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Nothing really caught my interested today unfortunately. I'd probably enjoy Metal Gear Solid Delta and Spider-Man 2, but the problem for me is that I haven't played Spider-Man 1 or any Metal Gear games before. Getting into those series is high up my gaming wishlist, but until then I'm not going to be eager to play the newest games.

Aside for that, there was lots of liveservice and multiplayer shooters, which usually aren't that appealing to me. Perhaps I missed a gem or two in amongst all the CGI trailers, but that showcase was certainly disappointing for me.

Lots of live service games, and lots of shooters. It certainly didn't feel very varied.

Wow. The trailers hadn't filled me with much hope, but I wasn't expecting it to be this bad.

I thought it was alright, but not a lot of it appealed to me particularly.

It sure is a weird metric. And as it's coming from SIE instead of an independent third party, I don't have a lot of faith in this graph.

Nintendo seems lower than I would have expected, and I would have expected them to get some peaks appearing for their largest releases.

Could be an excellent game as usual for Rockstar, but my biggest concern is how they'll handle the writing, especially the political satire. The political landscape has changed a lot since GTA V's release, with major events such as President Trump and Brexit for instance. It all feels more extreme and polarized these days. Whether Rockstar can work their magic and make the satire fun, I'm not sure.

Only a medium amount of hype from me, as I could see this showcase going either way. It could be excellent if they've got plenty of surprises lined up. Alternatively it could be underwhelming, or lean too heavily into live service games for my liking. Either way, we'll see on Wednesday.

That's a wild spin-off idea. It's hard for me to imagine Dead By Daylight as anything other than an asymmetric multiplayer game, but Supermassive's style of single player narrative games could work well with this franchise.

It feels too soon after the remaster, but I'd sure be down for a full remake if it's true.

It's finally happening. It feels as if they were overdue one of these, so I hope they can deliver.

Quite a mixture of stuff, I'm jumping around between Hogwarts Legacy, Pikmin 2, Nier Replicant, and Persona 4 Dancing.

It's certainly a curious partnership. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out.

Yuck. Adverts are annoying even at the best of times. I certainly wouldn't want to see it in a game that I'd paid for.

Glad they got it running to an adequate quality on last gen consoles. I'm excited to play this later.

Lol. Guess it saves them from having to write a summary if the subtitle is the summary.

Of course increasing prices will reduce sales numbers, that's just economics. The important question to Sony is how it affects profits.

Hogwarts Legacy is the major one for me, that is assuming they can get it running to an adequate degree on PS4. With a week to release and without any last-gen footage shown off yet, I'm somewhat concerned about it.

That was very surprising. Just as things were looking like it would be fully approved.

The lukewarm reception isn't surprising. The game doesn't appeal to me at all. Hopefully this won't be the end of Crash if this game flops, as I'd sure like more platformers.

With how much game prices have risen once DLC and microtransactions are taken into account, I'm not feeling sympathetic towards the game creators. Plus, buggy releases are an ever common theme these days. There's definitely an argument to be made for quality over quantity though.

Glad this has done well, as I was getting fed up of all the backlash from the vocal minority. If they manage to release it on last gen systems without any major issues, then I'll be excited to play this next month.

It's certainly a great idea for a video game, I'm interested.

I'm not going to get excited over rumours, but I'd certainly love for this to be true. Persona 3 has a great story and characters, but the game could benefit from an update.

I'm not convinced, my money is on it being a fan made video. A remake doesn't make a lot of sense right now due to the recent port of Persona 3 Portable. Though, I'd sure love a remake that combines the additions from both P3P and P3 FES.

Finishing off the classic Hitman game Hitman Contracts, and this also seems like a good weekend to give Nier Replicant a try. Automata is one of my all time favourite games, so I'm curious to see how Replicant compares to it.

Though I dislike huge acquisitions such as this, I'm also not convinced that the deal should be blocked. It's up to the regulators to decide, and the concessions that Microsoft has offered seem reasonable enough.

