SoonForget

The Witness depressed me. Maybe I was going thru something at the time, but just thinking about playing it makes me sad. One of the least fun puzzle games I've encountered.

I must be one of the few people that gives no shags about trophies ... do you get any prizes for them or is it just a sense of achievement?

Fallout Monopoly Edition is probably what the current Obsidian staff is best capable of.

It's amazing what a giant kick in the butt can do to motivate production. Although I'm sure outside "contractors" will be brought in to push these remakes out, then will be let go upon release and there will be no patch support.

This is the way.

I never claimed to be a smart man, but it took me about 75 hours to realize the game was a turd. That must be how long the stages of denial take to get thru. I guess that part of the billion hours played.

More lies from our savior, Todd Howard. He got slapped by Asha and realizes they may take Fallout away from him so he has to make it look like they already started. Like a bunch of kids that were supposed to clean their room before Mom and Dad got home and just realized the station wagon pulled into the driveway ...

Asha should find everyone that worked on Fallout 3 and New Vegas, offer them a bunch of money, and put them in an office at least 1,000 miles away from wherever Todd resides. Otherwise it will be 2035 before the next Fallout comes out and I don't feel I'm exaggerating with that time estimate.

Maybe offer the team a bunch of Ferrari's if they can get a Fallout game out by 2029.

Update: It apparently is releasing as a Switch version at the same time as other systems. Nice to see it isn't restricted to Switch 2 owners. Pre-orders for the physical copy are up.

I will probably wait for the Switch version to come out. I like mobility for Metroidvania games. Hopefully it gets a proper physical release.

Junk Food has solid "leverless" fight controllers. I have the micro and like it, but the Sworl controller looks pretty interesting

They are not wrong about generational talent being let go ... by the time Elder Scrolls 6 comes out, a generation will have passed.

The PS5 is powerful enough for my needs. I'm actually looking at retro handheld systems under $200 as the future of gaming along with the PS5.

If the PS6 comes out at $700 or less I may be tempted.

Benefits of going all digital:

• I don't waste $1300 on a PS6
• I will save all the dolphins that manufacturing a PS6 would otherwise kill with ecological waste by not getting a PS6
• Reduced strain on our power grid from not owning a PS6
• I get to work on my backlog of games. Games that are better than the majority of AAA titles released for the PS5
• Don't have to worry about digital thieves breaking into my home
• More time for other hobbies

I already canceled my Flex Strike pre-order this weekend, but I appreciate Sony reminding me not to spend any more money on their products.

It is the monopoly that Sony now controls that we should be united against ... instead of bickering over digital vs physical percentages. All games will be $80-$100 and nothing we can do about it.

Yeah, they will allow retailers to sell key codes (i'm sure Gamestop is cracking the champagne bottles lolz). There is no reason to not use Sony's digital storefront unless you are buying something for your grandkid.

Play has limits.

@twitchtvpat
You can't sell a piece of paper with an expired code on the used market.

Even if you already buy all digital, this decision will hit your pocketbook. Sony will have a monopoly on digital pricing.

I just canceled my Flexstrike pre-order. If they are getting rid of physical games, why support their physical accessories?

I guess I will be a PC gamer going forward from the PS5. So long Sony. It was fun while it lasted.

Show us the proof. Show us the pudding. Show us the gameplay.

The PS5 version will be fixed by Saturday, October 23rd, 2077.

In Todd Howard We Trust!

Pre-ordering a digital license for something you will not own is kinda nuts to me. To each their own.

I wonder if companies have discussed announcing pre-orders for digital content to be limited to increase FOMO (I imagine it has)? Not that GTA need to do this, but let's say another company has a special "horse armor" limited to the first 100K digital pre-orders.

I already have reservations about giving an 8 year old a $500 Nintendo ... no way I'm giving an 8 year old a $1000+ PS6 to drop or lose. But it may make sense to the market that can afford the PS6, which is 40+ year old dudes and dudettes.

It also means they need to make games for 40+ year old dudes and dudettes, which are single player games.

@Vertere
Peace be with you.

@Vertere
I don’t preorder games. I preordered the fight stick.

I would like to thank Nishino for telling me that Marvel Token is a live service game. I didn’t think of fighting games as live service but I appreciate him making it clear… and yeah, I guess fighting games are live service. My brain is now recalibrated.

