Bionic-Spencer

Honestly I would like it to be the Uncharted Studio again. I loved those games!!

In all honesty, this should have been a really cool single player story driven game first and foremost and then had a bolted on multiplayer like they showed which could have been worked on over time. Imagine if the first Gears of War had been nothing but the multiplayer. It actually was an afterthought that worked really really well, but I don’t think it would have done anywhere near as well if it was just a multiplayer experience . I just find it hard to support something which will end up being live service 5v5 and that’s it.. It’s a shame, because I actually liked the look of the fighting. Gave me Unreal Tournament vibes..

This isn’t even slightly surprising. I am sure that by the end of the year there will be a Starfield announcement, Hellblade 2 will be on the way and (hopefully) games like Forza Horizon and Gears will have been announced. I said it a while back and got shredded, but I genuinely can’t see Microsoft launching too many future Xbox consoles before they are entirely 3rd party.

With the way things are going, Sony should just abandon the PC market entirely, because if they are going to limit who can play their games based entirely on if they can use a PSN account, the hatred that’s going to spew forth onto them is going to severely effect sales. It really is best that they just focus on their own PlayStation consoles and be done with it because this isn’t going to end at all well.

With each financial year, Capcom see more and more what gamers want and each year they release what we all want! It leads to growth and profits and amazing games!! I hope that Devil May Cry 6 is in the early stages of development, Dino Crisis or Onimusha is being considered for remakes and Darkstalkers would be a consideration for a return to the fighting scene. I would be even happier with Capcom than I already am!!

If Sony had bought Ninja Theory back in the day, the marketing for Hellblade 2 would have been absolutely insane by now. 2 weeks out and hardly anything from Xbox is just the norm these days. This is definitely going to be on PlayStation in the not too distant future. As far as Ninja Theory itself goes, co founder Tameem Antoniades left a while ago from the company and with the amount of time and money that Hellblade 2 has cost Microsoft, this is going to have to be a gargantuan hit or these guys days are numbered big time. I just can’t see them making anything that is going to be considered a must have game after Senuas latest adventure!

I haven’t really been buying too many games lately, so I paid up for the premium edition of this game. I have been on it most of the afternoon, it’s been great to play it! I have played this a bit on Xbox and I enjoyed it there too, even though I mostly played by myself, but my main friends core is on PlayStation and there are a few of them getting this aswell, so it should be even more fun that it was the last time I played!

Stay independent!!!!

With sales figures like this, I hope Bethesda and Microsoft see the huge amount of money that would be on the table for when Fallout 5 actually becomes a thing! But by then Microsoft could easily be a fully 3rd party developer. Time will tell.
I haven’t watched the fallout show yet, but I do plan to. However, with the added interest in the series throwing the game into the limelight again, I have Fallout 4 downloaded and ready to play very soon! 😄

If nothing else, Sony can tout itself as having ‘The most powerful console in the world’, but I am still waiting to see what the PS5 can actually do since it’s been held back by the PS4/5 crossover. I think I’ll wait until PS6 for a new console!

Anything that leads to a new God of War game works for me for sure! I hated waiting for the New God of War 2018 after Ascension, so something that perhaps deals with Egyptian mythology will be Kratos’ next venture! I bought into PlayStation with the original God of War, so I definitely can’t have too much of this awesome franchise!! 😀

There is no way that there isn’t more Xbox ‘exclusives’ coming after the numbers that Sea of Thieves preorders are posting right now. It’s a game that I am very much looking forward to playing with friends myself! I would be utterly shocked if Starfield isn’t on, or at least announced for PS5 by the years end! And I do think we will see more and more games making the jump. Hellblade 2 and Forza Horizon 5 would not be too far fetched to expect either at some point. They will likely have Hellblade 2 on Gamepass for a 6 month to a year period before it is announced for PlayStation, but It’s a game a lot of people over here know about and it would do well for sure. Given the fact that PlayStation users buy games more so than what Gamepass allows means that there is nothing going against Microsoft making their games available on Sonys console.

