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It'd be nice if they introduce a system where you increase your player's skills through XP instead of currency, which makes no sense outside of blatant greed

@get2sammyb Possible dumb question, but why is the header/graphics for this article red as opposed to the usual blue?

@Jacko11 Exactly. I think at this point I've given up on these games because they just throttle your progression by tying EVERYTHING to vc and then not giving you enough of it. No matter how good each year's release looks, my mind immediately goes to how microtransaction laden it's going to be

@Oopsyloopsy91 Yeah it was pretty weird after GTA 4 where you just played as Nico, and then 5 where you're bouncing around between characters. I would've preferred if the character swapping was just limited to the heists, or if they let you pick a character at the beginning of the story

Am I the only person who didn't like playing as three protagonists, and managing their money, weapons, etc?

@Quintumply Me too. Nintendo added folders to Switch but they're stuck in the library, and you have to select a tab to get to them. Completely defeats the purpose in my opinion

Paid early access but then free to play for the full release?

I would love for Ubisoft to finally make AC Syndicate run on PS5 and add that to Extra

Also probably live service with lots of microtransactions

@xjulianvel Yeah, I think it's a missed opportunity to not make the experience more seamless. It's not like they'd have to come up with anything new

As soon as it was announced that all the costume dlc would be included, I knew it wouldn't be a free upgrade. It's a shame though, I'm STILL working my way through Royal and would love to continue on PS5

@xjulianvel I know it is included. I'm asking if it is integrated into the game. In the previous versions, you have to access it from the main menu. With this being a complete remake, I would hope they take the opportunity to incorporate this dlc chapter and weave it seamlessly into the story.

I've yet to see anywhere if Left Behind will be incorporated into the main game. It would be a missed opportunity not to

Have any games that use Unreal Engine 5 come out yet?

I have two cats, am playing Stray on PS5 and can say that it has the most accurate depiction of a cat that I've seen in a video game to date

@Zombiechris What?

In my opinion, Lady Dimitrescu is fairly overrated as a character. Yes she has some good dialogue, but she mainly just stalks you around the castle and then turns into a dragon thing and you blow her up. She's the first boss of the game basically

I've tried to get into Warframe so many times but I just don't understand the story

Welcome to Raccoon City was a huge disappointment for me. The director talked it up saying how he's a big fan of the games and it would be a faithful adaptation, just to attempt to cram the first two games into a 107 minute film. Not sure why it's so hard to JUST focus on the first game with the Arklay Forest murders, Spencer Mansion, and underground lab.

So the one AC game I don't currently own - Syndicate - doesn't get added. Also, no new PS one games? The Premium tier is looking less worth it

Obviously a lot of time and effort has been put into this project, so it shouldn't be free or $20 or anything like that. But $70 is a bit much for a game whose story we know very well already and apparently won't have any new content besides remade graphics. I think think $50 is a more fair price for a game that most people have played through several times already

It should've been their focus right after GTA V first came out

Why is it whenever they release an image from the new NBA 2k it's always Steph chewing on his mouthguard

Back with still more microtransactions

@AdamNovice I tried BOTW and I honestly could not get into it. Between weapons constantly breaking and extremely overpowered robot enemies dotting the landscape, I lost interest after a few hours

I upgraded my existing plus - which expires in October - to premium. Not thrilled with the selection of ps one games though, I'll see what they add between now and then, otherwise I'm switching to Extra

@allblaxx Exactly. So many locations were left out: the park, newspaper office, the gas station only appears briefly in a cutscene, and the hospital sequence is severely simplified - with the vaccine synthesis removed for Carlos. And Raccoon City itself is oversimplified - you don't get that sense of progression, moving through the city uptown to downtown and back, trying to repair the cable car and escape, never knowing when the Nemesis will show up. The remake is technically sound, but overall pales in comparison to the original

@GorosBat Studios yes, PUBLISHERS no. But yes you have a good one as well 👍

@GorosBat But making an exclusivity deal with a third-party publisher for a specific game and BUYING the publisher to make the game exclusive are kinda the same thing, only one is far more extreme and relatively unprecedented until Bethesda. The intent is to keep a game away from the competition, is it not?

