@datamonkey You are just assuming that Xbox is being clever by trying to get PS games on xbox under Sony's breath huh? You don't think Sony is looking at this? lmao It will more than likely be some kind of bespoke ver. of Steam on the next xbox, with choice library for xbox's brand. Sony's games excluded. However it turns out, rest assured Sony will make sure measures are in place so Xbox doesn't get sh**
@TrollOfWar PC is a different beast. Xbox is releasing 1st party on PS because they are a sinking ship and in desperation mode. A console can release on PC and it will not affect console sales. PC is not really a direct competitor to a console like xbox vs. PS is. Ps5 just reached 94million units sold, while releasing games on PC since 2020. Horizon zero dawn released on pc in Aug of 2020. Xbox's #'s this gen have been abysmal while they go multiplat. The proof is in the numbers.
I find it funny that Xbox has been a sinking ship, so in desperation they seem to be going multi-platform. In light of that, alot of gamers and the industry think that Sony is all of a sudden obligated to start putting their heavy hitters on Xbox.
@PuppetMaster I don't know when it started with him. I don't know this for fact, but I get this impression that feels he was done wrong by Sony and/or the industry in general and that's why he's out of the game and salty as F. Its got to be something. He's not very old. Why would he be retired already and not still making games. He probably started this toxic behavior when he was still a game dev and it gave him a bad name. Sony and other publishers decided they don't want to work with him anymore. So righfully so, Sony decided to cut ties. So he wasn't done wrong, he was rightfully relieved of his duties. But if you ask him, he was done wrong, since all he talks about is himself and his games. GOW is a great series, but ancient freakin history. He talks about them like they are the GOAT's of all games and nothing has every matched them. They're not that elite, sorry.
@Deadp001 when he talks, he doesn't know how to say things in a professional way. @KeldorTheCursed @dskatter @nessisonett @Greenmekon He seems so salty at the world esp the games industry. I watched him on a podcast once with LSM. He said he couldn't understand all the hype Kojima gets, said Kojima is overrated, Kojima is full of himself and there's too many Kojima-glazers in the industry. There's more skill and creativity in the first 20mins of both Death stranding games then in any game Jaffe ever made. In the past whenever he's on a podcast, everything out of his mouth is "my GOW this" or "my GOW that". He also makes like there is only 3 GOW games on earth, the ones he helped make. He totally discounts the others like they don't exist.
@Oram77 thats a really good point you made. showcase no longer going to be in the titles. This was pretty much a showcase anyways right? Only way they are making the next one a true showcase over this, is they drop intergalactic deep dive, announce bloodborne 2, maybe that forever rumored Uncharted game with Drakes daughter leading and like a wildcard of Sony Bend showing their next thing and it blows our doors off. lol pipe dreams right?
The only possible negative now though is that they have to live up to this one in the next. I don't choose to think that way. But we all know alot of gamers will make this one the new benchmark. That will be a tall order next SOP.
Not trying to be a broken record i said this last night. But whenever we give Sony crap for their live service debacles and co-op reveals, any time they make us scratch our heads, they slap us in the face and remind us that things are 100% fine in the world of PlayStation
@Balaam_ agree, however at least CDPR rebounded and turned water to wine or Blood and wine (see what i did there?) lmao with the fixing of CP2077. That game is fantastic now. Oblivion remastered however, still not fixed, buggy as hell and from what I've read they have no more plans to patch that further. Heck I'm still waiting for the Borderlands 4 ps5pro memory leak to get fixed. WTF is up with that one? are they hoping we'd just forget about that?
@Scottyy lol thanks. Reanimal is def another one i want to check out. It was on my radar for ages. I still have a backlog of games to get to that I bought during the PSN xmas sale. Reanimal slipped my mind. I love quirky games with unique art styles to switch things up like Little nightmares and now Reanimal. It just came out today right, have you been playing it yet or waiting for the weekend?
@Blauwe_Chimay Yes, this studio cemented themselves in "one of the great ones" after KCD2 for sure IMO. I wish they would do a cyberpunk RPG. Straight be a CDPR studio clone, I don't care. I bet that game would come out sick
@DennisReynolds I know right. Then shortly after RE:req, Crimson Desert drops. Then only 5 weeks after that 007 and Pragmata. Plus the Marathon's and other things if they are your cup of tea in between it all. Lmao crazy start to the year and we didn't even mention the Behemoth that's GTA6 in the fall and all the other games around that
Did we go back to Dec., is it Xmas again or something? Best state of play in ages (some saying the GOAT of SOP's) GOW side scroller shadow dropped last night, next gen upgrade to KCD out now. This is amazing.
