MTMike87

Excellent! Will undoubtedly be the best State of Play of 2025 for me.

@DragonSlayer1759 I see where you are coming from. It can be frustrating to pay full price for a game, only for others to pay far less and have a better experience than you...

...but in this context, I don't think your statement really fits here as it's free additional content for fans that have been asking for it. If you weren't asking for it, then it simply wasn't made with you in mind.

Well can't complain here! I'll jump on that this weekend!

It generally sounds like the author of the article has a point, but at the same time, also showcases their linear pattern with gaming in general. The only way you really miss games like Astro Bot, Ratchet & Clank & Stellar Blade is if you gravitate towards the other games mentioned specifically for their stories.

So I don't know what to really take away from the original article. It sounds more like personal burn-out than an actual issue with Sony's output thematically. I also think Sony's output has been much slower this generation than any other, so there is that as well, but the third party support is so vast and complements the platform so well, it's almost a moot point.

Most story-driven motivators in general have all been done dozens of times at this point, but the storylines always diverge into their own separate narratives by the end, and differentiate themselves with the world they take place in, the character's origins and development over the course of the events the player is forced to engage with, etc.

TL;DR, Sony is doing just fine, and the article has no real merit on the industry as a whole, but a personal issue that can be easily remedied by not focusing solely on PlayStation Studios for PlayStation 5 content.

Funny enough, PS3 servers are fine, lol.

Wait, this game hasn't even been officially out a year, and we're already FIVE seasons in???

I don't think platform fighters as a Live Service game works when you're that aggressive on the battle pass/DLC. Its not hard to see what the issue is with that. It's either really tedious, or more expensive than a full priced game and you aren't going to find enough people willing to commit to constantly investing into a product that will inevitably cease to exist.

I'm just saying... Let Team Asobi make a brand new Ape Escape game. It's a match made in heaven.

I think this is the final strike against it for us.

I just wanted to co-op with my wife, like we did in Elden Ring. Now every accomplishment is going to feel cheated because we have to lug around an awkward 3rd wheel that might be at a completely different part of the game and carries us through the fight.

Sounds like its bargain bin material for me now.

@Xbox_Dashboard Comment of the year. Absolutely lost it. 😂

My wife has been playing it so I let her score it. She gave it a 9 as well.

She does disagree on pretty much every con that was listed in the PushSquare review. She thinks Architype Conveyance was poor to the player and she feels like not enough dialog is voiced in story segments. Everything else is exactly what she wanted.

Definitely a 9 out of 10 from me! Without comparing it to the original, its just a really great horror game. Some of the best sound design in the genre, and the visuals look great. The only real complaint I have is that the camera has quite a few issues that were simply ignored to meet the deadline. There's no way it didn't come up in the debugging process.

It really gets hung up on doors and most other objects in small spaces and jitters uncontrollably for a couple of seconds. I feel like the camera has 0 flexibility and can get you in a bad situation once or twice per playthrough.

Definitely going to be a game that will get improvement patches over time. Probably not going to review too well.

It didn't really click with me that this was a thing until I started play A Plague Tale: Requiem, that an advertisement for the bundle of a game series I was already playing and had installed was being shoved in my face instead of the normal progress and social media stuff. What a waste.

Death Stranding Director's Cut is doing the same thing now too, advertising that its coming out soon even though I'm already 40+ hours into playing it. Its hard to believe this was intentional.

I thought at one point they could collaborate in an update, but after seeing this interview, I'm highly doubtful. Oh well, its not too important anyway, Astro Bot is awesome with or without Square Enix cameos!

Really looking forward to this one. I've missed the Budokai Tenkaichi series and many of the other DBZ games that have come out recently just didn't do it for me.

This issue was totally self-inflicted. There are SO many reasons why this happened that no one can even list them all. They pushed way too hard on this holiday season.

I am curious to know if the large revenue stream Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis brings to SEGA is incorporated in these sales reports or not. I didn't see any mention of it from any of the outlets so I'm going to assume not. It might be self-sustained since its live-service and SEGA doesn't pull from it unless needed. I'm not really sure how it works in a business sense.

1080p60 is perfectly fine to me! I just want those frames!

I bought my TV with a higher refresh rate because Sony and subsequent studios kept touting 60FPS and even 120FPS modes for their games.

Now if a game runs 30FPS on my new TV, it's jarring, choppy, the games look horrendous and the picture quality suffers as a result anyway. If studios aren't going to put in the effort to optimize their games for current technology, I'm not buying them.

60 FPS is a must for me on the PS5. 30 FPS games stutter bad on my high refresh rate 4K QLED TV. I bought this console because I wanted a gaming platform to be compatible with my TV and make the most of what it offers. If I can't get a smooth 60 FPS experience, it's very unlikely I will invest any time or money at all into it.

I will still tolerate 30 FPS on handheld gaming devices though since the screen should be dedicated to whatever experience the system can offer. It's not as noticeable.

Thank you for this informative review. I really loved the first game, but I think I'll wait a little while before picking it up, just to see if the performance issues are able to get resolved. I don't like the idea of the game crashing my entire console, if it can be helped. Would really like graphical options in the future as well. 60 FPS has completely spoiled me.

I had heard about this as an issue from friends that have been with Destiny 2 for 1,000+ hours, and it had always deterred me from playing it. Maybe I'll see for myself on December 6th if these changes will make it easier for me to jump in for the first time.

@Cadeni Right? I would have figured this would come with the Limited Edition Controller and custom cover plate too. What a weird decision.

This reminds me when the ColecoVision had the add-on "expansion module" that let you play Atari 2600 games on it. It's just... weird to imagine. That was also done without the permissions of Atari though.

In this case, Sony would be hammered with royalty fees they would have to pay out to Microsoft. I'm sure there is money there for Sony to make, but I bet it's not enough to be worth making that move. Definitely more to the story here that we aren't seeing though.

@Agramonte Exactly! This game was made very poorly, and was unappealing on nearly every level. A game running on PlayStation 5, should not be having consistent framerate issues. Especially if that game already looked last gen to begin with.

I don't have high hopes for Platinum Games with this model personally. I think their investors want low-risk with a high-reward and that's not how this industry should work.