@Bionic-Spencer To be frank, the game wasn’t is an amazing state at launch. The need that broke the camel’s back was the flamethrower, it wasn’t that great to start with. It was buffed because it’s a live-service game. We just had another strong weapon and didn’t notice at first because we were still figuring out all the weapons. The launch day game simply didn’t have anything “taken away”. There’s definitely tinted glasses for looking at it though.
I think you bring up a good point about some games though.
@DennisReynolds Or maybe dumb parents (only dumb ones) should not be allowed and big companies shouldn’t be able to patent basic ideas and stifle the rest of the industry for their own gain.
@PuppetMaster I’m not surprised the criticism want allowed. Some of the basic and obvious criticism of the game isn’t even allowed here because it’s considered “unpolite” nowadays. I can only imagine how much wasn’t allowed in Sony itself.
This should be illegal. i actually played Minecraft VR recently and don’t want it removed. It needs a legacy mode. You can’t just remove it. I get it, new Minecraft doesn’t work. Okay, let me play old Minecraft.
128 players wasn’t the problem, maps that made it feel like there was a lot less players than 64 player matches in previous games were the problem. Not being Battlefield was the problem. I’d love to see 128 players again done in a Battlefield game.
Okay, I think saying it's just $700 is an understatement when there's no disc drive or stand. It's a $810 console with nickel and diming customers. I was considering $700, but only $700. When it was more I was out quickly.
@FanCFeast The only people who know about/remember Borderlands are people who are skeptical of video game movies and will apply scrutiny. No who would just go see it like some people will see Minecraft on name alone because it's famous.
Payday 3 is good and much improved from Payday 2, which whole fun, is so janky and 3 is a great improvement to it. It’s gotten some really good DLC too. The fan base after a rocky launch almost wants it to fail out of misplaced spite I feel like.
@donv2135 I was honestly thinking about before I realized those details. The PS5 has a strong resell value still so it would only have been a few hundred dollars.
@LogicStrikesAgain The problem isn’t a high price, the problem is nickel and diming me for basic features with a high price. It’d be better to make it $750 and include the entire package than try to make a profit off of them,
Screw this. $700 without a disc drive?! Heck no. I’m out. I was thinking about it And the stand!? This is insane. Nickel and diming. I went from considering this to “I hope this fails like Concord”.
Of course they’re out of touch. The characters were intentionally ugly, someone wanted to make ugly things seems cool and was allowed to push that in a 200M project. The audience was suppers to like Concord despite being spat on.
This will hopefully be a slap of reality for Sony that these things are dangerous. I’m genuinely glad Concord is such a failure because Sony needed this message on many levels.
Let’s be real, some of those character designs are downright ugly on purpose. There’s a difference between not being DoA and trying to make your game intentionally ugly and then pretend it’s still cool.
@ShogunRok How many normal fights are there between bosses? I actually find the lack of exploration kind of refreshing in favor of being straight to the point.
This looks cool. I’m hoping it’s easy to join a house/guild and fight in battles that way. Let the really active players guide it more and let casuals be the grunts.
@RBMango Yeah, they know their community can act this way, so hyping flames and then nerfing them just is just makes me want to ask “What did you think was gonna happen?” It’s not even realistic either, it’s less realistic to a a flamethrower now. If it was realistic they’d buff the range of the flamethrower instead of this rework lol.
But yeah I think that would be a great convo to have. They recently put up a feedback form and I expressed my feelings, including that the flamethrower needed a nerf, but not a giant one. I also mentioned how the timing was tone deaf.
@RBMango I would argue things are more buffed than at launch overall. I think people are often dramatic so the the nerfs, it that being even the animation for the flamethrower sucks now. They also did this right when we got the flame warbond, so the timing was incredibly poor and tone deaf.
