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Question to those who've played both games: Is it recommended to play Kingmaker first or is this a fairly standalone game, story-wise?

@theMEGAniggle
"Jason!"
"JASON!"
I'll happily admit, I love the Quantic Dream games, warts and all

@Tsushima
I loved Until Dawn and was very excited for The Dark Pictures, but so far they've all left me a little bit cold. I would say I actually liked Man of Medan best. I haven't even gotten myself to finish House of Ashes, so read into that what you will.

(though, you should definitely give them a try, I figured I'd just try to temper expectations a bit )

@Scob Ah, thanks mate
Then I'll just try to be patient and hope Sony gets it sorted sooner rather than later.

So, this seems right up my alley, but I can't find it anywhere in the Norwegian PS Store. Could this be another case of missing localization data in the store preventing the availability in some countries? Anybody know?

I gotta say I'm beyond excited for this game, but I'm quite cold on quidditch, for some reason (I never found it particularly interesting in the books or movies either... no idea why, tbh) and I couldn't be less interested in any form of online multiplayer, so I'm happy this will be an sp-focused experience.
A separate online quidditch multiplayer focused game would doubtless be a better experience for the quidditch fans anyway, right?

Yeah, not paying for this again. Bought it on X360 and bought it again on PS4, determined to play it through this time.
Kept getting put off by immensely unlikable characters (Franklin was OK, but Michael and Trevor were insufferable). I miss Nico; at least he wasn't actively trying to be his worst self.

@ShogunRok Thanks for the answer I've never really gotten into photo mode in games, but it speaks to their popularity when a dev puts so much work into a character creator and the results can almost exclusively be seen in said mode.
Ah well, missed opportunity

@ShogunRok This may seem like a weird question, but do you ever get to see the character you've created other than when you activate a mirror to change the appearance?
I've only sampled the prologue and was quite impressed with the character creator, only to be somewhat disappointed to see that all cutscenes seemed to be first-person and reflective surfaces seemed unreflective until you activated them to look at your character. Struck me as a wasted opportunity.

@djdizzy Thank you, this worked for me too, after having met nothing but locked doors on store.playstation.com. Was starting to get quite frustrated, I can tell you

@FatallyYours117
Alright, I can work with that.
RNGs should never be completely random, they should be properly weighted by the other tactical and strategic mechanics, but I felt that was off (and at times even missing) in XCOM. Glad to hear I'm not alone and that Empire of Sin doesn't seem quite as random.
I'll easily buy into poorer RNG results early game as it makes sense that new recruits aren't super-effective from the get-go

@FatallyYours117
Thanks, I guess I've pretty much decided to give it a go at one point.
One thing that kind of ruined X-Com for me was that I felt I at times was too much at the mercy of the random number generator. It felt as though I would too often be brutally punished by bad RNG results and that good tactics and strategies did little to mitigate this.
So, as this seems to have a similar mechanic, do you feel it can be "too random" or would you say it feels fairly balanced?

@FatallyYours117 I'll echo TeapotBuddha's statement and thank you for sharing. I've been curious about this game and hearing your experience helps me greatly in deciding if it's worth taking a chance on or not (it is, but I'll wait for a sale, I think).
Thanks mate

@meistergeister
No, she wasn't
Although I love Shepard, I'm not sure if I want her (or him) back, but I do know that I want a better story than what they delivered with Andromeda.

I'd probably have gone for a collector's edition if it had included a proper statue of Aloy instead of a huge mechaphant with a teeny, tiny Aloy, As it stands, I will probably go for the digital deluxe edition

I'm not ecstatic about the card system, but it's not necessarily a dealbreaker either. Microtransactions, on the other hand...
And I actually like that you play as an original character as long as you also get control over/can use the other heroes' powers.
Will be a "wait and see" for me, though

@Deadhunter
I agree, SR2 is probably my favorite as well (I thought I was pretty much alone in this )
I enjoyed 3 and didn't hate 4, but 2 just fired on all the cylinders for me.
This one reminds me of SR2 so I'm all in with this reboot

@RBMango
This was my first thought as well.
Skype went from being one of the best chat/messenger apps to nearly broken in a shockingly short amount of time

@ArcadeHeroes I've seen rumors that there is a total of 20,000 units for Norway, Sweden and Denmark combined, but I have no idea if that's true, whether it's just the initial batch, when subsequent batches are scheduled to arrive, etc.

