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Very, very excited for this. Visually gorgeous, new missions/scenes, revamped combat (that looks awesome), new underwater locations (also looks awesome).

The original does hold up pretty well, all things considered, but it definitely shows its age, especially with the combat and finicky movement.

To be honest, of the five IP that were in the poll, I've only beaten Killzone Shadowfall, but the idea of Resistance coming back seems coolest to me. I love that alt-history stuff.

I just don't think the PlayStation fanbase is there for more platformers, but I'd be happy to be wrong. Astro Bot may have won GotY, but I don't think it sold more than a couple million. A great success, to be sure, but I don't know if it warrants a return to a focus on platformers. Astro with a side of Ratchet seems plenty, to me (at least from 1st party).

The game may very well be great, but the whole Stalin portrait fiasco still leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. I'll be passing.

For folks who appreciate the slower pace and faithful noir tone, it really is a fantastic game. Played it on 360 and then again on PS4. Loved it each time.

Definitely the buggiest Bethesda game I've ever played and it should not be excused.

That said, I still love the game.

@ErrantRob @Northern_munkey Ok, I'm sold 😂

Congrats to the team! Can't wait to jump in.

@Almost_Ghostly I'm not necessarily saying what they will do, but what they should do. That said, market/optics pressure might force them to in the future. Maybe not for DualSense, but maybe for DualSense 2.

I've actually been waiting on Remnant II to go on sale for a while now. Might have to pick that up.

I seriously cannot wait. The first game is easily the best Soulslike from a studio not named FromSoftware and, in my opinion, surpasses even several FromSoft games. It's in the top 3, along with Bloodborne and Elden Ring.

@Northern_munkey You got a legitimate lol from that one 😂. I'm in the same boat. I played GoW2 in college and enjoyed it, but I'm not clamoring for more. I'm more curious in Wolverine, but I probably won't get it at launch. Superheroes just don't really interest me anymore.

@Snackfood Yeah, in terms of value I get from subscriptions, I put PS+ right up there with Spotify and Prime, with PS+ probably being the most "bang for my buck." I have probably hundreds of games in my library that I've accumulated just from the monthly PS+ Essential games.

Too high a price for this, especially without any haptics.

What Sony really needs to do is come out with Hall Effect thumb stick modules for the Edge controller.

At this point, I honestly don't know if it will release on PlayStation. It depends on where Xbox leadership wants to take the brand.

Who'd win in a fight: an immortal guy with indestructible metal bones or a football linebacker? Hmmmmmmm. Such a hard choice.

@DadJKP You sniffed it out? Are you serious? How could you possibly glean that from a single trailer? Yeah, she's cocky. Just about every protagonist is until they're presented with substantial conflict where they're humbled by circumstance. It's called "a character arc."

Listen, man - there's no guarantee that this game will be good or great, but there's no guarantee that it will suck either. Past performance is the greatest predicter of future success. Even if you didn't like TLOU2's story (I didn't love it), that's one out of the last 7 games that wasn't an absolute banger.

@DadJKP I really don't understand the "girl boss" angle. Does Sony have too many recent first party games with female leads? Maybe, but that's at a macro level. It doesn't really have anything to do with an individual game's quality or promise.

You not wanting a game with a strong female lead is whatever, but pretending that you speak for the majority of people is far from accurate.

@DadJKP I saw the trailer and thought it looked fantastic. Awesome atmosphere, awesome music, awesome energy sword.

What exactly is "going again?"

@LogicStrikesAgain Ahhhhh gotcha.

@wildcat_kickz Lol, didnt know it first either, was helped by a user here as well.

Thanks, bud!

@LogicStrikesAgain This is a random question, but how are you doing that quote block? I see people do it all the time and I have no idea how haha

@LogicStrikesAgain Your comment aged like milk based on the comment that immediately followed it 😂😂😂

To the people above me in the comments, why are you all so bitter? It's just a little wink they did to honor the founders. It's not like they're out there pointing at it. Tati was asked about the name and she provided an answer...

