@nomither6 Those aren’t stealthy ninjas, those are loud kill everything ninjas. AC should not have that kind of Ninja, but the quiet ninja, the one that blends in through social stealth. Blending in with the people and social stealth was a very common ninja tactic. This much gore takes the focus away form that. It shouldn’t gorie then Mirage or Unity.
@Nyne11Tyme At this point Arrowhead is psudo first party, like how Sucker Punch wasn't until Second Son or after, but in practice was beforehand as far as output goes anyway.
That sounds terrible. The setting will be wasted entirely. This should have taken cues from Mirage. A focus on gore was the last thing we needed in “stealth” (it’s supposed to be) series game focusing on ninjas.
We talk of the first party games, but how are they not making more profit with their cut from selling all the other games? If they make good decisions as a publisher it should be higher.
@Flaming_Kaiser They cry it’s too short, then they cry it’s too bloated, they cry cry and cry. People go on this same “I want to only $0.50 per hour of gameplay”. If you have that much time, but that little money, you might want to reconsider how your time is spent. Exceptions apply, but as rule I think I’m probably right.
Games are too long these days. Some game shall be long, but take a look at God of War Ragnorok, great game, but it needed 33-50% of it cut. That’s stuff that didn’t even need to be made for the game and costs that cover been avoided, but it’s bloated and that probably bloated the cost of the game by millions too.
@breakneck I thought combat was great, I like it more than D:OS’s, and think BG2’s is a disastrous mutilation of DnD combat.
But if you think act 2 is stalling, you’re not gonna like act 3…
It starts easily as one of the greatest games ever made though. Them starts to stumble away from that as it progresses.
@Frmknst The environmental storytelling in Souls is absolutely incredible, along with the soundtracks. There's an abstract inspiration with the environment and its details telling a story more than a direct one.
@MrHabushi It really needs marketing momentum. Sony ***** itself in the foot by keeping it exclusive to PS direct. It was an insane move I called out the start and I was totally right about.
@UltimateOtaku91 FP support is lacking, but it’s still getting a lot of third party, indicating VR devs see money on the platform. If it’s like the first PSVR, while Quest sells more, the attach rate for software here is much higher.
I quite enjoy it but Sony should have another game announced for it and bring some ports of PSVR1 games on over. It has gotten pretty good third-party support and seems to be pretty profitable for them, which is a good sign. I regularly play and buy games for my PSVR2.
@Chapapa Yes, but that’s not mutually exclusive. PS5 will still be my favored VR platforms, but PSVR1 on PC and little stuff on PC I can’t get on PSVR2 would be cool to play. Also just non-gaming features.
I'd love this. I have a few things on PC I want to try out, not sure how my graphics card will hold up, but this would just be awesome. I've been wanting this for a while. It also gives me hope that Sony really does have some plans for PSVR2 and they're just not communicating to their own detriment.
@Deoxyr1bose Anime IPs have a lot of potential to be great games that don't ask that you've seen the show, instead that's all they do with it. The Witcher games didn't ask you to read the books, nor does most other licensed adaptations. they need just to ban anime arena fighters and warrior games for the next 5 years and make real creative games.
@tameshiyaku The flipside of this also true, you get it at launch, but if I don't get a Nintendo game at launch I see less value and don't want to buy it as I didn't want it at launch. It's no longer worth the full price. I don't mind paying more for launch, but I won't pay full price for a game two years after its release.
Wow, this is so sad. Imagine feeling that the old tomb raider games are offensive, so much so you have to put a warning on something kids of every kind enjoyed growing up. Removing it would have been ridiculous.
@get2sammyb The ESRB has rated it M for Suggestive themes, blood and gore, language, and violence. It seems to be nothing more than some typical fanservice. I found this on the PS Store.
@extragood Historically the studio redoes act 3 of their games entirely since they ship complete and worse off than the first two, and act 3 in BG3 needs it as well, so I think if you wait a year or so a “definitive edition” that redoes act will show up. No guarantee, but look up what happened with D:OS one and two.
