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@Darylb88 "It's not about being "mad". It is about Herman Hulst taking accountability like Jim Ryan did for is many mistakes heading up the game studios at SIE. It is time for him to step aside before more damage is done"

Exactly this 🤝

Bluepoint got the boot by Hermen despite Sony financially is in the green and they also produced at least one game, Demon's Souls remake, for PS5 that critically and commercially done well. I can understand Concord devs got closed down because the game was a collossal flop. But Bluepoint? The reasons for their closing down is just nonsense created by Hermen ChatGPT.

I'm just baffled with people in here who keeps acting "get over it guys" as if nothing lost and Hermen doesn't need to be fired. I bet you guys will scream like nuts when Hermen point his fingers at Team Asobi, ND, Insomniac, PD, Santa Monica, or any Sony 1st party and closed them to cover up his bad management.

No playable Ayane or Momiji?

@somnambulance The Eclipse Escalation mechanic showed it's not Returnal with different title. And there's also a hub where you can talk to NPC.

Glorious bullet hell in 3D 😍

@xDD90x Yeah it's out of place. But i guess Capcom added the game since it still Marvel property and i believe The Punisher was the very first game where they did a collab with Marvel 🍻

@Grumblevolcano Kojima owned DS IP so he doesn't need SIE permission or them needs to visit his studio if he wants to port the game for Switch 2.

@xDD90x You can play Punisher on Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection.

Possibly Hermen the clown wants a Death Stranding live service game. He needs it in his vein asap.

"While Grace remains an important character, her appearances are mostly kept for cutscenes. Having left the Rhodes Hill care center, you won’t spend much more time playing as her. By the end, the playtime split feels much closer to two-thirds as Leon and one-third as Grace"

This is what i'm worried after they showed Leon and he will take the spotlight. What's the point of introducing a new protag when in the end you played mostly as Leon?

It feels as if Capcom feared the majority of RE fans will dislike Grace and bend the knee to appease them who asked for old faces.

It's not a deal breaker though and i'm sure it still a fun and highly polished RE game. But i'll wait for a sale or Gold Edition.

Btw good review Liam.

I kinda regret selling my copy. I bought it on day 1 and really like it. But getting matches was really hard for SEA region because this game has very small community. There's no ranked match unlike the current update and playing on Japan server was hard because most Japan players doesn't want to fight with non-Japan players with 90-100's ping.

And there's only a few local tourney with 10-15 participants until TO's not doing it anymore and focus on SF and Tekken who has plenty of participants.

What a fun surprised but i'm torn with this news.

I love and played a lot of these games and it would be nice to see them on my shelf. But it's LRG which means there's no other way to get it beside importing the physical copy (LRG rarely release digital games for PS SEA store) and that would cost a lot. sigh...

I remembered him as Ajax in Deadpool. Pretty good choice for Baldur.

I personally don't miss anything if she decided to make every Xbox 1st party games as Xbox exclusives again.

I'm not a fan of Fallout, Halo, Elder Scroll, Forza, Gears, COD, Fable etc. I can live just fine without those games. Well except Doom but looking at how meh The Dark Ages is, i think i'm perfectly fine with replaying Doom 64, 2016, and Eternal.

But the big questions are: 1) Is her boss will be okay with missing tons of money from not releasing Xbox games on Playstation? 2) Are the revenue from Xbox players and GamePass alone enough to replaced $75 Billion from Acti-Bliz acquisition?

But eh, that's not my problem to solve 🤷‍♂️

The trailer didn't hype me. But i think i will feel excited if there's a story campaign that tell the lore and narrative of why i'm in that world and must kill these robots / cyborg. After that, i could try the multiplayer with some randos.

@Fishysensei With all the changes, i think it deserves a 5/10.

I just watch a comparisson video and holy moly what on earth they're doing with these weird & pointless changes??? 🤦‍♂️
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NKP65NpuA50

I'll give it a 5/10. The worst of the Kiwami remakes.

