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From Software games are hit and miss for me too. Loved the Demon’s Souls remake, but hated it the first time around. Loved Elden Ring, but hated Sekiro. Bloodborne I’m lukewarm on, never finished, but might give it another try. Follow your tastes! Not everyone has to like the same game.

Wow, a show filmed in Toronto actually set in Toronto. Usually tons of stuff films in Toronto but they pass it off as New York or some other big city in the film’s story.

This launch was nothing but clown shoes.

This game is an actual chore to play. Thankfully I tried it on PS+ Premium or whatever, so no harm no foul sorta thing. But frig, how can people STILL get something out of these by the numbers open world games? It feels like I’ve been playing the same game for decades, every time I boot one up feels like chipping away at purgatory.

Bummer. THPS1+2 was so well done, I was really hoping to see at least one more.

Let's hope they go for better stick technology. I would never buy a premium controller with traditional sticks, drift is too much of a crap shoot. I've been using the GuliKit King Kong 2 controller on Switch and PC lately, it has electromagnetic sticks that apparently don't drift.

Unless there are MAJOR gameplay changes, I couldn’t be less interested in this.

Looks pretty cool. I am loving this flat, Moebius-inspired art style that's been popping up lately. Sable would be another good example.

It actually is a ton of fun to play. Hopefully it can find some footing. Anything a little different than point and shoot first is good in my books.

@OrtadragoonX yeah, I agree with you about Chernobyl, absolutely one of the best shows ever made. It's got a ton of potential.

Another day, another batch of mind boggling headlines from Sony.

I'm not going to watch bad TV just for the sake of some brand loyalty or something. If they somehow make something that's watchable, I'll watch it.

It’s been disappointing headline after disappointing headline these days. Like at least one a day, sometimes there’s several.

This whole thing has been a confusing PR gong show. So if you have a low tier stacked until X date in the future, you can't just upgrade to a higher tier for a month or two to try it out? You gotta buy in for the entirety of the stack? The classic games catalog is something I would fool around with for a few months, or dip in and out as titles I'm interested in revisiting are added. If that's not a possibility, I'll be pretty shocked and more than a little disappointed.

What are y’all’s thoughts on the first one? It’s on a deep sale right now on NA PS Store. Very curious, it had lukewarm critical response but I’ve heard it referred to as a cult classic a few times in the interim. Worth a go?

I’m holding off judgement until I hear what they’re up to.

Good, honestly. This is what competition looks like and it’s healthy for the industry. Sony is finally being forced to make halfway decent decisions. There’s been better news out of Sony in the last two months than the last two years combined IMHO. Whether it’s simply stock issues or not (it’s not, don’t be reductive), it’s happening. And it puts MS in a great position to capitalize once their investments begin to show returns. Let the games begin.

now we're talking

edit to reflect update: boooooooo

Release dates before full games list? Hmm. Do people still say sus these days? The PR around this has been full of red flags for me.

OK listen, don't use Pepsiman in the thumbnail if you're not going to have Pepsiman in the article. That's all I'm going to say about this topic.

Just what the PlayStation needs, another narrative-driven action-adventure game /s

…so much /s

lol everyone being like yeah it was so easy, I just used a guide and save scummed three endings! Easiest FromSoftware game evar!!!! hahah.

Because it’s just PS Now with a few PS5 titles. You can’t make a big do about that, though. This is smoke and mirrors until proven otherwise.

nice, the shabriri + mimic tear cheese lives to fight another day haha

Hardware level? Like, emulating the CPU itself? If Sony came out with an FPGA-based solution for hardware emulation of their retro consoles, I would quite literally poop my pants.

“Shady Company Swears They Aren’t Shady.” Phew, dodged a bullet there.

quit playin’ games with my heart

Investment scam, through and through. Think Theranos, but games. You make a splashy promise, followed up by the barest minimum of deliveries at a drip feed pace (a demo app?! Like, wtf, who falls for that?), combined with some Fraud Lite, to keep the faucets running. Eventually someone gets wise but you can burn through 7-8 figures before that happens.

Bro that Sherwood joke is 10/10 though

Slay the Spire is great, I think it has appeal that goes beyond the sum of its parts. I don’t generally like CCG’s, I don’t generally like roguelites, but I played an absolute ton of Slay the Spire.

This whole announcement is VERY murky PR IMHO. Already there is some assumptions being made around some of the wording in the original blog post that are concerning to me, but the internet gonna internet I guess.

Getting this game to play well on a controller would be a real challenge. Some classes, Gunslinger for example, require some fairly complex juggling of a large number of skills.

I think the question that I keep coming back to with any full price game with pay to win mechanics is would the grind be as extensive if the MTX weren't there? If their sole revenue stream was game sales, and therefore the only thing that mattered was how fun is the game, would the progression be the same? Probably not. I know you can just "ignore the MTX" and play the game but that question will pull me out of it every single time. It makes me feel like I'm playing an imperfect product, one that was altered from its most fun state in order to encourage the viability of this second revenue stream. Grind can be OK, but excessive grind, as a nudge towards MTX, is not. IMHO.

I definitely don't want my video game economies mirroring any sort of real world market valuation and inflation trends, especially the 2022 market haha, what about that sounds fun to the average person? Like most of the other dumb Tech Bros. ideas in gaming, I think they're mistaking "cool" for "fun".

A decent presentation, I was not interested and now it's at least on my radar. I have no nostalgia for the ip, but it definitely looks like it could make a great setting for a game if they manage to do it right.

@nts haha geez, who pissed in your Cheerios? I'm clearly just having a bit of a laugh. Also, the headline mentions nothing about magic. You would have to read right to the very bottom for that. Hope lunch goes better than breakfast for you.

edgelords rejoice! a game you can finally call your own.

Magic buffs! Haha. The traditional Souls game’s hidden easy mode gets even easier.

Elden Ring. There’s just always another cave or catacomb to clear, somebody stop me. Me and my Wolfpack are looking HUGE though, god damn.

The gulf in quality between these two games is quite large and apparent to me. I dunno what everyone is on about with it even being close.

@Apfelschteiner your comment is very lazy for a dumb bit of virtue signalling.

I predict they announce another acquisition.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Car prices fluctuate due to so many real world factors that have no bearing on the game. This is just predation disguised as cool tech, especially given the global state of inflation we currently find ourselves in. That’ll be a no from me.

It’s a possible GOAT for me, although I realize that is a subjective statement. It’s so much more than the sum of its parts, which is what some people seem determined to reduce it to.

My money’s on dev kits.

All Souls games have had an easy mode, it’s called being a magic user There has NEVER been more options to get seriously OP in a Souls game like there is in Elden Ring. You have options, you just don’t have an option on a menu that says “easy mode”. (Edit: Every Souls game has been like this too, the difficulty settings are built into the systems). You still need to put in SOME effort but this game is the easiest Souls game BY FAR. There will never be a menu option for a difficulty slider in a Souls game and I am HERE. FOR. IT.

I could never get into GT but I’m glad it exists, it is long-standing proof the Sony 1st party library is and can be more than just 3rd person narrative action titles. I almost bought it just to support the idea because I would like to see more products like it from Sony.

Social media’s unquenchable thirst for the “hot take” tends to lead people to some very, VERY lazy logic.

I made the plunge on ps5 and I’ve been loving it. I notice the pop in more than the frame dips, it rarely takes me out of the experience. 10/10 for me.

Better off doing nothing at all. It needed to be big, this is nothing but peanuts. Something to make a PR stink about with no actual substance. “Look, we listened! Now pay up, chumps.”