MrPeanutbutterz

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.

@Msw7089 In otherwords, you won't be buying it.

@PerpetualBoredom Ah amazing vibes altogether! Tekken 2 might hit me in the feels, but Tekken 3 is one of the best videogames ever made. Couldn't believe my eyes seeing it running on a PS1.

It released a few weeks after my birthday, and I remember delaying my present so pick it up on launch day! One of the best decisions I ever made.

@Flaming_Kaiser I'm torn on this. I think Street Fighter 6 has (mostly) got it right. Stuffed to the gills with content at launch, gives you a way to try-before-you-buy with new characters, the fighting passes give you good content (I've some 15 to 20 arcade games now within SF6 due to it), World Tour gives you a way to experience the new characters and their moves too, and for me something important - the new stages. You can buy them with in-game currency that is easy enough to earn.

Tekken 8 feels like its a vehicle to nickel and dime.

My old man brain cannot fathom the cultural crossover of this game (or its popularity in general).

At this rate, I'd be surprised if my Nan didn't have her own season.

@trev666 Or they're using basic SEO to drive hits to their site by reporting about the biggest shift in the industry since Sonic showed up on a Nintendo console.

@LogicStrikesAgain I have zero interest in it personally. Played it a while ago on the Series X and it's just too dated. It was a landmark game for the industry at the time, but that time has been and gone.

One way or another, this on a PlayStation will be a landmark moment for the industry. I'm still thinking "holy smokes" every time I stumble across Gears of War on the PS Store.

@Andee Crimson is a certified banger!!! "doo bee doo bee da da!!!"

@Andee Same! Gonna stick on "WANDA WANDA" now.

@johndoe89 I'll be logical - reporting theft, insurance claims, faulty returns, faded/unreadable printed numbers.

Not at all strange...

Wanted this game to be good so badly, but alas it's just too chaotic (no pun intended) to be fun.

The old games are amazing, and the soundtracks are some of the absolute best in gaming.

Planet-sized katamari would be necessary to roll up the hype for this.

@Mostik The campaign is also a great example of quality over quantity. There's not an ounce of waste on it. It might only be six hours, but those six hours are so darn good that I've replayed it probably ten times over the years! I remember an interview with one of the designers that they took inspiration from the Mario games - introduce and idea, use it for a level at max, throw it out, introduce another idea.

I know the bit you're talking about, it almost broke me too! Getting the EPG launcher that's hidden in the gauntlet made it a bit easier too. It has the advantage of travelling in a straight line, but also the bit of splash damage if you miss.

The multiplayer is the absolute sweatiest thing I've ever played online (and I say that as someone with over 500 hours online in Street Fighter 6)... I've "retired" from it for a good while now, but it's home to some of my favourite ever gaming memories.

I've seen people call Battlefield 6 a "movement shooter", and as a TF2 vet, I'm thinking "is it really?" 😂

@Flaming_Kaiser I'm always bemused by this take. Tekken 3 has a base roster of 10 characters, plus 13 unlockable. Tekken 8's base roster is 32, with far bigger movesets too.

Genuine question - does DS2 still have the framerate issue that makes the fan go crazy on the map screen?

@Mostik Thanks! I think what made it doable was the fact that it's a fairly short run, and it's easy to repeat it. Still took a three hour session, mind 🤣

For me it was the perfect trophy - by the time I got it and jumped back online, I was far more capable with my movement in multiplayer, started seeing new routes around some of the maps too.

Honestly it's one of my favourite videogames ever made, absolutely exquisite. Best single player FPS campaign too!

@BansheeNorn So that negates the thing I originally replied to. But it also doesn't explain why Vanquish feels so different to Nier Automata.

@Bluemoon2008 I'm not talking about platinums. I'm talking about general trophy stats that say a lot of people drop games well before the end.

Looking at Street Fighter 6 (as it's my most recently played game) - only 15.7% of people have played more than 100 fights online. I unlocked that the day after release, and it's, you know, pretty much the entire point of the game.

46.5% have gone to training mode. So effectively more than half the people who bought this game booted it up, twiddle the sticks for a bit, didn't have a clue what they were doing, and turned it off.

@Balaam_ That's an interesting way to say "I like to curate my trophy list to look good at videogames when I actually suck at them".

I don't even "do" trophies, but I have Platinum for games like WipEout Omega Collection (one of the rarest and lowest completion overall on PSN), Titanfall 2, Sekiro, Streets of Rage 4.

Would love to hear your opinion on how "bad" the lists for those games are...