Every time we give Sony crap for the live service debacles, or lukewarm Co-op reveals, they hush us up and let us know things are perfectly fine.
i loved KCD2, never played the original. Guess my weekend game has been picked lmao!!!
@Futureshark Yeah, busty. Intergalactic is going to fail and barely sell a 1/2 million copies because the main character doesn't look like busty Gwendolyn, or Eve from Stellar Blade
@Enuo this will be day1 for me for sure. I'm willing to bet it will be great. but IDK how I feel about it switching straight to melee so soon as a new IP. This is #2, not like this series has a trilogy already. I loved the first game, the firearm mechanics, along with the powers. I love souls games, so melee is my thing too, but idk. I guess I thought this would be a continuation of the first game.
@VeldinX That blackhole in the Nebulon 5 universe has been getting closer to earth. According to NASA anyways. Maybe we are starting to feel its immense gravitational pull to the point its bending spacetime?
@SteveJaye Dare I say someone should do Equalizer games with Denzel himself in them? Revenge/helping the helpless themes straight from the movies. That would be kinda cool. And this game looks like it has promise. Will have to see more, but looking great so far.
Atmosphere! Games like this are all about the atmosphere, esp anything in the Silent Hill Universe. I think this trailer nailed how this game seems to have great atmosphere. Looks fantastic IMO
As soon as we start doubting Sony with all the Live service drama and Lukewarm Co-op announcements, they punch us in the mouth and remind us who is boss!!!! Amazing 10/10 for me. Sony is indeed boss
They could fill this SOP with shovelware crap, mirroring every Nintendo Direct since the beginning of time, but if they end on Intergalactic all will still be forgiven!!!
@UltimateOtaku91 @AdamNovice whatever the case, its too bad they did this and just didn't go with the ver. of Decima we know and love. Maybe this game would have a better chance. I understand some people like cartoony games. Im not mocking that. But when you decide to pour time and $$$ into a spin off, in a crowded live service/co-op/hero shooter space, then you are playing with fire by also making it cartoony which appeals to less people.
Just imagine how good this could have been, if it was basically Helldivers 2 concept, but with the insane Decima visuals and you are fighting in the Horizon world vs the machines, rather then araknids or whatever is in Helldivers. Even be as bold as marketing it as such as well. Piggy back off the success of Helldivers 2. Be a clone, who cares. There's no shame in that. Better to do that then set yourself up to possibly go the way of Concord, Highguard or Marathon.
Cause not only do the visuals in Horizon mainline look amazing, the gameplay is king too. Nothing more fun then taking apart machines, piece by piece. There would be so much more depth then Helldivers 2 here
@GirlVersusGame I adore Cyberpunk but I have a biased opinion because anything set in a cyberpunk world appeals to me. Idk why we dont have more proper Cyberpunk RPG's in gaming. I wish the KCD dev's would just full on copy CDPR and make a cyberpunk RPG now that KCD2 has been out. KCD was obv their witcher, so just do it, make that cyberpunk RPG please!!!!
@AdamNovice how do you figure that? Decima isn't stylized cartoon. If its an altered version of Decima with a cartoon coat of paint on it, then my OG comment meant Decima as we know it, not cartoon slop
Its way too late to change this game to Decima engine instead of the cartoony slop they used. So I won't bother telling them anything about this game. It is what it is. I'll just patiently wait for the 3rd game in the Trilogy to drop in 2044
@Dan12836666 Hopefully they show more of this slop at the start of the show, get it out of the way, so we can enjoy the rest. I'm hoping only 5mins max spent on this, 007, phantom blade0, RE:req and wolverine if they decide to show those too. We've seen enough of that stuff. Need to see the future and announced.
@GirlVersusGame I wanna steal fruit as well. I wanna get my teeth cleaned in the game and run out the door when they ask for payment. Hope I don't need a root canal later down the road cause the Dentist won't see me anymore and I'd be out of luck. I'll have to pull the tooth myself with rusty horseshoe pliers. I wanna make a new enemy down some random road, over a crashed wagon of food. Find out where he lives, kick him upside down in his cabin and bed his wifey after she cooks me a hot meal.
Go for drinks in a saloon after a long day of pillaging and poke the guy in the eyes who's looking at me dirty from the bar. Sit back down and tell the waitress to bring me and my team a pitcher of beer every 5 mins until someone passes out, then bring one every 10.