The flamethrower actually did need a nerf, but it needed to be far less dramatic and and much more minor. And as for the vision thing, the flamethrower has been the same since it got buffed for the most part and then they let us get a module that increased flame damage for most weapons including the flamethrower by 25% and it was an expensive later game upgrade so this comes across as incredibly poor planning since they’ve buffed something that in theory already too strong.
It's a shame this isn't done better with deeper and more praiseworthy story elements tied to the town and whatnot. I actually think this the style of this game combined with inspiration from Azure Dreams and Rune Factory (4 especially) would make for a great expansive anime game template without dipping into an AAA budget.
So I hope better games are inspired by the idea. A number isekais could be done like this (or an original) without relying on the source material to read if they went all in.
@Kienda I’m with you, also it only seems that lesser stuff like this is bad and gets removed. If you want to put full nudity and have genitals sliders it’s great and celebrated, but this is too much. It makes no sense. This is mild and frankly silly compared to that stuff, and I am opposed to the blatant nudity and such being in games.
@freddquadros Okay, so we have some review bombing on a few big games easy to find info about, great, you protect you persecuted AAA games! Now what about all the indies that don't reviews from sites like this or might be cool or might be shovelware? This isn't for games that get review bombed, this is for smaller games that we attempt to find Steam reviews for, because it's great that I have to go on Steam before I buy a game on PlayStation.
@Bingbongboyo That's insane, you could beat so many games not be able to review it. Just let someone purchase it and review it, maybe include time played like Steam does.
Yes please! People against this are crazy. The fact that I have to on Steam, a competing platform to find out if a game is real or shovelware is insane. This needs to be implemented 10 years ago, later this year is the next best option. I want to see if a game is good by looking here reviews. This will be a huge boon for indies.
@Deityjester As someone who's been playing since launch day - what are you talking about? The game has more than enough content for its $40. Chiv 2 is a great game and I'm not disappointed at all with it. It was worth it on launch day and they've done great support for it. Game's don't need to be supported for a decade after release, I'm happy to play what we have and to wait for Chiv 3 now.
@Moonmonkey We don’t know, it could be that, it could be get rid of some overstock, it could be a test to see how price affects it and if people do want it after a dramatic cut (if it doesn’t sell at this price, it’s dead, if it does, it’s means there’s real interest still and they can leverage it), or could be a combination of the layer two. There’s a lot of great games for it and some great games in the pipeline. If you think you’d enjoy I’d grab one for this price.
@kendomustdie Is there a graphics mode where this is more frame rate loss? I'm disappointed that this doesn't push it enough that the frame has issues and wonder if I can the setting to make the framerate chug a little. EDF and bad framerate go together so well.
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Re: Like It or Not, This Is Why PS5 Pro Doesn't Have a Disc Drive
I feel like this needs to account for small digital games that aren’t available physically.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Statue Manufacturer Pulls Controversial, 'Insensitive' Design
Just do the right thing and cancel the game too please.
Re: Helldivers 2 Concludes 60-Day Overhaul Plan with Latest Balance Update on PS5, PC
@Bionic-Spencer To be frank, the game wasn’t is an amazing state at launch. The need that broke the camel’s back was the flamethrower, it wasn’t that great to start with. It was buffed because it’s a live-service game. We just had another strong weapon and didn’t notice at first because we were still figuring out all the weapons. The launch day game simply didn’t have anything “taken away”. There’s definitely tinted glasses for looking at it though.
I think you bring up a good point about some games though.
Re: New PSVR2 Games Release Dates in 2024
@get2sammyb This article is wrong, Hitman PSVR2 is set to come out in December, and that's a huge PSVR2 release, biggest of the year really.
Re: PS5 Horror A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead Will Force You to Play in Silence if You Turn on Your Microphone
I think it’s a great idea. VR should do this more too.
It adds immersion and makes you be in-character more.
Re: David Hayter, the Voice of Snake in Metal Gear Solid, Teases Return to the Role
MGS5 Remake with Hayter?
