AdamNovice

@GeminiX53 Well for one, it's a PC thing so for those like me who only prefer consoles it isn't an option. And 2. It's still too many steps then necessary. I mean why do you think so many wanted Marvel vs Capcom to get rereleased? Because most didn't want to bother with Fightcade, heck most don't even know it exists.

@chatbot Good for you. But the majority don't want to mess about with emulators.

I remember back in the 90s I wanted an X-Men game for my Mega Drive but my mother couldn't find it anywhere. So she got me Captain America and the Avengers instead and I played the hell out of it. In retrospect my mother made a good choice because the X-Men game wasn't good.
And I got much later got Maximum Carnage which was my first Spider-Man game. So to have these come back out of nowhere was a pleasant surprise.

That video game crash of 83 gets so overblown. It was only limited to America while the rest of the industry went about it's business. Things are crap right now but the industry is way too big to be suffering any kind of crash.

There probably putting a lot of devs on FF 7 part 3 right now.

I loved their Deus Ex games. It's so sad what's happened to them.

@HRdepartment While consumers may well take that stance but I'm more talking about what Sony might do if PS6 is going to be that expensive.

@HRdepartment Well what do you suggest?

Someone made a good point the other day that unlike other companies, Epic aren't a publicly traded company who have to keep the share holders happy.
If Epic needed money then maybe Tim Sweeney should have sold more of his shares in the company or at least a reduction in his salary in order to lesser the numbers of those being let go but I doubt he wants that conversation.

@PuppetMaster I would say there's gotta be a decent size because it's an IP that's very combat focused so I think them getting a fighting game after so long will be enticing.

Do anyone think Sony should do some kind of monthly payment scheme for PS6? I think it would entice people to not be so put off by paying it all upfront.

@PuppetMaster Especially with Strive 2.0 and SF6 season 4 will likely start around that time. But I think Avatar has a big enough audience and an attractive price point to find a player base.

I have no doubt that they will have started development of Destiny 3 recently but it'll be a PS6 title.
Frankly Sony needs to start building trust with those who are willing to support there live service games because if they keep cutting support early just because of a combination of low player numbers and/or bad press then how do they expect to build any kind of player base?

@Yor-sama How's an Avatar game supposed to look?

It kinda needed to be at this price because it's sandwiched between two more high profile fighting games in Invincible Vs and Marvel Tokon. I can see it ending up being the so called "purists* choice. But I hope all three find success.

@MrPeanutbutterz I'm hoping they add Lionel Messi, would be pretty funny.

@LowDefAl Me when I'm trying get rid of an annoying fly.

It is all a bit depressing but we need to remember that everything is temporary. Markets fluctuate overtime and I'm sure that one day costs will come down. It's just a question of when.

@Perturbator I'd take something the size of Atomfall like a section of Mega City One with branching quests.

@PuppetMaster Don't remind me mate. I'm still bitter about that. Same with Blade Runner 2049 and Furiosa a Mad Max Saga, great movies that deserved to do so much better.

@PuppetMaster I played Dredd vs Death on PS2, it wasn't great but there things I liked about it such as when an enemy gave up you can handcuff them and the game would generate a sentence for them.

I wish Rebellion would make a new Judge Dredd game.

It'll have to do well to pull me from Zenless Zone Zero, the story for that is really setting up some interesting things in the future.

It was ridiculous how many PC port beggars there were on their tweets yesterday. If more people had actually bought Returnal on PC then maybe they might have gotten Saros.

I still struggle to see how TLOU Factions would have been monetized, games like Destiny and Overwatch can make some outlandish cosmetics but you can't do that with TLOU. All you can make is different backpacks and coats. And for how much it was costing it probably wasn't enough to sustain itself, and that's before it has would began to effect their single player games.

@Th3solution I'd be shocked if Concord cost even half that.

I imagine rental costs for the studios is massively high as well. Something does need to be done, games are taking too long to make and budgets are so high that games just can't fail anymore.
AI could be a solution but not if it generative AI and not if it has economical, environmental and employment costs.

Without knowing what state the game was in, it's impossible to say if would have turned out alright. For all we know the game was a good idea but it needed a long time and a lot of money to get it into a good place.

Why do some assume that every IP has to continue? The great thing that Sony did over the years was allow their studios to move on. And it largely worked, Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Guerilla Games and to a lesser extent Insomniac all moved onto big and more successful IPs.

