johncalmc

Playing Yakuza in English should get you sent to prison for ten years to think about what you've done.

The modding scene for that game is gonna be a hive of scum and villainy within like four minutes.

This seems like a weird decision, and quite annoying as playing in a duo would be the only way I'd likely play this game.

It's weird that Black Myth Wukong became the thing a bunch of people were willing to totally embarrass themselves over. I could at least get it if it was something great like Metaphor ReFantazio or Treasure Island Dizzy. But these lads are embarrassing themselves over a pretty whatever monkey game. I mean come on.

Good. The best one Geoff has done. Intergalactic looked delightful, happy Astro Bot cleaned up, and the bit with that Amir fella was great.

I really like the 80s vibe, the music, clothes etc. Space. Very much into this game.

Think Astro Bot will win. I'd personally pick Metaphor but Astro Bot got that feel good, everyone can enjoy it charm. As long as Final Fantasy VII Rebirth doesn't win I'm fine with it.

I'm into this because I love character creator nonsense, even in a game that desperately needs more third person scenes so we can actually see our character.

One thing - in the bullet points at the top it lists new hair options but then in the more in depth bit below there's no mention of new hairstyles. I'm not being nitpicky, I just care about hairstyles in my games.

I feel like I'm going to be more on the 6/10 and 7/10 end just based on what the reviews are saying but I love Indiana Jones and a 6 or a 7 is fine so I'll definitely be playing it.

They should have a tournament to see how long they can go without having a showcase.

@Oram77 It's kinda the problem with scoring games generally. Like I 7/10 liked this game. It's a 'Good' on our ranking scale. But I can easily see someone giving it an 8 or a 9. I really think it'll come down to how much you like the combat. The story is whatever and the characters are stereotypes. That's all fine. They're not going to be the dealbreaker here. It's how much you jive with the combat that is going to determine if you like this game or not, and from about the halfway point I hated pretty much every boss fight.

when it comes to these live service games they should probably just start cutting out the middle man and never release them. save everyone some time and money.

@SuperSilverback Oh. That makes more sense then. I don't play these games and I just thought it was always on PlayStation.

So this is how I find out The Finals wasn't already on PlayStation.

It's wild that we've been having PlayStation showcase rumours for like three years or something. They even had a showcase during that time but it was rubbish so everyone just kept rumouring that there'd be another one to make up for it. We're still at it. Hermen Hulst is probably laughing his back off seeing how long he can get away with it.

I didn't know anything about this but I never liked him anyway. Glad he's out of the game. Should be going to prison!

I love brick breakers. Always have. Twin Breaker was a good time so I'll no doubt end up playing this too.

how hard can it possibly be? just make angry birds but make the birds kratos or something. sell it to morons. mobile strategy solved.

Junko Enoshima as new PlayStation mascot is a win I think.

It's so stupid. But then so are the game awards generally.

Just have an Expansion/DLC award. Having a non-standalone DLC win game of the year is stupid. You could kinda argue it for a standalone one since it's its own thing. But additional content to an existing game is just that. If DLC is okay then why didn't Phantom Liberty get a nod? What about Blood & Wine? What about Shadowbringers or Endwalker from Final Fantasy XIV?

Not into it.

First, they should be doing FemShep. Everyone knows this.

Second, if John Cena is in this I'm going to be so sour. Mass Effect is perfect for a television show. Amazon already made a mess of Yakuza. Let's not ruin Mass Effect.

Weirdly I'm playing Death Stranding again right now. Nice to see it going everywhere. It's an excellent game. The 8 people still buying games on Xbox will enjoy it I'm sure.

This sucks for running a site that talks about PlayStation news etc. but on a personal level I get the strategy and I like it. The announcement and relatively quick release of Astro Bot was perfect. We didn't need to see it at four conferences, with a half dozen trailers spoiling everything. I'm into this.

Seems to me that given the pedigree of some of the people involved in the studio that giving them another go on a different game might have been a good option, but then I guess if you make the biggest flop in PlayStation history then heads are gonna roll. Predictably, those heads belong to devs, not the upper management that threw $200 million+ at this thing.

I will buy this and I will platinum this.

I'm looking forward to playing this one. I'm a big Life Is Strange fan and I generally think the Deck Nine games have been very good. I'm also wondering how they address the choice at the end of the first game since most people seem to fall into two camps on the ending of the first game and I think I'm actually in a third secret camp that nobody talks about. Anyway, I'll probably pick it up in a week or two and hopefully they've fixed some of those tech issues!

