Atreus97

I appreciate this article!

I only started playing AC games with Odyssey during the first lockdown. I spent about 150 hrs in it and loved it
Valhalla kept me for about 90 hours but I didn't finish it as it got too much.

I always thought Origins would be worse, as it came out first and was presumably improved upon with the following two but that doesn't seem to be the case here or the consensus among most others. Gonna buy this!

For those of us wanting a release date for Ragnarok: this is a good sign

Christopher Judge as Kratos.

I said what I said.

@Bismarck

https://youtu.be/Iujq7GIe5u8

I remember The Witcher next gen update got rated last October but CDPR immediately shot the rumours down and that's still a mile off.

"Keep your expectations low, boy, and you will never be disappointed"

Anything from season's 3-8 is The Simpsons Gold. Impossible to pick a single episode but I'll throw in a few that spring to mind:
Homer Goes to College
Homer and Apu
The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Seasons 9-12 are watchable. Every season after gets increasingly bad.

There's never gonna be a decision that unites everyone.

Bring in new characters (see the Ryder twins or Gotham Knights/Suicide Squad as examples) and you'll get a 'meh' reaction.

Conversely, keep the same old characters and people will be begging for something new and different, as we're seeing in this comment section.

There's no right answer for me. The crucial thing is that it's well written and properly takes into consideration the choices of the previous games.

Another Mafia game!?

Just when I thought I was out...

Maybe there's a limit to the amount of bug squishing that can be done during development?
I'm sure they were thorough and the delays helped, but ultimately this game is absolutely massive.

There have got to be thousands upon thousands of things that can go wrong and you simply can't account for all of them without a significant player base.

More and more these days I wonder what tf happened to Sony.
It's like they've sold their soul.

@Deljo
That price is absolutely mental. I bought a 55 CX 18 months ago for £1299 and I thought that was a steal... Until a few months ago when I bought the 65 C1 for £1315.

How are they getting cheaper!? I thought inflation was wreaking havoc on everything!?

@AdamNovice
Lol didn't you read what I said? I'm LESS excited. I'm the opposite of worked up.

Regarding HFW - you might wanna add a spoiler warning.
All I can add is the execution of that thing isn't very good and would've been so much better if it were PS5 only.

@AdamNovice
I never said they had to. I understand wheels were already in motion and all that.

I remember Cory Barlog saying he had some ideas for the game which weren't possible on PS4. Disappointingly the same is likely to apply for this one and I just wanted it to be the best it could be.
#playhasnolimits

Less excited when it was confirmed as cross gen, and even less excited having played HFW.
Don't get me wrong, I loved HFW but you could see it was held back by the PS4.
I can't go into detail without spoilers but faster loading, 4k 60fps performance and 3d audio is simply not enough to mask the flaws in the whole cross gen approach.

I think I've seen enough at this point to conclude I will not be buying this game after all.

I'll only accept this delay if they use the extra time to give us Arkham Knight in 2160p at 60fps. Cheers.

Hmm. This game looks expensive to develop. It's truly AAA and it's also licensed.
I guess post launch DLC will be how they drive up profits then.
No way they just give us a £70 game and send us on our way

Rumour is that a lot more was supposed to be shown today but several western developers wanted this cancelled in light of the war in Ukraine.
So instead of cancel the whole thing, Sony gave us this instead.

Just met the Tenakth, taking my sweet time.

I have every intention of platinuming the f**k outta this wonderful game.

A pushback from 2021 to Q4 2022 is a helluva pushback.

Which is good, because I wasn't all that impressed with the extended gameplay demo they released ages ago. Hopefully they've spent some time improving this because I really wanna like it

... To the surprise of nobody.

Quite a long time between GT and this, though.

Surely Sony has a surprise up their sleeve for the summer 👀

Ffs... And another one.
Do any AAA games release without issues these days!?

Ya know...

"Addressed several cosmetic issues"
and
"Various performance improvements"
and also
"Fixes for certain rare or conditional crashes / progression blockers"

... Could've easily covered half of the patch notes that CDPR issued.
Sometimes, less is more 🙄

@themightyant
Yup! I turned it off. I just wanted to know and see clearly how the new versions are different but they're doing it in a very long-winded way.
I get that doing it live shows that they have nothing to hide (this time) but for me, it's unhelpful.

