Nei

It was a really solid show and they are getting better at it.

Watching that Laufey trailer blind would've put me in the hospital. I thought he was overdoing it but no, Cory Barlog's anger was totally motivated.

1. Laufey (can't wait to get a release date for that!)
2. No rest for the wicked
3. Phantom blade zero

honorable mentions: Rayman Legends Retold and Onimusha

In response to @ElusiveBounty but really all the people saying Sony just keep making the the same kind of games, I am not advocating for them but in one year they published a darn diverse line up and that is a fact.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach — Jun 26, 2025
Lost Soul Aside — Aug 29, 2025
Ghost of Yōtei — Oct 2, 2025
God of War: Sons of Sparta — Feb 12, 2026
Marathon — Mar 5, 2026
SAROS — Apr 30, 2026

and upcoming

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls — Aug 6, 2026
Wolverine - Sept 15, 2026
Phantom Blade Zero - Oct 29, 2026

Also commenters: ah same old thing, no we don't play roguelikes, no I can't play souls-like, omg I am never touching a live service game, oh darn I am not interested in fighting games. And of course Kojima games are not your thing because he makes overhyped titles with bad gameplay. Maybe it's time to broaden your gaming palette a bit or change hobby guys! And I mean from trolling, not gaming.

I'll admit I'm part of the problem - I preordered the Deluxe Edition of Saros purely to get those two days of early access - so I get the appeal. But there's a difference between a publisher offering early access as a preorder incentive across all platforms and locking it exclusively to one console. The latter just feels predatory and slightly ...irrelevant.

Is this part of a marketing deal with PlayStation? Because if Sony has put money into securing timed exclusivity on a multiplatform sequel, that's a troubling direction for the industry. This is not worth any investment.

Remedy deserves every bit of support after how long and hard the road to Control 2 has been, but not like this.

@DartLOD Can't speak for everyone but part of why I like playing games at launch is the community aspect: there's something special about experiencing it alongside a massive number of active players all discovering things at the same time. Sharing reactions, theories, and those "wait did you see that?!" moments in real time hits different compared to playing months later when the hype has died down and everyone's moved on. It's difficult when they overlap.

THANKS GOD.
By the end of the SoP I was so traumatized by September launches that I fully expected GOW to drop that month.
And I am playing this instead of GTA6, of course.

They nailed the art-style. It instantly cleared all my “why was this remade?” doubts.

@ShogunRok Totally agree. The beginning with the story of GOW 2018 shifting to Faye would have broken the internet.

What does soon mean, though?

I loved the gore, it just feels right for Wolverine. Might play it!

An insane amount of single player games to be played in the next months TBH.

I never even dared to hope for such a strong female energy in GOW. Can't wait to play it! I also love the style they chose to remake Rayman.

Idk: my takeaway from this is that Kojima entered his hot-era later in life. He's looking fine here.

Let us take a moment to solemnly acknowledge the PlayStation trinity of inexplicably dormant IPs - Wipeout, Bloodborne, and The Legend of Dragoon - and collectively implore the powers that be to rectify this grave oversight.

Also eagerly anticipating another glimpse at Fumito Ueda's new game.

@Michael10293978 Hey, just saw this reply: great Phantasy Star 2 nod.
And I get you, there's a place for grand space opera - M. Banks, your Hyperion Cantos - but I do think it's just as much interesting (if not more) happening when sci-fi turns inward. The kind of stories that use the cosmos not as a backdrop for adventure but as a mirror for something fractured inside the protagonist. Returnal understood that instinctively; the alien landscape was never really the point — Selene was. Saros carries that same DNA, that same sense of a mind trying to impose meaning on a universe that offers none in return, but an echo of human will.

It's very Stanisław Lem or Philip K. Dick at his most paranoid and tender. The horror isn't just out there in the dark between stars. It's the creeping suspicion that you are the unreliable narrator of your own existence. That's a much harder story to tell, and a much more rewarding one to experience when it lands.