I might play this but I just find it hard to care about Dragon Age even though I've played them all.

I honestly thought this looked cool until I found out it was free to play pish.

I know I'm part of the problem because I'm gonna buy this, but this is so unnecessary. The original version is still fine today. The later version with the anime cut-scenes added in is still fine today. How many times do we need this game, unless they're gonna pull a Final Fantasy VII and it's actually not a remake but something weird, which unlike Final Fantasy VII might actually work with Steins;Gate.

I like it. It's a bit like a remix version of Yakuza pulling bits and pieces from different games, adding new twists to it. But it's also one of those where I'm like, for all the changes, the story would be better if they'd just told the story of either 0 or Yakuza 1, and just fleshed it out. It's both simplified and needlessly convoluted at the same time. Bizarre, but an interesting watch.

Also, shoutout to my boy Saejima who in the show is played by a dude who is about 5 foot 2 wearing a comical wig. Questionable.

I'm using it to have a picture of Kiryu as the background for my PS5. Beyond that not really.

@ShogunRok Weird for a PlayStation site to be reviewing Xbox game Metaphor: ReFantazio.

Anyway, I was always gonna get this given how much I love Persona but I'm glad it seems to have turned out really well.

Fortnite man hypes Fortnite.

Hey Abby looks great.

I managed to get one of the Dualsenses which was all I wanted. I would have rather had two but they wouldn't allow more than one sale. Absolute madness.

I thought this looked really cool but I had no idea it was free to play. I thought it was a proper game. And for that reason... I'm out.

I can practically taste the twitter salt that they're doing lady ghost of tsushima. There's gonna be so many tedious YouTube videos about it. I'm into it though, glad they're leaving Jin's story as is.

@nessisonett I know! I dunno whether I'm just tired or something but people seem to be really into this show but it seemed like a bunch of nothing and then Ghost which was a foregone conclusion. I mean I'm into Ghost but when you've been waiting for God knows how long at this point for Sony to actually announce a bunch of games this hasn't exactly wowed me.

I thought it was pretty bad. Obviously, Ghost is a win but it was obviously happening, and the rest of it should have been an email.

This is one of the most astonishing pieces of PlayStation news I've ever heard.

There has never, ever, in history, been a video game that aligns with my interests more completely than this.

There's light at the end of the tunnel guys. It's nearly over.

@Kidfunkadelic83 Definitely! I'll tell you what's super noticeable playing this version of the game - the load times. The load times for Broken Sword on PS1 were absolutely catastrophic, and any time you had to go from one screen to another and then another - like the last puzzle in Ireland, for example - it took an age. There's a bit in the hospital where it jumps between cutscene and dialogue repeatedly, and I suddenly got flashbacks to playing it on PS1 all those years ago and how it would have to do a load between each transition and it was so annoying.

I know it's not loading Horizon Forbidden West here, but it's cool for people who played it on PS1 to have it as intended here. Lovely stuff.

@The_Wailing_Doom in a vaccuum it's not so silly. But the reality is that people don't expect to pay 40 notes for a game like that, rightly or wrongly. It's the same in the mobile space whenever anyone tries to sell a "real" game at what console gamers would consider a fair price and nobody buys it. Fair prices are dictated by the market, and value is determined by what consumers are willing to pay. Nobody playing Fortnite or Overwatch or Apex for free is gonna abandon that ship for an untested, unproven game they gotta throw £40 at.

@get2sammyb Yeah as much as I'd like to see them get another go I do think they can't survive. There's certainly a stink on the game and the dev too. Whether the studio survives or not I think the game is over - there's no redemption story on the cards. It's not like Cyberpunk or No Man's Sky which people wanted to be good. Everyone hated Concord as soon as it was revealed. There doesn't seem to be an appetite for redemption here.

The thing with Concord is that the game apparently plays pretty well? The director stepping down makes sense - buck has to stop with someone for the poor decisions made. And whoever was in charge of the art direction might be in a precarious position. But I'd let the rest of the team have another go. There's something there in Concord, it just needed to not have absolutely dreadful character designs and that silly pricepoint.

@BecauseBecause I've played that game!

Because I keep buying them.

@Kidfunkadelic83 oh it might have been 96 then. Even worse. Nearly 30 years ago. Good lord 😂

@Angelus3K it was '98 on PlayStation which is the version I played. Always forget it came out two years earlier on PC!