Wormwood23

I have to wonder if this isn't due at least in part to the excitement over the Wukong Black Myth game. Journey to the West and Romance are both widely considered classic Chinese literature, and the hype over Wukong might help make a solid "elevator pitch" for this remake.

I teach "Journey to the West" as part of a World Lit class and very much look forward to including this game, along with the several excellent film interpretations, as potential extra credit analysis for that unit. Thanks for the update!

Synapse really needs to be on that list. GT & RE Village are both amazing, and CotM and RM2 are both great games, too.

And I mean, if you want to give away consoles you do it right: you donate them to a local Boys and Girls Club or similar neighborhood nonprofit (this is what my wife and I & our friends have done), you don't cause a riot. F'n moron.

Social media "influencers" are vile idiots supported by pathetic losers: I don't care if it's this clown or Andy "Raper" Tate you're talking about; the "influencer" internet is a cesspool of stupidity and the celebration of the worst aspects of human culture. Don't just arrest these people; let's rather load them into a space shuttle and launch them into the sun. You know in your heart it's the right thing to do.

F the beep. I'm muting that sucker the moment the update is complete.

@Batsugun887

Have you read some of the hyperbolic whining that gets posted by so-called "hardcore" gamers around these parts? The answer is clearly "yes".

I'm not sure how I have managed to play the game for so many hours without spending a single additional penny on cosmetics or unwanted additions. I wonder what the difference could be? Literacy? Lack of a sense of unwarranted entitlement? "Hardcore" gamers are always whining about something stupid: Blizzard doesn't really care about them, nor should they.

I deleted it after just an hour of play because of those terrible graphics: the octagonal "swarms" of rats that didn't even move but just kinda blinked en masse across the screen were just the worst. It will be interesting to see what the patch does.

@WaveBoy

Kewl. Just long enough to finish some other games first. Thanks!

Any mention of when that PSVR2 upgrade might drop?

@gbanas92 For sure a thank you, brother. I bought it, haven't finished it yet - just started throwing actual people around the sky- and am having a blast playing it. Totally worth its asking, particularly with that ps+ discount!

Those octagonal rat swarms were just pathetic. The first game had better graphics than this one, which is just sad. I played Switchback for about an hour before removing it from storage, so I will download again and be ready for the Friday update. I hope it makes the game more worthy of its retail price.

I won't try it before i finish Synapse, tho. So, so dope.

Hilarious to read so much hyperbole about "vision" and "integrity ". It's just marketing- I guarantee that scene was deeply focus-tested before it "leaked", and that the leak was designed to help drive sales in a busy AAA release season. And yes, there are tons of lonely, horny gamers out there who just can't wait for some hot digital werebear nookie.

It also helps a ton that the game looks as if it will be amazing to play. That helps, too.

FF beating Diablo would have made a great argument for the Activision buyout. I'll bet there is no joy in MS/Xbox today.

If this is still a valid offer when the Godzilla/Monarch show drops I might use it. We already have more streaming services than we really need, tho.

Bummer. I thought Fracked was a pretty good time and expected a bit more. I'll wait for this at least until I finish RM2 & Hubris and its on sale.

This game that I've finished once and started again is totally broken and needs to be free to play!!!!! Those microtransactions that only affect character appearance are a total betrayal of the fanbase, the DDOS and other server issues should have been predicted ten years ago. And Blizzard never sent me my life size snuggable Lillith pillow either, those clowns. Has anyone seen my fedora?

Any corporate leader who would provide a definitive response to such a question when under similar legal and regulatory pressure would be forced to resign by the board, and rightly so.

The really amusing thing is that in terms of market value, the company to benefit the most from all this is neither Microsoft nor Sony, but rather Activision.

I'll get to this as soon as I'm finished with Red Matter 2 but that might be awhile yet because I tend to get so hypnotized by the incredible look of the game that I lose track of my goal and just stand around staring at everything. I think there's about to be a flood of killer PSVR2 games coming.

