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@get2sammyb You may have talked me into 7 Deadly Sins when it releases, seems better than starting Genshin now. No Infinity Nikki seems weird but I think it does show you don't need a million characters to sell items. Unless the game is dying then never mind. 🤑

I'm currently rewatching subtitled Mobile Fighter G Gundam, only had seen the dubbed before now, and it's probably as bad as people say but I still like it a lot. I suppose Rain 98 is a different Rain though.😂

I'm half surprised we're still getting season 3. How far along in development is it now?

Edit: Well it looks like it is happening in a few months. Not sure I care anymore but who knows where my brain will be by 2027.

@BearsEatBeets I'm assuming it's like 80% game 1 w/ 20% new material back story for Thor, his wife, their daughter, Odin, and self-righteous her face guy. Mostly talking about how Kratos killed their 2 sons and how he's coming for the rest of them to fulfill the prophecy. Can't make a TV show about Ragnarok w/o a lot of prophecy talk.

@ATaco "I just don't like how confidently incorrect AI can be."

It's like they're modeling AI on old cishet white men. 😂

I'm 1 of those so I get to make that joke.🤪

The review reminded me of Ratchet and Clank Full Frontal Assault (Q Force) and I don't recall anyone being overly enthusiastic about that one either.

Definitely seems like a game that should be played by teams of friends, not Randoms, so maybe it will take off in South Korea or something.

"Myself, my team and our project Beyond Good and Evil 2 are unaffected by the recent changes."

They were probably unaffected b/c the people in charge of making all of these decisions probably weren't aware this game and this team were still an ongoing thing.

That's the only explanation really.😂

@Aventurier You're welcome. I only play co-op w/ my wife and kids at home, not online, so I always come into these articles excited then leave disappointed. Last year was particularly bad as I wanted to play Funko Pop w/ my wife but somehow that game has no couch co-op even though it looks like most games that do. And I was hoping Mario & Luigi Brothership would have it, but no. And Lego Horizon reviewed as 1 of the worst Lego games, so it didn't seem worth the money. We'll play it someday.

@ATaco I think half of the 15 games in the article don't have couch co-op either so I don't feel all that bad about it. I mean I'm pretty sure neither of those Star Wars games have co-op of any kind, which, to you're point, is why AI sucks, but it got the point across well enough I think. Or maybe not.

@BearsEatBeets I noticed that as well, getting actors for characters who weren't even in the first game, which makes me happy, b/c it should be better this way, and flow better as 1 long running TV show than as 2 sepeeate games. I think Last of Us should have done the same, I suspect people won't be happy with only Abbey in season 3. If it ever comes out. Going to go check now if they started filming it yet.

The dislike Thor has for Odin, and and that gatekeeper jerk, could use some back story screen time.

@Quintumply Did this really need to be 3 pages? You really couldnt get it to function on 1? (feel free to throw Ant or grandpa under the bus for that one 😝)

As someone who is always looking for co-op games to play w/ my wife, and by co-op I mean the traditional meaning of 2 people playing on 1 screen on 1 couch, this list kinda sucks. I mean sure its technically co-op but besides It Takes Two I’m really not feeling it.

But don’t worry, I’m not here just to be critical, I’m here to help. For those looking to pay to rent games in a service o play w/ others the PS5 also has access to EA (um something) for $5.99 per month. We currently have it, paid for my kid to pay Jedi Surivior, and y wife and I will be playing Unraveled Two and possibly The Way Out or whatever that prison break game is called.

You know,since we;re talking about paying to rent coop games on the PS5 might as well list them all. I believe It Takes Two is also on there for those who don’t have PS+.

Edit: AI summary of games:

Other top EA Play co-op titles on PS5 include:
Unravel Two – A charming, physics-based platformer where two yarn creatures navigate imaginative environments.
A Way Out – A narrative-driven co-op adventure with a cinematic story, best experienced with a friend.
FIFA 23 – The final installment in the FIFA series, featuring easy couch co-op and online multiplayer for soccer fans.
The Sims 4 – A life simulation game with deep customization, supporting local co-op for up to four players.
Need for Speed Heat – A high-octane racing game with day/night cycles and police chases, playable in split-screen.
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 – A fun, fast-paced team-based FPS with unique characters and cooperative objectives.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order – A single-player action-adventure game, but its companion title Jedi: Survivor is also available on EA Play and offers similar co-op-like pacing in a shared universe.

