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Looks like a Korean devs take on Monster Hunter.

@OldGamer999 If you only want games with 92+ scores then I guess you skipped a lot of good games back in PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4 era. Most Sony games from that era wasn't in the 90+ scores. Some examples:

• Alundra 1: 86% at metacritic
• The Legend of Dragoon: 74% at metacritic
• Gravity Rush 2: 80% at metacritic
• Siren Blood Curse: 78% at metacritic

So good luck waiting for games with 92+ scores.

@Sweetz That's the thing. People are okay with male protags who aren't a straight good guy and with jerk personality. But somehow female protags can't have the same trait? It's just weird how we can't do both or how some people condemned female characters with that trait.

And there's female anti-hero like Ada Wong, Bayonetta, Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Kaine from Nier, Zero from Drakengard 3, or Velvet Crowe from Tales of Berseria.

@DennisReynolds Not just go ape but they would make hundreds videos of how Samus, Chun-Li, Cammy etc are just bad and people should boycott the game. F*, i really hate those grifters :/

Sony and Nintendo are doing just fine with 1st party exclusives while MS keeps catching L after L to the point they reduce Xbox into irrelevant.

Looks like Xbox really needs a good leader and Sarah Bond is not the right one.

@OldGamer999 "We are not getting the Sony with 92,94 and 95 scores are we nowadays"

Last year GotY, Astro Bot, at 94% Metacritic and 99% reccomended at OpenCritic. Or GOW Ragnarok at 94% Metacritic and 97% reccomended at OpenCritic.

Beside those two, Sony are pretty consistent on making solid 1st party games.

@DennisReynolds I'm glad that Lara Croft, Samus, Jill Valentine, Claire Redfield, Ada Wong, Aya Brea, Chun-Li, Cammy etc was lucky that they got created and came out in the 80's, 90's, and early 2000. And yeah, if they came out today they wouldn't be appreciated and got called out as woke, girlboss, etc.

The weird thing is we got many male protags who's kinda an ass**** and also a mass murderer lol like Duke Nukem, Max Payne, Hotline Miami Jacket, Greek era Kratos etc but people never boycott or called them out.

Heck, some male protags are just straight out psychopath / sociopath like GTA V Trevor Philips, Tekken Kazuya Mishima, or Twisted Metal Sweeth Tooth and people loves them lol.

But somehow female protags can't be a girlboss.

Considering the lore, Phoenix doesn't look fit for a beat em up game when she can easily turn everything into ashes. Even in fighting game like UMvC 3, she's pretty much broken / above every character in the tier list.

I feel character like Blade, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Gambit, or Deadpool are more fit than Phoenix.

That looks nice but i can see the price more expensives than nendoroid Astro.

@danzoEX Yeah we just got Lunar HD Collection, Suikoden I + II HD, Eiyuuden Chronicles, FF Tactics, DQ III HD, Octopath Traveler, and more 2D RPG's.

Meanwhile 2D Tales are M.I.A. We never get Rebirth, Destiny 1 remake, and Destiny 2 which never been localized even once.

@arzis100193 Probably lost the source code but they still can reverse engineering. If SE can release their 2D RPG like FF I-VI collection, Tactics, or Saga Frontier then i'm sure Bamco can do it with their 2D Tales.

Sony probably never make another console like PS3 anymore.

I love the glossy / premium look of og PS3 and it also has a lot of utilities until Sony removed them so they can sell PS3 slim at $400.

And I still owned and used my PS3 slim. There's still plenty of PS1, PS2, and PS3 games that not yet port to PS4/5.

@CielloArc "For me this reeks of AC Shadows levels of propaganda"

Propaganda for what purpose exactly and why Sony doesn't do that to Concord or Lost Soul Aside, Forspoken, Destruction AllStars, and any mediocre or flop 1st party games?

And why would Ubisoft lies about AC Shadows numbers?

@Vaako007 "If it did exceptionally well they would have bragged about it with numbers"

While Sony not yet announce and bragged about the numbers, that doesn't mean the game is underperforming.

Example. To this day, Sony / PD never announced GT 7 official numbers either. They only announced the series already pass 100 million copies which is Sony best selling 1st party franchise. But estimates said GT 7 sold 14 million copies, far higher than Astro Bot 1.5 million copies that Sony announced the official numbers back in november last year. I'm sure GT 7 made a lot of money for Sony.

