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Ghost of Yotei made the State of Play for me. I am glad that the Horizon Zero Dawn remastered was finally confirmed. For $10 I can't complain. Glad it wasn't a full blown remake.
That was the best state of play they've had in a long time I thought the two new titles, Hell is Us and Arche Mage, looked decent! The biggest knock is Horizon imo
Hell with us, monster hunter were my top games. Ghost disappointed me. I just cant relate to the woman pro tag. Maybe they have two playable characters but even that is getting very played out. God of war, spiderman, gta6 and i think even ratchet and clank you play as that chick, then ac with two protags, and of course gta5 was like the first. Its played out. So with ghost, for me its a lose, lose situation
It was alright and as it was a SOP i didn't expect much but come on, no PHANTOM BLADE 0 news this to me should be the title they're pushing for the PS5 Pro. C- to B- as i liked Lego Horizon Adventures, Hell is Us (combat looks generic too many of these soulslikes), TMNTSR RR DLC, Alen Wake 2 DLC2, Dynasty Warriors Origins i could get behind I'm liking the slightly more serious tone, and Ghost of Yotai looked cool i suppose and for 2025 ok. Since HZD gas gotten Remastered that it didn't need, baffling and a waste of resources, i fully EXPECT a Bloodbourne Remaster sooner and if not this gen then they have to be saving it for the PS6, otherwise there is a total disconnect.
I'm dissappointed!! Bought 2 PS5s about 2 years ago, maybe have put in less then 100 hours on them. Played spidermans, horizons and didnt get "too" into them. Was hoping to get to play old ps3 games on the ps5 but NO!! Going to get a ps3 and go "Office Space" on the ps5s!!
Metro and Midnight Walk on VR seem great, and new Ghost for next year is peak. Though they are multiplats, Alan Wake 2 Control-themed DLC, Hell Is Us, and Archeage Chronicles all seem pretty solid. Good pacing besides giving MHW and Veilguard way more attention than they really need at this point. I don’t think it’s what Sony needed most from a third party perspective, but I wouldn’t really call it meh either.
If you think this state of play was mid or bad your exectations for these state of play events are waaaay too high. This is head and shoulders above any state of play weve had for ages. Stuff like ghost 2 is typically revealed at full showcases. This one was well well above average for a state of play.
I think a lot of people defending the State of Play need to look at the wider context which is 1) We have not had a Playstation Showcase in 2024 and no real big first party exclusive announcements.... except Concord and Marathon (the latter of which is not being looked at with great expectations rn) and 2) Tokyo Game's Show is this week and this is essentially their TGS reveals. It's a bit of a flop for a show that, as a Japanese company, they are expected to show up for a little bit more. The next few days will tell if other companies like Capcom, Nintendo etc. also miss the mark but that's where it really falls flat for me. They're tryna sell their special edition consoles tomorrow and we still don't have a time for when they go live or a price list!!!! That's something that also should have been clarified at this show. And all the PS5 Pro enhanced games are already out and played by most people vs one new game in AC Shadows that we know so far is taking advantage of it. They could have showed off a lot more games to get people hype.
I think it’s solid. I’m not a huge horizon fan either but I’m actually a fan of the ps5 upgrades. To me the first game looks outdated and it gets me a little more motivated with the upgrade in visuals.
That was a pretty good showcase, imho. There were some pretty interesting games shown, and then Yotei! That was really all I needed to see. Soul Reaver will also be awesome. Seems like there will be plenty to play for the next 6 months.
As someone who is the LGBT target audience for this crap called a sequel…Dude…we know you are reading off bullet points provided by EA, same given to IGN Gamespot and a few other gaming “influencers”…the channel “nurture” literally pointed the similarities with your speech to the others with a bingo card system, and y’all matched a lot of phrases including “verbal jabs with Solas”. You lost so much respect from me Matty, I understand how the grind requires you to make content that draws many people in, but you betrayed your integrity for the last time, I thought it was bad enough when you called Fallout 4 critics “haters” years ago, or when you blindly accepted promoting the G-Cloud then telling the next video not sponsored that it’s weaker than the Steam Deck (which was so obvious that I feel bad for anyone who impulse purchased a G Cloud because of your video), but now that you are blindly accepting this slop, especially when EA plans to use their funds for “text-do-develop” AI, you cannot be trusted when it comes to recommending how we spend our money. This isn’t the happy go lucky days of Fallout 4’s release, you are older and wiser now, you know we are older and can think for ourselves, you should be seeing the patterns in the industry’s greed, yet you continue to give these massive companies and Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, when in reality they never cared about their fandoms like you once did.
Genuine Q: Why are people comparing Astrobot to a Mario-like for Sony/Playstation and I never hear anyone mention how similar in tone it all is to LittleBigPlanet/Sackboy, which was also a PS exclusive and used on a TON of Playstation marketing for said console.
Gotta give props to Atlus for knowing their fan base. The whole high school setting doesn't really relate to us older fucks 😂. They are kinda doing what I wish SquareEnix would have done with Final Fantasy.
Man youre going to love lunar. I had the state of play playing in the background while cooking and heard that song and had to stop everything i was doing. Ive had the ps1 version sitting in my gaming cabinet for years with no way to play it and finally about to get to play again
Nothing about this game screams quality. The dragons looks like trash. The characters look soulless. Keep making games for the "modern audience", it is a recipe for disaster.
Isn’t dude a Xbox player I personally don’t care for his opinion on PlayStation he literally said the gameplay for dragon age wasn’t good it’s fair to give opinions but feeding to negativity is weird
I will say : it was better than the last few we had - nobody saw Lunar, Dino Crisis, or Ghost 2 coming - so B for sure. I don’t think DA-V or Horizon needed to be there, but thats just me 😎 Also as a fav. Im glad we got Soul Reaver, we just need the other 3 games in the series to round it off…… hint, hint 😉
Let's just recap for every game whether Matty's more on the positive or negative side about them: Astrobot ✅️ The Midnight Walk ✅️ Hell Is Us ✅️ Metro Awakening ✅️ Archeage Chronicles ✅️ Palworld ❌️ Lunar Remastered Collection ✅️ Shredder's Revenge DLC ✅️ Fantasian Neo Dimension ✅️ Dragon Age Veilguard ❌️ (for this specific showing) Alan Wake 2 DLC ✅️ Hitman VR ✅️ Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered ✅️ Fear the Spotlight ❌️ Towers of Aghasba ❌️ LEGO Fortnight Update ❌️ Dynasty Warriors Origins ✅️ Monster Hunter Wilds ✅️ LEGO Horizon Adventures ✅️ Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered ❌️ Stellar Blade ✅️ PS Plus Monthly Games ✅️ PS Plus Classics ✅️ Controllers & Covers ❌️ Ghost of Yōtei ✅️ I don't see how this amounts to a "meh" or where the rollercoaster ride was here tbh. The overall thoughts and the commentary during the videp felt kinda disjointed to me so I had to check if I was crazy
