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The Livestream was basically a bunch of apologies and announcements that they'll revert decisions previously announced or changed.

It was embarrassing for a live service expert and a game going on 8 years on the market. They killed it.

Also, this 'star wars' thing is so shoehorned. It's an expansion with outlaws and a bunch of Star wars references and lightsabers. Blatant cash/attention grab.

Put in 2k hours since Witch Queen and after The Final Shape, Ive been playing very minimally. The changes they're making are awful and not worth my time.

I primarily buy disc games, if available, but happy with this solution since that's the way things are moving. Most of my games are digital anyway due to PS+ freebies.

I don't love the multiple hardware spec approach. Seemed to hurt games with MS doing that this generation. But I guess if MS does it, multiplatform games are all targeting that lowest spec anyways, so makes sense Sony would follow suit.

I'd love for Rayman 3HD to be ported to PS5.

I don't like the download requirement.

A few years ago I accidentally bought an item in my wishlist while buying something else (user error somehow, still unsure how I did it) and the game automatically started downloading.

Thankfully I canceled the download and Sony processed the refund very easily for me - but with how things auto download, this policy seems too strict.

Their live service games have generated a large % of first party revenue because they're barely releasing first party games compared to previous generations.

This push to live service really killed the back half of the PS5 lifecycle.

This game was AWESOME!!

Cant wait to buy it and play thru with my wife in split screen! Had a blast with this game in coop.

Also this game introduced me to Blind Guardian and Sacred Worlds is such a banger.

Been waiting for this! Played it a ton as a kid and I don't think I ever beat it!

The little yellow jumping circle is a game changer. I had SO MUCH DIFFICULTY on the trees level.

I was having a lot of fun playing casually until Emma Frost launched. She kinda killed it for me, felt too overpowered and super annoying.

U2 and U3 had amazing multiplayer modes. Plunder was so much fun. It's a shame they never really supported 4 like they did 3.

I find it hard to believe that they wouldn't be making $$$ on those modes if they had continued to include/support them in U4 and TLOU2.

U3 had quite a few micro transactions and a large playerbase.

I was extremely underwhelmed by that showcase. Bungie are masters of over hyping, but yet, nothing they announced was exciting.

No new subclasses or abilities.

It seems they're trying to separate the paid and free content a bit more, which is a good idea, but the Star Wars thing just feels like we're turning into fortnite.

LOVING IT so far. So many memories rushing back, but I'm also realizing how much of the game I missed!

I did laugh at frame rate drops and some glitchiness. Def hilarious that a 20 year old game with fresh coat of paint can still run like garbage sometimes.

@wildcat_kickz As much as I wanted the original game to stay intact. I was kind of hoping for expanded cities. Especially the capital.

@rjejr You can seamlessly swap between 1st and 3rd person.

@The_Pixel_King it has a more 'high fantasy' setting than Skyrim. I greatly prefer the setting and tone over Skyrim, but it's personal preference.

The quests are all great and unique, but may show a bit of age 20 years later, but they're still vastly better than 'go here and fetch this'

My favorite aspect of the game is that the guilds are generally all in their prime and you're doing awesome fun quests for these well established guilds. I never cared for Skyrims take of 'the guilds are in disarray/failing and you get to rebuild it'

My gaming group still plays it regularly, but many of us have fallen off post Final Shape.

The game just isn't keeping players meaningfully engaged.

The only loot you chase, is guns that fit into 3 slots in your load out. So you're just constantly replacing things you already farmed for, which feels bad, or pointless when what you already have is better.

I'm hoping it's more than just rumors.

We didn't hear anything until the last month or two and suddenly tons of 'rumors' seems sketchy, but I want to believe its true.

I really hope they keep some of the jank that came with skills. Like jumping over buildings.

Skyrim was more accessible but dumbed down. There needs to be a hybrid approach.

Id love to see some of the cities expanded. Granted that could be a double edged sword, but Skyrim/Oblivion cities are so tiny due to console limitations of the time.

I really hope there is truth to these rumors. I can wait to play this again.

I still far prefer this to Skyrim. It's made me so happy to see it get a lot of nostalgia love over the last few years in the media.

With the power of a PS4 Pro, and the fact that games are STILL releasing on that system. I am concerned most new 3rd party games will be targeting PS4 Pro like performance so it can run on both Switch 2 and PS5/6.

Especially with the market so volatile I'm sure companies will push for biggest exposure.

Shocker, boss of streaming game service says streaming games are the future. I think I remember something similar from Stadia.

Mobile/tablet gaming is huge for kids. But every Christmas I hear all the kids I work with talking about Switch or PS5. They use what is accessible and can't buy these systems on their own, but that doesn't mean they don't desire it, if given the opportunity.

I wish I was good enough to beat Returnal. It was so much fun, hopefully this one strikes a better balance for players like me!

I think we are starting to see the impact of a less competitive market.

Nintendo operates in its own space and Xbox hasn't been a threat since a few years after PS4 launch.

The PS5 generation has been a massive disappointment overall. Sure there are some AMAZING games, but it really pales in comparison to PS3 where Sony had to compete in the hardcore console space against Xbox and casual space against the Wii.

Sure game development times and budgets and live service chase is making things worse. But we're just not getting a diverse experience anymore. And that started in PS4 era.

@homelesscretin Spacelords was a lot of fun!

Loved Lords of Shadow, hopefully this is more GOW than Souls like.

