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Sort of crappy that we’re at a point where games are getting rereleased one generation after release at full price, even average games. Watch the PS4 version get delisted as well.

Vampire Survivors is a pure 10. For the price, the value is insane. Pure arcade bliss.

@Maubari If Silent Hill bombs and Metaphor sounds like it’s wrong for me (and Dragon Age too, I suppose), I’ll either grab Sonic or Mario Party since I like them both and 100% know what I’m getting into. My kids will no doubt thank me if this is the future.

@Malaise That would be a big win for me. I liked Concord, but the lack of players had me concerned enough to wait for that to be a possibility. Not sure I get the vitriol for a solid hero shooter when there’s far worse F2P options out there that are thriving.

I’m very happy. Quidditch is a wonderful addition. Honestly excited to play it on Tuesday.

I think Xbox is dying which is going to have a negative ripple effect on Sony. The competition kept things healthy. I suspect the bubble will burst shortly after GTA6 launches with a price increase and successful sales, causing others to follow suit in raising prices and failing to hit sales expectations due to consumer disinterest in perceived value. I do think that Nintendo will continue to dominate as they, by and large, create quality products at a more cost effective range. I suspect 2026 and onward to be rough years for the industry if other market conditions continue the way they are trending. Consumers, plainly, need more spending dollars to compete with continued cost increases and inflation.

September for me:
Quidditch, Astro Bot, Rugrats, Plucky Squire, (LoZ on Switch)

October for me:
Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, Life is Strange, and maybe Silent Hill 2 and very maybe Metaphor. I can wait for a sale on Sonic.

And I’m holding out for that Power Rangers game too! More games in September and October than all year

I honestly hope this pushes the game to being F2P or emergency offloaded to PS+. I dunno. I liked it. I just didn’t buy it because the player count was so low and I didn’t want to spend $40 on a game that shuts down after a year. So yeah, I’d like to play it. Sure, the characters are not well designed, but I do like the gameplay.

Most people I know are already pairing back their purchases and waiting for reviews because the value isn’t perceived to be there, even for enthusiasts. I think, if prices go up, people will buy even less and it’ll have the reverse effect that industry heads want. Granted, from a business perspective, profits are likely down this year and it’s causing the executives to question how they can recoup costs. As great as GTA6 will likely be, it could also be the needle that pops the gaming bubble.

I dunno. If the whole Baldur’s Gate 3 thing didn’t happen so publicly where Larian really seemed to struggle optimizing the game for Xbox, I’d find it fishy, but there’s a lot of difficulties going around, and Xbox simply has a smaller base, so I get developers skipping the platform now. There’s become a precedent for it.

Nope. I didn’t like the last Mana game and I disliked the demo. Me in the 90’s would probably be surprised that I’m distant from the series now. I loved Secret of Mana.

Never in all my bingo cards would I have guessed 2024 would be the year we are scheduled to get a Power Rangers and Rugrats game… that potentially look like the best games in yet in their retrospective series.

Since Green Ranger is there, gotta wonder if White Ranger or Lord Drakkon is on the horizon as well.

I can’t wait to read reviews on this one. I’m so glad it’s on PS+. I already know how I feel about this game… for reasons… and I hope that others feels the same way!

@breakneck Totally agree with your thoughts on Cyberpunk. The jank and bugs were more fun and memorable than the base game for me. The whole thing reminded me of Far Cry in a negative way. Even with fixes, I don’t think I’d be able to get invested into the game.

I could honestly do without another Cyberpunk game, as I didn’t really like the first one, but I’ll toss a coin to my Witcher any day.

@Leonhart Exactly. If anything, I sort of feel like Dragon’s Dogma and Monster Hunter have more overlaps than Dino Crisis. Happy for anyone that contributes to Capcom having success, honestly. Helps get me RE, Megaman, Street Fighter, and even things niche like Kinitsugami. Maybe I’ll even give the series another shot with Wilds too.

Love Capcom, but I don’t “get” Monster Hunter. It’s not for me. However, I’m all there for Dino Crisis. Like @trev666 said, Dino Crisis makes me think Resident Evil more than anything else. When I think about Resident Evil, I think about spending money immediately, right away, no questions asked.

