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I loved Medieval 2 and Empire on PC, but I’ve longed got rid of it. Here’s hoping Medieval 3 takes me back to the glory days.

Wonder what Media Molecule are up to now. Feels like they're the one Playstation Studio that we don't know much about that has the opportunity to showcase something brilliant.

@Chip-Douglas I know right. How can Isabella Scorupo and Eva Green possibly compare to custard creams and a old fashioned English tea?

I think Nightfire on PS2 had some great level design for a Bond game. That game had so many secrets that I'm still learning to this day.

All stealth sounds good in theory, but the thing about James Bond is that it has a load of action set pieces. I don't want the game to be ALL action, but heavy shoot outs are something I expect to do in Bond game.

I think it’s because in the past, sequels to games would all appear on the same console. Not only that, but it made Ghost of Yotei’s reveal kind of bland for me. Sucker Punch’s brand new PS5 game, and I was just expecting it to be the next Ghost game.

@Shaw_Brothers I get the idea of wanting to unlock things. It encourages you to explore the game’s different modes, and makes you want to try out all the different characters. The problem nowadays is the online mode. If you want to start playing online right away (which most fighters accommodate) it helps to have all the characters unlocked from the get go.

And let’s be honest, most of the time unlocking characters was just going through the arcade mode over and over again. Great if it’s something like Tekken where the endings were actually good, but with Soul Calibur, not so much.

As far as recommendations go, Tekken 8 is probably the closest as you still get really fun endings to watch after you finish all of the character episodes.

I don’t think he’s necessarily wrong about fighting game developers/publishers deserving their fair share of tournament revenue. But Capcom’s solution to block viewership behind a paywall isn’t the solution.

Without knowing much about Far Cry, how do you do an adaptation of it? Don't all the games feature different characters and are set in different countries? If I had to guess, they're going to either do their own thing, or directly adapt FC3.

Remember the days when Ghosts was the lowest point in the series' history? Look how far we've fallen.

@DennisReynolds it has issues, yes, but I’d argue that none of those problems would’ve stopped Cyberpunk from being seen as good had the launch not had so many bugs. Worth noting that Cyberpunk was reviewed well on PC

It was kind of shocking that Ghost of Yotei didn’t get a GOTY. As shown here it got seven nominations. By comparison, the only category DK Bananza was nominated for was best family game.

I’m not saying DK Bananza isn’t worthy, it most definitely is, but it was shocking to see a game get seven nominations, yet none of which are for GOTY

@DennisReynolds even the, Cyberpunk’s only massive flaw were the bugs.

@Fishmasterflex96 very well, I’ll fall on my sword, you were right. Well done.

@BamBamBaklava89 what would you replace? All the games nominated for GOTY are so good.

Wow, Ghost of Yōtei didn’t get a GOTY nom. It got so many other nominations, especially compared to Donkey Kong which only got one, and didn’t get to GOTY.

Based on most likely to win to least likely, I have it:

Expedition 33
Hades 2
Hollow Knight Silksong
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
Donkey Kong Bananza
Death Stranding 2

Not holding out a huge amount of hope, considering the Game Awards aren't much longer after this.

Replaying Hollow Knight while I’m waiting for the Silksong physical release

@Fishmasterflex96 I’m not denying it’s quality, I just don’t think it’s going to have enough people backing it

@Fishmasterflex96 well I’ve never even heard of Blue Prince, and my favourite game of the year is The Hundred Line. I doubt enough of the voters are going to know what it is in order for it to get a nomination that prestigious.

@Fishmasterflex96 PlayStation single player focussed first party games have a tremendous track record at the Game Awards, and the first GOT game got nominated for GOTY even though the competition for that award was equally as strong

Hopefully this means that Limited Run can finally get the physical release sorted

@Ainu20 I feel that KCD2 came out too soon in the year to be remembered, but I would not be surprised at all if that or Split Fiction get nominated

My GOTY predictions:

Expedition 33

Donkey Kong Bananza

Death Stranding 2

Ghost of Yotei

Hades 2

Hollow Knight Silksong

Competition is tough this year

If he's not telling us which one, I can only assume he's on about an unannounced game, though it's hard to think of a game that would be bigger commercially than GTA 6.

Maybe that sci-fi game Santa Monica are working on?

Hollow Knight x Super Mario Odyssey.

The inspiration here is so obvious, but there are certainly worse games to be inspired by.

The original PS2 release was the first horror game I really got into. Here's hoping that this remake does the original justice.

Yeah, that was lame. All the trailer did was confirm which X-Men didn’t make the cut (unless there’s some fun system in place where unused characters like Storm could be in the background doing gardening)

@johncalmc I wouldn’t go that far. I can see why the reveals may not excite everyone, but I also wasn’t offended by any of them either the same way shows that debuted Foamstars, Fairgames and Concord have.

I thought it was alright. I’d say that when the State of Play opened up with an update to Dragon Quest 7 Remake, it was pretty obvious that this wasn’t going to be the showcase where we get massive triple AAA reveals.

