This was actually one of the games most excited for. Although I am being cautiously optimistic about it.

The devs made some decent games. I generally don't enjoy souls like games but I did enjoy Lords of the Fallen. Well, what I played of it since I suck at soulslike games and gave up halfway through.

I tried out the Surge as well, but I didn't enjoy it as much as Lords of the Fallen.

I know the reveal was mostly CG with a "possibility" of actual gameplay at the end, but I hope this delivers. It's what I miss about the early years of a new console generation. Cool looking new IP's. So far the PS5/XBSX generation has been underwhelming. It's just sequels with the occasional new IP.

I know new IP's have released, but it just doesn't feel as exciting as say the PS3/360 era. Perhaps I'm just jaded and older now. 🤷‍♂️

Dredge for me, I thoroughly enjoyed the demo.

Next would be RE4. I only played the early intro section back on GameCube because I couldn't stand aiming on the GameCube controller. Time to see what all the praise is about.

I'd still love a transmog system so I didnt have to limit myself to the starting outfit just so I don't have to look horrible. 😑

Seems to me, Ubisoft forgot a game to cancel.

I'm sure they can't due to the subsidies they were given by the Singaporean government though. If not for that detail I wouldn't be surprised if Skull & Bones would have indeed been canceled long ago.

TLDR; Nothing really, Atomic Hearts looks interesting for February, but there isn't much I'm looking forward to at all right now.

I voted for Dead Space, but to be honest, I'm not really excited for anything. Dead Space is a great game, but I've played it numerous times and playing it again only graphically better (as of now) is just OK.

As with the LoU Part 1 remake, I feel it's a game that didn't need a remake as the original is perfectly fine and still holds up. I would have preferred to see something older and unavailable for play via modern consoles to be remade.

As for Forspoken, my interest was only ever minimal. The story and setting look bland. Visually the game looks nothing like a next gen (current gen) game. It looks more like an early PS4 game to me.

I'm not sure what it is. It could be a combination of things. The in house engine Square Enix uses is outdated and needs vast improvements, and the design of the world is ugly. The reveal was much more appealing, and the actual game is just another case of a major downgrade from the reveal footage. I'm beyond tired of seeing that scenario. It's basically false advertisement in my eyes.

I feel the game is too drab and brown. I would expect vibrant colors and more fantastical design coming from Square Enix. It's like the latest Sonic game. Why is a talking anthropomorphic blue hedgehog put in an ugly representation of a more realistic world? The designs clash, are ugly, and just make me lose interest.

The parkour was the real reason I was interested in Forspoken. The demo was ok, but the game desperately needs customizable controls. I feel now that consoles have customizable controls at the system level, developers have grown lazy again in offering ways of customizing controls. Console wide control changes are annoying because it changes everything, even traversing the console menus. If consoles can save customized settings on a per game basis, then I would no longer complain...much.

So far this entire new generation is lackluster. Covid or not, new games are just playing it safe and I miss the old days of being wowed by the concepts brought about in games when a new generation hits. I dont know, maybe I'm just old and jaded now. 🤷‍♂️

@Daveuppercut

I'm enjoying it for the most part, but the changes to combat significantly lower my enjoyment. I dont my a challenge if it's fun, but I'm just not finding Ragnarök's combat fun at all. I still feel like GoW 2018 has the most enjoyable combat I've played in a game to date, outside of the Batman Arkham Games.

@Daveuppercut

That's what GoW 2018 is for.

I hate the changes to combat in Ragnarök.

"PhotoMode is now in the game! Access photo mode by pressing the Square Button from the options menu."

No quick option for photo mode??

Games that force me to press start and then choose photo mode are not only annoying, but they completely ruin the timing for getting great action shots.

I hate it.

Why no accessibility option or control layout option to trigger photo mode?

We can already map useless button prompts (for me at least) to swipes on the touch pad. Why not an option to apply photo mode to the touch pad? 🙄

Edit

Also, navigation assist is still useless. I don't really need it, but why does it only point in the direction of Mystic Gateways? I can choose to track a side quest yet it fails to point in the direction of the side quest.

What's the point of even having navigation assist if you can't choose what the assist tracks? 🤦‍♂️

I rarely buy games day 1 anymore, with a few exceptions. Those being Sony Santa Monica games or games from Insomniac.

