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@Boucho11 I have no doubt but it just seems a very odd path to go, considering the success of SIFU.

A online soccer game. I just dont see anyone remotely interested if your viewing the game as a sifu fan. If that makes sense.

There is one thing making a more bigger and better game than your previous, its another completely changing up the genre to basically a live service game.

So the team behind one of the best martial art roguelikw type may aswel be in its own category indie game maker, isn't gonna stick with and improve on the success of SIFU

Instead make a game about soccer?

I watched the trailer....

It looked sh*t.

@JustCameHereToSay I mean what revenue stream?

Ps5 is outselling xbox series x and s by about 10 to 1 if not more.

Its actually at the point that no ones buying an xbox.

You ain't losing much, it's the whole reason xbox are now considering first party games be portrd over to ps5.

Reality is aslong as its ps5 and pc, thats where money is coming.

Xbox maybe for a little spare change but then you have to think, is it worth the development time to port it over when numbers aren't even high anymore.

Xbox shot themselves in the foot by going all in on gamepass and its just not profitable.

Can someone just list them so I don't have to watch the video hahaha.
I'm walking in the storm, can't hear a dam thing hahaha

@Ravix that looks awful, is this how xbox do it these days? Hahaha

Playstation seem to put alot of effort into their wrap up menus.

On note, I always enjoy the wrap up, 99% of the time you know what you've spent the most time with, but that 1 % is the best part

Honestly reading all the reviews. I actually think that pure xbox score reflects what is written.

Lackluster AI, another game what makes you use stealth when they haven't bothered to create a smart ai system for stealth.

I may give it a go one day but from what I've seen, the 3rd person perspective looked better than the first person gameplay.

What he is completely forgetting is the sheer fact what would you play on?

Are we going to just have millions of server farms and we all stream? That is not feasible or realistic.

Consoles are never going away until the tech is so small they fit into a tv.

This also makes no sense when the ps5 itself is out pacing many of the consoles from the passed. Its not slowing down.

The switch is selling even more.

Consoles are here to stay.

Tech may not be jumping like the ps2 to ps3, but actually it is but in other aspects not just resolution.

I dont know whether this has just been taken out of context from what he said.

But consoles aren't dying, far from it.

Looks better than horizon, I saw more action in that trailer, than any passion from Aloy.

Hahahaha flying metal bug, horizon don't do that, they make robot dinosaurs and then shout at people for calling them robot dinosaurs. Hahaha

I'd actually say that aliens dark descent is the headline here.

I've been wanting to try this game since it came out, everyone has raved about it and watching the playthroughs seem legit claim to be a great alien game.

But saying that for 3 games in the Xmas month, it is a little bit of a let down.

You would think they would opt for some big hitters aswel seeing as though it's probably the world's biggest holiday season.

But you can't win them all and we always have the extra games coming mid month so can't grumble. It's been a great year in my opinion

It was the actual game what turned me off this not the actual trailers.

Maybe I was in the minority, but I kind of liked the vibe of the trailers, it really gave off a pretty flushed out world and a deeper story of a miss fit gang.

My problem was all that amazing work with the story elements. Turned into a very weird 5v5 hero shooter with 100s of other characters and that gameplay isn't my thing in the first place but really doesn't do anything to help the story along. .

Unlike say the division where the game itself is a linear story but with a live service element.

Or even helldivers 2, where you are a soldier and are fighting a war and the live service part is everyone else is the exact same fighting the war along side you and pushing the story thar way.
.so Concord was a miss match and how anyone thought that style of game could work with what was ment to be a quite deep story is beyond me.

So what I'm getting at is maybe concord would work better as a series or movie. I'm looking forward to it.

I mean who actually watched that trailer without knowing the gameplay elements, would you ever of thought it's a pretty bland 5v5 fps hero shooter. .

In my mind when I saw it I thought, yep classic Sony A class third person adventure.

It just won't work unfortunately. Not as just a dedicated handheld.

It would have to be a steam deck clone for it to work.

Just like I can play my entire library of steam games on a steam deck.

It would have to be ny entire library of psn games. It would have to be able to natively every game I own on ps4 ps5 and ps6. No questions asked.

Gone are the days of a handheld coming out which is just standalone.

