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This is Square's MO. I don't think they've been happy with the performance of a single one of their games, ever. They'll release a game that rakes in a billion bucks and then say it was a disappointment because they were hoping for a billion and a half.

There's probably meat in my deep freezer older than Horizon Zero Dawn. I don't get why companies are remaking games that still run and play fine on current hardware when there's a near bottomless well of classics to modernize.

I'm excited to see what they're cooking, but I have no drive to buy a PS5 Pro. The tail on the PS5 is going to be massive. I mean, the PS4 is still getting new games, even some big name ones. I feel like the PS5 is still barely getting off the ground in terms of what it can do, and yet the Pro is knocking on the door already.

Perhaps developers and Sony underestimated how important 60fps is to a lot of people, and wants a system on the market that can have 60fps on brand new games without having to use a "Performance" mode that makes it run at 1080p with N64 graphics.

That said, I had a PS4 and did get a PS4 Pro and loved it. I guess I'll have to see what they're cooking, tomorrow.

"How care Sony remember the character I made exists and include him in a celebration of Sony's games and franchises."

What a loser.

@Dampsponge As a long-time GT fan, I actually complain about it. I would greatly prefer if it didn't have MTX.

@get2sammyb There is no possible way you can't see the difference in calling Mario Kart 8 a live service game and calling Genshin Impact a live service game. This is utterly bewildering how you're choosing to fall on this sword on top of this hill. This one article has done more to make me question if Hookshot is just gunning for clicks than anything else I've read here or on any other affiliated site.

This is like when Nintendo took heat for having low-powered hardware and fired back by saying "the Wii U is HD, so that problem is solved, now", like people couldn't understand the difference. I genuinely cannot tell what this article is seeking to accomplish, or why you're pretending that people can't tell the difference. Utterly baffling.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner

[Sammy frantically Googling for a game that has never received any patch or update so that we can't immediately hit him with the "Well, Sammy, actually."]

This is nonsense. "Live service" doesn't just mean "the game gets patches and updates", it means the game is designed to be a "forever game" that constantly churns out content and treadmills to keep players hooked and addicted. I have no idea what you're trying to do with this article, but all you've done is make a massive reach. We're not dumb, we can tell the difference between a game getting updates and a game being designed to keep you stuck in it and spending on it. Embarrassing false equivalence.

This is like calling Resident Evil a "Role Playing Game" because you play the role of Jill Valentine. Totally ridiculous.

You can celebrate in a graveyard. While the game looks great and I'm going to buy it and enjoy it, it's hard to look at a whole game of "remember this?" without getting a least a little cross about the fact that you'll probably never get more of all the "this" you're being asked to remember and clap for.

It's a bit like Capcom constantly using the Servbot as one of its core mascots, and being happy to trot out MegaMan Volnutt and Tron Bonne for cameos and nostalgia bait, but we'll never get Legends 3. We can celebrate MegaMan, but we can also be mad that he'll never get off the moon.

Like, yeah, it's a celebration, but it's a celebration of a bunch of dead things that absolutely do not have to stay dead. It especially stings after the dumpster fire that was Concord, where modern Sony is flailing around and burning money by the barrel on things nobody wants instead of making more of the games that we love, and they know we love because they put out an Astro game celebrating them every few years.

Always down for more MonHun. Day one for me.

Push Square really getting mileage out of this game. Probably more than the actual players are.

While it's not my thing, I'm sure it's the right fit for someone, somewhere. The 2TB one I have installed is usually just full of games I haven't played in ages.

The show was so bad, but it managed to thread the needle just right so that it was still fun to watch. The "thong song" scene was so stupid and so ridiculous but I ended up laughing at it for like a minute straight.

@ChrisDeku I passed on Rise for a long time because after World looking and running great, I did not want to go back to 30fps at best PSP-esque MonHun.

@Northern_munkey Do you have any assists on? I play iRacing as my main sim and the new update to GT7 has made it feel closer to iRacing, which has actually made it slightly easier for me because my braking and shifting is now closer to iRacing to take similar corners.

Looking great. GT7 is a PSVR2 system-seller for me. I love sim racing and while you can argue that GT7 is more sim-cade, the experience of playing it with a wheel, pedals, a shifter, and PSVR2 is the most fun I've ever had sim racing. I just recently got back into it and I'm having a blast.

I've totally given up on using any of the wishlist functionality of any of the current consoles. I just use DekuDeals. It tracks retail prices, digital prices, and can show you the price history of games as well.

Seems like a fun bit of "related material" for fans of the manga and anime, which is really all a game like this needs to be. I'd almost prefer this kind of tie-in rather than them trying to somehow turn it into something it shouldn't be.

Jeanne d'Arc is a great tactics game, once you get into it. I remember playing it on PSP a bunch.

Story has been kind of meh to me, and I'm in the home stretch. It's very cutscene heavy it feels, much more than previous expansions. I don't know if that's just my perception or what. I'm still having fun, though. One thing I don't really like is that outside of a single zone so far, every zone is with one character leading you around. In previous expansions you had more of a supporting cast, and you spent time with different members of it at different times. This expansion is nearly wall-to-wall following Wuk Lamat, which makes the pace feel poor.

I'm not really feeling confident to invest money or time when similar games are free to play.

I wonder if these are bound to Sony network services in the same way that previous development kits are. There have been a few showcased online and when powered up they almost always show a notice that amounts to "This kit is deactivated. Contact your Sony rep."

