PuppetMaster

Well since i'm not yet buy the vanilla version, i guess i'll get this complete edition 😃

@Zeke68 No problem. This game is definitely different compare to Nioh, Bloodborne, or Elden Ring. But i'm not blame you but gaming journalist who nowadays are so lazy that they throw "soulslike" label for every action games. They need to do better with their report or people will have wrong impression.

@ElPenitente I reccomend The Furious. It has Joe Taslim, Yayan Ruhian, and Xie Miao who acted with Jet Li in My Father is a Hero and The New Legend of Shaolin.

@Zeke68 The game is heavily inspired from Wuxia movies where the combat looks like a dance, fast, and flashy while the characters are light as a feather defying gravity. So you're not gonna see the "oomph" or as if every hit have a lot of weight, realism, and brutality behind it which never been the focus of Wuxia.

I'm surprise the SoP still happen. I thought Sony forgot about this game.

But the game looks great and it's cool they can get Donnie Yen. No wonder the actions looks superb.

Also $60? Not $70, 80, or 100? Awesome!

@SeanOhOgain PushSquare doesn't have many fighting games fans which is the reason why fighting games news or reviews doesn't have many comments in here.

@For-Kier Adventure genre has been existed for decades and gamers love games like Dragon's Lair, Broken Sword, Grim Fandango, Monkey Island, Wolf Among Us, Heavy Rain, Dispatch, Until Dawn etc.

@QwarktasticLombax I never get the chance to played Dredd vs Death and i would love to played it either a remaster or remake. But i've played the Sega Genesis game that loosely based on Stallone movie and i really like it.

It's weird Dredd only got a few games despite his popularity 🫤

Looks fun. But i wish someone make a Judge Dredd game that looks like this game or at least like Robocop Rogue City.

@TheArt I guess you gonna wait for a new Punisher, Hulk, Ghost Rider, Constantine, or Hellboy game since they're not wearing skintight suit.

Adamantium controller looks nice. But i wonder why Sony didn't give the same treatment for Saros and Tokon. Even the flop Marathon got a limited dualsense. I guess Sony didn't see Saros and Tokon as important games huh...

@Stonecold730 I believe Robocop vs Terminator SNES was around $50 back then, not $100.

My prayer for the ones who got layoff. I hope they get a new job asap 🙏

I only played three of their games; Until Dawn, a bit of Man of Medan (based on the urban legend from my country), and Little Nightmares 3 demo.

@Stonecold730 What Terminator game you're talking about?

@IamJT You're talking about inflation. Obviously anything from back then will looks more expensive right now if you include inflation. But you still didn't answer my question what SNES games that priced $100 at launch?

Btw at least with SNES you got the physical cartridge, nice box, and a cool manual book. So $70 was well invested considering a good condition of SNES cartridge for games like Chrono Trigger or FF III can worth hundreds of dollars.

But $100 for a digital GTA 6 that you can't even trade or resell if you didn't like it? Well...

@Random_play05 lol yeah Sony definitely not gonna allow it to happen. Even if they somehow allow it, i bet they gonna charge it or locked it behind PS+

@IamJT Can you tell me what was those $100 SNES games? I only remembered the expensives ones was SF II, Chrono Trigger, and FF III (VI) and their price was around $60-70. I didn't buy them though since my family was poor back then.

@Stonecold730

Why do you people act like there are no work arounds to anything..
If you in your mind know that you dont own your digital media, then burn it and back it up. Problem solved.

I would love to if Sony legally allowed that for their digital games but they don't. So, problem not solved.

@Random_play05

What they can do with movies, they can do so with the digital games too.

Newest case with google removed LotR Trilogy extended edition from a user library
https://www.techradar.com/streaming/youll-own-nothing-and-youll-like-it-google-pulls-the-lord-of-the-rings-digital-editions-from-one-users-library-our-latest-reminder-that-digital-purchases-arent-always-forever

Sadly, looks like the majority of gamers doesn't care about the same case can happen for digital games. This is the future they want 🫤

@Toot1st No they doesn't.

