AgentMantis

It's baffling that Sony has even made the low effort to port this to PS5. It was the blandest PS4 exclusive going, literally everything about it was generic. They canned any potential sequel for good reason, they should have just left it to rot like they've (unfairly) done to Bloodborne.

I'm sure it's dozens of players are ecstatic about it

The changes don't benefit the game in any way, the meta "fates" story angle is cringe worthy and they should have never included the edgelord characters from the extended universe.

It'd need a ground up rebuild for me to pull the trigger on it. It's just too outdated, even Skyrim which improved upon pretty much everything feels archaic without mods.

Wrapping up Dragon age Veilguard. Each to their own but I've had an enjoyable time with it.

Netflix? The same company that has seen a downturn in quality in recent years, has raised its prices as subscriptions have plateaued and is $17 billion in debt? I'm sure the CEO has some great advice to dish out

While the game itself could be interesting, the metaverse they are building around it sounds terrible. It's part of a wider project where they want digital storefronts and social media accessible through the game, a live service shooter is up next.

Dragon Age: Veilguard, while it's not perfect but it's far from the car crash it was made out to be.

Dead on arrival

@Throb has it still not been fixed!!! I had to drop it shortly after release as it was basically unplayable for me.

Xbox going back to console exclusives isn't going to happen, a more likely scenario"exclusive to Gamepass". With enough of the industry under its control it can effectively force the service onto playstation.

@Anke it's not the kids, they didn't ask for this. It's the sketchy group that engineered a shady takeover.

@nessisonett while I support workers rights to not being replaced with AI this is not what is going on. Lycoan's VA refused to work for a company, that while not union, is emphatically against AI voice creation in a sympathy strike to a union he ISN'T even a part of. He then took to social media and misrepresented the entire situation. Voice actors across the industry have since come out and praised Sound Cadence as one of the good ones. It's the Bayonetta situation all over again.

Genuinely shocking. I can't see how EA justifies Bioware's existence for much longer

The game allegedly cost $700m to make, what did they spend the money on!?

No doubt he'll get a fat bonus for making the "hard decisions"

I gave it a go as it was free but it's not for me, I just wasn't having any fun with it.

PS+/Gamepass changed the AA sphere, everyone just waits for them to inevitably hit the service

@nessisonett games are now taking 4-5 years to develop, imagine how long it'd take if you had a custom engine to build as well. On top of that new staff need to be brought up to speed on the new engine before they can actually contribute. Modern games are so technically complicated that a common industry engine is a necessity.

3 was the peak of the series for me, hopefully we get the remakes we should have years ago.

Cut content for DLC. It's a cynical bare bones launch.

After 3 or 4 entries it's usually better to walk away, let the team re-energise and try something new before the franchise slides into diminishing returns. As much as I enjoyed the Resistance series Sony made the right call, Insomniac has gone from strength to strength while in comparison just look at how Gears and Halo have struggled since their same gen heydays.

It's the series that pushed me back to playstation after jumping over to the X360. I just didn't like it and it was absolutely huge, I just couldn't see a future for Xbox where it wasn't dominated by sci-fi shooters.

I enjoyed the demo but ubisoft games are subscription fodder. I'll carry on slaying the backlog until it inevitably turns up on ps+.

@DonkeyFantasy That's the little extra spice though. Spencer's grubby grand plan not only failed it forced Xbox to pull a SEGA. He now has to sit through interviews confirming just how badly he mismanaged Xbox.

Metaphor and ZZZ

The non-existent marketing and terrible name don't help. FIFA, CoD and Fortnite and all the other live service titles with booming player bases leave very little left over for anyone else, when you add in the high costs of making a modern game it's little surprise that the AA market is essentially non-viable.

Arise and Scarlet Nexus both suffer from "but wait there's more" insane plotting. The core premise of each game was interesting enough. The mountain of half baked plot twists scuppered the second half of each of them.

@KingPev it had been in development for 10 years, essentially rebooted twice during that time. EA and bioware couldn't really agree on the direction of the game and the franchise as a whole. As development time increased, and following Anthem landing with a thud, Bioware was downsized and lost a lot of it's talent. The series lead writer fled and was then critical of the teams culture and EA's hostility towards the narrative team in general. Many assumed VG, or Dreadwolf as it was called at the time, would end up as vaporware and would bring Bioware down, which the less than stellar sales could still do. While I'm not making any comments on the quality of the game, the fact they even managed to get a title out of the door was an achievement.

The fact anything got released at all is an achievement after it's tortured development.

@Oram77 I think it found it's audience, it's just not a game with massive mainstream appeal.

None of the extended universe stuff for FFVII landed for me, most of it reeked of edgelord. AC was the worst offender, it was straight up shonen anime nonsense.

Who has time? I'm locked into my current live service games and don't have any capacity for anything else

It's estimated 75% of all Xboxes sold this gen are S models. MS can't abandon the majority or their already relatively slim user base.They're hamstrung by weak hardware, no wonder they want to push for the next gen to start early.

I got it for Xmas and started it yesterday.

While good, the story hinges on having played most of Kiryu's games for it to hit home. Kasuga's narrative was a big nothing. Push Square has consistently swung and missed with their end of year lists.

ZZZ and Metaphor

I was gave it a go but without the option to invert the Y axis it's basically unplayable for me. How a game can launch without it is unfathomable.

Zenless takes it for me. I'm not sure how yet another Lego game, even if it's a new IP, is even in contention.

"Plucked from their hands" Black Myth was a slightly above average souls-like with good graphics. Nothing it did was original or really stuck with me after the end credits.

As bad as skibidi toilet is, it's still less jarring in Fortnite than Nikki Minaj was in CoD.

The graphics were never the issue with HFW, it was literally everything else. It was just so dull, making a game about fighting robot dinosaurs so boring takes real skill. Easily my biggest disappointment of this gen.

I have serious doubts that those numbers are accurate.

She looks older and sounds older, more aggressive and world weary. Judging by the trailer the new VA will be great.

The game was utterly broken on launch, launching a season 2 when most of the issues still remain is madness

Everything Geoff fronts is genuinely terrible. A half dozen interesting trailers sandwiched between endless filler and ads.

I'm not sure I can afford another F2P

@RagnarLothbrok it's a license to print money if you land a hit. Genshin's top banner generated $46 million in 3 weeks, it's estimated to have made $6.3 billion over 4 years. Executives who have no real clue to what gamers want see those figures and need to change their underwear.

The base game had zero issues, I'm not really sure how you could improve on it meaningfully. I'm really disliking the current tone that the base ps5 is trash and the pro magically fixes everything.

Overall the voice acting is pretty bad, it was the same story with Dragon's Dogma 2.