KilloWertz

Still in Night City replaying Cyberpunk 2077. Good times...

Well, that explains why this is $9.99 and the Expansion Pass is $24.99. I thought that was weird, but the fact that this is just a dungeon is why.

If The Rising Tide is pretty good, I will consider getting the Expansion Pass and actually playing through both then. I'm not firing up the game again just to play through 3 or 4 hours of one dungeon.

Hands down the Sega revival trailer. I would have considered Final Fantasy XVI's DLC otherwise, but the ending to the main game killed the excitement I otherwise would have had for it.

@nessisonett "It’s a corporate event masquerading as an award show." That pretty much sums it up perfectly.

It's called The Game Awards, but it's really just a way to show commercials and trailers. Basically, a televised E3 without the show floor. I get that Judge's speech went on for far too long last year, but damn, Geoff went to the total other way.

I guess that it's time to accept he's never going to find the right pacing and structure for the show. He's had too many years now to figure it out and he clearly hasn't. If this was a way to try to shorten the show, that's not the way. I still saw comments about it being too long anyways.

At least they made it easy for me to wait on it given that I'll still be playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth even a month later.

Yes please. I love Life is Strange as well, so as long as this turns out to be good, this will be mine.

Well, they had me until the word roguelike. No interest in playing anything like this. It's nice that it's free, but it's still extremely disappointing that this is the rumored DLC for the game.

I'll probably still enjoy the game, but this does make it easier to wait on it for the typical Ubisoft price drop. I have no time to play it for the foreseeable future anyways between what I'm already playing and then Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, so it's all good in the end.

And this is why all of us are still fans of PlayStation. Swooping in at the middle of the week providing us with some stability during these crazy times. Thank you, PlayStation, from the bottom of my cold dead heart.

Might have to buy myself a nice cheap can of Dignity...

More Cyberpunk 2077 for me.

I'll welcome a remake of RE5 given how good the other 3 new ones have been (I even loved RE3), but it seems to make more sense to do a Code: Veronica X one first from what the latest video from Residence of Evil on YouTube. Honestly, I'd be much more excited for a Code: Veronica X remake.

@ShogunRok No problem.

Yeah, while I'm obviously glad to be getting one last update as supporting a game long term is always good, it's not a huge deal for me. I'll take whatever they give though regardless of whether I will take advantage of it or not.

@ShogunRok What do you one from one last Cyberpunk 2077 update?

Hmmm, what do I want?

Honestly, there's really nothing specific for me. Obviously people want NG+, which I never play, but you would think that would be on the list. Otherwise, I guess just the usual update stuff since it will be the last one (unless they end up breaking something I guess). I've been really enjoying my time being back in Night City over the last few weeks, so there's nothing glaring to me.

I think I've played one mobile game in my life. That won't change as I have no reason to. I already have dozens of games to play on my PS5.

I've played very little of the Fallout series, but I'm definitely looking forward to this as I love a good sci-fi show. I loved The Peripheral (damn you Amazon for it) and probably would have enjoyed the early seasons of Westworld, so I'd be surprised if I don't enjoy this as well.

@nessisonett You nailed it. The Ghoul is Walton Goggins.

So that makes more sense than the reports last week of Sony and Shift Up signing an agreement for Sony to publish Stellar Blade even though Sony has been listed as the publisher at least since the name change to Stellar Blade. It was actually them signing on to have Sony publish their games for however long, which would be the same thing as deals with Quantic Dream and such in the past.

I'll repeat what others have said that hopefully we get more from Stellar Blade and an actual release date at the Game Awards. I've been looking forward to this ever since the original reveal I think 2 years ago.

@Omnistalgic Naughty Dog specifically is not all on PlayStation of course. They are the ones forcing them to do remasters and remakes, but you would think ND would have been big enough by now to do them, their failed multiplayer game, and a new game on top of that. It's really weird.

Continuing my 2nd playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077. Loving it all over again as a Female Streetkid this time.

Congrats to everybody involved in the original. For the type of game it is, it's a great game and it's nice to see it be so successful.

As a big fan of the series as a whole, I hope we get more from the series at some point. True Colors was just as good, if not better than, the original imo.

It would be something you could shrug off if it was during a loading screen or something like that, but the fact that you actually have to close the pop-up ad in order to look at the map is ridiculous. It's also possible it goes away once the Black Friday sale is over, but still, they could do it better.

