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KCD 2 - apparently last I played I signed on for hard, grueling work in the sun on a vineyard due to wanting to carry out industrial espionage. Not because there is a good reason - just because a random bum asked me to. I've got to raise my standards 😂

BG3 I actually finished it last weekend and promptly started a Dark Urge run because now I am going to be evil for the first time.... Still CAN'T do it. Going to do a good evil run on honour mode. Make that make sense.

Hello is Us

Going to try this one out. Thanks PS Plus! I hope it is as good as that Banishers game that also were on Plus. That and the Thaumaturge game.

I also tried*Vampire Survivors* and you are all wrong about this game. It is boring, looks archaic (old) and didn't feel good to play. I tried it for five minutes so I know what I'm talking about

40 frames should do the job just fine. Not concerned.

Leakers are so f****** annoying.

I hope they make them regret it.

@Leinad7

They certainly don't want your business anymore. Hats off to you for doing the exact thing they are trying to prevent.

Mostly, yes. In these still shots. But Wolverine is a beast on a war path - that kind of super masculinity will make even a silly mask look terrifying.

That's so funny. I had heard from Nintendudes on here that Switch 2 would dominate😂

Sad to hear. The market wants Dragon Age and Mass Effect at their best or not all.

I think his many press conferences where he expressed faith in projects dead long before arrival should reflect on his perceived level of competence.

Also, PlayStation has under his direction made way too many blunders that has had real life consequences in layoffs and price rises.

The most hated developments under his watch are in my humble opinion:

*Allowing Naughty Dog, the crown jewel, to pursue polarizing direction in TLOU2 effectively fracturing their fan base and leaving them naught but defunct under floundering direction by Drugman. They're in dire straits all thanks to mismanagement. They might just redeem themselves with Intergalactic.

*Dismantling studios like Japan Studios just to greenlight the formation of a hack studio (Haven) that'll never release anything. His praise of the studio when announcing it really shows the defiency of sound judgement. This is entirely sunk cost.

*Buying Bungie that had a waning star in Destiny 2 and apparently greenlighting a niche live service and dismantling Bungie after spending billions on retention of staff in the initial phase. Clumsy and expensive. And entirely avoidable. At the very least, work on Destiny 3 should have started on acquisition. I still think Marathon carries potential to be bigger, but they need to dial in the right configuration. At this point, only scraps are salvageable in my opinion.

*Allowing Bend to drift astray and failing to step in and facilitate the greenlighting of Days Gone 2 which would become a commercial success as the original game continues to delight players finding this game even today.

*Not being able to find sustainable work for Bluepoint.

*Failing to assess the market reach of Concord before investing big and hyping huge. The future of PlayStation is perhaps his most laughable quote.

If I didn't already have a beast (PS5 Pro) it would be hard to resist.

@skyshot

Pushsquare makes money from your pathetic interest in the game.

Most people do not engage with the negativity, and most people are going to enjoy what seems to be an expertly crafted adventure. Keep on losing with your sad memes. Only other losers will care.

Like I have said before - there's a before and after the launch of GTA VI. The amount of FOMO the PC players that produces cope memes will experience is going to be off the charts.

@get2sammyb

You're not reporting those who praise or look forward to the game. Maybe if we offered a spotlight on people who like what they see, you might experience everything differently.

Sure out of 2000 that post (if people even post positivity these days) some will poke fun at something. But, some of these people won't ever get to play it because they didn't go PlayStation. So maybe it could be a way to lessen the blow.

Ahh, the childhood memories of going to a kiosk to see if the newest X-MEN magazine was delivered fresh off the printer.

Running home and flying into the bed, lying flat on the belly and enjoying the cover before delving into the continuation of a entertaining story.

This game seems to be made for my nostalgia.

@Llamageddon

That sounds exactly right! Apologies...

I hope the ones who made the decision to betray a good chunk of Playstation's core users are also the ones who constantly will have to deal with the (neverending) ramifications of their betrayal.

Also, a state of play on an AI-generated game sounds like an unmissable event. They were the ones who put a fake song in a trailer, right? They about to get a lot of comments on the matter of physical media as well now.

I... finished Baldur's Gate 3 making a flurry of choices and getting a satisfying ending.

