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@BrettAwesome American far-right nutcases, especially the religious ones, label anyone who disagrees with them commies, fascists (lol, ironic), demonic, evil, vermin, etc.. I could go on. So please, anyone who's doing that, is also demonstrating their "wonderfulness" as a person.

The once academic term is now a stupid, lame, moronic catch-all buzzword to express dislike. It's like in 1992 when 7YOs called something "gay" to express dislike for anything, it's the same now. It's an easy way to identify morons who haven't a coherent thought in their minds.

GTA 6 is gonna rock, and I, especially as the staunch advocate of artistic freedom/expression that I am (one's fee-fees can eff off, dont consume it) I am relishing the right-wing online meltdown over the game! 👏😂

I can say I proudly played zero live service games in 2023.

@Bez87 They didn't. LRG are liars. There's never any indication their digital titles will be pulled down, especially with only 5 days warning. There's also the Scott Pilgrim fiasco mentioned above.
They also lied about Go! Go! Kokopolo being the final 3DS physical release, then they teased another 3DS game on Twitter in early 2023.

This company is beyond garbage, it's mind blowing.

Lol, you're reeling? 😂 I'm happy it's cancelled. Bring on the next great single player title from Naughty Dog. This never should or needed to be a big, seperate GaaS project. Giga-dumb idea.

@Art_Vandelay Necessary for who, though? It's great for later adopters, but I've had my original launch day PS4 since 2013 and I can still enjoy using it, without having to buy a second PS5 for my living and bedroom. The PS4 Pro, for what it offered/cost of entry, was not too impressive for me, what with PS5 around the corner at the time. We're seeing the PC market mindset cementing itself in the console space now, to which it'll likely become a staple going forward. At least with Switch it was easy and cheap to buy a second dock, but a $700 second, mid-gen-only console? Ha, yeah as an early adopter, thats a hard no. If my PS5 blew up or was too expensive to repair, sure I'd get it then.

Microsoft still needs to sort out their first party software issues, and I say that as someone who loves the Xbox platform for numerous reasons (like BWC and free cloud saves), and buys most multiplat releases there. Sony has their own software issues too, especially with their GaaS insistence/Naughty Dog fiasco. It won't be fixed this generation, cause as you said, it takes so long to develop these titles, but there's some potential gems on the way like OD, Hellblade 2 and Perfect Dark. Even a mid-gen hardware refresh isn't likely to boost Xbox numbers TOO dramatically, IMO. If Starfield couldn't do it, that ship has likely sailed.

@Art_Vandelay My underlying point was, we have some gamers, hysterical about how underwhelming this gen has been so far, including but not limited to being "held back" by cross gen titles, and now there's rumours of Pro hardware being trotted out again. I just find it ironic. 🙃

@Art_Vandelay We can say that about nearly anything outside of shelter, food, water and oxygen. 🤷‍♂️

So unnecessary. 😔

Good riddance! Sony's live service attempts are usually terrible. All the time and money wasted on this crap when Naughty Dog could've made Uncharted 5, TLoU 3 or a new IP. GaaS sucks. The market is saturated with them. Sony, focus on Single player content.

This generation has barely started, and people are clamoring for an update already? Wild... 😳😳

It's perfectly called for. MW3 is $90 CDN DLC, priced as a full game, made by a terrible publisher that crunched its workforce to put out a shoddy product.

He didn't attack any one developer. It's a shot at management, cause ultimately they decide, not the low level workers who actually do the work. More of this honesty would be refreshing to see, not just in gaming, but in business in general.

@Mephisto2869 It's easy to forget, lol. I'm surprised unleashing things like Showgirls onto the world do not qualify as crimes against humanity, lolol! 🤣

@Mephisto2869 Verhoeven was back in form with Starship Troopers though (the original), at least.

No. To me it's useless. Call me when Switch 2 releases... 😴

Bye bye, Muskrat.

@thefourfoldroot1 It's like having a store and deciding what to sell in your store. I'm all for price caps on rent, energy, medicine, etc.., but I am also fine with stores deciding to not sell certain items if they feel they don't want to be associated with it. I wouldn't walk into Toys R Us and expect to find sex toys for sale, just like I wouldn't walk into a bakery and expect to find guns for sale, nor should those stores be forced to sell those items if they don't want to.
Just like I don't want certain people in my home that I don't wish to enter. And I think my positions are perfectly reasonable.
But now we're getting into apples vs. oranges.

