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What an insanely loaded week of games

If this game debuted ANY other week of 2026 other than this week, it’d be a quick pre-order. Rough that it got Hades 2 thrusted upon it so late. Nonetheless, the review makes it sound like it’s right up my alley. Plus, it’s a shorter game which is perfect. I don’t need every game to be a 70 hour adventure. I really hope Pragmata sells well. If it doesn’t, Capcom doesn’t have much incentive to not triple down on Resident Evil and Monster Hunter with almost guaranteed huge sales instead of mixing in new IP like Pragmata

Cleared off the next couple days so I can play this. It’s one of my most anticipated games ever. So damn pumped for tomorrow

Playing some Hades runs in anticipation of Hades 2 next week. One of my most anticipated games in years. Bizarre that the pre-orders have yet to open on PlayStation but I guess it really doesn’t matter. I’m there Day 1 on my PS5 Pro

My dream is a FF7 Remake Part 3 name drop but I don’t think it’s likely. I’m still guessing Part 3 drops in 2028 on Leap Day once again.

Anything Sony 1st Party that’s a surprise would be nice. The Santa Monica Studios game rumored to be a spin off of GoW would be awesome to have a teaser. Gameplay of InterGalatic and Wolverine would be wicked.

Don’t really know what surprises Sony could really have but I’m here for it.

Damn it, this convinced me to add the Phantom Liberty DLC to my queue. Tbh, I bought it ages ago with plans to play it on my PS5 Pro but got busy. It looks so damn good. I’ve platinum’ed the game on PS5 and adored it.

The ‘Peralez’ quest line is one of my favorite side questlines in all of gaming. It literal gave me the sp00ks for weeks when V gets the static call with someone telling V something like ‘nothing will change’. I never get spooked but holy damn, Cyberpunk landed that questline magnificently. I REALLY, REALLY hope the sequel expands on that quest’s themes because it’s actually very well-thought out to a personal level with the paranoia.

For Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5, I heard a lot changed from the launch/early on version to now… like a drastic amount.

For people who played before Update 2.0 and then played after: is the changes too drastic to pick up right again? I haven’t played once since Update 2.0. I’m assuming all my skill/upgrades/etc. (can’t remember what it’s called) has been reset. Any thoughts on it would be wicked!

@get2sammyb yeah, that’s rough. I might just play the Phantom Liberty DLC with the update but I feel like jumping into that with years off plus the 2.0 update might make my time more frustrating trying to figure out what’s different and what not. Still might give it a go soon on my Pro

@MrPeanutbutterz heaven forbid that I don’t want to replay a 100+ hour game without the extra incentive/challenge when I have tons of heavy hitters left in my backlog like Clair Obscur, Death Stranding 2, FF7 Rebirth on Hard Mode, etc. I’ll replay it eventually when it gets a PS6 edition. But my complaint is valid because they did it for Witcher 3.

Still wish they gave us a new trophy list/stack for the 2.0 update. I platinum’ed Cyberpunk 2077 pre-2.0 and want to play it to 100% again with all the major updates on my PS5 Pro. But I’m a sucker for trophies. It wouldn’t have been that hard for them to have made the ultimate edition have a new list like the Witcher 3’s Complete Edition/GotY had. But I’ve noticed a lot of games that have had regional stacks on the PS4 (FF7 Remake, Hades, Persona 5 Royal) do not have similar stacks on the PS5. Seems like easy money left on the table that some trophy hunters will easily bite at.

KH would be vastly better without the gummi ship. I’ve never once enjoyed any segment with it.

@HerlockSholmes will do, my good man! Just started 2–4 😎🧐😎

I’m playing The Great Ace Attorney 2. I’m at what I presume will be the final cross examination of Case 3. If it nails down Case 4 & 5, it’ll probably overtake AA3 as my favorite AA game. I’m hoping to finish this game before Hades 2 takes over my gaming life

I feel like I’ll love this game but I didn’t 100% click with Returnal despite it being a fantastic game. It looks like a Black Friday game for me… if they actually do good sales this time around

@HerlockSholmes damn, I cannot wait for this then. Usually I take breaks in-between Ace Attorney games but I loved Great Ace Attorney a ton. I’m hoping there’s more jury summations because that may be my favorite gameplay mechanic in all of Ace Attorney.

I’ll be all caught up after this one. Playing through AA1 through AA6, Investigations and Great Ace Attorney Chronicles for the first time has been a phenomenal experience.

