Veritas7Ax

Excited for Sword of the Sea, Unicorn Overlord was on my radar, and I might consider checking out MK1. The other one that piqued my interest was Indika. I heard good things, but the one or two times I looked into images/video on that game, I was very perplexed by what it actually is lol

Just tell me the release date T_T

Ngl, a Devil May Cry 6 announcement would hit like crack

Still holding out hope that someday, Omega Force will partner with Square-Enix again and make "Dissidia: Final Fantasy Warriors" or etc.

Feels like such a slam dunk of a crossover, especially after they did Dragon Quest Heroes before.

"Devolver" - oh?
"Bullet hell" - alright, alright
"Roguelite" - yes

"Ball x Pit" - u wot m8

@get2sammyb

Coincidentally, I am playing Justice Sucks right now, and I thought of this one:

Yours is better though lmao

Any update on the release date? They've said this year, but 2025 is pretty far in now, so just wondering. I don't worry about this with indies too much, since they can typically drop things pretty quickly with short notice.

Enjoyed the first, recently played the second, and got the third in my backlog.

When I played the second, it had been in my backlog for YEARS. Didn't realize it had one freaking online trophy which was unobtainable T_T No plat for me. I never checked beforehand, yes, but I also never expected a singeplayer game to have a slapped on online trophy.

Gonna counter all the negativity and say I think they're pretty nice. The first batch was better for sure, but I think these are nice. Definitely will use that Kratos/Atreus one for sure.

Assuming the beta will be just pvp and not vs the cpu? I would love to try this (and I'm not a person who typically springs for a beta) but I'm a filthy casual so I'll get wrecked for sure lmao

@Midnyte-Monkey

Same here on the Burnout love. I still own a PS2 slim and one of the best gifts my wife ever got me was Burnout 3 again after I had traded it in so many years back. Within 15 minutes all the gameplay instincts and adrenaline came rushing back and I was having so much fun. It was an absolute blast. I’ve never wanted a remake/remaster for something so bad.

It also illustrated what I love about that game (and Revenge) but didn’t like about Paradise. Paradise being open world hurt the car combat aspect so much. It leaned too much into generic racer by giving the player (and AI opponents) different routes to take and making so many roads crazy wide. Takedowns were a novelty in that game and it just really didn’t deliver on those classic feelings.

Maybe I’ll check this out, see if it can scratch the itch.

I'm sure they'll do some of the popular ones, but I hope they dip into that 2nd, 3rd, and 4th tier a little bit with representation. I want Gambit!

Can never get sick of this series. Just really simple but overwhelming fun. Was so happy with the recent remasters of the old Katamari games. Thought this was another, but a brand new one? I'll gladly play it.

Oh that's cool. Every once in a while I get a craving to play it (it's addicting!) and I was always sad I missed out on the Vita version (was it on PS3 also?). So that's really cool if true.

@dschons

Yep that's the kind of mature, forward-thinking that I try to employ as much as possible, because you're exactly right. A few days/weeks of "this is awesome" then it's back to "same old, same old". So I'm trying to do the same here.

@ZeroSum

In a similar-ish boat. I can't personally justify dropping $100 for the Premium edition (I think this has all the DLC needed to get 100% trophies). Even on sale right now at $75 is a lot for what is basically a 4-year old game. And while others may disagree with that (and that's fine), I am just ok waiting for a bigger drop at some point.

@dschons

Yeah, that is absolutely true, I'd be lucky to get a little more than half of what I paid. I truly do like the black a hundred times more (the white color scheme for the console itself is too dull for me), but the question is, yes, is it worth it? I'm leaning toward no. I usually don't give in to FOMO but we'll see.

I'm happy with the DualSense which is pretty nice. If I didn't already have a Portal, I'd consider it for that. And while I don't regret buying my Portal, I did it too soon, because just a month after I got it, the 30th anniversary came out, and then they also released a black version too which looks nice.

Sigh. Maybe I can sell mine?

"No question about it, I am ready to get hurt again."

I'm the kind of lunatic that juggles like 4-7 games at one time, jumping between a few throughout the day. But today I anticipate working on Tony Hawk 3+4 some more, Shooty Fruity, a fun PSVR game, and Samurai Warriors 4. If I have time, I wan to also work on Sniper Elite Resistance's Authentic Difficulty some more.

