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Absolutely stunning. I was telling myself that after P3R, I was gonna try to keep away from buying $70 games (I haven’t even bought Rebirth yet and I loved Remake). But this just looks a class above every recent Atlus title since P5. Nothing was as big of a flex as when the original trailer revealed that the team was made up of people who worked on Nocturne, Persona 3-5, NieR, and Evangelion of all things.

Obviously I haven’t played it and i respect your opinion, but even what was stated in the review a 5 seems too low. Good combat, narrative, visuals, and sound compared to some frustrating design elements doesn’t seem like a 5/10. But again im just basing it off of what you said I obviously haven’t played it myself so it could be a 5/10.

Really big improvement. Sure some parts might appear less detail but the shot from the original reveal made James look honestly a bit whiny(? I think that’s how I would describe it). The newer shot looks a lot closer to the quiet, broken despair that the original game had for that shot. Still think the art direction in the original looks the best but I would much rather take this than what they should a year or two ago.

Baldur’s Gate still being so high up is impressive. I thought it would’ve hit a ceiling by now after all the GOTY hype has largely subsided, but no it’s still up there.

I’m all for supporting new IP, but they positioned Immortals of Aveum in one of the worst ways possible. $70, huge budget, in one of the busiest months of the year (BG3, AC6, Sea of Stars)

@Intr1n5ic I mean at the same time Cyberpunk’s “comeback” shouldn’t be encouraged in this industry. We’re now awarding games for doing the fix it later stuff.

No offense to Jeter, but I wouldn’t even put him in the top 3 for Spider-Man 2 performances. Wish we could’ve seen more Ben Starr love this season.

Makes sense. Remake was always going to sell more for being the first part in a multipart series.

Rebirth also launched in a pretty crowded JRPG window, at least much more crowded than Remake did. And even tho this becoming less of a factor, it’s still the 8th year of the PS4 vs the 4th year of the PS5.

These look to be great games, with 3 day 1 titles also… it’s just that I’m pretty sure most people aren’t gonna feel these justify the price increase.

I haven’t played many from this year, I kinda want this year and next to be a backlog year. However from the games I have played, it’s definitely Hi-Fi Rush. It’s just a pure, unadulterated video game in the perfect sense. We need more games like it where big studios make smaller projects focused more on core fun than a huge experience.

Deserved tbh. If you sell a game for $70 that has microtransactions and has had an awful first season and isn’t even technically a game people own due to being always online, I think it’s within their right to try to get all their money’s worth by any means necessary.

It always depends. Every single Sony first party game should aim for 60fps, without question. No game needs greater graphical fidelity than GoW Ragnarok or Uncharted 4 or Last of Us 2. I don’t want to play Ghost of Tsushima 2 or Wolverine at 30fps cuz they wanted to increase the polygon count of petals on a small flower.

3rd party is tricky. A lot of my favorite games of all time have “unstable” framerates or 30fps (P5R on PS4, Ghost of Tsushima on PS4, the Switch Zelda games). I’m down to play a 30fps game like Dragon’s Dogma. But developers should always stride to give people options to increase performance, and also try to prioritize stable framerates over fluctuating even if it means capping at 30.

Most successful but honestly the future of PS Studios currently feels very bleak to me at least. Only about 6 true first party PS5 exclusive games in about 3.5 years on the market, with two being remakes of PS3 games. Budgets are ballooning, general diversity among published games have gone down, and developers are in this weird state of a will they won’t they with live service. I’m really hoping the later half of the PS5 picks up. If the PS6 is anything like this generation, I don’t see myself buying it anytime soon especially with how diminishing the power returns have been getting.

@amatmulisha I mean yeah I’ve seen some on the market for like $200 but like currently I don’t even necessarily want or need 4k. I’m fine with 1080p as is. Maybe in the future I’ll upgrade but rn im fine.

@Deljo I personally don’t think it’s worth it rn to upgrade. I play mainly in performance modes so i wouldn’t even see 4k that often. 1080p works fine, at least for now, to where i don’t want to invest hundreds into a 4k tv.

