Nyne11Tyme

Here is the reality. Horizon and TLoU Factions will have legs. They are billion dollar franchises at this point. Their mainline entries sell in the 10s and 20s of millions. The other 10?....uphill battle for sure. Even twisted metal will be a hard sell imo and I love that franchise

@Th3solution resistance

Sony Marketing is goat lol

Make this a PS Plus title. Win, win. You will get new people to sub, older subs to stay subbed and almost certainly have a high concurrent engagement up front.

Almost done GoW:R. Just 'redacted' a certain horn blower

A 4070 with 32 gb of ram to hit 4k 60fps. That's absolutely absurd. Reeks of extremely poor optimization. The fact they had to patch a demo 6 days before launch is also a huge red flag

Maybe it's just a VERY small developer. I'm talking like 10 people small. Scope creep is a dangerous thing with a small work force

Resistance or Killzone live service. Established lore and easily recognized IPs

2018 and this raise the bar imo. Extreme polish, excellent narrative and acting, deep, rewarding and crunchy action. The talent at SSM is tippy top tier. I've enjoyed it very much. Let's go to Egypt or South America next for the God of War. Kratos has become one of the most iconic video game characters of all time.

I've had a healthy balance of new and old games for quite a long time. I'm currently playing GoW:R, Soccer Story, Shredders Revenge, Cowabunga Collection, Chrono Cross, Tecmo Super Bowl, Mega Man 2, River City Ransom and Ninja Gaiden lol.

Man the amount of people that never played it on psp is crazy to me. Glad it was able to get some attention. It's a great piece of the overall FF7 world and a really fun game. The side content is clearly tailored to the "on the go" bite size type of structure. If you can overlook that the actual campaign and story are a blast

Didn't Ghosts do the same thing with Iki Island DLC. I could easily be wrong but I thought there was some controversy over the DLC for that. Maybe it was not ps5 only but had a weird upgrade path. Either way this is frustrating but also good in a way. Time to let 10 yr old hardware go but to alienate the millions of ps4 players that bought forbidde
west seems weird.

Money grabbing trash right there

Vampire survivors, GoW:R and Shredders Revenge with the boy. Maybe some Kirby with the boy as well.

10 hours in. And 10 is the score.

Funny, a Plague Tale Requiem was poorly optimized and was also published by FHI.

Sifu should have been nominated for game of the year imo. Otherwise pretty good list. I see the obligatory CoD on there lol. If that won I'd have no faith in my fellow gamers. And to be transparent I'm not hating on CoD. They have the formula down to a tee. It's just reiterating the same thing. That shouldn't be a candidate

Yo that Bend artwork is awesome.

@SMcCrae95 not a big issue for me but very few reviews (unless I overlooked it) have discussed the framerate or the graphical fidelity. I've mainly read about extensive pop in. Is the framerate steady and does it look to take advantage of current gen hardware?

Looks like you answered a similar question! Sorry! Great review

Trying to finish Little Hope with the wife. More Sleeping Dogs (still such a shame we will never get a sequel) and probably some shredders revenge with the boy. Basically nothing new til GOWR

Not shocked. Pre orders open on my bday. That's my justification lol

Little Hope on PS5 with the wife. Sleeping Dogs...I am so glad I ayed this again, been years and feels super fresh to me. Shame we will never get a sequel.

Psvr2 gonna be 800 bones

The resistance trilogy and mgs4 being trapped on ps3 stinks but I highly doubt either would happen

I'm in-between a lot right now. MoonGlow Bay, Shredders Revenge, Dark Cloud 2, and Rocket League have all been getting their fair shake. I also started a new file in Sleeping Dogs. What a SHAME there will never be a second one. Takes everything I love about GTA style open worlds and everything I love about street brawlers and mashes them together perfectly. I've been in a AAA rut now for a while. Very few are hitting like they used to for me.

