Fizza

Happy Five Hundo Push Square! 🥳

As for my gaming this weekend, I've started my very first horror game just in time for Halloween: the original Dead Space on PS3. Currently completed the first two chapters and, while I've nearly had a full-on heart attack at numerous points during it, it's been very good so far (once I got a handle on the controls anyway XD) and I'm very excited to keep going with it. Hoping to get it finished either before or on Halloween Night itself!

Doing this the literal day after Microsoft used the dome to promote Xbox has got to be one of the funniest coincidences I've ever seen.

Started up Devil May Cry 2 for the first time yesterday on PS3 and I don't think I've ever been quite as depressed playing a game in my entire life: the music, atmosphere and character designs are all so good....and then the gameplay has just been completely and utterly butchered by comparison with terrible camera angles, a woeful lock-on system and it being practically IMPOSSIBLE to pull off even the slightest combos with the way your moveset works (WTF DID THEY DO TO STINGER 😭).

....that being said, I'll most likely push through it and get it beaten by the end of next week (especially given the entry that comes after this) XD

It may not be exactly what we were hoping for and the irony of a Slim Playstation model revision being more expensive than the original (at least with the digital version) is not lost on me, but adding the option for an detachable disc drive for physical games on the digital edition is an absolute game-changer that pretty much fixes the main issue I have with digital-only consoles (being how laser-focused you are into solely digital media) so overall? Not too bad 👍

FF7 Rebirth hearing this news:

Such a bizarre move to add this so long after release but it's definitely welcome nonetheless. Really hoping 60FPS is applied to PS4/Pro myself as I'm heavily considering picking one up in the near future and would love to have RDR1 be one of the first games I get for it!

Didn't this literally just get a beta only a few weeks ago? Feels a bit cruel to cancel it before it even had a chance to come out when it was clearly in a close-to-finished state :/

With the amount of live-service games getting obliterated over the past couple months though, I can't say I'm particularly surprised that this got the axe. With a couple notable exceptions such as Fortnite, the excitement around live-service games seems to be very much dying off as more and more of them focus on trying to get as much money out of people as possible with microtransactions galore rather than providing a consistently fun gameplay experience. A shame to see as stuff like Hyenas did look like they had a very passionate workforce behind them but that's just the way the cookie crumbles I guess.

This came out of absolutely NOWHERE. Absolutely massive shakeup that has me exceptionally curious as to what's going to happen with Sony going forward since, love him or hate him, Jim was undoubtedly the lead man behind a TON of the company's biggest decisions.

that being said, if we start getting more 1st Party cartoony games like Sony used to put out during the PS2 era as a result of him leaving then good riddance XD

THEY DID DANTE JUSTICE OH MY GOD


I only heard of the rumoured existence of a Devil May Cry anime fairly recently, though I've been itching to see it in action ever since and the brief tease we got in this trailer has me incredibly excited to see the full thing when it eventually comes out. Looking incredibly SSSTYLISH!

@UltimateOtaku91 It mainly has limited voice acting throughout (i.e. your 'OBJECTION!'s and 'HOLD IT!'s), but Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice also have some anime cutscenes with full voice acting

I am so f***ing excited for January guys

Only 4 months to go until I can finally play some of my most anticipated games of all time, absolutely ecstatic and cannot wait to experience them for the first time 🥲

Embracer really bought a whole lot of gaming companies despite clearly having absolutely zero idea how to use them huh

This is a great lineup for the month (and definitely something PS+ needed after the last few strings of bad decisions). I actually just picked up 13 Sentinels for Switch yesterday myself due to a recent digital sale so I'll definitely be giving that one a go at some point (I've seen tons of people call it one of the best VN's ever made so I'm very excited to eventually dive into it!) 😁

Well this is certainly a pleasant surprise! I definitely didn't have a Stray movie on the 2023 bingo sheet myself and I'm even more surprised they're going down the animated route. Will definitely be giving it a watch when it comes out as I do have quite the soft spot for Stray (even as a dog person XD).

🎵 THE WIND IS PUSHING MEEEEEEEEEEEE 🎵
🎵 INTO THE CLOUDS AGAIN 🎵
🎵 I FEEL THE BLOOD IN MY VEINS 🎵
🎵 TIIIIIIME IS RUNNING FREEEEEE 🎵
🎵 I FEEL LIKE LETTING GO 🎵
🎵 JUST LIKE THE DANGAN 🎵

I never played the original Dragon's Dogma myself but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't extremely interested in giving it a go in prep for DD2's release. I've heard nothing but good things about it so we'll see how it eventually fares I suppose!

you know I would say 'I can fix her' but Capcom already beat me to it

Personally not too excited for A.K.I myself (got nothing against her, I just find her general character archetype a bit dull personally) but she looks great and seems to be going down really well in the community. Great addition and I can't wait to see what they do with Ed in the next character drop!

