Bionic-Spencer

Whatever negative that can be said about Jim Ryan, he presided over an absolute giant growth of the PlayStation Brand after a pandemic and then the fallout caused by that with global shortages of components to make PS5 consoles, so on that side he did an awesome job. And contrary to public opinion, I definitely prefer him to Phil Spencer’s lies.

I personally wouldn’t want to see any developer throw their full weight into Live Service titles moving forward. I far prefer single player, story driven titles, and Sony really are good at these in my opinion! I would hate to live in a world where live service took over, so I am more than happy to see these GAAS titles are cancelled before release!

@QuietintheCorner Yep, clarity at its best!

@Loamy Case by Case was just Phil’s way of spinning it that they would look at each game that was coming out and say No to a PlayStation version. I am pretty convinced that there will not be a game made by Bethesda going forward that will be released on PlayStation. And Phil wants as many games played by as many people…

I have been a fan of Capcom since I first played UN Squadron on the Super Nintendo, so to hear that they wouldn’t allow themselves to me acquired by Microsoft is the best news for sure! I think everyone deserves to play as many games from as many developers as possible and I would genuinely have hated above all other developers if there was ever a time where Capcom weren’t making games for all formats!

With all the patter coming from Phil Spencer, I would have thought StarField would still be in the physical chart for the next couple of years. I tried it for a couple of hours myself and couldn’t really get into it Personally at all. On topic it’s great to see Lies of P in the top 3, it’s an awesome game so far!

Sony should probably start announcing a few things that they have been working on lately as far as their AAA teams are concerned. All this news about AB is definitely going to work in Microsoft’s favour, good or bad. Would also like to see a few acquisitions as far as Sony are concerned too. Not because to compete on the acquisition front, but more to keep games that are already available on PlayStation there for the long term. Microsoft ain’t done with acquisitions in their own right and I really wish Sony would look at WB games or CD Project Red, the later especially since going forward, RPGs are going to be thin on the ground for Sony, especially with Bethesda games and Diablo not available very long going forward either. Gaming is looking very poor for the future..

I got the game a week early thanks to the Premium Edition and although it’s a typically awesome entry from NetherRealms, I definitely would say that 10 and 11 are better games. MK1 is also missing some characters that I would have thought were Shoe ins, but it’s still an awesome game like I said. Having Smoke in the lineup really helped aswell!! 😄

I was one of the people who waited to play this game, I always expected Project Red would get this game to the quality they would have wanted, so I’ll probably get to it when the DLC drops!

I went in with very low expectations, but the Separate Ways DLC, Spider-Man 2 trailer, Avatar and The awesome Final Fantasy 7 trailer made this, for me at least, a really good State of Play!

@tallythwack Cheers, I’ll check it out. My TV is a Sony, do I would have thought it would have looked amazing..

I actually switched HDR off on the PlayStation 5 as I found that the colours didn’t look nearly as vibrant with the setting on. I played around with it using loads of different games and I definitely feel HDR off makes everything look way better. It may be down to my TV of course, but it is quite new. On Topic, I am really looking forward to Spider-Man 2. October can’t come quick enough!!

I’m playing Bomb Rush Cyberfunk on PlayStation! I was a huge fan of Jet Set Radio and this is a worthy spiritual successor to that game! On Xbox, yep I’m playing Starfield! So far it’s been quite good, but the menu system is definitely a bit cumbersome. Apart from that it’s a very solid game. It will keep me busy until Spiderman 2.

Square will come out next to say that sales have been ‘disappointing’…

@SlipperyFish yeah, I remember that. I guess that there will be more to come from them, that’s for sure!

I’m not too surprised that there is a price increase coming, but I thought Xbox would have increased their GamePass first. I have Premium at the moment, but I will definitely drop down to Extra moving forward.

I’m actually starting to think now that the reason Bungie shot down the factions 2 multiplayer is because they saw Naughty Dog as too much of competitor that was perhaps doing a lot of things better than expected.. I played Destiny 2 for the first time not too long ago and initially there was a lot to do for myself, definitely felt a bit overwhelmed even, but I would definitely say that the LightFall campaign was the low point of the experience. I would say that they Witch Queen was really good though, definitely my favourite.

As of right now, GAME in the UK still have the Spider-Man 2 Dual Sense pads on their site. Hopefully legit fans can pick them up for the RRP!