@species Yes, I finished the game. The control ending was a 30 second cutscene that was obviously added in as an afterthought. The other “good” ending was nothing but “hey you defeated the BBG and nothing you did beforehand actually matters or affects anything”. All of the party members didn’t even have a single line and certain companion quests just didn’t finish. They later patched an epilogue for one of the endings, but it still left companion questlines unfinished(just a hastily thrown in so I did stuff), the other ending which was hyped for half the game was still a 30 second cutscene. The epilogue is still oddly empty in some ways too, it also contradicted some of the tiny romance resolution scenes (which constructed what came before) because the ending lost all sense of basic planning. Some of games most hyped moments never happen or have any consequence. It technically had an ending, but it was obvious that it was almost all cut from the game and only an incomplete sliver remained.
@Maaster89 Alone doesn’t work. It’s not balanced for it at all and you’ll have a hard time doing a medium mission by yourself most likely. Matchmaking has gotten much better since launch though and if you don’t mind some randoms (it plays fine with randos) definitely still get it.
I’m glad we’re still getting improvements. I wonder when they’ll do an overhaul that will require new saves because it’s so extensive. The automatic dialogue one in particular got super annoying. Nothing like the 8 charisma cleric getting dialouge instead of my rogue built to be a face.
@GiliusThunderdome They boasted about 17000 (variations) on the ending and then the game didn’t even ship with an ending. They never were. This has been the most successful con at shipping a blatantly unfinished game I’ve ever seen.
I played some Gears of War 4, and it was surprisingly mediocre game. combat wasn't crunchy and lacked impact, difficulty was wonky, and someone but a giant red hear in the middle of the screen whenever you got hurt like an intern made a game in 2008. For these reasons, Gears did not get any of my votes.
I hate that’ll continue to use CR. It shows have merged into Funimation. I hope this violates terms and they see a lawsuit come their way. The CR app is barely catching up to Funi with features and it’s pathetic and showing.
I feel like the poll is kinda too broad in that has games with no confirmed or likely sequels that aren’t already on PS. I think narrowing to games that have been announced already for Xbox only past or present and not PS would be more informative.
@thefourfoldroot1 I see plenty of girls IRL who have bodies like, similar, or close to this, or just as attractive with different natural proportions. We have way overstated "unattainable".
they should have said it ages ago if this was true. I also don't believe them. Either, they already lost the day 1 collector's edition from me because I do believe we will get the full version later.
@lacerz Definitely, Xbox has been so tragically mismanaged for ages now. It wouldn't surprise me if they one day try sell the publishers they bought for a profit or break even and then try a more traditional strategy of cultivating good games if they get a big management shift.
It sounds like threw money to help Xbox, then wanted to put it all on Gamepass, realized the lack of word of mouth from not being on PS and the lack of actual sales didn't help the bottom line, and now are trying to fix the billions they used on publishers in a way that doesn't make a lot of sense. I think MS's Xbox management has simply been a disaster and throwing money around has made some people actually want to see a return sooner. Xbox has been terribly mismanaged ever since the first 2/3rds of the 360's lifespan ended.
Without PS5 their games just aren’t getting the same spotlight too, so I imagine they feel like they might be losing out on Xbox sales too due to it not being on the PS5 and losing word of mouth.
@CharlieChooChoo Why would there be a Beta announced? They are insanely rare for games like this, or rather they never happen and sometime early access for a SP game on PC happens.
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Re: Rumour: Assassin's Creed Red Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like Valhalla
@nomither6 Those aren’t stealthy ninjas, those are loud kill everything ninjas. AC should not have that kind of Ninja, but the quiet ninja, the one that blends in through social stealth. Blending in with the people and social stealth was a very common ninja tactic. This much gore takes the focus away form that. It shouldn’t gorie then Mirage or Unity.
Re: Helldivers 2 Sales Are Actually Increasing, Again
@Nyne11Tyme At this point Arrowhead is psudo first party, like how Sucker Punch wasn't until Second Son or after, but in practice was beforehand as far as output goes anyway.
Re: Rumour: Assassin's Creed Red Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like Valhalla
That sounds terrible. The setting will be wasted entirely.
This should have taken cues from Mirage. A focus on gore was the last thing we needed in “stealth” (it’s supposed to be) series game focusing on ninjas.
Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now
We talk of the first party games, but how are they not making more profit with their cut from selling all the other games? If they make good decisions as a publisher it should be higher.
Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now
@Flaming_Kaiser They cry it’s too short, then they cry it’s too bloated, they cry cry and cry. People go on this same “I want to only $0.50 per hour of gameplay”.
If you have that much time, but that little money, you might want to reconsider how your time is spent. Exceptions apply, but as rule I think I’m probably right.
Re: Almost 3,000 PS5, PS4 Games Discounted in Epic PS Store Sale
@breakneck Some of them just never price drop because of this. Sales aren’t sales half the the time and it is annoying.
Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now
Games are too long these days. Some game shall be long, but take a look at God of War Ragnorok, great game, but it needed 33-50% of it cut. That’s stuff that didn’t even need to be made for the game and costs that cover been avoided, but it’s bloated and that probably bloated the cost of the game by millions too.
Re: Helldivers 2 War Effort Undermined by Sample Cheats and Traitors
@MrMagic special event where we form firing squads as they face the wall too. It would be so epic.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Sales Apparently Top 10 Million
@breakneck I thought combat was great, I like it more than D:OS’s, and think BG2’s is a disastrous mutilation of DnD combat.
But if you think act 2 is stalling, you’re not gonna like act 3…
It starts easily as one of the greatest games ever made though. Them starts to stumble away from that as it progresses.
Re: 'High Possibility' Miyazaki Delegates Direction of Future FromSoftware Souls Games
@Frmknst The environmental storytelling in Souls is absolutely incredible, along with the soundtracks. There's an abstract inspiration with the environment and its details telling a story more than a direct one.
Re: 'High Possibility' Miyazaki Delegates Direction of Future FromSoftware Souls Games
I'm not opposed, we've gotten so many amazing Souls games from him and I'd love to see some non-souls stuff now as well.
Re: Video: One Year Later, Is PSVR2 Doing Enough?
@MrHabushi It really needs marketing momentum. Sony ***** itself in the foot by keeping it exclusive to PS direct. It was an insane move I called out the start and I was totally right about.
Re: Video: One Year Later, Is PSVR2 Doing Enough?
@UltimateOtaku91 FP support is lacking, but it’s still getting a lot of third party, indicating VR devs see money on the platform. If it’s like the first PSVR, while Quest sells more, the attach rate for software here is much higher.
Re: Helldivers 2 Now Kicks Inactive Players, Server Capacity Increased in Latest Patch
Where is the source for 700K? I haven't seen anything number when I followed the sources linked, just that server cap increased.
Re: Poll: What Do You Think of PSVR2, One Year Later?
I quite enjoy it but Sony should have another game announced for it and bring some ports of PSVR1 games on over.
It has gotten pretty good third-party support and seems to be pretty profitable for them, which is a good sign.
I regularly play and buy games for my PSVR2.
Re: New PS5, PS4 Passkey Feature Means You Don't Have to Remember Your Password Anymore
Great, now let's have scanning PSN codes we buy at stores again.
Re: Sony Testing PSVR2 Compatibility on PC, Aiming for This Year
@Chapapa Yes, but that’s not mutually exclusive. PS5 will still be my favored VR platforms, but PSVR1 on PC and little stuff on PC I can’t get on PSVR2 would be cool to play. Also just non-gaming features.
Re: Sony Testing PSVR2 Compatibility on PC, Aiming for This Year
@TrickyDicky99 I don’t really notice mura, I frequently notice the amazing colors though.
Re: Sony Testing PSVR2 Compatibility on PC, Aiming for This Year
I'd love this. I have a few things on PC I want to try out, not sure how my graphics card will hold up, but this would just be awesome. I've been wanting this for a while. It also gives me hope that Sony really does have some plans for PSVR2 and they're just not communicating to their own detriment.
Re: Sony Testing PSVR2 Compatibility on PC, Aiming for This Year
@TrickyDicky99 It's missing haptics, eye-tracking, OLED, the res is barley higher and to many doesn't compete with PSVR2 colors.
