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I don't really care. I'm already sold on what I've seen. I've been sold on it since it was revealed. Still really looking forward to it.

Even if you would describe it as Ubisoft in space, I'd rather play that than Star Wars games that border on being soulslike games. It looks like it's going to be fun, and definitely feels like you're in a Star Wars world. I'll take fun.

This is easily my most anticipated game for the rest of the year. It's a rare Ubisoft game that I'm actually considering getting on release day. I know that sounds stupid, but it's not to me.

I love the Life is Strange series, so I'll definitely be getting this. Great news that we are getting another one.

It is weird that it'll be on Switch, but do I care? No. I care about the fact that my favorite current running series is getting a Lego game. It should be a lot of fun playing a lighthearted Horizon game. I'll be playing the best console version of the game while others are busy crying.

I haven't played many Lego games at all, but I'll definitely be getting this one since I'm a huge fan of the Horizon series. A more lighthearted affair is not a bad thing.

Since it was developed to be a 30 FPS game, I had no issues playing it at that frame rate. It's extremely smooth for a 30 FPS game. The only issue I had initially was not being able to turn off the incredibly heavy handed motion blur, but at least they added that option eventually.

It is amazing though how Square Enix has now failed at a performance mode for each of their PS5 exclusive games. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth takes a big graphical hit if you play it in that mode, and it was never fixed. 16 obviously also had issues right out of the gate. The PS5 version of Final Fantasy VII Remake had none of these issues and that's just a cross-gen game.

I would make a hard pass for Halo 1 unless it's the whole Master Chief Collection. I tried playing it for the first time a couple of years ago, and while I managed to finish it, it was a huge struggle to make it through it. The game is extremely dated at this point, with an extreme amount of repetition amongst the levels. It's a product of being developed back then, but still, I didn't find the game to be much fun at all. Halo 2 is leaps and bounds better, and so is 3.

As a huge fan of the reboot trilogy, I'll definitely be watching this when it comes out. Like somebody else said, Hayley is perfect casting too.

Would be nice to know what instead of the same news we already knew that they are making 2 single player games. Could always go back and player another remaster/remake, which is all they've done so far this generation.

Good to know that we're at the heart of everything they do, but yet we know next to nothing about what they are doing. We know of 2 1st party single player games that are in development, but we are still waiting on several other developers that are MIA to reveal something.

Even though it would be a bit of typecasting, I could definitely see him in the role. He'd be perfect for it, but I'm sure whatever role he ends up getting, he'll be great as it. He was great in Shogun and the many other things I've seen him in.

Still playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

At least somebody at PlayStation still remembers the old PlayStation magic. The company has almost entirely lost that, but at least Team Asobi still exists.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Not really. It's not so much the expectations of the SoP. I didn't expect much and felt like I wanted my 30 minutes back until Astro Bot finally came along. It's the fact that we are at this point in the PS5's life cycle and we have yet to have anything revealed from several 1st party developers that haven't released a new game in at least 3-5 years.

Whether I expected them there or not doesn't change the fact that with every livestream, the frustration continues to grow when the vast majority of titles shown are either 3rd party games or 1st party online games. Yes, games take longer to make now, but it should be impossible for most of these developers to have nothing to reveal still. Like I said, it's been 3-5 years for most of them. They are not just sitting there and twiddling their thumbs. Or at least they shouldn't be even though it seems like it by now.

Even with the Astro Bot announcement, I still rated it Poor. Yes, my expectations were in check, but that still doesn't excuse the fact that anything else we didn't already know about was 3rd party. There's no way that developers that haven't released anything in at least 3-5 years don't have something to at least reveal. I'm getting really sick of still not knowing what any of them are developing outside of online titles or Wolverine.

I honestly felt like I wanted my 30 minutes back until the Astro Bot reveal, but one great announcement shouldn't excuse them.

@Matroska I was not aware of that, but I still earn hardly any points because Stars is so geared toward digital gaming and such. I may have around 1400 or so since it started.

It's not a Showcase, but this needs to at least help redeem their Showcase from last year by showing future 1st party games from developers that haven't released anything in years. I'll keep my expectations in check given how horribly inconsistent their shows have been this gen, but what I said still needs to happen regardless.

I'll gladly take the Code Veronica remake. Given their track record with RE remakes, 0 will undoubtedly be a worthwhile one as well. If this ends up being true, this is great news.

