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I’m mostly excited for Metaphor. I just finished playing P3P and this sounds like that but less content. Not that interested in Tactica. Hmm.

@turntSNACO From Persona Central “For those who have enjoyed the main game, an additional downloadable content episode will be released! This DLC introduces a highly anticipated character available exclusively in the DLC. Not only will players experience a new story, but they can also enjoy thrilling battles with new rules!”

I’m guessing their highly anticipated character is someone from a Persona game, probably from the P5 universe. I would hope it would be Kasumi. But who knows? If they are going to keep building on P5 it gets increasingly weird to ignore her storyline.

I think Sony’s show was a C+ and Microsoft got a B or B+. Neither were stellar but there were more games in the Xbox showcase I wanted to see more of. Most weren’t exclusives.

Love the **texture** everywhere. I really want to move away from just minimalist UIs.

I hope this game is more P5 than SMT. Looks amazing. Moved right to the top of my watchlist.

@rachetmarvel i have a friend who was suicidal and even just watching me play p3 was upsetting to them. I get that’s not everyone, but my friend would like to play p3 and doesn’t feel like the current version will work specifically because of that regular animation. In P5 you mostly can avoid using guns if you choose.

I hope P3RE tones down the gun violence — I mean “evoker” violence. Either way, I will probably buy it.

On P5T, I am frustrated and not really interested. Atlus, just because I love P5R — a turn based RPG — doesn’t mean I also want dancing, fighting, musuo/hack-and-slash, and now tactical games and I think it’s bizarre to drag the characters across so many genres (though I get it from a financial perspective). But — dang it — can I just get P6 or another turn based P5? Maybe send my phantom thieves to college? … And where is Kasumi?!

Put the p5 crew in uni and I am all for it.

I want P6 but with so much success and some of their staff having left they are probably trying to figure out what the next jump is for P6 and are keeping themselves busy with more obvious options.

Oh and I very much appreciate the bad spinoff idea comments and that could easily be an separate article/comment thread.

Good for the dev.

Very curious to see hardware reqs — especially SSD and RAM. You either have to store more, load faster, or load less, right?

I think it would be challenging to beat Horizon BS. But we’ll see! (And for graphics of the year? So far it seems like Cyberpunk RT has that title)

Spiderman 2 looked amazing. I don’t know if I want it, but the graphics even in the livestream were imo more faster, more fluid, and higher quality than MM.

I look forward to the DF review of both.

@Sequel i think Foamstars could be fun. In some sense I think some of the design pushes where I think Splatoon 4 will go — more interactivity in the stages, using foam and water to change the level.

My concern is that it looks like a free to play title and it looks kinda generic. I don’t have confidence that it will be special enough to warrant my limited attention/free time. If I had tons of free time and no money I would be more interested.

Seems like it a decent idea. Needs a lot more polish to capture my attention.

Bring back Power Stone!

It was fine but won’t drive conversations. I am most interested in colorful single player games. My highlights were Teardown, Sword of the Sea, Neva, and Revenant Hill. So a very tiny % of the show.

I really liked Spiderman and MM… this one leaned more dire and I found that depressing.

I think it’s unlikely we get P6 for another year or two. P5 is hard to top and Katsura Hashino is not directing. P6 is going to be different.

I expect more P5 and remakes for a while. Maybe a teaser this year and then a concert announcement, more merch announcements, and some cameo dlcs in other games.

I think if they want to do a pro, fine. But what feature set is new? This is the first year it seems the 2020 consoles are finally getting first-class games made for what they can do without being hampered by the 2010 systems.

I recommend playing Cold Steel 1 and 2. Then if you are hooked consider Sky else proceed to 3 and 4 knowing you will miss even more references but will still have an enjoyable time.

ToCS 1 and 2. Sky 1 and 2. ToCS 3 and 4. Zero, Azure, Reverie. Repeat (jk).

Exception if you have a Steam Deck or are big into pc gaming then maybe try Sky first. 🤷‍♂️

The only thing I can think of — and no one is going to like this — is to just not make the sequel. Make the multiplayer game and make other games. You can’t fix this offscreen or AI the problem away.

Dang it! There are so many new interesting games. Too many new interesting games?! Guys I am deep in Witcher 3 now and Tears of the Kingdom just shipped. What am I supposed to do!?

I want Oxenfree, Dorgodone, Dead Space, Plague Tale 2, Signalis, Tchia, Chained Echoes, Cassette Beasts, Teenage Exocolonist, Dredge, etc…

I can’t bring myself to buy games that just I can’t play for months until I get to them. I need time travel. Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!

So pretty. I wish publishers didn’t decide based on preorders whether games were successful. I want this game and yet I am booked with games to play and I try not to just buy games to wait a year to play them.

Concrete Genie was great. One of my top PS+ games. I was looking forward to their next thing.

Not convinced. I believe their hardware team is designing one but that’s not the same as launching one.

@Avalanchee https://media1.giphy.com/media/DbSZni6xAW2Ws/giphy.gif

I can imagine genre or publisher specific subscriptions working. Eg I think I would pay for a Wholesome Games subscription.

The gameplay is the DLC was better than HFW. That was enough for me. 9/10. And then the graphics! Amazing!

