Max_the_German

Now, from what I see, Marathon gives me the vibe of „not terrible, not great“. Boringly good, with a decent player base?

That would still be not good enough to justify Bungie‘s acquisition.

Don‘t forget the many children who get a used PS4 from their uncles, older brothers etc. Your general taste for gaming is formed at that age. Without playing Zelda A Link to the Past and Super Metroid as a child, I wouldn’t probably love their genres as much as I do.

Therefore I think it’s crucial for Sony to bring family-friendly games with Sony IPs to PS5 and also PS4.

Not bringing Lego Horizon to PS4 is a huge mistake in my opinion.

1) Clair
2) Obscur
3) Expedition
4) 3
5) 3

Just kidding, I don’t like Mario & Luigi, so I‘m not interested in E33.

But maybe one day I will try KCD2. It has the potential for a stone cold classic, like a smaller brother of Witcher 3.

@Korgon

A publisher financing the development of a game of an external developer is the most normal thing in the world, no matter how small or big the studio is. What do you think how most films are getting made or most books are getting written? Do you think that FromSoftware is an „indie“ because absndai Namco is the publisher?

I want to play Indy, and I’m still waiting for a physical copy for a reasonable price. But the prices only go up…

From what I‘ve seen so far, Troy Baker does a PHENOMENAL job in bringing Dr. Jones from the first three films back to the screen. I know, he won everything in the video game space, but THIS performance…

E33 overshadowed almost all other games this year and therefore won in categories where other games are regarded as better when the hype is over.

@Reyzore

The credits list over 400 people. How couldn’t it not be an indie game?

I don’t like trailers without gameplay. But the trailer for Divinity is a blast. And Capcom rocks.

The most impressive cinematic game trailer I’ve ever seen. If this camera work is also present in the final game, good Lord!

@Quintumply

Please don’t follow this wrong narrative about the release date. It is 28 April, not 30 April.

Here, cutscenes and gameplay blend perfectly in each other, creating one coherent experience.

Conpare this to many other trailers of this show: BS talk, fight, cutscene with flying BS, fight, …

Capcom shows everyone what a world class AAA game must look like.

If you just watch the few seconds of gameplay which is not in slow motion, it suddenly becomes a normal looking third-person action-adventure, like hundreds of others out there.

If Sony wouldn’t publish this stuff, almost nobody here would care about.

Imagine that people would have a higher interest in a film, just because it were published by Sony and not Paramount or Universal or WB or Disney. Sounds ridiculous? Definition of fanboyism.

Optimisations originally made for an upcoming Switch 2 version, which will be announced at TGA 2025?

Thank you! I can’t wait to see Sonic Rumble winning the award for Best Mobile Game.

@Oram77

I think, these days publishers want to concentrate the MP gamers on a small number of dedicated MP games. The demands for regular content updates are much higher than back then. The curation of several similar games with a split player base is a bad outcome. COD can still provide a new MP game every year, in addition to Warzone, because of its (still!) tremendous popularity. Other publishers rather curate only „their Warzone“.

Maybe, Microsoft will soon announce a new MP Halo or revive and improve Halo Infinite‘s MP.

@Ainu20 Oh really, that’s embarrassing from my side.

With its similarities to Returnal and the familiarity of its target group with the gameplay, the next trailer should also include the release date. Another „Here are new tidbits of the gameplay, 2026“ just wouldn’t be enough for my taste.

Closing the whole studio is a drastic move. I thought they could rescue it, by simply replacing all the bad assets with man-made ones.

But the root cause seems to be deeper: Maybe all of the assets were made with AI tools, quick and dirty. And the studio’s budget didn’t allow to hire proper designers and remake all the assets. At this point, we can only speculate.

In any case, this events will serve as an example for the effects of uncurated and extensive use of AI tools on the fate of development studios. And the whole situation will heal a bit.

@darylb24

I guess that more than 50% of world‘s land mass and population will sleep during the runtime of this show. But it’s a great time of day if you are on Tahiti, in the middle of nowhere.

@EfYI The basic principle of this show only allows it to be bad. Hours of trailers and trailers and trailers of free-to-play MMOs from China, which look all the same, soulslikes, which look all the same, rougelite character action-games, which look all the same. The few exceptions of unique trailers are mostly big names of already announced games, like RE9.

Like they say: The new stuff was not interesting, and the interesting stuff was not new.

@somnambulance Does a huge portion of the fascination for E33 stem from the departure of Final Fantasy from turn-based interaction? If FF16 had been a huge success as a classical turn-based RPG, would people have cared less about E33? Or is the success of the latter independent of the recent development in AAA JRPGs?

@somnambulance Anyone can play it and has a unique experience, the best description for this game I‘ve heard so far. Despite having a highly linear game progression, you can often choose the gameplay mechanic to approach a certain section, and it often becomes chaotic, in a positive way.

It is, like all 2025 GOTY contenders, a piece of love for the medium.

@somnambulance

DK Bananza is the most risky AAA game Nintendo has made in a long time, and it succeeded artistically and probably financially in the long run. Also a great political statement that for big publishers, there is not only the path of ever-evolving sequels to minimise risks.

„New Bloodborne“?

If I‘ll ever need a quote for unrealistic wishful thinking in video games journalism, I know which citation I will use.

