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I'm hoping SH2 sells well, the game is amazing and Bloober Team deserves some success for it. Hopefully this could also enable them to make SH1.

I'm about 2/3 into it, and so far, it's a 10 for me. I can't believe how good it is. It will most likely become my favorite survival horror game ever.

Holy *****, yes!!! Finally!

@LiamCroft How's the difficulty of combat and puzzles? I have seen some people say that the game is too easy on normal, that they recommend we play on hard. Can you confirm this?

The first trailers of this remake were really bad and made me worried, I'm really glad that the game is actually good. Already made my pre-order, which is something rare for me.

I'm hopeful for SH, but I'll only buy my game after the reviews are out.

Wait, aren't these high budget games also live-services? So how is online gaming the future if the majority of the games failing are also online?

Fortnite is successful because it's Fortnite, same case of Call of Duty, and Roblox. They are the main online games of our age, nothing will have the same popularity.

Plus, Hogwarts Legacy, Stellar Blade, and Wukong send their regards to Tim.

@AhmadSumadi I mostly agree with you. My problem with the way Sony is approaching this is that they are taking time and work from Naught Dog and Guerrilla that they should be giving to their new single-player games and putting (ineffectively, mind you) on live-service.
Why not have their new multiplayer Studios working on the PS IPs working on live-service while they older Studios remain on single-player?

@Slayer25c What? PlayStation has a good variety of games. The Last of Us is a post-apocalipse drama, God of War is fantasy, Horizon is sci-fi, Demon's Souls is a hardcore souls dark fantasy game, Ghost of Tsushima is a feudal Japan open-world drama, and Ratched and Clank and Astro Bot are family-friendly. Yeah, there's no variety at all.

Great, another Part III single-player game that has been delayed for a live service. Great job, Sony. Naughty Dog wasting millions of dollars, and, more importantly, valuable time, on a live service wasn't enough, apparently.

Is anyone surprised that scalpers took advantage of this?

@LikelySatan AC's very first game had Altair as the protagonist, so the franchise always had some type of diversity. The difference is that AC was interesting back then, I absolutely adore every game until Black Flag. After that, it got boring.
Syndicate was cool, though. I really liked Evie.

Shadows does have something off about. I can't put my finger on it on what it is exactly. I do find it weird that pretty much every mainline game had the protagonist be someone native to the region we play in, Altair in the Middle East, Ezio on Italy, Connor on the US, Evie and Jacob on England, Bayek on Egypt. However, after many years of fans wanting to play as a Japanese samurai assassin, they don't deliver on it. It just feels like they wanted to be controversial.

@nedbvai LOL, right. A 4 year old ps5 not having a price cut, and the Ps5 Pro being almost double the price for a slight improvement sure makes sense. Yeah. Makes sense.

Yeah, I'll keep my original PS5. I'm Brazilian, so if the US price is already absurd, it will be even worse in my country. For me, the improvements shown are just not worth the 200 dollars increase. And that isn't even including the disk drive.

Wow, this is ridiculous. Calling the game small to undercut its success is clearly jealousy resentment from his part. I bet that the game he is making right now, if ever comes out, won't be near as good as Astro Bot.
While good, this is surely the case of Days Gone too, being one of the most irrelevant PlayStation games.
You can tell that this guy is the type that ruins the party when everyone is having a good time.

I'm surprised by the overall scores the game has been getting. I was expecting an average of 8s, but almost all reviews I saw are 9 and above. Excellent surprise, and congratulations to Team Asobi! I'll be getting the game in the near future, for sure.

@Bentleyma I'm sorry, but this GaaS push does affect the people who like single player games. Just look at Naughty Dog, and the years and effort wasted making Factions. If I'm not mistaken, Guerrilla is also making an online Horizon game. So, sadly, this does affect everyone.

@get2sammyb Sony needs to hear this out because they went too fast, too hard on GaaS. If they made one game at a time, while also not forgetting that their audience mostly likes single player games, would have been a much better and effective strategy.
Instead, they went all in, and what was it, 40% of their projects were GaaS, when just a year before that was 0%? Not a good strategy.
This GaaS push will go down as one of the biggest failures of PlayStation, and hopefully they don't spent half or more of their overall budget on this type of project going forward, allocating it to single player games.

Holy ***** I did not expect this. This is truly awful.

@AdamNovice gotta say I agree, Rebirth is my favorite game of this generation so far, absolutely loved it. Hopefully it sells well enough.

@Strikke I did noticed this trend. FFXVI sold millions and some tried to spin this as a failure, which was very odd. It seems like a bias against this franchise, specifically, and don't even get why.

@Contimaloris Santa Monica's next game is a new IP, so yes, they are.

@UltimateOtaku91 interesting info, I had no idea that FF7Rebirth had better numbers than Infinite Wealth, Persona 3 and Grandblue combined. I'm really hoping for a big Rebirth success. This game is special.

@AdamNovice Yeah, I noticed too. It's quite sad to see good games being so harshly critized for no good reason. People talk like these games are the quality of a Suicide Squad or Skull and Bones.

