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Re: Xbox's Obsidian Seemingly Kills The Outer Worlds, Third Game Not Planned

Fiendish-Beaver

I wonder if failing to hit the targets set by Microsoft is not hitting that 30% profit margin, which is unobtainable by all but games like GTA?

Personally, I very much enjoyed The Outer Worlds 2, and I have yet to play Avowed, though it is on my list to get to at some point.

What concerns me is the mention of budgets, timescales, and Microsoft targets. All of that suggests to me lower quality games, and games that take fewer risks. It seems to me that they are looking at it incorrectly; they need to invest more money into the games, make something compelling that people actually want, and take the time to get it right. What they are actually aiming for, to me, sounds like cookie-cutter games that will be rushed out the door, score 6s and 7s at best, and be ignored by the majority, leading to cutbacks and studio closures...

Re: Promising Chinese God of War Game Will Be 'Optimised for PS5 in Collaboration with Sony'

Fiendish-Beaver

This looks stunning, and right up my street.

My Pro arrived today, and it looks like it is a good time for me to switch to having PlayStation as my main. I'm leaving the uncertainty of Xbox behind for the certainty of PlayStation.

I've never bought the mid-generation refresh console of the PlayStation before, but with the way things are going, with all that is happening on the Xbox, all their once exclusives arriving on PlayStation, and the rumoured delays for the next consoles for both PlayStation and Xbox (if theirs ever actually happens), it seemed the only sensible option for me.

Cannot wait to play this game on my shiny new console... 😊

Re: Larian CEO Swen Vincke Sticks His Foot in It Again, Thinks Game Reviewers Should Also Be Reviewed

Fiendish-Beaver

The idea of reviewers being reviewed is silly, because then you get to the point where you would need to review the reviewers that are reviewing the reviewers! πŸ˜‚

However, where he does have a point is where you see time and time again the same reviewer, or the same site pushing an agenda, be that PlayStation games are awesome, or Xbox games are terrible, and marking them up or down accordingly. Of course it happens both ways, so that is not a partisan comment.

Equally, some sites seem to fall over themselves in picking up on the most minute problems that will undoubtedly be fixed in short-order, or indeed, completely ignoring glaring issues. The point being that there are a huge amount of inconsistencies when it comes to reviews, though of course with a review being completely subjective, people should not fixate on review scores, but perhaps just use them as a guide to the overall quality of a game.

Personally, I tend to look at the score, but rarely take the time to read the actual review. On a site such as this, I will nearly always read the 'Conclusion' part though as it tends to give a good feel for the game in a very much condensed way...

Re: Resident Evil Requiem Sounds Like a Proper PS5 Pro Showpiece

Fiendish-Beaver

That's my hope, @1970sGamer, and the possibility of the PS6 being delayed played a large part in my decision to get the Pro now. After all, if the PS6 were to magically appear next year, then I will get at least a year out of my Pro, but if the PS6 is delayed to as late as 2029 or 2030, I'll get a decent few years of gaming out of it...

Re: Resident Evil Requiem Sounds Like a Proper PS5 Pro Showpiece

Fiendish-Beaver

I always pre-order the next generation of PlayStation, and never get the mid-generation refresh, though I did get the PS2 slim back in the day. The same is true of this generation, I got my PS5 day one, and still have it. Until I read this article, I had completely dismissed the idea of buying a PS5 Pro, but now I find myself wondering whether I should get one just so as to experience Requiem at its best.

Truthfully, my Series X is my main console, and I only use my PS5 for PlayStation exclusives meaning it has not worked particularly hard this generation, but now I find myself wondering whether I should get a Pro and play games where they will play at their best, and sadly, that sounds like those games will include games from franchises that were once exclusive to Xbox.

I'm in a proper quandary right now, as I really do not know what to do for the best, and whether the improvements the PS5 Pro offers are worth it in the grand scheme of things...

Re: New Forza Horizon 6 Leak Supports a May 2026 Xbox Launch, Box Art Tease

Fiendish-Beaver

I made a number of predictions about when certain Xbox games would release, and I was correct (or at least seemingly so) when I suggested FH6 would arrive on the Xbox in May of this year.

Rumours is that the only reason the game is not arriving day and date on the PlayStation is because work on the port began on it too late in development for it to arrive at the same time. Thus, the second part of my prediction is that FH6 will arrive on PlayStation at the end of this year, somewhere between September and November, though my money is on November because that way Microsoft can spin it to their Xbox gamers that it has a period of exclusivity of 6 months (when the truth is that they just need that extra time in order to get the port ready).

As for all the other games that Microsoft are releasing this year, I think all of them will be day and date on PlayStation, with the possible exception of Fable, on which the port may also have begun later in development...

Re: Larian Games Doing Better Than Ever Off the Back of Divinity Reveal

Fiendish-Beaver

I kick-started Divinity Original Sin 2, and played it in Early Access on Steam, before then also getting it on Xbox when it first released there. I then bought it again when the new version released, but this time on PlayStation. So in all, I bought the game 3 times.

I also bought Baldur's Gate 3 in Early Access, and remember well it taking an absolute age to download because everyone else was trying to do the same. I put well over a 1000 hours into BG3 before then doing the same again when it released on consoles.

I then bought the Collector's Edition of Baldur's Gate 3 on both the Xbox and on the PS5, but because I did not want to open them, I bought the game again when it released on the Xbox, thus in all, I bought the game 4 times...!

Re: Code Veronica the Next Resident Evil Remake, Say New Reports

Fiendish-Beaver

Excellent! Thank you, @LiamCroft. I'm particularly keen to see how the Grace part of the game is done because I'm not sure I want to be running and hiding all the time. I'd far rather be blasting them in the face! I'm just worried that half the game is going to be somewhat dull (and maybe a little stressful!), and the other half much more entertaining. It is precisely because I am uncertain how the Grace part will be handled that I have put off pre-ordering the game, so the fact that your review will be out before the game releases is fantastic as far as I am concerned...

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 615

Fiendish-Beaver

I've been playing King Arthur: Knight's Tale on my Series X. I have had it in my library for well over a year, but not played it, and where I had been playing Warhammer: Chaos Gate in order to scratch my XCOM itch without actually playing XCOM, the bugs eventually wore me down, so I opted for Knight's Tale instead, and have to say I am really enjoying it.

I'm currently on my 11th mission, some of which take an hour or more, and it amazes me the level of replayability the game has, which is down to those Knight's that you can recruit, which is dependant on the decisions you make. No bugs, which is nice, and challenging combat that tests your strategic capabilities on the harder difficulties. Thus far, I would recommend it...

Re: Big Updates on Massive Xbox Games, Bound for PS5, Later This Month

Fiendish-Beaver

Usually these shows have the games presented by the Developers talking about their game, @rjejr. They do tend to feature quite a lot of gameplay, and not too much talking. The technical aspects don't really get much of a mention, at least not in any real depth. The might tell you the FPS, etc, but not much more than a passing mention. In this particular showcase, not all games are first-party...

Re: Future Sports Series Speedball Resurrected on PS5 This Month

Fiendish-Beaver

It looks like a version of the film Rollerball which was a cult hit back in 1975. The film was super violent, for the time, and I really enjoyed it when I got to see it some years later as a teenager in the about 1980.

Curious to see how this pans out, and whether it is closer to Rollerball or Space Jam... πŸ˜‚