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@PuppetMaster Jason Shreirer (sp) has an entire spot in his book about dude overworking ND staff and driving a wedge between Bruce and Amy- among other things. Jason is about the only 'gaming journalist' left who actually gets the facts. Neil is a turd. He is talented no doubt. But clearly a snake. Intergalactic will be a massive benchmark for his true credibility.

Semperia...lol. they better crush this or Neil "i ruined Amy and Bruce" Druckmann should get cooked entirely.

Im shocked Slitterhead sold well enough to fund a new game. Good for them.

@RoomWithaMoose but it would if well made. Final Fantasy does NOT carry the clout it used to. Dragon Quest sells fine, but again, isn't some 10s of millions of units. Hell Persona is one of the most critically acclaimed rpg IPs out there and they struggle to sell 5+ million. There is 100% room for Sony to at least attempt. And it doesnt have to be FF7 Rebirth AAA bloated.

@Lup that would be a shame because there is a wild experience to be had in Marathon. That game is incredibly well made

I think Legends release broke PSN last night. Lol. After getting kicked several times and even losing my party chat we gave up.

Legends is amazing. And free is just crazy. Sucker Punch is at the tippy top imo. Starting update as soon as I get home

Man Nintendo and SE some cheap skates. Nintendo doesnt surprise me. Looks like they get over on not only their consumers but also their employees

Just come in at 600 or so and its officially 3 hardware companies that exist in one space but 'compete' in another... the 'compete' part surely isn't apples to apples anymore.

Come on Sony! Step in

@Kraven this is the answer. Its clearly not. But its still the answer. Hopefully your profound statement and my comment have made that abundantly clear =)

Sony is sadly clueless with this Herman turd calling the shots. The fact Sony would rather shut down BluePoint and not come to some agreement with From to make it happen is crazy. If from decides to Remaster it I hope it tanks them tbh.

I'd love SSM to have a take on Spartacus. I know thats vastly irrelevant but still feel like they could go full real Roman stuff considering that both Roman and Greek mythos are heavily intertwined. I mean Liam is voicing Wolverine and played Spartacus after the unfortunate passing of Andy Whitfield

Welp screw sony and from. Thats tragic. A GaaS title starring Atreus??? Idiots destroyed a great studio

Oh no lol. This looks like bad cosplay.

Sony just inadvertently took Marathon out back and shot it.

@Grumblevolcano man...so true. But FairGames is still in development? What a joke.

Im so, so glad that outside ofna few big AAA anomalies im enjoying the create freedom that the indie seen takes. Blue Prince, BallxPit, Balatro, Vampire Survivors, Sea of Stars....and thats just a few. Have been eating.up my "new" game time. I find myself going back to much, much older games. Im eating well. The poors devs are not. The industry is entirely too BIG to sustain the amount of AAA content they expect consumers to buy. Thats just real. Dont get me wrong...Bluepoint would have been on the short list of my DONT CLOSE studios but the glut is real. Too much content that takes 100s of millions and in reality billions for publishers to sustain if everything isn't some massive success. Im sure BluePoint thought joining the Sony fam was a great idea (it usually isn't a bad one) and BOOM

I, for one, enjoy the absolute feel of a Bethesda game. I fully understand the criticism though. If ES6 is just a larger, prettier Skyrim/Oblivion it could be the last game I ever have to buy lol. And if going from Creation 2 to 3 means I can finally climb a ladder ill watch my hat lol

My main 2 gripes are early in it doesnt give you much direction. I get its a metroidvania style game but I felt there to be a lack of visual or audio cues that you are headed the right way aside from randomly running into your brother or magically talking to the right person. The other gripe is basically if you didn't tell me it was a God of War game id of just assumed it was some random Roman Metroidvania game. Clearly hearing TC and the dialog box saying Kratos but I think everyone gets my point

Its like 1st person helldivers with some returnal oddball mixed. I thought it actually looked good for a service title.

@nessisonett id argue that isn't true anymore. Just Google home.many games are being released on a monthly or annual basis on storefronts...yea is there a lot of garbage. But id easily wager more games are being made than films at this point.

Edit- Id also argue that films need to be at least able to break even. Or be so critically acclaimed it gets the now defunct film house employees new jobs- which is very rare

@MrPeanutbutterz did you ever think that SE allowing these cheats and not disabling the trophies isn't them looking inward at some egregious decisions regarding some of the games challenges?

When Dyne morphed 3 times into a goblin creature I had already had enough of the nonsense. Rebirth did so much right and wrong at the same time its baffling. This new trilogy has entirely lost the point imo. I fear for FF9 remake

@Americansamurai1 well its a closed Beta so maybe they were referencing the growth after launch ex" more classes, more missions, more environments etc.

I for one am glad. Bella was just a bad cast. I think she's done alright given the fact there isn't one physical similarity to help sell her portrayal of Ellie. But it still isn't a bad show

Games gotta be 250-300GB anyhow. If not more. No disc is holding 1.0 unless its multiple

@PloverNutter 8.4 million by April 2023. Its reportedly almost doubled that since. I think its safe to say that most Sony IP retain more players than they dont for sequels

My main is still a 10 year old Sony. Its not even a 4k TV and people still come over and talk about the quality of the image. Sony made, imo, the best picture tellies in the business. You paid for it but it was worth it. I guess it'll only be Samsung moving forward for me unless anybody has a better recommendation. Ive had 2 utterly garbage LGs.

