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Yesterday they announce a PlayStation franchise's new game isn't coming to PlayStation.

Today they announce it's riddled with AI.

Tomorrow... they announce it's in the Epstein files?

One episode a week. What is this? 1993?

Let me watch them all in a weekend in my pjs with loads of snacks as God intended.

I quite liked Lies of P.

Also nice to see a mention of Buried Stars here - a game I haven't finished yet but have been playing and I like it!

Yotei has a much better story and much better main character.

Genuinely hilarious that Sony finally has a live service slop game from an established IP that looks quasi-interesting and they're not putting it on their own console. 10/10 trolling. Bring on Fairgames.

If this is actually just a big RPG and you don't have to do multiplayer and the monetisation is restricted to season pass i.e. extra quests or baddies or whatever as well as cosmetics... I might actually play this. Sounds like it might scratch that FFXIV itch for me - just a big ever expanding RPG to keep coming back to. I also play that solo where possible.

Obviously, sounds like it needs a lot of work though.

I still haven't played the first one. I've downloaded it like eight times and never played it. Still, nice to know there's more to play if I ever actually get around to it.

This was a total waste of time. One of the worst ever. I liked the Japanese vibe and the host though.

84 million PS5s sat in scalper's basements

Sony buying Bungie was such an unforced error. I remember at the time saying it was a totally pointless acquisition and that the money would have been better spent elsewhere. But I didn't expect it to be as farcical as it turned out to be.

I think it's a mixed bag. Probably about as good as Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, just all three games are good in different ways. So I suppose depending on what you want from a Fallout game will kinda determine which one you like more.

Personally, I like having a voiced protagonist - I hate silent protagonists. I also liked the story more than either New Vegas or 3. But I hate all of the building stuff and the focus on power armor. The perks are massive step down from 3 and New Vegas too.

Still, I've played it three times and I like it well enough. I'll probably play it again. Don't know if it's underrated or not. Maybe? But it's not like it's a hidden gem or anything. It's just not the disaster some people would try to have you believe.

It's finally time to announce that Final Fantasy IX remake.

Square Enix is so wild. It's like they're shutting down the NFT department and opening a brand new AI Wing. Constantly chasing whatever the next boondoggle is. Hopefully tech bros start wamping on about making good games and then maybe we'll get a good Final Fantasy again.

Expedition 33 is probably going to clean up. It's just gonna. You can feel it. I'd vote for it.

Looks cool but I don't have it in me to deal with another gacha. One is enough. One is probably too many.

It's not really of any consequence to me. I've never been paying for multiplayer. I have PS Plus for games and cloud saves.

I just play whatever I want whenever I want. Don't really do themes. Not particularly into horror games anyway, and need to be in the mood for them.

I'll probably play it at some point but I thought the first one was okay and that's about it so I'm not exactly in a rush. Also I'm super not into the lol hey everyone it's jokes time vibes this series has.

Yeah, but it's not a new thing. Everything has always been in competition for your time. There's more options now, but it was always there. Ten years ago it was Netflix, before that your mobile, before that TV, before that - god forbid - going out with your friends for a kickabout.

This whole "we're in competition with TikTok" thing is just something for wildly unconvincing Xbox executives to say to take the edge off how appallingly their console is doing.

I'm excited for Persona 4 remake. But honestly, I cannot believe it's the year of our lord 2025 and we still don't have Persona 6. It's wild how long this is taking.

I can't play Stray because my cats attacked the TV when I tried before when it was on PS Plus Extra or whatever. I'm not doing the drivey game and I don't even know what the other one is. This is a nothing month.

This is like the keymaster and the gatekeeper coming together. No good can come of this.

It's an eternity since I played Halo so I probably will, but I was never massively into it anyway so it's not something I'm counting the days down for. Entirely expected that it's on PS5 but still a bit weird seeing it.

Looks pretty at least.

At this point I'm not sure it matters. Xbox could release a console that spits out fivers once a week and I don't think the console would sell. It's so over that Sony can raise the price of PS Plus and it will barely make a dent.

I don't remember anyone anywhere ever talking about this game. I wonder how many people are finding out it exists through news stories of it shutting down.

