@Dragon83 Yeah, I'm sure most Japanese people will completely agree with your assessment of Yasuke.
Please get informed about how Black people are perceived in Japan before uttering such things. You can start with an easy article with nice links : https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00591/

@Dragon83 And I don't remember anyone complaining about these Black characters.
Maybe what you see as "haters" are just people extremely disappointed that when one of their favorite gaming franchise finally goes to Japan (after years and years of fans yearning for this), they can't manage to do it justice without entering the "culture wars".
How hard was it to put 2 Japanese characters, one male samurai and one female kunoichi? The deliberate choice of Yasuke as a main character is not one of historical value, but of ideological bias. And in 2025, companies choosing to do this finally reap what they sow.

On a good sale, I'd be very tempted but the lack of OLED display is a big downer for me.

@Athrum I miss the times when the gaming industry was mostly cheeky and fun done by nerds.
I know, old man screaming at clouds here.

@Rich33 Can you imagine this : all disc games from now on won't be playable with only what is on the disc, and will need the day one patch to even start.
Why are we giving them ideas?

Spider-Man 2 felt fantastic to play, and looked gorgeous. But the story and character development were really not good at all and a big let down after SM1.
Hopefully they can remediate that in SM3, and also diversify the gameplay while keeping it as fun as it is now.

At some point, people handling the LOTR IP should realise that most fans don't care at all for the hobbits. They were a good gimmick for the books (characters being vulnerable but ultimately surprisingly resilient) but they are not franchise material.
Look at Baldur's Gate 3 stats for chosen races : Halflings are at the bottom.

I bet that everyone sleeping on Sonic Racing Crossworlds hasn't played Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed and so doesn't know...

A return of the old Kratos would be great, but I agree with most comments that it would be hard to do anything interesting with the Greek pantheon after 6 games and the masterpiece GoW3 was.
Could we get something like a young Kratos sent by Ares to conquer Egypt? That could be nice...

@carlos82 This.
The main issue with video gaming being always connected is not the hardware (even if it is an issue), but the software. Most games today are unplayable buggy messes lacking a lot of content and features without a day zero or day one patch. So even if your console can play offline physical games, what you'll end up playing is not going to be any good...

@Cornpop76 "Not sure why they went with that."

Let's say it : we all know why they went with it, they wanted the controversy of a muscular woman being taken for a trans character before the game came out. This was free publicity, and added to the cultural dispute about this topic, about which Druckmann has been adamant as to where he stands.

Nothing else. They could have gone with a heavy muscular guy instead to make thinsg more realistic and believable, but we all know they wouldn't have gotten all the virtue signaling point for it.

To this day I still can't understand why people why people liked Bella Ramsay and Pedro Pascal in season 1. So no surprise that Abby was miscast too.

Good step in the right direction. Now make him not in charge of first party games anymore, and we'd really be getting somewhere.

@RBMango My young adult self already told my teenage self that Sega would go out of the console business, and that Microsoft and Sony of all companies would take the industry by storm.
My teenage self still doesn't believe any of this to this day.

This would so incredibly funny if people's jobs weren't impacted.
The issue with the games has been told to them clear and loud since the first pre-review and leaks came out. It's not difficult to see where everything went wrong. But instead they always called any criticism as homo/transphobic and doubled down. Go figure.

@breakneck Being almost forced to switch to Windows 11 was what did it for me : I went for Linux Mint. Easy to install, works out of the box, very configurable and secure and you can do almost anything you'd do on Windows with open-source free programs.

Sadly, I have to keep a Windows install somewhere for my job =, as my employers forces us to use Microsoft products, but damn Windows 11 is a mess. If it was just the UI, I'd be ok, I've used Windows since Windows95, so I know what a bad UI is! But the AI, lack of security, constant prying and the ads were too much. It's not an OS anymore, it's a data gathering program first.

Puppeteer, SSX and Split/Second
Give me those and I'm a happy man for life...

Ahahahahahahahahaha!!! No way they are giving away Suicide Squad!

@FutilityInExcellence Ac*shu*ally, X is the most politically neutral social media platform between the big ones as per Pew research.

Maybe it's just most people here are so used to only see opinions they disagree with presented in a negative light that seeing as much of it as what they believe is making them nervous...

I actually enjoy seeing the opinions of both (or more than two, god forbid!) sides.

The game looks good, but I'm not a fan (pun intended) of this kind of title...
I never noticed this "fans of X should look at this" kind of header, did I just miss it or is it a new style for PushSquare?

Sorry but "c0nc02d" ?! Really?

