AgentMantis

Any technical problems can be patched, I'm more concerned that the game is essentially busywork with a paper thin plot. Until the reviews drop on Thursday, I'm remaining sceptical.

If CD scores well I'll pick it up, that's a big IF though.

Marathon with my friends and Lost Eidolons on my own.

I bet the smell of their "command centre" would be classified as a bioweapon. What a sad life to lead.

There's a term for continual, unchecked growth: Cancer. Executives will kill this industry.

@MFTWrecks 2m sales compared to 3's 5m. I've not really heard anyone bring it up since launch and even then it was mainly negative.

I buy a decent amount of their games but they've become increasingly anti-consumer in recent years with some really crappy DLC practices.

@agenttrav It's nothing to do with Sony, they were an independent studio that pitched the remake and Sony contracted them for it. They delivered a technical mess, so I'm not sure that "talented" really applies, and off of the back of that they failed to attract any other publishers who were willing to work with them.

@Stepan it's a fundamental mismatch in ethics and values and it likely put a target on their backs.

It's not the first studio Netease has closed and it won't be the last. They are very pro-AI and want to reduce staffing numbers accordingly.

@RoomWithaMoose plenty of people who "played the server slam for five minutes and deleted it" seem to care by how much they need to post that the game is trash.

Any chance you could stop reporting any David Jaffe? The guy is a complete irrelevance to the industry, and also an idiot.

@GamingGod the industry underwent significant change, it's estimated that 85% of all videogame spending is live service. People complain about Sony's approach this gen but it's the market that has changed. I teach post 16 and very few of them play single player games.

The biggest issue is the mediocre writing.

I'm not even considering it until I've seen some reviews, both from a technical perspective and to see if the gameplay comes together.

Any chance we can stop give this industry irrelevance oxygen?

I've no problem with it as long as it's a proper generational leap afterwards and Sony doesn't hold it back by continuing to support the previous gen like it did with the PS5.

I'll ignore the haters and give it a go to make my own mind up.

KFC: The Revenge. That chicken looks so out of place with the rest of the art assets.

It intrigued me which is more than most live service reveals do. I'd happily give a beta a go.

Finish off Rogue trader

90k to 7k in a week, the game is dead

I'm really hoping they pull it all together into a cohesive experience and it's not just a tick list of open world busy work.

The only thing that makes sense is the game was technically a mess. Ubisoft is exploring buyout options so they can't afford the bad publicity, or more likely the hit to the share value, of launching yet another game in a broken state and patching as they go.

Cyberpunk was an excellent game hamstrung by technical issues. Starfield's main problem is it's boring, no amount of technical polish is going to change that. Bethesda has been coasting the fumes of Skyrim for the last 15 years.

@DaPrince Exclusives still sell consoles, no matter how old they are. PS5's sales are still going strong and getting to play Sony exclusives is a large part in that. Porting to Xbox also has very little upside for Sony, it's a smaller market with gamers who don't step outside of Gamepass. The juice simply isn't worth the squeeze. Xbox is porting to PS because they are pretty much dead and buried in the hardware race, they have no choice but to pivot. Rumours of Xbox swirling the drain pretty much killed any X/S momentum, people didn't want to be stuck with a dead format so they didn't buy it. Sony would be mad to introduce that uncertainty into their consumer base, which announcing ports would almost certainly do.

I'm not sold, I'm getting the same vibes as Starfield reveals and marketing.

They were ropey on release, I can't imagine they've aged well at all.

"Hello my name is sega and I like money."

People who are surprised by this move haven't been following Sega's anti-consumer practices for a while.

Sayanora wild hearts can be completed in an afternoon and is absolutely worth you time.

I can't blame them for fleeing Hasbro and returning to their own IP.

Red dead redemption 1

We all know Microsoft's strategy for the franchise is going to be AI.

I'm in the minority but I didn't think E33 was all that good. Great art direction and soundtrack but everything else was pretty mid.

Unfortunately one of the realities of the Chinese game industry is having to keep the government sweet. This isn't the first time HoYo has had to make changes. As the Chinese games scene goes form strength to strength and Saudi Arabia hoovers up any studio willing to take their blood money censorship and pushing political narratives in gaming is going to become more of an issue.

A lot of entitled whining in these comments. CDPR made the stylistic choice for 1st person, they felt it was the best way to experience the work of art they created. Begging for 3rd person modes is just crass.

I was pretty gutted it was so crushingly mid after enjoying the CRPGs.

EA(I), it's in the game

@TrollOfWar probably not. It'd be a lot of work just for no one to buy them. Xbox gamers have been trained that games have no value and to never step outside of Gamepass.

@VanguardKaiser CoDs primary audience is on the PlayStation, though figures are hard to verify previous estimates have been as high as 82%. It's a disaster for MS to lose the Playstation audience as they actually have to pay for the game. The alleged lost $300m in GP sales last year and would have needed 15m new 1 month subscribers to cover the short fall. CoD's addition on attracting new subs was basically negligible.

I not sure why people are shocked, it's exactly on brand for CoD and I doubt 99% of their player base cares.

I want this to be good but they're still obfuscating their revenue model days away from launch. The vague cosmetics, battle passes and some gacha don't cut it, these are standards of F2p and can scale from relatively innocuous to apex predator, they just need to come clean about it all. The poor technical quality, even if its an earlier build, is unexpected, its looked great in preview trailers.

It's EA, hard pass anyway

No. Yet more Xbox deflection for absolutely tanking their own brand.

I played it back in the day and have no interest in revisiting it.

My son has only recently got into games and obviously missed this on Extra so he will be pleased!

@Vaako007 Guerilla has already stated that they were of bored it and have zero interest in returning to the franchise.

That's a name I haven't heard in years. I played the demo on Demo Disc 1 but never got any of them, I'd be interested in giving them a go. The PS1 had some great fighting games, hopefully Tobal no.1 or Star Gladiator will see the light of day once more.

It's amazing that these people still have jobs let alone think they can give advice after overseeing the demise of an entire brand.

While objectively this is a great month, I've already played everything I would want to.