Pretty cool. Don't know why the loud music rather than talking it up but I guess that's how videos are made these days.

Switch 2 is basically PS4 power in a smaller box so Sony could do it if they wanted too. Getting a PS5 in a handheld is going to take some doing though.

I still wish Nintendo would do the opposite and make a Switch 2 w/o the screen, battery, dock or magnetic rails. Has to be a decent $ savings for a brick w/ tv out for old folk who just want to game on their tvs. Maybe enough to make it worth while. Switch Lite didn't switch or have TV out, they sold that.

@Gamer83 @Optimus Jdge is great, like Men in Black alien great, but I don't think he needed another cover just 8 years after the first. I might feel different if he helped them win the WS, or, ya know, get them there. But alas. Maybe marketing found he sells. Not like the game isn't digital anyway. At least it's a better selection than Sanders in the Pro Bowl. 🤪

@IronCrow86 Judging by the comments Canada may have cared if they got a deserving Blue Jay. 😁

They likely would have added years to the dev cycle if they had switched engines for part 3 so thank goodness they didn’t.

And benefit to them, they can now move to UE5 for the inevitable PS6 trilogy and not worry about porting it to Switch 2. Maybe Switch 3 later.

Did we really need that last Met standing picture to go with a Yankee announcement. My team has been enough of an embarrassment as it is. Though I suppose last week was an improvement but still.😝

Not sure why Judge again, should have given someone on Toronto a shot after making it to the WS, like Springer or Vlad Jr. Bo Bichette would have been funny but I doubt they have that much of a sense of humor.😂

I’m probably never getting a PS6 so I don’t are but if i was planning on getting one it would be after I got a 8k TV, which I’m also never planning on getting b/c 4k tv is fine by me. And most of what I watch on it isn’t even in 4k anyway, still 1080p.

How much better do we need video game graphics to look that it’s worth hundreds of dollars?

I’m not saying things need to stand still, we got a Switch 2 b/c the Switch graphics were really falling behind on my 4k tv, especially compared to all of the PS5 games I was playing. But Switch 2 is basically fine for me, I don’t need a Switch 3 either.

If you need PS6 graphics that bad to enjoy video games you should perhaps watch a movie instead. I think they’ve reached photorealistic enough for me. Clair Obscur was all I need, and that was a smaller indie team. Though to be fair I prefer color like Astrobot, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest over the dull brown of most photorealistic games.

Not saying they shouldn’t make a new console, it’s their business, but no rush until we et 8k TVs as a standard. If e ever do. Maybe Sony should just focus on making cheaper PS5 Slim instead so more people can buy the games they make. Like how Japan got a cheaper PS5.

Only games I’m really looking forward to are Wolverine, FF7 part 3 and DQ 12. And a couple on Switch 2 that won’t be in this. So I’m finding it difficult to get excited about anything game related these days. I know there are a ton of games coming out but what I like is limited to basically JRPG and 3D platformers. I’ll play other games, but these game shows haven’t had me excited in years. Maybe a decade even.

Still too busy playing Infinity Nikki for anything else. So much so I stopped playing Fortnite after 3 years b/c I’ve run out of free time.

Nikki had a similar big 2.0 last year followed by 2.1 which was all about raising a behemoth which looked great in the trailer but it’s just awful monotonous bust work I’m struggling to get through. But 2.2 this week has fireworks and mahjong, so hopefully an improvement.

But if the Niki update is lame again I might try out Where Winds Meet as its new, 3.0 seems a little late.

I don’t see how or why Microsoft makes another next gen home console. If they want to make a handheld w/ tv out, preferably wireless like airplay, that’s fine, I don’t think the market has settled on a handheld winner yet, it’s still a developing market segment, but no new big $500 box, it’s over.

Only b/c I haven’t seen anyone say it yet

Final Fantasy 7 Reconciliation

For 2 reasons. Squenix likes overly long stupid names, see Kingdom Hearts Chapter 2.8 Prologue or whatever it’s called. And they need to reconcile the original with the remake as so far they’ve just been moving them further and further apart.

Bonus reason, I hate it, so seems like something Squenix would do.

