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These guys should have called their game “Dawn : Horizon Zero” and been done with it! It certainly couldn’t look anymore like Guerillas game! 😂

I would really like to see AstroBot win the game of the year award. Sure, the Elden Ring DLC was awesome, but the game had its recognition and deservedly so last year, so it would be fair for another game to get a chance at this years award. I think the idea of a DLC winning Game of the Year is crazy though.. When The Last of Us Part 2 won the award a few years ago, by this years thinking, the game could have had a second bite at the award when the Grounded DLC was released, and that is just plain ridiculous thinking. What next, NG+ taking the award? 😅

@themightyant Cheers for the info!

Although I love the series, I will probably pass on this. Going by what has happened to previous outings, delisting them and making them unplayable isn’t really how I want to play my games.

I would have loved to have seen “and includes trophy support” in this statement, would have made it perfect! 😄

7/10. Probably best quiz ive had for a bit! 😂 The 3 I got wrong, I just didn’t have a scoobie what the answers were!

Every week I write the same thing right now. Sea of Thieves. It’s taking up nearly all my game time right now. I try to mix in the odd title, at the moment that is Alan Wake 2, which is fantastic. I can safely say Sea of Thieves will take me months to 100%.

I am a massive fan of Capcom, easily my must favourite developer, but I didn’t really hit it off with this game at all. Although a brilliant looking game, I couldn’t help feel that I would have far preferred an Okami Sequel as opposed to the strategy title that we got here as the look of the game really reminded me of the title from Clover Studios. I definitely would have loved to have seen a physical edition aswell, even a collectors edition of some sort, Japan usually releases pretty cool editions of games on the Capcom eStore, but alas..

As long as they leave Capcom alone, I genuinely don’t care about anyone else that they would acquire. Ubisoft are damaged to all hell now, they would take extreme work to get back on their feet, so if that was the next company Microsoft went for, no worries. Besides, it is clear as day that Microsoft are transitioning to 3rd party, so for the mainstream gamer, there will be little effect to what they play as everything will be on PlayStation regardless.

I actually think this is cool as hell! I guess it’s an ‘each to their own’ point of view, but I definitely want that themed Cammy Ghost as she is my main in street fighter! 😂😅

When I see PlayStation adverts, I would actually love to see some actual gameplay footage of titles to look forward to as opposed to people running around the streets going crazy. Nowhere near as good as the adverts from days gone by..

If ever there was a game that could do with a delay, this is it. The game ran pretty poorly for a title that really isn’t too far off its release date, so rather than have a situation like Dragons Dogma 2, Capcom should hold back a few months and at least get the Series X and PS5 versions running a lot better than the beta showed!

Happy to hear this. Additionally, it would be great if Sony shows information about games they are going to release moving forward. I’d like to know about a games existence a year or so in advance, followed by previews and footage as the launch window approaches. The build up to the original PS4 God of War games was awesome. By the time the game was released I was super super excited. That’s how I want to feel about Sonys first party games moving forward!!

What needs to be done is perhaps ask fans what they want to see in a live service game. I personally haven’t got too much interest in these types of games, but if I was to be part of the target audience, character design would be paramount. I would also think something with an amazing storyline that could be built upon would be good too, but it would have to be meaningful and add to the content. I always associate Sony with awesome storytelling, so with keeping with this, that may help them in building upon their live service dreams. If a lot more were shared with fans instead of keeping everything at Sony secret then public opinions could be garnered before releasing huge disasters. Also, I honestly cannot think that The last of Us factions game was a worse title than concord and that never got to see the light of day.

This is just the weirdest generation for sure. I remember when I came from PS3 and saw Destiny for the first time on the PS4, I was blown away! When God of War made it to PS4, again I was amazed at the quality. I just haven’t seen a game on PS5 that couldn’t have been done on the PS4 yet. Granted, it’s great to see a console get a game running at 60fps and 4K, but the actual look of the games aren’t really anything more than what has been seen for the last 10 years or so. If a game came out on the PS5 Pro that runs at 30fps because it is such a graphical monster, that would actually be good (and probably GTA6), but right now there isn’t really a reason for myself personally to want to pay out £800 ( since I would also need a disc drive) to have a console that runs PS4 or PS5 games at their highest quality, since they are just clearer looking versions of PS4 games essentially..

