Bionic-Spencer

I went into the Callisto Protocol with a very open mind very recently and I actually really enjoyed it! Sure, there was a lot about it to allow for comparisons to Dead Space, so I started to think of it as Dead Space 3 and protocol is a hellova lot better than that game was. I definitely would have loved to have seen a sequel!

I am definitely not in the habit of wishing a games company to fail, as this is my main hobby and interest, but the sooner The Final Shape gets released and probably tanks the better. The longer Bungie is allowed control of everything, the less there will be left to salvage if Sony takes control as was rumoured to happen should Bungie fail to meet financial sales targets. Sony will have to spend so much time and money trying to get Bungie back its reputation, it’s going to be a mammoth task. $3.6 Billion or whatever it was that Sony paid is a huge amount of payout for a studio that had basically one franchise so there is no danger that Bungie will close, but there is going to have to be some serious plans in place to turn things around. Most of, if not all of my gaming friends that I met on the original Destiny have given up the idea of playing the new expansion as they know it will be more of the same, so with the probability that a huge amount of people are thinking similarly, I really can’t see Bungie in control of its own ‘Destiny’ by the end of this year.

Sony might as well come out and officially confirm the existence of the console and start building hype about what it can do instead of letting every Twitter (X) ‘expert’ yack on about the specs that they have read themselves and as usual add to it with crazy number! I did read somewhere that this console was going to be pushed as the best place to play the next GTA game, so it will undoubtedly sell well when that game launches, as long as people can afford it. I imagine there will be some sort of package with the PS5 Pro and GTA 6 bundled together.

Lately I feel that the incoming games don’t match the quality of the outgoing games. Hopefully that improves..

@Jamesblob I agree entirely with you, but this is way too sensible for Sony. What would really happen is they would take the money they make and funnel it into more GaaS games and all the people like me and you would not see the single player extravaganzas that we prefer!

I am really glad that this won’t see the light of day. Sony really need to keep their single player franchises as just that, single player! Not everything needs to be made into a live service. I personally prefer single player stories that I can enjoy by myself anyway! It’s good to see that developers can make good games in the live service vain like Helldivers 2 of course, but so many developers are making huge mistakes with their titles, Destiny and Suicide Squad being the top (bottom) two..

I tried it out, you can load up the Final Cut scenes on NG+ and pop the trophy for that instantly. I think insomniac are just scaremongering. They waited ages to release the NG+ option and now people (trophy hunters especially) don’t even have to play through the game before they can secure their 100% in seconds. Perhaps moving forward, developers really should add the NG+ option from release and oversights like this wouldn’t even be a thing.

I don’t think I have read anything so insane in a while. I definitely think WB needs to fail way harder than they just have to show them how gamers want to play games. After seeing Hogwarts perform so well and looking back at how good the Rocksteady Arkham games performed should be all they need to know about where to focus resources moving forward..

If Sony want a remaster to sell well, all they have to do is release Bloodborne with a 60fps update and 4K HDR and it will sell like hotcakes! Not taking anything away from Gravity Rush, but I know what I would spend my money on!! 😄

There hasn’t been any mention of Santa Monica or Sucker Punch. Has these 2 studios been unaffected I wonder?

Maybe Sony should focus more on making franchises that didn’t outsource their budgets to Marvel or the ilk. I can’t see Ghost of Tsushima costing £300 million to make and that sold incredibly well and probably cost a fraction of Spiderman 2s budget. Don’t get me wrong, insomniac did an amazing job with Spiderman, but after the leak from them, they are tied down to a lot of Marvel games that will cost well over a billion to make in total. That definitely worries me. As technology improves, it would be financially harder to make games that used all the capacity of the consoles, the difference from PS4 - 5 is not a massive jump from what we have seen and the console is capable of way more. Nope, I hope both Sony and Microsoft drag this generation out past 7 years and don’t go searching for a technology jump that won’t even be able to be cultured upon, because if the prices to make a new game right now are astronomical (as far as AAA goes) then the next generation will be a complete industry breaker.

