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@Northern_munkey I can respect that
But yeah, to further explain my stand, it's based on the setting being overdone: 80s throwbacks mixed with futuristic visuals, bad jokes, overly familiar character dynamic (for the first 2 characters introduced in the game world), Escaping from New York coms and visual filter.. It just looked uninspired and rehash of existing ideas. Doesn't have to be bad, Uncharted looked like an unlicensed Indiana Jones game on paper, but ended up being one of the best series ever. Just not what I would present the new original IP with.
Some of the visuals reminded me of Kung Fury and Far Cry: Blood Dragon, and it would probably be better off if it tapped into that sort of silliness instead of trying to be semi-serious.

Honestly, PS5 users are not missing much if Hellblade 2 never makes it over. Visuals (assuming XSX) and audio are great, but there is a reason people are referring to it as an experience instead of a game. There is no gameplay in there, you keep forward button and occasionally press another. Fights are scripted and not challenging at all.
I've said this before, but for a walking simulator with limited interactivity I've enjoyed Nobody wants to die way more, produced on a fraction of a budget.

Genuinely like her as an actress and I wish her well. However, Intergalactic looks like a world/story that was AI generated, soulless and stereotypical. I would say it is giving me Concord vibes in all the wrong ways.
I'm a fan of Naughty dog's games and I would rate Uncharted 4 and TLOU2 in my top 10 games of all time, but this looks like a miss :/

Finally started working for me..
At 426h played, I have officially played my PS5 8 times more compared to my XSS (admittedly, I sold it in September as it wasn't being used). Nintendo stats are going to be interesting as I think this will be my most played year since childhood

502 Bad Gateway unhandled error. Level of incompetence so high, this might be more embarrassing than Concord.
I can just imagine a junior dev who said they can pull this off in half the time for the fraction of the cost (it's gonna scale itself), going insane now..

Sony did good with this update! Would be cool to keep these indefinitely.

I just got this game on sale for my PS5 not professional, and I'm pleasently surprised. There were few not graphics related bugs, with conversation triggers etc.. but in general awesome game.
PS5 Pro enhanced version will be pure joy once they polish the early PSSR adopter quirks.

Got myself a PS Plus Premium sub on a discount, and will probably get Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition. Not bad.
I really hoped for a bigger Baldur's Gate 3 discount, but that game seems to be holding value long-term better than gold.

After watching few reviews (including SkillUp) I have no idea hiw this game scored even 77% on metacritic. It's completely broken and unplayable. And what is there is flawed and needs fixing or rethinking. What is the basis for such a high score?

Feels like 50% of subscribers (myself included) is waiting for BF sale to resubscribe
There is a "hold, hold, now" meme somewhere in there.

@Voltan exactly what went through my head. Probably the only way to sort all the legalities to make a Bloodborne Remaster PS5 Ultimate Patched Edition.
@breakneck on a more serious note, I agree. FromSoftware is most likely just a nice bonus here, but anime juggernaut that Sony has become is producing so much "healthy" profit that it makes sense to acquire additional proven properties.

@Rich33 I'd say there is a huge overlap between companies that don't care, and ones that are having issues in current environment.
I might be wrong here, but it has been my theory for some time. There is an "overoptimization" going on in software development industry, and there is a reason why any systems optimal state is not at it's lowest cost. Through aggressive lowering of costs by pushing quantity over quality of talent, and ignoring "real life" factors like employee satisfaction, working conditions, education, personal development and health, etc. quality of output has decreased over the point of diminishing returns. With all the improved mechanisms in software development protecting code quality, there still was never more bugs reported per line of code. Similarly in other roles like design, never have there ever been a bigger stagnation in overall game creativity. It seems like only Nintendo stops to design a refreshed mechanic or visual style these days.
My guess is this is what is going to bring the next downfall of gaming industry. Nintendo is an evidence that production budgets don't need to be as large for the cost of stunning visuals. Customers voting with their wallet are obviously choosing quality gaming over "easier to staff" graphic fidelity. It's just that with current "overoptimized" process in the West, it's hard to promote creativity when all your employees are overworked and unmotivated.
Might just be an old man yelling at clouds, but it's been a long time since I've met somebody motivated to make a change in SD vs. rig the metrics to survive another quarter mentality.

@RBMango theory is people play COD whole year round, so they would be sticking around.
I'm not sure there are many who play COD for campaign (BO6 seems to be better in that regard, but recent titles had like 3 hour campaigns).

Damn, to be a fly on the wall in an internal meeting when they finally reveal if putting BO6 resulted in GP numbers boost..
We'll most likely never know how much it helped (or not).

Not a good month for me. Ghostwire is not that good, and it's also free on Epic Store starting tomorrow. Hot wheels 1 didn't feel satisfying to me, so that's probably a no from me too.. oh well

Honestly expected it to get 9/10, but I also didn't expect a scored review in the first place (as it's a modernized game from few years ago). I'll play it either way.

@RBMango only 2 games by Ubi I own..

Nothing in my village yet...

Goty for me. Hopefully it continues to do welland prove there is place for more than Mario in platformer genre.

This might be the most obvious thing in the world. I'm guessing these conversations with devs look like "yes, we understand your concerns, and you probably won't make any sales, but we can eventually put your game on GP. Isn't that great?"

