The biggest issue to me is they took their greatest hero and had him taken out by the weakest villain in the series. This is so reminiscent of that one death in The Last of Us 2. Just the level of disrespect put on display here is incomprehensible. Rocksteady, what happened to you guys?
Just because it didn't win an award doesn't mean the fun you had with it didn't happen. It just wasn't AS good as other stuff. Now it probably would have won a woke Game of the Year award it there was one.
It was pretty decent. I was completely stoked over the Dragon Ball and SEGA announcements but other than that I saw good things that I'm just not personally into.
@Texaschainsaw83 yes but that was before this and this is going to keep happening more and more. After awhile people will lose faith in digital distribution. Just wait til it's something you care about
This proves the future is NOT digital. Kick and scream all you want but this will just cause people to go back to physical media if this keeps happening.
Basically they're lying. What they mean to say is the Portal wasnt designed to make profit on its own but with the hopes it increases engagement, by players playing more games which in turn means more time players are likely to purchase battle passes and other microtransactions which they do make profits on any time a purchase is made on the PSN.
Oh man... Neil Druckmann is going to be pissed if they don't masculinize her first. Can't have anyone remotely pretty now, we wouldn't want that would we? Lol clown world. All jokes aside, she's a good actress I fully support this.
Miles is great, don't get me wrong, but he's just not that interesting because of his whole thing being he's suffers from the same issue as Superman does. He's too OP. Anytime he faces a new struggle, he just gains some new power that doesn't really make sense but means he can now defeat the bad guy. Whereas Peter Parker on the other hand is drenched in lore and personal struggle. He doesn't really just "gain new powers" in order to beat the bad guys that momentarily overpower him, and if he does it's never permanent and usually just blows up in his face. He has to use his wits and brainpower to think his way around problems. He's just more interesting.
This also sucks cuz it means so many storylines we will never see play out now. This wasn't what I was hoping to see so I'm probably out now, but I hope Insomniac can think up something cool in order to keep everyone else interested going forward past the Venom spinoff.
Question, do we ever play as Alan Wake in the game called Alan Wake 2? Or do we play as this FBI agent doing her best to emulate the girl from Forspoken the whole time?
@MrHabushi I understand it's a one time connection to pair the disc drive for now, but it's just one more step into getting people used to full scale DRM which Sony sees value in now.
Jesus Christ.... I thought we were past this with Sony! Remember the PS4 pitch for used games? That was a slam to the face for Xbox. Now this?! If this is the new precedence Sony is going to set going forward then I can only imagine how they plan to further evolve this idea later and go full DRM and I might be out supporting them going forward because of it.
@Shigurui I'll have to check that out, thanks. I've tried the same thing on Xbox with the triggers and you can remap everything except those two buttons. So if Sony lets me do it then this is a day one buy for me.
I feel like I already got everything I needed out of that game. It's an amazing title but unless they do something to boost the visuals some way or add something unique I think I'm out.
Moving so smoothly in fact that Naughty Dog is cutting 25 devs contracts short and letting them go without severance... Yay! Don't let the door kick your ass on the way out Jim Ryan!
Thank God. Good riddance Crying Lying Jim Ryan! Please Sony, put Shuhei Yoshida in charge or someone who at least plays games and understands the art of the industry. All Jim did was reap the benefits and successes of those before him and then make himself a bunch of money by raising the price of everything under the guise of the brand being "boutique". He hasn't given us many titles that he signed off on apart from all the live service titles coming and putting Bungie in charge of all creativity going forward. Again, good riddance.
@theSpectre no they didn't. They said the shadows were better in their opinion but I don't find super sharp shadows too realistic lol. They also claimed the contrast is better on PS4&5 as well which I also contest. The Xbox version has deeper darks and brighter brights. DF can claim whatever they want but this new version is slightly washed out compared to the Xbox native contrast settings. Granted you could probably change your TV settings to get the same thing either way. All DF claimed were edge cases and even then it was all opinionated and subjective. Not to mention as far as I saw they never claimed either version ran better than the other. Both are pretty much locked at 30fps and look practically the same.