Blizzard are doing everything in their power right now to show people how NOT to support a game after release. I did buy Diablo 4, but I haven’t yet played it and with the way things are going, I don’t think I’m going to bother for the time being at all.

I am going to buy the Panels and the Dual Sense Control Pad. Really happy that Sony went with the Option to sell these separately as I would hate to buy a £500+ console again to receive the Collectors Edition design and also to take away from someone wanting to buy this edition as the first console they are purchasing! I have also pre ordered the Collectors Edition of the game, so it’s going to be an expensive release for myself and I am very excited to play the game!! Hopefully Sony do a few more panel releases going forward like this, would really like to have a Naughty Dog inspired release or a God of War theme!

All the best to Evan Wells, but Neil in charge solely? Oh man….

Hopefully it stays very true to the original game, but has the graphics of Red Dead 2! I would definitely be interested in revisiting the game though as I thought the original was amazing. Sadly I wasn’t really a fan of the second game at all, but perhaps I will give that another go in the future.

Good!! I definitely don’t want to have my
Choice made as to which console I play on and Sega games would definitely make me have to think things over!

Amazing, Microsoft buys Bethesda because they were worried about their games getting blocked on the Xbox….. and then they block Bethesda games from being on PlayStation!! You couldn’t make this craziness up! Microsoft smoke some crazy shiz!!

I preordered this a while back, but with the lack of favour towards the game now, with the crazy delays and reboots, I think it best to pass on this game at launch and wait and see what the critics and reviewers think instead.

@ApostateMage I felt the same way. So far through games I have played, Dead Space has looked the best this gen for me. Although impressive, I definitely wouldn’t describe Final Fantasy 16s graphics as spectacular. Gameplay and story from the demo is another thing altogether, that was spectacular!!

I knew all these acquisitions that were being made by these guys would backfire. One acquisition I am a bit worried about is Limited Run. Hopefully that doesn’t get effected by layoffs or closures. I have a copy of Radiant Silvergun that I bought around 6 months ago from them that has yet to be released and I don’t want to lose out on that anytime soon!

I didn’t expect any new announcements from Capcom on this showcase, so it was a great way to see more about games that aren’t too far off! Ghost Trick looked awesome, really looking forward to Exoprimal, anything about Dragons Dogma 2 is a win for sure and although sad news about Pragmata, it’s good to at least know that the game is still on the way. All in all, I honestly enjoyed the showcase!

With so many awesome games out at the moment and for the rest of the year, I am not too upset to see Pragmata is delayed. At least Capcom are keeping us all in the loop, I know it will definitely be worth the wait for sure!

I would like to see Sony announce a proper first party showcase in the future. There is nothing wrong with showing 3rd party upcoming titles, but I really expected to see 10 or so first party titles at Sonys showcase.

Crazy glitches, connection issues, disappearing Boat propeller (we have a boat, the propeller is glitched was one of the most common statements in a boost session I did) deranged drivers killing survivors, simply put the most fun I have ever had in multiplayer gaming!! Used to play with friends every Friday night for 3 hours at a time for well over 2 years and I wouldn’t trade that time for anything. I will personally really miss this game. So good!

Excellent! Can’t wait until October now! I hope there will be a cool Collectors Edition aswell! A statue with either Kraven or Venom will be equally awesome!!

I have been playing and collecting Capcom games for many a year and it forms the basis of my Instagram page, so because of Capcoms amazing output, I am always able to add to it! Really looking forward to seeing the Capcom Showcase, although there likely won’t be any surprises, it will be great to see some more in depth coverage of Dragons Dogma 2 and Ghost Trick!

I can’t be any happier for Capcoms turn
up of fortunes over the years! Resident Evil Village has been one of my favourite entries to the franchise in years, there was so much to like about the title and it’s great to see it reach the sales figures that it deserves!!

I very much doubt DMC6 would get a mention since Hideaki Itsuno is beavering away at Dragons Dogma 2, so I would assume the show will have the final preview of Exoprimal, Resident Evil 4 DLC, a few Street Fighter 6 future DLC Characters and perhaps a mention of Pragmata. For the sake of dream announcements, I would have a meltdown if a new Darkstalkers were shown, Monster Hunter World 2, Code Veronica Remake and anything that slightly resembled a new Bionic Commando!! 😄

I will definitely be playing it soon, love all the Street Fighter games!!

