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@Mikey856 'haters' being people who simply don't like the game?

Irrrelevant what the new price is. Sony should have never bothered with this unwanted flop. It's like trying to sell 3D TV in 2025.

I'm about as interested in this at a lower price as I am by the thought of playing DA Failhard for free.

and I won't even download it for free....says it all

Wow...I wish I could pull off an asymmetric bob like that!

She looks stunning.

I bought Hospital and Campus+DLC together on a big sale year or so ago...to my shame, I played a few hours of hospital but have yet to even load up Campus, it being in my most embarrassing category, the 'bought but unplayed' collection! Alongside the likes of Alan Wake II, Persona 3 Reloaded, Metaphor, FFVII Rebirth....oh my god. And that doesn't even touch the indie and AA stuff of which there is much more...Dredge, Spiritfarer, Cult of the Lamb....etc etc.

So definitely need to stay away from this however good it is until I've dabbled properly in the other two.

Go ask the PC crowd how they're going to feel 'waiting just a year' to play GTA VI. You won't get an honest answer from most of them, but they'll know.

I wouldn't want to wait three months to play that somewhere else, whatever kind of PC set-up I had. And this works for many other games. The whole 'why on earth would you play console if you can wait and get it on PC' is ludicrous. I hear you can buy year old movies very cheap, I can't wait to watch next year all those movies I'm looking forward to this year etc etc

Sounds very very boring, doubt I'll even play this on Extra...so much stuff on the backlog that's wayyyy better.

@ApostateMage Likewise! Green outfit is stealth, Yellow is for strolling and posing, and if you see the Red outfit you're probably already dead.

Strangely, despite all the discourse, after those initial hours I haven't found it tough at all. And I'm definitely NOT a hardcore 'git gud' type of gamer. Could be because I spend so long on the side stuff that I'm over levelled for the time being and it will catch up with me. At around 65 hours and only just got the second map open.

@Ravix My Henry is such a smooth talker that he didn't even get a weight penalty for a certain stealth mission that seems to be troubling a lot of players, and thanks to all the houses I'd broken into and crept about in by that point, his stealth got him past the stupid amount of guards that mission threw in his way!

@CreepingShadow Most of us who got it free are not gonna pay full price for a six year old game with a new coat of paint on it. £10...probably. And some money for them is better than no money?

I'm not bothered, I'll just play other stuff - they can sing for their £50/£60 quid all day long if they want.

PC gamers especially love to trumpet the death of consoles and how generally awful they are. I hope they enjoy the likely 2 year wait with their ugly faces pressed against the window when GTA VI comes out!

They've missed out on a load of easy money and players then. I got this on PS+ when they gave it away, not the Extra version, and still haven't got round to playing it. As others have said, I too would have paid the tenner for the upgrade, zero chance I'm gonna pay full price for a free game I've already got sitting there unplayed.

I suspect this will be reversed, as we had the same thing with death stranding, ghosts of tsushima etc

@DennisReynolds if i see any decent dice that my opponent uses, I follow them to see where they live, then break in overnight and take them, along with their clothes and everything else. And yep, they emerge the next day wearing rags if you do that! I sometimes just kill them...then they don't emerge.

I accidently slept in wrong bed at the herb woman's, and was so annoyed at being woken and shouted at a couple of hours later that I beat her to death with a club and took and threw her body in the nearby river. Now her house is my house.

This game.... 🙂

@playstation1995 I just take my knife out and slaughter one of the regenerating cows and smoke or dry the meat...keeps even Hungry Henry going for ages! Even better, the towns don't seem to give a damn about you doing it unless they're stood right next to you.

10/10 after nearly 50 hours, and I haven't even got that far into the 'main' storyline, which I'm not even following too much tbh...just enjoying the quests, the tasks, the character progression and the sandbox.

Special shout out to the thievery - breaking into homes and robbing them of everything, including of course the key to their 'very hard' lockpickable chest, never gets old. Nor does chatting to and then killing randoms on the trails between locations. And the law system works properly - no materialising cops here - if no-one sees you, and you don't do anything dumb with any stolen stuff you take, then you get away with it. I love that.

It's like the best parts of Witcher 3, Skyrim and Dragon's Dogma, all rolled into one (minus dragons!)

I was on Kingdom Come 2 pretty much all of the outage and no issues whatsoever, AND I'm all digital for those disc owners who weirdly seem to think that digital gamers were left high and dry by this. I didn't even notice!

And Kingdom Come? Wow. Long time since I've bought a game on launch, and even longer since I've been up to the early hours every day playing it.

@lazarus11 yeah only greyed out during combat, conversations and cutscenes though.

Anytime you're just wandering the open world you can save and quit. I think in forty or so hours of play I've only used a couple of schnapps potions to test them out really. Other than that mostly save and quits and some sleeps.

Best part of my improving Henry stats? Wolves no longer an issue! 🙂

@reddevilcat you can literally pause, save and exit and continue whenever you want. it's a non-issue.

best game I've played for years, been up until 4 in the morning every day since release playing it!

@BigBadV so you can pause and 'save and quit' anywhere you like outside of combat or cut scenes. Takes a couple of seconds at most to reload when you continue.

No potions or beds needed.

Unsure why so people playing kcd2 appear not to have realised this yet. Including many critical reviews who labour on the whole 'cant save when I want' point soo much, whilst being wrong.

I get it was frustrating for some people, but talk about an overreaction to a first world problem.

'oh no I can't play videogames for a few hours, my life is over etc'.

No wonder the gamer stereotype still lingers. 🙄

@Throb No I know you weren't, but that's why I was keen to explain more!

