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There is a game from 2023, one from 2021 and a game from 2017 in this list.

There is a problem in this industry.

How is Grandia III not in there??

We were doing that with the Gamecube and GBA 25 years ago...

I stopped playing forbidden west on PC with that DLC.

Badly written and the character sucked, I was not going to double dip on this one.

And "sixth biggest" - haven't they only released six games so far?

@naruball it's also a well known fact that the ones who were there stood out like a sore thumb in occupied france so putting them on the street would have been an instant death sentance.

Grow up.

Poor guys, they made a fantastic open world with Days Gone, would have loved to see a follow up.

A live service game will be the end of them.

Really enjoying it, but by the time you get the ifrit card you will easily win most matches with the same deck.

So...back to the original ghost recon games then lol

It was everything I wanted from this game. Amazing stuff.

Not sure I could listen to the main characters voice for an hour a week.

Like fingernails on a chalkboard.

68 is no age to go, especially for a Japanese person.

Very sad day.

I can run it comfortably at 4K 60fps, but on no planet will I double dip on that one. Story was hot garbage this time around and the dialogue was written by a six year old.

I couldn't even finish burning shores, it hurt my ears and my soul.

Was absolutely gutted because I loved the first one.

Bruce Straley created TLOU.

Neil destroyed it, will be happy to see him go

Uterrly blown away, 5 hours in and I'm still nesr Kalm lol.

Cannot get enough, this is exactly what I wanted from this game.

@TheTraditional I worked at Liverpool Studio as the UK community manager for PlayStation for a couple of years in 2005.

Some of the original Psygnosis team were still there and they let go through all the old artwork from the Amiga days (stuff like shadow of the beast) loved those guys and genuinely miss being in that office.

Well, I think it's definitely confirmed I should stop waiting for a Getaway 3 or London Heist 2

That is really weird, I had literally just finished another playthrough on PC in prep for tomorrow night 2 hours ago, heard her say it and thought I was going mad because she didn't say that on PS4 & PS5 playthroughs lol

Good news, I might actually have a use for it then lol

I knew I should have waited!

Great review,and has made me even more excited for it. The first one had that sense of wonder that playing the original for the first time, and it seems the follow up has that sense of sheer size when you walk out of midgar and realise there is a whole world to explore out there.

It's in my library, but it will forever be at the 14 hour mark.

Storyline and dialogue was horrendous.

I'm going to wait, once I start I will not want to stop and the wait will kill me.

Is it really sad I've booked the week off?

I bought both Persona and Infinite wealth and I'll be honest I'm really disappointed in both.

Persona feels like a soulless update to P3, it just feels really bland, can't put my finger on what it is, but it is definitely not pulling me in like the original still does to this day (P3 FES is still one of my go-tos on my phone).

Infinite wealth is a shell of a Yakuza game, poor characters, dull open world and don't get me started on what they've done to Kiryu. It's like Ubisoft have taken over the franchise.

I'm 30 hours and it just doesn't feel like a Yakuza game anymore, it's soulless, the characters are third rate and the storyline is poor. They bring Kiryu out of retirement just to do him dirty, it was utterly pointless and just felt like an attempt to kill his legacy. The new companions are dull as hell. It feels like Ubisoft has taken over Yakuza. You can see a mile away that Nagoshi and his team had nothing to do with this one.

I've been playing Yakuza games since the first one on PS2, right through PS3 and PSP, PS4 and the Judgement games.

Played through the Man with No Name and it had completely lost it's magic, even down to the combat. Unlocked the demo for this and was bored. Never ever thought I'd get bored of any Yakuza game, I play through them all regularly.

You can see a mile away that Nagoshi and his team weren't involved in these, they lack soul.

I just knew this one would be a 9 or 10 with reviewers, it's gone western.

For the first time in 19 years I'm passing on a Yakuza game.

Was trying to think of the last time I used a Game store, and it was for Final Fantasy X / GTA III timeframe.

Is this what they mean by dry January?

Bloody awful game, stopped by the time he got the black suit.

Between the endless bugs and the horrific writing I couldn't stomach any more of it. Press X to raise your arms on the roller coaster!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess!

2023 was hands down the worst year for gaming, honestly no idea why some thought it was good, we either had exceptionally bad incremental updates to existing IPs (Spiderman 2, FFXVI, Street Fighter VI, MK1, Alan Wake 2) or we had terrible new IPs (Starfield, Forspoken, Callisto Protocol 2022 I know, but December so realistically it was 2023 for everyone, Atomic Heart, Redfall)

The only ones I came across that were worth my time were Hogwarts, Robocop and Hifi Rush.

Everything has been paint by numbers bland, terribly written and full of bugs.

I bought them all, as well as countless others and this year is on a par with 1982 when I got E.T. on the Atari for Christmas.

Well deserved, best game I have played all year, and I've played a lot of them.

Sony is going to struggle to argue a case on this to be honest, digital prices have been consisently higher that physical media despite not having the oveheads of manufacturing, artwork and distribution and cuts to the retailers.

The only thing they have to pay for is server space, and that will never compare costwise to physical.

It's always been a con, but it's a con we all live with because we can't be bothered getting up off our butts to change games.

(I have been guilty of this since the start of PS3, I rarely bought any physical titles, but thousands of digital).

@NattyKing what are you even on about little one?

You just get yourself ready for the next product, and I'll look forward to your yt rection video crying because they announced tlou 2 remaster.

@NattyKing that was a lot of characters to say literally nothing.

Spurious claims, run along now little one, your mothers calling.

Triggered by people who play sequels?