Final Fantasy 7 Finally Finished

It was great in rebirth, including its storyline, which probably could have stood as an indie game all by itself, but I would prefer in part 3 if they just kept it as a card game without all of the lore and focused on the lore of the main storyline instead. They’re really going to have their hands full trying to tie this all up.

So have an optional tournament in each town, maybe even a global one, but no important story beats, just treat it like triple triad in FF8.

Knack 3 will release before BG&E 2.

This game is my favorite long running joke on PS.

Edit: Also on Nintendo Life since 2016 as well.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/10/michel_ancel_shares_another_image_related_to_beyond_good_and_evil_2

It’s not a bug it’s a feature of gacha games.

This reminds me… whoever I was discussing multiplayer vs single player games on Sony consoles w/ well it looks like you were right. Kudos 👍

If we were told this was a “life sim” set in the world of the Witcher and made by CDPR would we have any reason not to believe it? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not sure about this one, a bit too brown for my liking, but I’ve been following the Fable series and curious about it for years so it’s at least nice I’ll have the option to play it if I so decide.

That short trailer showed me nothing besides brown though. But I’m guessing there will be plenty more to see between now and release. No rush to decide.

Maybe someone will make a new PoP game, but I’m beginning to doubt it will be Ubi at this point.

Cancel the games
Fire everyone
Sell the company to PIF or Tencent
Profit (if you’re high enough up for a golden parachute)

Ubi feels not well.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/ubisoft-shares-plummet-after-assassins-creed-maker-cancels-six-games.html

A little more Fandriel the Dashing than Heimdal but I can see it.

Admittedly I don’t know how these things work exactly but spinning off their tv business into a “joint venture” w/ TCL that Sony will still own 49% of the new company doesn’t sound like Sony is completely out of the tv game to me, especially with Sony and Brava still being printed on the TVs themselves.

I’m guessing Sony is more of a marketing partner at this point than a manufacturer or innovator but they’ll still be getting paid so it still sounds like they’re in the tv business to me.

I read everything these days as tax advantage business transactions, great for a few company owners, bad for the employees and customers.

You all read about Saks et al? Shell games and ponzu schemes.🤑

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/saks-global-files-for-bankruptcy-protection.html

I don’t follow any of the online multiplayer games all that much. Is there any chance this game can take off on PC but fail on PS5? I feel like these games are made for PC where you don’t have to pay extra to play online. And Sony doesn’t kill the game in 2 weeks after release.

Having Bungie attached to it should help on PC, maybe evenXbox, I just feel like the PS5 gaming community is so anti-online right now.

@Judal27 The blades in XC2 were certainly a form of gatcha. My kids and I tried forever to get KOSMOS but we never did. There were a couple of other good ones as well, but KOSMOS is is KOSMOS.

Hopefully Monolithsoft never goes that route. I don’t mind gatcha games but there aren’t as many JRPG games I like as much as theirs. I hope their next game is Xeno related, but not Blade, 4 games is enough for a trilogy. I’ll make time for their next game, whatever it is.

@Judal27 I watched that whole trailer thinking “XCX 2: Gattcha Bugaloo”. If Monolithsoft ever made a gatcha game, this would be it. (Just finished XCX Definitive Edition last week.)

Not a fan of the art style, too PC for me. Or something. Not like therearen’t endless gatcha to choose form now though. I’ve been playing so much Infinit Nikki Iforgot to play Fortnite, so after 3 years I think I’m done w/ that one now. Have PAlia and Where Winds Meet (title?) Wishlisted for when I tire of Nikki, or it finishes. Still playing too much Disney Speedstorm as well.

this does look interesting, but I paid for Farmagia and still haven’t’ installed it yet. So many games, too few hours. Too late in my life to start so many games that never end. I need closure.

If they’re doing 2 seasons to match up 1 to each game then call me when the 2nd season airs.