@HerlockSholmes I just finished Great Ace Attorney 1. I’m heading onto the second game tonight and have to give props to your username. Best detective around 😎🧐

Sorry Pragmata, Hades 2 just stole away all of my time coming up

As someone who only got into Resident Evil in his late 20’s, I can see why it’s so successful and beloved. Capcom truly loves these games, the characters and the series as a whole. I’ve only played RE2 Remake, RE3 Remake (I double platinum’ed this one), RE4 Remake, RE7 and RE8 (I haven’t gotten through it. It’s not really the best RE game IMO), I can’t say I’m an expert or anything. But they’re usually such quality games with amazing replayability. You’re almost always getting your money’s worth when buying an RE game and that is a huge selling point.

I’m tempted to preorder just to support it. I don’t know if I’m gonna get to it immediately but it looks awesome. Capcom can easily just go back to pumping out Resident Evil & Monster Hunter so I hope Pragmata succeeds

Imagine the sex mini-game having a trophy like the jump roping in FFIX.

“Babe, I promise I’m only having sex for the trophy… Yes, I know it’s been five hours… I swear I’m close… no, not like that damn it”.

For people who have played/are playing it, do you need to play RE8 for any real background information? I’ve gotten through the lake area in RE8 and said enough is enough. It became a slog so I dropped it. I’ve played and loved RE2, RE3, RE4 and RE7. RE8 just did not click with me

About to finish Yakuza Kiwami 3’s main game trophies. I wasn’t really thrilled with the remake. Was the original rough to play? Absolutely. But it’s clear that RGG wants to retcon a lot of characters’ fates. News flash: don’t kill off characters that you think could be fun/useful down the line. Only kill them off if you need to, it makes sense and you see no real future for them in the franchise. Leaving a character’s fate ambiguous is fine or lock ‘em up. Like RGG fumbled so damn hard killing off a great villain in the early games who could still be VERY relevant to this day. But no, let’s ass pull ***** here.

Overall, it’s a nice little remake. Onto playing Dark Ties hoping that changes my mind a bit.

Yep, knew people would vote abysmal just because of the controversy. It’s nowhere close to being abysmal. Is it perfect? No. Yakuza 3 was never perfect. But abysmal? Not even close.

I’m struggling to know if this game is for me or not. I loved RE2/RE3/RE4/RE7. But RE8? I just can’t complete it and not because it’s hard. It’s not. It just bores me.

I have to wait for reviews to know if it’s mandatory/highly recommended story-wise to play RE8 before this one because RE8 let me down big time.

Just started Yakuza Kiwami 3. The graphics aren’t great but I’m enjoying it. Combat retains enough of the original without being “slam your head” annoying

I’m also slowly playing Baldur’s Gate 3. Still on Act 1 but I finished the Goblin Camp, Grove, Ethel, and Blighted Village stuff so far. I’m working through the UnderDark area ATM

Just bizarre. Whoever decided Bluepoint should go full live service should’ve been fired whether it’s the studio head and/or some PS bigwig. But just dismantling the whole studio is bizarre. They’ve botched a lot of IPs/studios this generation.

They should’ve designated Bluepoint Studios as the remake/remaster studio with a revolving door of teams that may or may not go on to make their own studios under Sony’s umbrella or given Bluepoint the green light on its own IP.

Sony really dropped the ball with the cash cow chase. A chase isn’t just won by the fastest; if you can’t hold your own and stay steady against the competition trying to trip you up, you will never win.

You can be an RPG without being as in-depth as Baldur’s Gate 3 nor Witcher 3/Cyberpunk.

I’ve been playing my first ever playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 which is phenomenal. I can see why it’s a 10/10 game almost everywhere as I think it may end up in my Top 5. I’m currently in Act 1 through the Goblin Camp and just entered the Underdark (I cannot exactly remember if that’s the name). The amount of directions the game can take is astonishing… and overwhelming at first. I never had that issue with Witcher/Cyberpunk which are much more straightforward IMO.

All of that being said, I think it’s good that Crimson Desert devs are setting the expectations rather than letting it run rampant (although I haven’t followed every word they’ve said). If they misled people into thinking it’s on Baldur’s Gate 3’s scale for player freedom and wasn’t… there would be an “Internet Mob” uproar

Once the “Internet” decides it hates something, it’s mob mentality. Tons will jump on it and bash it to look cool/fit in/stress relieve themselves.

Now, I’ve never played it because I don’t play games that focus mostly on multiplayer. I’m not even saying it’s great or even good. I’m saying that once the Internet declares that a game is trash, it’s really hard to rebound IMO.