@Toot1st Nope i didn't

Gamers nowadays are rich huh? They easily spent $100 for a digital game that they don't even know if they will like it or not.

But i gotta say the future of console gaming is looking bright with this news. Can't fully blame the publishers for taking advantage from gamers over and over since gamers themself allowed publishers to do it 😃

I think BND isn't the only reason since this year also has Spider-Noir tv show, which is a really solid show imho.

And next year there's Beyond Spider-Verse and Avengers: Secret Wars. So more spotlight for Spiderman games.

Didn't expect a 9/10 score 😮

I'm really interested with the game despite i'm not a tag fighter fans. The physical copy also cost around $45-50 in my country with Sony will hold an offline mini tournament later this month with $500 prize money.

But maybe i'll get this game in a year or two since my country doesn't have big community when comes to tag fighters like Marvel (Tekken and SF are the biggest FG in here). I remembered when i bought Marvel collection and it was hard to find online matches for MvC 2.

Not surprise with Halo didn't sold well on PS.

1. Halo franchise already left behind its glory era for years and i don't see any sign MS / Halo Studio can bring back that era for the 2nd time.

2. The majority of PS fanbase are live-service gacha kids and whales. So no one in that audiences gives a finger about a green space marine shooting goofy aliens. They would rather played Palworld, Roblox, or Minecraft.

And ngl, that chart looks pretty sad. I expect PS6 chart will be the same dominated with live service gacha games, yearly sport, COD, GTA, and one or two anomaly.

I think people needs to accept the fact that video games is in the state where we will not see a big jump / generational leap for graphic and gameplay anymore like we experienced from NES > SNES/Sega MD > PS1/N64 > PS2/Xbox > PS3/360 > PS4 era.

People will be dissapointed if they think Sony or 3rd party devs gonna pump out sequels that reinvent the wheel and make their jaw drop again just like the first game did.

And i bet i will see this type of article / dissapointed reactions with PS6 when sequels for RE, MonHun, Horizon, GoW, COD, FF, GT, AssCreed etc doesn't look and play much different than PS4/5 games.

Hype video by desk!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZONDQTI1UM

@CielloArc Okay i respect your choice. But if they pick She-Hulk then there's no need for Hulk since both have very similar power set. And Wasp main ability is size manipulation from turning as small as an atom particle or as tall as a building. It looks cool but i'm not sure how ArcSys can make that ability works and found the right balance.

I personally think Ms Marvel and Peni Parker are good choice when comes to unique gameplay and characters familiarity for fighting games audiences especially for the ones who didn't follow Marvel.

Like Ms Marvel, her stretchy limbs resembles closely to Dhalsim from Street Fighter. So people can easily understand how she plays from 1st impression and ArcSys have easier job to balance her power while keep her unique. And Peni Parker with her spider mech resembles Bedman from Guilty Gear. She can hit hard as well using unique gadgets to control space.

I might be wrong but this feels like the main issue is not on Yotei but more on the writer super high expectation for the game to make him "wowed" again like Tsushima did, which is hard to do considering Yotei was build with Tsushima elements and familiarity.

Not to mention after Tsushima there's a bunch of samurai games either open world or linear and also used similar revenge theme too. There's Rise of the Ronin, AC Shadows, Yakuza Ishin remaster, and Trek to Yomi. So playing those games could have lessen the experiences from Yotei.
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But you know what? I think Sony should stop making single player games like Yotei, Wolverine, Astro, GoW etc and just go all live service games. I mean, the majority of PS userbase are live service players / fans who only played Fornite, Genshin, ZZZ, Overwatch etc and they don't give a crap about single player games. Feels like making single player games "doesn't really make sense" anymore and Sony should "grow up" and accept the fact that live service is the future 😃
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😁 jk for that part

@ChikaBambus 100% agreed with all of those points especially no 3 🤝

I have recoup some of the cost from selling physical games that i don't like or not play anymore and i used the money for new games or became my savings. Definitely can't do the same for digital games.

@CielloArc

I think the roster would be completely different and more interesting if ArcSys was allowed to pick and choose without Disney meddling, kinda like Marvel Rivals is doing right now.

