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Review scores across the board are in the 6/10 range, which isn't terrible. I wasn't expecting the world with this game. I'm still gonna pick it up. Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but 6/10 is the highest score an Alone in the Dark game has received in nearly 20 years.

@LifeGirl I will die on the hill saying SSX Tricky is the greatest snowboarding game ever.

This game is dead. You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

Ugh, why is anybody giving these clickbait articles the time of day? EVERY game's physical sales are down and most games, that aren't GTAV, drop nearly 90% in the second week. On top of that, this is Japan where physical sales are down even further than in other areas. Spider-Man 2, Starfield, Final Fantasy XVI, etc. all experienced higher digital sales than physical and experienced sharp drop off week on week. This is normal and not at an indictment on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's quality or reception.

@Shigurui Eh, I'd rather Naughty Dog give us the ability to unlock the multiplayer trophies so we can actually GET the platinum.

Personally, I found it funny that the platinum trophy name was messed up and would rather they had left it.

Not a bad lineup. I might hop into NBA 2K24. The highlight this month has to be Jak and Daxter The Lost Frontier. Resident Evil 3 is also a great addition, though I've already platinumed it....twice.

@Bentleyma It started life at Naughty Dog as a PS3 game, but was given to High Impact Games and retooled for PS2 and PSP.

Awesome, Queen's Blood is so much fun.

@Godot25 Deviation Games wasn't a Sony studio.

@Professor_Niggle I'll get to Helldivers II, but I've just got too much to play at the moment (you can probably figure out from my pic what I'm currently playing). On top of that, over the next 2 months we've got Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade, South Park: Snow Day, and Alone in the Dark, all of which are on my radar. From what I've heard, Concord is sort of like Guardians of the Galaxy, whatever that means. Fairgame$ has a lot of potential, I just hope they don't screw it up. As for Bungie, it's probably time to sunset Destiny and move on to Marathon. Though, I hope Sony gets them to make a full single player campaign for Marathon as that would be insane and Bungie is long overdue for new single player content.

If this is the next one, please, please, PLEASE, have Nixxes do it. Keep Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy away from The Last of Us Part II on PC.

@Professor_Niggle My bad, it can be hard to understand intent in these comments sometimes lol. Agreed, though. There are good live service games (I love Final Fantasy XIV and Helldivers II appears to be insane, though I haven't played it). I think the failure comes when studios who don't know how to make them (or don't want to) get forced to do it. That's how we get a Suicide Squad or a Redfall. It's how Deviation Games fails or how we get a Halo Infinite. Hopefully, Concord and Fairgame$ turn out better than most. I still lament the loss of The Last of Us Online, but seeing the falls of Rocksteady and Arkane, it was probably for the best. We don't want to lose Naughty Dog.

@Professor_Niggle I didn't say Sony doesn't work well with studios. I said it was a failure of the live-service push. I think these games are just a massive gamble and so many of them fail. Live-service is a far bigger risk than other games. Every year multiple live-service games shut down (some right after launch). Only a select few are ever successful and rarely immediately. Honestly, (MMORPGs notwithstanding), I think I can count on one hand the number of live service games that have succeeded: Destiny 2, GTA Online, Sea of Thieves, Fortnite, The Division. And even a number of those were disasters at launch. Hell, Red Dead Redemption II has sold over 60 million and yet, Red Dead Online couldn't hold an audience.

My ranking of the top 10 Final Fantasy games:

10. Final Fantasy VIII
9. Final Fantasy XIII
8. Final Fantasy IV
7. Final Fantasy X
6. Final Fantasy Tactics
5. Final Fantasy IX
4. Final Fantasy XVI
3. Final Fantasy VI
2. Final Fantasy XIV
1. Final Fantasy VII/Remake/Rebirth

(I don't count VII and it's remakes separately)

Can't wait for more people to play this masterpiece.

Another casualty of Sony's short-sighted live-service initiative.

10, outstanding. I have been having nothing but fun with it since I started. Can't wait to finish it and look forward to part 3.

@jt887 You mean the fanbase that paid $16 for a Game pass subscription in September to play Starfield, instead of buying the game outright? I've said it many times, Sony could announce Spider-Man for Xbox tomorrow and Xbox fanboys would whine if the game weren't coming to Game Pass. The first vs third party exclusive argument also falls apart because of Spider-Man. Insomniac is a first party developer and yet apparently that is still a problem. If it's such a problem that Insomniac and Spider-Man are first party, why isn't it also a problem that Bethesda and Starfield are first party for Xbox? Personally, I wouldn't care for a second if Final Fantasy VII Remake/Rebirth or Spider-Man go to Xbox or Nintendo. More people get to play the games that I love? Great. I'm sure some Sony fanboys' heads would explode just as Xbox fanboys' heads did when a game almost none of them played, Pentiment, was announced for PS4/5 and Switch.

This isn't much of a news story. Helldivers II has been the biggest game of the month and launched at the beginning of February. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth launched on the last day of February (and one one less platform) so not really a fair comparison. Glad both games are doing well.

@DennisReynolds Miles Morales was also a much smaller game than Spider-Man 2. And it's not like Insomniac had some massive data breach that they had to contend with. Shame on them for taking so long to get this FREE update out.

@Keyblade-Dan I mean, you said extremely divisive and when has that not meant toxic? But my point is, the game was not nearly as divisive as others.