I was hoping to play this with friends at launch but after all the trailers, none of them wanted to pay for this. I can only assume that it will be massively reduced or even put into the PlayStation Plus service in the not too distant future, so I will hopefully get it played then.

I won’t be playing Pentiment anytime soon, but I bought it today to support the move by Microsoft putting games on PlayStation. I do honestly feel that Microsoft should have gone with a bigger game today, not saying Pentiment is bad, of course. Also, it was a bit hidden away on the store, I guess Microsoft didn’t want to pay for the advertising? 😅

In all honesty, the only games that I buy from Namco are Tekken or Soul Calibur titles and that really is it. Although Ridge Racer was a popular title on the original PlayStation, I never played it myself and I always preferred Virtua Cop to Time Crisis. There was one game in the Arcades they made that stood out for me though, Prop Cycle! That was amazing fun, but probably not a great fit for the home market! 😂

I would be worried that if Sony acquired Arrowhead that Bungie would somehow get involved with how they are running their game! The sooner the Centre of Excellence gets disbanded the better because I wouldn’t want Bungie anywhere near this game!!

Microsoft “every screen is an Xbox”

Microsoft “we are keeping Gamepass exclusive to Xbox”

So that means everyone has Gamepass too? This is getting weird..,

It’s a new game, by Microsoft’s own logics, helldivers 2 needs to be on PlayStation 5 for about a year (or over 6) before it would be eligible for multiplat.

It’s been a good time to be a fan of fighting games, having Tekken, Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 6 all releasing quite close to each other. Definitely Tekken 8 has been my favourite though!!

If this generation is anything to go by, I won’t be buying a PS6 until a few years into the next generation as I imagine the early ps6 games will be cross gen with PS5! If that’s the case, I would imagine the games to look a lot better than they do right now, because up until now there has hardly been a game that has even slightly pushed the PS5 to any kind of limits.

I personally would not have too many issues with PlayStation Games releasing day on day on the PC. More people that play the games, the better and hopefully it would have a positive effect on finances. I would stick to owning a PlayStation console as long as they are made for my own personal gaming experiences however.

If Sony are expecting nothing groundbreaking to release from their first party studio team over the next year and are worried about a drop off in sales, perhaps it would be a great idea if they were to stop playing their cards so close to their chest and announce which games are in Development as a way to keep interest and expectations high. Officially hearing that things like Ghost of Tsushima 2, a new God of War or the games being developed by Bluepoint and Bend would be great! I also live in the dream that a New Uncharted was in the works! Since the last game was such a huge seller, I definitely find it odd that there hasn’t been anything from that series in this generation. It would be a no brainer for me personally!

Sega released a lot of games on Gamepass. Surely that has to eat into sales numbers? On PlayStation, they had to contend with big games being release around the same time too. All would make it difficult!

The fact that Microsoft are losing $200 on every Series X is bad enough, but the fact that they need to recoup money back on each customer through game sales is even worse, since the Gamepass model is what most people champion on the fact that they don’t need to buy games. So that $200 is starting to look a lot worse. No wonder Microsoft is potentially releasing games on PS5! We buy our games over here! 😅

Going by the recent polls, most people were wanting Gears and Halo, but the games that had the strongest rumours about making their way to PlayStation really didn’t score strongly at all. It really shows that the newer games from Microsoft’s studios don’t really have the punching power of the old titles..

I would definitely be happy to play Gear of War on PlayStation, the original game was probably the main reason why I bought an Xbox 360. Halo is a different thing. I am really not a fan of that series at all, I’ve tried to like it but I just never really enjoyed the games all that much.

