10 BIG NEW Playstation State of Play Reveals of 2024

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Here are all of big announcements from Sony's newest PlayStation State of Play event featuring new game announcements, release dates, game trailers and more. Subscribe for more:         0:00 Intro  0:18 Hell is Us  2:26 PS5 Chroma Collection  4:49 Stellar Blade Neir Automata DLC 6:25 Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered 8:29 Monster Hunter Wilds  9:32 Archeage Chronicles 10:33 Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1-2 Remastered 11:30 Hitman World of Assassination  12:37 The Midnight Walk 13:47 Ghost of Yotei 15:07 BONUS   10 Hell is Us   Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S   Release Date: 2025    9 PS5 Chroma Collection     8 Stellar Blade Neir Automata DLC  Platform: PS5   Release Date: TBA 2024    7 Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered  Platform: PC PS5   Release Date: October 31, 2024    6 Monster Hunter Wilds   Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S  Release Date: February 25, 2024    5 Archeage Chronicles  Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S  Release Date: 2025    4 Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1-2 Remastered  Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S Xbox One PS4 Switch   Release Date: December 10, 2024    3 Hitman World of Assassination   Platform: PSVR2   Release Date: December 2024     2 The Midnight Walk  Platform: PS5  Release Date: TBA    1 Ghost of Yotei  Platform: PS5  Release Date: TBA 2025    BONUS    Dynasty Warriors Origins   Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S   Release Date: January 17, 2025    Alan Wake 2 Lake House Expansion  Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S  Release Date: October 2024    New Towers of Asghaba   Platform: PC PS5   Release Date: November 2024

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00:00So, State of Play has hit, and a lot of it has hit hard.

00:05Most of the stuff we have to talk about looks pretty sweet to me, but this State of Play

00:09was not without its controversy, so without any further ado, hi folks, it's Falcon and

00:13today on Gameranx, 10 big new PlayStation State of Play reveals in 2024.

00:18At number 10 is Hell is Us.

00:21What looks like Dark Souls against the Sonic Frontiers enemies is probably going to be

00:26a lot better than that.

00:27We saw gameplay, and honestly, I'm extremely intrigued.

00:30I'm also joking about the bad guys being the bad guys from Sonic Frontiers.

00:36They are actually terrifying, but kind of have that aesthetic.

00:40Seriously, I've had nightmares about things that look exactly like this, so, fun!

00:45Like that a lot.

00:46Get to play a video game against nightmares I've had.

00:49The trailer, while actually a gameplay trailer, does probably a better job of setting up a

00:54world and premise than most trailers I have seen lately.

00:59What we have is a surrealist action game that focuses on melee combat.

01:04I hesitate to call it a Souls-like, even though I have seen several articles call it such.

01:09It looks a little different to me.

01:11There's also a focus on exploration.

01:13The marketing materials for Hell is Us regard it as an action-adventure game, which is not

01:18really what I consider a Souls game to be, so I don't know.

01:22I don't know exactly where to classify this if it fits in the subgenre or if it's something

01:26different altogether.

01:28I think it's got enough going for it that it feels different.

01:32I'm only mentioning this stuff because I've seen other people mention it.

01:35I wasn't immediately struck as, oh, look at this Souls-like.

01:38It has too much of a plot from the looks.

01:40Not that there's no plot in a Souls-like game, but generally those games are more environmental

01:46storytelling and this looks like you got a serious thing going on, you know?

01:52It's so silly that's how you would describe something unique about a game at this point.

01:57Because it sounds like such a dunk on the Souls-like genre, and it's not at all.

02:01But I'm intrigued.

02:02I like the idea of a surrealist game that doesn't lean too hard on a novel art style.

02:07Really, most of it, aside from the bad guys, is pretty normal looking.

02:12And the bad guys actually kind of remind me of some Control stuff.

02:16I don't know.

02:17I'm fairly excited about this one.

02:19It definitely roped me in.

02:20We don't have a release date.

02:22It's obviously a PlayStation 5 game and it's coming out next year sometime.

02:26Moving on to number nine, here's where the controversy starts a little bit.

02:30So they're releasing a Chroma collection, which is a couple of new controllers and console

02:36covers for the PS5.

02:38Now if you're a fan of those reflective paint jobs that look like different colors from

02:42different angles, you're going to love this.

02:44I think they look cool.

02:46I grew up in the 1990s.

02:47That's when that stuff was cool.

02:49Your mileage may vary.

02:50I don't know.

02:52But that's not what the controversy is.

02:53The Chroma collection is not going to be available for the launch PS5.

02:57And it kind of highlights the fact that the PlayStation 5 launch edition really hasn't

03:02gotten that kind of attention.

