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@johncalmc "I added Horizon skins to Fairgames. I've saved PlayStation!"

Piss off, Hulst.

Can Hermen Hulst please get fired from PlayStation already? What else is it going to take? How many more failed live services, layoffs, and shuttered studios is it going to take for PlayStation to realize this guy is an imbecile? Get him the **** out of here!

I don't have the words to describe my disgust.

EDIT: F******* HAVEN is still around??? But BLUEPOINT is the team to shut down? Outrageous decision-making.

Anyone saying nothing of value was lost clearly never gave the first Paranormasight a try. It's one of the decade's most underrated gems, in my opinion, and Square Enix sent that game out to die. It's a damn miracle a sequel exists.

Similar to Firewalk, I have zero empathy for the creative and business decision-makers at Wildlight. Their complete disconnect from reality and staggering hubris needs to be studied. Blaming mean gamers and content creators is a smokescreen trying to cover the real problems with Highguard.

I really hope it isn't God of War. After all this waiting, I'd like to see Barlog and his super talented team flex their creative muscles with something else.

Copious buckets of mutilation and gore? A-OKAY!
Silly sex scenes and boobies? GET RID OF IT!

I can't stand people with this mindset. Knowing modern PlayStation's strange aversion to nudity in certain cases, I'm sure the sex scenes and nudity will be removed.

I agree with Jaffe on one thing: the map in Sons of Sparta is very lacking compared to more recent Metroidvanias, especially PoP Lost Crown.

I played the same hour that Jaffe did and I have no idea what he's talking about.

This is the first PlayStation presentation since the PS5 reveal showcase back in 2020 that I felt was worthy of a showcase label. Hell, this reminded me of PlayStation's E3 golden era. I was immensely satisfied and happy with what they pulled off.

I was overwhelmed by how many games I wanted to play that I forgot about Yotei Legends and that chicken man game.

Shadow dropping this was a genius move.

Greatest State of Play of all time. PlayStation knocked this one out of the park.

Anyone with half a brain knew this was coming.

@Vivisapprentice There's a hopium part of me that thinks we'll get an in-engine trailer for Kojima's Physint with the full name and main character reveal.

Some people have such garbage listening comprehension. Insomniac went out of their way during the last SoP to say spring 2026 is when they'll talk about Wolverine next.

@StrickenBiged It's so ironic that the mobile game made by NCSoft looks way more in line with what many people (including you and me) envisioned Guerrilla's game would be, and vice versa.

Woooo Neva! Been waiting for that one.

@Hundred_Hand_Slap I'm one of them. PlayStation not understanding how to use a colon drives me nuts.

Even divorced from the usual suspects online who label every new live service the next Concord, when your core fanbase is informed that Horizon 3 is still years away because most of the studio is working on a cartoonish live service that tonally looks so off for the series, what the hell did Guerrilla Games expect?

Wolverine won't be here. Insomniac already said they won't be saying anything more about it until spring.

Highguard was the only January game I played soooooo

@carlos82 He was too busy eating breakfast and fishing to care about the engines falling into ditches or causing trucks to explode.

@carlos82 When Ringo Starr eventually passes, I'll remember him way more for narrating the first two seasons of Thomas than his work with The Beatles.

@AverageGamer Because almost all of what made BG3 tick was Larian and their writers.

Seeing this pop up as an announcement in my YouTube feed was surreal. Classic Thomas the Tank Engine is very dear to me and I've always wanted a game like this since I was a kid. This could potentially be a dream game of mine.

"Craig Mazin"
"Larian Studios aren't involved"

No thanks

It's a mixed bag for me. I think the combat looks sick, and I don't mind the general style Guerrilla is going for. However, I'm disappointed it's incorporating roguelike stuff and going for more open zone areas instead of a fully explorable map you can screw around in with your friends. I'm also not a fan of prebuilt heroes being a thing and their designs. They either look super bland or comically out of place for Horizon.

It's way too early to get a read on how this will perform, but I assume it needs to be a big hit to make up for the amount of time and money they've poured into this.

I'm not a fan of the character designs, but I dig the rest of what they're showing. Two of my friends and I have been waiting for this Horizon co-op game for years.

I wonder if they announced this separately from the State of Play because they feared a negative reaction to its inclusion.

God, I love this game so much.

Hanging in there by one pinky

The obvious answer for what they should make to find financial success has been staring them in the face for years, but it just hasn't materialized for whatever reason. Maybe these back-to-back financial disappointments will FINALLY make it happen.

I'm of course talking about Pentiment 2 🤡

Not a fan of either season, so I don't think I'll be bothering with season three. I'm kind of over The Last of Us in general anyway.

@PuppetMaster If I didn't know anything about who made Highguard after playing it and someone told me it came from some of the top designers of Titanfall, I don't think I'd believe them. Even now I have a hard time believing anyone involved in designing Highguard played a part in creating Titanfall 1 and 2's outstanding attrition mode.

The 5v5 mode is definitely better because it makes the matches feel slightly more like a large-scale raid, but it still plays like a confused mess. I legit thought Concord was better designed than Highguard, because at least Concord didn't have all of these annoying roadblocks to the PvP action like wall reinforcing, tedious resource gathering, a pointless loot system, and long respawn timers.

For a studio full of multiplayer veterans, it's stunning how many obvious and amateur-hour mistakes Wildlight made. People can blame the hating, toxic gamers for Highguard's reception all they want, but I think the things that did the most damage were Geoff Keighley's bizarre lack of good judgment and foresight and Wildlight's hubris.

I'll be on my deathbed at a ripe old age and Beyond Good & Evil 2 still won't be out.

Wildlight said they don't need a high player count to sustain Highguard, but I think that statement is going to be put to the test very soon.

After losing myself in KCD2 recently, I definitely want to check this out.

I've had my eye on Ultros for a while, so that's a good one.

I don't think a Metacritic for reviewers is a good idea, but there are an alarming number of critics in the game press cabal and on YouTube whose standards of evaluation and critical eye are questionable, at best. I can understand the kernel of what he's saying even if I don't agree with his full opinion.

@Ultrasmiles It really does. It's a bizarre, underbaked hodgepodge of multiple multiplayer subgenres, and it doesn't excel at any of them, imo.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I disagree. For a F2P live service in a hyper-competitive market, attracting about 62% of your day one playerbase on the most popular current-gen console to even finish one match is a lot worse than "not terrible". Could it improve? Perhaps. But a lot of its long-term success is going to rely on enticing a loyal playerbase to spend money on skins and battle passes, and I don't see this having the juice to pull that off.

Even going by trophy stats on PS5, it paints a concerning picture.

As of right now:
>Only 61.8% of players have bothered to complete one match.
>Only 6.3% of players have finished 10 matches.
>Only 27.3% of players have planted a shieldbreaker (i.e., a fundamental mechanic of a match).
>Only 15.4% of players have destroyed 20 walls (again, a fundamental mechanic).

The day one drop-off curve looks bad, no matter where you look. I don't put much stock in Steam reviews, but the hard numbers don't lie.

@DennisReynolds My exact same experience and thoughts. One thing that confused me was that this is supposed to feel like an exciting siege/raid battle, yet it's only 3v3 and lacks music most of the time. It makes for a very underwhelming atmosphere.

I'm perfectly fine with the PS5 gen getting extended beyond 2028 or 2029.

Wolverine won't be at this. Insomniac already said they'd next show it in the spring.

God bless the person who bought Kingdom Hearts II.

Yōtei ranking higher than CoD is nuts. Congrats to Sucker Punch!