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Apologies to Liam, but I'm not reading a word of this review. I'm currently replaying the first game and won't get to DS2 for probably a few weeks, but I can't wait! Kojima really is in a class all his own.

@PuppetMaster Exactly! Let the games speak for themselves.

No joke, this looks fantastic! I will definitely be keeping a close eye! Not really sure why everyone in the comments is trying to make this a culture war touchstone though....

Great performances, great writing, great gameplay, great graphics. Way too long and too emotionally draining for multiple playthroughs. Definitely doesn't deserve the hate it gets, but I wouldn't consider it a "masterpiece" either.

@dskatter The Riven remake is fantastic on M4. Highly recommend if you haven't checked it out yet.

@MrRhysReviews You wound me, sir!

The fact that the devs are Witcher 3 alums is enough to make me very interested in this game. Can't wait to see more.

@MrRhysReviews To be fair, both the Myst and Riven remakes are available on the correct platform for Cyan games: Mac 😛

@dskatter @Lowdefal Yeah, only like 4 people actually made Myst back in the day, including the Miller brothers (Robyn and Rand, who founded the company). Rand is still the CEO and works directly on the games.

Haven't played a lot of new titles this year, but as it stands, AC Shadows. Though, I have a strong hunch that if/when I play KCD2, that will supplant that honor.

I really don't think this has any bearing on Sony. If Microsoft's next console functions more like a PC, than that is how Sony will treat it: a PC.

I seem to be part of a minority that is actually looking forward to Marathon, but these guys better have Destiny 3 cooking in the background or else they're in a lot of trouble.

Marathon was never going to hit the same way Destiny did. Extraction shooters just don't have that mass-market appeal and if they were betting the farm on Marathon being a massive hit, then the execs at Bungie are even stupider than we all thought.

I wonder if this trend will shift now that the Switch 2 can play 3rd party titles with some level of competence.

@LogicStrikesAgain Sorry, I may not have articulated my point well. What I meant was I don’t know if they’d ever release a game only on the handheld. It would/should release simultaneously on console. They very well may ask devs to target the handheld, spec wise, but I don’t think they’d want to give up potential sales by not releasing the game on the larger platform. Having an isolated library, at least to me, seems like a dead end when unified libraries seem to be what’s most important to most people.

Well, I assume it's not coming out this year and probably a lot of other people assume that too.

I, for one, do think Marathon looks dope and look forward to playing it. Just not in 2025...

@Scottdevine53 That's crazy! Can you let me know who wins next year's Super Bowl? I have some bets I'd like to place.

@LogicStrikesAgain I'd argue that no dev would want to do that. They could target the specs for the handheld, but one of the main reasons that the Vita died was the segmented library. Any title that releases for the handheld would have to have parity with consoles, though I could see a scenario where some games are released for console that can't run on the portable.

@Scottdevine53 You posting from the future, bro?

Man, Kojima really does see the world differently than the rest of us.

"Things are going well! Burn it all down!"

People in the comments are sooo hostile towards the Borderland series! I personally don't play them because I find the humor too cringy for my tastes, but damn - y'all are out to bury this game!

More access to games = more sales, more fans, more good.

@LordAinsley Totally agree. I worry Sony and Microsoft are going to invest too much into this vertical and only get disappointed.

I have both a Switch Lite and Portal, but for Switch, I pretty much only use it on flights or when I'm travelling and for Portal, I sometimes play in bed or when someone else needs the TV. Either way, they're pretty limited use cases and I would always prefer to play on the TV.

Edit: As long as Sony and Microsoft treat the handhelds as ancillary, I think we're good, but if they think they're going to move Switch level units, they're going to have another thing coming.

Consumer interest in handhelds is exaggerated, in my opinion. Switch is huge, but let's not pretend that the Steam Deck and ROG Ally have some astronomic share of the gaming market.

Let's not forget the director accused people covering the game negatively as shills for the competition. We all knew he was lying, but this just seals the deal. He knew how much of a dumpster fire his game was, but just read from the same sad gaslighter playbook.

Just from the screenshots in this review, the world looks so empty and boring. Even Mafia 3 (the other game I've seen that lead actor in) had a more dynamic world to play in. Hard pass on this one.

Condolences in advance to the team about to be laid off. Sorry your mgmt/investors are lame and made you release a game that needed at least another year in the oven.

@Rich33 Cheapen?? You know how much Xboxs are going for these days? 😂

@MaelysSedisia I tend to agree with @Unsilenceable. Yeah, the hat sucked and was just a bad call all around, but the game should speak for itself. Supporting the game doesn't support or condone the political leanings of team members, but he definitely didn't do himself any favors.

Huge bummer. I hope everyone laid off lands on their feet, but unless they worked remote, not a lot of employment opportunities for dev work in Oregon.