The final battles were quite easy, but this wasn't an honour mode run, so it is not because I'm particularly skilled or didn't savescum. I was playing with Tactical Mode difficulty, and now I have honour mode and Dark Urge to start at some point.

For now, I think I will return to Henry and finish what I started. There's much to be done and too little time to do it in.

@Mattock1987

I came for the sad, loser comments.

You were the first to arrive on the scene.

Welcome, sad loser, there's Wolverine in the front and GTA VI in the back. But you obviously can't play any of these.

These people are trash. Why are they even newsworthy?

Breaking News: "Twitter full of chronically online trash!"

I will definitely look at High on Life and System Shock isn't that a genuine classic? I don't know if it is remastered, but if I am to be interested it needs to be a newer update.

The GTA/Netflix effect. They paid what running studios costs for getting GTA six hours early

@Stevemalkpus

That is correct. Speaking as a fan that wants the devs to be awarded the maximum yield, I still believe that they could have waited and made the sales success of KCD 2 even bigger.

This decision to give away KCD2 to the masses seems a year too early if you ask me. People ought to rush out and subscribe to PS Plus or rush home to press the download button come 18th of August. It is that good and the value proposition is crazy.

I'm upset that they put KCD 2 on PS Plus so soon. This game should have a year or more off the sub to generate better sales.

This month is crazy though, and all I can say is most people find their investment recouped on such a month alone. For me, Hell Divers 2 and Hell is Us are two titles I keep being interested in.

The top comment phrases it perfectly. Let's give it a fair shake😊

Would I enjoy this, if modern RPGs have made me have high expectations?

People are weird in the comments.

Control was a great and highly lauded game. It became a benchmark for PC performance during its heyday and reviewed really well. I thought the gameplay was awesome and the story was very intriguing.

I've enjoyed all their titles, but I've been half of a supporter as all of their games have come to me through PS Plus. Every single game I played and so that's the problem with subscription-based libraries, the game devs are thrown out by the evil.corporate overlords who suck up all the PS payments and lay off those that provided it.

@rjejr

Yeah, before I 'splurged' on a portal my work PC laptop was handling my hotel and remote sessions. But it is convenient with the portal. It takes up about double the space of a controller.

@Dodoo

True - I keep forgetting that Valve has both Steam Machine and Steam Deck (which is regrettably obvious), so they're already offering what we think Sony will be offering with the PS6 generation. I think my PS5 Pro is powerful enough for me to only want a handheld. But price is a real barrier, I am stingy as a consumer.

If reviews are out on launch day and they reflect that this is a stellar game, I'll buy.

Great!

Deservedly, this title has long legs. I enjoyed playing through it, and thought that the so-called pandering was alright but much too overt. Also, the story was a little too kid-friendly for my taste.

But as an overall package I enjoyed it a lot, especially visually on the Pro. The graphics were definitely the best part of the game. There's not a single PC system and screen that does it as well as a Pro + good TV in my opinion.

I recently discovered my phone plan has unlimited data (probably throttled after a certain amount of usage) so I could in theory play anywhere with my portal, but the first time I tried it seemed as if the hotspot didn't offer enough to fuel the Portal. To have a native PS portal would convince me to upgrade, but I don't think I'll ever splurge on a PC handheld even though it offers more functionality outside of the PS eco system. I guess I'll find out when all is revealed by Sony.

I'm nearing the end of a full playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 which truly is one of the best games ever made. After that I really want to play a Dark Urge-version of the game but I don't know if I should let it rest for a bit after basically ONLY playing BG3 for a month now...

@Trojan

We're just casually destroying the competition over here.

Nice that PS5 Pro is enhanced even further. I honestly wouldn't go back to basic PS5, the experience (ACROSS the board) is just so much better....

So hilarious decision😂

I wonder what will come of this?

