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@RoomWithaMoose Not sure if those exclusives PC / Xbox games worth $1200 + $360 /year for GamePass. But good for you if you interested with the box.

I miss the arcade era 😔

$1200 for the new 'box and the games not even exclusives? That's rough.

I think i'll stick with the PS2 version which imho age quite well.

Since when Sandfall owned "Clair Obscur"?

But hey, i see they're finally showing their true "indie devs" face by suing small creators lol.

I hope they make Bandersnatch more enjoyable to fight. And Steve needs a good redesign from clothes, VA, and story.

I feel a bit jealous with people who can spent $800-900 for a PS5Pro + disc drive in this economy. But hey, i hope they fully enjoyed the console 🍻

My condolences to the people who got layoff, especially in this economy where everything became a lot more expensives thanks to the pointless war. I really hate that two mf's who thinks attacking Iran was a great idea.

I never played the original Dragon Slayer so i'm curious what Falcom can do with their oldest IP 🤔

This looks like a new game. It's impressive SP can made it for free without season pass and every content can be unlocked without asking player for money.

On top of that, Yotei "only" cost around $60-70 million to make. If this come from other big devs like EA, Ubi, MS, or Square, i bet they will ask for another 60-70 bucks while the budget will be through the roof.

@VeganH I believe RE engine is one of the biggest reason for their success. Since they used the engine 7-8 years ago, they pumped out games in a pretty consistent basis. The other reason possibly their veteran and new devs worked together perfectly.

$1200? Yeah good luck to MS and the new Xbox boss.

@Th3solution A bit correction, we're in the 10th mainline entries since RE 0 exist 😁

God forbid an M-rated video game about killing 'gods' with blood, violence, and gore also have a one time only-comedic-nothing explicit sex mini game 😆

It reminds me of that stupid drama for 'Bros before hos' trophy in GoW Ascension. I believe it was triggered by Anita Sarkaseian and her simps Madam Sessler.

And GoW sex mini game actually have good contex for story and gameplay:
1. It shows Kratos isn't a hero. The guy is a frickin womanizer.
2. Sex isn't a taboo in Greek myth like it has tons of sex in it.
3. It gives players decent Red Orbs if they do the mini game.

Like i said, I hope the mini game stays but big chance it will be gone or completely change. We'll see...

@Yor-sama Both games has different artstyle. It's like comparing apple to orange. Not to mention PoP Lost Crown was developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, a big studio with 350 experience people who made Rayman series. Meanwhile Mega Cat is a very small studio with 24 people. I bet the budget for Lost Crown was much bigger than Sons of Sparta too, hence it was sold at $50 compare to $30 for Sons of Sparta.

Sadly Lost Crown was a flop with the team got disbanded. On the other hand, Sons of Sparta seems selling well at PS chart US & EU

@8thDoctor Nice to see there's still people who played and remembered the game. And yeah the soundtrack is really beautiful ☺️

@naruball I think right now PS brand is in good position with or without small games. But these small games really needs to sell well at least break even to keep Sony happy and give them solid reason to invest towards AA games & small devs. That way, they can also attract more small devs towards PS ecosystem which leads to higher output of small games.

@MrPeanutbutterz Sadly their arcade twin stick shooter doesn't sold well. According to Housemarque statement, Nex Machina lackluster sales was the final in the coffin and biggest reason why they moved on to bigger budget games.
https://housemarque.com/news/arcade-is-dead

It's a shame really but i understand their reason. At least i did my part with Resogun, Dead Nation, Alienation, Nex Machina, and Matterfall.

It's a decent idea and i'm perfectly fine as long as the main devs also creatively involved with the game. A good example like RAD GoW: Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta where Cory Barlog wrote the story for both games, which i think he did a pretty solid job.

But the big question is are these small games will sell enough to break even or profitable?

I mean, we've already experienced PS3, PSP, Vita, and PS4 era where many small / AA games from Sony 1st party / 3rd party collab didn't sold well. I doubt anyone in here ever played Rain developed by Acquire and Japan Studio.

@Noone2025 "3 other games no one heard of to pc"

You sure no one heard of Spider-man 2 & Miles of Morales, Horizon: Zero Dawn & Forbidden West, TloU Part 1 & 2, Uncharted 4, or Days Gone?

PCMR gangs are crying lol. I guess they don't like their own exclusive games like WoW, Starcraft 2, Dota 2, Escape from Tarkov, Counter Strike 2, or Half Life: Alyx 😁

I never have the chance to play Lion King. But i've played and like both Genesis & SNES Aladdin. It's one of my favorite Disney games along with Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, and Chip 'n Dale.