There isn't any facets of our lives that arent absurdly expensive (I guess in the states fuel has plummeted). Everyone, including myself, is feeling the squeeze. My wife and I are by no means rich but our combined is more than a decent portion. I still feel like I cant get ahead. Consoles are merely luxuries. And turning into expensive ones at that. There was always a checks and balance to life. That is GONE. Cost $100 to walk outside.

This game got crapped on for nothing. Its an absolute blast. Its gorgeous. The combat is chunky. The voice acting is phenomenal and the world feels lived in in a really weird way. If you were on the fence because the internet chose to crap on this i encourage you to give it a go. Obsidian is the Microsoft Insomniac imo. Output and quality are just there...always

Refined FPS in ways we still dont appreciate. Total legend...and also seemed to.fight back against that nasty corporate arm. I sure hope that video making the rounds isn't him and his passenger. Either way, we all make mistakes. RIP and condolences.

Gamea ARE the entertainment standard now. This ain't no niche basement bs anymore (praise jebus!!). The show itself is still tragically paced and cringe. But thats also part of the charm. It feels like it was put together by gamers and I love that part of it. As I get older I have less time to play and find myself bored with what I used to love (Cant explain my lack of desire to play GoY but my appetite for BallxPit couldnt be higher lol). But damnit. This medium is so freaking important. Its good to see the popularity just continue to grow...and we wonder why investors expect perpetual growth....lol. Those viewing numbers explain a lot I think.

@AndyKazama love some ball x pit. Except the auto characters. I cant bring myself to just sit and watch for 15 minutes.

It'll be hard to top the shear awe of Skyrim. There are plenty who say Morrowind was peak and its been downhill ever since but nothing, and I mean nothing, just took days away from me like Skyrim. Did it truncate some systems to allow less hardcore players? Sure, to a degree. But I remember spending like 4 hours in one ruin and then a damn dragon dropped out of what looked like a small star in the final room. Just that one ruin was like 1/3 of a game for some studios. The scale was absolutely insane and the freedom was just amazing. I literally lived in that world. The music, the immersion...all peak. They'll never top that cultural bomb of casual and hardcore ever again imo. Thats a unicorn type game regardless of its flaws.

@Balaam_ legends was an absolute blast for me and FREE. I also just dont have anywhere near enough time to be worried about platinum/100% every game i play.

Have the HellDivers model for content drops and you have a chance. It was smart of them to make sure nothing is Time-walled. For all the Bungie mistakes they still make the best feeling boom sticks in the industry imo. Now just dont be greedy turds and keep the content up and you might have a winner

Kojima proved with DS you dont need crazy time if vision is clear and management is well structured.

Amazing game. In no was is this an Indie Title. Its a first title by an independent studio who found a publisher. Stardew Valley, Undertale and Terraria are examples of what id consider an Indie Title. I mean CDPR self publishes...anybody consider them indie devs? Or an indie studio.

@Rob3008 excellent take. And let's be real. They are one of the most solvent companies period, gaming or not. Such a tragic way to be if this is true

Top comment is spot on^^^. To think the most financially viable company on the planet besides a handful is just taking the piss on their people is tragic. I feel like the Take 2 CEO Zelnick actually has a clue with some of the things he says. I hope its isolated to idiots at Rockstar but I doubt it.

Methinks labor laws lol. You make maybe enough to feed your family in a tiny apartment have no rights and can be fired for anything. The dev teams are probably 1000+ at the cost of maybe less than a 100 person dev team in Europe or America. Anyone thinking it's anything but has their head in the sand

They have lost their identity to some degree. FF id only FF because they title it that. They've gone so far off the rails on what the majority of people associate the game with. DQ still seems to know what it is at least. The HD remakes were smart imo though. Rebirth could have probably had 30-50 million of its budget removed...that game is so, so bloated. More isn't always better. Focusing on games like Octopath and Bravely seem like a smarter bet right now. There is always a hunger for smaller but amazing rpgs. They also really need to go back to the drawing board Hard for FF17. Cant even imagine how bloated the KH4 budget is either...

@Blaze215 my comment says it doesnt account for marketing. Its already in the green. You just have to accept that. And 1st party have long tails.

@Blaze215 60 million dollar budget. 3.3 million x $70.00 per unit....its already a financial success. Even if that budget doesnt include marketing. And just one platform...no PC, no Xbox, no Nintendo. It is a phenomenal success. FF16 budget, to my understanding, was never disclosed. It was probably bloated to triple or quadruple what the Ghost team spent. The difference is great devs that are efficient vs. Decent devs that aren't.

@Gunbeld I mean those numbers is Spain are over 50:1. So 10:1 is probably way to generous. I dont even think the 3:1 US and UK holds weight anymore. Xbox has literally fallen off a cliff.

You almost wonder why Xbox even ships units to Japan.

@LifeGirl I mean Yotei at almost 5 mil sold on 60 mil budget. Still room for single player.

If Oblivion got Remaster of the year then the bar is low.

Good for BF6. Also, great for GoY- to be the 10th best selling game all year on just 1 platform is impressive