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"Silent gill" made me chuckle, nice one.

I love the aesthetic of this and I also have a soft spot for games that are secretly more than they let on. Not so secret in this case given the trailer's vibe, but you get what I mean.

@DarianStarfrog Can you even read? I clearly said I'd be glad if other games were actually more searched than GTA. There's hundreds of series I prefer over GTA.

Hopefully there'll be one cool surprise announcement or two in there. But the main reason I'll keep an eye on it this year is that I really want to see a live orchestra playing some of the E33 songs.

Having a really hard time believing all of those games were searched for more times than GTA VI. Bet there must be at least a few hundred thousands of people typing "gta6 news" every single day looking for crumbs.

If the list somehow holds water, though, then I'm happy to see it.

So a director who has zero idea of what he's adapting, what its strong points are and why people like it. What could possibly go wrong?

checks the previous 59387 projects where they tried this

Oh...

Should put a title card saying "A Hideo Kojima role" right before the mole first appears.

I was sold months ago Yokoyama, but I appreciate the extra hype nonetheless.

Really like the concept - the UI, not so much. Still would give it a try.

Oh definitely. This is the main reason why I didn't buy SMTV back at launch day on Switch, and a few years later, there ya go, Definitive Edition BS.

I'm just glad Metaphor didn't turn out like this... so far.

Fortunately I've got physical copies of most games in this series, Y0 included.

I'm looking forward to this excuse for playing one of my favorite games again. Bit worried about how I'll react to the new scenes based on what I keep hearing, though.

Way better than the selections we usually get on December from Plus Essential.

Always had my eye on Neon White and I might try LEGO Horizon too.

Well deserved, it's a great game for many reasons beyond the one the two crowds of simpletons ("game bad 'cause boobs" & "game good 'cause boobs") can't stop parroting. As exemplified perfectly by this comment section.

Super satisfying combat, awesome enemy variety, mindblowingly good soundtrack and rock solid performance/graphics. For the sequel they mostly need to work on their environment/biome variety and writing.

Playing Sonic Frontiers before it leaves Extra next month. Having a good time with it overall, plus it had been ages since I last played a Sonic game.

I like both first person dungeon crawlers and deck builders, so there's a very good chance I'll like this.

Also it probably won't get as old as Vampire Survivors did. Fun game but boy did the runs get samey on the way to 100%.

Have they said anything about potential console censorship? It's hard to imagine some of the stuff in that trailer making it to PS5 with their current guidelines - similar games, like Agony, launched censored outside of PC.

Would be cool to see, though.

@Czar_Khastik Gotta wait for the Dream Machine for that.

Regardless of worthless rumors I do believe Leon has a chance of showing up, but I won't hold my breath.

With or without him the game looks great anyway, and Grace is a massive step-up from Cardboard Winters.

Always a masterful move to exclude the platform where the IP thrived in the first place. 😉

I was pretty annoyed when this was announced as a Switch exclusive, so I'm glad it finally got to PS. Really like Somnium Files, especially the first game.

Finally one of these I'll actually watch, instead of skimming through the headlines later.

Not expecting anything specific, just hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

I got a Portal on sale about a month ago and I've barely sat to play in front of the TV since. It's honestly the best way to play most of the stuff I engage with. I'll still go to the TV for things that require complete precision though, or if graphics are one of the game's main selling points.

But yeah, it's been a great buy so far, and I didn't even know it was about to get way better with the recent major update.

Good. More people get to play the games at launch and the games sell better. Win-win.

Usage of AI to "amplify creativity" is a laugh.

PR people at this point are just stringing words together without stopping to think for a second whether it all remotely makes sense. Kind of like the average AI when given a prompt.

I'm not going to pretend I've played most of the nominees, but even if I had, I'm certain I'd still vote for Clair Obscur.

@get2sammyb I play plenty of popular games, Fortnite is just not for me and never will be. You're making a lot of assumptions about commenters out of thin air there, considering no one who posted before you implied they avoid/dislike the game because of its popularity.

Grabbed it, thanks for the heads-up.

I'll politely decline, thanks.

This comment section perfectly encapsulates how much fandoms, and the people in them, suck. Not including the users joking around, of course.

