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What was on the USB, Randy?

Hangar 13 proved they couldn't handle an open world with Mafia III, so this is good news

KILLZONE BROS WE GONNA BE EATIN' REAL GOOD SOON!

A nice way of showing how Playstation can play a central role in family life. Surprised it wasn't passed to the wife's boyfriend at some point.

That's what you get when a poorly-run studio makes an ill-advised engine switch without proper time and resources to prepare for it.

Maybe now they can get national teams back into the game, that'd be nice. Oh yes, we're upgrading the engine, but leaving loads of features behind because uhhhhhh lol

Those are Concord numbers.

Difference being Concord dropped this low on like day 3, not year 3. We know how that ended.

Who the **** keeps buying these damn things?

Hey, I'm all for historical accuracy if that's one of the selling points of the game. Lots of respect for War Horse.

Remember; 3.6 billion could have funded many, many games based on classic and new IPs

Been there from day 1 Hitman 2016, each subsequent installment was a downgrade in terms of maps but still a joy to play. If you started the game today, ooft, hundreds of hours of fun.

And fun I did have. 100%ed the original game, then 100%ed Hitman 2 (redoing the 2016 levels) and DLC list, then Platted Hitman 3 on PS4 and PS5. Hokkaido is the best map, don't @ me.

Ubisoft can't stop taking L's, it seems. Is the latest batch of Ass Creed slop really worth all of this?

SotC is probably the best Playstation exclusive I have ever played. The original and the remake.

Hollywood, especially this C-lister, will never be able to do it justice. Please leave the game untouched, don't taint it.

@dark_knightmare2 No worse than playing as whatever the Helldivers are supposed to be.

Besides, the ISA / Vekta are unironically the bad guys in Killzone lore.

We'll see. A number of the folks involved in greenlighting this also greenlit Concord. Won't be surprised if the movie bombs, but if it pops off, good on Sony.

Hopefully they'd use the profits on giving us a Killzone game where you play as the Helghast. A man can dream (= be delusional).

Could sold millions of copies by making another Batman game. Drop the Arkhamverse, start afresh. Do Batman Beyond. Do something based on The Batman. I dunno. It's frickin' Batman. The guy is evergreen, the Arkham games still sell pretty well even today on digital storefronts.

But no. Sacrifice your cashcow studio, supposedly one of the best of the PS3 and PS4 generations, on the altar of life service titles. Using a lifeless IP (Suddy Squad will NEVER be a big mainstream thing, guys, it shouldn't have taken you two movies and a game to figure that out) and tired looter shooter mechanics.

WB and Rocksteady would've won the Dunces-of-the-Year award were it not for the valiant efforts of Sony and Firewalk. Although now you can argue that Suddy Squad failed even at failing, getting one-upped like that.

@Burnish1619 oh good lord, is that the creepy bug-eyed lady that seems to be in every other game? Yeah lmao, I wasn't ever gonna touch the dub but this is a nice big additional nail in the coffin.

English dub? Dame da no thanks.

CONCORD 2: PLAYERCOUNT BOOGALOO CONFIRMED HERE WE ***** GO BOOOOOOOOOOOYS

"the video game god himself Neil Druckmann"

Druckmann wouldn't make my top 100 of most influential/consequential developers. Yet this is the God of gaming? Shigeru Miyamoto who? Hideo Kojima who? Yu Suzuki who? Shinji Mikami? Toshihiro Nagoshi? Satoshi Tajiri? Hideki Kamiya? Hidetaka Miyazaki? How about a few Western folks? Warren Spector, Will Wright, John Carmack, Ed Boon?

Her saying this, ironically or unironically, says quite a lot about her and/or the kind of relationship you need to have with someone to land starring roles in entertainment. Cringe. What a shame.

Nothing from Firewalk?

The PS Studios game I had the most fun with this year was..... Concord.

