MrMeeeseeeks

Gods, when did Sony become such a soulless, monstrous company? They really are the worst lately.

@Bez87 but you also have to consider that the high street is completely dead now post-Covid (and was dying for many years before that). It’s not that demand isn’t there, it’s that everyone knows it’s cheaper to buy online and the high street can’t compete.

People don’t just pop into their local game shop or supermarket to buy a game when they can have it delivered to their doorstep from Amazon. It’s less hassle, usually way cheaper and you have a physical present to wrap-up for the occasion.

Hardly anyone uses places like GAME or CEX anymore unless they’re desperate for cash. It’s all shifted to online marketplaces.

I just think once physical games are gone, Sony will have a monopoly and they’re absolutely going to run riot. The price of digital games will increase every financial quarter, as will game services like PS+. Sales will become less frequent and will be more targeted due to dynamic pricing. New releases will remain at full price for far longer than they do now. They might also suddenly revise their T&C’s allowing them to remove purchased games from your gaming library, and make it compulsory to sign if you want to keep playing. Like they just did recently with over 500 purchased movies, because their licensing agreement with Studio Canal expired. And where will we be then? At the mercy of Sony’s good will? Good luck with that. No good ever came from giving a company like Sony this much control/power.

Isn’t the data heavily skewed in favour of digital by including subscriptions, dlc purchases, in-game cosmetics and games over a year old (ie. heavily discounted sale items)? I’d love to see the figures for new game releases only.

As for them saying, ‘only 7 PS5 games have sold over 100k boxed copies this year’… I would struggle to list 7 must-play PS5 titles in the first half of this year.

Never forget. Never forgive.

The game is so good. And thank you Ubisoft for releasing on disc. Ubisoft get a lot of stick but there are way worse devs cough Rockstar cough. And also FU Sony.

@SJR that’s about as sophisticated a response as I would expect from a Sony brown-noser. Well done 👏

@DennisReynolds yes, they’re all vile. But Sony are in a position where they can choose to do the right thing but are choosing not to through sheer greed. That makes them extra vile in my eyes. Considering we are the ones who dragged them out of the red just a few short years ago, when they were on the verge of bankruptcy. And this is how they repay us for our support.

@Jeaz cheaper games, free online MP, option to purchase from third party sellers.

Sony’s first party games used to be a major draw but when was the last great first party game from Sony? Horizon Forbidden West - worse than the original. Spider-Man 2 - worse than the original. God of War - worse than the original. The Last of Us Part 2 - worse than the original. When was their last great original game? I can’t even remember.

I’m abandoning Sony completely, not just where consoles are concerned. When my tv dies and my surround sound system dies, I will replace them with alternative brands. And when my PS5 dies I will buy a gaming PC. I will never buy another Sony branded product again as long as I live. Vile company.

Honestly, who cares? Hard to be excited for new games from a company as rotten as Sony.

I wouldn’t be totally against this digital only approach if they reduced the cost of digital games by 40%. There’s no manufacturing costs, no shipping costs, no retail costs. That saving should be passed on to the consumer. But they won’t do that because they’re a bunch of greedy bar stewards. So I’ll vote with my wallet. I can’t in good conscience support a company with no honour, zero values and who treat their loyal customers like dirt. Shame on you Sony.

@JB_Whiting Huh? Ortega has some talent but Barrera is a barely average actor at best. She won’t be missed.

Good game. Not as good an atmosphere as the first one. But Die-Hardman’s dance might be the funniest scene ever. I do think the story is a bit cringe. I think it’s a Japanese thing with their need for bouncing breasts and schoolgirl fetishes. Feels like it was made by a teenage boy. The best part of the game is re-building roads/monorails and deliveries. You can lose countless hours without realising.

Honestly, can’t stand these turn-based Final Fantasy style games. But each to their own.

Wish they would make these games playable with AI. Who has time to organise play sessions with someone else? They’re losing out on so many sales. It could be the greatest game ever made but it doesn’t mean anything if hardly anyone plays it.

I’m not against AI tbh (won’t somebody think of the artists 😱) but I’m glad E33 was stripped of these awards. It’s a decent game but the industry-wide fawning and gushing adulation is ridiculous. It all feels super manufactured. Blue Prince is a more worthy winner.