You're all giving me hope we can actually play as a gal this time around!

@darylb24 oh gosh, let's hope that nonsensical marketing deal has run its course.

Consider the blade oiled, the potions brewed.
The wind is howling.
The Path calls.

@Matroska I get what you mean - I wasn't expecting Berserk levels of darkness (love the series, by the way), but DQ has always had this whimsical quality where the consequences never really land with full weight. After genuinely loving Act 2 of DQXI, for instance, Act 3 frustrated me because it walked back almost everything that made those stakes feel real. I would have loved a darker, more somber tone that still respected the fanbase. Basically, if this were Zelda, I'd have been ready for its Majora's Mask or Twilight Princess moment.

I see some of you are struggling with the fact that Saros is a great game.That's okay. Healing is a journey. When you've processed your grief, it'll still be right here, being good at you.

I am a bit disappointed because flames of fate teased a more mature and dramatic approach that mixed with the classic DQ combat and aesthetic could have potentially given us a classic for all generations.

This could be really good! Fingers crossed.

Can’t wait. It’s been on my radar for an eternity.

The Capcom Fighting Evolution nod is well appreciated but I believe this is the less exciting batch of alternative skins so far. The bar they set is very high, though.

Didn’t see this one coming 😅 interesting choice.

Picture me interested. No but seriously, looks rather good and I heard a lot of good things about it.

Incredible that Hotta listened to player feedback and gave us a Taygedo mute button.

Square Enix, take notes: Chadley in FFVII Rebirth is RIGHT THERE. He's a cyborg. You already have the lore infrastructure: just say a Shinra malware corrupted his vocal subroutines and boom - patch notes write themselves.

Alternatively, swap him out for literally any other Final Fantasy creature: a chocobo would convey the same narrative depth through strategic kweh-ing. A tonberry would communicate everything necessary through slow, menacing eye contact alone. And honestly? Even a moogle, even the dead-eyed, nightmare-inducing brand we got in the remakes, would be a net improvement.

I am honestly scared of spending 60€ on this and either a) hating it and feeling robbed, or b) loving it and resurfacing 1500 hours later having lost my family in the process

This is so timely as I just completed the (surprisingly addicting) Adventure of Elliot demo. The demo gods are smiling on us lately. Downloading immediately, I've been wanting to try this for a while.

@For-Kier You missed my point: I am not criticizing trophies and I often go for the platinum for my favorite titles. Including this. I was just pointing out they are completely optional and (especially with game that offer as much as Rebirth) can be time consuming. There are poorly conceived trophy lists at times but this ain't one.

I'll be that person: platinum trophy? Totally optional. Not a moral obligation. But if you want that shiny little dopamine medal, this might just be the universe's way of giving you permission to do absolutely everything the game has to offer.

This is an extensive trophy list. A bad trophy list is something else entirely: trophies that make you sit through every single audio log before solving a puzzle (yes, The Last Guardian, we remember), trophies that require you to win an online match in a game where the servers have been dead since 2009, or trophies that boil down to 'play this game for 200 hours' with zero creativity involved — just raw, joyless grinding.

My chaotic side is absolutely praying this turns out to be a brand new live service game, purely for the spectacle of it all.

The community feedback has been rather vocal. Ironically.

Gorgeous and dripping with that colorful, feet-on-the-ground energy the competition somehow keeps fumbling. And... are we about to witness the whole SOP casually strolling out the door a full two weeks early?

"Hey, I know we were supposed to meet today after lunch but I need to pick up some groceries so see you next January."

Saros is anything but average. Incredibly polished on every level and with a crunchy, satisfying gameplay. Best game I played all year.

If they offer a hefty discount on Yotei, I might cave (willing to spend around 40-45€)

Ok, I am downloading this demo and giving it a go later tonight as I definitely agree with the dialogue soup thesis: I feel only OT2 does better in that regard.