While I wasn't impressed by the story or characters of Days Gone, it's a really fun game to play. Truly hope they get the opportunity to show us what they're capable of.

I think it's disingenuous to claim this is an Xbox console. It's an Xbox branded ROG. Am I playing PlayStation games on an Xbox if I put an Xbox sticker on my PS5?

@Oram77 @ECharles I got the sense he was trying to be the new Josef Fares and totally whiffed the pitch (pun intended).

@Oram77 Yeah, he had some serious try-hard energy about him. Though, I do like Splitgate 2 quite a bit. It's definitely not a main game, but it's good, casual fun. Well worth the install space.

@Nepp67 I can't speak authoritatively on other FF games, as XVI is the only one I've ever finished, but I thought it was fantastic! They drop the F bomb so much it's comical, but I did appreciate the slightly more mature tone to the dialog. In prior FF titles, the script really was a barrier for me to get too into them.

Very happy more people will be able to experience XVI! Pretty underrated game, in my opinion.

@Jammer Nope, if anything it's harder. In Riven, in order to accommodate the real-time structure, some of the map layout has been tweaked and the answers to puzzles are randomized in both Myst and Riven.

Playing Myst as an adult isn't as hard as you might remember, but Riven is still pretty obtuse at times. You'll definitely need to keep notes.

I don't have Premium, but seriously, everyone who does really shouldn't sleep on these games, especially Riven. Puzzles aside, the world and lore of this series is top notch.

In Riven, be aware of the D'ni number system though. Just look it up if you need help. No shame at all.

Edit: If you don't want to mess with the retro versions, both were remade by the original developer, Cyan, in the last few years. Fully real-time and gorgeous. Don't think they're on PlayStation, but are on Steam/Mac store.

I'm not into fighting games at all, nor am I really into Marvel, but even I have to admit that Marvel Tokon looks dope.

4K, 60FPS, ray tracing, horse balls.

@DonkeyFantasy Astro Kart would be amazing!

People also seem to be forgetting that Sonic has a wonderful kart racer series. The last one was a bit of a backslide, but the two All Stars racing games were excellent and, imo, are better than Mario Kart.

A reveal of the Black Flag remake would be great, but I'd also like a meaty look at Shadows' first expansion.

If they ever introduced a third person mode, I'd lose my mind.

I've been hopping in over the last few days and I actually really like it! It controls much tighter than the first game and the maps, while few, are pretty well designed. The class abilities are pretty fun as well, adding a little extra to defending positions. The 24 player 3-team modes are great, too - nice big maps.

All in all, until we finally get Halo on PlayStation, this is an Arena Shooter worthy of a look.

My only big complaint is the art design, which I imagine is just targeting younger players. It feels very Beyblades.

Starfield. As much "meh" as it gets, I'm ready for a new BGS game to dive into. I got the Oblivion remake, but the game design just hasn't aged all that well, so it didn't hook me as much as I hoped it would.

I have a suspicion this will be more "look at our trees and foliage" and less actual trailer.

One of my favorite franchises! Can't wait!

We need some good 007 material. God only knows what atrocities Amazon will cook up.

@Art_Vandelay Who's merit, though? For all we know, the rank and file devs were exceeding expectations and the game was cancelled because EA thought it would only net $50 million in profit instead of $100 million. Let's also not pretend that EA is in dire straits.

I believe in an honest meritocracy, but if we're gonna sit here and debate hypotheticals, I don't really see why you need to be so callous, as if EA is really the unsung hero of this story.

@Art_Vandelay I think you're being pretty glib to score a point, but I broadly agree with what @Ajbr8687 is saying, in so far as it's always complicated. I'm not a fool and completely understand that making video games is a business. Not only that, personnel is by far the most expensive part of making video games (and is usually the most expensive part of every industry). I'm just really tired of hearing that a game gets cancelled and instead of giving the team something else to try, they just fold the whole department then and there. The fact that dev teams are operating on a knife's edge so often is absolutely insane to me. Can you image how much bedlam would happen if every industry handled failure this way?

Super lame, but I don't buy any of the MTXs in CoD anyway. I'll happily let everyone else subsidize my map packs.

@DennisReynolds Yeah, RT at 60fps would be amazing. Though, maybe someone will just unlock the frame rate in a mod.

@nessisonett Couldn't it also be plausible that they don't take direct government funding, but still fear retaliation from the government for any anti-war/anti-Putin sentiment they'd say? As I mentioned in a previous comment, even if the team doesn't operate in Russia anymore, it's very likely that they all still have family in Russia and can't risk saying anything that would put their loved ones in danger.

@ChrisDeku I totally understand that, so I wouldn't cast stones on anyone who has a moral issue with buying products with ties - indirect or otherwise - to nefarious entities. In a global market, it's impossible to completely separate your money from bad actors, but it's up to each of us to draw those lines for ourselves.