AdamNovice

Me and my nephew have been playing it tonight and are loving it.
It has a good mix of shooter and strategy, the war bonds don't seem to be too grindy especially if you play either medium or up. Super credits aren't hard to come by both in the bonds and in game. I just wish it had a more Apex style pin system to let teammates know about points of interest.

I think it would a smart move by MS to put Sunset Overdrive on Playstation.

I'm waiting for next week before I have my say to be honest.

The fact that he didn't even announce a date for next week tells me there scrambling to put everything together.

A few weeks ago it was a no smoke without fire situation, now it's a raging inferno.
What's even more telling is that these rumours have been going on for weeks and yet Phil Spencer (a man who is never short on things to say) has been very quiet.

It's been a bit of an open secret for quite awhile that there working on a new IP.

Ultimately nowhere near enough people bought it.
Colin Moriarty made a very damning point last year that when Dreams went into early access MM said that "their only allowing a million copies to be sold so the servers don't get overloaded"
from that point till it's full release it never went off the store. So the game must fell very short of the 1m threshold.

@VaultGuy415 Doubt it. They still insisting it's coming this year. Besides there a newly acquired studio I don't think Sony will be cancelling their game without good reason.

Just saying this now... don't expect any kind of upgrade. This is more along the lines of TLOU part 1.
Ballistic Moon making this makes me think that this is basically a test for them to establish themselves and maybe get to do a sequel.

Sony's 1st party offerings this year are:
Helldivers 2
Stellar blade
Rise of the Ronin
Until Dawn
And Concord.
Regardless of whether you don't class them as 1st party, Sony clearly do and they won't be keeping some big game secret for late 2024 at this point.

@dark_knightmare2 "Lauded" by the media who we've learned time and time again struggle to represent the views of the community.
Also belittling people proves my point of dismissing people's opinions.

"Everyone is entitled to their opinions, of course, but this is Rocksteady's story, and they're entitled to tell it how they like"
I've heard that argument before with TLOU2 but it still didn't make it good or acted as a huge disservice to beloved characters, or the previous games that got them the fanbase to begin with. It doesn't help when things like this leads to people's legit criticism getting so easily dismissed.

Glad that cosmetics aren't on a timer, so you can unlock them when you want.

Might as well just copy and paste my union comment from last week at this rate.

DBZ fans wax lyrical about the Budokai games, what was it that made them favourites?

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.