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This is the least excited I've ever been for a new console generation. This was a generation of empty promises, lack of first party support and not much in the way of innovation.

I'll probably buy the new console 3 years down the line when it actually has games.

Slimy but still better than coming out with a "Refantazio: Royal Edition"

@Oram77 As a fellow Destiny player I completely agree. When I saw that they were developing a new game I was excited. The moment Marathon dropped my excitement was completely gone. Everyone that I know that plays Destiny had the same sentiment.

The worst part is that a lot of them including me were disappointed with some of Destiny 2's issues flaws, so we were open for something new using Bungie's undeniable talent.

Marathon is definitely not the answer and they seem to be insisting on a ship that has sunk even before it went sailing.

@dskatter Nice scale hahaha

The thing is that they massively dropped the support for Destiny 2. The Final Shape was arguably their best expansion ever and The Edge of Fate was so bad and void of content that the game is registering record low player counts.

It does seem like they shifted their focus from Destiny to Marathon.

I don't understand how Bungie thought this was going to replace Destiny.

Extraction shooters have a niche appeal and this game's style and gameplay seem to attract a much smaller demographic than Destiny did.

It should've been a smaller concurrent project with a possible Destiny 3. This game might kill Bungie.

@Oram77 I would agree with you, but with the Gamepass absurd price hike and the sheer number of cancellations and tier changes, a lot of Xbox users are probably going back to buying some games.

Great! I'll buy everything at a discount price 2 years down the line

@EVIL-C Nintendo released a Mario Kart that is vastly inferior to the previous one for £80 and a Donkey Kong that was solid but with a DLC that was £17 and it lasted for 2 hours.

Sony at least releases solid first party titles.

As I said before, Sony wins by doing nothing and that's exactly what they did. Still better than Nintendo and Microsoft.

Microsoft and Nintendo are competing hard this gen to see who is the absolute worst to their customers.

Currently Sony is winning by doing nothing.

What an entitled moron.

They owe you absolutely nothing.

If you don't like waiting, play other games.

@Rich33 Agreed. It's just people trying to insert their extreme politics in games from developers that wished to play no part in such discussions.

@ShogunRok Yes I can totally see it. Your negative points about this game mirror my opinions on the previous ones.

There's so much potential but everything drags on for too long, it really looks like they're close to creating a great game, but not quite there yet.

I too hope they succeed, as the blueprint for a fantastic game is there, they just need to listen to feedback and sort out the kinks.

Can they at least wait until ME 5 is out? It's BioWare's last chance to survive, if that project doesn't come out, that's it for them.

Just an FYI for everyone, this review is an outlier, most reviews hover between 8 and 8.5.

Not throwing shade at ShogunRok's review as it's in depth and he justifies his score quite well, just informing that some reviewers were more satisfied with the game.

@Th3solution I think releasing during the pandemic when most people were stuck at home probably helped with the sales too.

Boycotts from either side of the political spectrum rarely ever work.

BG3 was condemned by one side and it sold like crazy.

Hogwarts Legacy was condemned by the other and it also broke records.

Most people don't care about political extremists.

@Cerny You mean an American game about Japan?

If anything, their judgement would be harsher because it's foreigners talking about their country.

Goodbye to any artistic project focused on quality an innovation and hello to the most predatory microtransactions possible.

I thought EA couldn't get any worse, I was wrong.

Will Kojima be the first person responsible for ghost feet pictures?

@Vaako007 That's the wrong assumption. The reason programmers and engineers are not paid well is because of greedy bloated corporations. Look at Hello games and smaller studios. Games are expensive because publishers are greedy.

I'd rather have a game that is smaller in scope and cheaper than a bloated overpriced AAA mess.

The solution is not the increase of game prices, it's the reduction of size and scope of projects.

£55 for the game? Fair pricing in 2025/26?! How rude of them!

Going for easy influence on children with TikTok cringe. Keep it classy Sony.

Buying used consoles never sounded better.

I bought my barely used Xbox Series X for £225.

I'll buy it in two to three years for £10 with all the performance issues fixed.

Best way to buy AAA games nowadays.

"It's Sony's fault their console is not optimized for our game." - Randy Pitchford, probably.

If there's one Yakuza that needs a remake it's definitely 3.

It's a great game but it's the weakest of the series. The combat is extremely slow and the pacing is all over the place. Clearly RGG Studio like many other developers suffered the hardships of developing a game for the PS3.

You can clearly see they learned from it, as Yakuza 4 and 5 are more solid entries with better combat.

"There’s no doubt the Switch 2 is a phenomenal piece of hardware, and a huge upgrade on the original console"

Isn't there?

The Switch is on par with the PS4 Pro and it will soon be unable to handle any current gen games, much less next gen games.

