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Fully off unless I'm charging the controllers or downloading a game.

It's less power used and the PS5 is lightning quick to boot.

I've got zero interest in trophies, and I think it makes most sense to play games because you'll enjoy playing the game.

But some people do like the achievement hunt, so I think Sony should make it possible for devs to edit their platinums if a game goes offline, and devs with sincere intentions should use those features.

Love this, the story in Horizon: Zero Dawn is fantastic. Give me a Thunderjaw on screen and something like ZD's plot and I'm there.

If this is Cyberpunk: Edgerunners again, fantastic. But if it's a middle of the pack anime, I don't see what about Ghost's setting that would make it worth watching.

It's hard to judge, the studio and director have basically never made an anime before. On the other hand, the writer is one of the greatest - Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero, Psycho Pass

GameStop is an awful company that's awfully run, and it's baffling that as a society we've given them a free $2 billion from newly issued stock which they've just stuffed in their pockets instead of doing anything to try and save their failing company.

The only thing they reinvested in was an attempt at a NFT scam

The PC experience is getting way more plug and play. We're maybe a couple of years away from some kind of SteamOS box you can plug into your TV.

The PC marker has grown hugely, and there are regions of the world now where PC gaming is the default core gamer experience. Even Japan is getting more PC friendly.

PC gaming offers

• Cheaper games
• More games
• Mods (much better than you can get on consoles).

In the old days a lot of the arguments in this thread held true - and they still mostly do which is why I have a PS5 and not a PC. But I'm not convinced they'll hold true by the time a PS6 rolls around.

Ten years ago you'd have said "I get a console because they have more games in the style I like", outside of Nintendo that's a 100% not true now. Every indie and AA studio releases to Pc first. Every developer who avoided PC now releases on PC eventually.

In 5 years time, it will be as easy and intuitive to play on a PC on a TV in your living room as it will be on a console. And then they'll start taking bites out of Sony (Sony will still be around because they'll have a cheaper initial product, but there going to get pushed)

I don't have a twitter account, anyone happy to share those runners up?

It's between meh and not good. I don't think I'll play any of the games, but I could see myself checking out some on a rainy day if I'd played everything else already

I'm more into the PS3 era of Sony. Motorstorm, inFamous, Uncharted. Give us an Infamous 2 remaster

The one thing I'll say about Wuthering Waves is at least they're less coy about making their characters sexy, and the characters (mostly) look at little older.

Genshin has so many of those awful sexless-sexy anime designs where they've got massive tits but look and act like they'd blush if they held hands with someone.

@TedLassoNikes which is why I'm going to be very skeptical of getting a PS6.You need competition to keep prices down, and physical second hand is the only competition Sony has (and that is getting weaker by the year).

Nintendo have shown a company can keep their game prices high when there aren't other markets.

It's not really review bombing if the game is actually broken. I don't want to buy a game that doesn't work, whoever broke it

But it is a good example of how keeping software running isn't actually free. It's why game preservation is an uphill battle

I download every big gatcha game that comes out, but I'm beginning to develop a revulsion reflex to gacha UI.

As soon as they send you to that shop screen where there are ten tabs, with two mini tabs in each, and every single one has it's own currency, with a bunch of 'sales' and per month capped purchases, I'm out.

I love the PushSquare moderation. You guys find the exact right line to draw here

> it does re-confirm that the Rockstar release will have absurdly detailed visuals.

When will we learn? We'll know what GTA6 looks like when it's actually running on someone's hardware.

Pixel counting trailers a year before the game is even in a state ready to be released is a recipe for disappointment

The only category this year with truly top tier games from platinum through to bronze

"IP" is one of those business terms that shouldn't have leaked into the real world as much as it has. I don't play "intellectual property" and I don't watch "content".

I play game series, I like characters, I like stories, I like worlds.

Anyone got any suggestions of some other indie games that should be in the running in the category this year?

Nice to see Unicorn Overlord get some praise, it's such a great game

@MaelysLeFleau I've come across it quite a lot as a complaint about fantasy stories. Some stories chuck a lot of meaningless names at you without doing the groundwork to imbue them with meaning first.

"In the gogg'ark keep of Nazeroth the tweelibs guard the Omenspectre from the Zortle hordes"

Some stories can pull it off. Dune loves throwing proper nouns at the reader without explaining them, but Dune had a mad genius that made it work.

Even the PushSquare editorial team don't sound satisfied with the selections this year. A weak year for videogames and an especially weak one for open world games.

I don't think Metaphor's art direction is that brilliant. It's a big step down from the style, boldness and pop of the Persona games. And that makes the design of the 3D environments and dungeons more prominent - which are very generic and flat out ugly.

If we didn't have the history to know how much pedigree their art team has, Metaphor doesn't reach 2nd on this list.

I agree with other commenters that Zenless Zone Zero deserves a place. The game may have its issues but the art direction is top notch. Unicorn Overlord is another good shout

@Bentleyma I don't think the real issue with the Wii U was the name, it was that the kind of people who bought a Wii weren't the kind of people who are interested in a Wii 2. More pixels on Wii bowling (with a less intuitive controller)?

The Switch 2 will do better because the Switch has a way more mainstream fanbase. But also my prediction is it's not going to hit Switch figures in the end because an interactive novel doesn't exactly need a beefy GPU. There will be plenty of Switch 2 games that still release on Switch, and for people in that niche they won't need to upgrade.

