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Surprisingly no mention of Marathon? It’s arguably the biggest winner of the show, with more views on Youtube than even Spider-Man 2.

This was probably the best announcement of the show for me. Can’t wait to revisit these classics, and trophy support for Metal Gear Solid for the first time I believe.

There was no need to call this a showcase.

They should have just made this a 1-hour State of Play based on indies, third-parties, and VR titles.

Then they could have done a separate 15-20 minute State of Play for Spider-Man 2 and it would have been pretty much the same thing.

When you call your event a PlayStation Showcase, you’re setting expectations for first-party studios to show up in a big way.

What a bummer.

I’m finally going to play Spider-Man by way of the remastered version for PS5. Downloading it as we speak. Never played this before, but with the PlayStation showcase right around the corner and Spider-Man 2 practically a lock to show up, I figured now’s a good time to catch up with the series.

Happy gaming everyone.

Descenders is a PS+ essential title right now. Claim it and it never goes away.

There’s Shadow of the Colossus and then there’s everything else.

@NEStalgia

I’d be curious to know your opinion on the sequel whenever you get around to playing it. Especially if you enjoyed Zero Dawn. It’s not a flawless sequel by any means, but I think it definitely improves on Zero Dawn in many ways, while also having issues of its own.

@MFTWrecks

Do you have certain machines that you have this issue with? I can’t say I shared this same issue or feeling when I was playing the game. And to my eyes, I don’t really see how what you’re describing is a change from Zero Dawn.

In Zero Dawn you also have to shoot off pieces of armor at times in order to expose parts of the machine that can lead to bigger amounts of damage.

For example in both Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, Snapmaws ( the crocodiles) have two elemental canisters on their heads near the shoulders that will explode if hit with a fire arrow. But in order to expose the elemental canister you sometimes have to remove the piece of armor covering them. Similarly in both games, one of the weak points of a Thunderjaw is that orange spot behind the shoulders. If you shoot in that spot it does like triple your normal damage, but before it can be exposed you have to shoot off a piece of armor to get to it.

It’s about learning how the machines differentiate from one another and exploiting their weak points. But I don’t really see how that mechanic changed much from Zero Dawn. There’s just a much greater variety of machines in Forbidden West that you have to figure out.

I personally appreciated the fact that every machine has a unique design to its parts. They all have different detachable sections that can remove some of their attacks in battle and do decent damage. And they pretty much all have elemental weaknesses you can take advantage of as well.

I never felt like I was just chipping away at armor pieces and doing barely any damage, even on my Ultra Hard playthrough.

@MFTWrecks I don’t really get your complaint about the armor pieces on machines. You can highlight every removable piece on a machine with your focus, and even tag the parts if you want to keep them highlighted during the whole combat encounters.

So whether or not you hit the detachable parts, or miss and instead hit their armor, comes down to your ability with aiming.

There’s a ton of different playstyles in Forbidden West depending on how you want to play. I always go for melee up close with a long range bow for sniping. My wife in contrast loves to set traps and tripwires to take things down.

The skill trees in Forbidden West open up the possibilities for a bunch of different styles to approach combat situations.

I’m going to be starting a New Game+ playthrough of The Last of Us: Part II on Grounded difficulty with permadeath by chapter, to try and knock out those two trophies at the same time.

I’m looking forward to the challenge and I’ve heard the AI on that difficulty can make the gunfights pretty intense.

Happy gaming everyone.

I’ve been really enjoying the changes to PS Plus.

The PS+ Extra library has an enormous amount of titles that absolutely dwarfs Gamepass in terms of sheer numbers of titles, which includes many great first-party PlayStation games that you can’t get on rival services such as Spider-Man, Ghost of Tsushima, Returnal, God of War, etc.

There’s also been some great day and date releases as of late like Tchia, Meet Your Maker, and the upcoming Humanity.

Then on Premium tier it’s got those nostalgic classics that are constantly receiving more trophy support.

It’s really starting to blossom into a great all-around service with something for everyone.

I put way more time than I’d care to admit in Horizon: Forbidden West. Just wrapped up 100% completion of the base game and Burning Shores.

I’m honestly really interested to see where the story goes from here with how Forbidden West ended.

Whatever Housemarque makes, I’m there day 1. Consistently a great studio, and Returnal was GotY 2021.

The more the merrier. I did the trophies for Super Stardust Portable about a month back and it was very enjoyable to revisit a classic with trophies.

1. HFW: Burning Shores
2. GrimGrimoire OnceMore
3. Mega Man Battle Network Collection

It’s gonna be a great month!

Looks like a very charming sandbox-y type of experience. I hope to play it eventually. These day 1 releases on PS+ are always nice to get.

First mainline FF title I’m getting since FFX. Can’t wait, it looks amazing.

Sounds awesome. It would be cool if you guys had a list that you updated from time to time that shows every classic game that has trophy support. It’s getting a little hard to keep track of them now and differentiate them from the classics without trophy support.

I think there’s around 9 currently? Not positive on that number though.

Huge news. Alot of people were speculating that it might just be a “VR mode” like GT Sport had, but not the full game.

Having the full game in VR is very exciting stuff.

This is the news I was hoping for. 100% getting PSVR 2 now. GT7 was my most played game of 2022.

