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I was vaguely interested until they got to the combat and I saw the character switching and figured it was gacha. Then it just kind of seemed like Zenless Zone Zero to me, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but eh...

Jin's story was over. Narratively and thematically I don't even know where they would go with him.

I have no problem with a new protagonist or it being a woman. All I care about is whether Yötei is a better open world game. I adored GoT by the end, but it through and through an open world game by the Ubisoft book with Sucker Punch's flair. I want to see honest evolution of the genre. This is the exact reason I never finished Forbidden West: too big, too much of the same.

I'm basically sold on the game already, so I don't think I'd want to play a chunk of it out context, nor would I really want to play the opening only to have to wait to continue the game - assuming progress carried over. So I guess I'd skip it?

I'm not sure if I am getting the game at launch. I rarely buy games at full MSRP, so I might not start it until Christmas.

Without the upgrade path I wouldn't have, but for $10, sure, why not. Now, whether or not I'll actually play it again... probably not, or at least not for a while.

Definitely intrigued, it was a beautiful trailer.

The Lake House for AW2 is supposed to be this fall, so I kind of assumed we'd get a trailer and release date. I'm just hoping it's a little meatier than Night Springs was.

These are the types of games I can get behind being Remastered.

I've been waiting for a good sale on Banishers. Jusant just never looked appealing to me. Bummer their games aren't finding an audience, I really appreciate them working in this like AA space.

I would be very happy if the PS6 had Switch functionality. If it's basically another PS Portal situation, probably naaaaah.

My friend adores this game. I played 20 or so hours and I just did not like it much. I just don't like Bioware combat. I played 15 hours of Origins and fell off, and I loathed KotoR, too.

I'm sure this must be heresy, but just give me turn-based combat in my RPGs or true 3D action game controls. Hybrids largely do not work for me - although I did get on with FF7R.

The perception isn't that none of Sony's first parties have nothing cooking. The reality is new, prestige, AAA single-player games take 5+ years to make and the life cycle of a console isn't a whole lot longer.

I used to be able to say I bought PlayStation for titles from certain developers, but the best you can hope for now is ONE original title per generation, it seems. It isn't a perception issue, it's a logistics and scope issue.

I thought this was terrible back in the day and sounds like it's now worse. I'll take Shadows of the Damned for this era of Suda.

Sure, more formats will help FF sell more units, but the bigger issue is an overall brand issue, IMO. The games are stupidly expensive to make and regardless of whether they change the tone and core gameplay, ie. FF16, it's still a Japanese fantasy series that either doesn't appeal to everyone or is impenetrable or just the words Final Fantasy puts someone off.

I think the first thing they need to do is scale back their relentless pursuit of zomg graphics. This would allow them to be on Nintendo platforms, with mainline entries, save them money, and actually be where Japanese gamers are. Dragon Quest still sells gangbusters over there, and it is at least partly because most entries are on Nintendo hardware - plus, eventhough they still take years to make, they must be cheaper!

And for context, I haven't bought either Remake or Rebirth - I played Remake on Plus and loved it. I was really hype for Rebirth, and considered buying close to launch until every review mentioned open world bloat and I lost basically all interest - I still have it on my sale watch list and maybe I'll bite at Black Friday. As for 16, the style always looked dull and barely FF to me and the gameplay continues to stray so far from what I want out of FF that I was never interested a lick.

It is what it is. I love Zero Dawn, easily my top PS4 first-party game, but it's just too soon and is easily playable.

I'm sure some people missed it the first time, and I hope this remaster is a treat for them.

Bought it day one. Probably the only game I'll pay full MSRP for this year, with the only possible exception being Metaphor.

This seems like something I'll play at deep discount or once it's on Plus. I'm all for more linear games, though.

Astro Bot is excellent, I gave it a 9. My only real complaint is that I would love to see a lot of the unique mechanics iterated upon more.

Great game and glad to see people picking it up. For the record, I think it's light years better than Rift Apart.

Maybe it's worth $700, but like I already dropped $500 on a normal PS5...

As has been said, ad nauseum, $700!? Woof!

Ubisoft released one of the best games of this year, IMO, in PoP: The Lost Crown. People complain a lot about them but they make solid, if not spectacular, games.

If they don't show the Pro running an unannounced game then I don't care 🤷

I mean, I think Sony lacks any IP that transcends gaming. They don't have characters that the average person knows, like Mario, Sonic, Master Chief.

I mean, it could be both.

@Maubari Foamstars was a Squeenix game, one that I suspect Sony took a chance on, hoping it could be their Splatoon.

Sony is a company. Their legacy is whatever people choose to remember about them. Their legacy could still be the PS3 launching for $600 and being impossible to program for.

Every platform holder makes huge gaffes. It basically runs in cycles, ie. the WiiU, or Xbone "game sharing". The point is, I think anyone being overly invested in this or Sony's "legacy" is silly :shrug:

Although, after that response, I guess I'm silly too 🤪

@AdamNovice lol this is my reaction too, but props to them. I feel like this is a game where it at least makes sense. Now, should fishing in a space faring game still just be a dude with a pole...

Bummer about 13 Sentinels, but oh well. I'm not going to try and sneak it in over the next 2 weeks. I'll just have to buy it on the cheap sometime if I actually get around to it.

Glad I own NieR Replicant already, though.

