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[CircusOfValues]

My days playing games may be numbered if this is the quality of most games going forward.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Crap. Dragons Dogma 2 was a very good highlight. The rest was garbage.

 

[Ic3man]

And people were hyping this up like crazy lmao

 

[deriks]

- do you see good stuff, captain?
- can't see shit

 

[jm89]

Just about a C

There was a few games i was interested.

Xbox gonna have to really screw up to get beat here.

 

[gow3isben]

Spiderman graphics aren't better than Forbidden west disappointing.

Game should be good though if they don't make it cookie cutter open world

 

[Pagusas]

D - These showcases need to be retired. Its too much filler/crap/stupid shit that no one cares about or wants. They had their place during Covid, but I want something more concentrated on quality and less on filler/fluff. I'd give it an F as I was highly disappointed by both Spiderman and FF16, but I still recognize those games will likely be good, they just had poor showings.

 

[T-Cake]

Talos Principle II for me. And that was about it!

 

[TheMan]

I said C. Wasn't really blown away by anything

 

[MDSLKTR]

Z for back to Zelda

 

[SEGA_2012]

WORST showcase of all time.
Jim Ryan needs to be fired NOW !

 

[Evolved1]

No show case would have been better than this.

How does it go... "It’s better to remain silent and have everyone think you're an idiot, than to speak, and remove all doubt".

 

[flying_sq]

Only thing that was exciting for me was the Marathon trailer. I was stoked for Alan Wake 2, but not sure about it yet. Looks like playing as multiple characters, could be cool.

 

[XXL]

It was ok, but not enough gameplay.

 

[trikster40]

Did I watch the wrong Showcase, or was that extremely underwhelming?

Aside from some obvious ones like Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake 2, FF 16, Dragons Dogma, the only game that got me remotely hyped was Talos Principle 2.

I was expecting a lot more from PlayStation Studios. Perhaps they’re saving some for summer reveals?

 

[Fabieter]

People go into these showcases expecting too much.

Games I'm looking forward too:
Phantom Blade
Alan Wake 2
MGS collection
the plucky squire
Spiderman 2

After like 600 days of no showcase, this wasn't it.

 

[farmerboy]

1. Where the fuck is Factions?
2. Spidy looks fucking awesome.

 

[Success]

8/10 showcase.

Sorry my fellow XDL members.

 

[Adam_802]

yikes.

 

[Halo2redvsblue]

Great show. Spiderman 2 is the game of the year, if not Final Fantasy XVI will!

You spelled Tears of the kingdom wrong lol

The show wasn't bad but there was way to much cinematic videos.

 

[Moonjt9]

What a disappointment. Plucky squire unironically the best part.

 

[AJUMP23]

Also that game they opened with looked uninteresting.

 

[T4keD0wN]

At least theyve shown Dragons Dogma and Phantom Blade 0, Ghost runner 2 and Starship troopers ripoff looked great, but if i was looking forward to spider-man 2 before i wouldnt after seeing this.

 

[IDKFA]

Lol. No show meets expectations.

I'll give it a C. Some pretty solid stuff, but also a lot of trash filler.

 

[Skelterz]

Weak showcase tons of really generic rubbish.

 

[Schmick]

hmmmm so the best games were mainly third party

 

[CrustyBritches]

 

[The Cockatrice]

B for lack of Bloodborne. We're never getting a Bloodborne PS5/PC are we? It's officially dead guys. Time to move on.

 

[skyfinch]

Not a very good show tbh. And that's it for VR?!

 

[Ogbert]

Man, I already played this game twice. Kinda expected some more changes to the gameplay since this is a proper sequel, but it looks pretty much like another spin-off like Miles Morales.

The problem insomniac have is there’s not much you can really do to expand the game.

It’s very clever at what it does, but it’s basically an on rails button masher, with a few QTEs.

I just watched it and it felt like exactly what I have already played.

 

[rofif]

Lore-wise isn't Spiderman literally 10000 times stronger? He could rip Kraven in half without breaking a sweat.

yeah it makes not fucking sense.
I dont even know who kraven is honestly.... and I am all up on all marvel movies....

 

[Vick]

A D at best. Waste of time except for MGS, Dragon's Dogma 2, Phantom Blade, RE4VR and in part Spider-Man which however looked rough as hell.

 

[Helghan]

Is the A-F rating system used outside of the USA?

 

[Methos#1975]

It was a pretty bad show. I really expected Sony to come out swinging with exclusives but this was meh. Xbox will have the better show.

 

[Rien]

What a shitshow

 

[Arenafighter]

Overhyped as fck

 

[GrayChild]

Capcom, Konami and Alan Wake II singlehandedly saved this showcase from being a total disaster!

 

[jonnyp]

Aren't people joining these hype trains tired of them always derailing?

Sick of these poor SOPs and Showcases. Heads need to roll over at Sony.

 

[Blitzmangoman]

People saying Spiderman saved the show? Did we watch the same shit? It looked mid at best. What a waste of time.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

i mean there were some good games in there for sure, but holy shit that was wack

 

[Twinblade]

I want to be excited, but Sony's shows has been disappointing.

Another big ass disappointment from Sony..... what a shocker. Not.

 

[Mephisto40]

I thought it was decent, I've got no idea why some of you are so pissed off with it

 

[Flutta]

Never watching a Sony show or any show ever again... except for nintendo.. Seriously this industry is run by degenerates!

Trash/10.

 

[dottme]

Between C and D. I like Phantom Blade and Dragon Dogma 2.
FFXVI still looks good.
i was expecting more from Spider-Man 2 but it should be an OK sequel. I don’t feel the PS5 only part from the trailer that should allow a jump in quality.

 

[FrankWza]

You mean people lied on the Internet?

They didn't lie, they talked

 

[Lone Wolf]

What in the showcase was exclusive? besides Spider-Man and FF16 of course. Is Alan Wake exclusive?

 

[TheAmazingSpiderMan]

makes sense why there were no leaks before the showcase, bloody nothing to see

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

This show was this gif.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Quick thoughts so far...

The highlights of this show were that South Korean (I'm guessing S.Korean) Samurai Souls-like game and...actually, I'd say that was THE highlight of the show.

Spiderman 2 looks good but visually not the leap I was expecting it to be. Kinda surprised there.

The only other 1P games were all live-service/GaaS titles.

Assasin's Creed Mirage looks pretty good actually, I'd say that was one of the other highlights

Stuff like FF XVI and SF6 look great of course but we already knew those were coming and have seen them in action

Shockingly little in terms of big 3P reveals outside of Dragon's Dogma 2, Assassin's Creed Mirage and the Grandblue game...maybe a couple others but everything else seemed smaller in scale. No Tekken 8, no Persona 6, etc.

Overall it's a 6.5/10 for me. Maybe they are holding back the rest of the 1P stuff for a later event in the year. If not, then...why did they need to wait so long for this Showcase?

Hoping SGF and the Xbox Showcase hit harder than this one did TBH.

 

[TurboSpeed]

Guess we have to pray that the Dorito pope delivers with his Summerfest couse this was not it. Worst Playstation show ever.