Bob_Tempura

It feels like the developers are just trolling us at this point.

I love Suda51, but his games always come with expected caveats (namely jank)... It sounds like this needs at least a few patches before it's worth our time though, especially with a £50 price tag. One to consider on a deep sale I guess.

If this had the same art style as the main Horizon games, allowed you to create your own character and play co-op with a Monster Hunter vibe it would have been far more appealing.

Let's face it, no one asked for Horizon re-imagined as a Dauntless imitation, and especially not as a live service hero game. You'd have thought Sony would have learnt people are sick of live service hero games with Concord, and yet here we are again 🤷🏻‍♂️
The crazy thing is, the graphics aren't even bad! It actually looks pretty good for a cartoony art style, but it's so far removed from the other games it's jarring. It almost feels like they're trying to appeal to the younger crowd, but completely missing the mark in all respects, and in doing so putting off their older demographic too.

It looks more like a sequel to Dauntless than it does a new game in the Horizon series.
Not really sure how I feel about it tbh, the graphics look nice, taken on their own, but I'm not sure about the gameplay loop from what they've shown (plus, another hero based game, ugh). As a Horizon fan, this isn't really what I was expecting, nor dare I say, what I wanted.

@PuppetMaster it's free to play and due to release in a few days...there wasn't really any time (or arguably need) for a Beta or demo between TGA and launch. Probably for the best after the response from the reveal.

Can't say this is doing anything for me, but at least it's F2P I guess.

I'm remaining cautiously optimistic for this one. I love the orignal trilogy, despite it really peaking with the first game/parts of the second, but you never know what you're going to get with a Fable title (the whole second act in the third game for example!)...plus we have a new studio developing this title, so everything has a question mark over it.

With that said, it's looking rather nice, and it's great news to see that a) it's not fallen fowl to being cancelled, and b) it's coming to Playstation day and date. If it's Pro enhanced it should be the best place to play too (outside of having a top PC).

Sadly not too surprising to see UbiSoft taking this approach, but it is mind boggling to scrap the Sands of Time remake when it seemed like it was near enough ready to go. I can only assume it was because they couldn't find ways to milk it with micro transactions 🤷🏻‍♂️

Unfortunately this leads on to the larger issue here, namely that UbiSoft are looking for IPs that they can leverage for "sustainable growth".
They make it quite clear with the statement "exceptional AAA games, when successful, have more financial potential than ever" that they're not focusing on what the player base wants, more what they believe will be a financial success, and we already know that UbiSoft have quite the disconnect between what they think gamers want, and what gamers actually want.
In short, it sounds like we're in for a lot more UbiSoft cookie cutter open world "go here, do this" template games.

@Veritas7Ax I suspect you'll probably love Burnout 2, but FYI there's no takedowns, they were introduced in 3... Burnout 2 is straight arcade racing, but my god is it good. I have fond memories of chaining burnouts while staring at the road in the horizon watching for traffic up ahead. When you complete a race still boosting on that very first burnout from the start chefs kiss

It would really make the perfect pairing with Burnout 3 for a remake/remaster compilation as they're the best two games showing both sides of the series. If you do get a chance to play, I hope you enjoy!

Oof, removing co-op sucks. I can see that being a big sticking point for lots of people tbh... Especially if the game itself isn't the greatest / suffers from some of the usual survival game jank. It's much easier to overlook said jank when playing with friends, not so much when you're playing alone.

This game faces so may different problems and issues, but right now it has the massive hurdle of trying to convince people as to why they'd want to play this troubled extraction shooter over the rather excellent ARC Raiders.

I wish Sony would have sucked up the initial cost and made Marathon free to play to give it a fighting chance (or stick it on PS Plus at the very least), but I guess we'll have to wait til March to see what happens.

From what I've played I suspect this is going to score around a 7 from most review sites, and I'm not sure it has enough going for it to keep players interested long term.

In the absence of a new WipEout game this definitely looks interesting. It's crying out for VR functionality though! 🤞🏻

@Veritas7Ax we share a similar dream! Although my ideal "reboot" / remaster / remake scenario would be Burnout 2 & 3. They were arcade racing at its peak.

