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Sacred Symbols, Episode 346 | Then There Is No Pleasing You (Patreon)

Published:
2025-02-14 17:00:18
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2025-02-15 21:39:36
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2026-06
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A recent presentation showcased a diverse array of some 35 games coming to PlayStation 5 over the next couple of years. But -- perhaps unsurprisingly -- that hasn't stopped boo-birds from raining down upon Sony yet again, at least from some particularly loud corners. It seems that some people will literally never be satisfied, no matter what. But for those who are looking forward to new games to play, there was much to be excited about in the form of Lost Soul Aside, Metal Eden, Borderlands 4, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Hell Is Us, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Days Gone Remastered, Tides of Annihilation, and even a brand new Housemarque PS5-exclusive called Saros, amongst much more. This week, we take time to delve into everything discussed during the newest State of Play, and dive into a bunch of other news too. Sony's quarterly financials are out, and PS5 sales are booming, reaching 75 million sold and counting. Meanwhile, Astro Bot is getting even more free DLC, God of War may be reverting to its Greek roots, Resistance and The Order are likely permanently dead, Twisted Metal returns to Peacock this summer, and so on. Then: Listener inquiries! Is Kendrick Lamar a PlayStation nerd? Does HDR even do anything? Why aren't more old folks playing games? Should Colin just retire?

Timestamps:0:00:00 - Intro0:18:20 - Super Bowl stories0:39:47 - Bellota <30:47:32 - 2x Speed0:52:27 - In some sense0:54:56 - Napoleon's penis0:59:25 - PSN outage1:17:20 - PS5 sells over 75 million1:29:11 - Astro Bot bundle incoming1:38:02 - Death Stranding 2 stream at SXSW1:41:27 - Elden Ring: Nightreign release date1:46:04 - The Order 1886 could have had a sequel1:50:54 - 100% new information about Resistance 42:00:01 - God of War in Greece?2:07:30 - Twisted Metal Season 2 coming this summer2:10:35 - Koei Tecmo's CEO steps down2:13:52 - Layoffs at Crytek2:17:07 - DQXII is still in development2:18:53 - PUBG is more lucrative than ever2:23:36 - What Are We Playing?2:53:24 - State of Play general thoughts3:18:42 - Monster Hunter WIlds3:19:57 - Shinobi3:23:35 - Sonic Racing Cross Worlds3:25:15 - Digimon Story Time Stranger3:29:18 - Lost Soul Aside3:32:55 - Small updates/games3:36:47 - Borderlands 43:41:39 - Split Fiction3:43:41 - Directive 80203:48:38 - The Midnight Walk3:50:43 - Darwin's Paradox3:52:28 - Warriors Abyss3:53:50 - Onimusha3:56:42 - Metal Gear Solid Delta3:57:47 - Hell is Us4:01:33 - Lies of P Overture4:03:07 - Dreams of Another4:08:16 - Days Gone Remastered4:17:43 - Stellar Blade DLC4:20:16 - Lost Records4:21:54 - PS Plus games4:24:28 - Tides of Annihilation4:30:00 - Metal Eden4:33:54 - MindsEye4:40:11 - Saros4:45:24 - Sony cleaning out AI games4:50:34 - HDR woes4:55:12 - IGN's Twitter antics4:58:43 - Earthblade cancelation5:03:34 - Too old for video games?

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Comments

Conz Wilson

5 hours huh? We got a meaty one bois

Casey Cieslikowski

I’m sure Colin is going to bend over backwards to say how great it was. For me it was a C not much there.

C

The more I thought about it, the more I thought the showcase was decent. There’s a load of stuff in there I want to play and it also made me want to go back and play some older titles.

Mysterious Narrator

If there's 1 game you're interested in, it's a win. This narrative of an individual needing to see everything they ever wanted in 1 showcase is stupidity.

Pasqual Ribot

Lol america has the worst cusine in the world. Let me tell you how many americans are here in Spain raving about food. Napolitano pizza is a million times better than your greasy shit

Beaver diva

We need to fucking stop rating these state of okays/showcases man.

