MrRhysReviews

Well, even if it is fake (and if it's real I've spoiled it for myself 😅) I decided to read through it and honestly... SOUNDS PRETTY AWESOME, albeit a bit generic/predictable.

They say it's basically "Open World Uncharted with Sci-Fi Elements", well a lot of my favourite parts of the Uncharted Series are the big open areas in U4 & UTLL (and the segment in TLoU2) and it's basically what I was expecting when we heard NDs next game was gonna be more open anyway 🤷‍♂️

When I picked up my Physicals of RE 2/3/7 on PS5 from the store on the weekend I eyed Black Myth Wukong and talked with the manager about it, expressed how I was actually interested now that it has a Physical Release and was considering buying it on the spot.

Glad I didn't, after this I won't be buying it out of spite (not like I want to give my money knowingly to China and the CCP anyway 🖕)

AWESOME, so many great reveals, New IPs from studios I LOVE (RGG Studios etc.) and returning IPs like Onimusha & Okami 👌

So happy that Astro Bot Won GOTY too... Deserved 100% 🥰

Pretty excited, I knew straight away (was joking saying to my friend on chat "Ooow, it's Naughty Dog's next game") and it just set in/hit me as I started putting the Sci-Fi rumours and stuff together in my head, then we see the "from the Devs of: Crash, Jak, Uncharted, TLoU" we absolutely lost it

Was also digging the product placement. If done right it actually helps ground the thing in our/the real world. Dig that our ship is a Porsche.

Also I've heard/seen the name Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet like a year ago, I believe a trademark was filed. May have been on Sacred Symbols from memory 🤔

You know what would make The Game Awards actually hype... Get Joel McHale to host 🤣 I love his sarcastic "Who gives a F***" attitude/aura and the clips from back in the day are just gold 👌 Would definitely be more entertaining to watch.

@breakneck Definitely, I'll clarify that when I mentioned the reuse of Assets I was also being positive about it 😅

@breakneck The Yakuza team (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios) is pretty crazy with their release cadence, but they also reuse TONS of assets.

Sonic Team and that series doesn't really release TONS of games, they're probably also of a smaller budget/scale compared to other AAA Games (a bunch of outside studios also work on various entries, it isn't always Sonic Team doing the development)

Atlus has like 3 MAJOR Internal Teams:
Team Maniax (Shin Megami Tensei and it's various spin-offs)
P Studio (Persona and it's spin-offs which are usually done alongside other external studios)
Studio Zero (founded by the "Big 3" as I affectionately call them, Hashino/Soejima/Meguro, from P-Studio and they've only done Catherine Full Body back in 2019 and now Metaphor)
I believe there's also another team, don't know if they have a specific name (they did Tokyo Mirage Sessions and then Soul Hackers 2)

Basically, TLDR, your underestimating the amount of Studios and outsourced work Sega/Atlus does 😅

Funny part is, if the overwhelming 8/10 - 10/10 Reviews are to be believed, then the Xbox crowd that loves to crap over PlayStation games for their length/amount of cutscenes/pacing etc. are gonna be praising and defending a game that seems to be a very "PlayStation" type experience overall 🤷‍♂️ 😅

I dunno if I can be bothered but I DO have Game Pass Ultimate till the end of the month... Maybe I'll Pre-Download it now and run through it just to keep up with things? I dunno 🤔

GOD DAMN, I have the money sitting in my PS Wallet but that's meant for Sly 2/3 next Tues/Weds (Jak 1 will be Free so all good there 👌)

Now Night Dive Studios, let's get System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition out already... That's what I'm actually waiting for 😊 (I wanna say they announced it like 2 Years ago or something at this point)

@get2sammyb Glad you said it mate 😅 I'll add that the UI Image overlay (the PS2 one at least) looks really blurry as well.

Keep the Boot Up (toggle in the Settings) and keep the Themes BUT only the Overlay/UI Changes present when bringing up the PS Button Menu and of course, most importantly to me, the UI SFX/Chimes/Clickety Clacks 😂

This time, I don't really care for any of these games (and I believe I own Alien already) but as usual these are a BONUS, I don't pay for PS+ to get Games.