The same with MLB The Show series. Sony never announced the numbers for each game but every year each game always consistently chart in the top 10 and got positive reviews.

"but what about late ports of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls or even Fairgames?"

Don't know about Fairgames. But i think Marvel Tokon would do well if they get port to Xbox or Switch 2. The question is would Sony port Marvel Tokon to Xbox and Switch 2?

Sold well in Japan, EU, and US and performed consistently just like Tsushima. Congrats to SP + Sony 👏🍻

The haters and grifters are seething right now lmao.

@DadJKP You clearly doesn't know about Circana or used to known as NPD Group (National Purchase Diary). They are one of the biggest market research and tech company in the world. They're operating in 20 countries and helps retailers, manufactures, financial analyst, and public sector of how to measure their performances as well improve marketing, predict future performances, and identify business trends.

Circana stop giving sales numbers for free years ago and they only give it to people / company who paid for their service. So if Circana report says Ghost of Yotei is performed well and consistently similar to Ghost of Tsushima then that would be accurate.

If you still don't believe this report then maybe you could do your own. You can visit every retailers around the world and ask them how many Yotei copies they've sold. Good luck.

@Nalim Yeah you right. The whole series is on sale.

@Flaming_Kaiser I don't see why not? Garou Mark of the Wolves was $6-10 on PSN and it has online match + rollback netcode. I'm sure lots of Tekken fans wouldn't mind spend $15-20 for Tekken 3 with online + rollback.

• Tales of Phantasia?
• Tales of Destiny & Destiny 2?
• Tales of Eternia?
• Tales of Rebirth?

Really sad to see Bamco thinks 2D Tales games aren't exist. I don't even remember when was the last time they re-release, port, or even remastered 2D Tales :/

From the Halloween deals:

• Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain = $4
• Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain = $6
• Batsugun Saturn Tribute Boosted = $13
• Assault Suit Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute = $10

Sadly, Splatterhouse arcade archives didn't get discount :/

$1200? If it's true then the next Xbox is d.o.a 🙏

@PSbox This year, PushSquare gave Forza Horizon 5, Doom TDA, and Indiana Jones a 8/10 with GoW Reloaded got a 7/10. On the other hand, Lost Soul Aside which is a PS exclusive got 6/10.

And Tekken 3 not just a timeless masterpiece but it was one of the best fighting games that showed the world how to do a gorgeous + smooth 3D fighting game.

Not sure why you think it's all about PS vs Xbox when it's as simple as PushSquare staff has their own taste. But maybe you should stick with PureXbox if you think PushSquare has bias against Xbox games.

I would love to but currently i'm short of money and i'm finishing some of my backlog.

@Enuo "Every Platinum game is either a failed experiment, or a functionally identical character action game"

Vanquish, Metal Gear Rising, Bayonetta, Wonderful 101, and Nier Automata aren't failed experiment nor identical. Heck, Sol Cresta is a shmup and Star Fox Zero is a rail shooter, not character action game.

No cons for no online match?

I much prefer it have online match + rollback netcode over trophies.

I only ask one thing: PS6 have BC that not just can play PS4 & PS5 disc but also for PS1, PS2, and PS3 disc.

But like @UltimateOtaku91 said, Sony already tried pretty much all the tricks and gimmicks. Unless PS6 is very advanced that we can jack into the matrix, then there would be no big leap between PS5 and 6.

And i think Nintendo also in the same position which is why Switch 2 is just Switch 1 but with more power.

@Truegamer79 Yeah there's no history of NG games with "great story". All was very simple and straight forward with some lore here and there. And the last time they tried to focus more on story and characters development, we got NG 3 which was the weakest game in the 3D trilogy.

NG series is the series where players to fully focus on gameplay and feels like a badass ninja rather than spend their time watching cutscenes and long dialogues. So not sure why reviewers expecting NG 4 will be different.

@dskatter One busty ninja babe with new design is confirmed. You can check the launch trailer and skip to 1:47
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mopzOQ8N8E4&pp=0gcJCQcKAYcqIYzv

The usual shenanigans from MS. No wonder they keep catching L after L which they deserved.

Just wait until the game's out and people complaint "the game is too linear", "there's not many mini games to play", "$70 for a 30-40 hours RPG? FU Square!" 😂

@dskatter I believe Seori is the new bustylicious babe but she's not a ninja
https://ninjagaiden.fandom.com/wiki/Seori

NG Ragebound is the only NG game where i got the plat. NG 2 Sigma and Razor Edge trophies at 45% and 31%.