I have high hopes for Factions II. Naughty Dog has been working on it for a long time.

Whatever it is, and whatever platform it’s on, I’m there day one.

Ueda is an absolute legend.

In a great year for gaming, the most enjoyment and hours put into a game this year for me is Gran Turismo 7 by far.

No wonder they kept showing those awesome cg trailers for this game, the actual game in those screenshots look so bad by comparison.

Horizon: Call of the Mountain seems to be the standout so far for sure.

No Man’s Sky VR sounds pretty neat though.

I need that GT7 VR news and it’s a guaranteed purchase from me.

Sony first party continues to one-up themselves in a sort of friendly competition. I have to wait until February to play Ragnarok unfortunately but I cannot wait as someone who loved every moment of the 2018 reboot and put 125 hours into it.

“The words ‘f**k’ and ‘sh*t’ are heard in the game.”

Brok’s lines, no doubt 😁

Looks like with the leaked document, this is a PS5 remaster of the game, not a Remake. So it’s probably going to be just like how Ghost of Tsushima received a director’s cut version of the game.

There is a perfectly fine version on PS5 that was given a free update to 60fps, and people can just play that one if they don’t want this remaster.

I think Sony should get some goodwill out of this and charge no more than $20 to upgrade to owners of Zero Dawn already, but we have no idea what this new version is going to add exactly, so it’s all just rumor for now.

A new Horizon online experience does sound interesting though, so I’ll wait to hear more about this.

I’ll be one of those 2 million if I can get one before they sell out.

@Bez87 No it definitely is not needed, I agree. However I don’t agree that Zero Dawn is close to Forbidden West in terms of visuals. I played both pretty much back-to-back and Forbidden West is way more visually advanced and impressive. Maybe if you are playing the PS4 version of Forbidden West you could say it’s not a huge difference, but not so on the PS5.

If Zero Dawn gets parity with Forbidden West, it will at the very least be a big upgrade visually.

I just finally got around to playing and completing the PS4 version of Zero Dawn this year in January, so this would probably be one I wait on a sale for.

But for anyone who still hasn’t played Zero Dawn, having it at parity with Forbidden West for your first experience with it would be pretty awesome.

Looks like everyone is clearing the way for Ragnarok.

Also worth mentioning that Syphon Filter 2 was given full trophy support with a platinum just like the first one, so that’s cool to see.

Do the right thing and make them free updates for people who have the PSVR version in their library.

That really sucks, I was hoping all those PSVR games I got from PS+ would be playable with the new headset, since I’ve still never tried them.

Hopefully at least the standouts from PSVR will be receiving a PSVR2 port.

The Ragnarok trailer was impressive considering what had been shown previously for the game was kind of underwhelming.

It went from looking like a safe sequel (some even went as far as to say it looked like DLC), to looking like an epic adventure that’s going to wrap up the Norse mythology with style.

I’m not surprised that trailer is doing big numbers because even though I was always going to get it, that story trailer was the first time I felt genuinely hyped about what I saw in it.

That God of War: Ragnarok was one of the sickest trailers I've ever seen, so that's an easy choice even though all of the games looked very good. I'm looking forward to alot of them.

One of the most epic trailers of all time.

Clearly a State of Play is not on the level of a PlayStation Showcase or Future of PlayStation event.

But I’m happy to see new stuff announced at least finally.

If I have any time this weekend I’ll be continuing my playthrough of The Last of Us: Part I. It is visually one of the most impressive games so far on the PS5, definitely beats Demon’s Souls to me and is right up there with Horizon II.

Happy gaming everyone.

Holy crap Deathloop to Extra is awesome! Definitely giving that one a go and was not expecting it to be on PS+ already. I was actually planning to buy it eventually.

Heard really good things about Chicory as well.

Great rebound effort on the Premium tier as well after having nothing last month. Hopefully Syphon Filter 2 has trophy support like the first one did.

A day 1 purchase if I ever saw one. GoW 2018 was incredible.

Always wanted to try Toem since I saw trailers of it. Looks like a charming game that reminds me of Tearaway with the camera functionality.

Granblue Fantasy Versus looks like a great fighting game as well. Solid month once again.

Wow, so is this 14.09% stake in addition to the 1.93% stake that Sony had purchased previously in Feb 2021? That would put the total at 16.02%? Or is it 14.09% total.

Either way, very interesting news. Bloodborne II is probably a lock at this point.

I don’t want to watch it, but I’m going to watch it.

Another hint at a possible upcoming PlayStation event, hopefully.

Got it pre-loaded and ready to go. Timer says 2 days and 18 hours remain!

@Blaze215 What actions would those be?

Because this year I see Horizon: Forbidden West released, with TLoU: Remake out in a few days and God of War: Ragnarok out in a couple months.

Last year had Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Returnal.

Year before that had TLoU II, Ghost of Tsushima, Astro’s Playroom, Miles Morales, Demon’s Souls.

Single-player output seems pretty normal so far.

Branching out to mobile and Gaas doesn’t change that if single-player output is maintained at the pace they are going currently.

All I can say is,

whoa…long.

Edit: Stephen beat me to it! Great minds and all that.

Definitely going to pick this up at some point. Looks like a great collection.