Zack

The story of how prince got the show is awesome. He had the super bowl/NFL people come over for dinner. Afterwards, he told them to follow him and took the execs upstairs to a room where the full band was set up. They then proceeded to play The halftime show for the execs. At least that's the story I've heard

Mark M

'Napoleon's penis' never change lads

Trapgunner

My heeler/pit mix Leo turns 9 this year. It really sucks I have maybe four years left with him. I remember being on a walk with him a few years ago and met another heeler mix. She was a happy girl but moving slow. I asked how old she was and the owner said nineteen. I keep that in the back of my mind hoping Leo is so lucky.

Matt Wiles

Just started. Chris, KCD2 on Steam to remote play?! You have a PS5 Pro. It is absolutely unbelievable, especially on Pro. What a game. Once in a decade sort of thing, like Cyberpunk.

Phil

Colin, I think you take the 'audience' reaction too seriously. Your strength has always been making the show you want to make. If peoples online reactions make you want to retire, the only thing that you can control is ignoring those reactions. If you want to make a 3 hour video essay on why you are excited about Intergalactic, that is what you should do.

Eric the Human

Viagra Boys playing the super bowl would break people. Such a dope band. Saw them open for Queens of the Stone age a few years ago and they've quickly become one of my favorites.

Uvula Smack

Italian cuisine in Italy is the greatest food in the world. Including pizza. Any other opinion is invalid.

Frank

Pretty sure Colin got baited on the Kendrick/Patapon story. Only source of that is Radec.

Bogey

If you watch the episode Don Draper on the elevator very much thought about that man he said that too. In fact he was obsessed with him

Kelzilla

Over 5 hours?! That’s a beefy episode!

Bryan Lozano

Mexican cuisine is where the real good stuff is at boys.

Girth Brooks

Which patreon tier gets Colin to stop calling games “cute”?

Big titty drinker

As soon as I saw mattys thumb nail I knew I was gonna love this state of play. He’s usually a barometer for me

Josh

It’s Twist

The Big Bong

Hey sacred boys! I‘ll try to explain why I and I think a lot of other gamers are so disappointed of Sony and their showcases in the last years. But in advance, Dustin was nearly right with the „uncharted 8“ take ;) U always talk about the amount of games, good games and new games which release every year. But u know also that there are too many and a lot of them are mediocre or bad. I’m 36 and my entry point into console gaming (before pc) was the PS3 era! With all the until today generational defining exclusive series like Uncharted, Infamous, Gran Turismo, God of war, LBP, TLoU and a lot of other exclusives from sony studios. U know them all. And of course the strategy (corporate wise) wasn‘t perfect, but I think a big chunk of PS fans coming from those times (and oc before) and games, bc this games were REALY all more or less 9/10 games! I loved PS for that! In PS4 era the games were more difficult and slower to make but there were enough. The games of Generation like Gow 2018, Horizon, TLoU, Ghost of Tsushima, Days gone, Bloodbourne etc. Since PS5 there are not nearly such high class SP narrative games with this PS STUDIO Story and Visuals polish! Since Uncharted 2 the visuals of the exclusives were best in class on Sony consoles in comparison with the competitors. This combined with the whole monstrously big fails in GAAS, cancelled (TLoU MP) and not cancelled projects (Concord, Gow MP-Game) since ~2020, with one or 2 high class games a year, letting me go crazy when in the State of Play they show again nothing from their good old PlayStation studios magic. What are the studios doing in the last 3-5 years? Yeah we know now what happened and it drives me crazy! Especially when I think what we could have… That’s it! Yeah we have much awesome games to play, but we want simply a few of those PlayStation Studios exclusive games from the ps3/ps4 gen AGAIN. not a Honkai starrail or GAAS No 23! but maybe i‘m also a dieing gamer species :D 2 weeks ago I played Uncharted 4 from 2016(?) and god this game looks phenomenal and the story is also nearly perfect! I hope u understand my point and sorry for my foreign english ;) Greetings from Germany, Eugene! P.S. GTA 6 is also somewhere in the ether:/

Zac

The fact that people didn't like the state of play is wild to me. I'm on PC but I wishlisted a bunch of the games that were showed off there were so many interesting games showed I can't imagine being upset about it

Wayde

Walking out of a Korn concert makes me wince Johnathan Davis is still an amazing artist.

