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I hope Sony brings Sunset Overdrive back

Even as an odd duckling among a bunch of their IPs it was one of Insomniac's best games and really deserves to be played by more people

I'd be down for a PS5 remaster of some kind or even a sequel

I know Insomniac has their hands somewhat tied between Lombaxes and wall-crawlers right now but it'd be nice to see Sunset being treated with the same admiration and respect as franchises like Horizon, Uncharted and even new ones like Ghost of Tsushima

@GunValkyrie I doubt Remake is happening here now that Sony's extended exclusivity on Intergrade and I doubt Square would want to saddle Xbox and PC owners with just the vanilla release when a more complete version exists

I think Persona has a 50/50 chance. I don't doubt that Phil Spencer must've brought it up somewhere in the conversation with SEGA when arranging for stuff like Yakuza on Game Pass and PSO2's timed exclusivity, but knowing Atlus I'm tempering my expectations

I'm worried that Xbox's first party output is about to slow down drastically post-Halo and Forza considering even with Bethesda's acquisition most of the first party content looks at best, years away from release with the exception of maybe Hellblade. In that regard I'm interested in what they actually have to show from studios that haven't been highlighted in previous showcases

@BAMozzy Sony are definitely branching out but I'm never expecting them to get to the point where they start expanding PlayStation beyond just their dedicated hardware outside PC and PS Now. They're basically the middle ground between Nintendo's super traditional views on gaming hardware, and Microsoft's more broad approach on selling Xbox as multiple devices instead of just a console

Their games are coming to PC more often now but I'm expecting them to drip feed for as long as they can, especially given it's clear right now that their priorities are with getting more people to buy PS5s. PC is just them basically selling their franchises to a new audience, but they aren't the focus like what Microsoft is doing with their initiatives.

I'm just saying that if they literally had it just completely their way, like without MLB pressuring them to either give up the license or bring the game to more platforms, SIE would definitely be way less agnostic towards bringing a first party developed game to Xbox, although it definitely benefits from more exposure. This doesn't really mean you can expect stuff like Horizon or God of War or Ratchet on Xbox like at all in the future or anything since they have way more control over those.

@Arcnail This is far from the first time Phil Spencer has congratulated Sony/PlayStation on something. He isn't stirring anything. Even Sony themselves have congratulated Xbox on stuff like the launch of the new Xbox consoles as Phil did with them on the PS5 launch

Hell there are Sony developers like Cory Barlog (God of War director) who also own competing consoles. This whole idea that these companies genuinely antagonize each other this much or hold an animosity for whenever games they didn't want on other consoles end up going to them is super exaggerated

If SIE had their way, this game probably wouldn't have come to Xbox at all but it's probably done very little damage to them now that it has in reality. They have plenty of other exclusive games that are coming out within this year and the next for them to really care about losing one in actuality.

They really don't need Discord. I can't see what they'd add to specifically making Xbox as a platform better

Playing Forza while actually driving your car sounds immersively dangerous and life-risking

Really need to see more of Final Fantasy XVI

Looks really good so far and Yoshi-P has literally done no wrong

I'd also appreciate at least a teaser for Remake Part 2 or maybe something new like Parasite Eve

Even as a PS/Nintendo/PC guy I have to admit Quick Resume is probably the most "next-gen" feature I've seen from either console

Like it's literally turning your Xbox into a multitasker like an Android or iPhone

@Richnj Honestly I thought the potential for a sequel was there for sure, but unlike other PS4 exclusives that I really liked that gen I wasn't necessarily clamoring for it to happen. The thing with the "blockbuster-tier" mentality kind of stems from the fact that so many of their other first party games were of such high quality and enjoyability that when a game ends up being subpar it's extremely noticeable

Like I'd want to see a Spider-Man sequel or a new God of War and Horizon, or a new Bloodborne way before a new Days Gone game even though the foundation was there. From that angle I can kind of understand why Sony passed on it but maybe they're putting it on PC as a gauger of interest of sorts just in case and if enough people buy it, they'll change their minds

@VenomousAlbino Octopath is a goated game regardless of platform

Really need more RPGs that look as good as it does. Would kill for a Final Fantasy VI remake that looked like Octopath or that new Triangle Strategy game on Switch

