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It's one of the very few single player games that doesn't have a "designed by committee" feel to it, so I'm definitely getting this. I'm as leftie as anyone but even I'd say gaming has become way too political now. It's just nice to have a bunch of people having fun in space.

@Jayofmaya wasn't that Dunkey? Think the video is called solid gear metal and it's absolute gold.

@Jayofmaya I did exactly the same. It sounds like five terrible songs playing at the same time.

Why waste such a great license on a game that hardly anyone would like playing?

@Smash41 you're right. I've been feeling this for a while now, but it just seems that everything is either online multiplayer, yearly iterations, or stuff I'm just plain not interested in. It's got to the point where I haven't bought a PS5 yet as there's just nothing I can be bothered playing on it.

@Nepp67 nobody cares about Johnny Gat.

Nah seriously though, the best move for the Saints Row series would be to stop. They were the gaming equivalent of people who wear t shirts with "sassy" phrases on them, or people who use the word "banter" without sneering.

This is like when franchises were a little more willing to make some big changes. Think Zelda II and Simon's Quest. Both were a little misunderstood but at least tried. I'm definitely going to be giving this a go, as I absolutely loved the first game.

@Jackpaza0508 closest thing we have to an actual radioactive wasteland, makes sense that a lot of games and such would be set there. Plus the recent TV series would have boosted interest again.

@KidBoruto nice one for that. I might subscribe just for Big Mouth and Transformers. The rest of it isn't for me personally. They do seem to be putting a LOT of cartoons on there.

I'm quietly looking forward to Just Clance 2023 being announced. I mean, they obviously have no respect for the man's name so may as well.

Oh cool just what everyone wanted from Ubisoft. More ftp shooter toss. Yay. I'm sure the publishers of the rest of the current glut are shaking in their boots.

I won't be renewing this month then. Decent games of course but I've already played the ones I want. Avengers was decent enough for the campaign but glad I didn't pay full whack.

@Pheap82 not big on irony, huh?

@themcnoisy I'm sure it's a boss game mate, I actually gave it a go but couldn't get my head around it. I just remember everyone going mental when that and farming simulator were given out in the same month.

@playstation1995 ah come on mate it's not as bad as when we got cities skylines and the other one.

I'm a bit annoyed they didn't make plague tale a cross gen offering. I'd have played that. As is, I'm not interested in multiplayer cod and I'm not a wrestling fan, so nothing for me.

Guess who's big in the back time?

Wonderlands, yep. Elden Ring, yep. Other than that it was just nonsense.

It looks great, I'm super hyped, and I'm really blown away by the effort that's gone into this but I have to say it...

Aloy has a weird shaped head.

I really wanted to like the first game, and I tried to get into it a good few times, but that art style is just horrible. It honestly looks like sentient vomit to me.

Wow, Sony must have lost literally tens of dollars there.

(Cont) find that elsewhere. If I want a title with emotional investment then I can absolutely find that in other places. The fact is, this game seems like it wants me to apologize to it before playing, and I don't like that. Therfore, yeah. I want it to fail. There are much more engaging and more exciting titles on the way. I don't need this game at all.

@Flaming_Kaiser I get where you're coming from with that. I really do. Thing is, Gone Home came from nowhere and had something to say. I played it myself on the PC and yeah, it's great. It was also trying to break new ground for LGBTQ+ representation and by god that is absolutely to be applauded. I'm not a fan of CoD or FIFA or any other nonsense. Some of my absolute favourite experiences on PlayStation have been the likes of Journey, Nier Automata, The Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne, Soulsborne, Hotline Miami, TLOU2, Axiom Verge, Undertale (which is my favourite game of last gen btw) and a ton of others which aren't exactly AAA.
The thing with this game is that it seems designed to be criticism proof. If you don't like it, you either don't "get it" or you're some kind of thoughtless sheep conditioned to only play yearly franchises. I get that's where you've come from. I really do, but this seems to be so transparently put together by people who want to tick boxes and appear progressive and worthy that it just rings incredibly hollow. If I want an engaging open world I can find so many elsewhere which don't seem to want me to kotow to the Devs. If I want a meditative and quiet piece of gameplay I can find it elsewhere in a more engaging title. If I want something next gen I can lose myself i

Crimson Desert, Nier, Left4Dead and maybe one or two others were looking good. The rest of it was just utter dreck.

Did anyone else notice that all of the nominees for most anticipated game were single player story driven games? Every single one.

So it's sad that all we're getting is indies, pc ports, godawful multiplayer and live service battle royale garbage.

@andreoni79 exactly. I'm absolutely not proud of that, and it's sort of a dissonance in that I know they put their heart and soul into this. It's just so smug and worthy looking that there's a part of me that likes to see these games fail.

Why?!?!?!? The first few hours of resident evil vii showed that an incredible evil dead style game is possible in first person or VR. They had exactly the right approach given to them and chose to give us this... Muck instead. There's already so many of these cheap and nasty games out there already, why insult one of the greatest horror franchises of all time in this way?

This the most smug looking game I've ever seen. It'll do amazingly well with critics and sell about as well as Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. I'm not proud of this, but I really want this to fail.

Ok... Seeing as this fella is absolutely massive and for better or worse, young people (as in under thirty. Yes. I'm old) care what he thinks, this is a good move by Sony.

I'm not that keen on his music even though I do like a lot of hip hop, and I'm not really the right demographic, but calling the man a tool or a nobody is just daft.

It's the kind of gatekeeping nonsense which feeds the horrible "gamers rise up" stereotype. Come on lads, let's keep our heads on here.