No one cared for the vita and Sony sure as h*ll don't support the secondary devices they put out.

So it would only work if they did a ps portal with native full library access just like the steam deck.

Problem is, is that enough?

I mean it really depends on how many they want to sell and profit.

We all love the idea of the steamdeck but sales are less than 10m in total according to figures. Can Sony risk or want to risk that little sales.

I mean come on, there shouldn't of been dlc in the first place.

It's literally based off of one game from the ps1,

It's like how they managed to make the hobbit into multiple movies when it's literally 1 book.

These are great games but it still really is milking 1 game. Let's just get it done.

@Blofse I believe if you have the money LG do a 8k oled tv the Z3 I believe.

Reality is it isn't the time for 8k.

The real sad thing though is the jump from 1080 to 4k wasn't that big compared to the actual jump to 8k.

It's a shame that it's that much more expensive.

People really do forget how bad the ps vita did.
The only way a playstation even has a small chance of competing is if you literslly can play every game the main console can play, by just allowing you to play the library of games you have natively.

Anything else and it's as dead as the vita

@TheDudeElDuderino think you have the wrong game.
It was a full game on release.
They really could.of just left it as a fun co op game and it would of been done.

It's a lives service so they keep adding to the story so people keep coming back.

One of the rare few which isn't out staying it's welcome and the content they put out is pushing the story arc forwards.

@Titntin considering Andy from Kinda Funny has come out and said listening to all the others going mad over how good the upgrade is, that when he got it and got 2 setups going that the upgrade is minimal and some cases you can't even tell, that it really isn't worth it,
He's more optimistic of maybe what's to come but he wasn't that impressed with it.

Apart from the obvious ones, which weren't optimised for ps5, then it's alot of over hype.

I have heard from q few people that the single player Sony games say they need psn, but when you load it up, you can skip, that part and just play.

I've never bought 1 because I use the console for exclusives so I dont know how true this is.

But if it is true, then people are jumping at conclusions for no reason.

It makes sense if its a live service from Sony, why wouldn't they want it on their network.

But single player of true, does not require you to sign up, you can skip it.

Warner Bros the only studio who has total domination in single player games and total annihilation in live service games decides that the best thing to do is double down on......

Yes, Live Service games hahahha

The price is the deciding factor for me. The gains aren't worth the price.

But this goes for everything in gaming right now, non of the prices are going down so we are being premium price for basically old tech. I'd rather wait it out and see what happens.

This will be the first ever console gen or mid gen upgrade, I've decided it's not worth it.

@Hundred_Hand_Slap yes they don't want to tell you that part.

Which they even indicated when burning shores came out.

Of course the base game was made for the ps4 and ps5.

It is a little sleight of hand when they are comparing these titles.

There are alot of performance videos out now in which people are comparing ps5 and ps5 pro performance modes and they are identical.

@Markatron84 No it's PS6 fidelity mode, leak document said the future is now!

The problem I have got with all this rubbish talk.

Is this notion that 30fps was the only option?

Like we didn't have a performance mode with many many titles which wasn't that far of the quality mode in performance mode.

It's like saying the spiderman performance ray tracing mode didn't exist.

Or that the games looked so bad in performance mode, most of the game when your actually playing and not just staring at the graphics can't even tell the difference anyway.

The ps4 to ps4 pro was a huge jump in respect to 4k and the checkerboarding used. This has been used on the ps5 and it's like it doesn't exist and the only option was 30fps.

I'm not saying all but 99% of the games I have played, have played flawlessly in performance mode and the difference between quality and performance was already minute (my-noot) when it came to the actual graphics. Most studios were already using their own form.of checkerboarding or dynamic resolution to get the performance mode and some games even offer 120hz mode.

I'm all for the pro, me personally for the gains, it is not worth the price tag.

But what bothers me with alot of these reviews are pointing at this 30fps like it was set in stone and the pro is above and beyond.

Alot of the games which will benefit are the ones who just can't seem to.optimixe their games well and really there is no excuse for that.

You wonder if this was always the plan. Maybe they even knew.
Maybe they even have a contract in which they get royalties.

They hand over their skills so the AI can learn.

Technically all AI needs is the basics of how they code and they go from there.

Or maybe Netflix, had this plan all the time to steal their talents for the AI to learn.

