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Both mainline games are great for me. In many ways they are outstanding. But the story is incredibly weak and sometimes laughable. Lore, on the other hand, is great again. So they have to fix the story, drop the girlboss theme, and we're golden.

Here's hoping we won't see this game at all. Sony, make it your own Perfect Dark.

We all know the best Bioware can do is generate more drama for a few more years, unless they'll be put out of their misery.

They do this, and for some reason I feel ashamed. Five years ago I went from PS4 to XSS because I was sure that this time Microsoft definitely will pull it off. I was sure that the flood of amazing Xbox exclusives is right around the corner. And then Bethesda! You're done, Sony, you're done. That's what I thought.
Yet here we are, five years later I'm playing on my trusty-dusty PS4 and Xbox totally lost everything including people's respect.

I never thought they would drop the ball so hard with Monster Hunter. This entry should've been a guaranteed bestseller. And yet they somehow figured out how to ruin this.

I mean, everything went as planned: Playstation people actually bought the game full-price, Xbox people paid nothing and used Game Pass. I'm not sure, though, they figured out why this should've been a plan in the first place.
Also, expecting explosive growth of Game Pass after Activision deal was strange given the fact that first Activision games started to appear in Game Pass in a year or more after the actual deal. And to this day there's only several games from huge Activision catalog that are available on Game Pass.
Unlike EA or Ubisoft who brought huge number of games at once and Microsoft doesn't even own them.

This will probably be a good enough game, like the first one was. But me personally, I'm not interested at all. I don't see why I should be interested, it's basically the same big empty open-world with the same revenge story.
Sucker Punch, they can make good and solid games, but they aren't into anything groundbreaking or unexpected.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Given the fact that they almost shadowdrop their games on PC there's little surprise that results are far from ideal.
I can imagine that some top manager thinks that slapping a "Sony" label on a game on Steam just magically means everyone's gonna buy it twice.
But most of their games show extremely modest or catastrophic results on Steam because people don't know and don't care about their games without any solid marketing.
Also, their extremely stupid moves like obligatory PSN account just kill the rest of possible sales (thankfully, they lifted this restriction).
And that's a damn shame, because a lot of their games are amazing.

I'm sure the game would be a technical marvel for PS5. Like TLoU 2 was for PS4. Game developers still can't get even close to TLoU 2 in terms of graphics and animation.
That being said, after TLoU 2 I don't want to see anything these people make. TLoU 2 was a horrid game, it took me a long time and Days Gone to love Sony games again.

I never buy full-priced games, but I have no such option. That's a bummer.

Thank you for the review. Hard pass for me. With all these semi-extraction-survival coop games there's one big question that arises: why play it after one or two hours? What's the long goal?
Unlocking things doesn't sound too exciting: look, now you can do the same things but now with this gun!
Looks like only Helldivers 2 thought about that: mind-numbing "fun" is not enough, there has to be some metaprogression or story development. Doesn't seem that Firebreak does any of these.

Hated it then, hate it now, will hate it in the future. And now thanks to this game hate all the future NaughtyDog projects.
I waited it so much, loved the first game so much and it was such a catastrophe. Games like these make you think gaming was a mistake. It's good there's not so many atrocious games like these.
At the same time, it's a technical marvel on par with Red Dead Redemption 2. Still to this date no one came even close to this game in terms of animation, visual fidelity, sound design. It's a true technical masterpiece from PS4 era.

@tangyzesty Borderlands 3 was great. General consensus declares that the gameplay was good, but story sucked. I'm one of the few who think that gameplay was good and story was great.

@CVCubbington Randy's tongue in your ear is better than a movie.

All in all, Endless Dungeon is an interesting game, I think.

We all know that multiplayer games shooting right into PS+ (and Game Pass simultaneously) on release aren't exactly bangers (remember Destruction AllStars and Foamstars?) So Firebreak looks pretty bleak, to be honest.
And while Battlefield 2042 is actually pretty good now, I wouldn't exactly imagine hoards of people just waiting all these years to finally play this "banger".

I personally do not care about any of these games, but still think the roster is pretty great. Asian developers are on the march again which brings me hope.

Square Enix never changes.
It's very sad to hear. I love Outriders (bought it twice on PS4 and XS) and GoW: Judgement.

@AdamNovice They ARE a $3 trillion dollar company because they are always desperate for cash. They're the same guys who put ads in Windows Start menu.

Bomb Rush — proooobably? I guess... I might play it.
Couldn't care less about basketball and Alone in the Dark.
Destiny 2 is and always will be a mess. Better play Destiny 1. It's a finished nice looking game that doesn't cut content and doesn't use predatory monetization practices.

Ratchet and Clank (2016). I have no idea why and when I got this game, I just stumbled upon it in my PS4 library. So I thought, maybe I should it give it a shot. Turns out, it's a pretty fun game. Just what you need after all those huge open-world games.

@StrickenBiged I would imagine something like intelligence based on physical bodies. Using physical human bodies as gateways to another dimensions to wage wars on this invisible front.
He already did a lot of that in Death Stranding with Beach Babies and Necromothers.

Well, they... found out. No reason to feel sorry for Bungie.
Someone did their job extremely poorly. It's not a bad luck, it's just bad decisions.
At the same time, maybe the game itself will be a banger. I don't personally believe it, but still.

Guys, Division: Heartland has left the building quite some time ago.

