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Opened Spotify right after reading this and... listening to Find the Flame as I type this. Still incredible!

I'm only surprised it took this long. Nintendo must have been preparing for this lawsuit very thoroughly.

It's poor strategy on Sony's part and a fair criticism. Announcing a 800€ console with only improved versions of games that came out on the PS4 is baffling. But to see the year out without announcing any big hitters is rather stupid. As a long time Sony fan I am quite disappointed at the moment.

Well, that's a rather click bait-y headline. I remember having fun with this game when it came out on the PSP. Do better Sammy.

Looking forward to the Welcome hub!

Sony is giving you a full refund for your purchase, so the question in the article about why you should trust Sony with your money is ridiculous in that context. Sony isn't stealing your money. They do need to have a serious post-mortem in regards to Concord, but your money isn't being mishandled and the insinuation is disgusting.

Very homoerotic and probably unintentionally so. I'm definitely here for it though. :>

As I watched the gameplay trailer yesterday I was really enjoying the crisp, clear voice and accent but was unable to identify it. As soon as they said it was Gwendoline Christie I immediately went "oh my god of course it is!" It's a fantastic choice I have to say! Not only because she sounds incredible and adds both weight and charm to the narration, but also by virtue of being the first female narrator in the series. Quite thrilled with this. And the gameplay changes are looking very interesting as well. Pre-ordered yesterday.

2024 Game of the Year will soon be in our hands!

The new story trailer on the official PlayStation blog actually looks really good! Got me hyped for the game whereas before I wasn't feeling very hopeful about it.

Provided the gameplay has been tuned adequately to be not only satisfying but also to reflect an everyday man suddenly having to fight for his life, it should be a worthwhile experience.

It's probably Indiana Jones. That's a game that has third party vibe all over it, so it's an easy port.

DOOM (2016) is the best one for me. Closely followed by DOOM 3.

Hopefully the upcoming The Dark Ages is more like 2016 than Eternal.

Day 1 purchase, regardless of when it releases.

They underpaid for Insomniac and overpaid for Bungie. Balance has been achieved.

Day 1 purchase. Bring it on!

@TheAmbienWalrus I got that reference! lol

Online for me in Europe, but it didn't register any points for my Astro Bot pre-order last week. Not happy about this.

I want a Code: Veronica remake more than I want a sequel.

It's a fair decision. I want both games and welcome the larger release gap between them.

My favourite is Uncharted 4. The series needed a slightly slower pacing and a bit more of a serious tone here and there. It's still undeniably Uncharted, but it's also a little more grounded.

Also, I hope there's an Uncharted 5 in the works. I miss this series.

How is he allowed to leak an unannounced game? What an unprofessional attitude coming from a journalist. Now he wants to be both a journalist and a cool cat leaker of the interwebs? Laughable. Square Enix should not let it be. He's probably trying to pull attention to himself because of his book release.

Loved Life is Strange 1, liked LiS 2 and was severely disappointed with LiS True Colors - just couldn't vibe with the game, felt pretty bland. Haven't played any others. This one looks set to be a return to form. Here's to hoping!

This has been a day 1 for me since they released the announcement trailer. Nothing since has changed my feelings on it. I'm ready for a whimsical journey to the Mana Tree!

Day 1. Whimsical and polished is a combination that speaks straight to my heart.

A more realistic approach? Well, colour me uninsterested then.

Sooner or later, as digital becomes more and more dominant, there will be a push for legislation to allow the transfer of digital content licenses to a person's named heir upon their death. Just like with other things in life. The stance these companies have at the moment will then have to change, and so will their tune. I believe it's a matter of time.

This is frustrating. On one hand it has couch co-op, on the other it's F2P. I stay away from any F2P, gacha, or smilar type of game, no matter how well they use the monetisation model.

As many are saying, looked like an interesting Soulsborne copycat until it was revealed to be F2P. I'm very much an old school Sony gamer: single-player, AA or AAA, polished goodness. Online multiplayer, F2P and/or gacha games (the GaaS umbrella basically), are not for me at all.

Buying this day zero, blindfolded. Never played Rescue Mission, but Astro's Playroom was incredible. Fresh, light hearted, superb simple yet involving gameplay, funny antics, various nods to PlayStation's history. A delight of a game!

I hope it's more like 2016's DOOM and less like DOOM Eternal. I had a blast with the former, but not so much with the latter. Glad it's coming to PS5! Keeping an eye on it as I'm likely to buy if it plays more like the 2016 game.

I'm probably in the minority, but I always found Henry Cavill to be too large and muscular to play Geralt. He's one hot hunk, no denying that, but Liam Hemsworth's slender yet toned figure is more alike the Geralt that I know, the one from the games. Never read the books and not that into the games either, but I did buy and (eventually) finished The Witcher 3.

I had no interest in Spiderman 2 and only a passing interest in Dragon's Dogma 2, which I haven't even bought yet, and likely will not. So my highlight of last year's showcase was Judas and I remain very excited about that game. Despite a boring Bioshock 2 and an extremely derivative and disappointing Bioshock Infinite, Judas appears to be the type of sequel the magnificent original Bioshock should have had.