I don't know what they're thinking. They have $200 earbuds coming out but also a premium headset that's only $150 and this Portal thing exists for some reason and yet I find more value and use in the ear buds than the Portal.
Big ooph here... Looks like I'll just pass on this then. I already have the old HD collection from PS3 and Xbox 360. What's worse is I'd assume those games haven't updated the controls either then which sucks. We need an updated controller layout for those games.
Man I was really hoping Sony was greedy enough to get Twisted Metal 3 and 4 up on the service to take full advantage of the new show lol. Especially when they went out of their way to make sure we have full access to the entire Syphon Filter franchise that no one really cares for anymore.
@TheCollector316 you realize if Microsoft doesn't get it then Tencent will? Due to current trends and industry climate, Microsoft getting ABK is the best case scenario for all of us.
This kinda sucks sadly... Was hoping Sony would put this out as a Classic title for $9.99. I'm not paying LRG $50+ for this, nor their Digital release on PSN for a similar price.
PS Now is never going to be the answer to this issue. It doesn't work well enough to be a proper answer and it never will. Streaming will never be the future and it should be something added to an already established downloadable service, not a streaming service in and of itself.
Xbox's Game Pass should be the standard here. If you want to stream it's an option but not the main option.
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Re: Fans Outraged at Rocksteady's Handling of Hero Deaths in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
@BeerIsAwesome well unless they plan to bring Kevin Conroy back from the dead, they just took out the only Batman multiverse I cared about.
Re: Fans Outraged at Rocksteady's Handling of Hero Deaths in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
@BeerIsAwesome except this is the same universe from the Arkham games ... That's why everyone's pissed
Re: Fans Outraged at Rocksteady's Handling of Hero Deaths in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
The biggest issue to me is they took their greatest hero and had him taken out by the weakest villain in the series. This is so reminiscent of that one death in The Last of Us 2. Just the level of disrespect put on display here is incomprehensible. Rocksteady, what happened to you guys?
Re: Suicide Squad Episodes, Characters, and Locations Coming After Launch
@GuttyYZ dude that pic of "The Joker" with the umbrella is just straight up Fortnite. This game will be in the bargain bin by the summer.
Re: Suicide Squad Episodes, Characters, and Locations Coming After Launch
@djlard lol right?! I just deleted Singstar tho
Re: Suicide Squad Episodes, Characters, and Locations Coming After Launch
Wow, I can't wait til next year when it's all updated and only $5 in the bargain bin right next to Agents of Mayhem!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 512
So disappointed that PSNs new Phantom Menace PS1 Classic title doesn't contain trophies. I was so excited for them
Re: Bethesda Has Delayed Fallout 4's PS5 Version to Next Year
Only cuz the TV show got delayed
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Fans Miffed After Apparent Snubbing at The Game Awards
Just because it didn't win an award doesn't mean the fun you had with it didn't happen. It just wasn't AS good as other stuff. Now it probably would have won a woke Game of the Year award it there was one.
Re: Poll: Was The Game Awards 2023 Worth Watching?
Insert the "I mean it's all right" meme...
It was pretty decent. I was completely stoked over the Dragon Ball and SEGA announcements but other than that I saw good things that I'm just not personally into.
Re: PS Plus Premium Will Add PS1's Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Next
Day one purchase if it has trophies
Re: PlayStation Users Set to Lose Hundreds of TV Shows They Paid For
@Texaschainsaw83 yes but that was before this and this is going to keep happening more and more. After awhile people will lose faith in digital distribution. Just wait til it's something you care about
Re: PlayStation Users Set to Lose Hundreds of TV Shows They Paid For
This proves the future is NOT digital. Kick and scream all you want but this will just cause people to go back to physical media if this keeps happening.
Re: Sony Says PS Portal Wasn't Designed to Make a Profit
Basically they're lying. What they mean to say is the Portal wasnt designed to make profit on its own but with the hopes it increases engagement, by players playing more games which in turn means more time players are likely to purchase battle passes and other microtransactions which they do make profits on any time a purchase is made on the PSN.