I don’t even have a 4K monitor or television, and im pretty sure a large chunk of the population also doesn’t. A standard or upscaled output of 4K literally doesn’t benefit me in the slightest. I would gladly cut it for a 1080p locked 30fps mode.

Became really interested when reviews dropped. This kind of adventure exploration from Elden Ring and BotW but in a more traditional RPG experience sounds really fun. I’m too busy with other massive games tho, so I’ll probably pick it up when it goes on sale for $40.

It’s wild how much pressure is being put on GTA 6 to deliver. I’m not saying people shouldn’t be hype, but we have financial analysts saying it’s the most important video game release of all time which is straight up false. The industry is still going to go through this financial low even if rockstar makes multi billions from this game.

Man i hope this game lives for a long time. The community and general atmosphere just seems so cool. I want to get into it some day

Larian actually putting their money where their mouth is by cutting ties to a garbage company like Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro. Respect.

Amazing move. Really glad discussion isn’t gonna be totally dominated around Elden Ring the day this comes out

Insane how Sony fumbled this. Literally this game would’ve been perfect for PC. They wonder why only $315 million AAA games do well when they don’t market their smaller games to the right audience.

It really feels like lower priced games are the wave for this year. With so much of the economy globally in a down turn I’ve been finding myself more interesting in completing the games I already have + lower priced games like HiFi Rush, I can’t see myself buying any more $70 or $60 games this year.

I’m still working through Persona 3, then after that I want to finish up FFXVI I’m really close to the end but I want to round out some quests, then after I beat those 40-80 hour long games I’ll consider picking up Rebirth and Unicorn Overlord (even more 40-80 hour long games)

What happened with the music category??? No Hi-Fi Rush, no Final Fantasy 16, but Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Spider-Man 2, and Assassin’s Creed Mirage?

This really feels like the year where Japanese and Eastern game devs just completely dominate. The biggest game of the year is Palworld from Japan, the highest rated game of the year is FF7Rebirth from Japan, ATLUS/RGG both made their fastest selling titles ever and that’s probably gonna be vanillaware also, Tekken 8 is the new FGC darling. And even looking towards the future, a lot of the most anticipated games (Stellar Blade, Wukong, Dragon’s Dogma, Rise of the Ronin, Elden Ring DLC) are from the East (not even mentioning Nintendo). What is there for Western AAA games this year? Star Wars Outlaws, Xbox’s admittedly great lineup, and that’s it. Not to mention how every Western game studio has been laying off people left and right.

I don’t mean this in like a “Place, Japan” type of way, but I really hope Western AAA devs take note of what the indie and Eastern scene is doing

“In this adaptation of Jaws, we’re gonna be sidestepping the shark business”

I know they mean they want to avoid following the plot of the book, but religion is a vital element of Dune. Without religious commentary and subtext, it’s not Dune. I hope they don’t fully remove it.

Toys for Bob was literally the only Activision thing I cared about (minus Sekiro). This might be the best game by industry news in a hot minute. Congrats to Toys For Bob for escaping the CoD Mines.

@Ajbr8687 If the executives caused these problems, then why not cut executive pay or fire them?

We’re looking at one of the worst years for gaming in a long while. The issues that presented themselves in 2023 (rise of AI in the artistic process, inflating budgets, increasing prices, and layoffs) all seem to be exponentially increasing. There aren’t even that many major game releases this year to make up for it. I would not be surprised if this year represents a major turning point in the AAA industry.

I still genuinely can’t fathom how Spider-Man 2 was 300 million dollars. I get that Marvel’s expensive, but it didn’t have that long of a development + it might be the most incremental of the PS5 sequels yet. It’s largely the same map with no extremely noticeable increase in asset quality, it’s about the same length as the original. Sony literally could’ve made a God of War Ragnarok + a Ghost of Tsushima with the money they spent on Spiderman 2 (granted there’s inflation that needs to be considered but still).

