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Original was amazing and I’m excited for it getting a sequel…but I feel like the 90’s cyberpunk tone and style of the original is not here in the sequel which is a shame.

Yeah, day 1 easily.

Triangle Strategy this is not

I’ll watch Skullgirls at least but yeah, without Smash there 90% of my interest in EVO is dead.

The way Sony has thrown in the towel on quirkier Japanese titles is my biggest issue with them, and the optics of this doesn’t help

This got announced a week after I broke down and bought Disgaea 6 on Switch. Performance is…rough. I curse my luck, but will probably double dip when this gets a deep sale on Playstation.

Yakuza 8 is my most anticipated game if we’re following in the footsteps of 7 tbh.

Weird this isn’t releasing on Nintendo honestly. Either way, definitely getting it, Soul Hackers is one of the best SMT games and I’m down for a sequel.

This is more exciting than Street Fighter 6 tbh

Soul Hackers rules so i'm all in on whatever this is.

Puritan Sony strikes again

Of course this happened, I finally bought the game on Switch last week.

I'll double dip at a deep sale probably because man the performance on Switch really is rough.

@Apfelschteiner A bit after Satoru Iwata died, in a later video he derided him as 'the late and not so great' Iwata in a dismissive manner.

Reminder that this guy is an idiot with no respect for the dead.

Loved the GBC. Loved Shovel Knight. Loved the Oracle games.

This seems like a winning combination right here.

@OneWingedAngel Doom 2016 and Eternal>Destiny when it comes to gunplay tbh

@OneWingedAngel “Bungie is the most experienced and talented FPS developer out there.”

Weird way to spell Id software but okay.

Okay, THAT’S a good clapback. Sony is going to get a solid FPS exclusive on lock from a move like this for sure.

One of my favorite games from last year. Really cool new trailer too!

Very sad news…there’s something special about being in a real arcade like that.

@Arnna I play my PS2 more than my PS4 Pro

He’s on the money. I don’t like VR, gives me a pounding headache every time I’ve tried it.

Love this game series, wish Sony cared to do more oddball stuff like it these days.

@gaston less choice? Not really, I’ve found plenty of games I love on the service that are still there, and if I want to own them I can buy at a discount which I have done. If I’m interested in a game not on gamepass? Wow, I do the classic move of buying it. Gamepass isn’t this binary monolith that locks you into only engaging with it, it supplements my game library and has honestly saved me money. And the person paying the bills is Microsoft who I think can afford it. It’s called being a loss leader.

@KayOL77 Sony can’t compete from a money angle but they have their own gaming teams and IPs that do and still will draw massive business. They’ll be fine.

@mucc oh, I guess those games do exist but they ain’t what I play or care about. Started Nobody Saves The World though and along with Yakuza 5 and Art of Rally I’ve been having a good time with quality games.

Gamepass is a lot more than what people here like to paint it as. As for Activision Blizzard everything I’ve been led to believe with how MS actually works with their teams leads me to believe that yes, they won’t just be constrained to CoD. Maybe I’ll be wrong since I have no more to go on than you theory crafters for how boogeyman MS is going to destroy the industry when Sony will bounce back and be fine and Nintendo won’t be affected at all.

@mucc I actually would be fine with it if Sony somehow bought Activision-Blizzard. Anything to get Bobby out at this point and let that company be more than a CoD machine. And I’ve also yet to see this deluge of half baked live service games hit gamepass. More doom saying hypotheticals from Sony fanboys? Oh wow how novel.

@KayOL77 I keep hearing about this price hike that has yet to come, and what-ifs and doom saying scenarios here. And even then, yes I’d rather pay a couple extra bucks for access to a lot of games NOT built on the back of human suffering.

You’re the one choosing to rely on extreme hypotheticals here.

@KayOL77 Oh come off it, this isn’t a dystopia and it isn’t about ‘posturing’. It’s about an abusive CEO who has affected lives and let a suicide happen under his watch finally being removed from power, golden parachute or not. People are just mad that CoD might not be on PlayStation in a few years without caring that this will probably have a positive impact on the people that actually make games at Activision-Blizzard.

@KayOL77 have you been living under a rock for the past few decades of people wanting Bobby out and him not budging?

@Dweich02 Not to mention the teams themselves at Activision-Blizzard and the horrors they faced. If this changes that culture then it’s a positive in my book, regardless of how this affects PS gamers. The people that make these games deserve respect and peace of mind, which if nothing else MS seems committed to with the teams they already have.

