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Yeah this is incredibly overpriced. ...and I still bought it. I couldn't resist

I pre-ordered Crisis Core but I'm not sure if it's going to get delivered tomorrow because of the Royal Mail strikes. Not expecting it until about Friday-Saturday at this rate. Got 2 weeks off coming soon though, so I'll have plenty of time to enjoy it.

They finally did it, awesome. That means apart from the FF13 trilogy I can play all the FF games on PlayStation

Been unsure about this game and hoping SE would do a demo so I will be trying this.

Question 19 was my favourite where 100% selected no to Jim Ryan appearing on stage

@ShogunRok Cheers, good to know it's got a decent length, especially as this will be one of my games to play over the Christmas break

@ShogunRok How long did the game take you to finish, including side content? And is the trophy list fairly straightforward, or requires some investment to get?

9 out of 15 which is actually quite good because nearly all of these were guesses

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade this weekend, trying to finish it and the Intermission DLC before Crisis Core comes out. I should just have enough time to do it

Sony please put some decent PS1, PS2 or PSP games on the service. I'm getting excellent value out of Extra but Premium is an absolute frustration I'm stuck with for 2 years and want to escape at this point

Crisis Core FF7, Persona 4 Golden and potentially Forspoken along with FE Engage on Switch in January... Don't remember this many games coming out in January before

It's nice to see more games take advantage of Kraken. Only difference I've noticed so far is GOW Ragnarok being 20GB smaller on PS5. It's nice to have a FF game not taking up nearly 100GB for a change, looking at you FF15 and FF7R. I dread to see FF16 and Rebirth's file sizes...

I would really like some kind of PS Showcase and their silence hasn't been ideal. But considering I'm already looking at 2023 which has Persona 4 Golden, Forspoken, Like A Dragon Ishin, Eternights, Stellar Blade, FF16 and Spider-Man 2 it's not like I'm going to be short of games to play next year. 2023 looks set to be a year where I will have a game to play on the console nearly every month, something I haven't been able to say for it during 2022 which didn't have much that interested me. It would be nice if Sony could actually communicate a bit more they just randomly drop stuff these days now, it works I guess but kind of anti climatic when you could make a big deal about something like GOW Ragnarok release date or VR2. I just hope we start getting new announcements next year on what to expect, 2023 is looking pretty good right now imo but I want to know more about what we are getting through that year and going beyond into 2024.

@KidBoruto The internal PS5 storage has a read/write speed of 5,500 MB/s. SSD drives can have a higher speed of up to 7,000 MB/s, for example my PS5 SSD is from Western Digital and has a read speed of up to 7300 MB/s. So with a higher speed it makes for much faster times when it comes to not just downloading games but the loading times when playing them

God of War Ragnarok (hopefully finishing the story this weekend). Then I should get back to Star Ocean The Divine Force, or maybe finally stop holding off FF7R Intergrade. Crisis Core is coming out soon and I need to play Remake again as well as do the Yuffie DLC. Just debating whether to wait to do it over Christmas or invest that time into the PS5 version of Persona 5 Royal I nabbed off Amazon on Black Friday (40% off the launch edition, how could I say no?).

I bought a 2TB SSD for £169.99 last Friday and I don't regret it. No need to worry about storage for all the upcoming releases, and games download so much faster. I redownloaded Elden Ring and that took around 3 hours for me originally, with the SSD it only took 35 minutes. I recommend picking one up if you want more space and better download times

This whole deal is so tiresome at this point. Microsoft constantly saying how unreliable their services like cloud streaming are, they have no games and Activision isn't worth 70 billion. Meanwhile Sony is acting like their life depends on Call of Duty and without it they have nothing despite their own line up of exclusives and timed deals with third parties like Square Enix. Both companies look so silly, even if I'm not surprised why Sony is so desperate to keep COD because of how much money it makes. But it's been nearly a year now seeing them say all the stuff and being confused by what the COD deals are. We go from Sony got this many years for COD to COD isn't going anywhere at all. I can't wait for this deal to be completed so both companies can stop whining and we go back to getting quality games.