I’d preorder it right now if I could

The Harry Potter series, despite being something that should translate well into games, has typically been handled by teams that have treated the series like it deserves a set of junk tie-ins. Hogwarts Legacy deserves the top spot and it’s not even close. I’d say the Gameboy games are better than the PlayStation ones. And you know it’s bad when the LEGO Harry Potter games are better than most of the regular ones. A bunch of 4 and 5/10 tier games. It was always weird to me that the Quidditch game was the best HP game on home consoles til Hogwarts Legacy. The series deserved so much better.

WB, want to make a live service game that works and that people would buy? Make a Harry Potter game based on the events of the first book, but instead of playing as Harry, you’re a no-name create-a-wizard that starts the same year. Make expansion packs based on each year of school, release them periodically for a few years, and make it an MMO. Just use Hogwarts Legacy assets. The end. There’s your billions.

Can’t wait for Quidditch. I’m genuinely excited for that one. Huge win for the service that this game is on there.

Really not bothered that MLB is on there either. It’s a decent enough game. I gave it a play on Gamepass when I was subscribed and enjoyed it for a bit. I don’t play sports games often, but every once in a while I’ll get hooked on one for a day or two. I’m ok having this as an option for PS.

I don’t know why, but I’ve got this wriggling feeling that this one may not hit the expectations many have of this title from a financial or critical standpoint. While it has a lot of hallmarks for what should be a cult classic, there’s also something that has seemed just a bit off in the way the game’s been presented by Atlus recently.

That said, it’s also impossible to say. As a non-Persona player, I actually find Metaphor to be the most interesting game to me personally that Atlus has done, but I’m just waiting on the reviews to see if it’s for me, as I’ve bought several Persona/SMT games and just can’t get deep into them.

There’s a chance. If I was Sony, I’d do a creative marketing goodwill bundle with it in some capacity. Do something a bit “out there” to get word out about it in a positive way. The negative word of mouth is hurting it more than anything

Toward the end of chapter 2, I’m leaning toward 9/10. Potentially the third best game of 2024 so far. That could all change, of course, but that’s how I feel now.

…and downloaded.

Yeah, this review pretty much confirms my thoughts from the demo. I wanted to like it, but the characters were… there. Hearing that the story isn’t anything interesting, makes me uninterested. Oh well. That’s ok.

Life is Strange, Lost Records, and Indy were the hits for me.

@naruball The portal streams the existing games on the PS5. Unless it’s a 1-to-1 PS5 handheld then, we’d have the PlayStation Series S, basically. No thanks for that.

@IOI I would imagine that, given these numbers and slow matchmaking, it won’t be long before Steam users start to drop off even more as a result of a lack of other players. It’s really sad. Concord doesn’t deserve this. Suicide Squad deserved to bomb. Skull and Bones also did. Redfall even deserved it. These were all 4/10 tier experiences (well… Suicide Squad is maybe a 3/10). Concord is a flat 7/10 experience and it directly addresses a lot of people’s complaints about the GAAS format, multiplayer shooters, etc. It’s actually a little bit different. If it’s a 200-300 million dollar loss for Sony, it’s a shame that it was this one rather than one that was trying to be another prong in the whale market. Also, I doubt this one flopping will stop the other doomed projects from releasing to similarly catastrophic results. I doubt Fairgame$ has a sunnier fate than Concord.

@get2sammyb As much as I do like Concord, is this potentially the highest profile commercial flop of a game in history?

I honestly can’t believe the number are THAT bad. Even more baffling is that the game is actually fairly solid, certainly better than the majority of games in its genre. While I think the industry deserves “the message” that games are tired of live service bs, I don’t think Concord deserves worse than Suicide Squad.

Sony hasn’t been able to focus enough on first party titles for their main platform, so why bother with a handheld? So it can be abandoned like PSVR2 has been?

I’ll be more supportive of it when Sony can get a consistent release schedule of first party releases to verify that they can handle developing for multiple platforms at once, as was something they could do in generations past.