This should have been what we got instead of the base PlayStation 5 but at a far more reasonable price because I definitely feel that the PS5 came out way too soon to retail. With how long the PS4 has been supported and the fact that hardly anything released over the last few years looks anything better than what the PS4 was able to do, there easily could have been at least 3 more years before the PS5 was released. Learned my lesson though, I won’t buy a new console now until the PS6 Pro.. maybe that will allow me to play PS5 games at 4K 60fps..

I guess thanks to the fact that PlayStation is smashing the sales numbers compared to Xbox, it’s inevitable that the sales numbers were going to be as high as usual. I ain’t a COD fan, but I know a lot of friends that are and they are ‘business as usual’ when it comes to where they are playing the game. I asked one of them if she would continue to play on PlayStation or would the Gamepass release entice her to move over to Xbox. She literally plays nothing else but COD. Never crossed her mind, so as long as the game is available on PlayStation consoles, it’s going to keep selling massive numbers each year.

@Balaam_ Thats a shame that you didn’t get to Destiny 2 because of that bud, I myself was sceptical about the No Death trophy on the first game too, but honestly, finding literal random people on Destiny that became good friends to this day and completing all the Raids without deaths made for incredible gaming memories. And when Bungie released Crotas End, more and more people were able to complete the trophies as that Raid was way easier than Vault of Glass!

I was worried that some of the Trophy names would be tampered with, but really pleased that they are all intact! A small thing, but definitely welcome to see!! 😅

I wonder if these ‘insiders’ actually have real life activities to do instead of spread false info whenever the time is right for them? One day it’s being mentioned everything is on hold and then the next, the main man at Microsoft is out inadvertently refuting rumours. I guess it does do one thing though, Satyas statement helps to dispel rumours as quickly as they appear and helps to reduce info that encroaches on their obvious move over to being a 3rd party developer. Personally there isn’t too much over at Microsoft that I would be desperate to play on PlayStation. I’m not really a Halo fan, I played enough of Gears of War back in the day, but I certainly do like the Forza Horizon games (especially 4). Apart from that and the already released Sea of Thieves, everything that is genuinely exclusive to Xbox or always has been is not really my kind of gaming anymore.

If Saber like to read players comments then they should have been aware of all the positivity surrounding the title at launch and left it mostly how it released. I don’t get why Nerfing a game is good for a player base in the first place..

@Whately86 No. What it is that throws me is I play my games to the platinum, move on to another game and then I find having to come back when a DLC gets released has me relearning games. I want to keep my account as close to 100% as possible, so I’m compelled to go back. This usually happens on games I can’t wait to play. However with a big backlog, I have been playing games that all the DLCs have been released so once I am done with a game then I can move on to a new game without worrying that there will be an incomplete list down the line! 😅

I am more than happy for Spiderman 2 to miss out on DLC. I am a bit of a trophy hunter and like to get my games to 100% and I don’t really like when games get DLC that gets me back to a game. Don’t get me wrong, post release content is a good way to extract the longevity out of a title, but with the backlog of games I have building up and the fact I like to move onto new game after I have finished something, it’s good to hear a developer moving on to its next thing with some clarity!

If this doesn’t give Blooper Team a chance to remake the very first game then I don’t know what else will! I have a friend who is incredible cynical when it comes to remakes and he was not holding out any kind of success for this remake at all. Spoke to him yesterday and he said it was probably his favourite remake that has been done yet, so it must be fantastic!! 😂

@Markatron84 I only bought into Sea of Thieves when it was released on PlayStation 5, so I am not really in a position to comment about the combat aspects of the game from anytime beforehand, but the combat experience me and my group had when the game first arrived was very enjoyable. We actively searched for Reaper ships to attack as we knew that we had more of a chance of winning than losing. It became my most played game of the year until the updates I mentioned. If I had gone into Sea of Thieves as a new player today, I would 100% agree with you, but when the game launched, I and the guys and gal I play with thought combat was fantastic! Of course, this is simply my own opinion and you are more than entitled to your own. 🙏🏻

It’s just a shame that live service titles allow for this to happen in the first place. Although I haven’t personally played this, talking to friends about it, the game released in pretty good shape and was a huge amount of fun and just got tampered with too much. Although a completely different game, Sea of Thieves is going through the same thing. It launched on PS5 in fantastic shape and was a huge amount of fun to play, but after the last few patches in particular, combat wise it’s now no fun at all. The good thing about Arrowhead is that they are willing to listen to the fans, but Rare it feels just don’t give a ***** at all!!

