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ROFL! Just as I asserted months ago; no one wanted Concord.

Sony, drop the live service crap and focus on narrative-drivien games with compelling stories.

@twitchtvpat True, although some studios have handled those interruptions seemingly better than others.

@NEStalgia This is easily the most boring, slow, uninspired generation of PlayStation I've personally been apart of, since jumping in with PS3. Complacent is an accurate adjective to describe the current Sony and their internal output. Nearly a year's wait between Spiderman 2 and Astrobot is insane.

"As Sony wastes money and time on multiplayer live service games no one asked for, and leaves their classic I.P.s in the dumpster.."

A more accurate article title. 🧐

@WhiteRabbit... 🫤 Define "biggest". If we're talking resources, number of studios, and overall organizational size, MS is absolutely gargantuan. It's one of the largest companies on the planet.

No one wanted Concord. This game is cooked. 🍳

EDIT: Sep 3 Nailed it! XD

I couldn't care less. I'm only level 3 or 4. Sony is absolutely garbage this generation. Makes me look back fondly on PS3 and even 4. Sigh... 😢

@LordFunkalot I bought it immediately as well but haven't played yet. I couldn't be happier to finally have a digital re-release of the original Timesplitters. 😄😍

I'm sure the final design will be fine. Culture war garbage and the far right extremism nonsense that pushes it non-stop, have really broken many people's brains. Christ...🤦‍♂️

@LikelySatan Cheers to the Timesplitters trilogy re-release! 🥂😁

@Waitinonpsvr2 Wolfy 3D had Robo-Hitler, so anything is possible! 😂 😂

While it's true gamers are ridiculously entitled and many individuals are toxic (although that can be said about most fandoms), Gatcha belongs in the dumpster. I refuse to play stuff like Genshin because it's so predatory.

@KillerBoy Ridiculous." Activism" cuts both ways.... 🙄

@J-Dubs That "rule" doesn't automatically apply to straight ports of re-released classic titles. Timesplitters is from the pre-HD, pre-achievement/trophy days.
Same with BWC original Xbox ports (like TS2 and 3) on Xbone/Series X; they don't have achievements, only 360 titles do.

Just bought TS1. 😍 Man, I missed this announcement last week. Despite already having Timesplitters 2 and 3 on Series X, TS1 is still exclusive to PS. Awesome to have the entire Trilogy again on modern hardware. 😍 The way the Timesplitters IP has been treated by publishers is just criminal at this point.

No, but green lighting The Last of Us online was a bloody stupid endeavor.

Since I mainly use PS5 for exclusives, and the only Sony exclusives in 2024 I care about are Astrobot and Silent Hill 2, PS5 is quickly becoming the absolute worst generation of PS by far.

These days, Switch and XSX get the majority of my time. Sony just sucks so much overall this generation. SMH.

Shocked how good that price is, holy crap! 👏 👏 👏 😍

🤣 🤣 🤣 I've played through the silliness that is Super Seducer. This definitely has the appearance of an Asian drama series. 😂

Another Sony game no one asked for. Ugh. 🤦‍♂️

@J_e_f_f__D I share similar sentiment that PS5 has been the worst PlayStation by far. I got in with PS3 and loved it. PS4 took awhile but eventually became a fantastic machine in its own right with a great library. But PS5? It's nearly 4 years old and it's exclusives that appeal to me, compared to past generations, is paltry by comparison. Off-hand, I believe I have 6, and over half of those were already on PS4, like Spiderman MM and Ghost of Tsushima. Sony is wasting their talents making multiplayer titles no one wanted, like that cancelled Last of Us Factions, or awful-looking live service crap like Concord. Develop an original Uncharted for PS5, or bring back Infamous, or Twisted Metal, or Warhawk, or Syphon Filter, or prioritize a sequel to Tsushima, stuff like that.
The part about Xbox and BWC is just an objective fact that MS has done the best job this generation, compared to Sony and Nintendo. It's one of my favourite Xbox features.

FYI, it's coming to all major platforms. https://www.vgchartz.com/article/461457/pirate-themed-action-game-captain-blood-releases-this-fall-for-all-major-platforms/

So pathetic, for all involved, it's laughable. 😂

Sony got absolutely smoked by MS today, without question. MS actually had a pretty decent show. Sony really needs to remember to bring the big hitters at this time of year, like Nintendo and MS typically do.

I always expect this sort of stuff from fanboys, regardless of platform. Either way, it's hilarious. 👏😂

@Zenos OMG... 🤦‍♂️

Yes, without question.
Concord was so uninteresting and uninspired from the trailer, I'd forgotten its existence before the SOP ended. Sony hasn't got hardly a clue what it's players want. We could see a return of classic IPs like Syphon Filter or Infamous, or another entry of Uncharted or an update about Ghost of Tsushima 2, but instead we get this dime a dozen hero loot shooter #57 crap.

Also, the name. To me, Concord is both a hypersonic aircraft that was retired, or a type of grape jelly. 🤷‍♂️

When I see some (keyword; some) PlayStation fans arguing that Sony should abandon their old IPs, just by virtue that they're old...you know, the brands that BUILT the platform in the first place, be it Twisted Metal, Uncharted or Killzone, I can't help but argue that if one truly wants that, those gamers can't get angry at the lackluster state of PS5s first party output.
Personally, PS5 has been Sony's worst generation by far, for internal output.