Sony’s so smart for developing adaptations of Twisted Metal and Gravity Rush and then just… cancelling their games and not making follow ups. Brilliant move Jimmy Ryan

It really was a mistake to shadow drop this. The game is clearly lacking polish and would’ve benefited from a couple of weeks or months in the oven more. Not to mention that so many other things were shadow dropped in that direct, that I haven’t seen anyone really talk about it, not to mention all the other games we’re still playing from February. Such a shame when I saw so much hype around it before.

“PushSquare, this is the 4th week in a row where an early 2024 JRPG was one of the best RPGs of the year” (but like yeah the absurdity of these releases is huge. Especially Sega they’re releasing this, Infinite Wealth, and Reload in this span. The rest of the year is relatively barren, why don’t you push some stuff back)

Are the Suicide Squad and Persona 3 numbers pre-orders? They came out in February so idk what they’re doing otherwise in a January chart.

@alexcaste85 The head of development on Twitter stated that it’s pronounced how it’s spelled, but he wants to see how everyone else reacts and pronounces it.

That’s a garbage name. Because it’s pronounced like an acronym, it doesn’t take any less effort to pronounce than a longer name like Street Fighter 6. Language wise, 2XKO simply doesn’t roll off the tongue and sounds like it’s trying way too hard to be cool. I get they want to denote it’s a tag fighter, but then just name it Double Knockout, which flows great. It’s like if a company tried to make a seriously supportive and competitive looter shooter called Loot N Shoot: EXTREME.

If I had a nickel for every time Atlus released a meaty JRGP in 2024 within 24 hours of another company releasing significant JRPG content, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice (Comes out the same day as SMT V Revengence btw)

Dude along with this it was announced that Pentiment and Hi-Fi Rush would be getting physical editions through Limited Run games. That’s amazing (and also devastating cuz I want to play Hi-Fi Rush asap and the digital edition comes out both during spring break and sooner, but yknow I waited 2 more months for Kena’s physical I’ll be fine)

Silently freaking out in my lecture rn

Hi-Fi Rush is the most interested I’ve been in a Xbox game since sunset overdrive. I was so disappointed when it wasn’t in the partner showcase, but it’s nice to get official confirmation that it’s coming soon.

I’m being honest, a lot of Namco’s games are kinda bad. Besides the Tekken team, they mainly pump out pretty meh anime games. Hopefully JJK was the straw that broke the arena fighter camel’s back. There’s so much potential for Namco but they’ve just been squandering it. Give us old IPs like Klonoa and Pac-Man World with new entries, stop neglecting Soul Calibur, and do actually creative stuff with your anime IPs.

This is the real damage from doing this move. Even if they say this game isn’t coming to PS, they’ve broken so many promises about exclusivity before that of course people aren’t gonna trust them. It’s not consumers being dumb or stubborn, Xbox 100% brought this onto themselves.

More media should do the WarnerBros approach like this. It acknowledges past cultural mistakes, while preserving original intent. People are calling the devs sensitive and stuff for including this message but I think it’s the actual best way to go around this.

I loved 13 Sentinels and I love fire emblem. I just wish I wasn’t working through another massive Atlus JRPG

Pentiment is the perfect game for Switch. It’s not indie but it has a lot of that similar energy, plus it’s just very high quality in general. Hi-Fi Rush is gonna be my priority Xbox title I pick up tho (if they release a physical I might even pick that up over FF7Rebirth and Granblue Fantasy)

I mean none of the games they released last year were honestly that big, so it makes sense. Even the big franchise games all had caveats (Sonic Superstars wasn’t the best and released the week of Spiderman and Mario, no one cares for Persona 5 anymore, and Like a Dragon Gaiden was digital only)

I’m only like 15 hours in, but if it ends up being anything less than a 9/10 I’d be surprised.

Sunset Overdrive and Hi-Fi Rush that low guys???

Someone has to put Western game execs on like, a leash or something

Honestly… I think only just Hi-Fi Rush and Sunset Overdrive. I don’t think many of the other games click with me. I’d probably try MCC if that came over due to the legacy and history but that’s about it.