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@Sil_Am The lack of a physical version has nothing to do with the quality of the game itself.

Easy 9/10. It's damn near perfect, but I wish there were a few more side quests to undertake. The main story is top notch and what is there for side content is excellent, just wish there was more of it. Definitely a GOTY contender and I'm having trouble deciding if it's better than Final Fantasy XVI or not. Though, they may both be supplanted by Alan Wake II....

@DeathlySW And let's not forget, the same thing happened to Starfield and even Tears of the Kingdom. I'm so sick of the console war BS. Just enjoy the games, why do we need to get angry about literally everything?

I had the game crash, but that's really it. I've not experienced any of these apparent major bugs people are reporting. I still think that many of them are bad actors trying to intentionally slander the game and by breaking it.

I may be in the minority here, but this does not look all that impressive. Maybe it's the very wooden movement, but I sure hope the Snake Eater remake is more than just the exact same game from 2004, just with better visuals.

@itsfoz I don't know what everyone expected out of the collection. They aren't remasters and were never intended to be. They are just ports of 20+ year old games.

I am going to pick these games up, but not yet. Still working on platinuming Spider-Man 2. Then I've got Alan Wake II on Friday. So it's going to be a bit before I'm ready for these. Though I do want to platinum MGS1.

I love both FFXIV (it's the only MP game I play) and especially Final Fantasy XVI (I can't decide if FF16 or Spider-Man 2 is my GOTY). Great to see Yoshi-P getting the credit he and his team deserve.

@Athrum Well, the people who love Final Fantasy XVI seem to very much outnumber the ones that decry it, even if those ones are louder. Yoshi-P and his team deserves all of the praise they get.

I've only really encountered some graphics clipping which happens in every game. I did, at one point, get that weird T pose rising to the sky of a defeated enemy that DF pointed out in their review. I did experience 2 crashes, but I can't tell the last time I played a game to completion in which at least 1 crash didn't happen (I experienced crashes in both FF16 and TotK). But I've seen nothing like what some people are complaining about. I think there is a small subset of people that are deliberately trying to break the game just to slander it. They post the bug, but not the myriad of steps they did to cause it.

Seems like a few defective discs. It happens. Sucks for those affected. The majority of the claims of the game being buggy are from trolls deliberately trying to break the game and slander it.

@OldGamer999 I don't think used game sales are as much of a problem anymore especially as the majority of sales are digital. This game is going to sell massively and the minimal used games sales are not going to hurt it.

@OldGamer999 Why would Sony care if gamers traded in SM2? They already got the money for it. Sony doesn't payback money to Gamestop if a disc is traded in. Also, it's likely that the vast majority of sales were digital. Your comment seems to only exist to troll.

Who wants this besides Ubisoft execs?

@Keyblade-Dan I think we'll get both. SM1 got a great DLC in The City That Never Sleeps. Insomniac has already hinted at both a Venom spin-off and Spider-Man 3. I kind of hope we also get a Spider-Gwen game.

@Americansamurai1 The PS4 and PS5 versions of Ragnarok came bundled together if you bought it on PS5.

Returning to MGS1 can be rough? No way. The game may be old, but that's like saying returning to Ocarina of Time can be rough. MGS1 is a timeless classic and now has trophies. Sign me up (after Spider-Man 2 and Alan Wake II).

Spider-Man 2 has been my most anticipated PS5 exclusive, but Alan Wake II is my most anticipated game of the year. It's been 5 years between SM1 and 2 (and only 3 since MM). But it's been 13 years since Alan Wake 1 released.

Don't believe a word Old Man Spencer says. He specifically calls out Playstation gamers in this quote. The same ones he screwed over by removing Zenimax games. So he doesn't care about parity. Or that the Playstation versions will now be getting less features because the Xbox can't do them (haptic feedback, VR, etc.). If the rumors pan out and Sony is able to make a deal for Take-Two. I wonder what Spencer's tune will be if, all of a sudden, there is a real risk of MS losing access to GTA, RDR, and NBA 2K?

@S1ayeR74 They are trying and failing to destroy Sony's business model. Even in the month that Starfield released, the PS5 still outsold the Xbox Series handily. Spider-Man 2 will still outsell Starfield.

So how long before MS decides that it's in everyone's best interest to make all of ABK exclusive to Xbox? It only took 2 months for Zenimax to go from a 'case by case' basis to completely exclusive. And now I'm sure we all can't wait until MS announces they are buying EA or Ubisoft or Square Enix or something and we have to do this all over again.

While I don't like the gloss finish, the redesign is nice and the detachable disc drive is a great option. Not bad, Sony.

It's very annoying that people take joy in ruining things for others. Many people had their views of TLOU2 tainted before release by out of context leaks and spoilers. Hopefully that doesn't happen to Spider-Man 2....unless Insomniac deliberately downgraded the puddle reflections again. If that's the case, someone better spoil it for me because I WILL NOT GIVE INSOMNIAC ONE ROTTEN CENT IF THEY DON'T KILL THEIR EMPLOYEES BY MAKING THEM WORK SUPER OVERTIME SO WE CAN SEE EVERY TINY BUG FLYING AROUND NEW YORK REFLECTED IN THE PUDDLES!