Possibly the funniest accessibility feature in gaming history; it's both absolutely fantastic in order to have as many people as possible be able to enjoy MK1 while also being absolutely hilarious to listen to outside of the context D

While I can excuse a straight no-frills port for the Switch release as Red Dead's never been on a Nintendo console before (plus the portability would require it to be less intensive power-wise anyways), having it be the exact same game from 13 years ago for PS4 is majorly disappointing. It's definitely nice to have the game be more accessible given it's legendary status in the gaming space, but I'll just stick to getting the old GOTY Edition for my PS3 instead if I want to try out RDR1 🤷

The original GOTY Edition of Red Dead on PS3 is still pretty cheap so I'm probably going to grab that instead if I want to experience it for the first time (seriously, $50 for a port?) but it's nice to see it on modern platforms at last given it's recent scarcity.

I'm stunned it took them until Season 3 to add Johnny to Strive to be honest; dude's been a pretty big stalwart of every game's roster since his debut prior to Strive. Definitely a case of better late than never though cause god he looks so f***ing COOL 🤩

seeing his eyes under the shades is definitely going to take some getting used to though, not gonna lie XD

While I don't think ithe new 3D style comes close to the absolute majesty that was that old spritework (which, to be fair, what could), it still looks like a fantastic adaptation that reminds me a lot of KOFXV which, in my opinion, is one of the best looking fighting games on the market

also that shading on the supers is HEAVENLY

Still can't believe UMvC3 managed to snag a spot as one of the main titles this time round, cannot wait to give it a watch!

also it'd be the best time to announce MvC4 but you didn't hear that from me

Considering how I'm on a bit of a PS3 buying spree as of late anyway, I may as well try and add these ones to my collection (even if I've never been too into Transformers) if the owners are going to be this potentially incompetent about keeping their code in one piece.

Glorbo is love, Glorbo is life, all hail Glorbo.

Me: Photorealistic Omni-Man isn't real, he can't hurt you.

Mortal Kombat:

This is a pretty stacked lineup of characters all around though and I genuinely don't think you could've gone with a better trio of guest characters for the first season than the ones shown off here, excellent stuff all around.

Feels nice to finally contribute to one of these articles I gotta say XD

As for my gaming this weekend, I'll be continuing on with my New Game +/Hard Difficulty run of the original Devil May Cry through the HD Collection on PS3; reached the halfway point of my playthrough and have been having a pretty fun time all around aside from some very annoying secret missions here and there (I never want to see a rock spider again for as long as I live) and I'm excited to keep going later on!

Sounds pretty much like most other live-service online shooters to me then: very fun gameplay-wise though light on meaningful content out the starting gate. I do hope Capcom does actually commit to Exoprimal unlike it's previous online endeavours as, like you've said, there's definitely immense amounts of potential for iterating on the base they've laid here.

Plus it gets us closer to the possibility an Ace Attorney crossover where robots that look like Wright and Edgeworth kill hordes of dinos with the power of finger points and quite frankly that sounds too amazing to pass up XD

I don't see myself picking up a PS5 for the foreseeable future, but if I do? You better believe this is the one I'm going with holy hell it looks so GOOD 🤩

I'm going to be completely honest: I'm kind of just imagining all the pasta puns you could make with Sony franchises now XD

• Ravioli and Clank
• The Pasta of Us
• Syconchigle Filter
• Astrorzo Bot
• Killazonegna

I've been out of the FIFA/EA Sports loop for a very long time, but Women Players weren't available in Ultimate Team until now? That's quite surprising to be honest 🤔

A very welcome addition nonetheless though!

It really is the case that never ends huh.

@IndoorEnthusiast Seemingly (and very surprisingly) not!

'With a digital version for the PS Store announced alongside a physical edition from Limited Run Games'

I've been fascinated by Tomba ever since I saw Caddicarus talk about it all those years ago, super excited to finally experience it!

Well I'll be damned: the madlads actually did it.

Memes aside, I'm unironically pretty excited for this as someone who never got to experience the original Gex games. I'm fully aware that they were intentionally made to age as poorly as possible in terms of the dialogue and such, but I enjoy myself a good bit of cheesiness in my games (I wouldn't be as big of a Capcom fanboy if I didn't XD) so I'll definitely be giving this a look!

