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It's gotta be shown this year, right? The fact we've seen Kingdom Hearts 4 and NOT Dragon Quest 12 is bizarre to me.

I wish they sold the Gex statue ala cart so I could just get that with a standard edition physical release.

Granted, I REALLY just wish this wasn't being done by LRG, but oh well, better than nothing

Remedy could make a game with a budget of $25 and a pack of Newports, and I'm sure it'd be a masterpiece

"Linear, story-based gameplay"

WE REJOICE. LONG LIVE THE PS3/360 GENERATION

This looks so freaking good!!! Mafia Definitive Edition is one of my favorite games of the past 10 years. This is a day one purchase for me with a bullet

@FredBiletnikoff I'm 25, didn't play any of the pixel games until the remasters a couple of years ago, grew up on FFVII and FFVIII on PS1 that was a hand-me-down from my Dad. Hope that gives more context!!

"...the gameplay looks like it’s stepped straight out of the PS3 era."

SOLD! Thank you very much

@LogicStrikesAgain I'm less worried about the financial stakes and more worried about the opportunity cost. Every second a developer works on a live service game that either fails or gets canceled is a day they could have spent working on a single player game, or even a single player game with a traditional multiplayer suite. Bluepoint could have already had a remaster released, or a single player game well into development, but we had them working on a God of War live service game for years? Despite them having no experience or expertise making such a game? What are we doing here?

EDIT: I read YOUR edit, and understand we're somewhat on the same page here. BTW I should point out that I think Ubisoft are outta their MINDS for repeatedly trying to enter the live service market. They can't take a hint!

@ChrisDeku Ah, fair enough, I'll give you that one

@themightyant You're missing the forest for the trees of what I'm saying.

-The Show is an institution that has existed for decades; people play it habitually.
-Sony didn't own Bungie during 90% of Destiny 2's lifecycle.
-Helldivers 2 is not a game developed by a 1st party studio.
-Gran Turismo has microtransactions, sure, but that hardly makes it a live service.

My point is that it is foolish for Sony to invest hundreds of millions of dollars having their own studios develop a live service game with the hopes of making blockbuster.

You yourself said, "On top of that they can see that most of the top 20 most played games are live services and the highest grossing games are all live services." EXACTLY. And how many of those live service games in the top 20 were developed by Sony first party studios? That was my point. We cannot forget Concord. We cannot forget the years that Bluepoint and Sony Bend just lost working on canceled live service games. That was my point.

@EvilBear Yeah, Resi does have a strong Nintendo connection too because of the Gamecube, and I assume most of the modern ones will get ported to Switch 2.
I have played Crash on Xbox many times, and just something about it didn't feel right to me, which is probably just my brain.
On the inverse, something like Dishonored or Bioshock is deeply rooted in Xbox for me. If/when we get another entry in one of those series, even if they ran better on PS5 Pro, I'm still playing them on an Xbox console (assuming those exist in a few years lol)

Seems like a good idea on paper, but I feel like there are a lot of other games out there with much more predatory monetization than Genshin

I love stuff like this. It's a nice touch that in the world of GTA, where everything is a fake/satirized product based on something in the real world, we still get consoles that vaguely resemble real ones

Pleaseeee, I need this physically, just for the novelty of it. Like, I would love to take it back in time to 2009 and show it to people at Gamestop, just to see their reaction

Doesn't make a difference to me either way. Final Fantasy, much like Resident Evil or Crash Bandicoot, will always be a "PlayStation series" in my head. I'll never play them anywhere else

We're really still trying this, aren't we? What does Vaas from Far Cry 3 say about insanity?

@CrispyMango92 Noooo that's too bad! I was wondering why the release date updated from 5/6 to 2025. But you're right, it will be better, for sure

I will intentionally avoid Balatro out of self-preservation, but I look forward to hopefully trying Boltgun this week!

Big Halo guy here (peep the PFP), and I cannot wait for Halo to make its way to PlayStation. Whether it's MCC, Infinite, a remake of Halo CE in UE5, or the next mainline entry. I just want as many people as possible to experience one of my favorite series of all time

@Medic_alert Someone said, "don't think of Xbox like PlayStation. Think of them like if EA did everything they already do, but just so happened to also make a console."