I would be in favour of a new Darkstalkers game first and foremost. To remember Capcom used to have a number of beat em up series’ doing the rounds to now only working with street fighter is saddening! Also, a sequel to Bionic Commando would be a dream come true, the one that was released by Grin! I think that game was fantastic and I still play it to this day!! Strider, Onimusha, Dead Rising, Dino crisis, Lost Planet, Final Fight, Ghouls n Ghosts, Un Squadron, everyone of these titles has a place in my heart for sure! I miss them all!

This is good to see that the balances are getting implemented soon. I use Jack 8 online and I don’t think he needs anything done massively to his setup! However, the characters mentioned so far will be very welcoming to see them rebalanced as sometimes it feels impossibly to fight against them, but then again it might also have something to do with the fact that I am really only playing a Tekken game as much as I am right now since 3 released on the original PlayStation! 😅😅

I mentioned this happening on the pure Xbox forums a few months back and I was flamed. Never gonna happen, etc etc. Tomorrow I guess they will get wind of this. I have my popcorn ready!

Been saying it for an age, but Microsoft will be a multiplatform 3rd party developer by the next gen. I don’t think I would play Starfield, but if Forza Horizons ever came onto PlayStation, I’d be all over that!!

100% no interest in this months selection, but I don’t mind a poor month on a personal level as it means I can make a dent in my backlog, so all good!

I guess killing off one of the best characters in a game period made it very difficult to come up with ideas…

With both the huge outlay of cash by Sony on R&D and the huge RRP on the obviously very technically accomplished headset, with the total failure in sales, I can only think that Sony would have made a far better investment in putting all the finances and effort in releasing A Vita 2! That would never have reached the heights that Nintendo sit, but it would have been a massive success compared to PSVR2! With the streamline device selling as well as it has, it would have been even better if it had been an honest to goodness handheld. I haven’t a won’t be buying a PSVR2 but I would definitely have bought a Vita 2!

With some of those developers that Sony acquired last year that were made up of old Call of Duty treyarch veterans, there would be more than enough talent there to reboot the Killzone franchise. I thought at its peak, Killzone would have been more than enough as a competitor to COD. Let’s gets this done, Sony!!!

It’s a weird one. After seeing the PlayStation State of play where this was featured, I couldn’t have been more uninterested with the game. However, I signed up to play the Alpha and gave codes to 3 of my friends. We had a blast in the end, but half the fun was playing with people I knew and have gamed with for years. If it had been randoms who don’t speak, it would not have been nearly half as fun. I want to support a product that sees the final act for Kevin Conroy, but I would imagine that if I do play it, it will be a platinum trophy and nothing more. When WB see how big this game will fail, they won’t support it for very long and likely they will throw Rocksteady under the bus. I can see this being their last game but let’s be honest, with the departures of the 2 heads of the company and the main man behind the Arkham Games, Rocksteady aren’t the same company that made the Batman Games.

It’s a pity that Sega hadn’t giving the chance to make another Streets of Rage to the guys behind the recent 4th game. I think they did an absolutely brilliant job of the game and it really did feel like a perfect continuation of the series.

Really glad to see the back of Lulu aswell, she was the absolute worst troll when it came to Microsoft buying Actiblizz, so toxic towards PlayStation, it was unreal.

Be careful, if Microsoft sees this graph, I expect a massive acquisition of pornhub will be on the cards for the team in Green!! How dare people use PlayStation consoles for smutty shenanigans more than Xbox!! I can imagine Phil Spencer having to wipe the drool from his mouth as he talks in great length why that would be best for gamers worldwide!!

@jedinite I don’t think you want to read the comments on this very subject over on Pure Xbox and Digital Foundry then..I think I’ll follow PixelDragons lead here and block also, just don’t have the time or energy to deal with stupid people.

