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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.

The fate of all humanity's children are in your hands! 🫵

"a well-understood alien superweapon" 😂 yea ok Superearth... good luck with that. The Illuminates will not be happy and they will come.

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..

@Rols Maybe they should hire me lol 😂

This is so rediculous 🤣🤣 I want one

@Zenos Should you choose to do so

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.

Atleast we're still getting Resurgance, right?...... right? 🥲

Wtf is up with Pedro's hair? 😂 That is not Joel hair. And yea Bella still looks like a child. RIP cute adult Ellie 😔

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.

@playstation1995 Matt Booty, Phil Spencer and Aaron Greenberg all need to go

If only all of this support came in BEFORE the studio was closed. The game even had a weak launch on PS5.

@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.

Hell yea! Hit'em where it hurts 🤣

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.

Ubisoft can start their redemption arc with an EXCELLENT Black Flag remake.

@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 ✌🏼😁

Demmmocracy prevails once more 💪🏻

Tyranids + horde mode = match made in heaven 🙌🏼

Demmmocracy prevails once more 💪🏻

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..

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.

I would like to thank all the PC players who are beta testing this right now for the polished PS5 release 😌

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 🫠

So far everything about this game has just been on another level... even the frikkin prequel comic is animated and has amazing art!

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.

Someone on the development team of Space Marine 2 needs to sneak a tyranid called Lars into the game..

This is the only game I think about 😍 I just can't wait to play it! 😬

@LifeGirl There were a lot less of these extremists when MGS2 came out, that's for sure 😅

Glad to see Sony is keeping up with the theme of this game 😏

These guys have figured it out 🙌🏼 Absolute legends! The gaming industry should take note if it is to survive.
Shift Up is also saving the industry right now 😄

Lol what the heck is going on? 😅 I just started playing the game and I don't understand how the "war effort" works. My buddies and I were still getting annihilated by automotons late last night.

What I don't understand is why developers sometimes lower the resolution so much to get a performance mode that we sit with a blurry mess of a game. Rather reduce the overall fidelity and keep the resolution at 4k and the fps solid. The game will look all the better for it. 4k60 should be the target for performance modes (although 1440p has also been fine) and fidelity can take a hit. I must say though.. whatever Shift Up did with Stellar Blade's balanced mode is magic and should be the standard going forward.

It looks like the skin suit has more jiggle physics.. so yea, worth the extra pain 🥲💪🏻

Thank goodness! I was gonna buy these 😅 Now I can put that money towards Stellar Blade... f*** it's expensive 🥲

This reminds me of those companion apps we used to get during the ps4 era. Some of them were really good! I sank hours into the AC4 Black Flag one. It had like a mini fleet management/resource gathering ship game in it that linked to the main game. Was pure genius.

It's finally affordable! 🙌🏼

I honestly had some fun messing around in the offline modes. The aiming controls are messed up in Battlefront 2 though, so not bothering with online just yet.
I'll just be playing EA's BF2 until Aspyr can fix the Classic Collection ✌🏼😉

FINALLYYYY!!! 😭😭😭🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Been waiting ages to play this