Max_the_German

From all what I have seen about this game, I am not surprised. And not that I think Pearl Abyss wanted to save a huge amount of money, but as result of the general poor level of care and refinement. Pearl Abyss has obviously bitten more than it could chew.

@LikelySatan You know Eurojank, games primarily from Eastern Europe, with complex and somewhat overachieving mechanics for their small budget, and graphics are poor.

The logical evolution is Asiajank: Same inappropriate ambition, but also with heavy focus on pleasing graphics. The Wo/Wu games, Where Winds Meet, this game.

And yes, I haven’t read the term Asiajank before, but it just makes sense from my perspective.

Let talented independent studios use your IP to make smaller games, in order to make some money, create exciting news of new exclusives, and cultivate the IP.

Sony finally got it.

That’s ridiculous. They develop this game over a span of several years. They make ports for PS5 and Xbox Series. And they didn’t test the controls with their target audience?

Other, competent developers make great games with little financial success. And Pearl Abyss has huge success with this Asiajank.

@get2sammyb „but there’s no doubt its PSVR2 mode will make it better“

Are you sure? I have a quite robust stomach, but VR with down to 24 fps would test it like nothing else before, and kill the effect of immersion what makes VR so special.

Before ordering FS2024, I wait for the first video impressions from VR specialists.

@Praise_Furret You must send these messages also to Damien. He’s co-founder of Hookshot Media (Nintendo Life and later PushSquare) and the editorial director of Hookshot Media. He should be the one responsible for the journalistic standards of PushSquare.

https://www.nintendolife.com/authors/Damo

Gears of War is a canonical game I‘ve never played. But do I really want to invest money and time to finally play it? I don’t know.

In the poll, we could vote for
„I think it's going to be special“

According to the article, it is.

@somnambulance Chances are high that the PS Portal will be supported by the PS6. Otherwise, people would be very unhappy with their new Honda, supporting streaming PS5 games but not PS6 games in two years.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/12/sony-hondas-electric-car-will-be-the-first-vehicle-with-full-ps5-remote-play-integration

Online gaming will be part of PS Plus, as it‘s the case already (F2P games ignored).
Purchasing games online will be part of PS Store, as it’s the case already.
„PSN is down“ we will call „PS services are offline“.

Look at the screenshot of the PS5 interface: The two online services PS Plus and PS Store have their own permanent and very prominent buttons.

„PS Plus“ was strengthened by integrating PS Now, which helped to make it easier to understand these services; PS Now was pretty confusing in the end. With the elimination of „PSN“, the brand „PS Plus“ will get strengthened even more.

That’s good, I couldn’t say what PlayStation Network stands for nowadays. Online multiplayer? Store for digital games?

More interesting is what the new name will be. Because I don’t see an existing term which would fit better. PS Plus for online gaming, PS Store for the digital store?

Calm down, guys. Metacritic score of 79. Definitely not the next E33.

This is so depressing. Sony sold excellent hardware, and now it pulls the plug of 50% of SIE published games.

Yes, Sony published only two (2!) PSVR2 games, not counting GT7 and this climate change thing.

I‘m still wondering what the discussions inside Sony before the PSVR2 release would have been.

@Oram77 It’s a sign of quality and independence if everyone makes cheap jokes in the internet, and an internet magazine of the renowned Hookshot Media network chimes in.

And this kind of technology will probably have no real impact on any PlayStation for the upcoming 5 to 10 years. Zero connection to PlayStation.

@get2sammyb I think the language in the latest titles deteriorated a bit with their focus on excrements.

Oh yeah, making articles of select ResetEra postings is an endless source for articles.

Next update: You can connect a DualSense via Bluetooth to your PS Portal and your PS Portal via a USB-C/HDMI cable to your TV, so you have a complete streaming solution for PS Plus Premium.

No, seriously: A PlayStation Remote Play app for smart TVs would be great!

@Balaam_ The image shows that there are three modes now: 720p, 1080p Standard (today’s standard) and 1080p High Quality.

Great news! I hope that audio latency is reduced. The significant delay between video and audio is the most annoying aspect for me.

A 1080p30 video is not very telling, unfortunately. This game has still a big question mark on it for me.

Revolutionary! It is decorative and prevents the screen from burn-in. How should we call it?

Classical consoles wars are over. The new console wars for PushSquare are about graphics card vendors. It‘s so unfair that Nvidia p*sses on the glorious reveal of PSSR 2.0 of the glorious PS5 Pro. Evil, evil Nvidia!

Edit: I mean, it’s even in the name: Nvidia comes from Latin invidia, from which the English word stems, envy. Nvidia was obviously envious of Sony and AMD, that’s the only possible explanation for this pissmove.

I promise, no Marathon jokes here.

At this point, many disks are basically Game-Key Cards with a reduced amount to download.

Again, many speculations in the article and comments, but not as many as in the original article.

What’s not a speculation: It’s easy and cost-efficient to develop a game simultaneously for PC and Xbox, due to Xbox using DX12 and the SDK „Microsoft Gaming Development Kit“ as well. That‘s also why Xbox Play Anywhere is so easy to implement.

There are hints that games like The Medium and STALKER 2 were originally released on PC and Xbox, but not PS5, because of these technical reasons. In such cases, an Xbox release is more of a side effect; something which was clearly in mind of Microsoft when the Xbox was designed.

