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Something that gets overlooked is that Joel and Ellie travel a long distance across America and there's basically no humanity left, just marauders, rapists and cannibals. (At least in the game, the TV series showed some more sympathetic survivors.) Based on Joel's experience you can understand why he might not consider humanity to be worth saving, especially not at the cost of his surrogate daughter.

Are they still doing that thing where they nerf the XP rewards from quests so you either have to grind pointless side quests or buy the XP booster from the store like they did with AC Oddyse?
Because they can do one if that's the case.

Absolutely nobody is suggesting Bioware for some reason 🤔

Are they still pretending that PSSR isn't pronounced to rhyme with 'hisser?' 🤔

I could see this being useful if you just happened to be in the UK for a couple of months and wanted a PS5 for the period you were here, or if you just wanted to play one particular PS game and didn't want to purchase a PS5 just for that.
But these are pretty niche cases and in every other situation it seems less good value than just buying one on a credit card or instalment plan.
I'm not sure why they're bothering with this, honestly.

I bet Bioware can't believe their luck. However much money Sony offered them they must have bitten their hand off! 😂

I got a copy if this free with my new PC otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. I'll probably give it a few months after release so they can finish it before I give it a go.

I'm currently playing Days Gone for the first time on PS5 and it runs and plays really well, so I'm not convinced a 'remaster' that's just the same code with the graphics settings turned up is strictly necessary but I would have gone for it for £10. But I won't pay £50 so they can forget it.

I had a Playstation Mouse back in the day. I remember it worked really well with Quake 2. You held a controller in one hand and used the d-pad for movement and used the mouse to look/shoot.
It was also really good with stuff like Lemmings and Command and Conquer: Red Alert.
There are plenty of games that don't work all that well with a controller. More control options are always a good thing.

Anything tainted by Age of Smegma can do one, quite frankly.

They haven't done anything with it because it didn't sell that well (in Sony's terms.)
Sure it sold 7 1/2 million copies, which sounds good, but it took 7 years to do it so a lot of sales will have been at discounted prices.
The real question is why they've never bothered to release a patch to run at 60 fps on PS5. Modders have already done it, apparently all it takes is changing the values in a couple of tables and it runs just fine. You can see for yourself on YouTube.

@dark_knightmare2
No. HZD sold 24.3 million on playstation 4 and over 2 million on PC.
HFW sold just over 8 million. I don't know where you got 12 million from.
Lego Horizon sales aren't looking good and PSVR2 is a niche product so sales were always going to be low.
The direction of travel is clear to see.
I already mentioned that I loved the first game. I put 92 hours into it, including the DLC and I recently bought the PS5 upgrade as I want to play it again, so please keep the 'haters' comments to yourself. I simply have no interest in the sequels and, judging by sales, I am in the majority in that regard.

Meh, the vast majority of those 32 million sales were from the first game (which I loved).
The 2nd game sold a fraction of that and the PSVR2 and Lego games have sold barely anything.
Sony are flogging a dead horse with this one, I'm afraid.

So, do we think Suicide Squad will be announced as going free to play next month, or the month after?

It says 'gaming-related videos' which would include news, reviews and other discussions of video games topics on YouTube etc. So not just watching other people play games at all. And given that many people put videos on in the background while they're doing other things then this is completely unsurprising.

The Castlevania Requiem collection with Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood is currently on sale for £3.19. You owe it to yourself to give it a go at that price if you've never played it.

Dragon Effect: Andromeda

We all know it.

Hmm. The sequel to a much loved game from decades ago, made by a different studio? Ordinarily I would be pessimistic about it's chances not to be terrible.
But then Baldurs Gate 3 happened, so who knows?

Prospective employer:: There seems to be an 8 year gap in your work history?
Ex-Firewalk dev: Yes, I was....in prison.
Prospective employer: Thank God for that, I thought you might have worked on Concord. You're hired!

Hmm.. Another full price game where all the DLC are in-game currency packs for the, presumably massive amount of microtransactions. I'll give it a miss, thanks.