03:04Now to be fair, there is positive response for these colors.

03:07I'm not saying that these are like hated.

03:10They're not.

03:11It is a cool announcement.

03:12I do like what they look like, but they're marred in the comment section of their announcement

03:17with people pretty not happy about the fact that these cool covers are only available

03:23for the PlayStation 5 Slim owners, which is, by the way, somewhere in the neighborhood

03:27of 16, 17 million people.

03:30Don't get me wrong.

03:31Lots of people.

03:32But there are 45 million people who own the launch PlayStation 5 console, which is a significantly

03:38larger number of people.

03:39And thus, when they see a smaller group being catered to, it makes them not happy.

03:45Now, the ideal solution to this situation is for Sony to put these covers out for the

03:50launch edition of the console as well.

03:52But also, maybe they don't want to.

03:54Maybe they want to produce less of them and sell them easier.

03:57I don't know.

03:58There's probably a reason.

04:00Technically, the original PS5 is not being manufactured anymore.

04:05But people who supported the PS5 from day one feel a little shortchanged.

04:10That being said, I do want to say I think that they're cool covers.

04:15I'm talking about it this way because I think that it's only fair.

04:18I don't have an original PS5.

04:20I'm not sure if I'm going to buy these yet because I got my eye on that 30th anniversary

04:27edition.

04:28If I'm going to do anything crazy about the appearance, I'm hoping maybe somebody makes

04:33a cover that looks like the 30th anniversary edition so I don't have to buy a really overpriced

04:39PS5 to get it.

04:41But we'll see.

04:42But obviously, everybody who both owns the PS5 Slim and likes those multicolor paints,

04:48you got a great product coming up.

04:50At number eight is the Stellar Blade Nier Automata DLC.

04:54So let's get into some more straightforwardly awesome stuff.

04:58Right.

04:59So there is Stellar Blade DLC and updates.

05:02They range from a photo studio.

05:05When I say photo studio, I say that as in it's much more than a photo mode.

05:10And also a Nier Automata collaboration.

05:14The photo mode's kind of nuts.

05:15Like you go way further than your average photo mode.

05:18You can pose the characters.

05:20You can put expressions on their faces, et cetera, et cetera.

05:24It's way more than you would normally expect.

05:27But what is probably cooler for somebody like myself, a big fan of Nier Automata.

05:31In all seriousness, this is a game that Stellar Blade got a massive amount of comparison to,

05:36even though they're actually pretty different games.

05:38Now the nature of the Nier Automata stuff, I will say we don't know the full extent of.

05:43It looks like it might be content where you play something from Nier Automata with the

05:48Stellar Blade mechanics.

05:51I'm not really 100% sure.

05:53We do see 2B facing over what looks like the Crumbled Amusement Park from Nier Automata.

05:59I don't know exactly what that means.

06:02Are they going to put the Nier Automata aesthetic over some areas of Stellar Blade or are we

06:08getting a full new area?

06:10We'll see.

06:11It's awesome nonetheless.

06:13There's also, you're going to be able to buy the soundtrack for Stellar Blade, which is

06:17a very good soundtrack.

06:19It is a lot of tracks also.

06:21It's over 180 of them and I will certainly be picking that up.

06:25At number 7, this one I'm pretty happy about, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered.

06:30Horizon Zero Dawn is a good game.

06:32Horizon Forbidden West is a big upgrade and Burning Shores, the DLC, kind of takes us

06:37to a place where it makes the original Horizon look rudimentary and no longer.

06:43This remaster looks fan-freaking-tastic.

06:46The trailer contains basically a list of things that they've done to make things look better.

06:51Textures, models, blah, blah, blah.

06:53I think that it's just obvious looking at it that it looks significantly nicer than

06:58the original Horizon Zero Dawn, particularly the character models.

07:01The original of those games, character models kind of got some criticism as toe face.

07:07They had a bit of that toe face, the big toe face going on and I think they fixed that

07:12here.

07:13It looks much more consistent with the more recent Horizon game or if you consider Burning

07:19Shores a separate game, and I kind of do, games.

07:22I mean it's not like they've done a huge amount of stuff to these models, but even

07:26subtle changes do a fair amount in my opinion.

07:29Like if you look at side by side of the character models from the original to this trailer,

07:35definitely improved.

07:37Adult Aloy in particular, like that is kind of a night and day one.

07:42The thing is, the original didn't look bad in any way and I never actually thought, you

07:46know what really needs a remaster?

07:49It's Horizon Zero Dawn.

07:51But seeing the footage that we've seen captured on PS5 here, yes, it absolutely needed a remaster.

07:57I can't wait to play it again honestly because it looks just stunning.

