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I know it was already expected but it’s still surreal to see PlayStation’s account actively promoting Gears of War lol

What I’m liking from the show is that decisions seem more logical, in the game there’s lots of convenient plot points to keep the story going the way it’s supposed to go and it gets irritating from the very beginning.

That being said tho, having played the game several times I cant shake the feeling I’m watching a play, I’m not nearly as engaged with the story and characters as I was while playing the game.

This article is gonna age terribly bad.

For anyone in the fence of getting the console, whether it’s the digital, standard or Pro…
DO IT RIGHT F***ING NOW!

@CJD87 It absolutely is the best game of this generation so far and it was criminal it wasn’t even in the 2021 GOTY discussion, haven’t seen a game that uses the PS5 triggers in such a natural way, also best haptics I’ve seen in a game period, gameplay is just f***ing fantastic and I’m definitely doing some runs today to test this upgrade.

More IPs to the EA graveyard.

Looking forward to skip this one!

Gameplay for this game is just so fun tbh, this is the second time I’m playing and there’s a big difference since the first time I played it on a PS4 and now a PS5 Pro, however upon replay I can notice how writing is definitely the weakest point overall, some dialogue feels out of place or outright badly written but it’s fun.

@Pompey71 This one is definitely only a bit, the gold standard for broken games keeps being Skyrim on PS3 at launch lmao

It really wouldn’t be a Bethesda game without being a bit broken at launch lol

They’ve said they’re trying to line up with the 30th anniversary of the OG in 2027 (or is it 202VII?) which would be absolutely perfect.

They really fumbled PS Plus as a whole, currently I’d say that not even the Essential tier is worth it, it’s just too expensive for what it is, and Extra/Premium are also way too expensive with such a high rotation of games as even the first-party games aren’t safe.

I could only recommend PS+ to someone who just got a PS5 and they’re finding out which games they like, otherwise for long term PS Users it makes less and less sense to pay for it by the month.

@Toot1st At the very, very least a 9/10 is warranted, disappointed to see a different treatment here just because it’s an Xbox game.

Looks amazing, there’s a substantial difference, and price is fair, this is a remaster done right.

@Fiendish-Beaver I agree on Eternal being too frenetic and sometime felt like a platformer, but god I loved that game, the line “You can’t just shoot a hole into the surface of Mars” randomly pops in my mind more often than it should lmao

@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah I always stock up when I see some deals on credit for the store, but it really pales to the deals we had back in the PS4 generation.

@MrPeanutbutterz On paper it is, however you can get codes from many sites online that turn out much, much cheaper, and if you take advantage of some conversions you can easily get a year of Ultimate for even less than PS Plus Essential.

And to be clear, I’m not comparing services, I’m saying that if Sony would still allow selling codes as they did in the PS4 generation we could still get it for cheaper, but they essentially monopolized their digital store and subscriptions, they’re even being sued for this and I hope eventually they’re forced to change it back.

Why are you doing blatant engagement bait with everything regarding Switch 2? It’s quickly becoming exhausting.

What a BS generation this has been overall, many unprecedented moves, all for the worse.

Honestly, nothing of the reveal appealed to me, but even if it did the cost of entry is too high for yet another live service.

Not gonna pay $40 for the game, $70 at least for a PS Plus subscription and a $10-20 battle pass on top of it, specially as there’s a plethora of F2P options whenever I want to play these type of games.

Lots of copium here as expected, but I see many, many of the same mistakes Sony did with Concord.

• Art style doesn’t look that attractive, yes better than Concord but that’s an incredibly low bar.
• The fact it’s $30/40 while also having to pay for PS+ to be able to play, F2P games don’t require even this, plus the battle pass on top of that.
• Launch is very near and they’ve stated they don’t have yet the narrative and there’s no time to adjust gameplay if people don’t like aspects of it.
• By the way, gameplay looks on the slower side which was also among the main complaints of Concord.

If you told me this is Concord 2 I’d believe it lmao

Honestly, the game does look amazing, the best looking game yet on a PS5 Pro (tho I don’t know about rivaling a $5K PC), while on performance mode it runs at flawless 60 FPS with ray traced lightning and with PSSR it looks almost as sharp as in balance mode, it’s truly impressive and the Pro is already showing off very noticeable upgrades as performance mode on base PS5 is a night and day difference compared to the Pro.

Never played the original and both Remake and Rebirth are among my favorite games of all time.

Yet another price hike and they’re not bothered to bring PS+ Premium to any of those countries.

Glad I stopped paying for this since the major price hike back in 2023.

@Mikey856 Lol exactly, I only remember the post-credits ending that set up a very interesting sequel, still hurts that it never happened.