Pianopower

Omfg I’m so tired of Colin not understanding the problem people are having with Sony and State of plays . I’m one of those people who had NO EXPECTATIONS and still was let down. Dude, who spent the last 2 decades doubling the fuck down on exclusives and LURING the consumer into its ecosystem because of the exclusives? Sony. So why act surprised or bewildered at peoples responses? And this is gonna keep happening btw, since Sony fucked up their studios with live service so the future doesn’t look exciting at all.

Jason Rose

Came for the length, stayed for the girth. Also, it’s a little crazy to me how little collectively you guys know about God of War when outside of Spider-Man it’s the biggest gaming IP PlayStation has currently. Chains of Olympus, Ghost of Sparta and Ascension all cover a younger Kratos. There’s no way they’re going back to Greece after spending 6 games there, that would moronic and ruin the narrative momentum. It’s likely exactly as Colin says, wires crossed in the leak messaging. There’s no chance God of War will, or should go away as it’s more popular than ever. I prefer the older games as well, but that bus isn’t stopping anytime soon. The fighting ISIS call was just stellar, though

Asique Alam

I love a good lengthy and girthy creamy episode..

BigDumbStupidIdiot

It's definitely a social problem of younger men being perpetually pessimistic and negative. The algorithms have trained them to be the victim and angry at every situation

Robbie (DatLie)

The showcase was decent and I know not everything is for me. (Most of it wasn’t) There should at least be one or two things for everyone to be excited about. I’m excited for Sonic Racing and the next Dark Pictures Game.

AL022

I know Colin is an AFC fan, but the league did exist before 1967 and in fact there have been two previous three peats of NFL champions, both by the Green Bay Packers. 1929-1931 and 1965-1967.

Xemphanis

No legitimate source is saying consoles are dying. The market isn’t growing. Consoles will sell fine to Gen X and Millenials for a long time to come. However, I have a teenager and very few of his friends game on console. Thats what they’re talking about. Speaking as a professional data analyst at a big corporation, there’s lots of explanations for the current numbers. PlayStation is growing while Xbox is shrinking. Could be a lot of people moving platforms. Especially with everyone saying Xbox is dead. Game revenue is up from the PS4. Of course. AAA games are $10 more expensive. MTX are also way more common. Particularly battle passes. What would be more informative is what is the attach rate between the 2 generations, as well as how much of that revenue is from MTX compared to the previous generation. Also, PS5 sales went up at the same time as a console launch. Makes sense. What would be more telling is not PSN users, but how many unique PSN subscribers compared to console sales. I’d expect a lot of duplication there. And clearly no one shares accurate numbers because MAUs are always going to be higher than subscribers. Hence much of the backlash from the PC space because some of those people don’t want to pad the PSN numbers. Also, comparing Switch sales to PS5 sales is a bad comparison. The Switch is a handheld that can be used on a TV. It’s much cheaper and more versatile. Especially for a more casual audience.

Diddy’s Dong Quest

How much money would it take you guys to give Napoleons peepee a lick? What about a long sniff?

DJChazzyCheff

Colin finding Horizon interesting but not Greek mythology is crazy to me.

Dante B

“I’m not saying I’m not cynical. I’m saying I don’t aspire to be” - best thing Chris has ever said

Nightseye9

I thought the showcase was awesome. I wasn’t expecting much first party and that’s the keyword here, expectation. The one sore spot was announcing a Day’s Gone Remaster, like really? Especially when we have Bloodborne sitting in the corner. If only Sony had a remake studio that wasn’t busy the past two years working on a canceled live service…

Susan B. Anthony Bourdain

Kind of sad to hear Colin talk about wanting to retire for 10 minutes because some people are mean online, then give the advice to ignore people like IGN who want to push your buttons. Dude, they are the SAME THING! Don’t let people push your buttons! I thought the State of Play was great and didn’t even know that people hated it until you all brought it up. Even making it the title of the episode. Why surface the negativity like this? I don’t understand it at all.