Opie was the best character in SoA and everyone is in the Odyssey, just like @QBgaming12 said. 👍

Ha ha. To all of it. Him. The company. The game. Ha ha I say.😝

While I do think this is great news for all the people who already paid big bucks for the Pro, Ihave to imagine it’s going to be harder to sell the expensive beast as we get closer to the PS6 launch expected by some of us next year. Though at the rate console launches have been going the PS6 may really just be the PS4 Pro Pro Pro Pro. May need 1 more Pro on there for the 6. PS6 may have as many new game exclusives it’s first 2 years as the Xbox Series X/S. I think that was zero. At least I got Donkey Kong on Switch 2. (MKW got played for like 3 hours,)

I hope Shogun is right about DQ12 b/c outside of Wolverine that's all I'm really looking forward to, not a GTA guy. Well someone in the comments did mention FF7 Pt 3, would be nice for that to release before I pass away from old age.😝

I played 13 when it came out. Never fnsihed it bc the final boss battle was too difficult for me. And I didn’t really enjoy it all that much. hope is the wort video game chracter ever voiced, the defiition of whiny white boy priviledge. I played the demo for pt 2 but it was just more of the sa,e so skipped the game. PT 3 was never even on my radar after that.

Not sure how i feel about a triligoy remaster. likely wouldn’t play it but enough people might, after 7 part 3, that it might be worth it.

Better title - Mortal Engines: The Game

Will keep an eye on this one, but mimicking the look isn't the same as getting the gameplay right. I've played a lot of 3D platformer over the years trying to feed a proper sequel to Jak and Daxtor but so far they've all fallen short. Donkey Kong Bananza was pretty close. I'm hoping Nintendo can really pull it off with the Splatoon spinoff. Fingers crossed for this one too.🤞

Edit: Watched the trailer, mood seemed like Hat in Time, but I'm still digging it. Almost seemed more action adventure than platformer, thought I saw a Spyro boss fight in there, maybe a little Medieval as well. If they can execute a game from this trailer who knows, they could have a hit on their hands.

I was looking forward to this one until I read Sammy's first impressions last year, now I'm a little worried it's more about skill and less about fun. If it has an easy mode I'm probably in.

Wow there's A LOT going on in that trailer. At first it just looked like some made in Dreams nonsense, not a big fan of the drinking mini games, but then it turned into so much more. Wouldn't even guess it's free to start, looks like a full blow JRPG adventure, but I guess since Genshin Impact anything is possible.

Not a PC gamer but will certainly try it out on console. I stopped playing Fortnite a few weeks ago so I have some free time.

@ShogunRok Funny, I was thinking just the opposite for all of Sony's paid games that should have been free to play. I'll be nice and not name them.😎

Looks like Castle Crashers 4K. May pick it up during a half off sale.

@Sakai @get2sammyb @Fiendish-Beaver Thanks everyone. So a little of this, a little of that. Maybe I'll make myself some decaf tea and watch the show, if I fall asleep I'll just consider it nap time.

May do the same with the show coming on in an hour. Can never have too many naps,

I look forward to the recap and any good trailers that are on YT after, I just cant commit an hour or 2 for the 5 minutes Ill likely be interested in.

Can someone translate "Xbox Developer Direct" for me? I understand the Xbox and Direct parts but does "developer" roughly translate to "first party" or "all parties" or "Independent" or something? I guess really my main concern is if this is going to be a game focused show for gamers or a techno babble show for other devs? You know, like 1 of those ASMR vids Cerny does that always puts me to sleep.😴

Seems like a game for me but I’ll wait until after Shogun does his final review before deciding if I play it or not. Hopefully yes.

@Faucet Good to hear. I wasn't expecting much difference for a game that looks like this but you never can tell. Switch 2 is still so new.

Might be one of those things to play to compare Switch 2 to PS5. I don't expect parity, just play ability on Switch 2. Sometimes it's close enough, sometimes it's night and day. Might be worth playing twice jyst to mess with it before getting the game.

PS5 is 4 or 5 years old, maybe it could get a separate list from PS4? I know it's probably the same but w/ the install base of each I'd like to see 2 separate lists just in case.

Sasha Luss as Sasha.

I know we don’t know what this is, but we must have some idea, right? Like, is this mostly going to be Steam games or mobile games? Doesn’t feel like a console thing, or a big company thing, more like a small indie thing.

Am planning on playing this once they figure out the packaging. Having a base game, a base game and 2 or 3 dlc, then a separate additional cost dlc, and the base game w/o the 2 or 3 old dlc but w/ the new paid dlc is too much for me to bother with. I’m assuming at some point it will be 1 edition 1 price like Witcher 3.