I mean, this isn't surprising at all. But seriously, when are we going to see something NEW from Naughty Dog?

I'll get to it, but not right now. Too much going on and too much to play.

@dimi When games like FIFA (erm, EA Sports FC), Madden, Call of Duty, NBA 2K, GTAV just keep selling no matter what, there's no incentive at all to change. When you are making billions of dollars by putting in minimum effort, why would you ever do more?

@NullForce I don't necessarily agree. Anthem had no direction and neither Bioware nor EA had any idea what they were making. ND at least knew what they were making. I could see more of a Sea of Thieves issue where there just wasn't enough content. Though, it seems like ND made a multiplayer game that maybe should have been a single player experience. We'll probably never know. Again, I think releasing in early access could help.

What did Sony think would happen when they announced they were trying to launch 10 live service games by 2026? It's so incredibly rare that live service games become a hit. For every Destiny or Final Fantasy XIV, there's The Avengers, an Anthem, a Babylon's Fall, the OG Final Fantasy XIV. So many more fail than succeed. This live service push has likely set their launch line up back by years. Who knows when we'll see Naughty Dog's next SP game and if it will even launch on PS5.

@Nepp67 The game would have been revealed at the May Showcase. I don't like this idea of Bungie telling Sony what to release and what not to. It's not like Destiny and Destiny 2 launched with a wealth of content. It took years for those games to become profitable. On top of that, I recently took to playing Destiny again and it didn't take long to remember why I stopped playing it in the first place.

Honestly, the game was apparently near finished before it was pulled from the May Showcase. Either just cancel it outright, or release it and possibly recoup some dev costs. ND could even release it into early access and let the fans' feedback help finish the game. That did wonders for Baldur's Gate 3.

Not gonna lie, I'm still burnt out on Assassin's Creed as a result of Odyssey and especially Valhalla.

Isn't this the full price DLC for Modern Warfare II? I can't wait for all of the completely disingenuous 8 out of 10 scores.

Less than 3 weeks to go....

I managed to avoid The Last of Us Part II spoilers for 2 months. I think I'll be okay avoiding spoilers for the next 3 weeks.

This sucks but isn't surprising, nor is people decrying Sony for being anti-consumer as a result. Yet, no one complains when MS continually removes previous versions of Forza.

I've been wanting to try Callisto Protocol, so this is perfect for me. It'll be a great appetite wetter for Spider-Man 2 and Alan Wake II.

I've platinumed SM 2018 and MM on both PS4 and PS5. I'll be enjoying my time platinuming SM2.

@MikeOrator For a collectathon, it wasn't even all that time consuming.

@playstation1995 I kind of agree with that. If Sony wants this game to come out, they need to bring it in house. I doubt we'll ever hear about it again.

I'm not surprised by this at all. This game has seemed doom for quite awhile now. I think Embracer is a lot of the problem here. They bought too many studios too fast and are now crumbling. I fear for the future of many of their studios....I really hope MS does NOT buy them out.

Right, Fallout 76 was saved by Playstation, but that''s not enough to convince MS Starfield and TES need Playstation. That's okay. MS will ruin those franchises just as they did Halo.

@Tharsman It won't.

I'm okay waiting until next year. RE4 Separate Ways and Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty just came out. The Callisto Protocol is free on PS Plus in October. Spider-Man 2 and Alan Wake II come out in a month. And then Final Fantasy VII Rebirth launches in February. I'm good until then.

I'm glad this saga is just about over. MS can keep Call of Duty, I don't really care and I super can't wait for MS to announce in 3 weeks that they are buying EA or some other massive publisher and put us through this for another year and half.

@Beerheadgamer82 Xbox fanboys don't live in reality. They continue to argue that Sony buying Insomniac and making an exclusive Spider-Man game is worse than anything MS has or is doing.

@Deljo Really? By their own internal documents, Game Pass is failing them and of their 2 major first party releases, one was an abject failure and the other is objectively great, but not moving the needle the way they need it to. I would say MS have repeatedly, for the last 10 years, moved the goal posts and continued to shoot themselves in the foot.

@Porco Yep. I really think Lara Croft belongs up on that Playstation Studios banner. Personally, I think this consolidation needs to end. We are seeing the consequences of it as MS has had mass layoffs, Embracer has had layoffs and closures, and even Sony has had to close studios. This is a bad thing that MS started.

@SgtTruth I really like the reboot trilogy, but tonally it has problems. TR 2013 comes off almost as torture porn, Rise is nearly flawless, and Shadow, well Shadow wasn't even made by Crystal Dynamics and yea had Lara basically causing the apocalypse and killing several thousand people. Overall though, I still really like the reboot trilogy and go back to it every now and then. However, my favorite is the Legend trilogy.

And now we're seeing the ugly side of consolidation. Thanks for starting this Microsoft. This isn't the last we're going to hear about layoffs.

@Porco I wish Sony had just bought SE before they sold their western devs to Embracer. They'd all be in a better place right now.