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@LordServbot oh god, yes. The Beatles would be even worse. I’m sure they were revolutionary in the 60’s but they haven’t aged well.

Wish we got Beyoncé or Miley instead. Metallica feel super irrelevant today. Especially in a game like Fortnite. I feel like you’d have to be 40+ to even know who they are.

I love the Avatar movies and enjoyed the game but the story in the game was kinda weak. I think it would have been better if we got to play as both Na’vi and RDA like the PS3 game. The PS3 game captured the look and feel of the movies better.

This is why you should never believe them when they say it won’t be getting a physical release. Glad I waited.

£60 seems a lot. Are they charging double because the first one was free?

Apart from Astrobot, it was pretty terrible. Is Sony’s output so poor because there’s no competition? I can’t remember a worse gen for games.

When there are fewer games released, fewer games will be bought.

This gen has felt like one long gaming drought so far. No wonder people are turning to live service games. There are hardly any first party games to play.

The game was far better than any of the Mad Max movies.

It’s actually not that bad. Started playing this weekend and I’m enjoying it. The first hour or so was a bit rough but once you get to the main island hub and start figuring things out it’s pretty fun.

This guy is so unbearably pretentious.

@TruestoryYep AC is a much bigger franchise though with more mainstream appeal. Nioh is small fry compared to AC. If anyone cared enough about Nioh, I’m sure there would have been more backlash. But most people don’t care about Nioh - probably never even heard of it.

Just did a quick Google search and the combined lifetime sales of both Nioh games is 7 million. AC Valhalla alone probably sold three times as many copies, so you can’t really compare an A-list franchise to a D-list franchise (in terms of popularity).

AC fans have waited years for Japanese AC and a black Samurai is probably the last thing anyone expected or wanted. Hence the backlash.

Yasuke should have been dlc and I don’t think anyone would have complained. It would have been a cool side story to explore. But making him one of the main characters in the main game seems ridiculous and feels like pandering. They’ll try and turn this into ‘everyone’s racist’ but it’s just not what most people envisioned of this game.

I was hoping for an East Asian male and female lead so I am a little disappointed. Yasuke would have been a good side character or DLC.

I can’t be too mad though. AC games have never been about realism. They’ve always been heavily sanitised/fantasy versions of historical periods. It’s why they’re so popular and completely forgettable.

Quest 2 was brilliant and so user friendly. No wires is a huge plus. I haven’t tried the PSVR2 but I’d be more inclined to get a Quest 3 tbh, for portability alone. If PSVR2 had more first party games, the decision might be more difficult.

@CieloAzure the exception being Fortnite. It was the most downloaded free-to-play game in the EU, US and Canada on both the PS4 and PS5 systems in March, despite being in its sixth year since release.

@UltimateOtaku91 oh god, the worst example of this was in AC Odyssey - which let you choose your characters sexuality throughout the entire game. Until the dlc… when they decided to force your gay character into a drunken one night stand with a woman so your bloodline would continue 🤣 That was laughably bad writing and borderline offensive.

@Arnna just wondering where it ranks on your scale of moral superiority? That’s all.

@Arnna what about the poor sweatshop workers who made your phone and your clothes?

@BadPlayerOne “The only ones complaining are gamers and hardcore conservatives that hate anything related to lhbtq+.”

Speaking as an individual letter of that group, that excuse is wearing thin even for me. I’m sure there are people writing-off the show for that very reason but to dismiss any and all criticism is infuriating and a little insulting tbh. We deserve more than being used as a tool to create controversy or as a shield against criticism of any kind.

@Gamer_Guy it might not be as insanely popular as it was in those early days - though it’s still fairly popular even now. But this new chapter acted as a kind of reset of the messy narrative from the earlier chapters and it’s a better game now than it’s ever been imo. It will be interesting to see what they do with the story. There are still ties to the previous seasons but it’s pretty much a clean slate for them to work with going forward.

@LifeGirl I like it but it doesn’t feel like a living, breathing world with real characters - it feels like a tv show with nice sets and ok actors.

I mean, I like Pascal but can he actually act? Or is he just a cool guy with great screen presence? Because there are some scenes in this show have had me questioning his range as an actor. I like him and he seems like an ok guy but I can’t tell if he’s actually playing a role or just showing up on set and being himself sometimes. He hasn’t captured Joel’s personality well at all imo.

Ramsey has been a mixed bag too but not the complete disaster as I worried she might be. Her reaction to Henry blowing his brains out was amazing but sometimes I can see the thought process in her head. Like the way she moves her eyes and her movements feel like someone acting as opposed to convincingly embodying a character completely. I think she has a lot of potential but she’s not quite there yet. I don’t see her as Ellie at all. She’s no more Ellie than Tom Holland was Nathan Drake.

Overall the show has been ok but the pacing is a mess. It feels like a storyboard - Joel and Ellie are here, and then they’re here, and then they’re here… Ok, but where’s the character growth and gradual bond forming between them? Nonexistent. As someone who has played the game at least 15 times over the years on PS3/4/5, I can sort of fill-in the gaps but the storytelling is just so inferior to the game.

When the ‘terrible awful’ scene arrives in season 2, I’m not sure I’ll even be bothered. That scene in the game was a real gut-punch but Joel on the show is so devoid of personality, I’ll probably react with nothing more than a shrug. And that’s a real shame.

