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1. Pikmin 4
2. Street Fighter VI
3. Spider-Man 2
4. Final Fantasy XVI
5. Tears of the Kingdom

I was optimistic at first, but after the major lay offs despite Sony allocating 1 billion in talent retention I lost all faith. There’s a difference between making a multiplayer mode with extra monetization and a live service, and if im Naughty Dog im mad at Sony for trying to make me do the latter.

Resident Evil 4 and Street Fighter 6 were two of the games this year I thought actually would be worth $70, so the fact that they were $60 was nice. It sucks to see it go but I believe Capcom will make it worth.

Yknow what… objectively this might be kinda mid but I honestly really like this lineup. I’ve heard great things about Sable and Power Wash Simulator and seems like good flow state games.

Kinda wish Super Mario RPG would pop off, but I feel like after Mario Wonder we’re no longer gonna see every Nintendo game soar to the top. Everything in the pipeline from now on just looks like smaller games and remasters. Definitely the twilight year. PlayStation really should reveal what’s coming up for 2024 to capitalize on the slower Nintendo year and compete with that honestly pretty decent looking Xbox 2024.

SMT in 2021, Soul Hackers in 2022, Persona 3 and Metaphor in 2024, and Persona 6 in 2025. Barring any potential delays, that seems like a good release cadence.

Media outlet review a platform fighter without taking off points for it simply existing in a genre where Smash bros exists also challenge.

Would you look at that, Alan Wake II didn’t even get into the top 10.

Hmmm maybe you should’ve made a physical edition as well Remedy.

The director of The Maze Runner, the producer of Morbius, and the writer of Jurassic World.

This is gonna be so bad

How much does it feel like a DLC. I know in an interview they said it originally started as one, and with how much MWIII’s campaign has been criticized while also being a DLC expanded to a game, I was wondering if the general quality felt limited as a result.

Idk if I’d call Callisto Protocol great

In a year with so many bangers I just do not understand spending $70 on essentially an expansion of a game that came out a year ago

Nothing for me. All the Alan Wake 2 hype got me lamenting how I didn’t pick up control when it was released for PS+.

@Shad361 every single fighting game removes characters, people just have too high expectations from Smash Ultimate.

This is so weird, especially after the 1 billion for employee retention. There have been reports too that Sony is pivoting from its GaaS focus after backlash from studios. Maybe this is a part of that? Anyways, it’s incredibly bad that short sighted previous leadership decisions is now being the burden of employees, some of which seemed beloved by fans from what I’m seeing on twitter.

How far did Sonic Superstars plummet?

All the games in unreal engine 5 so far have just looked so samey. It just looks like everyone’s trying to turn up the detail with barely any considerations for anything else.

The Spider-Man games have really long legs compared to most first party Sony games, and considering immediate competition with Mario Wonder it’s doing amazingly. Hopefully these amazing sales outclass Sony’s live service push so they go away from it

@Quintumply 0/10 throw this entire game away and liquidate Sony as we speak

Biggest question I have, and is vital to know to know if this is truly GOTY.

Is there haptic feedback when spider sense goes off in combat?

This, plus the lack of a physical release, really makes this seem underbaked by Sega. Don’t expect much

I hate how sonic games nowadays just can’t be great. There’s always a bunch of caveats that hurt a fundamentally good game. They’ve had like 30 years to figure it out, but the most we can get is a great foundation that has non-insignificant issues in its execution. I’m just gonna play Sonic Mania and play Mario Wonder when it comes up.

That’s the nature of this industry now. Everyone’s seeking destructive growth. At this point, there’s no developer or publisher I trust to break into the multiplayer space. It’s also insane that they barely have Sonic Frontiers any proper funding, but they pumped so many resources into this generic attempt at live service.

Imagine if Sony never spent 3.6 billion on Bungie and we actually got this game, but now we probably aren’t cuz it was live servicey enough

Layoffs are just sweeping across the industry. I know they lost a lot of goodwill with developers earlier on in the year(? I think) when they announced NFTs. I know that internet reactions are usually hyperbolic, but with an indie publisher and the amazing goodwill Devolver, Annapurna, and now Bigmode has it makes sense that Team17 would suffer.

Again, this is symptomatic with the larger issue with acquisition happy companies. If one thing fails, it seeps down into all of the things they own. Embracer’s merger failing led to them pulling the plug on things that were struggling that they owned. There’s a world where Volition listened to feedback and made a great modern Saints Row. There’s a world where Embracer finally figured out what to do with KOTOR besides just cancelling it.