Y'all are so desperate to have something to rag on Naughty Dog about.

@RoomWithaMoose Yeah that's perfectly fair. I didn't articulate my position very well. I don't think what we consider ethically acceptable should change based on where the product is coming from, but I think the way that AI is talked about does change. In Korea, or even more so in China, they'll more openly talk about using various types of AI because there's less cultural stigma. Plenty of Western companies are using AI as much or more so than these Eastern examples, but are more cagey about it because they know they'll get backlash to it. I'd rather have it out in the open, personally.

I do still think that the anti-AI vitriol, as you call it, does devalue the argument though because it just creates more noise that you have to cut through to get to the actually cogent arguments. "AI is evil" is just lazy and does a disservice to many of the technologies that fall under that umbrella.

God, please let this game be great. I'm damn excited for this. Hope we get some fun ray tracing goodness on the Pro with 60fps.

@get2sammyb Honestly, there are already fantastic Uncharted avatars of a bunch of U4 characters. I've been rocking a Sully one for some time that I love:

That said, these new ones are clearly pre-existing assets that they've just cropped, so pretty low effort.

@RoomWithaMoose Corporations will say whatever they need to to satiate their shareholders, so I don't really put any stock in Nintendo's statements, but we can put that aside.

Regarding the ethics of generative AI, I largely agree, but only to a point. This entire article is about a single job posting. No mission statements saying that Round 8 will integrate gen AI into their shipped product. No information about how extensive or intrusive the position will be. I read the job posting and some of it seems fine and some of it is stuff I wouldn't want, but I didn't see anything egregious.

My main issue is that people are so trigger happy to scream "doom" over every little thing that has "AI" in the name without learning about any of the context. It's exhausting.

The more people flip every single time AI is mentioned, the more devalued that outrage will be when it really matters.

@The_ghostmen Even so, that doesn't seem like enough to warrant a remake. The art-style isn't something that ages the same way a 3d game would, so I can't really see a new version looking "better." You could easily make changes to the things you brought up without needing to do the whole game over.

Something to keep in mind that the article doesn't mention is that broadly speaking, there isn't a cultural backlash for companies to openly embrace AI in the East. It's seemingly a uniquely Western stance to be very much against gen AI.

As I'm Western, it should come as no surprise that I'm typically against gen AI, but I try not to hold it against Eastern companies, where there just isn't the same cultural pushback.

I made sure to buy a disc drive for my PS5 Pro, but honestly, just to play movies and old PS4 games. I haven't bought a single PS5 game physically and I doubt I ever will. The convenience of digital is just too much to give up.

Why on earth would they remake Legends? Surely, it's just a remaster, right?

I love them all, but 4 is definitely my favorite. The supernatural angle of the earlier games always felt a little off, so I appreciated them ditching it for 4. The gameplay in 4 is also top tier with some of the best action sequences of any game, period.

Uncharted 4
Uncharted 2*
Uncharted Lost Legacy*
Uncharted 3*
Uncharted 1

*All basically tied

To be honest, some of things they've mentioned are exactly what I want out of AI: subtle facial animations, hair, etc. These things aren't "artistic" choices that an animator is making; they're trying to capture real-life as accurately as possible and if this helps them do it more efficiently with less headache, then I'm all for it.

@Danloaded It's based on the same TTRPG universe, World of Darkness. It's the same universe that Vampire: The Masquerade is from.

@Ken_Kaniff The first game is more dialog-driven and detective sleuthing - it's earie, not scary. For 2, they made the decision to pivot to survival horror in the vein of Resident Evil. It's definitely a bold choice because the combat in the first game is really rough, but they're really focusing on tuning it up this go around.

