@atoqir But if everyone waits then they'll consider the game a failure and stop development. You need suckers like me paying full price at launch to show the execs that it's worth continuing to produce content for the game.
Sorry but I'm a hypocrite and am preordering the founder's edition. I just can't say no to Civ. Civ 6 was my most played game probably ever and I know this one will be more of the same.
The best part of the first KC was the ability to leave the main story aside and simply live the medieval life. Keep this mantra...and fix the combat...and I'll be beyond satisfied.
It's just funny to me how people come in and throw a fit when Japan censors gore, standing on some moral high ground as if their own country doesn't censor. It's almost like sensibilities change with time...things like...say...some revealing outfits on women? "Yeah...but that's pervert stuff, that's different ya incel!" You can't protest on thing while embracing the other. For the record I think censorship is bad ALL the time, not only when it's convenient for me.
I have a Series S and a digital version PS5. Steam Decks are also digital only and if Nintendo sells a cheaper digital only switch 2 I'll buy that as well.
@johncalmc I was eagerly awaiting Veilguard since the day I finished Inquisition. It did take way too long to come out but I still would have bought it...if it felt like the proper follow up to Inquisition. When I took a look at the trailers and previews though, I knew it wasn't the Dragon Age that it used to be.
I thought that after the game released we'd finally get to stop seeing articles about this game. Please let's just forget this game exists like we do with Andromeda.
@LikelySatan Yes because they stopped iterating on it to focus on making it more of an action game. Funnily enough, the Hitman games have done a much better job at the social stealth than Ass Creed ever did and it's what I've always preferred.
@ProfessorNiggle If I had to guess Yasuke is the culmination of dumbing down the gameplay mechanics until it's basically just a button mash action game. To this day I still don't understand why some people buy assassin's creed games if they hate stealth.
Sometimes I wonder if our ancestors protested every time some new automation came along and took away jobs. The Luddites existed and the struggle seems at least vaguely similar to what's going on with AI. I can only see people getting more and more upset but let's look at the end result...the textile industry is using automated machines. Adapt or die in the end I guess.
This is where all the suits pat themselves on the back "Obviously we had an AMAZING vision!" No, your employees just made things people wanted to consume.
So the heavy bowgun is basically the same, just that the universal ammunition is now infinite? Kind of cool but if I'm down to my universal ammo then that means I'm in a really rough spot.
Considering how much Veilguard was shoved in our faces it absolutely is a sorry number. Heck I think even my TV was reminding me to go buy Veilguard and I had never seen game ads on there before.
I feel like it'd get repetitive fast if they didn't add more characters and variety. Chasing one more stat point on your gear wouldn't be enough to keep me interested for long.
I'll see if I can get through takes of arise and scarlet Nexus. Bulletstorm should be a quick run if I feel like it. Though once February comes around I'll be too busy with kingdom come 2, Monster Hunter Wilds and Civ 7 to worry about any other games for a long time.
20 million is a drop in the bucket to Hoyoverse btw. Nothing changes and a few people get to buy some yachts, what a scummy system.
Also, funny how EA basically does the same with their sports games but essentially get a pass in the US. This is another case of "If the US can't control it, we're going to punish it."
It borrows a lot and I mean A LOT from Castlevania (to the point they tossed in Castlevania as DLC) so I can see the difficulty in a movie adaptation. If you stick close to the game's lore, it'll probably feel like Castlevania. If you don't, then it will feel like the film just has the name slapped on it.
I'll continue to say there's nothing wrong with live services. Look at the Gacha juggernauts, they make money hand over fist. Marvel Rivals is a Live Service game as well. The problem is, and I'll repeat ad nauseum, Sony continues to try to tap into the incorrect market. Twitter does not play video games. Make games for gamers again.
Absolutely not. I do not want to encourage this trend of rereleasing the same games over and over again, even if the difference has only been a couple of years. If this is the plan then I won't even purchase new IPs and will simply wait for the improved version to release in 5 years time.
The switch 2 looks so underwhelming that announcing a new PlayStation portable might knock the wind out of Nintendo's sails. Just like Nintendo did when they dropped the 3DS price and released a Mario Kart just before the Vita released.
