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@Stepan let me explain, I'm calling it slop because game started to be very similar, heavily reusing assets, locations, etc.. I understand it's necessary to keep up with yearly production, but it's also in my opinion exactly what undermines their success.

Well that's disappointing... Game actually looked promising and Yakuza series has been turned into Ubisoft-like yearly slop.. hope they get the chance to finish it.

Just finished with Ghost of Yotei, such an amazing game. It's most likely back to Metroid Prime 4 for me, with some GT7 and F1 25 to relax.

She's been talking about her need to learn the business a lot since she got hired. And I am giving her benefit of a doubt, don't get me wrong.
But I do have to wonder: I apply for a storage assistant job at large market and get rejected as I don't have relevant experience. How is it possible there wasn't a qualified leader for Xbox WITH industry experience? WTF?

Yotei might be the best PS5 game in years, so it makes me very happy seeing it have continued success. Hopefully it gives confidence to SuckerPunch to continue with the gameplay core they developed for two Ghost games.

That message was written by Copilot AI, or at least it reads that way to me.. that is sad.

Hehe, Sony just had to try to outstupid le Microsoft and put in their candidate for idiocy of the year.

This might end up finally pushing me over the edge, and back to NES and SNES age of going full offline, second hand, and single player.
Why should I eat the cost of RAMageddon, when I've acted proactively, predicted semiconductor shortage, and did my purchases for next N years upfront? Makes no sense, I'll take my hardware, owned software, and go home, thank you very much.

B*tts have been hurt I see..

Internet these days can explode for anything, and people do feel entitled like never before.. but in this case I feel they are right. Not invested personally, but I did not pick up it was an unlockable bonus and not for the whole campaign.

Maybe not the best one ever, but definitely in recent memory. I'm interested in like 80% of the games shown, that's amazing. I was genuinely grinning watching the show.

No idea where things got connected incorrectly in my brain, but I could swear art design seemed completely different earlier compared to in this last trailer.
Somehow I thought it was a different thing. Anyway, it at least looks more engaging and visually interesting than I thought it was. Not for me, but I'm more optimistic now.

As somebody who loved first two games, I think this one is already on it's way to crash and burn.
It's interesting how a very similar art style worked for PoP, but just feels so generic and soulless here. There was literally nothing in that trailer that triggered any emotion in me whatsoever. Probably worse then if I actively disliked it, I just couldn't be bothered to care.

As I've said elsewhere on site, GoY is a much better game then online chatter would lead you to believe.
In my experience it's basically better in every way compared to GoT. What it does suffer from though is being a sequel to almost perfect game, which means that it itself being almost perfect is to be expected by many people. I feel like that is where lack of chatter and excitement is coming from, quality just being assumed at this point.

Not sure how many are interested, but as somebody who likes a bit of racing here and there, F1 25 is a great game to add to collection.
EA will be skipping a standalone release this year (so your investment will stay relevant for longer) and I feel reviews in general were too harsh. Team rebalanced the whole racing model which to me feels best on average through the whole series (previous favorite was 23 which was a bit tanky, but 24 was just unplayable), and amount of content included is also quite decent (again, these come in waves, one game feels light, sequel feels packed).

@Fiendish-Beaver to be fair budgets, targets, timelines.. are always factors and forever will be. But they are almost never the only drivers, usually not primary, and for the love of all that is holy companies are mostly not as tone-deaf to come out with those motivators as their North Star in PR and marketing materials.

I finally started this game, and damn it's looking good and feeling fun. No idea why it wasn't as loved and appreciated as it seems to deserve to me.
Also, 90% of the time you can hit photo mode and create a post card from game world. Amazing.
Anyway, I'm glad it's seeing commercial success

How, just how. They reset development and then cancelled a REMAKE. It's an existing game you are just recreating in a new engine, how can you mess up so badly??
Ubisoft has been trending downward for a long time, but this takes the cake. Their downfall needs to be studied

If true that is a very strong list. I would be happy even if that was it.

Assuming it's true, not sure why just not call it something else?
As somebody who played 1&2, I got disappointed with the lack of interactivity and will absolutely care less about 3. On the other hand people who adored them most likely don't want more action oriented entry.. it's not like there is a lot of brand value in forcing Hellblade even through reboot..

Amazing and somehow underrated game. I've said it before, if there is one way to add post-release content and dip your toes into live service pool (as a developer), copy what GT7 did. Never have I felt like any additional payment was necessary from me (nor have I ever actually spent any money before Power Pack), but I've been enjoying the game for a few years now, and it's still fresh enough.
However, I'm not sure what Polyphony can do for GT8... over the years they reinvented the series over and over again, so I don't doubt they'll do it again. I just don't see how

Man these comments.. admittedly show closer was a bit of a letdown, but almost everything that came before it was great. Might have been my favorite show in a long time. It's ok not to critique everything!

