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@get2sammyb okay, name the PS5 exclusives from this gen that are not on anything else including PC.

Demon Souls
Astro Bot
Saros
GT7
Ratchet and Clank
Spider-Man. 2
Returnal
Yotei

My point was, that with just two exclusives, Xbox would have a chunk of what PS5 has had this whole gen. The larger point being that Sony has been dreadful with true exclusives. I say this by the way as someone who has played PlayStation since 1998 but also is honest.

The funny thing is (or sad depending on where you’re at), Xbox will have almost as many console exclusives with E-Day and Clockwork that PS5 has had its whole generation.

This pearl-clutching over AI has gotta calm down.

@Sonofken Oh boy, here we go

Domino’s made a dumb but harmless joke and Santa Monica kinda comes across as being too sensitive. No one really “wins” here.

Yeah, who cares. All the doomsday-ing over AI baffles me. It’s just another tool.

Overall, it was fiiiiiiiiiine.

Wolverine looks dope, the Tomb Raider remake looks fantastic. I’m glad to see ILL pop back up. Still excited for SH Townfall too. Oh and the random revival of the Stuntman games FTW!

Outside of that? Until Dawn 2 did nothing for me, I feel like an actual sequel is a ship that sailed a long time ago, so getting it now does not nearly hit like it should. And GoW Laufey looks fine but also looks like every other third person AAA action game these days. I need to know what about it specifically makes it different or unique to all the others? The IP name?

@andykara2003 uhhhhhhh…..what? Only three first party games were shown and one of them we already knew about.

You can always rely on PushSquare to run damage control

@Yor-sama I do find this just a bit disingenuous. There are absolutely mouth-breathers out there who will not like anything with a female MC, but most “normies” just don’t want to be preached to or messaged at. Go back to the first Horizon or TLOU, no one said boo about anything. Even with the Left Behind DLC, nothing.

It was only when it went from “making stories that happen to have a female main character” to “this is a story where this character is female by God and you’re gonna sit down, take your talking to, and you’re gonna like it.”, that things began to change. Most people, including myself, just want good content. We could care less what is or isn’t between someone’s legs or the shade of their skin.

@Oram77 The protagonist design isn’t even on my radar for why I’m not looking forward to Intergalactic. The supposed story rumors and how it wants to tackle religion is why I was like “nah, I’m good”.

Here is what would get me excited, and I’m going unrealistic without losing my mind:

• Doom (2016) 10th Anniversary Edition (4K/HDR)
• LittleBigPlanet Restitched (a total reboot)
• Silent Hill remake gameplay footage + a Remastered Collection of 1-4
• New IP from Sony Bend
• New IP from Playtonic
• First gameplay from Okami sequel
• New details and gameplay from new Fumito Ueda game
• New Burnout game from EA
• TH Underground 1+2
• FF9 remake revealed
• Intergalactic cancelled and a Jak reboot announced in its place (okay, this is my completely out of my mind prediction but a man can dream)

@EfYI People have been down on Insomniac ever since SM2. It wasn’t bad but just incredibly mediocre.

I realize I’m probably in the minority here but every one of these predictions seem reasonable/realistic and also unbelievably boring. Being a PS fan isn’t very exciting for me personally these days.

@TrollOfWar Weak and feckless male characters would, at least from me, get the same criticism as overly strong female ones do. It’s a two-way street. Again, if evolution, vulnerability, etc are involved then the conversation is different but in today’s post-modern lens, that doesn’t happen.

And now you’re moving into the “it’s just a video game, calm down bro” argument. If that was reality, I’d bite on that. But you and I both know, the creators of games these days don’t see their products as “just video games”. They’re vehicles. They have clear messaging they’re trying to insert and get across. To deny that is either to lie or be genuinely ignorant.

@TrollOfWar I’m gonna blow your mind with this one but…

Men and women are inherently different. They both seek, feel and act differently. They both serve different roles and functions in society, which is a good thing. Men are naturally hunters, fighters, providers. Women are naturally lovers, caretakers, supporters. There’s absolutely flexibility in the joints here, the roles aren’t set in stone and both men and women can drift around in these roles. But Biology is undefeated and these are the roles that we’re predisposed to and have proved successful for millions of years. Modern society finding these natural roles offensive instead of empowering genuinely confuses me. Statistically, studies and data show that the more society rejects these traditional roles, the less happy they actually are.

That point aside, let me go back to the actual discussion here, which is female characterization. I will always motion to Ripley from Alien and Sarah Conner from Terminator. Incredibly strong characters with fantastic development but also not girl bosses. No male pop culture fan alive hates them, yet they’re strong. The reason? They’re vulnerable with flaws yet still become strong and overcome. AKA they’re actually well written characters who happen to be women instead of a neo-liberal post-modern idea of what a “strong female character” should be. Connors in particular finds her strength in being a mother, the most female-empowering thing there is, instead of some sense of trying to out-men other men.

But wait a minute. Reliable journalists and YTubers wrote think pieces and made videos about how things player counts and data like this are weaponized against games like Marathon or Concord.

@wildcat_kickz Fair enough. It’s just hard when, as a consumer of media for last ten years or so where this has been an issue with how female characters have been written, to see certain trends and have that gut reaction.

@wildcat_kickz I have no issues with a strongly written female character. In the first Horizon, Aloy was fantastically written. Same with Ellie in TLOU. I can cite numerous other examples. It’s about creating a character who is allowed to fail, be wrong, grow, etc.

But we also have the “girl boss” tropes that have been prevalent in all levels of entertainment over the last ten years or so and it’s easy to sniff it out. They’re always the strongest, they’re never wrong and maybe worst of all, they’re boring.

