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Will jump in to lump on more praise. Returnal is easily my favorite first party game this generation and one the best games I've played on PS5.

I'm not interested in a VR mode, but I'm sure it would be neat for those with the hardware.

Hopefully we'll hear about their next project in due course.

It's nice that they did this but Fallout 4 is my least favorite of the Bethesda era titles. Other than some of the companions I found 4 to be kind of forgettable. Far Harbor was also pretty awesome.

Looks wild. I'm curious enough.

I still haven't tried this out, but plan on doing so when I see it dirt cheap. I'm not surprised they're moving to sequel town, the first one sold well and they clearly spent a lot of time on the first, so it makes sense to iterate on it rather than reinvent again so soon.

@rusty82 I was actually pretty shocked, but one of the libraries near me has a small collection of modern console games. I was also eyeballing Unicorn Overlord, but knew PoP was short enough I might actually beat it during a borrowing period.

I borrowed PoP: The Lost Crown from my library and am really enjoying it. I forgot how much I missed this franchise. I'm glad it's getting some new life in the AA scope.

I was hoping this was a sequel post when I saw Kena in the headline :/

This is pretty bizarre, but I'm low key excited. Animation is being done by Titmouse, the studio behind Vox Machina, which is also a comedic high fantasy action series. Since it'll be a comedy I can see the outfits being semi faithful.

Looks like it could be a solid tactics game, just wish it wasn't so drab looking.

I think it's a decent month with Dave and Tales of Kenzera. I plan on trying both of those out, and wouldn't have bought them otherwise.

My thoughts are it's a ton of money, but also, why would anyone pre-order an Ultimate Edition!? I'm not big on buying games that aren't even out yet to begin with, but then dropping another $60 on cosmetics and a Season Pass we know almost nothing about? It's just crazy to me.

Ubisoft will do this because they know some people will bite right now, especially since it's Star Wars. They also know most people won't bite at this price point, but, when the inevitable sales come they'll still be able to sell it all at a premium from starting at a higher MSRP.

Only season pass I'll ever buy in advance is for a fighting game, because, I want all the characters.

I mean, I think he's right that there might be some course correction on certain developers, realizing the cannot risk making AAA games anymore. However, I don't see these AA costing a whole lot less. Don't Nod considers themselves AA and Banishers is $60 - not commenting on whether that is a good price for it or not.

But there is no way $70, or whatever the premium price point is is going away. I can't see $80 until the next generation, but it's certainly possible. Development costs more and the same audience buys the game.

I hope we see more Xbox games but I'm not interested in Sea of Thieves. I might pick up Pentiment at some point though.

Probably skip all of these. I think Immortals is a nice type of game to throw on Plus, but it looks so generic to me, I have literally no interest in it at all.

I'm not into Minecraft at all, so a spinoff of that is meh.

Skul looks kind of neat and has good reviews, but I still haven't finished Rogue Legacy 2, so I just don't think I want another platforming rogue-lite to play.

I played a little bit of it. Seems alright, I definitely wasn't blown away. I'll check out reviews and if it's well received I'll keep an eye out for it down the road.

I'm glad they have a plan and are confident about their niche. I'm looking forward to checking out Banishers sometime soon.

RotR will probably be a Plus Extra game for me down the road.

Probably won't revisit this, but definitely a fun, sophomoric game. Certainly the Suda game with the most solid gameplay.

I haven't finished BG3 yet, but I'm happy to see them continue to do their own thing. I'd be happy with a third Original Sin game or a new IP entirely.

I mean it's not all hits. You ran a story this week about PSVR2 stock collecting dust...

Got the Haven platinum over the weekend. Absolutely adored it, was a very refreshing experience.

I also got the Ghostwite platinum a while back. I thought it was a pretty cool game that has a bit too much open world bloat, or needed a little more variety in activities.

Played some Tchia and Outer Wilds too. Both seemed really cool but neither totally hooked me.

I have no interest in a PS5 Pro. I don't even feel like the PS5 itself has been pushed far enough to warrant a refresh.

Hell yeah, I've been assuming Midnight Suns would be coming and have put off buying it multiple times! Might try RE3 also.

Spider-Man gameplay is barely interesting enough to last the amount of time it takes to 100% the map, so a Live Service version seems like a bad idea.

Really not interested in Team Ninja going open world. I'm not a huge fan of theirs to begin with, although I've played all the modern Ninja Gaiden games, but I shudder to think about their open world activities.

As someone who never played FES, how long is this additional content?

I haven't bought Reload and am not in any hurry to do so, but I'd love to play this epilogue when I do get around to it. I just hope they sell it separately, because I'm never buying costumes/music for a single player game.

Done dirty. I'll grab the game and DLC next year.

No, it's not surprising. If there's an IP that seems well suited for live service it's definitely something like HP. Built in seasons of school years, houses to sort players into, etc.