Let's see where my mind goes with this one:

• The world of Destiny 1 (Destiny)*
• Elysium (Disco Elysium)
• Faerun (Baldur's Gate 3)
• The Continent (Witcher 3)
• The Milky Way Galaxy (Mass Effect Trilogy)
• The United States 1899 (Red Dead Redemption 2)
• Night City (Cyberpunk 2077)
• Bohemia (Kingdom Come Deliverance)
• The Commonwealth year 2287 (Fallout4)
• Gaia (FF7)
• Los Santos, Liberty City, etc (GTA franchise universe)
• Ferelden (Dragon Age)
• Erathia (Heroes of Might and Magic 3)
• The Realms, heaven for gods (GOW)
• Our future, robot-invested world (Horizon)

*NOT Destiny 2 which was worse for me in every aspect compared to Destiny. Everything after Destiny 1 feels bloated, unnecessary and bland. Destiny 1 devs were cooking!

Nvidia and AMD are raising their prices for graphics card with about 20+ per cent.

PS Plus Portal has made travelling such a breeze and a joy. I just played a little BG3 in the airport on the Portal.

Newer games are struggling to compete with the constant flow of games featured on subscription for me.

Regarding the doom and gloom, you have to realize it comes from pathetic whiners who project /something/ but are very wrong and funny to read at the same time.

They've had some time to fester but Sony is ramping up for two crazy years based on GTA VI alone if you ask me. So, I can't really be surprised by this positive prognosis and it going to be very funny engaging with the doom and groomers on here.

@Boxmonkey

That's extremely generous of you!

So, roughly translated: the next two years will be very good by any standard because I think GTA VI, if it's any good, is going to sell very well for two years. The first because of single players getting drawn to the system and the second year will be crazy if the online component is any good.

Quite amazing that there are only 125 million of us out there who game on Playstation.

Everyone else is playing on inferior hardware or paid 2000+ dollars for their more powerful rig.

I would like to add something about digital ownership. It is important to me that

• I actually own my digital library. That Sony cannot take away games I bought and paid for. This is kind of possible, until it suddenly isn't.
• That I can let my kids enjoy my library. I have a PS4 slim for this. I hope whatever games I earned through PS plus or purchase can be enjoyed by them. This is currently possible.
• Deeper discounts. Right now, I kind of never leave the store with anything in the basket due to sticker shock. Also, PS plus Premium offers a wealth of content that overpowers even the 50+ per cent discounts.
• Trading or selling games would be very nice.
• One day I would like to pass on my digital library to a child of mine.

@MrStark

I remember being so excited for PSVR 2 if only because PSVR was underwhelming graphically for me.

The problem is that the rate of adoption is too low for abundant third party support and Sony has failed its customers gravely by developing 1 game in-house and only funding/paying for a few others and has otherwise remained dormant except for a subscription-based push for content offering a slate of VR titles for a year only.

Another problem is that many users that adopted are too lazy to use it a lot. Myself included.

But there quite a few enthusiasts (nobodies? 🫠) who pulled the trigger on it.

At the end of the day, I can enjoy a slate of 20+ great VR titles and eventually just SELL it off and recoup my investment as long as I don't break it.

@ButteredCrumpet

It is okay to use, but many glasses can be too bulky or the narrow space can feel too cramped for certain enthusiasts so they either wear contacts or actually procure specially designed contact lenses that pop into the headset to forego glasses entirely.

I understand that is a very good solution. The few recommendations I've read on Reddit say it isn't too expensive.

For me, I just push my glasses all the way in and are careful avoiding the headset's lenses touch my glasses.

Y'all are sleeping on the fact that big dawg Mark Sony is going to kick in the doors of non-believers with an over-the-top, ear-anatomical crazy-good advertisement of the PS6 with so much BL(A)ING that y'all are gonna sell your wives to get the PS6.

Also, to the "news" of M$ bankrollin' and subsidizing their customers I can only say 'Oh, no.... Anyways' to that.

Hansi, get der flammenwerfer!

Maybe I am old, but I hate influencers and the role they get to play in modern media landscape. It's entirely unearned.

It looked incredible when I played it very recently. I am probably okay with that.... hmm...

I hear good things about Citizen Sleeper 1+2, but I can't really get into the first one.

I am pretty sure that the gender arc character could be persuaded into manning up and just be a girl ( or vice versa ) - even dating said person in a hetero way. I don't understand the fuzz about the character, it was straight up bullying.

Then again, I don't understand anything.

@themightyant

You're right. How does it even happen as a bug? Do they add character models in t-pose and it just reverts back. Can't they vibe code in a line [never T-pose, like for real]