While the game doesn't look very good, it still is attention-grabbing, lol. To quote Robocop; I'd buy that for a dollar. 😋

@thefourfoldroot1 It's literally the platform holders platform, rofl. They have the final say.

Imagine if random people could come into your house any time they wanted, stay as long as they wanted and did whatever they wished, etc.. It's the same idea. Ridiculous.

Ghost of Tsushima is Sony's best IP since Last of Us. Really hope to see a sequel.

@Fester Since it takes place after the second movie (a fact mentioned in the video and first sentence of paragraph 2), I would say Clarence is still long dead. 😉

@Powerplay94 What you call being quiet, I call an unreasonable amount of silence and secrecy resulting in almost no reason to get excited about much of what Sony may be working on internally. PS5 is 3 years old at this point. The ND leaks were welcomed.

@zupertramp Firstly, since when is "kneecapping" an elitist term? I think you've been online too long. Would you prefer downgrade?

Secondly, and this was addressed at Waveboy originally, for someone to throw away their perfectly good and functional PS5, for a new model that has LESS features, while overall spending MORE money? How on earth is advocating for the opposite elitist? I suggested to waveboy to save that money and keep the device they already have, that happens to have more features. And yet somehow, that's elitism..?
A true elitist consumes every new thing, even if it's downgraded just to be cool and current, while spending the most money. I advocated the complete opposite philosophy.
Mother of god... You missed the plot completely. 🤦‍♂️

@zupertramp Wow, you read elitism out of my harmless comment? Next time, engage with substance, not such nonsense.

@WaveBoy I'd keep the disc-based console and not kneecap one's self with the digital one, on top of spending additional money which could be spent on games.

@JSnow2 @Sanquine I'm just here to continue the Jim Ryan bashing and expressing hope that his replacement is not worse. Hulst was also awful. Sony is in dire need of a new and better vision for PlayStation.

@Oz_Momotaro Well, if it wasn't clear by now, media industries feed on nostalgia. To abandon one's entire legacy is how you lose your original fans, and your relevancy fades. Imagine if Mario, Zelda and Pokemon suddenly ended, Nintendo would be a world of trouble. You're unreasonable to say "Sony, throw all your old IPs away, only make new stuff every new generation". Completely unrealistic.

Excellent. 👏 Never should have had resources wasted on this, when TLoU 3 and UC5 could be made instead, or even a different idea altogether.

This project should be cancelled outright. Shoehorning MP into games that don't benefit from it is ridiculous.

@Oz_Momotaro Reinventing some old IPs would inject some lifeblood into these states of play snoozefests. Look at Capcom, literally remaking their entire RE series, continuing Street Fighter, innovating with Monster Hunter, brought Mega Man back, continuing AA, and their profits, stock and popularity have skyrocketed in recent years.

Nintendo continuously reinvents Mario, with 64, Sunshine, Galaxy, Odyssey, NSMB, and now Wonder. They reinvented Zelda with OOT, WW, and BOTW. Both IPs are just as relevant today as they were back in the 80s, perhaps moreso (Mario film made 1B+)

Sony keeps a few old IPs around like God of War and Gran Turismo, but they're sitting on an enormous wealth of old IP that they just don't seem to want to use. The notion that there's millions of loyal PlayStation Gamers that have been gaming with them for over 20 years, to also say that 70 to 80% of those PS players have never played any of those old IPs, doesn't add up. Sony is having an identity crisis, and they seem clueless as to what to do about it. VR is and will remain a niche for quite some time, so they can't bet on that to be the huge breakthrough that they need. They had a good thing going with The Last of Us, until they decided to pour tons of resources into a stupid multiplayer game; MP is not what TLOU is about. Let's continue Uncharted with Drake's daughter, but they don't seem to be doing that.
Splinter Cell is dead. Metal Gear is dead. Perfect Dark is years away. This is the perfect time to bring back Syphon Filter; can't tell you how much I'm craving a big-Budget, decent third person stealth action game.

These are just a few ideas off the top of my head that would make PlayStation more exciting again. Ryan personified the abandonment of the company's roots, and while Sony is in the unique position of also being a hardware maker, we've seen time and time again what often happens to companies that completely abandon what made them successful in the first place.

