I wasn't implying that their quality is stagnant (except for Zelda, one might argue). I mean, almost every new Mario game is beloved, and of course Smash Bros. is massive when that comes out on every new Nintendo box. More a jab that I don't see them taking any sharp left turns or thinking up a new series. Not that a company with 80 gajillion dollars in the bank needs to do anything differently.

So trophies had a purpose after all! Between all 3 games I'm missing 3 trophies sooooo maybe I'll qualify?

I'm conflicted; if I'm invited I'll absolutely play it, but I would be happy to know nothing and go in blind come Feb 6.

No bundle, I just got a Best Buy gift card one day that cut the cost in half so I went for it. It's funny, between the price drop of the Bone and the terrible decision by Sony to raise the PS4 price in Canada by $50, the Bone is actually $50 cheaper now.

Anyhoo, the console itself is nice. Looks good, is relatively small compared to other consoles, runs quiet minus a bit of a 20-30 second hum upon start-up and doesn't even have an unsightly power brick so it's really great if you don't want to have a mess of a system. Of course those are all pretty minor things .. and where it counts (games) I'd say it's pretty lacking right now. The majority of games available have to be either indie games (not a bad thing) or reissues (a la TLoU Remastered), while the big names of the year continue to disappoint or be mostly underwhelming from what you hear (Infamous, Watch Dogs, Destiny). I'm not buying reissues of any games I played on PS3 because I think it's just ridiculous. I hear so many people complain about the reissues but then talk about how they're enjoying them. I'm voting with my wallet by not buying them unless it's a game I didn't play in the first place (like Reaper of Souls). I cringe when I hear people talking about how good GTA V looks on the new consoles. It looks marginally fucking better, and it looked great just 12 months ago! It's not like this is a remake of GTA III, the game is barely a year old!!

The layout of your "home screen" or whatever you want to call it is pretty bad; I'm sure no one likes it and it'll be changed someday. You can't even make folders right now so it's just one long row of your games and stuff.

At the end of the day I got it because I play games, and this is where a majority of games will come out for the foreseeable future. And if Bloodborne is good, or if The Last Guardian ever comes out, bonus.

I do think the shift toward indie will continue rapidly and more than people expect as "traditional" games are more often viewed as annualized cash-ins. From what I played of the Destiny alpha and betas that game is one example of how badly traditional developers can miss the mark and not realize why people like games. I know it has a lot of apologists but it wasn't fun in the least to me. If that's where big budgets are going then there's going to be a lot of disappointed people over the next few years.

A few more average AAA games and people are going to start hitting the panic button. There's only so much room at the top, and it's already pretty damn crowded with your Madden/FIFAs, Call of Duty, GTA, etc...I don't know how much longer there can be AAA or AA titles that aren't from already established franchises. And that is obviously bad for the medium. I really do think what we call indies today will just be the complete norm in a few years; almost like we just hit the reset button. I'm not one to say things like "oooh this will be the last generation of consoles!" but I do think the PS4/Xbone are way too similar to their predecessors, and I don't think that will be sustainable come the next round. It wouldn't surprise me if either Sony or Microsoft exit the game, or someone new joins the fray. Ironically I think the console that Microsoft never released (their original vision of the Xbox One) would have, over time, been seen as the most "next-gen" thing on the market. But a lot of loud, shout-y video game-playing people, who are far more traditional than they'd ever care to admit, with their foot stomping kept their safe place pretty traditional. With the lack of creativity from the big publishers these days the PS3/360 probably could have gone on for another 2-3 years just off indie support.

I enjoy most of the games I've been playing on my PS4 but not many of them needed that hardware to run (Dead Nation, Fez, Wolfenstein, AC4). And the games that have obviously benefited from it only do so because they cranked out more intense particle effects and such to look cooler (Resogun, Diablo 3). The only thing that's really made me say "wow" was P.T.

Actually the thing that's most disappointing to me is the battery life of the controller; the PS3 controller seems to last forever but the PS4 one only gets you a handful of hours (kinda like the Vita) and the charging cord is really short. Sometimes I put my laptop on the coffee table and plug the controller into that out of necessity. Anyway, there's my rambling about new consoles.

Yep, it's sort of a bummer, the state of the industry, because it seems that 3/4ths game content that comes out could go on PS3/360/mid-level PCs for like I said another couple years, but their limitations were beginning to restrict the "need" to push graphics/splash/pizzazz forward. Those consoles each took a few years to fully take off, which mostly started to happen in 2007, so I think next year should be a lot more impressive as far as the new machines go. If they're not .. well that'll be a shame.

I believe I've heard that exact thing said about it, but I don't know much about the game. That's what people said about Dragon's Dogma too; I didn't play DD so no comment.

I wonder if that will hurt its sales, now that it will come out after The Order 1886; on the surface the games look pretty similar, so the one-game-a-quarter folks might go in for The Order now instead of Bloodborne. I also wonder if the Sony had a hand in the delay or if it was at FromSoftware's behest.

Either way, another month to make the game better sounds good to me. Early-ish March then, I guess.