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Sony's anime reputation is super mixed imo

Their Aniplex stuff like Your Lie in April, Blue Exorcist and Black Butler are really good but they're also the reason we have the Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 anime

It's also kind of wild they have control over pretty much two of the biggest anime streaming services present these days

It'd be funny if when you boot this game up the Xbox Game Studios logo appears lol

At least the older store was actually functional and somewhat well organized unlike the new store which looks like a second rate mobile app

@JoshuaTChandler Nah. Ultimate Alliance had a roster like 3x the size and actually delved way deeper into Marvel's mythos instead of trying to act like a desperate advertisment for who was relevant in the movies

This game WISHES it was Ultimate Alliance. It's more like if the Marvel roster from MvC Infinite got their own game

@naruball Damn you are like super hellbent on getting the other 98% of people who abandoned the game on Steam to come back lol

It's literally just a stripped down Ultimate Alliance with all the crappy monetary practices of live service games and a campaign that wastes its opportunity to use the wider Marvel Universe in its story outside Inhumans I don't care about, and an emphasis on generic A.I.M. robots instead of actual Marvel villains who show up for a single mission and then disappear with no fanfare like Taskmaster and Abomination

The bigger revelation here is that Sony actually remembered the Vita was a console they made

Really hope it's a horror game.

Even if it isn't Silent Hill-related the genre's been on the decline in terms of AAA efforts and I personally didn't love The Medium from what I played

Ghost of Tsushima should've gotten a lot more recognition than TLOU II imo but I'm glad Hades is still proving to be a tour de force since the game is great

Apparently ports of games released in 2020 also factored into the publisher ranking and general critical reception throughout the year so Persona 4 Golden coming to PC and the Bayonetta/Vanquish collection being released on PS4 probably helped a lot in their favor

@Gamer83 Difference is Sony actually created Gran Turismo

It uses licensed cars but it's not based on a pre-existing IP or a collaborative effort with a third party like MLB blatantly is. It's not like it's a F1 racer that's only on a single console for whatever reason despite the universal iconography of the brand. You could argue even Spider-Man is in the same boat MLB is in that involves an incredibly popular character and brand but at least they were transparent in the fact that Sony came up with the idea first of doing a game with Insomniac based on a pre-existing IP and then they went to Marvel for consultation

Again. It's literally just an MLB game that happens to be developed by a Sony first party dev. You won't die knowing it'll be coming to an Xbox console. MLB is not on the same level of pure Sony-association like God of War or even Hot Shots Golf lmao

I certainly don't think of MLB The Show first when I think of PlayStation

@Gamer83 It's BASEBALL

This isn't like God of War coming to Switch or Horizon coming to Xbox. It isn't even an IP Sony actually owns

IT'S BASEBALL

This is like the last kind of game I'd expect to cause actual damage to Sony's brand. This is like if they announced Fitness Boxing was coming to PS4. Like who would actually lose their crap if more people got to play a sports game. By that logic we should start making real life sports exclusive to specific demographics. Like Hockey is my favorite Canada first party game

I still can't believe there were people on Twitter upset that a baseball game was going multiplatform

Like god forbid Xbox people get to play baseball

The reason I got a PS4 in the first place

I was tempted to hold onto my PS3 for Persona 5 but Bloodborne looked too good to pass up and it ended up being my favorite Souls game in general.

All I want is a solution.

Sony's library of games both first and third party goes back so many decades and is filled with so many big names that are either lost to the sands of time or are no longer playable past 2 or 3 generations of hardware

Considering how seriously Sony used to take backwards compatibility on both their home consoles and even their handhelds (especially the PS Vita), the PS5 has so much potential to be this big central hub for PlayStation's entire history. If they put out their own version of a Virtual Console or even just bring back the Classics Line, expand on the PS2 titles available and add PS3 games while they're at it, they could probably have a very enticing answer to how insane Microsoft's equivalent program is right now.

