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I'm surprised to see Shinobi got nominated for best action game. But the opponent looks tough with NG 4, Hades 2, Doom, and BF 6.

@Reyzore I didn't know Expedition 33 got funding from French govs. Definitely not an indie game.

Kinda weird to see Yotei didn't get GotY nomination. But eh at least it sold well and with 19 nominations Sony probably satisfied how their games, tv show, and movies got free marketing in a big stage before this year end.

@Stevemalkpus You don't believe in nature and science much? Hey, you do you 🤷‍♂️

@Stevemalkpus Just because a couple of actors are still running and jumping and they also got helped by stuntmen who replaced them at very dangerous scene, doesn't mean 51 isn't old.

@Fishmasterflex96 Sure and it still nominated for 7 category. But hey, congrats for your win buddy. Your parents must be proud of you 👏

The old gangs like Leon, Chris, Jill, or Claire should be retired at this point. They've been fighting B.O.W since 1998 and Requiem took place 30 years after Raccoon City got nuked. Leon was 21 years old in RE 2 so in Requiem he would be 51 years old.

I think it's about time they pass the baton to younger characters.

@JB_Whiting I see. Their clothes looks similar from BotW.

I never played BotW so i can't comment if it's a good game or not. But i've played and finished Ocarina of Time and A Link Between Worlds which i like both of them. I also played a bit of Minish Cap, loves the cute 2D sprite.

Is this Link & Zelda based on BotW?

Obviously no actors / actress who can perfectly match Link androgynous face or Zelda pretty face. But i think they looks pretty good in that shot.

But honestly, i'm more interested if they make a Metroid movie. Of all Nintendo IP's, Metroid is the only one that i really want to see on the big screen.

@UltimateOtaku91 "Is it so bad for people to want console gaming not to decline and stay relevant? We are already seeing physical slowly die off, and cloud streaming becoming more of a norm, so the last saving grace is traditional consoles still being highly sought after."

This 🤝

I'll stop gaming the day publishers completely kill physical release on traditional console.

@Max_the_German That's not how business works.

If this game printing money for Sony & Guerilla then the 1st thing they'll do is greenlight MORE Horizon games either by Guerilla, NCSoft, or other 3rd party and port Steel Frontier to PS5. There's no reason for Sony to ask if Guerilla project doesn't deserves additional money when Guerilla themself was the one who proposed both projects and brings the money.

And with Horizon popularity, i think Horizon online by Guerilla will become a success too. So far no games on PS5 that let you hunt giant robot dinos with friends. People who loves MonHun as well Horizon will try both games whenever they available on PS5.

It would be nice if a big chunk of CoD fans who owned a PS5 realized that the series isn't what it used to be and start buying Sony 1st party games like Astro Bot, Returnal, Ghost of Yotei, R&C Rift Apart, GT 7, etc etc.

@TimeDelayedGamer True. Kinda weird there's a shortcut for chain abilities, break arts, or magic by pressing L2. But there's no shortcut to swap weapons. If someday SE make a remaster, i hope they put weapon shortcut.

@Michael2008ish It'a nice to see some people in PushSquare recognized and enjoyed Resonance of Fate 😊🤝

And yeah it got niche to unknown status because Sega didn't throw a good marketing behind it. And they also released it a week after FF XIII came out when people are still hype with FF XIII 🤦‍♂️

@windxtravelerx "not having the risk of their games being played on a future Xbox machine or be cracked in less than 12h and be free for everyone to play on the internet"

You listed better reasons than mine. Fully agreed 🤝

I'm interested to try both games but my old phone definitely isn't compatible or can't run them lol.

I think both games will do well if Sony do the right marketing. I can see Steel Frontier doing really well in Japan / Asia because gameplay looks kinda similar to Monster Hunter.

And i prefer Sony do this mobile approach with new titles collab with 3rd party devs rather than wasting their resources to port their 1st party games for PC then got review bomb or boycot by PC mustard race.

