@Redefaul Nothing wrong with my eyes. Maybe you just lack imagination. Not every picture of the same model is going to look like the same person.

If every woman looked the same in every photo why does make-up exist? Why do selfie lights exist? Why do cameras have a flash? Why do we need blow dryers and hair products if a person is just going to look the same every time. Let’s just get out of bed and go to school or work, we’re going to look the same no matter what we do according to you.

Here’s about a dozen different photos of the same real life character model.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/erin-moriarty-plastic-surgery

The dev here said they never changed the “character model”, they never said they tried to make the character model look exactly the same in every scene.🤷🏻‍♂️

@get2sammyb Ah they’re clickable links to the reviews. Clever and very nice, thanks.

@get2sammyb Got an official looking email from Sony offering me 40% off 1 month of any PS+, I guess 40% off is the new free 1 month trial, so anyway I’m here looking at the extensive well maintained list here and I have a question: What are the little banners for at the end of title of about 3/4 of the games? As an example Yakuza Like a Dragon is the only game I saw that has 2 of them. Thanks.

@get2sammyb Same scene? Is the one on the left one of those “in game rendered cut scenes” but the right is actual game play? The girl looks the same to me but the one on the right is the hanging out at home in my lounge pants photo and the left is full make & hair blow out using the selfie lighting set. PS5 vs PS4? PS5 vs PS5 Pro? HDR vs non-HDR? You get the point. It’s not the girl, it’s whatever else is going on here.🤷🏻‍♂️

@lacerz So just a coincidence then. Got it. Thanks.

@GirlVersusGame I’m past middle aged but still offended that you said someone in their late 30s was middle aged. 😂 (I’d say middle aged is generally 40-59, aka an adult 😁)

I’m all for a company calling on their lawyers to call in the law if they feel a crime was committed, but last I checked R* and Take Two weren’t the law, neither is Microsoft or Discord, so I’m not sure why anyone is saying the law is getting involved here b/c I didn’t read any mention of any law enforcement agency in the article. If I was MS or Discord I’d tell them to screw off, call the cops, your poor security is not my problem. Why should MS or Discord be wasting any of their valuable work hours trying to solve R* problem? What’s in it for them?

Now if R* called the cops (law enforcement organization of your choice) and the cops ask MS and Discord for the help, well that’s different, but that’s not what I read here. Maybe I missed something but it looked like R* going directly to MS and Discord from what I read. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Not their job.

Gold these days pretty much means copper, with this version going away like the penny after they’re done messing with it over the next couple of years, but it’s still good to see they’ve finished an early playable version that will be on a disc. When I burrow that disc from the library at some point in the future I’ll worry about downloading the GB of improvement then.

Are the people saying Bautista can’t act well enough to play Kratos aware that like half of his dialog is just him saying “Boy”? I’m not even joking, it’s probably his single most spoken word in all OG GoW 2018. I do think he says a lot of more in Ragnarok, Atreus is 2 syllables longer than Boy, but still not all that much.

And his age is perfect, GoW 2018 is basically “Old Man Kratos”.

In the Apple TV series “See” in season 2 Bautista plays a general out to basically rule his tribe and conquer another. The world is full of blind people so acting was involved to pull it off. I’m sure YT must have a compilation of his best scenes or something. I bet it was a deciding factor in Amazon offering him the role.

@lacerz “ with an off suit 7-2 hand. “

Just out of curiosity is there a particular reason you used that phrase today? I saw if for the first time yesterday on my Instagram feed, pretty sure it was from “Nobody” or some movie like that. Just curious if it’s a bigger zeitgeist thing that I’m unaware of.

@Slideaway1983 I have no idea about Mrs Doubrfire and Broomsticks and I think I’m very happy about that.😂 I traded in Splatoon Raiders after about 9 hours b/c I really wasn’t feeling it. And Amazon let me. Probably gonna spend the $55 credit on Wolverine. (Figured I owed Sammy and PS something relevant at this point.😉)

@ButteredCrumpet That’s the “edu” in edutainment. 😁

Good call on DuckDuckGo. I use Brave which I think has it’s own search thing (no idea what it’s running on) but I use DDG when I need to check something in Chrome.

@WaveBoy Sony tried 3D, pretty sure they won’t go down that path again. 😂

I like PSVR, but only for 20 minutes at a time. Plus my wife has been watching me play video games for 30 years, since FF7, and me having a helmet on my head is a bit too divisive for the mood.

I think people overall prefer to just kick back and relax with games, VR is a commitment for the chosen few. The tech does keep getting better so some day it could go mainstream stream. When it’s just a pair of glasses gaming off your phone. The future is cyber.