It's probably better to be a bit more concise. Rebirth has mountains of stuff to do and it's all a bit... whatever, while the story treads water. They've got all of disc 2 and then the finale to go so they've got plenty to work with. Trim the fat. Kill Chadley. Etc.

Now that Halo is on PlayStation we can all stop pretending we like Killzone.

Oh they're doing the we don't see PlayStation as competition thing again

I get why it's like this. The almighty dollar. But I'd be way more interested if it was the original Halo CE. That would be much wilder to see on PlayStation. This is a cover version. No multiplayer is wild too. Not that it personally bothers me, but multiplayer is a huge part of Halo's identity.

For as good as Control and Alan Wake II are it never feels like Remedy gets the hit they deserve. If they've got a shot at a big money hit surely Max Payne is it? It's a much easier sell than Control or particularly Alan Wake II. Sad fella has awesome gun fights. Should print money.

@JohntheRaptor It really depends. I haven't played the last one since I reviewed it. So to me this was like picking up a series I enjoy years later and it's got some new stuff and a fun campaign. But if you bought the second game this year or you've been playing it recently or you only buy a couple of games a year or you don't get much game time - this isn't revolutionary. It's not like you won't believe how much of a difference baby dinosaurs make! It's an iteration on what came before. So it really depends on your circumstances.

@Kidfunkadelic83 It runs mostly fine. There are a few issues - or were - during the review period that were to be sorted out with a day one patch. Frame rate dips slightly but only when the park is really full etc. It also crashed once. Other than that, it was basically fine.

There's no performance options really, or not like your traditional 30fps + ray tracing vs 60fps - ray tracing options. Aside from the occasional aforementioned fps dips - again, infrequent, and allegedly being addressed by the patch - it seemed to be running at a stable fps.

Now, I don't claim to be digital foundry. But I played it extensively (five starred every mission) and only ran into a few problems like those mentioned above. I certainly didn't consider it problematic enough to ding it in the review, put it that way.

This is my typa pish so I'll play it. Not exactly counting down the days, but I will play it.

I would definitely give this a thumbs up. I'm big into this idea.

I'm really into what RGG is doing with Yakuza - having smaller titles reusing assets from the previous game(s) to fill a gap between big entries. It's much better than having a DLC a year down the road for a game that you've beaten and forgotten how to play.

Give me a much smaller Horizon or a Ghost of whatever and I'm into it.

I also think they should be funding smaller games, and indie style games. Why not? Not everything has to be $300,000,000 and take six years to make. Sometimes people just want to play a two hour walking sim or five hour puzzle platformer.

Seems unlikely though.

This is a no brainer. If I was in charge of Bond - video game, movie, whatever - she's the first name on the shortlist for who I want to do the theme song.

I am now much more likely to play this game.

This seems like an incredibly bad idea.

This seems incredibly unlikely but I do admire the confidence.

I'll probably get one because I always get one at launch but I'm not even nearly excited about it. It feels like we've barely started with PS5. There's still PS4 games coming out. No competition. Seems unnecessary.

If only PlayStation had a porting studio to do this so Sucker Punch didn't have to.

I can't believe Sony bought the best remake studio going in a golden age of remakes and they've made such a mess of it. Still, hopefully this is them back on the right track.

I'd rather it wasn't God of War, but even if it is I'll take that over whatever live service slop they were making before.

It's in line with most generational transitions but it does... seem early, doesn't it? Probably because PlayStation has spent the entire generation messing around making games that never come out or even worse, do.

@get2sammyb I played it this year actually. It's alright. Weird difficulty spikes. I thought it was a really easy spin on Souls for about two thirds and then the bosses' health suddenly becomes ludicrous.

It's got a banging character creator if you're into that. Really good. Basically it's just sexy anime Bloodborne.

Good. There's been rumours it might be 2027 but considering what a first party bust this generation has been so far, and considering the economy, and the fact that PlayStation has basically no competition, "a few years away" sounds grand to me.

Wild that the advertisement in London is a big explosion on the side of a double decker bus... in LONDON.

Scooby Doo and Doja Cat together at last.

This is a nice option I suppose, but I ain't doing it, and I couldn't give a fig what anyone else scores a game honestly.

You could buy like half of the Yakuza series for that.

The last Call of Duty game I played had Kevin Spacey in it so I've got some catching up to do before trying this one out. I'll probably never get to it honestly, even for free.