Sony needs to go back in on weird stuff. Like Puppeteer and Gravity Rush. And also do a sleek, new Killzone.

I think people are getting carried away with the narrative of Microsoft destroying all of gaming or causing the extinction of AAA SP titles. This move is unprecedented for sure, and is a massive blow to Sony who I hope takes the idea that they need an in-house FPS title more seriously now, but this also leads to Sony innovating and hopefully getting some more variety in their first party line-up as well.

The biggest hopes I have are a serious clean up at Activision Blizzard followed by that variety of teams just…making cool games that aren’t CoD and not dealing with a frat bro culture.

And on the topic of Gamepass being anti-consumer…I’d have loved to have a service like this as a kid extremely limited by what I could play. We’ll wait to see if prices go up but right now it all just strikes me as paranoia and brand loyalty.

@UltimateOtaku91 I would assume Playstation fans with a moral compass and sense of common decency would still care about this parasite being in the industry regardless of what box they like playing video games on.

I don’t care how you feel about the acquisition but if Bobby Kotick is out then that’s a net positive

If Toys For Bob makes a Banjo game and Bobby Kotick leaves the industry I’ll honestly consider this a win. We’ll see though.

It won’t matter much. Look what they did with Banjo, previously a Nintendo mascot. A whole lotta nothing.

Man, PS fanboys continue to be the saltiest of the bunch over what amounts to a nothing statement.

Gotta love blatant and blind fanboyism and how it riles up people over years old games coming to PC for more people to check out.

Thanks but no thanks. My backlog is screaming at me as is, and I don’t need another game where hundreds of hours of content is used as a bullet point.

@Dezzy70 I mean, I called you an elitist here on this site and I stand by it if you still write off AA and indie games. Has nothing to do with console wars.

@Royalblues I'd say you're pretty much on the money. Nintendo and Xbox do have their fanboys but it is nowhere near as rampant as the toxicity I see from Playstation fanboys these days, and a lot of the time in these comment sections.

@Dezzy70 I don’t care if you like BOTW, writing AA and indie games off out of hand because they don’t have the multi millions in budget to throw around or man power to force into labor intensive crunch for your face melting graphics is going to make you an elitist in my book.

@Dezzy70 If you think only AAA can deliver the best and put that much stock into a game looking and sounding the best…yes, I’d say you’re an elitist. Also Hades, an indie, completely blows most AAA games away in being actually the full package.

@UltimateOtaku91 Take away gamepass, the main thing that they’ve achieved that they’ve moved beyond Xbox and are using as their bread and butter for PC, phone and cloud gaming and what do they have? Take away Microsoft’s main, industry challenging service and you’re left with nothing yes, but I think you’re selling short that Gamepass is more Microsoft’s main competing force rather than trying to do traditional console wars. It’d be like asking what does Sony have beyond exclusives.

@Dezzy70 Yeah, going on about value and saving money is bunk! Who cares about people on a budget or people wanting to try a multiplayer game without needing to buy multiple consoles! Who cares that more people have more options! They’re not even playing REAL video games which of course are only AAA!

You’re the worst kind of elitist.

Wow this comment section…

Anyways, I loved Infinite, though the multiplayer needs restructuring with how it does its battle pass crap.

Ubisoft is a garbage company and even though I have a Series X I have no intention to use this service.

‘AAA’ and ‘AA’ mean nothing to me, nor does indie, and I judge the merits of a game by how much I actually enjoyed it. Hated the Last of Us but loved Ghost of Tsushima and Spider-Man, takes more than being ‘AAA’ with crunch-fueled graphics and an Oscar bait story to make me like something. Psychonauts 2 was far and away the best game of last year in my book and I don’t care if it’s ‘AA’.

Gamepass is convenient for my budget, though definitely has a lot of filler, but also gets a lot of great games, indies included, and the FPS boosts with older games has helped me knock a good chunk of my backlog out too. The way Microsoft handled making gaming affordable was what steered me towards the Series X over the PS5 initially and I don’t regret it.

All that said, I intend to get a PS5 within the next few months or so with Returnal, Miles Morales and Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart. Only PS5 games I care about right now but I’m looking forward to more.

I mean mine is Halo Infinite but yeah…aside from that weak year for the genre.

Definitely my personal GOTY. 16 year wait and it somehow exceeded my expectations.

Hard pass. Activision Blizzard won’t see a cent from me.

Boy…this industry has a lot of skeletons coming out of their closets. At least Sony was swift about it unlike a certain other company with a certain CEO.