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I didn't care for most of it, but that PlayStation episode at the end was ironically the worst one, in my opinion. It was so offensively awful that it made the Concord episode look decent by comparison.

I hope it delivers after all this time.

Xbox can keep it.

@Robinsad I agree with most of what you said. I think it's undeniable that some companies cynically use racial and sexual diversity. Ubisoft does this all the time. They talk a good line about inclusivity and diversity while protecting alleged sex pests and treating their employees like garbage.

But I would argue that this Intergalactic case is a different situation because I do not see anything in that trailer that points to it as a cynical DEI woke product. The only examples some of the loudest and most well-known anti-woke people can point to are that Jordan shaves her head, is a minority, and has an attitude. By that logic, Vasquez from Aliens is woke.

I think a lot of the loudest people need to possess more thoughtful criticism and discern the difference between cynicism and an artistic decision with sound reasoning.

@Zeldorf Dude, Ciri is one of the most beloved characters in The Witcher 3, and the comments about her from this Witcher 4 trailer echo the same nonsense these people throw at others just because she doesn't look like a model. She's older and more rough-looking. It must be that woke Western ideology agenda!

@DennisReynolds @AdamNovice LOL I was just going to respond with a comment about Samus's reveal. I can imagine the comments, YouTube video titles, and thumbnails:

"Nintendo finally went WOKE."
"Masculinity is DEAD in Metroid."
"Nintendo UNDER FIRE for WOKE Metroid reveal. Gamers are NOT HAVING IT!"

These people are the real NPCs they make fun of others for being.

@DennisReynolds Cuck has a VERY specific meaning behind it. Druckmann giving the thumbs up to a bald lead female protagonist and Abby being built is not "cuckery".

@Savage_Joe I was never going to say he was a saint, but okay... What exactly did Druckmann say that was insulting? And can you link me to the source of these comments? I would genuinely like to know specifically what he said and where this came from.

@Juanalf That Neil Cuckmann insult is maybe the laziest insult I've ever heard. I love a mocking nickname when it's funny, but I find nothing clever in calling Druckmann a "cuck". Outside of Abby having muscles, I don't know where this anti-woke religious mantra came from.

I have yet to see a single compelling reason why Neil Druckmann, Naughty Dog, and anyone associated with their projects get an unbelievable amount of crap from these guys. From the way they talk about him, you would think Druckmann broke into their homes and shot their dogs.

Unhinged losers

That's all that needs to be said.

They were upset Astro Bot had the clearly superior monkey.

My highlights were Project Century, the Okami sequel, the Fumito Ueda game, and Split Fiction. If I liked the trailer more, I would give a nod to Intergalactic, even though I think the game itself will be very good.

This game hasn't even been publicly known about for 24 hours and the discourse surrounding it is already insufferable. The Last of Us: Part II really broke some people's brains.

This setting is so my jam. God bless RGG Studio.

I'm so proud of my lord and savior Astro Bot.

While I have very mixed feelings about the trailer itself, I'm definitely interested in this. I really like the art design even with the annoying product placement.

I never thought this would happen. Speechless.

This looks so damn cute. I was praying they would add a new level before the year's end and Team Asobi delivered.

Josef Fares and his amazing team must be protected at all costs.

This has to be Tifa. Bandai Namco would not save this announcement for the Game Awards if it weren't an iconic character beyond Tekken.

To their credit, Square Enix was unusually upfront when Foamstars came out about it having only one year of post-launch support.

It was so astoundingly obvious Ubisoft was lying when they said they wouldn't be shutting this down a few months ago. Yet another corpse to throw into the live service graveyard.

And none of these projects will have anything to do with Bloodborne.

Don't give me hope.

Damn, this makes me sad. Shu was the final guy from the classic old guard at PlayStation. I knew this day would come eventually, but still. Damn....

That's half the budget of a new Ape Escape right there.

An event is not happening. We'll be lucky if we get anything at the Game Awards.

This looks fun. I'm really looking forward to that JRPG Colin has been teasing for years too.