To be fair, PS5 is unchallenged in most areas that Microsoft sells Xbox aswell anyway. 😅

I am playing Sea of Thieves with my friends! Even though Rare seem to be doing everything they can to completely destroy the game and everything that was fun about it, we are all Trophy hunters, so we are in it for the long haul

I saw a video on YouTube which used AI to update all the characters in Concord and the results were awesome. Doing something like that may have done something for the game, but I highly doubt that anyone will be able to convince some of the devs that their character models were plain and simply a load of Crap. I think Sony would be absolutely insane to let Firewalk anywhere near another game and if this game indeed goes Free to Play, that in itself is going to make zero difference. It’s been tarnished now, no going back. Just pull the plug and move on.

Yep, and then the dreaded stick drift comes into play…

Surgeon : “well there is good news and bad news..”

@Discol76 his user name is undeadgaminguk 👍🏻

I have a buddy on Instagram that paints designs on Control Pads and PS5 cover plates. I personally only get him to make me designs when I think of something that will be cool and he always comes through. I have a OG PS5 and he made me some Destiny 2 Plates along with a control pad themed around the Witch Queen expansion. It’s a whole lot better than the official stuff, that’s for sure! 😀

When you have an audience on PlayStation 5 over double the main rival, developers are going to prioritise making games for a console where they are more likely to turn a profit. Also. Microsoft are more focused on game pass and although it’s a guaranteed money earner for a developer initially, the money they receive will pail in comparisons to what they would receive by making sales in number, especially for an awesome game like Lies of P, which only recently left Gamepass, yet that championed over a million sales very quickly on PlayStation and PC ( I assume). With all these questions being asked, Microsoft themselves are going to focus on releasing games on PlayStation given the untapped sales that can be reached. Each generation will further entrench the mass market users that there is no need for any other console than a PlayStation and less and less developer will run the risk of losing out on sales and just focus where the money can be made.

The best solution would be to do something akin to a crowdfunding like Hasbro Pulse does, put the consoles up a good 6-12 months on a backing system and let people pay for the project. Instead of limiting the console to 12300 people, allow the backing to run for a month and then stop it. Everyone that wants one gets one and these scalpers could be eradicated when it comes to PlayStation consoles. Anyone that misses out, misses out, but at least the people that genuinely want the console can get it.

I was on the 360 back in the day as my main console and God of War 3 came out. I was all good until I had to do the music mini game and it went to hell on me. Muscle memory was a real sticking point. Not long after that, I moved back to PlayStation so I would have issues playing Xbox games for the same reasons now.

I always used to think that software was where a company made its money. Lose on hardware and then have a good proportion of games for an owner to purchase and make the losses back slowly, so increasing the hardware prices and not just dropping the price to get more people to purchase is just so weird. At this rate, Sony should just forget about the Japanese market entirely because once Switch 2 arrives, it will obliterate the PlayStation Sales to date and Sony can be like Xbox in the region and sell 100s a month.. Poor generation for sure.

Well, at least I can happily catch the ‘highlights’ tomorrow now…

@Mikey856 Oh he will be there, being as condescending as usual talking about how great something is (not).

If ever Sony needed an absolutely brilliant showing, this is it. Sony have felt so disconnected with the fans of late, if they were to show a proper look at what they are planning for the next year at least with announcements of games that are in the works, even if they are months upon months away, I would leave this stream very happy. I hate seeing a game a mere few months from release without having any kind of build up and not getting excited for future releases. Thinks like Ghost of Tsushima 2, the new game from Santa Monica and maybe even a proper announcement from Naughty Dog with what they are planning. I mean, why does every studio head come out and say “We can’t wait to share our next game, but we can’t talk about it right now” I mean, WTF? In all honesty, I expect this to be a FairGame$ re showing, Remakes/Remasters and not a lot else and that would make for a pretty sad showing.. I would love to be proven wrong.