08:01This one's not far off either.

08:03It's coming Halloween this year.

08:05Pre-orders are open.

08:07It's been nice to see Sony kind of actually developing on the Horizon brand.

08:11I think that it kind of got ignored a little bit when it first came out by a lot of people.

08:17The toe faces I think didn't help.

08:19This is a good choice and I do hope that it is well received because I would like to

08:23see them remaster more games.

08:25Bloodborne, for instance, would love to see Bloodborne, but yeah, this looks good.

08:30At number six, we got some pretty sweet new footage of Monster Hunter Wilds and a release

08:35date.

08:36We saw a lot of interesting new environments, some big new monsters, but frankly we've already

08:41been impressed by this new Monster Hunter game plenty.

08:45We're way past the shut up and take my money stage of this one, are we not?

08:48I would assume so.

08:50So when's it coming out?

08:51When can I buy this thing?

08:52When is it going to get into my grubby hands for me to play?

08:56Well, Capcom finally told us it's coming out February 28th next year and pre-orders are

09:02open and this is one that people are just straightforwardly psyched for.

09:06Every single bit of input I have seen on Monster Hunter Wilds has been positive.

09:11I haven't seen too many people critical of it and when they are critical of it, it's

09:14pretty light generally.

09:16It just looks like an amazing new Monster Hunter game.

09:20It looks huge like World, it looks colorful like Rise, and it's gotten a huge upgrade

09:25to the graphics.

09:26I have to assume everything about this game is poised to just be a big friggin' hit.

09:33At number five, we got an announcement for a game called ArchAge Chronicles.

09:37Now ArchAge is a game that came out quite a while ago.

09:40It's an MMORPG that they called a Sand Park.

09:44Kind of a hybrid of a sandbox game and a theme park.

09:48I think actually a pretty good way of putting it.

09:50I haven't played ArchAge in a very long time, but it came out back in 2013 in Korea and

09:57in the West in 2014.

09:59So it's been a while and in all seriousness, this looks like a massive upgrade in graphics

10:04and systems and world and everything.

10:07It is set 50 years after the original game, so it's not just a rehash of the original,

10:12which is nice.

10:13I have to say in every way, it does look like a AAA game.

10:17I don't know exactly what that's going to add up to.

10:19I have a feeling it's going to be pretty fun.

10:22Will it sustain itself?

10:24That's always the question with these types of games.

10:26I hope so because obviously I always hope for the best.

10:29It looks damn cool.

10:30So yeah, that's coming next year.

10:33At number four, we're getting Legacy of Kain, Soul Reaver 1 and 2 remastered.

10:38Uh, yes, absolutely.

10:40Abso-freaking-lutely.

10:42We were just talking about this the other day.

10:44I said something about how they've made it seem increasingly unlikely they're ever going

10:48to give us a remake of these games and lo and behold, ask and ye shall receive.

10:54Granted, we were talking kind of about the Legacy of Kain as a whole in the video where

10:59we were talking about games where it seems like the franchise is dead and we're not getting

11:02another entry of it.

11:03I specifically mentioned Soul Reaver as games I'd like to see remade in particular out of

11:08Legacy of Kain.

11:10They're really good games.

11:11I love Soul Reaver.

11:12They're pretty different from the other Legacy of Kain games, but I kind of don't care.

11:16They were big hits and for good reason.

11:19And man, in all seriousness, it was just one of those ones where I'm just like, yes, absolutely.

11:24And it's not even a long time we're going to wait for them.

11:26They're coming to PS5 and PS4 December 10th.

11:31Moving on to number three, it's Hitman World of Assassination.

11:34You might say to yourself, wait, that's already out.

11:37And yes, that is true.

11:38You can buy Hitman World of Assassination, the trilogy of these games.

11:42They're fantastic games.

11:43They are third person games, sandbox games.

11:47And the announcement is actually for them coming to PSVR with a ton of exclusive features.

11:54And I don't know how I could possibly not want this.

11:59It's everything that you kind of want Hitman to be.

12:02You want to be the badass.

12:03So now you get to go in, dual wield guns, do all of the actions with your hands.

12:08I mean, it's crazy.

12:10It's hard to even describe how crazy it is.

12:12Like Hitman is such a varied, sandbox oriented game.

12:17To make it for VR and actually make it for VR, not just make a game where you can see

12:23from the perspective of the character, but kind of rebuild the game from the ground up

12:27specifically for VR.

12:29I mean, that's freaking huge.

12:31These are such good games and I can't wait to play them.

12:34Honestly, this is a good reason to own PSVR.

