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@somnambulance And there's nothing wrong with that. Not every game is going to appeal to everyone, and I can see why you playing as an abuser who may or may not be redeemed at the end can be offputting.

@Ambassador_Kong Are there even any toxic masculine males in TLOU2? I wouldn't call Joel in this game toxic (for obvious reasons).

@Gbarsotini Black Cat has to be bi surely, she was in a relationship with Parker prior to the first game.

@Gbarsotini Wasn't the lesbianism in Spider-Man 2 merely Black Cat saying she had a girlfriend?

@DennisReynolds Looking through my game collection, the only PS4 or PS5 game I own to star an undeniably toxic male protagonist is Tekken 7, a game made by a Japanese dev.

I must be missing something here, because to me, this seems no different to the ending of Braid, and people seem to love that ending.

@Ambassador_Kong @Ambassador_Kong Name of games ideally

@Ambassador_Kong How many other Western games rely on the sick icky males in them, because I can't think of any on the top of my head.

@themightyant It's probably done in order to help prevent (or at least limit) potential misinformation from spreading any further than it has to. Which considering the context of the fake spoilers, is probably for the best.

Having not played the game yet, I do find the premise of playing as a genuinely bad person interesting.

I’ll give Sony time to explain themselves, but if this is an attempt to force DRM into PlayStation……….let’s just say that my faith in Sony will be at an all time low.

It doesn’t matter what the price is, I just don’t believe that the future of gaming is streaming, regardless of the amount of analysts trying to convince me otherwise.

Console gaming is something you have to focus on, to put your whole attention in. All the big streaming services like Netflix and Spotify provide very passive entertainment that you’re expected to flick through then dismiss.

I'm in two minds. On the one hand, it sucks for the developers for them not to get that game out. On the otherhand, games like Redfall should never have seen the light of day, so if P11 was struggling that badly, I wouldn't blame the decision to save face and cancel it.

@DennisReynolds I was wondering the same thing. Xbox seem really keen on marketing all these Atlus games, but who on Xbox even cares about Persona? If you like that sort of game, surely you jumped on the PlayStation or Nintendo bandwagon a decade ago.

@LogicStrikesAgain nobody should ever use Metacritic scores alone to decide how good a game may be. By all means, it’s a valuable resource, but it’s important to digest where those scores have come from.

As for the game itself? Excellent. Glad to know it’s good. I am looking forward to playing it in June when physical version comes out.

Surely if there’s one fanbase who have learned the value of patience, it’d be the Kingdom Hearts fanatics.

To me, Sonic Frontiers got really stale really quickly. Shadow Generations is top notch, but Sonic Frontiers...not so much.

@JPEGMakima in fairness, if they added more Sonic characters, I feel it’d be more annoying that they don’t have any dialogue. And I can’t think of any major Sonic character who’s been missed out this time.

@3Above Agreed. As much as I love and adore Gravity Rush, that and the second game were the only games Toyama made post Silent Hill to have a Metacritic score in the 80s.

@Clytorial_Impact Oh, I'm aware that gaming literacy is improving (if ever so slightly) but it isn't just an age thing. A lot of parents simply don't know what the game was about. I was having dinner with family, and one of the little kids spouted something about GTA which made his mother shocked, because she didn't know what was in GTA.

This isn't going to make a blind bit of difference. Not enough parents are gaming literate. How many parents simply allow their kids to play GTA V?

That is shameful and scummy. Didn't Apple try and do this years ago with the App Store?

I don't get why these are so controversial to be honest. Greek mythology is full of this stuff, and it's not like God of War is aimed at kids (not the ones who actually pay attention to the age ratings anyway).

@Oram77 Don't stop dreaming, but we're more likely to see Superman 64 and ET looked back on as 10/10 classics than we are to see a PS5 remake of Majora's Mask.

My thoughts go out to those affected, but based on what I've seen of it, it would've required the biggest conspiracy in the history of gaming for anybody to have said anything remotely positive about it.