@Carnage Bluepoint had 70 devs and they managed to released remaster / remake pretty quick. Back in 2011 and 2015, they even released two remaster per year; ICO & SotC HD collection + MGS HD collection (total 5 games) and Uncharted Nathan Drake collection + Gravity Rush HD (total 4 games). There was also only two years gap between SotC remake (2018) and Demon's Souls remake (2020). And that before Sony bought them. If Hermen let Bluepoint hired more people, i think they can work on both remaster / remake and a new IP.

But all Bluepoint did after Sony bought them was pushed them to worked on GoW live service which got cancelled and helped Santa Monica finished GoW Ragnarok.

@Carnage "They clearly wanted to branch out and one stumble shouldn’t have doomed the studio"

And Hermen should just allow Bluepoint to work on their own IP but also keep them doing what they do best with remaster / remake. From these remaster / remake, Bluepoint could get more money to fund their own title. It's quite similar with Naughty Dog. They're doing Uncharted & TloU remaster despite they're not yet release a brand new game for PS5.

But Hermen didn't used that type of option for Bluepoint. He just killed them for whatever reason and then yapping about how talented the studio is. His bad management are destroying Sony 1st party studios.

"What's your take on Xbox's change in leadership?"

Should we, Playstation fans, care that much about what Xbox new boss gonna do when we have Hermen the clown killing Sony studios one by one?

@ChikaBambus Yeah there's plenty of potential for remaster / remake for old games. But Hermen decided to just squashed the best Sony 1st party studio who can do it :/

@ButterySmooth30FPS And the game still looks really good and in no way needs a remake. I doubt many Horizon fans are bothered that much with lip sync when they replay Zero Dawn PS4 on their PS5.

@DualWielding I want Hermen to get fired asap. But wishing this game, Marathon, and Fairgames to fail is not how that works. Heck, even if those games failed, Hermen could still closed down one or two studio to covered up his ass and walk out safely.

It's just a reshuffle between division. Nothing to worry about.

Although i'm worry with NG 4 and Ragebound sales could affect the series future...

Yeah this feels like a distraction from Bluepoint. Hermen the clown is a shaddy guy huh. He used other studio achievement to cover up his dirty works :/

@AhmadSumadi "They did remakes and you all hate remakes"

Bluepoint only made two remake and both was excellent + sold well. And no, not everyone hate remake. I think you mistaken people who dislike Sony decision to remake PS4 games who still looks good like Horizon Zero Dawn as if everyone hate remake.

Also. I don't get why are you defending how Hermen badly mismanaged Sony 1st party studios. Sure Bluepoint didn't release any game for 5 years after Demon's Souls remake. But at least they still released a game for PS5 and helped Santa Monica with GoW Ragnarok. Meanwhile Hermen bought Haven Studios back in 2021 and they not yet release a single game since then and they didn't get closed down. Bend Studio and Media Molecule also not yet release a new game for more than 5 years and they also didn't get closed down.

You're focusing on Bluepoint instead of Hermen crappy job and defending his decision is ignorant at best.

I wish Capcom do the same for SF 6 cheaters.

@Chupa_loyzer The one who reviewed MG Survive was Liam, not Robert. Different reviewers with different opinion.

I'm not gonna blame the marketing or people who handle SIE social media. They already did well with the last SoP so what happened to Bluepoint is beyond their control.

@get2sammyb Nice. Take your time sir 👍

I didn't expect this but i hope it's not another retelling but with different ending.

@get2sammyb Are you gonna review this?

That XYZ edition looks nice. But I'll wait until 17th September if one of my local store have physical copy.

Man, i played a lot of Tiger Heli and Twin Cobra back in the arcade, NES, and Genesis. So nostalgic ☺️

Never played Guardian though...

I'm not yet play this one and Revive. But i like the artworks which if only the in-game model looks close to the artwork.

@jFug @j2c He will be forever stuck with that name lol.

@TommyNL All Bluepoint games received positive receptions and most of them sold well too. I think the shareholders doesn't have problems nor they agreed to close the studio.

