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Sooner than expected? Great, a new Kingdom Hearts is coming prior to PlayStation 6!

Anyway, I see some people complaining about KH3, and as a long time fan, let me add something to this discussion. Overall, KH3 has the most amazing graphics and animations the series has ever seen. The worlds are vast and cool to explore. The story is nice IMO, the only problem being that the ending didn't really finish the saga for me, instead leaving a huge question mark.

But the game's biggest flaw really is something called Attractions. They pop up every minute in every fight, turning a really cool fight full of animations into a boring mini-game that beats all the enemies. It's amazing when you're fighting Titans and a rollercoaster pops up, but it's not so cool to skip every single fight with spinning cup teas or whatever. Seriously, if they could add a "Disable Attractions out of boss battles" option to the game, it would become a whole lot better.

That aside though, I enjoyed my time playing KH3.

Well, they want talented developers to build their next engine, probably. It's extremely unlikely that Sony would put Naughty Dogs' games on PC. It would be similar to Nintendo adding Super Mario games to PC.

Well, April had FF7R, RE3 and Cyberpunk. I'm glad they moved, hehe. But now it's on the 'wait for PS5' list as someone else mentioned.

Works in Latin America too, there's a Brazilian website at least.

Just found out I spent 5% of the year playing games. We spent around 25% of the year sleeping, so 5% is a big number, haha. =D

@keihtg Some dialogue like Jill sandwich would be fun, haha. I kinda prefer the over-the-shoulder perspective, since I enjoy watching the animations of the characters. But I do get your point on how they can take the horror to the next level in first person perspective.

I'm sold. This game looks amazing! I'm in a horror games trend at the moment, currently playing all RE games since Zero. Sure, this one is actually gonna be more action than scare (with Nemesis aside), but still I really want to play it.

But starting a discussion, given the remakes of RE2 and RE3, and how different they are to RE7, and the fact that all of these are amazing, which way RE8 is going to take?

What I read was that it's going to be completely different from RE8. I feel that the gang is gonna be back for more, and the gameplay will be akin to RE2/RE3 with the horror focus of RE7. Maybe a new mansion? =D

I watched more than half of it, but couldn't make it to the end, it was past midnight and I was quite tired. These are my impressions based on what I saw:

• Xbox reveal was, well... Ok, I guess. I expected more excitement for a new console announcement. This and the fact that it looks awful! Stadia's argument for "your console takes space from your living room" seems to apply to the new green box.
• Speaking of Stadia, funny ad, but I still don't buy their selling points. Game streaming is the future, but globally we're not quite ready yet.
• The show looks like the Oscars. But that's pretty much it. I couldn't care less about the awards or nominees. They distribute them like candy. "Hey, for Best Gamers in the Living Room we have A, B, C and D, the winner is B! And the next award is...". Come on, prepare a video or something for each nominee so that we're aware of what they did. That's a big part of the Oscars, you get to know about some interesting movies you missed, and learn about new artists.

It doesn't need a remake. The only thing Capcom could do is remaster it, and honestly, the game still plays and looks fine today, so leave it alone.

Code Veronica, RE0 and RE1 deserve some love, though.

This looks amazing! Seriously, Capcom became one of my favorite publishers.

Resident Evil has been amazing up to RE4, then it became divisive, we all know. I really hope RE8 brings a brand new story instead of expanding old characters. Normal professionals under terrible situations has been a much better formula than overpowered-bioterrorism-super-heros fighting The Enemy.

I understand your troubles, Liam. But I pray that price parity does not happen across regions. You see, in Latin America prices are high for the average salary, but if you translate to US dollars it's probably cheaper than in US. Having separate price tags allow companies to adapt to each market, specially in emergent countries.

I kinda doubt they'll have enough time for a PS5 version if an announcement is imminent. Unless this has been in development for PS5 from the beginning.

The real question is what is the difference? With PS4 library being a part of PS5 library, all games are cross-gen.

The only problem is that my planned vacation from work ends Feb 21, 2020. Besides that, I'm more than hyped about this game!

It was solid, compared to the others. But as pointed out by @get2sammyb, it is still far away from Nintendo Direct's worst days.

Well, the problem here is that PlayStation barely has news to share for PS4. Nintendo uses Directs to share everything, news, updates, nindies, developers' opinions, 3rd parties, with a nice pace to the videos, and they also avoid announcing games until they're closer to release. PlayStation announces games 4-5 years before actual release...