Whether they can make that game, and make it well is a major question, but there is clear potential.

When examining Suicide Squad, I think it's hard to judge it. It doesn't seem like a good fit for live service to begin with. Nor was Rocksteady necessarily the right studio.

Happy to check out Sifu.

There isn't an easy answer, but it's clear the answer wasn't to double down on 40 hour AAAA prestige games. The market for these titles are only so large - GTA excluded - and you can only sell them for so much.

The answer also certainly doesn't seem to be live service games, as we've now seen Sony cancel multiple titles that were never even officially shown. And the titles that have been announced don't have gameplay and the audience reception is already looking pretty apathetic.

I know first-party indie style experiences do no sell consoles, but I think there is a market and an appetite for shorter AAA games. Miles Morales did use recycled assets, but it was also just a tighter experience overall.

I think the obsession with flashier graphics and reigning in the scope of these games is where to start. I mean, it's wild to think, but the PS5 is in its fourth year and there are still multiple first-party teams that haven't released an original game this generation. I know making games is hard, super hard, but we don't even have games officially announced from Naughty Dog, Bend, Sucker Punch, Media Molecule.

I think this is where we look at Nintendo. I know they have their secret IP sauce, but it's highly unlikely their flagship titles, a Mario Odyssey for example, is costing hundreds of millions of dollars to produce.

I think this is pretty much all the proof you need that the industry in its current configuration is unsustainable. The PS5 by all accounts has been quite successful, but if you have to layoff nearly 1000 people then something is going wrong.

Seems odd that co-op, even in a specific way, wasn't shown as a dedicated feature before now. Makes me a little more interested, although I don't anticipate any of my friends getting this.

Ronin looks cool overall but I'm still not super jazzed about it. Probably wait for it to come to Plus in a year or two.

Probably get HiFi Rush on PS5 and Pentiment on Switch.

@TheCollector316 Make someone else pay to put it on disc.

Scope looks pretty insane. I don't entirely understand what type of game it is, kind of bounces around every genre.

I'm very interested though. They should approach Annapurna, Devolver or Private Division.

I'm not sold on the art. The hyper realism of some of the textures, lighting and world map are a little jarring with character designs. Kind of a Good Dinosaur thing going on.

I'd be curious to try a demo. I played a few hours of the original and found it to be really dull, but I'll admit the trailers for the sequel have been pretty impressive. I'm still not excited about the straight medieval fantasy thing, but I'll give it a whirl.

Well if the rumored games are accurate I'm interested in 50% of them, though if i were to play Pentiment, maybe I'd just do so on PC.

I thought the combat trailer was a bit weird, but I just assumed Konami was trying to trick new players into thinking there's more action. Silent Hill is a little niche, and Konami wants that RE2 and 4make money.

I don't necessarily blame them.

Happy with this. Have been thinking about restarting Outer Worlds but had PS4 version. Also happy to try Arise.

Hoping for Midnight Suns one of these months.

I admire what they tried to do but the game looked super generic and I think the first-person magic casting game is a hard sell, at least for a straight action game.

I agree with the person though, launching a huge budget FPS as a debut game seemed a bit insane.

It's an interesting co-op shooter on PC. That is totally the right market for it. The first game was definitely a cult thing, but people that got into it seemed to really love it, so I bet there was some interest for this and people could easily convince a friend or two to grab it since it isn't full MSRP.

What I would be really curious about is what the numbers are on PC versus console. I bet PC totally dwarfs console.

Don't care about Gears or Halo :shrug:

I don't care at all about MS stuff like Halo, GoW, Forza, but I care a lot about many of the studios they've scooped up, including Bethesda, Arkane, Obsidian, inXile, Ninja Theory and Double Fine. So I would be really happy to see them go platform agnostic.

I'd be really happy to see Bethesda titles on PS5. I wanted to play Starfield before it got kind of a lukewarm response, but I think I'd still enjoy checking it out one day.

If Microsoft ends up dropping Bethesda games on Sony platforms a year after Xbox I would totally happy with that scenario.

@IAmAshCohen17 They are still making and selling a console... not exactly apples to apples.

Replay trophies on harder difficulties are largely a no go for me. A 60 hour RPG is already a big lift for me, so doing it twice with more frustration is a firm no.

I've got some Platinums for replays in other games, but they have to be titles you can really plow through. Anything that's going to be a long grind is just a waste of time to me.

I'm very happy with Rollerdrome, so I'm calling this month a win. Steel Rising is intriguing too, but I doubt I'll give it a go with all my other games.

I've had this on my Steam wishlist for a while, but would love to have it on console instead.

This looked pretty nice. I'd heard of the PC game but didn't know much about it.

@Logonogo I think aspects of it look a bit generic. I think some of mecha and creature designs look pretty great.