@Jireland92 yep Concord 2 for sure. And everyone blaming Geoff K for its failure, not because nobody wants more hero shooter slop @Ajbr8687 Def what you said. This sentiment that Geoff botched Highguard is absurd. You are right, the game had 97k because everyone was curious enough to DL it and try after that infamous GA trailer. If the game was fun, people would have stuck around. Now its at 2k current and only 3k-24hr peak and dev's getting laid off. All Geoff's fault right? The game is trash and another hero shooter nobody wanted. That is the only problem with Highguard
@Artois2 yeah for sure. So massive that we'd all be playing it right now instead of talking about it. Ive never gave one hero shooter the time of day, not my thing, but Highguard I'd be right in the trenches with you all for sure!!!
@nessisonett you contradict yourself in your reply. You say it was shown off at a bad time during the GA's, which means if it was properly shown off it would have succeeded.
While at the same time you are saying it was prob destin to fail, because its another hokey her shooter in a crowded market.
To me that means, it does not matter one bit when or where you showed this game off, the real problem is we don't need more live service hero shooters. And clearly nobody wanted this, cause look at the abysmal #'s. So that GA's placement is irrelevant to its demise.
If you go watch podcasts by the more respected people who have been in this industry for awhile now and are not judgmental and give all games a chance, they gave their take on highguard during the GA's and they all said the same thing as soon as that hokey trailer played, showing that putrid art style and generic hero shooter gameplay. They were all like "wtf is this crap?" That was their impression of the game and it matched everyone else's because that slop appealed to nobody and is a bad game. Period. Regardless of reveal placement.
Then when you fast forward to Highguards launch and listen to their podcasts to see what their take is on the game after actually playing it, they all said it was boring and not very well executed by the developers. Show this thing off like they did Horizon Hunters, under the radar and it still would have failed.
@Lavishturtle What i can't understand in this industry full of layoffs is, there's plenty of people who need new jobs every year with all this. Why don't the studios who have been stable for many years, even decades, hire these people and have more than one project in full production at a time? There's no reason why a studio like ND can't make and keep up with a TLOU online game and have interstellar going at the same time. No reason why Insomniac can't give us the Marvel superhero entries and then something fresh, using their insane talents at the same time.
@nessisonett so with that rationale, Highguard failed because its a great game, but Geoff sabotaged it by showing it last at the GA's??? That notion is what's complete nonsense. Sorry. That game is pure garbage and the trailer looked like garbage. Makes no difference when or where you showed that game, its trash and the #'s don't lie.
@AdamNovice Here's a better idea. Stop developing games nobody wants. Horizon Hunters is getting bashed already and that game wasn't even introduced in a SOplay, let alone an awards show. Overwatch had great pedigree and success behind it and Blizzard couldn't even get a sequel to that game to work these days. Concord cancelled shortly after release. Bungie the OG of the Halo Series can't even try to get something new in the live service arena w/ marathon. People been bashing Marathon since the beta. See the trend? Dev's are obv too stupid to see this and force their dumb hero shooter or live service ideas anyways, then wonder why nobody is playing them after launch and people get fired. The math is simple. They turn it into quantum mechanics
@nessisonett if a game is good people will play it. if its trash its trash. Look at the hate Horizon hunters is getting and that wasn't even in a state of play, let alone an awards show. People don't want these kinds of games in a crowded space of live service. Highguards #'s keep getting more abysmal because the game is garbage. Simple. How is this remotely Geoff's fault people got laid off? They made a game nobody wanted is why.
@AhmadSumadi Explain to me how waxing nostalgically about a game that was meant for the ps3 back then, has anything remotely to do with a game releasing now in 2026, two full gens later, that has a dev team too lazy to use a real engine and the game looks ps3 level??? Any explanation you give will be invalid because your response didn't make a lick of sense whatsoever. You were clearly mad at what I had to say for some odd reason and had to come up with some nonsensical response.
@DennisReynolds Yeah, when it was announced awhile ago, they said it was like light years away, so i just coupled it with ps6. Well hopefully since its ps5 it doesn't have the insane input lag probs wukong had from the frame gen stutters. I would hope they would rework the engine to remedy this. However, it is a UE5 game so lmao
Underrated? lmao ok. ps3 level textures, animations and character models in 2026 don't go over too well with most people. Nioh 3 is another slop fest in visuals as well. As a matter of fact digital foundry just put out a new vid saying this Nioh engine is in desperate need of an upgrade. Both devs, pure laziness. Esp team ninja
@DartLOD Oh i totally agree. As long as the studio DOES NOT lay anyone off in favor of AI, then when it comes to these hero shooter, or co-op spinoffs etc, esp the cartoony slop I don't care about, then def offload some work to AI if that means the mainline pipeline stays in a traditional release cadence. We were getting a decent release cadence with Sony first party up until this BS live service, spin off initiative.
