would expect removing it wholesale and selling it as DLC would be more work than it's worth. Marie is deeply involved (with your character, not the broader story) from the beginning and you got to work for the for the epilogue. I still wouldn't put it past them to do it.

Feels like ages since I last played a proper walking sim, looks pretty good.

I love Origins and Legends, some of the most fun platforming had on Vita, and I'm down for a new take on 3D Rayman. Hopefully Ubisoft is reasonable about their budget & expectations for it.

guessing a ton of those are people on PC Game Pass paying the $10 monthly fee to try the game. Not that it's bad! That's what Microsoft wants, people paying for the subscription service.

Wish they'd remove Hanzo's sleeve tattoo for the outfit, it throws it off and it wouldn't be the first time they remove or change tattoos for different skins. Also, couldn't they make Guile's flat top higher or angle the arm so it actually looks like he's combing the hair and not air? The rest look pretty good and it's def a better result overall than previous cross-over cosplay skins.

The family gave permission for the model, but I'm more surprised Disney let them use it. It's just so easy for a dedicated player to get Vader to start saying bad things (cursing, slurs, promoting heinious ideas), as that's just an issue with any chatbot, that Disney lawyers would faint at if they saw any of it.

I think he confused the SE or Ubi leadership with Bungie's. lol
It's a half-priced, niche extraction shooter releasing in the last quarter of the year. It just needs to be a decent hit and build from there.

it's obviously Jak 4!

I really think the show, for the sake of not making Abby too hated (it's different being forced to control the character vs watching a tv show), should have ran Ellie and Abby's stories parallel through S02 before more or less ending on Joel's death scene. That way it creates viewers conflict into which side is right and wrong, or if Abby is even justified (given her dad was going to murder a kid after less than a day studying the immunity) by letting you sit with her and seeing her journey. I'd actually love an option to play the game that way, like how Beyond: 2 Souls eventually did.

@WhyUSoObessedWithMe while I agree Bella isn't outstanding in the role, I'd argue your grievances are more with the writers and directors than with her. It's not her fault that's the material she's been given to portray.

I'd be surprised if OD makes it out this gen as well. I think it will be DS2 on PS5, OD a cross-gen release on neXbox launch on '27, then Physint as a early-mid PS6 title on '30.

Do we know what engine they're using for OD? It would be interesting to see Kojima "port" Decima to Xbox or if Sony would even let him.

@PlatinumMikey I actually did, it's tedious and I got it inside the True Ending dungeon (by that point I felt certain I'd missed it), you just have to be compulsive about scanning enemies almost every fight.
I'm very bad at remembering type weaknesses so I was naturally constantly scanning the same enemies as I went from fight to fight. The only time to stop scanning enemies is when you stop to grind as you'll be focused on killing the same mobs, then scan them 1 more time after you've finished leveling up to get the "weak enemy" lines.

@PlatinumMikey No online trophies, everything you need can be done offline for both games. GR Platinum is fairly straightforward, the biggest challenge is getting Gold on the races, but it's not very hard once you get used to the awkward sliding controls (hold a finger on both bottom corners of the screen and lightly tilt the Vita to control direction). The only race I failed was for 1 of the DLC which don't count towards the Platinum.
For P4G I recommend having a couple of extra save files so you can get multiple endings in 1 run. Only the true ending gets a trophy (tied to the boss), so it's more for enjoyment.

@PlatinumMikey I do adore P4G, GR just hit better for my tastes. That said P4G being the best Vita exclusive is the objective correct answer, unless we only count Vita originals, even though it's not my personal favorite.

The idea of using brand-new Rockstar Australia for the job seems reasonable, they joined very recently seems unlikely they got put on GTA6 duty. Having them work on making GTA4 and RDR2 playable & at their best on current gen seems ideal use of their expertise, plus you get an internal team to work on testing their engine on the NS2 waters without distracting the main dev group.

@PuppetMaster Gravity Rush also didn't do big numbers on the Vita, yet Sony saw the potential for a remaster, which led to a sequel & a movie. While I'm not sure either of them has the same broad appeal GR had (IMO GR was the best Vita exclusive), SS in particular could hit a sweet spot between the Soulsborne and MonHun communities specially with a sequel.

I adore Soul Sacrifice! The grimdark fairy tale aesthetic really popped and that the stories (main & side) were really engaging.
Its biggest issue was that the lore was at odds with the gameplay, as each monster was given a very unique "this 1 specific person became this creature" backstory that seemed at odds with the concept of repeat hunts, in a variety of different missions and settings, for parts.

The hard part about preparing and accounting for USA tariffs is that the percentage, import targets and affected countries change month to month. How do you account from China going up to 150% then back down to 30% in a month, with the possibility of it going back up in a 3 months? It's a constantly moving target

It's an Early Access game, the time when the player base is more likely to give & change reviews as feedback on the current state of the game. This is not the time to be focusing on sales & the drop-off of them, those are 1.0 goals. Just focus on the complaints and the praise, and lock-on what needs changing, what needs adjusting and how to better highlight what works well.

Are they making 100MB blu-ray discs now? Don't see the point of this if they're already paying for the disc.