@OneWingedAngel Only Xbox fanboys are trying to claim that the game is "underperforming" due to exclusivity. Like they would have bought the game anyway had it released on Xbox. Most likely, they would've complained the game isn't on Game Pass and not played it.

Context is key here. This is only physical sales and does not include digital which is far and away, in 2024, the far more common way games are bought.

@Keyblade-Dan FF7 Remake was not extremely divisive. There were some people who disagreed with the direction it went, but the discourse was never as toxic as say the discourse around The Last of Us Part II.

@Toot1st But would that be enough to justify Square Enix spending money to port it?

@Toot1st And how many sales do you realistically think Final Fantasy VII Remake/Rebirth would get on Xbox?

This isn't even remotely shocking. Final Fantasy VII is arguably the most important game in Playstation's history as it is maybe THE game that put the PS1 on the map. Final Fantasy VII Remake wouldn't have even happened if Sony didn't fund the development. I'm sure Sony know how important Final Fantasy is to their brand and history and I'm of the mind that all future mainline games will likely by PS console exclusive. This exclusivity probably extends to Final Fantasy XVI as well.

@MB81 Owen and Mel were the only likable characters of the Salt Lake crew. Even after 4+ playthroughs, I still can't stand Manny or Nora.

Geez, WB it's not like you have one of the most bankable pop culture icons (Batman), in an iconic series (Batman Arkham) and instead you decided to spend nearly 10 years making 2 games in Batman's world, in which Batman is barely featured.

I'll get to Dragons Dogma II at some point, but it's not at the top of my list. Without a new Resident Evil to show off (or Devil May Cry), I've got no interest in a Capcom showcase. Wake me up when the Dino Crisis remake gets announced....see you in 500 years.

Yay? I mean, good for Guerilla, but I'd rather see Horizon 3 or hell, a new Killzone game.

I've been playing in graphics mode and after like 5 minutes, I stopped noticing the 30 fps once my eyes adjusted. Still, glad to see CBU 1 fixing the performance mode.

@OmegaStriver Dreams was the game, more than most, that desperately needed a PC launch and it just never got one for whatever reason. I'm glad Media Molecule didn't get closed, but I feel bad for everyone at London Studio (and everyone else laid off too).

I really hope that this game does away with a lot of the bloat that Valhalla had. I was ready for Valhalla to be over by about the 25-ish hour mark. Of course, it took me about 70 to reach the end credits....

@Sil_Am London Studio should have been working on something like The Getaway, which could have filled a niche that has been lost in a post-GTAV world. Instead the were relegated to making VR games and a live service (like all of Sony's studios). Japan Studio still hurts years later, but at least their legacy lives in on Team Asobi.

@MrMagic They needed to just make a new Getaway and fill a niche that has been left abandoned in the wake of 3 GTA V remasters. Instead, Jim Ryan's ill-fated live service push as proven to be such a misfire that it has derailed Sony's plans for several years it seems and affected thousands of employees' lives.

This is awful. It seems to be another horrid side effect of Sony's ill-fated live-service push. All of the studios listed were working on live-service games: London Studio, Naughty Dog, Insomniac, and Guerilla. Hopefully the laid off devs get back on their feet quickly.

@Neptunes For someone who claims to work in the industry, you sure are doing a lot to attack your fellow developers.

@Decoy_Snake When Destiny released, Bungie had already split from Microsoft and had a very cold relationship with them. When Destiny released is when Sony began partnering with them. If I recall correctly, Sony handled a lot of the marketing for Destiny in 2014. It was even a big deal that Bungie was releasing a game on Playstation. Now, if Sony could just get Bungie to make a single player campaign for Marathon....

When I saw this, I just kind of laughed. I won't be getting the platinum in Pentiment (at least not any time soon). But the Pascal Case made me laugh in any event. I was honestly kind of surprised there even was a PlatinumTrophy. I figured Xbox would just skip it.

@TheArt Or Remedy. I can't believe this is Rare's first ever Playstation game. Crazy. Now, I hope Rare Replay comes over. I ree-hee-hee-heeeelly (Dr. Cox extra syllables emphasis) want to platinum Goldeneye.

Not sure what they expected. This was a game no one asked for from a genre that is very, very hard to be successful in (live-service).

Just picked it up. Excited to play it. I hope it does well and leads to more Xbox games coming to PS5.

Can't wait for next Friday. The game currently sits at 93 on Metacritic, which is the highest for a Final Fantasy game since Final Fantasy IX in 2000. Potential GOTY.

Hiroki Totoki shot down any chance of this happening.

@JoakimZ It may still come to switch, recall that there was that leaked image that clearly indicated it would be on Switch. However, it may be a streaming only title.

Will be getting Hi Fi Rush when it releases, I'm excited for it. I may get Pentiment as well. Seems interesting and I want this initiative to pay off so that MS continues to bring games to PS5/Switch.

This is likely also confirmation that Pentiment and Grounded are also coming to PS5, even though that wasn't officially announced.

I'll pick this up. Been intrigued by it since it's reveal last year.

I mean, spoilers suck, but this game is going on 27 years old now. At some point, you just have to accept that the story is out there. It's basically common knowledge at this point that Vader is Luke's father, but does that mean every conversation about Star Wars has to be prefaced with Spoiler alert? That reveal happened in 1980. I think people need to let it go.