Whether these technical aspects, with Xbox releases mainly as a side effect, are a major reason for Square Enix‘ porting strategy or not: Speculation, again.

„I think it's going to be special“

Both Breath of the Wild and MindsEye are „special“, in different ways. Will CD be more like the former or the latter?

I see the productive purpose of this website. Bad games, made by companies without the intention to create something meaningful and not making the most out of the talent of the developers, need a corrective. Because people deserve better. These devs could make more attractive games, these customers could play them.

It‘s not the wasted money that bothers me the most. It’s the wasted talent and lifetime of the developers, working years for an uninspired product without soul.

The appeal of this system depends on so many factors, mainly compatibility with existing and future games of stationary systems and the graphical performance. But first and foremost, the price will decide its fate. If it’s the price of a PS5 Pro, then Good Luck!

@Colour I started the game and was immediately repulsed by the naked fatty I had to move. And I don’t have to feeling to go back again.

Looks interesting, immediately wishlisted, waiting for the inevitable PushSquare review

@Quintumply I miss the option

„I don’t care, I wouldn’t even claim the game when it‘d be a monthly game in PS Plus Essential“

Watching the video causes headaches for me, a wild blend of motion, shapes and colours, really stressful imo. Compared to that, Bayonetta 3 was a Zen garden.

@Fyz306903 Physical is best when done right. Without sh*tty day-one patches or internet requirements to activate operation.

My cartridge of Metroid Prime Remastered will work in 20 years on a Switch, with the same game code as today (latest version is still 1.0), as it is the case with Super Metroid on SNES. And both will still be two of the best gaming experiences you can imagine.

This comment section is full of speculations. Maybe SE doesn’t want to release on PlayStation because of a dispute with Sony, but even that is only a speculation.

It’s graphically impressive. But the gameplay and artstyle I‘ve seen so far look a bit eclectic to me. Let’s see what the reviewers will say about it.

Is this the old „Souls games need easy mode for accessibility“ discussion in a new form? Or that you can disable spiders in some games?

People could try to get out of their comfort zones, that’s one possible purpose of art. There are enough games out there that just want to please you.

@carlos82
The general latency isn’t the real problem imo. It’s the extra delay of the audio (!) which annoys me. You never have video and audio in sync. Additionally, moving scenes with many fine details become pixel mud. And the third annoying aspect: I can’t use 3D audio, which was announced with an older update, but somehow I can’t activate it.

I got a Lego Game Boy, and it is looking and feeling so nice! So much love in the small details and the manual, there were real fans involved.

The PSX could be a great present for dear friends.

@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah, new fodder for a tarnished like me.

But I want to tell a positive story. Player count for Slay the Spire II, released on the same day as Marathon:
https://steamdb.info/app/2868840/charts/

@FamilyGuyFAN44 „Raytracing Low“, see the picture in the article. That probably means only ambient occlusion or reflection, I hope for the former.

@ShogunRok

Why fo you vall your 2014 review infamous? You could review only the code aubisoft gave to you, and if it was buggy as hell (which I don’t doubt a single second), then the 5/10 was certainly justified from your perspective. And the Metacritic score of 70 shows that you weren’t alone. I appreciate that you criticised Ubisoft, especially when not knowing that other reviews see it the same way.

@ShogunRok @Damo

PLEASE, dear Hookshot media team, rethink your conventions for titles. The user profiles reveal that there are many readers from non-English speaking countries, and most of them are probably not native English speakers. A title which begins with „Invincible VS Invites“ can be misleading while reading.

I beg you, please change from title case to sentence case for your titles.

@Brundleflies21 The 48 Hz lower limit stems from the HDMI standard. 40 Hz from Xbox is out of the standard, but works fine with all (?) TVs. Sony seems to be conservative here.

60 fps with RT features on base PS5 sounds good.

What is missing yet to convince me are good reviews!

That‘s called survivor bias. Fired staff from Japan Studio couldn’t poll negatively.

Why should Sony want to block it? New games won’t be released on PC, and „Spider-Man on Xbox“ is an old hat at this point.

The proof: You don’t need AI to create AI-like slop.

But as they say (especially in China): Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Based on that, The Last of Us, God of War, Breath of the Wild and Pokemon are held in high regard!

@TandyMiller Thank you! Reading the other comments, I felt like there is nobody here who knows that this is a normal business practice, and Sandfall is acting here like every other fair company. In the end, besides the talent of its employees, who could leave, Sandfall has nothing left but its IP.

For single-player games, Sony needs exclusivity to differentiate and to show PlayStation in its best light? But why shouldn’t that hold true for multiplayer games as well?

I know that multiplayer games live from a high player count. But I find these double standards here annoying. And this over-simplification. It’s not always black and white; in fact, almost never. Splatoon is an integral part of the Nintendo ecosystem and still exclusive on Wii U and Switch, without a PC release day and date. Mario Kart Tour is just a spin-off, the real deal is Mario Kart World, exclusive on Switch 2.

Guys, please be more critical with these decisions from Sony. They still seem quite erratic to me, and in a few years, Sony could change its mind, and 70% here are cheering again.

@Gaia093 If easy jailbreaking means Bloodborne with 60 fps, I can’t wait!