While Steam Machine isn't really a threat, it's best for Sony to keep their 1st party games as 100% PS console exclusives. Not just it gives more reasons for people to buy PS5 and future PS console but Sony doesn't need to waste their resources for PC port.

But I'm pretty sure i've read a recent interview where Nishino or Hermen said they're gonna slow down and more selective on releasing their 1st party games for PC.

I mean, Astro Bot would release for PC this month or at least Sony showed the trailer if they didn't slow down their PC port. Add that to the fact that GT 7, Demon's Souls remake, Bloodborne, Uncharted Drake's Collection, Sly Cooper's, Jak & Daxter's, Medievil remake, GoW Greek Saga, Wild Arms, Shadow of the Colossus, Gravity Rush, Soul Sacrifice and plenty of 1st party games are still fully exclusives to PS3/PS4/PS5/Vita.

Neon Inferno for me. I wonder if it have physical release...

@Perturbator Yeah the combat mechanics needs some time to get used to and later there's a pretty high difficulty spike too. Some bosses was quite nasty lol.

It's the reason why i keep visiting Arena to refresh my understanding about the mechanics and also play Battle Challenge which i think quite important not just for the nice rewards but also for experimenting what's the best strats to approach some enemies.

@TimeDelayedGamer Yeah Vagrant Story combat & weapon mechanics are quite complex and could give you a big headache if you don't have enough patience. But once you fully understand and mastered the mechanics, it's just super fun to play.

One thing that i reccomended to do:
you need at least 3 weapons in your disposal

• One Edged
• One Piercing
• One Blunt

You can upgrade the elements that increased damage against human, beast, undead, phantom, dragon, and evil enemies.

I've beaten Vagrant Story like eons ago. I think i spent around 30-40 hours with the game. So good luck mate 👍🍻

Playing:

• Wild Guns Reloaded (PS4)
  The physical copy for this game became rare. I searched for second hand but not a single local sellers have it. So i bought a brand new copy for $23 after i asked 3-5 online sellers and only 1 had it. It's worth it though.

This game not just really fun and the 2D sprite looks gorgeous but it's also quite challenging. My ass got kicked even with Easy difficulty. It took me like 1-2 hours with many continues to beat Normal difficulty. Now i'm trying to beat Normal and Hard difficulty without a single continue. I really reccomend it for anyone who wants to play a really fun but challenging shooting gallery 👍👍

• Resonance of Fate / End of Eternity (PS3)
  It's quite sad how underrated this game is. The setting is quite unique but the combat mechanics is really fun and innovative, imho a lot more innovative than current turn-based RPG's like Expedition 33, Baldur's Gate 3, or Metaphor that it feels like they didn't took any risk to innovate but somehow got a lot of huge praised. I think Resonance of Fate are in top 3 for Tri-Ace best game.

Anyway. This game has been sitting on my backlog for quite long. Years ago i reached Chapter 9 but my PS3 HDD was broken and wiped out the save files 😔. So now i want to finish it. Currently at Chapter 2, on the way to Hughes Power Station.

Outside gaming, i'm currently watching Last Samurai Standing. Just finished with episode 1 and it was great. Anyone who wants some samurai live action that looks kinda similar to Samurai X, i think this show is worth the shot.

Have a great weekend everyone 🍻

@Cielle I guess you're right. Some people are just sad and pathetic.

@MasterChiefWiggum "but the reptile tail coming out of the wall? What game is that?"

Dino Crisis maybe? So far the only current gen console who has Dino Crisis is PS5.

But what @get2sammyb said is makes sense.

@Fishmasterflex96 "buddy I bought Yotei and love"

Sure buddy.

"The reality is that there’s a lot of games that reviewed better then Yotei and it probably won’t get in"

What reality are you talking about here buddy when there's no announcement what games who got in or out.

"buddy out here acting like I’m the crazy one but has takes like this lol"

Buddy, you sound insecure af for a guy who claim bought and love Yotei. You calling names and even go this far to reply me twice for your baseless prediction. Are you okay buddy?