@Th3solution I get that about 1st person, but you kinda have to admit that it fits well with the basic idea of how avatars work, tho!

I don't really care for either film for a small number of reasons but if others find meaning and enjoyment therein or in this game, good for them. They could certainly do worse.

You had me at "Venom is played by Tony Todd", Insomniac. Inspired choice, can't wait.

Anyone remember the Newton? That was going to transform computing too.

I just finished CotM, am about halfway thru REV, and I'm trying to decide what to buy next. The headset just hit retail shelves and will do well OTC.

LOL @ the Zuck stans trying to pimp meta: a company that primarily serves Boomer-age anti-vax Republicans, can't decide the right price point for its devices, has been laying off employees left and right, can't decide if it's own "metaverse" is even remotely viable/profitable, is bleeding revenue and about to get totally outpaced by the Fruit Co AR headset arriving soon. Quest is a throw-away device now — you can even find them in local thrift stores across the US.

If it doesn't feature Shelob, the unholy spiderspawn of Ungoliant Eater of Light as a supersexy, big tiddy Goth MILF, I'm not interested.

The original was a boring pseudo-psychedelic walking simulator with an overwrought, mediocre narrative. I won't purchase this version, although I might play it if it ends up on PS+. I also suspect that the SH2 remake will be a huge disappointment.

IMHO, Tom H. is not a "leaker" but rather an intentional component of Sony marketing. Step one: release rumor. Step two: evaluate current interest level and potential market share through social media response. Step three: adjust corporate strategy to capture largest market share possible.

Sony's marketing team is all over this like 70s Miles Davis on a pile of pure Peruvian flake. Guaranteed.

@OlderSpidey she also just spent a half million of her own money to rescue women lawyers and their families from the Taliban after they were abandoned by US forces.

FYI, the TV show stole the idea of the "mind palace" from the heretic-philosopher Giordono Bruno, who called it his "magical memory". Bruno was burned at the stake but had a major influence on English creatives like Sir Walter Raleigh, Kit Marlowe, and Bill the Spear Shaker, through a clandestine organization referred to as The School of Night. Pretty cool.

Those claiming this type of pseudo legal bullying is unusual should also know that Ohio State University's quest to copyright the use of the grammatical article "the" on all college athletic gear sold in the US was granted by the courts in 2022. So, yeah.

@BusyOlf Yep, and it's going to be more for work in the "metaverse", educational training, and the military.

Good thing a respected "Apple Insider" would have no motivation or reason to try to make bad PR for Sony PSVR2, right?

JFC.

Not only is this concern trolling clickbait at its finest, it's even clearly the result of that earlier article from Bloomberg based on a so-called "leak" about sales projections that came from a proven liar.

I mean, Car & Driver just published a drooling review of GT7 in PSVR2 that should drive some new sales, too. At the price point — which is substantial but appropriate for the tech — Sony is smart enough to understand that PSVR2 is a marathon that will last, and have new games emerging, for quite awhile. I would also note in passing that the same thing was said about OG PSVR, and new games were getting published for that right up until the new iteration hit the shelves. There are a number of upcoming PSVR2 games that look freaking fire, too.

@Pleasance you must be a fellow reader of Tom Robbins.

Sigh. From the studio that thought it was a good idea to make Shelob, the arachnid descendent of the light-eating primordial spider-demon Ungoliant, into a sexy, big-tiddy goth girl.

I love Tolkien's works but I'm pretty sure I'm going to do my best to pretend this game was unmade in the fires of Orodruin.

I seem to be enjoying CotM a bit more than most reviewers here — the graphics are pretty amazing (I mean, even the moss on the rocks is detailed and clear) and I have enjoyed the combat even if the movement is limited to strafing. There are a few moments, like the close call with a Thunderjaw while swinging on a vine — that really impressed me.