PlayStation's been in a dominant position up until now, and Xbox isn't suddenly going to get a monopoly if this deal goes through, so I don't see this as substantially harming competition. At this point, Jim Ryan just seems to be doing bad faith arguments to hold this deal up as much as possible.

Thanks. I absolutely loved the original Persona 5 and had planned to play Royal eventually, so I'll be nabbing this.

It's certainly on the boundaries of retro. I'd say it is retro, but im not going to argue if people think otherwise.

E3 was excellent at its peak. And I personally prefer the huge bombardment of gaming news over a few days instead of it being more spread out. It's a shame it's gone, though not surprising.

I'll skip this, as I'm not too active here these days. If that changes, then I might reconsider. And besides, there's some aspects of this site and Nintendo Life that I'm less fond of, so I'm reluctant to throw money at it.

Its name along with the promotional artwork reminds me of those knock-off mobile GTA clones. That metacritic score isn't surprising.

It's good that they're repeating the elusive target events again, as there's surly plenty of new players since freelancer mode got added.

Could be great, but it remains to be seen. As as others have said, the prospect of DLC concerns me. The many paid expansion packs are the main reason why I've not played much of modern The Sims games.

It does look good, though maybe too derivative to Persona 5. It's a mobile game though, so I'm sure there'll be some monetization strategies that'll put me off from trying it out.

Patents aren't generally something to be worried about. It's only a concern if and when they ever decide to implement these features.

Mostly playing Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, but I should have time to start something else. Might continue with the classic Hitman games and start Hitman: Contracts.

It's a shame, but I don't have a lot of sympathy for SE right now with their current NFT stance. Plus they've been making a bunch of weird business decisions lately, and their recent games do tend to vary in quality.

It certainly looks interesting so far, hope it turns out good. Glad to see Level 5 is back.

I'd prefer an option to hide it. Even though it's usually easy enough to gauge roughly how far through a game I am, it's nice to have a bit of mystery to it. Plus, there's occasionally games that last for way longer than expected, and I like to have that surprise.

Hoping they can get it working to an acceptable level on the older systems. Cyberpunk 2077 also had delays before their disastrous launch, so I've got a few doubts about Hogwarts.

Haven't played any of these yet, so I can't really choose a favourite right now. I'll get Hogwarts Legacy once the PS4 version releases, and I want to hold off on Like A Dragon: Ishin until after playing some other Yakuza games first.

Could be where GTA VI is located. Vice City is my favourite city from the GTA series, so I'd love to see it return.

An online fantasy game is unlikely to appeal to me, but I'm curious to see what they can do with it. The Bond game they're working on is probably more my kind of game.

0 is my favourite out of the ones I've played so far (0, 1 Kiwami and 2 Kiwami). 0 has the advantage of being the game that got me into the series, but it's also great in terms of story, gameplay, and side-content.

I probably won't get it. I haven't bought the first one yet, and that is low down on my wishlist. There's lots of great RPGs out there, and the Octopath Traveller games don't seem particularly special as far as I know.

Hopefully Sony has some great stuff cooking away behind the scenes, but I'm not going to get my hopes up until more concrete info is revealed.

I had thought this was just some generic FPS shooter, but after seeing some clips it looks like it might be a cool robotics themed game. It doesn't help that I keep getting Atomic Heart and Wild Hearts muddled up.

Anyway, I could do with finding a trailer and perhaps digging out a review or two to unmuddy my mind on what this game is like.

I'll keep my expectations in check, but I'm hoping for some fun surprises with the third party announcements.

I bought it as I love the series and want to support the developers and these kinds of games. However, I've only just finished Yakuza 2 Kiwami, so it might be stuck in my backlog for a while.

I'm interested, but I don't have a PS5 yet. Plus, there's too many other games I'm more eager to play instead right now. But it is a game that I wouldn't mind playing at some point, and hopefully it sells well enough.