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The first game was solid all around, nothing epic, but was so great in atmosphere. This game looks like its backed with better funding and it reflects in the trailer. Its looks wayyyy deeper. This sequel has the potential to turn out to be something huge, kind of like how EX33 hit the scene and wowed everyone. Even if its not quite on that level, but similar, I think we may be in for a treat

@ButterySmooth30FPS Yeah, that guy part of a master race. Last time I checked, every other PC game DF reviews the last few yrs all have frame gen probs, frame rate probs, lack of optimization, bugs, bugs and more bugs.

Then enter Valve, one of the master races darlings for decades, announcing steam machine back in NOV. "we'll give you the PC master race experience, underneath your TV like a console" Right? Wrong!!!! lmao

That hump of plastic is predicted to be between $800 - $1000 for 5yr old tech and no true AAA exclusives, only the bones Sony sent them on Steam, which they will be cutting off soon thanks to Xbox.

All that said, Master race my a**. PC been turning into a joke like Xbox lately. Will never sink like Xbox, but not worth the time or $$$$.

@ZeD @KundaliniRising333 Yes good points, I see we are all in agreement. I'm def not bashing the game. I hope people who into these really love it and it does well. I just have no desire to be going from building to building, opening boxes and collecting junk as the core gameplay loop. So tedious and boring. I'm sitting there with two randoms in my team, picking this stuff up and just thinking to myself "I don't F'in care what any of this sh** does" lmao

I'm really bummed, because I'm a sucker for cyberpunk themed IP. And again, the visuals and art direction are unique and so good.

With Halo getting tanked ages ago by 343, Resistance/Killzone both sunset a long time ago, COD really starting to fall off, there's so much space for a new, story driven, epic FPS game in the industry. Bungie is the team to do it too. This game could have been the next Halo if Bungie really focused and made it that way.

Wow, the visuals and art direction, cyberpunk/cybernetic vibes are incredible. The gunplay and movement is top notch as expected from bungie.

But I just don't wish to play a game where the point is to start match, collect junk and extract. Then at base have 1,000's of lines of text to figure out what this crap does. Just not for me. The UI is too busy and too much sensory overload, it confuses me and makes my eyes hurt. So same thing as ARC raiders. Gave it a try, then deleted mid game, knowing that I will never play this. Oh well, i tried.

A single player FPS set in this world would have been amazing.

This article and some of the reviews making it real hard to reserve this game for Oct and making it my Halloween game

Yeah prob cause we won't really see it in full force until Horizon 3 and that will more then likely be on ps6. So I would hope that they have upscaling tech that is better then what will be on current gen with PSSR 2.0

@Haruki_NLI Oh really? duhhhhhhhh lmao clown. Sony would just make that decision on the IP. They would not develop the game. Use your head before you get all sarcastic in your reply thinking you are the smartest guy in the room.

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@Grumblevolcano I'm not saying its impossible and that game won't end up on switch, who knows and whatever. I'm saying that isn't the kind of business that Sony would go out there in person with Kojima to handle.

@Grumblevolcano Why would playstation be at Kojima for a switch 2 ver. of Death Stranding ? lmao

I was going to be doing this anyways, more the likely, but the reception of this game makes it easier to wait for OCT and make it my Halloween game. I bet its still great though, but not a barn burner that needs to be played on launch day.

@Oram77 this is the new "wtf did they do to Joel in the sequel?" moment that nobody is gonna shut the F up about.

I'm more of a BF and TLOU multiplayer type guy then the likes of ARC raiders and Marathon. But I'll give the server slam a try. I really love the art direction and visuals of the gameplay trailers. I just wish Bungie would have made a single player FPS in this world of marathon, instead of a live service game, but oh well.

