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@danzoEX Me. Final Fantasy 16 is the first game in the entire series that has ever looked remotely interesting to me... and it still didn't convince me to buy it. Never played a single one. They collectively do not interest me in the slightest.

I'm knee deep in Cyberpunk. So I'm good to go.

I wish I liked turn-based games. Cause this setting looks real cool to me.

Take inspiration from the Portal and blend it with the dedicated hardware capabilities of a PS4-scale PSP/Vita. Let it play all the existing PS4 library day 1, giving it a huge catalog, then let developers choose to support it with PS5 game patches, dedicated Remote Play capability for any other PS5 software, and then new unique software.

I'd think a decent-sized 1080p 60hz touchscreen, 5+ hour battery minimum, and a full suite of PS5 controller tech like the triggers (this time using Hall effects) and haptics... would be awesome.

Call it the PSP+ (for PlayStation Portable Plus or PlayStation Portal +, take your pick). Move away from Vita. That thing left a bad taste in the market's mouth, unfortunately (I had one, don't look at me lol). But having something that can compete directly with the ever-growing portable PC market and the inevitable Switch 2 makes complete sense.

The problem these games run into for me is that I don't often revisit games. So telling me "hey, there's 6 seasons of bonus content coming" just makes me want to wait 'til it's all out and I can buy the game patched, and for less than full retail price. I am completely disincentivized as a consumer to spend $70 now and HOPE the rest of the stuff is good or that it gets the ample support they plan for. I'd MUCH rather wait and see. It's not like I don't have other stuff to play.

Had my eye on this on Steam. This sort of game is right up my alley. Hopefully the price is decent.

@Nowings It definitely takes place in the same universe as the Arkham series. They've said that multiple times.

I'm planning to buy into a VR platform this year, so if they can showcase some stellar VR titles (don't even have to be exclusives for my tastes) to help me decide if I should go PSVR2 or Quest 3... that'd be awesome. Because I am very torn.

Please explain what part of the Jedi Suvivor narrative is "meandering."

I'm not a big Deus Ex fan. Just never got into them, though I tried. So while I may not be upset like fans are, I'm simply surprised. You'd think after the success of Cyberpunk that a company would see the potential to add to the market with another deep, sprawling, sci-fi RPG. Feed off some of that energy/interest.

Their overuse of dramatic, over the shoulder/on the ground camera angles and scenes is a massive red flag. They're refusing to show much legitimate gameplay, instead focusing on what will surely be cutscenes and the third person elements you see when at port, because they want people to think it's more like an Assassin's Creed game. Very VERY leery of this one.

I haven't enjoyed taking my sweet time in an RPG like this in ages. It's so refreshing to be satisfied by almost every little side quest and job I find myself getting distracted by.

@pharos_haven Going day one on Game Pass and costing them LOADS of $60-70 purchases is far far different than going to PS+ Extra months and months after the bulk of the game's sales have tapered off.

Plus, I wasn't the one to make the business decision for going to either service. While I think they can be dumb business decisions, I have no requirement to spend more money than I have to as a consumer. I took advantage of their decision. That's their fault for giving me the opportunity.

It would be outright stupid of me to have paid for the game when I could access it at no extra cost to myself. That's called wasting money.

Outriders was solid, I just think they made a terrible decision to put it on GamePass. It likely cost them loads of money, because I actually think it would have sold fine thanks to positive word of mouth.

I played it on PS+ Extra and enjoyed it quite a bit. A good, "turn off your brain and shoot stuff" sort of game. It did some things really well that I think a lot of other looter shooters and ARPGs could take note of (like the cosmetics, the upgrade system, the ease of respeccing)... I am looking forward to the sequel, if it ever comes, for sure.

This sucks, surely, but just a note... this storyline/premise has nothing to do with the recent movie. It's an adaptation of a recent comic book arc.

@mvhess Alright. But they made the choice to do that when they didn't have to. They could have built the system to not require a dongle. They chose not to.

@mvhess You'd think that, but this is Sony. They require a dongle to use Bluetooth in 2024. They don't always make the most sensible design decisions.