The jank isn't going away; it's a small team based out of Kiev, but they really love the Cthulhu mythos and I think they do a better job than most in replicating that atmosphere in video games. The only other example I can think of for a dev doing it really well is The Call of Cthulhu game by Cyanide.

@Northern_munkey Big Trouble is a classic. My friend even had a thrash band called Jack Burton vs. David Lo Pan 😂

I got the email from Kickstarter this morning. It looks janky as hell, but I love the atmosphere! For a team constantly being bombarded (in a literal sense) by Russia, this looks really great. Can't wait to jump in this summer!

Ok, I was starting to feel super old when I didn't know any of the artists, but at least I recognized some from Sub Pop. Pretty awesome label to do a partnership with for FH.

@Questionable_Duck Yeah, I meant cumulatively, which is why I don't see doom for Saros either.

Also, what the hell is Poppy Playtime and why is it on the chart? What are you Europeans up to?

Didn't Returnal sell about 1-2mil? I'd imagine Saros will fair similarly once the dust settles.

There's no scenario where this game gets turned around. Even if the game were to miraculously become a competent product, the studio's and the game's names have been so damaged that no one wants to touch it with a ten foot pole. I would say that Leslie Benzies should be finished in the video game industry, but we've seen people fail upwards time and time again.

I agree with just about everything here, except I still seem to love the game.

The technical performance really is insanely bad, though. The fact that it's this bad after two years on the market speaks volumes to either how bad the engine has gotten or how complacent the devs have become. Maybe a bit of column A and B.

@matekomlosi Without a doubt. After all the post-release support, there's like 50 different maps on rotation. Hard to complain about that!

@Northern_munkey Yeah, totally valid. Gunplay is all feel, so it's going to be according to taste. I also prefer the original Warzone, but I do pop in now and again and the quality fluctuates. They had reintroduced the original Verdansk map recently and that did a lot for my enjoyment, but the more recent "Black Ops Royal" totally sucks.

@nessisonett Not being progressive is not the same as being right-wing. Something to keep in mind.

@Northern_munkey The lack of destructible environments actually can be viewed in a positive light. Standard CoD MP is at a much smaller scale than Battlefield and they put a lot of time into making sure the maps flow well. Adding a ton of destruction would change the flow of the maps and make them feel less balanced and fun. In Battlefield, the "flow" of a map isn't as important on a micro-scale because the maps are so big and have so many players on them. Regarding the weird skins, I'm not bothered as long as the art style remains consistent. If Messi headshots Snoop, that's fine, but I just don't want cell-shaded stuff in the game.

I still have the opinion that CoD gunplay (especially Infinity Ward) runs circles around Battlefield.

@LiamCroft I know a lot of people are dogging on you for this, but, respectfully, some do have a point. Eastern games use the skimpy trope all the time and it's never called "low effort" on this website. I personally find this design philosophy groan-worthy, but there is a legitimate double-standard seemingly applied here.

I don't recall any articles on Push Square ragging on Dragon Age for making really blatant decisions to appeal to a very progressive audience. I'm a liberal and even I found it beyond the pale.

Edit: To be clear, devs have the right to make any game they want with any message they want, but it does sometimes feel like an "emperor has no clothes" situation.

Don't really understand what DEI has to do with revealing clothing, but whatever, I guess. Conservatives have completely removed all meaning from that term. Now it's just a blanket term for things they don't like.

Regarding the outfits, I don't really understand the all-or-nothing approach. Why not have some skimpy outfits and some practical ones? The same goes for the dudes' armor sets, too.

It's about time. Maybe they'll finally figure out how to shrink the file size... just kidding.

As for the best of PS4 games...

Best campaign: Infinite Warfare
Best launch MP: Modern Warfare
Best final MP: Modern Warfare III

Not really a surprise. Sony's going to want their branding all over GTA6 to sell as many consoles as possible.

I could see free-running obstacle courses with assassins being pretty fun, but that's in premise only, and definitely not as an entire game. I wouldn't put it past them to screw it up.