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@Bentleyma Uhhhh, no.

Yes please. That is all.

I had forgotten about this game until I saw the review on the front page. I will wait on the game like others since the first few months are pretty stacked, but it might be for the best in the end to give them time to iron out some of the issues with patches.

I would love to buy the game right away to support them in hopes this does well enough to get a sequel, but I can't with Rebirth coming soon. I hope things go good for the game in the meantime though.

@RawnDawn Atlus has promised there won't be a Royal or Golden edition of the game.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/02/no-expanded-royal-or-golden-edition-for-persona-3-reload-atlus-promises

No big deal. Like others have said, there's already plenty of other playable characters. This is going to be huge.

I'll be pre-ordering it from PlayStation Direct eventually. No rush, but I'm definitely looking forward to finally getting this in April.

I don't really see a big deal with it. Unless I'm missing something, it's just making you aware of your relationship and the side quests would have been available regardless. Seems like an overreaction to me that they are just making you more aware of your budding relationship and your choices in the game.

PS5 - Remakes Have No Limits

It's even worse given how everything Naughty Dog has put out so far for the PS5 is either a remake or a remaster (or a re-release in the case of Uncharted). I really do hope this never comes true as they've already done more than enough of these, even though I'm a huge Uncharted fan.

@Churchy Thanks for that. I just assumed based on the fascination with that kind of a game that it was possible this would be another, but now I'm more interested than before.

Hopefully the Uncharted remake, as much as I love Uncharted, never becomes true. Naughty Dog has already done enough remakes and remasters for a whole console generation so far, so as long as we get new games from here on out, I'll be good.

It's good that it's getting a demo so we can know exactly what kind of a game it is. Is it a Soulslike game or something of that sort? If so, I'll gladly pass, but this will be a good way to finally know. The trailers for it have been fantastic, but we know very little about the game as a whole.

I'm not even sure why they were considering that route. I understand trying something different, but that would have been way too extreme of a departure from the formula. The downtown Seattle part was great, but it was also still very much The Last of Us.

Just keep it like Part 2 in terms of gameplay for Part 3 and it will be golden. I hated how the story progressed, but the gameplay itself was amongst the best I played all last generation.

If they aren't even going to keep their own exclusives on their own platform/service exclusively, then what's the point? I know some people will say that it shouldn't matter and it's all console war crap, but to make their fans wait all of these years for good exclusives and then have them be multiplatform in the end anyways kind of stinks for them.

@MrMagic I know. I was just being technical. In the end though, I do what I want.

@MrMagic If only they gave us disc drives anywhere close to good enough to install any games from a disc in 2 minutes.

I'll give this a shot someday down the road when it's a lot cheaper. I wouldn't mind playing through the story, but I'm not paying $70 for a GaaS title. As long as I'm entertained when the time comes (free or at least half price), then it won't be too bad.

I have 0 interest in this at the moment given that I still have the PS4 disc and it's already perfectly fine.

Day 1 buy for sure. Been waiting too long for anything new regarding the game, but we finally got a proper trailer and a release date. I didn't think the SoP was that good overall, but this was easily the highlight for me.

I would say this was a huge announcement if it wasn't almost guaranteed to not be done until the PS6 is out. He won't even start it until Death Stranding 2 is done, and then there's also OD for Microsoft. Hard to get too excited until there's a light at the end of the tunnel of it's development.

I thought it was good, but still a bit disappointing considering almost everything that was shown we already knew about. Obviously it's good that we got dates for Rise of the Ronin and Stellar Blade, but it would have been nice to get something from actual 1st party that we didn't already know about.

Also a bit disappointing that Ronin is releasing a month after Rebirth, as I know there's no way I'll finish Rebirth in time, so I'll have to pass for the time being. Given the complete lack of anything coming after Stellar Blade so far, I'm not sure why they are having one big release a month.

Overall, it was their best State of Play in a while (the bar was extremely low), but I just can't bring myself to say it was amazing or anything. Basically anything major we already knew was going to be there. A date for Stellar Blade keeps it from being bad alone, but the last nugget (other than the FF7 Rebirth SoP that I will be skipping) being that Kojima is making an exclusive spiritual successor to MGS was met with a shrug by me as it won't be out until the PS6. Great for at least 6 years from now, but again, that's did little for me now.

I'm happy we're getting extended looks at Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin (especially the former), but hopefully we at least get something that we didn't already know about (and not just some throwaway game).

I'll still be happier with this show than most of PlayStation's of late even if most of the best games are ones we already knew about, but sadly that's still an improvement over what they've done over the last year or so.

This is my most anticipated game of the year not named Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

They should have never bought all of these studios and IPs if they had no intention of keeping everything as is. Other than layoffs of course since almost everybody is doing it and it would have likely happened anyways.

I've never played a Deus Ex game, but obviously people were looking forward to this. In the end, it still sucks that this is happening as it could happen to more of the things they acquired. Luckily Tomb Raider got picked up by Amazon.

At the very least, it was smart to move it out of February. Hopefully it turns out to be good in the end.

I'm already interested with an extended look of Stellar Blade being announced as part of it. It was annoyingly absent from everything last year, so it's nice to see that.

On the fence with Rise of the Ronin at the moment as I don't like Souls-like games, but knowing this is going to be made more accessible than other Team Ninja games has me interested in seeing how it turns out at least.