Just imagine seeing Marx as an example of "some of the great people that came before us" while living in the 21st century...

> Sorry for taking the bait, but that's on @khayl

We really needed these experts to tell us the PS5 Pro would lead to the PS6. I would never have guessed otherwise. Thank god for experts of all ilk for pointing out the obvious in expert ways...

@Kiefer-Sutherland yeah, back in the day people were saying the same thing about ads on web pages and then in YouTube videos. Look where it got us.

At one point, the change rate between $ and € in the game industry went from 1:1 to 1:1.14
Before, 60$ games were sold at 60€.
Now, 70$ games are sold at 80€, and 700$ consoles at 800€.

I have no idea when exactly it happened (but it's recent) and why. Does anyone have any insight on this?

@LikelySatan Look, i agree with the modern games being bloated and not fun, believe me. But a basic java game is not the answer to this.

We are sadly cursed in these days : our niche hobby has become mainstream, which makes games like Elden Ring or Baldur's Gate 3 possible, while indies like Balatro or Dead Cells are thriving, but at the same time we're flooded with bad games like what Activision and Ubisoft push out, and with all the gatcha games and other "free" MTX games...

Instead of putting a game like Vampire Survivors on a piedestal we should laud even more games like the afore-mentioned Dead Cells, which give to the player what a modern game should give, without all the "bloating" the industry delivers all the time.

Imo, VS is just a sweet java game, should be free to play on your phone and that's it. People trying to make it a "masterpiece" are just trying to be edgy in the sense they want to show they are able to praise and understand what others don't.

The side characters were great, what are you talking about? Yes, they stick to some achetypal character models, but that's not a bad thing when done correctly.

Contrary take here, maybe because I'm old : stop thinking you're edgy because you think a basic game looking worse than games from the 80s is an epic masterpiece.

This is on par with java games on websites from the early 2000s. Fun, yes, but not more than that and should be free.

Oh wow, that's incredible news! Lost in Random is one of the best hidden gems if this gen. Wonderful design, good enough gameplay, charming characters and interesting story. Go play it, it on a 85% sale on the PS Store right now.

Fantastically addictive game! A well deserve success!

That header was dirty man! Filth indeed!

@Yousef- yes, it does mean that.

So so hyped for this one! Everything I've seen is great, hopefully the final product is not full of mtx!

@Skeletor85 I think you're just baiting, but for those who don't know :

• FighterZ is a 2D fighter (like Street Fighter)
• Kakarot is a 3D adventure game with 3D anime fighting mechanics
• Sparking Zero is a fully 3D fighting game
  Just in case anyone was confused...

@Khwarezm89 AC Unity is still my favorite AC. Yes, just a tad above AC2 and Origins...
The graphic, the movement and the story stills holds up today, I'd love a good remaster.

@NEStalgia Fair enough on how France has been viewed from abroad for 1000 years, and I guess they wouldn't be wrong!

Still, this ceremony was a new low, especially for something which has been viewed globally on a major scale!

@LifeGirl yeah, as a Frenchman myself, it was even more than "tacky", it was humiliating, but also very representative of the current state of the nation : totally out of its depths, pretentiously oblivious if its decline, vulgar, and strayed away from its rich culture and history.
What a sad moment in time for France...

Not at all.

But I will admit that no Soulslike from another dev came even close to what FromSoft manages to output.

@Almost_Ghostly Let me guess : you see yourself as a tolerant and open-minded person, am I right?

Silent character may work when there is character creation : the budget may not allow for all the possibilities the game wish to offer to the player.

But if you have to play as a set character (or choose between a limited number of characters), then yes, they should be voiced.

@Contimaloris Exactly. As a non-American, it's incredible to see how people on both sides are completely blinded to what is really happening on their own side. The lack of self-reflection and the constant projection is bringing their country close to the precipice, and their media is only helping.

And with the 2 candidates on offer (if no one else is assassinated or fired until the election), there's no end to this cycle of delusion in sight.

@Rich33 And bullets flying around!

I just use PSPrices. That's it, the ps store is pure garbage and used only to buy the games.

@naruball Thankfully internet comments are not real life!

VivE la France!

I couldn't not be a pedantic Frenchman about this, please!

Damn the mix of one of the most corrupt institution on the planet (the IOC), one of the most immoral country and amoral profit-based enterprises is some way a very good symbol for today's world.
Add a pinch of war with a Call of Duty tournament and we can yell bingo.

@AfroMario So anywhere between "perfect" and "unplayable"? That's enlightening!

@Victor_Meldrew Watching the trailer, I had to check at some point if it was VR. Disappointed it isn't (apparently).