As for the collab, it's really cool to see. I loved both Expedition 33 and Rebirth, the former's expansion and the latter's sequel are two of my most anticipated future things.

I wish Dreamcast's Seaman got a revival too.

The cumulative years of development across all their studios that Sony has wasted on live service bandwagoning is quite something. And better not think about man hours.

Not a good month for me, but they can't all be winners. Already completed Stray when it was on Extra, and whatever the sports game is, I don't care about it. Might try Battle Simulator at some point, I guess.

Being an interviewee sucks when you've gotta measure every word with a ruler on account of all the illiterates out there.

There's no "imagining" nor "reimagining" anything when AI enters the equation. Imagination, creativity and art all die with it.

Still haven't played RE0 myself, it's the only numbered entry I haven't gotten around to yet. Probably will give it a shot sooner rather than later since I like Rebecca's character.

That said I never did like the classic RE style with fixed camera angles, tank controls and awful shooting mechanics, so I welcome the idea of a modern remake in the vein of RE2/3/4. Better 0 than 5 at any rate.

Absolute cancer.

Honestly I'd rather have nothing new than Atlus' usual "Here's an improved version of the game you bought with a large chunk of brand new content, sold at full price with no upgrade path".

"We wouldn't say Silent Hill F received rave reviews. Critics were largely positive on the title, but it wasn't met with particularly eye-watering scores."

... What? It's sitting at an 86 on MetaCritic. That is "rave" alright.

Holy crap. Awesome news.

shuts down Stars
raises Plus price
adds even less games per month

I'm so tired of these types of promises at this point.

Bend and Bluepoint's secret projects had been teased as 'cool sh*t' for a long time and then they turned out to be more live service slop that won't even see the light of day.

Between these, Naughty Dog and whatever else we don't know about, just how many development hours has Sony wasted on their trend-chasing garbage plan? All that talent and passion and they're stuck working on the most soulless, hopeless projects imaginable.

I feel particularly bad about Bluepoint, because they've never had a chance to do something big that was truly their own. They finally moved on from their (very solid) remake projects and all they get is a ticket to the God of War live service mines. What a bad joke, I can only imagine how utterly demoralizing that must be for creators.

The Stanley Parable is wonderful, but I own it since launch. And I couldn't be any less interested in Dead Service 47 and Car Thing 12.

Excuse you, that's clearly Julian Mallard from The First of Them.

They should just wait until the finale movies are out and have all the characters in the series available for the roster, but I guess they wouldn't be able to sell a whole bunch of DLC if they did that.

So a multiplatform game has sold 21% less units across Europe than a PS5 exclusive which itself (unfortunately) underperformed.

Is the world now done pretending that Veilguard was a success, or do we have to wait until EA begrudgingly admits they lost over $100 million on it?

I can't imagine something much worse than a western company in all but name taking control over a good chunk of the manga being created.

Piss off with that money and go make Concord 2 or something.

It's just a cheap excuse to fill up GOTY nominee spots with DLCs and keep the likes of Wukong or Stellar Blade out of the running. Nothing more, nothing less.

@nomither6 Yasuke is not Japanese whatsoever, the historical person arrived in Japan on board of a slave ship. Oda Nobunaga made him one of his vassals and gave him the name.

But re-reading what I wrote, the "American" bit actually doesn't make sense in this context, so I'll amend that.

"When the work they pour their hearts into is twisted into a symbol of division"

"We put an African samurai in the game because we cannot relate to a Japanese person"

Sounds very much like intentional division to me.

Not that I have a horse in this race, but a peak of 70k concurrent players isn't a whole lot for a game with such a huge budget, no? Typically you can estimate the actual sales number to be several times the peak amount of concurrent players, but even then we're probably talking about something in the ballpark of several hundred thousand sales on Steam.

For comparison's sake, Metaphor sold 1 million units on its first day across all platforms and peaked at 85k concurrent players on Steam. Metaphor visibly had a far lower budget than Veilguard so it might well be a commercial success if it gets two or three million lifetime sales, but Veilguard needs a lot more than that.

Granted, as the article points out, that 70k number will probably go up during the weekend, but I don't think it'll be enough to make a difference.

They've barely been showing OR telling anything for a while now, though.