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Sounds like perfectly placed strides forward, everything HZD lacked, evolved.

C'mon OG Modern Warfare is the best.

GTA4 means a huge amount to me sentimentally, I'll always have vivid and comforting memories of just simply driving around Liberty City at night in the rain listening to 'flashing lights' on the radio. It just felt so alive to me at the time and simply being in the moment, felt great. For some reason GTAV never hit these high notes of immersion for me.

Love it haha! Particularly the MGS dream and Sammy's critique of not just seeing games we know are coming, but a complete surprise showstopper is exactly what Playstation fans need right now!

Yes fellow Players!!!!!! FINALLY 🥳🥳🥳

Geoff's passion for our favoured industry is commendable, he did his best, bless him. But yeh I think it's us Team Blue lot that are feeling underwhelmed. As we've just come out of the PS4 generation, where we were insanely spoilt by incredible announcements and releases consistently for years. It's all gone very quiet.... (Returnal was great though ey!)

Simply stunning, release date for next gen consoles please!? 🤩

Platinumed Returnal...Hades is 100% on my list, just got enough plates spinning at the mo and Elden Ring pre-ordered for Jan 😎

Dont mind a delay, as I wouldnt have Day 1'd it anyway, due to the fact I've got too much glorious gaming on my plate already! Making my way through Metro Exodus PS5 edition and Blasphemous, plus still awaiting that PS5 version of Cyberpunk at Christmas (CDProjekt Red
xmas present?).

Its more than the sum of its parts and I think I appreciate that point more in hindsight. It offers a stunning, ethereal world... one I've never visited before. I just want slightly deeper world building next time, a living breathing world. With more characterful side missions.

For what it was pitched as, I'm happy. It wasnt the 1st party AAA, AA stuff and as long as that hype comes down the line, I'm good ( See reference Horizon FW) 😊👌

Good bit of gaming journalism, without the unecessary vitriol and agenda being pushed by the author.

At this point Im starting to look like Im spamming the forum, but whilst we're on the gamepass front...I decided (as a PS5 owner) to see if I truly was missing out. So I perused through the entire gamepass library and the PSNow library. I did not see anything in the current GP library that made me go WOW I must sell my PS5 and go get a Series X, there is the 'promise' of divisive future titles such as Starfield, Fallout etc but they dont exist. And is everyone just ignoring the fact we still havent seen ANY gameplay of Starfield, despite apparently having been in development for years! PS Now and Gamepass libraries are similar in age quality etc, with yes perhaps a more regular refresh of the GP library/'promise' of more day 1 AAA drops. I find it strange all the hype its getting, if GP was a sub service with day 1 drops of IP's akin to Playstation Studios, yes it would be game over I'd own an xbox, I honestly dont think that day will EVER come, the creative pipeline is slow and waaaaaayyyyyy behind the Sony curve at team green.

@The_New_Butler totally agree very inciteful. Sony believe Playstation to have achieved god tier ahem* I mean Nintendo tier status with their fan base and whats that fan base, oh yes a cool 100million install base on PS4....And as much as Im having a moan about this Ghost of T situation, I bought both Returnal and Demon's Souls day 1 at £70 (dont regret either), so any moaning I've just had you're right is somewhat redundant. Lets be honest theres just something about PS IP's they're just special...I mean look at Horizon FW! I will be a £70 day 1ner again, so whos laughing in the end...I think they've got me 🙈

@RobN that was my plan, await the price drop to get in on that tasty new island, well said. No denying though, Sony are becoming greedier...as much as I love the platform!

Im starting to smell greed and feel particularly stung as a PS5 owner. Really interested in the new island (Ikishima) expansion, but I already played the sh1t out of the original campaign on PS4, they had my money day 1 preorder on original release. Now if I want in on the expansion I need to pay another £70.....ey? (I have traded in Ghost PS4 BTW and to buy it back cheapest I found was £34.99, so you might as well shell out the £70 for the Dcut at that point, e.g. 34.99 plus £30 to upgrade on PS5). This feels harsh and as a massive Playstation fan right here, starting to feel a little screwed....I have 3 kids not bottomless cash pockets! 🤪

@jdv95 thanks my friend it was a good read!

Epic news now onto Bluepoint Sony! I platinumed Returnal, it was an incredible one off experience and gave me faith in AA development moving forwards!

@Gooseuk haha no way, I'm no where near 'no hit' good

@Kidfried keep going man, you can do it!

Day 1!!! A beautiful entrancing world, just need abit more intricacy and depth to the missions and side stuff IMO, but still......DAY ONE if this is true 🤩

Dead Space 1 & 2 incredible experiences, long lasting golden gaming memories for me. Would love this rumour to be true!