@naruball eh depends. Mario Kart just had a $20 DLC. It’s like calling BotW live service cuz it had an expansion pack. Splatoon 3 is closer to the idea as it gets recurrent updates, but it doesn’t have any extra monetization except for 1 DLC pack and both that and Splatoon 2 have had endings to support, not in a “this is a failure and we’re moving ship” way but a “this package is done” way

This year really feels like the year the AAA live service model is crumbling. So many games have been shut down, games are getting cancelled before release. Microsoft’s entry with Halo is suffering. PlayStation’s entries are either in development hell (Factions) or are getting mass disliked (FairGame$). The most successful of the big 3 (Nintendo) doesn’t have an explicit live service and has way lower budget games than the other two. This isn’t sustainable and companies need to realize this.

This is wild

It feels like Jim just got here and he’s already retiring. I don’t know how much some of the more controversial decisions these past couple of years have been were directly a result of him, but I hope the company turns out better from this instead of worse, and I hope he has a good retirement.

I mean these games are either generally mediocre, good but very niche, and decent. It’s fine, but again really not justifying the price increase.

How are you gonna say that they’re controversial and then not elaborate. Is this the only controversy they’ve had or has there been prior incidents?

Makes sense. They definitely want this game to be competitive, but the vast majority of events use PS5s cuz of PC issues. I am a bit worried that because there’s only 3 USB ports it’ll be hard for teams who all use stick to play

Eh, Namco is still probably my least favorite of the big Japanese publishers (not counting Konami). I mean yeah they have good 3D fighters like Tekken and Soul Calibur and they distribute FromSoftware stuff most often, but so many of their anime games (which is like 80% of their modern library) feel so samey or underwhelming. They have so many cool IPs they aren’t using, like cmon is it that hard to crank out a Pac-Man World 4?

Man cmon ArcSys. I was excited for this, even moreso than Tekken. But there’s no way I justify buying a pretty similar looking fighting game sequel when it’s a week away from Persona 3 Reload, and the time I’m finished with that it’ll be Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

It’s so upsetting that the games industry has come to a point where one failure can rank a ship. A Callisto Protocol sequel had potential, but corporate just demands it be cut off already.

The thing I’m concerned about is having to restart without any of your abilities. How are they gonna balance the beginning to where you don’t feel as limited as you did at the beginning of FF7R, but not as OP as to trivialize future progression?

There is no Stellar Blade on PS5

This is really unfortunate. The game doesn’t seem bad, it just released at a very wrong time and with way too little marketing. EA has had a pretty great lineup this year (Dead Space, Wild Hearts, Jedi Survivor, this), so it’s really unfortunate that this positivity is now soured by this to an extent.

Honestly these games aren’t that bad, especially as a JRPG fan. The issue is, however, is that this is the month directly following the price increase. If you want to justify that release, you need bigger and more widely appealing games than NieR Replicant. Again not all that had games, but bad considering the new price.

They were like

Actively trying to pick the worst selection possible

Dude if only this wasn’t launching one day before Persona 3 Reload. Will def pick up eventually though

I know this is a PlayStation site and all that, but I’m so happy to see Pikmin 4 be in the top 10 for a month. It’s always been my favorite Nintendo series, and waiting almost a decade for a new entry for it to become the biggest hit in the series is cathartic.

Embracer saw Microsoft try to acquire Activision and tried to follow them in acquiring a morally corrupt company 💀

@LazyLombax Voice acting was one of the first things showed off in the trailer. It was added to the first game’s release as well.

EVO’s coming up soon and I’m betting on us getting a Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising release date then. Maybe they might hit us with the double.

Nickelodeon All Star Brawl was a good game, I’ll always stand by that. It’s such a shame that everyone just seems to have written off any interest in a sequel. It’s undoubtedly gonna launch with voice acting and items (since they were added post launch), and it’s likely to have crossplay since they were working on it for the original. Give it more quality offline content and then I don’t see why this can’t be an absolute winner.

Man I can’t express how much I miss Fall Guy’s pre-Epic monetization. Crowns are now worthless, kudos even moreso, and you now need to buy a battle pass that locks you into grinding for 100 levels to get the cool crossover skins. I know player count and content pipeline was struggling under Devolver, but I would much rather support them than Epic.

Someone take away literally every anime IP away from Namco except for Dragon Ball FighterZ

Monopolization of an industry just to fuel a content machine is disgusting. Both for Sony and Microsoft, considering how Sony and especially Microsoft aren’t just gaming companies and get the revenue for these acquisitions from other business sources.

But man there’s a lot of things about this event that I don’t like. League of Legends is essentially getting 2 performances with both it and Arcane, it’s essentially acting as advertisement for Starfield, FF16, and now Spider-Man 2, a lot of important gaming franchises with impactful music weren’t included, and a lot of the performances are celebrating non gaming IPs, and they’re even doing their constant celebrity worship with Jack Black performing. This event could be really cool, but Geoff just refuses to celebrate gaming for some reason.