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There's a decent chance I'll buy FFXVI. The new Street Fighter looks cool, but fighting games are not my thing. Zero interest in Diablo.

I'll play Trek to Yomi. As luck would have it I never ended up buying it, so this works nicely.

I'd give the beta a try, wanna try out that new Asuka moveset.

That's the pull of a major IP right there. Even unfiltered garbage will manage to sell.

If there's a series I'd wake up at 5AM to watch news of, that'd be LaD.

Woah... That's a lot of wasted dev hours on the Factions project, considering how long it's been worked on. Guess it's not so much that ND was keeping its cards close to its chest, but more like their whole deck was garbage.

I was kind of hoping for some footage myself, but thought of it as a far shot. I'm hoping that once FFXVI is released Square will finally start focusing on marketing Rebirth.

When I played on my Switch I had it on the dock by the TV 99% of the time, with the 1% being the rare occasions where I'd rather play laying on bed over sitting at the sofa. And I don't really game when I'm outside so the whole "bring the games with you" point is moot in my case.

So yeah, I can't imagine myself paying for the opportunity to play PS5 on a handheld. The thing looks neat, though.

For losers I'd probably say Foamstars.

Fairgame$ is cringeworthy and all, but it's par for the course for western live service drivel. It's when Japanese devs produce this kind of dead-end stuff (and with that awfully generic Fortnite-like artstyle to boot) that I truly die a bit inside. Not to mention, of course, the matter of it being a rather blatant Splatoon copycat.

Come on guys, let's steal from Elon Musk, I mean Elliot Moore. Armed robbery and killing other people doing the same thing as us is all chivalrous stuff when the target's a rich dude.

Sigh.

Sorry Jim, can't hear you over the sound of the umpteenth coop shooter trailer with rap music.

You people in the comments do realize the person previously bitching and whining about Days Gone's fate in all those other articles is not this guy, right? That would be John Garvin, the other director for the game.

As long as branching out more to mobile won't affect the pace of their console productions, I don't particularly care.

"We're the strongest gaming brand"

Activision deal somehow gets the green light

"We're the weakest gaming brand"

@Grimwood Was going to say this.

Great, now it sounds even less likely that Premium will ever be good.

They're doing a lot of things right with this one. It's nice to see.

When it comes to Persona 6, I'm not concerned about exclusivity stuff as much as I am about post-launch upgrades rendering the original game obsolete, like it happened with Persona 5 and Royal.

By the time I got around to P5, Royal was already out and I got to spend my time on the better version of the game, but for people who supported the original release, the whole fiasco must have absolutely sucked.

I'd like some kind of guarantee that if I buy P6 at launch I'm not pouring money (and, most importantly, time) into something that is going to be abandoned in favor of a definitive version, without even an option for transferring progress.

I'm pretty interested. It's pretty long and being advertised as a more 'major' type of showcase, so chances are there will be at least one or two things for me to get excited about.

@nessisonett I guess I'll count myself lucky I'm not British (or from an English speaking country period), because Clive sounds just fine to me. So does Keith, actually. When I think of boring English names to use in videogames I think John, Jack, Peter, Thomas, Max and so on.

Could anyone explain what the obsession is with Clive being an odd choice for the protagonist's name? I see it brought up by PushSquare specifically plenty of times, but as far as I can tell it's just another name of British origin among many. Uncommon apparently, but that by itself ought to be not a negative, but a positive for a fictional character in terms of standing out.

When I saw Homelander on the thumbnail I thought it was a joke. Hilarious to think he's gonna be a Mortal Kombat character somehow.

Literally all of those titles except for FFXVI are multiplatform releases, and even FFXVI is a timed exclusive.

Letting third party studios release their titles on your system is not supporting the Japanese market, it's the absolute bare minimum of common sense.

Sylens feels like too pivotal a character to just have him fall off the face of the Earth/die offscreen as Nemesis approaches, or to just have him "appear" via text messages and the like.

I don't think there's an elegant solution here - even if they preserved his character model and got a new VA, it'd feel very off, regardless of whether the new VA tried to do his own thing or imitate Reddick's performance. And the AI voice suggestion is terrible in like twenty different ways.