I personally would have loved to have seen what Naughty Dog had done with the project via a Beta of sorts. It would have been great to have been able to make up my own mind on it for sure, but I do think what they have learned should carry forward into their new projects. Who’s to say that some sort of Factions will appear in the inevitable LoU3. All it needs to be is slightly better than Factions from the first game and it will me a winner. I definitely would like to know how much influence Bungie had in getting this cancelled also. I live by the idea that Bungie likely saw their entire cash cow about to disappear should this have been launched. Plenty can be said about Naughty Dog and their continued focus on just making Last of Us games, but noone can say that they don’t make games with very enjoyable gameplay. Outside some crazy decisions on the story side for the 2nd game, I personally find their gameplay to be very enjoyable for the Last of Us titles!

@jedinite Xbox didn’t ’wait for parity’, for Baldurs Gate 3 to release on their consoles, Larian couldn’t get the game to work properly with the parity you highlight because Series S couldn’t run the split screen that PS5s set of consoles had no problems in doing. So, instead of ‘waiting for parity’, Series S has the inferior version of the game. If Microsoft had stuck to their guns, Baldurs Gate 3 would have taken way longer to release.

@XenonKnight Indeed

I would love to have seen Naughty Dog go back to Uncharted once more, but since that will never happen (via them at least), I am excited to see what they are working on next. Although I would have liked to have seen for myself what factions 2 was like, I’m glad that ND are focusing on single player games moving forward, because that really is what they are best at for sure, and I am not too big of a GaaS fan at all. I would imagine that there has been work continuing for a while behind closed doors on a new franchise from them, so when we inevitably see what it is, it will likely be a lot further ahead than we would all expect. That leaves the probability of Last of Us part 3 as the other game that is being developed, it’s too much of a cash cow to not be, and perhaps Factions 2s work will carry on into that as some kind of multiplayer akin to the first game. But, with the the amount of time lost this gen, I would not be surprised if LoU3 was on PS6 at this rate.

And to think Disney felt it wasn’t excluding people by allowing Microsoft to renegotiate the deal for the new Indiana Jones game to not release on PS5. with PS5 numbers, that’s a huge exclusions right there…

On topic, these numbers are getting crazier by the weeks and it’s still a few weeks until Christmas. Numbers are just going to keep increasing and the way it’s going PS5 will surely eclipse the PS4s sales records. It’s pretty amazing to see how Sony has simply smashed opposition even though said opposition is doing everything they can to try and halt the process without too much success at all.

Although it’s a shame to see this end, I always would choose Sonys First Party’s to stay focused on Single player extravaganzas than dip into Live Service games. I would like to have seen what they did work on, but maybe it will make an appearance in the inevitable Last of Us Part 3 as a factions 4 on 4 session.

I was hoping to see a few more characters, my mains Jack or Yoshimitsu to be more specific, but I’ll still give it a go. It won’t go well! 😅

This would have been a game that was crying out for a couple of special editions if there had been a physical release. I would imagine that in store advertising for this was probably low too with it being digital, so most people/parents would have been buying the new COD or Spiderman. In the end, this game just came out at a bad time, so many great games have released over the last few months. I myself am massively interested in Alan Wake 2, but I haven’t yet picked it up due to so many other games to play and the fact there wasn’t a physical Collectors Edition to worry about missing out on.

Wooh, slow down now. It would be hilarious if R* went and sued him because he is making himself look like the character in the reveal now with him dying his hair the same colour!! 3 million wasn’t it?? 🤡

It probably made financial sense because microsoft paid a huge amount more to keep this exclusive for Gamepass. It’s just Disney being Disney right now with decisions like this...

@tameshiyaku I know what you mean. I guess this comment section is filled with the people who actually cared about E3.

2 recent standout moments for me at E3 was the amazing premier of God of War. That was probably the best reveal that I saw over all the years that I watched it! Another was Devil May Cry 5 being announced after years of wondering if it would ever be a thing at the Xbox conference. I still watch both of these reveals on YouTube now and then and it still gives me goosebumps!😄 I watched the last 7 or 8 shows with my daughter, it was the highlight of our gaming year!! And I always used to say to my wife that July was a very important month, we got married then, but I always meant it was time for E3! She never saw the funny side of that! 😂