I love the Dead Space series, even DS3, despite EA's meddling. I wasn't hyped up for The Calisto Protocol, mainly because I'm a big wuss and don't like playing scary games. The Dead Space Trilogy and Alan Wake as the only exceptions.

I also felt this game raised a bunch of red flags when the review embargo was the day of release. I'll never buy a game that puts a review embargo on the day of release, even a few days before. This just screams concerns and lack of faith by the developers and publishers. So why should I spend my hard earned money when I'm unsure of a game or when these companies themselves seem unsure? No thanks.

After all the reviews, and no I don't care about a score and never have, but reading about the criticisms is enough for me to wait. I'll probably just rent it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't those two features just stated to be in the controversial season pass? I thought those features were more of a reason to be upset than so called new death animations. Again, I could be wrong.

@HotGoomba

Psshh! Please! 🙄
We all know Garfield Kart is the better game. 😁

I love the Mass Effect series, but I have no real desire to replay it. It'd take far too long, and I dont have the same amount of free time or drive to play massively long games anymore. It's a great addition for anyone who hasn't played them yet though.

As for BioMutant, it isn't great, but it is fun...in that janky old school AA level of games. The low end of the AA spectrum that is. I do wish it was as good as the trailers portrayed, but I enjoyed the time I spent with it when I rented it. I didn't play more than 8-9 hours, but I'd probably pick it up on an 80%-90% off deal down the road just to finish it. If it's indeed added to PS+, all the better for me.

So if you just go into playing BioMutant with the mindset it's a low tier AA game from the 360/PS3 era and are ok with those (I usually was), then there is fun to be had with it.

Oh joy, a survivor combat arena, just what I wanted. 🙄

I didn't want or enjoy this type of DLC in the first game, the fact that it's part of the Season Pass is why I chose to skip the season pass. Well, that and waiting for reviews/hands on by the general players.

@AverageGamer

I'm playing on PS5. I see some random civilians every now and then, or random GCPD patrol stops on the road.

As for enemies, I only see them after a map icon shows up, or I get close enough to them and then a map icon shows up. So it seems like I only see them in predetermined places, like bank robberies, hold ups, or any other crime that is plotted on the map. I've yet to see them just roaming the streets of Gotham even as a glide by as Batgirl.

I'm only just now starting the mission to go to Blackgate and find Harley, so perhaps things change later?

But if it's this barren playing solo, I can't imagine playing with 3 others.

I still need to finish the original 'A Plague's Tale. As for Gotham Knights...I'm not too far in, maybe a few hours. That being said, I'm losing interest. The city is barren, seriously, the only enemies I see are the marked events on the map. A far cry from the claims by the developer in multiple interviews where they claimed bustling citizen activity.

To quote an interview...

"Speaking with PlayStation Blog, Creative Director Patrick Redding revealed the story isn’t spread out across one night. Rather, the studio intends to showcase “the mid to long term growth of the hero.” Villain Crimes, for example, will take several nights to complete. These types of encounters, Redding explains, constitute “a series of encounters where the player has to do a certain amount of legwork and detective work to hunt down the villain at the next major confrontation.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the Creative Director touched on what to expect in terms of the city’s population. Players will see everyday citizens roaming around, going to work or traveling to the store. Many will be present in instances of congested traffic, while others utilize the city’s trains. This sounds as though it could be a welcomed far cry from Arkham’s open-worlds, which exclusively featured criminals running wild."

I get that it's not an "Arkham Game", but while it is somewhat enjoyable, it's a major letdown for me.

I dont like some of the changes to combat. Removing the counter attack option really bugs me, but if that wasn't enough, they also removed hopping over enemies. So far we have two attack buttons and a poor dodge button.

I've been playing solo and still have a lot to unlock so hopefully it improves. Perhaps it's better in co-op, but no-body I know bothered to get the game.

I will say, I hadn't noticed any performance issues yet that everyone mentions.

It still amazes me to see games like Mario Kart 8 and GTAV (not in this list) constantly topping charts. At this point, who doesn't own these games that had the slightest interest in them?

@Constable_What

I'm not, but the game would definitely give me major headaches playing too long.

I just had a similar bug in Cyberpunk on Steam Deck. Thank God I'm not prone to seizures, because I would have had one today. It only lasted about 30 seconds, ut I did get a headache from it.

