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Just heard about this! Imho this supersedes the live service pivot as the worst decision Sony has made all gen… maybe since PS3.

@HRdepartment good old stick-digging

Im old enough to remember when video games were a serious threat to outdoor activities 😅

@somnambulance interesting… I’ve seen that you’re a big fan of Metroidvanias from your previous comments, so a 7 from you actually sounds a decent score.

I’ve only ever played Symphony of the Night and Guacamelee (both of which I really liked), how would it compare to those two in particular?

@Decimateh-xblz I’m sure I’ll end up playing the first one eventually as it’s in the backlog… who knows I might really click with it. I’m a big fan of a few game series which most people consider to be pretty average

@MrPeanutbutterz to be fair to @Balaam_ most trophy hunters aren’t a fan of online trophies, I know I’m not. It doesn’t stop me playing a game though… it actually pushes it up the list of priorities a bit tbh, to get it out’ve the way while it’s active.

Talking of upgrades, one for the Pro would’ve been nice 🤔

Looks like a nice replacement for Beat Sabre considering Best Games stopped supporting it for Sony VR last year.

Didn’t actually think this looked all that if I’m honest… would’ve much rathered that Space Marine: Recrafted Edition had releases on PS5 as well, than this be exclusive.

16x the loading screens!

I know the new fighting system bit will annoy many but I’m all for it. They may as well of just remastered them if they were still gonna play the same. Think RE2 to RE2 Remake for context.

If their timelines align and these games release around the various seasons of the TV show… well, things could explode.

@Kierant202 didn’t say anything about objectivity. I’m just saying… and for arguments sake, reviewers would treat and score a 2 dollar indie game way differently to a £70 AAA game. While that 2 dollar game may score a 90 at that 2 dollar price tag and with a sole developer, I’d bet you it wouldn’t score the same if it cost £70 and was made by a team of 500. There are simply different metrics inherently applied… whether people want to believe it or not.

If you can’t see that… and I’m beginning to think that you can’t, we’ll just call it there.

Yeah strange one that. I’ve always considered it an RPG… like Witcher 3 or a dedicated third person Skyrim. Hmm… oh well, I’m even more interested in the reviews now!

@Kierant202 There’s a reason why no one compares… let’s say Pentiment with, ooh I dunno… Ghost of Yotei. They may both have similar meta scores (both have 86 as it goes) but that in no way tells the whole story… and if you’re being honest with yourself you’d agree with that.

Similarly, I’d never compare Avowed and Sons of Sparta… crazy comparison tbh.

@OldGamer999 keep on trucking pal, you’ll get there

@OldGamer999 unfortunately I only converse with people who’ve bought, then sold and then re-bought a PS5 Pro 17 times… you’re almost there though 😉

@Decimateh-xblz I actually don’t mind Rick and Morty to be fair… not a massive fan of first person shooters though tbh. Though theres so many of them, I do tend to play most of the high quality ones.

@wildcat_kickz oh I know why 😏

Everything I’ve heard/read indicates that there’ll be a disk drive add-on available as with the case of the slim and pro.

@OldGamer999 no one is really sticking up for the game, your platitudes are simply as transparent as a double-glazed window. We all read the Pure Xbox comments sections (it’s where I’ve gone to for my comedy fix for years), so your butter-wouldn’t-melt posts over here are read with the additional context needed to fully understand your agenda.

@Kiltedhaggis he’s just still fighting the good fight love him… let him be, as it’s quite nice to get a flashback here and there to the console wars… may they never be forgotten 🙏

I’ll wait for it to hit Gamepass /s

I’d probably score it a bit higher due to making scrubs git gud to earn the co-op mode. 😁

indie-station 5 yawn /s

I’m surprised that more dev teams don’t use it… particularly Sony first party.

@Darylb88 one of the numerous ways Gamepass has negatively impacted the industry.

I’ve played and plat’d every GoW (including the portable ones) and I couldn’t say YES more affirmatively. I love the combat from 2018 and Ragnarok!

edit. If they were to just use the old gameplay, they may as well simply remaster and not remake.

Still haven’t picked up the Oblivion remaster… and I’d probably want to play that over this if I’m honest. It’s still a maybe though to be fair.

I did buy the first one, probably on one sale or another I’d imagine… never really felt the draw to actually play it though.

