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Re: Our Survey Says! Sorry, Gaming Isn't Good for You After All

Dudditz09

I suppose it's just one of those things, gaming can be beneficial providing it doesn't take over your life.

I balance it with music, books, meditation, dog walks, horse riding, I game alone, I game with my kid, I go online with the old man.

If it was my main or only hobby then I could see how it could very quickly become problematic.

That said I also see how it could help people in a bad place to get a break from whatever is causing them pain or hurt in their lives, as @naruball mentioned above. Glad things have taken a better turn for you, never nice to hear of someone struggling.

As with everything, there are pros and cons.

Re: Rumour: PS Plus Essential PS5, PS4 Games for August 2022 Have Leaked

Dudditz09

Like A Dragon - was on my list until I suffered Yakuza burnout from playing 0 then all the remakes, ended up stopping after 4 so this is a good reason to get back into what was one of my favourite series.

Little Nightmares - almost pulled the trigger a few times but ended up with other games instead (off the top of my head it has lost out to F.I.S.T, Lost in Random and Kena the last few times I have been looking for a wee indie to play) so that's paid off.

Tony Hawk's - Loved these as a kid, I was never a skateboarding type, preferred my blades but man those games were top notch. Actually buzzing about this.

Re: Hands On: Rollerdrome Feels Utterly Phenomenal to Play

Dudditz09

I'm not sure I trust anything Liam has to say about anything after yesterday's nonsense... Partly joking...

This does look good and with it being a si gle player experience, it has me interested. Probably not day 1 interested but interested enough that I'll probably pick it up at some point.

Re: Soapbox: I'm Sorry, But Your Cute Cat Game Isn't That Great

Dudditz09

"Would it be as good a game if you were human?"

Aye, well just remove a core element of the game and replace it with a human. No, it would be an entirely different game based on how a human can move an traverse the landscape.

Absolute slavers. Not because I'm a fanboy of the game, because we can do the same with every game and slap it down.

The Witcher 3 would be rubbish if you were a mere human. Sonic, rubbish if you were a human who could only run at human speed, FIFA (this one is stretch) utter trash if you only possessed the skill of a Sunday league human... Yeah...

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 436

Dudditz09

Finishing up Stray as I haven't had the time over the past few days.

Also got a hankering for some Cities Skylines, been a few years since I have played that so downloaded it and bought a couple of DLCs and will probably end up sucked into building a monstrosity of a city before putting it to the side for a few more years.

Have a good one all!

Re: Soapbox: No Free PS5 Upgrade for Persona 5 Royal Is an Insult to Fans and the Game Itself

Dudditz09

Like TLOU, I have bough this twice (Original and Royal)

And like TLOU, as much as I love it, it will be treated like the cash grab it is and I won't be purchasing it again.

Edit to add, I've not voted as I don't necessarily think there should be a free upgrade, I'm willing to pay, like I did for Death Stranding for example, but there's a limit to how much.

Full price is just a flat out no go, especially as this would be the 3rd time.

Re: Stray Is a Meowsive Hit Judging By Day One Concurrent Numbers

Dudditz09

Played it for a couple of hours on launch then been busy since. Unfortunately my cats don't seem all that interested in it but my controller meowing winds the dog up for some reason 😂

I have nothing much to do today so will get some more time with it but love what I have played so far.

Really pleased to see such great numbers on Steam and hopefully the PS4/5 numbers stack up as well, must be very rewarding for a dev to do something a little different and see it pay off.

Re: Poll: Is The Last of Us: Part 1 Really a 'Cash Grab'?

Dudditz09

@NEStalgia "If you don't want to call it a cash grab, call it a very cynical exploitative, manipulative lowest common denominator abuse of a market made up of many with poor impulse control in one of the most egregious examples of media industry gouging in recent memory."

This is a great way to put it.

Re: Rumour: Red Dead Redemption 2 PS5 Version Also Ditched for GTA 6

Dudditz09

@TheArt complaining about wanting a 60fps patch is entirely different to complaining a studio has made nothing new because they are remaking a game that has already had a remaster.

I would also imagine Rockstar has a lot more employees than ND, my local Rockstar studio has around 40 employees I believe, probably more than enough to work on a patch whilst the larger studios work on GTA 6

I'll leave it at that or we will descend into treading old ground from the story about TLOU

Re: Rumour: Red Dead Redemption 2 PS5 Version Also Ditched for GTA 6

Dudditz09

I'm gonna hazard a guess that if they are ditching everything to focus on GTA 6 the single player will be secondary to the online.

A bare bones single player experience that will probably try to shoehorn you into their online money maker at every given opportunity, all so as you get the biggest, best GTA experience ever.

That's if there even is a single player side to the game, although I expect they will be purely so as they don't miss out on those who they might sucker in.