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I'll play this. I like Bethesda nonsense so I'll give this a go.

This is weird because I have that like second or two where I'm like wow look at that and it looks impressive and then the more I look at it all I can see is that picture of Aloy the incels made to "improve" her that went viral a few years ago. Hideous, artless, soulless, pointless.

@LifeGirl This is my most wanted update to any game ever. I love Cyberpunk. It's one of my favourites. But it is incomprehensible to me that this game - full of customisation options and wild fashion - has no third person mode. You literally only see your character in a menu or on a motorbike. Gotta do something about that.

They look terrible but they're free and not like a pre-order bonus or something. I don't know how you can really be mad at that. Don't use them.

Somewhere there's an AI website where a bunch of AIs in the comments are complaining about humans coming along and stealing their jobs.

This site is obviously cringe, but I don't think it's surprising. Some people seem aghast at the idea of people rooting for games to fail but I'm not. In fact, I don't even think it's particularly egregious.

Chasing the live service dollar has absolutely crippled PlayStation's first party output for an entire generation. And it's not just PlayStation. Ubisoft, Activision, EA, countless smaller studios and publishers. Job losses, studio closures, and games pivoting to predatory monetisation models.

At its worst, live service is destroying parts of the industry. At its absolute top dollar best, when the stars align and we get a hit, it still results in games that seem more interested in milking their own fans dry via overpriced skins, sleazy pay to win mechanics, or thinly veiled gambling systems than anything else.

So yeah, I get it. This website is lame. And it's got big incel vibes. But I am not at all surprised its come to this. If the games industry is going to continue to treat its own fans with contempt, we can't all sit here crying about mean spiritedness when the fans lash out.

Big PS3 energy to this one. I certainly wouldn't say I love it but I'm on that side of the fence. Looks cool. Might be terrible. Will probably still play it even if it is.

This is hilarious if Xbox paid for it. Wild stuff. Like a drowning man using his last ounce of strength to order a dominos.

Since Concord has become shorthand for catastrophic live service failure, it's kinda sad that the only thing anyone will ever remember Highguard for is upsetting everyone at the Game Awards. Oh well.

They're blatantly just doing this so they can look at your purchase history and how many full price games you buy and then if you buy a lot they can give you worse deals knowing you'll likely be willing to pay more.

This should be illegal and uproar is absolutely warranted. This is disgraceful from Sony.

I think they're cringe but they were when the game originally released. They're not evil. I'm not bothered one way or the other whether they stay or go - keeping them remains true to the original, losing them doesn't hurt the game one iota. Makes no difference to me.

Charging that much for skins is offensive. Charging that much for skins in a non-free-to-play game is borderline criminal.

Other than that, if it's doing fine it's doing fine. Not sure fine is good enough. Sony were probably hoping for more than fine. But then Bungie was a colossal waste of money and however pretty this is it's just another multiplayer shooter with mobile game monetisation.

I do want smaller games. I just don't this.

It's interesting. Sony doesn't seem to care about anything. They just keep themselves to themselves until they want to talk. But is a new console too big to ignore?

I think that it won't change anything and they'll just do whatever they were going to do. Is the new Xbox a threat? Does the new Xbox have a prayer?

Probably not. Nobody wants an Xbox. And anyone who cares enough about PC gaming to spend the kind of money PC gaming requires one to spend seems unlikely to be excited by an Xbox branded PC.

Xbox wasn't real competition before and the next one will likely be prohibitively expensive on top of all the problems with the brand. I can't imagine anyone at Sony being particulatly worried.

If Sony had asked for reviewers to do this for the Concord launch the game would have been closed down before the reviews came out.

This seems like a really weird request. I get it. They don't want the game reviewing until you've played the full experience. But then surely you just ship the full experience. And I know it's not the same now in an era of always evolving, constantly updating games, but they're asking people to not review the product that people are buying, and instead the product that it will one day be. It's just weird.

Still, I'm not sure it matters. The people that hate the game for existing are gonna hate it regardless, and the Bungie evangelists will love it. I'm not sure review scores are really going to change any of that.

God bless them trying another console. Can't wait to see how much this thing costs.

I think this might do alright. Certainly not Concord 2. Well, Concord 3 I guess now that Highguard is Concord 2. Anyway, Bungie probably has enough pull to make this stick. God knows why. But they do.

Personally, I don't care if it succeeds or not. Looks nice. But I'm 40 years old. I ain't got a live service multiplayer shooter in me.

It makes sense from the perspective that these games aren't really selling so why bother? Regarding the non-exclusivity hurting the brand? I don't know. I guess if people are superfans to the extent that it pains them to think that people on a different system can play the games... yeah. I don't really care. I don't think PlayStation games being on PC hurts the brand. PC is its own thing. I don't care either way - I have a PlayStation and I don't have a PC.

Sad for the team, but largely predictable. When you reach for the live service brass ring you either swing to glory or plummet to your death. High risk, high reward. This one never looked like it had a chance.

Would probably make sense. The game is popular enough to not really need Sony and I'm sure the sequel will be a success.

Valid. Uncharted is one of the few series Sony has that feels like it could use more. All you need is an ancient artefact and a plucky hero. Blow some stuff up. Golden.

I mean, he is right. It does have big school play energy to it.