@GorosBat I understand and appreciate the point you've been trying to make about console exclusivity. However in my opinion, and of course you're welcome to disagree, Microsoft has been far more egregious in this area. If remember back in 2015, MS paid Square Enix to make Rise of the Tomb Raider an Xbox One exclusive for about a year, where the previous game had been multiplatform. Then they began purchasing entire publishers: Bethesda, Activision; and potentially cutting off even more games from other platforms. Yes I realize Phil Spencer has stated that Call of duty will remain multiplatform, but he's all but confirmed that Elder Scrolls 6, (and probably Fallout 5) will be Xbox exclusive. PS players will never have to opportunity to try Starfield either. And then there's the acquisition of Ninja Theory, and Hellblade 2 also being an Xbox exclusive now. Hellblade originally launched on PS4/PC and sold close to a million copies before the Xbox/Switch versions came out. There's no way that the game's success on PS4 as a new IP wasn't a factor in Microsoft buying it up. Ninja Theory even made a next-gen version of Hellblade for Series X/S but (seemingly per Microsoft) barely acknowledged the PS4 version and refused to at least make a PS5 version as a final show of goodwill to the players who took a chance and supported the new IP. So my point is that Microsoft seems to take series or games that were once multiplatform, purchases them, and then cuts the series off from other consoles. Again, I get your frustration about FF7 and Persona, but I feel that Microsoft's behavior has been far more extreme in the last couple of years. No one was talking about either MS or PS buying entire publishers until Microsoft bought Bethesda. And just to clarify, I own a PS5, Series X, Switch, and have in the past owed every generation of PS and Xbox console. I am not a PlayStation fanboy or anything like that

@GorosBat So if Sony bought Square Enix, you'd be fine with FF7 being a PS5 exclusive?

@bimboliquido Seriously, Atlas remastered SMT III Nocturne - a PS2 game - for PS4, why couldn't they do the same for FES? I can't imagine navigating the world with a cursor on a big screen 😬

@mousieone True, but it doesn't have the epilogue, and moving a cursor through the world instead of directly controlling the character just didn't do it for me. I guess it made sense for PSP, but not Xbox

But, why P3 Portable? Atlus recently remastered/ported SMT 3 Nocturne PS4 and switch, so why couldn't they port P3 FES - the most complete version? Heck, they are even porting Royal and Golden, the complete versions of P5 and P4, so it baffles me that they would pick Portable for P3

Is crazy that technically the only HD version of Persona 4 is on Vita

I hope they incorporate Left Behind into the main game - it would be really cool to have that content seamlessly woven into the story, instead of quitting and going back to the main menu

Christophe Gans directed the first film, which was by far the better of the two movies

Well I think it's safe to say Deep Down won't be making an appearance

@DeepSpace5D Yes that was definitely it, thanks that was killing me

This is a little off topic, but it'd be nice if someone could help me out. What was the name of that game announced during the PS5 unveiling back in 2020 - it had to do with an astronaut and a little girl in some weird version of times square, NY? I think Capcom was publishing it? For a moment I thought it was the Callisto Protocol but I think it's something entirely different

@DeepSpace5D True. It's just that he didn't mention third party day and date releases either, even after Shadow Warrior 3 had launched on PS now. So I had a feeling there might be more. But yeah, first party games are off the table

This was easily the best State of Play yet. What was unexpected though, was the announcement that Stray would be launching day and date on the higher Plus tiers. It'll be interesting to see if Sony has more of these in store, after Jim Ryan had said they wouldn't be doing that

What about Resistance 1 & 2?

That's crazy - 200 employees down to 40. Though I really hope the next Mafia game is not actually a prequel. Like, prequel to what? Mafia was set in the 1930s, Mafia II right after WWII, and Mafia 3 in the 60s. Would it be prohibition era? Honestly, I'd prefer a continuation of Lincoln Clay's story in the 1980s, set in a different city

Thank goodness. This was one thing that didn't sit well with me

This is awesome news. I always wanted to play this but not with the PSP's single analog nub and button movement/aiming. Hopefully Vita games show up eventually too, like Killzone Mercenary

Isn't this game set in the PUBG universe, or something like that? That's the only thing I'm uneasy about

So...has anyone noticed that Sony has not released a first-party, single-player fps since Killzone Shadowfall - a 2013 PS4 launch title? I'm not counting Farpoint and Bravo Team, as those were VR games

@Northern_munkey Yeah I initially had the physical version too which worked fine on PS4, sold it awhile back, then bought the digital on sale. That also worked fine on PS4, but when I tried playing it on PS5, that's when it started crashing nonstop

@Northern_munkey It was fine when I played it on my PS4 back when it came out, but earlier this year I tried it on PS5 and it crashes every time. Sometimes when loading a mission, but usually right after. I have the digital version, and I've tried reinstalling