I said this ages ago, and nobody believed me lol

You should habe taken heed of my comment sooner lol

Spine release window lol

I am very exited for this all time great of a game

The game only launched in May; have some patience! Sony makes others wait 12 or 24 months for ports, so I am sure PS5 players can wait 6 months or so.

It's out on Sept 29th, as confirmed in today's dovetail direct roadmap.

I bought the game at launch and sunk in around 70 hours to get to chapter 6, plus just grind out skills.

After the announcement of all these updates, I decided to wait a while, and now I might jump in and continue, as the game appears to be in a pretty good place now with all the QoL features like difficulty settings and the improved story sequences.

I am not waiting years for this game to become "complete," like what happened with Cyberpunk 2077.

I actually have The Witcher 3 on PS5, Xbox Series X, and Switch 2, but I have never gotten past the first 5 hours.

Maybe I will this time if I can finish the Blood of Dawnwalker and Wolverine, plus juggle it with Fire Emblem Fortunes Weave.
That would give me a 6-week window before GTA 6 lol.

It's certainly a smart use of resources, as they can capitalise on everyone who is excitedly waiting for The Witcher 4 in 2028.

A few good annoucements/updates in amoungst the fluff as usual.

No newly announced games to add to the list, though; in that regard, the show was pretty poor, but we have GTA 6 to thank for that.

True, I am not expecting ETS 2 or ATS until at least Summer 2027.

@XenonKnight Probably a 6-12 month window, so I would expect the game between Nov and May next year. They might show a PS5 date at Gamescom.

@HeeHo I guess some people are bored lol

@SteveBTW Er, no, I have all the consoles, including the PS5 Pro. I am just keeping the same energy for all of them.

I am guessing you must own an Xbox; otherwise, you will be a "shill" too.

These hackers/leakers are in it for the money and no better than the corpos they are supposedly trying to "stick it to"

@SMJ Exactly it's such a non issue.

Nothing wrong with this at all, they are trying to pivot direction (which will take time) but you have to start somewhere. PS and Nintendo do it so it's really a non story/issue tbh.

What do you want, the Xbox CEO listening to core fans on twitter over some minor logos or playstation completely ignoring core fans on everything ever.

I know which one I would rather have.

I wish Nishino has Hulst would ever listen to thier players (spoiler alert they don't and they lost billions on wasted live service projects players never wanted).

I will be playing games as usual on all platforms I own.

@Oram77 FYI it's just under 30 mins. I know someone who works at the BBC who confirmed the media briefing ahead of the previews (embargo set did 30 mins after YouTube premiere).

They mentioned Luke Stephens was there but not sure about the others.

will be nice to have a proper extended look without the crappy watermarks at 360p

Went from European to waisian lol

It's a non issue but the devs pretending they haven't made any changes is a bad look tbh.

Get your claws out for the lads

September is too busy with AAA games for them to fumble like this tbh.

100% agree it's time for Hulst to go

@8th_Observer Tomadatchi Life is great for sure.

This guy seems to be very focused with promoting his Crypto scam for someone who is so invested in physical media.

He will spend a long time in a cell when R* finds him, and they will.

@8th_Observer It's very different from Tomadatchi life if you have played both

I would strongly not recommend this until performance/bugs and optimisation are ironed out.

it's been on early access since February and little has improved on the console side with Xbox.

it also doesn't feature actual romance or marriage.

if you want a good cozy life or farming sim, go for something like Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma, Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar or the more recent moonlight peaks if you want Halloween vibe.

Pokémon Pokopia and Tomadatchi life are also other very highly rated alternatives if you have a Switch 2 with significantly better quality.

I have already seen many people say it has these performance issues across console so yeah please wait a while.

The game looks fun, as for the story.. well insomniac may falter there depending on the writers. That is my main area of concern.

Even if the story is a bit naff, I will still have fun with the 12-15 hours of action gameplay and it will end up a 7/8 out of 10.

I think we have seen too much from Insomniac's formulaic ways to give this a 10/10 because it won't be pushing the medium forward in any meaningful way. Sadly Sony games are more risk adverse now and the writing quality isn't great. At least the games remain fun to play though.

@cainhurst94 It's not logic it's fact, Intergalactic has been in the works since 2019 - Yoshida signed it off along with Saros and Yotei. Wolverine, even GOW Laufey. Sony games take a long time to plan and pitch let alone develop. Games can be in the planning stage for 2-3 years before they start.

As for Concord I am pretty sure Jim Ryan fired Yoshida because he didn't want to do a big live service push.

We won't see much of what Hulst's has greenlit singe player wise until at least 2028 with the likes of Horizon 3 and anything else from then onwards. He did not start his role until later in 2020. I am not expecting anything new though, and a lot less single player games.