@nomither6 Yeah, physical media isn't actually that great for game preservation. It was different for PS1 or PS2 games but imagine 20 years from now getting your PS4 out of the loft and putting the disk with the launch version of Cyberpunk 2077 on it in to play without any of the post release patches 😬

I'm glad they're fixing it, I'm looking forward to playing this in about a year's time when it's finished and cheap.
The first time you play a single player game is the first time you play it, I don't see any reason to pay more money to play an inferior version right now.

Someone needs to tell the guys on ebay trying to flog their 'guaranteed ps5 pro pre-orders' for ludicrous money, lol 🤭

Since when has 60fps been, " blistering frame rates", lol.
It wasn't the case ten years ago and certainly not now.

Helldivers 2 is dead.

Long live Space Marine 2

o7

If I was a Fairgame$ developer I would be paying close attention to the whole Concord situation. And making changes while I still had the chance.

People keep saying they feel sorry for the developers but let's be honest. They have managed to get nearly a decade of full-time employment out of this project. That's a pretty good reward given the poor quality of the game they eventually produced. Firewalk deserve to get shut down, frankly.

This game is like the polar opposite of No Man's Sky, where the developers release a game which is almost universally loved at first and then release update after update which gradually erodes player goodwill over time.

I've been playing original Space Marine multiplayer on PC to get warmed up for this. I'm really looking forward to playing the sequel now.
(Yes, there are people still playing Space Marine and yes, they are all insanely good at it 😂)

This is sounding more and more like Mass Effect Andromeda with elves.

@Paranoimia
They really need to stop charging us for the privilege of using our own internet connections for multiplayer and make it free again like it was on the PS3.

I will be waiting until the game is finished until I play it, i.e. in a year's time when the Game of the Year edition with all the DLC comes out for a fraction of the launch price. Can't wait!!

'Beta'
This is a demo, isn't it? There's not enough time to change anything prior to release. This is the finished game.

Didn't they already remaster Onimusha, or did I dream it?

Effectivety? Do you mean effectiveness?

I've just started Dragons Dogma 1 on PC (runs very well at 4k/60fps) and OMG what an amazing game.
I'm looking forward to playing Dragons Dogma 2 in about 5 years when it runs properly.

Decent game, doesn't run very well on PS5. Sounds like one to get on PC then.

PSVR2 being confirmed was one of the main reasons I got a PS5 in the first place, after loving the PSVR1 so much. Yet, one year after its release I still haven't bought one because I haven't seen enough good games to justify it.
Hopefully some more get announced for this year, otherwise I might look into the Quest 3 instead.

And with split-screen!! OMG that brings back memories 😁

I've played this on PC and it's one if the best X-Com type games around.
It'll depend on how the controls are implemented for the PlayStation version, though. I've never understood why they couldn't add mouse/keyboard compatibility for these sorts of games, the USB ports are there.

Good, now they can concentrate their efforts on Total War Warhammer 3 instead of this rubbish which had 'flop' written all over it.

Yay, now we can have review bombing on the PS store too.

It'll be the same as it was with the GTA V PS5 patch: they'll release it as a 'new' version for £40 when it's the same code with the settings turned up.

And I'll still buy it sigh

GTA V doesn't deserve an honourable mention as it should have been a free patch.
Yes, I still bought it sighs

Oh dear. What a pity. Never mind.

Faithfull to the source material? What, like Rings of Power or Wheel of Time?
Kratos won't even be the main character, calling it now.

I'm really looking forward to this. Mind you, I'll be waiting for reviews to see what state it releases in 😂

They're still updating this for Stadia users? Well, it's good to see CD Projekt Red hasn't forgotten them both 😂

I don't even remember what was game of the year last year, so I don't really care either way.
I do think that having two games of this quality released in the same year and struggling to choose between them is a good 'problem' to have though 😊

As long as he gets someone else to write the script, because Death Stranding was garbage.