Nice additions. Now if I can only manually update games from within my library instead of hitting play, going to the home screen, closing the game, then checking another.

I dont like automatic updates and only check for new ones when I want, in case a change to a game is not to my liking. I also hate how the PS5 tries to auto update every time you start a game. I have to cancel it manually. Annoying.

I'd like to be able to pin more games to the home screen as well. Or pin the new folders, unless that's an option, I haven't tried yet.

@Shepherd_Tallon

Sony has always had the talent. It's why I switched from 360 to PS4. Well, that and the disastrous XB1 reveal.

@johnny30

Nice. Did you say you were also playing Syndicate? No flickering issues, or did I misread your earlier comment?

A detachable disc drive sounds horrible to me. Just more clutter. I was able to finally procure a PS5 last year though so unless it breaks, I'm good until the PS6.

Cool for fans of the game, it's always great to get more of something you enjoy. I just couldn't get into the game.

I made it far enough to get through my first encounter with the supernatural things and bring BB back to safety. After that I just stopped. I found the gameplay to be tedious and the story to be the usual pompous Kojima storytelling.

@Dr_Luigi

I rather enjoy Syndicate. Replaying it now on Steam Deck. Evie is still one of my favorite protagonists. She's an ass kicking badass! She's up there with Ezio, Edward Kenway, and Kassandra.

@johnny30

My guess is he meant "a" trilogy of games as opposed to the trilogy of side scrollers. I wonder why AV China is playable as it was the first of the side scrollers but the others are not. 🤷‍♂️

@Milktastrophe

Yeah, that's my conclusion as well. I don't usually take Twitter notices as fact, but I was hopeful. I bought it again for dirt cheap on Xbox a while ago and just now on Steam Deck again dirt cheap. The portability factor is nice and I think I'll just play the whole game on SD. I've kind of given up on Ubisoft doing anything to benefit consumers.

They've gone from one of my favorite publishers who tried new things, to an AC/Ghost Recon/FarCry machine with too many tiresome and overused mechanics. They're just becoming lifeless games now.

@DETfaninATL

You and me both! I would love to replay them on a modern console. The Vita game was fun too from what I played of it. I just couldn't finish it, or any other 1st/3rd person shooters on Vita because the control sticks where to imprecise for me to get used to and I hate all things gyro/motion controlled.

In fact, I'd say most Vita games could work on PS4/PS5. The touch pad can make up for touch controls or things like rubbing dirt from artifacts in Uncharted Golden Abyss. The only game I recall needing to use the rear touchpad was Tearaway and its already been remade/ported to PS4.

@Korgon

Sam here, I'm still hopeful, but not expecting anything.

I believe I bought it on Xbox for $5 w awhile back. I just didn't want to restart my save. However, I did just grab it on Steam to play on the Steam Deck. I believe it was under $10. Still may be if that's an option for you.

It looks good and runs great all things considered. I think the portability will make up for starting over. I forgot just how much fun the grapple mechanic was. It's OP for traversal, but I dont care. I always say EVERY game is better with a grappling hook. Haha

@AndroidBango

I see your Twitter Link, but im almost positive it was only just recently Ubisoft officially stated it was looking into the issues of Syndicate on PS5 again?

**Edit**

From July of this year.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/07/ubisoft-working-on-fix-for-assassins-creed-syndicate-bugs-on-ps5

This newest tweet would seem to indicate they just said f*#! It. In which case, Ubisoft is forever going downhill in my opinion and support with their bungling ways over the recent years.

**Edit 2**

I see the link to the Ubisoft support tweet about looking into fixing Syndicate, which is linked in the Push Square article is no longer available. 🤦‍♂️😑

@itsfoz @IonMagi @Milktastrophe @Korgon

I'm almost positive Ubisoft announced just recently it was looking into fixing AC Syndicate. Unless they just changed their minds.

**Edit**

From July of this year.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/07/ubisoft-working-on-fix-for-assassins-creed-syndicate-bugs-on-ps5

@Orpheus79V

So many games they can remake or port to PS4/PS5, especially games locked to the PS3, yet we get a TLoU remake and a rumored Horizon Zero Dawn remake instead? Two games in no need of a remake. 🤦‍♂️

I've played the first 3rd of TLoU Pt1, while it looks better and has some improvements, I stopped playing it and sent it back to GameFly (yes it still exists and is still a good service). I am more than happy just playing the PS4 remaster again on PS5.