I swear that the Starfield coming to PS5 rumours are more interesting than anything that's actually in Starfield the game.

Well deserved. It's just really impressive how Capcom can reinvent what Resident Evil is over and over again, always with such grand results.

Surely the licensing would be an enormous hurdle to overcome here. I don't know who has the Simpsons licence anymore, and even if all the rights are sorted out, there's no guarentee that any legacy developer or team can recreate their success of the past.

To play devil’s advocate, I do think a lot of Xbox’s recent closures and layoff have been down to Microsoft more than Phil. There’s only so much power you have in that situation, when you have to report to Microsoft.

What I do blame him for is not being able to get key first party software out the door in both a timely and high quality fashion. Redfall should never have seen the light of day, and the fact that it did, I put firmly on him.

Not a good a look, Sony. I’m no Demons Souls fan, but they could at least try to explain what happened with this studio, and by the partnership fell apart so badly.

Honestly, I find Rayman 1 to be the least interesting of all the Rayman games. 2, 3, Origins and Legends are more exciting to play and are nowhere near as aggravating.

I'm interested to see if Metal Sonic is going to have a voice actor. If he isn't then we can rule out him turning into Metal Overlord in the movie.

@Haruki_NLI You mean the Beyond Good and Evil 2 award

@OldGamer999 that isn’t true. Astro Bot got 94

I don't think it's unfair to expect consoles to take longer to release, considering that it takes games longer to develop nowadays.

This is the one PS game that needs a PC port the most. Even though I’m a filthy console peasant, this is the sort of thing that the PC creative type would love.

It has to be a rights issues. It’s almost always the music. It’s the reason why Sonic 3 didn’t get rereleased for such a long time.

I'm surprised that the PS6 was even planned for 2028 to begin with. I'm not one of those "PS5 has no games" guys, but this gen does have production cycles that long ridiculously long, so unless the PS6 can magically fix that, I'm not exactly hyped for the thing.

There's something about this game that's screaming "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is". I hope I'm wrong though.

Sounds like an okay number, bearing in mind that these are all brand new models created from scratch. It’s comparable to a bunch of other Arc System Works games.

@Dan12836666 don’t worry, I don’t care much for GTA 6 either. I’ll probably play some JRPG I haven’t got to yet when that game eventually releases.

My prediction: it will be a perfectly fine State of Play, one that everyone will find at least something in it that excites or interests them, but a load of people will moan in the comments anyway for not announcing GTA 7’s release date.

My (pessimistic prediction)

1. A bunch of PS4 games getting PS4 upgrades
2. Jak and Daxter returns in a battle royale game
3. Dino Crisis 3 is given a port
4. The price of PS+ increases, with the only new addition being Fortnite bucks.
5. Media Molecule announce a Horizon spinoff
6. Sony start teasing the PS6
7. The "one more thing" of the event is Todd Howard revealing the PS5 version of Starfield.

Either I'm right or I'm happy to be wrong.

Honestly I'm surprised and impressed that it was still up there for so long.

As much as I commend the dedication of the team, trying to fix Mindseye has got to be the definition of a lost cause.

OMG YES YES YES YES

I asked for Roger Jr in the the last Tekken 8 news story, and now he’s back.

Do your dinosaur step dad proud Roger Jr.

@Perturbator Game Awards closers seem to be all over the place. Before this, I recall the final thing being showed off was Okami 2. Then in 2019 it was that god awful Fast and the Furious game.

@Oram77 It isn't, which brings some perspective into just how badly Concord bombed.

Still holding on hope for Roger. I want to see what shenanigans his mother's been up to since she ditched her husband for a dinosaur.

@BamBamBaklava89 It's because the PS3 infastructure was a nightmare to work with. Sony did this by design with the idea that developers would focus all their energy on the PS3, and it would be too much of a pain to port those games ocer to Xbox 360. In reality, the exact opposite happened, and even Sony is having trouble in getting PS3 games to run on more powerful hardware.