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And once more Sony doubles down on its trend of making stagnant and boring cinematic AAA games only for the basic minded and boring masses.

@naruball I actually bought those games, including Puppeteer, Entwined, and both Gravity Rush games day 1. Despite Sony not bothering to market them or even try to support them. So yeah, I will hold it against them, and I somewhat hold it against the shallow ass Sony playerbase that never breaks out of their comfort zone and only cares about the AAA nu-Playstation spoon feeds them with all their sanded down gameplay and characters explaining how to solve the brain dead puzzle in front of them.

Respect the Barbie

@RonnieL The boxing one. We don't need dead men over this, this is still a somewhat civilized world.

Just lock Brad Smith and Jim Ryan in a room with each other, let them fight it out like the days of old.

Hell yeah, get that Last of Us garbage out of here, Twisted Metal is what i'll show up for.

@Kidfried It’s Pentiment, not Pentinence, and it was an Obsidian passion project that MS signed off on them making after Obsidian was acquired. It wouldn’t exist in any form if not for the Obsidian buyout and wouldn’t be on Switch or PS in any world regardless.

Here he comes, rougher than the rest of them, the best of them, tougher than leather

@KaijuKaiser I mean, I don't see Sony making anything like Pentiment (which I know, not AAA so clearly doesn't count to SOME people) or making some wild swings like Nintendo with Ring Fit or Labo. Not after shutting down Japan Studio. Sony doesn't like risks.

They've got the AAA open world market full of all the wide ranges of brown, green, and gray to go around though, so damn creative, wow! How exciting that Sony is so good at putting out the game that the mindless masses want over and over again with a slightly different skin.

Hopefully he goes to work for a company that encourages creativity and making something a bit outside of the box.

That’s not really PlayStation’s bag anymore.

Just Evil Dead The Game for me.

So how long until i'm playing Angry Birds in a Like A Dragon game where Kiryu or Ichiban get hooked on it?

Still far and away the best Persona game. Would welcome a remake of it for sure.

Though with this comment section, i'd laugh if it ended up as a Switch exclusive.

DS version of Final Fantasy IV and Evil Dead The Game with some friends.

We're getting pumped for Evil Dead Rise in a few weeks.

I mean, JB is right.

It's not a high bar at all, but he's right.

@NEStalgia Agreed, certainly the only one high up that still carries the true Playstation spirit that Jim Ryan trampled on.

And yeah, Tchia is good, pleasant surprise and the game that got me to turn my PS5 on for the first time in months.

Fine, i'll frame it differently.

Sony buying Square Enix is just hopeful fanfiction by a...select group of fans, and nothing more than that.

"The Straw Hat Crew will be forced back into Memoria and transported again to Alabasta,"

STOP IT! STOP SENDING ME BACK THERE!

Bad game gets bad port. What a shock.

@naruball They ain't wrong though, thinking indies are inferior because they aren't comprised of bloated and drawn out cinematics or voice acting is a s*** take.

Also, most AAA music is ass, it's indies that pick up the slack in the music department if anything.

Good luck to him. The core PS fanbase only cares about spectacle, and are constantly dismissive of indie games.

Great game, though reading some comments here still not surprised to see the usual basic bland AAA crowd is disparaging indie and pixel games.

Maybe it’s a generational thing. Shuhei Yoshida and PS have their work cut out for them in doing better by indies and getting them into the hands of their shallow minded core audience.

Ah yes, back when Sony made interesting games and had Japan Studio instead of the bland ass AAA games they pump out now after putting a bullet in Japan Studio.

@get2sammyb "They're still fun!"

Good joke.

@thefourfoldroot1 Is it different than Sony locking down the premiere world known beloved franchise that only releases their mainline games on high end consoles simply because they have first dibs? Piss off with the selectiveness when Sony has for years locked down Final Fantasy and refer to my earlier statement.

Sony made their bed, they can lie in it.

@GymratAmarillo I don't see how it would ruin their business. Is Sony so reliant on a third party game they hold simple exclusivity perks for that Microsoft owning them and guaranteeing them 10 years would really bury Sony? With them bragging early in the gen they'd force Microsoft out of the console market?

@thefourfoldroot1 Ah yes, where it is and isn't relevant, aka, when it's convenient and beneficial for Sony and they don't have to pay the piper for their own cutthroat tactics.

They made their bed, and I hope they're very uncomfortable in it.

Wonder if Sony is regretting throwing a tantrum about ABK and bringing all this attention to them yet.

Finally getting around to Spongebob The Cosmic Shake.

Really great 3D platformer, but man, they're making references that I didn't know were a thing. when the heck did Plankton get a pet worm?

@KaijuKaiser EA is ironically a good source of a good AA middle ground with their originals initiative, with the likes of Lost in Random and It Takes Two being stand outs.

