Anima616

Give us NG+ FFS. WHY do we HAVE to play it the way they want us to? Having to regrind street cred and actual level for skills is such a killer of wanting to replay this game.

Got the game for free with PS+ essentials a couple years ago, it's remained installed since then! I was one of the major doubters I'll admit but it just sucked me in royally! It's a wonderful online community much alike to NMS.
I've never spent a penny on it (monthly sub or to purchase Atoms) and I've gotten sososo much free stuff with it by just playing. I've scarily clocked nearly 2k hrs in it.

Give us NG+ FFS! Why are they so adamant on players having to go through everything again, just to enjoy it? I'd love to do another play through on it, but levelling street cred AND general level was an absolute drag

Pay fullprice for half a game. BUT to have the full experience an extra £20 must be sacrificed to the blood gods. Wooooooooooooooow! People were already peeved! What a way to shut down a game before it's even released!

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Ahh ayee! Very true! Forgot they were German! Makes me intrigued to see the Deutsch version and how well that's rigged up and if it's less uncanny. Don't get me wrong, for an indie developer they've done a great job, and it is very pretty! The facial rigging just needs more work, and more takes for audio lines I'm betting.

The problem that's making it seem the most uncanny valley to me, and what ruins the trailer, (ignoring the jankiness in general) is the awful lipsynching! Like a badly dubbed movie. Whether that's due to biases to my career/what I'm trained in, but it reeeaaalllyy sticks out like a sore thumb. Bad lipsynching and diagetic audio will be a downfall to anything. So unprofessional looking. Added to that is the flat voice acting. The Morpheus rip-off is painful to listen to... "What have you done" in THEE most boring, flat take ever. Sheeesh

Last year when the final shape released, I thought to myself ''Mhmm not anymore, not after everything they've done, and they just made Lightfall free, a year after I bought it, just before TFS released."
So I refused to buy it as I thought Sony will just make it free after a year to try claw money back for their failed purchase through MtX.
Low and behold...

@AndyKazama can you not still get £5 wallet top ups? I'd spend all my points on them for extra ps months perhaps?

@Kumatz Exactly that! I can understand wanting to protect LIVING voice actors and their careers, but this? They just want a cut of the payday to James Earl Jones' family AND to be in the media spotlight again looking good

If the actor and/or their estate give full permission for likenesses or voices to be used, then it's simple, you can't stop it.
Disney essentially hold a copyright over James Earl Jones' voice as he happily gave it to them. He wanted his voice immortalised for future generations and his family agreed upon it. I can understand SAGS point of view, but it probably won't cut it as technically; Fortnite and Disney wanted to respect James' and his family's wishes, they own the copyright, and essentially, they didn't take work from anyone as James is dead. They wanted James only, so they got him and paid his family.

The audio boost is a game changer!
Coming from a deaf person (60-70ish% loss in right ear and some missing frequencies in my left) this will be a huuuggee help! Always missing out on words in people's sentences in voice chat, unable to hear certain sounds in games (HELLDIVERS 2 NEEDS AN AUDIO PATCH and is the worse offender at this) or missing important audio cues. I've always been after an EQ control for console, so this may do nicely!

@PlatinumMikey Still don't really understand it after all these years.....Welp time to get stuck in

@KillerBoy I remember there being rumours/leaks a few months after Bungie were bought and layoffs occured, accusing them of Artificially Inflating the company net worth to Sony. Another reason why Sony is sick of their behaviour and practises and admonished them publicly.

@johncalmc @Dragon83 Another ex D1 & D2 player here.
A great many of us are burnt out and feeling betrayed by bungie, due to their handling of the destiny franchise and the way they constantly flip flop around the game, pricing (giving ***** away for free a few months after release, or removing paid for content) or how the story itself is proceeding. Many players don't want to play Marathon as A) They don't trust bungie at all anymore so Apathy and anger is at play, B) Destiny fans don't want to play the game that contributed to the demise of Destiny and it's current state, C) they don't like extraction only modes and want a story with different game modes.
Personally I was interested, but after hearing and seeing more (of how barebones it is) it's just a load of meh that has a godawful colour scheme. Feels like it was made by the colourful scene/emo kids of the 2000s that haven't grown out of pinky green zebra stripes.

@uptownsoul I can seriously see Bethesda suffering from a LOT more problems now. Shame as I love that company and their games.

@Beerheadgamer82 not just stifling competition but technology etc and then ruining brands/IPs. I also wonder if Bethesda will suffer more now? Such as bad management, more problems with their game engines etc.

@Loftimus finally someone mentions this!
They bought Bethesda and said that they'll stay multi console etc.
Next minute ALL of Bethesda becomes XBOX only. I.e very definition of monopoly problem