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Buying this studio was a bigger blunder than Concord (or close enough), an absolute headache for Sony whichever way you look without having anything good to show for the troubles.

Absolutely hated the first one, I have never been so bored playing a video game. I saw that 2 is more of the same but prettier, that said I want it to come for the people that liked the first one and only game on PlayStation.

@Cloud39472 Well she is a new character and based on the user scores of Stellar Blade most people loved her too. Now if the award was instead best new personality then maybe you would have a point 🤷

This was going to be the reaction regardless of what Naughty Dog showed, it could have been a fusion dance of Black Myth and Elden Ring and the reaction would have been "nice try unoriginal Neil Cuckmann the game will still suck lolol Cuckmann get it 🤣" 😒

My dudes your game was fortunate to be nominated for goty, your 81% metacritic score is a historic low for being in that category. Stellar Blade has that same 81% (and much higher user score) and that couldn't win a cup of coffee.

How ungrateful that you went home with two awards and that was still a waste of your time when any other company would have been filled with joy just being invited there 😐

@RudeHero As having played both games fully (unlike you) there's not a single point in Astro Bot where I stopped everything and said "omg this is just like Mario Galaxy!" 😒

You really think if Astro Bot had plagiarize anything that Nintendo wouldn't have swam Team ASOBI studios with a swat team full of lawyers? If it bothers you reading about Astro Bot is perhaps beter that you stay in Nintendo Life!

Astro Bot my personal goty but Stellar Blade is a close second, I can't believe it wasn't nominated for anything 😐

Easily the biggest disappointment of the night (if is only Sonic characters), instead of making a sequel to the beloved All-star Racing & Transformed games they want to follow up the terrible Team Sonic Racing!?

"You can already feel the budget oozing out of the screen for this one"

Yup it's the first thing I noticed, polished to the most minimal pixel. Some might not like some of their most recent writing (not me though) but I don't think anyone can say they are not packed to the brim with talent.

Of course Capcom showed up with it's A game, they have been unstoppable since the PS4 era began (after a very mixed PS3 era)

No disagreements here, no other game has made me smile more while playing than Astro Bot. Can't wait to see how they follow this up!

@ApostateMage I'm kind of curious what you were posting like before Cyberpunk was ever announced, what was your previous obsession? 😁

I also join in the sentiment that most Fromsoft games should remain multiplat with only games like Bloodborne 2 (which comes out right after a Bloodborne remaster lol) and Demon's souls 2 being exclusives.

Ghost of Yotei is the only day one for me, actually is the only one from that list that interest me. I really hope we get a few surprises next year, I'm very curious about what Bluepoint is working on.

@dskatter "I don’t think anyone from the Arkham days are left there, sadly."

Most of the ground floor developers should still be there, it was just Hill and Walker that left and I remind you they steered the Titanic (SS) more than half way through. They only jumped from the ship when they saw the iceberg 🤷

"Any game releasing in close proximity will almost certainly have its sales affected"

That's not counting the press and buzz that GTA 6 will command, any game released close enough to it will have to sell itself with essentially zero coverage. I wouldn't even bother putting money on marketing said game as no one will be looking.

@naruball The most played games in the world are f2p, people just don't want Sony's attempt at trying to hit it big. They have one Success with three flops so far them being Destruction AllStars, Concord and Fairgame$ (you can feel it will be on this list 🙃)

Well hurry up with it Sony! I've been dying to upgrade from my PS Vita which I still use to this day, I want to stay in the PlayStation ecosystem which is why I haven't bother with other portables.

Twitter/X is a cesspool of the very worst humanity has to offer, you see the worst of the right and the left battle it out. I only use Youtube & Tik Tok but I hope whatever this new platform is succeeds 👍

@z0d15g0d "Can people stop with the horizon cultism please."

You new here? you will not find a site where users are more negative towards the Horizon franchise than this one, I'm including myself in that wave of negativity.

@nessisonett "Hahahahahahaha enjoy your £700-£800 beta for the PS6"

Pretty sure they are enjoying their systems, at the end of the day it's a PS5 so they get to enjoy the same games you're enjoying (the majority in better quality with 1-2 exceptions temporarily till they get patched again).

@KundaliniRising333 It's absolutely on the devs, who else would it be on? There have been incredible implementations of PSSR where it exceeds a native 4K image like in Stellar Blade and Forbidden West. So yes it's on the devs 🙂 (plus Ubisoft probably didn't give them enough time).

@Judal27 Yup I've see these comparison vids too and they are trying really hard out there. Like they claim Astro Bot in the Japanese level going big is copying Mario. I had no idea Nintendo invented going small to big in a game 😅

Looks like they want to sell no matter what so yeah I would prefer Sony over the others. Fromsoft is a bonus in the deal although I'm sure their games would stay multiplatform.

That's great news! MK1 in some ways felt like a step down from MK11 which itself was a step down from MKX. It needs to go back to being dark and gritty, make it so that in a way we feel like we're playing a horror game (again like MKX).