The only other option is to beef up the studios and have dual teams under one umbrella. But that was obv not an option for Sony. Do you think maybe the studios don't even want this, cause I would imagine the more people working on a game, the more ways the profits get split amongst everyone right? Or do the general dev's make a base salary no matter how good or bad the game sells?
@SlyASpiE Guerilla is a juggernaut for Sony like ND, SP and Insomniac. We are not talking firesprite or Haven. So I don't think layoffs would happen there when you have what will be one of the most highly anticipated games in Horizon 3 in the pipeline. Esp if they decided on ps6. They will prob want that to be the killer app day one with ps6 launch game that will sell consoles. I think Intergalactic will be cross gen and come out first on ps5, but if they reserve that for ps6 can you imagine a day one ps6 launch with Intergalactic and Horizon 3? And dreaming here, but Bloodborne 2 and Kojima's physint as well, but reserve those for launch window a few months later!!!! Pipe dream yes, but on paper that could possibly be the greatest launch lineup ever if materialized.
This game was fantastic. Lords of the Fallen was amazing too. They are the two best soulslikes IMO. Can't wait for Lords 2 this year and I still have to get to LiesOP DLC. Just so much to play right now.
@SlyASpiE as far as them losing $$$$ i don't care. I have no stock in their company. What bums me out is this taking years as you stated and all it did is set Horizon 3 back many years. Its ok to have a stopgap game in between mainline entries. But when said stopgap game (in this case co-op cartoony rubbish) then it just plain sucks and you wish they just made H3. Guerilla was setup to go twice in ps5's life cycle with mainline games if they just stuck to a better plan. Instead they gave us one game, a cartoony BS nobody wants coming this gen and Naughty Dog hasn't even given us nothing so far on ps5.
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Re: 'Not Likely': Spider-Man 2 Dev Crushes Xbox Port Dreams
@datamonkey You are just assuming that Xbox is being clever by trying to get PS games on xbox under Sony's breath huh? You don't think Sony is looking at this? lmao It will more than likely be some kind of bespoke ver. of Steam on the next xbox, with choice library for xbox's brand. Sony's games excluded. However it turns out, rest assured Sony will make sure measures are in place so Xbox doesn't get sh**
Re: 'Not Likely': Spider-Man 2 Dev Crushes Xbox Port Dreams
@TrollOfWar PC is a different beast. Xbox is releasing 1st party on PS because they are a sinking ship and in desperation mode. A console can release on PC and it will not affect console sales. PC is not really a direct competitor to a console like xbox vs. PS is. Ps5 just reached 94million units sold, while releasing games on PC since 2020. Horizon zero dawn released on pc in Aug of 2020. Xbox's #'s this gen have been abysmal while they go multiplat. The proof is in the numbers.
Re: 'Not Likely': Spider-Man 2 Dev Crushes Xbox Port Dreams
I find it funny that Xbox has been a sinking ship, so in desperation they seem to be going multi-platform. In light of that, alot of gamers and the industry think that Sony is all of a sudden obligated to start putting their heavy hitters on Xbox.
Re: 'One of the Worst Decisions Ever Made': God of War Creator Tears 'Total Crap' 2D Title Apart
@PuppetMaster I don't know when it started with him. I don't know this for fact, but I get this impression that feels he was done wrong by Sony and/or the industry in general and that's why he's out of the game and salty as F. Its got to be something. He's not very old. Why would he be retired already and not still making games. He probably started this toxic behavior when he was still a game dev and it gave him a bad name. Sony and other publishers decided they don't want to work with him anymore. So righfully so, Sony decided to cut ties. So he wasn't done wrong, he was rightfully relieved of his duties. But if you ask him, he was done wrong, since all he talks about is himself and his games. GOW is a great series, but ancient freakin history. He talks about them like they are the GOAT's of all games and nothing has every matched them. They're not that elite, sorry.
Re: Castlevania Finally Returns with a Brand New Game in 2026
I wish they would do a symphony of the night remake in this graphics engine and art style. Would be pretty good no?