Big Devin Energy

Absolutely no way console gaming will die anytime soon. I’m PS5 Pro and Switch right now and love the Portal and will get Switch 2. We’re not going anywhere and occupy a huge majority of the gaming ecosystem. Handhelds are consoles as well - and even PC (Steam) decided they needed a console to compete (Steamdeck) and now Xbox is purportedly making a Handheld of their own amongst all the others. Yeah… Console gaming is dead 🙄

Caleb Peacock

The herman miller shit pasta maker chair was a good bit

Hammertime44

How does Colin not understand why people didn’t love the State of Play? He’s talking about how there is a first party game, but fails to mention that we could potentially have to wait basically 2 years for it. Fans want to hear about what is coming up in the near future from first party, not what’s gonna come out in a year or 2. Of course he bent over backwards to show that he thought it was great. I wasn’t expecting much and we didn’t get much. Very welmed by the SOP.

Deon

Colin It's not your job to try and referee people's feelings about how they felt about the showcase everyone is entitled to their own opinion if you liked it great and if you didn't like it that's ok as well. I personally thought it was average I'm looking for specific things like what happened to the game with Nathan Drake's daughter where's that game, like someone mentioned in the episode where the F is wolverine or Venom. And im not even into bloodborne but where is the remaster to that game they can give us a remaster to Days f****n gone but not bloodborne and where's fairgames or bungies game marathon or whatever the hell it's called this is what I was looking to see. But everyone's expectations was different.

Smegaladon

Food for thought on American food, America has created some of the best food and recipes but modern America uses the worst ingredients, the meat, vegetables, bread everything is full of preservatives. To Americans it tastes great because they’re used to it, but to people from other countries it tastes bland and flavourless, no matter how much sauce or cheese you Americans use! I’m Australian and for reference I’ve spent more than 6 months in the USA and travelled the world fairly extensively. European food is probably the best, good, fresh ingredients go further than lots of ingredients and sauce.

NeO JD

I too was surprised when I saw people weren’t loving the SOP. They’ll come around when everybody else is enjoying the games. 😅

Frank G.

I thought the showcase was pretty good. Don't give a fuck if others hated it or not. I don't play every godamn release on day 1 because let's face it AAA be lacking on that department and they should be held accountable for. Is why we're getting Days Gone remastered shit happens at launch but if Cyberpunk can get a 4th and 5th chance, why can't Days Gone get a 2nd? Freaky ass gamers they're all 69 chuds.

Big titty drinker

Also in regards to the Kendrick stuff. Let me give a little context for Colin and Chris as to why you make Super Bowl bout someone else. If another man says I beat my wife , my wife cheated on me with my best friend /co company owner and that my my best friend is actually the father of my child and repeatedly drags someone who’s life should should remain private into the spotlight , AND I GIVE YOU FAIR WARNING NOT TO ATTACK MY FAMILY. Then yeah at that point I would use the biggest stage possible to destroy someone who said those things about my family. It didn’t have to get that far , Drake was warned to chill multiple times and he still went the route of attacking peoples family and it blew up in his face. No sympathy for him what so ever

Daddy T

That was by far and away not the worst State Of Play lmao

Jeffrey Rommel

Colin may see himself as cynical or curmudgeonly, and he certainly is about many things, but he has childlike wonder and optimism in PlayStation - the amount of time he likes to lecture others about how amazing PlayStation is and is doing is fascinating.