Can’t wait to play this game again! I subscribed to Gamepass for a couple of months to try Starfield and Forza, but ended up playing Sea of thieves and Forza Horizon 4 until the sub expired! 250 Trophies? Bring it on!!

I’ll pass on watching this and simply read the negative reactions to what will likely be a GaaS showcase after it’s done…

The demo was brilliant as expected, so 100% I am going to get it, but not day one as I have too much of a backlog of games that I definitely want to play. I suppose it will be a bit cheaper when I do which is worth it because if I buy it full price at launch, it is going to sit on the shelf for a few months anyway.

@Ergoshotz Personal opinions can differ from person to person and you are entitled to it. Not sure I agree with anything you said however apart from Forspoken, but Sony didn’t make that game. I personally wouldn’t choose any game that Xbox have over any of Sonys first party studio outputs, but that is my personal opinion.

With how much Microsoft lose on every Series X sold, they needed the consumers to offset each loss by buying loads of games. Step in Gamepass to totally ruin that tactic. With Series S causing all manner of headache for developers, trying to get the games that are supposed to be ‘next gen’ to run on the stopgap console, that has got to be a headache that many 3rd party developer would not want to suffer. This is just exactly what I thought would happen. PS5 made 2 consoles with zero difference internally (apart from the drive) and that means anyone releasing a PS5 game doesn’t have to mess around trying to get it to work on lower spec consoles (just look at how difficult it was to get Baldurs Gate 3 onto the Xbox consoles). Nope, by the years end I would imagine Starfield will have been announced for PlayStation, a Gears collection will be making its way to PlayStation and the release date of many a 1st party game to PS5 will get shorter and shorter from Xbox release. Probably a good idea, because if Microsoft hold off releasing their ‘AAA’ games around day and date on PlayStation , most people will see their quality seems to lack in comparison to what Sony throws out.

With how long it is taken to get properly into the PS5 generation, I won’t be buying a PS6 on launch let alone a PS5 Pro. I will wait another generation until I see games that actually make use of the consoles capabilities. So far I don’t think I have played anything that the PS4 couldn’t have handled.

I ain’t really worried about the inclusion of micro transactions. Capcom have been doing it for years. Games like Devil May Cry 4 and 5 allowed the player to purchase Blue Orbs or even Super Characters, something that could be unlocked in game with normal play anyway, but if people are willing to spend money to get it early, then that is entirely up to them. Using the Super Characters didn’t make the S Ranks possible in DMC5, it was simply there to mess around with and get damage boost on all attacks. Granted there is more of a benefit with the micro transactions in Dragons Dogma 2, but if a player doesn’t want to pay a penny more on the game, they are going to miss out on nothing that some playtime will achieve anyway!

I went into the Callisto Protocol with a very open mind very recently and I actually really enjoyed it! Sure, there was a lot about it to allow for comparisons to Dead Space, so I started to think of it as Dead Space 3 and protocol is a hellova lot better than that game was. I definitely would have loved to have seen a sequel!

I am definitely not in the habit of wishing a games company to fail, as this is my main hobby and interest, but the sooner The Final Shape gets released and probably tanks the better. The longer Bungie is allowed control of everything, the less there will be left to salvage if Sony takes control as was rumoured to happen should Bungie fail to meet financial sales targets. Sony will have to spend so much time and money trying to get Bungie back its reputation, it’s going to be a mammoth task. $3.6 Billion or whatever it was that Sony paid is a huge amount of payout for a studio that had basically one franchise so there is no danger that Bungie will close, but there is going to have to be some serious plans in place to turn things around. Most of, if not all of my gaming friends that I met on the original Destiny have given up the idea of playing the new expansion as they know it will be more of the same, so with the probability that a huge amount of people are thinking similarly, I really can’t see Bungie in control of its own ‘Destiny’ by the end of this year.

