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Nope. I have no friends to play with. Womp womp.

Trails through Daybreak 2. By far.

Nah, it's fine on my end.

I need to wait and see how it fairs on PS5 Pro, because holy hell the game looked bad in the beta without Pro upgrades. One of the worst looking games I've seen so far this gen. Worse looking than World, which is like a 7 year old game at this point.

Not surprising sadly. I have a PS5 Pro, and I do like it. But given its high price and disappointing game "upgrades", I don't blame people for not bothering with it. The PS4 Pro was transformative. 4K visuals for the first time in a console was huge, and it made for a massive visual boost to the games. PS5 Pro on the other hand barely makes a difference in most games. And a fair number of games were even outright downgrades over base PS5, which is absolutely wild.

@danzoEX It's possible that he may have taken a life or two.....hundred.

I think it's completely fair to drag Sony for the lack of quality in their State of Play events. Especially when you compare them to the recent Nintendo and Xbox events, which have been stellar in comparison. Yes, there was some stuff here that looked interesting, but Sony has a habit of not reading the room when it comes to what the fanbase wants, and consistently not delivering on those fronts. It's telling that the recent Xbox event was more exciting for Playstation fans than the Playstation event itself was.

I honestly didn't even know the game wasn't running at 4K already. I will probably not even notice a difference.

Pretty bad honestly. The only stuff that really interested me was stuff we already knew about that just got new trailers.

@ChrisDeku Except Sony would have spent $200M+ dollars and 5 years development time on it, whereas Fromsoft clearly knew how to efficiently produce a game like this by reusing assets from their previous game. This is hardly an apples to apples comparison.

Never. Using a mouse is murder on my hands due to a disability.

Shallow gameplay!? WTF? That 100% does not describe Ninja Gaiden II. Like...at all.

@thefourfoldroot1 It's more a matter of time than money. It could be gifted to me, and I still wouldn't have the time to play through an entire first game in the series just to play the sequel.

Interesting. I never even heard of this series. But knowing that it's a direct sequel to a game I never played is a pretty big hurdle to overcome. Such is the fate, and risk, of direct sequels I suppose.

Already played through it on my Series X, so no. It's pretty good, but I honestly don't think open world works very well for racing games. Just give me a track based game where I can jump straight from race to race.

Knew this would happen. Let this be a lesson. Never ever invest money into a free-to-play game. Ever.

The best game that Sega has ever produced outside of F-Zero GX. A true masterpiece, and desperately in need of a definitive version since the GCN version has butchered audio, but also more content.

I wish I knew how Ninja Gaiden II Black is enhanced, because it doesn't seem impressive visually or performance wise on my Pro. The 120fps mode is absolutely abysmal looking, and the 60fps mode looks "good", but not great, and has noticeable performance drops that go below the VRR window. Really makes me wonder how it runs on a base PS5.

Wish I could say I'm excited for part three, but Rebirth really kind of killed my anticipation for it. I didn't hate the game at all, but I sure didn't love it either.

I assume he meant to say PS6?

Makes no sense when it can be played on PS5 already at 60fps. I mean sure okay you can increase that to 120fps and 4K, but who cares about that for RE6? And I say that as someone who actually likes the game.

Catastrophic to an extreme. And stupid to an equal extreme.

The mismanagement at Playstation regarding their first-party development this gen has been catastrophic. That they would put Bluepoint, of all developers, on a live-service game is just beyond parody. You can't make this stuff up. People have been begging for a Bloodborne remaster since the debut of the PS5, and they take the perfect team for the job and do this to them. What a clown show. We've been wondering for years what that team has been up to, and now all those years worth of work were for nothing. We won't see a new Bluepoint game until the PS6.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered is the single best game in the series, and easily the best racing game that Criterion made after being forced to abandon the Burnout series by EA. Don't sleep on it if you haven't played it!

Disappointed that Ys X isn't even included in the poll considering it was my number two RPG of the year (after Unicorn Overlord). What an incredible action RPG. Trails Through Daybreak was my number three.

I'd be interested in this one if it wasn't a free-to-play game. Just make a solid single player game with no strings attached.

Easily Unicorn Overlord for me. It's tied with Devil Blade Reboot as my game of the year overall, regardless of platform.

This is an incredibly bad look for Falcom only two months after the western release of the game. NIS America must be pissed since this will just flatline the sales of the game. Even Atlus usually gives a couple years after their "vanilla" version releases.