Hopefully their string of great RE remakes never ends.

I'll claim Fight Forever only because I'm an AEW fan and maybe someday they'll have even remotely close to their whole roster on there. It has too many issues to ever consider paying for it.

As for the other two, nah. They already gave away the good Spongebob game and I already own Streets of Rage 4. If you have any interest at all in that game and haven't bought it yet, that is the one gem of the coming month on Essential.

@trev666 Yeah, the Stars program is only really any good if you buy all of your games digitally. Maybe if you also play the games they want you to play each month, but I play what I want to play. I'm barely at Level 4 and I've been a member since it started.

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Yep, still going...

@HonestHick Their domination of the last generation is what led to this. Yeah, I agree that it would be a disaster if Microsoft stopped making consoles. PlayStation is already bad enough this gen. It's not like they would stop trying to make good hardware and good games, but they'd probably stop making as many.

No harm. The apology is accepted and I'm fine about the rant. I've had my fair share of rants from time to time.

@HonestHick You're not wrong, but their incompetence in regards to the PS5's UI and not fixing and/or adding things three and a half years in to the console generation is still surprising. The playtime tracker might not matter for some people, but it's still one thing that's been broken off and on from the start and shouldn't still be unstable after this long.

The PS4's might have been sluggish at times if you didn't upgrade to an SSD drive and the store was cluttered, but most of the time almost everything worked as it should. If something was broken, I had confidence that they would actually fix it in due time. This gen though? It's as if they either canned them all and hired a staff off of Craig's List or they scaled the staff so far back that they just can't live up to the reputation they established with their work on the PS4's UI.

I love my PS5, but stuff like this at this point is completely inexcusable.

Backlash for the trailer because of that is ridiculous. It's a video game. It doesn't have to be completely accurate. I'm excited for the game.

Still rolling with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Still enjoying it.

I do agree with others that there's too much padding, but the story portion is still great. I look forward to getting back into the story with me about to polish off Chapter 12.

I'm still going to watch this as I'm curious how they'll translate Part II's to TV even if I was in the minority that truly hated the game's story, and I obviously enjoyed Season 1.

I'm with others that don't see how this is really going to work with Bella given how many years had passed for Part II, but oh well I guess. It was always going to be difficult unless they recast Ellie for Season 2. I liked her fine in Season 1, but she's definitely going to look too young this season. Again, oh well I guess. Seeing what Kaitlyn looks like as Abby will be interesting.

Definitely excited for this. I was impressed, and I could care less if this version of Yasuke is accurate or not. What matters most is whether it's a fun game or not. I know what I'll be asking for this Christmas...

I'm perfectly fine with her being the writer. I didn't like her in the last Indiana Jones really at all, but that's one project and she didn't write it.

As for the show itself, I'm definitely interested unless they completely botch the casting of Lara. I've always been a big fan of the series and I've even liked all 3 movies, at least to varying degrees.

@VanguardKaiser That's actually not a bad choice looks wise. She has the look for it with her hair died. You could say she's a bit small, but so is Alicia, so I guess that doesn't matter. The only issue is whether she could pull off an English accent. Making Lara American would be an obvious mistake.

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Still going after the 100+ hour mark. I hit a bit of a rough patch a week or so ago, but now that I've shifted my focus back to the story instead of most of the side quests, I'm back to loving the game. Just started Chapter 12 yesterday.

If they decide to release this on PS5 sooner or later, that works for me. If I hadn't practically given up on Xbox a year or two ago, this would have been one of my most anticipated games of the year. It looks like it should be great.

While obviously the Bethesda news from this week has been awful, I think people are jumping to conclusions if they think ones like Ninja Theory would be in danger. I think at least them and Obsidian, two they bought well before Bethesda, are fairly safe.

I'm glad that we'll likely be getting some meaningful info and maybe some footage sooner or later. I have a hard time believing it's coming out at all this year though given that nothing has been shown yet.

I still have Inquisition to play, so I'm perfectly fine if we have to wait. It turning out to be good is the most important thing.

@Uromastryx Amazon bought Tomb Raider from Embracer, so there should be no worries even though Embracer still owns the developer.

