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Sinking ship. It’ll be a miracle if this game is good. At this point I do think they’ll release it, though; they’ve sunk too much time and money into it at this point to not at least give it a shot. If it tanks, they’ll just pull the plug in a couple of weeks.

@SoulChimera Same. F*ck the haters! This game is gonna keep me busy for hundreds of hours!

A pretty decent crop. A friend of mine has been raving about Psychonauts 2 for ages (the first one was good), and Stardew Valley looks like a nice, therapeutic chill out kind of game. Overall, the Essential games have definitely improved this year.

@HRdepartment Yeah. The addition of horde mode alone made it an all-timer for me, but everything else was improved as well! Way meatier and superior campaign.

Will pick this up when it’s on sale, for sure. Love Gears (though Gears 2 is my favourite)!

Always exciting when a game goes gold!

This generation has been stagnant and dull. Very few great first party games and new IPs. Sony have lost their way by chasing live service games to excess, and seem uninterested in giving fans what they actually want.

It’s not just Microsoft you can’t be sure of these days…

A positive change and long overdue.

Love this! A smart crossover, and happy about getting SOME Halo related stuff on PS5.

Let’s hope that, whatever they show, they prove that they’re getting back on track after all of the time wasted tragically on live service attempts.

Some people really need to touch grass.

I agree with what he’s saying, but the man largely responsible for the live service fiasco (Ryan) is gone now, and it seems like Sony is at least trying to right the ship. I do agree that they should communicate more with their fans, though, instead of just shareholders. And I also wouldn’t go so far as to say they don’t know what they’re doing. PS5 is still a huge success, in spite of the mistakes they’ve made.

Awesome. Nice job, SP!

@Northern_munkey Came to say this. Gross that they’re pay walling bloody demos, but that’s Sony: consumer unfriendly, greedy, and arrogant.

You know what would be a huge improvement? BETTER SALES. The store used to have some great sales, but now they’re very chintzy with their discounts. And Sony: how about some deep discounts for some of your older first party PS5 games? Or even putting them on the lowest tier of PS Plus once in awhile? The company has become incredibly greedy and arrogant since the PS4 days and is more interested in communicating with shareholders than the fans who put the comwhere it is today.

Another reason to not buy it.

Nightdive are remaster masters.

I’ll probably give it a whirl, just for fun, but doubt very much that I’ll buy it.

Well, they’re struggling to get this thing out the door at all, so no wonder there’s no crossplay.

Nice! ODST was a great spinoff game that did some interesting things with the Halo franchise. Looking forward to bringing some of that world into Helldivers.

I wouldn’t take that as meaning that the game will run at higher than 60 fps at all. If so, not meaningfully higher. My guess is that it’ll have more graphical effects and/or a higher resolution on PS5 Pro. Yes, the Pro has a better GPU, but the CPU is only 10% more powerful than base PS5…and I’m sure all of that destructability is pretty computationally expensive.

Generic but not necessarily bad looking.

Gonna grab this when it’s cheaper because it looks fun. But I’m sure that, on top of the disappointing sales, the Star Wars license isn’t exactly cheap either (although considering most of the crap films and show that have come out in the last few years, it should be).

Microsoft and Xbox don’t have the clout to charge $80. They’re a distant third in the console market. And choosing Outer Worlds 2 as the first title at the new price was dumb. They’ve dug themselves into a hole.

Pro doesn’t have the power to run this at 60 if the base PS5 can’t do it. There isn’t the power delta between PS5 and PS5 Pro like there is between PS4 and PS4 Pro. It’ll run better than base PS5, sure, but not at double the frame rate.

Oh, go on…let them have it. They’re sharing their toys with us; we should play nice!

Nice! Quite the result. Will no doubt encourage Team Green to keep porting and releasing former Xbox games to PS5. Definitely going to pick this one up when it’s cheaper.

Well, the movie is nowhere near ready to go, so they’ve got some time in that sense.

It’s such a shame. Forza was great, and good competition for Gran Turismo, which I still feel has baffling design decisions.

So dumb. This doesn’t “dilute the brand” at all. It just makes it stronger. Sony made the game, let us (and PC) have it to ourselves for almost a year and a half, and now they’re being more inclusive and that’s a bad thing? These fanboys need to give their heads a shake and touch grass. Would you rather not have Forza Horizon, Gears, and (soon) Halo? If not then shut up.

I want a pony, but that doesn’t mean I just get to have one.

A shame this game didn’t turn out better. It had decent bones, but not enough meat.

Nice! Only fair to share the love with Microsoft bringing so many games to PlayStation.

@torquex Randy mentioned that Gearbox is “targeting 60 fps” for the game.

@Mythologue You don’t actually swap parts out; weapons simply spawn with multiple different components.

Sweet! Day one for me. Love the series (gameplay wise at least), and 4 looks like it’s making some great changes.

Hmm…pretty sure I’m seeing some frame drops here. Looks crisp, and mostly good frame rate, but not a constant 60…at least not yet.

It won’t push players to Game Pass; it’ll just make people wait until it goes on sale. I hope day one sales of this prove me right. Pure greed on Microsoft’s part, same as carving up the Gears trilogy and, likely, Halo.

People here are assuming it’s the Halo 1 remaster/remake…but this miner says it’s coming “very soon”. Assuming he’s correct (a pretty big stretch, sure), it’s likely something else. The remake seems like it’s slated for next year (a very likely bet since that will be the 25th anniversary), which I don’t consider “very soon”. So what IS it? And how does he know it’s not the MCC or Infinite?

Marathon killer. Although Bungie is doing a bang up job of killing Marathon themselves…

@get2sammyb Thanks, Sammy! Love this site! Have a great weekend.

Glad it got lots of views, but nothing shown piqued my interest really. And still a concerning lack of news from first party studios; I’m guessing it’ll be awhile before they turn the ship away from the iceberg that is the whole live service fiasco.

Would be nice if you included the chart in the body of the article so we don’t have to click away…

I’m still waiting to do a second playthrough. Might as well wait a bit longer if there’s more stuff coming!

Nice! I think that this gen is going to be at least as long as the last (with possibly a longer cross gen period), so we’ll finally get some games that really allow the base PS5 to shine.

Looking forward to playing The Final Shape! Heard good things, but knew it was coming to Plus. Then I’ll put Destiny 2 to bed.

To anyone who played this around launch: was it noticeably buggy? I feel like I haven’t really heard anything bad. Just curious what state it was in at release.

Looks like mindless fun, but a recent preview I watched said that it was buggy and it was hands-off…even though it’s coming out in a few weeks. Not promising.

Really looking forward to “The Final Shape”. I knew it would hit Plus eventually, so I held off, even though a lot of my friends were playing it and it got great reviews.