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Going to buy. Drowning in great games this year.

Being provocative: Do you mean Unreal Engine?

Computing is going towards defining everything in code. Game platforms are on that trajectory as well. The game platforms devs are picking are UE or Unity etc. The differences between Sony and Microsoft and PC have never been smaller.

This is especially true for game developers that aren’t (1) pushing boundaries in terms of hardware power both small (not trying to run on a Raspberry Pi or Playdate) and large (not trying to get FF16 on Switch or pushing AAA path traced everything graphics) and aren’t interested in (2) special user interactions (the “standard” controller is fine no DDR pads or Guitar Hero gear or the Playdate crank).

Terra-ble. Excellent pun, please no remake.

@Jacko11 I think the idea that all legitimate people who want these products need to be online to buy them within hours of the preorder going live is incredibly inflexible and wrong.

I don’t understand why this is so difficult for Sony. Put more digital defenses in to stop scalping or up your inventory. Protect your customers.

What’s a Twitter account?

This was never a surprise or scandal except to people who were misled by the gaming press or some weird friend group.

But isn’t it FuN to believe and promote conspiracy theories? Truth is soooo boring. Doesn’t get clicks.

I’m getting a Steam Deck. I keep reading articles about this thing to see when it makes sense. Still doesn’t

If the point of journalism is to inform or help people make better choices, this isn’t working.

People don’t read the full article so when your headline basically says “Sony lied to you” and then the article text is weirdly nuanced yeah, you’ve set people’s expectations all wrong. And what for? Engagement? Clicks? Is this fun? Meaningful? I just don’t understand.

7 second load screens on PS5? Isn’t the game smaller than the system RAM? I wonder what’s causing the performance issues.

Sounds like I will wait until a significant discount. I just finished P3P.

Excited about Alan Wake and Extinction.

I think choosing to recreate the show as a game is not a good play. You will never beat the show. Gotta try something else. Make the game as a prequel or maybe play in the world as a side character.

• Survival stealth action game trying to escape the Fire Nation advances.
• Farming game set in Sukki’s hometown.
• Trading card game set in Bah Song See.
• tactical game battling — where you are the fire nation!

They would get more value out of putting their characters (Little Big Planet Avatar puppets?) in other games than making this.

So many choices! Not this one.

Playstation does what Ninten-don’t.

Just kidding I love my PS5, but seriously Sony, if this is true, this is a you problem. Brace yourself for an incoming stability improvements patch!

Their water is boring so no. I guess it needs the power of the Emotion Engine.

Yay! I want Alan Wake and Endling.

I’m following it but not planning to buy anytime soon. I’m much more interested in Metaphor which is being made by the P3-5 Director, Character designer, and composer.

Also, this is being said here in different ways. Gamers have too many choices and combined with inflation this is bad news for new game makers.

I can’t imagine having to launch a new game in 2023 and compete with both free-to-play, Gamepass for $10-15, and all the games that have been made over the past 10 years. Make a building game better than Minecraft or cheaper! Make a farm game better than Stardew Valley or cheaper! And you have AAA award winning games going half price after a month. Sure Plague Tale launches at $60 but it’s $30 now. It’s crazy.

Game was gorgeous but then I played the demo. I found traversal too slow and clunky and I genuinely didn’t enjoy the interaction model. I actually got lost in the demo and I really didn’t enjoy biking. I was really sad when it was over because I think they had some really good ideas here and it just needed more polish.

@Loftimus. That’s such a hater comment. There are so many more LGBT people than your made-up numbers suggest. And don’t make up rules for what people can enjoy. That’s so 1950.

Ew, no please don’t. Just make new games. If Square wants to make an uber Pixel Remaster.. sure though it’s fine as-is (Maybe fix the judder issues?).

I’m looking forward to this and I like supporting indies! It’s fine with me if the game has kink but it just needs to not be hateful (eg bodyshaming, anti queer) or creepy (eg age and consent issues).

The next games in this space I want to play are Trails into Reverie, this game, Tokyo Xanadu, and Metaphor. Maybe Xenoblade Chronicles.

I feel like this article is a great example of the press influencing the populace and failing to own its role in that.

1. Ask Atlus directly.
2. Write an empathetic rant as an oped. “Atlus continues yanking around its fans.”
3. Do nothing. Write about something else.

All better options imo.

@Sil_Am maybe, but I would be very hesitant to use Twitter as a good source of data. It was always small and weird and now it’s smaller and weirder.

And I continue to seek out games that take 4-20 hours to beat. Wholesome Direct is my favorite.

@turntSNACO shhh! Don’t jinx it! (Totally going to be Akechi or a tie-in to a different Atlus property)

I’m mostly excited for Metaphor. I just finished playing P3P and this sounds like that but less content. Not that interested in Tactica. Hmm.

@turntSNACO From Persona Central “For those who have enjoyed the main game, an additional downloadable content episode will be released! This DLC introduces a highly anticipated character available exclusively in the DLC. Not only will players experience a new story, but they can also enjoy thrilling battles with new rules!”

I’m guessing their highly anticipated character is someone from a Persona game, probably from the P5 universe. I would hope it would be Kasumi. But who knows? If they are going to keep building on P5 it gets increasingly weird to ignore her storyline.

I think Sony’s show was a C+ and Microsoft got a B or B+. Neither were stellar but there were more games in the Xbox showcase I wanted to see more of. Most weren’t exclusives.

Love the **texture** everywhere. I really want to move away from just minimalist UIs.

I hope this game is more P5 than SMT. Looks amazing. Moved right to the top of my watchlist.