Hopefully the rest of the games aren't just second or third party titles though and we actually get something that we didn't know about already from PlayStation themselves. At the very least, I know it won't be a total bust for me like a lot of their shows over the last year or so.

I would probably love this (the single player story, not the Monster Hunter-like online portion), but not knowing if I'd be able to finish this before Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth makes it a hard sell for now.

@Loamy You son of a... I mean thanks.

I agree and it would probably be my GotY for 2023 if I was to consider DLC/expansions, but I have the same rule as others where it has to be a full game.

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

Not looking it up to avoid spoilers, but it seems like I'm in the middle of the final mission and will likely wrap things up this weekend. It's been a great ride.

@Splat You can never truly leave Night City...

From what I can tell, I'm nearly done with Phantom Liberty, so I doubt I will be still playing the game when the patch drops. Still, it's nice to see them step in and release another one even after saying 2.1 was the final one.

Sure, a fresh coat of paint could make it look even better than it already does, but there comes a time when enough is enough with remasters and such. This was a great game, but I still have my PS4 disc. How about more new games than a semi-steady barrage remasters for this gen?

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

I haven't gotten to play as much as I'd like to, but still going through and loving the DLC.

I hate the fact that this will mark Naughty Dog's 3rd release on the PS5, but we are still without an actual new game from them. That said, like I did with Part 1, I will likely wait and try to get it free from Sony Rewards. No way am I even paying $10 for a cash grab, but I'll happily play it again for free like Part 1.

I doubt I'll try it as I don't play much of anything online anymore, but this is a smart move to try to get at least a decent amount of players in and hooked early on so it has a chance to succeed. It doesn't mean it has anything to do with quality.

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

@ApostateMage By the time it comes out, the previous gen will at least be the PS5.

While it would be welcomed, it's also funny that it would absolutely blow away their absurdly priced DualSense Edge controller in battery life if true. Probably for half the price too.

Well deserved as it's fantastic DLC to a fantastic game. I'm playing Phantom Liberty now and loving it.

Yes, Cyberpunk 2077 had a horribly bad start, but now it's easily one of my favorite games of this generation.

Nice. Been waiting a while for this to come to the PS5. I didn't get around to it on Game Pass, and I'd rather play games on my PS5 anyways.

I'm good. It was a good episode, but like others have said, it told the story. Yes, obviously scenes and such could be fleshed out, but we still got the gist of all of it.

That's exciting...

I wonder if they'll be able to "capture all of the unique pageantry of college football" by having 80% of the players enter the transfer portal and sit out their bowl games every season in Franchise mode...

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

After wrapping up my 2nd playthrough last weekend, I started up Phantom Liberty that same weekend and I've been loving it so far. Not that I didn't expect to anyways, but it's been great and I expect that to continue for the duration.

Glad to see it's really successful so far. I'm late to the party even though I had Phantom Liberty pre-ordered because I wanted to replay the whole game again before playing it, but I started the expansion last weekend and I'm loving it so far.

@PALversusNTSC
The whole game was basically about the group trying to make the world the best they could for their people, eventually by destroying the crystals. They come up with a plan to try to defeat the main bad guy and discuss multiple times about how they would hope for the best in regards to how the world will be for their people after Clive and his brother hopefully succeeded. Not once did Clive ever give the impression that sacrificing himself and not coming back to Jill as promised was ever remotely part of the plan, but while up there during battle he magically decides to do so to give the game an emotional ending where the main character sacrifices himself for something far beyond their plan.
Honestly, I would have much preferred the game ended the way their plan suggested it would. They still win and they all (outside of Joshua) live happily ever after and make the best of the world they live in after the battle. Nope, the hero has to sacrifice himself for an outcome far overreaching what they were supposed to do just so it can have an emotionally sad ending.

If I had managed to play Baldur's Gate 3 (something I'm considering remedying this year at some point), maybe things would have been different for me, but I can't exactly argue with the choice as it would probably be my current GotY out of what I have played. Either that or Resident Evil 4 after Separate Ways elevated the game for me.

Final Fantasy XVI would have been that, but the ending absolutely killed the game for me. Phantom Liberty would probably be my content of the year, but I'm trying to be "fair" and only consider full games.

Has a Spider-Man game had the same impact on me that the first one did on PS4 years ago? No, but Spider-Man 2 was still a game I happily played from start to finish. I do hope Spider-Man 3 elevates things though. In the end, I could care less what won GotY here.

I had to vote Very Happy since I plan on claiming all 3 of the games, which is a rare thing for me. 19% saying Crap Selection either already own the games or just come in here every month and vote that.

It has been a pretty incredible year for not just games in general, but DLC too. It would have been good if we had gotten just one of these in a year, but Separate Ways, Burning Shores, and Phantom Liberty are all fantastic (never played Dreams).

I just started Phantom Liberty today, but I have little doubt I will love it and it will be my #1 as well. Absolutely loved Separate Ways. In a way, I think I actually enjoyed that more than the main game. As a huge Horizon fan, obviously I loved Burning Shores as well. I have an issue with the relationship in the game, but not the usual internet hate of it. I just thought it was poorly handled and severely rushed, but I still thought it was great DLC.

Cyberpunk 2077

About to roll the credits on my second playthrough of the main game. Ran out of time last night and had to save it during the ending. After that I'll start up Phantom Liberty. Been looking forward to that for a while now.