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@Judal27 loot boxes are predatory practice used against people with tendencies to gamble and the need to collect. Hence the reason people have bankrupted themselves with these systems.

They used to be called micro transactions 😬 they wonder why people are turning to AA publishers and indie games.

Who would have thought that resetting peoples loot to effectively zero would tank player engagement. People are getting wise to the tactics of these predatory games. New season = reset = new grind or pay in shop. New season start again! It’s the ultimate money glitch using people’s natural instincts against them.

I’ve watched quite a bit of it on twitch. I don’t see enough difference from the first game to get me excited. I will play it, I’ll just wait a couple years for a big discount.

Why bother building a machine no one will buy!

Anti trust laws aren’t fit for purpose! Especially when the large corporations get so big they have the judges and politicians in their pockets. Welcome to late stage capitalism!

The old game code an a disc trick! Or could be just for future updates.

@DanteDevilHunter it was probably enhanced by clicking a few sliders in unreal 5. That seems to be most of the problems with the pro.

Looks great. Cant wait to watch some gameplay before I decide if to buy early or wait.

“Zelda vibes” you can probably get sued for that these days.

Can’t see a difference tbh. But I don’t really see much difference from 4-5

Ps6 will sell with options like mobile phones. $1000 2 year contract includes ps+ basic. Something along those lines is what the industry is aiming for.

Why is the disc drive version such a crappy saving compared to the other one?

Was great fun at the time. But let’s be honest the best levels were all the very early ones. The climbing mechanics ruined a lot of fun for me.

I really enjoyed the first game but it got repetitive. I haven’t seen anything that makes me think this one be be any different. I’ll wait for a discount I think.

Can’t wait! Hope to god they change the controls so I don’t have to tap to run and the auto aim stuff needs ditching.

@PuppetMaster have you ever played super Mario bros 2?

Sonys first party offerings are far less important to me these days. Indie is taking over most of my playing time and I only see that continuing.

They should make it harder and say “git gud”

You can keep ps6 thanks.

Those last two questions about where do you get gaming news apart from this site really opened my eyes. Just realised that I now only use YouTube for gaming news rather than any mainstream media. I imagine a lot of people are the same. Some of the sites listed are dreadful for gaming content and news. Pages of ads and articles written by people who clearly don’t really play the games they are reviewing apart from an hour or two.

Sony make more tv shows than games these days. Incredible that they sell their single player gaming stories to make television but the gaming department decided to almost abandon making single player games.

I wish more games released without games media getting review codes. I think that way we’ll get a much more balanced, fiat and honest review. For far too long the gaming media have given favourable reviews because they feel they can’t be overly critical or they risk not getting review codes for the publishers next game. On the other hand user reviews are generally unreliable because of review bombing.

I just don’t think a wolverine gameplay loop will be for me. Probably very melee heavy literal hack and slash. Most people will love it though because it could be very similar to god of war.

The next console gen is cooked before it’s even begun. My guess is the starting price of ps6 will be £700

Pc is already increasing its market share that will just continue at a rapid pace. Especially considering you can get decent pc’s that hook up to the television and are small enough to put under the box.

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I enjoyed the game but never finished it. The cutscenes were far too long that’s my main memory

Just waiting for the inevitable cancellation announcement

This industry is cooked

Copying Nintendo has never really worked for anyone. Best to just do your own thing.

It will only get tougher for PlayStation now they have increased the price of ps5.

I won’t be buying new hardware until it’s been on the market for years! I just don’t trust Sony or Microsoft to deliver the software to compel me to make the purchase.

@Enuo cracker island is incredible. I didn’t think they still had it in them to create an album of such quality.

About time tbh.

Battlefield has already won this battle

Battlefield and EA have listened to the players and now they will be rewarded. Also the people making the game (leadership team) have the experience and know how with creating amazing content. Cod being “too big too fail” could be a very famous quote in the coming years.

@Nem in my mind YouTube reviews are a lot more trustworthy than the official gaming media. Unfortunately the media has been mostly takeover by the same few companies that are so obviously paid shills

It’s so easy to spot the paid reviews these days. Game has its flaws 9/10 great game

“Moving away from hardware centric business” very interesting that you sell you hardware for such an inflated price then. What this means going forward is ps6 will be the last console as everything will be fully online after that. Probably also means 90% of games will be live service trash with micro transactions to make up for the loss in hardware revenue.

In other words ps6 is where I jump off. Think I will spend the rest of my days on PC playing the 30 year back catalogue of games I always meant to play someday.

Easy to make profit when you increase the rrp 4 years into generation instead of lowering rrp

Too big to fail. No such thing these days

Nothing will save marathon unfortunately.

Crazy numbers considering the current market conditions

“Personal creative projects” we hear a lot of this these days. Most of the games released by the og devs are usually very good. Amazing coincidence

Verifying age on a game that you have to be 18 to buy. The same parents that buy their underage kids these games will also just do the verification for them.

Got to sell those skins. If you don’t how can you possibly survive?

Building it out as a platform sounds like 10 year+ live service plans. Not a bad idea for games like this.

Just goes to show the absolute state of PlayStation first party gaming right now.

@KundaliniRising333 the first game was superior in every way. Combat in the second game was definitely a step backwards imo. The dungeons in the first game were amazing, second game instantly forgettable

“Wow this game sells very well. Let’s turn it into a live service game with micro transactions.” Hermen Hulst