How could dull people with zero imagination "trigger" anyone?

Really on the fence after man with no name. I've played every Yakuza game and spin off since the first one on PS2 and despite being a much shorter game wasn't feeling it at all, the combat was really off and the delivery of the side missions was just a checklist.

I'm just worried that RGG lost all it's talent after Nagoshi and Sato left.

@NattyKing You come across as someone who thinks you should support something even when it isn't working.

Bitter? Yes I'd say so when you watch something grow from a dot on the screen to beautiful and engaging stories and images over the last 40 years get turned in to safe corporatised drivel designed to appeal to the lowest of IQs in the world simply to sell more.

The only way to stop the sequel and remake train is to stop paying to ride it.

You run along now and lap up whatever gets out in front of you, I have more than enough content to last a lifetime, it may not be as pretty it but it is certainly more fun.

@W1ck3d_p And as for the sequel comment, fairenough you like to play the same thing over and over, I have the same problem with Yakuza, I haven't let one of those pass me by since the first one on PS2. However interspersed with that I need new gaming experiences and Sony have 100% failed on that this gen. They state they have 25 games in development at the moment and almost half are new IPs, these are scheduled for release by 2025. It will be interesting to see how many of that 12 see the light of day in the next 2 years. The fact they made that statement means they realise the issue with this gen and that's positive, however based on the writing abilities of these teams at the moment (I'm looking at ND, Santa Monica and Insomniac) I don't hold out much hope.

@W1ck3d_p In between all of your prattling there were several people who agreed with how dull and uninspired this generation has been, and real gamers will recognise it.

Ones who just follow X brand blindly will never see or concede that.

S2 is absolutely DLC to he first game, it even has the same bugs the city had in the last one, they remastered the city and made the combat worse nothing more, if anything the character models are far worse this time around.

@Profchaos I knew I couldn't be the only one lol

Thank you

@W1ck3d_p God Of War Ragnarok. SEQUEL
Horizon Forbidden West launched SEQUEL
Spider-Man 2 JUST released DLC
Ghost of Tsushima 2 is in the works.SEQUEL

Give me an original title developed by Sony this generation.

I was loving the first 10 hours or so but it just kept going and going and going.

Far too long and not enough unique things to do felt like i was repeating stuff too much it made the plot feel far too thin.

@gipsojo I've been playing every single one since the first one came out on PS2 with Mark Hamill and Michael Madsen doing voices.

I've even played through the two PSP games even though they were Japan only.

@themightyant personal bias jesus wept.

You just go and enjoy your sequels and remakes. I'm done.

@Titntin dude, you love the company, I get it.

Me I'm more picky where I spend my money, this gen has been nothing but sequels and remakes and it's simoly not for me.

@Titntin 7.2% makes them the largest shareholder...

You keep talking revenue, look at the units - 158 million PS2, 117 million PS4.

I would be shocked if PS5 touches the PS4 numbers over its lifecycle

@ChrisDeku sigh

"At least 1.577 billion copies of PS4 titles have been sold to customers since it launched all the way back in late 2013 — a stat that beats the previous record (also held by Sony) of 1.537 billion PS2 games out in the wild"

It's sold about 400k more copies than PS2. That sound like massive growth?

@W1ck3d_p

You've proved my point inadvertently...
God Of War 2018
Spider-Man 2018
Last of Us 2013
Uncharted 2009 - 2016
Horizon Forbidden West 2022 (PS4)
Ghost of Tsushima 2020
Demon Souls 2009
Bloodborne 2015

Of course I like these games (except horizon 2) but looking at the dates, you can officially be classed as a retro gamer...do you not see that??

@Titntin ah playing the victim now are we?

Right, if you had spent time at developers then you know categorically that gaming is massively down over previous generations. Not sure if it's correct revenue is up after cost is factored but if it is it's only because they have raised the prices to unsustainable levels.

Console gaming is declining, and with the quality of output in 2023 it will accelerate, they are turning gamers like me who spend a ludicrous amount of money on games (i average between MS, PS, Switch and Steam about £300 - £500 per month) away from their products, I know I'm not alone and this will have a huge impact because gamers coming up after us either don't have the same level of disposable income or do not spend as much time gaming on consoles unless it's a f2p model.

The biggest investor in Sony right now is Blackrock, and they are not know for leaving companies intact when they hold majority shares, and if you don't think they are already influencing content I have a bridge to sell you.

There will be a fundamental shift in what is on offer when PS6 comes around.

@GamingFan4Lyf I'm the same, and I will be picking up Rebirth (and end up picking it up again when it comes to PC)

I always used PS for the exclusives but for me they have just become incredibly dull.

I actually stopped playing Spiderman 2 at the point where I had to do a second MJ mission, good lord those things are just embarrassing.

@Titntin Also to add to this, sales are significantly lower than PS2 game sales were, what are you talking about?

Gran Turismo 3 sold 15 million copies, GTA SA did 17 million, there were bucketloads of titles selling over 10 milllion.

Gaming is declining, and my "misinformed" nature knows why, you keep clinging to that sinking ship though pal.

@Titntin ugh...there's always one. Tried my best to keep it nice, but ok I'll bite.

Of course I still enjoy gaming. I Have been playing everything since 1980. Nothing changes on that front. I Play games every day of the week and have played more games that you could possobly fathom in the small worldview you have.

I'm done with modern Sony gaming, they are designed to be simple bits of fluff for people with the emotional range of a turnip.

Enjoy your press X to win games, I'll be enjoying everything else thats on offer through PC and also emulation, you know when they used to stretch your abilities or make you think.