@rachetmarvel i have a friend who was suicidal and even just watching me play p3 was upsetting to them. I get that’s not everyone, but my friend would like to play p3 and doesn’t feel like the current version will work specifically because of that regular animation. In P5 you mostly can avoid using guns if you choose.

I hope P3RE tones down the gun violence — I mean “evoker” violence. Either way, I will probably buy it.

On P5T, I am frustrated and not really interested. Atlus, just because I love P5R — a turn based RPG — doesn’t mean I also want dancing, fighting, musuo/hack-and-slash, and now tactical games and I think it’s bizarre to drag the characters across so many genres (though I get it from a financial perspective). But — dang it — can I just get P6 or another turn based P5? Maybe send my phantom thieves to college? … And where is Kasumi?!

Put the p5 crew in uni and I am all for it.

I want P6 but with so much success and some of their staff having left they are probably trying to figure out what the next jump is for P6 and are keeping themselves busy with more obvious options.

Oh and I very much appreciate the bad spinoff idea comments and that could easily be an separate article/comment thread.

Good for the dev.

Very curious to see hardware reqs — especially SSD and RAM. You either have to store more, load faster, or load less, right?

I think it would be challenging to beat Horizon BS. But we’ll see! (And for graphics of the year? So far it seems like Cyberpunk RT has that title)

Spiderman 2 looked amazing. I don’t know if I want it, but the graphics even in the livestream were imo more faster, more fluid, and higher quality than MM.

I look forward to the DF review of both.

@Sequel i think Foamstars could be fun. In some sense I think some of the design pushes where I think Splatoon 4 will go — more interactivity in the stages, using foam and water to change the level.

My concern is that it looks like a free to play title and it looks kinda generic. I don’t have confidence that it will be special enough to warrant my limited attention/free time. If I had tons of free time and no money I would be more interested.

Seems like it a decent idea. Needs a lot more polish to capture my attention.

Bring back Power Stone!

It was fine but won’t drive conversations. I am most interested in colorful single player games. My highlights were Teardown, Sword of the Sea, Neva, and Revenant Hill. So a very tiny % of the show.

I really liked Spiderman and MM… this one leaned more dire and I found that depressing.

I think it’s unlikely we get P6 for another year or two. P5 is hard to top and Katsura Hashino is not directing. P6 is going to be different.

I expect more P5 and remakes for a while. Maybe a teaser this year and then a concert announcement, more merch announcements, and some cameo dlcs in other games.

I think if they want to do a pro, fine. But what feature set is new? This is the first year it seems the 2020 consoles are finally getting first-class games made for what they can do without being hampered by the 2010 systems.

I recommend playing Cold Steel 1 and 2. Then if you are hooked consider Sky else proceed to 3 and 4 knowing you will miss even more references but will still have an enjoyable time.

ToCS 1 and 2. Sky 1 and 2. ToCS 3 and 4. Zero, Azure, Reverie. Repeat (jk).

Exception if you have a Steam Deck or are big into pc gaming then maybe try Sky first. 🤷‍♂️

The only thing I can think of — and no one is going to like this — is to just not make the sequel. Make the multiplayer game and make other games. You can’t fix this offscreen or AI the problem away.

Dang it! There are so many new interesting games. Too many new interesting games?! Guys I am deep in Witcher 3 now and Tears of the Kingdom just shipped. What am I supposed to do!?

I want Oxenfree, Dorgodone, Dead Space, Plague Tale 2, Signalis, Tchia, Chained Echoes, Cassette Beasts, Teenage Exocolonist, Dredge, etc…

I can’t bring myself to buy games that just I can’t play for months until I get to them. I need time travel. Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!

So pretty. I wish publishers didn’t decide based on preorders whether games were successful. I want this game and yet I am booked with games to play and I try not to just buy games to wait a year to play them.

Concrete Genie was great. One of my top PS+ games. I was looking forward to their next thing.

Not convinced. I believe their hardware team is designing one but that’s not the same as launching one.

@Avalanchee https://media1.giphy.com/media/DbSZni6xAW2Ws/giphy.gif

I can imagine genre or publisher specific subscriptions working. Eg I think I would pay for a Wholesome Games subscription.

The gameplay is the DLC was better than HFW. That was enough for me. 9/10. And then the graphics! Amazing!

I think the writers really need a plan for Sylens. He stole all the scenes. I don’t know how they can replace him. Or do without him. I think the reason HZD story was so good was the Aloy-Sylens relationship. HFW didn’t do that as well.

The vast majority people don’t care about Aloy’s sexuality. But some percentage of anti-gay activists do and they are the ones doing the reviewing bombing. I think it says more about them and about how the internet gives power to small fringe groups to harass others. Everything is Gamergate. https://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844

You don’t even have to make Aloy go down that path.

Disappointed. Well, not every month can be amazing. I am playing through Sackboy Ps5 with kids and hoping for more indie titles. Those have generally been my favorite PS+ options.

It seems pretty clear to me that there are already too many games to be able to raise prices much. Many games (except Nintendo) are 20-50% off within a couple of months of launch. There are constantly huge sales of hundreds or thousands of games. Epic, Sony and others give you free games each week/month. The phrase “backlog” has real meaning for a lot of gamers. I think the market has room to grow but for the individual supply outstrips demand.

So… yeah sure publishers can charge … some “insane” amount like $120 for an amazing game at launch just like they already offer $300 collector editions with knick-knacks, but the baseline price would drop to $50-60 within a few weeks and most people would pick it up for far less.