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@RoomWithaMoose Quantity I agree with, but the quality has been stellar.

Of course what sort of games you want to play is subjective, but in technical terms Sony are one of the few publishers I'm okay with buying on day one.

@AdamNovice The leaked roadmap for the studio is Marvel until the 2030s.

We'll be seeing a new, 12 hour R&C game about a decade after the last one.

@Balaam_ I hope they include even more asinine trophies for Plat in a new version 😎😎😎

I'll stick to my €9.99 GotY Edition that I'll never fully experience anyways, thank you very much, Big Todd.

@Hyena_socks I thought it was a pretty colourful game. FO3 is legit brown game.

@LazyDaisy If you own a Nintendo or PC yeah it'll affect their markets. Anyone buying GTA6 (which will be a lot of people) now have less time and money to spend on Nintendo or PC

Pints, burgers, breakfast by the seaside this weekend, so no gaming.

I do have the Death Stranding 2 five hour trial from Premium lined up for post-drudgery on Monday at least!

It was a repeat. Played it all before and have zero desire for a third iteration. Was happy when the credits rolled, and sold the disc to a buddy half hour later.

I did prefer Atsu - she knew what she wanted, and knew how to get it.

@JimmyRiddle Almost none of their audience will care. Even less so once GTA 6 actually launches

@PerpetualBoredom Yep. Also @ your 73, hello fellow scientific background enjoyer.

Yeah I don't drive, travel internationally, or have kids - the the three things that leave by far the biggest carbon footprint.

I'm not particularly worried about my physical media collection.

@get2sammyb And the borderline broken input latency?

@Krlozgod No, they're asking for a refund because it's broken garbage and always has been. It's just a lot less acceptable in 2025.

There's no accounting for taste. I don't get much value from Essential because I've already stumped up cash for a lot of these titles.

@EYEBALL

Not everyone has an up-to-date TV with good response times though especially when a TV is just pal, 50hz only but many people out there don't have a clue when it comes to things like that so they just assume it runs like dung.

There's a delicious irony to saying many people don't have a clue when what you wrote immediately before that is incorrect.

No one has a PAL TV anymore. It's a legacy format that's only included for backward compatibility with legacy media reasons. The last PlayStation you that was connectible to a PAL TV was the PS3, the last one you had to connect to a PAL TV was PS2.

@ozkrmz I hate to be that guy, but I really don't see Sony ditching the most profitable part of the entire PlayStation business model.

Seems like a good place to mention this - if you live in Ireland, Smyth's have the new Fatal Fury for €9.99.

@purple_mouse_gaming That'd be great if it wasn't management and marketing making them release slightly undercooked games.

@djlard So you're basing what games you'll play on a restrictive subscription service based on how they look?

And if you really are "happy to grab" FF, it tanked so can be had on disc already for very little (it's currently €9.99 plus the season pass at my preferred retailer)

Well I paid money for WRC. It's a good game, but you have to like rallying (duh), and not afraid of being punished for your mistakes.

@Dalamar Thank you, I called Stray a walking stimulator recently and that didn't go down too well.

About to wrap up Ghost of Yotei. Really enjoyed it, but kinda glad it's coming to an end (partially my own fault for hammering the side content).

Messing around with Tekken 3 - I do miss this era of the franchise.

BallxPit has piqued my interest so I'll try out the demo of that on Premium (somehow I'm still grandfathered on the half price and would be paying the same for Essential anyways, so I may as well keep it).

@Scarface82G1 Nope, this is the borderline broken, utterly garbage gameplay showing its true colours.

@DennisReynolds You've a very different memory than I do of the 1990s. Bar the original game on SNES with the "sweat" instead of blood, and the same game on Megadrive requiring a cheat code (that was so common knowledge that I'm pretty sure even my Nan knew), care to cite examples of no-gore MK? By all means, the mic is yours on this one...

Even in the tamed versions of it you could still knock people into The Pit, spear them in the chest or turn them to a skeleton with Scorpion.

@DennisReynolds Were those games sold strictly on the wanton gore alone like MK? Absolutely no one bought those early MK games for their gameplay. Nor the knock off Big Trouble in Little China story.

Did people play GTA for the gameplay? Resi Evil? The Last of Us? Or the nasty bits?

To answer your question, yes, Gears and God of War are indeed nasty. Gears has little to redeem it, but those old God of War games were spectacles with tight and engaging gameplay, unlike anything related to MK.

@DennisReynolds None of that changes the fact it's unbalanced rubbish and nasty.

An Almost Flawless Victory for Fighting Game Fans

As a fighting game fan since I first played Street Fighter 2 in the arcades, I'd strongly beg to differ. These games were always little more than nasty gore porn. Unbalanced muck.

