FatalBubbles

@Kidfunkadelic83 From what I’ve seen, it’s 10AM EST tomorrow.

The game and leveling is fantastic until you finish the story/hit level 50. Once you hit level 50 it starts to become an absolute slog to level up. I’m almost level 60 and already sick of running dungeons to level up.

@Nepp67 I thought it was the best Diablo story I’ve played (2,3 and 4). I found the main villain interesting and the supporting cast good as well. Overall I found it to keep my interest the whole way through with some slight dragging it out in Act 5.

I can definitely see the KH influence in the combat. Have never played Nier so not sure what kind of influence those devs would bring.

@Triumph741 So because they’re a big company you can’t question their extremely odd decisions? That’s interesting logic. I think regardless of how big/little a company is, they’re filling capable of making dumb decisions. Xbox one launch is a prime example.

Game looked fun to me. Combat was quick, platforming looks fun. Appears to have some big boss moments like old GoW games. I imagine most of the hate is because people want a 3D game and it’s been started over.

Those first ten are quite bad. I do like the two for pre-ordering though.

Pretty decent show overall. I’d rate it a bit higher than whatever Sony tried to do. Last years show was better.

Graphics were not great but the gameplay looks fun.

@NEStalgia I think we are most of the way to a major hit here.

@Green-Bandit It is so addicting. I’ve got a level 33 druid using a companion build right now, lots of fun. How about you?

@NEStalgia I hadn’t seen that, here is what I saw.

Zidane - Chris Pratt
Vivi - Bradley Cooper
Garnett - Zoe Saldana
Steiner - Dave Bautista
Amarant - Vin Diesel
Freya - TBD
Quina - TBD
Eiko - Karen Gillan

@Zuljaras It seems the consensus is that it’s the best but you’re correct, everyone can differ on opinion.

@Zuljaras This is by far the best story in a Diablo game, what are you on???

@J2theEzzo Diablo 4 is life….I might not even buy FF16 day one now.

@NEStalgia Rumor has it that it will be full walking simulator RPG with FPS RPG sections.

Game is incredible. Kudos to those who can stand playing a game for 24 hours straight.

@Breekhead Hope you got to play some. You do gee trophies, the tracker percent just doesn’t work apparently.

Only annoying thing about that workaround is that you have to start at the beginning with the new character. Oh well. Only one day left to wait.

@Darth_Stofi To be fair, you played 1/3 of a game. So you haven’t seen the story play out.

@Breekhead This method does allow you to play. Every time you want to play you’ll have to go through the same process though.

Additionally, and maybe it’s irrelevant to you, I don’t think you’ll earn trophies for yourself playing in this manner. The trophy tracker still shows 0% for me on everything after having played a bit.

@Breekhead I might try it here at lunch, incredibly annoying they Blizzard did this. First the Sony license issues and now this. What a bad launch.

@Breekhead Windows central posted about it. No one I know who game shares has been able to play unless they bought it. My friend I share with can play just fine.

I don’t know about the standard release time, I sure it works for me then….

As of right now, I still get the same can’t find license error. This is super fun.

Edit: For anyone who game shares, you will not be able to play early access.

@Ravix CDKeys has them in the states but it’s like $24.09 for $25 which isn’t even worth it.

@Ravix Where do you get discounted wallet funds? I can’t ever find that in the states.

So if buying something through the store fixed the license, this is on Sony?

Seems to maybe be a PS issue. People are playing on PC and Xbox.

@KundaliniRising333 I concur that disagreement is fine, and in this case I disagree about Spider-Man. He’s one of my favorite comic book heroes so the source material does indeed play a role for some.

I’ll be firing up Diablo 4 tonight, FF16 probably early July. After that, I suppose I will give Starfield a go as well. I did enjoy the open world AC games but Valhalla was so bloated I wore out on them so perhaps Mirage will be a good change of pace for me.

@KundaliniRising333 I’ll bite. What do you consider a “more interesting game”?

@KaijuKaiser I thought the first game was about perfect size so I’m not sure I’m excited about doubling that size?

Man I hope this goes somewhere. It was super annoying when they yanked their digital games from everywhere except themselves.

I’ve seen people commenting that you can just buy discounted wallet cards but I don’t really seem them discounted much ever in the USA. If they are, can someone give examples?

@Strafio Thanks. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Must be doing something wrong, when I try to buy an other year it still shows $99.99 with no discount. Does this only apply if you’re aren’t currently subbed?

@Kevw2006 I don’t think I’ve ever seen a poll with an odd number of options use the middle option as good???

That’s a really odd take on this.

@NEStalgia The day has come when we 100% agree, crocs must die.

@pharos_haven I don’t see me supporting that? Social media is the cesspool of humanity and should be gone.

@KaijuKaiser I feel like maybe you’re misunderstanding why people are upset? People wanted to see what PS Studios games were coming as Sony has been silent as a mouse for going on two years.

Sony did not do anything to let people know what first party games are coming/in the works. They showed Spider-Man 2 which we knew about and a couple live service MP games but the big studios including ND which shockingly doesn’t have anything to show on Factions was absent.

I have not seen anyone complaining they have nothing to play which you pointed out.

@themightyant I got crap for being concerned about live service taking over. We got what you mentioned and ZERO single player announcements. Concerning to say the least.

@Czar_Khastik I view them as the same but OK.

@Czar_Khastik Trolling more than Branch and Poppy.

When you go two years with no show and then give us two live service MP games and nothing else first party, it just sucks. Sure they showed a varied display of their party games but that’s not why people watch a PlayStation showcase. Beyond disappointing.

I can’t find the article but I believe PS had one awhile back saying that it was like 70/30 or higher people buying digital?

That was shockingly bad. They showed basically no first party games beyond Spider-Man. This had to be seen as a disaster.

@Kidfried I did, then they wasted time and money making a live service portion and not a sequel.

From what I have seen, live service games try to extend their lifetime by drip feeding (selling) stuff. Which in turn, would lead to longer times between actual games.

I hope I’m horribly wrong and we still get 2-3 good single player games a year, but I really don’t like what I’m hearing from them.

@jimbouk Sort of correct, games cost more to make now than they did during FY19 so I doubt it’s really an increase.

@Kidfried That’s just kind of confirming it for me then as I don’t really play the games you’re speaking of. I didn’t touch the MP portion of Ghost, only the single player stuff.

@AdamNovice I see what you’re getting at but I have very little interest in MP games. If they are leaning t hat direction, that means less of the games that I have PS for.

@AdamNovice I will gladly be wrong if these live service games are single player experiences but I think they’re chasing the market and money which will lead towards multiplayer.

@LiamCroft What was live service about it? I can’t recall.

@AdamNovice I am, can you give an example of a current single player game that fits the live service model? I don’t think I’ve played any but perhaps I’m wrong.