Re: Suicide Squad Returns with All-New PS5 Gameplay
@somnambulance probably Game Pass day one just to make sure they recoup losses right away
Re: Suicide Squad Returns with All-New PS5 Gameplay
No matter how good it might appear to be, launching in the same month as Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth? Big ooph... JL is now D.O.A. for me sadly.
Re: Star Kaitlyn Dever Could Be The Last of Us TV Show's Abby
Oh man... Neil Druckmann is going to be pissed if they don't masculinize her first. Can't have anyone remotely pretty now, we wouldn't want that would we? Lol clown world. All jokes aside, she's a good actress I fully support this.
Re: GTA Publisher Lays Out Complex Entertainment Per-Hour Pricing Algorithm
Man Oh man, the first GTA game I won't be buying apparently... I'll be the only one but so be it.
Re: Insomniac Confirms Primary Marvel's Spider-Man Moving Forward
Miles is great, don't get me wrong, but he's just not that interesting because of his whole thing being he's suffers from the same issue as Superman does. He's too OP. Anytime he faces a new struggle, he just gains some new power that doesn't really make sense but means he can now defeat the bad guy. Whereas Peter Parker on the other hand is drenched in lore and personal struggle. He doesn't really just "gain new powers" in order to beat the bad guys that momentarily overpower him, and if he does it's never permanent and usually just blows up in his face. He has to use his wits and brainpower to think his way around problems. He's just more interesting.
This also sucks cuz it means so many storylines we will never see play out now. This wasn't what I was hoping to see so I'm probably out now, but I hope Insomniac can think up something cool in order to keep everyone else interested going forward past the Venom spinoff.
Re: If You Weren't Already Hyped for Alan Wake 2 on PS5, This Should Do It
Question, do we ever play as Alan Wake in the game called Alan Wake 2? Or do we play as this FBI agent doing her best to emulate the girl from Forspoken the whole time?
Re: You'll Need an Internet Connection to Pair PS5 Slim's Optional Blu-ray Drive
@MrHabushi I understand it's a one time connection to pair the disc drive for now, but it's just one more step into getting people used to full scale DRM which Sony sees value in now.
Re: You'll Need an Internet Connection to Pair PS5 Slim's Optional Blu-ray Drive
Jesus Christ.... I thought we were past this with Sony! Remember the PS4 pitch for used games? That was a slam to the face for Xbox. Now this?! If this is the new precedence Sony is going to set going forward then I can only imagine how they plan to further evolve this idea later and go full DRM and I might be out supporting them going forward because of it.
Re: Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection (PS5) - Three Classics in One Messy Bundle
@Titntin dude I'd say that a good rule of thumb for all outlet reviews the last few years.
Re: Metal Gear Solid's First-Ever Trophy List Has Been Revealed
@Shigurui I'll have to check that out, thanks. I've tried the same thing on Xbox with the triggers and you can remap everything except those two buttons. So if Sony lets me do it then this is a day one buy for me.
Re: Metal Gear Solid's First-Ever Trophy List Has Been Revealed
@Americansamurai1 this is how I feel about MGS 2 & 3 as well. If they don't let me map aim and shoot to L2 & R2 I'm out.
Re: Hold the Phone, Hotline Miami's Getting a PS5 Version
I feel like I already got everything I needed out of that game. It's an amazing title but unless they do something to boost the visuals some way or add something unique I think I'm out.
Re: The Last of Us 2 PS5 Remaster Seems to Be Real
Jesus Christ... why?! This crap is Jim Ryan's legacy. Nothing but "remasters" of recent games and a future of crappy service games.
Re: PlayStation's Push for Live Service Games Hasn't Been Going Smoothly
Moving so smoothly in fact that Naughty Dog is cutting 25 devs contracts short and letting them go without severance... Yay! Don't let the door kick your ass on the way out Jim Ryan!