@Boxmonkey uhhhh no. The steam machine is rumored to have a ridiculous price tag and the thing is just on par tech wise with a base ps5. This gen will be close to 6 yrs old already when that heap of plastic launches. How is a console/pc hybrid with the same tech as a ps5, 6yrs late to the party and no real AAA exclusives like Sony going to become Playstations main rival? lmao. In fact most people in the industry are saying this thing has a good chance at being DOA. It was already going to be between $800-1000 for and that was before the RAM shortage. Lmao, main rival at that price tag, with inferior tech and games? Not a chance

@Scottyy you can't just automatically assume if xbox fades out of existence that Sony will just get lazy without having them as competition. Did you forget that Sony released 2 consoles, the ps1 and ps2 before xbox was even in the console gaming business? Big corporations like Sony just dont decide to get all lax when other competitors go away. Its not how business works. I respect you opinion, im not trying to convert you. But believe me, things are going to stay just fine in the world of PlayStation.

@Scottyy To be quite honest, xbox hasn't been much competition for way longer then people think and PS has been 100% fine. Halo was xbox's flagship. 343 tanked Halo ages ago. Infinite was just an above avg FPS. Forza has been forza, but racing is niche. Gears has been in the stage of an IP where there's been a ton of iterations already and its been 7yrs and counting since Gears 5 and the one in dev now.

Starfield was a total flop for "skyrim in space"/bethesda standards. A solid game, but forgotten about quick and not the killer app xbox needed. Too many exclusives that are ok games, but don't move the needle such as South of midnight, Avowed, Outer worlds 2, Hellblade 2. I know, they're on ps5 now but the fact they aren't system sellers is what got them on ps5 to begin with. Xbox 1st party has had a prob with dev'ing killer apps for ages now. Its nothing new

When's the last time xbox put out a truly epic AAA game, that would be up to par with TLOU, Horizon: ZD/FW, or Ghost of T???

So with all that said, Xbox going away will not affect Sony one bit. They haven't been much competition since the 360 and that was 12yrs ago.

@OldGamer999 take the RAM out of the console 1st before you eat it. Do you have any idea what that may be worth 2 years from now???

No impact? so does this mean they'll be using the same game engine on ps6 and ps7 too, for the next 20 years?

"One of the main lessons the platform holder learned from Concord was to get players involved as early as possible"

Yeah they learned this lesson. That's why Fairgames still only has a CGI trailer that's 3 years old now.

Microsoft is one of the richest companies in the world, all time. That takes brains and hard work to achieve. Yet with Xbox they have no clue wtf they are doing from one day to the next. lmao I thinks its hilarious watching xbox (st)fumble all over the place like a drunk on a crab fishing boat on the high seas

@DETfaninATL Awesome to hear you are playing Metal Eden. I think it was a gem that was highly overlooked. I'm halfway through and dropped it for a bit, but will be picking it up this weekend. The cyberpunk vibes in that game are so great. Everyone likes doom and likes cyberpunk theme. IDK why that game flew totally under the radar

I started KCD1, ps5ver. last weekend, but I'm pulling the plug for now. Crimson Desert will be day one in March and I never play one huge RPG, then into another one back to back. I'll save KCD1 for an RPG-itch when there isn't a new one to play. So idk, I still have to finish Metal Eden and then check out BF6 season 2

@lazarus11 oh wow, another grocery or food delivery app!!!! I can't wait!!!

This Sharma was the COO of instacart. Yeah instacart. So what now, does microsoft want gamers to be able to order groceries off of gamepass?

Good riddance to both of them.

So much CNN/Foxnews level sh** happening in gaming in just 2 days. If Aliens finally decided to come down and make contact tomorrow, I don't think anybody into gaming would notice.

Im disgusted by this studio closure like everyone else, but sorry, Sony doesn't owe anybody in this industry, fans, gamers etc any more explanation or to wipe our tears for us over a business decision. Its just not how life works. Everyone thinks humanity should be breathing through social media 24/7 365 in this day and age.

"then at what point do we begin worrying about the likes of Media Molecule and Bend Studio?"

Lmao they haven't put out sh** in ages, so worrying about them is not a practice anybody should engage in.

anyone know what the record is on here for most comments left to any one article? this has got to be up there, no?

Can you imagine how much more amplified this would be if Xbox wasn't crapping their own sheets the last 2 gens? Sony would be toast.

@Oram77 oh no doubt. I've been gaming since intellivision, so I've seen many games in over 50yrs on this planet, yet TLOU1 is my fave game of all time, easily. Has not been topped yet.

