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There really is almost no reason to buy a game day one anymore. At this point, especially with my backlog, I'm just waiting for sales and patches for the most part before buying. I might make an exception for a (single player) From game, but that's about it. (Well I guess Nintendo first party titles also, because their games never go on sale and generally are not patched.)

Yikes. Guess they're running out of stuff to offer.

DE used to be stellar, but even Atari 50 has bad audio lag on all platforms. I contacted them directly, and they not only were unaware of it, but they did nothing about it once informed.

$1 is super tempting, but I almost never play the fighters I already own.

I'll take a free racer. I pay for PS Plus for cloud saves; anything else is a bonus.

I remember having a ton of fun with the first two at the time. Happy to see these get ported!

I think it's really unfair to lump Korean and Chinese dev teams in together; they are very different peoples and cultures, and thus far, Korean devs have shown much more mastery over the hardware and have come out with better and less wonky games. I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

Edit: I hope it's much more than just a boss rush, though!

I might try it again. The massive input lag made it unplayable before. And that was on Pro.

@PuppetMaster Fair points. Perhaps a rephrase — this generation, Sony has released fewer first party games that appeal to me, per year, than PS4 has, which makes it doubly concerning to me that nothing new was announced I can look forward to. I'll try to stay hopeful!

@naruball I think there's fair criticism to be had here, and actually a whole of it to be directed at Sony lately. It can be called whining, but we've all invested our money into a product we want to offer good support, and this gen Sony has been largely dropping the ball.

@ButterySmooth30FPS I'm talking about new announcements. Things to expect going forward on PS5. Are we waiting for PS6 now? We might be.

Changed my mind on Wolverine — way, way too gory, so that's out.

Saros is Returnal 2, and I didn't like Returnal.

Zero new first party announcements concerns me a lot.

Basically, there was nothing for me here.
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@KidRyan You've seen one third of the Bond films. If you're a big fan, I would suggest seeing the rest — or at least a majority — of the movies.

@KundaliniRising333 I'm curious what you meant about Indy.

I just wish he didn't look like such a smug jackass.

Overrated game by an overrated game designer

@Lowdefal Fair, yeah. Won't be long I'm guessing.

Actually, it's a reminder that Xbox lost.

@get2sammyb @Marquez In the movie, the narcotics were hidden in teddy bears, so this is consistent.

And my concern is this will be like Arkham combat but a far too easy version of it, based on previous Lego games (which generally I do not like much, including Skywalker Saga sadly).

@Oram77 Totally disagree. I personally think the FF7 remakes are bloated games with far too easy combat. SE needs to go back to basics, and hopefully this meeting will get them going in that direction. Hopefully they aren't buying Sandfall out...

@Michael2008ish Card game is completely a side thing, you can skip it.

@wildcat_kickz I can respect that, and it's a thoughtful and sensible point of view from a role-playing perspective.

@wildcat_kickz I wouldn't say it sucks at all, but it really is kind of laggy and wonky compared to a lot of other action games. I didn't hate it by any means, I still had fun, but it could have been substantially tighter.

It's overall a very good but overrated game. The ending for me was really poignant and added a lot to my overall positive feelings. But it's too open with an overwhelming amount of quest markers, the cutscenes are far too many, and the combat is a bit awkward and loose compared to something like Souls games, FF16, God of War, and quite a lot of other games. I'd say it's an 8.5/10. It's not close to my Top 10 games all time and very likely is not in my Top 50. It's good to great.

Octopath II is the best thing they've made in a long time. Guess we won't be getting another one any time soon.

They're doing the exact opposite of what most of us want...

I'd say 8.5, but it's probably a 7 if not for it being Indy. Didn't vote in the poll, as I'm not done yet.

Edit: I progressed further. I think the game is a 9 or 9.5. Without Indy it's probably an 8.5. It's just getting better and better.

Added: I finished the game. I'm going to say it was an 8. Very good to great but of course it's because it's Indy.

Enemies scale with you = no buy. Same reason I don't play Skyrim. It makes progression/leveling worthless. Can't believe I'm the only person among all these comments to mention this.

@RawnDawn The game doesn't really take off until you've gathered your party members after the crash. I know multiple people who gave up prior to that. Try to push through further. Also, for the most part, the longer you play, the more interesting the game becomes, as you get more diverse skills, more characters, and more interesting plot reveals and enemies.

@somnambulance BG3 is probably my number two game all time after Elden Ring, but I have zero interest in KCD2.

@Jaz007 Sorry but that's just an awful take imo.

Took me over 300 hours to complete a single play-through on hard difficulty — and I didn't lose many battles or get stuck forever on bosses. The game is just so vast. I love BG3, it's definitely in my top two or three of all time, but there's no way I would replay it with it being that long. There's just way too much other good stuff out there and on its way.

Pretty amped about this! I love that they went first person and wish we would get more first person non-shooter games (personally, I miss King's Field a ton).

Amazing amazing game but way too many other games to play to replay anything.

I own both but onlyplayed Remake. While I enjoyed certain aspects of the game, but the big problem for me was that it was not remotely challenging. The combat was just far too easy. I also found the end sequence in the building rather dull and tedious, so I actually quit the game about 10 or 15% before it was over. I would put it somewhere between overrated and disappointing.

@Dorfeus The real PS3 was $599 at launch; no one bought the $499 20 GB version lol

@Zeke68 Fair, but the point remains that the PS3 was far more expensive in its day than the PS5 Pro in its day.

@Nem Well to be fair, Push Square was doing the comparing. My point was that you cannot compare the two. So you are supporting my point.

@Zeke68 Okay... but I'm guessing PS3 was way more expensive in Sweden in 2006 if you consider inflation, as well.

To be fair, $599 in 2006 would be roughly $945 now. So the PS5 Pro at $699 is not remotely comparable.

Passing on this, regardless of platform. as I have no interest in multiplayer From games. I'll wait for the next single player entry.

@liamcroft

Just a heads up that this sentence:

"Given the overwhelming success of Elden Ring, it was hardly ever in doubt that FromSoftware would abandon games focused on playing alone."

should read as follows for correct grammar/meaning:

"Given the overwhelming success of Elden Ring, it was hardly ever in doubt that FromSoftware would not abandon games focused on playing alone."

I don't think Sony needs a gimmick. They just need to get back to regularly releasing really good games.

@Ichiban Forza Horizon 5 is 3.5 years old...

This is going to be just another vehicle to dump on people with traditional faith and values, so I definitely will be passing on it.

@get2sammyb

Shut down = action — "The studio was shut down."

Shutdown = noun — "The shutdown of the studio was both shocking and disappointing."

I just wish they would release the Williams/Midway classics on PS5.

Hoping for HD-2D for both. I was going to replay FFT for the first time since I beat it at its initial release, but I guess I'll wait now. I never got far in FFIX and hopefully will like the remake better.

This is more of a backlog year for me, but I'm fine with that. I will probably pick up Ghost. I expect that next year we will see a lot more first party titles.

Edit: And Switch 2, but we're talking PS.

@nofriendo Sadly found the combat far too wonky.