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So happy this is shaping up to be great. Obviously reviews will be the thing to seal the deal for me but I’m excited to get behind a big, ambitious and original new title.

Very excited for this one. Expedition 33, Indy and Doom back to back to back, good grief.

I feel like a lot of the accolades heaped on the Souls game come with hindsight. They are excellent games that altered how we talk about the medium, but if I was an exec during the height of Call of Duty, Halo and Uncharted and you showed me Demon’s Souls, I’d also probably be like “wtf is this”.

Doesn’t help that the marquee announcements get leaked like clockwork. No doubt in my mind that Metal Gear Solid 3’s release date was meant to turn heads but people just mindlessly gobbled the headline 2 days beforehand and said next, causing the actually curated reveal to lose all impact. On what planet does the imminent return of Metal Gear Solid elicit shrugged shoulders?

If I was a dev, I would seriously hate to have my game broadcast on one of these things, only for the Internet to call it ***** because Sony hasn’t made a new Killzone in a while.

Psychonauts 2 looks very tasty

Indiana Jones? 👉👈 Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2 release dates would also be most welcome. Lots to look forward irregardless. Feels like after stalling initially, the floodgates are finally opening for this gen.

Usually a month with said RPG being the only game in rotation. I don’t like juggling multiple titles and dividing my attention.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth took me all summer but I was going for the platinum trophy which really skews the playtime (don’t go for the platinum trophy). Cyberpunk took me all of December and that’s factoring in time off for Christmas to really get stuck in.

Oh, for ***** sake lol

Finally got around to playing it throughout January. My first Silent Hill and I loved it. The original is held aloft as a sacred cow so remaking it was no easy feat. Bloober Team did an excellent job preserving Team Silent’s secret sauce, modernising the recipe where necessary and putting their own stamp on it. The success is well earned and hopefully bodes well for Silent Hill and other Konami IP. Enemy variety could have been greater but I’ll live.

@nomither6 Please tell me you did not just insult Terry Bogard from Super Smash Bros!

Joking please nobody kill me. The SNK characters are clearly a labour of love for the SF6 team. I think they would be less polarising if they arrived late in the game’s lifespan and not while players are anxious for SF characters to return in what are smaller content seasons compared to less time.

Been very much looking forward to this. Between this and Doom, I have much to look forward to.

I’ve heard nothing but good things. However, one has to wonder what the long term plan is at Ubisoft. Games don’t just appear out of thin air. What was the point of Skull of Bones (bad as it was) if another, more popular Ubisoft pirate sim was going to come along and steal its thunder?

Game dev has gotten slower and more expensive. It was frustrating to see Sony overly push the live service stuff when it was unclear what their studios were actually making. Insomniac, Asobi, Santa Monica and Guerrilla have now brought the goods and we now know what Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch are cooking. Sony clearly hasn’t abandoned their bread and butter. Concord was a high profile dud but there are enough successes elsewhere to suggest there’s room for more than one kind of game.

Game dev seems like the most problematic, stressful and miserable profession there is. I don’t know why anyone does it.

Microsoft is already in the PC space with Windows so I think it makes sense they would use that platform to supplement their gaming business. Nintendo can manage on their own, I reckon. Sony remains to be seen if development costs continue to rise.

Capcom feels like the only AAA company that doesn’t have a miasma of instability surrounding it.

Wasn’t it confirmed a while ago that MediEvil is getting some sort of adaptation from PlayStation Productions? I could see that prompting a new game to tie in with it, same with Twisted Metal.

The fact that 2015 was a decade ago is actually disgusting

I’ve already got Cyberpunk, Zelda, Ace Attorney, Silent Hill and Dragon Quest 3 fattening my backlog.

Concord was especially fudged in my opinion and its Hindenburg status isn’t necessarily a condemnation of live service games. I do think the amount of them that are being chucked into the world, only to shut down months later is something that needs to be addressed.

@ecurb7 this is exactly it. A lot of these dormant Sony games excelled within a niche or in an era where less than a million copies sold didn’t kneecap a company.

Looking forward to picking this up eventually. Bloober had such an uphill battle with this one and I’m so happy for them that they smashed it.

As someone who is generally resistant to multiplayer focused games, Helldivers 2 made me “get it.”

I like Ben, he seems very enthusiastic and grateful for every project he’s been involved in. Expedition 33 is on my radar partially because of his presence.

Seismic. The PS2 still feels like THE console. Even so, Nintendo is worthy of their spot on the throne.

I take it there’ll be no Wukong cameo in the next Astro game then?

Could also be fatigue. I bought Frontiers, had my Sonic fix so I skipped Superstars. Now I’m back with Generations.

Okami getting a sequel amid a sea of a studio closures and layoffs is nothing short of a mirace.

I snagged it on Black Friday on the back of the friend’s recommendation but was still sceptical because of the bruising launch period.

Was won completely over within the first few hours.

@Matroska to me at least, Indiana Jones is a nostalgic or “old” franchise. Attempts at modern instalments are few and far between and don’t have a fraction of the impact of the 80s ones. Ghostbusters is another one. There are new ones but no one’s going to put those when asked to describe a Ghostbusters movie. Star Wars is as relevant as it ever was.

Was coming here to give some free advertisement to the amazing Lies of P but I can see everyone else has already done that.

The games industry is parodying itself with this one

Agreed. I actually enjoyed the platinum grind for Rebirth but I just platinumed Arkham City there and it was beyond tedious for me. I understand incentivising the players to experience the game in its fullness but making every conceivable ounce of content into a to do list isn’t ideal.

@__jamiie hilariously it’s one of the most captivating games I’ve ever played.

Is it a Dead Rising situation, where the game is the same but the graphical assets have been redone? For 10 quid, that’s quite generous.

So no cameos in Astro Bot then?

On the one hand, Rayman. On the other hand, modern era Ubisoft.

I know it’s a video game, but this a microcosm of the times we live in. Unhinged people unsatisfied with reality and so they try to rewrite it to suit their narrative.

Silent Hill needed a win. Well done, Bloober Team.

It’s been a long day, so here I am getting emotional about a childhood favourite coming to an end.

These anti-woke obsessives will demand a black character be removed from a game while in the same breath cry censorship when a woman character is given a bra. As commenters have already pointed out, there are issues with how Shadows portrays its subject matter, but the conservation has been irrevocably overwhelmed by culture war nonsense.

Square Enix is absolutely the type of company to brand their IP as “iconic” while declining to be part of a big PlayStation hootenanny at the same time their games are underperforming left, right and

I’m going to pass and continue deluding myself that this isn’t a precedent for console pricing going forward. I’m sure it’s cool for tech enthusiasts, but I can’t justify dropping a month’s rent on a PlayStation.

Meanwhile, Nintendo fans are paying a premium to play barebones 3DS remasters on the Switch (looking at you, Luigi’s Mansion).

It seems the old “churn out jank and fix it in post” strategy has finally caught up to them. Ubi’s reputation is such that the genuinely good games they put out suffer.

Dead Space is a huge get.

I’m seeing a lot of philistines here simping for Ghost of Yotei when the Keanu Reeves Sonic DLC is right there.

Jokes aside, I audibly breathed a sigh of relief when I realised the Horizon remaster wasn’t their headline reveal.

Well, I appreciate knowing in advance not to stay up for this

Chernobyl was less of a disaster than Concord

It’s amazing the amount of money you save on games when you actually address your backlog