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Pretty average game (played it on Series S), so couldn't really care less about it.

Problem is, the reason Sony pours so much resource into games, and that we get such amazing AAA games from it, is to sell Sony systems, and keep Sony and PS competitive. If Sony games were multi-platform, I think you'd see a reduction in AAA quality (although maybe games would come out more frequently)

I'm playing it, and struggling to work out how it's anything at all like Heavy Rain..?

I played it on Xbox - not worth the bother (it was a bit crap)

Probably some extra content for the Switch 2 version?

While I think there's more to the story, I'm not that sure how many more interesting scenarios the series can cook up gameplay-wise. How many more times can we sneak up on clickers in derelict buildings, for example? I'm not sure the gameplay can sustain it for a full third chapter without it feeling too much like more of the same. I'm sure they could cook up a wonderful story though.

@Jrs1 Imagine how many times he's been asked his surname and said 'Cocks' and the person has assumed it was Cox and he had to spell it out for them lmao

If they were still in the console business, they'd have had the best (and most) first party exclusives this year for sure!

Jusant was great. Banishers had some really good things going for it, but I didn't enjoy the combat, and it dragged on quite a bit. Great for the first 10 hours, then got a bit dull for the next 10. Also was very disappointed with the ending I got - don't think they explained it well enough in terms of banishing/ redeeming people and I ended up with the crap ending. Not bad though.

Preparing myself to be disappointed by lack of first party stuff. Would rather they left remasters out of it, unless it's Bloodborne (highly unlikely).

How about using it as an opportunity to tell us what games your studios are actually making?

I actually love the game. 9/10 for me.

@Oram77 I was pleasantly surprised that Outlaws doesn't feel like the same generic open world stuff of the usual Ubi games. I was expecting AC with a Star Wars coat of paint, but maybe it;s just how they've nailed the settings that it feels quite fresh and exciting to me

Personally I think Outlaws is underrated from what I've played so far (about 15 hours in). A really great space adventure in my opinion. A few gripes but a worthy Star Wars game, well worth buying.

The first person perspective is just weird.

Do Naughty Dog even exist anymore? We just keep getting gaslit into believing they're 'working on two games' or whatever. Where's the evidence? Keep waiting, PS fans..

I'm personally starting to worry that the reason they're not announcing naughty dog and sucker punch's games is because we won't see them until the next gen. And PS biggest studios only releasing games every other generation is rubbish.

@somnambulance 5 hours I believe

@Bydlak even references to Dead Space and Resident Evil I thought in the shooting section

It's an easy 9 our of 10 from what I've played of it so far. Think critics were slightly harsh!

I'm very much enjoying it on the whole (I've just got the final boss to beat now I think) but a few things hold it back from greatness for me: very stingy stamina bar, annoying inventory system, too many enemies when you're exploring (relentless battle after battle can actually deter you from exploring the map) and the depleting health bar every time you die seems harshly punitive. I would like a better save and load system as well. Lots to love though. Pawn system is great. Vocations are great. Some really well designed quests. 8/10.

I'm on chapter 8 of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, and playing it at any spare minute!

One of my great pleasures in gaming is a new game disc arriving, looking at the game art and adding it to my collection on the shelf. Couldn't do this with Baldur's Gate 3 when it came out, which was a bit disappointing to me. Still bought it and played it, loved it. But something in the experience was lacking. Could just be the old-fashioned-ness in me. But I am not happy about the direction this is all going in.

That's an interesting point about intentionally pretentious to match his writing style, I hadn't thought of it like that. I'm not overly keen on the New York streets and subway and hotel areas of the Dark Place in Wake's story - I found the frustration and tedium of navigating them eroded the tension a little bit, although some of the studio bits were cool. Much preferred say the nursing home and hospital bits in Saga's story.

@Odium my main problem was with the gameplay, and to be more specific, the combat, which was really frustrating and finicky. I enjoyed the Saga sections a lot more than the Alan ones and really liked her mind room and how you pieced the mystery together. The Alan sections were bogged down with pretentiousness and falling over itself to be too clever. To each their own though indeed, and I can totally see the uniqueness of it, and how ambitious it was,

Alan Wake 2 is over rated. There I said it!

This chapter and song drove me mad.

Let's have some new SEGA hardware! A new SEGA console to take them all on! Mega Drive = best console ever!

Think of doing the jeep sequence in Uncharted 4 whenever you needed a shot of adrenaline!

Great for trophies.

Jusant! Good stuff!

Is he not just referring to the fact that COD etc will still be on Playstation, so PS players will in fact be playing an Xbox-owned game?

@mrbone just to make the distinction between developers and publishers. Konami is a publisher, whereas all Sony's previous acquisitions have been studios/ developers. Sony is itself a publisher. So to buy another publisher would be new territory for Sony and in my opinion a bum move (but that's what MS has been doing, which sucks imo too!).

Please Sony, stop with this live service nonsense now and get back to doing what you do best, and what you've built up such a large consumer-base with. And also, tell us what games you're making!

I've come up against some very nearly game breaking bugs (and managed to find workarounds after lots of Googling), so I'm hoping this will iron those out. Also the framerate is a bit wobbly in Act 3 so hoping this might smooth that out a bit too.

Sounds amazing! But the big question is, does it run at 60FPS??

@ZeD Sony has never bought a publisher, only studios. That is the key difference.

@Suda51ueda Kojima is also making a game for Xbox, so seems unlikely

It's because, unlike many other 3rd party publishers, they actually make great games!

Plus all my trophies were broken and finished the game without a single one

@Anke agree - why couldn't they delay it a week or pull out the stops to include it. I played it through last week, didn't enjoy the choppy framerate at all, and now they've patched it! Annoying!

Street fighter 2!

It was a decent game let down by horrendous load screens - hopefully this version will all but eradicate those.

A big game coming straight to Game Pass which is where I'm likely to play it to save money, but would much rather play it with a Dual Sense in my hands!

Still some ambiguity there. Will it release day one or a year down the line? Not that I care either personally as I don't play the games..

How about God of War Ascension?