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These comments! BIG YIKES.

I love it, I wish we would see more smaller games from big studios in between their bigger titles

Oof, this discussion. All social media is a damn cancer.

I’ma try all of these

I’ve shipped enough dead code in my career to know these things can be less than nothing

I’m such a junkie for these games that I preordered against my better judgement. Hope it doesn’t suck!

What an absolute joke this entire gen has been. Sony needs competition or this is what we end up with.

You had one job!

I’m glad they’re still trying original things, hope this doesn’t deter them too much.

This could end up being absolutely massive

Oh, won’t someone please think of the scalpers?!

I really hope it’s all just a matter of final polish but I dunno, after the state of DD2 at launch, I’m worried. Whenever a AAA company garners too much unchecked consumer praise (ie. all the CAPGOD fandom), they inevitably squander it and start coasting on their success (looking at you, SONY).

This is up there with landfills full of ET cartridges

My hopes aren’t high for console performance after the state Dragon’s Dogma 2 launched in.

I am very interested in seeing how this turns out. I’m a big tabletop gamer and this looks like it might be great.

There is pretty strong evidence that some of the Palworld assets are directly modified Pokémon assets, that’s a step beyond just copying some mechanics and art style in my opinion. It should be interesting to see how it all plays out. I think Nintendo only brought this case out once it was pretty damn solid.

Naw. This gen has been a HUGE disappointment, and performance had nothing to do with it.

This comment section wasn’t quite the dumpster fire I was expecting. Is the world healing?

Race car levels of performance? Give me a break…

Those other 5 better be absolute bangers.

Concord f2p rerelease date to close the show /s

Wasn’t there meant to be a series of animated lore videos that released periodically? That’s likely what contributed to such an enormous production budget. Either way, what a disaster. Out of touch doesn’t even begin to describe PS5 era Sony IMHO. That’s what not having a competitor does to a company.

I wish Xbox was putting up more of a fight, Sony would have to try harder. They've gotten away with some bs this generation they never would have if there was more competition.

lol 60fps GTA6, maybe when it releases on PS7 ultra deluxe definitive edition in 13 years time. This is the same reason Dragon’s Dogma 2 likely won’t be THAT much better on PS5 Pro, it’s a CPU throttling issue.

The art direction on this game was the least of its worries

More whale hunting from Sony, thoroughly disappointed with their priorities this generation.

I hate mid-gen upgrades. It takes away that parity of experiences that I like about consoles that doesn’t exist on PC. It’s also just another excuse for devs to never optimize for consoles.

I bet he’s a real joy to work with.

This is actually fascinating, great article

This game’s got some heavy lifting to do

This is historic, can’t wait to read a good post-mortem on what happened here. Sony really fumbled with this one.

@Enigk that’s a great analogy

The only way you peel enough people off of an existing title in this space is by innovating in some way, and I’m not sure the AAA’s know how to do that anymore, frankly. Releasing clones isn’t going to cut it.

Give us 3-4 you cowards

One of the best games of the last decade, easy. I love everything about this game’s story too. Solo dev, originally built in friggin’ JavaScript (since ported to unity, I believe), his background before this was casino games and it totally shows. 10/10 for me but I’ll accept a 9, great review.

Not only was the trend chasing a terrible idea, but the game is just kind of bad. Sure, there’s a lot of internet haters and disappointed Sony fans who never wanted this type of content from them, but that doesn’t account for numbers THIS low. A poor product in a sea of really competent ones does, though. Especially when the rest of the lot tend to be free to play. I’m worried they’re going to double down to try to rescue it, pump resources into it, make it f2p, to try to justify the costs sunk. It’s either that or it gets turned off in a couple months.

I think some games probably deserve a higher price point, but my problem is with the precedent it sets. So while GTA6 might have an argument for a price increase where it took a decade to make and offers a certain amount of value, it will also raise the price of whatever yearly shlock EA or CoD spits out.

It’s a great month, even having played Cult of the Lamb at launch.

It is an absolute gem of a game with a surprising amount of depth and that trailer is absolutely amazing.

It’s a good one

The people that are going to play a game like this are already playing a game like this.

Predatory business model

They’ve said there’s more frame rate improvements to come, I can wait.

Last I played I had just started a NG+ to get a weapon I missed for the platinum and I’m not 100% sure I am feeling the grind to beat Mohg again just to access the new content. I’m on the fence about it.

The story of ZA/UM post-Disco is a cruelly ironic tale

It’s a good one. Got real into it over the pandemic with a few buds on PC and it’s a lot of fun.

I actually really enjoyed this game, dropped 300 hours into it.

Misleading at best, false advertisement at worst. It’s not just simply about 8k and the lack thereof. Putting things like 8k and 120fps on the box made a lot of people believe 4k@60 was essentially a guaranteed benchmark for this gen.

SoR4 is incredible, glad to be able to put this on my PS5

Yup. I see the industry as a whole shifting away from more and more and more detailed graphics, it’s unsustainable and is a big driver of the type of toxic consolidation we have been seeing from larger game studios.