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I’m back from GamesBeat Summit 2023, and I somehow managed to catch the PlayStation event on crummy airport wifi a few moments after my plane landed. They thought they could bamboozle me by broadcasting it while I was still in the throes of post-event tiredness, but I persevered! Now I’m not sure what the point was, because seriously, what was that show? Most of the PlayStation’s first-party studios missed it, and very little of what they showed piqued my interest. Also, what is that handheld and why does it look like bad photoshop job?
Out of the games they did show, the only one that made me feel anything was the extended Spider-Man 2 gameplay trailer. I enjoy the notion of Peter trying to cope with Venom, the black suit and Kraven all at the same time — it’s definitely better served in a game than it is in a movie, for example — with Miles playing the beleaguered straight man whose friend starts acting weird. Though it did make me wonder why they hyped up having Tony Todd as Venom’s voice only for him to say three words in the teaser trailer and sit the gameplay trailer out entirely.
<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>What a good looking group? pic.twitter.com/eDZo8vTXtBSpeaking of voiceless characters, I pegged that weird jungle trailer as being Metal Gear Solid as soon as I saw that dead frog. Hopefully David Hayter returns as the voice of Snake after Kiefer Sutherland’s snooze-worthy performance. Of course, the funniest part of the event came afterwards, when Xbox very passive-aggressively posted an image of all the games in the showcase that will also be coming to its platform. I live for corporate pettiness.
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