ArcSys did allowed to pick and choose characters they want. They said they wanted some obscure and deep cut characters which is the reason why The Champion, Promoter, and Danger are in the game instead of Fantastic 4, Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Shang-Chi, or Dr Strange.

They also put Phoenix Cyclops as DLC which what i've seen from a lot of people reactions they doesn't know anything about his story.

But the problem is if the roster have a lot of less popular and deep cut characters, it will be a hard sell for many people who used to MCU and MvC lineup. I say Sony and Marvel was right to limit on how many these characters in the base roster. In the end, they want this game to grab a lot of people attention and sell well for years. They can still put more lesser or obscure characters as DLC though.

@Titntin

Hard to believe you wrote that and were trying to be serious

Hard to believe for people who can't accept the fact that downloading games is damaging the environment? Like i said, i agreed with what @MrPeanutbutterz said; there's no environmentally ethically way if you're a gamer. One way or the other, all of us here are damaging the environment with this hobby.

You'd have an argument if discs contained finished code that doesn't need updates, but those days are well and truly gone, so both methods of consuming games will download data.

I never deny that physical games also requires download. But the good thing is 93% of PS5 disc can be played without internet or update. If there's something happen to Sony server or PSN, at least the majority of physical PS5 games can be played offline.

But for PS6, i'm not surprised if Sony put an always online requirement to play games.

The difference between this type of consumption and something like streaming music or using AI, is that its a single download

It doesn't matter if it a single or multiple downloads. The process still through data center and data center is damaging the environment as we speak.

But if you believe by going all digital isn't damaging the environment then you do you.

@Nexozi And consoles aren't free from cheaters either. I had experiences with them on PS when i played TloU 1 Faction, Black Ops 1 MP, Tekken 7, and SF 5 & 6. They used lag switchers and hardware macross and some even has wall hacked, aimbot, and infinite ammo.

@Nexozi

All games should have the option to disable crossplay with PC players. The less game time u have to spend with those cheats the better in my opinion

Not every PC players is a cheater just like not every console players is a lagger / wi-fi warrior with 2 bars and 200ms ping.

And when comes to fighting games which is still a niche genre btw, crossplay and PC release are much needed. One of the biggest reason how long fighting games can stay alive is based on how many people playing the game. So getting bigger player pools is always better for fighting games.

@ShadowRJ I think you can expect VF Crossroads will have better plot and narrative than Tekken if you look at the writing team:

• David Hayter to supervise the world building
• Brad Kane as the lead writer who was one of Ghost of Tsushima writer
• Tsuyoshi Furuta as scenario director who has experienced with Lost Judgement and RGG
• Shinji Yamamoto as scenario writer who did SMT IV and Persona series scenario

The only game i'm most excited to get is Virtua Fighter Crossroad.

Probably will play:

• Maximo: Ghost to Glory
• Ultimate Ghost n' Goblins

Cheers 🍻

@DennisReynolds Not as massive as Dan. Leslie role mostly was producer and executive producer while Dan was also the lead writer and creative director. When Leslie left R* in 2016, they still managed to released RDR 2 in 2018 under Dan creative vision and the game was great.

So far R* not yet share who's GTA 6 lead writer and creative director. If they're confident with the game quality then why the secrecy?

@Random_play05

Also, I don't understand why some are adamant in mocking others that only wish to preserve the existing option for gaming that fulfills our collecting hobbies.

My best guess:

Those people are paid shill hired to keeps mocking and pressuring physical fans to feel guilty and uncomfortable so they give up physical and move on to digital only.

And there's also people who got brainwashed by corpos propaganda and they gladly became their speaker to keeps spreading the propaganda.

@Cypher1942 PS5 used UHD with 100 gigs max capacity so any games below that can fit in a single disc.

As for games who exceeded 100 gigs, they can used 2 disc which so far there's only 3 games: FF 7 Rebirth, Baldur's Gate 3, and Horizon FW Complete Edition. GTA 6 could be the 4th PS5 games that used 2 disc but we all know what happened.