Sony might as well come out and officially confirm the existence of the console and start building hype about what it can do instead of letting every Twitter (X) ‘expert’ yack on about the specs that they have read themselves and as usual add to it with crazy number! I did read somewhere that this console was going to be pushed as the best place to play the next GTA game, so it will undoubtedly sell well when that game launches, as long as people can afford it. I imagine there will be some sort of package with the PS5 Pro and GTA 6 bundled together.

Lately I feel that the incoming games don’t match the quality of the outgoing games. Hopefully that improves..

@Jamesblob I agree entirely with you, but this is way too sensible for Sony. What would really happen is they would take the money they make and funnel it into more GaaS games and all the people like me and you would not see the single player extravaganzas that we prefer!

I am really glad that this won’t see the light of day. Sony really need to keep their single player franchises as just that, single player! Not everything needs to be made into a live service. I personally prefer single player stories that I can enjoy by myself anyway! It’s good to see that developers can make good games in the live service vain like Helldivers 2 of course, but so many developers are making huge mistakes with their titles, Destiny and Suicide Squad being the top (bottom) two..

I tried it out, you can load up the Final Cut scenes on NG+ and pop the trophy for that instantly. I think insomniac are just scaremongering. They waited ages to release the NG+ option and now people (trophy hunters especially) don’t even have to play through the game before they can secure their 100% in seconds. Perhaps moving forward, developers really should add the NG+ option from release and oversights like this wouldn’t even be a thing.

I don’t think I have read anything so insane in a while. I definitely think WB needs to fail way harder than they just have to show them how gamers want to play games. After seeing Hogwarts perform so well and looking back at how good the Rocksteady Arkham games performed should be all they need to know about where to focus resources moving forward..

If Sony want a remaster to sell well, all they have to do is release Bloodborne with a 60fps update and 4K HDR and it will sell like hotcakes! Not taking anything away from Gravity Rush, but I know what I would spend my money on!! 😄

There hasn’t been any mention of Santa Monica or Sucker Punch. Has these 2 studios been unaffected I wonder?

Maybe Sony should focus more on making franchises that didn’t outsource their budgets to Marvel or the ilk. I can’t see Ghost of Tsushima costing £300 million to make and that sold incredibly well and probably cost a fraction of Spiderman 2s budget. Don’t get me wrong, insomniac did an amazing job with Spiderman, but after the leak from them, they are tied down to a lot of Marvel games that will cost well over a billion to make in total. That definitely worries me. As technology improves, it would be financially harder to make games that used all the capacity of the consoles, the difference from PS4 - 5 is not a massive jump from what we have seen and the console is capable of way more. Nope, I hope both Sony and Microsoft drag this generation out past 7 years and don’t go searching for a technology jump that won’t even be able to be cultured upon, because if the prices to make a new game right now are astronomical (as far as AAA goes) then the next generation will be a complete industry breaker.

I was hoping to play this with friends at launch but after all the trailers, none of them wanted to pay for this. I can only assume that it will be massively reduced or even put into the PlayStation Plus service in the not too distant future, so I will hopefully get it played then.

I won’t be playing Pentiment anytime soon, but I bought it today to support the move by Microsoft putting games on PlayStation. I do honestly feel that Microsoft should have gone with a bigger game today, not saying Pentiment is bad, of course. Also, it was a bit hidden away on the store, I guess Microsoft didn’t want to pay for the advertising? 😅

In all honesty, the only games that I buy from Namco are Tekken or Soul Calibur titles and that really is it. Although Ridge Racer was a popular title on the original PlayStation, I never played it myself and I always preferred Virtua Cop to Time Crisis. There was one game in the Arcades they made that stood out for me though, Prop Cycle! That was amazing fun, but probably not a great fit for the home market! 😂

I would be worried that if Sony acquired Arrowhead that Bungie would somehow get involved with how they are running their game! The sooner the Centre of Excellence gets disbanded the better because I wouldn’t want Bungie anywhere near this game!!