WOW that would be an amazing drop on PS Plus! Would be all over that, especially with that next gen upgrade

@lacerz bragging moment (forgive me), I bagged the Returnal Platinum last night!!! Finished on 66 deaths one of my proudest trophy moments

Agreed it was cheesy (I really struggle with the overall americanised tone, as an english/irish man) lacked any meaningful gameplay content (Elden Ring was an exception and personal highlight for me) and what sickened me the most was the constant corporate politics being shoved down your neck. Take Two was PC gone catatonically insane, this was supposed to be a gaming event, I honestly dont know what happened. Personal and political agendas are everywhere in gaming press now and it has to stop, that's the place of newspaper tabloids.

I smell Kojima...

@UltimateOtaku91 that was my summary too, nothing there that rocked the playstation brand, with its consistent world class pipeline of IP. Gamepass is their focus entirely it seems.

Extremely smart moves from Sony, they are walking their own savvy path. Pulling out your cheque book doesnt guarantee talent. It needs to be nurtured and thats where Sony thrive.

Yep currently grinding for platinum....4 more surveys thats pretty much it, so this is very welcome news!

Returnal is incredible in my top list ever somewhere completed it twice over as Im grinding for the plat now. The second playthrough was one of the most satisfying feats Ive done in gaming. Completing it all bosses all areas in one run, no deaths is just insanely gratifying, after suffering on Derelict Citadel for hours the first time round. Making Nemesis look like a joke = my fave gaming moment this year!

Im an early adopter and frankly....I couldnt give a sh1+

Same old console.generation shift, I was an early adopter of PS4 and all I had to play was Killzone ShadowFall. This time ive had Demons and Returnal, the latter has blown my mind, hinting significantly at future possibilities. Plus a generous PS Plus collection, allowing me to finally play (and platinum) GOW, aswell as play the sh1+ outta Days Gone (completed that too), both had amazing PS5 boosts too, in particular GOW, just stunning in 4K.HDR etc etc... also Astrobot is never mentioned, it was bundled in with the PS5 for.£0 and felt like a truly next gen experience, due to the insane haptics and resistance.

I'm happy for now....a year or so out all of this will be forgotten and Sony Fanboy Army will rule the earth 😆

@Sh3p3000 legendary comment haha fully agree! Apart from a good Battlefield that is (EA product wise and thinking on it, I loved that Jedi game they did). I just loathe football games, makes no sense to me.

I'm in the 3rd area, 2 bosses down. The atmosphere, particle effects, audio design, controller experience and gameplay are a 10. 9 score overall for me just for some other minor pickiness. If you compare narrative to other world class examples, perhaps not as fully fleshed out, as an example of pickiness.

I havent encountered any issues of this nature, honestly having a superb time with this game. Personally I love the tension and high risk reward of doing a perfect run including the final boss. I haven't done it yet, got close though. But every time I feel like I'm progressing, be that through better knowledge of the game systems and combat or through new persistent gear. If mid-way save system is implemented, I'll probably just stick to current setup, should Housemarque provide this change as a difficulty option.

@KippDynamite I agree, you can almost predict with full certainty, that a Sony release is going to be published at a peerless standard of quality. They very rarely drop the ball in that regard. Making every release something to take note of.

Boom! I cannot wait!

46% the poll doesnt lie and I am in that majority vote. Not that I find this comments section toxic (you're not a bad bunch), from the comments section you would be lead to believe the opposite...

Played a bit of the prologue and some side stuff, but then shelved it until the native PS5 upgrade. Can't wait!...as the potential of the game was obvious, the soft low res is what annoyed me most visually and the HDR implementation was poor (played back compat on PS5 BTW). The few side missions I did were fantastic and reminded me of the open approach to missions Deus Ex touted. But yeh once it looks sharper and performs better I'm there, the architecture of the city itself is like nothing I've ever seen in a game.

For the Players.
Not press Players..

I bought the complete edition for 10.99 a while back and don't regret it, despite this news...great game! Still need to go back and finish the DLC, plan to do that as a warm up for Forbidden West

@get2sammyb perfectly articulated!

Savvy money making business move.
Some words uttered by Jim Ryan echo for me...not an exact quote I'm paraphrasing, but the message being SIE frequently conside their 'portfolio' e.g. is there something for every taste.

Incredible industry leading single player narrative driven games - tick.
Competitive Multiplayer experiences offering diversity of choice - tick and TICK with the acquisition of EVO in mind. They now have an excellent way of marketing their platform whilst engaging the 'players' and pocketing the cash.

Like I said savvy.

Fromsoftware.

Enough said.