Ryan

Kendrick halftime show/drake track gives huge Reddit soy face pointing and going :O energy… We gotta be mature enough to say it wasn’t great (this is as a otherwise big Kendrick fan)

Michael Hobbs

Collin - I’m a huge fan of yours and a long time listener. I don’t know why some of your comments bothered me in regards to the PSN outage, but I wanted to just leave a comment. I have both a PS5 Pro and a launch model PS5. The Pro is set as my primary console. I have game sharing enabled between the pro and the launch model ps5. When I tried to launch digital games like FF7 Remake, FF7 rebirth or even your game Tri Breaker during the PSN outage, I was challenged with a license check that couldn’t complete. I was unable to disable the game sharing setting on either console as again, these feature settings weren’t accessible in the console OS during the outage. Just wanted to let you know that I don’t consider myself dumb or a liar. Wanted to share my case here with you and your listeners. Thank you for all the great content. Peace and love!

The Ladies' Mayor, Slurpis Clit-wa

Speaking of egregious attempts to dupe consumers (Perpetual Mouthwashing), shout out to “The Asylum” movies. I would always see these back in the DVD rental days. The two I remember the most are “Transmorphers” and “AVH: Alien vs. Hunter”.

The Corn Rocket

I get where Colin is coming from but the Internet is not real life. It has turned into a place where all the unhappy people go to be unhappy together and when you disconnect from that you realize that the world around you actually fucking rules.

FisnikDerZocker

Podcasts like these are the only places where I want to interact in the gaming-sphere. I‘m just tired of all the negativity around games. Maybe I‘m a man-child but I never left the honeymoon-phase of my gaming-journey. I like getting hyped for games. I like talking about games I like. Gaming-presentations for me are like a mini-christmas bc I get to see many games, even games I don‘t intend to play. There were many games in the State of Play that I will not play but I just love seeing game after game & thinking „Oh cool, game x will make someone out there happy“. „Where are all the games?“ - They are all in front of you, you just have to open your eyes. But I guess I just love this hobby so much bc it gives me joy. Something to hold on in this rotten world.

Vanzant

The SOP had no character. The games felt like second tier gamepass releases. PS needs the thing that got them to the dance and that’s first party. Not sure when a CG trailer for a game (house mark)that could be almost two years away count for anything. If they took a less is more approach and show Ghost gameplay with a release date people would have loved it. Just my two cents

Jacob Lesperance

American cuisine is garbage. It's why 50% of the population is obese. You all eat like children. Lol

Smegaladon

All folks wanted from that state of play was a release date for yotei or DS2 and to be fair, that’s not an unreasonable expectation as both are supposedly slated for a 2025 release.

Xemphanis

The Ninja Gaiden II Black staircase wasn’t broken. That’s the infamous staircase. Gotta kill everyone. Even post patch it’s still fewer enemies than the original. All the Ninja Gaiden games also have extra content so judging the price on the campaign means a bunch of content was skipped.

E_DOUBLE

If expectations are not in line when a State of Play is announced, that's basically saying the correct expectations for any SoP should be to expect "mid". If mid is the expectation, why even have one??? A mid SoP is a win for Sony? Why do they not realize by now that 90% of the time the feeling after a SoP is disappointment or underwhelming. Since Sony says nothing, if you don't have a big announcement they are better off saying nothing or make a blog post. A SoP is for the plugged in gamer. If you aren't pleasing them then they should expect this reaction. Now expecting anything Bloodborne related is silly. But can they really be that tone deaf and unable to read a room that ppl might think something was brewing after the takedowns and the 10 year anniversary coming up? Being they barely do anything to drum up a buzz, we don't want to hear from you unless you have something Bloodborne related or something big to announce. It's like with GRRM, keep your pie hole shut unless it's about a Winds of Winter release. We would rather you say nothing. Instead it feels like you are just mocking us and taking the piss with a smile on your face like yea we know the whole community wants us to acknowledge BB but we'll give you a mid SoP with nothing and you will like it. And I do expect mid whenever there is a SoP, but to ask what do people expect, well hopefully my sentiment clears some of that up

Wayde

The ps5 is selling well because up to the end of 2024 the US economy was very strong and healthy. While inflation hurts it doesn't mean the economy isn't strong. Drives me nuts that people don't understand how basic economics works

pbsandwich_

Love the show but Colin taking the “L” comments from the youtube chat so seriously is weird to me. Most of those are probably bots, or 14 year olds who only wanna see GTA6. There’s this kind of reaction to pretty much everything on the internet these days, it’s nothing new. I’m not sure why he was so shocked, and that being said people are entitled to thinking it was a bad showcase anyway. Why take that to heart?

