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@Nepp67 They talk about "locales" in the website but there is never mention of a bigger open map.

Open world design in general is way overrated. Playing those types of games just feels like a chore half the time.

@MFTWrecks I think that factions 2 just grew so big it turned into part 3 (hopefully).

I remember ND saying the new factions would have narrative elements right around the time they released concept art for it. Maybe ND thought all these ideas would work better in part 3.

And it wouldn't be "entitled" to think they OWE us a factions mode in the next game, right?

I mean, it was a part of the first game and it was pretty much promised for part 2 until they decided to make it into a live service game AFTER part 2 released.

@arsmolinarc That said, if I was a Sony shot-caller I would put all my liveservice eggs in the Helldivers 2 basket. Reinforce success instead of wasting valuable resources on duds.

Hero shooters like this live and die on their characters and the design for Concorde's reveal roster are generic, uninspired, derivative...you name it. Didn't find one character I could say "Hmmm I'd play like this or that character.

I actually found the "Savage Dragon+Yondu lookalike" character to be kind of annoying.

Too bad its a 5v5, I was thinking it would've worked better as a bounty hunter team PvE or PvP between between players hunting for the same bounty. Instead we got 'generic Guardians of Overwatch Legends'

@DennisReynolds Astrobot and Silent Hill 2 are enough to carry the year for Sony.

So what about the xbox games? MS pretty much capitulated and their games on PS are a sign of that, they just can't admit defeat so they call it a "different strategy". They all sell great on PS5 yes, but they all bend the knee paying the 30% cut.

It was good but not great.

I had somewhat high expectations for Concorde and that reveal did NOTHING for me.
Pleasantly surprised by Dynasty Warriors Origins and Ballad of Antara. Where Winds Meet also picked my curiosity.
Don't know what to think about the lollisim...

Sony finished strong with Silent Hill 2's release date.
The gameplay reveals of both Monster Hunter Wilds and Astrobot are both my games of the show along with Silent Hill 2 (now how about a Silent Hill 1 remake)

I don't really expect much from these shows anymore. They've all pretty much been letdowns ever since the pandemic.

A steam deck-like portable that can play all past PS gen games natively AND stream PS5 is all I'd need.

It´s about time they properly reveal Concorde and Fairgame$.

Wouldn't mind a new Naughty Dog IP tease though I'm still sour about Factions 2 being cancelled.

@Steel76 You pretty much nailed the essence of Kojima. His head is too far up his own ass.

If I was Sony I would be fishing the laid-off talent from Arkane Austin since yesterday.

To me, It just confirms my suspicion that the MS acquisition spree was just about taking strong 3rd party IPs and studios away from the Playstation ecosystem.

PS. MS, if you shut down Obsidian we riot.

I always thought was Capcom was limiting itself with dinosaurs. I mean your premise is about portals that rain down dinosaurs is already wacky enough, you could do ANY type of enemy and be limited only by your imagination. Just adding memorable things to shoot at and cool collabs with other Capcom IP should be enough to turn it around.

@Scrubchub a new PSP that also plays oldschool PS games from gens 1 to 4 including psp and vita is money that Sony is just leaving om the table.

Right now it's the perfect storm moment to try again: PS Portal sold out against ALL expectations, Portable PCs are super popular, the switch's success and upcoming switch 2. There's evidence that there is a BIG market for handhelds and frankly the money spent on PSVR2 would be better spend on a new portable.

Sony's VR efforts are commendable but there is no market that justifies the money and time spent. VR needs to be a wireless experience otherwise we are were we are at.

In shorts: YES. NEW PSP. NOW PLEASE.

I would be in the "not needed" camp if I didn't have to sell my PS5 a few months ago.

Right now I'm actually waiting to know more but I'm thinking I can wait till the holidays for a Pro. Maybe get a steam deck in the meantime... Man, we need a new PSP.

Magnificent. Must buy for me.

Can we now have System Shock 2?

Joe Rogan HAS to be a guest fighter now.

"Jamie, pull up the video of me fighting a Bear".

We can all pretty much agree that 2B is the best original character from the PS4 era.

The 2nd trailer reignited my hype for this game but I'm not a fan of the J-Pop Idol costume design tbh.

Epic Store exclusivity and lack of physical release hit hard I believe.

I will be getting Alan Wake 2 but I know I would've prefered a physical edition.

@evildave333 and he objectively ruined MGS2. It went downhill the moment the tanker sunk and replaced Snalke with a femboy nobody liked until the memetastic Revengeance.

This man is so full of himself... I hope he goes Hollywood and never comes back.

At this point he is only using game budgets to pay his "friends" and make movie industry connections.

I can think of five, nah... TEN devs in Japan that deserve at least half the budget the so-called auteur gets.

Konami was right all along.

Sounds great on paper but I'm not really interested in any xbox exclusive atm (don't care for Kojima).

I share the same sentiment that most do here: If I wanted an xbox I would've already gotten one.

Don't think there's lots of people out there that want to play Starfield on their PS5 after how "meh" the game actually turned out to be.

This is the biggest flop in Bethesda history at the moment.

@Scottyy Starfield is not even the best Bethesda Game this year. Hi-Fi Rush has more Game award nominations. 😂

Predatory DLC practices are like part of Atlus' identity by now.

Max Payne in Lordran? YES, PLEASE!

Nobody wanted a bloated GaaS. Just give US Factions 2.

Damn Sony is just going to add everything they worked on to tloU 3.

