Andrew POE!

I'm fine with the changes to Spider-Man. I recall specifically complaints online about how Parker looked initially and how he looked like a 40-year old man but sounded younger. Now he looks younger, but people complain that he looks like Tom Holland. Insomniac couldn't win.

Hopefully it'll go better than Google's streaming game service.

Having typed up the complete list -- oof. I can't really argue with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On as #1 to be honest. I'm not sure I would have Rumours, Nevermind, and Blood on the Tracks in the top 10. I would swap Joni Mitchell's Blue and Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life and I would move Abbey Road to #3. But there are way too many Kanye West (really, The College Dropout and Late Registration are his best works) and Jay-Z albums on there. There's also no King Crimson, Slint - Spiderland, Husker Du - Zen Arcade, no Genesis, very few Kate Bush (The Kick Inside and her recent 50 Words For Snow are not on the list) and somehow no Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder - Talking Timbutku, Taj Mahal's first album, Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love & Hate, Radiohead - Amnesiac or friggin' Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden or Laughing Stock. Not to mention really good live albums like Cheap Trick - At Budokan, Joni Mitchell - Misles of Aisles, and Lou Reed - Rock N Roll Animal. But yet 2 Beyonce albums deserve a spot.

So Rolling Stone has a new list up for 500 Best Albums of All Time and....it's interesting: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/arcade-fire-funeral-1062733/ 10. Lauryn Hill - the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 9. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks 8. Prince - Purple Rain 7. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 6. Nirvana - Nevermind 5. The Beatles - Abbey Road 4. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life 3. Joni Mitchell - Blue 2. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 1. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On My thoughts so far: A fucking John Mayer album over Black Flag - Damaged and The Stooges' first album? Britney Spears' mildly ok album over David Bowie's Scary Monsters? Billie Ellish even being on the list? Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has no business in the top 10. Boring as piss album and so many better albums before it.

FFFFFFFFFF I want to play Yakuza and Persona on a PlayStation, not this fn GamePass bs. Why can't Microsoft just leave the console marketplace? They haven't made a good game since Halo 3.

Ugh, I was looking forward to Platinum'ing Evil Within 3, Prey 2, and Dishonored 3 too!

Let it be said: Fuck Microsoft. They moneyhatted Bethesda because they can't create an original game so they buy a company that can. Elder Scrolls VI, the next Fallout, and Starfield will likely be Series X/S exclusive. The Evil Within 3 and Wolfenstein 3 too but Microsoft will let those be on PS5 out of spite. It's not like Bethesda ever made a game that actually worked on a PlayStation console without crashing so it's fine I guess.

Got my 186th Platinum trophy with Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. The game is great, but yeesh the dueling system is annoying.

I don't really mind although for the life of me I can't figure out what the gameplay actually would be. It looked like some arty farty mess Kojima would come up with.

The developers have said that they will patch the trophy/achievement list after the servers shut down.

I pre-ordered some PS5 games (Spider-Man Miles, Demon's Souls, Sackboy & Destruction All-Stars) even though I have no intention of buying a PS5 right now. I will likely wait a year or two before I get it. I'm debating whether I want AC Valhalla, Watch Dogs Legion or COD Black Ops Hot Pockets Cold War Lukewarm Reception or whatever it's called. I'm hoping Destruction All-Stars doesn't have any online trophy/server/online play bullshit, otherwise I'm cancelling it.

It's coming back and you play a medieval version of it. ? Final Fantasy XVI pretty much looks like Game of Thrones but with chocobos and crystals. Maybe they'll introduce characters that you like that will die half way through. Hopefully, the ending will be less bad.

Sony may change their minds about Horizon: Forbidden West being a PS4 game too. I can see them cancelling it and putting more into the PS5 version to make it a system seller. I'm surprised by Spider-Man Miles being a PS4 title -- it may be too soon to change it to a PS5 only game so it's fine if it's a PS4 game. I'm also surprised that DMC 5 SE is a PS4 title too.

