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Gosh, who would have thought that making a live service game while barely promoting it and not shouting out the ties it has to your previous games’ universe while your latest game in said universe took nearly two years to break even/make a profit would backfire?

I am shocked, shocked I say.

Hopefully they can use whatever lessons they learned with this failure on Control 2.

@Ludacritz Reread his user name slowly.

Oh no. PS5 waits another year to get a very mediocre Bethesda game.

I regret buying this on disc for Series X. I just keep bouncing off of it every time I try to give it another chance.

@PuppetMaster This is acceptable.

I can’t help but notice that this review leaves out a very important detail, one that is a very salient point to address.

Are there busty ninjas present or not?

Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. There is no reason beyond MS being lazy or wanting the ability to play this game locked behind access to servers in the future.

I’ll never buy this game now.

@kmtrain83 Complete agreement. It amuses me that Sony is not-confirming confirming that a handheld is coming with stuff like this.

@Jaz007 They’re setting the groundwork for a portable.

Perhaps they’ll try to lock bug fixes behind paid DLC.

Saw a patch for it on my Series X last night (I got the game for like five bucks last year) and wondered if that might be it.

Good to know that when I finally get around to playing it in a couple years, it’ll still be usable!

@SeaDaVie Really? I could have sworn Sony and/or Sucker Punch did a celebration post. Maybe my memory sucks!

I just find it interesting that, unlike Ghost of Tsushima, Sony and Sucker Punch haven’t done one of those “THANK YOU! X MILLION SOLD!” posts. They’ve been very quiet.

Usually they’re quick to brag, and rightfully so. This time? Crickets.

I really wish they’d say something.

I’ve never heard of this before today, but I think I might just have to pick this up. At least I don’t THINK I have…

Yeah, that reboot was bad. I tried the PS Plus essential copy and couldn’t get past the first hour.

I’d LOVE to see that 70’s style Saint’s Row, though. Huge potential there.

I’m sure this is all part of a coordinated negativity campaign by the programmers who made the game.

(Yes, I’m joking.)

And with that confirmation, any interest I had has vanished.

@Questionable_Duck I can live with the option. If there’s no optical drive tho, the PS5 will be my last PlayStation.

Series X was more powerful (barely) than the PS5 but was held back by MS’s insistence that games run on both X and S, plus their focus on Gamepass and MS’s seeming abandonment of consoles in general.

So if the PS6 is slightly less powerful than the XBox 720SeriesXOXO but actually STILL
HAS AN OPTICAL DRIVE then I think we’re fine.

@JackiePriest Because Part 3 is still a considerable distance off and they’re timing it to be close to the Switch 2/XBox releases of Remake, so why not make some more money in the meantime?

Just a shot in the dark here.

Understandable. Sucker Punch has a history of being well received in Japan with GoT being adored there. Plus the protagonists in both games are Japanese and very much so.

Say what you will about “the chuds” but our Japanese cousins didn’t embrace Shadows for whatever reason or reasons, marketing push or no marketing push, and that’s very telling.

That said, congrats to Sucker Punch!

As a Switch and PS owner, I’m glad to hear this news. Loving my Switch 2. PS5 still gets more playtime but revisiting all the S1 games originally. crippled by the S1 hardware and shining on S2 has been quite pleasant!

Games at new price/release? Maybe five or six a year. Ten if the year is insane. This year was higher than most with DK Bananza, Trails in the Sky and others.

On sale to add to the backlog? Hooooo boy, that’s a different story. My backlog is stupidly huge, and I have PS2 games I’ll probably never play before I die. >.>

As much as I don’t trust Ubisoft to not mess this up, I’d have enjoyed seeing this.

Would definitely have made more sense having a black protagonist in THIS game rather than shoehorning Yasuke into Shadows. There are truly so few Civil War-era games out there, and a pre-during-post Civil War AC game could have done well.

But again…Ubisoft.

The Switch 2 version only does 30fps per the review on Nintendo Life. Does this version aim for/hit 60? I would HOPE so, but these days that’s just not guaranteed.

This is a no-brainer for anyone who picked up the PS Plus version or ever intends to pick the game up. Six bucks now for a later upgrade is a steal.

@Pat_trick I sincerely doubt they intend this to replace Destiny.

That said, this is going to definitely be above a .5 on the Concord scale, that scale being 0 to 1 Concord.

Now I want to replay it again. Series X/S owners got the same patch as well, nice to see the love being spread across all current consoles!

@Splat I don’t think anyone expected it not to sell well in Japan. They’re disconnected from any controversy in the US regarding it.

Sam’s Club apparently has series S’s on deep clearance for $175 or thereabouts, depending on location. Similar discounts on the X. If anyone is in the market for one and you’re in the US, might be worth a trip.

If you want one, that is.

Yeah, I’m fine skipping this. Plenty of other games out there for me to play and actually own.

My poll option would be, “I’ll get it used down the road a few years from now.”

Well, it’s hard to fall off the floor. Let’s see what happens.

@BeyondKnight Nah, as someone else pointed out, that’ll probably still happen.

I stick with the lowest PS Plus and just…buy my games.

I have a Series X and got a few Gamepass Ultimate 3 month prepaid cards on deep discount last year, still have one in reserve. Holding that for Forza Horizon 6 when that releases, and then will buy it on PS5 down the road.

@Hapless Anthem could have been SO GOOD, but…it wasn’t. I picked up the disc at GameStop a while back for about five bucks and I believe I got most of that $5 back in entertainment.

Most of it.

@Hapless Agreed, though I enjoyed ME3. Since then: Anthem, Andromeda, Veilguard.

BioWare’s recent track record has been…not great, sadly. They haven’t had a good game (in my opinion, I’m sure Veilguard enjoyers disagree but it WAS a flop) since 2014 unless you count the Mass Effect remaster.

Honestly surprised BioWare still exists after Veilguard cratered hard.

The next few weeks should be very interesting.

Just picked up Trails in the Sky 1st, and will hold off. Still undecided about whether to get this for PS5 or Switch.

@Cerny A game set in Japan made by non-Japanese, even.

It really feels like MS is just trolling us at this point, doesn’t it?

Really not much lost here, at least for me personally. EA’s killed any franchises I cared about.

If anime tropes turn you off from an Atelier game, you probably shouldn’t be playing an Atelier game in the first place, should you?

if I get this, I’ll definitely be playing it with the Japanese voices. I found the original to be much better in that mode, and I suspect the same will be true for this one as well.

Definitely not picking it up at launch due to ginormous backlog and other reasons, but maybe down the road. Still wish we had an actual continuation of Jin’s story, but that’s water under the bridge now!

I don’t care, as I’ll be buying the disc either way. I’m a Yakuza/LaD fan and being able to play this and 1/2 at 60fps natively on PS5 is well worth it for me.

@windxtravelerx You don’t have to experience the English voice acting. You can choose the language you play in.

It’ll be nice to see the first ever physical edition of this version of Yakuza 0.

@TrollOfWar Oh, I’m aware. It just amuses me which site got to it first!

So basically Oblivion Syndrome, but from Gearbox instead of Bethesda.

I can't wait for Randy to call DF a bunch of hacks (...come to think of it, most people in these comment sections usually call them hacks. Huh.) and utterly dismiss their verdict while telling everyone to wait for the PS7.

@Dodoo True enough! I only got the Series X for some backward compatibility and exclusives anyway, my PS5 and Switch 2 more than make up for anything I’d lose with the X!

It does amuse me that there’s no hint of this news on Pure XBox, though…

I’ve been considering selling my Series X. Maaaaaaybe I should hold onto it a whole longer after all!