KilloWertz

Delayed into 2024 with only 3 days left in 2024? No, really!?

A rare month where I will gladly claim all 3 games (I only claim it if I think I will actually play it).

I'm glad I waited on Requiem. I know it's been "free" on Game Pass this whole time, but I waited and played Innocence until the PS5 version came out and was glad I did. The DualSense features were great on that game, and I fully expect to feel the same about the sequel.

@nomither6 That's an opinion to have, but this is at #8, so no big deal no matter how you feel about remakes and remasters making a GotY list.

@J2theEzzo I get what you're saying, but at least for now I think the very harsh punishment is fair. You say he needs help and he can get it there. I do believe that eventually having him work for their government or something of the sort is a good solution at some point once he's deemed ready.

@J2theEzzo Autism is not an excuse for doing criminal acts, especially when you're in police custody. If this was his first time, I understand being lenient, but he's done this countless times and at this point shows clear evidence of having no interest in stopping.

I say what he is getting is perfectly reasonable and deserved. There's a limit to how much the sympathy card can be used. It's clear he needs help, and whatever was going on prior to him being sentenced clearly wasn't working, so maybe he can finally get it and finally stop. Or at least getting a job someday to put his obvious skills to good use.

Cyberpunk 2077

Still working my way through my second playthrough. Still loving my time all over again in Night City.

It shouldn't matter how old he is or if he has something wrong with him. He's done it several times now and he clearly hasn't learned. It doesn't matter if it's to big corporations or not, the punishment should be harsh. It's still a crime, and a crime he clearly doesn't want to stop doing.

It's mildly amusing that people think this is ridiculous. Maybe you'd feel differently if some of that information he hacked would include your personal information or if you worked for any of the companies that got hacked.

@InsaneWade The guitar minigame is bigger than anything they did for The Last of Us Part 1. $10 is now an insane value!

again...

Oh, my bad for criticizing ND remastering The Last of Us Part II. Expanding the guitar minigame makes it all worthwhile. Take whatever money you want from me now, Sony...

Works for me. As highly anticipated as the game is for me, I'm perfectly fine with sinking roughly 100 hours into it. Horizon Forbidden West was another very highly anticipated game for me and it was even longer. If it's a game I love, then it doesn't really matter how long it is.

@evildave333 That is indeed one reason. I only have so much time to play nowadays, unlike back in the day when I could play for hours a day. There's no way I'm going to spend the time I do get and have it end up being wasted because I couldn't ever beat a certain boss/character or had to start over again after a death. Knowing the frustration would ruin any enjoyment would be the other like I already mentioned.

It seems like this game at least remedies that by having a Narrative difficulty setting that was strangely not mentioned in the Game Informer article or here.

The news today about the game makes no sense to an extent. There's a quote out there from a recent interview about difficulty options in Rise of the Ronin, where the easiest one makes it more of a traditional game and not much of a Soulslike game. Then the interview for the preview from Game Informer has a quote saying it's still the same as previous games.

I guess the difficulty options is true and and it's only like the previous games if you play it on anything but Narrative. I hate Soulslike games and others of the sort as I don't find them fun at all, so if it all works out and Narrative difficulty is a normal game experience, then this went from an easy pass no matter how good it ended up to now being on my radar.

No interest in roguelikes, so I guess I'll have to miss the "valuable narrative" of the DLC. I'm not going to play through something I know I won't enjoy just to get extra story. It should have just been normal DLC if there was something worthwhile still to tell rather than locking it into a playstyle some people won't enjoy.

Cyberpunk 2077

I've been at my second playthrough of the game for about a month now and I see it going on for quite some time. I'm ok with that since it's one of my favorite games of this console generation.

@Shepherd_Tallon Having two new single player games in the works is good news indeed, but my problem remains with what they are saying. I think it's a load of BS that they would have had to somehow ditch making any single player games at all just because of the new Factions. There's no way a studio that should be large like them could only handle one game at a time, no matter what kind of game it is.

@AlexPorto Because they basically said exactly that. They would have had to scrap making single player games if Factions didn't get cancelled, which like I just said above has to be a load of BS. There's no way a studio like Naughty Dog couldn't maintain and make new content for that while also making a single player game.

@2here2there @Shepherd_Tallon I don't really mean to be negative, but Insomniac has been carrying the PS5 so far while Naughty Dog has released nothing but remasters and a "remake". Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Miles Morales, Spider-Man 2, and Spider-Man Remastered. Wolverine may be out before Naughty Dog releases anything new.

