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Re: Feature: What Are Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2022?

Neoguardian86

Top 5 (hopefully) releasing on PlayStation in 2022:
1. God of War Ragnorak
2. Hogwarts Legacy
3. Gotham Knights
4. Forespoken
5. Avatar : Frontiers of Pandora

Also very much looking forward to playing:
1. Stray
2. Little Devil Inside
3. Marvel’s Midnight Suns
4. Diofield Chronicle
5. Valkyrie : Elysium
6. Crisis Core : Final Fantasy 7 Reunion
7. Sonic Frontiers
8. TMNT Cowabunga Collection.
9. Tunic

Last of Us Part 1 Remake I’ll wait for sale. Not spending $70 on that. Already bought the PS3 original and PS4 remaster.

Re: Talking Point: Does Sony Need a Big Summer Showcase?

Neoguardian86

I think they are due for a Showcase. I do not think it’s wise to stay silent until September.

Prior to Sony pulled out of E3, they’d still show up at other events like Paris Game Show and Gamescom, or even a PSX event.

I’m concerned people like Jim Ryan see those events as just money wastes (because of the expense of doing those events), when it’s also important that Sony keeps PlayStation buzz going.

I would think with Sony copying Nintendo’s Directs that that’d take care of the exorbitant expense of doing the physical shows. That they could manage their own presentation easy enough.

We are now 11 days away from Sony unveiling the PS Plus debut game libraries for the Asia (excluding Japan) market, and we’ve seen nothing on the games. No splashy ad, no presentation, no simple blog post.

You’d think after their financial presentation of their ‘great expectations’ for the new PS Plus, they’d put on more showmanship to drive hype. They’re still an electronics entertainment business.

That’s why I worry about bean counters like Jim Ryan. People who have, at best, vague notion of what’s good entertainment, but doesn’t partake himself, but is much more fixated on the money-side.

Re: Video: Is Live Service Really the Way Forward for PlayStation?

Neoguardian86

If even half of the live service games, of their planned 10, manage to be half as successful as Fortenite it will radically change the image and direction of the PlayStation brand.

I can absolutely envision a future where Sony does what Activision did and just have more and more of their first party go into supporting Live Service XYZ game.

I love the single player games that they make, and I want them to keep it that way, but just doing the math doesn’t look good for us.

It is hard to make an inordinate amount of money without recurring revenue. Games are taking now 5-8 years to get made now.

Sony PlayStation did not start out as a first party single player powerhouse. That started with the PS2.

Whatever currently in the pipe being developed is still coming, the problem (if you dislike live service games like I do) will be evident in 3-4 years from now, when we see what the future of PlayStation, at that point in time, looks like.

The one saving grace is that there are only so many hours in the day, let alone leisure time, and console market seems to have an arbitrary top of 200 million. Just as with MMO’s and how every 360/PS3 game HAD to have a multiplayer because of COD, remember even God of War had multiplayer for pete sake.
The same will hold true for Live Service, make the Big LS is Fortnite, and that’s the market for a good long while, just as COD and WOW/FF14 and League of Legends dominate in their genres. The power of ‘well all my friends and the YouTubers I watch play xyz game’ cannot be underestimated.

Re: Rumour: A New Ghost Recon Game That Isn't Frontline Is in Development

Neoguardian86

Don’t expect anything interesting at all.

It’ll be:
1. Bland open world design
2. Live service design
3. The faction/setting will be bland and extremely safe and generic so as to 1. Sell more skins/cosmetics and 2. Not to offend.

We’re not ever gonna get a GR game where the team is sent to foreign country that’s at war/in turmoil where the ultimate bad guy isn’t somehow the US’s involvement.

Re: Talking Point: State of Play - What Do You Want to See?

Neoguardian86

I’d like to see update on “Little Devil Inside” and “Final Fantasy 16”

Hail Mary for MGS remake or re-release collection.

Could also be PSVR2 news (not that I’m especially interested or excited about PSVR2, just that Sony has said that that news is forthcoming).

I don’t expect this to be some massive like the last one was meant to be. But lets see.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 382

Neoguardian86

I haven’t played my PS5 this week. Been playing on Switch, WiiU and iPhone.

NS: hyper light drifter, final fantasy 7, far : Lone Sails
WiiU: Metroid Fusion
iPhone 📱: Final Fantasy 1

Was a fun weekend.

I recently platinum’d the entire mass effect trilogy and Ratchet and Clank. So it’s had a good amount of play the past month.

Re: Talking Point: What Do You Expect from E3 2021 Next Week?

Neoguardian86

I mostly just wanna get it over with at this point. There is just so much talk online every couple of hours wondering what each company is gonna reveal.
I really hope for some pleasant surprises, but I think we need to bring it down a bit, a lot of companies were impacted by COVID.

For the time being I’m enjoying mass effect legendary edition. Waiting on the new ratchet and clank.

Re: Poll: Will You Buy a PS5?

Neoguardian86

I'm definitely gonna get a PS5 Digital Version. i think i missed out on the pre-order, during the screw up. but i'm still absolutely gonna get one.

I've been a Playstation/Nintendo guy for decades now.

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