I want this to happen. And I want it to be an interactive VHS game starring Amy Sedaris and her super-perm.

It seems normal to hire and build a team to develop something before marketing nails down and announces a name. They have to create something to announce first.

The thought of having to hunt down 20-year-old discs and hope they still work gives me anxiety. I would only want this through emulation.

As much as I’d love to revisit the Legacy of Kain and Metal Gear series again, I don’t have the burning desire to play 25-year-old games that other people seem to. Backward compatibility seems like it should already be built in for the catalog that Playstation has, but it’s also a nonstarter for me.

That’s been my take on all this, too. It’s not that MS wants to use these games to sell a bunch of XBox consoles as much as it wants to force other platforms to adopt Gamepass. 

Good list, good list. I’ll add in: glow sticks, lasers and tech with janky 1980s CRT screens; space magic!; puppets.

Between that and Star Wars, I’m shocked he’s willing to do this. But he does seem to be one of the few actors who’s actually good AND is willing to do absolutely anything at all.

I agree that I prefer Sony’s strategy of working to grow devs and building those working relationships, but let’s not pretend that Sony is some family business. They are not doing anything that isn’t 1,000% financially motivated, and until very recently, they’ve been stingy about any of their exclusives being…

MS might be doing this to sell a bunch of XBoxes, but from my completely uninformed outsider perspective, this seems like it’s going to be a big Gamepass push. 

I’m glad God of War and Horizon are supposed to come to PS4, too. I’m still sticking to my plan of not buying a PS5 until they redesign it and at the rate I get through games these days, I should be cool only buying those two AAA games this year. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for mid-2023!

I’ve been saying about this for years. The goblins are basically Nazi propaganda posters come to life.

I’m totally cool with game companies finding some ways to cram NFTs into games to make them more exclusive. It will definitely save me a lot of money when I kick the hobby entirely and sell off my consoles.

Sure. I get that. But this is America where any new law will undoubtedly see a torrent of lawsuits and new legislation until conservatives get it back to where it started in the first place. I’m also not opposed to people owning ANY gun, but I would like to see much tighter regulation on what guns and how they get…

Wow - what a good idea! I mean, I don’t know about the “valid reason” part because anytime the government has to decide things like that it seems like a slippery slope. But requiring licensing and registration for deadly weapons - and not just vehicles that are necessary for getting to work - is such a rational thing…

“The Legend of Zelda: Only on Switch 2"

I’ll still just wait for a slim version of the console. If God of War and Horizon come out on PS4 as advertised, then the only game I’m really dying to play on PS5 is Spider-Man 2. I’m pretty psyched, but not $600 psyched, so I’ll wait for these to stop being so huge and ugly.

Really? This is clearly pre-prequel era, so no Skywalkers around. None of the aliens were races played up in the movies. This looks to lean more on the mystic/Force related stuff rather than plucky rebels (but I’m sure there will still be plucky rebels aplenty).

Hades. I really love that game but I’m really not good at it either. I think it took me 30 attempts before I consistently got past the Bone Hydra. I’ve put the game down but don’t feel “done” with it yet since I’d like to at least be able to get out at least once.

Same. And I heard it split from the anime in later episodes, but the whole time I just kept asking myself “why am I not just watching the anime?”

I hope for his sake he doesn’t wreck his body doing crazy acrobatic stunts beyond when is ability. But I like his Spider-Man, and I will be surprised if he has a big career beyond his MCU contract. He seems to gravitate toward serious/action roles and while he’s great at the action, he doesn’t have the tough guy vibe…