Mr. Scott If You're Nasty

Sacred Apologists. Hold Sony accountable. That was mid and it's been mid for awhile.

Simon

Wait, Dustin needs someone to do a Civ podcast with, 10 minutes later going on about how his wife loves it and is an expert at it. Why not get her on board?

PairOfShuse

I do agree with Colin on this one - if you don’t find multiple games in this to like either 1. You don’t like games as much as you are putting on or 2. You just have very narrow game taste (which isn’t a bad thing). Me personally Shinobi, Lost Soul Aside, Hell is Us, Tides of Annihilation, the Lies of P DLC, Saros, and the directive 8020 all looked good. Tides looked the best to me then Lost Soul Aside, then Hell is Us looked amazing in that order. But since Colin once again had to bring it up and I will continue to call it out - Colin whined about people not thinking Intergalactic looked great then doesn’t call Chris out, in fact, he enables it. You cannot complain about Intergalactic as much as you are doing and then casually skip over Chris any time there is some anime inspired type game brought up. If Chris dismissing anything even anime adjacent just on the looks alone is ok, then the people who don’t like the look and tone of Intergalactic are equally as valid. Overall I thought this State of Play was a solid B on an F to S ranking system. Some really interesting looking games and some duds as well but I don’t expect every game shown to be great looking or even to my tastes. The fact that JRPGs are my favorite genre and there weren’t any and it still got a B is great IMO

Jason Rose

At times like this I wish someone was better on the panel at articulating what the problems actually are and why, agree or disagree, people have issues. Thought the show was great btw in terms of games, but the style of show is an issue. B+ overall. First, stop listening to the bottom denominator morons with no depth to their critique outside of “L” “this is shit” it’s irrelevant. Second, it starts with the entire presentation style of the PlayStation’s shows. In short, they have no personality and are corporately sterile, unhype delivering mechanisms, Everything Sony has done from a PR standpoint post E3 has been a disaster. When is the last time someone walked away from a post E3 Sony show feeling hyped? I can’t remember one snd merely feeling OK isn’t good enough in video games. People want to feel hyped Third, expectations are just out of sorts and the delivery of these shows are inconsistent. When you go half a year or more with no show you punt on the ability to not deliver BIG-TIME with your show. Anything other than that and fans are going to be disgruntled. Colin and the guys have to see this. Lastly, it’s the lack of information on existing first party announcements and Colin knows that a “one more thing” trailer that is entirely CG with no gameplay isn’t cutting it in 2025. I could talk about this forever and again, Dustin and Chris need to do a better job articulating this stuff and pushing back on Colin’s seemingly genuine head scratching. To me, it’s pretty easy to see why people aren’t loving these shows without falling into the pitfall of internet troglodyte L opinions. Personally, I thought this was a very good show, bordering on great but the criticism of the delivering mechanisms remains regardless of the games shown. Consistency is something LSM has built their brand on, Sony needs to start taking that more to heart to temper expectations that grow with time. I’m all yours if you want to talk about it LSM crew.

The Big Bong

Want to add to my point (from 2 Days ago) that, i like mostly narrative third person games and more or less classic FPS‘s! And i have no foot in Souls likes, JRPGS, kojima pretentious stuff or indies. To take it simply: the classic PlayStation First Party portfolio! (Maybe I forgot a genre which i like or don‘t like.) At the end of course the panel can talk easily bc the JRPGS and souls like and so on are in the best years of the last 2 decades (FF Remakes and so on). And so a lot of games out of the SOP you liked. I went through all the announcements and tell you honestly: i found 2-3 games mildly interesting. How should I be satisfied with those SOP‘s? Why Colin AND the boys don’t see this valid complaint and attack every time the rational but critical voices beside the stupid internetkids, which are simply to ignore?