So PushSquare gave:

• NG 2 Black a 6/10
• NG Ragebound a 8/10
• NG 4 a 7/10
• NG 3 a 4/10

That means NG 4 is better than NG 3 which is a good thing.

@Jammer Haha 😁

@Fandabidozi2025 A live action He-Man? I thought they gave up on the project.

@darkswabber Yeah possibly. We'll see...

@Porco What do you want them to do exactly? Just kill their golden goose?

And some RE spinoff actually sold quite well and has pretty loyal / dedicated fanbase:

• Revelations 1 sold 4.1 mill
• Revelations 2 sold 3.8 mill
• Revelations 1+2 collection sold 1.6 mill
• Operation Raccoon City sold 2.8 mill
• Outbreak 1 sold 1.4 mill
• Umbrella Chronicles sold 1.3 mill

I think Meghan forgot PS3 + PSP era where Sony studios pumped out A-AA games.

Japan Studio for example, they pumped out a lot of A-AA games from Tokyo Jungle, Afrika, The Last Guy, Puppeteer, Rain, Loco Roco, Patapon, Echochrome, What Did I Do to Deserves This, My Lord?, No Heroes Allowed, White Knight Chronicles etc etc.

Or how Santa Monica collab / published indies like Bound, Fat Princess, The Unfinished Swan, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Hohokum, Escape Plan etc.

But a lot of those games doesn't sold well. Even games like Entwined and Concrete Genie doesn't sold well too and the main reason why Pixelopus got closed down.

I personally okay with the idea of making smaller games. Maybe they could tone down their game budget from $200-300 million to $100 million. Or follow Sucker Punch where Yotei budget is similar to Tsushima around $60 million.

But the biggest question is are the majority of PS owners gonna buy exclusive 1st party games that doesn't look advanced?

@Porco "so essentially, after capcom remakes resident evil 0, X, 5, 6 and possibly 1 remake, what's next?"

They remake Outbreak, Dead Aim, Survivor, make RE 10/11/12, and Revelations 3/4/5.

Those alone would keep the series alive maybe for the next 20-30 years.

• Infamous 2: Festival of Blood
• Infamous: Paper Trail
• Infamous: First Light
• Ghost of Tsushima: Iki Island

Looking at SP history, possibly they're gonna make that story DLC. And why not when a lot of fans who played Yotei are enjoying Atsu story and they want more.

Beside, from the interview feels like if SP make the 3rd Ghost game then they would use a new protag.

I finished RE 0 HD years ago. I really like the zapping / partner system that shows Billy and Rebecca specialty (Billy has bigger health, more chance for critical shot, and can push big boxes while Rebecca has less health, can't push big boxes, but can mixed herbs + more inventory). The train setting was cool too.

But without item box and each room / location has their own limit for item drop, it makes backtracking and item management not fun and super tedious.

Also, RE 0 probably has the weakest enemy design in the series. Most of them are just animals like monkeys, leech, scorpion, bats, leech etc.

If Capcom gonna remake this game, i think they need to do something with the enemies and add item box. If not then why bother. The HD version still looks good.

@nomither6 Ghost of Tsushima/Yotei, Gravity Rush 2, inFamous Second Son, Death Stranding, Tomb Raider DE, Detroit Become Human, Until Dawn, MGS V Phantom Pain, Tearaway Unfolded, Bloodborne, and Injustice 1 has cool touchpad function.

@kyleforrester87 I already tried the suggested process like deactivated>actovated account and it doesn't work. There's also redownload but the game dissapeared from my download list and the store doesn't have buy/download option anymore.

I check delistedgames.com and turns out the game was removed back in 2015/16.
https://delistedgames.com/disgaea-hour-of-darkness/

I guess NISA wants people to buy the remake :/

Sorry a bit off topic;

I just found out that digital PS3 games has expiration date :/

Last night i browsed my digital PS3 games information (push triangle on the game thumbnail). I want to see their file size and when i check PS2 classic Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, there's an expiration date that showed "expired". I tried to start it and it gave me error message "the license was expired and no more available".

So i go to the US store and turns out Disgaea was gone from my download list. Funnily the store still has page for the game but there's no download or buy option.

Then i check other games and Max Payne 3 and Hotline Miami 2 also has expiration date. They showed longass numbers like "145908424 days".