@ArashiKageTaro Agreed. Silent Hill 2 looks great. I'm honestly sick of "aww everything looks awful" online game culture. SH2 looks fine to me. I see no disrespect to the original game. The fog especially looks fantastic.

@Bettyswollocks As June is now essentially the E3-but-not-E3-RIPE3-season, it's reasonable to assume that people had higher expectations for this particular SOP. Plus with the random Silent Hill event, The June Nintendo Direct upcoming, the June Xbox event, this is new game reveal season. Sony dropped the ball.

Sony's lack of 1st party output is truly pathetic and embarrassing. Sony fanboys truly have have no excuse to gloat and crap on Xbox, and Xbox are no heroes either, let's be clear about that.

I'm getting Silent Hill 2, and Astrobot truly looks wonderful, so maybe that as well. Otherwise, wow did Sony ever drop the ball... 🎮

@Konks Mmhmm, I was also thinking that also. There is a term for that, but... yeah, that crowd lives in endless denial. 🤦‍♂️

I'm no defender of Ubisoft, especially when games debut with no gameplay, but my god, gamers can be some of the worst demographics sometimes.
Assassin's Creed has never been historically accurate, it's historical fiction. That was the entire point of why the concept of AC was cool and interesting.
Naoe is also Japanese herself, yet she's being outright ignored by some? It's amazing how the depiction of a sole black person totally breaks some people's brains....

Probably every Canadian knows who Drake is (a giant poser who isn't even from Toronto, despite loving to sing about my city), although I have no clue who the other dude is or what this fued is even about. 🤷‍♂️ I'll stay in my blissful ignorance on this particular topic, tyvm.

Absolutely ridiculous. Hundreds of layoffs, studio closures like Free Radical; losing Timesplitters a second time really hurts. I'd love to give Lars a break; let's start with his nose. 👃🤛

In undemocratic Russia, console plays you. 🧐

@Monochrome321 You don't understand why some people who bought a handheld, sometimes play it... as a handheld? Running games natively is the main advantage. Millions of Switch Lites have also been sold, and that can only be played in handheld form, regardless of where one is.
Also, saying switch's screen is too small is silly. It's of similar size of many modern smartphones. Have a look at handhelds of the past. We are spoiled now. These things still need to be portable, one of the main points of a HANDHELD console. You'd need a bigger battery, which increases weight, size, costs, etc. No design is perfect; the compromises Nintendo was able to make with Switch for the final product in 2017 were nothing short of incredible, that's why they've sold 140 million, and why everyone's copied them... again. 😉

Jim Ryan was a cancer on PlayStation. Thankful he's gone.

@Slideaway1983

Have a good night! 🌙 🐄

@NEStalgia

Hahahahaha! 😆😆 That's too perfect, lol. 😂

@Slideaway1983 Butthead trolled me too. Oh well, I hope it was worth the banning, lol. 😂

Ghost of Tsushima set the bar so damn high for this type of game, that this looks like it was developed as a generic Ubisoft title by comparison.

@NeonPizza Ugh, yeah, jeez for $2000 I'll just upgrade my TV, which I just did two months ago to a 4K 120Hz set, which is quite nice. No medieval torture required. 😉😂
Aside from a PC upgrade which I plan to do at some point, the only new/future gaming hardware on my radar is Switch 2.

For me it's unnecessary, as I actively use my Switch, which runs games natively, whereas Portal doesn't; its biggest flaw. Plus I don't have to share a TV with anyone, so I'd almost never use it at home. 🤷‍♂️

As I predicted. PSVR2 was not going to succeed at that price.

Hey but as long as you have Tifa in a bikini, that's enough to overlook and distract from the mediocrity of the overall game itself, right? Right?!? 🙄🤣

Seriously I don't know what it is about Square. I've been playing a little bit of the original Kingdom Hearts (for the First Time) recently, and it's just pure frustration. I played Final Fantasy 1 and 2 dawn of Souls on the GBA back in the day; 1 was... fine, nothing special. 2 was better, but the new underworld area for the deceased characters had me so weak and underleveled, and there was nowhere to heal as I tried to explore, so I gave up.

I think perhaps only Secret of Mana and Secret of Evermore are the two square games I've played thus far that I actually really liked. I didn't even get to finish Mana, for personal reasons unrelated to the game. 😢

Kingdom Hearts reminds me why I don't generally play square games, at least not modern FF titles. I remember buying Crystal Chronicals for GameCube, and that was garbage.

@Icey664 Personally I'm more interested in articles that review the game based on its merits, not relying on sex appeal exclusively to build hype. The game may end up being mediocre, which should be any gamers primary concern. If one wants T&A, there's a very inviting ocean of porn online for that, which I have no issues with. 😉

Games like this just make me continually question why can't we have a modern, pure vehicular combat game, like Vigilante 8 or Twisted Metel? 😢

@CWill97 Aww, I'm so sorry. ❤️🐈😭 I spent the last 7 weeks boarding my neighbours lovely 21 year old orange cat. Just seeing her go home yesterday made me sad. 🥺

What a load of BS. Keep on "winning" there, Sony. 😒😒 The fanboys are now especially in ZERO positions to bash the competition now for said competitors issues.

These bloated game budgets need to be reigned in and reduced. Terrible news. Even the reason Sony gave, the wording is ridiculous. Seriously, even a Chatbot could give a better reason.

Sony's recent statement of no new established 1st party franchise titles until 2025 is even more apparent now.

The only ones I don't feel sorry for are the fanboys who, up until last year, defended Sony to the death, while crapping on the competition for their various troubles.