6 out of 15 which is better than I expected tbh I didn't have a clue for most of these

More God of War Ragnarok and when I need a break from that, Star Ocean The Divine Force. And while I play those I will be waiting for Amazon to deliver my 2TB SSD for the PS5 I got in the Black Friday sales for £169.99. It's going to be needed with all the games coming out in 2023.

Getting this on release. Looks absolutely stunning and will be a great game to play over the Christmas break on PS5

@jrt87 I thought I was the only one. I quite enjoyed Zero Dawn but after playing Forbidden West I've lost a lot of interest in the series.

I want Xenoblade 3 to win but already know it will be Elden Ring or GOW Ragnarok. Not that either of those are bad games, I just liked Xenoblade 3 more

God of War Ragnarok. It's so nice to have a big PlayStation game to enjoy again, I haven't had much motive to use my PS5 for a while. Thankfully that won't be a problem soon with Crisis Core FF7, Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, Forspoken, Like A Dragon Ishin and all the others game due out in 2023 yet.

My copy got delivered this afternoon and I've played one hour of it so far. So many accessibility options and the game jumps straight into the action. My delivery guy said everyone he's delivered to today is for a game and I told him it's a pretty big one loads have been waiting for. I got a few days off so in the mean time I'll keep myself warm in bed while playing this game.

@Thumper Nintendo first party games are the only proper exclusives now. Xbox games release on PC day one and PlayStation currently is in a situation of "it will eventually go to PC"

6 months of exclusivity seems pointless to me. If I was Sony I'd be trying to get at least one year of exclusivity if I wanted people to buy the game and my console. Why not just release it day one on PC instead of a 6 month gap? Seems like a waste of money. Not that it bothers me because I can still play the game day one but these timed exclusive deals are just weird to me. Surely you could fund your own game with that money instead? Curious if it will hit Xbox though. 2 and a half years later we are yet to see Final Fantasy VII Remake hit Xbox and it's on Steam.

@arra1213 Probably because the game already came out twice in Japan so most people interested have already bought and played the game. Royal sales will most likely be much bigger on Switch in the west because that's where all the Twitter users who were port begging for it are.

Microsoft thought Breath of The Wild 2, Metroid Prime 4 and Bayonetta 3 would come out in 2020 so I'm not sure they are the most reliable for this kind of stuff

Dreams getting a PS5 and PC release would benefit it greatly. The PC community would have a field day with this game and a PS5 release at a reasonable price would help give this game more sales. Saying that I should pick it up myself at some point to give it a try...

Sony isn't allowed to post about Bloodborne at all without people losing it lol
I still don't get why they haven't done anything with it yet but at the same time people need to stop jumping at any small thing and thinking it means something more

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Wave 2 DLC and either Atelier Ryza or The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero after I'm done with the Wave 2 DLC. Finished Astral Chain last week and really enjoyed that.

Persona 4 Golden and Fire Emblem Engage in the same week... come on that's too much from two of my favourite series! January and February have no mercy on my wallet.

Hopefully finishing Astral Chain this weekend after going on and off for the past two months. And after that Trails from Zero which I played for 2 hours on Switch and love already.

I played the demo and it's alright. Honestly what I expected from it. This feels like a get on sale game to me, with it being around 20 hours to beat the story, apparently having multiple endings and getting new content in November I think from a sale around £30 I'll get my value out of it. Story and characters might not be great but if the gameplay is fun I can put that aside.

I have four perfectly fine working DualSense controllers, I don't need another one. I say as I eye this up...

Bought Ghostwire Tokyo and Scarlet Nexus from Amazon for £50 for the PS5 so I'll be playing Ghostwire Tokyo this weekend. 3 hours in so far I'm enjoying it. After reading so many mixed reviews I ended up deciding that it was one I had to play to know if it would be for me. It's far from perfect but it's just fun wandering around in Shibuya petting cats and dogs, freeing spirit and fighting enemies.

@Uncharted2007 Third parties have always been part of PlayStation's identity. Some of the biggest games on that system like Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid were third party games. Even a lot of series I identify with PlayStation such as Yakuza and Persona are third party games. Sony has always had their first party games but only in recent years does it feel like they've tried to push their first party games more compared to the past. Due to many series going multi platform over time, with other options like PC and Switch popping up PlayStation has lost a lot of that identity as being the only place to play these unique experiences. I still enjoy playing the brand and it has the games I want but it lacks a lot of the identity it once had years back especially on PS1 and PS2.