I wonder if it was bought just to use as a show piece.

Dawntrail. I think it's a bit daft not to allow "expansions" when they're this large. It's practically an entire game's worth of content.

As a sim racing fan all I can say is that looks don't mean much. It's all about how it feels. A racing game can have a ton of style and then play like total garbage, ala Auto Modellista. Reviews will tell.

@Yousef- "You can't make something scary if you don't have any fear."

@Hootnoodle Well, when you arrive and realize that London is a rainy, busy nexus of misery you'll be happy to know that games are legal there. So once you've gotten soaked, stuck in traffic, and gone down the pubs you can just play games the rest of the time.

@LordAinsley Jeff "It was revealed to me in a dream" Grubb

If they can just release War of the Lions with the slowdown fixed that'd honestly be enough for me.

I wonder if it'll be a remake or the PSX version running under emulation with enhancements? Either way I'll grab it for sure.

Bummer that it's just a slog of battles with no exploration or real side content at all. Maybe it'll find its way onto PS+ one day.

What year is it?

On a more serious note this game was super fun. I had a bunch of games and PS+ when I got my PS5 but I still played through 100% of this and got the Platinum before I even got to any of them. I don't even chase Platinum trophies much, it was just that fun. Shame we didn't get an Astra game for PSVR2. It's really missing a "getting started" game for new VR players.

@Loamy Liquid metal just isn't a great idea for commodity devices. It requires very specific and precise application that can't really be done at scale. It's not like thermal paste/pads where you just put it in the center and the pressure handles it. It also creeps out from between the heatsink and die/ihs, especially if the device is not laid flat. Asus laptops moved to using liquid metal a couple generations ago and there are tons of pictures of the metal leaking out.

@Flaming_Kaiser What's funny is that's the exact reason Blizzard themselves gave for Overwatch 1 not being a free to play game when it launched. I guess they could only resist going for that f2p money for so long.

Knowing Harada this was just a fun joke with Ono who happened to be there.

How many of these games do we really need? When a new one comes out all I see are complaints about how it's the Worst One Yet(tm) and that there are huge problems and they need to fix it and Warzone bad and yadda yadda.

I genuinely hope that this is a new position and that someone didn't get the sack.

While it's cool to see trials available at all, it's been a huge disappointment of a feature for me. The trials have almost exclusively been old games. Witcher 3 is a free PS4 upgrade and the disc is very cheap.

I'm fine with all three. I'm a suck for golf games for some reason. Death's Door is fun. Dreams should have been a PS Plus resident from the start.

@riceNpea Sir this is a Wendy's.

That's good to hear. I hope there's many missions in the style of the AC3 family of games, rather than the style of 4/V.

I don't remember if it was For Answer or Verdict Day that had like 4 total missions in the whole game. Granted they were pretty long, kind of like Left 4 Dead scenarios rather than the missions of previous games, but I didn't really dig it. The game felt so tiny.

The link in the article goes to a news brief, but this link shows the schedule in a much more visual and easy to grok way:

https://www.evo.gg/schedule

I hope this prompts Sony to improve remote play in general. Right now it does work but the image quality on PC is very poor even at its highest quality. It also doesn't use a hardware accelerated presentation layer so framepacing and sync are terrible.

@B_Lindz I'm sure it's a prototype with software that isn't finished, or even there at all. It looks like a stock build of android. I really doubt Sony will sell this as an android device. Though I'm sure someone will root/jailbreak it.

I'm still not really convinced we've seen the best of the PS5. Outside of a very small handful (hand halfful?) of games most of what we have are essentially PS4 Pro Pro games. Diablo 4, Resident Evil 4, Street Fighter 6, Lies of P, Horizon, etc. It's all just shaping up to make the PS5 this weird middleground when it was supposed to be a leap. I feel like it'll be looked back on as a weird transition rather than its own generation. I'm still in the habit of expecting games to have the PS4 badge on them on the PSN Store and being pleasantly surprised when it has the PS5 badge instead.

I did just get a PSVR2, though, and while I love the headset and the games I've played so far, it's kind of a drag that some of them run at 60fps with spacewarp, rather than native 90/120. Maybe the PS5 Pro will let them run at a real 90/120.

The people in here who are oddly proud that they don't understand why players are killing me. Blizzard is showing us how they intend to steward this game and its balance going forward, and what their showing us is dire. They're hammering down anything fun that crops up with nothing to replace it. They gutting so many builds, and in the case of Sorc literally 100% of their effective builds are dead in the water.

I hope the PSVR2 update includes support for the "rumored" Ada mode and Mercs. RE8's VR mode was great but it sadly didn't cover the DLC or the Mercs mode. Not covering the Mercs mode is a really weird omission. I hope RE4's PSVR2 update doesn't cut the same corner.

Is this the same SE that sold about two billion copies of Tomb Raider and then said it was a flop?

I just really wish it wasn't $60. This looks like it'd make a fun popcorn game for a weekend or two, but with how light on content it is and with so much F2P-style nonsense there's no possible way I'm paying $60.

They both look like pretty easy Platinums. Though Twisted Metal 2 gets kind of obnoxious. You have two lives to get through all of the levels and the enemies barely do anything to each other as the battles go on, but instantly gang up on you. This coupled with the fact that the enemies have infinite special weapons and constantly spam them, it gets to be kind of un-fun to progress effectively.

The game is super fun in multiplayer, though.

Is this game still wall-to-wall cheaters?