I'm more excited, as always, for the Classics... Sly 2/3 to finish off the Trilogy (yeah I know of Thieves In Time, I'm just not counting it here) and good ole Jak & Daxter, PEAK Naughty Dog and my 4th/5th Platinum for that particular game 👌 (plus the almost guaranteed fact that we'll get updated releases of Jak 2/3/X now as well) has me hyped enough 🤷‍♂️

LET. CRITERION. MAKE. A. NEW. BURNOUT FFS 😂 😑

@ChimpMasta To be fair, I'd imagine it is the case... Both the AC Origins & Odyssey 60fps Patches had the cloth physics still running at 30fps 🤷‍♂️

Hahaha, while I definitely understand maaaan. First they absolutely BUTCHER these Classics (regardless of circumstances around time and budget, I don't care, excuses and all that) they then have the BALLS to rename themselves to Grove Street Games (Grove Street, the main gang of CJ and his crew in San Andreas, one of the GOATs) get the hell outta here 🤣

The one that stuck out to me (and I don't have a PS5 Pro so I can't say anything definitive here) is the PS4 Remaster for Dead Rising 2... Yes DR2, not the recently released Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster (which I believe did get a Pro Patch, also not really a Remaster imo more a Remake but whatever 🤷‍♂️)

As always, only interested in the Classics anyway... Blood Omen finally (after being announced, should be Free since I own it through PS3/Old PSN) also adding in Blood Omen 2 as a PS2 Classic? SWEET. Now we just need LoK Defiance, I think that was it, from PS2 and along with the Soul Reaver 1/2 Remaster we'll have the whole Series on PS4/PS5 👌

Resistance 1/2 would be cool if it wasn't Streaming (which I'm 99.99999% sure still isn't a thing here in Australia anyway 😒 regardless still have my PS3 and literally every 1st Party Game for it so I don't care 🤷‍♂️)

@Shakybeeves No, I remember the back of older CoD games like Modern Warfare 2 (OG on PS3 in 2009) or maybe it was Black Ops 1 the following year (heck... Probably BOTH) said the same thing 🤷‍♂️

It's actually ugly, more crap on the front covering Cover Art, just put it on the back like the "PS4 Pro" labelling, it's why those "Boxes" on the back exist to begin with.

Only upside I can think of is that it's a sealed game and it looks like that's a sticker placed on top of the plastic (mentions a Download so I assume it's a game that shipped/printed before the Pro stuff was all mandated/implemented blah blah blah)

Edit: Oh yeah, also worth mentioning that this is on a Physical Copy, something the PS5 Pro doesn't even support out of the box without an additional Disc Drive purchase 😒

Nice, releases on my Birthday AND Free through PS+ 👌 Only thing is that it's an Online game 🤷‍♂️ I'll give it a shot anyway (have also been contemplating re-watching the Anime for the billionth time recently too, so good timing)

Just give me a new/improved/remaster of Rayman 2 The Great Escape already... In an Era of Remasters & Remakes (which I'm generally fine with tbh) Ubisoft, who released and rereleased Rayman 2 for like EVERYTHING available between 1999 to 2013, hasn't bothered to release Rayman 2 on a home console since that Enhanced/Remake on back on PS2 (Rayman Revolution... I guess we could count the PS1 Classic Version on PS3 as well? Whatever)

TLDR: Just give me Rayman 2 on PS5 already, let Night Dive Studios handle it and combine everything/best parts of the PS1 & Dreamcast Versions (like how they handled Powerslave Exhumed for example) at 4k/60fps and with Trophies.

Just give me a Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart sequel already... I'll take a "Rivet & Kit" spin-off even.

While I like Spiderman well enough I couldn't give two Fs about Wolverine or really anything Marvel, especially at this point 🤷‍♂️ Could also bring back Resistance or create a New IP like Naughty Dog and Santa Monica are seemingly doing 🤔

This is always great for people like me. Love me some Yakuza/LAD and couldn't care less about Monster Hunter, now I also get my game a week early... Thanks Monster Hunter 👌 🤣

@Tevor To be fair, with the emphasis on (in the headline pic) Atlus and Yakuza specifically that was all that came to mind in the moment, plus it's those franchises that have been doing the lifting for them lately (plus Sonic of course)

I was there for everything you mentioned too and loved it all, Sega has always been one of my favourite Devs/Pubs in the industry in general 👌

Also obligatory "Better be able to turn it off completely" I know where to go if I want to check my friends list and what they're doing, Trophies, Game specific stats are under each specific game etc. etc.

