RenanKJ

As usual, Sony is failing to properly communicate with their audience. Although they're reaching new audiences, so maybe that's who they're interested in.

That's a terrible idea. I worked at a company that had tiers of support if customers paid for it. I frequently heard that their support was excellent by enterprise customers (who likely purchased a high tier of support). Well, one day I required support with a product I bought from them, guess what? It took forever to complete the service with weeks of delay and their communication was terrible - learned by experience that "for the customers" motto actually means "for the customers that pay us more".

They need the big publishers for E3 to be successful, and convincing them to prepare big presentations is probably the greatest challenge.

Personally, I hope they figure out how to make it work. It's great to be surprised with a new game coming soon out of nowhere, but given that publishers are barely sharing any news (especially Sony) and that most AAA games continue to take years to develop, it would be nice to pack it all together in its current state for us to see how development is going.

I'm in for another classic E3!

Game is not a very good media for interconnected universes. Think of how hard it was to play the entire Kingdom Hearts series for years, because each game was in a different platform. If you play something that refers a separate game, you might wanna try said game, only to realize it's not available in your platform.

They're probably going to have a 10-minutes-deep-dive state of play for God of War Ragnarok, and another generic one near christmas to boost sales. I don't expect a big showcase this year.

I follow them on Instagram, they recently shared a great video about the team. Astro Bot for PS5 had the same vibes as 3D Mario displaying what can be achieved with the hardware.

I'm looking forward to their next game, hopefully not an exclusive to PSVR2 since I don't plan on buying it.

With Pokémon Scarlet & Violet and God of War Ragnarok alone, November is already pretty crowded.

@somnambulance This demo approach is really working great. I bought Neo and Triangle after trying the demo. I agree, Square is doing a fantastic work lately.

If you think about games rather than showcase, the real winners are Square Enix and Capcom rather than Sony or Microsoft.

I agree that FF7 Remake's greats outweight its lows, but for me what I would like them to improve the most is the combat. Perhaps not a very popular opinion, but as someone who enjoys both turn-based and action RPGs, I didn't like the combat. It felt like they tried to please everyone without being particular great at anything.

The attacks didn't cause any reaction in the enemies, and parrying/dodging felt off, so they missed the whole act/react principle of action games. As for commands, it took forever to load the bar to trigger commands, so they missed the timely strategy principle of turn-based combats.

Lots of people liked it, though, so I guess they should just refine the system instead of throwing it away.

Probably not unless they release them on Netflix. Game-based shows offer zero reason to subscribe to yet another streaming service. That could be an option in the poll, by the way.

As long as they keep their excellent single player games coming, I'm ok with that! Otherwise, I might end up only at the red side of the force in the next generation.

I know live service games are not necessarily bad - the problem is that we can all play hundreds of different single player games, but won't play more than a few live service games. It doesn't scale well as a business strategy. Not to mention each game MUST have unique gameplay and publishers insist on making copy-and-paste shooters (kudos to Fall Guys on creating something new).

Still not sold, but Toy Story 2 is a great game! I remember playing it with my best friend when I was little.

These companies will regret later on. It's one thing when who gives the orders thinks about games, and a completely different thing when who gives the orders thinks about entertainment. Expect studios to close as CEOs choose to create TV Shows over games.

I couldn't care less about trophies. They're often bad asking us to get bored playing in modern games for some instant recognition, imagine for classic ones!

They seriously added Demon Souls remake to the line up already? I'm sold!

I can understand Sony's decision, but they should push for regional prices on PS Store instead of forcing fixed prices in other stores.

To be fair to them, Nintendo is even worse, they never ever reduce their prices for older games. Either way, buying new games in Brazil is more difficult every year...

Never heard of CRPG - for me JRPG refers to classic RPG experiences (not necessarily Japanese).

I don't know about Microsoft surpassing Sony. I still don't believe their business model is sustainable. Look at how streaming services are starting to reevaluate their agressive prices and insane budgets for new content.

I'm impressed with the percentage of votes for PSVR2. I kinda have the feeling that VR devices are really niche products.

Personally, I'm looking for non-exclusive games the most with FFXVI and Hogwarts Legacy at the top of my list.

Nice! I hope it releases this year or early next year.

Nostalgia hits me more with classic Nintendo games, so this sub is not really for me. However, it would be tempting if they included Harry Potter and Looney Tunes games.

Everyone wants the infamous golden egg. To be honest, I hope at least one of these live service games is profitable. Imagine what PlayStation Studios could come up with (single player games) if they had Microsoft's pockets (which could happen if they had a profitable live service game).

It's a huge game, take your time CDPR.

On the other hand, I think publishers should start thinking about producing new smallers games with higher frequency between the releases of these huge experiences.

This is going to look amazing. Something we can all agree on is that KH3 had great graphics.

I hope UE5 enables 60fps gameplay on PS5, though. Kingdom Hearts feels much better in 60fps.

@get2sammyb I think you already know the answer to that question, haha. You can play and enjoy the game, in particular the individual worlds, but the story arc won't have much impact given you're not following the story. It's like skipping straight to the final arc of an anime.