@ButteredCrumpet Thanks. I do consider myself to be an edutainment poster. 😁 Nothing gaming related is all that serious on a planet being run by the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse. Now if only I could get people to stop taking me seriously.🤣

@Slideaway1983 Those Ghana movie posters were epic. Nice pace from the usual “we’re all going to die stuff” he helps me laugh through.

I’m learning more about crypto bump & dumps than I ever wanted to in this thread. Getting me excited for Apples Neuromancer though. I’ve been waiting 40 years for someone to do that justice since I read it in college. It’s the equivalent of Akira in my head.

40 years from now people are going to be like “GTA 6 street crime, how quaint, now let me plug in and show you how it’s done.” 😩

CyberLeek 😂🤣😂🤣😂

@GirlVersusGame I think I’d rather watch a movie about what you’re writing about than play this. Though honestly if you told me right now you were od’ing on Adderall and made all of that up I’d believe you. Maybe Jon Oliver will do a segment on it.😁

@somnambulance I think I’m fortunate that I never played Genshin so I’m not burnt out yet but NTE and ANANTA look really close. The picture here is just the main protagonist Zero from NTE. (I think I liked Spideman 2 more than most b/c I skipped 1)

But the end of gaming due to gatcha aside, I’ll die on the hill that articles about a book, movie, tv show, game etc should have the name in the article. It’s just common courtesy. 😁

@get2sammyb The problem is there is no OBVIOUS difference between NTE and Ananta, and I play these things. I mean not as much as you but who does. 😂

The comments seem to bare me out though.😎

My wife says leaving it out was just clickbait and I should be nicer to you. 😁

@RedAngel_Dragnet “ 8k TV's will never become the norm “

Ok I think I see the problem. You’re saying 8k tvs will never be a thing b/c consumers can’t see 8K, which is probably true, but companies no longer sell things to make consumers happy (the class war is over, we lost) companies sell things to make their shareholders happy.

If you like at the prices of 4K TVs they have been coming down fast. They keep getting bigger to keep the prices up, but at some point they’ll reach the home front door limit and max out, probably somewhere around 120” (ours is 75” and I can’t get any bigger down the stairs to my man cave). So sure, for now we get better screens, faster variable rates, more bells & whistles. But at some point in the next 5 or 10 years the manufacturers will run out of things to sell, so 8k it will be.

It’s not a matter of wanting it or needing it, it’s a matter of buying what they sell us. And when all TVs 75” or larger are 8k, well that’s what people will buy. Just like people now who hate streaming still buy smart TVs b/c they have no choice. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@WaveBoy That’s a lot of numbers. 😁

The fact that you said all that and still basically ended with rather get a PC than a PS6 I think exemplifies the problem Sony is going to have selling a PS6.

Games sell hardware, not the other way round, and it’s going to take a lot of game running at all those high end numbers you wrote to not be able to run on a PS5 at the low end numbers.

Worst case scenario you get an Xbox X-S problem, where the S is holding games back. PS5 will be holding PS6 games back a bit, but a PS5 is more powerful than a Series S. Worst case scenario Sony can skip PS5 for the Pro. No law says PS6 games have to run on both or neither, they can make a Pro version.

How bout this, Sony needs to sell a PS6 to keep shareholders happy more than to keep gamers happy. 🤑

@Mes_Urson You’re not getting too old, Sammy is getting too lazy, or too click bait desperate, to include the name of the game in the article title. It’s only 6 letters.😝

See my previous post #6 right after you ninja’d me at #5. 😁

@get2sammyb Can you please please please pretty please with sugar on top please start putting the titles of games in your article titles on your gaming website? Half the people here already seem confused by NTE and Ananta basically looking like the same game, myself included, and judging by my IG feed there are plenty more like it either already out there or on the way. And to some people they all just look like Genshin anyway.

So if you can’t edit this 1 - I did correctly guess Ananta but probably b/c I was just discussing it with my wife over the weekend as we get ready for the NTE season 1.3 update dropping tonight - can you please starting adding game names to the article titles in the future? If NTE and Ananta both survive long term their update schedules may be close and not everyone is going to be playing both. Thanks.

I’ll play this to see how it is, but it would take a lot to tear me away from NTE, and I’m playing Nikki as long as it lasts, which will probably be longer than I do. 😂

@Olmaz You forgot Tides of Annihilation which I only remember b/c for awhile I thought 1 game was called “Lost Soul Aside: Tides of Annihilation”. Also awhile back in a SoP they showed off a bunch of those with the Lies of P dlc, forget the name, and it also looked very similar.