I have no attachment to the original trilogy combat because… my dad rented it for us boys at BlockBuster but I rage quit as a kid during the first fight. I never played it again. I LOVED God of War (2018) and God of War Ragnarok. I’m fine with whatever direction they decide

I preordered the first game and thought it looked beautiful… but the combat and exploration felt stiff and awkward. I’ll have to wait for reviews on this.

I have faith whatever game Cory Barlog makes will at least be extremely quality and fun to play. Honestly, I’m excited to finally play GoW Trilogy even if it seems like a year or two at minimum away. I tried to stream it via PS+ but my internet is trash.

You’d be lying if you said this wasn’t at minimum okay. To me, it was excellent. One of the best State of Plays by Sony maybe ever. Proof that Sony shouldn’t force these. They should just put them together when they know they have banger content

@Czar_Khastik appreciate the offer my brotha but I don’t use Steam. Much love 💙💙 I’m purely a PS gamer tbh. I’m glad you’re getting the Steelbook though my man. And I hope you enjoy Dark Ties 😎😎

Well deserved!! I am in the minority who want P to be the main character in the sequel. Most want Dorothy which I cannot blame. I’d rather P be the “tin man” and expand his journey tbh

@fenlix this is great to know! I’m excited to try this down the line

So is it basically “Alternate Universe” Yakuza timeline? Maybe Stranger than Heaven plays into this a little bit if it is? Or is it basically just a reimagining? I’m just confused on where this is going. I’m extremely disappointed that they won’t be doing Yakuza 4 any time soon. But I 100% expect them to work on it eventually.

They probably want to get a couple more Ichiban games out first. Because at this rate, Ichiban will be 90 years old by the time he reaches his 6th game

All I want is a Hades II announcement because I know none of my other mainstays (Persona/Atlus, Yakuza, Final Fantasy, Paw Patro— I mean any FromSoft souls-esque title/Bloodborne, Lies of P 2, etc) have a shot in hades of having a major announcement. Maybe the exception is FromSoftware but I doubt it ATM

Yesterday, I finished up playing Lies of P again. I did a NG run on the PS4 version for trophies then played the DLC for the first time on NG+ on my PS5 save file. I absolutely loved the DLC. I don’t normally play DLC unless it’s one of my mainstay games, but I dived into this one. No regrets. I need Lies of P 2 ASAP.

Probably going to slowly continue my replay of Yakuza 0 on the PS5. It’s one of the best Kiryu games IMO. I’m immensely disappointed Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties shares a trophy list. Because of that, I’m going to hold off on buying it. I would’ve bought it Day 1 to play Mine’s Gaiden game easy.

Damn, I need to get a refund after all these years for my Netflix Station 3… I mean PlayStation 3

This is easily one of the biggest “wait for reviews” games in years for me. The result range is immense

@Czar_Khastik it always comes down to the universal, internal and world-view defining debate: slim vs thicc (PS5 Pro)

I still need to play Silent Hill 2 but I heard it wasn’t optimized great for the Pro. Silent Hill F is on my list as well.

Although, I need to slog through RE 8 for RE9 to be reunited with the homie Leon. It just feels like RE8 was a downgrade from RE 2, RE 3, RE 4 and RE 7 (the only ones I’ve played so far) excluding the Lady Dimitrescu section. Tbh, the game should’ve been focused on her from what I’ve played

Issue with this is less reviewers would be open to being 100% honest because of the threat of backlash if they harshly review the wrong game.

If they pull it off, it sounds awesome. But it’s a huge “wait and see for reviews” title instead of an automatic Day 1 purchase.

It’s hard not to feel bad for her. I would’ve been gutted too. God bless! Hopefully she gets more and better opportunities soon 😎😎

No clue who NateTheHate is but the user name is cringe.

Anyways, I’d love a State of Play in February so I hope he’s right

This might be one of the wildest bugs I’ve ever heard of

@johncalmc literally commented this without seeing your comment so my bad! 😂😭😂 I really hope it’s separate. Mainline Yakuza games can be a grind. I don’t mind platinuming Dark Ties because it’ll probably be like the original Gaiden’s length

All I want to know is if Dark Ties has its own separate platinum. I’m begging it to be separate 😭😭😭 If the grind is too much in Yakuza Kiwami 3, I still want to platinum Mine’s game

Infinite Wealth is so damn good. Can’t get enough of my boy Ichiban