How'd that work out for Volition, lol. Hopefully it's just modern tech being incorporated. It will probably be for 'modern audiences' by releasing in an awful state, peppered eith MTXs and Sam(antha) running around in a Fortnite skin =) I kid. I hope I kid anyways

This should have been the remake. Not TLoU

Yo...Santa Monica makes EVERY other dev look like they need to get it together. Sure there are amazing talents out there that make amazing things. But what they do just hits different on all levels. Cinematography, score, gameplay, level design, pace...everything. Those crazies at that studio are magicians

@XenonKnight not a bad perspective. Nobody bats an eye at a 30$ 4k bluray. That film is 2-3 hours long. And is shot, edited and released in less than half the time.

@SinfulDestroyer I think Sony just got out in front of what was coming industry wide.

@ultraviolet the US feels your pain. at least most of Europe has realized coal is legit and necessary. I hope your situation improves along with everyone else

Considering this dumpster fire has been in development for like 10 years lol. Should have subtracted 10$ not added. That Yves guy gotta go.

@Hypnotoad107 that's a really good take and very accurate I think. Sony has the goodwill of the industry and gamers alike due to the awesome quality of their games and content- along with the massive user base. I think Xbox HAS to buy outright because who wants to let their game die on the least popular console without a nice windfall

My thoughts are use Bungie, Haven and Guerilla to create your own competitive game. This cry baby nonsense is pathetic. CoD is a power house for sure. But imo it's also stagnant and predatory. There are plenty of talented people to create a competitor

Happy to see Jean D'Arc so high. My biggest time sink on psp

@IonMagi so where gonna take that Statement as 100% fact? Because it sounds like both Ryan and Spencer have been talking out the side of their mouths for a while. I'm no more inclined to believe Bungie stays multi forever the same way I'm no more inclined to believe that FF7R will ever come to Xbox or that CoD will actually stay on PS for 3 extra years. You can't trust guys with 2 first names. Lol

Sounds like having Bungie and Haven are a good thing. A dev can develop something that can compete. The key is to actually believe that and follow through.

Maxing all characters with the boy in Shredders Revenge, on final boss of the OG Dark Cloud...then probably on to Dark Cloud 2. Forgot how great that series was. Happy gaming on both sides of the pond

@RoomWithaMoose yes the could have. But the fact remains that Nintendo has no real reason to raise prices on tech that old. If they did that it would set a new precedent altogether. I can't think of another instance where something over 5 years old increased in price regardless of inflation. Xbox is consistently last in regards to market share and would only be shooting themselves in the foot as they struggle more than the other 2 to sell consoles. Sony is also selling new tech at a loss and now an even bigger loss. I'm not saying it doesn't suck but all 3 are in uniquely different positions. I'm just trying to keep an open mind to the situation.

@RoomWithaMoose you aren't wrong. Nintendo has inflated costs. But on a piece of tech that they are selling for a profit and have already sold almost 100 million units and are soon announcing a successor. Xbox can't raise prices because they just aren't as competitive. They are usually consistently last In hardware sales. They also can much more easily afford to sell at a larger lose because of Microsoft as a whole.

Nintendo Switch is old tech and that would be absurd. Xbox has consistently been handled by Playstation since the OG Xboxs inception, lacks compelling first party content and has the Microsoft war chest. This all makes sense and actually aligns most markets pricing to that of the US

I wasn't sure how EA could be worse. Now I know

In addition to the currency exchange rates the US is their largest market and is experiencing worse (I know it's bad everywhere) inflation than any other market that's considered 1st world.

@AFCC I mean they just gave us Stray and that proved very popular

Need more classics. What's there is cool but we need another 20+ ps1 and ps2 games asap

Dark Cloud, Shredders Revenge with the boy, Two Point University hopefully tonight.

SoT was amazing. FbW was a shell of that imo.

Gravity Rush was just so, so good. I really enjoyed it.

Let's be real. Those 'peak' levels of engagement were all highly inflated due to covid and lockdowns.

@huyi no I mean Sony needs to eat the inflated costs of manufacturing not us. If they increased the ps5 models by 100 I think it would be devastating for them.