I'd still love a remastered or remade Resistance: Fall of Man Trilogy, you cant even stream the trilogy, only the 3rd game. How about remaking the God of War games up to the level of GoW 2018 and GoW Ragnarök?

How about porting all the PS3 Ratchet & Clank games off the system? I'm not even a big fan of inFamous, but the first 2 games are still locked to the PS3. What about the Sly Cooper collection? Also locked on the PS3.

How about porting PS Vita games to the PS4/PS5? The touch pad can be used to mimic the touch screen functions, and outside of a few games, I don't recall the back touch pad being used much. Tearaway? Already remade for PS4. Uncharted Golden Abyss? I can't say, I stopped playing because the sticks on the Vita were horrible for 3rd/1st person shooters and gyro aiming is worse.

Sony is just confusing lately.

PS+ Premium is giving 4 streaming only games 🤮 and 3 identical back to back games in a series? Yeah, I definitely won't be keeping Premium when my free upgrade runs out. I may go with Extra, but its usually adding games I already own so normal PS Plus it may be again. 🤷‍♂️

Depends.

If it's an action adventure game along the lines of something like Ghost of Tsushima I'm interested. If it's just another soulslike action adventure game, I'm out.

This is Team Ninja though, so already I feel with near certainty, this won't be for me. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Real gambling?

So lootboxes, absurdly priced MTX, and NFT's confirmed. 🙄

I haven't cared about CoD since the original Modern Warfare 2 game so this doesn't effect me.

I do find the whole thing to be childish however.

Instead of Microsoft spending the time, money, and resources into righting the sinking ship that was the XB1 after its arguably disastrous reveal, they just go on a spending spree instead.

First it was creating Game Pass, then it was paying publishers/developers large sums of money to add their games to the Game Pass service on day one. Which isn't inherently a bad thing as it provides a service with a large appeal to many gamers. I still feel it was incredibly lazy on Microsoft's part.

When Game Pass wasn't even enough, Microsoft just went on an even bigger spending spree and decided to start buying some of the biggest publishers/developers in the entire industry.

Whatever happened to those new studios Microsoft talked about years ago? Especially all the boasting they made of getting big names from the industry to start the world's first AAAA developer? 🙄 The last thing the industry needs is anything more costly than AAA games development. 🤦‍♂️

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but if my memory serves me well, Microsoft was also the one to start the whole timed console exclusive BS. Which coincidentally, started with month long exclusivity on new CoD PvP map releases.

Also, I believe it was recently revealed in an interview with Peter Moore, that Microsoft started, or at the very least propagated the entire push for the Xbox vs PS console wars. He said it was to bolster competition, but I feel it stained the entire hobby of gaming by pushing a childish rivalry among fans.

I'm not just hating on Xbox either. I loved my 360 enough to go through 8 of them despite the horrible production quality of them.

None of the big 3 are saints, they all have many major faults that are bad for the industry and gamers/consumers. None of these companies do the things they do for the "fans", Its just business for them.

I just feel Microsoft is stirring up 💩 because it likes to. Xbox has always had that dudebro aura surrounding everything they do.

At this point, I no longer watch any Netflix originals content. There's no point when they just cancel everything so quickly. 🙄🤦‍♂️

I enjoyed the campy original, less so the sequel. That being said, I really have no desire to replay them.

While I enjoyed the demo of the originals remake, it just reminded me of how it's best left in the last as a good gaming memory.

All these 2D side scroller style golf games remind me of Super Stickman Golf from back in the early days of the iOS App store. All 3 were excellent games, and are also on the Google Play store if anyone who enjoys Cursed to Golf is looking for similar games. They're much simpler and bare bones, bit still great fun! I'm glad to see more involved takes coming to consoles.

@Dudeman1

Not only is Microsoft giving away GP for practically pennies and often, just how much money are they giving to publishers/developers to even consider being on GamePass?

I'm not sure what kind of profits Microsoft is making on GamePass, or like you said, if any at all. Right now they're doing everything they can to build that install base to hopefully reach those Netflix subscriber numbers.