@Kevw2006 Fair question. Obviously I remembered the years wrong. My bad, but that actually makes releasing a remaster of it even worse. It's different when they did that with the original since the PS3 version came out just months before the PS4 was released.

In the end, while my years were off, it's still bad that all ND's releasing are remasters and remakes and we still don't know what else they are making for sure 3 years into the PS5

Just because the PS5 has been so successful so far doesn't mean they aren't riding off the success of the PS4. This is not the same PlayStation 3 years in to the PS4 generation, and I don't consider that a good thing. It's not luck, but it's also not because they do great thing after great thing to truly earn the success either.

Sure, they've released some fantastic games already like Horizon Forbidden West, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, God of War Ragnarok, and Spider-Man 2, but the fact that they have done quite a bit of anti-consumer things this gen and also don't really announce much of anything games wise is not the PlayStation of even recent memory. Overpriced peripherals, raising the price on a cheaper system model and charging for a stand, etc. make it seem like PlayStation is testing how far they can go before their fanbase breaks and finally has enough. Not to mention that their tech team for the PS5's UI is dreadful, where we are 3 years in and things still don't work properly and features are still missing.

Another kicker is obviously the fact that once #1 developer Naughty Dog has not released a new game in over 6 years and continues to just release remasters and remakes 3 years in to the PS5 generation. I still love my PS5, but I do miss the PlayStation (and obviously Naughty Dog) of old.

Nah, I'm going to keep calling it the WTF edition like some thought it was by accident. WTF should be the reaction from fans as they wait for the third release from Naughty Dog so far in over 6 years that is still a re-release and not a new game. It's honestly absurd to think it's been over 6 years and we still don't even know when Naughty Dog will actually release a new game.

@carlos82 I agree, but the fact that all of Sony's steelbook special editions have not included a disc so far on the PS5 makes wondering understandable. It's good that this is going to include a disc for the people interested, but yeah, people shouldn't have to wonder if they are getting a disc when buying a physical edition of a game.

@Jimmer-jammer Yeah, I'm definitely going to play Phantom Liberty at some point. I strangely enough pre-ordered it even though I wasn't going to play it anywhere near release. I'd like to try to play it after I'm done with the main game again, but we'll see if I trigger it by accident like what happens with other RPGs and DLC.

@Link41x I'm watching Full Gear tonight too. Hopefully it delivers and the signing isn't lame.

Continuing my return to Cyberpunk 2077 for a second playthrough that I started a couple of days ago, this time as a female Street Kid.

I look forward to playing more this weekend as it was one of my favorite games this generation after my first playthrough last year, and to experience the 2.0 update and a slightly other side of the game as the female V.

A remake and a remaster of The Last of Us series, but we still have no idea when Naughty Dog will actually release an actual new game. They've hit it out of the park so far this gen...

The only real positive here is the fact that they are only charging $10 for the upgrade. One could still argue that these things should be free, but for better or for worse this is still better than the ridiculous $70 price tag for Part 1.

@GeorgeMcBain My trust in Naughty Dog isn't what it used to be either. I also have to agree about others deserving recognition. Honestly, if Amy Hennig had never created Uncharted, Naughty Dog wouldn't have went on to become PlayStation's #1 developer for many years. Who knows if The Last of Us even gets made. Who knows where PlayStation even stands without the Uncharted series.

The Amy Hennig departure will always be the weirdest one. They had been shooting Uncharted 4 for roughly 7 months and then she just leaves? That and the fact that they scrapped a lot of what they did and recast roles makes that whole thing more than weird, even if anything fishy was supposedly debunked. I do believe that it's a little weird that people keep leaving after Neil moves up.

Anyways, good for him I suppose. I obviously don't like the guy for several reasons, but he has been involved in several highly acclaimed titles. Hopefully things turn around for Naughty Dog right now though and whatever their next game ends up being actually turns out to be good. They're a mess right now.

I know there's no statue, but still, the fact that this Deluxe Edition is only $80 makes others that are sometimes several times that expensive comically overpriced.

If it's still very much a normal single player experience like Assassin's Creed and not like Suicide Squad, then it's ok. A good Wonder Woman game would be extremely welcome, so hopefully they don't ruin it even after the extreme backlash Suicide Squad has suffered.

I doubt I'll ever play true live service games. I'm actually one of the few people that hasn't played Diablo IV because of that. Even an Assassin's Creed game ends eventually.