Unfortunately I found Revenge too easy since they added the traffic checking... It required far more skill when you couldn't just plough through most of the traffic in your travelling direction 🙈

@Silenos agreed. Both my Mrs and I are huge Nioh fans, we played through all the demos and both games, both individually and together and had an amazing time...but even we balked at the pricing for Nioh 3, especially as we'd want the season pass bundle 😓

It's a definite purchase for us, but it's got us considering just waiting a couple of months for a sale. It's not like we don't have anything else to play in the meantime... In fact, we'll probably still be getting stuck into Wo-Long seeing as it's hitting PS Plus Extra.

@CaptainGoodnight my thoughts exactly! This will be amazing in VR (just like 7 was), but if they manage to make the full game playable in VR it'll have the air combat genre covered, while Flight Simulator 2024 will cover the realistic simulator side of things.

Maybe we'll see Aces of Thunder enter the fray too, but I think most of us are firmly in the "I'll believe it when I see it" camp on that one these days.

@SodaPop6548 same with me, and I love the Left 4 Dead games. Back 4 Blood just didn't have the same magic.

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this one. Here's hoping it turns out as a nice surprise! 🤞🏻

10/15, not too bad! Some tricky questions towards the end there!

Lol @ my time though, an extra two mins cuz I had to step away to make sure dinner wasn't burning mid quiz! 😂
(spoiler, dinner is cooking up nicely!).

A pretty safe and predictable list of nominees tbh... E33 was always going to be nominated (and likely win) in a variety of the categories.

I'm kinda surprised to see Ghost of Yōtei pop up considering it's been such a strong year and GoY didn't really bring anything new to the table. I'm not knocking it, but in a year that brought us E33, KCD2, Death Stranding 2, Donkey Kong Bananza and so on, it'd be easy to see Yōtei not making the finalists.

Why can't we vote on the VR category? (boo!)

You might want to edit the text in the article, that reduction is anything but "dramatic".

@rjejr it was complete at launch. Everything added since then has been free bonus content (levels and challenges) added in version updates, not dlc.

While I get you may want a physical copy with everything on the disc, it's highly unlikely they'll release a Game of the Year edition as everything is already avaliable to everyone (with Internet access) for free when the game updates to the current version.

I've been a fan of Lumines since the orignal on the PSP... Can't wait for Lumines Arise, especially to play on the PSVR 2. Tetris Effect and Rez Infinite are epic in VR, so I already know this is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

That sucks. The Just Cause games were over the top mayhem... I always wished they had co-op though, like Mercenaries did. That would have been chefs kiss

It sounds like the current team are (understandably) pretty disheartened after Contraband's cancellation. Hopefully they're able to find the motivation and enthusiasm for a new project, and that this isn't the end of yet another studio.

Nightdive Studios... Just by seeing their name attached to a project you already know it'll be a top tier quality remake or remaster.

If it happens, Sony should absolutely follow suit and remove the pay wall for online play. Hell, in an ideal word we shouldn't be paying for online access anyway!

Besides, Sony can keep the Playstation Plus Extra and Premium tiers for those who want access to the games on offer, with the subscription prices adjusted accordingly of course.

@RoomWithaMoose lol, you're not wrong there about the adverts. If they weren't so cheesy perhaps I'd feel different.

Maybe switch it on its head, this sounds better imo: "Everything plays XBox...so everyone can play XBox"... Follow it with something like "your games, your way". It'd fit in nicely with the "everybody's got choices" ad doing the rounds atm too.

@LunarRabbit that comment was actually very clever, I'm not gonna search for it to quote verbatim, but Phil diplomatically stated "only 4 games to announce... at this time". That's the part people overlooked. That whole interview was damage control to stop XBox gamers panicking, but you could read between the lines, more were coming, to be announced later...namely once the dust had settled 😉

"We’re going to be everywhere, on every platform. We want to make sure, whether it's consoles, whether it’s the PC, whether it’s mobile, whether it’s cloud gaming, or the TV, so we just want to make sure the games are being enjoyed by gamers everywhere.”