@LogicStrikesAgain I never said I hated anything. You can’t hate something you’re apathetic to.

@wildcat_kickz Pretentious looking Sony single player game with a girl boss. But hey, to each their own.

@INeedGoodGraphics I’m genuinely conflicted about ND failing. The last thing I want to see as a person is for a dev to fail because that means people lose their jobs.

However, as a consumer, I think ND should, not fail per se, but definitely get a slap of reality. The absolute ego and hubris that seems to carry them, along with the utter disregard for their former fans, means they deserve the reality they will get with Intergalactic.

I’m in no way saying something as ignorant as the game will bomb, I’ll leave that for the YT content creators, but there is no way it will end up justifying the price investment. It’ll review well with all the people who love ND (aka the journos and internet contrarians) and it’ll be hated by the others, but at the end of the day it’s a new sci-fi action IP from a developer that is polarizing at best. It will in no way recoup the obviously massive cost of development.

Because no one cares. Most people saw the trailer, said “here we go again”, read the story leaks, said “here we go again” and moved on. Stop trying to make “fetch” happen, it’s never gonna happen.

Just go read the Blood, Sweat, Pixels chapter on this.

I just think it looks pretentious. Felt the same way with The Artful Escaoe. Tried it for about 5 minutes and the cringe from the “artsy”-ness of it made me nope-out.

Getting same vibe from this.

@Vaako007 Correct. But who is more entitled these days than gamers?

@PuppetMaster actually Druckmann himself has said Straley was his “filter” in various interviews. For example, the original concept for TLOU was a revenge story with Tess chasing Joel across the country for a year but Straley pushed back, claiming it was unrealistic. Then, with no Straley around in the TLOU2, that concept came back.

Also, read the Uncharted 4 chapter in Blood, Sweat and Pixels. I’m in no way a Jason Schrierer fan but the book is definitely illuminating.

@Spedfrom there’s a lid for every bowl I suppose

@PuppetMaster he also had filters with Straley and Hennig so that he couldn’t just do everything he wanted.

It’s a comparison you may not get if you’re not a wrestling fan but, it’s like when WCW hired Vince Russo. The idea was “he’s the guy who ran the attitude era in WWE! He’ll do wonders for us!” and then be produced some of the most rotten TV you’ve ever seen. It’s because he had filters in WWF but got to WCW and did what he wanted.

4 should’ve ended with him having a son that he named Sullivan. Oh well.

Why is this article written with such venom and spite? Just report the news and then go play what you do enjoy. Or don’t. Who cares.

This game was a conflicted one for me. The campaign was fun in how it tried to be a police procedural, and the multiplayer’s cops vs robbers idea was a blast.

On the other hand, the fact that this is the last game Visceral released? Unforgivable.

This has all been a game of "face-tattoo syndrome" and escalation.

First, you have the readily available data that, yes, YouTubers and content creators have used to create their content and celebrate the demise or failure of certain games but also just produce their content/news.

Then, you have other content creators and gaming media folks condemning the use of the data (face-tattoo syndrome), as its being used in "bad faith" (aka not the way they approve it being used) and the escalation begins.

Finally you have the people who began all this creating this website (which yes, is pretty sad and pathetic in all honesty) as a pushback. Then the escalation just goes on and on.

TL:DR: The people creating this site are indeed sad but have every right to project the data and the gaming media is likewise sad by coming across as shills taking cover for the publishers whose data is being reported on. Everyone comes across as sad.

FromSoftware: You either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

There’s been scuttlebutt for years that PlayStation Japan is getting tired of Western PlayStation’s ****. I don’t see how Hulst’s leadership, decisions like this and the reaction don’t add gasoline on that fire.

@dskatter I’ve basically concluded I’m grabbing a Steam Machine once they come out.

Been a PS player since 1998 but I’m legitimately running out of reasons to keep supporting PS. Looks like PS5 may be my last system and the Steam Machine is my future.

Glad to see so many people finally understand what a loon this guy is. I’m glad I figured it out in the mid-late 2000s when he said, and I’m paraphrasing a bit but not much, “the scariest thing to me is the possibility of me and my kids living near conservatives”. The idea that you can’t even fathom existing around others whose ideas are different showed me how thick he was.

Wall-e for PS2 is a low-key banger

Just put 1-3 on PS5. Just do it.

Also what’s with the huge lady with a handicapped leg moving faster than Sonic the Hedgehog?

Literally looks like a game that lives in a world we’re people thought Concord was a success.

@charliecarrot I did not say my opinion on any of that, I simply presented to you the main reasons people gave for not wanting to purchase the game. That’s all.

If people enjoyed it, I’m happy for them. It had a modest budget compared to other 1st party so all it had to do was be was decently successful to make a profit. I think both “sides” of this are sad quite frankly.

The loud internet voices side ended up being, at best, mostly wrong about this game’s “failure”. Also the side of “the chuds were wrong” got a “win” for once and the laughter and gloating just comes across as sad.

The world is not the internet, a lot of people own PS5s, they saw a “cool looking samurai game” and bought it. Very few people bought it to “own the chuds” and very few people didn’t buy it “out of protest”. Most people just either bought it or didn’t because they’re normal people making normal decisions.

Personally, I don’t want to support the lead actress so that’s why I didn’t purchase but that’s just me . I also think continuing Jin’s story would have had more success and it was money left on the table but that’s just speculation on my part.

We are OFK being on this list unironically is wild

@SeaDaVie

You misunderstand me. I am not referring to the Japan side of Playstation being displeased with crunch. I am referring to them being displeased with another botched/disappointing release from one of the Western studios.