I didn’t watch this one but looked over what showed up in it later. I still can’t say much stands out on this system that makes me want to get one. Even if they have fancier colors now. The Legacy of Kain remasters sound like a good idea at least. I don’t know much about those games but I at least know those games were around in the PS1 times. Also Ghost of Tsushima gets a sequel, ideally we no longer end up having the eventual PC ports of games require a PSN account to play singleplayer like what Sony keeps trying to push because that’s a bullshit EA/Ubisoft kinda move there. I’m at least capable of doing that sort of thing, being in one of the selection of countries that PSN supports, but it’s still stupid. At least at the moment there’s not some kind of nested launcher thing but we’ll see how that turns out by the time Spider-Man 2 or Astro Bot might end up on PC. If things go horribly wrong with the ports or the games just don’t end up on PC at all, I’ll either just find a cheap secondhand console with games or do the “other thing” if not just not bother.
Long story short I’m still more interested in various indie things more than the big games, so nothing has really changed there. Though as far as what was in that showcase that might have been indie nothing entirely caught my interest. Remasters or remakes can be hit or miss but still tend to get more attention from me than totally new big games. And my Game Pass is about to expire this week before I go out doing things again, so just wrapping up some things there before I likely don’t subscribe again unless there’s an actual deal involved or I get free time on there. But really I just would rather play the games I do have without subscriptions from here on.
I also still have no intent to make any more social media pages or return to anything I’ve used before. Not even Bluesky or trying to figure out what Mastodon instance I’d start around, or even to bother logging into any leftover accounts just to delete them at the moment. The ones I know of that are left are still a bit too trashy in general, but that just comes with the whole social media design as it is, plus humanity in general on top of that. The less corporate the better, but go too non-corporate and it’s likely completely unsustainable in the modern web economy unless something lucky happens I guess. Or there’s just very generous donors. Plus I still consider the host of this site to be more of a web host than a social network due to its general nature, despite any attempts otherwise, which is probably why I’ve stuck around this long.