This is basically just a "Rebrand" of the Explore Tab that was NA Only? (I believe? It is actually there whenever I swap over to my NA PSN Account actually) Which is just a big ass advertisement at it's core, that's what they want it to be anyway... I really don't need another permanent Square added to my PS5 Menu... What I would like is to have more Games displayed (kinda like how you could "Unlock" the limit on PS4 so literally EVERY game installed would be displayed in a row on the Home Screen, which never slowed it down btw at least in my case, and I had HUNDREDS of games installed at a time) or even just the ability to "Lock" more than, what?, 5 games to the PS5 Home Screen too (they also need to remove the Wishlist Limit, Xbox and Switch don't have limits afaik)

@BecauseBecause Yeah, I believe that was the case exactly. It was pretty much just more of the same and picked up literally where the original ended (arriving back to the mainland after taking the boat at the end. Like from the "Good Ending" or whatever as I just remembered it had multiple endings actually 😅)

@Tevor It changed when they acquired Atlus honestly 😅 It's been since around 2017 (which saw the launch of Persona 5 in the west and was when Yakuza really kicked off again with Yakuza 0/Kiwami 1 after years of abandonment in the west due to the failure of Yakuza Dead Souls on PS3)

It's also basically been PlayStation and the community for Yakuza/Persona that's been carrying them the whole time (both of which were long running PlayStation Exclusives till like 2/3 years ago)

@BecauseBecause Dude YES, I second a Remake/Remaster (hell, I'll take PS2 Classics Ports) of "The Suffering"

There was also the direct sequel "The Suffering: Ties That Bind" don't know what the general consensus on that one is (especially among the fanbase) but might as well do both 🤷‍♂️

Unless Persona 5 X gets a PS4/PS5 Port and translated into English (including a DUB) I have ZERO interest in any "Gacha" game 🤷‍♂️

Well since it's being Delayed (more polish, able to print the Discs later with a complete/polished build on them) and the same Release for everyone (no Early Access Period) I hope they'll drop that BS "Internet Required for Initial Installation", apparently that was related to Early Release access and stuff in the past (Avatar had it, not sure about other Ubi games that had it though)

Honestly, after I saw it was a $10 Upgrade, own it Digital now too because of that "Play At Home" initiative (I wouldn't want to be putting a Disc in to play a Digital Download, that's why I'll always opt for a PS5 Physical over a PS4 with the Free PS5 Upgrade) I'm in 🤷‍♂️

Maybe I'll FINALLY make it out of that initial/tutorial area of the game 😅

*PS Store 😑 I don't remember hitting 4 😅

Yeah, +1 for the "I better be able to turn this ***** off" crowd... I don't need another screen blasting all this info that is incredibly easy for me to access (I know where to go to see my Trophies, Friends, the PS4 Store and my Wishlist etc. etc.) I don't want something else cluttering my Home Screen. It was bad enough when they permanently added PS+ to the far left of the Menu 😒

"Online Retailer" eh, can't be bothered... Returned it already on Friday (to put the money towards Astro Bot and the Controllers) and I won't be ordering a "Corrected Copy" if I can't just grab it from my local retailer 🤷‍♂️ 👎 (already owned it and the DLC for years Digitally... Still haven't played it though haha)

I love it so much, I specifically grabbed 2 just in case the first one (which is my main now over the Black Dualsense I got with the Black Faceplates) gets any sort of Stick Drift or it gets absolutely filthy because of the White.

I traded my White Dualsense when I picked everything up and that did start to get discoloured on the grips (underneath, where you're fingers would rest, which is weird cause I CONSTANTLY wash my hands to a ridiculous extent 😅 🤷‍♂️)

Yep, picked it up for the Collection (already own it Digital)

Still Sealed, not that it matters, so gonna take it back to EB on Friday and put the $70 towards Astro Bot and the 2 Astro Bot Controllers 👌

@Prince no dought it'll be one of the world's in GoW Ragnarok

It still bothers me seeing the "Kratos is now a father" like he didn't have a Wife and Daughter since GoW 1 on PS2 🤦 I'd definitely like to see the Series return to its OG Gameplay with the next one, and Egyptian Gods/Myths since they are amazing and not overused like Norse Myth these days

I'm surprised no one brought it up before when the Patch "leaked" or whatever. The moment it was hinted at and we already knew it was launching on Game Pass (pretty unusual for a Ubisoft game actually, never normally on GP) I knew it would be at the start of June along with its GP Release... Already have the game Plat + 100% on PS4/PS5 and have rebought the entire Series on my Xbox Series X and been waiting since we first heard they'd "look into a 60fps Patch" to replay it and get all the Achievements 🙌