Re: Jim Ryan Retires as PlayStation Boss in March 2024
Thank God. Good riddance Crying Lying Jim Ryan! Please Sony, put Shuhei Yoshida in charge or someone who at least plays games and understands the art of the industry. All Jim did was reap the benefits and successes of those before him and then make himself a bunch of money by raising the price of everything under the guise of the brand being "boutique". He hasn't given us many titles that he signed off on apart from all the live service titles coming and putting Bungie in charge of all creativity going forward. Again, good riddance.
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0?
I put Starfield to the side to play this 2.0 version of Cyberpunk and im loving it! I hope something similar can happen for Starfield.
Re: Xbox Poised to Borrow from PS5's DualSense Controller
@Fritz167 im severely bummed as well. That Astro game is STILL the only game really using haptics the way they should be used!
Re: Konami Forced to Clarify MGS Master Collection Is 1080p, Up to 60FPS on PS5, PS4
@theSpectre no they didn't. They said the shadows were better in their opinion but I don't find super sharp shadows too realistic lol. They also claimed the contrast is better on PS4&5 as well which I also contest. The Xbox version has deeper darks and brighter brights. DF can claim whatever they want but this new version is slightly washed out compared to the Xbox native contrast settings. Granted you could probably change your TV settings to get the same thing either way. All DF claimed were edge cases and even then it was all opinionated and subjective. Not to mention as far as I saw they never claimed either version ran better than the other. Both are pretty much locked at 30fps and look practically the same.
Re: Poll: Are You Sold on PlayStation Portal?
@__jamiie my favorite thing is that most people who want this crapped all over the Wii U lol.
Re: Poll: Are You Sold on PlayStation Portal?
I don't know what they're thinking. They have $200 earbuds coming out but also a premium headset that's only $150 and this Portal thing exists for some reason and yet I find more value and use in the ear buds than the Portal.
Re: PS2 Games Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 Will Be Just 720p on PS5, PS4
Big ooph here... Looks like I'll just pass on this then. I already have the old HD collection from PS3 and Xbox 360. What's worse is I'd assume those games haven't updated the controls either then which sucks. We need an updated controller layout for those games.
Re: Red Dead Redemption PS4 Trends on PS Store as $50 Port Attracts a Lot of Attention
This is the worst news I've heard all day. Can't wait to see them disrespect GTA4 in the same way.
Re: Street Fighter 6 Under Fire for Ridiculous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DLC Pricing
This makes the Horse Armor dlc look like a charity.
Re: 17 New PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Revealed for Huge Update Next Week
Man I was really hoping Sony was greedy enough to get Twisted Metal 3 and 4 up on the service to take full advantage of the new show lol. Especially when they went out of their way to make sure we have full access to the entire Syphon Filter franchise that no one really cares for anymore.
Re: Microsoft Urges UK Regulator to Renege on ActiBlizz Block, Points to PlayStation Deal
@TheCollector316 you realize if Microsoft doesn't get it then Tencent will? Due to current trends and industry climate, Microsoft getting ABK is the best case scenario for all of us.
Re: New PS5 Firmware Beta Starts Today, Bigger SSD and Dolby Atmos Support
2 controllers on one account... Oh boy I'll be able to exploit certain games like Borderlands 2 again 😂
Re: PS1 Platformer Tomba! Makes a Grand Return on PS5, PS4
This kinda sucks sadly... Was hoping Sony would put this out as a Classic title for $9.99. I'm not paying LRG $50+ for this, nor their Digital release on PSN for a similar price.
Re: Talking Point: Would You Buy a PS1, PS2, or PS3 Emulator for PS5?
PS Now is never going to be the answer to this issue. It doesn't work well enough to be a proper answer and it never will. Streaming will never be the future and it should be something added to an already established downloadable service, not a streaming service in and of itself.
Xbox's Game Pass should be the standard here. If you want to stream it's an option but not the main option.
Re: Sony Confirms PS3, PS Vita, PSP Store Closures, Downloads Will Be Retained
So much for a digital future...