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Sweet. Any excuse to play it again.

I'm not a big Resident Evil guy or anything but didn't Village already conclude the Ethan Winters story?

Hopefully Resident Evil 9 is back in third person and they give us an old favourite to play as. Like Jill. Let us play as Jill. Or better yet, Barry Burton.

I know that most of these mods are going to be made by weirdos and purely for the purposes of filth, but I gotta say that Anby one kinda rules.

Super not excited for this. I do like the idea of PlayStation making smaller games to fill in the gaps between bigger games though, and I hope they do that. I'm just not feeling the whole Kratos in Ancient Greece thing. I do love Metroidvanias though so I'll probably end up playing it if it's real.

Sammy's review schedule is piling up.

@BearsEatBeets It will almost certainly never, ever happen. But the fact is, if you've give us clothes and haircuts like that, it's borderline criminal that there's no third person mode.

Finally getting that patch to let us play in third person

I'm hoping they announce Clair Obscur: Expedition 34.

That seems excessive.

I totally respect this, but on a personal note it does upset me greatly that they're even making this game when it's been like three months since the last Yakuza game and I'm starting to get withdrawals

Just here to back up that a) this is sad but it would be rad to own this thing, and b) there has never been a more high profile disaster video game than Concord. Unless I've totally forgotten something, Concord is an unprecedented failure. Yes, other games were taken offline. Yes, other games flopped or languished in development hell. Concord was a PlayStation first party AAA big budget soon-to-be-the-next-Star-Wars merchandise-at-the-ready-because-the-kids-are-gonna-love-it calamity.

Honestly, I don't even know which characters are technically good on Zenless Zone Zero. I just use the ones I like and I'm still winning.

I play Persona games in Japanese so this makes no difference to me but I'm glad to know they're doing it. I absolutely love Persona 4 and I can't wait to see it looking lovely with some remixed banging music.

The Order is exactly the sort of pish I love. Gameplay is whatever, but the world is cool, it's got a vibe, and you can finish it in a day. I'd take another Order over a lot of the things PlayStation seems to be interested in but I guess I'm in the minority.

So strange. I get why sometimes you leave a scene in that maybe doesn't make sense or stretches credulity or whatever because it's essential to the plot. But this is totally superfluous and totally stupid. Adding it back in is such a choice.

I love From but reading this it sounds exactly what I don't want from them. That's fine. I still haven't finished the Elden Ring DLC yet.

What's weird is that the more I see of this game the worse it looks and the more interested I get in playing it.

This is an odd one. I must confess I sigh whenever sports games are involved in Plus. Particularly American sports. And the Destiny thing... you can't even play all of Destiny anymore can you? Bit weird to give away the ending when you can't even play the start.

That said, the other two games are doing it for me. Alone in the Dark is exactly the sort of nonsense I'd pick up in a sale.

Maybe the numbers are bad. But we're not gonna really know until the streaming numbers come into play. Apart from grandmothers who is even watching television live in 2025.

I've been working on this platinum for months. I'm absolutely nowhere with it.

This is such a weird show now. It ended exactly where I guessed it would when I heard season two was only seven episodes long, but I hadn't expected them to blow Abby's motivations and the porch scene etc. already. I get why, but I'm not into it.

The problem here is that the game's narrative only works as a game. Or, I suppose, a twenty episode season two. The way they've done it means that you've got... what? Two years for season three? And then presumably it'll be a series about Abby - do people want a series of Abby? People weren't even thrilled about a chunk of time playing as her in the game.

Still, it's certainly interesting seeing how they're tackling these problems. I'm mostly interested in how people who haven't played the games are enjoying it. Or not. For them it's different. This is the only version of the story they know, but I'm struggling with it because I already know the better version of the story.

This is actually quite embarrassing now.

I hope they make it exactly like the game where the main character never speaks and all the characters they meet talk like they're in a dream.

Nope. Sony clearly doesn't need a summer showcase. We want one. But those are two different things.

@get2sammyb I don't know. I do think it's a victory for players - just not in the way Microsoft intended. Buying Activision undoubtedly shone a spotlight on Xbox within the company, and probably led to the decision to go third party. In a way they they went so hard that there was nowhere left to go, and the big boys in suits took over. PlayStation fans are doing great out of this and since PlayStation is the dominant brand, it's kind of a victory for players.

The "players" metric rather than sales has always been nonsense. If you're going to give the players number, give the number for how many people played it for more than an hour or two and bounced. Gamepass has made the players number totally meaningless.

I think here the interest in the game was just surprisingly low. If Gamepass was the reason for sales struggling then Oblivion, Expedition 33, Forza etc. wouldn't be cleaning up.

Someone flip the days since Bungie embarrassed themselves chart to 0 again.

I never cared about the digital collectibles, but the reward money they gave me bought me Phantom Liberty, and basically funded my Infinity Nikki obsession so I never had to spend real money. SHAME.

@get2sammyb I think they've been alright with four weeks, honestly. But then I'd never played another of these games before. Every month you get a little bit of story - tat, mainly. Then they add new dresses etc. Presumably a big update would come after six months or a year or whatever with these mini ones filling in the gap.

