DonJorginho

I am NOT a hater of Crimson Desert, I adore the game and have over 40 hours in it already.

But this article needs to be updated as not ALL art generated with AI has been removed, for example outside the goldleaf trading tent area where the goblins reside there are AI Generated artworks of goblins on their notice board , and there are other cases online of similar art within letters still being AI Generated.

Pearl Abyss are doing good to correct their mistakes but let’s not let them think the work is done as there’s still a fair amount to get rid of, I even think the patch notes said about how it’s an ongoing effort.

Now back to Crimson Desert I go!

Nuts how a game with "early access cruft" still feels a more complete experience than the £70 Spider-Man 2 which had a $315m budget.

Then again I remember who published that game compared to this and the 6/10 suddenly made sense!

@EfYI I own over 300 games on steam, all paid for, no piracy needed, but thanks for the bad info

As someone who plays a lot these days on PC, and is therefore heavily in the PC gaming space/discussions, there is a very minimal amount of "port begging" going on, and this is just another attempt to generate some clicks and outrage from passers by to drum up engagement in a relatively quiet period for PS news, sad stuff but gotta pay the bills I suppose.

I will be buying Saros on PS5 Pro and am happy to play it on there, but I would be lying if I didn't say I was slightly gutted about not being able to experience the game with the superior control scheme in MNK compared to DualSense, and I say this as someone who has completed Returnal on both PS5 AND PC.

At the end of the day, the hardcore fans on both sides are just as insufferable, and the only sane people are the likes of me who can enjoy gaming on all platforms and don't pledge alliegances to any company, we just simply get to enjoy all the games coming out on all the systems available, and boy is it a sweet life to lead.

The article states how this could change in the future, so this is so obviously a move from Sony to tell customers that PS games will only be on PS, meaning that when the new, likely insanely expensive (in comparison to previous gens) PS6 comes out, Sony can actually have a reason for you to buy the damn thing, because if you don’t, you won’t get to play their games instead of just saying “I’ll wait for the PC ports”

Then once sales are clear for the PS6 and it stabilises I’m sure they’ll come out again with ports, maybe a longer gap after releasing for PS consoles to maintain PS players feel they get their value worth.

I think we need to be nuanced and accept that PC wasn’t all negative for Sony, games like Stellar Blade and Helldivers II were successful largely thanks to major PC adoption rates, and it shows because Sony will still be releasing ports for multiplayer titles and published games like Stellar Blade, but for exclusives like GOW the novelty wore off quick and players just didn’t care too much.

I myself am winning either way, I have my 5080 Gaming PC, my PS5 Pro and my Switch 2, but there will be PC players who weren’t trolls and genuinely loved playing Sony games whilst not wanting to be locked into a console ecosystem which is completely fair, I feel for them, but hopefully this means Sony actually put effort into their first party release strategy and get more games out on time going forward.

I look forward to buying the statue once it's like £40 on ebay.

I am a little bummed it seems SSM are just a GOW developer for the moment as their talent is so far beyond being a one IP dev, just gotta hope sooner or later we see the Cory game being worked on.

This is amazing, I loved Returnal, only thing I ask is we don’t have padding in act 3 when it comes to fetch quests and stuff.

I love the setting, love the protag, don't mind the first person perspective and love a lot of what's been shown, my only worry is a lack of enemy variety and the game potentially being a walking sim, but we will be there!

@MrPeanutbutterz bet you're fun at parties pal.

Thank god.

Says it all how the 2 best episodes in both season were the ones that largely deviated from the game itself (aside from the porch scene at the end of the episode I’m talking about for S2)

Never let Craig Mazin near adaptations again, the guy is just not as talented as Chernobyl made him seem.

Loved Schiff as Odin but if they could possibly upgrade, Mandy was one of the best choices.

Casting has been impeccable so far, just hoping they nail Baldur.

