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Doubtful, we’re the master platform and I don’t think Rockstar will pull this. This would be the biggest possible blunder

@psmr And PlayStation is better than Xbox and PC

Yikes, PlayStation stays the master platform with zero challenge as usual.

@Juanalf Halo typically is fine as a single player only game, versus COD it’s usually pretty good and actually replayable.

@MasterChiefWiggum As exciting as this is because PSMR it’s unlikely we’ll get 2 and 3 this is already beyond damning to their brand.

Only thing that’ll bring me back is a hard mode, the QOL changes are nice but being basically unkillable gets boring quickly, I’d settle for level scaling the enemies too.

@Oram77 That’d be hilarious imagine the publishers getting upset because now they had to settle for an over crowded month just to get rug pulled.

@Matroska This mostly let’s you use DLC weapons earlier than you would otherwise if you started a new character, I also believe you the heavy armor one’s stats are much more optimized

@SegaBlueSky 16 is the best one in the franchise, wish they'd give it a PS5 Pro upgrade though

@1970sGamer Sony’s been the master platform since the 4, PC isn’t getting any special treatment and is often the least cared about by devs due to the wide range of rigs nowadays.

PlayStation is king and most devs focus on it first.

As beautiful as the day we lost it. What a wonderful thing to see again

If they’re not bragging about sales then it’s not a hit in a way they expected. It’s possible Sony is being stingy and not willing to admit anything until they hit a million instead of 500k but that seems unlikely.

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The game is still woefully held back by the lack of a real story and honestly the combat looks nice but you get swarmed in such a way that it feels like you’re meant to take damage at all times and just eat your way through some fights.

Also gear system is entirely fake and are essentially just cosmetics. But I can excuse a bad story not one incapable of even explaining any explanation to anything.

Place to Cheat is the worst platform, you're overpaying for worse ports, your games to be ported to Playstation, cheaters, and having to crutch on Playstation for their player counts.

Online should still be free though, but PC is absolutely not worth it.

Good example of why Place to Cheat should be avoided in the future and that they should keep everything exclusive to us on Playstation.

It just seems okay tbh, nothing the devs could do though because of lazy buyers. They need that, that money, they need that money... for their studio.

This is actually a good thing, so tired of physical players doing this crap. Release games early for digitals or force physicals to adhere to day one release times with patches.

I'll still die on the hill that this is a lit fuse that will blow up in their face. PC is in a bad state right now and with Xbox giving us all their exclusives this is the best time for Playstation to take PC's and Xbox's exclusives while playing the Nintendo card of using their exclusives and affordable hardware to keep people buying their console.

This really is a dumb thing to do for minor short term profit. But hopefully Sony realizes that the slower and smaller amount of PC players who don't even buy modern games all that often isn't worth the porting cost anyway.

People seem to not realize that input reading basically makes the game unplayable unless you use anti-AI strategies to cheese them out which isn’t fun.

I've seen worse

@JohntheRaptor It's the same listening as when Fallout 76 rolled back on what they initially believed to be a good decision.(Removing all NPCs)

This really could just be considered rerolling bad decisions that the community railed into them over.

Never really cared about who hosted the events, only about the games present.

Diablo 4 would've been probably more of a standout title in a weaker year for games, being okay at best in 2023 is not good enough.

I've only bought plus just for the online component and cloud storage. In fact if I'm highballing it I think I've played the downloadable games at best 3 times since the PS3 and I'm 99% certain they were still cheaper to buy outright, essential already was more of a borderline necessity only due to paywalling a previously free feature.

So far the only thing I getting from this is that they're vaguely talking about getting better games for the service, and that's an empty promise.

How is MK8 still pulling in such high numbers?

@Max_the_German No, in fact they removed a good bit of lines and replaced them with nothing.

Awnestly that's not a bad change considering how bad Ultimania is with the scoring. Might give rise to more build variety to increase score.

@Deityjester Nothing I could do, you guys wanted this, YOU, YES, YOU asked me to play this!

Souls-likes tend to never get what made the souls games good they always fall into cheaper design philosophy because they take difficulty as the only selling point of the franchise. Besides the Niohs I've yet to be impressed by newer attempts.

@Powerplay94 It's the case that the biggest consoles don't have an answer to play it on modern hardware. Modern convenience is the easiest thing to sell when you have virtually no choice beyond take it or buy older hardware and the game to then play it which will still be more expensive.

On one hand I guess this is an answer to all the people complaining about putting too many resources into remasters/remakes rather than new games. Don't want them to try then here's a flat port with no bells or whistles.

@Uromastryx Real tawk! They pretty much tanked everything simultaneously and are slowly relenting on some of their changes, but the fact of the matter is thus: they made almost everything intentionally worse.

They still haven't even addressed the awful dungeon objectives that have been complained about for a while.

@tselliot It really depends on the situation. The itemization is horrible after a certain point that even in my 60s I was using gear from the 50s because nothing better was being dropped and WT3's gear is worthless because WT4 brings in a direct upgrade.

Plus there's really not that much to do in a game after a certain point especially when the gear drops are constantly lacking.