With a name like that, I imagine they'll be going in-depth on Venom and/or what changes the symbiote being on Spider-Man will bring to the gameplay. Very excited!

It always struck me as bizarre that they released the fighting game spinoff of Tsukihime years before the actual source material so this is a wonderful surprise indeed, especially as someone who can't get enough of the adventure/visual novel genres (my Game of the Year is Ghost Trick for crying out loud!).

For as much as I'm not a fan of Overwatch 'the game', I've always been a massive fan Overwatch 'the universe' so I'll gladly be giving this a watch myself. I

Ghost Trick is the only game where an extremely above-average score will still get me riled up to oblivion due to it not being a perfect one XD

This has easily been my most anticipated release ever since it was announced about 4 and a half months ago and to finally have it basically in the palm of my hands is enough to almost make me cry. Hope to god it sells well; we need more games like GT in the world.

Very happy to see him get the role of Kiryu: Yea is a very good voice actor (being particularly well-known for his roles in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) and, while I'll personally stick to JP Kiryu as that's the voice I more associate with him, I think he'll do a fine job in both LaD Gaiden and Infinite Wealth 👍

Also, as a small aside: something I see a lot when Youtubers like YongYea or even ProZD get voice acting roles in video games is that a lot of people cry foul, saying how 'having Youtubers be the voices of these characters completely de-legitimises voice acting as a job!'....while not realising that these people were usually VA's first and Youtubers second. Criticism of their performances is fine, but denouncing someone's ability on the sole fact that they're an influencer is a bit harsh imo.

It feels like it's more likely to see a game NOT leak a week prior to launch these days than it is to see a spoiler-free run up to release.

As someone who's been done exceptionally dirty in the past when it comes to leaks/spoilers for yet-to-be released games (Splatoon and Pokemon are instant examples for me), I know the pain stuff like this can cause all too well so allow me to share a tip I've used for avoiding stuff like this: search up every single other one of your interests except the thing you're trying to avoid spoilers for. It'll tune your recommendations to a point so that you'll hopefully not see any thumbnails showcasing spoilers (e.g. I've been avoiding spoilers for a certain upcoming game by searching exclusively Kirby and Devil May Cry videos as of late).

I mentally checked out after Ace Attorney. 10 out of f***ing 10.

this is the greatest day of my life

Interesting how there's no regular fighter costumes here, only Avatar accessories. Maybe that'll be a big announcement during tonight's Showcase?

Also having a retro game on the Battle Pass instantly makes it ten times more enticing than most other BP's I've seen honestly XD

@dancingstar93 Just rewatched the trailer and I realise that it's Tifa he swings at and not Yuffie, my apologies XD

It's fitting this is a (pseudo) remake of FFVII because I feel like I just went back in time to the 90's upon seeing that it'll be two discs.

Looking great though. Not going to play it for a long, LONG while myself since I haven't played either the original FFVII or Remake Pt. 1 but I'm definitely interested.

Also it seems like they're going to be killing Yuffie instead of Aerith this time round; poor thing

It was better than last year's, that's for sure.

Being serious though, it was pretty alright. Sonic and Final Fantasy were very cool and there were some pretty funny moments laced throughout from Nicolas Cage's appearance to the bait of Doordash. It still suffered from a bunch of the usual Keighley-made presentation problems like an overabundance of a particular genre/theme (shooters+space) and a whole lot of stationary talking, but overall? Not bad Geoff, not bad 👍

Fantastic news to hear, but why wasn't this just announced at the PS Showcase?

I'd say stuff like RE4R DLC, a first look at Rashid in SF6 and perhaps even a new next-gen Monster Hunter would be fair enough assumptions for an event like this, though I'm going to show my biases completely and beg on my hands and knees for a new Ace Attorney game myself XD

This feels like getting the Running Shoes in Pokemon games: an unnecessary hurdle that was finally dealt with many, MANY years later XD

I'm very biased towards Capcom myself (I've made that abundantly clear with my presence here XD) but even pushing that aside, they were definitely the winners here. Everything they showed, from the most relatively mundane of more SF6 footage to the full-blown gameplay reveal fro Dragon's Dogma 2, they fired on all cylinders last night and, like the last State of Play, were easily what carried the entire show imo.

As for the worst then, I'd probably have to go with the lack of PS Studios. Sure, the tone-deafness of stuff like Fairgame$ and Foamstars is cringey as all sin, but at least it's bad in a funny way. The lack of pretty much anything 1st Party in the PLAYSTATION Showcase was a massive letdown for me personally. Hope they've got something substantial in the pipelines because confidence this did not inspire.