I'd still recommend it if you're interested. It's a fun game either way. And if you like it, you can always expand your understanding of the story later. Also, KH4 shall start a brand new arc in the series, which means that if you like the gameplay of KH3, you can invest on the story starting with 4.

And the hype starts! This is looking awesome!

I hope Nomura doesn't add yet more story to boring Android games without replicating it to the numbered entries through cutscenes...

Edit: This comment section is making me sad. I'm a fan of the series, and I really enjoyed KH3. The story in the series is confusing, sure, mostly due to how spread out it is between games and platforms, but really no more confusing than most animes. Classic good vs evil / light vs darkness stuff, with some crazy concepts in the middle for fun. You can't seriously play a game where Final Fantasy meets Donald Duck and Goofy and expect it to be a masterpiece of literature, you know.

I don't particularly trust Rockstar to make a proper remake, which is funny because I used to think their games were the most technically ambitious in the industry.

Max Payne sounds interesting though. Is it that game with they guy leaving a hospital? I remember my cousin playing it.

How come PS1's Harry Potter games were not mentioned? I'd upgrade my sub for those.

There were some great Looney Tunes games on PS1 too.

Pretty sure Microsoft is losing money on first-party games in order to increase number of subs. Eventually when it stabilizes they'll reassess the price of the subs to be profitable.

Sony is not wrong here, they're protecting their business. They could drop the price of new releases, though, but that's a different discussion.

I often play games after everyone else instead of at launch. If Sony keeps pushing blockbusters to this service after a year or something, I'm in!

In terms of tiers, I don't see the value on the Premium tier, to be honest. Why pay more to access older games on the cloud when a lower tier gives you access to recent modern games on their latest generations?

Don't worry, they're likely building a series here. Eventually we're gonna get some kind of Quidditch live service game.

They made some really bad choices on this game. Non-cosmetic microtransactions, forcing players to pay or do endless grinding, and this terrible always-online requirement (did everyone forget about Xbox One launch?). Surely they noticed their game is structured like a freemium mobile game.

Do you even need to ask? I would already buy it day 1 before seeing how insanely great it looks. Great work on this game, they really embraced the wizarding world.

My single concern is that it's trying too many things at once, and the only game I've played that managed to be successful at everything it offered is the new God of War. I hope it delivers, but I'm sure it'll be at least fun and good looking. =)

Still can't believe this is made by Capcom. They were on a roll with so many excellent games. Such a generic looking shooter.

Well, everyone drops the ball eventually.

So I did watch it today.

Wow, what a waste of time... Seriously, I want my 20 minutes back. Thankfully we have a new one focused on Hogwarts Legacy soon.

Just wanna say that I loved the layout of this article with the picture by the side. =)

How could it be a desperate move if this kind of negotiation takes months? At least Pachter's comments are entertaining.

Sony purchased Bungie for billions of dollars to keep Bungie independent as a third-party developer/publisher? Sure.......
Fast-forward a couple years and we shall see.

So, Microsoft gets Call of Duty and Sony gets a new Halo-like IP? Great move to ensure we have great FPS games on PlayStation.

I do hope they keep their hands off Square Enix, Capcom and Ubisoft, though, both Sony and Microsoft.

@KundaliniRising333 Yes, but also about the concept of the game. All fans have imagined a game like this based on Harry Potter's universe for years, that's where the excitement comes from.

That, and if you played Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on PS1, it's been a long wait for a great Harry Potter game.

What a weird and funny trailer. I enjoyed the demo, so I'll definitely buy this one, although not day 1.

Btw, FFXV had Stand By Me and that was perfect. Let Strangers have My Way. 😄

Brilliant recap!

@Shepherd_Tallon I'd rather have Square as a third-party, to be honest. They make some amazing games tailored specific to each platform.

On the plus side, with Activision gone there's a huge gap in the industry now for indies to take over. That and PlayStation might put some money into a new FPS franchise if Call of Duty becomes exclusive.

This is insane. Should this even be allowed by law? They're building a monopoly with two of the biggest companies in gaming... What's next? Square Enix? Ubisoft? EA Sports? Seriously, Microsoft, work on your own talents and stop keeping people from playing third-party games.

Btw, as far as Crash, Spyro and Tony Hawk goes, I fully expect the employees to pull a Rare move and leave the company to create their own in a few years.

Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no.

10-20 or less, depending on the game. Anything more than that and there's a big chance that I won't finish it.

There are exceptions, of course, but in general that's how I feel nowadays. Can't put too many hours into gaming anymore (and long games become boring eventually).

Also, I agree with @Uncharted2007 - Assassin's Creed doesn't need hundreds of hours of side content and traversing the map, keep it focused Ubisoft!

I suggest backlog month is added as an option to these polls. 😁

Not sure about this, apart from making a good-looking game look better, what can they do to improve it? The game is already brilliant, I wouldn't change anything.

Kinda feels like a waste of resources, really. But who knows? Maybe some trailers can change my mind.