It’s not an indie game and should not have won this award. It took away the opportunity for an actual indie game getting some recognition. But TGA were clearly pushing E33 as some revolutionary game worthy of all the awards (even the categories it didn’t fall into). I think TLoU S2 winning best adaptation should tell you all you need to know about their judgement and sincerity because TLoU S2 is generally considered to be an atrocious adaptation.

@stefan771 I just have a feeling. Or maybe it’s wishful thinking. Because I doubt Sony will want to release Wolverine against GTA6. So if GTA6 isn’t pushed back, there’s a good chance Wolverine will be. And I’d much rather have Wolverine.

1.Tomb Raider
2. Wolverine
3.LEGO Batman
4.RE Requiem
5.Prince of Persia Remake

Couldn’t care less about GTA 6 tbh but I think that will be pushed back to May 2027 anyway.

Clair Obscur winning nearly every award made this years show super boring. It felt really contrived. And it was very telling that they didn’t win the award that was voted for purely by the players…

Hopefully she has a personality this time and isn’t a complete dullard like the survivor games (and movie). And no Daddy issues this time please. And no apologising for being a Tomb Raider. And no token 2D sidekicks.

Completed the game 100% at launch and repurchased a copy recently to play over Christmas (in anticipation of this update).

The Avatar movies are the greatest sci-fi movies of our generation. No one else is making such incredibly polished, heartfelt movies like Jim Cameron’s Avatar. Nothing else today comes close. I’ll be there on December 19th when the new movie comes out. Honestly can not wait 😁

People ***** on Fortnite but at least Epic Games actually try to keep their players happy. Rockstar DGAF. I would laugh so hard if GTA6 underperformed. Rockstar really need a kick up the *****.

Best event in a looong time. These events are usually disappointing/anti-climatic but this was actually very good. The charge forward into battle with all of the different characters was straight out of Ready Player One. And the intro with all the heroes appearing from rifts/portals was Avengers Endgame levels of epic. Lara Croft fighting alongside Iron Man, Super Man, King Kong, Godzilla, Marty McFly, A Star Wars Destroyer and The Bride from Kill Bill… More of this please 🙌

I’m really not enjoying Death Stranding 2, after loving the first one. It’s like they stripped away everything that made the first game good. Can’t walk more than five feet without something interrupting the quiet.

This is the ultimate troll by the Emmys lol. But we all knew it would happen.

Bella is one of the worst actors in the business but somehow keeps getting opportunities and award noms in place of genuinely talented actors. Genevieve O'Reilly deserved a place on that list over this joker.

She’ll win of course 😂 but never has an actor been more undeserving of an award.

What exactly was his role in the show? The story was already written. Was he just there for morale? 😂

Either way, I don’t think it’s been the success they hoped it would be (and should have been if they had better casting). Worst mistake ever casting Bella and Pedro. Bella can’t act and Pedro needs to take a break for several years at least. Tired of seeing him in everything.

Is there still time to change that dreadful title of ND’s next game? Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.

I replayed it recently and some of the story choices are still, shall we say, ‘not great’. But I didn’t completely hate it like I did five years ago.

I don’t know if it’s because the HBO show was just so terribly written and comically miscast, that it somehow made me appreciate the game more.

@AK4tywill yeah, the people who made TLoU Part 1 and the early Uncharted games so great are no longer with the studio. Unchecked Druckman is what we have now and it’s a huge decline in quality. He needs someone to reign him in.

@Perturbator Yeah, HotD was irreparably damaged by the atrocious writing in S2. It’s a shame because S1 was excellent.

What happened to all the great writers? Why have standards slipped so much? There must be a reason.

@Americansamurai1 the problem is… if it takes 2-3 years for the next season to be released, who is even going to care? They should have filmed the whole thing back-to-back and released the final bunch of episodes next year. 2-3 years is too long a wait to see how it ends. They’ve made such a mess of this show.

Not really tbh. A game that’s been in development for 13 years is going to feel dated as hell. And Rockstar gameplay already feels like it’s a generation behind. I’m happy to be proven wrong but if it’s anything like GTA V or RDR2’s stiff/floaty gameplay I won’t be surprised. Great storytelling and bad gameplay is kind of their thing.