I have no sympathy to Activision, but I wonder, how easily can you get a doctor's recommendation to work from home?

It's so simple: MONEY!!! (in Mr. Krabs voice).
Doing "remaster" of a game from late PS4 era for PS5 is simple, cheap and fast.
Remastering of a game from PS3, PS2 or PS1 era is hard due to absolutely incompatible architecture, it takes a lot of time and basically means building the game from the ground up.
In case of games like Horizon, Spider Man, Days Gone etc. remastering basically means "pulling the slider to the right".
Making a new game is even harder. And even longer. Sony needs cheap and fast money. Right now. Yesterday.
All main studios are busy with their new games. Some of them probably won't see the light of day in this generation. Meanwhile they have to release at least something for cash to flow.
So general public perception is absolutely fair.

Honestly, I personally still don't see a reason to buy even the base PS5, let alone PS5 Pro. PS4 is still more than enough.

Well, there are some silver linings.
Servers probably won't crash on release and there will be no queues. Matchmaking will be all over the place in a week or two, though.
But hey, you win some, you lose some.

@Matroska It would be so hilarious to see them postponing GTA 6 release to PS6 just to make another GTA5 remaster for new generation in the meantime and sell it once again. Just to be sure EVERYONE got it.
These days it won't even be surprising, to be honest.

@yohn777 Well, PSNProfiles says that 30% of PS4 players and 38% of PS5 players got Platinum in Forbidden West, i.e. not only completed the game, but did almost everything (except NG+ and Ultra Hard).
So those aren't rookie numbers compared to Elden Ring. That's a lot.

@yohn777 No, I meant that Horizon's DLC didn't get released on PS4.
Wait, is Elder Ring's DLC also not coming to PS4?
I got confused.

@CrashBandicoat Well, they didn't release this DLC on PS4, so comparison would be not exactly right.
I'd say I've never played any of the Souls' games DLCs, despite having them all.
I didn't even beat Mohg. though I've finished Elden Ring.

@djlard I actually heard it's not that bad. I mean for a F2P Call of Duty clone.
Not that Skull & Bones crap, not at all.

Anyone else getting Tiberian Sun vibes from the poster?

Absolutely zero trust to any CEO anywhere, that's for sure. That being said, Hulst seems like a guy who knows games and gaming. He's not just a suit like Ryan, he's been making games for many years, and good games at that.

I feel sorry for people who cared for the game and stumbled upon important spoilers.
On second thought, I feel even more sorry for them that they still care for this money-sucking machine called Destiny 2.
So basically these people are fooled twice.

Discord was amazing back in the days. Now it's so convoluted I don't understand most of its functions. All of these servers, bots, roles, stickers, premium subscription...

Wow, too bad nobody will see it.

Farewell, my PS+ subscription. We had hell of a ride since 2019, but I can't afford paying for air anymore.

@NEStalgia Yep, that's Maslow hierarchy for us gamers.

Welp, lost all interest after first season seeing how they butchered the original material. Our man Henry was the only good thing about this series.
It's so lame that they try to market fourth season as "It's Just Like With Cavill, Guys, I Swear".

On the one hand, I'm glad they take their time.
On the other hand, I'm scared of Looney Tunes vibe coming from the sequel. It feels kinda disrespectful to the first installment.
Death Stranding is on top three best games I've ever played, so I fear Kojima would do what Kojima does.

Pretty great games this month. I don't know, I've always found that "free games" and catalog games in PS+ subscription were really great for me. Yeah, not the latest, but often greatest.
Unfortunately, this is my last month. I don't plan on renewing my subscription now that it costs insane amount of money, even cheapest tier.
Online should be free on all consoles. I'm fed up paying for nothing.

@HonestHick $199 Series S with COD sounds too generous for Microsoft. Can't believe it. But dropping PS4/XOne... that is possible, of course.

I can't believe it's 2024 and we're still getting Call of Duty on PS4.
Good ol' PS4 still stands strong.

I'm still in the PS4 camp. As a matter of fact, playing Cyberpunk 1.0 on PS4 Slim these days and having somewhat vicious fun.
I don't see myself upgrading any time soon. First, there's still not a single PS5 game that even remotely interests me (we have Horizon: Forbidden West on PS4, so we're covered). DS2 might be something, but it might be anything, to be honest. While PS4 still has enormous library of great games.
Second, paying $600 for a faster loading times in the same games is not a purchase I would consider reasonable.
I believe, Sony in a sense is a prisoner of its own success. PS4 has been so good, there's not a lot of reasons to buy PS5 even four years into new generation.

Well, I couldn't care less, to be honest. What bothered me for some time is the fact that we are four years into new generation, and I still see no reason to leave my good ol' PS4 behind, i.e. not a single game (or games) that would justify almost $600 purchase.
This year Sony did Microsoft move and decided to spend the whole year without first-party titles.
Death Stranding 2 felt like a reason enough until Kojima showed some characters, and I don't know how I feel about going to Looney Tunes department.

It's so funny that Microsoft is so strict and thorough when it comes to release schedule on Playstation.

I bet they will redefine what "base game" means. There are so many ways for sneaky business here: cut the story, restrict coop, nerf rewards and so on. If you want "full game", you'd pay $100 or more.
And they will shame everyone who won't agree to that, because "you're the reason why devs don't get paid well".

Not a big deal, honestly. We can be sure that PS4 would get updates for many more years to come.