As I commented for the article about the multiplayer game being cancelled, I'm still not sure how the hell a studio that should be big like Naughty Dog would be restricted to developing and maintaining a multiplayer game to the extent that they couldn't make a single player game too. It makes no sense given how Insomniac can obviously make several games at a time.

How is it possible that a studio that should be big considering how successful their games have been would only be able to make and support one game? That part makes no sense, especially since Insomniac and others can make multiple games at one time.

The PS4 would have been 4th otherwise, as other sites have reported it at #4 (likely ignoring the Portal as an accessory), so this is not that much of an accomplishment. Beating out a 10 year old console definitely at least earns it a virtual cookie.

Now, I won't be as negative as some. I'm sure it really did sell fine since it's totally sold out, but I would say to celebrate the fact that it was #4 is a bit much given the fact that the #4 spot is virtually empty otherwise since the PS4 only sold just short of 6,000 units.

It's called Microsoft paid Disney a boatload of money.

It's a combination of it being digital only and having a horrid release date, coming out just after a few heavy hitters. I'd consider the latter being a far bigger reason for the lack of sales so far. There would have been a lot of people who would have passed on it because they were already playing something else, or at least wouldn't buy multiple games in a week's time.

If the 850k estimate is close to being true, then that's not so bad anyways. No, that's not Spider-Man 2 or Mario numbers, but that would put it in position to beat out Control. Word of mouth and such should help it over time, so I wouldn't be worried about it being a total bomb.

I won't be buying it anytime soon since it's a digital only release, but I also wouldn't have bought it yet anyways given what has come out lately and what will in early 2024. Also, I highly doubt the lack of a physical release was Remedy's decision. They were forced to be the ones to talk about it, but I'd imagine it was all Epic.

@ApostateMage I love Cyberpunk 2077 as well (I'm in the middle of a second playthrough now), but damn, I''m not sure I could have played it for over 600 hours this year.

Maybe someday there will be a good new LotR game...

For me it's far and away Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and then Star Wars Outlaws in second. I'm sure there will be others that get my attention at some point, but those two are so easily my most anticipated there's no point in me voting for anything else.

I agree with somebody else who doesn't understand the price hike complaints in regards to this. These games would have gotten removed regardless of the price hike. That's just how these subscription services work. Some games stay on there for a long time, but a lot stay on for at most a year. More money doesn't equal longer contracts.

I haven't played it, but judging by the review on here, it should be easy to second @somnambulance about The Missing. It's supposed to only be about 6 hours long, so it should be easy to squeeze in for people who aren't knee deep in something else right now.

The only way this makes it onto the PS5 is if Marvel tells them they have to. It's a genuine possibility, basically like MLB forcing Sony to put MLB the Show on other platforms.

I'd still bet against it not being an Xbox exclusive though. If Marvel doesn't care, it doesn't make sense for them not to keep it as an exclusive. It's not the first time they've been silent for no reason either.

They'll get over it. It's not all their fault, but it's not like the campaign is not a joke already.

Still in Night City replaying Cyberpunk 2077. Good times...

Well, that explains why this is $9.99 and the Expansion Pass is $24.99. I thought that was weird, but the fact that this is just a dungeon is why.

If The Rising Tide is pretty good, I will consider getting the Expansion Pass and actually playing through both then. I'm not firing up the game again just to play through 3 or 4 hours of one dungeon.

Hands down the Sega revival trailer. I would have considered Final Fantasy XVI's DLC otherwise, but the ending to the main game killed the excitement I otherwise would have had for it.

@nessisonett "It’s a corporate event masquerading as an award show." That pretty much sums it up perfectly.

It's called The Game Awards, but it's really just a way to show commercials and trailers. Basically, a televised E3 without the show floor. I get that Judge's speech went on for far too long last year, but damn, Geoff went to the total other way.

I guess that it's time to accept he's never going to find the right pacing and structure for the show. He's had too many years now to figure it out and he clearly hasn't. If this was a way to try to shorten the show, that's not the way. I still saw comments about it being too long anyways.

At least they made it easy for me to wait on it given that I'll still be playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth even a month later.

Yes please. I love Life is Strange as well, so as long as this turns out to be good, this will be mine.

Well, they had me until the word roguelike. No interest in playing anything like this. It's nice that it's free, but it's still extremely disappointing that this is the rumored DLC for the game.