They spent a lot of time on Deathloop, which I went from liking to "God this looks like a painfully unfun mixture of Dishonored and the worst parts of Majora's Mask."

After watching the showcase (which essentially repeats some of the reveals from the earlier showcase), I'm very much 'eh' towards buying a PS5 at launch. What makes me less likely to get it is the fact that the centerpieces (Spidey Miles, Horizon: FW) are both PS4 and PS5 games. There's no point in having a PS5 then. Not to mention that Sony has their first-party games see price increases and $70 USD will be their retail price going forward. I know games are expensive and we are paying for their marketing budget, not for them to actually make the game. Besides FFXVI (OMG it's Game of Thrones with chocobos!), Demon's Souls (I know what area we saw and was yelling at the player character to block and wondering why it wasn't getting staggered more), and DMC 5 SE and maybe Spidey Miles, I'm going to hold off on PS5. I got too much on PS3, Vita & PS4 to play. Mad Max is sooo good y'all.

I agree -- I got screwed out of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron for PS4 Platinum since there was an online trophy in the single player campaign. The guy who wrote the guide got flak over it.

LOL, that's usually the case. I just got 5 trophies left before I Platinum it (stupid collectibles trophy and Medium/Hard/Very Hard difficulties and play all missions as Thomas). Unfortunately, I got to put that on hold since it was announced that the servers for Mad Max are shutting down on October 30, 2020. There is ONE online trophy for it in "Up To The Task" trophy. Apparently, there's two online challenges tied to it that are required. Oh and the save file will need to be backed up constantly since one of the scrap locations is known to glitch and glitches are known to occur.

Playing Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, I find it to be the worst game Ubisoft has ever done. The duel mechanics are not explained and you have no fucking clue how you fail and get killed in a duel repeatedly. Hey Ubisoft, like Dusty Rhodes would say, don't do shit you don't know how to do. I may beat the game and forget going for the Platinum due to this. I may also snap the disc in half.

If they announce that Demon's Souls is a launch title and there's a release date/price....shit, I really don't want another next-gen console. I'm not sure where I have room for it. No, I don't have any Funkos.

The Platinum for Foul Play is actually quite difficult due to the lone online trophy not allowing for connections to other players online. I tested it with someone and the trophy didn't unlock for them even though we were in the same region.

Knowing WWE and their unwillingness in having their games look better, WWE 2K22 will still look like a PS2/PS3 game.

Got my 185th Platinum trophy with Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon. Compared to Spyro 1 & 2, the Platinum is a lot easier and strangely, doesn't require a total completion. For it to be complete, you need to find 147 Dragon Eggs but to get the Platinum you only need 100. I'm surprised that Activision doesn't make a Spyro 4 after Crash Bandicoot 4 comes out, but I guess Spyro Reignited Trilogy wasn't that successful for them. EDIT: Actually there was one with Enter The Dragonfly and A Hero's Tail. I guess they could remasters of those.

For me, a lot of what I'm feeling about PS5 and Xbox Series X is that they are incremental leaps rather than a big leap from PS3 to PS4 and Xbox 360 to Xbox One. What I'm really seeing with it is an excuse for publishers to charge more on their games -- I strongly suspect that $70 USD will be the price for a retail physical game and a lot of smaller developers/publishers are feeling pressured to "increase their production values" hence their prices. For example, Daedelic is making Lord of the Rings: Gollum and it looks like something WB Games would publish; their biggest games previously were AER: Memories of Old and Deponia series. Not only that but the backlog from PS3/360/Wii U generation to current gen PS4/XB1/Switch and to next-gen PS5/XBSX/Switch Pro will be immense for a lot of people. I'm STILL trying to play games from PS3 generation that I never played the first time around like Resistance 3. I'm really not ready for another console and it will likely be years if at all that I get a PS5.

Got my 184th Platinum trophy with Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. Decent game but it's like they felt the first game wasn't hard enough then had the easiest final boss I've ever seen.

Is everyone but me going to Platinum Ghost of Tsushima? I need to quit messing around and get on it!