@Fishmasterflex96 "i need the lot of you hardcore PS fanboys to realize that Yotei isn’t gonna got a GOTY nomination"

We'll wait until monday. But if it received GotY nomination then what are you gonna do, sucker punch yourself? Sell all your PS console & games collection? Or what?

It's just funny to see some people have a lot of hate and anger over a fking video game 🤣

"For example, even when playing solo, you cannot pause the campaign at any point. Perhaps worse, there appears to be no checkpointing at all, meaning you have to restart a mission if you quit out."

Lol WTF is happening with Activision? It seems they're getting worst under MS 🤣

@OldGamer999 I think your suggestion wouldn't work for CoD rabid fanboys. And there's a ton of kids with PS5 who doesn't care about this news and they will buy this game and play it with their friends.

For me, the last time i bought a CoD game was Black Ops 1 on PS3. Since then i never buy any CoD but i've played some from PS+.

I'm not interested since i'm done with PC gaming for years and i really doubt this is a threat to PS or even Switch.

I'm not sure who's the target audience for this either. Anyone who has Steam account pretty much owned a PC rig or Steam Deck.

But i guess this is one of the reason why Sony said they're gonna slow down and more selective on releasing their 1st party games for PC.

It's been 7 years since Shadow of TR and what we got was remastered of old games and an animated tv show.

At this rate, if CD didn't do something to fix their mess, people would lost more interest with the series...

I doubt NG Ragebound or Shinobi: Art of Vengeance gonna win something let alone got nominated.

I guess i'll vote either DS 2, Yotei, or NG 4 to win GotY or whatever category they got nominated. But i doubt they win something either since the media hyped a lot of Expedition 33, Silk Song, and Kingdom Deliver 2 which i don't play nor care about them.

Sooo...meh. Just give me a new trailer of VF 6, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, and Intergalactic.

Yeah this looks fun but i don't think my old mobile can run this. sigh...oh well.

I applause Sony's effort to gain more sales in Japan. But i think Japan is a lost cause for home console market.

The era where Japanese bought home console like PS1 & PS2 era already long gone. I can boldly claim home console in Japan will become niche like Arcade cabinets.

Right now Japan goes full handheld & mobile which really fits with their lifestyle. If Sony wants PS to gain a big foothold in Japan again, they need to make PS6 like Switch; a handheld x home console hybrid. But that means PS6 will be a direct competitor with Switch 2, which will be difficult for PS6. The time PS6 release in 2027, Switch 2 already sold a ton in Japan and probably the main choice for Japanese devs...

@Attheendwearrive Glad i can help 🤣

That giant dualsense and the billboards looks cool.

For my country, I think PS last "big" marketing was Stellar Blade launch event / party with Eve cosplayer and everyone got a goodie bag. But i think every Sony 1st party / exclusives always got launch event in here, the recent one was DS 2 and Yotei.

I enjoyed season 1 and looks like season 2 will be more fun than season 1.

But i'm surprise Macaulay Culkin have a role in season 2.

I guess the one from Guerilla will be a lot different than Steel Frontier.

@KawakiisaFraud You really love overdramatic negatives statement huh?

> Live service games exist
> Gamers: Live service games is garbage!

> Sony invested on live service games
> Gamers: Sony you dumb! We want single players!

> Horizon Steel Frontier, a live service game, didn't release on PS5
> Gamers: F* you Sony, why you abandon PS5?! We want to play this game! PS is doooommmm!

> Steel Frontier used AI to help with coding and art
> Gamers: Holy Smeagol! This is blasphemy! Disgusting! We don't want to play it!

Gamers are funny creatures 🤣

"Original Character Design: Ilya"

The one who designed characters for GitS SAC_2045? 🤔

Anyway

• 2 games
• 1 animated tv series
• 1 animated movie
• 1 live act movie

Feels like a DS manga / comic book is coming too. But only 6 years, Kojima managed to expand DS into a multimedia franchise. I really salute him and his team efforts 🫡

@Leinad7 "The combat in Wolverine looks like the combat in SM2, combos and attacks combinations plus QTE. I bet they will use the same control pattern and button setup."