You can see this with other Nintendo handhelds. The GBA didn't outsell the Gameboy, and the 3DS didn't outsell the DS. If new games still work on the old console, some people won't switch over (see also sizeable base of PS4 users today)

@Dodoo ^this

The Game Science blogpost itself was barely worth paying attention to - just a bit of a funny cringey post.

Who cares whether or not someone cried at an awards show. We don't need to be swabbing their cheeks for a salt analysis

I didn't know how to side either way with this discussion - exploitative monetary practices need to be called out, but also games do need to make profits. Is this pandering or legitimate? So I looked up the price.

And this is all over £16? In an overwatch collab to get the equivalent for a single character you're starting at £20. And to get everything in the collab it's £50 to £60. And that's not close to as exploitative as pricing can get in some games

Sure if the devs feels they can push that down to £14 and still turn enough profit to keep themselves employed, kudos on them, but handing out the second one for free as an apology is seriously over the top.

If a younger mental age means "someone who needs things explained to again and again like they've been in a coma for 30 years" then I'd happily drop that part of the series.

But I think the school setting works for Persona. It might be done to death in anime, but it's fairly fresh in videogames.

Also unlike in other games, I don't particularly care about having an older or female protagonist. Persona protagonists are very bland. It's not like we're plumbing great depths of personality, where a less common take could add something

Is some poor schmuck going to have to play keeper?

What's the most successful multiplayer stealth game so far? Payday 2? That only half counts at best

I've never been very into werewolves, but vampires are always good for a spin

Coffee Talk is a fun visual novel. The concept of being a barista and memorising the orders of your regulars worked well

@romanista Its the fact that the game ends with them deciding they're going to stay together despite not really solving any of their fundamental problems that I took issue with. And they're both so instantly ready to try and make their child cry if it will solve their own problems. It makes it seem trite, and I don't think it was healthy.

I'm glad it provoked an interesting conversation for you and your daughter though.

I watch a lot of essays, but very few Let's Plays. LPs are massive time sinks - when I did watch some it's more like a podcast vibe, or some kind of incredible display of skill (speedrun etc.)

Absolutely no-one wants videogame publishers to try and monetise this space. And if they did, it would flop hard

@Fyz306903 it sounds lowest end PS6 (if it's truly PS6) is going to be a bit of a reach. I've read that shrinking the PS5 down to handheld even with lower resolution is going to be a real tech challenge. Technology isn't getting smaller as fast as it used to.

I haven't finished enough 2025 games to vote but I'm hoping Helldivers and Space Marine 2 do well.

I've been enjoying Dragon Age: Veilguard (and imo, not everything SkillUp said was true) but even if I'm having fun it's not a GOTY

I'm not particularly excited.

Edgerunners was a great show because it was well written, not because of the setting. And it already has a good ending.

Another one by a different studio isn't adding anything

Better Balatro win GOTY than most of the nominations (Astrobot excepted). I still think Helldivers deserved a nomination

I'm looking forward to trying Temtem.

It Takes Two had brilliant gameplay but some of the worst writing in gaming. You spend your time with two terrible people who are not right for each other and an obnoxious unfunny mascot, and then at the last minute the story tries to rush a Hallmark ending.

Never was I convinced more that two people needed a divorce.

@ChrisDeku I don't think investors care much about what people say online either way. At the end of the day it's about what people buy.

It's an industry with a ton of talented developers but also where people are still playing and enjoying the games they were playing 5 years ago

Sony already have too much influence in the anime space. This is bad news and will hurt everyone in the long-run

When you count Game of the Year nominations since the new generation started, it's easy to see why Sony have been smashing Xbox

I thought the Sawtooth in the bottom right picture was a Thunderjaw. They must be saving a large Thunderjaw up for the right time, right??

This was one where the demo put me off more than it helped

@rjejr John Lewis is the UK's biggest high end department store chain. EE is the UK's largest phone company

One of the keys to Mass Effect's appeal is it's special forces flavour. Cena could pull that off. Just don't play Shepherd, be another N7

I went Qunari Warrior Mourn Watch. It's the first time I've enjoyed a warrior in this series

@Kraven SkillUp said his clips were representative of the whole game, but I was pleasantly surprised to find out they really aren't.

Live service games seem to need player access way earlier on than single-player games - if nothing else because the game loop has to be so rock solid and the risks are so high.

Look at Valve - by the time one of their live service games "launches" everyone has already been playing it in closed beta for months.

@Khwarezm89 Moon Channel theorises that this is entirely about Sony's partnership with Palword. He argues this is breaking some Japanese business taboos. And that whilst Sony seems hands-off, it's actually a very similar move to what Nintendo did with Game freak.

This is Nintendo signalling they'll go for the nuclear option if Sony gets on their turf.

I think they're going to struggle to pull off Mass Effect as a TV show. It really needs a high production value.

The background setting bits of Mass Effect is great for a TV show. If they can pull off the genophage in a morally neutral way, it's great material. But I don't know what I'd want from an episode to episode plot? Do I really get excited about a Shepherd action scene?

I read several reviewers say the enemies get very sponge-y. So I'm hoping for a balance up date that changes health a little (and increases danger) rather than having to manually do that