Basically, I don't want to have to keep my PS3 around or resort to an emulator for stuff like Metal Gear Solid 4 or the first two LittleBigPlanets. PS4 games being playable at all on PS5 was a big step in the right direction and they might as well go all the way

@Areus Honestly PS Now I still find a mediocre substitute to just re-releasing the games digitally like they did with PS1 and PS2 Classics, especially with the fact the games rotate after a period of time

It kind of feels redundant on PS4 especially since a bulk of the titles are just games that are on PS4 and in some cases, PS3 games that are also available on PS4. The only platforms I found actually benefitted from the service were Vita and PC personally

Now that the only modern PS systems capable of natively emulating most of these games are pretty much losing that feature reportedly, the PS5 basically has no excuse

I don't want to hear anything about the PS3's architecture being too unique to run these games on native hardware because I can emulate Persona 5 and Metal Gear Solid 4 perfectly well on PC and it sure as hell doesn't have a Cell Processor. A PlayStation Virtual Console of sorts or the revival of the Classics Line (especially for PS2 games) has been long overdue

"Play Has No Limits" my ass lol

@TrueAssassin86x You can like parts of Sony while being critical of others

For example, I think The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is piece of s**t but that doesn't discourage me from buying PlayStation stuff

@Rob_230 Honestly if they're that desperate I'm genuinely surprised the Vita store lasted as long as it did

I was honestly expecting them to take it down in the lead up to the PS5's launch when they already revamped the PS Store to just accomodate for PS4 and PS5 games

The Store closing down like almost 10 years after the console launched is both upsetting but also kind of surprising considering how quickly Sony wanted to phase the console out

Welp time to go on a PSOne classics shopping spree before this all goes under

I first thought it would stay Switch exclusive for good considering worldwide the game was being published by Nintendo themselves but if it's coming to Xbox One then obviously a PS4 or PS5 version has to be in the cards somewhere down the road, and it'll be good for getting the game out to more people since Octopath is legit one of the best Square games I've played in a while

I personally haven't bought the PC version because I just prefer playing a game like that on my Switch in bed. It's why I basically triple dipped when the PS1/PS2 Final Fantasy games came to Switch as well. Switch is a great console for JRPGs since its portable nature makes grinding a way more comfortable experience imo

@Snake_V5 Yes. It's getting a physical release on both PS4 and Switch same day

Ah 66 Canadian bucks with DLC

Atlus. Why are you so...yourself

@LochNass Activision's games were fine for the most part

Loved Ultimate Spider-Man and Web of Shadows, thought Shattered Dimensions was solid and visually unique, Edge of Time was pretty underrated imo, but the Amazing Spider-Man movie games were really mediocre

@willi3su I definitely wouldn't call the story inconsequential by any stretch of the imagination considering it sprungboard off of very consequential events from other Star Wars lore from the films. It's more standalone but it has characters that are literally the way they are because of consequences from their actions

If you haven't already definitely play this one at some point

Easily the best of the EA-era Star Wars titles and probably among my top 3 favorite Star Wars games in general. Its influences are definitely obvious if you've played Metroidvanias before or you're used to Sekiro or Nioh's style of combat, but the story it tells is honestly well above most recent Star Wars media that's come out recently in terms of quality and emotional resonance

It actually got me excited to talk about Star Wars again after the divisive reception to the Disney era stuff and the state of the fandom just kind of soured everything for me

If it's a game that leaves a profound impression or impact on me it's probably going to be played more than once

Hence I have created a religion around the hit RPG Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor for the Nintendo DS and 3DS family of systems

Hoping Jade finds success with Sony much like Kojima did on Death Stranding

@Medic_Alert Undervalued by the public? I thought Prey would've done really well for them considering the IP in question

@darkswabber On GhostWire, that exclusivity deal is also being honored. It will launch only on PS5 and PC for a timed period just like Deathloop

I feel like Indiana Jones is too early in development that any decisions on target platforms were made at that point. I don't think we'll be hearing about that game for like another year

