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A bad idea that should have been left on the cutting room floor. There's no resurrecting this lame duck.

@lolwhatno Of course they made money, because no-one knew what was coming. Did they make as much money as they could've? Heck no. The game was pulled from multiple stores, there's the lawsuits, the pee'd off share holders, the amount of extra staff to pay to fix the mess. The delays to whatever project was coming next, the inevitable wariness of sales in the future, the extra money that'll now be needed to mend bridges with their annoyed userbase. I could go on but what's the point.
If they'd waited and released a fixed game they'd have had a few annoyed people but a far far bigger amount of revenue sat in their respective bank accounts. And all without a guilty conscience.

@Mauzuri You say "they can't afford to delay the game" yet delayed games still sell well. It's the ones that release early and full of bugs that end up losing big time financially.

I'm fine with delays if it leads to a great game. Far rather wait than have buggy rubbish, which seems to be the norm these days.

I'm with @Kopite. Why would you try and convince someone, who doesn't particularly want one, when there are plenty of us PlayStation fans unable to get one. It's like holding a steak night to raise money for the starving.

@Alduin Same here. TLOU2 was spoiled for me in a comment section of an article that had nothing remotely to do with TLOU. 😖

None of the above. A month to try and catch up on the mountain of games I still haven't got around to.

Did Factions get cancelled?

Interesting. Looking forward to exploring this Radiohead exhibition once I finally get a PS5.

@lolwhatno Pleasure. Always good to learn something new.

@lolwhatno It's "God willing". Not "go willing".
Meaning "if God looks upon it favourably."

Dirt sounds fun. Not into Japanese cartoon games but don't mind me a bit of FPS. So not a bad start to the new year. Be interesting to see details on this new tier system soon.

@velio84 lol More than likely. I was just wishing for a nice Christmas surprise.

Aaaargggh still no word on Factions...

Marathon on the Mac gave me my first ever jump scare in a game. Enjoyed it but it was also my first and last Bungie game.

I've just voted for the 5 titles I want to buy along with the PS5 when I can finally get hold of one.

Excellent. Have loved every single Bioshock game so certainly looking forward to another.

Very impressive. Festive and fun.

I really like Sting but, unlike a lot of gamers it seems, I have no interest in Artists, bands or actors being involved with games. In fact, all the stuff with Keanu, and others, being involved in Cyberpunk, put me off buying it long before it became the shower of excrement pulled from the store.
I guess I'm in the minority, either way, I like him but no, not excited.

I'm all for a free Lego title. Seems like good Christmas gaming to me.

Also on offer on Amazon UK.

Can't stand boxing, so won't be buying it but wow, it looks amazing.

Just need a Cosmic Midnight Teal controller now.

@Turismo4GT I'm guessing you play with cables attached then? Otherwise how else do you play 20 hours a day?

@ShiningStar Thanks. I've got it. Just checking for a friend of mine who wanted to buy it for co-op. That was way back in August. Can't believe it's still not back on. 🙄

Does this mean the game's available in the UK store again? (Can't check as the PS app isn't working yet again) It must be over 6 months or so since its been available to buy.

@Floki And? They were merely stating the game can cause screen tearing. That doesn't get away from the fact it's a hardware issue. I'm not saying the game can't result in screen tearing, on a PC with all their various settings, just that it's a hardware issue, usually when the GPU can't cope. So you would really really hope that on the PS5 it's not screen tearing because that would then imply the PS5 can't handle the game. If that's the case it doesn't bare well. But there can be other hardware sources in the chain that can also result in screen tear. Either way screen tear is a hardware issue. So if some users on PS5 are getting it and some aren't that would imply either faulty PS5s or something else in the chain because if it was just the game at fault everyone would be suffering.

@The_Real_JMK It doesn't matter what a simple internet search would provide, the internet is full of people giving advice about things they have no clue about. If you know what you are talking about you'd know that screen tearing is a hardware only issue. So either you are mistaking screen tear for something else or you have a problem somewhere in your setup.

@The_Real_JMK Screen tearing is a hardware issue so would point to a problem in your system somewhere.
Edit: which is why people like @Jarobusa aren't seeing it.

@Jobless1 I had Stollen for Christmas as well. Very festive. Glad to see you weren't leaving your account out of the festivities, even if you did take it back. Can see why it got a bit annoyed. No one wants their stollen stolen.

@TheDudeElDuderino Cheers, Perhaps I'll hold out and see if they do a R&C bundle... what a first experience of the PS5 that'd be... if my patience and will power's strong enough. lol

"Solving puzzles by just randomly trying to combine everything in your inventory and throwing them against every hotspot in the game"... Ah, fond memories of Discworld came flooding back upon reading that.

Given up. Was getting it to play Cyberpunk and with that fiasco I'll just wait now till it's readily available. I'm not going to stress about it as everyone I play online with has decided to do the same.

I guess, here in Europe, we don't count much to game sales. 🙄

As reviews go, looking at the comment section here, Maneater ain't doing so well. Will still try it when I get my PS5. Glad I'm not playing it on the PS4 though, by the sounds of it. Those R2 buttons don't stand up to much at the best of times.

Not good news at all. Guess I'll be opening loot boxes to find out my grid position in the future.

@Hyperluminal I can't help it. I have Toilette's syndrome.

@Hyperluminal Thanks for the offer. You can eat the stuff I have no interest in... like *****.

@Hyperluminal They were of no interest to me so didn't even look. But cheers for the snarky reply.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Thanks.

Any idea if we're going to be able to add Maneater to our library, for when we eventually get PS5s, if we currently only have the PS4?

Happy New Year to one and all. May we all have a far better year full of gaming and vaccines that work wonders.

"nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people"

@MuppetThumper I have no idea really what my total hours gaming are... But since they added times played on things recently I found out I'd put 1,760 hours into The Division 1. And I can't say that's my most played game. I'm not sure I want to know more stats like that. lol At the end of the day though it doesn't really matter how skilled you are as long as you enjoy it. But I do find it annoying when people say children are naturally good at games. My mate's children are good at fortnight but that's about it. I've never tried it. But they are in in awe of the trophies I've got off games they've tried and can't get the trophies. Age doesn't dictate skill but enjoyment beats everything.

@MuppetThumper Age has nothing to do with skill. I turned 50 this year. I've had this PS account for 3 and a half years (had another prior but the trophies don't pass over) and in that time I've got 107 platinums so far. Currently playing TLOU2 grounded on perma-death, to get those two extra trophies, just because I was annoyed they made the platinum on this TLOU so easy. lol

@2cents Switch to WiFi or, if you can't do that, give your PS a static IP. The static IP won't stop it happening but reduced the frequency it happened for me. I gave up in the end and switched to WiFi. It's a PlayStation issue, not an issue with the game. There are suggestions it's caused by overheating. Not sure whether that's true but, for me, it certainly happened in some games a hell of a lot more than others.

Absolute nightmare. This is the worst I've ever known it. Worse still I've just given one of my PS4s to a friend to try and sway him from the dark side. As you can imagine he's well impressed. 🙄

I see they've used last gen reflections... That aside, I still like the look of the PS5. Just not looking forward to the white controllers.

I'll certainly be getting this. I like unorthodox things. So this ticks all the right boxes.

@Anti-Matter Let's hope those load times of Sims running on PS5 are reduced dramatically.