To be clear: all these EQ preset features are exclusive to the Pulse hardware, yes? Because they seem like they'd be nice to have for other headsets, even if the settings weren't stored on-device. I only use my Turtle Beach headset with my PS5. I'd love to adjust some of that stuff and then... have the PS5 save it for when I connect my headset.

Is that possible?

That's cute. Good for them. But I'd think as they got older, they'd grow out of PullUps. My son is almost done wearing his!

Wtf are they smoking?

@Triumph741 "I don't trust this dev because their last release was awful. I won't buy their titles until the next title they release. That'll teach em!"

That thinking is what allows them to keep releasing underwhelming titles.

I must be one of the only people who thinks this looks absolutely atrocious for a PS5 exclusive release. I just... don't get the hype. Sure, it's got a fun sense of humor, but... everything looks bland af and the environments look empty. It has a lot of particle effects flying around but otherwise it looks stilted as hell in the animations. And the gun designs are generic and boring, too. It just does nothing for me aesthetically.

And yes, I played the first Helldivers AND I love TPS titles AND co-op games AND PvE games. It should literally be right up my alley and it's just... not exciting me in the slightest.

I mean... if I wanted to play this sorta game I could buy Agents of Mayhem for a fraction of the cost and NOT deal with live service elements.

Absolutely incredible sub-header.

@riceNpea Maybe a physical release of what you got, which would be the Digital Deluxe edition?

@NinjaNicky "No reason" except for, you know, all the additional animating, lighting, presentation, and framing work that goes into it. But yeah. No reason at all.

If they don't begin addressing the itemization and stats, then it's still not worth me putting my time back into.

I ran a rouge into the low 70s right at release and then they nerfed the utter hell out of my character right before season 1, which completely turned me off of the entire game (this as someone with probably close to a thousand hours in D3 across platforms).

I hear it's better progression-wise, but it's boring AF loot-wise, which is half the fun for me.

This looks like it has "sleeper hit" or "cult classic" written all over it. It looks like a B-tier TLOU blended with God of War or something. I'll prolly buy it for bottom dollar a few years from now and enjoy it quite a bit.

I bought it without finishing the main game. I started Cyberpunk a few weeks after 2.0 dropped and it has been a FANTASTIC experience. I seriously love it. Easily a top 3 RPG for me (sitting alongside the ME trilogy - which I consider a singular experience, and Witcher 3). I am nearing 50 hours and barely feel like I've scratched the surface.

I've never fully understood cosmetics in an FPS. Fortnite? I get it. But CoD or Apex? You couldn't get me to buy a cosmetic with a gun to my head.

@riceNpea Maybe if you stopped reading the headline after the first 2 words. But for those of us who read the entire thing, understand contextual clues like - oh, I dunno - the rest of the words OR the giant image below it... Nah. We weren't confused.

What's funny to me about Sony's move into GaaS is that Bend extending the Days Gone IP with some sort of multiplayer/co-op/PvPvE utilizing the horde technology they built would have been AMAZING. But instead Sony shelved what Bend wanted to do with DG and made them create an all new IP. All the while, Sony is creating brand new IPs for GaaS from other studios.

Makes zero sense to me, personally. Being able to battle all those zombies and survive together/fight against other survivors could have been extremely cool and unique within the GaaS space. Plus, it would keep the DG brand out there and likely pump sales of the original game up, building support for the proper sequel they envisioned.

What's wild to me about Sony's lack of first-party VR support is that before they brought them in house, Insomniac was diversifying its portfolio and releasing quite a few VR titles. Instead of bringing them in and letting them keep working on those titles, they turned them into a Marvel game machine.

Sony should have AT LEAST 3 studios working on mid-large gauge VR titles. There is no reason PSVR2 hasn't had it's own Half Life: Alyx or Asgard's Wrath 2 type release by now.

And this is coming from someone who REALLY wants one.

@Truegamer79 Someone doesn't know their God of War history very well.