@IonMagi Didn't you say that the Persona ports wouldn't come to PlayStation because they had a bad relationship with SEGA yet we still have them coming to PlayStation

13 Sentinels Aegis Rim
Persona 5 Royal
Yakuza 0
Lost Judgment
Nier Automata
Ghost of Tsushima
Marvel's Spider Man
AI The Somnium Files
Uncharted 4
God of War
I've played quite a few PS4 games but these are the ones that I remember enjoying the most. And I still have plenty of them to play as well. PS4 was such a great system with so many games

@Ralizah This is exactly why I don't believe the Square Enix rumours. Almost all acquisitions that have happened are not hinted at before, just suddenly announced on social media where as people have been saying for months Sony has already done the Square Enix acquisition. Pretty sure they would have had to announce that by now and acquisitions aren't really something that are leaked compared to actual video games. More or less rumours that people say because they want it to happen.

This game isn't anything crazy but it was pleasant enough to play and I want to support it but I'll probably get it on sale later on. Too many other games coming out right now that I want.

Losing COD is a massive blow to Sony, think of all the money they get from that. Most gamers might think it's trash but to them it is a money maker, of course they will fight tooth and neck to keep them coming to their console. If I was Sony though at this point in the background I'd be working on trying to fund games similar to things like COD that would work as a replacement with the mindset "We are losing COD we need to provide our own FPS to take it's place". Yeah it most likely won't make as much money for them but it provides an alternative to something they could be losing.

@SinfulDestroyer Exclusive DLC is ridiculous admittedly and shouldn't be a thing, that should be accessible to all players and is a weird strategy with some companies to get you to purhcase the game on their system. But Insominac didn't make that many multi platform games, only two that come to mind is Fuse with EA which wasn't well received and Sunset Overdrive which while praised, didn't do as well as it could because it released on the Xbox One. Isomniac only had a brief experiment with multi plat games compared to other developers, they mostly developed games only for PlayStation for 20+ years and not only did it already feel like they were a Sony owned studio but their games thrived on PlayStation. So them being bought by Sony was more a "how did it take this long?" reaction with their close partnership.

And the Snitch said this was going to be a disappointing SOP with minor games. I thought this was an excellent State of Play. Finally getting the Yakuza Ishin games localized, seeing PS5 exclusives like Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin and a small peak at more God of War Ragnarok. I'm not a fighting game guy but Tekken 8 looked incredible. Even the smaller things like the VR2 games and the indies weren't too bad either. I really hope if Sony does more State of Plays they are every few months like this with this length but have content like this that makes it a worthwhile 20 minutes compared to some of the underwhelming ones we've had in the past. I don't think SOP is perfect yet but I feel they have been much more tolerable this year compared to the past.

I own the PS4 limited edition and that was way better than what's being offered here in my opinion

@Nk08 Yes all the boys together. I love it especially at the end game point where they all get together and storm through the final fights.

@Beerheadgamer82 I wasn't expecting much from Kaito Files but it delivered more Judgment goodness even if it was only 9 hours for me. LAD I can only wander around a bit before having to dealing with enemies again. Just feel like I don't get to explore Ijincho as much and only got to appreciate it with Lost Judgment. Maybe the next Judgment could have Kaito and Yagami playable? Would mix things up

I never expect much from State of Play to begin with, those tend to be on the shorter side and just give small game announcements. I expect more from a PlayStation Showcase which we could do with considering we don't know what else to expect from Sony after God of War Ragnarok. It feels like people hate every State of Play yet still somehow have expectations for the next one. Best thing to do with this and Nintendo Directs are go in with no expectations so when its really good it will feel great.

@Beerheadgamer82 I enjoyed Yakuza LAD on my first run (probably due to playing several of the games in one go) but after playing Lost Judgment on PS5, then playing LAD on it again I didn't enjoy it as much. Ijincho felt so much more enjoyable in Lost Judgment with Yagami being able to skate around and the combat being perfected. I hope to see more Judgment games come

@SinfulDestroyer Judgment is already on Xbox though