I bought the original close to release, and I see his point. I was a good representation of a typical gamer at that time, and it did not make sense to me, I couldn't get past the second level lol.

That being said, I love the remake, platinumed it, and Bloodborne, but it took a few years for this type of game to make sense to the gaming world.

@TheFakulty Yeah it's really infuriating how badly they've handled the game and expansions.

If I hadn't bought the deluxe edition of TFS that came with this content, I'd have already stopped playing.

I don't plan on supporting the next content releases and I think a large portion of the player base feels the same. Curious to see how the next expansions do.

Marathon will be interesting. Bungie has garnered so much negative sentiment I'm going to be surprised if Marathon launches well.

@TheFakulty just those that bought this season. Oh. And it'll disappear in 4 months when the next expansion comes out.

And one of the main characters of this episode is someone who has been vaulted for years (brief comeback for a season last year) so anyone that started in the last 3 years has no context or knowledge for their storyline.

As one of the few D2 players still (barely) hanging on. This is a dumb cash grab.

My playtime has plummeted since TFS, and so has many many other players. A 20$ Star wars costume does nothing to bring up our playtime or interest.

I actually think that most of the gameplay systems hold up really well and are better than Skyrim and other systems.

I will be extremely disappointed if I can't level my acrobatics to be able to jump over buildings again.

But to be fair, some systems can use a change/tweak and on hit animations would be good.

Or we could just get a PlayStation All Stars 2, with MOBA-lite elements?

How many years has it been since that secret san Diego studio was supposedly working on Uncharted 5??

I'm still waiting!! Sony should have snagged up Tomb Raider for the pennies it sold for and just made some Tomb Raider games while they let Uncharted rest.

It always surprises me when a game misses its release window by this much, to just get up and canceled.

It had to of been decently playable if it targeted a 2023 release.

Can't wait for this if it's true! For me, no game has matched walking out of those sewers for the first time.

We've come a long way from the knockoff controllers of the PS2 era.

This looks pretty sleek imo! But I'm remembering those awful MadCatz controllers.

Surprised there was outrage in the first place.

I barely play the game, but love KZ so I immediately hopped on and bought the stuff for 10$ which is a very reasonable for crossover cosmetics in comparable games.

The more I read about it the less interested I got.

A bunch of reused assets? 45 min gameplay on repeat with just some enemy variation?

Where's the exploration and discovery and adventure that makes Souls games unique and enjoyable??

This looks fantastic. Loving the retro 80s vibe and I think they've nailed it.

Hopefully they lean into some of the grittier aspects of things like Blade Runner, but this will probably be a day 1 buy from me.

Still waiting on my next Uncharted what ever happened to that secret studio that was supposed to be working on it.

I thought that studio went under when The Last Guardian took longer than Duke Nukem Forever to make. Looks cool!

Yessss!!!! I love exploring From soft games with a friend.

After playing most of Elden Ring coop, it was very boring trying to finish it by myself. The sense of discovery in telling a friend to check this out was so much fun.

I really don't like all the companies Tencent is investing in. It doesn't seem like anything good will come out of Tencents investment into games, long term.

Makes perfect sense for Sony to be working on one alongside the PS6.

Launch an expensive console and also a streaming handheld for 1/4 of the price. If people have good internet, no need to buy the expensive console if they can't afford it - lowers the barrier to entry for a new generation of console by a lot!

PLAYSTATION ALL STARS 2

Still don't understand why this hasn't happened yet.

I don't understand how Sony can fail this badly at mobile attempts. They've been trying at this for over 10 years and have yet to show anything decent on mobile.

They must be getting some tax write off for this, right??

Otherwise it doesn't seem to make a ton of sense. They could have used the teams experience to make some other type of shooter etc? The studio clearly had talent - just bad direction, atrocious art style and late to the market

Still waiting for Rayman 4. Or release 3 Remastered for PS4/5. Being locked to PS3 is a travesty

Wow! This is awesome news! And even better that hopefully it'll be the same creative team!

10+ years will be great to show changes in AI

I liked Hulst during the PS3 era when they were pushing boundaries of the hardware with KZ2 and 3

But it seems like after HZD, they just went all in for some reason on that franchise which didn't make sense to me. And now the guy is leading all PS studios. Strange series of promotions for that guy.

Sony first party really needs to figure out a way to optimize output. Maybe more standalone DLC type of games like Miles Morales to help cover the gaps. It's just crazy we're this far into PS5 and I don't really feel like there have been any must have first party exclusives outside of the launch window

@Savage_Joe lol did you read the article?? They won't get royalties from the GAME. which they won't get anyways if they're not in it.

They don't lose any rights to their songs.

And if being in the game doesn't cause their song to get a resurgence, so what, they got a free 7500$ for doing nothing.

Like stated in the article - it's basically free exposure to a whole generation of people that never heard the song.

How many times do we see an 80s song/artist resurging when a song is used on a Netflix show?

I understand the optics of it, but realistically they're offering the artist insane reach and publicity which has an inherent value on its own. So it's not really 7500, it's considerably more

Greedfall was one of my surprise favorite games of the PS4 era.

I have a feeling it was a fluke rather than a standard for the studio moving forward.

It's a shame to see them push the studio like that after a success. Steel rising was not very good imo, and Greedfall 2 launching in early access with a burntout team sounds like disaster waiting to happen which is a shame for my most anticipated game