As a resident of California the gesture is appreciated. We actually get big forest fires every year so that was nothing new but not having any rain and tons of wind made it a true recipe for disaster. It also didn't help that leadership bungled the response at every turn -even sending us evacuation warnings just to say "just kidding, wrong place!" 30 minutes later- and made things much worse. Luckily I wasn't affected (besides the rotted air in my lungs) but my heart goes out to the people that lost everything in a day.
I think black flag was the first game I got with my PS4. Good memories there, Ubisoft was still pretty great. It wasn't until Unity that I felt buyers remorse with the company.
I want more of the rarer PS2 JRPGs to make a return. Unfortunately a lot of those studios have since gone out of business, so there is no one left to contact.
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Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for February 2025?
Fun little selection. I think only Payday 3 I couldn't care less about.
Re: Firaxis Unveils Civilization 7 Content Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond
@atoqir
But if everyone waits then they'll consider the game a failure and stop development. You need suckers like me paying full price at launch to show the execs that it's worth continuing to produce content for the game.
Re: Firaxis Unveils Civilization 7 Content Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond
Sorry but I'm a hypocrite and am preordering the founder's edition. I just can't say no to Civ. Civ 6 was my most played game probably ever and I know this one will be more of the same.
Re: Poll: Are You Buying Forza Horizon 5 on PS5?
Gamepass is too good a deal for me to buy Microsoft games on PlayStation.
Re: Halo PS5 Rumours Intensify in Aftermath of Forza Horizon 5 Reveal
@Andy22385
Yeah you're right, People would sub to Gamepass and drop Plus in a heartbeat.
Re: Unique 90s Board Game RPG Sugoro Quest Will Make Western Debut on PS5, PS4
Looks like the predecessor to Dokapon Kingdom... just without the fun multiplayer aspect.
Re: Hermen Hulst No Longer PlayStation Co-CEO, Still in Charge of First-Party
Finally, I guess Sony got tired of losing money!
Re: BioWare Downsizing as It Focuses on Next Mass Effect, Some Staff Moved to Other EA Teams
What a shame, Bioware games used to mean quality.
Re: GTA 5 Actor Wants Trevor in GTA 6 So He Can Be Killed Properly
Steven hates the character that put him on the map. Meanwhile Michael and Franklin's actors absolutely love every season of the attention they get.
Re: Live a Life Medieval in Hype-Building Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Trailer
The best part of the first KC was the ability to leave the main story aside and simply live the medieval life. Keep this mantra...and fix the combat...and I'll be beyond satisfied.
Re: It Looks Like The Sims 1 and 2 Are Returning, But Will These Classics Come to PS5?
@Wicker
I mean, considering how annoying it is to get the first 2 sims games running I'll take a bare bones port at this point.
Re: It Looks Like The Sims 1 and 2 Are Returning, But Will These Classics Come to PS5?
I wonder what would stop them from releasing the PC versions on modern consoles? I'm sure it would only need a bit of reconfiguring for controller.
Re: Rumour: God of War Will Tackle Egyptian Mythology in Next Game
I kind of feel like Ragnarok was losing steam with me by the end. I'm not sure I could play another god of war game in this style.
Re: We're Already Big Fans of Street Fighter 6's Mai, Launching As DLC Next Week on PS5, PS4
Nice to see Mai faithfully represented.
Re: Japan Censors Assassin's Creed Shadows, Removing Body Gore
@LikelySatan
Yes the topic of censorship is pretty important to me so probably the wrong guy to crack a joke with.
Re: Japan Censors Assassin's Creed Shadows, Removing Body Gore
It's just funny to me how people come in and throw a fit when Japan censors gore, standing on some moral high ground as if their own country doesn't censor. It's almost like sensibilities change with time...things like...say...some revealing outfits on women? "Yeah...but that's pervert stuff, that's different ya incel!" You can't protest on thing while embracing the other. For the record I think censorship is bad ALL the time, not only when it's convenient for me.
Re: Japan Censors Assassin's Creed Shadows, Removing Body Gore
@LikelySatan
It'd be more amusing if it wasn't disingenuous.