Re: Wizard of Mod Arrives in Girthy Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 on PS5
Wow, the evil ending is still… awful and a lazy piece of crap.
This took a year? For what? To add almost nothing?
The fact that they think this is a fix and we should accept it as such is frankly insulting.
Re: Bickering Begins Over PS5 Pro's Inability to Sell Out
@zupertramp Absolutely, same with the disc drive. The pro succeeding while nickel and diming is bad for us all. Things don’t happen in a vacuum.
Re: Palworld Announced for PS5, and It's Out Today
@DennisReynolds Or maybe dumb parents (only dumb ones) should not be allowed and big companies shouldn’t be able to patent basic ideas and stifle the rest of the industry for their own gain.
Re: Rumour: Concord Cost $400 Million, Sony Believed It Was the 'Future of PlayStation'
@PuppetMaster I’m not surprised the criticism want allowed. Some of the basic and obvious criticism of the game isn’t even allowed here because it’s considered “unpolite” nowadays. I can only imagine how much wasn’t allowed in Sony itself.
Re: Minecraft Is Dropping PSVR Support Early Next Year
This should be illegal. i actually played Minecraft VR recently and don’t want it removed. It needs a legacy mode. You can’t just remove it. I get it, new Minecraft doesn’t work. Okay, let me play old Minecraft.
Re: Vince Zampella Confirms Battlefield Will Return to Modern Setting
128 players wasn’t the problem, maps that made it feel like there was a lot less players than 64 player matches in previous games were the problem.
Not being Battlefield was the problem. I’d love to see 128 players again done in a Battlefield game.
Re: PS5 Pro Shows Real Promise in First Expert Analysis
Okay, I think saying it's just $700 is an understatement when there's no disc drive or stand. It's a $810 console with nickel and diming customers. I was considering $700, but only $700. When it was more I was out quickly.
Re: Feature: PS5 Pro's Been Clowned on By the Entire Internet, and the Memes Will Make You Laugh
@EfYI For me it wasn't even the $700, it was the profiteering off the disc drive and vertical stand.
Re: Feature: PS5 Pro's Been Clowned on By the Entire Internet, and the Memes Will Make You Laugh
Deserved with no disc drive and no vertical stand.
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth 'Hugely Improved' on PS5 Pro, a 'Night and Day' Difference
If they want to include the disc drive and stand, I'll consider it.
Re: PAYDAY 3 Creative Lead 'Stepping Away', PAYDAY 2 Remains Much More Popular
@MFTWrecks The PS5 version has been getting updates and plays great. I was just playing the new heists with a friend who's on PC recently.
Re: The Borderlands Movie Barely Made Back Its Marketing Budget
@FanCFeast The only people who know about/remember Borderlands are people who are skeptical of video game movies and will apply scrutiny. No who would just go see it like some people will see Minecraft on name alone because it's famous.
Re: PAYDAY 3 Creative Lead 'Stepping Away', PAYDAY 2 Remains Much More Popular
Payday 3 is good and much improved from Payday 2, which whole fun, is so janky and 3 is a great improvement to it. It’s gotten some really good DLC too. The fan base after a rocky launch almost wants it to fail out of misplaced spite I feel like.
Re: Talking Point: Is PS5 Pro Way Too Expensive?
@donv2135 I was honestly thinking about before I realized those details. The PS5 has a strong resell value still so it would only have been a few hundred dollars.
Re: Talking Point: Is PS5 Pro Way Too Expensive?
It’s not that $700 is necessarily too much, but $700 without a disc drive or stand is far too much.
Re: How to Pre-Order PS5 Pro
@LogicStrikesAgain The problem isn’t a high price, the problem is nickel and diming me for basic features with a high price. It’d be better to make it $750 and include the entire package than try to make a profit off of them,
Re: How to Pre-Order PS5 Pro
This is gonna be a rough launch with how much it is and cheap Sony is being with the disc drive and vertical stand….