The excitement for this over on the Pure Xbox comments compared to the apathy here is… well, interesting you could say 🤔

@CaptD you might still get lucky mate, I reckon that there’ll still be a sale or two before their current contracted RAM runs out.

I still play my ps3 let alone my ps4… diminishing returns means that my ps5 pro won’t be massively different to what my eventual ps6 will deliver… at least at the start of the gen.

It did look good during the State of Play tbh… hope that it’s as good to play 🤞

God of Mischief

I hope they keep them in, just so Jaffe can ***** and moan about it… even though he was more than okay with it at the time.

It’s going to be so refreshing to hear Square announce that the sales have met/exceeded their expectations now that there’s no slimey platform things involved /s

@Th3solution yeah, ive only just actually fired mine up and not really tested it yet with any game that is radically improved… but there was a ridiculously good price for one in the UK just before Christmas. So that, together with RAMageddon and the eve of PSSR2 meant that I simply couldnt say no.

@themightyant the guys never gonna change bud, if anything he’ll just continue to devolve more and more into a pure caricature of himself. Considerable success early in life, followed by considerable failures towards and after middle age must be a tough thing to deal with psychologically. I think he’s finding this out first hand.

@Fiendish-Beaver i just got a Pro myself and am feeling relatively confident that PSSR version.2 (3, 4 & 5?) will handle things pretty well for the next 4 or 5 years 🤞

@themightyant cool, what was his response?

I actually find Jaffe occasionally entertaining, he had a great stream with Colin Moriarty a week or so back as it goes… but he is the king of hot takes (many of which I disagree with) and generally believes he (& only he) is right. Annoyingly entertaining… or entertainingly annoying in equal measure.

I’d be happy with 2030 not gonna lie

Build it… and they will come.

@OldGamer999 yup, basically once they went all in… the only real play was to keep everything (even CoD) exclusive to your platform. Yes it would hurt your bottom line in the short to mid term… but mid to long term the tide would turn and actually competing is the least they’d have achieved.

Instead, the money people at Microsoft allowed their short-sightedness to overrule the master plan and they’ve ended up an absolute laughing stock of a subsidiary.

What with the mismanagement of Xbox together with the Microslop push… the brand as a whole just holds a hell of a lot of toxicity these days. So the ‘Magnus’ could be an incredible machine at a bargain price at this point and all but the zealots will turn their nose up at it.

@OldGamer999 at this point, I think it’s a mixture of hubris and concern over how 100% capitulation after spending around 100 billion to compete (ActiBliz and all their other purchases they’ve made since around 2017) would negatively impact their share price.

@TrollOfWar just pull out and go full third party of course! The answers been staring them in the face for most of this gen and only hubris is stopping them from capitulating to it. Xbox gamers buying all their games on the Steam store isn’t gonna help their OS.

@OldGamer999 no doubt they’ll struggle! The transition from console hardware to full game-streaming will be the most difficult thing Sony will probably have ever had to navigate… it’ll be similarly difficult for Nintendo to contend with. I’ve always thought that Microsoft have had the forward-footing in this regard due to their standing within the PC sector, due to Windows and also due to Gamepass on PC.

My perspective has changed a little of late though, I’m not so sure Microsoft will so easily manage the transition to full game-streaming anymore. I feel pretty confident that PC Gamepass will have a similar price hike to that of consoles within the next year or so (and the PC community’s reaction will be even more vociferous than yous guys)… and the PC gaming community seem to be more and more against Microsoft lately anyway. As I’ve said many times, just because steam may be on their next box doesn’t mean it’ll help them in any meaningful way… I actually think it would speed up their exit.

@TrollOfWar but is it a good decision if it means that they’ll be earning even less from their platform than they are now? Just because something is good for the consumer doesn’t mean it’s good for the company (see the Gamepass experiment). If Microsoft end up losing even more revenue due to their own decision to allow steam onto their platform, what will be their next pivot/Hail Mary?

@4fold particularly… and I think this is where a lot of people can’t see the wood for the trees, if it also negatively effects the desirability of their own platform.

@UltimateOtaku91 I would use the “but everything’s an Xbox” punchline… but it’s not even worth it anymore 😁

@TrollOfWar yup, and one company has changed tack a frankly crazy amount of times during this gen… and resulted in them losing traction within the market rather than gaining.

@datamonkey smart as in Sony PC ports will be playable on it… not smart as in Microsoft won’t make a penny on their platform when all their diminishing userbase buys everything on steam.