Great way to pique the interest of those who loved Astro Bot but who have never experienced Rayman.

The original Rayman was my first ever game. I’m really rooting for this one to succeed. Of all the companies to own these amazing games, it had to be Ubisoft.

The Wolverine situation has suddenly made it very tempting to poo-poo any and all handholding, but it is necessary depending on context. Devs should know what genre they’re in, how demanding the gameplay or navigation will be and tutorialise accordingly and intelligently.

Can’t really fault the developers for making an accommodation based on feedback, but who on Earth pays for a game in order to have the most frictionless, unengaging experience possible? The mind boggles.

Side stepping the laser beam of the GTA Death Star

Game looks like a homunculus of triple A design tropes. Small wonder it’s reviewing middlingly.

Another day, another Capcom banger.

Personally, I’m out if that’s the price. I don’t see a bump in specs meaningfully improving my gaming experience enough to justify the cost. Between this year and next, a lot of PS Studio games are finally dropping for PS5, which probably means we can look forward to another elongated drought of exclusive content to give the PS6 some added value.

My Switch 2 got the lion’s share of my gaming this Summer and if third parties like Capcom and Square continue to see it as a viable platform, I don’t see that changing. With the cost of living being what it is, the opportunity cost of purchasing a PS6 is too much.

I’m really into the slight anthology vibe of these new Silent Hill releases. I like that there are Silent Hills all over the world and the potential for different cultures to shape the traumas found therein.

One last stand before this movement gets sadly obliterated by non-stop big releases from September onward.

Crafty Sony has found a marketing strategy where people can’t leave comments about discs.

Hilariously, this scandal has made it so this game now appears to have the only trailer on Playstation’s YouTube channel that’s not completely overrun with physical media comments.

@johncalmc I vividly remember the vitriol in the pre-MCU days when “some random raccoon” was added to Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

@RudeAnimat0r probably wanted it to coincide with the new Spider-Man movie.

They should print ads on discs as a compromise

Halo: Capitalism Evolved

@ShadowRJ I think announcing the end of discs while trying to actively market the PS6 is how you end up with an Xbox One debacle. People associate the controversy specifically with the new machine and dip en masse. At least this way the blowback gets absorbed by a pretty successful PS5 run.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I’m sorry, were you expecting the PlayStation centric website to not report on PlayStation news?

I think this may eradicate FOMO part of my brain that feels the need to keep up with the industry. I suspect I may enjoy gaming all the more for it.

Yeah, I think we’re losing our grip here a bit. The priorities for Sony’s music division are not the same as their gaming division. Seems music lovers can vote with their wallets, just fine.

Deeply unfortunate situation, but after weeks of rhetoric all over the Internet stoking anger and encouraging players to take a torch to all things PlayStation, what did we think was going to happen?

Seems like Australia’s response to Thank Goodness You’re Here, but with footy

What a way to find out that Doom: The Dark Ages has DLC

Bit mortifying to admit but this whole debacle has forced me to reevaluate gaming as a hobby vs. gaming as an identity. Do I need to be up to date with the industry. The answer is no. Don’t know if I’ll migrate to PC but I certainly have no interest in playing console catch up.

Think they’d sooner lay off a billion people.

At this point, how do you actually salvage the Xbox? I understand these are desperate cost-cutting measures but surely the damage is done? They’ve already ceded a huge amount of the general audience to PlayStation and the more enthusiast crowd only see them as a toxic death sentence to anyone unfortunate enough to work for them.

Nintendo and PC for me if this is the future. Most of my play time on PS5 was with third party games, anyhow.

See you all next month when this flops and Halo Studios is hit with layoffs

It’s actually sad how small PlayStation’s stable of actively worked on properties has gotten. I hoping that Sons of Sparta sets a precedent of working with smaller studios to release smaller games quicker and cheaper.

All aboard the flaming Xbox zeppelin.

@SoonForget unfortunately if anyone tried to make a game like that, they would receive a cease and desist from Nintendo.

Gotta throw my lot in with Pragmata. It’s like comfort food, you know? Familiar but oh so good.

I replayed 16 nearly a year ago to tackle the DLC expansions and yes, oh my god, I forgot how ruthlessly tedious the side quests were. Its world building is some of the best of the series.

Is this the next mainline God of War or is it a spin off? I didn’t get the impression that this was the next proper continuation. More an interesting new lens to explore the mythos that has been established and a way to get another game out of the engine as the PS5 heads into its twilight years.

Anyway, people will deride anything that looks vaguely like a risk and then moan in the same breath about publishers falling back on remakes and remasters. Domino’s Pizza is not your enemy, Santa Monica, but I see the broader frustration as a game dev.

Like Indiana Jones for me last year, it’s not really blowing me away as a video game, but as an interactive adaptation of the source material, they nailed it. It reminds me a bit of Batman Arkham where the devs were handed the license and now they’ve created a version of the mythos that stands with the best of them.

I look forward to throwing my controller when Jules challenges me to mash out a thousand push ups in under a minute.

Wasn’t really feeling it until the tutorial/training montage segment. Bloody genius.

I played it on PS4 and enjoyed it well enough but it was definitely a victim of its own hype. Can’t really look back on it too fondly these days knowing how radioactively toxic its development was for all unfortunate enough to work on it.

What sucks especially is that you can’t even really fault EA for this. There’s usually some sort of controversial corporate mandate that ***** a game over (Dead Space 3) but the remake was everything you could ask it to be. Single player, big budget, marketed decently. It just wasn’t enough. One could posit it came out too early in the gen to get many sales while also excluding last gen (Resident Evil has been cross gen), but who knows.

What a breathtakingly pointless idea if true. This game is timeless, accessible and cheap. Rayman may not have legs but Ubisoft seem determined to kneecap him regardless. Just give the Mario + Rabbids devs the keys to kingdom for God’s sake.

Wouldn’t be a modern Ubisoft release if it didn’t have a caveat the size of Mt Everest.

KH1 is the best one my opinion, because it is just a light romp through Disney worlds tied together by a sill but sweet coming of age story intended to be followed by humans. The incomprehensibility of the sequels is memed on to no end but it actually has to be seen to be believed.

They’ll probably want to shutter another popular studio in order to distract from this.

Glad this whole hype cycle kind of passed me by

I thought the plan was to save Xbox not kill it even more?

@AhmadSumadi the God of War live service game that was foisted on them and then cancelled by Sony.

Layoffs all over the shop.

Another Last of Us edition and a Horizon kart racer ought to smooth this over.

Genuinely have to wonder what the state of video game fandom will be like in the future. How are people supposed to get attached to franchises when half their life comes and goes between releases.

@LifeGirl makes sense. Forever onto the next big thing in order to make content (which is not a criticism, it’s their job).

The arrival of a new machine unavoidably creates a sensation of FOMO. Even with the discipline of knowing not to buy at launch, the worry that your hobby is leaving you behind is there. Given how much this generation has stalled and how expensive everything has become, I completely get why no one wants a new console and count myself among them.