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@nomither6
Yeah, I know. I'm not trying to argue here, but comparing a company the size of Nintendo with Santa Monica Studios ends up being unfair to them.
I might be wrong, but after the classic God of War saga, SM Studios ended up becoming a jack-of-all-trades for Sony for a long time, helping in the development of other games. They reinvented themselves with God of War 2018. GoW Laufey is only the third game after this reinvention, and I don't see any problem with them wanting to tell more stories with this characters, it's one of the most beloved and best selling games for Sony. I also would like to see what else they can do outside of Kratos, but it doesn't make sense for them to make another franchise just to prove they can.

Edit: yes, aparently they made another IP, its called Kinetica, a racing game, in 2001. But I dont know about that one, or if its a good game.

@nomither6 comparing Nintendo with SM Studios is not fair. You should compare with Sony, which also has a lot of different IPs. Its better to compare like Game Freaks, that only makes Pokemon, to Santa Monica and God of War.

I dont get people sometimes. Ghost of, Horizon, Astro Bot, Death Stranding (first one funded by Sony) are relatively new franchises. Wolverine, Intergalactic, Marathon, Returnal, Saros are new franchises.
If they release MP games, people complain. If they release single player experience games, people also complain.
I like God of War, the more games the better. I still have faith for a new Uncharted. Theres plenty of new IPs already, and new ones are coming. Leave God of War alone. Haha

@get2sammyb or Falcom with Trails, Ys.

I also dont like the new direction of the franchise that much, but oh my, the cover art is gorgeous!
Edit: minus the stupid cube.

Another article about AI, Oh No!
Anyway...

That's great, I don't care about trophies, but for someone with almost no time and who likes to play video games in their free time (like me), it's very good for clearing the backlog and enjoying the story.

Japanese horror are something else, very unique, Ill keep an eye on this one.

@AverageGamer ok, makes sense! Thanks!

Im interested, even more so if there are some kind of arcade racing game involved, with the pedigree of motorstorm and the like.
I just dont know what to think of elements that give the cars a more human feel. 😂

Oh no, now the character looks like he came through a portal from Supreme Kai's planet, or worst... from the american west coast! /jk

Hey, I have that comic. 90s X-men and Wolverine was the best!

@Nei They still resent Nintendo for changing Chronicles of the Plumber to Super Mario RPG.

@EvilBear as a Millennial I cant wait to play.

@OmegaStriver
I must have misunderstood, but from what I understand from PushSquare, people are finding the game bad because it's bad, and not because it has women. Looks like the biggest criticism is of a game where everyone is giving it 9s and 10s, and when you actually play it, it's far from that score. But maybe Im wrong, I dont really follow social midia.
Edit: So people are saying in here that it has a kiss with tongue between minors. Now thats strange.

I'm the target audience for this type of game, and I'm extremely interested, its on my wishlist. But I don't find it strange that someone would criticize a 10/10 score for a game that they think is a 6/10, just as it's not strange for people to criticize a 6/10 score from a critic for a game that everyone thinks is a 10/10. They're opinions. This game seems to be the new darling of the press.

@Mythologue captain marvel movie is from 2019, back them, everyone watched almost all the marvel movies because the MCU, all the way to avengers endgame, was incredible, and all conected. All the other Captain Marvel movies or series all bombed after this.
The quality has dropped drastically in majority of the movies, and the amount of ideology and messages in them pratically killed Hollywood.
On of the last big successes was Top Gun and Spider Man, precisely because it didnt try to lecture anyone.

@Oram77 haha. Ok, agreed with you on that. Just scrap Yotei from my list. (But I still think she is bi from the interactions in the game)

@Oram77 I played, but because its implied, I need other voices agreeing with my point, so I did a little search on Google and one of the first pages that appeared was lesbian gamers on reddit.

@DennisReynolds yeah, nothing wrong if she is bi. Agreed on Black Cat, but the other examples remain.

@Oram77 theres some hints with Oyuki, some "sexual tension", its only implied, maybe im wrong on that also. But a lot of people on the Internet also thinks theres something between them. Again, only implied.

@ShadowRJ yes, its not a big plot point, but its there. Maybe Im wrong, but its strongly implied that she is bi.

@Ambassador_Kong another Sony obsession.

I find it funny that Sony today (their studios) is obsessed with lesbian relationships; it seems like almost all of their biggest franchises have them, or is strongly implied. Ghost of Yotei, Saros, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider Man 2, The Last of Us 1 and 2, Horizon Forbidden West.. Cool, I guess.

They should make a sequel to Robocop, day one buy from me. What a great, AA game.

I like this approach. This is how Capcom got out of the hole, both creatively and financially, and reinvented itself, telling a story on the fringes of the Resident Evil universe, with Resident Evil 7. The same could be done with the movie universe.

Love this new era of Atari. Their retro history series with games like tetris, atari 50 and lhamasoft are awesome. They sure reinvented themselves.

Edward looks like the guy from Sons of Anarchy. I love this game, day one for me.

I think lately there's a greater chance of the art resembling the new Contra than pixel art, but we'll see.

@cainhurst94 Yes, Jim was very questionable in how he handled game releases and his position in live service games, but everyone forgets the position he was put in when Microsoft was buying all the studios. The PlayStation community was desperate and asking him to buy other studios as well, and also for Sony to implement a subscription service similar to Game Pass. He withstood the pressure, stuck to his strategy, and pursued legal action, and in the end, despite the lack of exclusive games (compared to the PS4), Sony came out on top. Game Pass isn't the money maker they imagined (and he said this at the time), and Microsoft was forced to release the games on PlayStation. He can be criticized in other aspects, of course, but he deserves more credit for the "battle" he faced against a company 10 times bigger (at least) than Sony, which could had, according to messages from Microsoft executives, meant the end of Playstation.

