So apparently Sony is doing a State of Play, later on today. Is anyone planning on watching live? Anything we should expect, announcement wise? Admittedly, I'm not as big into these, as I am with Nintendo Directs, but I'll probably check it out after work. Either way, I figure it might be good to get a thread going, might be some announcements worth discussing.

State of Play Info
North America: 2pm PST / 3pm MST / 4pm CST / 5pm EST
UK/Ire: 10pm GMT
Europe: 11pm CET / 12am EET
Asia/Oceania: 7am JST / 6am AWST / 9am AEDT

You'll be able to watch the State of Play presentation on Sony's official YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok channels through the respective sites.

Blindy promises to give us bullet points.

It's on the same time I am commuting from home so I won't be able to watch this live.

Games that are supposedly being showcased are:

Stellar Blade AKA Ness game of the year. I just want a date for the game!
Rise of the Ronin gameplay
FF7 Rebirth gameplay

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Announcement of 'Sonic Generations Remaster' and 'Until Dawn for PS5/PC', the latter has a movie coming out in the future.

Judas which is by Ken Levine/creator of Bioshock
Metro Awakening(New Metro game)
'Concord' which is a Sony exclusive Indie title
Death Stranding 2 announcement
Silent Hill 2 Remake from Bloober Team which could go really bad or really good

There's 15 games supposedly going to be featured here, I named 10. That means surprises are happening.

Blindy, in regards to that spoiler...

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I'd be down for a Sonic Generations Remaster.

So Sonic X Shadow Generations, yeah I'm on board with that.

Pleasant surprise with the Sonic game!

Ness here is what we waited for:

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NSFW

Stellar Blade was the star of the show, April 26 is big time. Not sure if the writing will be good but the battle system just looks sublime. If you like Hideo Kojima to no end, this show was great. If not, eh.

Rise of the Ronin can go either way, I want to give Team Ninja Benefit of the Doubt but I have not been fully blown away by this game. Silent Hill 2 looks like it will throw all of the psychological horror aspect of the original out the door by making it an survival action game ala Resident Evil/Alan Wake. I think most aren't going to appreciate it this and Bloober has never been known for crisp gameplay, still somewhat down on this game.

Smart move to give FF7 their own showcase, that's arguably Sony's top gun this year.

So want to know just what the fuck is going on in Dave the Diver. That was my game of the year last year.

So excited for Bioshock 4, aka Judas.

Really did not care at all for the rest.

Biggest change in Silent Hill 2 is melee being functional. No longer need to run through everything because it is nearly impossible to aim a board at the enemies. Also they said no load screens which will change the pace. That said I think the over the shoulder cam was a great decision to do as it does make things more immersive compared to the fix camera that original had. And of course they will showcase combat in the trailer, as just wandering around makes for a shit trailer, but if you noticed some of the puzzles from the original were also shown. Bloober is not known for quality, but it looks like they may have it here as they are trying to remain faithful.

Kojima BS really is Kojima BS this time around. Just gets weirder and weirder.

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That SH2 trailer was the combat showcase trailer.  Labeled such now on youtube.  So that is why it was so insanely combat heavy.