I'll pick this up when it comes. I know the problems with Bethesda pish, but I still enjoy it. So I suppose I'll probably enjoy this.

@ShogunRok I didn't even know that they were thinking of mod support for it. I'm excited for this because it implies one day we might get mod support for Cyberpunk which is what I really want. Need new haircuts and shoes.

It's weird because I liked the latest two God of War games but this news does not excite me at all. Do I want more of this? And if I get more of this do I want to play as the dead wife? Not really. Probably not even top five in the list of God of War characters I'd like a spin-off of. I quite like the witch lady I can't remember the name of. I'd be more into that. Not into this.

Honestly, I was really into the idea of the next Santa Monica game just being something new. Sci-fi? Different fantasy? Basically anything new.

I've been thinking about replaying The Witcher 3 for a while. Holding off now. Gotta get me in on that new Witcher action.

Oh. I really thought they were making something new.

I often think about playing a game like this but I never do. Too many great games to waste time doing the same shootouts in the same places over and over. Maybe I'll try it at some point. I love the art style. Gameplay looks pretty boring though honestly.

I know what I'm looking at. And I recognise it. But there's something very wrong about this. Bad cosplay vibes. It's like Karate Kid: The Musical from Phoenix Nights.

It was DOA. Way too expensive, way too few games to justify a purchase, basically no first party support. I'm actually interested in it, but I wouldn't buy one until I saw how it was supported and it basically isn't, so I won't be buying one.

I don't care about Sony putting their games on PC since I don't have a PC and I think it's good that more people get to play the games, but from the outside looking in it does seem like the PC releases have seen diminishing returns. The first games did well, but later ones barely seem to register. If it's not making money I can see why they'd just abandon it.

It's so offensive to me that there's a Horizon MMO and they're not releasing it on PS5 and instead we get this.

Still, I want it to do well enough so that the studio is fine, but not well enough to encourage them to do more of it. I just want Horizon 3 and for this hideous looking thing to get out of my sight.

Still, good luck to it is all I can say. All games like this from Sony face an uphill battle and this one has the double whammy of being announced so closely to the Bluepoint closure. Might be rough.

Wildly excessive collector's edition for what is basically the gaming equivalent of a Dairylea Dunker but hey I gotta applaud it. Looks really cool. Would look nice on a shelf. But I don't have shelves. And I don't play live service shooters. And I'm disinclined to spend 200 notes on this. So for those reasons, I'm out.

Honestly, I thought Elder Scrolls Online was free and I still haven't tried it. Nothing month for me. As if I'm going to play golf. Have a day off.

This is what I was worried about from the second they announced Leon as a second playable character. I don't really like action Resident Evil. And I was excited to play as Grace. Her being sidelined for endless shooty shooty Leon bits really doesn't interest me. I'll still play it but this has dropped in appeal to me quite a bit.

I don't see how they can reasonably walk back on the multiplatform releases unless they kill Gamepass. I wouldn't be surprised if they did that. But then at this point, I'm not sure what they could do that would surprise me.

Considering how close this is to the last state of play where this could have been revealed, it's hard not to be cynical and wonder if Hermen pushed the panic button to try and stop the negativity.

You're just making these up now.

Oh yeah. This is one for me.

8 probably. I think it's really good. Story is good, side content good, combat good. But between the obvious casting drama and the story changes some people were determined to hate this. Not just fans either - that 2/10 review is an absolute hit job. There is no reality in which this is a 2.

The complaints about cut content are quite misleading too. Yes there are less substories but many of the original substories were repeats, and many of them have been folded into the orphanage thing as well as brand new ones added. There's more content in this remake than the original.

I loved my time with the game and the weirdo casting is obviously bad but the story changes don't bother me at all. Yakuza has always been ridiculous. The changes here wouldn't even be in the top ten most ridiculous story moments in the series.

Loved it! And I hope more people make their own minds up and don't listen to the unhinged Yakuza fandom or a few spite reviews.

I never liked Saints Row, but everything I saw from that reboot looked really bad even by Saints Row standards. Hardly surprising. Where do you even go with the series once you introduce aliens and superheroes?

Her statement is kinda a whole lotta nothing which says to me that everything is just going to keep going as its going for a while until they figure out what their next move is - presumably slowly exiting the hardware side of the business and focusing on services and publishing.

Years too late but it had to happen. Incredible that Matt Booty is being promoted but Xbox gotta Xbox I guess.

Gotta be honest, I am a fan of this level of hostility. Obviously, lets keep it all perfectly legal and not overstep the mark. But I hope they get blasted on every social media post they dare to make.

Corporate cheerleaders are partially responsible for the downfall of Xbox. Not a huge part. But a part. A bunch of dweebs on social media pretending everything was rosy and singing the praises of the captain while the ship sank. Maybe if they'd held Lyin' Phil to account sooner their brand wouldn't be completely in the toilet.

Sony needs telling and I'm really glad people are livid about this. This moment feels emblematic of everything PlayStation has done wrong with PS5. A boneheaded approach to a style of game their most hardcore fans actively hate at the expense of what got them those fans in the first place. Bluepoint was a step too far and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

God help whatever live service slop Sony announces next because it's gonna be bloodbath.

@get2sammyb Well, I suppose I could just give it one little go...

I'd be all over this if it wasn't a gacha game but I just don't have it in me to play another one and I'm already invested in Infinity Nikki.