Lots of reviews out there are probably putting people off because they don't mention this way of saving and people rightly think they risk losing hours or progress. Sure, you're saving 'out of game' if you like, rather than the immersion of using a potion or a bed, but in practical terms it's the same, it's more flexible, and takes a couple of seconds.

Unsure why almost no reviews are mentioning it.

@Throb Yes, by choosing 'savs and exit' and then 'continue', you can effectively do a manual save anywhere. You certainly aren't tied to having to find a bed or use a potion.

So I really don't know why people are making so much fuss about a restrictive save system or losing hours of progress etc. I've even read several reviews saying the same thing, which just goes to show how little they bothered to check or find out about the game.

My favourite game for a long time, and I say that as someone who often drops the difficulty level when I have the option! So the talk of how hard KCD2 is isn't right either.

@DonkeyFantasy It's a great game, enjoy.

I think it's utterly brilliant. Looks and runs amazing on my Pro.

Some people that don't like it seem to be getting angry and very keen to post how much they don't like it and I'm not sure why? I hope it's not because it got a 10/10 because, thank goodness, we don't all like the same things!

Eurogamer is the same...anyone daring to say how much they like the game is being shot down. It's very odd behaviour.

Thank you! Was just waiting for a review from Pushsquare before committing to a rare day one purchase. Great to read that the game delivers on all its promises.

@AhmadSumadi Yes it is, but at least 60fps (more like 70+ if you have VRR) with decent image quality should make it better to play.

@Kenobi42 "This means the game will release at some point between September and November next year."

May yet turn out to be accurate!

I much preferred 4 than 5, but yeah, so PS5 Pro is gonna be the best console experience for Forza.

Strange times we live in.

It'll have a 60 mode on Pro at least. Even DF had to furiously backpedal on Pro games running at 60 that they said never would. Even the 'not biased at all' Battaglia.

@DrVenture69 same here! I intended to restart after the PS5 Pro update as I still haven't played it on 'Worlds Part 1'...now seems to be perfect time.

(glad I didn't buy back at release tho lol)

@Lup really? who still uses twitter?! lol

but more seriously, if you go looking for things you will find them. i haven't seen any 'hate' for this game here or anywhere else in my normal browsing/reading.

@kevinm360 poor taste AND poor business sense in one go. Impressive! 🙂

Joking aside, it also sucks for those many non-enthusiasts who won't be aware of this as we are and will just go and buy it regardless at full price and will likely have dropped it or traded it in by the time these updates and add-ons release for those of us who are now going to wait.

@themightyant Absolutely not the only one! I often wait for the first sale/patch on games anyway these days, but reading about all the free updates coming (with some of the 'extras' sounding more like 'should be there at release' features), why on earth would I play it on release now ahead of something out of my backlog?!

Look forward to reviews though.

Good riddance to more of this.

@KillerBoy they all got the copy and paste on that particular line right anyway, even if the reviews got it wrong. the media should be ashamed of themselves.

Sometimes you need a Great Flood to cleanse everything and rinse away the crap....I just hope that enough developers made it onto the Ark.

Switch 2 is *****. Not gonna get excited over a plasticky console that probably won't even be as powerful as a more than decade old PS4.

Finally bought Ragnarok in the Xmas sale, and haven't even got round to playing it.

You're all welcome!

I expect he is very very rich! He should enjoy his retirement.

Most people who buy digital never pay the often quoted £69.99 because it's trivial to get store credit for around 15% off ie bringing said price under £60. It's a false narrative that's often spread when people talk about 'digital I would have to pay £70, I paid x for a disc.' and if you stack that discount with sales, which is when I buy most of my games, then even more affordable.

In any event, I'm all digital and love the convenience and I also have 3 consoles across two locations that I can access all my games on instantly at any time. How would I do that with discs? It's a great perk of digital that isn't often mentioned!

It's vile and unnecessary, especially when the Xbox pad layout is actually decent - I remember in the days of my 360 I preferred the comfort of that to whatever model of dualshock Sony were at back then.

But after a couple of months adapting to the DualSense (I have small hands and it felt too big holding it at first...🤭 ) it's now easily my favourite and most comfortable controller ever.

I loved P5 (and Royal) and currently enjoying Metaphor, so grabbed P3 Reload just to keep the backlog nice and big!

Annoying that Balatro missed out, but equally pleased that Failguard missed out...so it all balances out

@RBMango Resetera is one of the most intolerant gaming forums going, permbans for even expressing a single opinion against the hive mind. They even make Eurogamer, the site that for a while tried to pretend Harry Potter didn't exist, seem relatively balanced.

And yet the very intolerance of groups like that is also the thing that is going to bring about their downfall over the next year or so. I like that.

Imagine being excited over how close a new console will get to a 10+ year old one.

Only on Planet Nintendo.

@Logonogo Thanks, sounds like I'll be picking it up in the next good sale then!

@Logonogo I loved P5 and am about to start Metaphor. How does P3 Reload, which I've ummed and ahhed about picking up during sales, compare to those in your opinion?

Well...er...hello there, Clive 😳

@Nem And yet Kokatu have Veilguard at number 2 on their GOTY list, and I won't begin to express what I think of that decision.

Opinions and arseholes...we all have one.

Only got round to playing this a couple of weeks ago on my Pro and I love it! No performance or graphical issues on that console, and so far as the gameplay goes, I'm really enjoying the combat, the pawns, the exploration, the progression. The thin narrative doesn't bother me, it's just not what this type of game is about imo.

One of my most enjoyable games of the year (although I do have Metaphor, Rebirth and Ragnarok on the 'installed but not yet played' backlog so any of those could top it in due course)