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They kind of have to do this. People are already weary of investing their time and money into new games. If a game arrived, took people's money, then shut down with no refunds it would teach everyone that did trust in the game not to do that again.

These faces all look like those horrid "I made it less woke" edits you used to see (still see?) all over Twitter. Just dreadful. It doesn't even slop-ify Grace's face the same way in the multiple examples. It gives her a different face in each one.

Absolutely wild that probably a hundred people saw this before it was pushed to the public and nobody had the stones to speak up.

While it's incomplete data, it's the only data that exists. For a multiplayer game, the game's health is important to knowing if it's worth it to get into it or not, it also serves as the most honest review, because no matter how "Overwhelmingly Positive" a game is, if nobody is playing it, that doesn't really matter, now does it?

If a multiplayer game comes out and instantly the player count craters, there's probably something wrong with it. If a game comes out and just steadily goes up and up, then it's probably a compelling game, even if the reviews are critical.

I could see how it's frustrating for someone to have their work boiled down to a number that's not even directly in their control, but them's the breaks. People want to know, and they have limited information. Every datapoint is going to be scrutinized.

Buying RE9 once the severance money hits.

This "we are a family" thing rings a bit hollow considering recent events.

@ear_wig You also probably never bought it because it wasn't for sale. It's a free game.

Sadly, it's dead. I say that as a VR enthusiast and PSVR2 owner. It just didn't get the game support it needed. VR is always treated like an afterthought, and it's always too expensive. Adoption is low due to cost, then game output is low due to low adoption, and it just goes round and round until support ends. The Quest 2 exploded because it was cheap. Premium PC-tier VR just can't match the price. You need a headset that already costs as much as a Meta Quest and you need a powerful console or PC on top of that. Premium VR can't carve out a niche in the same way that premium computers (Apple) or premium cards (Ferrari) can, because you can just "have" a premium VR headset and enjoy it, you need games. Games that need to be made for the headset you bought. The headset that not many people bought because it's an expensive, premium product.

The only hope for VR adoption to increase is for it to get cheaper. For a console VR headset to work, it needs to be cheap enough you can buy it without feeling like you just bought an entire other console.

Right now to get into PSVR2 you need a PS5 and a PSVR2, $800. And that's if you don't get the PS5 Pro. After taxes, you've killed $1000 and haven't bought a single game to play. It's just too much to ask, especially when everyone is broke.

It's hard to argue that console-exclusives are anything but a boon to a company in the business of selling consoles. From a consumer standpoint it's best to have every game on every platform, but I can't really blame them for running the numbers and deciding the market just isn't there.

Wonder if these will actually have impact, or not. The charms/perks in RE6 were so minor it was impossible to tell if they were even working or not, and the ones in RE2 remake were similarly "is it on?".

@LiamCroft Is the game 60fps on base PS5?

Xbox is cooked, sadly. I don't take pleasure in saying that. What other conclusion can you possibly draw when all major Xbox games are coming to PlayStation? When they're putting someone who has no idea about gaming in charge? An AI person? Microsoft has no idea what they're doing.

I'm really unhappy about this because it's going to leave Sony with no competition. Nintendo isn't direct competition like Microsoft was. Nintendo runs its own race and genuinely does not care what Sony or Microsoft do.

The only reason Sony is getting away with this nonsense is because Xbox is dead and buried and Nintendo is playing its own game. This is the kind of company Sony is when there's no pressure. Total joke.

It would be so easy to just let BluePoint keep putting out quality remakes of beloved PS2/PS3 games. It'd be the easiest pitch in boardroom history. They have a near 100% track record and completely positive public sentiment. But no. Saddle them with some live service nonsense that nobody asked for, cancel it, then close them.

An embarrassment.

If you're in the mood for something different, Paradise Killer is a good game that'll last a couple afternoons. I promise, no matter what you're into, Paradise Killer is something different.

Imagine if Neon White's visual novel segments rebelled against the rest of the game and ran off to marry a murder mystery. Their kid is Paradise Killer.

@johncalmc Same, honestly. My PS5 has been sitting next to my TV for absolute ages, but every time I think about the PS5 or see a new PS5 game my brain tells me the PS5 was released six months ago.