Anyway, there is no reason why Sony can't learn. Hopefully they use it better next generation.

In Brazil, Circle button is more often called Bolinha ("little ball") - people grew up calling it that and well, that's what it is. We also call X by the letter instead of cross (which sounds terribly wrong btw).

Excellent month! Looking forward to playing both games!

Wow! That's great news and completely unexpected! Always thought they would remain independent forever...

I wouldn't mind new games for Crash and Spyro, but Activision should be careful with the timing of these releases. They remade 3 games for each of these properties already; I actually heard a friend recently say he had enough of Spyro for a long time after obtaining the Platinum trophy for the trilogy.

You know, it's Activision after all. They pass me this feeling of "it either sells zillion dollars or the IP is dead".

I suggest that PushSquare posts an article every now and then with a list of games that are being "retired", so to speak. Just in case anybody in this community wants to grab it while still available.

As for the servers, I wouldn't worry too much. Nowadays with everything in the cloud, and public data centers, and how the global economy could suffer a huge hit if these servers crashed, it gets harder to shut a platform down. I'd get really worried if they started disabling purchased games, though.

Really nice interview, @get2sammyb! Hope we get more interviews in PushSquare, it's fun to read them. =)

Since I barely play online at all, I'm honestly considering ending my subscription after this cycle. The discounts alone don't justify it, since I could use the money to cover the decrease in price. There are lots of sales anyway in PSN.

Also, there has been an increase in price in Brazil too.

This is one of those buzzwords that is better to be ignored. Sure, run PS3 games on PS4 and there won't be loading times. Now, let's make the same experiment with a third-party game built for next-gen three years after PS5 launch.

Seriously, Cloud is innovative? It's actually more powerful hardware too behind the scenes. And its evolution is completely based on more powerful hardware and higher quantity of units. So it's basically the same thing, but without the box.

And let's face it, even if we had the Wi-Fi quality necessary to run Cloud gaming at home, there's no way we will do it on the go in mobile phones anytime soon.

In other words, we'll be playing in a TV or computer monitor with a controller the same type of games we've been playing. Yay, innovation! 😒

Yeeeeeeessss!!

Time to play Watch Dogs 2. To be honest, I didn't even finish the first one...

Now that's how you do merchandising! Hahah

Hold on, now, Sammy! I actually thought you were joking when I read the headline. That's crazy!

That's a stealth mode announcement if there is such a thing. Love the sound of it, I'm just worried about the price, but well, I can wait a year to purchase if it is the only way to go.

And yay! We're not gonna lose Crash, Kingdom Hearts, Spyro and new masterpieces such as Horizon, God of War and Spider-Man! =)

Here is to future of gaming! o/

In Brazil, the only discount I'm aware of is Spotify, which offers a 10% discount for PS Plus subscribers. I wish we had more.

Yes, I've changed mine. Not as soon as I could, though, I just had something better in mind. The one I often use was not available, and I ended up adding numbers to it originally, which I never really liked. Now I've picked up my second most used username, which thankfully was available. =)

They are doing it wrong. Not just Sony, though, all companies eventually shutdown servers for their online games. GaaS is fine when done right, but publishers need to either include a dedicated offline mode such as GTA / GTA Online, or allow all of the game to work offline as-is, with CPU and local multiplayer replacing the online needs, when they decide to shutdown.

The worst thing about these games right now is that they're dead once the audience moves on! It doesn't matter if some people still like it or if others would like to try it years after release. So I believe they should move the game to offline prior to shutting down servers. Maybe even adding a P2P component so that servers aren't directly necessary for Online VS modes.

The second question is missing the "Not looking forward to any of them" answer.

@DreamerAbe86 Hahaha. I was on a bus, don't worry! =)

@Derpie1 Yeah, that's unfortunate... It would be easier to watch. But then there wasn't much for me in this particular State of Play thing, at least. I'm not interested in VR yet (and the price is too high). I do wish that corporations do more events in weekend, though.

Monday, really, PlayStation? Why not a Sunday? Well, I'll try to watch it on the road back home from work.

One more comment on the matter.

I don't like the fact that it's going to require Google Chrome to be used. It's a browser, not a gaming application. Never understood why Google dislikes desktop applications... It's not so hard to build them as companion apps for the Web version...

