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Yeah yeah, just get a second third job and you can easily afford a PS6, people.

As long as there is a market for it, physical games won't disappear. Just look at music LP's, still thriving to this day.

I guess PC will be the main playground for physical enthusiasts going forward. If I was in charge of GOG I would get right in on the production side as their business model fits very well with this solution.

Hmmm... needs more teeth and less beard, in my strictly academic opinion.

Dungeon Drafters. It's a dungeon crawling deck builder with some nice pixel art.

This reminds me a bit of that time Cliff Blezinski tried rushing a Battle Royale to the market right after LawBreakers failed.

Small DCKO energy

RIP DCKO 2026 - 2026.
Killed by Sammy "The Butcher" Barker.

Consumers tend to forget controversies like this quickly, so I don't think it will matter much on it's own.

However, I do think the sum of all the %&# Sony has pulled this gen will come back to bite it in the ass, next gen. In my opinion it's a badly run company that is lucky to be leeching of the success of earlier generations at this point of time.

I left towards the end of the PS4 era. The idea was to go PC + PS5 at first (even bought the Pulse headset to use for both) but with time the urge to buy another Playstation vanished. Sony today just isn't the same company I was a fan of from PS1 to PS4.

I don't see any good reason for them to ever close an account. Are they running out of HD space for user accounts?

Expeditions: Rome, which plays much like XCOM Roman Empire Edition, but with more RPG elements.

Fun gameplay loop with squad turn-based battles and bigger army battles that play more like a card game. And surprisingly good voice acting. I'm enjoying it so far.

In a better timeline, this guy would still be in charge.

Now now, don't be so angry with us PC royalty. I've always felt sympathetic to the plight of the poor 30fps console peasant.

This was free on Epic store for PC, and I tried it but it didn't click with me. Thinking I might give it a second chance, though...

I'm guessing they will shut down Bungie within a year. That's just the sad reality of gaming development right now. Anything not making lots of $ is gone.

Some of the employees might be transferred to other teams if lucky.

Makes me wonder how all these studios would be doing now if Sony/MS/Embracer etc never had bought them up in the first place...

Would they be gone sooner? Would they be thriving? Would they be entitled to the sweat of their brows?

They can probably charge whatever they want and still sell like crazy. Since there is no PC version yet there won't be much pirating to worry about either.

As for myself, I still haven't gotten around to GTAV... but any day now. ;D

I have a feeling games like Astrobot, GT7 and Demon's Souls would have done pretty well if they had been released on Steam.

Playing Grindstone on handheld while listening through a lot of Yacht Rock and also the newest albums by Osees, Boards of Canada, Porches etc.

If it's anything like the other Piranhabytes series Risen and Elex, the player is initially very weak but gradually becomes a powerhouse around the midpoint of the game. I like this sort of progression, but if you want to jump straight into a power fantasy these games are likely not for you.

This is by the Arctic Eggs devs, so it's probably gonna be really weird with some funky music and visuals.

S.G.F. Feat. Geoff, most def.

I wish they would return to Enslaved, my clear fav game by the studio.

Yeah whatever... They probably had to take some shortcuts to make a trailer in time for the gameshow.

More importantly, did you see the trailer for Terminal War? I thought it was TLOU Factions remastered at first... hope it's good.

Nice move. I didn't really vibe with Marathon but you gotta give em some props for that.

Multiplatform is your future
You know that it would suit ya

I hope they either go back to Hitman or make a new IP. With how risky game development is atm I'm guessing the former.

Final Fantasy 7 Rehab

1 ILL
2 Lost Wild
3 Tomb Raider

But yeah many good ones. 12 games I'd like to play at some point.

I might be the only one here who actually watched (most of) the Jaffe video in question, while everyone else is blindly reacting off the headline. His reaction is more nuanced that that, but I guess everyone is just for or against anything these days.

Edit; Seems the video is unavailable now, at least here in Norway with the reason: Video unavailable
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Sony struck it down?

He looks rather short. Like a flyweight UFC fighter. But when I checked he is actually supposed to be only 160 cm tall in the original comics, so it seems they got him right.

It was OK. The big PS exclusives look pretty but very hollow to me but I guess I'm not the target audience (anymore) anyway.

For a second I thought Stuntman was a new Motorstorm... had me fooled damnit!

Just avoid the Ryan & Hulst all-you-can-eat Live Service Buffet. Most of the dishes will be cancelled and what's left is really just the crusts that other patrons picked off the Rage Pizza.

Deep Rock Galactic with the VR mod. These kind of mods are one of the main reasons I went from Playstation to PC this gen:

And some more Dark Souls 2, also with VR mod (mostly third person). Just finishing up the Gutter, which was even more oppressive in VR.

I'm sure all the people who applauded Playstation's back-to-exclusives plan will cheer XBOX doing the same, right?

Don't worry, Bungie still has that Gummy Bears project that I'm sure will take over the gaming world any minute now. Maybe we'll see it on the coming SoP?

Really enjoyed that game. Amazing art and very emotional story.

@Skinny-Pete No, you're nice! In all seriousness it's very difficult in first person so I play it mostly in third person but change it to 1st sometimes to enjoy the scenery.

Dark Souls 2 in first person VR

Like Bobby Kotick with Activision, the top brass of Bungie sold the company at just the right time. Sony bough fool's gold for $3.6 billion.

The only meaningful way forward I think is reshaping Marathon into Destiny 3. Like Epic did with the original PVE Fortnite into a BR at the time - just in the opposite direction.

Like it or not, this is what Sony is now. They should go all-in.

Hulst and Co should enter the stage breakdancing whilst in Fairgame$ cosplay to the soundtrack of LL Cool J. Viewers will be so confused they will forget to hate on the game. It's the only way.

Hindsight is 20/20 and all, but you gotta think it would have been better to name it Returnal: Saros and release it for more platforms.

One Ringdom Come to rule them all...

It seem the age of console fanboy wars are back again, yay...

What's more interesting is whether Hulst will stay in his position long enough to see any of these planned single-player games released. He has to be 1 fiasco away from the "voluntary retirement" that Ryan got.

I enjoyed both games and wish they had done better. Main characters and movement was so good.

They did have some flaws though. The world felt weirdly lifeless and the side missions (in 2 at least) were mostly pretty boring filler.

Pony Island. Just look at these amazing graphics:

In all seriousness, this game is amazing. By the same devs that made Inscryption and it feels very much like a predecessor to that game.

Also, Arctic Eggs. A game about frying eggs (and cockroaches, live ammunition, cigarettes etc) for hungry dwellers in some post-apocalyptic eastern-Europe community.

It's very weird, but a good time too. And it made me hungry for eggs.

Also played a lot of shorter games in my backlog lately, including Buckshot Roulette, Nocturnal, Ad Infernum, A Juggler's Tale, Threshold, Bright Memory Infinite, Iron Lung, Detached and Fort Solis. All 2-3 hour games. I'm planning on some longer games next though.

It's a start but not really that useful in itself.

The Steam numbers are great when deciding to buy older or indie multiplayer games and see if there will be anyone to play with.

I want a 1024-player MAG 2, a new Motorstorm with full VR mode, Soul Sacrifice Echo and Tokyo Jungle 2: Revenge of the Platypus.

Alright alright I'll watch it! Calm down...

Can't be worse than Monarch I guess. Or From. Sometimes you just gotta turn your brain off and commit to the crap presented on-screen.

Personally, I'd say U2>U1>U3/U4>Golden Abyss/Lost Legacy