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Hit a bit of a rough patch and I'm hoping to get back into the groove with the game this weekend. The side content in the latter chapters (10 and 11 so far) has become frustrating, having to what feels like jump through hoops just to be able to reach some of it. I was fine with just going around and doing it all like a checklist, but now that some of it is only accessible if you figure out how to get to it, it's chipped away at my enjoyment of the game.

Thank you for our weekly low Rebirth sales report. As I continue to play it and love it, I could care less. It's also not a big deal since it's not like the 3rd and final one isn't still coming.

Remedy deserves all the success they can get, but the fact that sales of Alan Wake 2 are slow isn't surprising. I put the blame for a lack of physical release on the publisher and Remedy just had to spew out BS, just like they had to for Control Ultimate Edition.

Regardless, I'd say the biggest issue is the fact that it had a horrible release date, coming out around several other major releases. Of course it was going to get lost in the shuffle a bit, and then the lack of a physical release gets put on top of that (even if it made a minimal difference).

Deliver Us the Moon didn't blow me away by any means, but I enjoyed it just enough to play Mars at some point. Regardless, it's still a shame that they had to lay everybody off because indies are struggling so much. Yes, I know even the larger developers are laying people off, but it's still a shame.

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@Danbottomburp I read the article. Don't know how many times I have to say it. Also, this is a very similar issue that previous games have had, so it is at the end of the day indeed a Sony issue. Several games that have been given away for free via Essential or Extra have had issues with new gen upgrades and such, with this being another. Instead of trying to continue to talk down to me like I'm an idiot, maybe you should actually realize what you are talking about. The article even mentions what I'm talking about.

Whatever though. This is one of several reasons why I don't comment on articles that much. It's not worth the hassle most of the time. I'm done with this one.

@Danbottomburp Then why are there several other games this has happened for? It's not just Bethesda games, and I read the article. Thank you for reminding me to do exactly what I already did.

@tangyzesty The PS5 has been out for over 5 years now and there has yet to be a fix for any of this. There has to be some blame at some point. Nice to know I can always count on some rude comments in this section.

Maybe when the PS6 comes around, PlayStation will figure out how to do things like this again. I love my PS5, but the PS4 didn't have so many issues that shouldn't exist like this.

I got this from the PS Plus Collection before Sony took away the collection, so I'd love to get this for free. I won't be playing it for a long time, so no big deal for now, but I'd pay for it since games like this are routinely cheap. Otherwise I'd say no.

It's not a big deal to me since I wouldn't be playing it online if I ever do play this, but I'm not sure why they didn't just delay the game a month if it wasn't finished. People waited 13 years for this. I'm sure they could have waited another month. One of the more baffling release decisions in a while.

Another weekend, more Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

An open world game with a card game included? That's shocking!

Seriously though, it's fine with me as long as it's good. Most of the ones included in the many open world games are good.

Like most people have said, this is slightly skewed by the fact that plenty of people had no intention of playing the Rebirth demo because they already knew they were buying it. I would be one of those people, while after reading about how different Stellar Blade was than expected (not another fast paced Bayonetta/DMC like it initially looked like), playing that demo was a priority before deciding on whether to buy it.

@LN78 You're fixated on the fact that there's a possibility that a show could suck and refusing to even understand what I'm saying. Whether a show ends up sucking or not, it's always nice to know that there will be multiple seasons when you invest time into watching a show, especially when so many shows get cancelled before they finish. I've said it several times now, so I guess there's really nothing more to say.

@kirkn This has been the norm with Ubisoft games and the Gold Editions for some time now. I waited and got the Season Pass when it was on sale, but Assassin's Creed Valhalla was $60 and $100 for the Gold Edition. The DLC (not counting Ragnarok) was released after the game came out, which is the same thing as Odyssey aside from an extra mission.

The real joke is the Ultimate Edition being $130. I have a hard time believing the extra content on top of the Gold Edition is really worth $20.

@LN78 It's good to know because sometimes you get into a show in it's first season, only to have it get cancelled and you never get to finish the story. At least in cases like this, you know going in that it will be getting another season, so you don't have to worry about the story not continuing at the end of the season.

@LN78 My comment still applies. It is good to know it's likely to get a second season regardless even if we don't know the quality yet. Going by the trailers though, I fully expect it to be good. It looks like they nailed it pretty well with the atmosphere and tone.

Good to know there will likely be a second season. While I was going to watch this anyways, it's always nice to know there will be another season when watching shows nowadays.

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Another weekend of Rebirth. Darn.