Re: 'One of the Worst Decisions Ever Made': God of War Creator Tears 'Total Crap' 2D Title Apart
@Deadp001 when he talks, he doesn't know how to say things in a professional way. @KeldorTheCursed @dskatter @nessisonett @Greenmekon He seems so salty at the world esp the games industry. I watched him on a podcast once with LSM. He said he couldn't understand all the hype Kojima gets, said Kojima is overrated, Kojima is full of himself and there's too many Kojima-glazers in the industry. There's more skill and creativity in the first 20mins of both Death stranding games then in any game Jaffe ever made. In the past whenever he's on a podcast, everything out of his mouth is "my GOW this" or "my GOW that". He also makes like there is only 3 GOW games on earth, the ones he helped make. He totally discounts the others like they don't exist.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 620
KCD1 the ps5 ver. that just came out this week
Re: PlayStation Fans Delighted with New State of Play, Already the Most Popular One Ever
@Oram77 thats a really good point you made. showcase no longer going to be in the titles. This was pretty much a showcase anyways right? Only way they are making the next one a true showcase over this, is they drop intergalactic deep dive, announce bloodborne 2, maybe that forever rumored Uncharted game with Drakes daughter leading and like a wildcard of Sony Bend showing their next thing and it blows our doors off. lol pipe dreams right?
Re: PlayStation Fans Delighted with New State of Play, Already the Most Popular One Ever
The only possible negative now though is that they have to live up to this one in the next. I don't choose to think that way. But we all know alot of gamers will make this one the new benchmark. That will be a tall order next SOP.
Re: PlayStation Fans Delighted with New State of Play, Already the Most Popular One Ever
Not trying to be a broken record i said this last night. But whenever we give Sony crap for their live service debacles and co-op reveals, any time they make us scratch our heads, they slap us in the face and remind us that things are 100% fine in the world of PlayStation
Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Hits PS5 Today, Free Upgrade for PS4 Owners
@Balaam_ agree, however at least CDPR rebounded and turned water to wine or Blood and wine (see what i did there?) lmao with the fixing of CP2077. That game is fantastic now. Oblivion remastered however, still not fixed, buggy as hell and from what I've read they have no more plans to patch that further. Heck I'm still waiting for the Borderlands 4 ps5pro memory leak to get fixed. WTF is up with that one? are they hoping we'd just forget about that?
Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Hits PS5 Today, Free Upgrade for PS4 Owners
@Scottyy lol thanks. Reanimal is def another one i want to check out. It was on my radar for ages. I still have a backlog of games to get to that I bought during the PSN xmas sale. Reanimal slipped my mind. I love quirky games with unique art styles to switch things up like Little nightmares and now Reanimal. It just came out today right, have you been playing it yet or waiting for the weekend?
Re: Darwin's Paradox Cosplays as Metal Gear Solid in Playable Demo, Available Now on PS5
Xmas in February is the gift that keeps on giving. Now with a brand new demo lol. Is this Sony's new personal E3 now, Feb?
Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Hits PS5 Today, Free Upgrade for PS4 Owners
@Blauwe_Chimay Yes, this studio cemented themselves in "one of the great ones" after KCD2 for sure IMO. I wish they would do a cyberpunk RPG. Straight be a CDPR studio clone, I don't care. I bet that game would come out sick
Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Hits PS5 Today, Free Upgrade for PS4 Owners
@DennisReynolds I know right. Then shortly after RE:req, Crimson Desert drops. Then only 5 weeks after that 007 and Pragmata. Plus the Marathon's and other things if they are your cup of tea in between it all. Lmao crazy start to the year and we didn't even mention the Behemoth that's GTA6 in the fall and all the other games around that
Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Hits PS5 Today, Free Upgrade for PS4 Owners
Did we go back to Dec., is it Xmas again or something? Best state of play in ages (some saying the GOAT of SOP's) GOW side scroller shadow dropped last night, next gen upgrade to KCD out now. This is amazing.
Every time we give Sony crap for the live service debacles, or lukewarm Co-op reveals, they hush us up and let us know things are perfectly fine.
i loved KCD2, never played the original. Guess my weekend game has been picked lmao!!!
Re: Stunning PS5 Action Game Tides of Annihilation Celebrates Lunar New Year in the London Underground
@Futureshark Yeah, busty. Intergalactic is going to fail and barely sell a 1/2 million copies because the main character doesn't look like busty Gwendolyn, or Eve from Stellar Blade
Re: Control Resonant Looks Mind-Bendingly Awesome in First PS5 Gameplay
@Enuo this will be day1 for me for sure. I'm willing to bet it will be great. but IDK how I feel about it switching straight to melee so soon as a new IP. This is #2, not like this series has a trilogy already. I loved the first game, the firearm mechanics, along with the powers. I love souls games, so melee is my thing too, but idk. I guess I thought this would be a continuation of the first game.
