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Least surprising thing ever haha

I’m waiting until later in the year but I’m excited to eventually play it. It looks like a lot of fun so it’s good to see it’s reviewed and sold well.

I have a Series X so probably nothing. But next gen, I’d definitely just get a PS6 and get all the XBOX titles on that.

It looks great but there are too many games I’m playing at the moment. I have it on my wishlist and I’ll pick it up later this year when I clear my current lineup and it’s cheaper.

Agreed it should have been there day 1 but I’m glad they finally added it. I picked up a copy of this game on clearance a few years ago and never got around to it, so now I can play through the campaign and it won’t just be a glorified demo disc.

I know GT7 is better but I’d rather play this first. Good stuff!

I usually don't care much for State of Plays but this one was definitely a good one for me. I didn't know much about Stellar Blade before but the game looks great. I never played Death Stranding before but the sequel looks interesting, maybe I'll finally give that free copy I got on Epic Games a go. Also, Kojima making another "Metal Gear" style game sounds cool, even if that's something that's 5-10 years away lol. Sonic Generations remake looks cool and the Shadow DLC is welcome. Metro Awakening VR has potential, too.

Overall... not incredible but a very good showing.

I usually would say I’m tired of remakes but I really enjoyed Black Flag. I would definitely pick up an updated version with better textures, lighting, and 4k60.

"But as people embrace that model, they will see that these games will exist, the service will continue, and you'll be able to access them when you feel like. That's reassuring."

They say this as they permanently delete The Crew from existence lol.

@XenonKnight As someone that loves a lot of Microsoft’s exclusives… I gotta agree. Sea of Thieves was nothing but a slow paced game around a barren world with boring combat. I was surprised to see so much hype around at the time. I stopped playing after a few hours and my friends that got me to play it stopped shortly after.

Fingers crossed. I love Crash Bandicoot but Spyro’s gameplay always vibed with me more. I’d love to see their take on a “Spyro 4”.

The visual enhancement might not be much, but $10 for it plus some lost levels, guitar free play, and a new rouge-like mode sounds like a good deal to me.

There’s not a whole lot I’m looking forward to this year but that just makes this a backlog year, which I’m cool with. I’m sure more games I’m interested in will be announced, anyway.

Here is what I’m looking forward to:

• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PS5)
• Star Wars Outlaws (PS5/XSX)
• Shantae Advance (PS5/XSX)
• Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD (Switch)
• Paper Mario TTYD (Switch)

There are a few other titles I’m keeping an eye on but those 5 titles are all I'm really excited for lol.

Bring on the announcements!

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Persona 3 Reload, and Star Wars Outlaws are the big 3 for me.

Really hope they are working on a Crash 5 and Spyro 4. I played the beta for Team Rumble and it wasn’t my cup of tea.

It’s been very good. Now that I'm older, I have the luxury of owning every game console but less time to game. And now that gaming is bigger than ever, there are more games to play than ever before.

Taking all that in to account, this has been a great new generation for me. The PS5 exclusives have been great. They look and play awesome on my TV set. This could all be because of the whole “more games, less time” thing, but it’s been a fun ride for me. Great console.

Insert GIF of the Joker saying “You get what you f$cking deserve”

Seriously, chasing a sailing ship that no one wants to be on anymore. What a shameful business practice and worst of all, the devs will probably pay the price and not the executives making the crappy decisions.

The world of game development seems scary with these terrible practices and consistent layoffs.

Super excited. But I’m leaving for vacation to visit some friends the night it comes out and will be gone til Tuesday. So the earliest I will play it is Tuesday night after work.

I’m trying to forget the game exists until that Tuesday lol

I’ll snag it once it hits the $20-$30 mark. I like the more condensed and assassin focused games over the “open-world RPG” fluff of the newer titles. So yeah, this seems up my ally. Just not for $50 with all the other blockbuster releases coming out now.

