Donald Trump's campaign rally turns into a boss fight, similar to what happens in the Bob Barbas fight in DmC, complete with floating head and everything.
I'm amazed that this type of leak still happens 🙄 Lock those holy files away in an Imperator Class titan and defend it against the impure and the heretics. For the Emperor!
That thing packs some serious firepower! I took down even a factory strider with that thing. They should add it to the strategem menu with a backpack to reload it. This game sorely needs a cool new weapon!
I've been playing since launch and I can say from personal experience that the game has grown a bit stale. Me and the boys have been running around doing mostly the same missions, fighting the same enemies for months for now. The core gameplay is still fun but the game needs more content for a live service. The major orders are getting really old and the last two warbonds didn't blow out hair back. Arrowhead would need to drop a massive expansion with a new enemy type and game mode (where the heck is horde mode??) if it wants to pull more people back in. They will need to plan something substantial if they want to compete with Starship Troopers Extermination when it launches. My squad of Roughnecks are definitely checking that out!
At the very least just update the ps4 version to run at 60fps on ps5!!! Like all the other FromSoftware games!! That's all we really need 😭 A slight resolution bump also wouldn't hurt..
Other issues with the industry are all the dumb mistakes developers and publishers are still making. Games releasing in extremely buggy states, marketing being misleading or over-hyped, closure of amazing studios, mismanagement from higher-ups, chasing live service, bloating your game with loot, not getting the gameplay right etc etc. These are all things that have been figured out and perfected before... Games also need to adjust with the times. Be a little bit more self-aware about what your game will be competing against.
I still remember the satisfyingly squishy sound they made in Quake 2 😌 Then Quake 3 came around and made them splatter all over the place 😅 Ah those were the days..
People so quickly forget that Ubisoft has actually released a few bangers recently (AC Mirage, PoP: The Lost Crown, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora) and that you can confidently preorder one of their games, knowing that it will be quality. Just ignore all the haters and politics.. you'll be a lot happier in life.
Also, why is no one talking about the fact that you can just buy a one month subscription to play the game?? You even get all the preorder stuff. That's how I've been playing their games and it's saving me a boatload of money. I'll play them now on the sub and then buy them later when they are heavily discounted. Seems like a win-win to me.
The backlash from the alleged "censoring" was just absurd. A low point for the gaming community. There are so many insanely sexy outfits in the game it is just mind-boggling.
It's the shift to making FF games $70 now and not matching that price with quality imo. FF16 had awful performance issues at launch and graphically only looked really good during large boss fights. I didn't buy FF7R and am not interested to because of how blurry it looks in performance mode (judging from the demo) and it's $70 for the continuation of a story without a conclusion yet, which is nonsense. Had these games launched at a lower price, without issues and crisp visuals it might have been a different story. People sometimes hold off on buying games until they get patched, which affects early sales numbers.
@InvaderJim I know what it seem like now, but a few years back all the heads of Xbox were left to do what they wanted and Phil Spencer was given a seemingly blank cheque to gobble up studios and grow the business. He has now screwed it up by making investments that haven't bore much fruit yet and by leaving some studios to mismanage themselves, making games that missed a console launch, took too long and were less than stellar. There's nothing that comes close to what the PS studios are pumping out. Also the PR from those three guys I mentioned have just been bad over the years. Phil especially talks in such circles sometimes with the most non-informative, fugazi talk I have ever heard. I agree the guys up the chain also need to go, but regardless, all the execs involved need to be replaced.
@twitchtvpat Their console will be pointless to own if they give away all their exclusives. Playstation isn't doing that, so the future PS console will have more games than an Xbox.
@Fiendish-Beaver It's not just to do with the ABK acquisition. There have been a few big fails before that - Halo Infinite not launching alongside the Series X (as was planned), Gamepass losing steam and actually not being a profitable business model, Phil Spencer saying great games won't shift console sales, Xbox just leaving studios to mismanage themselves and either release trash games or just sit on an IP for ages (Gears of War)... just to name a few. I'm not saying Sony is perfect but Xbox has really stumbled a lot more.
