JuiceboxMeister

Well this is horrible news! Don't know much about the gaming side but netflix is crap at adapting books to screen and they will no doubt butcher the HP series. Mind you, I didn't have much hope for HBO to do it well either. Certainly wasn't a series that needed rebooting or a "modern" (read trash) retelling. Will be just a bunch of contemporary nonsense.

Everyone needs to read up on the fiduciary and legal obligations corporations are held to toward their shareholders. It is not that these companies care more about AI then their employees but that their shareholders have legal recourse to sue (and potentially tank) the company if they are not putting their share value first and foremost. This is codified, not just some company by-law.

I am not writing this in defense of adopting AI and screwing over people but that everyone might have a better understanding as why things are progressing like this. And before all the "cool" comments are made about late stage capitalism, this originally began back in 1919, and has more to do with greed than anything else.

What I took away from this is that the development budget was only $15M!! That's peanuts compared to some other budgets. Since Remedy only has ~$80M in assets it hurts them but at least it is not Concord levels. The game may not have stuck but at least we know Remedy can do great work with a small budget.

The infamous games do not need a remaster! They need a new entry! Please stop remastering games. I get all the arguments but it's the wrong move. Sucker Punch should not remaster anything. Lease their IPs out to other studios trying to make a name for themselves.

Does anyone know the names of the songs used in the trailer??

I think they will explore the war/battle against the Writers that Clea mentions she is fighting while the rest of the family is off grieving in the painting. Would be connected but give them the foundation to try entirely different things with whatever power a Writer holds.
I don't mean it has to take place at the same time the rest of the family is in the painting though. I may be wrong, but I inferred that Verso was killed by a fire that the Writers started, so a lot of overlap can be had with the Dessendre family. Just my thoughts and hopes.

This looks ***** wild and I am here for it!! Goodness I love indie for it's off the wall ideas that I would never think of but damn if it doesn't look fun.

@Sergo you're not lying! It's just one "great" (TBD of course) game after another. Had no idea about this one but it is definitely on the list now!

Sword of the Sea!!! This is one of the very few games I will BUY and had no idea it was going to be part of PS+. And I get to add some games to my library.

Sure would be great if they took some of that extra capital and invested it in their customer support department so I can play the damn game!!

@8thDoctor Well *****! I don't have the email I signed up with and I've been reading nothing but horror stories of people who have tried to get support through EA. Looks like I'll be forced to pass on this then.

I wasn't able to play this. I tried but I got a connection error everytime with my EA account not connecting to my PSN. Was so disappointed. There was no way to disassociate the EA /PSN accounts to relink them and possibly fix the problem either. Hopefully next weekend it will work. Really want to play this! Does anyone know if the EA account will be required for the full game?

This is one of my anticipated games of the year. I wasn't sold on it until they released a little trailer showing that YOU had to figure things out without all the normal video game handholding. Really hope it's executed well and is successful.

I would love to see them get an old IP from Sony to revitalize. I think it would be too soon to reboot God of War in a different mythology. Would I play it still, abso-*****-lutely!

In the great words of Falcon, "As the GDP dips, the characters get hips!"

The one feature I would love to see return, though it has nothing to do with PS+, is the ability to customize your Hub screen, not just your profile. Let me put screenshots in the background again. Change up the icons for fun. Just add a little flair to MY screen.

@HaveTheSauce you don't need any! This game has great matchmaking and everybody plays well together for the most part.

It's crazy that a company worth TRILLIONS is making cuts to jobs to save millions. Would it really be that bad to report a loss for a few quarters. I know there is probably more nuance to all this but it seems to me that a parent company worth that much could weather the storm for its sub-groups or subsidiaries. I can understand this for Ubisoft but not for Microsoft.

@Kraven There were people who didn't like the combat in TW3? This is a serious question because I loved the combat and didn't know there was any dislike about it.

I mean, I know there is a lot of complaining and claims of uninstalling but there will be another "news" story about this again in 4-months because no one is actually going to stop playing. Activision keeps doing this because it WORKS and stupid people buy their games who don't care about quality and can't stand on missing out with the latest CoD BS. This IS gaming and we all voted for it through our wallets and our persistent belief that they will change because they said so. Luckily, I got too old and started getting my ass kicked way to much to enjoy CoD, so gave it up for completely unrelated reasons to money.

I never played Atomic Hearts, was it any good? Not sure if I'll ever get around to it with the size of my back log.

