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Good, it's time to clean out all the bloat. I hope anyone affected lands on their feet but this is necessary for the well-being of the games industry.

Part 2 pretty much ended the story as far as I'm concerned. I don't know how they plan to drag it out after that. Different main characters maybe.

All hail indie devs and indie games.

Even if it isn't true, it just FEELS like Sony isn't doing anything this gen. Every game takes forever and a half to come out.

@Drnsnsr
Do you like the cut? It looks dumb. If it was a male main character with that cut it'd look equally stupid. People don't like to play as dumb looking characters unless there is a character editor and we can make ourselves look like complete freaks.

Totally knew it. Once I heard the devs made Black Desert Online I knew people were expecting too much.

With how quickly AI is progressing, it really is only a matter of time. 2 years ago we couldn't even get Will Smith to eat spaghetti, now AI can cook up fight scenes between Goku and Thanos. It's still not perfect but look how quickly its advanced.

They want it in on PC so its easier to pirate and play for free.

I've been using Chiaki on my steam deck to remote play, works beautifully.

Yep, sounds like an Overwatch dev.

@Kidfunkadelic83
There is the disconnect. You are perfectly fine introducing your children to blood guts and gore at a young age and then you draw the line at sexual content? There is an entire episode of South Park dedicated to this very strange double standard. I'm not saying one is fine and the other isn't, I'm saying you shouldn't be introducing your children to EITHER of them.

And if they're all adults then who cares? I'm not saying to watch literal porn and that's not even what these scenes were in the GoW games.

@Kidfunkadelic83
But you're fine tearing the heads off creatures and humans and raining blood everywhere in front of your family? These games are rated M for mature for a reason.

This is the problem with big games as a service releases. If they don't immediately blow up and make all their money back the publishers immediately pull the plug.

I think it's fine if big multiplayer games get ports so everyone can play but everything else should just stay exclusive. It's way more work trying to optimize for every single PC configuration anyway.

Sony's had pushsquare in a vice for a couple weeks now huh?

@TheDudeKenobi
It's a fun game imo. The wirebugs take a bit of getting used to but I missed them in wilds.

@GalacticBreakdown
Kinda true but I doubt they did for Arc Raiders. That's just how it goes, every game has 1 chance to either wow everyone or they'll never give it a chance again. It might still be too early to say but I don't think Marathon wowed the people it needed to wow.

@GalacticBreakdown
Decided to check out the stream in question. I went into the comments and a vast majority of them were noting that the game is boring but peanut is a good entertainer so they stuck around. It's once again not a good look for Marathon.

The general gaming consensus seems to have switched back to "meh". I was trying to catch a couple streams but not many big streamers were playing it and if they aren't showing off your game that's kinda a death sentence in the modern gaming landscape. Even saw some people start with Marathon but by the end of the stream they were playing something else entirely.

It's really not a good look, a game lives or dies by what the general audience thinks about it and no amount of media propaganda will be able to save it.

The first Slime Rancher was pretty fun and Rise is a nice, if pretty old, get.

All she needs to do is drop the price of Gamepass back to what it was and boom, immediate PR win.

I believe that Marathon is the new end goal for modern Sony. A departure from the single player experiences that people love to this desperate trend chasing "we need a piece of the Fortnite pie" that is live service. The message that Sony sent with Bluepoint's closure is that some of the money isn't fine anymore. We want ALL of the money and will focus all our attention on trying to get it.

Hermen Hulst should join him!

Fire Herman please.

This is why you guys gotta make sure Marathon flops. Don't let them keep chasing these live service traps.

Just got through pretty much all the content currently available in Arknights Endfield and honestly? It's one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had in a long time. How much did I pay for it? Nothing. It feels almost criminal to be able to play things like this and not have to fork over 60...oh sorry, 70 bucks. At this point I'd be perfectly fine with the paid model dying out. Not like they don't wind up turning them into live services with pay for cosmetics anyway.