@DennisReynolds

I'd be mostly in favor of that. I rolled my eyes a little with what they did with TLOU 1 and 2, but I'd be fine with a Ratchet & Clank anthology collection with every single game on it (I guess minus Rift Apart) and something similar with GoW and Killzone for PS3 era.

@DennisReynolds

Sorry, I meant remasters in general in the PlayStation family, not specifically on PS5. All the others are PS3 collections obviously, but yeah I suppose I should have specified. I meant to say a lot of other franchises have gotten the remaster/HD collection treatment at some point.

Please! The fact that we don't have these remastered but every single God of War under the sun is beyond baffling to me (no shade on GoW, just saying).

Almost every major 1st party franchise from the PS2 and PS3 era has been remastered but not inFamous. Make it happen and take my money!

Considering that points can only be earned for a few more days (and I think you can redeem until November), I'm wondering if it makes any sense for me to just go ahead and buy a few games I've been eyeing for a while. Things like Stellar Blade or Baldur's Gate III, games that have been on sales, but I keep waiting to see if they'll ever drop to $40 or less. Like it's literally spend money to make money (points in this case) so I feel like there's no real urgency to spend right now.

Having never played THPS4 before, I have no basis for the original, and therefore the experience should hopefully not be marred by the comparison. That said, I've only done the first level in that tour so far. So we'll see.

My only gripe is they got a super low amount of the original soundtrack back. I think only 10 songs total. The 1+2 collection had a bigger share of the originals from those games. And don't get me wrong, some of the new tracks are gelling with me, but many are not.

My money. Take it.

Between this, Marvel 1943 and that supposed Iron Man game, Marvel fans will be eating good...... in a few years lol. Marvel 1943 is supposedly next year, everything else seems far off. Oh well.

@silverspeed

Ohhhh yeah, you're right about that. Thankfully, I don't even need physical for that anymore. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle ran so hard my PS5 shutdown on me several times for overheating lmao. (eventually fixed it but yeah, sheeeeeeeesh)

I wish the separation between physical and digital sales wasn't so great. I got pinged for some really good deals here for PS5 games, many of which are at all time lows in price. But in almost every single case, I want the game digitally instead.

It's weird for me to say this, as someone who was a kid in the PS1 era, and thus has dealt with discs his whole gaming life, but I am really over physical for the most part lol. I make a good amount of exceptions, but let's just say I am getting lazy as I get older haha.

In any case, I'll probably bend and end up grabbing one or two. Hard to pass up some of these deals when they're undercutting digital by like $20-$30 in some cases.

@PuppetMaster

Yeah, it's a shame it didn't do as well as it could have. The potential is all there, and I'm having a good time with it.

Very mildly related but I just started Evil West and it's definitely scratching a few itches. Western (fantasy) setting, DMC/GoW gameplay vibes. Enjoying it quite a bit.

Might need to replay RDR2 soon.

I'm holding hope that this is just a KOTOR situation (but just not nearly as hopeless). Not sure if Square is developing it in house or not, but they or Sony saw the early previews and were like "this needs to cook more".

Hopefully we'll see it officially soon.

The fact that there are no "Get Theres" (at least on the surface) makes me both relieved and disappointed. They were so insanely tough to pull off, but boy was it satisfying to do so.

@Majin_Deicide

I never knew who this guy was until recently. Watched two videos from people talking about how bad his stance against SKG was and he comes off as the most smug, know-it-all, d-bag ever. Hope he eats crow soon.

@get2sammyb

Isn't it so wild that for all the big 1st party franchises that got HD treatments in the PS3 and PS4 eras, we never got inFamous HD collection? Seriously, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, Uncharted, Jak and Daxter, almost every God of War game, TLOU (the first of many remasters), and then other franchises like Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Spyro, etc. But never inFamous.

Such a shame, because inFamous 2 was so good.

Tony Hawk and Metal Gear are the big ones for me. Might take a flyer on Gears too since that seems pretty momentous for coming over from Xbox and I've never played it before.

@Lowdefal

Yeah, the pandemic really messed things up in terms of console availability, game dev times, etc. For a while it made sense, but now it seems odd. Sure, there are still some games that may have been in early development 6+ years ago that were aiming for PS4, and because of development hell, got pushed back, etc. That also makes sense.