I was going to buy this along with the Flexstrike stick but now will wait at least a year to see if they are still supporting it or go the Warner Brothers route with the last Mortal Kombat and abandon it despite selling millions of copies.

Now I have to consider if I should cancel my Flexstrike pre-order or use it for SF6 and Tekkon.

I wouldn't be surprised if we get a mid October notice from Sony of a PS5 price increase notice prior to the GT6 release. You know Sony is discussing it and weighing the pros and cons ... they would be fools not to thinking about it.

They will be monitoring the pre-orders and if folks are getting the $100 full-game version of GT6 in overwhelming numbers, I think they will.

This gives them extra time to finish making the game while the beta gets released digitally.

Art from 500 years ago look phenomenal in screen shots ... show us the gameplay. Is it still the same wonky GTA / Red Dead standard?

As for Mario Kart World being $80 ... you can spend $50 for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which is a superior game.

I just confirmed I will wait for this game to go on sale. I'm not spending $80 on a video game.

What is the average race length (time) / laps? Does it vary?

You had me at Star Wars and WipEout.

They give out awards for game settings?

I'm not paying $900+ for a video game system. I don't care who makes it.

They could have gone the Disney route with with Rouge One and Solo and called is "A God of War Story". I think that would have reduced a lot of controversy.

I'm going to wait at least a year past the release date for this game at the very minimum before considering buying it. Sorry, but the industry has trained me to this game buying behavior.

You can pay full price for a game that will either need updates or be abandoned by the publisher ... or wait a year to see if they support it and if they do, get it 50% off.

I'm waiting for Nintendo to issue a cease and desist since they created the Game Cube in 2001.

Make a new single player WipEout game. And don't replace the anti-gravity ships with go-karts and call it a WipEout game.

And good spin for Sony's true customer ... the investor.

This is next-level Connect 4 super strategy.

So to play coach co-op on a PS5 it will be $21.98 / month

Petty revenge by Sony over Gears being dropped? Or Microsoft being jerks? I only know two things:

Microsoft Account = $0.00
Sony PSN "Essentials" Account = $10.99 / month

The price of this game will have a huge impact on all of us. Investors and banks are pressuring Rockstar to increase the price of the game so the rest of the industry can justify more expensive games. If Rockstar wants to be a rock star, they will list it at $69.99.

We shall know soon ...

The PS6 will be, in my opinion, at least $1000 based on the $900 price-tag of the PS5 Pro. Even hardcore gamers are going to balk at that price. And game developers are going to make the games for the PS5 instead of the PS6, because that is where the majority of "consumers" are. We already witnessed this with the transition from the PS4 to the PS5.

Sony doesn't have a Zelda game hidden up their sleeve to sell a system at that price ... heck, it is taking them 7 years to release a God of War game for the PS5.

I'm perfectly fine with the PS5.

I think Sony needs to look up the word "soon" in a dictionary

"You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means"

Sweet! Looks like some nice quality of life improvements.

I think Sony could knock out a WipEout game in under 2 years with a small team ... it has been almost a decade since an HD collection of previous WipEout game was released. Sell it for $50 and watch the money roll in.

All you need for a good game is some mushrooms, turtles, a princess to save, and most importantly, fun mechanics.

Get rid of anyone that can't make a game in under 4 years. Get rid of real actors and motion caption. No microtransactions and a good single player game. And throw any CEO out of the window that wants to put ads in $80 games.

It's not brain science, it's rocket surgery!

I didn't see much of any hype for Saros from Sony. The first I became aware of it is when it popped up on PSN store for pre-order about a month prior to release. Compared to GoW which may be over a year or more away and is getting tons of hype. Or Wolvorine. I would argue that Saros needed even more promotion since it wasn't coming from an established franchise.

Strange for Sony not to promote an exclusive single player game, especially since there are only of handful of exclusive games that have been released on PS5.

Why doesn't Sony put out press releases bragging about the Ghost of Yotei sales numbers? It could boost interest. Brag about your company's triumph. Show us the numbers.

This site did a post on Pearl Abyss reporting that Crimson Desert has 6 million sales since March of this year. I think Pearl Abyss has put out three "brags" in since the game released 3 months ago. I think it still sells at full price as well.