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@Oram77 that game was broken and quite frankly boring, to say nothing of jankiness. Having beaten it, I don't even feel like it would have been worth 30 bucks. I quit early on and only went back to beat it, just to beat it. Sony was stupid to price it as a premium title, but I don't think it would have been received any differently as a budget title.

@Striker21 website is called Push Square, not PS Square. I know reading can be hard.

OG Stellar Blade was coming out for Xbox until it wasn't. Happens all the time now. You don't know for sure what platform a game will release on until it does. If there's an actual next Xbox platform, the sequel likely comes out for it, but we won't know until that's made certain.

This game suffered from a deadly combo: being boring and broken. It would take A LOT for me to go back to it.

To the question of "how do I feel," for me it's more like "I think it's a good strategy for Sony but I personally have no interest in the games." I'm sure they'll make money off the games themselves, and they'll probably see some additional revenue from people checking out the mainline Horizon and Ratchet games, so that's all good.

I won't play them, and have no interest, but I think it's a good thing in general.

I don't know, most of the comments I've seen all over the internet seem to be "It's stupid that Sony doesn't have a flagship IP game on their own system," but not "We want it on the PS5." Like people think it's strange to not have it on the PS5 (I don't think so personally) but they don't necessarily want it on the PS5.

@naruball I mean, sure. Doesn't seem like the "I don't spend much time online" crowd would overlap much with the "I have an interest in MMO or otherwise online Horizon," but you could be right.

Yeah I don't know why people need to be reminded of this so often. Memory spans of goldfish.

Anyway, I'll continue eagerly anticipating Horizon 3 while all this online stuff floats around.

For me, this was Dragon Quest, Ocotopath which I was already well aware of (although excited for the demo) and...Katamari, maybe? Out of nostalgia? I guess the BlazBlue game looked interesting. The rest...not for me.

I do recognize Elden Ring, Marvel, Gran Turismo, that stuff may be exciting for some people. But for me this one felt like a huge waste of time.

For me, the PS5 itself is set up down in the basement/"man cave" area (I hate that term), but I can sit on the main level and play while I'm watching TV or at night when I don't feel like going downstairs, I can take it upstairs and play in bed while my wife watches stupid Netflix shows, etc. I took it on vacation this summer and it worked surprisingly well. I wouldn't try to play, like, an online fighting game or anything, but I was playing RPGs and it was perfect. I enjoy that it feels like a normal controller and has a lot of the same features, and I'm always a sucker for the "official" stuff. Honestly I thought it sounded lame when it came out but it's probably the best video game accessory I have purchased since the SNES multi-tap, LOL.

I love my portal. My PS5 playtime increased dramatically when I got it. I have an awesome setup in my basement but now, I play most of the time from my living room while having a sports game or something on in the background. It's great for playing "retro" titles and other things conducive to a smaller screen. I'll still go play something like E33 in the basement on the big TV, but otherwise I'm content to play a majority on the Portal.

I don't love the look of the PS5 but I don't hate it either. My basement has a white, modern aesthetic and the PS5 actually fits nicely on my entertainment center. It's cool people can do these things but I'm good with what I have.

I won't call it a crap selection because Stray is a great game, but I already have it. So there's literally nothing here of interest to me.

@Balie3000 the original development was started by a guy, Yang Bing, when he was in college over a decade ago. Sony first started poking around and providing support just a couple years after and from then it was Yang Bing and a full-fledged studio (albeit a smaller one). And then a couple years ago Sony stepped in and provided their own staff to help push the project across the line because it still wasn't otherwise close to completion.

All that is to say while Yang Bing did a phenomenal job getting this up and running at the outset, verrrry little of what you see in the finished product was a result of his solo work.

@Nepp67 I prefer trophies that reward skill. This kind of stuff doesn't take skill, it just takes an absurd amount of time grinding away, doing the same crap over and over again.

Sammy on the payroll with those 800 other people? Everything he writes about the game reads like an advertisement.

Lego Horizon, I just played that recently. I'm a fan of the source material and had needed a quick game to play. It was fine, it looked nice for a Lego game. The mechanics were of course very simple. It was an enjoyable 10 hours or whatever although it got pretty repetitive pretty quickly, as all the levels followed exactly the same structure. For like $20 or maybe $30 bucks it's a cute diversion but I wouldn't pay more than that. I assume this would be more of the same.

@ButWhy they have released a whole bunch of cosmetics that were completely free. The Nier DLC cost money, but that was kind of to be expected given it's a collab with an IP they don't own (and owned by SE at that). The Nikke DLC was their own IP but that at least contained another boss battle and some side quests as well.

Honestly this game and dev has been fantastic in terms of providing free content.

There are only a handful of games I'd ever rate 10/10. For me that's going to be something like Super Mario World, FF7, Legend of Zelda, MGS, maybe GoldenEye for what it did for multiplayer... I know there are others, I would just need to think for a minute.

Those are all games I'll remember forever, that I could play every day and not get tired of, real masterpieces. They're games that I feel like I could play through just in my head and I won't ever forget them.

Silksong is a very good game but I find some of the enemy designs and also the level designs to be cheap and frustrating. Otherwise it's great. Maybe an 8 for me. Not a 10 though--like I don't think I'll play it again or remember much about it in a few years.