@PixelDragon That’s fair. I don’t understand the reason for this “online-only” nonsense for single-player content. My guess is it’s just a dirty business decision to make gamer’s buy the “newer console and game”. It’s a gross business practice.

Yup, I waited til I could get GT Sport for $10 knowing this. The game will effectively be a demo once the servers go down.

I didn’t buy GT7 for this exact reason and I don’t plan on it unless it dips to that $10 price point. I dont usually complain about the “all digital future”, but this online-only single player stuff effectively kills games.

Only reason I’m getting Forza MororSport right away is because it’s on GamePass and I’m already subscribed to that.

Bad move from Sony imo.

I’m guessing this only qualifies for PS5ms bought and activated from today, right? The PS5 I just bought a couple weeks ago probably isn’t eligible 🤣

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Persona 3 Reload will keep me busy for a while. Great start to the new year but I hope a couple big PS5 exclusives get revealed for later in the year.

Bungie went on to make an open-world RPG with Destiny. Battlefield got slammed. And a lot of people are stepping away from CoD after MW2 shoved ads and micro-transactions down people’s throats (and are releasing MW3 this year when they said that wasn’t the original plan). I also know a lot of people that are getting burnt out of Fortnite and other battle royale shooters.

All that said, I think now might be a good time to capitalize on those things and release a traditional multiplayer shooter with little-to-no ads/micro-transactions. There’s a reason why BattleBit got as popular as it did.

Never cared about Mortal Kombat but that’s also because I’m not much into fighting games. Smash Bros is the only fighting series I could ever get into and that’s more because it’s a fun party game, but even that everyone takes to competitively nowadays.

If I were to try and get into a fighting game anytime soon, it would easily be Street Fighter 6. I enjoyed IV on my 3DS back as a launch title. Plus Street Fighter a little more silly and cartoony.

But I’ve been hearing good things about Mortal Kombat 1 so I hope everyone that gets it enjoys it!

@Shepherd_Tallon Same here. I’m shocked how most people I see online say this generation is lacking. I’ve been having a ton of fun. Games look amazing, run well, and feel great.

There are obviously some stinkers in there but for the most part this is one of my favorite generations for all platforms. The visuals are blowing me away and I think the games are just super fun. Maybe I’m just getting older but whatever lol ¯(ツ)/¯

Of all the websites to spoil the result of the game… it ended up being the first paragraph of a videogame website. Recorded the game and was just about to watch it lol.

That said, the game look fun, just really needs NFL licensing and players. Miss these old-school style arcade sports games.

@Futureshark same here. It looks great but it looks like a title that’ll take over my life for a while… not ready for the atm haha

Finally got a PS5 as my Spider-Man edition arrived yesterday. I don’t plan on getting PS+ at all, especially with this steep price-hike. All the games I have for it and want to get are single-player, anyways.

It’s a very niche game. I personally didn’t like it at all when I played it on GamePass but others enjoyed it.

@Dark_Knight They did unlock the frame rate for a handful of PS4 games on PS5 (Racthet and Clank, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, etc.) but I agree, Bloodborne seems like such an obvious choice to give a 60fps update.

I feel like they’re just sitting on a remaster to sell to us for $70 lol.

Shoulda been $20… maybe $30… $40 max since it’s just a straight port. I have a Series X where it already runs at 4K on there, so I’ll just snag a physical copy whenever I want to play it for like $20 or less lol.

The only thing on a game console I ever muted is the XBOX Series X startup noise (not the beep but the actual sound from the TV). For some reason, Microsoft decided to make the startup noise 500% louder than all other sounds. Even at 8% tv volume it would explode my speakers and destroy my eardrums.

If there was an option to lower it, I would have. But it was either mute, or have it shatter my windows. The console beeps I don’t mind but that’s cause I live alone lol.

I’m very grateful supply for the system is good. I was able to snag one without waiting in que. I’ve been waiting to get a PS5 for Spider-Man 2 and was hoping they would have a limited edition system… and the wait was well worth it.