@God_of_Nowt Agreed, but I'm starting to get used to the fact that pretty much everything has a grimy layer of confusion about it these days

@God_of_Nowt Could very well be the case, yes. I don't really think it will matter too much as many of the biggest chains took way too many pre-orders resulting in backorders not expected to be fulfilled until may-june-july. Not sure there were all that many units set aside for in-store purchases anyway.

@ShaiHulud Don't think Norway was singled out, only that the Norwegian gaming site was the first to report on this.

@thefourfoldroot No, it was a request from Sony to retailers not to sell PS5 in stores, with wording strongly suggesting that retailers who violate this will suffer from a worsened relationship with the manufacturer going forward (according to the original article, anyway).
Edit: Stores in Norway are open as normal and no COVID restrictions have been placed on retailers (only customers, who as of Thursday 12pm must wear masks when in stores in Oslo)

Announce or release on N7 day or STFU, EA
Seriously, though, I would prefer to get full confirmation that this is indeed real and not a continuing isolation triggered fever dream of mine.
As for release date? Take your time; I'd prefer to play it on PS5 and thanks to Sony thinking 20k units are more than enough for the entire Scandinavian region I won't be getting my pre-ordered console until some time in May/June (current estimate)

I may confuse this with another NFS game (it's mildly challenging keeping all of these apart), but didn't this one have an insanely overeager rubberbanding AI? One of these that I played on the X360 was almost broken due to the rubberbanding... it was one that didn't have an open/connective world, but you selected races from a map only, and there were two ladders, cops and racers.
Was that this one?

Well, considering I paid $79,37 (£62.90/€70,24) for Ghost of Tsushima (digital deluxe, ed, though) just minutes ago, certainly.
New games in Norway have been around $70 for quite a while, so I'll happily pay that for a game at launch. However, it has become a rare occurrence for me to buy a game at launch/pre-order, as it's quite a steep price, and as a result I usually wait for sales

With the new price hike, I assume games will trend toward $80 at launch in Norway, with "special editions" going closer to $90. I'll pay that at launch if I think the game is worth it and I really, REALLY want to play it as soon as possible, but I expect waiting for sales will be even more common in the future

Did anyone else spot Lance Reddick or was I just imagining things?

Will pre-order the digital deluxe. Bit miffed that I can't get the Collector's Edition in Norway, would really have loved that mask. But, OK, I'll settle for the digital ed (sigh)

Cyberpunk got a lot of vinegar, for some reason, but I'm still excited for it so that was an easy vote. Watch Dogs Legion intrigued me as well and the gameplay footage worked for me.
The Ghostwire trailer REALLY spoke to me, but absent any gameplay I really couldn't bring myself to vote for it.
Instead I went for FF7 Remake. Never played a FF game in my life, but that WILL change when FF7 Remake gets released

Here's a thing, though... I'm a PS+ subscriber; I live in Norway.
They have my email address and they have my phone number.
Do I have any extra goodies coming to me that I don't know about? Well, I don't know, do I? They never told me about these things!
The fact that the headline is "PS Plus Is Offering More and You May Not Realise It" tells me that bonuses offered to subscribers that those same subscribers can only access by doing Sherlock Holmes level investigations are not really bonuses they want their customers to enjoy, are they?
Just saying.
If a service I'm paying for is offering awesome benefits without telling me about it, then that's kinda poopy.
"You're not happy? Well, we gave you this awesome new car we never told you about, but still you're whining about fewer games on the service... and in the meantime, your shiny new car is rusting away".

(Note: I specified that I lived in Norway to make a point that maybe I never got those emails or, just maybe, I never got any of those hidden benefits because I don't live in the US, UK or Japan... Maybe I will get an email telling me I've got extra benefits one of these days)