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A previous ride on the Remedy chain of influence got me to reading House of Leaves.

And that was b*llocks.

Can't go wrong with a bit of NGE tho.

@Uromastryx hopefully they know it's a different audience. The Stellar Blade team figured it out so....

Nice. Shows a confidence in their design and a curated experience. Also no micro transactions and launching at £54.99....what?

Does anyone else really like it when an upgraded version gets a new trophy list? Ain't popped some of these suckers in almost 8 years.

Hmmm. Maybe. Cant help feeling this is the kind of thing that should be straight onto PS Plus.

That next-gen Xbox is sounding more and more enticing.

Who's playing Cuno?

@get2sammyb I think people have a right to express dissatisfaction. You buy a PS5 for games like Horizon FW, and they give you a live service whatever with the next Horizon proper put back however many years. It's not okay. They need to finish what they start, not bait and switch. If I don't want Italian food. I wouldn't go to an Italian restaurant l.

Why? Take the hundred million dollars you're about to spend and invest it in the next actual Baldur's Gate game instead of fan fiction in an inferior format.

They still announce these shows like gamers should be honoured that the sacred realm of TV is somehow validating the things they like. Pffft.

Last of Us was good.... if you didn't play the games which were superior in every way. (Part 1 anyway)

@Greifchen gotta be ironic with that profile pic, right? 😂

If this had a campaign from the makers of Titanfall 2, I would've bought the heck out of it.... A connection that's been scrubbed from the steam store pages for some reason 🧐

KCD1 was definitely held back by PS4 hardware. . . I remember constantly riding into a textureless Rattay and fields full of flowers only popping in about 10 yards in front of Henry . . . So this will be a nice and much-needed update. Some little convenience features from the sequel (outfit loadouts, weapon switching) would be an amazing bonus.

This trailer actually lessened my interest. Main character seems insufferable, and that dialogue with bandit Father Gascoine.... Ouch. One to try on PS Plus down the line.

Another year? Wow. What kind of half-arsed guff were they going to release? Hopefully any interesting parts still remaining can be identified by focus groups and sawed off before 2027.

I just wanna do the wrestling moves. RKO out of nowhere on an orc.

I fell off it part way through the second act. Not a bad effort. Really strong writing and an interesting world but very very unpolished. I bet in 5 years time we'll all be talking about whatever this studio does next though.

Replayed the OG a few months back on PS Plus. Still a survival horror great. Bring on the remake. Hopefully they don't cut too much and keep the Ashford siblings just as delightfully mental.

Ashford.... Ashcroft.... Hmmm.

Looks great. As for her not being a good enough actress . . . it's Lara Croft, not Lady MacBeth.

Why we on about Dustborn?
When someone says 'Bethesda game' you know they don't mean Doom.

Also I really like Detroit and revisit every few years. A bit sad their next project is Star Wars tbh.

Hopefully they continue to team up with talented creatives like Ryukishi07, because the story and psychological aspect is more important than the gameplay for this series. That's hard to do and not just end up with an inferior version of SH2. I think F did this really well.

Anyone else wondering when this new wave of east asian devs are gonna discover other genres?
(Gatchas don't count.)

Not the Max Payne remakes first? Huh. Okay then.
Control was an awesome concept grafted onto a kinda boring / distant / tepid game. This looks about the same, but now with a more schlubby / unkempt / Big Mac protagonist. Hoping for a Remedy renaissance after the amazing / stunning / marvelous Alan Wake 2, so praying that I'm wrong / delusional / on crack and this actually turns out great.

Bit of sweet lizard sex in there.... What is it with these guys? 😂

Oh hell yes! Considering Yakuza / LAD has gone deep into an era of "wacky bollocks" since Nagoshi-san left, this looks perfect.

Halo aside, 2026 is looking awesome from that trailer. Capcom triple threat!

Maybe they could also hire Desperate Dan seeing as he will no longer be playing Joanna Dark.

Would shadow dropping even work for this? A five years delayed release from a company whose reputation (and market value) is in the toilet? I wanna see some reviews first lads.

@themightyant no, you didn't have to spell it out 😂

@themightyant because its run by an ex-yakuza?

So just Yakuza 6 to go.

That one needs a bit more work though. Get some aliasing in there.

@Elodin not really. All the guff still remains. And then the touchscreen + options immersive mode shortcut removes the actually useful part too. And then there's all the menus.

Nah. Impressed by it as a something free, but not for me. Hope you continue to enjoy. 😊

It's alright. Impressive for f2p. But with all the UI on screen, I can't help but think of those "if Ubisoft made..." parody videos.

Talking about Yotei in any category (apart from art direction) when KCD2 exists is disgraceful.

@ThroughTheIris56 It was cos there was a french dude accepting their AstroBot goty awards. Turns out he is the president of the Japanese company!

Boycotts like this never work if the game has appeal . . . it's just vocal minorities from the left and right who live on the internet that normal people couldn't give two squirts about. See also, Hogwarts Legacy.

@ThroughTheIris56 aren't they french!?

Amazing. Seems like a perfect fit. It's talented people who make great video games. Not IP or company logos.

Comrades. Just look forward to consuming new and souless version of thing you used to like. Then wait for next thing without complain. No need for negativity. Be happy.

Quite liked the first one, especially when it came on PS Plus with all the DLC. However, I dont think I've thought about it a single time outside of actually playing it. That, and a satire about the evils of capitalism published by Microsoft? Really?

No. XBox can no longer compete with PS5 and the vapid corpo needs to spin some nonsense to save face so is now like "well I wasn't playing your game anyways so nyeh."

What boggles me is Sony own the company that made this original game 20 years ago and instead of a new sci-fi campaign with galaxy spanning lore, they have them working on Concord 2 or whatever it is.

Last I saw Henry he was running a successful forge in Kuttenberg and had been awake for about 4 weeks straight on that cockerel potion after his frequent sleepwalking all the way to Suchdol became too annoying.

Sounds like just the right man to solve a church conspiracy.

Also, while these DLC's have been cool so far, would absolutely love a big expansion like Blood and Wine or Phantom Liberty. A certain nobleman's wedding would be a perfect backdrop for it.

"The final gunshot was an exclamation mark on everything that led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and then it was over."

Sometimes it's nice to see CEO's sacked for their dumb AF decisions instead of developer layoffs.

Can still find it cheaper than digital and resell it for most of that back, so... Nope, doesn't deter me at all.

Nice to see SH back and doing so well after all this time.

@Ashina Team Silent was disbanded 20 years ago. Right about the time the franchise began it's downfall.

Sorry, but this article talks like only first party Sony games matter. The only truly great one this gen has been AstroBot. When I think over the PS5 era, its the third party developed games that have made it worthwhile, and tbh a pretty awesome time for gaming.

Nice. Between this and Alan, they've really nailed the spooky month. Hope the extra update is filled out with some lesser known horrors too.

When theyre good theyre really good. Thinking of the Last of Us morality test and HZD's unfolding mystery.
Sometimes the delivery is lacking though, and just results in tedium. Rangnorok's elephant ride of exposition being the main culprit.