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Where Bloodborne II?

Toxic fanbase saves the day!
Dumb decision from Sony on the first place (they did always say launch titles but oh well) but I hope this doesn´t create a precedent for entitled fans to complain about every little thing they don't like, like Snydercut fans that think they can flame and troll to get what they want. Ugh, man.

@Col_McCafferty Different doesn't equal good.

Death Stranding was Hideo Kojima trying to make a Hollywood movie and just slapped some subpar mechanics, borrowed MP elements from other games and called it a new game in the "social strand" genre, whatever that is.

Kojima just gives me Peter Molyneux vibes these days.

But, will he again grace us with the creation of a new genre????

I just hope Sony isn't funding him again. I can think of better japanese devs that can deliver a game twice as good with half the budget and dev time.

@nessisonett it really does.

Geoff just barely avoided going back to gamer jail if it wasn't for this morning's Elden Ring info dump.

@Mgene15 a lowly tarnished playing as a lord.

@nessisonett I'd trust that his company also just announced their ***** LEGO star wars game and they are trying to create free publicity.

Why wait until now to say something?

And then he says "but Insomniac are great" after he calls them liars basically? Nah, ***** this guy.

I get that Kojima is an "auteur" (in his view) but I would love for him to stop baiting players with fake gameplay and playing with expectations and using "HA, ART! as an excuse.
I'm so ready for Sony to drop him and throw their budget towards better japanese devs instead.

Go, go Bloodborne 2!

I forgot about it completely. BG&E 2 will probably suffer the same fate. And that would be for the best as that game has a terrible case of feature-creep and lack of direction.

Maybe the dev can fix the combat and puzzles with a patch? Loved this game's art direction, shame about the gameplay, will wait for price drop.

@Olmaz Butthurt western logic. Truth is China has lifted 100 million people out of poverty and has become the new economic engine for the world. Yes, the system HAS many problems, lots, but you can't tell me the predatory capitalist societies the rest of the world lives in are doing any better. In fact, they are doing worse, the west is broken economically and morally but still feel like they can lecture the rest of the world.

Explain to an afghan how the US is so much better than China. I believe they might differ.

DAMNNN. Chinese sekiroborne is now instantly on the top of my wanted list with Elden Ring.
Seriously impressive skills and artistry on display by Game Science.

This generation is looking like graduation for Chinese game devs who are also bringing their own ideas.
Still waiting for the english patch to try out Tale of Immortal on Steam.

Classy move, MS. I'm guessing this good will only extends as far as legacy titles but if they get MachineGames to make a new Dark Fantasy Quake I will seriously consider getting an xbox.

I'm all for more Quake, the original one even more so as I prefer the atmosphere and style to the stroggs that were introduced in the sequel.

@awp69 on GamePass? The platform that is great for publishers and consumers but ***** developers in the butt? Yeah, I'd rather pay to support the devs of the games I like to play.

I hope the velvet veil/Sony-exclusive souls like rumors turn out to be true.

Sounds like a scam for investors that has been going on for too long.

Pushsquare should just stop giving coverage to these shady scammers.

Worst marketing strategy of all time... or is it?

Oh no! The ***** overrated hack&slasher? The one that made all that fuss using mental health buzzwords to cover for the fact that it was a glorified vertical slice? That the one?
Yeah, MS can keep that one all to themselves.

EDIT: All these articles are so very click-baity. Of course the MIicrosoft-owned studio won't release an upgrade on another platform that isn't theirs. It's like the people that acted all surprised when Bethesda confirmed that Starfield was going to be an xbox exclusive. Well, ***** duh, Sherlock! (rant over)

Leave him be. He shoul be free to publish his pretentious ***** games on the platform that he prefers (or pays him more for it).
Good riddance I say. This guy is so full of *****...

I'd prefer to not have the PS Store flooded with cheap indie games. The process they describe appears to be quite complicated but to put the blame on that for the game not succeeding is stretching it tbh. Want success? Then make interesting games and don't think you are entitled to succeed just because you are a "lil' brave" indy.

@DeepSpace5D I was going to say the same. Want to succeed on this platform: make more interesting games. I can't say I ever heard of any of their games besides Vigil, I think.

Isn't he making an Xbox exclusive next suppossedly? I read there is a letter of intent and everything. Hope that he doesn't scam our Xbros with another glorified walking simulator like he did Sony (which, to be fair, was really only an excuse to mingle with Hollywood types out of pure own-fart-smelling narcissism).

This feels like a late summer release at best. I don't think Koei wants it to drown between all the heavy-hitter releases coming out during the last quarter of the year.

@batwing47 In this case I think people can distinguish between CDPR devs and CDPR management but both make up CDPR as a whole so the whole studio's reputation is it because of CDPR mismanagement of the game's development as a whole.
I think is fair to say that there are more than a bunch of devs at CDPR rethinking their career path, and CDPR still looks good on the ol' resume so I don't think they would have a problem finding work someplace else.