12:38At number two is The Midnight Walk, a PlayStation 5 slash PlayStation VR 2 game, meaning you'll

12:45be able to play the game on either of these platforms.

12:47I like that idea.

12:49I'm not sure exactly how necessary VR is for this because it is a highly stylized game

12:55and to be completely frank, it's very, very neat looking.

13:00I don't think that it's going to matter whether it's on PSVR or not.

13:04There's a lot to like about how this game looks.

13:06VR might be slightly more interesting.

13:09We'll see.

13:10It's kind of, because it uses an emulated stop motion animation look for the movement

13:15of the characters.

13:16And I don't know how well that will translate to directly to your eyeballs.

13:21I'm not super worried.

13:22It's not like a major concern or anything.

13:24But I think I'll probably get it on the PS5 rather than the VR.

13:27I love it when VR is done right, but also I do get sick playing the VR after a short

13:32period of time.

13:33And I have some, I have concerns about what that stop motion is going to do in that respect.

13:38But man, this is a cool looking game.

13:40We don't have a release date or anything.

13:42They're just saying spring 2025, but hey, that's, that's something to look forward to.

13:46I definitely think.

13:47And finally, at number one, this is the one that I've been waiting to talk about this

13:50whole time.

13:51Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to Ghost of Tsushima.

13:55It is a game set 329 years after the first game.

13:58It has a pretty different vibe in terms of its setup.

14:02Obviously we're still a samurai.

14:03We still have swords, et cetera, et cetera.

14:05It's a different time period, but it's not a time period where modern technology has

14:09been introduced.

14:11But it's an era where rather than samurai clans, there were a lot of roaming Ronin,

14:15so to speak.

14:16A pretty different world.

14:17You are one of those Ronin.

14:18Apparently you start off as a hunter around Yotei and you very quickly become very wanted

14:24and the target of every samurai in the area.

14:27It looks really cool.

14:28Honestly.

14:29Ghost of Tsushima is of course a fantastic game and this looks like a pretty cool follow-up

14:34in my opinion.

14:35I don't know if this counts as a spinoff or a sequel exactly.

14:40Obviously it takes place in the same continuity, but I don't know if there's a Ghost of Tsushima

14:45or not.

14:46If they're just going to focus on the ghost character, this Ronin or samurai or whatever,

14:50wearing a mask and doing secrety things and being contemplative on top of mountains and

14:55stuff.

14:56I'm just happy to see the series continue and this does look like a great game in my

14:59opinion.

15:00I'm excited to see where it goes.

15:02No release date, but it's coming next year.

15:04We'll keep you informed of everything we know as well.

15:07We have a couple of bonus things to mention here.

15:09We got an overview trailer of Dynasty Warriors Origins.

15:13The new mainline Dynasty Warriors game, it is not an open world game.

15:19I think they probably could make an open world Dynasty Warriors that didn't suck.

15:24It just would have to not be clearly intended to be an MMORPG and they changed direction.

15:30That said, Dynasty Warriors 9 sucked horribly.

15:33It didn't focus on the things that make Dynasty Warriors great.

15:36This looks like it's doing exactly that and it's doing it with a lot more power behind

15:41the game's engine.

15:42That is coming January 17th, 2025.

15:45The expansion we have all been waiting for.

15:48Yes, the Night Springs DLC was a lot of fun, not complaining, but the Federal Bureau of

15:53Control oriented Lakehouse expansion, I am so there for.

15:58The FBC agent you see in Alan Wake, Kieran Estevez, is in an adventure that actually

16:04happens parallel to Alan Wake 2 and I think that's a great idea for what to do with this.

16:10I would like to know what the Federal Bureau of Control is doing the whole time, frankly.

16:14I am a huge FBC enthusiast, let's say.

16:19Control is probably one of my favorite games of all time.

16:22Alan Wake 2, I think, only outshines it on the basis that it manages to accomplish a

16:28lot more.

16:29In terms of the world itself, Control is a huge winner.

16:33Also, in the exact same way DLC served as an Alan Wake 2 teaser with Control, I think

16:40we're getting a Control 2 teaser here, as well as an enjoyable expansion on what happened

16:46in the events of Alan Wake 2.

16:48I'm super excited, it's coming out in October.

16:51We also got some new gameplay for Towers of Agazba, a game that looks like an adventure

16:56game where you grow an ecosystem.

16:58It's a very pretty looking game, but I don't fully understand it quite yet.

17:02You got town building, you got plant planting, and a big ol' world to explore.

17:07It does look very cool, and I have to assume that it's going to be interesting, but this

17:13is the first in-depth anything I've seen of it.

17:16It does look very cool, and it's launching in early access in November.

17:20We'll see exactly what happens with that one.

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