No true new PS5 in this gen can only mean Bad management over at Naughty Dog. Hope they sorry their sh*t out.

@Northern_munkey because the hypocrisy from Spencer is such a standout.

You go on ahead and put flowers on your head celebrating that PS Now helped F76 stay afloat.

@PixelDragon +30 year veteran and same here. Couldn't choose a number one but I do have my pantheon of gotys (godtys?)

Well deserved. Bloodborne single-handedly got me back into gaming after falling of the wagon at the middle of the PS3 era.

Truly one of the best games I've ever played.

We need another even if its not set in Yarnham!

Ugh I can't stand Spencer/Microsoft. Class-A piece of sh*t.

The latest emails that leaked clearly reveal their monopolizing strategy when talking about acquisitions. The nerve to say that Nintendo doesn't realize they'd be better as part of MS. Dude doesn't remember they are third, out of 3.

Truth is MS knows this is the only way they can compete. They are unable to nurture and grow their own studios so they just Buy them wholesale, milk them and then run them into the ground. The Forza series Is the only exception to the rule. They even manager to kill off Halo for f*cks sake x..D

But of course the US govt. will never reign it in because they are just as corrupt.

@UltimateOtaku91 Capcom must have started working on it after shipping Devil May Cry 5.

Itsuno said way back that Capcom have him the choice between making DMC5 or DD2 and he chose the former but said he would work on DD2 next. When development actually started only Capcom knows.

The only reason the deal is going to pass is because Microsoft has been paying off politicians. Sorry, "lobbying".

That exosuit boss battle from the launch trailer sold me more on the game than the dino waves. Still think this should have been a Lost Planet game.

@Highlar The difference is Sony and Nintendo actually finance and develop their own IPs, they don't go out and buy a publisher and call it the same, not when most of those 3rd party IPs performed better on PS on the fact that it had a way bigger install base.

Both Starfield and Redfall started out with PS5 versions in mind until Xbox decided to end them, a fact confirmed by the main devs (Todd Howard, Harvey Smith) of each game.

The saga of the most overrated japanese game designer continues...

Kojima (still) using Sony's money to buy his way into Hollywood. (Through the b-list no less)

Great, keep it going.

Day-one releases are too good to be true. I mean that for us as customers they are great but are completely unsustainable for dev. I'd rather BUY the game and let the money, their cut, go to the developers directly rather than let MS just hand them out peanuts to cover the lost sales cannibalized by GamePass.

Tbh I wouldn't care. The reveal killed all the game's hype for me.

Its just another SMT with some high fantasy Persona sprinkled on top. From the concept art I was expecting something a little more traditional but it just looked too much like that pop idol RPG for the Wii & Switch.

In the meantime I'll keep dreaming about that FFIX Remake.

PS. I expected better animation and overall look, it just looks so much like every SMT game they've released over the last 5 years. I think the reason I feel "let down" (personal feelings, Atlus doesn't owe me *****) is because I was really expecting to go crazy over this game like when the finally revealed Persona 5 and it felt like such a gigantic step forward for the series.

Man, that classic lineup is sure taking its time to get to the hits, huh?

No Armored Core or King's Field to ride the fromsoft hypetrain? No golden age Square or Enix RPGs. Capcom!

The classic lineup has the potential to be so much much better than it is right now.

Maybe more single-A and double-A games to cover the drought seasons, like the psx-ps2 years.

Triple-AAA and AAAA games are awesome but 5-year dev cycles are not sustainable if they take up the entire generation to make.

Capcom disappointed me because I really was excited for them to show something hype for their 40th anniv. Maybe for the TGAs come December?

On the other hand I thought Ubi's showcase was ok because I didn't expect much from them: not a star wars fan, not an Avatars fan (but it did pick my interest more), Prince of Persia, as good as it looked, just felt like a step back for the series.

Game to game, Capcom wins hands down. Dragon's Dogma 2 would have been a showstopper if it hadn't been revealed at Sony's showcase.

Knowing Atlus they are going to milk the sh*t out of the remake, expect a royal-like re-release aprox. two years after the vanilla version.

@SuntannedDuck2 My mind had erased the awful Twisted Metal teaser.

Why did Sony ever think the Twisted Metal IP was the ideal one for a tv show? It's like they make bad decision after bad decision on purpose.

Had me at "John Carpenter".

I guess we'll get that Max Payne announcement for the Game Awards then.

Worse than the PS showcase.

Now there's only Capcom's showcase to look forward to. Dragon's Dogma 2 is said to be making an appearance and that already makes it a winner in my eyes.

Can somebody please tell Apple about the inflation around the world? And I thought PSVR2 was an expensive proposition.

@MattBoothDev Pretty much, but don't tell that to americans.

Next they'll start saying blocking the buyout "plays into Putin's hands" LOL.

Atlus is like a dairy farm and Persona 5 is the cow. They're going to milk that b*tch dry.

Personally, I'd like P6 to become more adult-oriented, or outright make another subseries we're you play grown ups, Catherine shows the team can pull it off.

As I grow older it gets weirder, to say the least, to play a horny teenager that obviously has no boundaries. (or morality? Man, some of the "relationships" get weird, specially with the adult characters, and always end up feeling like you're taking advantage of this people at a vulnerable moment of their lives. That poor teacher's arc from P5 made me feel like sh*t at the end.)

Sorry, I'm venting.

@Ear_wiG SMT: Devil Survivor already fills that niche. A fighting game perhaps?

Just hope its not another f*cking rhytm game.

PS Plus Mehnaissance continues.