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Glad I waited on Wilds. I'm guessing performance optimizations will be more of a priority going forward lol.

It'll probably be in a better state and have a way better endgame loop by the time the inevitable expansion/G-rank campaign drops.

Pretty incredible remaster that fixed all of my issues with the original release. Easily a top five Atlus game for me overall, and runs brilliantly on almost every platform.

Spent 100+ hours getting all the Steam achievements for this last year. Shame how it never got a proper sequel.

More than one analyst was expecting Switch 2 to have the biggest console launch of all time, and it seems to be meeting those expectations.

One thing that's really helped is that Nintendo appears to have been stockpiling units for launch for awhile, as, despite the record breaking launch, it's been a remarkably easy console to procure.

Hope Sony is taking notes for the PS6 launch.

Never heard of it. Their advertising game might need some work.

Not surprised it underperformed on PC if they took an EGS bribe, though. Fully deserved, too. 🙄

I need to play more. I got about 20ish hours in and it was... okay? Very pretty, but also pretty bog standard open world aside from the presentation.

tbh I think it would have been better as a more linear game. I don't feel like exploration added a whole lot to it.

It's not bad, but put up against The Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, and, heck, even Horizon Zero Dawn, it falls short.

It won't matter eventually, because we'll likely get to the point where there's no obvious 'tell' if something is AI generated or not.

Mass market products will probably be primarily AI generated at some point, whereas an 'artisinal' market of more expensive games made without AI tool assistance will proliferate among enthusiasts.

It's a good sign we're not getting spittake-worthy casting like in the Mario movie, but I guess that's the value of this being live-action. I like that they're casting smaller actors and not people you know are getting the job for their names alone.

Bonus points if it's based more on open world Zelda: you see her for all of five minutes, and the rest of the film is Link climbing up vertical surfaces like Spider-Man while grunting loudly and falling half the time because of how often it rains in Hyrule.

"You buy the game and you get the whole thing. There's no online component, there's no live service, because everything we do is in service of telling the story and transporting the player."

Buying a thing and getting what you buy. What a concept! 😂

But yeah, this is why almost every game I buy is single player and fully complete at launch.

Very cool. Love talented, passionate fans being able to meet professional creatives like this.

Intergalactic looked interesting, from the little we've seen. Way better than yet another depressing zombie game. People gotta chill on the hate just because there's a bald lady in it.

Don't keep up with modern pop and don't watch White Lotus, so yeah, had no idea who this was either. 😂

I remember Nintendo telling Platinum to make the Bayonetta Wii U outfits sexier. 😂 So much potential with a port like this.

And it should run fine. 40fps with good image quality is achievable on my Steam Deck.

I mean, why not? Sony doesn't see Nintendo as competition, right? Might as well tap into that playerbase and make more money.

@nomither6 They're not actual hentai games. They just have "hentai" in the title. Generally they're quick asset flips with poor AI art of anime women in bikinis as your 'reward' for playing them.

@naruball Hulst is still saying in business meetings that Sony is going to push live service games, so that's certainly not stopping them, now is it?

Time to sink another billion dollars and almost a decade of dev time into another set of live service projects now. Surely one of them will become the next Fortnite!

People really are unleashing their inner gooners with this one. Literal CG porn videos on the main screen of the game lol

Everything I've played so far has actually looked way better on the 4K. TotK looks nuts docked now. And I'm excited to play MP4 at 4K/60.

That said, I mean, obviously third party AAA stuff is going to look better on PS5/Pro, since it's more powerful and geared toward the 4K TV experience exclusively. Even as good as Cyberpunk looks and runs, it obviously looks and runs better on PS5. So yeah, Switch 2 isn't going to really threaten the power console market, which is aiming way higher in terms of specs and primarily oriented around providing a home to the most ambitious third-party software.

New Zeldas/Marios/etc. are gonna look incredible on this system, though, and it still has that hybrid functionality people love.

Silent Hill f is the only one of these games on my radar. It's a biggun, though!

Didn't one of these literally just release? lol

I swear to god, the efficiency of Nihon Falcom and Gust would make chinese sweatshops blush in shame.

Haven't they ported nearly everything this gen aside from Astro Bot and Demon's Souls? And the gaps with major releases seem to be diminishing as well.

Nice. The original is still my favorite Silent Hill game, and the sense of dread in unmatched in the rest of the series, so I'm excited it's getting another pass. Hopefully Bloober nails this one, too.

Pretty Good overall, although I feel like it was missing a new announcement with real oomph. But compared to the standard SoP? It was excellent. Glad they're leaning into showing off Japanese games again.

Nice. Yeah, the camera being the way it is makes it feel a bit claustrophobic at times. One of my few complaints with this otherwise delightful adventure.

Fantasy Life i 100%. Such a fantastic sequel

Yeah, I think PC will be taking the bulk of the sales here. It runs really well on there and has attracted a lot of attention on Steam. I've played almost nothing else on my Deck, aside from a brief dalliance with the Stellar Blade demo.

@Fiendish-Beaver Expedition 33 attracted 145k peak on Steam even though it's on PC Game Pass as well. I'm sure Game Pass cuts into numbers on PC somewhat, but really successful PC releases tend to be successful on Steam as well.

This DOOM entry simply has not been as well-received as previous entries.

@RainbowGazelle Ah. Those are legit gripes IMO.

That said, some... questionable release strategies aren't really reason enough for me to avoid buying some of the best modern JRPGs on the market.

But to each his own, of course!

