John Linneman

Right? That’s what these people sound like! It’s insanity. What is the point? Fake videos! Fewer jobs! Higher prices! Massive resource drains! Sounds great.

There are so many reasons these days where I’m feeling like this focus on generative AI might be one of the worst mistakes in recent human history. Whatever perceived value it could provide isn’t worth the damage it’s doing in so many areas.

Lives up to his name

Given today’s political climate I think we all know who needs to make a comeback

That’s what everyone has been saying! It was Jim Ryan. Now that he’s gone, they’ve shifted away from that but it takes time.

Interesting. I just finished it and it was smooth sailing from start to finish!

Sony canned it because it was a GAAS. They shouldn’t have been put on that project in the first place.

Yeah but you can only really say this if Naughty Dog. The others have reasons that make sense. Like Bluepoint having a game cancelled last year means, logically, they have no game to show now as they just started a new project.

Right. My point is to explain why. It sucks but there are logical reasons why. Like, you can say that about Ragnarok but you should also know that it was a lot of game to build and they won’t have anything new yet. Bluepoint had their game cancelled - so what could they possibly show?

PS5

Yeah but these games do not have performance issues or input lag problems on original hardware. They made them worse.

Probably because Digital Eclipse did that port originally and wanted to include jt

Oh wow, I actually filled this out back in the day. I have that issue lying around here somewhere.

Another note - the PC and GBA versions have way less lag on this collection.

It’s wild indeed but at least the Jaguar version now has tolerable music. The original version sounds horrendous in the Jag. The input lag, though, makes me sad.

Seriously?!!!

The only one where I'd say you have a point is Naughty Dog but Bluepoint just had their game cancelled and had to start over on something new (thus NOTHING to show) and SMS shipped Ragnarok three years ago so, uh, it should be pretty obvious that they aren't ready yet either.

Thinking about it, I do feel like the last two weeks show that Sony has learned something from the Jim Ryan years. 3 years ago, State of Play would have been dominated by Horizon: Hunter's Gathering as the 'big' thing. By splitting that off last week, it's positive for everyone IMO.

No, it's not a list to say "hey, they have games" - it's a list to show that pretty much all the studios are occupied or just released something, so what studios are you talking about? I would love to see more stuff too but who is left to reveal something right now? Realistically.

I think they're trying to find ways to make an arcade racer appeal to more people so the story stuff could be a good addition.

Well...

Insomniac - Wolverine
Housemarque - Saros
Sucker Punch - DLC for Yotei
Naughty Dog - Intergalactic
GG - Horizon Hunters
Bend/Bluepoint had cancelled projects and had to restart
Asobi - Shipped Astro Bot last year, too early for new game
SSM - New game, too early to show

YouTube video by PlayStation Star Wars: Galactic Racer - Gameplay Trailer | PS5 Games

Galactic Racer was easily one of the highlights of last night's State of Play. As my buddy @tapirfortuna.bsky.social noted, it looks like Star Wars: Motorstorm. Love the aesthetic, camera work, speed and designs. Hope they nail it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDBc...

This seems to be false

What? Where?

What didn’t you like about Halo? It’s not exactly Halo - I just mean it has open fights in large spaces

It’s very much that

This game is absolutely nuts and amazing. The original was moderately fun but this is genuinely a gigantic leap. There are also some truly jaw dropping moments within including some wildly unexpected NES and SNES games. I am very happy that something like this was made!

I think it's just a fairly heavy UE5 game so there's not much hope. I'd play on PS5

Yeah, it runs really badly on Deck - on the lowest possible settings it's around 23 fps in the first area

No, it was just Reshade with one of the CRT filters that produces fine scanlines that look more like an actual VGA monitor rather than a TV (which most CRT filters tend to aim for). I was playing at 330hz so didn't need the beam shader.