@marty8370 Chill dicklicker, put that tongue away. You ain't getting any closer to a Sony sponsorship with your fanboyism in all caps

Put aside your feelings on recent entries or whether you even cared about them at all but PlayStation potentially being barred for good on getting stuff like Elder Scrolls VI, Fallout 5 and the next DOOM & Wolfenstein games is a massive blow to the console's library

@Floki Oh I was talking just in terms of what I enjoyed out of the lineup not the amount of actual games lol

Persona 5 Strikers' OST is so good

Highlights for me include the rock remixes of Blooming Villain & Keeper of Lust, Axe to Grind, the new Tokyo Daylight theme and the Revelations Persona Normal Battle theme remix

If he was this mad over LBP then imagine if he was an F-Zero or Konami fan

This library isn't PS2-tier but it's damn close in a lot of ways

Highlights for me include Spider-Man, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, TLOU Remastered, both Gravity Rush games and Bloodborne

@Col_McCafferty I don't pick sides. I'm a gaming fan. Not a PlayStation or Xbox fan

@Col_McCafferty I only got a PS5 myself because I got lucky through staying up until 12 in the morning for a Walmart drop and it hasn't even arrived yet

I already have a PC and don't feel like sharing. You'll have to pay ME to share my games with you lol

@Col_McCafferty I'm sure you're doing great things for society with such a bold statement. Phil Spencer must be crying under the bed he made out of all the money he got from Game Pass subscriptions

@HotGoomba Get ready to see that giant green X when you start Deathloop on the PS5 lol

@QueenOfHearts38 It's all PR speak to begin with. Both Phil Spencer and Jim Ryan have said a lot of exaggerated or overambitious stuff about their prospects

You also don't buy a company for more than Disney bought Marvel and Lucasfilm and then share with other people either

@TrueAssassin86x No. Microsoft have said already that they're honoring any timed exclusivity deals on existing games, which means Deathloop and GhostWire are still going to be temporarily console exclusive to PS5 when they release and won't drop on anything PC related outside Steam and EGS

@QueenOfHearts38 Implying corporations ever cared about your feelings

If Sony can moneyhat like 15 different third party titles for timed exclusivity of varying lengths to their shiny new console it's fair that Microsoft gets to play dirty too. I'm all for it

Sony tried to slug Microsoft in the testicles with stuff like FFXVI, Deathloop, FFVII Remake, and GhostWire? Microsoft is coming for that ass

@stormyuk Should get a PC at least

You get all the Xbox games and the best versions of multiplats in addition to Sony now supporting the platform with updated versions of their first party and second party lineup

Well there we go lol

I honestly thought they'd at least wrap up the currently multiplatform series first like Wolfenstein and the new DOOM games on those respective platforms, but guess that won't be the case after all

DOOM 3, only on Xbox and PC...again

The Elder Scrolls VI, only on Xbox and PC for the first time in like 19 years lol

Xbox and PC don't have Spider-Man, but they're sure as hell getting Indiana Jones

@The_Pixel_King I've been on a Final Fantasy binge myself since Sephiroth got announced for Smash

Helps that pretty much all the PS1/2 era FF games are on Switch now as well. I'm currently playing FFIX. I haven't sold my PS4 yet but likely will once the new kid comes in

I love the different character names being faded into the visual

It's like even the poster wants to convince us it'll be more familiar to the game if it wasn't for the RE4 callback already

@The_Pixel_King Haven't ordered games yet but excited nonetheless to get the school binder to sit next to my toaster in the basement.

It's getting a lot better here in Canada at least

Virtually every week now there are drops and now they're starting to last a little over half an hour. Hell I'm about to get my console in like a few days after some delayed shipping which was annoying

@itsfoz If the PS4 generation is any indication these remasters and enhanced ports aren't going anywhere. They'll simply cooexist with new games if anything.

Plus there are literally two native PS5 games right around the corner so it's not like these are stalling development of new games. Overwatch 2 is still a thing