Next meeting he'll have a portable dual monitor setup with Octopath on Switch and Octopath on xCloud being played at the same time

@Richnj See I don't agree with what the Days Gone guy said but that's because Days Gone at launch, was DEFINITELY not worth full price. It was a buggy, unpolished mess from what I heard

He also brought up in that interview that God of War at launch sold like 5 million copies in a month and he sounded pretty bitter about it, but the thing is God of War had mountains of praise and hype behind it, while his game was just an adequate zombie survival game

I think price hikes are to be expected going into each new console as development costs increase, and that's why Game Pass is tempting as a value proposition, but it doesn't exactly eliminate that games by themselves are going to continue to get more expensive. What ultimately matters is whether they're actually worth the price they ask for as illustrated by that interview

@Richnj Well the store closure thing was actually reversed so clearly Sony wasn't immune to the backlash.

It shouldn't have happened at all in the first place but they actually reversed course on that which is pretty surprising

Also Series X games are still similarly priced as PS5 games. Game Pass still has its limits by putting third party games on rotation albeit for much longer than PS Now does but if Game Pass wasn't an option you'd be in the same predicament as PlayStation is, and if a game isn't on Game Pass there isn't really another option to get it cheaper outside buying it used or waiting for sales just like PS5 games

Spencer seems like a great guy irl

Not a sports game guy but great for everyone who wanted to get into this series but didn't own PlayStations before

Nice of MLB and Sony to throw you a freebie

Ok so like

where are they

You've been saying the same tired crap for years and then when you reveal it it's in """"in engine footage""""

@LtSarge Honestly I can't disagree more

I remember playing it with a friend who was huge into the first two N64 games and honestly even as just a platformer it felt so barren with these large environments that basically had next to nothing to do, to the point where it felt like it necessitated the use of vehicles, but then at that point it isn't really a Banjo-Kazooie game either

It's honestly to me the perfect "jack of all trades, master of none" game. The writing and dialogue was fine I guess but none of the jokes landed for me nearly as often as they would in some other Rare games I played before then like DK64 or Conker's Bad Fur Day

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is a national treasure

Ori. It's no contest

So is Deathloop or GhostWire going to have the Xbox Game Studios logo on PS5 next

We need to complete the unity

I don't play sports games at all but there's something that seems super classy about The Show compared to most licensed sports games I've seen

It's hard

It's really hard

Still probably the best entry since the PSP one

@SegataSanshiro I mean Sony were in that spot with PS3, came the hell back with PS4 and now they're kind of resting on their laurels again despite the fact PS5 is still doing pretty well

I don't expect Microsoft to suffer another XB1-level blunder in the future at all but there is the possibility stuff just circles back to them getting too comfortable with success, because it's happened before, even with Nintendo

@Tharsman And I respect everything Microsoft has done to make Xbox viable including how they've approached branching to other connected devices

I still think something like this, especially if Microsoft makes another Bethesda level acquisition genuinely terrifies of me of where the game industry is going after this. It's why I also really hope SEGA isn't on their list either

If they keep buying at this rate, Xbox will basically become the new Nintendo in that you literally have no other option, there will be no competition, and then they start to get complacent with success and don't try as hard, especially with what they already got

@Tharsman I mean Zuckerberg is pretty much the Kefka of the online world in that he makes everyone feel miserable so obviously he's a great fit

@Tharsman Is it bad that I feel Tencent or Facebook could potentially be one of the better outcomes from this

@K1LLEGAL Honestly Microsoft acquiring Square would probably change nothing about where Nintendo stands in this

They'll probably continue to get the legacy games but they're basically done receiving basically ANYTHING new from Square in either scenario, even when it comes to smaller titles like Octopath, Bravely or the dozens of Final Fantasy spinoffs like Tactics, Thearhythm and World of FF, and they're already missing out on the huge AAA stuff from them like any Final Fantasy after XIII, most of the Kingdom Hearts stuff as of late and their bigger internal titles like the Luminous Productions stuff or anything from Crystal Dynamics

@Tasuki That sounds like that could be something they're thinking about especially after they lost Bethesda's games, but I wonder if they have the pockets for it

They've done stuff like moneyhatting Square games but buying the whole company seems like a way bigger ask

Unpopular opinion

I might be in the minority, especially on this site but I don't want Microsoft buying all the third parties to pass them off as first party when they could just be using studios they already own or cultivated by themselves

I don't want this gen to become a competition to see who can buy out the most high profile publishers and lock their games to their platforms, and I speak as someone who invests in all 3 of the big guys' products

Some publishers shouldn't need to be bought to ensure they have a future with a console manufacturer. Microsoft should probably also start to invest more in what they already have instead of just going "your franchise? Grabs publisher by the throat MY franchise."

