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@Acquiescence sounds more like the title of an internal memo between Todd Howard and the Bethesda QA team

Not I, says Balaam.

Change the dots in the patch number to commas and that’s how many patches it’ll take to fix Starfield

Thanks for posting this, I appreciate these types of articles. No interest in the game, but I’d rather be aware and not care than not know and miss my chance to grab it.

Happy to see this.

That’s not a commentary on the age-old debate of whether exclusives matter or some sort of ammo for the console wars, it’s more a glimmer of hope that Bethesda will finally buckle down and realize ‘We can’t keep releasing janky, broken piles of garbage and expect them to sell. Gamers expect a certain level of polish, a certain degree of quality control in their games and we will have to revise our engine/pipeline/QA pass in order to give it to them.’

I bash Bethesda constantly, but it’s not because I hate their stuff. I genuinely like some of it, and even the titles I don’t care for I recognize they’re trying to do some neat and interesting things in them. I simply hate the fact that they’ve been getting a free pass for so long when their games are straight up broken. If Rockstar, EA, Ubisoft or another AAA publisher released anything that busted they’d be skewered to the wall. Just look at CDPR’s botched cyberpunk launch. Yet magically Bethesda dodges it. I’m sick of it.

And for the record, I’m specifically referring to the Elder Scrolls/Fallout/Starfield Bethesda. Todd Howard’s Bethesda, not the machine games, iD software etc arms of the company.

Here’s hoping they avoid the ‘We need to staff up. Oh no, we’re overstaffed! Mass layoffs! Now our stock is in the toilet, we need the financial stability that comes with being acquired by a larger publisher! Now we’re shut down!’ trap.

“Now obviously, Starfield is an extreme example; not every new release hits PS5 in a barely functional form.”

This is scathing, 100% accurate, and I’m grateful no punches were pulled.

@wildcat_kickz I had a genuine laugh from “due to the sweat off my bald head” bit. Thanks

@psmr I watch that on occasion, if a subtopic looks interesting. Remind me; I know who Shpeshal Nick is, but which one is Jesse? Is he the UK guy or the heavyset, super opinionated one

Netflix’s trash UI change was one of the worst things they’ve done yet, and I’d hate to see PSN go down the tubes like that. NO ONE WANTS GIGANTIC TILES THAT TAKE UP SO MUCH SPACE YOU CAN ONLY FIT TWO ITEMS ONSCREEN AT ONCE

GASP

A Bethesda game that looks and runs like hot garbage? Gee, who would have thought.

The game itself is great, but the trophy list is not ideal. It’s nothing crazy, but a more streamlined, trophy-hunting-conducive list would have been preferable.

And now we wait whilst staunch defenders with their hands over their eyes and fingers in their ears try to discredit the dude or otherwise spin this into a positive or some sort of ‘win’.

War. War never changes…

Probably my most anticipated game in the near future. So far, every decision they’ve made that we’re aware of has been the right one. If it ships on disc, has no extraneous modes bolted on which don’t belong, and has a decent trophy list then this could well be one of the best games of its type.

Yeah this generic art style that’s slapped on a thousand other side scrollers and anime games needs to go. Castlevania deserves better than that. The gameplay itself looks solid, but they really dropped the ball with the visual aesthetic. Reminds me of how those awful copy&paste Trails games look.

One of these days, Alice, one of these days… POW

I like the idea of a character creator, but unless you’re following a slider tutorial online all my created beings are nothing short of abominations. The world is not yet ready to see squidgy faced, hook nosed, crossed eyed Kilff with a crescent moon shaped chin.

@Zeke68 *needs

Without Kojima being intimately involved in the project, whatever movie ends up getting made will never be able to compete with the source material. I really wasn’t impressed with the last few Sony movies, aside from the TomHolland Spider-Man’s. The Venoms were all phoned in, and Uncharted hit very weakly (why tf is Tom Holland cast as Nathan Drake when Mark Wahlberg is right. freaking. there.) MGS is one of, if not my all time favorite gaming series yet I have major doubts about this movie. I hope I’m wrong. I would never be happier to be wrong.

Sony can start by reintroducing the ability to sort trophies alphabetically. We had this option way back on PS3, but it was inexplicably removed during the PS4 generation and never returned. The ‘last game you earn a trophy in gets bumped to the top of the list’ method is asinine and needs to go.

Knowing Sony, they’ll do the opposite of what should be done and make some sort of ‘trophy list randomizer’ toggle instead.

“Most of these write-ups complain of severe jank, alongside an undercooked and repetitive melee combat system.”

And yet Skyrim got mountains of praise heaped on it.