It's cartridge is so limited for data processing that Star Wars Outlaws had to be a game key card to be able to be played.

If anything, the Switch 2 feels more outdated than the Switch 1, especially considering portable consoles are common now, a very different reality from when the Switch was released.

It's a great console overshadowed by it's successor.

The PS2 is so incredible that sometimes it's easy to forget that it was mostly built on what the PS1 set up.

Going from pixels to 3D was the biggest gaming revolution to have ever happened.

@EfYI Low price? That's absolutely not true. You can consider it refuted, I don't.

PS Premium is £120 whereas Extra is £100. What you call a couple of bucks, I call it a 20% price difference.

The last one is where you completely lose me. Going for the ad hominem response and calling people who complain "sad teenagers" is completely unnecessary. People can express their opinion whoever they want, including yourself. But moaning about other people's opinions is very entitled and it implies certain kinds of opinions have more value than others.

@EfYI I'm glad you have a broad vision that encompasses the reasons everyone should like Premium, not just you.

Oh, wait, that's the opposite of what you did?

The several niche reasons you gave that favor your tastes are largely irrelevant to most people as you can see by the comment sections.

Premium besides being name in such a way, barely offers any premium for its value.

It's much more expensive than extra and it drip feeds a few classics per year, even though Sony's catalogue is massive, it offers streaming which barely anyone uses. Finally it offers demos, and that actually adds value to the proposition, but it hardly justified its pricing.

Fact of the matter is, Premium is good price proposition for you , not the majority of people.

Your annoyance comes from the dissonance of your viewpoint and most people's views, but you're clearly not the general opinion and Sony should listen to others if they want to keep their service at a good value.

Why not hand the franchise to smaller team, reducing the development costs and also the risk of failure?

Mascot platformers are a niche genre nowadays, but there's a market for it.

If you cut the costs and satisfy the niche, you have a smaller less risky source of income.

Not every game needs to be the next blockbuster.

How is it surprising that the only game they play is Call of Duty?

Everyone expected that.

@DennisReynolds Yeah, the runbacks might be worse than in the first game.

It's weird to see this, as From software seems to have learned from that and the boss runs are much more streamlined than they used to be.

There's a lot of tedium involved in doing the same thing over and over just to get to the actual challenge.

@Slayer25c Your opinion.

The original had a beginning a middle and a end, this version is a bloated mess that focuses way too much on the "Cloud Vs Sephiroth" part of the story.

The writing of the remakes reaches fanfic levels of ridiculousness.

@Dragoon1994 That's your opinion not mine.

Showing Sephiroth every 5 seconds has completely ruined the mistique of the character. He grabbed the original story and doubled it, transforming it into a boring bloated mess.

Can't wait for Nomura to finish ruining the original FF7's story.

Andrew Schulz playing a pathetic excuse of a human being?

Great choice!

That sounds a lot like shifting the blame.

Monster Hunter Wilds sold like crazy at release, but the performance was so abysmal that its reputation tanked. Monster Hunter games generally have long legs sales wise and this one didn't.

I think the main reason people said it was a crap selection is because they already bought the games.

Psychonauts 2 is probably the most popular because almost everyone already bought Stardew Valley.

@PegasusActual93 In every way? That's an exaggeration. The voice acting in MindsEye was acceptable. This game has atrocious voice acting.

The only scoring review has given this game a 4/10. It might be better than MindsEye, but it's another terrible game and what makes it worse, backed by Sony.

Will MindsEye have a competitor for GOTY?

"Generic, predictable story
Very dull characters
Attacks can lack weight and impact
Various performance hiccups"

FFXV, is that you?

RE 7 is scary? Since when? The Bakers behavior is cartoonishly evil and they act like they are in a Rob Zombie movie.

Stardew Valley is a fantastic game, but probably everyone bought it already.

Psychonauts 2 is a great platformer and a worthy sequel to the original.

Solid month overall.

This movie has potential...........to be even worse than the second Silent Hill movie.

Just got it here in the UK. It doesn't look great, but if I end up playing for one hour, I got more than what paid for haha

I hope I'm wrong, but everything about this game smells like failure.

It doesn't look good, it barely showed any gameplay right before release, and the pre determined protagonist flies directly in the face of the roleplaying its predecessor was based on.

This game is one of the best gaming stories ever.

They released a broken, buggy, boring, unfinished game with several unfulfilled promises.

Year by year they fixed it, and little by little not only it became the game they promised but much more.

This is a fantastic story of commitment and how learning from your mistakes can make you so much better at something.

Battlefield 6 player numbers concerned them a bit.

Nothing like healthy competition to ensure quality.

That looks like an excuse because they know the reviews are going to be bad.

It's unbelievable that they seem to have learned nothing from what happened with FFXV.