I didn't get into Xbox Game Pass until Master Chief Collection came to PC as a result of never owning an Xbox past the original but it's a nice companion to having my PlayStations and Switch with me so I get a little bit of everything especially as someone not as into Xbox compared to other platforms

@SegataSanshiro I think with FF7R it was a special case considering people like Kitase were saying they were basically waiting for the right time to say yes to remaking Final Fantasy VII, so I think it was always their intention that if they were ever going to do it, they were going the route they did with basically taking all they learned from making the Compilation games and using it to basically redo Final Fantasy VII, not necessarily just "remake" it

It's a remake in the sense that the general plot is going to be the same and the big pivotal story moments are likely remaining unchanged. I wouldn't expect THAT much out of Konami especially if they're outsourcing their future games now like GetsuFumaDen on Switch seemingly suggests they are based on those rumors from a while back

@blinx01 I wouldn't count at all on Bloodborne happening, especially after what happened to Japan Studio recently

They might still be able to do a PS5 patch but a full on re-release like what Spider-Man got seems to be off the table now

I'm of the "believe it when I see it" mentality when it comes to MGS but I do think there is something happening here, especially given they just re-released the PC versions of MGS1 and 2 on GOG

I think for now the more likely scenario is probably an HD Collection remaster on current gen or a Legacy Collection port on PS5 with a new version of MGS4

@SegataSanshiro Honestly I want to call Twin Snakes a reimagining in a sense because its tone and adaptation definitely helped it stand alone in a sense from the original

I think a current day remake should basically try to preserve as much of the original PS1 game as possible personally. Twin Snakes alienated some people due to the more stylish camerawork and more energetic "2000's action movie" tone as a result of Ryuhei Kitamura's directorial contributions which Kojima had a hand in okaying, so I'd actually want this remake to basically be what Crash N. Sane trilogy or Demon's Souls was but for MGS

The thing that made MGS special mechanically compared to the other Solid entries was that it was basically a 3D version of the MSX games and the top down perspective worked in adding a sense of clausterphobia and even isolation within the context of how industrial the environments looked. I feel like that kind of stuff could potentially be lost if you add in too many things that reflect the skillset the Snakes have in the subsequent games that isn't incremental like crouchwalking or first person aiming for example

@chicken_chaser Nah RE2 is too drastic. Like that's a new game

MGS was designed in a very particular way where I feel if they overhaul it too much it'll lose its original identity. Like I've heard people throw around the idea they should incorporate MGSV mechanics into MGS1 and I honestly think that's a terrible idea because MGS1 has no place for stuff like airstrikes or base building or running around Shadow Moses on the D-Horse or anything like that

Twin Snakes I already felt was way easier than the original due to the fact they put MGS2 mechanics back into MGS1 without redesigning the game around them and it took a lot of the challenge that was there in the original out. I'd honestly prefer something more shot for shot here

@Gamer83 He wasn't the guy in charge the last time MGS1 was remade either and it turned out pretty well

MGS1 Remake sounds amazing but honestly I'm not at all expecting it to come to Xbox. For some reason that particular game has been firmly associated with Sony outside Twin Snakes. They didn't even put it in HD Collection when it absolutely should've been there

@blinx01 The cheap remaster of MGS2 already came out on GOG lol

@RadioHedgeFund Actually speak of the devil Konami literally announced a new proper console game today during the Nintendo Indie World Showcase

It's not related to the big 4 franchises they have but apparently they're collaborating with an external studio to make a sequel to Getsufumaden and it actually looks like it has a proper budget behind it unlike their last two games