This one has been a catastrophe though. Multiplayer I'm not sure anyone was asking for with nothing to do and it barely works. An empty new area that's pointless. Story retcons to force new players into the multiplayer/real money shop as fast as possible. Chaotic.

I'd be fine with them slowing the cycle down if they're struggling, as it appears they are.

Wild how much they missed the mark on this. I wonder where it went wrong. If we're being cynical, I'd imagine that they wanted to introduce new players to multiplayer/spending real money as fast as possible which led to them retconning and trashing the story, and then also leaving the game riddled with bugs.

It's quite a mess but I do like getting all of the apology diamonds so that's good. If they keep messing this thing up I'll have that new dress in no time.

I started playing this game for some reason and I'm guessing I've missed most of the characters since there's a lot of empty spaces on the roster. But I have a team that I use on every single mission and they're winning so I guess that's good.

I'll probably keep playing it until I've got the platinum since I've done most of it anyway. Maybe I'll stick with it for the new update.

Truly hideous stuff.

Sweet I love that guy

Oh baby we're cookin'. Gimme that Kuja in glorious new graphics with his fully orchestrated theme tune.

Yeah okay. I'm in. Lad knows what he's doing.

The mods for this game are going to be borderline criminal.

It's one of the all time great video games. The only thing I don't like about it is the combat. I find it quite irritating in that regard, and I just bang it on easy and smash everyone up when I replay it these days. The main draw here for me is the world and the quests and the characters. Just being in the world is an absolute pleasure. It's a fantastic experience.

Where I liked most of the changes in season one except for the spores change which they obviously didn't like either since they've added it back in, the changes in season two have been dreadful.

This episode is the worst offender. I can't unplay the game so I'll never know what it's like to experience this show without the knowledge of how the ending scene plays out in the game, but if you know both, it's staggering how much they ruined it here. It's double staggering the actual writers of the Part II that had already written a better version of this then went on to sign off on this.

Sigh.

Sending this guy onto a stream to talk about it seems a bit ghoulish. But whatever. I just can't with Bungie. It's chaos over there. It's like there's never a nice Bungie story. Not that there should be - they keep doing it to themselves. But still. It's like c'mon ref just stop the match I don't want to see this guy get pummelled anymore.

For some reason I decided I was going to platinum all of the Kingdom Hearts games. I got up to that one where you play as the three people who aren't Sora before I got bored and gave up, vowing, of course, that I'd get back to it soon. I think that was like seven years ago. I wonder if I'll ever do it.

I know why they're chasing live service money. Live service games get more money from you by giving you less. It's a no brainer that they should be aiming for some of that sweet sweet money.

What I've never understood is the strategy. They're constantly aiming for impenetrable markets with undesirable products. Concord, of course, being the best example - an Overwatch-like nearly a decade after Overwatch launched and three or four years after everyone got totally sick of it.

Chasing trends rarely yields great results, particularly in an industry with elongated development times. By the time your game is finished the world has moved on.

I'm surprised they haven't tried to do more of what they're actually good at and then twisting that into a more live service thing. I look at games like Infinity Nikki and ZZZ and all that Gacha pish and a lot of those games are essentially never-ending single player campaigns that update once a month with new stuff.

I'm not necessarily saying they should go the gacha route but why haven't they tried a single player live service game? I don't know, a big open world RPG or something. Add new quests for better loot, new outfits, whatever. Every year or so add a new region with more robust stuff to do. A big ongoing story. Microtransactions for new hats or whatever.

Maybe it wouldn't work. But trying something different seems like a better strategy to me than just shrugging and saying, "What if we try another first person shooter?"

Honestly, I pay for Premium every month and the only game on either Extra or Premium that I've ever played since they launched was the PlayStation Classic Kurushi. What am I even doing with my money?

Maybe she left because the game is so good that there's nothing she could do to make it any better.

I still haven't got past the second hour of Doom Eternal so it'll be a while before I get to this, if ever.

I'm using mine to play Balatro.

I quite liked this game. As with most of their stuff, wandering around solving mysteries is great, but once we start trying to have fights and stuff it's a bit ropey. Still, good vibes though.

I don't know if I've got another gacha in me. I've almost got the platinum in Infinity Nikki and I'm up to date in Zenless Zone Zero and working on the platinum. Will I play another one? Probably. But if I do I'm almost certainly gonna have to abandon one. I won't be able to keep up with the dailies.

This does look lovely though.

If this has a new trophy list I will platinum it again. If it doesn't then I'll play it again... but I won't be happy. Well, I will. Just less happy.

I can't even nearly care about this. Half the games that release today run like a dog's dinner without downloading patches anyway. At this point surely most people still buying physical are only doing so either a) because they want the box on the shelf, or b) because they want the option to trade in later. Both still apply.

Don't get me wrong. I think it's stupid. Just put the damn game on the disc. But I'm not upset by it. Seems like much ado about not quite nothing but not much.

It's an absolute mess. Frame rate all over the shop. I've been blue screened half a dozen times at least. Map markers breaking constantly. Sometimes NPCs just stop dead and don't do anything.

I don't really care though. It being a total mess is part of the Bethesda charm.