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I’m thoroughly enjoying Midnight Suns. Making the core MS group come from the “younger” Marvel teams like New Mutants and Runaways adds a nice flair, as I’m not as familiar with their backstories…although I do remember the Inferno series when Magik was tricked into opening a portal from Limbo so the demons could attack Earth.

MS is a great remote play game. You just have to either know the cards or have a large screen. Teeny tiny text otherwise.

I’m still baffled that this wasn’t somehow linked to the PlayStation showcase, or that the Ratchet & Clank to PC announcement came a week after the showcase.

It’s literally baffling.

@Dobbos There are some minor movements, such as ducking or moving right/left to avoid walls, but you should be able to sit and lean.

At this point, it is what is. Great games will be released and I will play great games. It’s disappointing that the PlayStation event was lacking PlayStation games, but…it is what it is.

A company that is willing to eat the development costs and game sales by offering its exclusives as a part of their subscription service wouldn’t take the loss of not releasing on PlayStation? And this is an organization that is supposed to protect consumers from monopolies? Okaaaaaaay.

The show itself was fine. There were plenty of good looking games and the pace was spot on. The issue for me was it reminded me of the type of show Xbox puts out. Limited first party stuff with CGI trailers…and for the first time in at least 15 years Sony gave us an Xbox show. Thoroughly disappointing.

@Stevey_Mac
I’ll take Capcom with a side of Square Enix.

Loser: PlayStation 5 early adopters. Most games have been cross gen and no clear understanding on what the future holds.

Loser: PSVR2 early adopters. No London Studio? No Half Life: Alyx? At least Beat Saber is a free upgrade, but that wasn’t an encouraging showing.

Winner: Gamers in general. This was basically what I would expect from something like the Summer Game Fest, which is great…if it weren’t a brand specific showcase.

It was a brutal (non)showing yesterday. Two games that look “meh” at best, and a splattering of multiplats. FF XVI looked good, and I’m interested in Phantom Blade 0, but the lack of first party games is alarming. All these award winning studios, and this is what we get?

If Sony reveals any first party game at SGF after this, it would be criminal!

I think this sums up Sony's PlayStation Showcase precisely:

There were so many failures on what to show, and I’m stunned at what was shown.

Haven’s project looks like something that could end up being either a Fable Legends / Scalebound and cancelled, or a Crackdown 3 / Halo Infinite/ Redfall with a poor release.

Nothing from Bend, Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Media Molecule, London Studio, Team Asobi! Bungie was there…with multiplatform games!

And VR? RE4, Arizona 2 and Beat Saber among others, but no Half Life: Alyx seems like an absolute failure.

There were some great games shown, a lot coming to all consoles, but not much PLAYSTATION.

I was hoping for more on the VR front, as I just purchased a PSVR2. Beat Saber is always good, but having owned it on the PSVR, it will be more of the same with (hopefully) better controls. I was pretty disappointed in the lack of gameplay. And there were a lot of first party studios that didn't make the party. The fact that the ones that did were CGI trailers is not a good sign.

Just my .02

Just as a FYI, 60% of a business model does not mean 60% of games are GaaS. It just means that Sony anticipates 60% of its value to come from GaaS. That sounds very hit or miss, but consider Grand Theft Auto V. A single player game with a GaaS portion that has brought in $7.7 BILLION in 10 years. That one game would go a long ways towards covering that 60% business model.

Better this than the Scalebound hype, hype, hype…cancellation.

I waited until I could pick it up from Amazon, and that was only because Amazon priced the Day One Astro at almost $1,100 more. Had Astro remained at $999, I would have bought it instead. Made my impulse buy of a PSVR2 an easy one.

I just received an email that Mortal Kombat’s worldwide gameplay reveal would be at Summer Game Fest, so that’s a no go.

Crap. I completely forgot how I voted. People will be there and things will be shown. Aloy will be talking somewhere, she always is, but it won’t be during the show.

Will your joystick break like my old 2600 controllers constantly did? I actually upgraded to a joystick that wouldn’t break and came with a rapid fire feature.

@Tharsman Demon Souls was announced June 2020 and released November 2020. Five month turn from announcement to launch.

I’m not saying the announcements have to be the caliber of The Last Guardian / Final Fantasy VII Remake / Shenmue 3 (thank you 2015!), but they better come close!

As a fervent supporter of the PSVR, I can’t wait to dive into my PSVR2. The biggest disappointment is the lack of support between the original and the new one. Understandable, but still disappointing.

I’m twisted on this one. My nature is to get an upgrade, as I did with the PS4 Pro, but this generation has been different. I love my PS5, but don’t feel like I need my PS5…so why upgrade to a PS5 Pro?

I’ll be pondering this as I unbox my PS5 Pro.

I thoroughly enjoyed Days Gone. The Freaker hordes were intense, and something I’d never experienced in gaming.

Is this only multiplayer or can you solo it with bots? I saw that it’s cross play, but VR online multiplayer games can be tough finding strong communities.