Re: Don't Worry, You Can Add an Ultra HD Disc Drive to PS5 Pro
Screw this. $700 without a disc drive?! Heck no. I’m out. I was thinking about it
And the stand!? This is insane. Nickel and diming. I went from considering this to “I hope this fails like Concord”.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3's Big Patch 7 Won't Be the Last: 'The Chefs Must Cook'
Considering how much of the game needs a rework, I’m not getting my hopes for anything beyond something small.
Re: Reaction: PlayStation Needs to Take a Long, Hard Look at Itself
Of course they’re out of touch. The characters were intentionally ugly, someone wanted to make ugly things seems cool and was allowed to push that in a 200M project. The audience was suppers to like Concord despite being spat on.
This will hopefully be a slap of reality for Sony that these things are dangerous. I’m genuinely glad Concord is such a failure because Sony needed this message on many levels.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3's Huge Patch 7 Is Out This Week on PC, PS5 Has to Wait 'A Little Longer'
I’m looking forward to it. An ending to my game is finally getting patched in after a year of having a joke of a 40 second stand in cutscene instead.
Re: PS5, PC FPS Concord's Poor Player Numbers Have Predictably Gone Viral
Let’s be real, some of those character designs are downright ugly on purpose.
There’s a difference between not being DoA and trying to make your game intentionally ugly and then pretend it’s still cool.
Re: This Is Your Last Chance to Get Dying Light 2's Ultimate Edition on PS5
Are they replacing it for a version without the new game?
Re: Black Myth: Wukong (PS5) - A Spectacularly Creative Action Romp
@ShogunRok How many normal fights are there between bosses? I actually find the lack of exploration kind of refreshing in favor of being straight to the point.
Re: Redacted Is a PS5 Roguelike Dungeon Crawler Set in The Callisto Protocol's Black Iron Prison
I’m not that interested in this, but I’d like a proper sequel. I quite enjoyed the first and thought it was nice to have a focused game.
Re: Survival MMO Dune: Awakening Almost Too Good to Be True in Immersive Gameplay
This looks cool. I’m hoping it’s easy to join a house/guild and fight in battles that way. Let the really active players guide it more and let casuals be the grunts.
Re: Never Has a Game Looked So Good Yet So Jank as PS5's Neo Berlin 2087
Is this a first or third person game? I'm confused about how that works.
Re: Arrowhead Unveils 60-Day Plan to Placate Rebellious Helldivers 2 Fans
@RBMango Yeah, they know their community can act this way, so hyping flames and then nerfing them just is just makes me want to ask “What did you think was gonna happen?”
It’s not even realistic either, it’s less realistic to a a flamethrower now. If it was realistic they’d buff the range of the flamethrower instead of this rework lol.
But yeah I think that would be a great convo to have.
They recently put up a feedback form and I expressed my feelings, including that the flamethrower needed a nerf, but not a giant one. I also mentioned how the timing was tone deaf.
Re: Arrowhead Unveils 60-Day Plan to Placate Rebellious Helldivers 2 Fans
@RBMango I would argue things are more buffed than at launch overall. I think people are often dramatic so the the nerfs, it that being even the animation for the flamethrower sucks now. They also did this right when we got the flame warbond, so the timing was incredibly poor and tone deaf.
The flamethrower actually did need a nerf, but it needed to be far less dramatic and and much more minor.
And as for the vision thing, the flamethrower has been the same since it got buffed for the most part and then they let us get a module that increased flame damage for most weapons including the flamethrower by 25% and it was an expensive later game upgrade so this comes across as incredibly poor planning since they’ve buffed something that in theory already too strong.
Re: Mini Review: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Isekai Chronicles (PS5) - A Decent But Downright Repetitive Action RPG
It's a shame this isn't done better with deeper and more praiseworthy story elements tied to the town and whatnot. I actually think this the style of this game combined with inspiration from Azure Dreams and Rune Factory (4 especially) would make for a great expansive anime game template without dipping into an AAA budget.