Matt Wiles

Regarding Colin’s point about Twitter / views of the show; I’ve been thinking this for months, if not years now. People seem to be so cynical, self-entitled or spoilt brats. I’ve been using Reddit for 12 months and enjoyed the reading/commenting aspect of it but more and more I see negative views on my own country (England) from fellow Brits, such as it being a ‘shithole’ or they wanting to leave asap. It’s FAR from a shithole, quite the opposite; I sincerely believe the U.K. and U.S (plus Australia) are the top 3 countries to live in the world. But that cynical, negative mindset is rampant… especially amongst the left-wingers. Same with State of Play, nothing is good enough, or they just say it to wind people up. In a nutshell, I’m TIRED of reading other people’s dogshit opinions and it’s ending for me as I type. I’ve decided to completely remove Reddit from my phone, I rarely go on Twitter either. Why bother reading those dumb opinions? It increases my blood pressure!

Breno Bezerra Bluhm

Colin you are not going crazy nor are you a fossil. Internet these days just fucking sucks, but I guarantee you most people watched the state of play and went on with their normal lives. Please do not retire 🙏🏼

Daddy T

Chris talking about Relapse as if it’s not the best record Em put out

Markeus

Wait Chris was talking about the best Eminem Album?

Markeus

Colin listen to Kendrick’s full albums. You will appreciate

Markeus

Colin you have to listen to the ALBUM back street freestyle is on. It’s a whole story

Walk Forward Cutscene

Chris getting filtered by a toned down version of Ninja Gaiden 2 on the lowest difficulty 😂

D

Colin is always defensive of Playstation Showcases & State of Play. And there is no need to be so mocking and shitty to the people who aren't pleased. He severely discounts what the masses are looking for when they diligently save up and buy a Playstation console (not five) -the FIRST PARTY EXCLUSIVES that motivated the console purchase in the first place.

CAm Moses

I laugh Colin goes on about toxic positivity and” cope” on the Xbox side of things . This man spun the last 3 months of Sony L’s with lay offs and closures , cancelled games, lack of first party games ,,PSN outage , State of Play be underwhelming for many reasons .

Mark ?️

The take about American cuisine, and Italian food especially is one of the worst takes of all time. Americans eat like school kids, or as if they lost half their taste buds; a single Cheeto has enough seasoning on it to kill a whole village of 19th century peasants, not to mention the neon red 'Red 40' dye that's known to affect child development

Beaver diva

Colin's been on the internet for so long, how are comment sections troubling him to the point he'd suggest retiring over it. They're comment sections man please ignore it, for your self and the listeners. I actively avoid it, only to listen to this and hear the absolute dross anyway

NinjaDC

I feel expectations killed this state of play. The time since the last one, large length, and strong rumors around it set high expectations. Sony easily could have avoided most of it if they would have marketed this state for what it was; a third party showcase. Nintendo does this all the time with Directs built around 3rd party and indie games. Sony should have done the same. Hell, even hold back announcing Returnal's spiritual sequel until you have more to show than its title. As it stands, I wouldn't even say expectations were too extreme. Some sort of update on all ready announced 1st party games for 25 and 26 is a reasonable expectation. But we don't even get an update on Ghost 2, which supposedly is coming out this year.

DogMeat

I loved this state of play. I remember thinking state of plays are generally smaller than showcases anyway. Also our last state of play we saw ghost 2 and death stranding i believe. Two first (and second) party huge things. Now we see a ton of new things including housemarques next big thing. Why are people mad we didn't see more of the same stuff we already know about? Like I don't need to be sold any harder on those 2 games so seeing 30+ new things is hype

Samuel Zamora

With the PSN outage issue, I game share with a relative. I buy 90% of the games and my relative buys the main multiplayer games. I couldn’t play any of my games that I was in the middle of getting the platinums. Getting access to the primary was not an option as I’m in Nor-Cal and the relative is in SF. It would be nice regardless of license restoration is on primary or secondary console. I understand online features being down but a game like Hades that has no leaderboard should have no issue being played.