When this happened to me weeks ago while playing Star Ocean, it was only once and I could carry on playing after the 15 minutes ran out without being bothered again. This "expiration loop" sounds significantly more annoying, so hopefully I won't get it while playing the newer Extra games.

Sounds good. I'll try and approach it without too many specific expectations - but to aim a bit low, more info on Stellar Blade would be nice, for example.

There's a few in here I'd like to try playing while I can, but my priority out of those is Wytchwood. Looks very charming.

Hey, I appreciate all extra incentives not to buy games at launch, makes it even easier to catch up with the many oldies I want to play.

GoT is my favorite Sony exclusive by a mile and a half, so it's always nice to hear about Japanese creators I respect enjoying it.

Just when you think online abuse can't get any more irrational, these clowns manage to one up themselves.

Will give it a go on Extra. How long is it, give or take?

Yeah, can't wait to get started with some of these on the 16th. If I had to single out one game I'd probably say Thymesia as I kind of have the soulslike itch at the moment.

I'm fine with the "trade-off" if we want to call it that, but man, the way this stuff works is looking increasingly shaky.

The DLC's coming sooner than I expected it, but that's cool by me.

Hopefully it's actually harder than the main game, but I won't hold my breath because I had to grind to Lv 70 with all characters for one of the trophies which asked for exactly that, and 70's already waaay more of a level than was needed to beat any of the postgame content, whereas they stated that the recommended level for the DLC will be that of the endgame. In other words, I'm expecting some steamrolling.

At least this time it's a game I didn't intend to play right away, unlike SWH.

Looking forward to Thymesia, Humanity and Rift Apart as well as several others. Another solid month for Extra.

Going by his wording ("how the game is shaping up", etc.) I'm going to assume Silksong won't be out until at least 2024. It definitely doesn't sound like a project in its final stages of development, at any rate.

"The anime streaming service is no stranger to adapting video game franchises, having converted the first Shenmue game previously"

That anime adaptation covered the entirety of Shenmue I & II, actually. Goes to show how barebones Shenmue's plot is when you can cram two games into 12 or 13 episodes and still have it feel like a slog instead of rushed.

Anyway, on the topic of anime for a Sony IP there's not much I'd be interested in outside of Tsushima.

"Game Freak" is all I have to read about a project to lose all interest forevermore.

"91 Metacritic rating or better then"

Riiight. Because that's what truly defines the quality of a game: some MC aggregate score.

Finally a Konami-themed pachinko videogame on PS5.

Most unnecessary bad PR ever. The game's sold like hotcakes already and will continue to do so, there was basically zero need to plaster advertisements of it on older games.

@Pat_trick Right? I'm always shocked when this happens.

It certainly is for me, hence it's the only one I pay for.

@LifeGirl More players leads to more conversation about the game which leads to more awareness and visibility which eventually leads to additional sales from people who either don't have Plus or missed the month it was given away.

That, on top of the upfront payment they get for having it included on Plus to begin with.

That's a lot of different softlocks I thankfully didn't experience at all when I was 100%ing this yesterday. The most I got were minor audio bugs such as Aloy randomly saying stuff like "I can use this later" at inappropriate times (e.g. while flying), or a manual marker bugging out on me.

I guess that's one way to get gamers laid.

It's wholesome that the title narrator (?) believes in the heroes so strongly he just had to throw his take in there.

It's a bit interesting that the buyer must pay a compensation fee if the deal doesn't go through even when that's because of circumstances beyond their control.

In any case, if Microsoft was a dude and three billion dollar bills existed, he'd wipe his ass with those everyday. I doubt that amount's much of a concern.

They may or may not be "the future" for playerbases at large, but on a personal note I get an insane amount of value out of my Extra subscription. I end up amortizing the price of a year-long subscription several times over in just a month or two, and that's not an exaggeration. The amount of games I'm completing (not just 'beating') at no additional cost and the money I'm consequently saving by not purchasing all of them is seriously significant.

I guess all that is to say that if game subscriptions are meant to end someday, I'll certainly keep squeezing this one dry for as long as it lasts.