This reveals the current problem for Sony: my hype is for a third party game. Naturally, I'm there for whatever Naughty Dog, SSM, etc, are cooking up (provided it's single player), but without anything first party to base my hype on, the outlook looks empty and forgettable. I assume a lot of fans and even casuals are feeling disconnected as well for similar reasons. And thus a lack of a showcase will only compound on the problem.

I will add that at this point in time it would be preferable to have no showcase to a disappointing one. Make it impactful or leave people guessing. Not meeting expectations 2 years in a row, 4 years into the PS5's cycle would jeopardise the PS5 Pro and the second half of the console's life.

FF16 is an incredible game but its momentum drops like a rock after the Bahamut fight and story reveals. Moreover, the side-quests are absolute snooze-fests.

FF7 Rebirth is yet another extremely padded experience which is of more interest to long time fans of the original that want to experience every possible little thing about the world and lore. I played the original FF7 shortly after it came out and was disappointed with the padded Remake, having had to force myself to finish it. I find Rebirth to have made the same mistake on an even bigger scale.

Adding to all of this, Square Enix has a history of unrealistic sales expectations, which might be a result of a combination of expecting far too much on the sales front, having an overblown sense of the importance of its own IP, owing to how big it was in decades past, keeping it mostly exclusive to one ecosystem, and also not realising that the shortfalls of each game (as I described in the first 2 paragraphs) hamper its sales potential. So naturally we end up seeing these types of news headlines from the company once again.

Origins is still the best in the series, but I did play 420 hours worth of Inquisition. I love the lore and it is what keeps me coming back to this series. Hoping against all hope that Dreadwolf is an incredible experience.

I mean, remaking one single game and splitting it into 3 different parts over the course of a decade and expecting all 3 parts to sell gangbusters was always a deluded idea. It might be one of the most famous JRPGs ever, but it's an enormous commitment to ask of players. A lot of marriages don't even last that long these days!

Thoroughly enjoyed it when I purchased it during the launch period. For me it's at least an 8/10 rather than a 7. It's a shame a sequel was never released. What is Ember Labs up to these days?

I'm sensitive to frame rate. While I grew up gaming at 30 fps or lower, I can no longer tolerate it. 30 fps has been jarring to me for quite a while now and I will not buy games that don't have a capable performance mode.

So excited for this! Trying to watch snippets to get me even more excited, but also avoiding it at the same time because I want to go in fresh. Bioshock 2 was boring and Infinite was an absolute mess, but the genius of Bioshock 1 guarantess this is a day one purchase for me.

@Zenos What we need is for software houses to optimise their games properly before releasing them at 70 or 80 pounds a piece. It's a profits first attitude that is the problem, not a console power issue.

Well Sony needs to improve the store anyway. The fact you still can't purchase games to give to people as gifts after all these years is baffling. And reeks of incompetence a little as well, I have to say. As does not being able to buy from the different national stores. You are stuck with the one from whatever country you initially created your account in.

Sony's store is stuck in ages past and that performance in search engine results is only a reflection of the reality.

Framerate looks rough and the combat looks awkward. But I am still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now. However, the talk about genuinely finding a publisher suggests relations with Sony soured significantly. Which isn't entirely surprising after 4 years of silence. Not a day 1 game for me any longer, but I will be paying attention to developments.

Konami comes across as an incredibly toxic company to work with/for. Things were awful with Kojima and they don't seem to have improved much at all.

@CharlieChooChoo That would imply having the patience to hear about it, which I do not. I merely wanted to state how insufferable I think the game is and how I absolutely despise it for being a Kojima self aggrandising exercise.

Death Stranding is so horrendously boring and mind numbing. I don't understand how it sold so much and how there's so many people excited for a sequel. I was gifted the original game, tried multiple times getting into it and my opinion of the game remains negative.

All that gaslighting about it being a new genre of gaming? Utter *****.

Kojima's games have turned into the works of a man who loves listening to himself talk.

Day 1. No questions asked. Thank you very much.

I pre-ordered it yesterday. On the back of having bought the original TLOU (PS3 2013), the remaster of that (PS4 2014), the remake of that (PS5 2022) and the original sequel (PS4 2020).

I love Naughty Dog games and feel like my money is well invested. I've replayed both games multiple times. It's up to each person to decide whether their money is well spent on these remasters/remakes, but it is not up to anyone to tell me, or any other person, where I should spend my money. Especially if I feel it's warranted.

In saying that, though, I do think it's time for ND to show us what else they're working on. The multiplayer project got cancelled and they have to move on swiftly. And we need to see what's on the way, even if it's going to take a while to come out. I think it's warranted after the cancellation.

Aerith needs to die.

This looks INCREDIBLE. Day one, don't even need to see anything else. I'll buy it just to roam around in those gorgeous environments.