Goes to show that a game can rarely be "perfectly fine" and still find success. This goes doubly so for a live service type of title. When every game is competing for your time why spend it on an ok experience when you can spend it on a really enjoyable one?

I'm sure there's a dedicated few desperately trying to earn the platinum trophy before it shuts down like they did with Concord.

Was David Jaffe right????

@Axelay71 what if you don't want to own it forever? This is simply the evolution of going to your local video store and renting out a game... except you usually get to keep it a lot longer.

@get2sammyb
I'll eat some crow here because it seems like public opinion has shifted from immediately dismissive to "wait this actually looks good." So I'm sure Marathon will wind up finding an audience and won't be the immediate trainwrecks that Highguard and Concord were.

It probably would have been a bigger thing if Arc Raiders hadn't beaten them to the punch.

Monhunt Stories is what I've been waiting for. Patience wins out in the end once more.

I mean if you look at where God of War started and where it is now I can kinda see his point. Game is way too up its own bum. This really does make me worried about what they're going to do with the trilogy remake. It's like they're slowly retconning the old Kratos completely to turn him into this tragic father character. Dude just used to a himbo beating up gods. That's all we needed back then.

I just hope they don't use the GoW remakes as an excuse to remove "problematic" parts of the game (sex minigames). It would lessen the impact of how much he has changed by the time he becomes a father. His younger self indulged in every sin before he matured into the Kratos we know now.

@Nepp67
The people that protest the loudest always wind up being into the freakiest things. I just like to live and let live.

If it's not a simultaneous release I'm usually not interested. I hate playing catch up in these style of games.

Gameplay wise it seems like it's going for a bit of Elden Ring Nightreign. Visually it seems like it's going for Fortnite. Honestly, if this doesn't release F2P I don't see it doing well and even then, I'm not sure this is what fans and non fans were expecting. I'm kinda tired of being negative about everything though so I'll give it the positive that HZD always had some pretty fun gameplay, so it they can bring that in then I think it'll at least play ok

For anyone that finds themselves really enjoying the factory aspect but wants it cranked up to 11, check out Satisfactory. Does everything this game does and more, almost to a staggering degree if I'm being honest.

I've been playing a lot of Arknights Endfield lately but ZZZ still blows it out of the water when it comes to the combat. Luckily I enjoy the factory building aspects more, otherwise I'd still be coming back to ZZZ.

@rjejr I just don't like how confidently incorrect AI can be. Made me double check to see if I missed an update or something. 😂

@rjejr
This is why we don't listen to AI. The Sims 4 is in fact single player only with no multiplayer at all.

I feel like the people picking it back up now are in for a pleasant surprise. There's things to grind for, the multiplayer community is still thriving and the difficulty has been upped (some might say a bit too much) overall as someone who played since launch, I think you should give it another try if you beat the main story and quickly got bored. There's a lot more content to sink into.

If I remember correctly these games were pretty frustrating or simplistic, even for their time. I guess it's cool they're being preserved?

@Stragen8
I think it's mostly Geoff and the Game Award's fault. He hyped the thing up to high heaven and clearly it was simply just an ok game. When expectations are lifted so highly the scrutiny becomes all the harsher. At the very least its getting SOME attention. This seems like the kind of game that would otherwise sneak into steam and have like 100 players, if that.

It seems the ability to connect to your PS5 from anywhere was the thing it really needed to succeed. My nephew brought his over for the holidays and it was basically like he had his PS5 here, miles away. Cool bit of tech.

Marathon just looks visually unappealing. Unless they've been overhauling the entire style of the game these past few months I just don't see it doing well or standing out.

Back when Ubisoft was at their peak. Man did I look forward to every game back then.

My patience continues to be rewarded. Why pay for games anymore? Who cares if I get to play them a bit late, it's still gonna be new to me.

I've dropped a majority of the Gacha I was playing so I'm ready to try something new for a while.