Tried the demo, seems decent. Little bit on the low budget side, but passable. It's biggest issue is that Astro bot did everything it does better days ago. Hopefully this get's added to PS Plus in not to distant future.

Technically, it should be at the top, where triangle button is, as Nintendo kind of did it first
But he did make me laugh!

@nessisonett I won't be buying a PS5 Pro, but PC is the least future proof gaming platform out there.
I used to play on PC too, but decided to fully transition to just consoles maybe 6-7 years back. Reason why, I've bought a new, shiny rig that allowed me to play on high or medium settings for all of two years. Year three I had to make considerable compromises and test settings until I get the game to look decent and play smooth. Year 4 and later there were games I couldn't even run at all.
So yeah, PC ain't future proof

Ended up being a good move by Sony, instead of releasing a full price remake making it a $10 upgrade.. Everybody went from pure hate mode to "I'll buy that, at least to see how it looks for myself".

Patch notes: we fixed stuff we inadvertently broke in last big release

Awesome game, bit disappointing it's not huge success, but hopefully it's good enough to warrant sequels/DLC.

I guess everybody's different. For me, this is the first Diablo game I haven't bought at all. As long as there still are games for my taste, I don't mind..

@ShogunRok I don't understand how these poor sales numbers are possible. In my country Astro bot has been continuously sold out at retail, and some people who pre-ordered are still waiting for their copy to be delivered.
I believe it was sold out on EU variants of Amazon too.
Did they just not distribute enough physical copies?

Nothing for me.. and during a month my Extra is running out. Ok then..

Videogame graphics have reached a point where I'm satisfied and am not bothered paying extra to make it slightly better.
That said, if Sony removes performance mode completely, and locks me into playing at 30 FPS on PS5 Amateur... I still won't go Professional, but will get very mad at them

For 799€ it should be literally creating free sequels on it's own 😃
I love how everybody is laser focused on 699$, when there is a small European market of 450 million getting scalped..

Completely agree with you, and I felt the same way when I read TheGamer article. Absolutely misses the point.
Just having the pool of over 150 characters to use is amazing. But you don't get that pool unless you are willing to constantly reinvent yourself. And that is hard, that is risky. And I hope Sony goes back to being that company that is willing to take the "innovation" risk (as lately they have been playing it safe) imagining new IPs and ideas.

This review (let's be honest, metacritic too) has made me happy. Very happy. Tomorrow can't come soon enough. GOTY!!

@Ilyn I completely agree with your theory. I would only add this is what MS has been doing for a while. Behind the scenes, MS has been lending resources through ATG among others, to release games on Xbox without delays. All that is to "hide" the fact platform is not No. 1. priority to smaller teams, and it is harder to develop for 2 SKUs (all of which are logic 101 conclusions being thrown money at to obscure).

Honestly, expected it to last for 6 months before being taken offline and adapted to F2P, as that was a semi-established model for live service game failures.. but this is something completely new. I hope they bury returned copies into desert and make a documentary out of it.

I really hope this game does well. I'll love it either way, as it's one of my favorite genres, but I so want it to sell well and warrant a sequel/continuation of this path for Sony.

@get2sammyb I feel it's mostly because this whole game looks like it was AI generated. Completely by the numbers, no creativity or originality at all.
Whatever happens with Concord, I don't care. I'm waiting on Astro to release

The price of the renegotiation was most likely in the range of what would have saved Tango studio...

Phil is like a nothing-burger restaurant. Everything this guy says is vague and undetermined. And even with that, he still sounds like defending a sinking ship here.

Hopefully not Starfield. IMHO that game has been a failure and people are just hanging onto the dream of "big Bethesda RPGs" still being alive. However, reality is the game is outdated, clunky, and boring.
I'm genuinely worried releasing on PS5 this late after public opinion settled might result in a sales debacle (which is not what I want for MS multiplat releases, ideally they release all games to PS5).

Sea of Stars was awesome, just wanted to give it a shout (maybe somebody plays it )

In all honesty, Sony is handling this situation the way it should. Take control, clean up management, reassess, recover in time. It s*cks for employees let go, but at least there is a chance studio survives.

Well, Ender lilies for me. Which is actually fine, whenever Plus gives me at least one game of my list I'm happy

For those interested, demo is actually almost 100 GB. Quite a chunk.
But I really want to try this, and assuming performance issues are not too great I'll be dumping the cash..

Version of this question has been asked multiple times since PS Plus re-imagining, and every time I have voted against adding first party games day one.
Decent permanent discounts however, would be a great addition.

Finally Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion, I've been toying with buying it for a while between PS5 and Switch, but always aborting last minute expecting it to join a service.. and here we are

Nothing for me... That's a shame.

I can already see myself crying once I'm done with this game. That is what getting old feels like, you already mourn the good times before they even happen.

@get2sammyb bit of a late reply on my end, I'm Croatian. I'm sure they will update local shops soon, I just don't want to preorder before it's "clear".
Unfortunately, had previous experience where "fine print" was read and side-by-side offer listing was examined for some extra content, so I'm just going "better safe then sorry" route these days.
Edit: One of the popular shops actually updated their page to include preorder bonus today, so that settles that

@get2sammyb absolutely, can't wait for these to release. I'll be getting both day 1. Unfortunately, it seems like in my country they have not yet listed pre-order bonuses for Astro, so I'll be waiting on some transparency on that.
Lego Horizon looks stunning, I knew it was gonna be a good fit, but not this much.