Luckily the rest of my digital PS3 games doesn't have expiration date. They either showed "no time limit" or didn't show it at all. But who knows if the publisher decided to removed these games from the store and download list...

But with this, my worries and dissapointment for digital games has increased. I think i'm gonna buy less digital games for now.

Anyone in here who still have a PS3, i suggest to boot up and check your digital games. Maybe some of them already expired.

@l_16bitWarlock_l Agreed. Judgement feels like a breath of fresh air. Yagami as detective + lawyer is a big contrast to Kiryu ex-Yakuza. And after Yakuza 6, i think Nagoshi already prepare to end Yakuza series and continue with Judgment.

But sadly there's a problem with Takuya Kimura agent and then Lost Judgment didn't sold as good as Judgment. So, Sega ditch Judgment and decided to keeps milking Yakuza, which probably the reason why Nagoshi left the company.

Playing:

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PS3)
  Been playing this game since monday and it still as great as i remember. Although back then i played it on PC and i don't experience any performance issues. Oh well, the frame drop when there's plenty of NPC and bigger open space are still tolerable.

Finished:

• Slave Zero X (PS4)
  It's unfortunate a fun game like this has nasty performance & technical issues. The game got crashed when the roll credit shows up. So i restart the game and turns out that crashed also corrupted the save file which forced me to delete the save file. SMH. Why Ziggurat Interactive didn't fix this? :/
• Yakuza 6 (PS4)
  Finished it for the second time with Hard difficulty. I still believe this game should end Yakuza series or at least Kiryu arc. Sadly Sega doesn't have the balls to let Kiryu rest so they milked him in Yakuza 7, 8, and Gaiden which i think really ruin Yakuza 6 ending. sigh...

Have a great weekend everyone 🍻

Edit:
I think i'm also gonna play Ninja Gaiden Sigma 1 / 2 to give my respect to Tomonobu Itagaki. Rest in peace legend 😔🙏

@naruball Fully agreed 🤝

@trev666 Nintendo produced and released plenty of Mario and Pokemon games every year and no one say "too much Mario / Pokemon". But Astro Bot only had 5 titles with 3 of them function as a tech demo in the span of 12 years and somehow it's too much? 🙄

@Vyse_the_Legend Is this the Wild Arms 5 figure?
https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10052126?srsltid=AfmBOordFepD85noR9bZo8RLHBjOvmG87o6k5AjKbAv_qCHd7xj9z6cG

And yeah we need classic PS franchise to comeback. Would love a sequel for Folklore.

@SMJ Says the Nintendo fanboy who truly believes Nintendo didn't copied from other games 🙄

@SMJ - The first Pac-Man released in 1980 has collecting dots mechanics as the core mechanic before Nintendo came up with collecting coins in Super Mario 1.

• Tomb Raider The Last Revelation / Chronicles has tightrope walking mechanic before Mario Sunshine.
• Sonic games on Sega Genesis has tilting/twisting platforms before Mario 64

Hey. Turns out Nintendo did blatantly copied a lot of mechanics from other games too.

@arty1977 Remember, Nintendo fanboys logic = every gameplay mechanic was invented by Nintendo.

@Questionable_Duck Except Sony never monopoly the anime industry.

There's plenty of anime studios in Japan that Sony didn't own. From Production I.G, Sunrise, Madhouse, Toei, Ghibli, Mappa, Wit Studio, etc.

And there's plenty of anime streaming service beside Crunchyroll from Netflix, Disney+, Amazon etc. People has plenty of choices. I myself never used Crunchyroll because there's Muse Asia and Ani-One Asia on youtube which are free and legal.

@1UP-HUSKY Imho Twisted Metal was fun especially season 2 has more actions with the tournament and Calypso. Until Dawn wasn't as bad as some people claim.

@nessisonett Caught Stealling, Bullet Train, the Jumanji movies, The Equalizer 3, Bad Boys: For Life and Ride or Die, Ghostbusters Afterlife, and The Mitchells vs the Machines was all received positively. Even Paddington in Peru also received positively. Sony didn't make 1 good movie and then make 9 bad movies.

I doubt DBFZ 2 since ArcSys are busy working on Tokon and GG. Either a new Kakarot or Xenoverse.

Why i'm always mistaken this game as Vampyr sequel 😅

I don't remember when was the last time we have a live action movie with big dinos robots and apocalyptic setting.

But i would watch this if it looks good.