And there it is, the truth behind the whole "everything is an XBox" nonsense they've been trying to get their consumers to buy into. They should have gone with something more along the lines of "you can play our games here (phone), here (handheld), here (PC / laptop)...and everything XBox first party is included in Game Pass" etc. It would have made much more sense, been clearer for the casual consumers, and more to the point, honest.
There's nothing bad with what they're doing, in the sense they're pursuing the publisher angle and want everyone to be able to play their games on their chosen platform, but the "everything is an XBox" marketing push is so cringe inducing.

Nah, been there, done that, read the books yada yada. It was a great game 24 years ago (minus that damn Library level!), but much like Gears of War it's showing its age now.
Also much like the Gears of War release should have been the Gears Trilogy, this release should have been an updated Master Chief Collection (Halo 2 and 3 are long overdue an upgrade, and Reach is an often overlooked gem).

I'm interested to see what the modern quality of life updates will be though, but other than streamlining the aforementioned Library level, I can't see them changing too much for fear of pissing off the fan base (just look at the backlash over the change in art style for the CE Anniversary Edition remaster!).

In fact, other than the novelty of playing Halo on a Playstation, I'm not really sure who the target audience for this release is (again, much like the second remastered release of Gears of War Reloaded)... Although that's never stopped Sony from knocking out remaster after remake ad nauseum, so perhaps it'll be perfectly at home on Playstation after all.

Well that looks delightfully fun! 🔥🔥

I played the first demo through a bunch of times, it's so much fun and super addictive! But then I've always loved Lumines since it debuted on the PSP. In all my years of gaming, it's the only game I've ever played on the go that ever made me miss my train stop as I was so in the zone 😂

Can't wait for Lumines Arise to get here. Gonna be settling in to my PSVR 2 for that one 😎

"we’re not expecting a Concord-style catastrophe here"

Really? That's exactly what I'm expecting. I'm actually surprised Sony haven't already pulled the plug on this one (and Fairgames) already.

Admittedly Marathon doesn't have the "it's woke!" crowd screaming at it like Concord did, but it's genuinely less interesting as a concept (and from what I played earlier this year). The art style was the biggest thing going for it, but that turned out to be largely ahem "borrowed" from another artist.

Seriously, for anyone interested in an extraction looter shooter, try ARC Raiders instead. I played both earlier this year and ARC Raiders was infinitely better.

Can't say I even knew this spin off site existed.
Looking at the prices (and all excluding VAT too 🤯) it's not that hard to see why it's being closed down 🫠

I've been meaning to revisit Control... Sounds like now could be the time!

Shame, this always looked interesting if nothing else.
I couldn't shake the feeling that the art style made this look like a Dreams project that got fully published though... Not that that's a bad thing, the style just has that floaty Dreams aesthetic.

@Midnyte-Monkey Alan Wake...s up next Tuesday (first Tuesday of the month).

@Flaming_Kaiser I'm 100% here for both! ❤️ After all, if the sticks don't start drifting we'll have longer lasting pads to make the best use of that removable battery... 😎

Bummer. I held some hope that we might actually get the fix while it was in Bloober Team's hands... Konami on the other hand, I doubt they really care (if they did they'd have worked on the fix for Silent Hill 2 as a priority so the optimisation could be present at launch for MGS & Silent Hill F).

What a big ol bag of meh 😓

I'd rather they revised the controller with TMR or Hall Effect sticks tbh, but it's always good to give the customer options.
Now we just have to wait to see what sort of pricing they'll be slapping on this new controller and the battery pack.

Fantastic month what with Alan Wake 2 and Cocoon, and Goat Simulator is quirky enough to play for a laugh. Not something I'd want to buy, but it's entertaining to cause utter mayhem now and again.

I hope this is true! Alan Wake 2 has been on my wishlist since launch (working my way through the backlog), and very nearly picked it up in the last sale for £20 for the Deluxe Edition.

This would be an awesome addition for PS Plus for Halloween 👻

@kmtrain83 100%! Ever since the reveal I thought this looked like "Seth Rogan Simulator" the game. My opinion still stands, especially with the humour they went with.

I'm glad it's not just me 😂