@DennisReynolds It's normal to have doubt since this is the first main GTA without Dan Houser; the producer, head writer, and VP of creative who handle all GTA games, RDR 1 & 2, Bully, Max Payne 3, Midnight Club, and LA Noire.

I personally wouldn't put 100% trust as if R* or other top tier devs / publisher never messed up and produced a big dud. I say better safe than sorry cause GTA 6 could be R* first big dud. But feel free if you think R* gonna perfectly nailed this game.

@For-Kier

whereas printing a plastic disc case does one thing only which is sit on a shelf and collect dust until the average person throws it in a land heap

I never see any average games collectors who stupidly throw away their physical games to a garbage bin / land heap, especially if it's rare editions that could sell at good price. They know their collections have VALUES. If they don't want it anymore, they will sell it or at least give it to their friends, family, or donated to the libraries / charities.

And i'm rolling my eyes at anyone who's acting like some kind of eco-friendly saint by going digital only. Like @MrPeanutbutterz said, there's no environmentally ethically way if you're a gamer.

If you're buying consoles, handheld, PC, steam deck / machine, controllers, K&M, VR headset, screen protectors, monitors etc then you're damaging the environment because those made from plastic or rare earth materials and they eventually will ended up in a land heap when they're completely broken.

You're downloading hundreds or thousands of games through data center also damaging the environment.

Digital only believers who thinks their actions do good to the environment got hook, line, and sinker by corpos propaganda who wants to squeeze moreeee money from their pocket while eliminating their buying options as well the last bit of ownership from their purchased games! 🙄

@Northern_munkey Maybe you should tell PushSquare staff to stop reporting bad news from Sony. That way, you will see less people laughing at Sony shooting themself in the foot.

@Northern_munkey

Why? If it plays perfectly on the ps5 then who cares? Isn't this a ps5 site?

PS5 users should care since the problems is affecting crossplay with PC users. Without PC, there will be a lot less people to play and that means more waiting time for matchmaking. Big regions like US, EU, and Japan probably will be okay since they have a lot of PS5 users. But can't say the same with regions like SEA who usually have more people playing on PC than PS5. I experienced it every time i turn off crossplay when i played SF 6 or GG Sign and the matchmaking takes more time to find people.

This site is becoming a bit of a Sony basher at the moment and it dosnt sit well to be honest

Sony brought this by themself. You can't blame people who's dissapointed or angry with Sony making bad decisions one after another 🤷‍♂️

@For-Kier

Sony's job IS to make money. So you don't worry about places where people have none.

The thing is PSN and PS store also not available in countries like Pakistan and Philippines, 2 countries who have quite big and well known fighting games community. I'm sure there's a decent amount of Pakistani and Filippinos who can buy a $60 fighting game like Marvel Tokon on PS5. But they can't do it since Playstation isn't officially available in their country.

While some complaints looks silly but i think the rest who asked Insomniac to fix it are legit.

It's about authenticity. I mean, this is a costume based on the movie and if it doesn't looks close to what people see on the movie then it deserves to be fix. If not then why bother release a half ass content?

And just because it's free doesn't mean people can't give their criticism for the costume. Some people have this weird mindset as if we should swallow a half ass / bad content and then shut up just because it's free. I bet no one in here would gladly eat a pile of dung just because it's free right?

@Mindless_Demon PC have a pretty big fighting games community. The Fightcade emulator with GGPO netcode is very popular since it allows people to play plenty including underrated or hidden gem fighting games who never received online match / current gen port.

Also, when comes to input lag, PC is the best and far above consoles.

@zebric21 I'm pretty excited to see the reactions from people who hurriedly thrown $80-100 to pre-order. If, somehow, the game didn't live up to their gigantic expectations then what are they gonna do considering they can't resell or trade the game. It will be fun watching their reactions 😁

Sounds like the blame is on Sony and not ArcSys or multiple PC config.

But i'm not surprised Sony fumbled the launch. Just look at how fked up they are in the last 4-5 weeks, ignorantly taking L after L.