@Colour my friend played it at a booth and said it ran really well and to what he could see was running off a 5060ti but that is around 10% faster than a PS5 Pro so maybe console versions will get settings tuned down like devs hinted at this week.

This is amazing news, keep the ram shortages coming, let’s force Sony and Xbox to actually TRY this generation now.

So glad I got my Switch 2, Pro and PC before all this nonsense started lmao.

#RemoveKagawa

As much as I hate the whole “pay to access your internet” console subs. This is a nice move from Sony.

5 games is a nice thing to give and there’s variation for everyone, I know for a fact that two of those games are great (The Outlast Trials and Neon White - just ignore Neon White’s cringe story/VA)

@The_Wailing_Doom what are you on about man? It came out February 2024, it’s time to be nominated for GOTY has passed.

@Enuo both are liars, hope this helps.

— opens article
— sees Jez Corden as the source
— closes article

With how lacklustre this generation has been for Sony, people who enjoy PlayStation better hope Valve bring some much needed competition, or the future is VERY bleak.

Well that was arguably the worst SoP ever, amazing way to end the stream to basically beg the Japanese customers to buy your console.

I was looking forward to this broadcast too, well there’s always a next time I suppose.

@AdamNovice sure doesn’t feel like it did.

@Frmknst ah yes good old fashioned warfare with closing in circles and constant armour pad spam!

At least this means some of the more COD minded bunny hoppers will go over to their favourite game mode.

Means more time for good ol’ fashioned warfare.

Rest in Peace legend, you were a master of your craft 💙

The past two games were masterpieces so I got insane amounts of faith in the team.

Haters on the game can keep crying, I was raised on the OG through my older sister and still adore these games, both can exist!

I don’t think this game has sold gangbusters, but given the fact it was made on a similar budget to Tsushima, it will still do more than well enough to be a success for Sony.

I’m loving Yotei so far, even if I’m slightly disappointed that (if I’m remembering correctly) only 1 of the big PS5 first party exclusives released so far is of a new IP (2/3 if we count Concord and Destruction All Stars lmao)

I’d rather put the money into upgrading my PC when the 60 series cards come out.

I tried everything possible to make this gen feel special, I bought the PSVR2, the pulse elites, the dualsense edge, I gave a chance to all the “exclusives”, I got the Pro day one, I was there at launch for the original system day one, nothing has helped make this generation feel worth the money put into it.

It’s been a disaster, and if it wasn’t for rising prices being able to give Sony wild profits, they’d be feeling that disappointment too.

Not everything has been squarely at Sony’s feet to blame like tariffs and rising costs for components, but if these things are happening you have to double down on the quality and making sure your customers get their worth for the heightened cost, they didn’t even try.

Almost half of the first team studios were wasted this whole gen working on live service games that were cancelled anyway, barely any new IP was blossomed through either, and the costs every month rise to make PC gaming look affordable, something that you’d have been laughed at for predicting in the PS4 era.

The only game that would make me get a PS6 day one is PHYSINT and that won’t be around till 2030, and by then we could even have full day and date PC releases, I won’t be buying a PS6 day one at this stage, and hopefully enough people do the same where these changes come faster.

If true, this has been the worst ever generation, and I can’t see it getting any better.

I tried to give this gen every chance to deliver, even bought the pro, the psvr 2, the premium headset and controller.

Every step I’ve been disappointed, I’ve bought my gaming pc this year and won’t be looking back until Sony deliver the games I really care about like PHYSINT.

Sword of The Sea was pretty but it never wowed me away like previous Giant Squid titles.

I’d have put something else there.

Love RGG but won’t be supporting this till the sexual harasser and nasty man Kagawa is taken off this project.

They were quick to get rid of Pierre Taki for minor substance possession after a police investigation. But a man found guilty of sexual harassment and someone who compared it to his cousin’s murder of his parents saying as a joke “it makes me look less bad haha” is allowed to work and rebuild his public image.