What's sad is no one, and I mean no one, was asking for a live service version of Factions. No one. All we wanted was an expanded and improved version of the first. The first was VERY FUN. It had LOADS of potential in regards to ways it could be fleshed out, expanded upon, and deepened.

Only the top brass wanted to make it into such a large product that it'd require constant attention.

Factions is an old school mp experience in that people played it because it was fun. Not because it had constant hot new skins or because you could drop the gritty on your slain foes.

Had Sony and Naughty Dog been reasonable with what they were building and simply made an old school, fun-first mp mode that they built out, supported with some new maps and modes every few months for a few years, and maybe sold some xp boosters or ***** for ongoing revenues... literally no one would have complained. It would have sated long term fans and possibly attracted a new audience.

With THAT kind of title, they could have done something reasonable that wouldn't have forced a studio shift, satisfied fans, and had at least some form of long form revenue stream to boot (it's a business, I don't fault them for seeking more money).

Sony did this to them. ND did this to themselves. And Bungie ***** em both. Hard.

@AlienigenX What did you map them to? (I never played Unplugged.)

I switched mine to LT, R D-pad, Square, RT and it works much better for me. But I'm interested to know if there's an "established" scheme from another simiar game that's even better.

I think people forget that it'd be Marvel helping make these decisions nowadays and Spider-Man is an EXTREMELY unique case as a Marvel property, because of how many rights Sony (big Sony, not just videogame Sony) owns from back when they first bought the movie rights (they got a lot of other multimedia rights along with the film ones).

Marvel will want its titles selling as many copies as possible, and therefore want them on every platform it makes sense to have them on.

Microsoft owns no specific rights to Blade the way Sony owns Spidey rights, therefore it's almost assured that the game will release across platforms. I'm sure Microsoft may get marketing rights and maybe even be allowed to put it on Game Pass day one, but I HIGHLY doubt it is exclusive to Xbox.

There were some banger announcements.

Free Ragnarok DLC? Rise of Ronin and Black Myth release dates? Jet Set? Crazy Taxi? Light No Fire? Blade? Stealth The Finals release? Monster Hunter? FF DLC? Den of Wolves? Space Marine 2 release date? First Berzerker? Jurassic Park? Whatever the ***** OD is gonna be? Visions of Mana? No Rest for the Wicked? Exodus?

*****. That's not even close to everything. Just the ***** that piqued MY interest.

Hot damn. I don't know what people want out of a show like this except stuff like this. I thought that was probably the best one ever.

I think people go in with expectations of what they want, so when it's not there they get pissed due to self-manufactured hype/hope. I go in with no expectations and get blown away.

Different strokes...

Gives me Mass Effect vibes. Definitely keeping an eye on this.

Love me a good action RPG. This looks real real good.

Sad to hear the devs didn't take advantage of the advanced hardware and really upgrade the game from the last-gen version. I had this on my list, but I'm not going to bother anymore.

@KennethKoerperich88 It upsets me that I am the same way. Have never enjoyed a turn-based game long term. I've tried over the years but it always bothers me. Sucks, because so so many good things about BG3.

I was VERY close to buying Lego Drive on Black Friday, so this is a great get for me. I also always liked what I saw of Sable since it was revealed for Xbox.

Solid month for my tastes.

I was SOOOO close to buying Lego 2K Drive on Black Friday. I am VERY happy with this month for that alone.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner How would one rewrite the facts? Enlighten us.

Seems a wee bit late, no? What nearly 9 year old game will they collab with next you think?

It'd save me $20 from buying it down the line. I'm all for it.

What's dumb is they're also age gating client side items like music and loading screens... Things other players don't interact with. It's moronic.

This type of censorship is idiotic and while I see their intent, it's not executed well at all.

At a base level, your restriction should not restrict MY experience. Not in a game built on shooting people in the face, no less.

It should be a parental setting on individual accounts that, when turned on, makes offensive skins look safe TO OTHERS if they have the option toggled on. But a player should wholeheartedly be able to use anything they want. ESPECIALLY when they paid for it.

It honestly seems like it'll be a fun romp with some friends for $20-30 or so.