Nothing look from SM 2. Spiderman didn't slice or decapitate his enemies like Wolverine did.

And QTE has been around for years and used by a lot of games. It's not exclusives to Insomniac / Spiderman games.

"I was rather expecting something more dark, cold, brutal like the Wolverine 2013 or Logan 2017 movies"

You need to rewatch cause both movies still looks colorful. But this Wolverine isn't from the movie universe or even an old man like in Logan. So there's no reason for Insomniac to copy / follow the movies.

"they decided to develop a generic colorful Marvel/Spiderman world"

Since when colorful means "generic" like did you ever read Marvel comic book???

And most if not all Wolverine comic books looks colorful including the best runs by top notch author like Chris Claremont, Mark Millar, and Frank Miller. But i guess you're too young to remember them or you're never read any Wolverine comics at all 🤷‍♂️

Horizon 3 is a guaranteed despite FW "only" sold 8.4 million copies. I can see it as one of PS6 launch title but also released for PS5.

@AK4tywill "If they have a resource problem, they should build another team apart from Implicit"

Adding more people isn't the answer when the licensing process still takes times. This is what Sony representatives said when they got asked why there's only a few PS1 classic on Vita store.
https://www.gamesradar.com/sony-explains-why-so-few-psone-classics-are-available-vita-us-store/

Just watched the trailer. It looks pretty good although it feels weird to see the characters face looks more Asian than the usual Western / European face haha.

PS5 version probably will come one year later with all updates.

@KawakiisaFraud "I never thought we'd see the day a PlayStation franchise skips the PlayStation console"

This isn't the 1st time. There's GoW: Betrayal, Run Sackboy! Run!, Wild Arms: Millions Memories, and Arc the Lad R are some games that was released for mobile only years ago.

The PS5 version probably will come a year later. But if not, we will still get the main game. Honestly, it's not a big deal.

@nomither6 Those problems did exist and well documented. And I have a friend who's a big AMD fanboy + PC master race and he despised game console. He thinks people overblown PC problems but he keeps complaining to me about his expensives PC rig got problems lol.

@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah it's nice to know that PC gaming still has the same BS from 10-15 years ago. But i think it's worst right now that people got baited to spend $1000+ if they want smooth gaming experiences.

I myself used to owned a PC rig good enough to run Crysis 1 at mid setting. Then came The Witcher 2 and somehow my rig can only run it at low setting. So i upgraded good enough to run Witcher 2 at mid-high setting. But somehow some of my old games didn't work because they're not compatible with new graphics card. At that point, i just had enough and stick with PS for my gaming needs.

I think i spent more than $600-700 for that rig, felt as if i wasted good money that i should spend for games on console.

This looks eh.

Probably just me but these days NIS games just looks eh after eh. Gone the day where they made interesting and unique games like Z.H.P or Prinny Can I really be the Hero. Even the newest Disgaea looks eh too.

@MamaSymphonia If you own a high end PC gaming rig and doesn't bother with all PC problems like waiting for years to play PS 1st party games, graphic card compatibility, OS problems, bad ports, no physical release etc then there's no reason for you to buy a PS5 or PS console at all.

If GTA 6 isn't the game then it could be Wolverine, Intergalactic, Physint, or unannounced GoW game.

Forgot about this game, I thought it got cancelled. But nice to see it still in development.

@bluemage1989 If you don't like what you see then why you want it to flop?

I grew up with a lot of Wuxia comics, movies, and Tv show. I might enjoy this one but it has a lot of bugs and 150 hours for single player? I think i'll pass for now.

Almost forgot about this game and forgot it's not F2P either.

Ngl this looks pretty fun. I would try it if my old Samsung A04 can play games with this graphic lol.

@McSavage No problem. Oh forgot to say that Haunting Ground also got a digital release on PS3 store but unfortunately only for Japan store. The title is "Demento". If you have a Japan account, you could take a look.

@McSavage If you still have a PS3, you can get Fatal Frame 1, 2, and 3 on PS3 store. I think each game around $9-14.