Re: Japan Censors Assassin's Creed Shadows, Removing Body Gore
@LikelySatan
Any modern examples you can pull from that are readily available?
Re: Japan Censors Assassin's Creed Shadows, Removing Body Gore
We love love looove our gore murder and violence here in the west.
Re: A PS5 Re-Release of SEGA RPG Classic Skies of Arcadia No Longer Seems Up in the Air
I tried it due to the overwhelming hype and just couldn't get into it at the time. I might need to just give it another go.
Re: Fans Are Buying Fewer Boxed Video Games Than Ever in the US
I have a Series S and a digital version PS5. Steam Decks are also digital only and if Nintendo sells a cheaper digital only switch 2 I'll buy that as well.
Re: EA Stock Price Plummets After Dragon Age: The Veilguard, FC 25 Disappointments
@johncalmc
I was eagerly awaiting Veilguard since the day I finished Inquisition. It did take way too long to come out but I still would have bought it...if it felt like the proper follow up to Inquisition. When I took a look at the trailers and previews though, I knew it wasn't the Dragon Age that it used to be.
Re: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Support Could Be Over Already as Patch 5 Drops on PS5
I thought that after the game released we'd finally get to stop seeing articles about this game. Please let's just forget this game exists like we do with Andromeda.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows' Now 'Super Fluid' Parkour Was the Reason for Its Second Delay
@LikelySatan
Yes because they stopped iterating on it to focus on making it more of an action game. Funnily enough, the Hitman games have done a much better job at the social stealth than Ass Creed ever did and it's what I've always preferred.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows' Now 'Super Fluid' Parkour Was the Reason for Its Second Delay
@ProfessorNiggle
If I had to guess Yasuke is the culmination of dumbing down the gameplay mechanics until it's basically just a button mash action game. To this day I still don't understand why some people buy assassin's creed games if they hate stealth.
Re: Capcom Seems Sold on Using AI to Help Out with Game Development
Sometimes I wonder if our ancestors protested every time some new automation came along and took away jobs. The Luddites existed and the struggle seems at least vaguely similar to what's going on with AI. I can only see people getting more and more upset but let's look at the end result...the textile industry is using automated machines. Adapt or die in the end I guess.
Re: EA Stock Price Plummets After Dragon Age: The Veilguard, FC 25 Disappointments
I guess not enough people showed up to support Veilguard. A story we hear over and over.
Re: Secret to Sonic X Shadow Generations Success? SEGA Says Transmedia
This is where all the suits pat themselves on the back "Obviously we had an AMAZING vision!" No, your employees just made things people wanted to consume.
Re: Preview: Assassin's Creed Shadows Is the Golden Ticket Ubisoft Needs
It's already been killed by the court of public opinion. No matter how good it is, it's already dead in the water.
Re: Monster Hunter Wilds Is Making Changes to Your Favourite Weapon
So the heavy bowgun is basically the same, just that the universal ammunition is now infinite? Kind of cool but if I'm down to my universal ammo then that means I'm in a really rough spot.
Re: Dragon Age: The Veilguard, FC 25 Underperform, Force EA to Lower Financial Forecast
Considering how much Veilguard was shoved in our faces it absolutely is a sorry number. Heck I think even my TV was reminding me to go buy Veilguard and I had never seen game ads on there before.
Re: PS Plus Subscriptions on Sale, Up to 35% Off
You'd think the most loyal would get rewarded but nope, they're treated as piggy banks.
Re: Poll: How Would You Have Reacted to a Live Service God of War Announcement?
I feel like it'd get repetitive fast if they didn't add more characters and variety. Chasing one more stat point on your gear wouldn't be enough to keep me interested for long.
Re: Brilliant Balatro Breaks 5 Million Sales, Dev Asks Everyone to Give Indies a Chance
People that complain that there is no more creativity in modern gaming don't play indie games.
Re: PS Plus Loses These 8 PS5, PS4 Games Next Month
I'll see if I can get through takes of arise and scarlet Nexus. Bulletstorm should be a quick run if I feel like it. Though once February comes around I'll be too busy with kingdom come 2, Monster Hunter Wilds and Civ 7 to worry about any other games for a long time.