So your saying that the developer had complete free reign and made it the success it is and now warner bros have got involved and are making them intertwine it with the series which sounds like they are going to kill the sequel already.

To me hogwartd legacy was great because of the freedom and grounded take of going to lessons and exploring, the story itself was sort of secondary to the world.

All I want them to do is create a new story within that world and open it up more and more interactions.

I don't need it to have to follow a path along side a tv series story.

It's like the freedom fighter being free and then having chains put on them.

Could warner bros just let them be.

Just like they should of rocksteady

Very strange.
Considering this is a remaster of a very old PC game which is probably the best in the series and spent hours playing but as always it's dominantly a PC centric game Any how.

I'd rather boot up my PC and buy it on there.

Xbox should really be pushing some.remastwr halo or gears. I'd be in then. Only 2 franchises worth a dam from xbox. In house exclusives anyway.

I mean what else is there?

Everything else are from established 3rd party developers, who's best games are already 3rd party.

It just sounds so lazy if there isn't a 60fps on base ps5.

The pro is just a way for developers to become lazy about optimization.

If first party can get the quality and performance as they do on the base ps5, plus all the different types of options.

I.e spidermans performance/raytracing mode then why shouldn't we expect a flawless performance mode at least on a base.

People are acting like we all sit in photo mode and check all the details. When we don't.

I mean it's funny we live in an age where normal corporate changes, are headlines and because they don't give the full story it becomes headline news.

It's like we need to know the inner workings as to why this has happened in a business we have 0 to do with other than the actual product.

It could be a number of things. Maybe he felt it was time to move on. Maybe ubisoft thought it may be best to change things up.

Maybe he was only contracted for the launch and he's moved on.

Does it matter. No it doesn't, the game either gets better and sales become better or it doesn't.

@BamBamBaklava89 I've been following the game and ive not seen them once mention anything about those parts.

The focus has been sheerly on the waterpark and sticking objects on rides.

The world never stops showing how insane it's getting.

So they have a vendetta against Sony because they bought into a studio with a concept which they released and was maybe the biggest flop in gaming history. So they shut the studio down. Which cost PlayStation a fair few quid.
Also bought a mobile gaming studio but didn't produce anything of value so they shut them down to save money, as a business is entitled to do.

So they best report them for failed ventures.

On the other page, they backed Microsoft about buying the world's biggest gaming publisher and said that is fine and didn't question or report when Microsoft decided just to fire entire teams to save money.

Something tells me that the CWA are in bed with Microsoft and of course it's all about the money.

I've never had an issue with remasters alot make sense.

My issue and the same with the last of us. They are ps4 games, they work perfectly well on ps4.

The upgrade from ps4 to ps5 is minor, yes its an upgrade but an upgrade from a well polished ps4 pro and ps5 patched game.

My worry is at what end?

Are we just going to go through generations of consoles and touch up the graphics each time we get a new generation?

Ps6 comes out and we get the same games from the ps4 ps5.

Remasters are ment to be games from old for a new generation.

These remasters are of games in which can be played with or without a remaster on the same console.

I'm just hoping this isn't a trend.

It's no surprise though.
Ps5 is outselling all xbox consoles by a huge margin.

No ones going to bother with game pass if they have a ps5.

The question remains though, whether game pass gets a lot, I could imagine Al la carte Xbox sales are non existent and 99% just pay for gamepass. Which again losses them money,

@nomither6 Yes it's very normal. I'd even go as far as to say it's not only normal but it's 99% of a child's life, up until a certain age, that age probably being about 11 or 12, maybe even going into your teenage years, before you really understand or want variety from different games.
Before that 99% of kids will play the same games over and over and over again.
It's the reason why roblox is so popular because most games are exactly the same concept. Love it or hate it but it's the way a child's brain actually learns skills.

I'm actually a qualified teacher and when I was teaching i qualified in child phycology and worked with kids with adhd and similar attention issues.

So it's quite funny reading many of these comments and a preview or review of a game basically aimed at children. But of course the adults within the conversation beat the games down for being to simple.
Yet the games are judged and reviewed from an adults perspective.

No one just stops and thinks, what do you expect it's LEGO.