I'm thrilled Ryan is leaving. Although this Hiroko is the "infinite growth obsession" dude, the worst element of capitalism, so that's not great...

Sony is losing touch with the fan base. There's nothing on the horizon that I get excited for when I think of PlayStation, at least from a 1st party perspective. These State of play showings are snoozefests. Sure, Spider-Man 2 will be fun, but it's hardly original. I want Sony to turn it around, make some more quirkier titles, revive some old IPS like Infamous or Warhawk or Syphon Filter, stuff like that.

@AhmadSumadi After Don Matrick took a steaming, big massive dump on Xbox gamers and the platform's legacy, Phil's oversight has been a complete 180. You can't deny the brand is in better (not perfect) shape overall compared to 8-9 years ago.
Ryan, and Sony in general, has shown little regard in recent years for PS's legacy, with Ryan doing nothing to remedy that. That's one big reason why he needed to go. The closure of Japan Studio and shift away from unique, quirkier titles are others.

Best PlayStation news all year! GTFO, Jim! You're awful! 👏🤣

@S1ayeR74 I remember how common demos used to be in the ps3/360 days. Seems like every other game was getting a demo each week. Now they're far more uncommon. 😔

@RedShirtRod And that's why so many users online, who don't know fk all about what they're talking about, cry and whine about how terrible GP and PS+ subs are; if it was losing colossal amounts of money, MS and Sony wouldn't be doing it. The business model is cleary making them both money. I'm not even defending the prominence of TV/gaming/music etc. subscription models, as I like owning my media, but it's not going away, and it clearly brings in big bucks.

Playing this with friends when it's on sale for $1 is the only redeeming factor here. So many games, far more worthy of a modern physical version, like The Simpsons Arcade Game for example, get passed over, yet this trash gets treated better, is such a reflection of our industry atm. 😔

Also, LRG is hot, flaming garbage. Eff them.

Threats of violence are always wrong and must be followed up with law enforcement in every case, however Unity's management needs to go for this horrendously terrible, greedy recent decision.

I'll get Spiderman 2 later. RE4 DLC will be good, but need to play base game first. Otherwise, this had very little. The Nintendo Direct was much better; more games, both new and returning classics.

PS3 would be even better. 🫤

Wow... I just finished the original Red Faction yesterday, after having played the others over the years, plus Saints Row 3 and 4. That's terrible news, I always liked them. 😭

I can live without either, since I like owning my games, not renting them. Also, Xbox doesn't charge for backing one's saves onto the cloud, unlike Sony and Nintendo. Especially handy when going between two or more devices.

Hell no. I still recall how awful AC4 was way back on PS3.

@lolwhatno I'm no stranger to criticizing Sony, esp. as of recent, but users like that person just descend gaming/insert topic here into a hateful, toxic mess that benefits no one. I too was the ultimate blind fanboy as a teenager, and I'm truly embarrassed by that when I reflect back.

@naruball I like both personally, hence why I had to mention the two devices. 😍

@naruball I was merely comparing the form factor. At least Steamdeck has some Sony titles.

For that money, buy a Switch or Steamdeck instead. Clueless Sony can't read the room. 🤦‍♂️

Oh Rockstar, another half-assed effort. Ultimately Xbox is the best place to play RDR, it seems.

Saudi money is blood money. Major shame on Embracer for even attempting this in the first place. As always, the regular workers get screwed. Corporations are not your friends.

@Impossibilium All very valid points. These days I just use Muskrat Central to follow gaming deals. My FB account is still open, but I never post anything and rarely check it after realizing that it's just a giant waste of time and I don't care about who went on vacation to wherever with their spouse, or where someone went for lunch. 🤦‍♂️

@Ravix The post was deleted but thank you, I appreciate it.

Someone has to stand up and point out the ridiculous behaviors and hypocracy of Musk, and those labeling everything "Marxism" when that stems purely from an economic political theory; it's just spreading more disinformation and nonsense.

Despite all the problems of Twitter's previous management, at least it was publicly traded, now it's literally just 1 billionaires tyrannical fantasy come true. It's even less Democratic than it was, but that irony is lost on certain people in this thread.

Sony's lineup: so secret, even they don't know what the hell they're doing.