Re: God of War: Sons of Sparta Is the Long-Rumoured 2D Game, Out Now on PS5
@VeldinX That blackhole in the Nebulon 5 universe has been getting closer to earth. According to NASA anyways. Maybe we are starting to feel its immense gravitational pull to the point its bending spacetime?
Re: AAA John Wick Game Announced for PS5
@SteveJaye Dare I say someone should do Equalizer games with Denzel himself in them? Revenge/helping the helpless themes straight from the movies. That would be kinda cool. And this game looks like it has promise. Will have to see more, but looking great so far.
Re: Silent Hill: Townfall Is the Next Series Entry to Get Excited About, Out on PS5 in 2026
Atmosphere! Games like this are all about the atmosphere, esp anything in the Silent Hill Universe. I think this trailer nailed how this game seems to have great atmosphere. Looks fantastic IMO
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate State of Play for February 2026?
As soon as we start doubting Sony with all the Live service drama and Lukewarm Co-op announcements, they punch us in the mouth and remind us who is boss!!!! Amazing 10/10 for me. Sony is indeed boss
Re: Kena: Scars of Kosmora a Bigger and Better PS5 Sequel, Out in 2026
this was a nice surprise. Didn't see this coming and it looks fantastic too. Great opener
Re: What Time Is PlayStation's State of Play for February 2026?
They could fill this SOP with shovelware crap, mirroring every Nintendo Direct since the beginning of time, but if they end on Intergalactic all will still be forgiven!!!
Re: There's No Stopping Multiplayer Sensation ARC Raiders, Reaches 14 Million Copies Sold
@Boxmonkey Yeah, you have any idea how many different kinds of rubber tubing they can create to collect in this game???!!!!! Insane!
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Available to Download Now, Here's What It Does
Booooo! I thought they were getting the Console ready for when they shadow drop Intergalactic later after the State of Play
Re: Here's Your Chance to Tell Sony What You Think of Horizon Hunters Gathering
@UltimateOtaku91 @AdamNovice whatever the case, its too bad they did this and just didn't go with the ver. of Decima we know and love. Maybe this game would have a better chance. I understand some people like cartoony games. Im not mocking that. But when you decide to pour time and $$$ into a spin off, in a crowded live service/co-op/hero shooter space, then you are playing with fire by also making it cartoony which appeals to less people.
Just imagine how good this could have been, if it was basically Helldivers 2 concept, but with the insane Decima visuals and you are fighting in the Horizon world vs the machines, rather then araknids or whatever is in Helldivers. Even be as bold as marketing it as such as well. Piggy back off the success of Helldivers 2. Be a clone, who cares. There's no shame in that. Better to do that then set yourself up to possibly go the way of Concord, Highguard or Marathon.
Cause not only do the visuals in Horizon mainline look amazing, the gameplay is king too. Nothing more fun then taking apart machines, piece by piece. There would be so much more depth then Helldivers 2 here
Re: Crimson Desert PS5 Is Also a Full-On Life Sim Game, Last Deep Dive Video Reveals
@GirlVersusGame I adore Cyberpunk but I have a biased opinion because anything set in a cyberpunk world appeals to me. Idk why we dont have more proper Cyberpunk RPG's in gaming. I wish the KCD dev's would just full on copy CDPR and make a cyberpunk RPG now that KCD2 has been out. KCD was obv their witcher, so just do it, make that cyberpunk RPG please!!!!
Re: Here's Your Chance to Tell Sony What You Think of Horizon Hunters Gathering
@AdamNovice how do you figure that? Decima isn't stylized cartoon. If its an altered version of Decima with a cartoon coat of paint on it, then my OG comment meant Decima as we know it, not cartoon slop
Re: Here's Your Chance to Tell Sony What You Think of Horizon Hunters Gathering
Its way too late to change this game to Decima engine instead of the cartoony slop they used. So I won't bother telling them anything about this game. It is what it is. I'll just patiently wait for the 3rd game in the Trilogy to drop in 2044
Re: Unsurprisingly, Marathon Will Be Part of the Latest State of Play
@Dan12836666 Hopefully they show more of this slop at the start of the show, get it out of the way, so we can enjoy the rest. I'm hoping only 5mins max spent on this, 007, phantom blade0, RE:req and wolverine if they decide to show those too. We've seen enough of that stuff. Need to see the future and announced.
Re: Crimson Desert PS5 Is Also a Full-On Life Sim Game, Last Deep Dive Video Reveals
@GirlVersusGame I wanna steal fruit as well. I wanna get my teeth cleaned in the game and run out the door when they ask for payment. Hope I don't need a root canal later down the road cause the Dentist won't see me anymore and I'd be out of luck. I'll have to pull the tooth myself with rusty horseshoe pliers. I wanna make a new enemy down some random road, over a crashed wagon of food. Find out where he lives, kick him upside down in his cabin and bed his wifey after she cooks me a hot meal.