@Enuo I've yet to play NG4, but I've a sneaking suspicion that it plays nothing like Vanquish, or Nier Automata.

@Fiendish-Beaver I've a friend who's big into trophies, and it absolutely does her head in because I've platinumed Mass Effect 1 and 2 (in the LE), and I have one trophy left for platinum in ME3, but I just cannot be arsed 🤣

You make a great point about missing great games - I also know a guy who won't play Nintendo because they don't have a digital trinket system! Like, dude, do you even enjoy videogames...

@PerpetualBoredom I find T3 oo reliant on guitar (and I say that as a guitar nerd), and it just lacks the memorability of 1 and 2.

I'd use most of T1 and T2 soundtrack in T8 (with a bit of T5). Did similar in T7. And even bought the Tekken Jukebox DLC for TTT2.

Those first two games have a special place for me though - Tekken 2 was my first ever PlayStation game (and quite possibly the first optical disc I ever owned), and it reuses the bulk of the T1 soundtrack for the unlockable characters too. And it was the first videogame I ever heard piped through a hi-fi system.

Feeling nostalgic here now, thanks!

Just did a Hard run there with Paul. Back before the "fish for a launcher" overtook the entire game.

Highlights how much I dislike T8, and haven't properly enjoyed the series since T5 (the absolute peak for me).

@PerpetualBoredom Always found this to be the weakest soundtrack of the first five games. Bar Law stage.

As for the DS5 and Astrobot - I really didn't enjoy it. I hate Gyrocontrols and blowing on mics, really don't like the adaptive triggers or speaker built in and find the touchpad a nuisance - to me they are 'gimmicks' and Astrobot is NOT enjoyable to me with these features. I hated Gyro in Second Son to 'simulate' using a Spray can so having to use it to control a character just annoys me - so I've never completed Astrobot. I turn what I can off by default...

Hate all these too, and pretty sure I finished the game with everything disabled.

@Northern_munkey I'll be there for the multiplayer! BFBC 1 and 2 campaigns were top notch, mind (I feel so old thinking about those two games, especially 1 lol)

Video game visuals have very comfortably hit the point of diminishing returns, making the traditional jump from the PS4 to a PS5 less obvious.

I could never get on board with this. Demon's Souls Remake on launch day was an obvious generational leap vs. the PS4.

Play Ratchet and Clank 2016 on a base PS4 and then go play Rift Apart. Another obvious generational leap.

Horizon Forbidden West on PS4 vs. PS5, yeah...

@Fiendish-Beaver It's such a bizarre mindset to me. Imagine not consuming entertainment you want to because you don't have the skill to obtain a digital trinket no one cares about?

I've got platinum for games that were proper tests of skill, like WipEout Omega Collection, Titanfall 2, Sekiro. Partially for the challenge, but the fact is the trophies made me engage with the games and their mechanics thoroughly.

By the time I got it for WipEout, I was destroying people online. Ditto Titanfall 2. Sekiro was a "black mark" (had it at release, didn't get on with it partially due to the varying framerate on PS4 Pro), so I went back to it five years later to nail it, and I did (and it also became one of my favourite games of all time). But if it couldn't? Didn't care as it's a videogame designed to entertain.

Image if any other entertainment medium dished out trophies like this - "I'm listening to this garbage artist that I hate because it's an easy Platinum", or "I Platinumed my favourite TV show, can never watch it again".

Madness.

@Bluemoon2008 Does it? Because of you look at the trophy stats for a lot of games they tell the story that people really don't get too far into games.

@LifeGirl Yep, and the majority of trophies are little more than "engage with the content that you've paid money to engage with".

@Marquez Okay, Dad.

@Marquez Have you just discovered capitalism for the first time?

@Northern_munkey As good as BFBC2? I'll have to buy this.

@Fiendish-Beaver Nothing says "i'M a TrOpHY hUntER" quite like shying away from an actual challenge!

ITT - people who never owned a Series X. Microsoft have been ass at physical releases on their own flagship platform since day one, this should come as zero surprise.

@UltimateOtaku91 I find it so funny. You mean the for-profit multi-billion dollar corporation is in it for (checks notes) the money?! Say it ain't so!!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

@Bez87 I always find the people who enjoy gaming so much that they take the time to sign up to an enthusiast site gate-keeping how long it's acceptable to play lacking in self-awareness.

I mean, I sure as heck don't get to play for six hours straight, but I'd like a bit of juice in the controller when I pick it up again. Plus, the constant charge/discharge cycles shorten the lifespan of the battery.

@nomither6

$ony

You're on mid-term already?

@Dragoon1994 See comment number 3 on this very thread.