I’ve been making very similar comments for about 18 months now. It’s really bad for me b/c I’m old and can’t remember things any more so besides them all looking somewhat alike I can’t recall any of their names well enough to know which is which.

I can remember Where Winds Meet b/c it’s free to play, but I can’t recall the name of the 1 with the Giant Rooster that looks like Heavenly Sword and that’s the only 1 I really want to play. Might be one of the “Project” titled games, I feel like there were at least 3 games with Project in the title.

I’m not sure if GameFreaks Beast of Reincarnation looks similar but the 3 word title fits the mold. I wish that was the giant rooster game name, I kinda like it. Oh well. At least GoW Laufey and Wolverine I can remember. And “Intergalactic”, but I might be missing a word or 2 in that title.🤷🏻‍♂️

This is tempting me to go back in, as was the paid mode going free to play, but it’s been so long since I was out, after playing nearly every day for like 3 years, I’m not sure I could play competitively anymore. Not that I was any good at it, but winning 1 out of every 7 or 8 matches at least kept me entertained. It’s slipping away now though.

You people need to enjoy gaming more, all the games, don’t pigeon hole yourself in. Time is undefeated and some day you’ll find you simply can’t. It’s a skill issue that comes for us all eventually.😢

They should launch the PS6 when 8K TVs start to become the norm. Until then continue to promote the difference in their games between PS5 and PS5 Pro. I don’t think any new PS6 hardware is going to be capable of producing a game that the PS5 can’t run that justifies the price of the PS6. The PS5 is nearly $1,000.

I suppose another way to look at it is the PC comparison. Are there currently PC games that the PS5 can’t run? Sony probably can’t afford to fall too far behind PC power as fans are already mad about discs going away, and paying to play online keeps getting more expensive. So I suppose Sony needs a new PS6 when games like FIFA (ok FC whatever), Madden and CoD can only run on new PC hardware but not PS5.

But until then, why rebuild the hardware when they don’t have to?

Is this another 2 hour show after the 30 minute pre-show? I really don’t have time for that. If he announced it’s another 40 minutes after the 30 maybe I’d make it my lunch hour.

And really, how much new stuff can there be since NotE3 2 months ago?

@get2sammyb " I’ll be there day one. "

Wait, is Squenix making this free to play?

Sorry man, couldn't help myself. 😂

I'm not buying this any time soon, still haven't played 3 which I bought during a BF sale years ago for like $20 as I wait to play 2.8, but maybe when my wife and I retire in 5 or 6 years we'll spend a year or so on them all. 😀

I was reading the title thinking this article was going to be about “Intergalactic” and how much fun the “no physical games after 2027” comments were going to be. Realized my mistake just as I was getting ready to go make some popcorn.😂

You know me @get2sammyb I’m not really a big tech guy, (that’s what Bamoozy is here for) not sure if I can tell the difference between 30 or 60 fps, and I’ve never had a screen that can run 40fps so I don’t even know what that looks like, and I’m never splurging on any “Pro” console just to play these same games I already can. But, while reading the article, before I even got to @sanderson72 post, I was left asking myself “Is this running at 900p, 1080p. 1440p, or 4k?”. Not b/c I really care, not b/c I’ll be able to tell the difference anyway, but b/c that info is just always naturally in there. So it seemed like a big glaring omission.

So when they asked “At what resolution” I read it as “Why isn’t this very basic knowledge that everyone is going to want to know in the article.” The article felt incomplete. Not b/c I care, not b/c I can tell, but b/c it’s always there, but it wasn’t, and it hurt my brain. Like if you said “We spotted the lost aircraft, it’s at 47’ longitude”. People’s brains are going to want to read the latitude, whether they care about the plane or not.

tldr, FPS & resolution are a package deal, shouldn’t give 1 w/o the other. 😁

@get2sammyb Any idea why Ghost of Yotei is getting a 33, THIRTY THREE, GB update today to vetsion 1.06? That's pretty big. Maybe they're doing it just to annoy us disc owners by forcing that on us? 😂

I’m still on the fence. I want to play it, but I still have this hangup about game length and cost. I know it’s $70, but have no idea how long it is. It’s looking like Nathan Drake with claws, which is fine, but if it’s under 10 hours I’ll wait.

Also doesn’t help they just announced the Ghost of Yotei Collectors Editions for $70, releasing the same day as the dlc, so maybe I wait a year and I save $15 and get the completed game.

Decisions, decisions.

