Acquiescence

It's one of the greatest games ever made. Of course it's 2024's GOTY.

Been a big Yakuza fan since the PS2 days, and I just could not get into this entry for the life of me, despite it being the most critically-acclaimed one yet. The weak main story is one thing, but the lethargic pacing and the fact that the game is crammed with scene upon scene of characters standing around statically and having conversations that refuse to end just drove me up the wall! There's no sense of urgency to anything that happens in the game. It seems like it was made just to sap as much of the player's time as humanly possible.

I recently played through all of Infinite Wealth, and as a big Yakuza fan, I honestly thought its story was a bit rubbish. Poor pacing, endless chatter and a big plot strand involving one of the main characters that wasn't even resolved.

You get in there, and you make it about Astro Bot.

@LuXifer Could you provide a link to the video please? I'd like to see it. Thanks!

How does Hermen still have his job.

Whoever it was at Sony that caught sight of Concord and thought it looked good enough to buy the actual studio that was making it shouldn't have a job at Sony anymore. That person or those people are a massive liability to the gaming division and their judgment can't be trusted.

This is vile. Absolute degeneracy.

Do they do Karlach sex dolls as well?

What a shambles. I hope Sony cools it with the pointless remakes after this and Horizon.

I heard that some of the dialogue has been altered to make the characters more endearing and likeable than they were in the original. Is this true? If so, that's a horrible change to make. One of the best things about Until Dawn (2015) was how downright awful and hostile to each other some of the characters were, to the point of hilarity. Smoothing over the rough edges of Emily and Mike is a cowardly thing to do.

Xbox isn't a global brand resulting in poor console sales and Microsoft has conditioned its player base into not buying video games because of Game Pass. There, done. It's pretty simple.

More of these kinds of games please Sony.

Nearly everybody saw that this game would fail after watching just one minute of its awful SoP trailer three months back. If nobody at Sony could foresee this then PlayStation as a brand is in trouble.

The folks working on Fairgame$ must be crapping themselves right now, right? Seeing as how their game was even worse received when it was announced than Concord.

Sadly, I think this is pretty much the beginning of the end for Sony.

This looks awesome. This is the kind of game I wish Sony was pushing out more often. Instead they're giving us Concord.

I didn't buy a PS5 to play this kind of generic, derivative drivel. Hence why I pre-ordered Astro Bot yesterday and not Concord.

Makes you wonder how much money the Xbox division has been bleeding lately for Microsoft to resort to doing this.

Usually takes a lot longer than that before you can see the growler.

Hey Sony, how about delaying all your live service games... permanently.

@Kidfunkadelic83 That film already had death. You don't remember the ant?

Leaked emails make explicitly clear that Microsoft want to buy up huge publishers, out spend Sony and consolidate the industry

Regulators: "Nothing concerning here. Approved!"

Phil Spencer is an absolute slimeball.

"Combat doesn't really evolve
Animations are rough
Best not play it with your gran"

That's all well and good, but this is a review for Eternights, not Baldur's Gate 3.

Absolute pretentious twaddle. One of the worst games I've ever played, and I do not say that with hyperbole. I wanted to claw my face off by the last episode.

I can't fathom playing a Yakuza game with all the characters speaking English. Talk about an immersion destroyer.

That showcase felt like the first real glimpse into Sony's GaaS-centric future, and it made for a really depressing sight. CG trailers and sci-fi shooters everywhere, but little in the way of gameplay and games with their own distinct personality to stand out from the crowd.

This showcase was a flop through and through. It so easily could've been a slam dunk given how quiet Sony's been the past couple of years, but they well and truly botched it here.

This is absolutely wonderful news. Microsoft buying up publishers in order to paper over the cracks of its own mismanagement shouldn't be tolerated anyway. Activision games will remain multiplatform and that's great for the consumer.

Let's be honest here - Destruction AllStars was utter pants.

Was it somebody at The Initiative trying to convince him to come work on the latest slab of shovelware per chance?

I'm excited to play this. I never bothered with the third game because it's an absolute turd by all accounts, but this entry reviewed very well on PC.

I'm uh... wow.

So it's good?! Miracles never cease.

If you grew up with the PS1 era then this game looks like a wet dream come true.

14/15. Got the last one wrong.

Typical.

I'd much rather have Gravity Rush 3, but fans of the series will take anything they can get these days.

One of Sony's biggest sins was never localising any of the Boku no Natsuyasumi games. They look amazing for anyone who cherishes atmosphere in video games and the escapist value the medium has to offer.

Two hours long with over 30 games and still, somehow, you just know it'll be rubbish.

I wish it was for nothing, rather than the £70 it's priced at.

But yeah, it's a total cash grab. Just a completely unnecessary remake of a game that's still fresh in everyone's mind. This could also be the start of a worrying trend too as we see successful games that came out less than ten years ago get remade just because it's the easiest money ever.

This actually looks really good.

I didn't know Ben Shapiro did modelling work on the side. He's absolutely rockin' those shades.

Yay, it's out! Now we never have to see it at a PlayStation event ever again.

(Hopefully).

Not thrilled about that tbh. It's a gimmicky narrative choice that they should've abandoned after GoW2018.

If I want to play TLoU again, I have an excellent remaster to play that was done in-house. I don't need a remake.

I'm still hoping that the software price hike bites them in the ass globally and they reduce it back to what it was. £70 is extortionate.

Shawn wasn't perfect (his treatment of the Gravity Rush series caused much consternation with me), but he's a darn sight better than Ryan/Hulst, who both seem dead set on turning the first-party studios' output into a Ubisoft factory of formulaic, by-the-numbers AAA blockbusters.

I've played it for a couple of hours and it's about a 6 or so. I probably won't finish it.

The Oddworld series never really felt like it recaptured the glory days of the very first game. There was a lot of buzz in the UK surrounding Abe's Odyssey on the PS1 if memory serves.

A remake of the first TLoU... how creatively bankrupt can you get? The original isn't even an old game, it got an excellent remaster last gen and it plays great. Why would it need a remake?!

Wtf is going on at Sony right now. This is embarrassing.

As someone who loves the Gravity Rush series, it hurts reading this. Sony is making record profits as a company and yet only now do they see fit to let all these talented people go. It's depressing. AND they're losing a studio at a time when Microsoft is acquiring any developer they can get their mitts on.

Anyway, he's a fantastic artist. Good luck to him in the future.