Didn't play it, not even the beta. That whole spectacle unfolding was the single-most gripping narrative Sony has ever produced, and wholly unintentionally at that. I sat down with a 30 minute video of a guy clicking through the badly-written lore dumps with typoes in them (Firewalk cannot into spelling) to laugh at it, I watched the weekly cutscenes to laugh at them, and I look out for Youtube essays just to laugh some more ('The Absolute Chaos of Concord' is a good one). I signed the 'Re-release Concord, We Were All Busy That Week' petition. The Concord episode is the only bit of Secret Level I care about. I go to Taco Bell hoping it's a former Firewalk executive putting the fries in my bag.

Have to question Sony's business strategy of spunking 400 million smackers down the drain to give everyone this daring meta experience for free, but I thank them for trying something entirely new. Looking forward to the epic sequel next year, inexplicably called Fairgame$ rather than Concord 2.

Looks cringe, zero interest. Whole vibe feels extremely dated. Feel free to call me any number of names ending in -ist, don't care. I tend to play as buff Japanese dudes in most of my games that don't have a character creator, but I'm not exactly a buff Japanese dude IRL. I'm also not whatever this trailer identifies as. Hopefully that helps people understand that, actually, not everyone who dislikes whatever this trailer is trying to go for is a bad person.

This is the type of game we need more of on Playstation. Smacks of something that would have been a Vita-exclusive in the past.

My answer is always; did a Yakuza/Like a Dragon/Judgment game release? If so, GOTY.

Totally tubular, dude.

Fake news, it has Concordillions of players on PS5!

Jokes aside, it did not crack the top 10 games played on PSNProfiles, a ranking which, while heavy on Trophy hunters, is one of the better indications we have available to us when it comes to playercounts on PSN. It petered out at 11th, and then dropped - it's 13th at the time of writing. For a first party title built on not one but two big IPs, that's pretty damn dire.

Please just give us a Playstation equivalent for the Steam Deck, the Portal being reliant on streaming from the console itself is not good enough. It's 2024, nearly 2025, I do not want to be bound to a TV screen for my gaming needs.

As long as they don't add new Trophies, I'm all for it. Played and Platted it as part of PS Plus Extra.

The game has 'PS Plus Essential' written all over it, wouldn't be surprised to see it in the monthly line-up somewhere in the next twelve months.

An absolute steal of an acquisition considering how much quality stuff they get. Daylight robbery when you contrast it with how much money went to waste buying Bungie and the halfwits at Firewalk.

You're Sony, you include Resistance FoM and Resistance 2 in your super expensive deluxe subscription tier, but you can't be bothered to get Insomniac to hook some multiplayer servers back up to make the games fully playable?

The announcements from Sony should make it entirely clear that both games are only partial inclusions. Both shipped with expansive online modes that are now dead in the water.

If you as platform holder think they are worthy inclusions to your service, then it takes some real cognitive dissonance to say 'oh, but the online modes are totally irrelevant'.

Yes, I'm mad because I have unobtainable Resistance 2 trophies lol

I'm sorry, but, maybe Horizon just isn't 'a thing'. Sony, or maybe Hermen specifically, think they can make it 'a thing'. But it just ain't.

This is not a Star Wars or Marvel-level franchise. It never will be. It's two pretty but otherwise unremarkable open world games and now a sub-standard LEGO spin-off. I'm surprised it didn't debut lower on Steam. Sony's own Star Wars, Concord, launched at 698 players.

Not that I want to rain on anyone's parade, but these horrible YouTooz and Funko Pop vinyl figures, that take any popular IP they can find and mutilate and molest the characters to fit their products, are just ghastly.

Funko is horrible with those beady-eyes, and half the time you can't even recognize what character they're supposed to be - especially with humans, as the faces are all generic and the bodies comparatively tiny. YouTooz just feels to me like a late arrival to the party who are not subtle at all in ripping off Funko's shtick with differently-styled eyes.

Please give Ghostwire: Tokyo a try. It's not a perfect game, but its sandbox is absolutely beautiful and full of atmosphere.

I loved Ghostwire on PS Plus Extra, so while I have already played and Platinumed and 100%ed it, I am pleased to now add it to my library on a slightly more permanent basis. It's an acquired taste, but if it does fit your palate, it's a blast to play through.