Re: Genshin Impact Maker to Pay $20 Million FTC Fine Over Gacha System
20 million is a drop in the bucket to Hoyoverse btw. Nothing changes and a few people get to buy some yachts, what a scummy system.
Also, funny how EA basically does the same with their sports games but essentially get a pass in the US. This is another case of "If the US can't control it, we're going to punish it."
Re: Vampire Survivors' Lack of Plot a Tricky Prospect for Film Adaptation, Says Dev
It borrows a lot and I mean A LOT from Castlevania (to the point they tossed in Castlevania as DLC) so I can see the difficulty in a movie adaptation. If you stick close to the game's lore, it'll probably feel like Castlevania. If you don't, then it will feel like the film just has the name slapped on it.
Re: Civilization 7 Goes Gold Ahead of Series' Simultaneous Launch Debut
Please be good. The game seems to be making bold changes and I hope they pay off.
Re: Code Violet Takes Aim at Dinosaur Horror in June on PS5
They're probably worried that PC players will crack the game open And reveal its running on paper clips and bubblegum.
Re: Shuhei Yoshida Reels Off List of Reasons the PS Vita Bombed
@naruball
Does seem like Nintendo had a plan of attack to utterly demolish Sony's efforts to continue to break into the handheld market.
Re: Reaction: Sony's Live Service Push Has Been a Disaster of Utterly Insane Proportions
I'll continue to say there's nothing wrong with live services. Look at the Gacha juggernauts, they make money hand over fist. Marvel Rivals is a Live Service game as well. The problem is, and I'll repeat ad nauseum, Sony continues to try to tap into the incorrect market. Twitter does not play video games. Make games for gamers again.
Re: Sony Cancels Bluepoint, Bend Studio PS5 Games, One Being a Live-Service God of War Title
I miss the era of gaming where publishers just released games and didn't worry about making the next bajillion dollar game.
Re: Shuhei Yoshida: If You Want New First-Party PS5 Games, You Should Support Remasters
Absolutely not. I do not want to encourage this trend of rereleasing the same games over and over again, even if the difference has only been a couple of years. If this is the plan then I won't even purchase new IPs and will simply wait for the improved version to release in 5 years time.
Re: Shuhei Yoshida Reels Off List of Reasons the PS Vita Bombed
The switch 2 looks so underwhelming that announcing a new PlayStation portable might knock the wind out of Nintendo's sails. Just like Nintendo did when they dropped the 3DS price and released a Mario Kart just before the Vita released.
Re: Escalation as Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Script Eclipses That of Baldur's Gate 3
They're really hyping this up like crazy, hopefully it delivers.
Re: Sony, PlayStation Studios Making Donations to Los Angeles Wildfire Relief Efforts
As a resident of California the gesture is appreciated. We actually get big forest fires every year so that was nothing new but not having any rain and tons of wind made it a true recipe for disaster. It also didn't help that leadership bungled the response at every turn -even sending us evacuation warnings just to say "just kidding, wrong place!" 30 minutes later- and made things much worse. Luckily I wasn't affected (besides the rotted air in my lungs) but my heart goes out to the people that lost everything in a day.
Re: The Invisible Woman's Marvel Rivals Super Power Exposes Quickplay Bots
Would it be so bad if there were bots in quickplay? If you want to take it sweaty and serious you can scream at each other in ranked.
Re: Video Game Industry 'Doesn't Want a Game Pass', Says Market Analyst
It's a great value and the industry does not want great value.
Re: Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Remake Is All But Official Now, More Than a Graphics Upgrade
I think black flag was the first game I got with my PS4. Good memories there, Ubisoft was still pretty great. It wasn't until Unity that I felt buyers remorse with the company.
Re: PlayStation Fans Want The Simpsons: Hit & Run, GTA, God of War Back on PS Plus Classics
I want more of the rarer PS2 JRPGs to make a return. Unfortunately a lot of those studios have since gone out of business, so there is no one left to contact.