Go for drinks in a saloon after a long day of pillaging and poke the guy in the eyes who's looking at me dirty from the bar. Sit back down and tell the waitress to bring me and my team a pitcher of beer every 5 mins until someone passes out, then bring one every 10.
You know, live a typical pillaging, RPG life!!!!
Re: Crimson Desert PS5 Is Also a Full-On Life Sim Game, Last Deep Dive Video Reveals
This game literally has like 40 trailers since announcement. lmao
Re: Most of Highguard's Dev Team Laid Off Just Two Weeks After Live Service Shooter's Launch
@Jireland92 yep Concord 2 for sure. And everyone blaming Geoff K for its failure, not because nobody wants more hero shooter slop @Ajbr8687 Def what you said. This sentiment that Geoff botched Highguard is absurd. You are right, the game had 97k because everyone was curious enough to DL it and try after that infamous GA trailer. If the game was fun, people would have stuck around. Now its at 2k current and only 3k-24hr peak and dev's getting laid off. All Geoff's fault right? The game is trash and another hero shooter nobody wanted. That is the only problem with Highguard
Re: Most of Highguard's Dev Team Laid Off Just Two Weeks After Live Service Shooter's Launch
@Artois2 yeah for sure. So massive that we'd all be playing it right now instead of talking about it. Ive never gave one hero shooter the time of day, not my thing, but Highguard I'd be right in the trenches with you all for sure!!!
Re: Here Is Why Sony Put Helldivers 2 on Xbox
Sony gotta throw the Titanic a bone every once in a while.
Re: Most of Highguard's Dev Team Laid Off Just Two Weeks After Live Service Shooter's Launch
@nessisonett you contradict yourself in your reply. You say it was shown off at a bad time during the GA's, which means if it was properly shown off it would have succeeded.
While at the same time you are saying it was prob destin to fail, because its another hokey her shooter in a crowded market.
To me that means, it does not matter one bit when or where you showed this game off, the real problem is we don't need more live service hero shooters. And clearly nobody wanted this, cause look at the abysmal #'s. So that GA's placement is irrelevant to its demise.
If you go watch podcasts by the more respected people who have been in this industry for awhile now and are not judgmental and give all games a chance, they gave their take on highguard during the GA's and they all said the same thing as soon as that hokey trailer played, showing that putrid art style and generic hero shooter gameplay. They were all like "wtf is this crap?" That was their impression of the game and it matched everyone else's because that slop appealed to nobody and is a bad game. Period. Regardless of reveal placement.
Then when you fast forward to Highguards launch and listen to their podcasts to see what their take is on the game after actually playing it, they all said it was boring and not very well executed by the developers. Show this thing off like they did Horizon Hunters, under the radar and it still would have failed.
Re: Rumour: 'Most' of Highguard's Dev Team Laid Off Just Two Weeks After Live Service Shooter's Launch
@Lavishturtle What i can't understand in this industry full of layoffs is, there's plenty of people who need new jobs every year with all this. Why don't the studios who have been stable for many years, even decades, hire these people and have more than one project in full production at a time? There's no reason why a studio like ND can't make and keep up with a TLOU online game and have interstellar going at the same time. No reason why Insomniac can't give us the Marvel superhero entries and then something fresh, using their insane talents at the same time.
Re: Rumour: 'Most' of Highguard's Dev Team Laid Off Just Two Weeks After Live Service Shooter's Launch
@nessisonett so with that rationale, Highguard failed because its a great game, but Geoff sabotaged it by showing it last at the GA's??? That notion is what's complete nonsense. Sorry. That game is pure garbage and the trailer looked like garbage. Makes no difference when or where you showed that game, its trash and the #'s don't lie.
Re: Round Up: What Was Announced at The Game Awards 2025?