She's a great actress, but not right for the role unless she's willing to put in the work. Like others said, she would have been perfect as Ellie.

A part of me thinks it'd be ok if not since it was a bit ridiculous how ripped Abby was, but also if they do change her than that will just add to the crap her and the show gets on social media.

Still playing Spider-Man 2 and still highly enjoying it.

In the words of Vince McMahon's old entrance music, NO CHANCE!

I like what I have better. Obviously if mine dies years down the line, I won't have a choice, but for the immediate future it's a definite no. The only way I'd ever consider it down the road without mine dying would be if they actually made it better, as in they took the time to make sure there wasn't coil whine this time around, but that would be years from now one way or the other.

Obviously it's not funny for the people who worked on the game, but it is a bit funny that by far the two worst CoD games of late have been the two that were developed under developmental hell.

Unfortunately it will still make billions because people are sheep nowadays. Otherwise I would say at least things would change if this was the failure it deserves to be. At the very least hopefully this is truly the last time Activision does this to the developers since it's obvious it doesn't work out.

I'm jealous of my PS5. Why can't I get a stability update?

@Jay767 It is bad, but is it really worse than Modern Warfare 3? At least Halo Infinite has a good campaign.

I'm not saying it will get better under Microsoft. I was just saying it would be nice if it did under them so there'd at least be something positive from them buying Activision.

@Jay767 I don't think a series could get any worse than crappy multiplayer and the series' worst campaign in the history of the franchise.

I actually hope Microsoft steps in and forces them to actually take a year off. It's not like the current CoD couldn't make them millions and millions in the meantime, nor is Microsoft in a financial position to need to milk a franchise to get by. I'm not saying they will, but it'd be nice if something positive came from them buying Activision.

A real shame that this series is still as popular as it is given how Activision handles it. I get that people are dumb enough to keep buying it every year, so that would be millions and millions of dollars (probably billions) they would be giving up by not releasing a CoD each year.

The series continued success is kind of a representation of how people are nowadays, but it seems clear that Activision has finally completely milked CoD dry. The campaigns were at least a decent 5 hours or so that you could play once the games went on an extreme sale (or on PS Plus), but now there's not even that.

Goody goody gum drops, just return to being a top developer and give us an actual new game at this point rather than a remaster or a "remake"...

Another weekend of Spider-Man 2. I might mix in a bit of Spider-Man 2 with it. If I get really burnt out though, I'll definitely throw in some Spider-Man 2 to really mix things up.

@Splat I'm right there with you, but the MP game should not be an excuse for Naughty Dog only releasing a remaster and a "remake" so far this generation. They should easily be big enough to be able to juggle more than that and at least have a new game coming soon.

I guess it shouldn't be too surprising given how things are going at PlayStation Studios and with Neil Druckmann maneuvering his way to the head of Naughty Dog. Most of the people that made Naughty Dog great are gone.

As for Season 2 of the show and beyond, I'm mostly interested in seeing how they handle the story, as I hated how the story of Part II was handled when I played it. I'm not confident even with changes that I'll like it that well, but I've still got to at least see how it goes.

I'll happily take Mafia 2. That makes two out of the three games that have been given away on Essential this year (Mafia 1 back in February).

No interest in the other 2, but it's still a decent month when there's at least something. With all the new games coming out, I'm good anyways.

I never had the pleasure of playing a Max Payne game, so I'd definitely take a remake of the first two.

@themightyant But, that would require them to actually read what they are reporting instead of going for clicks. Just being honest.

Spider-Man 2 with a side of Spider-Man 2...

This was never announced as a first quarter game, and it being released during that quarter would have been a horrible move, so it being delayed is nothing but a good thing. It's still my most anticipated game not named Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, so use the time wisely.

I love Remedy, but the publisher for the game cheaping out by not doing a physical release makes this an easy add to my backlog. I'm glad it seems to be a fantastic game though, and even if it got a physical release, I doubt I would have been able to play it anytime soon anyways. I'm still slowly making my way through Spider-Man 2.

No matter what, you can't deny that the article is the typical internet clickbait where the article's headline is misleading and you get the real story in the actual article. I'm not trying to stir up anything at all, but there's no way around it. He's not missing from the credits of the games, but everybody could take it that way based on the headline and sub-head.

You could say it's the internet being the internet, but at least admit it when you do it. We're not going to all of a sudden stop going here. It's just so blatantly obvious that trying to deny it or defend it just makes things worse, @get2sammyb.