The Destiny expansions shouldn't be counted because Sony didn't publish them. The criteria should always be what they publish not what they own.

@get2sammyb And Mega Man Soccer.

@get2sammyb I used to play the demo that came with PlayStation magazine a lot.

Bring back Chris Kamara's street soccer from the PS1.

@PuppetMaster It's like with Tokon where they are making changes based on feedback, which I think is great because it will surely make for a better game. But you can end up changing too much that it barely resembles what it was meant to be.

Would be nice if a game is allowed to grow for a change instead of needing to be a huge hit out of the gate.

Remember that scene in the Simpsons where Milhouse's dad gets laid off?
"So after 20 years... that's it? So long and good luck?"
And his boss says "I don't recall saying good luck."
Seems apt to me.

This is why I'm not that bothered by Street Fighter 6 not changing too much because the game was great already. I think what doesn't help is the lying, ahead of season 2 they said they would focus on the defensive side of things then they just made it more aggressive instead.
Now their season 3 trailer said it was going "back to basics" which ended up being more of the same.

It's getting ridiculous now, Dark Outlaw was formed because Sony must have liked the talent enough to take them from Deviation and start again, so what went wrong?
The only logical reason I can think of is that Sony are massively cutting down on live service production. Which no doubt is good news for many but I wish it didn't come at the expense of job losses.

@babybilly Yeah I didn't read through my comment before sending it. What I meant was that it's been heavily rumoured that Firesprite are making a new Until Dawn game. And we had the remake a couple of years ago which many felt was unnecessary but Sony must have wanted to get the IP back in people's minds again because of the movie and most likely Firesprite's game.

I think most of these cancellations were before Firesprite was even bought. In all likelihood they are probably making a new Until Dawn, the remake would have been a weird project to green light if they weren't planning another game.

I don't mind the battle pass for cosmetics but I don't think story stuff should be in there.

It's sad really that the AA publishers are few and far between.

I want them to add Quicksilver and Colossus. That way being paired with Spider-Man and Star Lord they can be the Peter Perfects.

@Hundred_Hand_Slap I suspect that was what they were going for, that sort of ragtag group trope.

You just know that score is annoy certain people lol.

@Spedfrom That's what annoyed me as well. It's what happened with Cyberpunk, they waited till the last minute to show console footage. And we ended up knowing why.

@Deadlyblack In Marvel Rivals her mech has a black version called VE//OM.

@Americansamurai1 I'd only heard of The Champion recently from YouTubers who were theorizing who was going to be in the roster. And he seems a perfect fit to be a boss character because he searches for the toughest fighters.

@SoulsBourne128 It does seem to be a bit of a odd team, the PS Blog said we'll find out how they came together in the story mode.

@get2sammyb It's looking great and with the fan feedback changes as well, it can only get better. Just to go off topic, will you be reviewing Thomas & Friends: Wonders of Sodor? I'm curious to know what you think since you played the Train Sim games.

@Americansamurai1 I'm hoping that Ghost Rider is leading a Midnight Suns team.

Peni wasn't a surprise cos as Sammy said with the anime theme.
What does fascinate me is the giant woman at the beginning of the trailer, she's called the Promotor and she's part of a group called the elders of the universe.
She's a huge deep cut from ArcSys because as far as I can find, she's was only in 4 issues of one comic series called Thor vs Hulk: Champions of the universe.
Her whole plan was to look for worthy fighters for her fellow elder The Champion, so is he the boss character?

That's great news, it starts slow but once you get a few abilities it's actually pretty fun. Sadly there was a lot of criticism for it's art style which I think is down to Sony conditioning people to expect high quality visuals from their games. But for those that have advocated for smaller games, I hope it encourages Sony.
@Frmknst I did and have zero regrets. I believe in putting money where my mouth is and I've long wanted Sony to do both big budget and lower budget games.
On top of that, this game was telling a story I wanted to see.

It's been amusing to see people freaking out over it. Maximilian Dood was having his second crash out of the week after DLSS. I like how Alex plays and is presented in game is awesome, story mode isn't really a factor for me in whether I like a character or not.
Fighting games does character expression arguably better then any genre in gaming, you know everything a character is about through how they move and fight. And that is more effective then arcade endings.

@Northern_munkey The thing is people are bashing because it could negatively affect how games are made going forward.