Excited to play all the new PlayStation games exclusives!

Whelp, finally getting a PS5. Hopefully they don’t sell out in .000005 seconds so I’m able to grab one from PS Direct.

I played it on my brother’s Xbox with GamePass and it was pretty fun, albeit in short spurts due to the repetitive nature of it. Don’t think I see myself playing it outside of a few quick games.

I didn’t do any research on the game before playing so I thought it was going to have a co-op story and a horde mode. But no, it seems to be this weird “kill as many Dino’s as possible and then kill your enemy”… which just felt weird in a game where there are rifts of endless dinosaurs opening up for you to shoot.

It feels like the idea is silly fun but in execution it’s just a generic, more repetitive team shooter.

Damn, this is the first Assassin’s Creed game I’ve been excited for since IV. I don’t hate the open-world format but I think the faster-paced gameplay in condensed cities fits being an assassin way more. It’s what made the older titles popular and unique.

I'm looking forward to it. I'm not sure if I'll watch it live, though. It's on at 4pm where I'm at so if I have to work late, then I'll put it on in the background. But if not, I'll probably go for a run or hike after work since it's finally getting warm (and not rainy) out in my area. So I'll probably just skim through it Wednesday night.

Wow. I love my XBOX Series X and yet this is one of the dumbest quotes I’ve ever read. To say that great games won’t sell consoles is just lying to yourself.

Look at the Wii U. It was underpowered, yes, but it lacking third-party support and having more simplistic, less ambitious first-party titles is what caused it to sell poorly.

The Switch is even MORE underpowered to the competition than the Wii U and it’s selling like hotcakes. Why? I don’t know, maybe… great, ambitious games that people want to play?

He had to have just goofed and said something dumb on the spot cause I can’t fathom how someone who pays even a bit of attention to the console market could think what he said.

@Anke Same here. I know the hole is a bit further away in a lot of cases but I swear it would hover right over sometimes!

Sweet. I bought Mario Golf Super Rush recently and man, it’s mediocre compared to the N64, GC, and 3DS entries. It’s not bad but the altered mechanics just make the game less fun.

This might be my go-to golf game now that it has 3-click button controls. Plus the option to make the game faster paced is a huge plus as the game felt a bit slow before. I have to say, they’re doing a good job of fixing the game’s issues.

Okami or the original RE.

Otherwise just focus on new stuff.

Agreed. The gameplay was great but the current prices are laughable. HDR was also so dark I couldn’t even keep track of the ball. Thankfully, the settings allow you to turn the brightness up.

That said… they need to lower the prices. To get the few tables I want I’d need to put in like $60. Absolutely ridiculous.

I’ve been rocking my PC and PS4 Pro for the last few years, but Final Fantasy XVI and Spider-Man 2 might just get me to finally upgrade to a PS5 later this year. Plus I still really want to play Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart!

I was interested when the game was announced.

Then we found out about the focus on online and the battle pass. Turned me off but I still kept an open eye.

Now I couldn’t care less. It could be free and I wouldn’t play it.

So they’ve double downed on vaulting like half the game away? And on top of that, reduced the size of players per game?

They really love driving me and my friends away from this game.

Announce Spyro 4 and update the Reignited Trilogy to run at 4K60 on PS5 and Series X. That’ll make me very happy.

It’s a really good game but it’s also nothing revolutionary in a saturated market of zombie and shooter games. The game still reviewed well so be proud of that instead of blaming others for not calling it a masterpiece.

I’ll play it through gamepass but still, this is super lame. Such a successful franchise not releasing physically seems like a missed opportunity.

I loved NFS Heat so I’ll definitely give this a go on EA Play sometime soon. Good review!

I know this is a Sony site but did anyone hear about this also coming to XBOX? I can’t find anything. Don’t mind picking it up for my PS4 if not.