@RoomWithaMoose Well if you look at PlayStations behaviour under Herman Hulst for content, they are playing it safe with most of the interesting projects like intergerlatic Wolverine and Saros signed off by Yoshida before he left.

Since Herman has shown up, studios have got shut down and the push to do live service games hasn't gone too well. I'm expecting safe bets from Playstation moving forward which is sequel building on IPs and live service. Yoshida doesn't even get to focus on Indies anymore (after Jim Ryan demoted him) so we will see less of games like Stray and Eternights.

@ShadowRJ Sadly, companies are only ever going to go where the money is; that's what businesses do.

They will go for the safe bets in terms of single-player games and live-service attempts in the future. Xbox is doing the same, and even Nintendo is sticking to tried-and-tested IPs

Sony knows that outside of the tiny social media bubble, over 90 million players don't care about discs and just want to play fun games.

The numbers show that to be true, even if it doesn't seem like in in the comments sections.

@ApostateMage They were objectively awful games on a technical level, though. Wolverine, while not to everyone's taste, will at least be technically very sound and performant. It would be disingenuous to compare an Insomniac game to something from 2 studios that have had either closure or mass layoffs.

@Nem, what did Hookshot start? lol

I haven't really been on Twitter/X since 2020, and I feel my mental health has improved significantly not having to see whiny B**ches on the daily.

I am only interested in KCD Salvation. That should be another great game from Warhorse.

So, from what I can tell, she was fired and replaced by another human, according to the CEO?

But the employee states she was replaced but chat GPT. I am curious what the true story is, but honestly I don't really care about AI and will just judge the game on if it like the look of it or not and if I perceive it to be of good quality.

Not sure if it is for existing owners only, but it shows up as a 20% discount for me, £9.59.

Really glad they are doing a controller and limited edition items for this game!

I don't think remakes of 1 and 2 will sell well unless they receive significant quality-of-life improvements.

I know quite a few Persona 3-5 players and even some hardcore SMT fans who have gone back to Persona 1 and 2 and had a rough time.

Persona 1 and 2 are really just SMT spin-off games (and titled as such), and only 3-5 are what you would call "actual" Persona games with the social links and game design we know and love.

1 was made in 1996, and 2 was done in 2 parts over 1999 and 2000. 95% of gamers, even of the older generations, would not stomach the gameplay these days.

They have 2 options that make sense:

Do a cheap port over to PS5, keeping the games as they are, or do a whole reboot with social links, calendar, modern combat.

In the ideal world, they can do both to meet the needs of a very small number of truly hardcore SMT fans while 3-5 Persona fans (a much larger number) can have the Persona 1 & 2 experience (maybe combined) with the things that Persona fans love.

"Just make sure to follow a few simple rules: don’t talk to strangers, don’t leave the village, and, whatever you do, don’t go out at night.”

So if I follow these steps, I can have my cozy farming sim game without the shoehorned horror? lol

@AhmadSumadi You would only get Batman in a DC game, not a Marvel one.

@SMJ @FreasurePlanten I think you will be hearing a lot of GTA 6 between now and January if you interact with any kind of gaming media.

Sadly, you can't get free trials in the UK anymore. I am not paying to watch a few mins of a trailer.

I suspect it will get leaked online within minutes of airing anyway.

There is a lot of hype for the game, and I am looking forward to it like many others, but most people will just wait until it's on YouTube or leaked online.

I think the story/writing was better in the first game, and the overall emergent gameplay and other gameplay elements were better in the second game.

The perfect sequel would have been Jin or Atsu with the same quality of writing and story that Jin got. I think a couple of the new writers worked on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, so yeah, Sony hasn't been hiring the same kind of writers as in the past tbh. It is a sad effect of Herman Hulst taking too many risks on writing talent, which players are now beginning to notice.

It's not even like it is particularly "woke"; it just is not as good as the previous games that Sony got acclaim for under Yoshida and Andrew House. Tsuhima was signed off and written under Yoshida and House's leadership.

Yotei had the "don't forget HR are in the room with you" kind of safe and basic writing that Veilguard had. Spider-Man 2 did the same thing, and I fear Wolverine/GOW Laufey may not be the sharpest in terms of writing, but at least fun to play.

Long story short, all the games you like are just not as good under Herman Hulst, and he should have been fired years ago.

Let's not forget all the Level 5 games that keep getting delayed; maybe 2027 will be the year of Professor Leyton and DecaPolice lol

@Boxmonkey I don't think Push Square has been paid, but they do often have a strong bias towards Sony first-party games even if they are middling.

I can imagine this will end up being the most pre-ordered game of all time.

A new term of "disc diddlers" is floating about online lol

I didn't enjoy the ending much, and the gameplay felt a bit repetitive. I probably won't go back.