@DennisReynolds You don't need DF to see how bad those games look with it. It was night and day difference levels of bad. And in no scenario should a Pro version of a game look demonstrably worse than the base model version. Especially after a $700 investment and on some of the biggest recent games on the platform. PR disaster is putting it lightly. But sure, keep fueling the "Leave the multi-billion dollar company alone!" meme. It's not a good look.

@DennisReynolds That doesn't change anything about it being a PR disaster... It's well known that there are games where it's used well. 🙄

PSSR has been a PR disaster for Sony. There are far too many games that have needed to gut it or provide the option to do so just to fix them. Truly an embarrassment for Sony. And yes, it's also an embarrassment for the developers of the games with issues. How you could look at your game, think that's okay, and push an update like that out is beyond mind boggling.

No matter how low you think people can go, they will always, and I mean always find a way to betray your expectations.

This has been such a bad look for Sony and the PS5 Pro. It's only been out for about a month, and it has been a crap show ever since. I have a PS5 Pro, and I genuinely love the hardware, but these games that are giving actual worse experiences than the base hardware, and are now needing to patch out one of the Pro's most advertised features is a marketing disaster for Sony.

Very odd that there's no way to earn additional lives. Even arcade games usually have scoring systems that earn you extra lives.

Good to see them posting over there. Now if only Nintendo and Microsoft would follow suit as well.

Sony needs to get on top of this stuff and work with these devs before these updates roll out. It has been an absolute $&%# show with some of these games. Updates like this are even more stupid when the devs actually remove the previous modes from the game and force players to use the updated worse mode. Unbelievably embarrassing for both Sony, and these developers.

Don't have time to do a full write up for the feature, so I'll just say that Unicorn Overlord is easily my top PS5 game that I played this year. Absolutely loved it!

Nah. I'm not really into portable game consoles anymore due to health issues. They hurt my hands, my back, and my neck. I play my Nintendo Switch in docked mode basically 99.9% of the time.

Loved them when I was a kid, but as an adult, not so much.

While this is nice, I really hope this isn't the new VF game they mentioned in that interview recently. VF5 has had so many re-releases at this point, that it almost feels like they're twisting the knife in fans hoping for a new VF game.

Another pointless remaster. The game can already be played on PS5 at 60fps. And the game still looks incredible. Heck, I played through the game for the first time using my PS5 a few years ago.

The problem is the developers/publishers. Not the hardware. Always has been. There are people here claiming that the hardware is the problem, or a scam, or a beta test. It's not. The problem is the developers. There are also plenty of games that have been improved a lot on the Pro without even having official support simply because the original versions of the game were broken (e.g., Elden Ring, Atelier Ryza 2).

Neither should be eligible. Pure nonsense to even consider that they should be. Remasters especially shouldn't be considered, since they're literally the same game, just remastered. Reimaginings (like Metroid Zero Mission, or the new version of Resident Evil 2) on the other hand are fine since they are different games than the originals.

Sadly expected considering that the CPU is the main bottleneck in this game. And the Pro didn't do much to improve on that.

I'm shocked that Final Fantasy 16 isn't included. That game desperately needs Pro support.

No real difference unfortunately. Not that I expected there to be one for PS4 games. I'm honestly surprised that the option is even there when it doesn't really do anything in practice. Resolution is exactly the same between the two examples.

@tatsumi I can't speak for myself, since these games are just not for me. But I've always heard that the more you grind in this game, the harder it becomes? So that comment confuses me. I've heard it can actually get to the point where if you grind too much, the game actually becomes impossible to finish.

Agreed. I was honestly taken-aback by just how bad the game looked when I played it last night. It's fun still of course. But man, image quality on this was worse than image quality in Monster Hunter Rise on the Switch! When the Switch game looks better than the PS5 game, you know it's a problem.

I only ever played through the original Dragon Age. It was fun, but I always heard the second game wasn't great, so I kind of just fell off the Dragon Age series after that. Now I feel like I missed so much, that it'd be hard to jump in now again.

I am not liking the visual style of this one. It just does not scream "Double Dragon" to me at all.

Not surprising honestly. With how physical games are treated these days on modern platforms (just a physical DRM key for a game that is entirely installed and played from the SSD), their purpose is substantially reduced in practice. That's also why Switch physical sales are higher, because the games are actually played directly from the game card. They feel like they serve a purpose other than a DRM key.

And to everyone mentioning used game sales. Of course those are a thing, but publishers don't care about those figures in this context since they don't see any money from those sales. They only care about new game sales.