There are pros and cons. Also, working with a PS5 smokes stand-alone. Stand-alone VR is a waste if you an afford anything more.
Re: The Best Star Wars Battlefront Games Are Coming to PS5, PS4
That's so cool. I never got to play these online and 65 player MP sounds amazing. That really sells the collection. I will totally get this.
Re: Despite Recent Success, Bandai Namco Reveals It Cancelled at Least Five In-Development Games
@Deoxyr1bose Anime IPs have a lot of potential to be great games that don't ask that you've seen the show, instead that's all they do with it. The Witcher games didn't ask you to read the books, nor does most other licensed adaptations.
they need just to ban anime arena fighters and warrior games for the next 5 years and make real creative games.
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Unlikely to Be Capcom's Last $70 Game
@tameshiyaku The flipside of this also true, you get it at launch, but if I don't get a Nintendo game at launch I see less value and don't want to buy it as I didn't want it at launch. It's no longer worth the full price. I don't mind paying more for launch, but I won't pay full price for a game two years after its release.
Re: Crystal Dynamics Warns Racial, Ethnic Stereotypes Remain in Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered
Wow, this is so sad. Imagine feeling that the old tomb raider games are offensive, so much so you have to put a warning on something kids of every kind enjoyed growing up.
Removing it would have been ridiculous.
Re: PS5 Exclusive Stellar Blade Gets Adults-Only Rating for Nudity, Violence in Korea
@get2sammyb The ESRB has rated it M for Suggestive themes, blood and gore, language, and violence. It seems to be nothing more than some typical fanservice. I found this on the PS Store.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 6 Promises Big Improvements and Fixes
@extragood Historically the studio redoes act 3 of their games entirely since they ship complete and worse off than the first two, and act 3 in BG3 needs it as well, so I think if you wait a year or so a “definitive edition” that redoes act will show up. No guarantee, but look up what happened with D:OS one and two.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 6 Promises Big Improvements and Fixes
@species Yes, I finished the game. The control ending was a 30 second cutscene that was obviously added in as an afterthought. The other “good” ending was nothing but “hey you defeated the BBG and nothing you did beforehand actually matters or affects anything”. All of the party members didn’t even have a single line and certain companion quests just didn’t finish.
They later patched an epilogue for one of the endings, but it still left companion questlines unfinished(just a hastily thrown in so I did stuff), the other ending which was hyped for half the game was still a 30 second cutscene.
The epilogue is still oddly empty in some ways too, it also contradicted some of the tiny romance resolution scenes (which constructed what came before) because the ending lost all sense of basic planning.
Some of games most hyped moments never happen or have any consequence.
It technically had an ending, but it was obvious that it was almost all cut from the game and only an incomplete sliver remained.
Re: Helldivers 2 (PS5) - The Best Co-Op Shooter on PS5
@Frmknst And single player which also PvE does work?
Re: Helldivers 2 (PS5) - The Best Co-Op Shooter on PS5
@Bolverkr Matchmaking is instant for me now. It was only a day or two those issues were present. I also turned crossplay off I believe.
Re: Helldivers 2 (PS5) - The Best Co-Op Shooter on PS5
@Maaster89 Alone doesn’t work. It’s not balanced for it at all and you’ll have a hard time doing a medium mission by yourself most likely.
Matchmaking has gotten much better since launch though and if you don’t mind some randoms (it plays fine with randos) definitely still get it.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 6 Promises Big Improvements and Fixes
I’m glad we’re still getting improvements. I wonder when they’ll do an overhaul that will require new saves because it’s so extensive.
The automatic dialogue one in particular got super annoying. Nothing like the 8 charisma cleric getting dialouge instead of my rogue built to be a face.
@GiliusThunderdome They boasted about 17000 (variations) on the ending and then the game didn’t even ship with an ending. They never were. This has been the most successful con at shipping a blatantly unfinished game I’ve ever seen.
Re: Earth Defense Force 6 Delays Its PS5, PS4 Invasion to Summer 2024 in the West
I have a feeling that after waiting for so long and having Helldivers 2 just come out, they didn't want to compete.