Xbox is not a confident brand anymore. It's just a clueless corporate entity where your job isn't safe and management is a joke. The fact that Microsoft has to step in and reorganize things just shows that they have no idea what they're doing anymore. Makes me angry, because I also have a Series X and wonder how useful that box is gonna be down the line.
They should have seen the writing on the wall when it became obvious that nobody wanted this game. They could have flipped all the assets into a good Batman game instead.
I find it absolutely rediculous that 26% of people DIDN'T want this warbond to come out as planned. What if it was 51%? Would the rest of us lose out because there's another hate campaign against the studio? Completely absurd. The developers should let the community cool down before pulling stunts like this.
I'm constantly amazed at how entitled and whiny parts of the gaming community have become over every little thing. First it was the rather light censoring in Stellar Blade (which didn't really affect the game at all. Thankfully the metacritic user score is still 9.3) and now it's this - a guy got fired for enciting the sabotage of the company he works for. I mean even he knew he was taking a risk. The PSN account reversal was a good cause to fight for, even if it also had it's whiners, but this is just getting rediculous. People need to stop letting small things (that sometimes don't even concern them) ruin their enjoyment of games.
@Kidfunkadelic83 Amen brother. If they ever resurrect Wipeout I swear tears of joy will roll down my face 😭 That series had such style and identity. It gave Playstation a 'cool' factor with how slick and bangin' the games and soundtracks were, respectively. Wipeout games launched along almost all of their hardware as well... man those were the days. I still play the Omega Collection and Pulse (on my phone).
Keeping busy until the next big one. I have an enormous backlog of games to clear and I've been giving a lot of indies and AA games a try. Found a few gems. So the devs can cook their games while I nuke my backlog ✌🏼😁
I know people don't have a lot of faith in Bloober, but atleast they are aware of how important this project is and seem to be taking it very seriously. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe this is their AAA breakout moment.
Very excited for this. I hope it's good. I actually found The Expanse a bit boring. They could have done so much more with that because the show was amazing.
Wow I thought I was going crazy when I played the demo 😅 I knew something was a little bit off with that parrying. Glad the main game is smoother. Can't wait for my copy to arrive! 😬 My hype level is already at fever pitch 🫠
The marketing for this game has been absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 and the discourse surrounding it has elevated Stellar Blade and Shift Up to champions of the gaming industry 🙌🏼 Seriously can't wait to get my physical copy 😭 Need to flip that cover!
Dead Space goes way more heavy on the gore. That layered flesh system they had, where you peeled through the meat of limbs before dismemebering them, was some next-level stuff. And the enemies were very human-like (being reanimated humans, afterall). In Stellar Blade you fight very obvious non-human monsters, so maybe that classifies as a different type of gore for CERO.
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Re: Random: Alan Wake 2 Fan Detects Audible Scratch Foreshadowing, to the Relief of Dev Responsible
Just when I thought the game couldn't get any more weird 🥲 This is extremely unsettling. Will have to remember to do this for my next playthrough 😅
Re: Random: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris Potentially Linked to Shadowy Federal Bureau of Control
Some ideas for Control 2:
Re: Blasphemous Dev Posts Ominous Teaser for Incoming Announcement
For vague are the paths of the Miracle..
Re: Random: Streamer One-Shots Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree's Final, Hardest Boss
I dunno.. I think I prefer my two-day struggle to this 🥲 What's an Elden Ring boss without a bit of PTSD anyways? 😅
Re: Next Ryu Ga Gotoko Game to Be Revealed at Tokyo Game Show 2024
I would lose my f***ing mind if another Judgment game gets announced 😵💫 Absolutely love those games!
Re: Development Teams 'Saddened' by Demoralising Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Leak
Heresy!!! 😬 I will remain pure and uncorrupted to purge the Tyranid hordes this September!
Re: Heresy as Full Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Dev Build Leaks Months Ahead of Launch
I'm amazed that this type of leak still happens 🙄 Lock those holy files away in an Imperator Class titan and defend it against the impure and the heretics. For the Emperor!