Nice way to divert some attention off of HFW this week.

Clever marketing or is it just CDPR holding a grudge against Sony after getting their game pulled?

Probably both, or neither.

More intelligent AI gets me more excited as a gamer than anything else.
I hope this is good!

I dunno. I think they peaked with San Andreas.
GTA 4 was great (although it didn't get its flowers until people got sick of 5) and while RDR2 was the most impressive game I've ever played, it's the least fun I've ever had with a Rockstar game, like ever.

I literally just ended my free trial. Looks like a good decision.

I wonder whether people generally enjoy this? I tried it with a wired 600mbps connection and the input lag was painful.

I hope he's just saying what he has to in order to satisfy investors, because, respectfully, that's a load of crap.
I bought this on a discount but within 20 minutes of playing I realised I had been conned. I'm eagerly awaiting those updates because this still needs a lot of work.

Will I still get to play:
>God of War
>HFW
>The Witcher (next-gen version)
>Suicide Squad
>Spiderman 2
... In 2022/23? Yeah? Cool, moving on then.

People getting triggered because a company they don't work for has apparently "devalued their brand" never made any sense to me.
Nobody is paying you to GAF

@get2sammyb
Not necessarily. It depends on the factory, the raw materials and the machinery that's being utilised.
It could be possible that they're produced in different factories, or on different factory lines entirely.

What's more likely is they share some production steps, but with the chip shortage there's a finite amount of PS5's that can be produced at a given time. Therefore it makes sense to prioritise PS5 production but produce 4s where 5 production is not possible due to the aforementioned shortage.

Right, I'll be getting my coat then ✌️

.... Ok so nothing new then. Just maybe a slight nuance to the way this was done in the first game.
Cool

@tomassi

Uninterested enough to comment though.

Anyway, haven't played this game in about 6 years. I'll wait for the PS5 version as now I have something other than just replaying the story with better graphics to look forward to

@Ken_Kaniff
It's not 'bad', it's just disappointing. For a PS5 and PC release I think most people expected a lot better.

I guess the point I'm making is, even though HZD and GoW Ragnarok are cross-gen and held back by the PS4, they still punch way above their weight graphically (for now, anyway).

It remains to be seen if Forspoken can deliver open world gaming in a new and innovative way only made possible by the latest technology. That would be something to set it apart.

@Ken_Kaniff
Not disagreeing with you. But did you see what 'current gen-only' Forspoken looked like yesterday? Yeeish

@4kgk2
Yeah. Probably because HZD was as close to the best they could get out of the old machine.

Quite disappointing to have to choose, as this game has been built specifically for this gen.

I thought the AMD Fidelity FX stuff was meant to deliver 4k at 60fps for this game, but I suppose we'll have to wait for the PS5 Pro.

The traversal looks like it'll get tedious after a while.
The combat looks weak.
The world looks dull.

I'm thoroughly unimpressed by this trailer but I retain hope that there's much more to this game.

This doesn't quite sound like the single player DLC content that was promised in 2013.

Rockstar have really changed, it's sad.

@Ridebird
Same for me with that game. Whenever I put it in rest mode then try to wake it up, it boots and goes into rest mode again so I have to wake it up twice to start playing. Odd

I don't care if its £1.50. I'm not purchasing this on PS5 until I see reviews.

That being said, I'm really looking forward to seeing how CDPR redeem themselves with this update.

"NPCs now react to bullets passing close by, such as headshots that miss"

WOW 😂😂😂😂

Comments section off to a good start here.
I'm sure the best is yet to come, though.

I'm sure this will look great but I'm feeling burnt out with all of these open world foresty type games. Rural environments just aren't as interesting as they used to be for me because I can name so many that have been executed really well.

I really want to see how this gen handles urban cities full of advanced NPC animations, AI, cars, planes etc.

@LiamCroft
Funny. I have the same reaction every time a new article is posted here about an issue with the GTA remaster.

Where on earth are the reviews for this thing?
It's almost as if there's an embargo on indicating when the review embargo lifts, because nobody has said when their review gets published.

For the love of... Surely not ANOTHER February release!?

@Splat
According to Guerrilla, the PS4 is not holding the game back because all their ideas for the game are being implemented.
So, if that is true, the only thing potentially holding this game back is Guerrilla's ambition for it.