Microsoft “every screen is an Xbox”

Microsoft “we are keeping Gamepass exclusive to Xbox”

So that means everyone has Gamepass too? This is getting weird..,

It’s a new game, by Microsoft’s own logics, helldivers 2 needs to be on PlayStation 5 for about a year (or over 6) before it would be eligible for multiplat.

It’s been a good time to be a fan of fighting games, having Tekken, Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 6 all releasing quite close to each other. Definitely Tekken 8 has been my favourite though!!

If this generation is anything to go by, I won’t be buying a PS6 until a few years into the next generation as I imagine the early ps6 games will be cross gen with PS5! If that’s the case, I would imagine the games to look a lot better than they do right now, because up until now there has hardly been a game that has even slightly pushed the PS5 to any kind of limits.

I personally would not have too many issues with PlayStation Games releasing day on day on the PC. More people that play the games, the better and hopefully it would have a positive effect on finances. I would stick to owning a PlayStation console as long as they are made for my own personal gaming experiences however.

If Sony are expecting nothing groundbreaking to release from their first party studio team over the next year and are worried about a drop off in sales, perhaps it would be a great idea if they were to stop playing their cards so close to their chest and announce which games are in Development as a way to keep interest and expectations high. Officially hearing that things like Ghost of Tsushima 2, a new God of War or the games being developed by Bluepoint and Bend would be great! I also live in the dream that a New Uncharted was in the works! Since the last game was such a huge seller, I definitely find it odd that there hasn’t been anything from that series in this generation. It would be a no brainer for me personally!

Sega released a lot of games on Gamepass. Surely that has to eat into sales numbers? On PlayStation, they had to contend with big games being release around the same time too. All would make it difficult!

The fact that Microsoft are losing $200 on every Series X is bad enough, but the fact that they need to recoup money back on each customer through game sales is even worse, since the Gamepass model is what most people champion on the fact that they don’t need to buy games. So that $200 is starting to look a lot worse. No wonder Microsoft is potentially releasing games on PS5! We buy our games over here! 😅

Going by the recent polls, most people were wanting Gears and Halo, but the games that had the strongest rumours about making their way to PlayStation really didn’t score strongly at all. It really shows that the newer games from Microsoft’s studios don’t really have the punching power of the old titles..

I would definitely be happy to play Gear of War on PlayStation, the original game was probably the main reason why I bought an Xbox 360. Halo is a different thing. I am really not a fan of that series at all, I’ve tried to like it but I just never really enjoyed the games all that much.

I would be in favour of a new Darkstalkers game first and foremost. To remember Capcom used to have a number of beat em up series’ doing the rounds to now only working with street fighter is saddening! Also, a sequel to Bionic Commando would be a dream come true, the one that was released by Grin! I think that game was fantastic and I still play it to this day!! Strider, Onimusha, Dead Rising, Dino crisis, Lost Planet, Final Fight, Ghouls n Ghosts, Un Squadron, everyone of these titles has a place in my heart for sure! I miss them all!

This is good to see that the balances are getting implemented soon. I use Jack 8 online and I don’t think he needs anything done massively to his setup! However, the characters mentioned so far will be very welcoming to see them rebalanced as sometimes it feels impossibly to fight against them, but then again it might also have something to do with the fact that I am really only playing a Tekken game as much as I am right now since 3 released on the original PlayStation! 😅😅

I mentioned this happening on the pure Xbox forums a few months back and I was flamed. Never gonna happen, etc etc. Tomorrow I guess they will get wind of this. I have my popcorn ready!

Been saying it for an age, but Microsoft will be a multiplatform 3rd party developer by the next gen. I don’t think I would play Starfield, but if Forza Horizons ever came onto PlayStation, I’d be all over that!!

100% no interest in this months selection, but I don’t mind a poor month on a personal level as it means I can make a dent in my backlog, so all good!

I guess killing off one of the best characters in a game period made it very difficult to come up with ideas…