Soul searching? It's a video game!

Sure, Sony needs to consider the direction of their MP live service initiative, but I guess I just don't care about this all that much? They payed for and released a dud. It happens, they hopefully learn, and we move on?

I think it's ridiculous talking about their legacy forever being tarnished. Every dev and publisher has their share of bombs, deserving or not - most of the reviews seemed to think Concord was more fine, than awful.

Last, I just can't get worked up about Sony that much. Concord and Fairgame$ and Marathon and Helldivers 2 are not the reason we don't have more singleplayer games. It's because Sony's teams are perfectionists and their dev cycles are like 5 years now. They need to revise the scope of their internal games.

It could be an awesome game, but I think most importantly Sony will need to do a lot of heavy lifting communicating why it's awesome, and why someone should play it versus the other live service shooter you've already got 300 hours in.

I'd love to see them succeed, but I'm not personally invested. I'm just not interested live service shooters. I want new experiences on the regular.

I don't get mad about games being expensive because I understand they are increasingly expensive to make. But I rarely buy $70 games, in fact I think BG3 is the only game I've bought for that price. So I just can't envision myself buying any games for more, other than maybe Street Fighter, which I'm always at on Day One.

I think the more important argument is devs need to scale back and really look at viability. If your game is too big to fail, maybe it's too big?

@ShogunRok Ah, cool, wasn't aware it wasn't in house.

I thought their next release was supposed to be a Witcher 1 remake?

Hadn't realized it had a release date, let alone 2 weeks from now. Happy to wait until the developers are pleased with it.

I finally tried this out a week ago and was pretty disappointed. I thought the controls were a bit sluggish and it was hard to tell when hits register since there is very little feedback.

I think I'm just spoiled by Power Stone when it comes to arena fighters :/

Was never really a Rugrats fan, despite watching it with the other Nick Toons, bit this looks pretty neat.

Where's my Doug platformer!?

Pretty wild. Amazon is a real dud so far in the games business.

This was the coolest new reveal of the day for me, other than Capcom FC2. I'm a little tired of rogue-likes, but the art style and uniqueness of this has me interested.

If this is a post that actually wants to analyze whether Soul Reaver is popular enough for a revival, it should look at the numbers a little more closely. I don't know if Soul Reaver has a big fan base, but I would guess it's pretty niche. $1m is a nice round, impressive number, but the number of backers is less than 6k. That means those people are backing at an average of $175!

It's hard to compare this Kickstarter to other gaming ones since it's for a comic. However, I think it's worth looking at it slightly more objectively than this piece even attempts.

I might try it when it's free on Plus down the line, but even then... maybe not? I don't think it looks bad, I just am totally uninterested in the genre.

@NathanKang This. I watched the first trailer or two, but otherwise media blackout on this for me. All I really needed was Persona Team + new IP.

The other point I wanted to make is Xbox is still in the hardware business, whether they like it or not. Announcing their full slate of PS5 ports will crater any demand for a physical Xbox that remains.

I don't expect Microsoft to make an Xbox on PlayStation roadmap. The Xbox team clearly isn't thrilled they even have to do this. The fact Sea of Theives sold 1m copies already on PS5 illustrates they don't need a long marketing runway.

It's honestly no different than PlayStation Studios on PC.

I guess I don't care much because I'm not interested in most of their first party stuff right now. Frankly, I'm surprised they announced Indy before it even hits Xbox. But it's a game that makes sense since it isn't an Xbox franchise.

Totally up my alley. Can't resist stuff in that sort of '80s Amblin Entertainment mold.

Looks pretty solid. Have to decide if I have the patience for these types of games anymore.

I think this is great that they're including season 1 with the base game. It's smart and it gets the game into player's hands sooner than waiting for those 5 characters to be ready.

Fatal Fury is not a household name and SNK needs the new generation to give this game a shot - I imagine some people commenting weren't even born when Garou released!

Anyway, I don't think there is anything cheeky about this. I love that there will be a steady stream of new characters that I do not have to pay additional for. It's a great incentive for me to pop in after a few months, if I lapse.

Last, I know people aren't happy with fg becoming live service titles, but this is the only viable model - unless 2XKO blows up, but Riot can afford to make it free. Fighting games do not sell gangbusters - it took SF5 six years to sell 5 million copies, and you can assume a lot of those sales were at steep discounts beyond the first couple of years.

Glad I played through Midnight Suns when I did. I own Horizon and NieR, so I'm good otherwise.

Does this mean the version I bought as PSOne classic on a previous generation of hardware has trophies now?

This is an all time favorite of mine. I would totally replay it for a Platinum.

It's kind of off-putting how much the main character looks like Vyse.

Not sure I had heard of this before. The turn-based ship combat looks alright, but the exploration stuff looks very rudimentary, in both the air and on foot. I'll likely pass, but I'm open to having my mind changed by positive reviews and word of mouth.

If you're a first timer I think you can get your money's worth, but if you've already gotten your fill it's a big ask.

I like Until Dawn, but am firmly in the "did this need to be remade?" camp. I know there are new players on PS5 that Sony is hoping to capture, it's just not even vaguely old or dated.

Looks like Atomic Heart and Cyber Punk had a baby. Kidding aside, while the game looks technically impressive in some ways, it also looks super generic in many others.

Good luck to them!