Perfectly summed it up

Man, Shuhei is such a legend. I still say he should have been the heir apparent to the throne after Shawn Layden. Nobody knows PlayStation and its audience like him (sorry, Herman)

Honestly, I just hope we get another entry similar to AC Mirage. I absolutely adored that game. Still need to try Shadows. I loved Odyssey, didn't care much for Origins, and HATED Valhalla, so Shadows could go either way for me

Freaking crazy. I know it JUST got delayed, but I still can't believe that we're SOMEWHAT close to it

God dang, dude, some of these narrowly walk that fine line of creepy, uncanny valley territory. WILD looking visuals

Y'all please don't sleep on Metal Eden. I've played the demo four times, it absolutely rules. Super dumb to release it this close to DOOM though. They're so similar, and everyone is obviously going to pick DOOM due to its legacy.

Holy crap, Randy Pitchford was telling the truth when he said Borderlands 4 changing release date wasn't related to GTA VI???

THAT'S the most surprising part of this.

@JB_Whiting Now THAT'S a good video game night, right there

@PlatinumMikey ooooo, good shout. I wanna try that one too!

God, I hope they hold off on raising the price until after I buy it. I would've bought one by now, but my gf needs a new laptop, and I gotta get the Switch 2. As much as I want a Pro, my launch PS5 can hold me over for a little while longer at least

Borderlands 1 is good, and very nostalgic. 2 is an all-time great game. Top to bottom, one of the best of the generation. 3 is...good? Fun? It very, VERY quickly became a quintessential example of a "podcast game." Play while listening to something and just shoot. No thoughts, head empty.

I'm excited for Borderlands 4 for the gameplay. If the writing is better than 3, great! If not, it's fine, too. I'll just listen to something else and have fun regardless

I'm imagining it now...

-Friday Night
-A couple slices of pizza
-Space Marine 2 Horde Mode
-Couple of beers

Brings a tear to my eye

Unless they're referring to the Sands of Time remake as the series "continuing," I don't know what they're talking about. They disbanded the team! IIRC no one from the team was fired, but they're working on different Ubi games. Would they really go through the trouble of getting the band back together? I mean, good on em if so, but that makes the decision to split them up even more baffling.

Great game btw, which I feel like can be lost in this discussion

@thefourfoldroot1 Mmmm probably could have whipped out the thesaurus for that one, given the subject matter

The Xbox Series X will sell approximately 14 units for the remainder of 2025 as a result of this lmaooo

Also the thought of potentially charging $80 for a PS5 port of Master Chief Collection is HILARIOUS

So EA bought Codemasters just to keep them away from other publishers and eventually ruin and potentially close them? Got it. Not the LEAST bit surprised.

I love the aesthetic and the concept of this so much. I just wish it were either a traditional multiplayer shooter or had a traditional single player campaign. I still might try it, though! We'll see!

Balatro is dangerous. Y'all be careful

I am totally fine with this. DOOM going straight into Switch 2 was going to have this game potentially get lost in the shuffle for me. I am more than fine with waiting since this is one of my most hype upcoming PS5 games. I think I'm more excited for this than I am Yotei, to be honest

Me when I lie: “Our decision is literally 0% about any other product’s actual or theoretical launch date.”

I still think the original was sabotaged by reviewers who were given an unpatched build that ran like garbage. Some reviews from 2019 mentioned technical problems that NEVER popped up in the commercial release.

I haven't played this since it launched, but I remember really liking it, despite thinking it was a bit too long. But what game from the last decade isn't a big too long?

God, what a rotten time in the industry

So random and weird, but I ain't mad about it. I just wish Far Cry 4 were a better game

People are gonna lose their life savings to get these skins if they have to lmao

As an Xbox fan, I can honestly say that I don't know what it means to be an Xbox fan in 2025. It's like saying, "I'm an EA fan!" or "I'm a Take-Two fan!"
They're a publisher who happens to still have a console. So ultimately, this doesn't really bother me at all

Supermassive just doesn't have the sauce in my opinion, so I ain't exactly sad about this, just as long as no one loses their job over it

I think I'll use the four seconds it'll take to add this game to my library doing something more enjoyable, like, anything else

I'd like to pretend that I'm upset by the removal of Resistance 1 & 2, but frankly, streaming PS3 is so garbo for me, so I was realistically never going to play those. It's still weird, though! And Second Son being removed makes ZERO sense

I'm still flummoxed by the decision to remove them in the first place, but I'm just glad they're back at all

DOOM The Dark Ages, Metal Eden, and now this? If they are all half as good as they look, we eating GOOD this year

Dang, by the time I get around to playing this game, it'll have been updated so many times that I might be playing an almost "definitive" version of it. Sometimes patience is a virtue, I guess