AdamNovice

Anyone on PC that thought Avatar was one of the best looking games ever are about to have their minds changed.

@tameshiyaku Preach my friend.

@tameshiyaku And now MS are letting nearly 2000 people go. Morale in the development community must be at an all time low.

The development community really needs to start making moves to unionise at this point.

@TommyNL Helldivers 2 literally comes out in a few weeks
@Tameshiyaku If they did a PC version with offering a proper improved one on PS5 I'd be pretty annoyed.

I've seen a couple of people mentioning that "On the Beach' was also the name of a post apocalyptic novel so it maybe one of Kojima's influences.

Both Street Fighter and Tekken getting great new entries? It's like the 90s all over again.

@T-Bone09 @BeerIsAwesome I'm fairly certain that nothing has been officially announced but it wouldn't surprise me if they haven't bought them already or are about too. They would be a good get for Sony since they don't have a studio that makes the kind of games they do.

@kyleforrester87 I'm not so sure, the first game had a lot of support for years. Plus Sony really need to show dedication to the live service games they do release because the last thing they need to be doing is setting the expectation that they will close games down after a year.

@Xbox_Dashboard GoT's director's cut had a near 20 hour expansion added to it.

@crimsontadpoles Worth the price now lol

If there isn't a trophy for locking the butler in the freezer then what are we doing here?

"At the very least it will ensure parity between The Last of Us: Part 1 remake and this, meaning the whole story can be experienced in one seamless and consistent level of quality"

I do wonder if that's part of Sony's motivation for doing these Remakes/remasters outside the obvious commercial ones. It'll be interesting to see if the Horizon Zero Dawn remaster is on par visually with Forbidden West.

I have my issues with Part 2 but one aspect ND nailed is the combat. No game for me has ever truly made combat look so desperate and a constant feeling of been on the razor's edge.

I couldn't get into any matches during the beta because of the servers so hopefully they are fixed now. But I did enjoy how the characters handled in the tutorial so will definitely be giving it a go.

Tekken 7 had four seasons worth of DLC, so why are we that surprised that Tekken 8 is getting DLC too?

It makes me laugh how people think Japan Studio was the only "creative" studio Sony had. If more people actually bought their games day one then they did bemoaning there devolution (they turned into Team Asobi let's not forget) then maybe they'd still be around.
Last gen taught Sony that whatever AA or low budget game they made...no one was interested, the list was extensive.
Alienation
Matterfall
Fat Princess Adventures
Everybody's gone to the Rapture
Hohokum
Kill Strain
Everybody's Golf
Concrete Genie
Entwined
Medievil
Drawn to Death
The Last Guardian
Hardware Rivals
Gravity Rush 2
Dreams
And Knack 1 + 2
All failed to do anything sales wise. So Sony obviously saw it as "ok you only want the AAA blockbusters"
So a change of strategy for PS5, double down on AAA, invest in live service games so they can get recurring revenue. And partner with select indie games such as Kena, Sifu, Tcihia and Humanity.

@K1LLEGAL If you want to false advertise then yes.

My predictions are:
Helldivers 2 is a moderate success and leads to Sony acquiring Arrowhead Games.

A new Twisted Metal is announced for a 2025 release to coincide with series 2 of the TV show.

New Astro game releases this year that can be played on PS5 and PSVR2.

Concord releases late 2024 but struggles to find a decent player base.

This year Sony will not have a game in the running for GOTY at The Game Awards for the first time in 10 years.

Moon Studio's No Rest for the Wicked will be the highest rated PS5 game this year.

Horizon Zero Dawn remake releases in September this year...much old man shouts at cloud energy ensures.

And finally Insomniac will announce a Venom game.

Could be an interesting watch, especially with regards to the crunch culture plus there creative choices regarding the game's plot.

@Jacko11 And to think Sony don't nickle and dime games like SM2 either. They could easily put suits on a daily store or sell xp boosters as a way to recover costs but they don't.

It's almost as if Spider-Man 2 was actually a great game.

I wish Sony would do a back button attachment for the duelsense.

Shadow Tactics and Hardship are good additions for me.

Crossplay will be much needed if this game is to have a decent player base.

I wonder if we'll get a beta.

@KingSimba Not if people don't buy them...that was the problem in the first place.

@Deoxyr1bose Tried to find the words but you summed it up perfectly.

It's been so entertaining watching the Xbox fanboys tie themselves in knots these past few days.
Maybe the whole "player engagement" metric that MS were so fond of isn't actually bringing in the cold hard cash.

Was Stellar blade on the list cos I'm shocked it wasn't in the top 10, let alone top 20.

Helldivers 2 been so far down is disappointing, I'm hoping they will do a beta later this month.

Chances are it maybe for PS6 if it's still sometime away. I'm more intrigued by the Horizon MP spin off really.

I know I contributed to over 200 hours to Fortnite. So that would have helped lol.

@PlayStationGamer3919 Maybe it's to do with the fact that ONE person gave it 8/10 whereas GOTY is decided by a collective. Review scores never represents the overall collective of a site.

@AFCC And to think that PS Blog was mocked because SM2 got GOTY.

14/20 a couple I should have known.

And compliments to the season for the PS staff and community.

Just platinumed it this week. A wonderful little game, it's 5 hour length was about right for it's concept otherwise it ran the risk of either running out of ideas or getting too complicated.

A lot of people showed there true colours this week with how they handled the hack (looking at you Eurogamer and Kotaku) plus the levels of whataboutism knows no bounds.

@invictus4000 Good job Nomura isn't writing the remake then.

@OrtadragoonX They will eventually, nothing lasts forever. But Marvel brings in the money right now.

@Juanalf R&C didn't sell, Spider-Man did. The markets spoke.

Absolutely disgusting. Hopefully a lot this footage gets suppressed as much as possible.

@Grimwood Valhalla begs to differ.

The disappointing part is that it says Battle Pass on it. I had hoped that Sony would try to innovate on the live service formula, rather then copy the usual business model.

I love the Spider-Man one, especially as it references when players had Venom ride a bike once they were able to break into the open world.

My thought when I was playing this was Sony could have charged around £10 for this and I don't think the majority would complain.

It's sad to see a lot of work wasted but if it came down to working to them choosing live service or single player then I think most would agree that they chose wisely.
As for Bungie's part...it's possible they along with Sony looked at how big the game was and how many people it would require to make post launch content to keep players going. It would make sense now why they collectively would come to that decision.

A24 are possibly the best studio to do a Death Stranding movie.

@BearsEatBeets Yeah I've the same thing happen too.

For anyone wondering if there's story to this...there is absolutely story.

That's another studio Geoff Keighley can conveniently forget about the next time he does a show.