@LikelySatan I mean, it's a trophy. You don't generally get trophies in no life for no reason. Bar videogames, apparently.

But my original point is if they're so trivial to obtain, then they're meaningless. I'd much prefer that Sony scrapped them entirely as they add nothing to games, and can sometimes make them even worse (especially online). Like the dude whining in Street Fighter 6's public lobby for people to throw the tournaments because they weren't good enough to get enough wins for the trophy.

@FatalBubbles I enjoy trophies being tests of skill. Not "here's a thing that says you booted it up".

The very definition of "if everyone has it, then no one has it".

I've no idea how anyone enjoys getting trophies for basically booting the thing up and engaging with the content they paid for.

@AdamNovice Came out around the same time as Tekken 5, which was absolutely chock-a-block with content.

Switch 2 not being next gen at that point is semantics. Whenever I walk into my local retailer in 2028 (or whenever), the choice will be Switch 2 or PS6.

@Korgon Ah right, that is indeed how it works. I haven't actually played properly since the end of Season 2.

Been watching a few replays since C. Viper launched but agree 100%, absolutely cannot support this either.

@Jrs1 "Why would I watch the World Cup final when I can kick a ball around myself?".

@Jammer Is it? I don't remember any fail states/being able to miss platformers like in an actual platformer like Mario or Crash Bandicoot.

Wouldn't people be able to look up the replays of whoever is fighting in-game anyways?

Walking simulator with a cat. Pass.

@Slayer25c Because Halo is in the news cycle and ticking SEO boxes, and this is an easy article to write...

@Boxmonkey The first big win from their push is called "Helldivers 2".

I still don't understand the logic of buying the absolute best niche-use developer in the industry (Demon's Souls Remake is the reason I bought a PS5 on launch day and I'll never so much as look at the PS3 version again), and rather than set them to task on your plethora of dormant IP that fans have been crying out for, you let them loose on line service IP garbage. And then cancel that.

@Exerion76 Yep, I'm right there with you in the "fingers crossed" camp there too.

Surely it's a no-brainer for them as it's both an early classic and a latter-day one too.

@rusty82 Back awaaaayyyyy from those app stores 😆

@Exerion76 Outrun 2006, the classic Burnout and WipEouts...

As a big arcade racer fan, by far the most fun I've had with an arcade racer in a very long time was the original Hotwheels Unleashed (2 not so much).

Hotshots Racing is underrated too.

@rusty82 And I'd prefer to lick your good, salted and juiced self than download it either!

@Striker21 None of that matters a jot when you were pipinng on about how Sony are screwed. That's what I'm replying to.

They're a for-profit business, and have developed ways to maximise that profit. That's all the shareholders care about. Which is also why Microsoft have pivoted to multiplatform publishing - that's where their profits are going forward, so that's where you'll find them.

As someone already said to you, it ain't supposed to be rocket science.

@Striker21

Microsoft understands that the future lies in an open ecosystem where different services compete with each other. Hardware platform holders are no longer sustainable. Even Sony struggles with exclusivity because their high-budget games don’t generate enough sales, leading to reduced profit margins or barely breaking even.

Nonsense. Switch 2 is smashing sales records. PS5 is tracking better than the PS4, and is the most profitable PlayStation to date.

The only thing Microsoft "understands" is they are rubbish at this industry, and unlike other tech spaces throwing their infinite money at the problem didn't fix it.

@OldGamer999 For an "old gamer" how has the entire console industry works seems to have floated right by you? Given the comment directly above this one, I'm not the only one thinking it.

Microsoft aren't doing this because they're a benevolent force, they're doing it because they destroyed their own ecosystem, and need to recoup some of that 70 billion they splurged on ABK.

Them honking "all games on all systems" is thinly-veiled PR to save face. Sony and Nintendo (you know, the ones that sell the most consoles and games) have business models that are not compatible with what you want.

@ShadowRJ Absolutely. I remember one for the dudes I'd bump into regularly at the nightclub we'd both frequent, and the biggest news for a good while was selling his PS2 and collection of game to finance an Xbox with Halo 2 and a Live subscription!

He was a bit of a "hit with the ladies" (being 6'2" with perfect build and hair will do that) and used to be flummoxed that some of them he brought home weren't impressed by online Halo 🤣

Jimmie, if you're out there in 2025 reading this, man, know that I remember you (and so do more than a few of the girls from town!).

@ShadowRJ I remember both Halo 2 and 3 launches. Both legitimate events in the gaming world (and for good reason).

That's it, we're through the looking glass now. We all knew that Gears and Forza landing on PlayStation was a tacit admission that Halo was indeed coming, but this is possibly one of the defining moment for the industry this century.

And let me say as someone who paid their way through university behind the tills at GameStop (great staff discount back then in fairness) during the PS3/360 era, this reality feels akin to a fever dream.