Re: Readers Vote Gears of War Above Halo as Their Most Wanted Xbox Series on PlayStation
I played some Gears of War 4, and it was surprisingly mediocre game. combat wasn't crunchy and lacked impact, difficulty was wonky, and someone but a giant red hear in the middle of the screen whenever you got hurt like an intern made a game in 2008.
For these reasons, Gears did not get any of my votes.
Re: Sony Aggrieves Anime Fans by Erasing Digital Funimation Content in Crunchyroll Merger
I hate that’ll continue to use CR. It shows have merged into Funimation. I hope this violates terms and they see a lawsuit come their way.
The CR app is barely catching up to Funi with features and it’s pathetic and showing.
Re: Poll: Which Xbox Franchises Would You Buy on PS5?
I feel like the poll is kinda too broad in that has games with no confirmed or likely sequels that aren’t already on PS. I think narrowing to games that have been announced already for Xbox only past or present and not PS would be more informative.
Re: Microsoft's Recent Layoffs Contradict Activision Blizzard Buyout Pledges, Says FTC
It would be crazy if this blocked the merger. Absolutely crazy.
Re: Looks Like Netflix Exclusive Valiant Hearts Sequel Is Coming Home to PS4
Did anyone even play this on Netflix?
Re: Stellar Blade's Protagonist's Body Is Based on This Real-World Korean Model
@thefourfoldroot1 I see plenty of girls IRL who have bodies like, similar, or close to this, or just as attractive with different natural proportions. We have way overstated "unattainable".
Re: No Expanded Royal or Golden Edition for Persona 3 Reload, Atlus Promises
they should have said it ages ago if this was true. I also don't believe them. Either, they already lost the day 1 collector's edition from me because I do believe we will get the full version later.
Re: Rumour: Even Gears of War Is Reportedly in Talks to Come to PlayStation
@lacerz Definitely, Xbox has been so tragically mismanaged for ages now.
It wouldn't surprise me if they one day try sell the publishers they bought for a profit or break even and then try a more traditional strategy of cultivating good games if they get a big management shift.
Re: Rumour: Even Gears of War Is Reportedly in Talks to Come to PlayStation
It sounds like threw money to help Xbox, then wanted to put it all on Gamepass, realized the lack of word of mouth from not being on PS and the lack of actual sales didn't help the bottom line, and now are trying to fix the billions they used on publishers in a way that doesn't make a lot of sense.
I think MS's Xbox management has simply been a disaster and throwing money around has made some people actually want to see a return sooner.
Xbox has been terribly mismanaged ever since the first 2/3rds of the 360's lifespan ended.
Re: Rumour: Xbox Console Exclusive Starfield Is Setting a Course for PS5
Without PS5 their games just aren’t getting the same spotlight too, so I imagine they feel like they might be losing out on Xbox sales too due to it not being on the PS5 and losing word of mouth.
Re: Rumour: PC, PS5 Versions of Media Molecule's Dreams Were Allegedly Real, Cancelled
They should have released then let it sail off with PSVR2 support.
Re: Live-Service Content in Helldivers 2 Likened to D&D, Will React to PS5, PC Players
This sounds awesome. This is looking like more and more of a purchase for me. DnD explanation sounds so cool.
Re: Rise of the Ronin PS5 Gets Gameplay Deep Dive at Sony's State of Play
@CharlieChooChoo Why would there be a Beta announced? They are insanely rare for games like this, or rather they never happen and sometime early access for a SP game on PC happens.
Re: Legendary Tales Is a Spellbinding Multiplayer RPG for PSVR2
This looks great. The PS Store mentioned roomscale being required, so I hope it drops that requirement. My space is barely too small for roomscale.
Re: Hit Vampire RPG V Rising Arrives on PS5 This Year
That description sells me much more than the gameplay without context.
Re: What Time Is PlayStation's State of Play?
I’m placing a bet on Silent Hill 2 getting a PSVR2 mode tonight.
Re: State of Play Announced, Covering More Than 15 PS5, PSVR2 Games
As long we get our next AAA VR game or two, I'll be happy.
Re: Sony Pulling the Plug on Bloodborne Kart, Must Rebrand
I do have to wonder at what point this just falls under parody law though .