@Ravix Okay, so don't feel one way or the other about this game but after you pointed out the car rolling I had to go back and watch it. Is that buggy AI or could it possibly have been the car he is chasing ran into and made it roll or tip and it was just slowly falling back onto all four wheels?

@jvecc As cool as that may be I'm sure the licensing fees alone would be astronomical for all those characters. I doubt many publishers consider it financially sound. Would be freaking amazing though!

@themightyant bwahhaha I was thinking this when reading through the comments, "Was the article about jason statham??" Even though I had just read the article lol Absolute gold.

This would be perfect to introduce a MGR: Revengeance style dismemberment feature!!

Well, it's good to know some things never change. Case-in-point Ubisoft never learns.

@Hapless Halo and ES: Oblivion were the two games that really brought the next gen in for me as a kid after the N64. I despise remasters but for these two titles I will gladly make the exception and throw away my principles lol you are right, it will be a strange day when you play Halo on Playstation.

The inevitable end of all live service formats.

@ThorsHammer my thoughts exactly! Just give me the multiplayer deathmatches and another great campaign. Does not need to be a constant grind game.

@MidnightDragonDX I didn't know it was that far back, crazy.

This is gonna be good! Need some more Ghost in my life.

Could you imagine how epic this announcement would have been if there wasn't people leaking info?!?!? Always someone out there that has to ruin the fun by being the first to break a story.

Let's ***** go!!!

@Bentleyma 9 DAYS OFF!! Must be nice, you work at a bank like Arvest or something!?

Was super excited and then saw "2026" damnit!! Will def be getting this and adding it to my already immense backlog but I love me some tactics and star wars.

As of December '24 there were approx. 47.4 million PS plus users. To keep math simple, if you did essential pricing for all of them at $80 USD (yearly) that's approx. $3.8 billion! I don't run a major corporation nor know how much Playstation makes Sony overall but the fact they "need" to raise the price is absurd to me.

This piqued my interest and will probably be added to my backlog list.

I hate remasters but you better f**king believe I will be getting this!

How did I miss the original announcement for this game years back! Love tactics games and Star Wars, can't wait for the reveal, hope it is good!

@Dragon83 this is exactly why I never made the jump to destiny 2! destiny was fun but it soured quick for me.

@pyrrhic_victory goodness, Deep Down is one game I am really disappointed we never got to see. Talk about a good name drop! I still have hopes for Pragmata though.

@JohntheRaptor well that seems a little pedantic to me but makes sense. I unfortunately do not have the time nor freedom to play like I once could so my reasons to play a game nowadays are determined by pretty broad and hardline strokes. Remakes v remasters being one of them. Thanks for the explanation.

Haven't seriously played an AC since Revelations. Tried Origins but it didn't click with me by the end of the tutorial missions so I put it down. I guess I didn't give it a real chance but I'm afraid my nostalgia bias for the Ezio and Altair games is too strong to make me try again. Hope this does well for Ubisoft's sake. Then again, if not, maybe they'll put the IP up for sale and someone can redeem it. Who knows.

Why does this have a remaster????

@nessisonett my main gripe with the hobbit trilogy and RoP is it became to "marvelized" with all the CGI. Compared to the practical effects and art of the lotr trilogy, they just seemed like a super hero movie/show. Everything has to be a cash cow now, so no surprise its lost substance. But that's just my opinion, could be nostalgia too, I was a kid when the first trilogy came and loved em!

@JohntheRaptor Not sure if you are joking? It has REMAKE in the title and is a reimagining of the 1997 game. Wouldn't call that a sequel. Not that it truly matters, just a game after all.

Love the style and is def on my list now!!!

I know it says "remake" but does that really mean remaster? I consider a remake in the vein of FF7 Remake/Rebirth, whereas a remaster is TLoU Part 1 on PS5. I figured a remake would have garnered more attention and marketing at an earlier point. Just curious since those two terms are used interchangeably quite often.

I would love to see this implemented in a detective game once it has been polished and can incorporate written material in a seamless fashion. How fun would it be to truly have to investigate and interview people for clues and lies!?

@Retron weren't the bundled PS5/HFW more expensive than the base PS5, by like $50? I'm pretty sure they would count that as a sale since it wasn't technically bundled for free, just at a slightly discounted game price, right? I could be misremembering though so don't quote me on that.
The Horizon games are great but I rank the first as a better game compared to the second. Story was more interesting to me, it seemed predictable in the second game.