@MakersMark I think a lot of men don’t like to think of other men looking at them the same way they look at women. It freaks them out. But I don’t take offence if I see a woman checking me out. Just take it as a compliment. No need to get angry or feel disgusted about it 🤷‍♂️

@MrMeeeseeeks I’m a G and it bugs me to no end that we’re all bundled into the same group and there’s an expectation that we should all stick up for each other no matter what. It’s not like that IRL at all. I love JKR and HP and I’ll buy whatever I want with not a single F given. The game is fantastic btw.

@MrMeeeseeeks yeah, I remember the fuss that was made when TLoU2 cast received death threats (and rightly so) but it seems like if it’s someone you dislike or don’t agree with then it’s perfectly acceptable 🤷‍♂️

@mus422 yeah… So far on the show, Joel and Ellie have had a single encounter with two clickers and a single encounter with two raiders. In the game, they had been through so much more by this point.

Sorry, I forgot the half-buried infected guy who Ellie kills in the gas station. He wasn’t really a threat though.

I don’t think they have done a particularly good job at making the world seem all that dangerous so far.

@naruball it’s not a conversation though when anything that isn’t 100% agreement is silenced. That’s the problem unfortunately. By silencing people, you only make them angry and turn them against the issues you claim to support. It doesn’t help matters at all - it makes them much worse in fact.

Speaking as a member of the lgbt+ community I honestly couldn’t give a damn about the J.K.Rowling drama. Most people in my circle don’t. It’s mostly met with a shrug.

Anyway, glad the game has been received well. Well done Avalanche!

@KaijuKaiser it must be the overwhelming sense of regret at buying the lesser console. I know some people didn’t have a choice due to the PS5 shortages. It’s sad really. Imagine buying ‘the worlds most powerful console’ and not having any first party games to show off it’s full potential. Only multi-plats, XB1 and 360 games. You’d be angry too 😂

All I could think about whilst watching the episode was how some people would be sat at home squirming in their seat at seeing two burly (and very hairy) men being intimate. I’m so happy they didn’t hold back in showing Bill and Franks relationship. Love is love people. And real love is rare, especially in this world. We’re all adults here - or, we’re supposed to be.

Reads a little bit like, ‘TLoU Remake was unfairly dumped on by the majority of the gaming community and the reception to the Dead Space Remake has been way more positive and we don’t think it deserves so much praise because: nitpick, nitpick, nitpick.’

@Human_Tornado “sensed her as one of their own” - like the Xenomorph in Alien 3 that won’t harm Ripley because she ‘has one inside her’? Or like the infected in the World War Z movie who don’t attack terminally ill people?

I’m not sure I like the idea of the Cordyceps virus having an agenda or an evolved sense of awareness. I really didn’t like the root-network / alarm system and them all being connected to one another. The virus is scary enough already. It doesn’t need to be ‘bigger, louder, more teeth’. The horror was in its simplicity.

The infected will be talking next…

JKR has created such a wonderful world with her Harry Potter books. I can’t wait to explore Hogwarts - truly a dream come true for millions of fans across the globe. This game is going to make mega bucks I recon. What a time to be alive.

@ItsBritneyB_tch who knew Push Square was run by a bunch of Clucking Fussies? Everyone I think lol

Au Revoir Pitches ✌️

@ItsBritneyB_tch yes, don’t use foul language, heaven forbid lol

Isn’t that ALL Twitter is - ridiculous rumours and sad people foaming at the mouth about things they disagree with? As a rule, people who use Twitter should be avoided.

People acting like the original Saints games had TLoU-tier writing and character development lol. All the Saints games were sh*t, that’s what made them fun. Tbh Saints 22 is actually not sh*t enough. It’s far too polished and not nearly as outlandish as I hoped it would be.

@Bunchesopuppies if you thought the first one was depressing good luck with part 2. I hope you don’t live in a high-rise 🤣

TLoU remake was awesome but I hope Sony doesn’t just start remaking everything because it’s cheaper than investing in new games and ‘easy money’ for them with minimal imagination or effort.

This console gen has been the least exciting gen ever, so far. It’s a good job we have games like Fortnite to keep us entertained lol

Best startup out of all of them. PS3 startup was good too.

World War Z vibes - taking an amazing book and making a movie that has absolutely nothing to do the source material. That’s a point - HBO should make a (100% faithful to the book) World War Z miniseries.

Is she really 19 yo? Why does she look like she’s 12 or something lol

Have to admit, I’ve lost quite a bit of respect for both Pedro and Bella for having not played the games. Do your homework people!

3 hours is roughly the amount of time it took for me to realise this game was awful compared to the first one.

I actually realised this within the first 30 minutes but I really hoped it would improve. It never did.

I don’t know how they got it so wrong when the first game was so good? They had a great foundation to build on and chose to completely abandon it for something way worse 🤷‍♂️

You’re going to have to rebrand to Push Space Bar at this rate lol

Well that’s one more reason to own a PS5 I guess 😊

@kyleforrester87 ah, maybe. Am I thinking of the second one then? I remember flying around a huge ventilation shaft shooting floating crates and picking up/throwing red gas cylinders at enemies.

Can we still call them ‘PS5 Exclusives’ when they’re eventually coming to PC?

@kyleforrester87 no I definitely remember the zero g sections in the original.