The PS5 has only just now felt like it's hit its stride and is fully justifying its existence. If the PS6 were to launch now, we'd have generation crossover for absolute years. We'd still be getting PS5 versions of games until 2030.

The uncomfortable truth is that people are broke and tech prices are out of control. If the PS6 launched now, it'd be wildly expensive. It's just not a good time to launch any hardware.

This combined with the fact that the PS5 felt pointless for years. It was a very common sentiment for a long time that the PS5 generation felt like it hadn't gotten off the ground.

Plus, if I could say something bold, the PS5 is good enough. Graphics are amazing. Performance is good. Storage is fast. The controller is nice. How are you going to convince me to buy a new console? We've hit cell-phone levels of upgrades not being worth it. What headline feature can the PS6 offer?

Looks good. I'm excited to play it. I wonder if they'll release a weird multiplayer RE game to go along with it. I want to say no, but they just keep doing it.

Amazing show. One of the best in a long time.

The PC version was a mess on release. My PC is more powerful than you could reasonably expect a PC to be, and it still chugged horribly. The way the game handled enemy spawning in the open world was also horrible. You could be walking along in a totally empty field, spin around and see you were totally alone, then ten seconds later there's magically a squad of bandits behinds you shooting at you. It was totally fakery. It's gotten better since.

I don't care about the game awards at all. The awards are pointless and mean nothing. The way they rattle them off and have so many hyper-specific categories just makes the whole thing a self-indulgent affair. There's no reason to actually watch it, I'll just see a wrap-up of announcements the next day.

I bought the Last Clockwinder on a sale but haven't gotten around to playing it yet. Maybe I'll fire it up out of spite that I paid for it and ended up not having to.

I don't want to be that guy that hauls out "Soul vs Soulless", but I really prefer the older, lower-fi visuals and art style for horror games. I feel like leaving things slightly grittier and less high-def leaves more room for your mind to make it worse, while the remake looks so...sharp? Silent Hill has always been more about what you don't see than what you do, and it doesn't really feel like the right direction to make it so pixel perfect.

That said, the visuals on display are very pretty in a different kind of way, even if I feel like they're less effective. I don't really like the over-the-shoulder RE4 camera they're using, either. But it's not like the original game is gone, it's fine if the remake tries something different. We'll see once it's here.

It's wild to me that singleplayer games are getting these "roadmaps". Having a couple DLCs planned is fine, but it's crazy that singleplayer one-and-done games need this kind of post-launch patch support just to make the game finished.

I really need to finish the first one, now, because this looks awesome.

This is Square's MO. I don't think they've been happy with the performance of a single one of their games, ever. They'll release a game that rakes in a billion bucks and then say it was a disappointment because they were hoping for a billion and a half.

There's probably meat in my deep freezer older than Horizon Zero Dawn. I don't get why companies are remaking games that still run and play fine on current hardware when there's a near bottomless well of classics to modernize.

I'm excited to see what they're cooking, but I have no drive to buy a PS5 Pro. The tail on the PS5 is going to be massive. I mean, the PS4 is still getting new games, even some big name ones. I feel like the PS5 is still barely getting off the ground in terms of what it can do, and yet the Pro is knocking on the door already.

Perhaps developers and Sony underestimated how important 60fps is to a lot of people, and wants a system on the market that can have 60fps on brand new games without having to use a "Performance" mode that makes it run at 1080p with N64 graphics.

That said, I had a PS4 and did get a PS4 Pro and loved it. I guess I'll have to see what they're cooking, tomorrow.

"How care Sony remember the character I made exists and include him in a celebration of Sony's games and franchises."

What a loser.

@Dampsponge As a long-time GT fan, I actually complain about it. I would greatly prefer if it didn't have MTX.

@get2sammyb There is no possible way you can't see the difference in calling Mario Kart 8 a live service game and calling Genshin Impact a live service game. This is utterly bewildering how you're choosing to fall on this sword on top of this hill. This one article has done more to make me question if Hookshot is just gunning for clicks than anything else I've read here or on any other affiliated site.

This is like when Nintendo took heat for having low-powered hardware and fired back by saying "the Wii U is HD, so that problem is solved, now", like people couldn't understand the difference. I genuinely cannot tell what this article is seeking to accomplish, or why you're pretending that people can't tell the difference. Utterly baffling.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner

[Sammy frantically Googling for a game that has never received any patch or update so that we can't immediately hit him with the "Well, Sammy, actually."]