As for which games/series, it's hard to pin down. Yes, I do see a lot of indies coming out for both. Most of the major 1st party things have been PS5 only. Everything else, not sure of the exact rhyme or reason.

PS6 feels like it's very slowly coming over the horizon and we're still releasing new games on PS4. What are we doing.

Nine Sols was possibly the best game I've played so far in 2025. If not the best, then definitely top 3. Definitely a bit of a difficulty curve but such a satisfying combat system to master.

Steelbooks and statues are usually what get me to spread my.... wallet open. This is tempting, but the mask doesn't quite do it for me. Probably a physical deluxe edition will do it for me, if it's available.

Since it's being called a "remake" (and I know it's early and nothing is official), I hope that they'll infuse some good quality of life changes, and some small redesigns. The original game was great, but probably shows its age a little now. So some overhaul in a few places instead of just a shinier coat of paint would be great.

Please no. Those games were fun when I was a kid, but time has shown me they are just... not good. SA2 is slightly more forgivable but both have tons of issues. When replaying SA1 a few years back I found myself more frustrated than entertained.

So I’ve been on this hill for a while now, often bringing up Armored Core VI as an example, where Sony refuses to sell an almost 3-year old game for any less than $30, but physically, you can get it as low as like $12. I love digital but this is one thing I do not love, that’s for sure.

Also, I see the same counter arguments popping up, and in the interest of having safe discourse, I’m just curious. For the folks who keep saying “oh Sony doesn’t set the prices, the developer does” can you expound on that? Because I’m confused why Amazon or Best Buy can sell a game for $15 when the PSN store won’t go under $40 for digital. And no, in the case of Amazon, I am not including 3rd party sellers. Again, I’m just curious. It’s weird to think so many devs across the board are like “yes, charge more for our game digital, but give it out physically for less than the price of dinner to Best Buy customers.”

I want to... specifically, I want to play the first game. My only issue is all the infant imagery and weird, borderline body horror esque stuff put me off. Like one of the very first trailers for the second game had a shot that I think had the camera going through someone's body and there was a baby in there. That's a gigantic NOPE for me. I just find it uncomfortable and creepy.

So with that being said, I just don't know if the games are for me.

I am guilty of forgetting this myself. It's simple for me to forget since the combat almost appears that way (but much more impressive looking) and the camera angle/perspective harkens to souls instead of say like, a Devil May Cry where the camera tends to be closer.

"Simulator" is almost a dirty suffix added to a lot of games, I hate to say. For every PowerWash Simulator and Farming Simulator, there's a lot of cheap shovelwares out there branding as (blank) simualtor.

But if this is indeed a more substantial offering in the genre, you got my attention at least.

@thechetearly

This is a really interesting question and now you got me struggling to remember a podcast/video from Second Wind (former Escapist people including Yahtzee Croshaw). Because they posed this same exact question and they only came up with like 1-2 examples.

If my curiosity gets the better of me and I go through some of those videos again, I'll update.

Edit: within a min of posting, I remembered one: Respawn. Former Infinity Ward (COD) developers have made good games with Titanfall and the Jedi games. They definitely mentioned 1 or 2 others though.

Tee Lopes did a great job with the music on TMNT: Shredder's Revenge. The music for the zoo level has no business being that good.

High hopes. BL3 I fell off earlier than I thought. Lots of good QoL updates but just enough fun stuff and etc. to keep me hooked. And yeah, the loot just never felt... solid.

The things they said they were doing and changing during the State of Play really all resonated with me. So I'm happy to give it another try for one of my overall favorite series. That said, if this just doesn't land with me, might be a "fool me twice" situation.

So is the Egypt tease from Ragnarok and subsequent rumors still a thing that might happen? Or was that all just gossip and it was really this game the whole time?

Either way, I'm open minded and curious to see how this is. I also had a thought. Initially the return to Greece idea soured me a bit, but then I thought... oh what if they do like an interquel kind of thing, and show how Kratos transitioned, character/personality wise from og Kratos to his current iteration and how he left Greece behind. That said, I remember how God of War III ended.... so maybe not? I honestly am not sure. Could be interesting.