I’m gonna change it up a bit and post which PS studios I anticipate hearing from:

Bend
Last game: Days Gone
Released: April 2019

London Studio
Last game: Blood & Truth
Released: May 2019

Media Molecule
Last game: Dreams
Released: February 2020

Naughty Dog
Last game: The Last of Us Part II
Released: June 2020

Sucker Punch
Last game: Ghost of Tsushima
Released: July 2020

Team Asobi
Last game: Astro’s Playroom
Released: November 2020

Insomniac was left off because we know Spider-man 2 is slated for this year. I know some of these studios were also releasing compilations, updates, dreams games, and PC releases. However, I believe that these studios will be the ones we hear from.

🤞

There will be no hype control.

A lot of puns are in play! Enjoyed the review. I will add this to my wishlist!

Echochrome, PixelJunk Monsters and flOw were some of my first games for the PS3, which I really enjoyed. Humanity sounds like a similar type of indie. I’ll have to try the game out!

The GaaS trend really needs to go away. The limited time I have for gaming would only be able to support one GaaS, and knowing my history with the likes of Destiny and The Division, my interest would wane after 6-12 months. I can’t imagine trying to support two at the same time, much less 10 all at once.

I don’t see how this will change the internal issues that plague Microsoft game development.

I went ahead and dropped for one and the Collective Minds stand. Giving my son my PSVR and all of its nonsensical cordage, flakey padding and drifting Moves.

I was going to get an Amazon Astro, but my invite was outside of the $999 price range and they bumped it up to $1,599 instead of $1,449. The PSVR2 is a bargain in comparison.

I rented a PS and Saturn from Blockbuster when they launched. I was leaning Sega because of my preference for Genesis over the SNES (and the maker of the Walkman was making a console now? Okaaaay…), but PS gave me chills when I booted it up to play Resident Evil. I rented D for the poor Saturn, so it wasn’t apples to apples, but PlayStation had me from the launch screen.

I’d take a sequel over a remake, but that’s just me.

“It's not true that if we go up and build great games, that you'll see console shares go up massively.”

I completely disagree. At the launch of this gen I seriously considered purchasing a Series S to keep the PS5 aesthetic. I figured I could play the Xbox catalog via GamePass without having to invest in another ecosystem. However, the lack of games…great or otherwise…kept me from making the purchase. Now, three years later, I stand by my initial decision to hold off.

The other issue impacting Xbox console sales is due to Xbox releasing its games on GamePass for PC, essentially negating the need for an Xbox console.

We’ll see how things stand when Starfield releases…but if Redfall was in development longer than Starfield and both were delayed to 2023…I honestly don’t see Starfield releasing this year unless it’s in a similar state as Redfall. Over 1,000 planets and this is launching in 4 months? Let’s see what they show in June, but the skepticism is high for that one.

Definitely will give it a go in third person, much like Battlefront.

Durant hasn’t played for the Lakers. He got his FINALS back to back MVPs at Golden State Warriors. The Finals MVP is specific to the championship series that determines the NBA champion. The NBA MVP for 2017 was James Harden and 2018 was Giannis Antetokounmpo.

I don’t know if I’ll be getting any of the expansions, but I’ve really enjoyed playing the base game. Being turn based makes it a gem for remote play, although the text on the cards is very hard to read, so learn your cards first!

Absolutely no interest in this game. Only thing that brought me here are the comparisons being made to this game and Redfall. Apparently that one is just as bad…or worse.

After Redfall, I think Microsoft should be banned from purchasing any more developers. Thank god Xbox said no to a PS5 version so they could polish up the Xbox release! 🤣🤣💀💀

@jamison1993
Totally agree. Day One is no longer a consideration for me, since that has come to mean an unfinished game that will take months to sort out...by which time it will be 20% off or more.

There’s so much due diligence and background research that goes into these types of M&A acquisitions BEFORE the announcement is even made, you have to wonder how many exclusives Xbox could have made over the past 12-24 months with 10% of this money invested on internal development. Instead, Xbox exclusives have been minimal, to be kind about their lack of anything relevant. I’d be extremely disappointed if I were invested in Microsoft’s ecosystem. Thank God I’m not.

Microsoft also called the FTC unconstitutional, before reasonable minds had that argument removed.

In other news, has anyone seen Michael Pachter’s take on the deal? He’s of the mindset that it will still go through, with spot on Pachter reasoning! 😂🤣💀

I’m curious how business will be between Sony and Activision if the deal ends up not going through. I know the CMA reasoning wasn’t specifically console related, but there were words.

Interesting. Surprisingly, all those “10 year” deals appear to be a factor. 1) They showed that Microsoft recognized the issue, 2) they capped the length they would play nice to 10 years and 3) it would require the CMA to regulate and enforce. Blocking the deal was the easier solution.

Fascinating.

I think my main issue with GaaS is the requirement that the game gets off to a strong start to guarantee support. Anthem and Avengers are the glaring examples of the what happens when a GaaS doesn’t launch strong enough.

I enjoyed The Order, but the length was terribly short, especially with that ending. Beautiful game, but not at full price.

I did Final Fantasy XIV for 18 months. I did Destiny 1 & 2 as well as Division 1 & 2. I lost interest. I moved on. I enjoyed them, but not infinitely. That’s why I prefer the single player games. Play through and done.

@Swirly There are videos on how to deep clean the PS5. Popping off the outside layers is the most complicated part, so it’s pretty basic. Worth trying.

@Swirly are you blowing out your vents? Gotta keep your hardware clean!