This game wasn’t needed anyway, but now it definitely isn’t needed, not in this state anyway, I think if you truly believe in free journalism and the right for free speech you should make an article on this as it’s garnered a whole lot more reaction online than half the rumours this site talks about.

We should not set a dangerous precedent for individuals found guilty of insidious crimes to be allowed work in our beloved industry, or any other industry for that matter.

@PuppetMaster thanks for the info man, had no clue Walt Williams was working on this, love that guys work (Spec Ops: The Line), my hype has just increased tenfold.

I think this looks pretty damn good but after the narrative disappointment of Spider-Man 2 I’m not going to wildly ride the hype train.

But am still pretty damn excited, 2026 shaping to be another incredible year for games, hoping this is a huge success for Insomniac.

@Questionable_Duck it won’t be a decade, Kojima started an entire studio from scratch and developed Death Stranding in the space of 4 years.

OD is rumoured to be an anthology of smaller experiences so could be out within the next 2 years, I expect we will see PHYSINT by 2030, 2031 at the very latest.

So that’s still well under a decade, and will be 4 games in the space of 16 years, not a bad feat at all for an independent studio.

It wasn’t a GOTY contender but as a fan of the films I thought it was a good experience that was made with love for the IP.

I ended up getting the platinum around launch and recently picked up the season pass on sale, will be picking up this DLC too before I go and see Fire and Ash on IMAX in cinemas, love this series endlessly, Cameron is one of the greats when it comes to spectacle and pushing technology forward.

Interesting to see what sequels equate to “more of the same” as a detriment and which others do not.

Loving this aside from the VA for Batman, truly the worst version I’ve ever heard in any medium.

Matt Berry as Bane quickly makes up for it though!

@belmont It’s all good man, in all reality this game hasn’t done gangbusters, but early sales figures were promising with it selling 1.3m copies in under a week, but I’ve seen nothing since.

But given the first game was divisive and it’s coming out on a smaller player base than the first game did, that was to be expected.

@belmont Spider-Man 2 and Stellar Blade have trials too, guess they didn’t sell well!

@Anya-chan very true lmao

@Anya-chan If there was a game I had no interest in at all, I personally wouldn’t be one of the first to comment on an article surrounding said game, why waste my precious time on something I don’t care for?

Maybe others are different or simply have more free time, more power to them if that’s how they choose to enjoy things.

Will be picking this up when it goes on sale to play with the boys for sure, already stacked my backlog up so need to clear a few more first.

@TruestoryYep Yet you’re one of the first three people on the site to comment on the game you’re not interested about.

A game that didn’t deserve 95% of the hate it got, for the 5% of people who purchased the game were rightfully unhappy over how the game released without some obvious QoL features in the “polished” game they purchased, this game got caught in the middle of culture war nonsense, people fed up with the Star Wars IP and those who were tired of Ubisoft games but still had to make hating them their entire personality.

Just was the worst possible time for the game to release. It’s not a masterpiece by any means but it’s got some really cool stuff going for it where it actively differentiates itself from other Ubisoft open world titles in interesting ways, with the free updates that added stuff that should’ve been in the game day one, and the cool albeit shortish DLCs it’s become quite a nice package, one I’d definitely recommend picking up on sale down the line knowing how Ubi titles free fall in price.

Will say despite the technical state of the game and a lot of middling reviews, the player charts on Steam are pretty damn good so far, so it must’ve sold well, hopefully that motivates the studio to iron out these issues quicker and not repeat these mistakes in the future.

@Deadlyblack I’m glad you’re not running into issues (I know the feeling when I’ve played some “buggy” releases at launch without facing issues myself) but the user reviews on steam which were at like 76% negative today, all stated tech issues that greatly impacted their enjoyment, hopefully these issues get sorted out for all players soon so they can enjoy the game like you are!

Commenters on the review said the technical issues didn’t exist, will be interesting to see their stance now.

Publishers need to release games in a COMPLETE state.