I thought this was going to be shown too. I am amazed at what first party games Sony decided to show yesterday. Hopefully there will be a future State of Play dedicated for a massive reveal for Faction 2 or whatever it’s to be called, because missing this out and showing of FairGame$ and Concorde was criminal..

It’s the dollar signs, it has to be… that is the only reason that Sony would buy these guys up. When they said they were going to invest heavily in Live Service games, I baulked at that straight away. Sonys first party studios have been built on incredible gaming experiences, but mostly all single player. I think they should just leave Bungie to do the live service things and get on with what has made PlayStation great, massive single player experiences.. I also think that they should have only bought Haven and Firewalk if their new games had been unfathomably successful, but at least this will very quickly show them that this business shift will be a complete waste of time and money. I wonder what Sony of Japan will think about that.The best way this can go is that is hardly anyone plays the game when it arrives and shows Sony that the direction they are heading in is fruitless.

I get the variety of games, but saying that it was showing that PlayStation had the “Best and most variety of games” is the usual misleading statement since most of the games they showed were multiplatform. I would have taken his statement with a lot more credibility if he had just proceeded over a Showcase where they had shown 15 first party AAA games…

If it’s using the same tech as the dualsense, what happens if the dreaded stick drift shows up? Since the whole device is one unit, that would not be good. I would only buy this if there was a way to replace the analogue sticks like the Edge, and also if it worked as a standalone handheld console as opposed to a steaming device from a PS5 in close proximity.

Reminded me an awful lot of Bioshock, which is a very good thing for sure. After not going near EA titles for a long time before the release of Dead Space, I will definitely be interested to play this too.

I’ve had time to reflect on this show now and it was pretty much a disaster of planning. What they SHOULD have done was start the show with Spider-Man 2, move on to half an hour of the 3rd Party games, set aside 10 minutes for PSVR2 and the hardware announcements and then had the last 25 odd minutes focusing entirely on 1st party games. My Fanboy-ism would have gone crazy for things like announcing a Ghost of Tsushima sequel, Uncharted 5, Santa Monica’s new IP, Bluepoints new IP, anything remotely featuring Killzone. Sure, show of what Haven was making, but adding a little bit of Gameplay and to not show Factions 2 off was at a PlayStation Showcase is a huge PR mess.. Sony are way too complacent, all their number crunching facts these last 2 days show they don’t care at all right now, so long as PS5 is selling like hot cakes..

Oh Jim Ryan, go home. You’re drunk..

I think Sony made a huge mistake here by not showing more first party games. In fact it should have been massively dominated by their own internal Studios. All the 3rd party games could easily have been kept for State of Plays. Factions should have been shown, Santa Monica’s new game should have been shown, it’s just a huge missed opportunity. Sony had a real chance to give gamers something positive to speak about with Microsoft’s own show a few weeks away. I except that to be a hellova lot better than this.

@Fyz306903 I would worry about live service games that are abandoned, even if they were single player. I guess I am mostly happy to play a single player game that I own on disc and there is no chances of a server closure or that ilk dampening my experience. 🙏🏻

Im afraid that is 60% of PlayStation games that I won’t be playing then. I far prefer single player games over anything else.

Alan Wake was one of my favourite games back on the 360 and it was so good to see it get the remaster treatment on PS4/5 for PlayStation fans that missed out on it first time around! I can’t wait to play the second one. Hopefully more light will be shed on its release date at the Sony Showcase this week!!

Fantastic!! I know that Sony has been keeping quite with the Acti/Blizz deal rumbling along, but now that is is more than likely that Microsoft will succeed, it’s about time Sony flexed their muscles a bit and showed everyone what’s been going on in the background! Really hope to see what Santa Monica have been working on, a proper look at Spiderman 2, The Last of Us multiplayer and a tonne of announcements that are unannounced up until now. I’m rather excited!!

I genuinely thought the first was one of the best games on PS4. Sure it’s not to everyone’s tastes, but I very much enjoyed creating a network for travelling the land and immersion myself in the amazing (and crazy) story! I can’t wait to play the sequel and I am sure that it will have some sort of showing should the rumours of an impending PlayStation showcase be true!

As I slowly rebuild my Profile, I am in the process of playing all the Far Cry titles one after the other, so I am currently going through Primal. However, I’ll be making time to play some Tears of the Kingdom this evening! 😄