This is just Hermen try to dodge his mismanagement. He's the one who put Bluepoint to do a GoW live service game when the devs already said they want to make at least one original IP after they done with Demon's Souls remake.

Nice to see Yotei still hanging in the top 20. But wait, i wonder if these result even enough for Hermen the clown...

Playing:

• Vagrant Story / Vita
  I just beat a Lich enemy that gave me teleport magic to any magic circle. But i'm kinda forgot where i must go now lol. I got iron key, crimson key, bronze key, and two sigil.
• Fatal Frame 2 / PS3
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  Finished:
• GoW: Chains of Olympus HD (Normal diff) / PS3
• GoW: Ghost of Sparta HD (Normal diff) / PS3
• GoW II HD (Hard diff) / PS3

RIP Bluepoint 😔🥀

I honestly don't care if Xbox new boss do the 180 and make every 1st party games exclusives to Xbox again. All of their games, except COD and Doom, never been a part of Playstation history.

But Sony biggest concern right now should be Hermen the clown. This guy is continuing Jimbo's work of destroying / killing Sony 1st party studio one by one until there's nothing left. If Totoki and Nishino didn't see Hermen needs to be replaced asap then we're totally screwed.

@AhmadSumadi People who complaint about remasters are in the loud minority. Most of Bluepoint remasters and remake passed 1 million copies mark.

• Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection: 5.7 million copies
• GoW 1 & 2 Collection: 2.4 million copies
• MGS HD Collection: 1.3 million copies
• Demon's Souls remake: 1.8 million copies
• SotC remake: 1 million copies

Only GR remaster and ICO & SotC Collection that doesn't have sales numbers.

Those millions of people who bought Bluepoint remasters and remake are definitely angry and sad. Not just they lost a talented devs but also lost the potential of many remaster / remake from Sony IP's.

Closing down Concord devs is normal cause they made a colossal flops. But closing down Bluepoint who had solid track records is just nuts. That means Hermen can shutdown Santa Monica, ND, Insomniac, SP, or PD anytime he wants no matter if they brought profits for Sony. So yes, people should feel panic for what happened.

@datamonkey The damage control so far was from Hermen statement. I doubt he will come out and talk honestly.

@AhmadSumadi With Hermen the clown, any studio is possible. ND, Insomniac, Santa Monica, PD, Team Asobi etc. And Bluepoint shutdown is still a huge loss.

Somehow my youtube suggestion give me a news about 4 kids are missing after they meet stranger from Roblox.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tsELSALEvs

I'm not a racing and SW fans but this game looks good and makes me wants to try it.

What about a new Rayman, Child of Light, or Splinter Cell?

@Max_the_German They never say they wanted a Norse trilogy.

Egypt has been teased since GoW 2018. There's a stone carving in the game that showed Egypt, Celtic, and Japanese symbols. So there's also potential that Kratos could go to Japan!

And in the 2021 comic GoW: Fallen God by Dark Horse, it shown Kratos was wandering Egyptian dessert and meet Egypt deity. The comic is cannon and bridge the timeline between the after of GoW III and before GoW 2018.

I think i rather buy Rayman 1 and 2 classic on PS3 / Vita store. Each only $5-6 bucks.

Not gonna spend another money for Digital Eclipse lazy works.

The head of CoreAI? That doesn't sound good. But we'll see. At least Xbox players has some refresh.

Now i hope Sony do the same to Hermen the clown asap.

I say good job people.

This is the time people needs to show Sony that we had enough of Hermen the clown. He needs to be fired asap.

@JPEGMakima Don't generalized a loud minority as if they're a majority voice who doesn't like DS remake.

Possibly Sony will not publish the sequel. I mean, Shuhei was the one who heavily championed the 1st game after playing the prototype. That's why he credited by Shift Up, not Hermen the clown. And now without Shu, i doubt Hermen the clown cares to support Shift Up the same as he did with his babies Concord and Fairgames.

Good for Shift Up though.

@Frmknst 007: First Light?