It will probably pass it and that's fine records are meant to be broken. That said it's time for a new Switch asap, I tried playing the other day on my giant TV and the games basically look like PS2 games to me 🤷

Give me a portable machine that can play my entire PS4/PS5 catalog (that I don't have to repurchase) with streaming for PS6 and I'll happily pay that $500-$600. They add in PS1/PS2/PS3 support and I can go up to $700!

@ChimpMasta "It’s simply not possible to create current gen performance in a handheld due to power and heat dissipation."

You can currently play PC versions of Forbidden West, Black Myth, Ragnarok and many more on Steam Deck. Those are current gen games running natively on a portable, why can't Sony do something similar with their portable?

A remastered collection with all the GOW up to Ascension sounds lovely! what wouldn't be lovely is a crappy show or a crappy Lego 🙁

It's a bottom of the barrel Lego game, no one was taking time off from work to play it. I'm surprised it's even that high, most people have already forgotten it even exists.

@Ralizah "I don't see the point with Sony's games all going to PC anyway"

Well if/when Sony releases their portable that would mean they would prioritize their portable over the Deck (and PC ports maybe start to dwindle) which is what I'm sure you're more afraid of.

Also as soon as this comes out the Steam Deck will take a back seat and Sony would have the number 2 most popular portable, like Sammy said the Steam Deck hasn't even sold as much as the Vita (aka one of Sony's biggest failure..after Concord!)

@mariomaster96 "since Sony brings their games to PC anyway not really needed"

This wouldn't be aimed at Steam users, they have the Steam deck. This is for strictly PlayStation users who have a giant collection of PS4/PS5 (plus future PS6 titles) games and want to play it on the go.

@Northern_munkey "I find the treatment this game has had to endure quite indicative of the herd mentality"

It's one of the best selling games of the year and is currently picking up goty awards, what treatment? it seems like it's doing fine for itself. Cause 2-3 news outlets did one negative article each about it? You're angry because It should have received 100% positive coverage or else?

@sanderson72 "Every PS5 is ugly"

When you play games are you looking at the console or the TV? What difference does it make what it looks like if is getting the job done?

If is because guest that visit you keep telling you how ugly it looks tell them to mind their own business and go play tag in the highway 🤷

As far as acquisitions go it makes the most sense besides Sony would probably keep all the FromSoft games multiplat except those that belong to Sony. They are only really interested in growing their anime empire to one of the biggest in the world.

@Wario_Waha "there's past precedence for people not liking From Software."

Sir which is the game that's universally loved here on Push Square and the entire site has been begging to be remastered? I heard someone shout Bloodborne, who made that game? Demon's Souls is another one, FromSoftware is synonymous with PlayStation.

Still don't understand the desire to remaster games perfectly playable on current gen (with an exception only made for Bloodborne 😛). Let's get some remasters of fantastic games rotting away on the PS3!

@LifeGirl If anything it makes Ubisoft look the worst and confirms many people's stereotypes about them being a bunch of talentless hacks who just copy and paste their formula everywhere.

"This game has less peak concurrent player than Concord"

I didn't want to believe it so I had to check and yup! It debuted to lower numbers and it's doing worse than Concord in the same time frame. A complete ghost town, great job Herman for having two first party games bomb so close to each other 👍

This is the stuff that needs remastering! Great games that are stuck on old dead platforms.

It's safe to say Sony will have a Horizon game ready every year for the foreseeable future, I'm guessing Horizon 3 will be ready by 2026. So buckle up everyone Sony is going to make you love Horizon or else

Not a big deal this time as this game can probably run on the PS3 & Vita if they wanted, I'm more shocked at having to choose between performance and fidelity on PS5.

If I had to guess he's probably waiting for Lina Khan to be gone who was the most vicious against monopolies and acquisitions. So yeah expect Microsoft to go on a shopping spree again and no one will stop them 🤷

Currently averaging 70 on Metacritic which is what I expected from a vapid Lego game. I hope after this Guerilla slows down with trying to make Horizon happen, let it rest a bit and give us some other IP (new or old).

On formerly Twitter you can pretty much find any opinion on anything and make a controversy on whatever you want, I tune out when I see "rando Twitter user says". With that said I can't wait for this new game!

If this GOTY contender that has as much charm as anything else this gen doesn't do well then we absolutely deserve endless Live service games! If it's confirmed that it didn't sell much I hope Concord 2 gets announced along with Concord the animated series!

This is jealousy and bitterness in it's purest form! He's hurt that this "small kids game" is receiving critical acclaim while also using the character he created, meanwhile his game debuted to a middling reception and now he's stuck making NFT games for Crypto bros 🤷

"is barely hitting 20,000 concurrent players"

That actually sounds pretty good to me not sure why they expected more. It does put into perspective the almost less than 100 people playing Concord, in fact Suicide Squad is averaging more players 😅

@DDDD You give them $40 worth of in-game skins, cosmetics and/or currency. They either turn it to F2P to have a fighting chance (maybe getting those 2,000+ players from the beta) or everything stays the same and the game is pulled in a couple of months so those who paid get to play dead air.

So then we should wait for the definitive PC version of the game which will be cheaper, look and run better? genius marketing right here! must be the same marketing team of Concord 😒