Honestly I’m excited to replay this, I got it on a PS4 Pro and liked it a lot but perfomance was rough at launch so I never got back to it after finishing the main story, which I mostly don’t remember, only the iconic post-ending scene that teased the sequel that never was

Amazing, I might hold from playing today, game has been great honestly but it does ramp up my PS5 Pro in performance mode a lot, specially while looking at the map for more than a minute it sounds like a hair dryer, hope it’s fixed tomorrow.

Using the exact same font from Concord on banners is certainly a choice lmao

@HonestHick I love consoles but PC is sounding like the logical step for next generation, however I really, really dislike Windows and SteamOS still isn’t compatible with many games, if the next Xbox does indeed have Steam I’d get it and get all my games from there, but I honestly doubt Microsoft to actually deliver on that, and I wouldn’t buy anything at all from the MS Store anymore so I’m just waiting to see how next-gen shapes up, for now I’ll just keep my 3 consoles (and get the Switch 2 bundle whenever possible).

Also, how about stop dunking on the Switch 2 for a day and actually inform about PS5-related stuff like the last TLOU 2 update breaking progression for the roguelike mode…

Console market is about to get really expensive with only the PS6 and the Switch 2 being the viable options amidst Xbox’ suicide.

I’m fully expecting Sony to follow suit on everything anti-consumer Nintendo came up with this week, no need to keep flaming users with these articles.

I’ve honestly lost count on how many times they’ve tried to sell us the same game, it’s pathetic at this point.

We’ve only seen a PS3-looking game blowing up cars and they expect us to preorder it? Lmao

Producers of this film are the ones from Madame Web, Kraven, Venom and pretty much every crappy Sony Pictures production that has existed.

Still baffled why Nintendo went with them…

@Dalamar Oh come on, are you really saying that GTA IV or San Andreas have “mediocre” or even just bad writing? That’s a classic take on hating on something just because everybody else likes it.

Even GTA V while not having as strong narrative as the previous ones is still pretty good by today’s standards, are you next going to say that RDR2’s writing sucks too?

Sony really has easy money remastering most of the PS3 library as many of those games would definitely find new audiences on modern consoles and yet they choose to remaster already available to play titles released in 2019-2020.

They 100% would block games from that Xbox PC device, if Steam doesn’t allow it I can see Sony coming out with their own launcher that won’t be compatible with the PC Xbox and only launch new games there.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if Sony started to delist their games off Steam and be exclusive for their launcher, it would gaslight the PC audience but Sony has been that radical.

Lol this is kinda being treated as the true launch of the game.

@DennisReynolds Only 6-7 hours in and there’s just no way this game sits below an 80, I’d even say it’s a 90-95 so far, looks impressive, gameplay is fun, story is interesting. Best AC game since Origins imo.

Good, I’m loving it so far, already way more invested than I was for Odyssey, Valhalla and Mirage.

People who are getting mad or even straight-up furious about a good game having good reception just have a sad life…

Make your bets, will this be closed before or after they release a game?

@LiamCroft Sony went all out with hardware for the 30th anniversary, Nintendo does it sometimes every 5-10 years for their franchises, hell even Xbox celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2021 with a good looking console and a new Halo which also had its 20th anniversary.

I know it’s not mandatory to celebrate it that way but it’s a nice thing to do and Sony pretty much never does it for their games, it wasn’t an impossible expectation to get some remasters for such a big anniversary, more so with so many of them we’ve got recently.

And btw, what’s stopping them to just make the first 2 games available via PS2 emulation / PS+ Premium? I’d buy them in a heartbeat 480p and all.

Beyond disappointing for the 20th anniversary of arguably PlayStation’s biggest franchise.

At the very, very least they should’ve put OG PS2 games on PS+ Premium, but of course the best celebration would’ve been a Greek saga collection remastered for PS5.

This is why I bought the Pro tbh, PSSR will only keep getting better and new games should look and perform noticeably better.

This just became my most expected game for the whole year (at least dates ones lol).

This game on the Pro is gonna look CRAZY.

@HMazzy111 There’s scenes for the full 3 days of Ellie’s journey, we’re definitely getting -that- moment this season, I’d say in the first couple episodes and they’d justify it in the same way it happened in the game as for some story elements you already need to be hurt by -that- so scenes carry emotional baggage, like Ellie playing the guitar wouldn’t hit the same if you didn’t experience -that- earlier.

Based on what they shown they’re following the pacing structure of the game, telling Ellie’s pov in Season 2 until the theater scene (guaranteed season finale) with some flashbacks thrown in there and following Abby’s pov in Season 3, exactly like the game.

They’ve talked about season 4 but I’m not sure the 3-hour epilogue for Part 2 is enough for an entire season, it could be wrapped up in a couple episodes at most imo.

Spoiler: They don’t exist and were only rumored by some grifters to have some clicks.

Ironically It’s even more likely a remaster of the 2018 game than any other.

So no new game but still milking the franchise huh?