@Ken_Kaniff you mean Rocket Arena?

Yeah. That looks like the most cynical, hackneyed, vile, DOA, Fortnite knock off I've seen in a while.

JC4- meh. 3 was boring so I've no urge to play this.

Worms- yeah. It's Worms. Yawn.

Well I suppose it's not that Cities Skylines month!

She should have been in MGSV. I'd certainly pay good money for her to be Quiet.

@get2sammyb can I come and have a go? I'll bring beer and snacks.... Brewdog beer. Fancy stuff.

Being able to look up a walkthrough without HEY ITS YA BOI SAMURAIPIMP420 BEFORE YOU GET THE LOCATIONS YOU NEED ID LIKE TO TAKE A MINUTE TO TALK ABOUT RAIDY SHADY THE DARK FANTASY MONEY GRAB AND DONT FORGET TO SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON AND JOIN MY NOTIFICATION SQUAD OH HEY THE OTHER DAY I DROPPED YET ANOTHER MUMBLE RAP TUNE ON SOUNDCLOUD WHICH MADE MY PARENTS WISH THEYD NEVER MET AND ALSO DO YOU LIKE THESE RAYCON HEADPHONES THEY WERE MADE BY A SPORTS GUY SO YOU KNOW THEYRE QUALITY OK SO BEFORE I TELL YOU WHERE THE CHEST IS LET ME JUST READ A FEW OF YOUR COMMENTS ***ad starts playing with sickening millennials talking about clothes**

So there's that. That's a good thing. If it forces these YouTubers back into their holes I'll be elated.

At the risk of sounding like an old man..... I just want to play games. They said in the presentation that they want to remove barriers to gameplay, but I really don't want notifications, picture in picture of my friend's games, news stories and what are basically ads popping up everywhere. It's just all too much and I would hate to play something like GoW with all this going on.

Oh and Destruction All-stars still looks like a binbag full of chod.

Ok I suppose. I don't think plus games are as anticipated as they used to be. Can't say I've been impressed for a long time.

An online multiplayer title with mtx which looks like it's trying to be Fortnite, for seventy quid?

Good god I hope this fails so, so, hard.

Much as I despise Potter, that looks very good. Sony pretty much said "yeah you can pay less, but all the good stuff is here" and for me at least it paid off.

THEY'RE MOCKING US WITH MAN ASS!!!!

This is legitimately hilarious.

I was on the fence about picking this up as I'd heard the single player is really good, but I just don't like the look of Kamala as a character. I mean, being stretchy? It's like buying infamous and having to play half the game as Delsin's friend who has the unique power of long arms.

It's a game about the avengers, I want to play as them not focus on some unknown fangirl, no matter how well done it is.

TURRICAN. That and it includes the Amiga versions! That's about all I was interested in. R&C looks good, still not sold on getting a PS5 though.

Played a couple of hours with a mate yesterday and laughed my backside off the whole time. Really good fun. Imagine if they'd got a minions license for this. Could have been huge!

@Loki7T1 mate, you're getting it free and it's about three times the size of the original game. The publishers did us a massive favour here.

I would have expected at least a mention of the absolutely abhorrent findings about ubisoft. I certainly won't be buying any more games from them. As is, their strategy of burying ugly truths by showcasing and leaking new titles is at best crass.

Now if this was based around Rob Roy and Scottish history then I'd have been all over this. As is, I'm just not interested in samurai stuff. Leaves me completely cold. I'm sure it's a great game, just not for me.

So you'll still be bored senseless but it's a bit wider. Ok.

I don't get this game. It had a decent story but it made you really work for it. I only managed about fifteen hours before putting it down and just not going back.

Played about half an hour of Tomb Raider on ps now and didn't care for it.

Enough with the crappy sportsball games. The people who fall for this crap every year already own them.

Erica? What? Wasn't that released and bombed already?

Having played the vr mission on battlefront I've been wanting a full VR star wars game like this for a while. Holy squanch this looks amazing!!!!

It was ok up until the demon's souls remaster, then it was pure gold. The console looks awesome too!

@mini_piekarnik ok hold up.

You mean I can get a body like Hugh.... FROM A DVD?!?!?

@OGGamer ok, so to answer that- it must be said, loaded) question:

Nobody would care apart from a small minority of easily enraged people.

The reason that ND chose to make Ellie a gay woman is because being s gay woman is normal. All that these different people are striving for is to be accepted and appreciated. Showing respect and kindness to people who have differences isn't something detrimental to your circumstances, it's something that marks you as caring. Your anger towards this is something that I do understand, but it's also something that I believe we can all build on.

If we celebrate our difference and pull those who need it up, then that's equality. That's how we build alliances and appreciate other points of view. If we choose- and I do think this is something you've chosen- to see this as an erosion of our status as one demographic, then it creates an environment where nobody is happy.

I get that you hate these "sjw" types. Believe me, I agree. I can't stand virtue signalling. The thing is, if you actually have virtue and you open yourself to other points of view, you don't need to signal that. It's just a sign that you're a person who appreciates others.

Nobody is asking you to attend Pride and scream at anyone who doesn't tick boxes, all they're saying is that as a species we can be different, and that we should value our differences as opposed to keeping one archetype as better than another.

@OGGamer people aren't being thrown from Windows and murdered for being straight white males.

As a straight white male myself, it's a little shocking that the go to reaction against anything which acknowledges that people are different from each other is to attack it. You're talking about a video game and a story which is entirely likely to be well written and acted, just enjoy it for what it is. They're not attacking you.

@ErisMorn0 woah there, careful you don't cut yourself on that edge....