So I hope better games are inspired by the idea. A number isekais could be done like this (or an original) without relying on the source material to read if they went all in.
Re: Dead Rising's PS5 Remaster Will Strip Bonus Points for Erotic Photos
@Kienda I’m with you, also it only seems that lesser stuff like this is bad and gets removed. If you want to put full nudity and have genitals sliders it’s great and celebrated, but this is too much.
It makes no sense. This is mild and frankly silly compared to that stuff, and I am opposed to the blatant nudity and such being in games.
Re: Sony Appears to Be Dabbling with Written User Reviews on the PS Store
@freddquadros Okay, so we have some review bombing on a few big games easy to find info about, great, you protect you persecuted AAA games!
Now what about all the indies that don't reviews from sites like this or might be cool or might be shovelware? This isn't for games that get review bombed, this is for smaller games that we attempt to find Steam reviews for, because it's great that I have to go on Steam before I buy a game on PlayStation.
Re: Sony Appears to Be Dabbling with Written User Reviews on the PS Store
@Bingbongboyo That's insane, you could beat so many games not be able to review it. Just let someone purchase it and review it, maybe include time played like Steam does.
Re: Space Marine 2 Serves Up Worthy Look at Meaty Multiplayer Modes
@Sacrosanctus This is a return to a PS3 style of single-player goodness and multiplayer too baby!
Re: Sony Appears to Be Dabbling with Written User Reviews on the PS Store
Yes please! People against this are crazy. The fact that I have to on Steam, a competing platform to find out if a game is real or shovelware is insane. This needs to be implemented 10 years ago, later this year is the next best option.
I want to see if a game is good by looking here reviews. This will be a huge boon for indies.
Re: Sony Apparently Planned PSVR2 for PC from the Beginning
@Frmknst Resi 8, Resi 4, GT7, Synapse?
Re: Little Nightmares Maker Tarsier Will Reveal Something Terrifying at Gamescom
That thumbnail reminds of the pig that ate the girl in Bloodborne. That was sad.
Re: After Three Years of Free Updates, Devs Say Chivalry 2 Is Complete
@Deityjester As someone who's been playing since launch day - what are you talking about? The game has more than enough content for its $40. Chiv 2 is a great game and I'm not disappointed at all with it. It was worth it on launch day and they've done great support for it. Game's don't need to be supported for a decade after release, I'm happy to play what we have and to wait for Chiv 3 now.
Re: Mini Review: Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (PS5) - Retro Remaster Is Faithful to a Fault
Does this make any meaningful gameplay or control changes that would justify buying this over already having the PS Classic PS2 version?
Re: Talking Point: Is It Finally the Right Time to Buy PSVR2?
@jrt87 I’d easily say RE8 felt like that. It’s one of the most incredible gaming experiences I’ve ever had.
Re: Talking Point: Is It Finally the Right Time to Buy PSVR2?
Reminder: We have no idea that this is a fire sale.
Re: Talking Point: Is It Finally the Right Time to Buy PSVR2?
@Moonmonkey We don’t know, it could be that, it could be get rid of some overstock, it could be a test to see how price affects it and if people do want it after a dramatic cut (if it doesn’t sell at this price, it’s dead, if it does, it’s means there’s real interest still and they can leverage it), or could be a combination of the layer two.
There’s a lot of great games for it and some great games in the pipeline. If you think you’d enjoy I’d grab one for this price.
Re: Earth Defense Force 6 (PS5) - More of the Same Insectoid Mayhem, and We Love It
@kendomustdie Is there a graphics mode where this is more frame rate loss? I'm disappointed that this doesn't push it enough that the frame has issues and wonder if I can the setting to make the framerate chug a little.
EDF and bad framerate go together so well.
Re: Dragon Quest Creator Says Silent Protagonists Look Like Idiots
@ApostateMage I think having a voice for a few things, but not for voice lines is a good in-between. BG3 did that very well.