@KaijuKaiser Returnal is also my favorite PS5 game, and I want Sony to do more of that, but I disagree with you on Microsoft not doing unique things. Obsidian's Grounded is legitimately the game that got me to enjoy survival games, and I quite liked Pentiment. I'm also curious to see what Double Fine has been working on behind closed doors.

And I don't care to hear for the millionth time 'it just didn't sell that well.' when stuff like Puppeteer and Gravity Rush doesn't break bank like a AAA game to make, and Sony didn't bother to even try to market the games. But even setting that aside, gutting Japan Studio the way they did was unnecessary, and quite honestly from my perspective, unforgivable of Sony.

Damn, spicy comment from ABK.

@KaijuKaiser I can't speak for NEStalgia, but Jim Ryan's Sony pisses me off too. Shuttering my favorite developer under them is what really got me bearing a grudge but, going way too hard and heavy on games that are open world, self serious, and boring to play hasn't helped their case with me, and I don't care for how they treat indies like more of an afterthought, considering I find the indie space and AA space a hell of a lot more interesting than the AAA space.

And if Microsoft didn't force their hand, with the galling statements Jim Ryan made on PS1 era games and how they looked and wondering why anyone would want to play them, i'm pretty sure the PS5 would only be able to play PS5 games.

Basically, I want more stuff like Puppeteer and Gravity Rush, but Jim Ryan put a bullet in that.

@get2sammyb ‘And what becomes of Activision Blizzard's enormous catalogue of other IP?’

Well hopefully we get new games in those IPs, on Playstation or not, because if Jim Ryan got his way and Activision-Blizzard remained independent, those IP would remain dormant so all the devs can stay in the CoD mines.

Oh hey, I believe I’ve voted for her. I live in Washington state.

Great comic, could be neat, been wanting a game that explores some of the TMNT comics.

@KaijuKaiser Microsoft has nothing to do with this version of the game, as much as I’m sure you want to blame them whenever and wherever you can.

On Switch, i'm still chipping away at Octopath Traveler 2, loving this game a lot, and it's probably my big game this weekend.

On Series X i'm also playing Dead Cells, mostly delving into the Return to Castlevania stuff.

And on PS5 I did briefly play some of the PS4 Ratchet & Clank remake earlier, dunno if i'll keep going with it, it scratched the itch I needed scratched when I did a session with it.

He deserves it, and god forbid we ever reach the day where we award Jim Ryan for how much he’s mucked things up since he took over.

@KaijuKaiser This site is the worst of all 3 when it comes to the echo chamber problem from what i've seen.

Octopath Traveler 2 on Switch, and I kinda got the itch for an old favorite, so Dark Cloud 2 on PS5.

@Judal27 Even setting aside the HD-2D style, I fail to see in any way how the design in Octopath Traveler of Triangle Strategy is bad, if anything the writing and ways Triangle Strategy handled its tactical gameplay, especially in the late game sung on their own terms without the graphical style being needed.

The Pixel Remasters are also great, i'd take both those and the HD-2D stuff, and throw in the Tactics Ogre remaster too over their modern take on Final Fantasy and their ventures like Forspoken.

And Fight'N Rage just got it's big update!

I'm eating good on these beat 'em ups I already own getting even better.

@Judal27 Yeah, I don't look down old school JRPG design with disdain (if anything, the modern stuff like FFXVI and VII Remake that seem ashamed of their genre roots are what disgust me)

I want more of what the HD-2D side has to offer, the games have their own quirks and identities while being faithful to what I fell in love with in the genre in the first place, they don't come across as generic to me, and they don't spit in the genre's face

@Judal27 They didn’t list them because those games aren’t on Playstation would be my guess.

Couldn’t disagree more on the HD-2D take though, the Live a Live remake and Triangle Strategy thoroughly **** on anything else Square Enix put out last year. Except maybe Dragon Quest Treasures.

@Ralizah pretty much, they’re true to roots and budget sensible games do well.

Third person AAA garbage don’t and just bloats costs. I want them to double down on HD-2D stuff tbh.

Octopath Traveler 2 on Switch and Like A Dragon Ishin on Series X.

I don’t much care for The Last of Us, but as a general rule I think he’s right with linear being much, much better than open world games and a win/win for the player and developer.

GOOD!

No, got nothing more to add...well...except...

GOOD! A SECOND TIME!

@thefourfoldroot1 As if Sony hasn't turned their back on Japan. I'm cool with MS buying smaller studios, Obsidian, Double Fine and InXile are my favorite Xbox developers and put to absolute shame any of the teams Sony has after they put a bullet in Japan Studios.

Except Insomniac, they still do good work.

@Titntin @thefourfoldroot1 I'm aware of a hostile takeover, but I don't see Sony pulling that card when they can pay much less for third party exclusives, like they've done with Square Enix.

I just don't see the day of Sony trying to buy out Capcom when they themselves have a great thing going with some titles on Switch and PC, and ESPECIALLY not CD Project Red with their PC focus.