@Oram77 On a serious note, I have a biased opinion because I'm a ND fanboy, but I have no doubt Intergalactic is going to be this new epic IP. I'm willing to just let them cook. Its worth the wait with a studio like that.

@Oram77 I know ND will never go anywhere. It was sarcasm because of today's news

@Flaming_Kaiser You are clearly a F'in troll. You are leaving so many messages to every comment. Nowhere in this article did I celebrate the closing of any studio. Clown. Climb back into the hole you slithered up from

@Oram77 lol good point. Naughty Dog seems to be struggling to get a game out this gen. Any freakin' game. They've been radio silent on Intergalactic for over a year now. Would we be surprised at all if we wake up tomorrow and there's a new article saying "SOny to shut down Naughty Dog"?

let's get early Amazon stock rich everyone!!!!! As soon as we find out who the next new manufacture is that will be pumping out RAM, invest everything you got in their stock and thank me later. Hopefully its a brand new startup, with stock at only $1 per share max to start, going up to $250 per share by 2030

@Oram77 after all of today's news, they better shadow drop the ps6 at the next state of play and for only $299, game and extra controller included.

Yes write it in stone now. That epic State of play we got was totally strategic to try and soften the blow for all of today's news. haha

@AlexPorto if they were gonna close just one studio, how does bend not get closed over Bluepoint. Bend hasn't done crap in ages and day's gone wasn't exactly an epic offering.

@get2sammyb Apparently it made more sense to close them, instead of have them make Bloodborne remake that nobody has been clamoring for, for the last 10yrs

Maybe the epic state of play was on purpose to soften the blow of this news and perhaps more news to come

Oh boy!!! everyone to your kitchens, get the popcorn going. Triple batch!!! This gonna get crazy fast in here!!! hahaha

Oh wowwww, a new engine??!!!!!! So instead of the NPC's starring off into space with that fake uncanny valley look, they stare off into Oblivion in this one.

@TrollOfWar @nomither6 Maybe xbots would flock to a free to play game on the xbox. I mean gamepass is basically designed to wreck the industry and shun all developers out of the real $$$ they could be making by selling their game the old fashion way, in the name of giving xbots a slew of games for a cheap monthly price. Its technically designed to promote "mooching" or "freeloading". WIth that said, free to play would be perfect for a collection of moochers.

@rjejr These dev's are in denial. Go watch DestinL's youtube video he made on this game, reading a letter one of Highguard's dev's penned about this whole debacle. Its crazy. He said when the game was in Dev, they thought they had "lightning in a bottle"with this game, exact quote, kind of like how ARC raiders did. He also goes on to blame us gamers as to why the game failed and tanked to early. The game sucks, not sure what drugs that dev is doing.

ps6 better have enough CPU headroom where we can have fidelity mode in all games running at 60fps. I mean this has got to finally be the gen for that right? We are already right there on the cusp with ps5. Pretty much all games have a PM for 60fps, sometimes 120fps. I think DF said the ps5pro lacks just a bit of CPU to have 4k60 with RT on. So ps6 better be the playstation that finally ushers in 4k60fps, w/RT on and whatever else, for every single release. No concessions. Right? RIGHHHHTTTT???? lol

I only play Domination and TDM, so I wish the smaller new map was available with the larger one. IDK why they have to stagger map releases when there's only 2 new ones lmao. Still love the game from time to time though

i still have the ren and stimpy box set dvds. this show was so great back in the day. its been ages. i need to bust them out

@crossbit why do you wish for this game to be another concord? With Sony owning bungie and this being a playstation centric site, you enjoy seeing Sony piss away money on every single live service game? Are you not a Sony fan here? I wish they never got involved in all this live service, but they need some wins other then helldivers 2 and I don't wish failure on them

Not really into extraction shooters but the visuals, atmosphere and art style looked amazing in the recent SOP trailer. I wish it was a single player campaign kinda FPS

God of War Egypt with Powerslave and Rime of the ancient mariner on the soundtrack? sign me up

Why is pushsquare giving this man 2 articles on this?