I think there’s a minor typo. It should probably read ‘The comments on the PS Blog have been even more *un*forgiving.’

Yeah I liked the original too. Smaller indie gem, particularly so if you enjoy elements of Lovecraftian cosmic horror. Some of the puzzles were head scratchers, but not in a bad way. Lots of nods and references to classic HPL short stories too.

Doesn’t seem all that unreasonable to charge $20 for a full game, albeit a smaller niche title. After all, we live in the era where idiots routinely drop $5, $10, $20 or more on skins or charms or other cosmetics for their live service slop. Guess it depends how you look at things.

My likeness has been used in two games thus far; once as the Adjudicator boss in Demon’s Souls, and again as the Duke in RE Village. Between residuals from those appearances and my only fans, I’m good.

Drop the duchy upon the left hand side…

Meesa tink deesa vaporware

Now this is the type of side content I can get behind (giggity)

@StitchJones @Bob_Tempura glad to hear that. I’m one of the people who was interested in it, watched the DF launch build coverage, then immediately walked away when I saw how bad the image quality and stutters were. If things have improved as dramatically as you say, I think this could be quite the enjoyable title

Been adding various skilled players I’ve met while grinding out those god awful tedious wave survival matches for this express contingency. Just trying to get this trash done asap, just like the first Legends mode. Then I can go back to playing the good part, the main game.

I too am sick of Bethesda getting a free pass. I’ve been saying this for years, as someone who enjoyed specific aspects of Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim/FO’s3+4 but is not blind to the astonishing amount of broken crap in those technical messes.

If Sony or Nintendo first party ever released a game as janky and utterly busted as anything Bethesda Softworks has ever made, they’d be thrown in the pillory and pelted with rotten vegetables like in a medieval town square. Why should people turn a blind eye to Bethesda? Because you can stack a hundred grilled cheese sandwiches end to end like dominos? As if that outweighs competent game design and technical development prowess.

Half expected whoever was filming that to get wrecked by the Tree Sentinel at the last second

The best place to play will always be where the end user retains the most control.

Sony giveth, and Sony taketh away.

Still preferable to those ‘Beat the game on turbo ultra hardcore nightmare insanity permadeath mode in under 2 hours using only the knife on a Tuesday in November while mercury is in retrograde’ type trophies, or whatever that ‘kill 50,000 players in deathmatch’ garbage from Gears of War was.

Checked my trophy list on both the console and the PS app and the icons are still there as of now, but it’ll probably be updated soon.

That Platinum was a nice feather in my cap. Great gem if you like racing games, but beware: it’s only 30fps and never received any love from Sony with a next gen patch ☹️

Even many of us here find it incredibly boring. I know it’s huge in Japan of all places, but search me as to why 🤷‍♂️

Ah, it shall be the shiniest of turds.

I like both actors’ work and think it was about as perfect a casting as one can get with their respective roles. One has all the fire and fury of a younger Kratos, the other a contemplative aged wisdom of a Kratos that’s seen more than his share of fighting

Really tough month. Fatal Frame 2 wants my vote, but it’s capped at a measly 30fps (and doesn’t even hold that). Crimson Desert has a lot of good going for it and is quite novel, but it has a fake physical release and the devs are already talking about bolting some trash multiplayer component onto it. Marathon has a killer visual aesthetic and excellent gunplay, but all you do is run around in circles getting shot at. No story, no single player adventuring to be had.

The rest of what’s here is mostly blah.

They’re pretty far along already with something like ~95-100million units out there, so possibly. If this price increase had come around the 75-85 million mark then I highly doubt it could. As things stand, there’s a half decent chance.

Breaking news, Cinemersive Labs is being shut down

Does buying the physical disc version of RE9 count toward this? I haven’t opened mine yet, still working on other things, so I don’t know whether there’s a code or voucher pertaining to this inside.

They made the right choice. I recall wasting more time than I wanted to in the original Factions mode just to grind out those forced multiplayer trophies. Once I was done, I dropped that garbage and never touched it again.

Hm, can’t tell if Michael Pachter really is this stupid or if it’s an April Fool’s joke 🤔

That’s great and all, but the full console is 100% my focus. That’s where I will do all my PlayStation gaming, parked in front of my home theatre setup reveling in the glory of whatever the PS6 can offer. Not hunched over a handheld.

I found the parry mechanic in the first Mortal Shell a bit awkward to pull off consistently. Something about the timing of it. I liked some of the other aspects and would be willing to give this one a shot too, but I’m hoping the gameplay is a bit more streamlined this time around.

@nessisonett you changed your eraserhead pic lol