RainbowGazelle

PS2 again, at last!!! Now please Ape Escape 3!!!

I'm happy we've now got the entire main series on PS4! 9 mainline games, plus Isshin and the Judgment games. And 3 Shenmue games too! Incredible!

Let me know if they ever release this game properly, instead of this battle pass, live-service crap.

Thanks for reporting on this properly and mentioning all the various physical editions, not just the Limited Run ones, unlike Nintendo Life. Much more helpful for us readers to have the full news and not just bits cherry picked by the writer.

I'm sorry but this is the main reason I've lost interest in PlayStation this gen. They've closed down all their experimental studios. If it's not a big budget, movie-like, then Sony aren't interested. Another great studio gone that will be missed, just like Japan Studio. I won't be surprised if Media Molecule and Astro Studio follow soon.

C'mon, Ape Escape 3, so I can have the whole trilogy on my PS4!!!

No gameplay. Pointless. Nothing to see here until they show us the actual game.

Sony making more profits! Better fire more employees.

Well I still haven't seen a single reason to buy a PS5, so it's been godawful as far as I'm concerned.

@pharos_haven Was the hitching only in multiplayer? The article implies it was for the whole game.

@GamingFan4Lyf @NEStalgia I'm wondering the exact same thing.

Absolutely disgusting. The scumbags at the top ruining other people's lives because literally billions of dollars somehow still isn't enough for these pigs.

So how does a fix work without a patch? Does this game have an always online requirement?

$130 for a game that requires online. This'll go the same way as The Crew sooner or later. I've got better things to waste my money on, than games with planned obsolescence.

And people think full games still "only" cost $70. That was just another prices increase on top of multiple other price increases for worse quality.

And yet, they fired over 900 employees, and have no games.

@SuntannedDuck2 Yeah, I totally agree with what you're saying. I appreciate retro and new games, but a lot of the newest trends just aren't for me. I'm 29, by the way, but sometimes I feel older! 😅

I must be getting old. I haven't seen a single must-have exclusive game on the PS5 or Xbox Series. PlayStation has got rid of absolutely everything I loved about it. There's no Japan Studio or the like anymore. So I'm perfectly happy with my PS4. Games are getting more and more broken, expensive, scummy, and repetitive. Gamers just seem to argue about framerates and graphics, not quality of actual fun gameplay. There's nothing new. There's nothing interesting. And consoles are more expensive, and charge extra just to play online with friends. Honestly, I only see any point to buying occasional indies on PC, because consoles are offering nothing these days. Like I said, I must be getting old.

"Jakks Pacific Toys is making this one, so you can be pretty confident in its quality."

Yep. I'm a huge Streets of Rage fan, and was actually recently just wishing that someone would make good figures, but this ain't it. The sculpt looks pretty awful. If they did a full set then maybe I'd get them, but this Axel on his own looks very cheap, and not really like the character at all.

Good old PS4. No reason to move on to PS5. I've got games to play for years.

I just feel glad I've never played a Persona game before. The way Atlus are treated their fans is outright disgusting.

That's still less than my current pay as an assistant English teacher in Japan.

Hahahaha. Who could have seen this coming??

It's because
1. Gamers expect everything to be in 8K at 10000000fps, which is totally unnecessary, and
2. CEOs and shareholders are leeches, only interested in stealing as much money from the industry as possible.

It's heartbreaking reading the quote from one of the London Studios developers in that tweet. Forced to make live service crap due to misguided idiots at the top, but of course the lowly employees get axed when management realise they've f-ed up. Disgusting from Sony. They're slowly closing down every creative studio they had. Everything I loved about PlayStation is completely dead. And there's really no reason to stick around...

The final nail in the coffin. Sony really have become the villain this gen.

"controls — which encourage sending out the yo-yo with the right stick and jumping with R1"

Cool! Sounds like Ape Escape. I'll read a few more reviews before deciding whether to buy. These mini ones are never terribly helpful.

It' seems pretty ridiculous to me that a preamble was thought to be required. I honestly can't believe that someone's first reaction would be, "Wah, the graphics suck!" before even knowing anything about the game. Like, does it even look all that bad? Have I been playing on Switch for too long? If that's the immediate reaction, then no wonder the high-end gaming market is in the state that it's in. Game looks fun, or at least interesting. I couldn't give a crap about muh gafiks!!!!

@EliteSlayer I got it for Christmas and played through the whole game as Christmas Sonic. Was fun!

I thought it looked great in the trailer. Very Resident Evil. What were people expecting it to look like?!