Wow, that is a lot of content! And a really good way to unlock outfit 2

@Gbarsotini That was the actual reason they moved FFVII to Sony's hardware.

@ShogunRok What do you mean, you didn't love "Infinity strash"? That was truly inspired. The word "Strash" in particular — which sounds like what happens when you combine a struggle with a crash — really captures the essence of, well, something. I'm sure.

Dear Square Enix employee who has just been ambushed by this long comment while innocently scrolling — hello, and congratulations on your taste in employers (and websites!).

As a devoted fan of your work spanning decades, I come bearing an unsolicited business proposal: hire a naming consultant. A good one. Maybe two.

I say this with love, but "Triangle Strategy" is not a name — it's a geometry homework assignment. "Octopath Traveler" sounds like a GPS or dating app for octopuses. And whatever this game is called, I had to check three times and I'm sure I am forgetting it right know as I'm typing.

Your games are gorgeous, epic, and emotionally devastating in the best ways. They deserve names people can say out loud without feeling like they're failing a pop quiz.

And while we're here — a gentle word about your studio names. "Business Unit 1." The intensity. Somewhere out there, a poet is crying. Even "Tokyo RPG Factory" sounds like a place where dreams are manufactured on a conveyor belt by people in hard hats. I believe you can do better. I believe in you.

I am not available. I have a life, commitments, and a perfectly good job, thank you very much. But if you can match my current salary — and perhaps throw in a modest relocation package and early access to your next title — I could be persuaded to become suddenly, surprisingly available.

Ball's in your court. My thesaurus is standing by. And I promise — pinky promise — that I will never let a shape, a colon or a slash near a title again.

Have your people call my people. (It's just me. Please call me.)

I can relate to their sentiment as, right now, the series S/X is really lacking a reason to justify the purchase.

That said, I don’t feel like Xbox products (except ES) have a huge appeal, at least not on the level of some Sony and Nintendo IPs and they are perfect as multiplatform titles so I don’t see the strategy changing too much.

Like @Nem said, the cool thing about this is it gives you an idea of what a proper 3D FFVI remake would look like - and how incredible it would be to play FF6 on that scale with some proper artistic direction and real artistry behind it.

Leave Sakaguchi be, kids!

Definitely on my radar, providing it translates well to traditional play. Quill is so cute.

He sure seems really invested in this work! He did a great work and made the character both relatable and faulted. Because of this he ended up feeling more like a real person and less like an archetype or narrative function.

Trails in the sky HD deluxe for 50 dollars is a very good deal, go for it guys.

I preordered and platinumed the game and, for me, this is exactly the kind of experience I want on PS. And one of the best games on the platform -it’s not for everyone but I think it will find its audience eventually

Idk, it could be cool to have some fights sprinkled in but do you remember P4 Arena Ultimax? You could read for 1 hour between fights and it was just bizarre

I plan to ignore them both and play Phantom Blade 😎

PlayStation has always been about third party content, and it just happens that so am I. I will definitely buy a console to play the latest Final Fantasy or Street Fighter not for God of war (or Zelda, for that matter).

That said, I am satisfied with Ps5 first party offering. It has slowed down but the beginning was just extremely dense and varied. In comparison, if you think about it, Nintendo’s Switch 2 launch period looks rather scarce, especially since Nintendo consoles have been much more first party focused for a long while. The third party ports provided by the Switch 2 capabilities have been a savior up until now, though I have no doubts that big games will come.

My heart skipped a beat seeing the JET SET RADIO image and reading "canceled", it's really a game I am insanely looking forward to.

The gameplay is better in every conceivable way and that’s what really counts. You can really make the game yours.

I did not find the story/mistery quite as gripping and it is maybe a little less conceptual but I do appreciate the efforts to make Saros more story driven, though some stuctural elements are not very effective.

I too wonder what Housemarque will do next