Man, I remember disliking this movie a lot when it came out and that sentiment has not changed over the years.

Plenty of small but interesting-looking games coming out this year.

Excellent. These games do not need an easy mode. You want to experience the entire game? ENDURE or spend your money on a Lego game if you are not looking to be challenged.

Still haven't seen anything that would convince me to get an xbox, gamepass or otherwise. Maybe when I see Redfall gameplay but in the meantime I will continue gaming on PS5, still waiting for that elusive Bloodborne 60fps patch.

Hope chaos wins.

I was waiting for an Amano trippy-looking FF souls-like fever dream and instead got another FF(not)VII ver. 37

Well, that was fast. Square Enix locked its Twitter account just now according to DualShockers. Probably having to do with the horrible showing of Final Fantasy Origin.

"I want to kill Chaos. I need to. It's not a hope or a dream. It's like a hunger. A thirst."

That dialogue. The horror. The horror. The horror.

@Col_McCafferty Taking it all I still don't see enough to warrant purchasing a new Xbox. I'm not knocking MS at all, fanboysim and console wars are too tiring - been there, done that back in the PS2 days (and I still rented an XBOX from time to time to play MP Halo).

For me: Yes, GamePass has undeniable value in what it offers, but I don't plan on playing half of those games, and since I have very little gaming time as it is, I'd rather spend it in games I want to play not just what is available, which may or may not be of my liking. If I was 15-years old GamePass would be nirvana for me I'm sure but I just don't have to time anymore to fully enjoy it. That said, playing Prey, above 60 FPS, is a mighty attractive proposition.

Good. Now Sony has to work on their own Space exploration RPG.
That "25 years in the making" sound like PR bull***** though, but I bet Todd Howard said the same of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim.

Some couch coop for this poor begggar?

@trev666 Really? Going to have to try this one out!

Although they do make the case for GamePass as a great value you can only really see by Holiday 2022, maybe further. I do agree that Sony will have to come up with something. Obviously PS Now needs to be strengthened, maybe work with Epic for co-development of a new Playstation Home-like service that serves as a Ready Player One-like multimedia lobby, etc. I don't think they invested $250 mill. on them for nothing.

That said, the games I expected MS to show didn't wow me. I expected gameplay from Starfield but that release date was tough. Halo is Halo, and I lost interest after the original one. Forza had a good showing. No Fable. No Perfect Dark. No Everwild (I think... the Rare title). No Hellblade 2.
Redfall saved it imo(even if it was only CGI), but I'm biased for Arkane. Psychonauts 2 looked great but that one is still coming to PS4, I just hope they don't hold it back with a 30 fps framerate.

Quick stream reviews: ubisoft sucked, gearbox sucked, square sucked, good showing by MS, Prime Matter/Koch media had a better showing than the first three. E3 is not making a good case for itself as of Day 2. Maybe Nintendo can still save the day? or probably Bandai-Namco if they show more of Elden Ring, the game that is winning the summer for me so far.

@feral1975 Well, Final Fantasy Origin is trying something new with the cringe-worthy comic relief dialogue in a soulsgame. It's like Square said "lets you the FF games that our fans don't want."

@Omnistalgic Yeah! That has to be a thing. It´s like the most no-brainer PS5 remaster they could do. The only thing that would hold them back would be From´s busy schedule, depending on how many teams they have internally. Miyazaki said a few years ago, way before Elden Ring was even announced, that he was interested in making a new Armored Core game, the first series he worked on when he arrived at From.

This one was the one saving grace in Ubisoft's stream.

Far Cry reached its peak with the third entry that polished what they'd done for Far Cry 2. All games after were just derivative reskins of the same systems plus the played-out ubi open world structure.

@MidnightDragonDX Me neither and I was still disappointed. It was that bad.

Absolutely nothing to see here.

Smart strategy as you can't compete with MS' infinite budget, and might be more attractive for developers looking to remain independant but can leverage risk and get all the perks that come with the PS pipeline.
Not that MS' strategy is wrong but they don't have such a good track record with the devs they acquired. For example, Lionhead had many other interesting concepts but it was turned into a one-trick pony studio exclusively working on Fable and then it was just disbanded. Another one is Rare, whose output under MS has been underwhelming, at least compared to their N64 glory days.
I hope this is not still the case as I'm looking forward to whatever Harvey Smith and Arkane Austin are working on.

@Omnistalgic That game you want is probably going to be Bloodborne 2 as I don't think Sony would want to leave one of its biggest new IPs dormant for this gen, not when MS has the acquisitions checkbook out.

Good for them I guess. Always looked like a Silent Hill wannabe that took a wrong turn on boring street so I won't be trying it out.

Good month! Always good to see Sega dusting off its classics and Squadrons looks interesting, I'm not a fan of Star Wars but Squadrons looks kinda fun.