Just bought the first 3 game collection for my kid to play, it’s $80 but was on sale for $8 or $9 so seemed worth it. I played 1 back in the day on PS3 and half of 2, stopped when it got all gun play focused, but 3 looked a little hardcore for me. Maybe the kid will finish all 3 by then.

Announcing the Complete Edition at the same time as the dlc seems kinda weird. I feel like they should have given original game owners time to play it, since they already bought the game, for a few months before the complete edition comes out, otherwise you are telling your paying customers PLEASE WAIT TO BUY THE COMPLETE EDITION DO NOT BUY OUR GAME AT LAUNCH OR YOU MAY REGRET IT.

My kid is about 3/4 done, so the timing isn’t bad for us, we’ll see what they want to do in October. I’m guessing ignore this, saves us $15. Maybe I’ll spend the $10 on the PS5 upgrade of Darksiders Warmastered instead, they’re starting that next. Probably neither though.

Will someone let me know if a sale is ever posted about ever again that does NOT include Catherine b/c I swear it’s been in every one as far back as I can remember. It’s the one picture I recognize every time I scroll to the comments section b/c I’m not wasting any time looking at an alphabetical list, I just want to see when the comments started so I can find out if this is an old or new article, the beginning or last chance for the sale. Thanks. 😆

While $649 seems obscene for a 5yo console I was very surprised, in a good way, that the console at least comes with the $70 game and the $85 controller.

Neither the controller nor the console having “snikt” written out on them somewhere leaves me disappointed though.

I’ll probably never pay for PS+ Premium or buy a Portal, but I am always happily surprised when I turn on my iPad in a hotel room and can play my PS5 games remotely using my PS5 controller. I got a good deal on my new iPad, and traded in my old own, and basically use it as a PC now, even got a cheap keyboard, so to be able to game on my PS5 on the go with basically no additional cost is really all I need.

And I’m still impressed that the tech works well enough. Now if only more hotels would let me cast to tv I’d be set, but on my lap in the bed the iPad screen is good enough for short play sessions.

@Silenos For no reason whatsoever I feel like the majority of people waiting to play this game are not going to care at all about a little capitalism. I’m not sure what it would take, but I really don’t want to know.

I threw up a little in my mouth while reading this. Paying for a service to watch a trailer, that isn’t even out for another 2 1/2 weeks.

Even if I were planning on ever playing this game I’d reconsider for this. 😩

@ShogunRok Any chance you have a similar take on the 2 Spiderman games? I didn’t play the first game, went from Miles Morales to 2, and I really enjoyed them both. But from what I read most people didn’t like 2 after playing 1 b/c it was an inferior cut & paste sequel. Guess I’m just wondering if you had played Yotei BEFORE Tsushima if you’d still feel the same way. Sequels are hard to pull off.🤷🏻‍♂️

I played Tsushima and the dlc, I’m watching my kid play Yotei, and I think I like Yotei more. I really got sick of Jin’s “But is this the samurai way?” crappola early on, and it just never went away. I know that was the point of the game, but I wasn’t a fan. It also feels more streamlined. The coin minigame is harmless. I like her bro.

I guess ultimately for me it’s basically the same game, but w/ a better protagonist, story and plot. They’d probably both get the same grade though, like 9/10, so not that different.

@get2sammyb Looks like more stuff I won’t be playing more than once or twice but I am really looking forward to the story chapter, that takes place before the JRPG chapter we just got, which was pretty good.

At least I thought it was good until the recent Infinity Nikki update which is pretty insane. I think I’ve played entire games just the size of Heavens Reach. And it’s so 3D and layered. My wife and I haven’t stopped being impressed by the graphics (playing on OG PS5. And the story is fairly meaty. And I still don’t think I could spend money on it even if I wanted too. Happy for all the clothes addicts supporting this game. I want NTE to be my favorite gacha, but it has a long way to catch up to Nikki. I basically gave up on 7DSO, no time.

Forgot about Duskfade, b/c I forget everything 30 seconds after it happens these days, but it does still look really good. $30 or $24 w/ PS+ (I didnt look closely but I’ll assume Essential) is nice.

Here’s a 10 minute gameplay deep dive that I don’t think PS covered. But I could have forgotten.😝

https://youtu.be/awFG6IS2BKI?si=WhyYnGTLOcy1hSd_

Hopefully someone reviews it soon, but I’m not sure I’ll be getting it soon anyway, I really don’t have the time. But if it reviews really well maybe I’ll make the time.

Edit: I just read in an article on Nintendo Life that Duskfade has a demo on PS5, but not on Switch 2, downloading it now. I’m in the US, not sure how demos work globally.