@Jey887 Looks at four versions of Persona 3 I bought over the years.

Honestly, maybe I am part of the problem. 🤣

Push Square staff should pool their money and buy this for the the guy who wrote that "Ignore the Haters" preview for Concord on here. ❤️

Unfortunately most of those game are VERY missable for me. 🙄

@kyleforrester87 Oh, absolutely. But that's the reality of the world these days. Either keep your mouth shut and avoid drama or own your words. Apologizing like this just teaches people that they can bully you into submission.

"I'm sorry you're angry," basically. Not what I would call a "groveling apology," personally.

Not that I think he should apologize at all. He meant what he said. He should own it.

@RainbowGazelle So I shouldn't buy a game I know I'll enjoy because some aging voice actor is being replaced? lol

Meh.

Korone or bust.

@Oram77 Might be a little awkward considering she retired.

Eh. PS6 is likely only a couple of years away. Anyone who has gone this long can wait a little longer and score a device that'll be future-proof for another 7 - 10 years, plus have access to all of the PS5 games they wanted.

At the end of all this, I wonder how much money Sony will have burned in this doomed pursuit?

I know they make a lot of money from PSN, but surely they can't afford for project and project after project to crash and burn, right? Not when they're this expensive.

@MamaSymphonia Yup. Couldn't do main story stuff, but it was helpful for advancing your life ranks. This one is considerably more limited on that front.

If you liked the 3DS game, you'll like this one. Single player is a straight up improvement.

They really need to patch/adjust the way multiplayer is handled in this one. Being more restrictive than the 3DS version is ridiculous.

That aside, as a single player experience, it's incredibly fun, and it's really sucking me in just like the original did.

@get2sammyb Yup. And their games won't be trapped on a single platform anymore.

Really hoping the new Layton is good. I'd love to see remasters of the DS and 3DS trilogies on modern platforms, too.

@belmont Program a back button as F11 so you can switch to borderless fullscreen, and it essentially works perfectly otherwise. I locked it to 45fps and turned up most of the settings to max, and it has been doing so well. If you own an OLED SD, the HDR looks gorgeous in this.

They're actually charging $40 for this? 😬

It's difficult to imagine this won't be another bomb. Maybe not as spectacular as Concord, but I'll be shocked if this survives a year. Especially with the compounding effect negative press tends to have.

Wow, that sucks. I had high hopes for Hentai Supermarket Simulator. 😂

Anyway, these services (PSN, Steam, eShop) have a LOT of software hitting them every week, most of it ultra niche, so it's easy for something like this to slip through. Better to empower the user with discussion boards, the ability to review games, filter out certain games, etc. like you can on Steam, because Sony will always miss some things if they try to play Whack-A-Mole with releases like this themselves.

Fantasy Life is even higher at the moment. It absolutely recaptures the charming magic of the original, and I'm so happy there's such a surge of interest in it.

But yeah, Stellar Blade was always going to hit on PC. Bloodborne would too. And definitely Astro Bot.

A livestream was not the way to go. I watched part of it, and it almost felt like a public shaming with that chat.

Anyway, this is a pattern with Bungie, and leadership needs to be held accountable so it stops happening.

@ChrisDeku Journalists not naming sources who don't want to be identified criticizing their former or current employer is standard practice. Do you have any reason to actually doubt this reporting, or is this just you attacking someone because they're writing a negative piece about a Sony developer?

Oh god, more Denuvo scaremongering.

Look, companies want to actually make money on their PC games, surprise surprise. Denuvo absolutely is NOT easy to crack anymore. Every time Sony puts a Denuvo-less game up on Steam, the thing is also live on pirate sites within hours.

Plenty of games utilize Denuvo and manage to run well.

"Live service" encompasses a lot of different types of games, honestly. People will flock to a fun, interesting game in this vein like Genshin or, heck, Sony's own Helldivers 2. The issue is Sony keeps investing in the most boring, generic looking multiplayer games like Concord and Marathon instead of making something that leans into their strengths as a publisher.

It also doesn't help that this is in conjunction with a fairly anemic level of quality first party support this gen for their single player titles.

It's incredible to think about how many resources Sony is blowing chasing trends as of late.

I think the Cyberpunk port will be a very interesting showpiece for the capabilities of the system. It already looks so much better than The Witcher 3 did on Switch 1, so that's encouraging.

Ultimately, it seems like it'll probably be powerful enough to run 95% of games, with unoptimized games and CPU hogs that can barely run on the home consoles not making the jump. And, of course, I expect Nintendo's own developers will make it sing. Still a little wild I'll be able to play Metroid Prime 4 at 4K/60 on official hardware lol

@ButterySmooth30FPS Still need Persona 5 Arena, Persona 5 on Ice, and a Persona 5 kart racer first. Plenty of juice left. ❤️

VERY nice. They did mention that compatibility with PC handhelds was something they were working on.

I could really see the Steam release popping off.

Yeah, just waiting for the Switch release of this. Getting a new GBA title playable on the console in 2025 is cool, but I'm very over playing those games on old hardware lol

Might as well push it out to every viable platform. Even Sony doesn't keep its games on Playstation anymore.

@1UP-HUSKY I genuinely can't imagine the company that is publishing a 3DS game remaster as a Game-Key Card won't also publish these as Game-Key Cards.

Bought it on Steam. So have other people, it seems, considering it's obliterating all of their previous releases in terms of player count.

It's a wild, ambitious, incredibly weird game, and it will hopefully find its audience.