Those other actresses youre mentioning would all be great options, of course, but they are also more successful actresses, better actresses, and more sought after by the film industry in general. This role is a greater opportunity for Sophie, and also a greater risk for the others.

Yes, price increases are never good news. And whats worse, if we consider that Apple will sell approximately 240 million IPhones only in 2026, at a price equal or higher than the PS Pro, I believe these video game prices are here to stay, regardless of whether component prices decrease in the future. These companies have data showing that consumers are willing to spend on desired products; they just needed a reason to adjust the prices.

The film industry, at the current state, needs ticket sales. Like it or not, the Super Mario movie, today, is doing more for the industry than the vast majority of this year's Oscar nominees.

Kenshiro would be great in Mortal Kombat. Just imagine the fatalities.
Great adition to FF.

"We created a gigantic game, with a gigantic team of artists, with tremendous efforts, but we apologize for using an available tool to create a tiny piece of art that nobody would have paid attention to, that helped in the early stages of development. We don't want to be canceled for something totally idiotic like this. We will do better in the future. Im sorry."

Isnt Trails in the Sky story similar?

These examples being shown, besides being just examples because no one has yet used the technology to truly know what it's capable of, show an already defined art from a game being "altered," which is why many people are bothered. When eventually used from the beginning in a game, nobody will even know, because there won't be that comparison anymore.

I'm playing the Robocop game, and although I know it's an AA game, not AAA, the characters' faces slightly hinder immersion, are kinda ugly by today standards, because the developers, I think, didnt have many resources for it. A smaller developer studio will greatly improve their game with this technology and use to their advantage to make a better game.

In my opinion, if used properly, it will be a great technology.

@Member_the_game yeah, if a collection of Bill and Ted for the NES exists, there should be one for the Simpsons. The Bart vs series has a lot of problems, but is miles better than Bill and Ted NES. Plus The Simpsons Arcade game.

What if it was Nintendo itself that requested the exclusion from PlayStation? Maybe it helped fund the game? Who knows. Making a port on Xbox today is almost like making a port on Netflix Games. It doesn't affect Nintendo at all (I guess). Let's be honest, the only one that poses any challenge, even a small one, to Nintendo is Sony, and nowadays Bravely Default is better known as a Nintendo game than any other company, where it sells very well.
But if that wasn't the case, well, if Sony wanted the game so badly to please its players, it would have made an offer to Square Enix. Moving on.

With all due respect, what a stupid discussion. If someone is unhappy with how Sony, or other platforms, conduct their business, the solution is to stop buying from that brand and switch to a more appealing one. It's not like video games are a necessity in people's lives; it's a hobby. I also don't agree with the slow death of physical games. Being able to trade, lend, and sell them is much better. But there is an option: not to buy anymore. Soon they'll be saying that Nintendo should be sued because people are forced to buy a Switch to play Mario games.

@BrokenByTheScream Agreed, but back in the day it was easier to be a clone, today it would be absolutely impossible to compete with GTA VI. Even without knowing the game, I know its going to be absurdly huge in size and graphics.
I think being a parody would be the best way for them to come back, considering the level of production that games demand nowadays.
Maybe with a good, funny and mature story, without been over the top as Saints Row 3 (a game I personally enjoyed back in the day), who knows, maybe they would have a chance for a comeback (if the reboot hadn't ended the franchise). Gat and the others having to deal with a changed world and their own age.
That would be cool.

@Oram77 Yeah, I just want to tease a little. I don't think neither Naughty Dog or Bluepoint should be closed.

Bluepoint released, in my opinion, one of the best exclusives of this generation. If they really wanted to save money, they should have shut down Naughtie Dog, a studio that must be at least five times bigger and produces nothing.

@DennisReynolds
You gave several examples of great game stories from more recent times. But I wouldn't dismiss games from 20 years ago, and in a way, I also prefer the stories, in general, of older games. Final Fantasy IX, X, Max Payne, Silent Hill 2, 3, Resident Evil 4, Shadow of the Colossus, MGS 2 and 3, to name a few that came to mind, all games with great stories from that era, on the level of those games you named, or better, absolut classics, still unsurpassed today in terms of narrative within their respective franchises, in my opinion.

The good news: it will end after the third season.
The bad news: there will be a third season.

I think the reason is that they are investing money and effort in the Kiwami version, and they want to recoup some of that investment. Maybe the remastered version will return in a year, who knows. But yeah, it would be better for both to coexist.

@PerpetualBoredom I understand that. But intellectual property is still protected by law. Every technology will have to adapt to a new reality, and new regulations will emerge. Every game creator will utilize this technology from now on. Either we abandon video games altogether in protest, or we continue and hope for the best.

I understand people's concern about artists' jobs, but, used carefully, hopefully it will be a good tool for them; artists will reinvent themselves with the technology. Reading the comments here, it seems like a "technology from hell" (sorry for the exageration), but a few decades ago, Toy Story was revolutionary; it was a shock to traditional hand-drawn animation. Or the film Final Fantasy: Spirits Within, which, according to people at that time, would threaten actors' jobs because it was so realistic (yes, this was a thing at the time).

Edit: I think I focused too much on the creative side of the subject, and the concern of many is among others the theft of property that comes with technology. I commented on that below. And let's hope for the best for our hobby.

The problem is that the director is one of the most incompetent, overrated people in ND and Sony, and the only game he managed to launch, as a director, on his own, was The Last of Us Part II. How many years ago? Now, when it comes to giving interviews, he's great.

The game looks absolutely incredible, reminds me of Battle Chef Brigade. I can't wait.