I'm going to quote something from Reggie Fils-Aimé's autobiography that I feel is particularly relevant here. This was Nintendo's line of thought as they were researching business literature when designing the Wii:

"The first book we agreed to use was The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. Christensen wrote that businesses need to constantly reevaluate whether to continue along their existing path that caters to current consumer needs or adopt new approaches that meet future and maybe unarticulated needs. This fit well with the gaming industry as both PlayStation and Xbox were pushing on traditional vectors: more realistic visuals supported by increased processing power. Nintendo believed this was a dead end. More realistic visuals by themselves did not result in a better game. And more processing power would lead to higher costs and higher consumer prices, which would limit the potential market, versus expanding it."

I'm of course not saying Sony and Microsoft have brought nothing of value to gaming; that would be complete and utter rubbish. However, Nintendo were right about the general trajectory of gaming, all those years ago. Big games now take too long to make. They cost too much to make. Apart from shinier graphics, most games aren't innovative. They aren't new. They aren't fun. And they're becoming more and more about squeezing extra cash out of consumers, rather than delighting customers. We've essentially gone full circle back to arcade games, which were designed to harvest as much money as possible. The number of remakes coming out just seems to emphasise how out of ideas modern big games are. What happened to Sony's incredible, totally off the wall library of varied franchises? Big and small? The studios that made them are closed down. Sony seem capable of only making huge expensive games now, in the same franchises, because if they don't, people complain that the graphics suck, or they won't take the risk on new IP that costs $70. And it's a corner they (and the gaming industry) have backed themselves into. But it just isn't sustainable, or else we get mass layoffs and huge droughts, like we're experiencing now.

Just my genuine, honest thoughts as someone who's owned and loved every previous PlayStation, but sees no reason to buy a PS5.

Bizarre from Capcom, considering they usually give physicals to every region except Europe. It's nice to have it the other way around for a change. Is this releasing physically only on PS5, or PS4 too?

It feels like the PS3 era to me: lots of drab colours and depressing realism. Lots of technically amazing games for those who are into them, but this has just reaffirmed that PS5 doesn't really have any games that I'm interested in. Silent Hill 2 did look very like Resident Evil though. That'll hopefully be good.

Th ultimate "Deluxe" edition. It completes itself before the game is even out.

A reminder that Atlus are scum. Don't give them your money.

If Sony (and Naughty Dog) were releasing lots of other stuff for PS5, I'd assume the general feeling around remasters would be better. But apart from Insomniac's output, everything recently seems to be remasters and live-service crap, with little truly new content coming. Like, what is the point of a PS5 right now, other than as a PS4 Pro Pro? There's not a lot of brand new stuff to play.

But why? Shouldn't you be driving? This doesn't seem safe.

It's a great time to take a break from buying new games, as I plan to do when PS4 and Switch releases finally dry up. Gonna take a few years off just to play through my backlog and forget about the current gaming industry. I'm looking forward to it.

Why is the tech industry pursuing AI so hard? I don't want it or need it. I'm sure many, many others feel the same way.

Why not? The PS5 has no games, and PS4s are much cheaper. There's no reason to buy a PS5 for many people.

Modern gaming is a complete farce. I must be getting old, because it's just tiring these days.

"consumers will be able to access their previously purchased content for at least the next 30 months."
I don't think companies or people remember what this word means.

@Dany4k I'm happy I'm not contributing to a company with terrible ethics. No loss at all.

"If you've been holding off on playing one of the finest modern JRPGs on the market, now might be the right time to see what all the fuss is about."
I know it's meant to be an amazing game, but I simply refuse to buy anything by Atlus. Their business practices are blatantly anti-consumer. It's a shame, but I'm not giving them a penny.

@PixelDragon That's okay, thanks! I really like reading your comments on here. It's great to find someone else against all digital and wanting to keep physical going. I feel we're on the same side! I really wanted to get the Harry Potter game too, but was gutted to learn it requires internet, so when the servers go down, it's a coaster.

@PixelDragon Oh wow, okay. If you've decided that's the end of the debate then you must be right. I think a game that requires a download to play, isn't a proper physical release. It cannot be played without internet. But I guess I must be wrong, as the debate has ended.

@PixelDragon With a required download on all platforms, otherwise it's just a coaster. So I don't count that.

If they ever release it physically, I'll happily buy a copy too.

Sony be releasing more hardware than actual games for said hardware.

The higher ups at Bungie are terrified they're going to lose their overpaid, cushy jobs if Sony comes in and gets rid of their parasitic asses. So, they're firing scores of employees and cutting multiple benefits just to cling on to their moneyed positions as long as possible. A tale as old as time for scum at the top.

So, if your account is banned, you lose all your digital games too?? That's absolutely ridiculous! With this and the loss of access to those TV shows, I have lost all faith in buying anything digital on Sony's buggy PSN.