MikeOrator

I am going to say this as someone who absolutely loved Astro Bot. Reggie is right. However, if you give Team Asobi a time machine, have them go back 30 years, have Asobi and Nintendo wage a friendly war to make the best 3D platformer using each other as inspiration then we can have this conversation again. Untill then 3D Mario are the GOAT's.

In fact I would propose that we call all 3D platformers Mariolikes the same way we use Rougelike, Soulslike and Metroidvainia to describe entire genres. Nevermind...we already do...lol...

Just so everyone is aware. The game is rated TEEN. That means that they are not promoting gambling to children they are promoting gambling to TEENagers—a big difference.

@RoomWithaMoose

Now forever nobody will know what this guy gets...lol...

@wildcat_kickz

Real journalism is dead in the age of rage bait.

@Khayl

Canadian here and with taxes mine would come to CAD $166. Ludacris is what I say!

Open letter to studios and publishers that want to make a Gaas.

Unless it has Waifus and is free to play...don't bother.

Casinos don't charge a fee to enter.

Do you know what would make more sense than live service? Ads for other games in the middle of the game we are playing. Imagine, if you will, arriving at a chapter break in Alan Wake 2 but instead of a moody song against the backdrop of ghostly visions, you get an ad for some Unity game called Brick Crusher, Troll Bash or Marble Runner. I think that would be neat!

If there will be one game this year that saves me from punching my ticket, this one will be it.

As units wear out and more and more Switch 2 exclusives come out (Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, Metroid, Smash Bros, Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing need I go on) this will be a repeat of what the Switch is doing right now—great sales in NA and Europe but DOMINATION in Japan.

I, for one, am not looking forward to the outrage over the price. This is going to be at least 399 US. That's the rumour, at least,, but when it's officially announced at more than that, the world will burn, just like over the price of the PS5 Pro.

All the PS5 games should also be available for streaming on the Portal as well!

@LavenderShroud @Diowine

Mario Kart 8 is still selling 20 to 30k a month. That game has more legs than the last 60 years of the Rockettes.

@bankenrepublik

Astro Bot is a very well-made and entertaining game. It may also be the best 3D platformer to come out last year. However, it is not better than Super Mario Odyssey/Galaxy/Sunshine/64, not by at least 28 years of excellence.

@Czar_Khastik

This is true. I always give everything at least a go but I quit the Yakuza show after the first half of the first trailer. The old Yakuza movie is mint though.

@Oram77

Hot Take: BUBUubuuUBUBuujdiUBUBUuB SHUT UP!!!

(lol)

@Matroska

So are you telling me that requiring a PSN account does nothing to circumvent piracy?

I still don't understand why PC gamers are so put off getting a PSN account in the first place.

@themightyant

If a person in an ineligible county is unable to get a PSN account they should write to their local and federal leaders to ask them to change the rules of that country

@Matroska

Signing up for a membership to be allowed to shop at their store sounds suspiciously like a Costco or Sam's Club. People are lining up for those memberships. PC gamers are just mad when they get caught with a pirated copy after needing a PSN account to launch the game. Its just entitled BS.

@ChromaticDracula

But I also agree with you about the creative nature of Kojima games. His work truly is visionary.

@Brundleflies21

Those aren't flaws, those are features.

That being said, I did feel like I was "liking" DS1 because of the pedigree and not that I was truly enjoying the experience. Toward the end, it was just Inventory Managment: The Game.

@nessisonett

I just looked up what a Findus Crispy Pancake is, and now I want to eat a dozen. They're like Pizza Pops, but better. I do agree with your point, though.

@MFTWrecks

I think we were imagining 2 different things. You were imagining a world where a Western developer could come up with a Gatcha game based on comic books and it would be well received. I was not imagining that.

@MFTWrecks

The only reason these Eastern-developed Gatcha games get a partial pass in most cases is because of the waifus and fan service. Can you imagine the uproar if a Western developer made a Gatcha game with characters intended for the so-called "modern audience"

@tameshiyaku

I also want more of Project Century. What they showed at the Game Awards looked flippin' cool, but I don't think we will see much until the third quarter.

@AinsleyE

Please may this prediction of yours be true....(Judgement 3 or Kawami 3 please Universe)

@SirCecilNiplewhip

I think you meant Pirate Yakuza is a rose between two thorns...lol...

Not gonna lie, I would probably get one for my Xbox as I hate the off-set analogue sticks on the ones I have now.

no disc drives in stock is the number one reason I have not pulled the trigger on the PS5 Pro.

I used to game on PC and spend more time fiddling with various settings than playing a game.

TBH, though, with my PS5 and Xbox, I spend more time in the TV/console settings trying to get each game to look perfect with HDR, 120hz, and various Game Modes than I would like to.

@Northern_munkey

Because it's fun? That's why I do it. lol...also boredom maybe.

@Northern_munkey

why do you feel the need to care so much

@Northern_munkey @Max_the_German

I also believe the article said "Random" in the title so that excuses it from being strictly Playstation-related.

Could never understand why some people hate cutscenes so much.

I am going to miss Stellar Blade’s soundtrack the most when I’m done playing it. So freakin good!!! Especially that song at the Oasis.

@LikelySatan

User name checks out because anyone who skips cut scenes in a Like a Dragon game is likely Satan.

@Drago201

As I said. Whatever we decide is the aggravation of the day is I guess I am glad it's this and not more complaining about bald women or the censored bloomers of girls of questionable age.

There is a reason that this game is as big as it is and every other gaming company is chasing this like it's crystal meth. You may think that just children are playing this game but you would be very wrong. There are probably measurable demographics, across all walks of life, that are being discovered every day. This game's user metadata would probably boggle our minds.

@Smackosynthesis

I guess there is always something that is going to ENRAGE the gaming pitchfork mob. Granted complaining about DLC or Remakes is better than the usual misogyny and racism that plagues the "community".

There are now way too many gamers with way too many things to complain about during way too much time of their day.

Look at all of us Europeans trying to figure out why people from Japan do things differently from us, it is so cute.

Atlus will make games the way they make games and you will enjoy them. That is the decree.

I wonder if they changed how the camera works or how character models are rendered on screen to save memory and this is just an unintended result.

@lazarus11

I agree that Kay Vess was ok. Her character design fits the themes of the game. I was only making the point that these outspoken gamers like female characters just fine as long as said female characters can be objectified.

@lazarus11

For these people the problem isn't that the character is a female the problem is when that character is not a hot, feminine, jiggly, lingerie model. Eve is good, but Kay Vess is not good.

@stu123

Nope, it's just a prediction.

@Lup

Yes, these are cinematic trailers, not gameplay trailers. It's ok to have both and we will see gameplay when the time is right.

@Savage_Joe

I consider myself to be a "core" fan of gaming, I also have money to spend on games. I bought both Stellar Blade and Star Wars: Outlaws and enjoyed them both. SOOO what are you saying about fans of video games who don't care or have grown emotionally enough not to cry over a diverse character design? Are you saying we are not real fans?

@mariomaster96

As you can clearly see in the trailer she WAS acting cool while she was on the video call with her handler, but as soon as she was off the call, we could tell she had all sorts of apprehensions for what she was about to do. She obviously puts on a mask of coolness for those around her so they don't get to see her weak side. "Being cool" is only one facet of her personality.

I will not buy full-priced AAA games like Alan Wake 2 or Balders Gate 3 digitally. I will buy smaller games like Stray or Pacific Drive.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner

I had to get up early to watch the Olympics this Summer. It sucks that time zones are a thing. Try to watch the World Cup in the Americas when it is hosted in Europe. It's not US-centric it just happens to be in the US.