If this is all about having a handheld console that can play the entire PS4 library, then I would find this very interesting for sure, but only if the PS6 is a seperate unit that plays PS6 quality titles that the handheld console can’t play. Because if this is anything like the Series set of consoles that Microsoft released, then we will be back into a generation where one console holds the stronger console back, and I am definitely not a fan of that scenario! However whatever happens, I will probably only buy into the generation when the inevitable PS6 Pro gets released. That way I will be able to play PS5 games at 4K 60fps and the PS6 games at the best possible speed. My backlog is a Generations behinds worth anyway.

I moved over to PlayStation when the Xbox One was revealed and I am really glad I did. Definitely has been the best place to play games. This generation has been incredibly messy though, but when Sony is on song with their first party games, nothing comes close for me personally on Xbox. I wouldn’t dream of going back to Microsoft exclusively again, I just like my gaming on PlayStation. I definitely hope Sony takes this generation as a warning though. They have been complacent of late, but when the main competitor is languishing so far behind and is making moves to possible go 3rd party, I can’t see how Sony would lose their position to Xbox.

Firewalk are done. Even if their next game was literally amazing, all people will have to read is .. “From the studio that brought you Concord” and it will crash and burn. Best case scenario is take the most accomplished and talented people from the studio, especially the ones that are sane (because reports suggested some crazy individuals are there) and move them to other studios and just close Firewalk down and move on.

Because Sony has faffed about all generation trying to get on the live service bandwagon. They got studios that were single player specialists to look at live service and it’s meant that there has hardly been any first party titles this generation. Now to bolster releases, Sony are rereleasing games that are from large franchises to artificially build up their line up. It’s all a bit crap really. Days gone was ok, but I don’t for the life of me know why Sony aren’t looking at games that really could do with a remastered overhaul. A Bloodborne remaster would surely make a huge amount of sense an opposed to a new Horizon Zero Dawn for instance. That game was a 4K title that looked awesome on the PS4 pro and has had a PS5 update and Bloodborne, although brilliant, still looks exactly as it did at launch. Nah, if this is how Sony sees their generations moving forward, I’ll buy a PS6 Pro as my next console from them and play all the PS5 and PS6 remasters of games that I’ll probably miss out for now..

With the way this generation has been, I won’t be jumping into the next generation until at least the PS6 Pro. I can see the cross generation being as long as this one has been, so I’ll just play through my backlog (which stretches to PS3) and by the time the PS6 Pro is coming, I should be just about ready!

If that’s what they are charging for 60fps and sharper graphics, we are all doomed. I was thinking that come the PS6 generation to hold off and get the 6 Pro, because we are only going to see what the PS5 could have done once we are out of this generation, but I genuinely feel that I won’t be able to afford to buy consoles if they jump to over £700. I think Sony are in for a very rude awakening..

When I played Days Gone, I found the main character to be annoying as hell, and that voice.. it didn’t work for me at all and it just frustrated me playing it. Then I started to hear similarities of Kronk from the Disney film ‘the emperors new groove’. Then I started to find the game hilarious to play everytime Deacon talked. It was a weird time, that’s for sure! 😂

I am most distressed to find out that my game of the generation, Concord has been somehow taken offline, so I WONT be playing that this weekend after all! 😱

All jokes aside, I’m playing AstroBot and God of War Ragnarok! Both awesome games!!

If it was rereleased, it’s never going to shake the monicker that it’s had since it launched. Even if it was taken back to the drawing board, all the characters were made into bad ass looking MFs, new Maps, everything that people didn’t like were removed from the game, if it was still called Concord, it would fail again.

That’s how you do it Sony. Stop ***** around and just put out single player games that people want!! 😀

Yes, Herman Hulst said that Concord was an incredible game aswell, so really looking forward to what FairGame$ is like. Im sure it will be brilliant aswell.. 😉