> PC have their own exclusives games and PCMR gangs loves it.
> Sony decided to keep their 1st party sp games for PS console because PC port revenue is not worth it and suddenly all hell breaks loose with PCMR gangs crying it's anti consumer yada yada yada 🤣

Good job Sony! 🍻

Even racing game have a parry mechanic lmao 🤣

@dskatter So you prefer Bungie not to pay and credit the artist in the game at all?

What the heck!!!

I hope Nagoshi can find someone to fund this project cause it looks great. Maybe he should visit Sony since he has a very good relationship with them.

Playing:
Suikoden I (Vita)

Finally got my own castle and staff for storing items, inn, weapons etc. Ngl, the item management in this game is a big headache. And the lack for in-game tutorial also quite annoying, especially about how Rune and status effect works. I wonder if the remaster fixed these problems. Nonetheless it's a pretty fun game.

Outside games, i'm watching Trigun Stargaze catching up to eps 8. The anime is pretty good and makes me forget a bit of recent orange man & bibi madness 😮‍💨

Hope y'all have a nice weekend 🍻

This is the 1st time i hear about this game and it's a card game? Yeah that's not for me. I tried Tetra Master and Triple Triad in FF's and i didn't like it one bit. I've also watched Yugioh, Balatro, and any card games and i never understand what's so fun from them.

I'm sticking with fighting games, beat em up, shmup, TPS, FPS, character actions, and RPG's.

Showing PS6 right now will be a bad idea for PS5 sales, especially if PS6 have BC for PS5 games.

And so far there's only a tweet about Helix existence without the specs or even price. So i don't see why Sony should quickly respond to that by showing PS6?

I'm not yet played it but from some gameplay videos it feels like a really good combination of RE 2, 4, and 7. It could be a 9 / 10 game.

@Ambassador_Kong You thrown this unproven accusation about Sony advertising dollars is the main cause for reviewers to delayed their reviews as if Sony want to hide everything about this game, which doesn't makes any sense when they already held a server slam for everyone to see and played the game. Sony didn't closed down user reviews for the game either which so far the majority has been positives.

And where's this advertising dollars for the collossal disaster name Concord since it cost them more than $400 million for the game + studio? Why Sony didn't pay reviewers to delayed their reviews? If they can paid Amazon to do an 18 minutes CGI movie for Concord then i'm sure they can easily pay reviewers to delayed their reviews or even demand them all to give 10/10's.

🤷‍♂️

@ButterySmooth30FPS Lol i second that.

Watching some people in here got angry and throwing conspiracy theory one after another just because a game they want to fail so much has positives user reviews and critics delayed their review is really fun. The amount of seething is off the chart 🤣

@DartLOD Closing studios & layoff hundreds of people which some of them made great games like Maximo and Okami wasn't extensives? Holy cow, what a wild statement 😅

@DartLOD Argue? I'm just saying that Capcom did layoffs people. Not sure why you're denying facts.

@DartLOD "There is a reason you’re not hearing about layoffs at Capcom"

I guess you skipped the news when they shutdown Capcom Vancouver, Studio 8, and Clover studio and layoffs hundreds of people.

@get2sammyb yeah the usual dance 😮‍💨

@Ambassador_Kong Avatar costumes are low quality and they came out like every 3 months. People will complaint again if Capcom rushed out DLC costumes with low quality, just like how they complaint with SF V costumes.

@bindiana Looks like this "scare tactics" is a brand new tactic huh? 'Cause i didn't see Sony used it for Sons of Sparta, Lost Soul Aside, Destruction AllStars, Until Dawn remake, Lego Horizon, Predator: Haunting Ground, and other low-average scores games.

Man, it's a shame that Sony just found out about this tactics 🤔

@Blaze215 "like it or not (and I dont) critic metacritic scores influence sales"

COD Blops 7 at 65% metacritic with average 1.5 users score and that doesn't stop the game charting at no 1 in multiple regions for months. And 94% metacritic score doesn't make Astro Bot sold as much as COD either. So your claim doesn't fit with the reality here.

"Withholding reviews while the game is on sale is shielding bungie from a potentially low critic score"

Thousands of player reviews at Steam showed the game at average 4.5 / 5 stars. So why would the critics wants to shield Bungie from low score when plenty of players already spoke about the game quality? Your conspiracy theory sounds off buddy.

Or are you want to say those players got paid by Sony / Bungie? Lol.

"If you are just willfully ignoring this obvious fact you're not being honest and are not worth discussing this with"

You're the one who's an ignorant and dishonest here. And looking at your comment history for this game, it's clear you dislike it and wants it to fail.