Re: Relief as Helldivers 2 Players Unearth Anti-Tank Stratagem That Isn't Mines
That thing packs some serious firepower! I took down even a factory strider with that thing. They should add it to the strategem menu with a backpack to reload it. This game sorely needs a cool new weapon!
Re: Random: PS5 Dev Kit Thinly Disguised as 'Pizza Kit' Sells on eBay for $6,500
Good lord remember when we all thought that's what the PS5 was gonna look like? 🙈
Re: The Obligatory Helldivers 2 Isn't As Popular As It Was Headlines Have Started to Emerge
I've been playing since launch and I can say from personal experience that the game has grown a bit stale. Me and the boys have been running around doing mostly the same missions, fighting the same enemies for months for now. The core gameplay is still fun but the game needs more content for a live service. The major orders are getting really old and the last two warbonds didn't blow out hair back. Arrowhead would need to drop a massive expansion with a new enemy type and game mode (where the heck is horde mode??) if it wants to pull more people back in. They will need to plan something substantial if they want to compete with Starship Troopers Extermination when it launches. My squad of Roughnecks are definitely checking that out!
Re: FromSoftware Boss Twists the Bloodborne Knife, Says It's 'A Special Game for Me'
At the very least just update the ps4 version to run at 60fps on ps5!!! Like all the other FromSoftware games!! That's all we really need 😭 A slight resolution bump also wouldn't hurt..
Re: Ex-Sony Boss Shawn Layden Explains How to Make Games Faster, Cheaper
Other issues with the industry are all the dumb mistakes developers and publishers are still making. Games releasing in extremely buggy states, marketing being misleading or over-hyped, closure of amazing studios, mismanagement from higher-ups, chasing live service, bloating your game with loot, not getting the gameplay right etc etc. These are all things that have been figured out and perfected before...
Games also need to adjust with the times. Be a little bit more self-aware about what your game will be competing against.
Re: Helldivers 2 Players Save Sick Kids, Developer Arrowhead Donates to Save the Children
The fate of all humanity's children are in your hands! 🫵
Re: Helldivers 2 Major Order Directs Players to Destroy Supercolony-Infested Planet of Meridia
"a well-understood alien superweapon" 😂 yea ok Superearth... good luck with that. The Illuminates will not be happy and they will come.
Re: Random: DOOM Co-Creator John Romero Reveals Hellish Way 'Gib' is Properly Pronounced
I still remember the satisfyingly squishy sound they made in Quake 2 😌 Then Quake 3 came around and made them splatter all over the place 😅 Ah those were the days..
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Pre-Orders Already 'Looking Very Strong'
@Rols Maybe they should hire me lol 😂
Re: Random: Stellar Blade Has Reached Peak Marketing with a Limited Edition Burger
This is so rediculous 🤣🤣 I want one
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Pre-Orders Already 'Looking Very Strong'
@Zenos Should you choose to do so
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Pre-Orders Already 'Looking Very Strong'
People so quickly forget that Ubisoft has actually released a few bangers recently (AC Mirage, PoP: The Lost Crown, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora) and that you can confidently preorder one of their games, knowing that it will be quality. Just ignore all the haters and politics.. you'll be a lot happier in life.
Also, why is no one talking about the fact that you can just buy a one month subscription to play the game?? You even get all the preorder stuff. That's how I've been playing their games and it's saving me a boatload of money. I'll play them now on the sub and then buy them later when they are heavily discounted. Seems like a win-win to me.
Re: Ubisoft Cancels Free-to-Play Shooter The Division Heartland
Atleast we're still getting Resurgance, right?...... right? 🥲
Re: Here's Your First Official Look at HBO's The Last of Us Season 2
Wtf is up with Pedro's hair? 😂 That is not Joel hair. And yea Bella still looks like a child. RIP cute adult Ellie 😔
Re: Shift Up Director Puts Stellar Blade, Sony Costume Conspiracy to Bed
The backlash from the alleged "censoring" was just absurd. A low point for the gaming community. There are so many insanely sexy outfits in the game it is just mind-boggling.