Mike Maurice

I thought the state of play was great, not everything was for me but there was enough for me to wonder if I’ll get to everything I liked.

Josephine

Hey Colin, don’t doubt the importance of what you’re doing. The internet is addicted to being angry. The people who aren’t and liked the state of play they just don’t comment. We’re just excited and happy and love listening to you. Keep doing your job. Your audience is here.

Save The Game Media

The PSN outage sucked for everyone that has game sharing set up because your console isn’t your primary.

Cole

Look, I didn't hate the SOP, would probably give it a C+ or a B-, but I think Colin would also be upset about that opinion as well at this point. Sorry but CGI trailers, repetitive marketing trailers of games we already know about and are coming out soon, and DAYS GONE Remaster (hilarious) are not enough to get me hyped. There were a couple of interesting looking titles (Tides of Annihilation, Shinobi, Midnight Walk, maybe some others) but also a lot of games with the "Gamepass" feel to them. Lots of games with gameplay and art directions and storytelling that all kind of blended together into being mostly forgettable. People are negative on Playstation because the last 6 months has been Concord, leadership shakeups, studio closures, game cancellations, and the realization that there is just a general lack of big 1st party games on the horizon for quite some time.

Andrew Simmons

Only Onimusha and MGS for me, FNAF for my kids. Games just looked very similar or.... Bland? Mindseye looked like an AI created combo of Division and Cyberpunk. Hell is us, lost soul aside, monster hunter wilds, Tides of annihilation ontop of Stellar blade and Lies of P DLC; all looked the same kinda game. Can't tell the difference between Splitgate 2 and Metal Eden. Hated Returnal so Saros is off the table. Dustin was right; I've become one of those where I only want certain IP and I'm not interested in new IP.

Hugplx

Words can't accurately express how much I hated BL3. I was very much like Colin, just enjoying the combat and ignoring the story/dialogue... That's all well and good until the game would often just stop, and FORCE you to listen to the cringe bullshit until it was finished, and only then would the door to the next area open. I remember playing with my friend the entire game, and we were both so annoyed and disgusted after it happened for the nth time we immediately uninstalled. No thanks.

Glen Yelenovic

We need Kid Kratos so we have have Kid Kratos vs Child Aloy in PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale 2

PairOfShuse

One thing about Death Stranding being pro life - I agree with this. Japan, while you can have abortions, have more stipulations and tend to at the very least have both people involved and have to give the ok. With declining birth rates and high suicide rates, I can see why it could be more pro life. There are even metal bands in Japan like Dir en Grey that have songs that are definitely from a pro life standpoint

Glen Yelenovic

Holly needs to be on the Civilization episode.

Raf

Although I felt this SOP was a little underwhelming, I was def astonished at the hate Intergalactic received. That response was totally out of whack.

Ahlickaloo

Is the podcast title an Austin Powers reference?

Sam

Great episode gents, A lot of Colin speaking about not breathing oxygen into the crazy folks on twitter, glad to see the company go in this direction. Gone are the days of Yotei being revealed and the entire conversation being about an angry virgin on twitter.

Bailey Callis

Nobody's on their high horse like New Yorkers with pizza

AJWhite

It's such a Chris move to play three games in a week then impulsively buy one of the biggest immersive RPGs on a whim lol

Liamburrito

Most countries have better food than America But if y’all enjoy it, all the power to ya

Dead

Small correction, Colin. The new Dark Pictures game is notably NOT published by Bandai Namco, but is self-published by Supermassive.

TheWubbz

Behind on videos. Here’s the answer to what the complainers want. Bloodborne 2 or Remake announced alongside footage of Wolverine in the same showcase

Kevin Cooper

Video Game Therapy is a legitimate treatment for those with onset Dementia/Alzheimer's disease. My father passed away from this disease, and I am often after my older siblings to start playing video games again to keep their critical thinking & problem solving skills active as they head into old age. Never stop playing.