Wow, good list. I'll at least try 3/3.

Oh, Forkspoken.. just terrible news. Moving on..

Gonna be some accountability inspections going around..

Yes. Beating that before Rockstar pulls it from the service.

Played through Stray on PS Extra. Good game, I'll gladly add it to my permanent PS Plus lib.

It's interesting how Xbox hire-ups always believe proper path forward is not the one they don't have hands dealt for. And it fundamentally switches with every new hand.. just a while back they were also claiming gaming should be accessible to everyone and GP was profitable (as a proof of economically stable affordable model), but here we are.

I absolutely agree with their take, and would even follow up by saying such platform specific hardware features integrated into core gameplay are the reason why Nintendo has been doing well for so long. Hopefully PS6 continues that trend instead of being a more powerful PC.

Sorry to be the bearer of gloom and doom, but I don't think this was done as a new user requested feature or something. Many EU countries have a legal regulation where lowest price in last 30 days HAS to be listed on any offering. So I think Sony is just covering all the basis.. still better then nothing (law does exist for a reason).

@Rich33 Xbox version could not be considered an improvement. And going by those release notes, this will most likely be just porting those changes to PS5. :/

It doesn't seem to be mentioned enough, but Mark Cerny is an absolute legend! I had to rewatch Xbox+AMD video just to refresh my memory and remove bias as much as possible, but damn.. this is how you present new technologies, not by dialing explosive music to 11 and introducing 9000 superlatives into conversation.

I already own AW2 and all DLC, but these are incredible value. Such an amazing game, and each DLC is a different spin on gameplay (when they could all easily be just extra few hours of same).

Might actually run through campaign over the weekend. I never actually pay for CoD but do engage when they get added into services. Unfortunately for Microsoft, I'm not the targeted audience (zero motivation to participate in online shooter).

Dark Pictures Anthology games are good fun, but there is still time to play through them. Episodes are rather short, and assuming you are not targeting ALL potential playthroughs, each can be beat in 7-10 hours.

Anticipation has been high.. and I got myself into a tricky situation where I can't purchase the game as I'm getting it as a birthday gift in a couple of months.
Stay vigilant!

I see Austin Evans, I skip.. (no doubt new revision is cheaper to make, I just can't stand his subjective opinions)

This program is an insult to intelligence. What were they thinking? Acting like buying a pin is some sort of invite only club with a queue..

Housemarque has earned enough of my trust to be hyped about what they do. I'll be tuning in to see what it's all about.
As for the rest, keeping my expectations low, so that everything else is a bonus.

As long as the price increase is limited to US, I'm perfectly fine with this. Apologies to those who are offended by that.

Power mode is not something I would really care about, but controller pairing with multiple devices has been a lifechanger. One of my favorite features, and I believe every new console should have it from the get go.

Wouldn't use one in FF7, but I've gone back to The Messenger lately.. sometimes I feel like I would greatly appreciate a mode like this (not really though)

@Ricky-Spanish if there was any, I honestly don't remember it. When I think back to Hellblade 2, only thing coming back is me walking SLOWLY next to people giving me exposition, and then me walking slightly faster without NPCs in generally straight direction.
And somewhere in there I believe the gun was jumped, as I enjoyed the first game significantly more (I remember most gameplay elements from H1, years ago)

@Nepp67 big difference between DS2 and Hellblade 2. One is a game, the other is a scripted tech demo that can be beaten by holding pressed forward.
Hats off for DS2 though, they really set a new visual benchmark.

@Ricky-Spanish assuming 600k estimate is somewhat correct, you can get a certain feeling (as number 1 and 4 combined) about how much you can expect from 2, 3, and 5.

For those that haven't played it, Psychonauts 2 is one of the best Xbox Studios games and among great 3D platformers in general.

EA UFC 5 was a huge disappointment for me when it got added. I expected something new, but it ended up being just a slightly worse previous entry.
Witcher: Wild hunt and Star Wars are a blast, everyone should try that out while they can. Don't really care about the rest..

Very good month. I do already own a couple of these, but there are still at least three I wanted to try out and Unicorn Overlord has been in my shopping cart for a while.. PS Plus had a few great months.

I've missed the price earlier.. wow! This 3-4 hours tech demo (probably on the same level of interactivity Witcher 4 demo would be if released publicly) costs more than let's say Expedition 33? What a world we live in..
MS really wants Ninja theory to fail

I'm just glad review score was fair. There were so many 8-9/10 when it first released, I was questioning if I actually downloaded the same "game" from Xbox store.
It truly looks good, but it fundamentally fails at being a video game.