Hahaha

@FinneasGH wildlands was by far the better game

@Nepp67 I'm just not that person.
I was there, ive been gaming since the 80s.
My first console was commodore 64.
Since then I have got every mainstream console ever launched and every game I've ever wanted to play.

The only console I won't get at launch is a ps5 pro.

So I don't know, maybe it's a the games have grown and I have grown with the games and I'm always looking ahead never back.

I think it maybe the 3d games don't sit well with me, when I try go back.

For example.

The first Syphon filter in my mind was absolutely amazing, when it came out, I couldn't believe the whole covert angle, I couldn't believe 2 levels in I was walking through charity function to spy on a target.

The game in my head now is that, with amazing graphics.

But trying to play it now, I'm like this is not Syphon Filter. It's definitely a me thing.

You do bring up some exceptions to the rule though.

Metal gear solid is very much a timeless classic. But I think what makes it a timeless classic is the camera angles, and great use of the tech at the time.

Certain games age differently.
Like every year I still go back and play games like broken sword 1 and 2 or the entire monkey island series. The Mario games are still worthy play throughs.

I just think I'm now so spoiled by great graphics and amazing controls in games that the old 3d games are best left alone in my head so I remember them as they were.

It must be the being there when they were the hottest thing on the market and always being there when the newest game or console was out.
I'm old enough to remember queuing up to buy gta 3 at a midnight launch and being totally blown away by what you could in that game. Now that's just common place for most games. Hard for me to go back.

I remember playing this on release and enjoying the game, especially after watching the movie.

I'm just not one of the people that really enjoys going back playing these games, I always feel like these games are best enjoyed at the time for what they were.

I remember it having a great squad base feature but will it hold up in today's gaming world and not feel to old and distort my memory of it.

My personal preference due to trying to play old games esp through premium was 99% of the games were better in my memory than going back and playing them. Even if they have a new coat of paint.

I'd rather have a complete remake of the old than a paint job.

Also I don't trust nightdive studios.
They literally ruined one of the greatest point and click games ever created with Blade Runner enhanced edition.

It's that bad the only nice reviews it gets, is they ended up having to bundle their awful attempt with the absolute near perfect original game for free.

So honestly I just don't trust or want to give my money over to them.

@Haruki_NLI what actually happened to that whole thing. They had an actual app on the ps store.
Everyone was pin pointing kojima in the crazy mystery reveals and the guy even was doing some interviews and then puff. Bathing ever happened.

Listen fury turned up to a press conference as batman so this is subtle in comparison and very fitting. Considering usyk is basically the hitman in the world of boxing. He shouldn't of beaten most his opponents when looking at the man, yet once he's in that ring and doing what he knows, he can be unstoppable.

Very fitting and he did pull it off. Yea probably should of gone all the way but may not of had the time to source a barcode sticker hahaha

@get2sammyb sorry but no.
Nixxes already had a masterpiece in the art department, digital foundry themselves even said so when they checked the 4k checkerboarding on ps4 pro.

They are good at what they do.

But no one beats blue point and what they did with demon Souls.

Now I get it looks nice but these are screenshots, 95% of people are running around killing robot dinos not really caring.

The price for the upgrade is the saving grace.

I really don't think it would of done much if it was say last of part 2 price or part 1 for that matter.

It looks good but that price is a bit steep for a product which is early access.

But I guess that's the console version of costs.

I'm really intrigued by this game, I wasn't a huge fan of telltale games back then, even though I love point and click, I found myself being bored by their style, so never got a chance to play wolf amongst us.

It would of been better if they had remastered the first game to help fund a sequel.

Considering the fact many people now probably haven't played the first game and it's stuck on ps3 if my memory is correct.

@IOI @Frmknst

The problem with have got is that gamers are getting insight into the business side and are unaware how actual business works esp.on the games industry.

This is standard practise for every single publisher.

Sony literally has a load of first party studios, who have their own budgets and finances.

The money used to do deals with other developers has 0 impact on the money used on first party developers.

Not only this but Sony has literslly bought in the passed 4 years a load of new studios to put under their umbrella.
Bungie
Nixxies
Blue point
A studio which had a similar deal in place before hand, showed them how good they was so playstation offered to bring them into the fold.

Insomanic
A studio who also had deals in place and a close relationship with Sony with exclusive titles, showed how good they was and offered them into the fold.