However, the Platinum is a humongous grind and the 100% introduces a fair bit of difficulty plus RNG collectibles in its roguelite mode. Looking forward to seeing the average and Platinum rarity drop a few notches.

BBC News ran a piece on this, with the presenter saying he 'dressed up as the video game character Hitman'.

I had to stop myself from going on a rant and scaring everyone around me.

I still have NHL 2K10, that's good enough. Even then, you can get something like NHL 20 or 21 for less than the price of a cup of coffee if you want something more modern. No reason to ever buy these games brand new and let EA get away with the painfully minor updates each year.

Unless you're a HUT or MUT or FUT fan, in which case I'm just glad you didn't get addicted to something worse.

Ubisoft; 'after 8 years and numerous delays, we have finally released a bare bones pirate ship simulator with dreadful monetization'

RGG Studio; '***** it, we ball - side-game we threw together quickly, including naval combat plus everything else found in a Yakuza/LAD game now comes out a week early'

Can these guys get any more goated holy ****

I skipped out on the PS4.

I got a PS5 months after release, and guess what? I've been able to enjoy an endless deluge of last-gen games at cut-rate prices. Pennies on the Pound stuff. Disc drive. Used copy. PSN sale. No problems whatsoever.

And then the new PS Plus tiers came, and I bought a few years of PS Now to convert into Premium cheaply. Now I genuinely don't remember the last game I bought new on day 1. Yakuza Like a Dragon, I think? Purely to support RGG studio.

All this to say, don't be a mug. Let others pay the premium and beta test the bugs for you, and ride their coat tails for cheap a few months or years later. You don't seriously think games like Star Wars Outlaws are worth playing on release, right?

I know four of these names, and for the rest I have just no clue. If you told me they came from whatever IMDB's adult-only equivalent is, I'd believe you.

They're insane if they bring it back now. Do you really want to take the 99.9% risk that this flops AGAIN? Your tentpole first party title, flopping twice, that's what you want?

It's like re-releasing Morbius an-.... oh.

Very slay. This is the kind of genre diversity we need.

@tselliot That sounds interesting, what was the quote exactly? Sounds like the French equivalent of Concord's 'Talentless freaks' moment.

You should watch the cutscenes, she goes on an anti-v4xx rant in her 'ending'. Throws around words like 'bodily autonomy', 'colonizer', 'wealth redistribution'. I can't believe hundreds of devs had a hand in this, and no one said 'you know, this actually isn't the epic slay we think it is'. Or they did, and got shut down by senior / third party agents.

I'm really sorry, but this looks really poor. Deviating way, way too far from the source material from the looks of it. Easy pass for me, despite being a hardcore, obsessive fans since 2010.

I'm all for fighting for your right to your own patents, but surely this money would be much better spent on making an actual next-gen Pokemon game, rather than the woefully buggy low-tech slop Game Freak has served with Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet.

There is a timeline out there where Nintendo managed to wrestle control of the franchise away from Game Freak and Creatures Inc, and had actually competent studios do the mainline games and achieve world peace.

Right guys, who will chip into my GoFundMe to buy the Killzone license? I'll call the project 'True Killzone 3' and it opens with you shooting Rico before he shoots Visari.

I know I'll likely be the only one saying this, but I absolutely loathe the tone and especially the artstyle of this game. Can't quite find the words for it, but it's incredibly off-putting from the use of colours to the 'whimsical' characters to just the general vibe. I also don't understand why the lines on every character and object seem to be broken up. The art lead putting an ill-informed signature gimmick on everything, perhaps?

Other day 1 PS Plus Extra games like Tchia and Stray had a lot going for it. Lesser known gems like Jett: The Far Shore were well worth experiencing. But this one seems to offer absolutely nothing at all. A shame for all involved.

Was it really that hard/expensive to get the old voice actor back? Really, guys? What a shame. Glad I found a physical copy of the original for PS4 in Hong Kong, just 6 quid too - what a steal.

I enjoyed 2042 via PS Plus. Perfectly fine bog-standard shooter, better than Battlefield V. Future settings are much more interesting than the present when executed well, but DICE really didn't manage to spin a good yarn in 2042.