This is nonsense. "Live service" doesn't just mean "the game gets patches and updates", it means the game is designed to be a "forever game" that constantly churns out content and treadmills to keep players hooked and addicted. I have no idea what you're trying to do with this article, but all you've done is make a massive reach. We're not dumb, we can tell the difference between a game getting updates and a game being designed to keep you stuck in it and spending on it. Embarrassing false equivalence.

This is like calling Resident Evil a "Role Playing Game" because you play the role of Jill Valentine. Totally ridiculous.

You can celebrate in a graveyard. While the game looks great and I'm going to buy it and enjoy it, it's hard to look at a whole game of "remember this?" without getting a least a little cross about the fact that you'll probably never get more of all the "this" you're being asked to remember and clap for.

It's a bit like Capcom constantly using the Servbot as one of its core mascots, and being happy to trot out MegaMan Volnutt and Tron Bonne for cameos and nostalgia bait, but we'll never get Legends 3. We can celebrate MegaMan, but we can also be mad that he'll never get off the moon.

Like, yeah, it's a celebration, but it's a celebration of a bunch of dead things that absolutely do not have to stay dead. It especially stings after the dumpster fire that was Concord, where modern Sony is flailing around and burning money by the barrel on things nobody wants instead of making more of the games that we love, and they know we love because they put out an Astro game celebrating them every few years.

Always down for more MonHun. Day one for me.

Push Square really getting mileage out of this game. Probably more than the actual players are.

While it's not my thing, I'm sure it's the right fit for someone, somewhere. The 2TB one I have installed is usually just full of games I haven't played in ages.

The show was so bad, but it managed to thread the needle just right so that it was still fun to watch. The "thong song" scene was so stupid and so ridiculous but I ended up laughing at it for like a minute straight.

@ChrisDeku I passed on Rise for a long time because after World looking and running great, I did not want to go back to 30fps at best PSP-esque MonHun.

@Northern_munkey Do you have any assists on? I play iRacing as my main sim and the new update to GT7 has made it feel closer to iRacing, which has actually made it slightly easier for me because my braking and shifting is now closer to iRacing to take similar corners.

Looking great. GT7 is a PSVR2 system-seller for me. I love sim racing and while you can argue that GT7 is more sim-cade, the experience of playing it with a wheel, pedals, a shifter, and PSVR2 is the most fun I've ever had sim racing. I just recently got back into it and I'm having a blast.

I've totally given up on using any of the wishlist functionality of any of the current consoles. I just use DekuDeals. It tracks retail prices, digital prices, and can show you the price history of games as well.

Seems like a fun bit of "related material" for fans of the manga and anime, which is really all a game like this needs to be. I'd almost prefer this kind of tie-in rather than them trying to somehow turn it into something it shouldn't be.

Jeanne d'Arc is a great tactics game, once you get into it. I remember playing it on PSP a bunch.

Story has been kind of meh to me, and I'm in the home stretch. It's very cutscene heavy it feels, much more than previous expansions. I don't know if that's just my perception or what. I'm still having fun, though. One thing I don't really like is that outside of a single zone so far, every zone is with one character leading you around. In previous expansions you had more of a supporting cast, and you spent time with different members of it at different times. This expansion is nearly wall-to-wall following Wuk Lamat, which makes the pace feel poor.

I'm not really feeling confident to invest money or time when similar games are free to play.

I wonder if these are bound to Sony network services in the same way that previous development kits are. There have been a few showcased online and when powered up they almost always show a notice that amounts to "This kit is deactivated. Contact your Sony rep."

I wonder if it was bought just to use as a show piece.

Dawntrail. I think it's a bit daft not to allow "expansions" when they're this large. It's practically an entire game's worth of content.

As a sim racing fan all I can say is that looks don't mean much. It's all about how it feels. A racing game can have a ton of style and then play like total garbage, ala Auto Modellista. Reviews will tell.

@Yousef- "You can't make something scary if you don't have any fear."

@Hootnoodle Well, when you arrive and realize that London is a rainy, busy nexus of misery you'll be happy to know that games are legal there. So once you've gotten soaked, stuck in traffic, and gone down the pubs you can just play games the rest of the time.