I think the writers really need a plan for Sylens. He stole all the scenes. I don’t know how they can replace him. Or do without him. I think the reason HZD story was so good was the Aloy-Sylens relationship. HFW didn’t do that as well.

The vast majority people don’t care about Aloy’s sexuality. But some percentage of anti-gay activists do and they are the ones doing the reviewing bombing. I think it says more about them and about how the internet gives power to small fringe groups to harass others. Everything is Gamergate. https://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844

You don’t even have to make Aloy go down that path.

Disappointed. Well, not every month can be amazing. I am playing through Sackboy Ps5 with kids and hoping for more indie titles. Those have generally been my favorite PS+ options.

It seems pretty clear to me that there are already too many games to be able to raise prices much. Many games (except Nintendo) are 20-50% off within a couple of months of launch. There are constantly huge sales of hundreds or thousands of games. Epic, Sony and others give you free games each week/month. The phrase “backlog” has real meaning for a lot of gamers. I think the market has room to grow but for the individual supply outstrips demand.

So… yeah sure publishers can charge … some “insane” amount like $120 for an amazing game at launch just like they already offer $300 collector editions with knick-knacks, but the baseline price would drop to $50-60 within a few weeks and most people would pick it up for far less.

Makes sense that her character development is first about independence, then learning to accept help and friendship, and then a romantic relationship. I was cool with her being asexual though.

And having just finished the main dlc quest. i really wish there was a replay quest option.

Just started Burning Shores. Enjoying it. It’s beautiful. The story is beautiful. So far easily worth $20 but dang I need to play some smaller games this year. Zelda is up next. Gulp.

Oh and There are clearly some bugs to work out. Seyka got stuck/frozen at one point and I had to reset. Camera mode sometimes doesn’t let me move the camera.

@Daleaf despite the game improving almost everything imo for me, HFW had issues with combat and its story. Maybe I just needed more Sylens.

I preordered the DLC and am hoping that a tighter smaller story will be just right for Aloy.

I want to be excited for it and I will be watching. Next FF game for me will be the PR of 6.

I found Trails of Cold Steel and Persona and those series have been keeping me busy.

I hope someone at PushSquare can see issue with the headline “Joel’s fate” if you are trying to avoid spoilers.

Got it in NA. Yay! Now my PS4 copy caught up to my Switch copy.

(Sets user engagement attempts to ludicrous speed)

I am impressed how cyclical this is.

PS: What do you think amount remote play?
Fans: respond to poll, leaves comments
PS: What do you think about what you think about remote play?

I can’t imagine shelling out for a remote play only device — it just won’t be priced competitively with either Steam Deck or Switch or their Backbone One phone controller adapter. Imo make a PSP2 or don’t bother.

Nice to hear. Confusing why those updates aren’t announced for pc.

@Korgon given your avatar I would expect nothing else. Lol.

“meat improvements”

yum!

Atelier Ryza on Ps Plus! I haven’t played them and getting one for “free” would be nice.

BREAKING: Art director suggests using a new art technology to do art.

@KaijuKaiser I don’t like Call of Duty. Shrug.

@naruball I think I made perfect sense. I personally don’t care if CoD is on Playstation and I wish Sony agreed with me. I didn’t say that was fiscally the best choice for them.

The implication in the article and the follow up in the comments all suggest that this Senator is corrupt. PushSquare, if you believe that just say it.

I don’t know her. I’d have to look at her voting record and all the conversations surrounding this topic rather than a single soundbite to have a real opinion on whether she has “been bought.”

That said, I wish Sony could just stop caring about losing Call of Duty.

Sylens was the best character in Horizon imo. I just finished HFW last night and his character has so much charisma and presence. Gah. This is a loss for us all.

TMNT Shredder’s Revenge, Donut County, Superhot, Degrees of Separation, Alba, ..

Played Cold Steel 1-3, then started Sky. So planning to play the rest as: Sky 1, Sky 2, CS 4, Zero, Azure, Nayuta, Reverie. Phew! I love this series. It’s the Cosmere of gaming.

Great update. I hope they will expand the 1440p VRR options to add FreeSync support. Not everyone had a 1440p with HDMI 2.1.

With Carmack leaving it’s pretty clear that Meta is going for a premium experience versus a cheaper more accessible one. That approach will limit who uses it.

VR and AR are interesting but they lack killer apps and the interaction model is too complex.

On AR: think the movie Her is probably the best depiction of an AR future where we converse with an AI using natural language which is close to the ChatGPT + AirPods tech that is already present.

On VR: I think people to-date have preferred just putting more screens everywhere (in cars, in pockets, tablets, on wrists, on fridges) than walking around with one strapped to our faces. I think games are driving some adoption here and there is a dedicated fanbase that is funding the tech year after year so maybe it will grow, but I am still not seeing the necessary tech to do it well which would need 8k microled screens and even more power efficient chipsets. VR needs a Nintendo Wii like moment.

I am most interested to see what Apple is going to bring to the table here but I suspect even if they have amazing hardware there still won’t be a killer app. Apple doesn’t really care about games and I am not going to pay $500-1000 for a personal AppleTV movie theater or an Apple Maps driving directions experience.

And oh Meta, I have no interest in your corporate virtual business meeting dystopia.

I think they will have to exclude using the big UE5 features like Lumen and Nanite to get the framerates they need for VR but this is still a good thing.