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@DennisReynolds You mean you didn't enjoy fighting the same copy and paste big dude with an axe by using the same slash-slash-dodge combo over and over and over and over and over and over again?

There are absolutely some games I'm willing to spend $80 on.

Outer Worlds 2 ain't one of them.

I thought both PlayStation and Xbox put on their best summer presentations in years. Over these past few days, I've seen an insane number of games I want to play, and there's still a possibility Nintendo will hold a Direct soon.

Blinx the Time Sweeper 3 confirmed, son!

This looks sick. I'm glad Mortal Kombat is finally getting some competition with a super gory fighter.

This was maybe the worst "one more thing" I've ever seen in a games showcase...

This trailer screamed "too good to be true" for me. The animation, physics, and visuals look so smooth and good that I don't believe it.

I wonder if the different eras featured in the story have unique gameplay mechanics and combat styles. The 1915 section resembles the traditional brawler Yakuza gameplay, whereas the 43 section combines detective and investigative elements with the action. Even the choice to spare or kill was intriguing and new for RGG.

That was a masterclass in trolling from Capcom during the presentation.

The one-two punch at the end of Stranger than Heaven and Resident Evil Requiem saved this from a "very poor" score from me.

After checking out the When They Cry series, I have complete faith in Ryukishi07 delivering a killer story.

@AdamNovice That makes a lot of sense. A smaller-scale God of War Metroidvania sounds like something PlayStation would put on the Switch 2 as an experiment.

@Judal27 PlayStation has unfortunately fostered this part of the audience that demands insanely expensive graphics and a large scope, or they're not interested. It really sucks.

If you've been with PlayStation since the early days and you thought this State of Play was mid or crap, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe it's time you found a new hobby. This was jam-packed with the stuff PlayStation is famous for: weird joints, games that have striking art styles, and a combo of both. Lumines, Pragmata, Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, Nioh, Marvel Tokon, new Suda51 insanity, Sword of the Sea, FF Tactics, MORE free Astro Bot DLC, etc. You really want to tell me this sucked? Ooookay, dude.

I have been waiting for over two years to see more of this, and I was not disappointed.

@Oram77 Nah Lumines from the Tetris Effect team is dope

This was one of the few missteps in the State of Play. Not even including the exact date was ridiculous.

Looks GORGEOUS wowowowowow

My lord and savior Astro Bot has returned!

This speaks to me visually sooooo much.

I've said for ages that PlayStation needs its own fighting game. This is not what I was expecting, and I'm all for it.

This was the best one in years. Loved it. LOTS of Japanese rep. And the Marvel fighting game from Arc was a HUGE surprise.

This sounds like a breath of fresh air from Sony's usual catalogue of stuff.

Get ready for God of War 2018 remaster!

Considering I've now sunk 60 hours into Fantasy Life i, that's the obvious choice for me.

Good riddance

This is less jarring to me than Sam directly asking for no reason if anyone has seen the TV show Ride with Norman Reedus.

Footage of Geoff Keighley peeing on a mushroom to fight BTs confirmed

Jesus, the writing for Ellie is horrendous in this episode. It's been really bad at times before in this season, but her petulance and stupidity are taken to another level. Yes, you are meant to question Ellie's actions in the game, but she was never as unsympathetic and irritating as the show's version of her is. It also doesn't help that her berserk mode in the show feels more like an on-off switch rather than a more gradual descent into brutality like Ellie in the game, and Ramsay is completely incapable of being angry without it coming across as comical. Even her screaming while bashing Nora's leg in sounded less like her angrily torturing someone and more like a child demanding more cookies.

I bought it yesterday despite having never played the original and not knowing what it was just because I want to support Level-5. The Animal Crossing and Zelda influences are obvious, but it also reminds me a lot of Dragon Quest Builders in a way.

@get2sammyb When it comes to live services, I strongly believe Hulst lacks the vision, good instincts, foresight, and creativity to make this endeavor successful. As long as he is in charge, this live service initiative will fail.