@LogicStrikesAgain

But it will be pretty power hungry nonetheless. Probably not 100 W, but maybe 50 W when setting the screen to full brightness. And with 100 Wh the realistic maximum capacity (because it’s the allowed maximum for flights), it would result in a heavy and clumsy device and still only 2 hours of battery life.

To my knowledge, this was already mentioned by other sources. „PSSR 2“ will be an incarnation of FSR 4, with its high image quality and a much wider acceptance in the industry. PSSR as a PlayStation-only solution will be then a thing of the past.

Let’s hope that RDNA 3 will soon officially support hardware-accelerated FSR 4 ML upscaling, so with the arrival of PS6, every major new platform (including Steam Machine) will have ML upscaling, and developers almost can’t get around implementing it.

Is this a joke? There were several articles over the course of the year like „Release date could be announced in the following days/hours“.

Never seen such a show around the announcement of the announcement of a game.

And when „the lion awakens“ in a „World Premiere“ during the 4-hours trailer show „The Game Awards“, it will say „2026“?

Sony is obviously not earning a lot at these prices. But it’s always the same: Discounts for the requirements result in higher prices for the main product (here: games) itself.

This is a great example:

• The smart use of AI tools by artists to make game creation faster and easier is a big win for involved developers, publishers and customers.
• The mindless usage of AI tools to create slog games is rejected by all customers.

Hopefully, we will soon come to a more nuanced discussion about the usage of AI. Both „AI is THE future for games“ and „AI is in principle bad and steals jobs“ are tiring me.

Should we celebrate that battery life isn’t poor anymore but reaching industry standards?

THE game the world waited for to spend precious time and money.

Obviously, The Game Awards is an advertisement at its core, positioning itself as a prestigious event where the accolades matter.

@Coffeeglitch @GMaster7

With PS5, Sony changed the button layout for Japanese systems from the „Nintendo pattern“ = „O okay, X cancel“ to the „Xbox pattern“ = „X okay, O cancel“, what we in the west are used to.

I assumr that this was seen in Japan as an ignorant move by Big Jimbo and his European gang in California, a symbol for what PlayStation has become.

Let’s see whether SIE under new Japanese leadership will change this back for PS6 in Japan.

At least PS5 could beat Switch 1 by 459 units (35786 vs. 35327). Switch 1, a system from 2017 with a technical performance not much better than that of a PS3.

The animations are not very good imo. Often no fluent transition between two moves, poor collision detection when jumping on the walls. But it’s not bad enough that my jaw dropped.

The AI hysteria gets out of control.

The Switch 2 version supports DLSS and mouse support, while PS5 and Xbox Series get the bare minimum. Looks to me like the Switch 2 version was the focus, and the other versions were added so that nobody feels ignored here.

For this purpose, the quality is okay.

I think that AI will lead to many more pictures in the internet overall, the demand rises with the means. And so there will still be enough tasks for high-quality man-made images and designs, especially brand-related.

I see Geoff on stage:

„Hell Grave is a brand new multi-platform free-to-play MMO from Tencent, coming to PS5, Xbox Series and PC in August 2026. Here is a first look on this awesome looking action-loaded rouge-lite RPG!“

@LiamCroft

A voting like this must be so easy to understand that you don’t need to read a separate text, because nobody expects that. A simple sentence directly above the list like „GTA VI can’t be selected, because it won this category last year“ would be an easy solution.

@Americansamurai1

I grew up with The Simpsons, so I’m used to see 4 fingers per hand and 4 toes per foot.

@themightyant

Yes, why no GTA? And why no Embark for studio?

For GTA: Maybe only games with some level of console exclusivity are included. Or they just know that no PS Studios game has any chance of winning if GTA is selectable.

@CaptD

Ghost Town: I‘m always looking for great PSVR2 games. In the Edge review of the Quest version from May, it got a 7/10, which is higher than the usual 70%, a solid to good. And I find these Edge scores highly fitting to my personal experience of those games.

Unfortunately there are not that many great VR games in general and PSVR2 in particular out there.

Half-Life 3, what else?

Neon White is good, and Switch is its natural home.

The very definition of casting pearls before swine?

@Orpheus79V Why? Don’t you see the big advantages of a higher degree of automation? People were afraid of the loom, the locomotive, the industrial machines. In the 70s, „machine taxes“ were discussed, because now robots could weld car chassis, faster, more precise, 24/7. But working went on, with a higher living standard than before. If you don’t believe me, check the prices for furniture in the 70s and today: How many hours does an average employee have to work for a Billy?

A major part of my work is to negotiate agreements between parties with opposing interests (I‘m not a lawyer). I use AI tools on a daily basis. Will people accept proposals from an AI for a deeply human problem without a human interaction? I don’t think so.

In Europe we have an aging and shrinking population. To hold and increase overall productivity with less workforce, we need better tools, and AI is one of them.

@themightyant

And it still was almost perfect AT LAUNCH when played the PS4 Pro code on PS5. And it’s still in a poor shape when playing the PS5 code on PS5 or PS5 Pro. Where have we seen significant improvements over time? From the analyses I‘ve seen, there are none.

@themightyant

I bought the PS4 disk to play it on PS5 in the upcoming months, and I think that combination was almost perfect from day one. I understand that this cannot be the basis for scoring a game though.

@Korgon

Yes, I can only see three outstanding games on this list, with Astro Bot, BG3 and Edith Finch, while Elden Ring is missing. And „outstanding“ is Hookshot‘s definition of a 10/10.