@AntDickens
Hey! For some reason, when I open the website without specifying "https", it redirects me to "http" instead...

Ok, careful about the way you're thinking, Google! To believe something is the future without thinking about what customers want is a dangerous path.

The market fully believed that desktops and notebooks were going to be completely replaced by tablets a few years ago. Dell purchased the company back from stock market since he believed otherwise, turns out he was right: tablets are pretty much dead while desktops and notebooks are still pretty strong because that is what customers want.

IMO, if PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox keep doing their thing, this whole Scadia is gonna go down faster than Titanic. You see, customers actually want these systems, ultimately games are what move them, not hi-tech (see Xbox One vs PlayStation 4).

@wiiware Yup, that too. Google is not shy to killing projects when they don't provide fast return.

Excited for the future, but worried about poor UX due to unstable internet connection.

Come on, guys! Of course BC is important for PS5. To be honest, it would already be a nice-to-have on PS4.

Reason #1: PlayStation Store! Digital libraries are a big thing nowadays. You can certainly keep your physical games in future generations, but what about those who depend on servers? What's the appeal to maintain servers for old games that can only be played in old consoles? BC can keep your collection alive and well.

Reason #2: Playstation Store Part 2! Sony can get a huge revenue by selling games that require close to no costs for them, since they've already been produced.

Reason #3: Retro games areite a big market now.

Reason #4: Do not underestimate PlayStation 4's library. It may not have BC, but it brought both amazing new games and beloved old ones. From Uncharted to Tomb Raider to Kingdom Hearts to Crash Bandicoot to Spyro, can you deny that most franchises are part of it? I mean, for a lot of them we actually have the ENTIRE franchise back.

Reason #5: PlayStation Platform: Subscription-based Gaming as a Service. You can refuse it as much as you want, in the future we won't have local games anymore, running them from the Cloud, possibly on multiple devices. Everything is moving towards this direction (think Netflix, Spotify, Kindle Unlimited and so on). Tell me, when this is the reality, would you choose the platform with your entire digital library or one of the countless new platforms that will show up in the market?

And these are the top ones I can think about. BC wasn't a big thing until this generation. It's essential now.

If it's interesting I might give it a try. But honestly, being a gamer that always plays everything late (Shadow included), DLCs tend to not appeal to me. Between moving on to the next game and extending one with DLC, I choose the first option 9/10 times.

Around 40 games, all digital. There is no going back now! The best retail can do for me is sell a nice package with a download code.

Imagine this: PlayStation Meeting in November 2019, the PS5 is announced and it's completely backwards compatible, so Last of Us Part II and all the other games can be played on both systems day one. Releasing March 2020. It would work for me, haha. =)

Translation: Sony made the perfect decision.

Can't go wrong with this guy, just take his opinion, negate it, and you've got it all right.

"Get the Platinum, BOY!"
Yes, sir!

Nothing for me this month. But given how much I spent on PSN holiday sales, I have my plate full until Kingdom Hearts 3.

Surprising number one game! I didn't play the first one to the end, but I loved the parts I've played. Ni No Kuni 2 is by the top of my list for 2019, along Kingdom Hearts III, God of War and Resident Evil 2. Might toss some Spider-Man's DLC into the mix.

Merry Christmas, Push Square community! You guys are the best, and keep up the good work on the website. It's definitely the best place to read and talk about videogames. =)

What do we say about the trending in gaming when 2 of the top 10 titles in 2018 are single-player remakes? =)

Never played SotC, I played Ico to the end and kinda hated it, I was a kid so maybe I didn't get it... Anyway, given that experience, I don't feel like playing another artistic empty world at all.

@GKO900 I agree with @get2sammyb on this. Remakes have their place, remasters are really not needed (backwards compatibility can cover that perfectly).

I absolutely loved Crash, I'm looking forward to playing Spyro! It's gonna have to wait a while, though, since I'm playing God of War, then there's Kingdom Hearts III and Resident Evil 2 in January... 2019 is gonna be another big year for PS4.

The Missing sounds nice, but unfortunately it's not available in PlayStation Store from Brazil...

And I have to agree on God of War. i've been playing it for the past two days and it's really amazing! =)

It's finally coming!! And I won't be able to play it day one... But Kingdom Hearts 3 is definitely gonna be my February game. RE2 is high in my 2019 list too.