I have a feeling that even though it might be a ways off Konami could probably pull a Capcom and come back to the games industry between what happened today and the persistent rumors of a new Silent Hill or potentially multiple Silent Hill games. I think now their solution is outsourcing projects to other people, so they're clearly not thinking about being acquired by someone else and having their assets absorbed into other publishers for future games

@RadioHedgeFund Konami is WAY too stubborn to do that. There's no way in hell they're giving up any of their IPs to another publisher unless they're outsourcing to other studios for games like what just happened with that GetsufumaDen game that got announced

If Microsoft wants MGS, they'll have to settle for buying Konami as a whole

I'm pretty sure most of these will end up being true

The only one that probably has the potential to break down is the Kojima stuff considering he did pitch his next game to Stadia but that got turned down entirely, so clearly he's not immune to talks breaking down but I think Phil probably knows better

I still don't know what to think about Persona though. Atlus' Xbox output has been infamously poor and their games just don't sell well on that platform so I wonder what SEGA had to do to convince them it was a good idea, especially if we're talking about a numbered entry like Persona 5

@SegataSanshiro I didn't say they weren't going to optimize it for Xbox because they couldn't. I just think naturally that hardware they have more experience with will probably get the advantage in terms of maximizing every benefit that hardware has

It'll probably look great on Xbox, but San Diego Studio obviously have way more experience specifically developing for their first party hardware so it's at a natural advantage

@Senua I was able to go just fine back in September

It's only now that everything's back under strict lockdown protocol again

TV ads aren't a real gauger for how strong a game is being advertised in Canada

For that you go to Yonge and Dundas Square and count how many times you see PlayStation or Xbox stuff on the billboards and skyscraper ad displays

@Spaceman-Spiff I have a feeling it's going to look/run better on PS5 simply gauging the fact that it's developed by a Sony first-party studio who are probably way more familiar with how to fully optimize their games specifically for that hardware

lmao

Advertising is eligible for being awarded for their artistic vision

The Kevin Butler ads for the PS3 should've taken that prize every year they were active

@SegataSanshiro I was watching a Maximilian Dood Crisis Core stream and he was talking about stuff like the beetles in Crawler's Nest apparently being such hell to deal with it would get to the point of a GM having to be used to get rid of all of them if a Level 60 player didn't take them out with a party of people

This is just the kind of experience you can only find in MMOs

@SegataSanshiro DQX was always that game I knew I wanted to play but FFXIV just consumed my time to the point where I almost forget it hasn't even been released in English yet

I wasn't really there for the XI hype given I was just newly introduced to the series with FFX/X-2 but I've heard both good and bad stories about the experience

@SegataSanshiro You also have to consider though that Persona 5 was the first ever time Atlus experienced that kind of success in the West

What it took about a month or two for Atlus to accomplish with Persona 5 used to take about 2, maybe 3 years before. Persona 3 and 4 were semi-big and were definitely responsible for accumulating a Western following for Atlus games, but Persona hadn't really broken out of the niche bubble until super recently, and even then I bet most of the traction Persona 5 got came after stuff like Joker being put into Smash Bros. I believe the 5 million units sold for P5 also takes into account how much Royal also sold in conjunction with the vanilla release, and a few months later DQXI did pass the 6 million mark anyway so it's still slightly ahead. They both benefitted from Smash's publicity greatly but even then Persona is basically the only widely welcomed part of a larger megafranchise so I'd argue in a lot of ways, Atlus' RPGs for the most part are relatively niche. DQ's manga adaptations alone sold more than the entire Persona series worldwide

Even as an Atlus fan myself I still acknowledge that their franchises for the most part aren't really super huge outside of Japan. It's really JUST Persona right now and it still took them like 2 decades, 6 numbered entries and a bunch of spinoffs to get the series to where it is now

@SegataSanshiro Well obviously FF7R was going to do better from the outset

Final Fantasy VII alone is bigger than all of Final Fantasy at this point. It was a cultural phenomenon and a landmark title in gaming history as well as what was responsible for the big JRPG boom in the West in addition to being one of the key games that contributed to the success of the original PlayStation

DQ was never going to be as big as FF or FFVII Remake especially, but it's also not really niche. I'd argue series like Shin Megami Tensei, Suikoden, Wild Arms, Star Ocean, Disgaea and even NiER are way nicher by comparison.