I'd prefer Sony not to acquire anything else and invest more in what they already have. However, if they purchase any big entity, Kadokawa is one of the few that makes sense to me, especially with PlayStation's history with FromSoftware. I don't think this will result in more From exclusives for Sony since they will want those big multiplatform ROIs after Elden Ring's massive success.

Infinite Wealth and Helldivers II losing a potential nomination over DLC is pure nonsense.

I usually don't care about these Game Awards, but if Shadow of the Erdtree wins over Astro Bot or Rebirth I'm going to be pissed.

I have been skeptical of this project even as a lifelong Indiana Jones fan. But, I must admit I'm more sold on the game after this preview.

@MrPeanutbutterz Oh, that's right! Thank you. I completely forgot about that.

@Cikajovazmaj That's a great point. Let me rephrase that: how many people out of the potential 5-10 million players will play the campaign and then opt out until next year? If you know how to game the system, you're paying $12 or $20 (depending on your platform) to play a CoD campaign. Not a bad deal.

@get2sammyb Thank you, that's what I figured. Even if Black Ops 6 gets them 5-10 million new subscribers, what's going to be more interesting is how many of them stick around. If a lot of those 5-10 million subscribers opt in and out of Game Pass just for CoD each year, that doesn't make for meaningful growth at all.

@get2sammyb Did Microsoft ever give a specific number of how many subscribers they got from Starfield (the last time they bragged about something "breaking the number of Game Pass subscriptions in a single day")? Or was it just a vague declaration? I've seen the number 11 million be floated out there but I think that was just Starfield's general lifetime players last fall.

I guess 70,000 people have a much higher tolerance for terrible writing than I do.

@LowDefAl Even by low ass-kissing Variety standards, this interview sucked. They blatantly ignored simple questions like "what do you think of the inevitable Switch 2 launching?" or "what other games besides Ghost of Yotei are you using to convince people to buy a Pro?"

I think Variety did okay in this interview to their minimal credit. These CEOs dodged the softest questions like Neo from The Matrix and it makes them look cowardly and stupid.

That was the most nothingburger, word salad, question-dodging interview I think I've seen modern PlayStation do yet. They flat-out ignored some of the more interesting questions and waxed poetics about corpo nonsense. Awful look for them.

That's a great get for Perfect Dark. The game looks promising and Horton is a talented guy. It's a good fit too since he used to work at Crystal Dynamics, so he understands how Darrell Gallagher operates.

As for Wolverine, I wonder how far along it is now, and I'm curious if Horton's departure will impact it significantly. I also don't know what to make of this change in "creative decisions". That's so vague it could mean a lot of things. I just hope they don't screw with the tone to make it less mature and gory.

With that money, they could have made maybe four Astro Bot-sized games from new or established IPs. Would they have made a crazy amount of money? More than likely not, but they would have generated more profit and goodwill for PlayStation than Concord.

Wow. PlayStation really is willing to strip naked and publicly humiliate themselves to chase the almighty dollar these days. They must have a fetish for pain at this point.

What a giant waste of time and money. Firewalk's erasure is not surprising at all.

I don't want them touching Mass Effect at all after listening to some of Veilguard's abysmal writing. I can't believe functioning adults wrote this childish drivel.

@Enuo I love a hefty dose of sarcasm with my morning coffee.

I strongly disliked the original game, but I'm curious to check this out. I'm willing to give it another chance.

Their handling of this entire rewards program is wrought with incompetency. It has some positives, but it still isn't accessible on the console, and there is no dedicated virtual space to show off those stupid trinkets. This omission is so baffling that it almost entirely defeats the point of Stars. Yay, I can't wait to show my homeboy a useless trinket of Jim Ryan on my phone!

Only modern PlayStation could create a rewards program that is this half-baked and half-assed.

But I heard from some hardcore Xbox people that their dear leader Phil Spencer would remove this kind of summy nonsense from Call of Duty. I wonder what changed,

It would have been even better if all the weapons in the footage were baguettes.