What's up with the hate for Final Fantasy lately? Remake, FF16 and Rebirth are at the very least great. Rebirth specially is incredible.

This is sad, man. I absolutely love Rebirth, by far among my favorite games this generation, so this news is quite concerning.

This is very unfortunate, given how fantastic Rebirth is. I haven't finished yet, but this game will most likely end up being one of my all-time favorite games.

@Ainu20 I'm also hoping that he gets to make TLoU3 as a new IP as his last "big games". After that, I hope he gets to make smaller ones, but remains making games.

Jesus, it shocks me to this day how much mouth foaming hate this guy takes. He's one of the best of the video game industry. Hopefully Druckmann can make one or two big games, and then make smaller ones after that, but remains making games. He's too valuable to lose.

Yeah, I'm not surprised. In fact, this could be good for the industry. A GaaS that is fundamentally flawed and mediocre in its mechanics, game design, and story failed.

This could be the end of Rocksteady, but most of the talent left, so I'm not going to be sad about it. Rocksteady ended a long time ago.

@Logonogo Yeah, people are blowing this out of proportion for sure. I just played FFVIIRemake, and while it still looks wonderful, Rebirth looks even better. The problem with the demo is resolution and blurriness, the textures and overall visual quality has no doubt improved since Remake.

This game looks so interesting and different. I'm definitely going to keep my eye on it.

I do believe that The Last of Us Part III was already in development in 2023, and maybe prior. Neil knows how to market his games, so I think that his statement in the documentary was the beginning of the marketing campaign for the game. I love TLoU, so I will eagerly wait for 3. I'm really up for a new IP being their next game.

Just tell us what some, doesn't have to be all, PS studios are cooking up, their next game for 2024 and 2025. What are the new game of Sucker Punch, Naughty Dog, Santa Monica Studios (Cory's team)?
Their new games have more than 3 years of development by now, it's time we know what they are.

Sadly, I highly doubt that Sony announce any new PS Studio in this new State of Play. This silence from their part is so frustrating that I don't even have much hype from these events anymore. It's surreal that we still have no idea what Sony games will release at the second part of 2024.

@PinderSchloss This narrative doesn't make sense, lol. Since 2009, all ND games were 10/10, so I don't see where their "fall from grace" is.

Also, let's look at how their last few games were in development for:
Uncharted 3: 2 years
The Last of Us: 4 years
Uncharted 4: 3 years
The Last of Us Part II: 4 years

So yeah, I think it is totally possible for their new games to release in 2025 and 2026.

Do you guys think that the Pro will be $499? I hope so, but highly doubt it. I'm a Brazilian, so buying the OG PS5 in 2022 here was already a struggle (the price is double just because of taxes), so I'm dreading if the Pro will be more expensive.

Why do people talk about TLoU Online as if ND was only making this one game? ND explicitly states that they are making more than one single player game. We know for at least a few months that there are multiple teams working on different games, so what's the problem, exactly? Most likely one being TLoU3 and the other one being a new IP.

They are working on both since what, 2020, when TLoU2 shipped? So both could already have 3 years of development, maybe one with a release for 2025 and the other for 2026, so I don't think the panic people are feeling makes sense.

@Jacko11 ND made 4 Uncharted games, and they seem to be done with the IP. I think they will do the same for TLoU, end it with a Part III and move on.

Why do people talk about TLoU Online as if ND was only making this one game? ND explicitly states that they are making more than one single player game. We know for at least a few months that there are multiple teams working on different games, so what's the problem, exactly? Most likely one being TLoU3 and the other one being a new IP.

They are working on both since what, 2020, when TLoU2 shipped? So both could already have 3 years of development, maybe one with a release for 2025 and the other for 2026, so I don't think the panic people are feeling makes sense.

This looks awesome, to be honest.

@Texan_Survivor I'm sorry, but your point of the quality of the PS games is simply absurd, lol. Every single game you pointed out is just as critically acclaimed as the previous one, if not more. I would go even further and say that gameplay-wise, all sequels that you mentioned are arguably superior. Yes, their games are cut-scene heavy and story-driven, but how is that a problem, necessarily? Death Stranding is an awesome, original and unique game, but it's heavy on cut-scenes, and it's fine by me.

• GoW Ragnarök, as another example, has what, five-ish hours of cut-scenes “at worst”? The game is 30-50+ hours in total, so it seems quite fine to me.
• I can't even imagine how someone can say that Sony games don't take creative risks while mentioning Last of Us Part II in the same paragraph. This game has to be the riskiest sequel I have ever seen. So much so that a lot of players despise the game because of it.

Sony has a lot of issues. I despise that they will use 40% of their budget for GaaS, I despise their silence of new releases, their anti-consumer practices and how arrogant they can be overall. And no, I don't give a damn about sales and stuff and kissing the boot of corporations, I'm not a fanatic fanboy. But when it comes to quality, they consistently deliver.