@Bizzy I haven’t been following all of it, no, but I honestly 100% did think of you when I saw the headline of this article on NL. I didn’t read it b/c I no longer care about Quake, but I did think of you.😁

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/08/quake-free-update-celebrates-30-years-with-a-brand-new-episode-includes-new-campaign-19-maps-and-more

Oh I also still kinda think about our conversation daily b/c I put my boxed version of Unreal on PC right next to my light switch. It’s a very cool box design.

I purchased Darksiders 3 Whips & Blades Ed for $8 last week (on sale from $80) so I do care about old games, just more like 15 yo, not 30. 😂

@SuperSilverback @guacguacboo @Andy22385

Squenix says a lot of things, I’d like to hear it again. 😁

Seriously though thanks everyone. So much talk of GTA 6, which I’m really not interested in in the slightest, so I guess I forgot about this? 😩

I’m probably going to watch 1 of my kids play this and then just retire from gaming entirely. My 2nd ever modern game was FF7, first was Parasite Eve, it’s been a good run. I owned Pong and an Atari and the like before that but watching those Parasite Eve commercials on tv was what got me back into gaming after about a decade or so off. Grad school is tough on time and the wallet.

It’s part 3, at this point I can’t imagine there are a whole lot of people wondering if they’ll play it or not based on what they show at Gamescon. A year would be nice. Say 2027. Just say it.

@get2sammyb See, now this is what happens when you bully companies into not having paid early access editions of their games, they have to make it up by having paid early access to their trailers. It’s all your fault. 😂

This is like putting lipstick on a pig after it’s out of the burning barn.

I know I mixed a couple of metaphors in there but it seems appropriate to me the way it is.😂

I predict another Toys R Us fiasco, which itself was KB Toys 2.0. Private equity kills everything it eats. That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. They’re like Tony Soprano taking over a restaurant just to rob it blind.

EA Sports and Battlefield will probably stick around with a skeleton crew programming with lots of AI, the rest shut down.

And then PIF can buy the Xbox division from MS and do the same to it.

https://pestakeholder.org/news/kkr-bain-capital-vornado-repeatedly-rewarded-themselves-for-adding-debt-to-toys-r-us/

Bautista said he didn’t want to play Drax anymore b/c he didn’t want to be naked and painted, which is what playing Kratos would entail.

I think slimmed down and old as he is makes him a good fit for the role, but everyone will be complaining he isn’t big enough, b/c they’ll be thinking of PS3 Kratos and not old man Kratos.

He also seems like he wants to do more “comedic” type roles these days, at least the last few I’ve seen him in, and Kratos may be old, thin and gray, but he basically has no sense of humor. I mean sure him just saying “Boy” all the time is funny but I don’t think it’s supposed to be.

Wait, just recalled him in “See”. Yeah ok, I’m in. Though that was few years back his character was a bit Kratos hardcore.

https://youtube.com/shorts/otWTw4Z52FI?si=wQwvpVdSbPZ2c-uJ

@sanderson72 We have 5 PS5 controllers for basically 2 gamers, red, white, black, blue, purple, mostly b/c the red drifts a bit and the purple is unusable the drift is really just broken. The other 3 for 2 people b/c the battery life is so bad I felt I needed a spare to get through a gaming session.

My PS4 controllers are just fine after a decade.

How they charge so much for tech with such bad battery life that breaks so often is just nuts. Doesn’t surprise me the consoles keep going up in price. As do the controllers. And hardly any knockoffs to be found either, just $200 Pro controllers. It’s insane.

@zidane4028 Batman, Kylo Ren, same thing. 😂

@get2sammyb Don’t forget the global. I think someone replied the other day you were smoking crack for suggesting $800B.😂

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/business/media/spider-man-box-office-superhero.html

@Kienda Zendaya also starred in The Drama w/ I think Adam Driver, and the final season of Euphoria. It’s her year. I don’t think they’re hurting for money. 😂

I’m impressed Beast of Reincarnation is actually coming out so soon, thought it was still a ways off. May play it some day.

@Joel_Lives If this website started using AI to generate content the backlash would make Sony ditching physical look like a Boy Scout campfire jamboree. And deservedly so. Nothing worse than hypocrisy. Not even using AI. 😝

Tom Hollands favorite game being TLOU2 makes me feel like Tony Stark when Peter Parker asks him - “Do you know this really old movie Aliens?” 😂

My favorite games are Jak & Daxter, Uncharted 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles but it was FF7 for a very long time.