I like Synth Riders a lot but would not list it as highly as it is here. And am I the only person on the planet who played that new Tetris and thought it was just "meh"? I really don't get it.

On edit, it looks as if I need to play both Demeo and Light Brigade. Thanks, Push Square!

Oh, come on, folks. The hyperbole — and it is just that: political noisemaking — is being done on behalf of her donors and constituency (she will keep MS's positions to help keep MS offices and jobs in WA) and is a good thing.

As a video game enthusiast, I want to see BOTH companies thrive and be really successful because that competition will drive change in the industry and evolution within game styles, platforms, and immersion techniques. MS should keep moving forward with their industry-defining streaming, and this acquisition, and Sony should keep making terrific console exclusives, PSVR2, etc.

The stronger and more competitive the relationship between MS and Sony, the better for us. Now if you're talking Meta, you can f**ck right off. The company is a joke, and Zuck is a flesheating lizard in an il-fitting skin suit. Nothing you say about it will make me believe otherwise.

Awesome. My wife, who refers to ER as "the magic bouncey horse game", asked her brother why he doesn't play the same games that I do, and he responded that he doesn't find them fun for the same reason he doesn't enjoy slamming his hand in the car door or getting kicked in the crotch. Sounds about right.

Sony isn't quaking over this at all: Meta has been laying off employees by the tens of thousands and their stock price is down more than $20 per share from this time a year ago. Their Quest 2 pricing strategy has been a total clusterfudge — they raised it by $100 and then lowered it another $50-75 when it didn't sell at the higher market point. The wireless aspect of Quest is valuable only for "gateway" vr gaming, and if you want to use it on PC you're going to shell out a helluva lot more for a gaming PC rig than for your PS5. On top of all of that, Zuck is still convinced that people want to go to work for 8 hours a day in his ugly little "metaverse". He should really stick to what he does best, which is creating social media for boomer-aged political extremists while looking like an incognito space lizard disguised in a skin suit.

Playable in PSVR2?

The only "problem" I've found since receiving it has been finding the time to play. I don't understand the issue under discussion here: the instructions are concise, the dial functions properly, and the image quality is superb. I suspect that as usual, the primary culprits may be failure to read the instructions and the gamer community's tendency to whine and bitch about minor matters as if they are prelude to apocalypse. Hope y'all get it figured out - the system and gameplay are terrific.

Some enterprising young litigator needs to start a class action suit against Microsoft's purchase of Bethesda because it will limit consumer choice by not allowing a port of Skyrim for PSVR2. Not because I want to play Skyrim again, but because it would be freaking hilarious to see it get ported to a new system. Skyrim: the Game that Would Not Die Edition.

I purchased GT7 last week just because it will be available to play in PSVR2. I had never really loved-loved a racing game before, even in VR (Wipeout is fun, but I wanted real cars), but GT7 is just amazing, and I'm hooked even before the new headset ships. I'm also considering a steering wheel-and-pedals add-on because I'm enjoying it so much using the controller to steer and expect to play the game for a long time. Amazing graphics, responsive gameplay, and an addictive collecting and upgrade loop: it will be astonishing in VR.

Rowling just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of her own money to evacuate Afghani women lawyers and their families after the US withdrew from the region. I will be happy to purchase this game for full price.

@Grimwood Ummm, sure, dude. That's why "real fans" of musicians only listen to a song once and then never again; why "real fans" of genre literature only read a book a single time and why sports fans never, ever watch replays. Deep thoughts, there, for sure.

Seriously, tho, congrats: your post has to be one of the most simple-minded, transparent versions of the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy ever posted, which is saying quite a lot considering the times in which we reside.

Was pleased with this news until I saw that one of the two in charge is the same who oversaw the risibly stupid WoT adaptation earlier this year.

@DETfaninATL
A "cash grab" that is free for those who already own the game? Sure, dude.

Reading is fundamental.

Looks dope. Will watch.