Keep him around to nurture the bread and butter single-player stuff, but they desperately need someone new who won't greenlit things like Fairgames, Concord, and a God of War live service.

It's a 5 for me. Lackluster levels (especially those stupid dragon levels), dull story, repetitive and simplified parry system that gets old really quickly, and criminally bland music. The rest of it is solid, but it's my least favorite out of this new Doom trilogy by a gigantic margin.

DOOM 2016 reigns supreme

If they have nothing of note to show off, then they shouldn't do a presentation. Simple as that.

I understand that this game has its fans, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. It's an astoundingly bad game, in my opinion. You're paying an insulting $50 to spend five hours walking, solving patronizingly easy puzzles, and slogging through a combat system that is significantly dumbed down compared to the first game.

The first game was leagues ahead of this sequel in every facet except raw graphical detail, and even then, I'd call its hyper focus on raw detail a bad thing, considering how much it obviously compromises what Senua's Saga can do.

@DonJorginho I agree that his claim of Black Myth Wukong receiving some secret paid exclusivity from PlayStation was utterly ludicrous, but I still respect the guy's work and never claimed he had a perfect track record. One bad claim shouldn't taint a person's entire body of work, especially when it's something harmless in the grand scheme of things, like the Black Myth Wukong thing.

Also, Tassi IS well-connected with Bungie and covers their work more fairly and with less sensationalism than the average game journo and content creator. That is undeniable.

No idea what people's beef is with Paul Tassi. He has proven to be well-connected with people at Bungie, and his reporting is way less sensational and more balanced compared to the vast majority of games journos. Also, considering the insane amount of money that's been spent on Marathon and how delusional Sony and Bungie leadership are about their live service ambitions, this Circana tidbit wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

@Kienda I find it ironic that PlayStation wants to add more "artistic legitimacy" to The Last of Us by raising it above the realm of video games and into the world of "premier" television, yet the show is far less subtle, well-written, and visually striking than the games. Like you said, The Last of Us should have stayed in the realm of video games, and it was a hell of a lot better there.

Man, this show has an almost compulsive need to say the quiet parts out loud. I don't need Joel crying and pouring his heart out to Ellie to understand that he deeply loves her. The game beautifully accomplished this during that porch scene with a few words and a choked-up "yep..." from Joel. Naughty Dog are terrific at saying so much with so little, yet this show consistently flies in the opposite direction of that storytelling philosophy.

Joe Cross had a legit thousand yard stare by the end of that livestream.

In the spirit of not sounding like a broken record, here are some live services I would be okay with PlayStation making:

>a cartoonish kart racer featuring classic PlayStation mascots
>a life/social sim
>a PlayStation Home successor
>a new Twisted Metal game
>a super gory PvP FPS that has fast-paced action and verticality like Titanfall

Despite my public statement that "PlayStation has no business in live services," there are ways to get even someone like me onboard. Helldivers II is great, for instance. The problem is that Hermen Hulst and his ilk have zero knack for embracing unique and weird ideas, and they are way too up their own asses with PlayStation being this slick and shiny brand.

This is a rare time I'm happy to hear something from a Sony corpo suit. Being more financially efficient and responsible with their single-player games is something I've advocated for years.

Hoo boy that's a bad sign...

@atthegates Still won't work for me, sadly. I get to 1% downloaded, and then it errors out. Thanks for the tip, anyway!

I'd love to, but I can't download it on PC Game Pass without getting an error code.

@Oram77 I can't unsee this now hahaha

It's a real shame PlayStation doesn't own a studio that specializes in remastering and remaking older games. Yep. Damn shame.

Fine, I will accept your table scraps, Square.

@DonJorginho That's so cool! I love this team even more now.

Besides a new KH4 trailer, this was the best KH news I could have woken up to this morning. Good riddance!

@UltimateOtaku91 That's actually a really good and apt label for them haha