I'll probably still enjoy the game, but this does make it easier to wait on it for the typical Ubisoft price drop. I have no time to play it for the foreseeable future anyways between what I'm already playing and then Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, so it's all good in the end.

And this is why all of us are still fans of PlayStation. Swooping in at the middle of the week providing us with some stability during these crazy times. Thank you, PlayStation, from the bottom of my cold dead heart.

Might have to buy myself a nice cheap can of Dignity...

More Cyberpunk 2077 for me.

I'll welcome a remake of RE5 given how good the other 3 new ones have been (I even loved RE3), but it seems to make more sense to do a Code: Veronica X one first from what the latest video from Residence of Evil on YouTube. Honestly, I'd be much more excited for a Code: Veronica X remake.

@ShogunRok No problem.

Yeah, while I'm obviously glad to be getting one last update as supporting a game long term is always good, it's not a huge deal for me. I'll take whatever they give though regardless of whether I will take advantage of it or not.

@ShogunRok What do you one from one last Cyberpunk 2077 update?

Hmmm, what do I want?

Honestly, there's really nothing specific for me. Obviously people want NG+, which I never play, but you would think that would be on the list. Otherwise, I guess just the usual update stuff since it will be the last one (unless they end up breaking something I guess). I've been really enjoying my time being back in Night City over the last few weeks, so there's nothing glaring to me.

I think I've played one mobile game in my life. That won't change as I have no reason to. I already have dozens of games to play on my PS5.

I've played very little of the Fallout series, but I'm definitely looking forward to this as I love a good sci-fi show. I loved The Peripheral (damn you Amazon for it) and probably would have enjoyed the early seasons of Westworld, so I'd be surprised if I don't enjoy this as well.

@nessisonett You nailed it. The Ghoul is Walton Goggins.

So that makes more sense than the reports last week of Sony and Shift Up signing an agreement for Sony to publish Stellar Blade even though Sony has been listed as the publisher at least since the name change to Stellar Blade. It was actually them signing on to have Sony publish their games for however long, which would be the same thing as deals with Quantic Dream and such in the past.

I'll repeat what others have said that hopefully we get more from Stellar Blade and an actual release date at the Game Awards. I've been looking forward to this ever since the original reveal I think 2 years ago.

@Omnistalgic Naughty Dog specifically is not all on PlayStation of course. They are the ones forcing them to do remasters and remakes, but you would think ND would have been big enough by now to do them, their failed multiplayer game, and a new game on top of that. It's really weird.

Continuing my 2nd playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077. Loving it all over again as a Female Streetkid this time.

Congrats to everybody involved in the original. For the type of game it is, it's a great game and it's nice to see it be so successful.

As a big fan of the series as a whole, I hope we get more from the series at some point. True Colors was just as good, if not better than, the original imo.

It would be something you could shrug off if it was during a loading screen or something like that, but the fact that you actually have to close the pop-up ad in order to look at the map is ridiculous. It's also possible it goes away once the Black Friday sale is over, but still, they could do it better.

@Kevw2006 Fair question. Obviously I remembered the years wrong. My bad, but that actually makes releasing a remaster of it even worse. It's different when they did that with the original since the PS3 version came out just months before the PS4 was released.

In the end, while my years were off, it's still bad that all ND's releasing are remasters and remakes and we still don't know what else they are making for sure 3 years into the PS5

Just because the PS5 has been so successful so far doesn't mean they aren't riding off the success of the PS4. This is not the same PlayStation 3 years in to the PS4 generation, and I don't consider that a good thing. It's not luck, but it's also not because they do great thing after great thing to truly earn the success either.

Sure, they've released some fantastic games already like Horizon Forbidden West, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, God of War Ragnarok, and Spider-Man 2, but the fact that they have done quite a bit of anti-consumer things this gen and also don't really announce much of anything games wise is not the PlayStation of even recent memory. Overpriced peripherals, raising the price on a cheaper system model and charging for a stand, etc. make it seem like PlayStation is testing how far they can go before their fanbase breaks and finally has enough. Not to mention that their tech team for the PS5's UI is dreadful, where we are 3 years in and things still don't work properly and features are still missing.

Another kicker is obviously the fact that once #1 developer Naughty Dog has not released a new game in over 6 years and continues to just release remasters and remakes 3 years in to the PS5 generation. I still love my PS5, but I do miss the PlayStation (and obviously Naughty Dog) of old.