@LifeGirl For what it’s worth, I think Freya is a video game character circa 2003 that came out in 2023 game. She was whiny and vulgar, but hey, Forspoken was a fun game with some solid aspects to it. It wasn’t a 10/10 by any means, but it was new and took risks and had very fun combat and traversal. This decade we’ve had games release broken that were forgiven, but the internet hated Forspoken (and Concord) a full year before it released and most detractors, I’ve found, haven’t played the game before trashing it. I totally respect anyone that played it and didn’t like it, but gaming culture needs to try new things or else this vacuum of remakes, remasters, and live service F2P will persist.

@Batesy125s I agree wholeheartedly! I’ve got a t-shirt for True Colors.

Black Myth Wukong if I get the chance to play

@get2sammyb I agree. It reminds me of Forspoken, which had a similar thing where people just wanted to dogpile on it for some reason. I don’t get this trend in gaming where people have more fun hating a game than playing it. If anything Concord is more of what people tend to say they want out of multiplayer games too (at least people I know that used to play multiplayer, but have dropped out of it).

@Batesy125s Definitely getting Mixtape too. Gotta wonder if Chloe will have any type of cameo in the new game

Really looking forward to this one. I’m sort of stoked that we’re getting a bunch of smaller releases this fall that seem tailor made to my gaming tastes, but LiS is perhaps the biggest one for me. This one looks better and better each time I see it. And if it doesn’t deliver how I want it to? Lost Records looks poised to try its best too. Great time for this genre with two heavy hitters coming out so close to each other

If I didn’t feel like this one was going to get a fairly immediate discount, I would’ve gotten it. I liked the beta and honestly prefer it to Helldivers

It’s Atlus. It’ll be 900 hours. It’ll take a lot of trailers to spoil it.

I’ll be honest, this one might be a 9 for me… if I keep enjoying future chapters as much as the first one. I haven’t enjoyed a game so much since the day I one-two punched and beat Rebirth and Balatro in the same day. I haven’t played a game where I’ve fist pumped after beating a boss since Elden Ring (and I’m not talking Erdtree).

@LifeGirl heck if I know! I’m not the developer!

@Oram77 Hopefully the review embargo drops before the early access period! It feels like that’s a shady way to get people to purchase before reviews go out. “Pay more, know less” is hopefully not a strategy that persists in the industry.

I can’t wait! This alone sort of puts TGS as a better showcase for me than Gamescom. Most anticipated title for me right here!

@Batesy125s @Cloud39472 I had read somewhere that most of the time for development for the third entry is converting the map for the airship since that’s a radically different mode of travel. We’ll see how long it takes, but, man, do I hope it’s quick!

I agree with you! Remake, Rebirth, and 16 were all fantastic. I think I’d likely put all 3 in my top 5, but jeez would I need to sit on that and contemplate.

Bad joke incoming…

WB Sports: it’s in the game

But in all seriousness, I’m looking more forward to the campaign for this one than I ever thought I would be. I suspect this game will surprise a lot of people with how good it is.

Bigger isn’t always better and I feel like the gaming industry has forgotten this, but I will admit I’m cautiously intrigued for this one. I’m really starting to wonder if I can fit this one into my schedule for the rest of the year. Jeez, October is packed…

I’ve got full faith in wherever they got for the final entry in the trilogy. So far, the first two are two of my favorite games ever made full stop. Can’t wait for more. I still miss playing Rebirth all these months later. Hope the wait isn’t as long for the third one. Can’t wait to see how they end things.

And realistically, the last third of the original is when Tifa was most prominent as a character, so they could do a lot of interesting things with her character in the finale.

Ironically, after failing all generation, Xbox finally has a compelling lineup next year. Next year does in fact look like the “next year’s the year” year. Shame it’s too late now. The platform has damaged itself. Even if I’m planning to resub and play almost a dozen games on Xbox next year, it actually feels weird to say that, after four years of a patchy release schedule

@SuperSilverback I’m sad it didn’t have that. I want that Death Stranding and OD double feature!

Honestly, ONL was pretty eh for me. Lost Records and Indy are the only games from it I’m interested in. I’m starting to wonder what happened to all the games I’m interested in at this point. Where is Pragmata? Where is Judas? No Metal Gear Solid Delta? Man…

Looks like I guessed the right Xbox game going to PS! Looking forward to this one a lot. Depending on how deep I get through my games this year, I’ll decide if this’ll be Gamepass or PS5.

So I guess with this one and Palworld, Nintendo derivatives are officially a trend now….