Re: Final Fantasy 16, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Fail to Meet Expectations on PS5
It's the shift to making FF games $70 now and not matching that price with quality imo. FF16 had awful performance issues at launch and graphically only looked really good during large boss fights. I didn't buy FF7R and am not interested to because of how blurry it looks in performance mode (judging from the demo) and it's $70 for the continuation of a story without a conclusion yet, which is nonsense. Had these games launched at a lower price, without issues and crisp visuals it might have been a different story. People sometimes hold off on buying games until they get patched, which affects early sales numbers.
Re: Fans Positively Review Bomb Hi-Fi Rush in Wake of Xbox’s Closure of Tango Gameworks
@InvaderJim I know what it seem like now, but a few years back all the heads of Xbox were left to do what they wanted and Phil Spencer was given a seemingly blank cheque to gobble up studios and grow the business. He has now screwed it up by making investments that haven't bore much fruit yet and by leaving some studios to mismanage themselves, making games that missed a console launch, took too long and were less than stellar. There's nothing that comes close to what the PS studios are pumping out. Also the PR from those three guys I mentioned have just been bad over the years. Phil especially talks in such circles sometimes with the most non-informative, fugazi talk I have ever heard. I agree the guys up the chain also need to go, but regardless, all the execs involved need to be replaced.
Re: Fans Positively Review Bomb Hi-Fi Rush in Wake of Xbox’s Closure of Tango Gameworks
@playstation1995 Matt Booty, Phil Spencer and Aaron Greenberg all need to go
Re: Fans Positively Review Bomb Hi-Fi Rush in Wake of Xbox’s Closure of Tango Gameworks
If only all of this support came in BEFORE the studio was closed. The game even had a weak launch on PS5.
Re: Founders, Long-Time Employees Reportedly Say Xbox Now Effectively Microsoft Gaming
@twitchtvpat Their console will be pointless to own if they give away all their exclusives. Playstation isn't doing that, so the future PS console will have more games than an Xbox.
Re: Founders, Long-Time Employees Reportedly Say Xbox Now Effectively Microsoft Gaming
@Fiendish-Beaver It's not just to do with the ABK acquisition. There have been a few big fails before that - Halo Infinite not launching alongside the Series X (as was planned), Gamepass losing steam and actually not being a profitable business model, Phil Spencer saying great games won't shift console sales, Xbox just leaving studios to mismanage themselves and either release trash games or just sit on an IP for ages (Gears of War)... just to name a few. I'm not saying Sony is perfect but Xbox has really stumbled a lot more.
Re: Founders, Long-Time Employees Reportedly Say Xbox Now Effectively Microsoft Gaming
Xbox is not a confident brand anymore. It's just a clueless corporate entity where your job isn't safe and management is a joke. The fact that Microsoft has to step in and reorganize things just shows that they have no idea what they're doing anymore.
Makes me angry, because I also have a Series X and wonder how useful that box is gonna be down the line.
Re: Vengeful Fallout 76 Players Keep Nuking Xbox Boss Phil Spencer's Camp
Hell yea! Hit'em where it hurts 🤣
Re: Warner Bros Revenue Plummets as Suicide Squad Falls Completely Short of Hogwarts Legacy
They should have seen the writing on the wall when it became obvious that nobody wanted this game. They could have flipped all the assets into a good Batman game instead.
Re: 'Negative Sentiment' Prompts Helldivers 2 Dev to Put Releasing Polar Patriots to a Vote
I find it absolutely rediculous that 26% of people DIDN'T want this warbond to come out as planned. What if it was 51%? Would the rest of us lose out because there's another hate campaign against the studio? Completely absurd. The developers should let the community cool down before pulling stunts like this.
Re: Helldivers Turn on Arrowhead Following Undemocratic Firing of Community Manager
I'm constantly amazed at how entitled and whiny parts of the gaming community have become over every little thing. First it was the rather light censoring in Stellar Blade (which didn't really affect the game at all. Thankfully the metacritic user score is still 9.3) and now it's this - a guy got fired for enciting the sabotage of the company he works for. I mean even he knew he was taking a risk. The PSN account reversal was a good cause to fight for, even if it also had it's whiners, but this is just getting rediculous. People need to stop letting small things (that sometimes don't even concern them) ruin their enjoyment of games.