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Re: Rumour: 'Most' of Highguard's Dev Team Laid Off Just Two Weeks After Live Service Shooter's Launch
@AdamNovice Here's a better idea. Stop developing games nobody wants. Horizon Hunters is getting bashed already and that game wasn't even introduced in a SOplay, let alone an awards show. Overwatch had great pedigree and success behind it and Blizzard couldn't even get a sequel to that game to work these days. Concord cancelled shortly after release. Bungie the OG of the Halo Series can't even try to get something new in the live service arena w/ marathon. People been bashing Marathon since the beta. See the trend? Dev's are obv too stupid to see this and force their dumb hero shooter or live service ideas anyways, then wonder why nobody is playing them after launch and people get fired. The math is simple. They turn it into quantum mechanics
Re: Rumour: 'Most' of Highguard's Dev Team Laid Off Just Two Weeks After Live Service Shooter's Launch
@nessisonett if a game is good people will play it. if its trash its trash. Look at the hate Horizon hunters is getting and that wasn't even in a state of play, let alone an awards show. People don't want these kinds of games in a crowded space of live service. Highguards #'s keep getting more abysmal because the game is garbage. Simple. How is this remotely Geoff's fault people got laid off? They made a game nobody wanted is why.
Re: Arguably Underrated RPG Blades of Fire Forges Major 2.0 Update on PS5
@AhmadSumadi Explain to me how waxing nostalgically about a game that was meant for the ps3 back then, has anything remotely to do with a game releasing now in 2026, two full gens later, that has a dev team too lazy to use a real engine and the game looks ps3 level??? Any explanation you give will be invalid because your response didn't make a lick of sense whatsoever. You were clearly mad at what I had to say for some odd reason and had to come up with some nonsensical response.
Re: Jaw-Dropping Black Myth Sequel Effectively Confirmed for PS5
@DennisReynolds Yeah, when it was announced awhile ago, they said it was like light years away, so i just coupled it with ps6. Well hopefully since its ps5 it doesn't have the insane input lag probs wukong had from the frame gen stutters. I would hope they would rework the engine to remedy this. However, it is a UE5 game so lmao
Re: Arguably Underrated RPG Blades of Fire Forges Major 2.0 Update on PS5
Underrated? lmao ok. ps3 level textures, animations and character models in 2026 don't go over too well with most people. Nioh 3 is another slop fest in visuals as well. As a matter of fact digital foundry just put out a new vid saying this Nioh engine is in desperate need of an upgrade. Both devs, pure laziness. Esp team ninja
Re: Jaw-Dropping Black Myth Sequel Effectively Confirmed for PS5
@DennisReynolds i thought they said that this game is many years away? wouldn't that make it a ps6 game?
Re: The Internet Has Not Been Kind to Horizon Hunters Gathering
@DartLOD Oh i totally agree. As long as the studio DOES NOT lay anyone off in favor of AI, then when it comes to these hero shooter, or co-op spinoffs etc, esp the cartoony slop I don't care about, then def offload some work to AI if that means the mainline pipeline stays in a traditional release cadence. We were getting a decent release cadence with Sony first party up until this BS live service, spin off initiative.
The only other option is to beef up the studios and have dual teams under one umbrella. But that was obv not an option for Sony. Do you think maybe the studios don't even want this, cause I would imagine the more people working on a game, the more ways the profits get split amongst everyone right? Or do the general dev's make a base salary no matter how good or bad the game sells?
Re: The Internet Has Not Been Kind to Horizon Hunters Gathering
@SlyASpiE Guerilla is a juggernaut for Sony like ND, SP and Insomniac. We are not talking firesprite or Haven. So I don't think layoffs would happen there when you have what will be one of the most highly anticipated games in Horizon 3 in the pipeline. Esp if they decided on ps6. They will prob want that to be the killer app day one with ps6 launch game that will sell consoles. I think Intergalactic will be cross gen and come out first on ps5, but if they reserve that for ps6 can you imagine a day one ps6 launch with Intergalactic and Horizon 3? And dreaming here, but Bloodborne 2 and Kojima's physint as well, but reserve those for launch window a few months later!!!! Pipe dream yes, but on paper that could possibly be the greatest launch lineup ever if materialized.
Re: The Best Soulslike Around, Lies of P Is a Big Sales Success
This game was fantastic. Lords of the Fallen was amazing too. They are the two best soulslikes IMO. Can't wait for Lords 2 this year and I still have to get to LiesOP DLC. Just so much to play right now.
Re: The Internet Has Not Been Kind to Horizon Hunters Gathering
@SlyASpiE as far as them losing $$$$ i don't care. I have no stock in their company. What bums me out is this taking years as you stated and all it did is set Horizon 3 back many years. Its ok to have a stopgap game in between mainline entries. But when said stopgap game (in this case co-op cartoony rubbish) then it just plain sucks and you wish they just made H3. Guerilla was setup to go twice in ps5's life cycle with mainline games if they just stuck to a better plan. Instead they gave us one game, a cartoony BS nobody wants coming this gen and Naughty Dog hasn't even given us nothing so far on ps5.