The game has always been great and I never understood the hate it got. We were robbed of a sequel.

I’m sure it will be great but between AC Shadows, Rise of the Ronin and Ghost of Tsushima, I’m kinda done with this setting and period of history now. All the games blend into one. I hope Yotei can stand out from the crowd and isn’t just more of the same.

As someone who was lukewarm on S1 and absolutely against the casting of Bella (in particular) and Joel, I actually liked this episode. Maybe it’s because I didn’t care about Joel in the show, so it didn’t feel like as big a FU as it did in the game?

Bella was atrocious as always. Game Ellie was kinda cool but Bella is just so awkward and childish. Saying F a lot and acting like a brat is not cool.

I still find it frustrating that Joel doesn’t tell Abby that he killed her Father to save someone he loved (because the Fireflies neglected to tell Ellie that the procedure would kill her). If they had given Ellie the facts and let her choose, it would be different. But they didn’t. They are the bad guys.

And I’m glad they’re making Abby seem more villainous in the show. She wanted to kill Joel for killing her Father but Joel didn’t torture him (although my Joel does use a flamethrower on that MF every time). What she did to Joel was ten times worse than what Joel did to her. Ellie has more justification to go after Abby than Abby did to go after Joel. And somehow Ellie is wrong.

Just watched S2E1 and my god, I know ugly people exist but Bella is so unfortunate. It’s like if they made a Justin Bieber biopic and cast Sloth from The Goonies as Justin.

Don’t get me started on Pedro. He couldn’t act his way out of a wet paper bag. They’re both riding on GoT fame.

Cailee Spaeny and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau were right there…

I’d be down with most of the changes they made but Bella is terribly miscast. It just ruins it for me. It’s like if you ordered fillet steak in a restaurant and they served you liver. I’ve seen Bella in a few different things and they were fine. But not this.

Cailee Spaeny would have been a better choice. At least she vaguely resembles the character from the games.

The original face design was much better.

OG Aloy had softer, more feminine features (slight resemblance to Evangeline Lilly). New Aloy is more masculine, with a fuller face structure and darker/thicker eyebrows.

I had a few issues at the start but in the end I really enjoyed it. Probably the best game I’ve played this year.

@The_Wailing_Doom it’s not ticking all the boxes exactly. It’s ticking the same handful of boxes every SoP.

Happy about Ghost but these State of Plays are the same thing every time… Weird indie games, check. Retro/Megadrive-looking games, check. PSVR games, check. Medieval/fantasy games, check. JRPG’s, check. One good game at the end that people actually want, check. I suppose we have a Remasters category now too, check.

I know they’re trying to cover all of their bases but I could do without the Retro games and PSVR games every time.

It all just feels very stale.

It was ok. GoY was a nice surprise at the end.

There seems to be a lot of medieval/fantasy games with cute creatures, where you fight giant monsters. They all look the same to me.

It looks lovely but I don’t need it.

Im not a fan of limiting them to 12,300. It’s just going to encourage scalpers and people who genuinely want one could miss out.

@tangyzesty Yeah, Forbidden West killed my interest in the franchise. It was nowhere near as good as the first game. The writing took a huge nosedive and the plot was ridiculous. I have zero hype for the next one sadly.

They need backwards compatibility on the PS6 because they only have 5 (?) exclusive PS5 games this gen. Not really much for them to remaster. Unless they start remastering the remasters. This gen has been such a dud.

I thought Japan loved these cutesy, colourful, Nintendo-like games?

So do we think Sony will start downgrading the old versions to make the Pro versions look better? I wouldn’t put it past them at this point.

£700 to play slightly better versions of the games we played on the base PS4. There certainly isn’t anything of note of the PS5 so far.

Sony don’t deserve our support anymore. They’ve truly failed to bring the goods this gen. Instead, wasting money and resources on failed projects like PSVR2 and the many Live Service disasters. They are completely out of touch in every way.

I just hope MS have something up their sleeve to shake things up (unlikely). Sony only seem to be innovative when they’re struggling financially and facing fierce competition.

If it was £600 with a disk drive and a stand I might have considered getting one. No way I’m paying £800 👎

For £800 it should come with the Dualsense Edge controller.