Re: Rumour: Ubisoft Is Going All-In on Assassin's Creed with Black Flag Remake, Another Remake, Co-op Multiplayer Games, and More
Ubisoft can start their redemption arc with an EXCELLENT Black Flag remake.
Re: PS5 Fans Mostly Happy with Sony's Third-Party Deals, But PlayStation Studios Need to Step Up
@Kidfunkadelic83 Amen brother. If they ever resurrect Wipeout I swear tears of joy will roll down my face 😭 That series had such style and identity. It gave Playstation a 'cool' factor with how slick and bangin' the games and soundtracks were, respectively. Wipeout games launched along almost all of their hardware as well... man those were the days. I still play the Omega Collection and Pulse (on my phone).
Re: PS5 Fans Mostly Happy with Sony's Third-Party Deals, But PlayStation Studios Need to Step Up
Keeping busy until the next big one. I have an enormous backlog of games to clear and I've been giving a lot of indies and AA games a try. Found a few gems.
So the devs can cook their games while I nuke my backlog ✌🏼😁
Re: Helldivers 2 Blasted with Over 200,000 Positive User Reviews Following Sony's PSN Backtrack
Demmmocracy prevails once more 💪🏻
Re: Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 PvP Multiplayer Looking More and More Likely
Tyranids + horde mode = match made in heaven 🙌🏼
Re: Helldivers 2 Is Already One of Sony's Best-Ever Sellers in the US
Demmmocracy prevails once more 💪🏻
Re: Stellar Blade PS5 Dev Thanks Fans for 'Passion' Following Censorship Controversy
Must say the mild censoring didn't affect my enjoyment of this game at all. Wouldn't have even noticed it if it wasn't for all this fuss..
Re: Bloober Team Says Silent Hill 2 Remake Its 'Most Important Test'
I know people don't have a lot of faith in Bloober, but atleast they are aware of how important this project is and seem to be taking it very seriously. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe this is their AAA breakout moment.
Re: Future PS5 Game No Rest for the Wicked Opens to Positive Early Access Reviews
I would like to thank all the PC players who are beta testing this right now for the polished PS5 release 😌
Re: The Wolf Among Us 2 Surfaces, Offering Screenshots
Very excited for this. I hope it's good. I actually found The Expanse a bit boring. They could have done so much more with that because the show was amazing.
Re: Stellar Blade Half-Second Input Delay Due to 'Game's Style of Animation', Says Director
Wow I thought I was going crazy when I played the demo 😅 I knew something was a little bit off with that parrying. Glad the main game is smoother. Can't wait for my copy to arrive! 😬 My hype level is already at fever pitch 🫠
Re: Prepare for Stellar Blade PS5 Launch with Online Comic
So far everything about this game has just been on another level... even the frikkin prequel comic is animated and has amazing art!
Re: Shift Up Reveals 'Secrets' of Stellar Blade's Physical PS5 Packaging
The marketing for this game has been absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 and the discourse surrounding it has elevated Stellar Blade and Shift Up to champions of the gaming industry 🙌🏼
Seriously can't wait to get my physical copy 😭 Need to flip that cover!
Re: EA Japan Exec Criticises Rating Board for Apparrent Stellar Blade Special Treatment
Dead Space goes way more heavy on the gore. That layered flesh system they had, where you peeled through the meat of limbs before dismemebering them, was some next-level stuff. And the enemies were very human-like (being reanimated humans, afterall). In Stellar Blade you fight very obvious non-human monsters, so maybe that classifies as a different type of gore for CERO.
Re: Saber Interactive CEO Defends Embracer Group's Controversial Acquisition Strategy
Someone on the development team of Space Marine 2 needs to sneak a tyranid called Lars into the game..
Re: Stellar Blade Goes Gold Ahead of Late April Release on PS5
This is the only game I think about 😍 I just can't wait to play it! 😬
Re: Sony Hires Superstar Korean Cheerleader to Cosplay as Stellar Blade's Eve
@LifeGirl There were a lot less of these extremists when MGS2 came out, that's for sure 😅