I understand the idea of a Netflix of gaming is great to a lot of people, but I prefer to own my games. 😄 As if anybody actually does these days. 😑

Plus, I would feel pressured to rush through games on a subscription service because a lot of the games are on short time limits before being removed, even shorter for the big name games.

Stopped playing Destiny 2 a couple years ago, but I find it funny that some of the better looking armor designs in D2 are coming from a Fortnite crossover.

D2 armor in general had taken a huge decline e in quality right from launch day though.

This is a problem on pretty much all game store fronts. Aside from manually curating games, I say just don't allow shovelware on any store. But that's easier said than done and some cheap games are by heartfelt developers making their first game. 🤷‍♂️

@Deadlyblack

I did like the Dragon Age armor for Mass Effect.

H*ll no!

But this is the day and age where companies have trained people to be not only accepting of outrageous MTX/Loot Boxes/ways to be fleeced, they're actually becoming in favor of this practice.

So I've no doubt there are many people who would say yes to this in a heartbeat. 🤦‍♂️

@Th3solution

No doubt, Greek Mythology as much as I love it is the most used Mythology. We've had a major use of Norse Mythology of late as well. So I am all for representing other Mythologies, I love learning about them.

I had forgotten about how Indian culture and myths were. I haven't learned much about them since graduating from high school. Which was looong ago.

I didn't even think Polynesian myths and religions would be so diverse. Pure lack of knowledge on my part. I see how that can be difficult to tackle without omitting some aspects or just mashing them altogether, which wouldn't be accurate.

@shamirqushairi

That's good to hear. My brother's PS4 may just be in bad shape. He said it's loud as he plays any demanding games.

I'm not sure if he's changed, but he used to not dust off his consoles often.

@SinfulDestroyer

The game Ubisoft should have canceled is Skull & Bones, and years ago. 🙄

@Th3solution

I love Greek and Norse Mythology, and to a lesser extent (only by lack of knowledge) Japanese and Chinese Mythology.

I know next to nothing about Indian or Polynesian Mythology. That said, I loved the animated film Moana, and I found its Polynesian Mythology to be very intriguing and entertaining, so I am all for an Immortals game set in a Polynesian setting.

Awesome, I loved Immortals Fenyx Rising. It had the fun of an Assassin's Creed game sans the AC stuff. That way they could go full on fantasy and not be tied to a semi-reality setting. I'm also glad to hear that it's supposedly getting rid of a lot of its BotW influence. I hope they remove the stamina guage, it's an annoying mechanic in any game. I look forward to what they do next.

Immortals is the route Ubisoft should have taken with the pirate setting of Black Flag. It didn't need to go with the cartoon-like visuals that Immortals did, just remove the AC ties. They could have gone all out fantasy based in ways too. We could have battled the Kraken, Davy Jones, Black Beard, skeletons, voodoo shamans on mysterious uncharted islands, etc.

What do we get instead? Skull & Bones. 🤦‍♂️
A live service PvP pirate game made to push micro-transactions and "recurrent spending" BS. No doubt Ubisoft will try to ad their NFT Quartz BS into the game despite its utter failure in Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

There are currently reports that even it's own developers are revealing that what little is on offer with the game is shallow and underdeveloped. 😑🤦‍♂️

The new PS5 bundle that includes HFW aside, isn't this bad news in a way? With the amount of PS4's out there and the major hurdle people are still going through to hopefully aquire a PS5, surely sales could be even higher.

I love HFW, as I did HZD, but I wonder how many people are just holding off on the game entirely until they can get their hands on a PS5.

I can't speak for anyone else, but my brother told me he had all kinds of issues with HFW running on his launch PS4. Such so that he just stopped playing it until he could get a PS5.

I was lucky enough to be able to get him one a week or so ago with a Best Buy restock.

Anyway, I'm glad to see HFW doing so well, and deservedly so. I really hope we get another big expansion size DLC.

@evan23

Hopefully it's not too long of a wait. I'm work9ng on backlogged games this year, and I'd like a break from the overwhelming Odyssey and Valhalla.

Well that is highly unexpected.

Of course I just gave up recently and bought Syndicate on an Xbox sale thinking it'd never get fixed on PS5.

I guess I'll wait it out now so I don't have to start the game over from scratch.