And there were some games I liked. Blazblue, Nevergrave and oddly enough Damon and Baby caught my eye.

I think Marvel Touken could’ve shown us a new character or two. I don’t think that was too entitled.

The best thing about this generation for me is that we’re getting a lot more quality big budget titles coming from countries which don’t have much history in console gaming, such as Korea, China and Eastern Europe.

Stellar Blade and Lies of P have shown that there’s a lot of developer talent in Korea, so hopefully we’ll see even more games following up on their success.

@HaveTheSauce Nahhhh, that sounds like your thinking of worst case scenarios their, buddy

Can we add “fanboys with overly inflated expectations” to the list.

Not saying you can’t criticise a State of Play if it isn’t very good, but there’s a difference between that, and moaning that moaning that PlayStation hasn’t hired Gabe Newell yet.

I'm expecting this to average in the 70-75 range, but still be liked well enough by the general fanbase.

Its time once again folks to get a bunch of really promising, really cool looking titles, but then moan at PlayStation anyway because they haven't announced GTA 7, Last of Us 3, Crash Bandicoot 5, that Sony are buying Capcom, Half Life 3, Portal 3, or that Jim Ryan will be imortalised as the Don Mattrick of Playstation.

A dissapointing but expected result, but I'd say the big win here is getting the Stop Killing Games initiative out there more and more. We've already seen Gran Turismo Sport add an offline support, which gives me hope for GT7 eventually, not to mention that with some luck, it will encourage publishers to not make certain games online only.

Honestly, I’m not convinced that the PS5 sales of FF7 Remake Part 3 will decline much at all. The only Final Fantasy games to release multiplatform on day 1 were FF15 and the FF13 trilogy. If you’re majorly interested in Final Fantasy, you’re probably already primarily a PlayStation owner.

@nomither6 Mario Kart Wii is the most technical of the Mario Karts, but I wouldn’t expect anyone to get lapped unless you’re playing against people that really take the game super seriously (as in still playing the game online in 2016 seriously).

I still maintain that any problems you have with NF is a consequence of the original game being a far more skill focussed racing game, and not a party focussed one where anyone can win.

@nomither6 Mario Kart has blue shells, red shells, lightning and bullet bills. It’s very unlikely that a strong player will be allowed to lap amyone.

Acceleration wasn’t the worst in the og game, but speed was objectively the best.

@nomither6 I will agree with some of your complaints. Yes, playing online isn’t particularly fun for the reasons you stated. If you get hit at the end of Tiny Temple, you’ve lost the race and have no way to climb back up. And I 100% agree that the game feels more F-Zero like than Mario Kart.

But for me at least, the original Crash Team Racing was like that too. Speed characters were always far superior to everyone else outside of Penta Penguin. There’s no way you can make the other classes useful without making the game faithful to the original CTR.

The original CTR also didn’t work as a fun multiplayer kart racer, because if you knew what you were doing, you’d beat the opposition effortlessly. In both original and remake, CTR was always far more skill focussed than virtually every other kart racer.

I don’t agree with the Nitro Kart complaints. The original PS2 game had wonky physics, but the track designs were all solid, and in terms of characterisation and visuals, it was the closest game to the original Naughty Dog games, including Crash 4.

I will agree that the original tracks vary in quality, but the only ones I dislike are Koala Carnival and Drive Thru Driveway

@nomither6 that’s a boiling hot take right there. What did Nitro Fuelled do worse than the original?

If it’s real then it will probably be shown at the Game Awards. Nitro Fuelled, 4 and Rumbled were all announced at Geoff Keighly events

Looking forward to this one at Christmas, providing I’m on Santa’s good list.

@Northern_munkey In a strange way, I thought it made those older games more realistic. You can't just go out and beat Notah Begay III right away, you had to go out and beat the 90 year old golfer from the Pebble Beach retirement home first (and yes, that is a real character in the game).

@Northern_munkey Funnily enough, the old official Tiger Woods games on the PS2 used to have really bizarre fictional characters. My favourite being The Don. The runner up in a golf tournament, in which the winner "mysteriously" disappeared.

The sad reality in entertainment in general is that it really is. Social video takes up so much time of casual people in general (not just casual gamers, but any casual audience of entertainment).

Honestly, allowing flawed and troubled development to continue way longer than it should've done is how we ended up with Redfall.

@johncalmc That’s unfair on Killzone. The series certainly had its ups and downs, but it has a unique aesthetic and it does genuinely have a different feel to Halo

@AgentMantis Exactly. So if Guerilla isn’t going to make a new Killzone, who is?

The problem Killzone has is that one, the last game was a huge disappointment, and two, how big is the Killzone fanbase really? Going to the Killzone Reddit page, it only has five thousand members, which is a tiny amount, old game franchise or not.

It’s a shame because I like Killzone 2, but in Sony’s mind at least, there probably isn’t any evidence that a new Killzone would sell well, or even be received well.

Yeah, I think every entertainment company is fearing TikTok right now. It’s partially why so many studios have been trying to break into the live service sector.