@PuppetMaster Right and anything short of that, and you have the same basic game, which is going to produce the same basic review scores.

This is an incremental improvement which is very welcome but not something that moves the needle or (IMO) would justify a new score. The only time I think reviewers should go back and issue a new score is when you have something like No Man's Sky, as Cyberpunk, or something else that was either completely unplayable or utter garbage to start, that was then dramatically improved. I don't think this studio is capable of that kind of an overhaul so this game is going to be remembered for its first impression.

@PuppetMaster
I wouldn't. It's a nice little update that definitely tightened up the project, but not to any significant degree. Like I had this game as a 6 personally, with the updates they've released to far it's maybe a 6.5 for me now? Nothing major, I still have a lot of performance issues, the story issues persist, the lack of depth in anything outside of combat, etc. To really move the needle they'll need a feature update that overhauls some basic systems.

What is the appeal in games like this

Graphics in this trailer looks pretty good, and the combat looks interesting. It's like they're getting better with each trailer. Still looks pretty derivative overall. If you told me this was a FF16 DLC I'd believe it. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

Mythologies was so terrible but I loved it. Press a button to turn around? shudder

This looks like all the horrible PS1-era action games when devs were first figuring out how to do 3D.

Yeah that's for sure FF16 where you spam your fancy abilities from your Eikons while chopping away.

It looks...sort of fun? But also pretty mid. I'm interested in the genre so I'll monitor the reviews, but I don't have my hopes up.

Honestly I like my hand held. This game sounds stressful as hell to me.

The first one was decent especially if you're a fan, and I think this one looks pretty rad.

I am totally the target audience for these games and they both look pretty boring.

I owned or played all of those other than the two GBA ones listed at the end, so there's a lot of nostalgia here for me. Still, I've emulated the hell out of all of these so I'm not sure I would be that interested.

What I really want is that MK1-3 HD remake that was oft rumored many years ago.

Ooh a PVP extraction shooter, how original and appealing

The devs claimed it was 30ish hours with about the same amount of side content. So it's probably more like 20 and 20, but I'm okay with that.

Yeah, this is great. I had no interest in Dragon Age as a purchase, but as a free download I am excited to give it a go.

The TMNT collection is also cool. I've played a couple of those and they're fun.

Tales: Edge of Memories

It seems like a cool but under-supported peripheral. Problem for me is I just don't see the appeal of VR. Until there's like true "you're in the Matrix" ***** which there probably never will be, it's just not something I'm interested in. I've tried the PSVR2 with Call of the Mountain and it was interesting, but felt like a gimmick throughout.

I can appreciate that companies keep taking swings at this because we'll never get a truly immersive experience if they don't, but right now, it all feels like a concept piece.

Sony alienating the Nepalese and Tuvaluan contingents is suicide

Looks super cool but I hope you get to fight more than just those white things.

The last game I bought a physical copy of was, I believe, NHL 23. There was a reason why but I can't remember what it was. Otherwise I had Sackboy and Demon's Souls in boxes but that's because they came with the PS5 bundle I bought. Spiderman, too, I think.

For me the digital games are just easier. I like having it all there on the system and not having to swap discs. I understand the digital stuff is not guaranteed to be "mine" forever, but I'm okay with that. I usually move on each generation, and my saves are there in the cloud.

I mean I remember paying $70 USD for some SNES games in the early 90s which is like, what, $140 now? I wouldn't pay $100 for GTA6 because I just don't want it, but the idea isn't crazy. I'm honestly surprised games haven't really increased in price more than they have.

Sure if it does come out on PS5. I don't have a PS4 anymore so if it's limited to that platform, no go for me.

Man that game was so boring. I started playing and was like, oh this could be cool. But the combat system was needlessly cluttered, and it was just the same thing over and over and over again. What a disappointment. Still sorry for those affected by this, though.

Looks pretty mid. I might try the demo, and appreciate that there is one, but still...looks so meh.

The nyr2k2 that grew up playing games in the 80s and 90s hates that these gacha games are a thing and refuses to even consider them. LOL. But the 2025 version of nyr2k2 acknowledges they're just part of the gaming scene now, and hope everyone who plays, enjoys.

This is all so silly. I thought the trailer including the main character looked rad.

@Mikey856 no, no new trophies

@Dalamar if you beat the final boss without dying (as in completely; it's okay to use a WB pump), once you make it back to the credits, if you choose continue it will take you back to the last camp before you made your choice re: Adam. So you can go in, make one choice, kick his ass, hit continue, make the other choice, and get two endings without scumming. I did the save scumming myself because I didn't know about this.

Wukong was a good but not great game boosted by the cultural pride of the Chinese gamer. And they should be proud, and the game should have been and rightfully was recognized. But to act as if it's some 10/10 masterpiece deserving of GOTY is an absolute joke.

Not a game for me, but I applaud them for trying something different.

I hope it's a straight side scroller and not a Metroidvania

@yazzika not at all. Depending on how fast you complete each level you can unlock one or two bots. The time to unlock one is like, just walk and safely jump from one end to the other. Obscenely easy. The second bot, it make take you once or twice completing the level, but if you're even moderately respectable you should have no problem.

The monkey/climbing level was a little difficult but that's because the mechanic itself doesn't work that well. Turning off motion controls, it too becomes a breeze.