I've completed Jak 2, had a single crash the whole game, I think the oficial HD collection had more issues than that. Jak 3 is not done though, can't wait to try it once they finish with it

this is so insane on its face that the first place my mind goes is, were they about to unionize?

Well, this seems to be the first console generation that is going up in price over time.

My main issue with live service games is that I just don't have the fucking time to invest in them.

I've yet to see a game move to live service that didn't just pad out all the busy work and fuck with the pacing of any story element.

Give me a single player experience that I can push up 6 months later and not have to grind to get back to where ever I was.

Which apparently backfired spectacularly.

Throw in a few ratchet and clank games and I'd do unholy things

Fuck yeah, I want the good old anti consumerism OG rachet and clanks.

A few years back when Sony purchased Bungie, they stated they wanted to focus more on live service games. I think they wanted to release 10 live service games over 10 years. That means they need a variety of their studios working on them, even if it isn't their specialization. This is definitely a Sony decision and a stupid one at that.

Exactly, after I finished DS I bought Bloodborne, when I finished this too I'll sell the PS5. And it's probably a good time for this. 🤓

For AI use ofcourse.

It took me a couple years to install GoW Ragnarok, was also included with my purchase. I really preferred the first one over it tbh. I only got like halfway through because Atreus got to be insufferable with the marvel-esque "I fight for my friends" type dialogue. Like the first one feels raw, and the story is tight, combat and gameplay is basically the same. But Ragnarok tries to do too much in its story at once it feels like and just has this cringe-y air to it, idk.

Oh, to be in your shoes again. You have hours & hours of one of the best media pieces of any form ever ahead of you. I found out how incredible it is in every aspect late. Story, gameplay, visuals, sound, feel, emotions…

Prepare for some of the best gaming of your life so far.

Let's assume it was the studio's idea. They wanted to make a game that wasn't their specialty and Sony let them do it because they didn't want to stifle creativity. Now it failed miserably.

Sony isn't going to get the money they lost, so why not course correct and put the studio on what they specialise in?

It’s was an okay remake. Bluepoint changed the art style and for some reason there’s no way to delete a single save without deleting everything.

Why make tens of millions when you can lose hundreds of millions?

But that happened in 2024, Sony had the whole of 2025 to figure out what to do with the studio and it's not like they don't have highly desirable games to remake cough Bloodborne cough for a studio known for excellent remakes. I just want to know what the hell happened in 2025 for the studio to get literally no projects greenlit by Sony? Is Sony still continuing its stupid live service push or did the studio no longer want to make remakes or what the problem was? The path forward is so clear you don't even need a business degree to make the decision that could've kept this studio alive so what the hell happened?

That's what is puzzling me. How was it so impossible to course correct the studio when it's absolutely obvious how to put two and two together?

What happened is that pivoting from a bad idea like this takes a long time and a lot of money for a company this large, and they had no plan B, which is stupid, so they'd rather just reduce their operating expenses.

It doesn't take a whole year to pivot, unless they sit on their ass for that whole year. I'm not saying it's not possible they did that but it would be an insane level of incompetence.

All I remember about Cookie and Cream was fighting with my player 2 cause we couldn't get far in the first level at all

Granted, I think I was like 6 or 7 at the time, so I imagine the game isn't that hard, but in my head it's the dark souls of my childhood

Insanely underrated game and one of the best co-op titles of the PS2 generation

Hey guys, I know you made really good remasters of classic single-player games, but can you make us something nobody on this motherfucking Earth asked for?

Oh wait, we don't want you do do that any more.

Why aren't you making us any money?

I think it has to be insane levels of incompetence. They're not patient enough to wait around for 3 years for Bluepoint to put out something that makes money, so they probably gave them some busy work, like support work for other studios, until they could go through the bureaucracy of closing the studio.

Hey there I heard you definitely want live service games right? Oh sorry you said remakes? No you must mean live service! /s

I would buy a shadow of the colossus remaster and pay for a DLC for more bosses.

The bar was so low. Shadow of the Colossus remaster would have made bank.

Yeah, but the landscape is pretty harsh for AA games right now. They could easily milk the IP they already have.

Playing the og on ps2 again. Hits hard.

Exactly. It's the gamers who are wrong.

CEO Principal Skinner

Why is there a picture of some bald ugly dude instead of something like a bluepoint logo or a Sony one?

Ridiculous

it's a bluesky tweet

Meanwhile, Naughty Dog keeps milking the last great game they produced in 2013.