But hey, you can keep seething for all i care 🤷‍♂️

I was 13 when i played RE 1 for the 1st time back in '97. Soo...i'm 7 years younger than Leon and 2 years older than Sherry in this game 😁

@Blaze215 Covering game studios? For what?

Last time i check, game critics isn't the end of all end for opinion. So why put a lot of stock on what game critics will or not write on their reviews when the game is available right now where you can check users reviews or watch live gameplay videos to have more detail infos about the game???

Steam user reviews showed at average 4.5 / 5 stars, from 4600+ players
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3065800/Marathon/

Whatever review score from @get2sammyb, i bet it will not change the opinion of people who doesn't like this game and even wish for its failure.

@Korgon Indeed, you can't rush quality 🍻

@AdamNovice Beside DLC characters and costumes, they're also working on balance update which is very important, Battle Hub contents, and adding DLC characters for World Tour.

Alex will come with a major balance update for all 28 characters is really crucial to the competitive scenes.

@Littlebigmatador Ah yeah thanks for the reminder. I forgot XDevs are also working on Marvel Tokon and Sony published + market the game. So that means Sony released 6 games for this year alone, 7 if we count Yotei Legends.

@Accipitridae Yes it's remarkable. I salute Capcom effort on pumping out high quality games on consistent basis. Although, last year their output was pretty barren outside MH Wilds and collection / remaster such as Onimusha 2 and Capcom Fighting Collection 2.

High quality skins took times to finish. Funnily, people was complaining back when Capcom pumped out low quality skins one after another for SF V. They demanded Capcom took their time to increase the quality. But now they're complaining after Capcom listened to the suggestion 🤣

I honestly don't care about skins and prefer for new stages.

@datamonkey For this year, Sony 1st party actually has more output than Capcom.

Capcom will release 4 new games; 1 already out (REquiem) and 3 left to go (Pragmata, Onimusha, and MH Stories 3).

Sony will release 5 new games; 2 already out (Sons of Sparta & Marathon) and 3 left to go (Saros, MLB The Show 26, and Wolverine). Count it 6 if we include Ghost of Yotei: Legend which is a standalone expansion.

@AdamNovice Hey you got what you wish for. Outfit 4 for Dee Jay and Elena.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mGIG9K-V7e4&pp=0gcJCa4KAYcqIYzv

@lazarus11 1 million pirates for Spiderman 2 is just crazy!
If 800K of them bought the game at $40-60, Insomniac would get more revenue to fund their games.

Looks like a cozy life sim ☺️

@Questionable_Duck It's usual for yutube, the commenters mostly as toxic as twitter.

Looks sick!

I wonder if old characters like Samanosuke and Ako will make a cameo.

@SuperSilverback Maybe next year?

@Propaperpusher Onimusha series has parry mechanic called Issen since the 1st game long before any souls game have parry.

@Propaperpusher "i' championing this game to fail so Sony can learn a lesson"

What lesson? Concord was a collossal disaster but there's no "we learn the lesson" whatsoever. We still get new single player and live service games. So wishing for a game to fail is pointless and also childlish. You'll not gain anything substantial if Marathon failed. None.

But what you should do if you want Sony to learn a lesson is BUY their single player games, send your proof to Sony that you want more single player games, and pray they sold well enough to keep Sony happy and investing on single player games.

"There's food out there but you don't eat everything?!? There's books out there but you don't read every type of book"

Did you also championing some book or food should turn into ashes just because you didn't read or eat them, the same as you championing Marathon to fail despite you have no intention to played it?

"Single player campaign made Sony what they are, now they are getting lazy and complacent"

Sony still make single player games and Playstation has tons of them. So why not go buy and play them? Oh right, you don't want them either based on your reactions for Sons of Sparta, Nioh 3, Romeo is a Dead Man etc.

"I will be happy, because I voted with my wallet and opinion and won"

You didn't voted with your wallet or even won since you didn't buy Sony single player games. Just yapping in here will not change anything 🤷‍♂️

A new Xbox 'console' got announced for the 1st time from a twitter? Man, that's sad.

Good luck to Bungie 🍻

I would put this game on my buying list if it have a story campaign. I really like the artstyle and story premise. But sadly it's MP only and i'm not a fan of PvP extraction shooters.

I still don't get why some people wants this game to fail though. If you don't like multiplayer exctraction shooter PvP only game, there's plenty of single player games out there that you can play right now like RE Requiem, GoW Sons of Sparta, Nioh 3, Romeo is a Dead Man, DQ VII remake, etc.