Housemarque
Same again Sony saw potential offered them deals with games, became great, made Sony a great game decided to offer them a deal they couldn't refuse, brought them into the fold.

Then also brought in brand new developers into the mix and put money up front,
1 team failed and was disbanded but Sony hadn't bought them only money.

Concord developers it was a long shot but there was potential there, they went for it, unfortunately it failed.

Haven they see great potential so brought them into the mix.

Playstation in its long history even to this day, do and will risk on potential.

But this has nothing to do with the money which is untouchable to their core first party developers, they get what they want when they want.

Unfortunately money does not make games be developed faster.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare a very good point, I misread your comment about the dates.

But I do think next year is an exceptional year for games, yes personal choice on what your wanting from games may not be there but you can't deny the list of games isn't as good as you can get within a year, a game literally for everyone in that list.

If you got every Stella game you wanted next year then you'd be waiting another 4 or 5 years for the next round, a trickle of games is better than all at once.

Also Microsoft may have more first party games coming out but that was always going to happen at 1 point in time, due to the fact the amount of studios they have bought and the fact all Phil Spencer has ever gone on about is games games games, yet year on year Microsoft has missed.

Sony has a different strategy now with game announcements due to missing themselves so we may see more first party games next year which they haven't announced.

Just remember who the games are aimed at.

You talk about there maybe a lack of variety but you being an adult, may not realise that children, actually need repetition in games as that's how they learn.

All my kids have completed knack and knack 2 maybe 50 times and haven't got bored and enjoy the repetition of the games.

It's just when we become older we don't see it, the way kids see games.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I'd disagree insomniac has never delayed a game yet. They are probably the only reliable dev team out there

@DennisReynolds hmmmm? Exactly how was it a mess?
The game played flawlessly for myself and the majority. They added in amazing preset graphical options, including probably the best use of ray tracing and performance we have seen in a video game on a console.

How are they in a mess? They literally held up the first party exclusives for the entire ps5 launch window up until spiderman 2.

They have probably been the 1 developer who's games are the most polished out of everyone and they have been consistent with their output and performance.

It feels like years ago since they said they was doing a 007 game.

I'm quite liking the reveal a few months out from release, I'm not even interested in this game anymore.

I will maybe when it comes out but what is there to be excited about. Few years yet

@PegasusActual93 using GTA assets to profit but I'm guessing rockstar is behind this

@riceNpea I don't think its harsh at all.
You have to review a game based on every aspect.
This game hasn't just released its been in early access for well over a year and the developers actually promised way more than they delivered.

The commentary is poor and not well executed within the game.

When you knock a person out it's a stock animation for everybody, every time.

The career mode has some depth but it really is just spreadsheet after spreadsheet.

Winning the title, doesn't have a huge omg you made it atmosphere, there is nothing but a picture of the belt.

They are very correct on a positive that this may get a sequel because when you play thr game you can see where it's going but they just didn't quite get there and making a sequel would definitely give them more experience and give them the money to truly push what they had already promised.

They straight up lied about career mode really. They had a open world wet up to begin with and made claims about how career mode was going to be unique compared to everything else. But they scrapped that and made it spreadsheets.

The boxing mechanics are good.

But the truth is it ain't that much better than it was in fight night champions, graphics wise yes but fight night animations were better.

So I really think the review isn't harsh at all.
And they gave it one of the better scores.

Right OK well most of you lot haven't had as many children as I have so I'll let you all know.

The kids don't even check the chat or anything like that out.

90% of the games are pretty bland and the kids like them. They aren't being made to buy anything and roblox has it set so you can't buy anything without knowledge first.

There are actually some great games within the service.

I've played a theme park game with free build, a prison free form builder, a complex lumberjack game. A retail Tycoon game free build,

It's actually a very good platform for younger kids.

Yea it needs more security from roblox for stuff like that.

But the core of the game is very basic and a very good introduction to gaming.

And we are adults so we view the world in a whole other way. Kids don't care they jump into a game have a go and jump out.

Great game

I mean the original splinter cell was a master piece for it's time.

If they can capture that again and make the ai even more realistic. I'm all in but I'd rather they spin it off into a new franchise than just remake the rest. Of course for the except few of them, it went alot more action than stealth.