@ATaco I've seen PC Gameplay since the game has already launched in Japan. It's closer to an MMO than Genshin but many have complained about in game item drop rate, etc.
Tons of stuff on Youtube, just look it up and make a judgement.
Personally, I'm still concerned Amazon is going to censor and make the drop rates even worse so people will feel compelled to spend more. Western Releases tend to pull this crap where they mess with drop rates.
This pretty much Confirms TLOUII was a financial flop. If it made a profit, it barely broke passed even when you include Marketing.
The post first week 6 Million sales were heavily discounted and I saw the game for as low as $10. I will assume that the 10 Million players number is real, but that doesn't account for people who borrowed the game or bought it second hand.
@TheElectroFunky The tweet doesn't even state they received death threats so where are you getting that from?
Celebrities deal with it all the time and you don't see them whining about it on Twitter.
Also, this article is just more "Muh Gamer Community is ToXiC" rhetoric when we all know it's just a fringe minority of people who probably never even played the game.
@WallyWest I didn't specify it had to be Native 4K, but even in games that do offer performance RT, we often lose quite a bit of res. Some go as low as somewhere between 1080p and 1440p.
A bump closer to maintaining 1440p would be a nice upgrade.
@Blacksmith1985 I suspect that's due to those games clinging on to supporting the PS4. Burning Shores still didn't provide it so I cannot make an argument for it.
As for God of War Ragnarok, did it really need it? There's not a lot of scenes besides the safe house that has tons of reflective surfaces.
Hard Pass, I'll stick with cheaper anime figures that look better. I've splurged on a gaming figure before and they always look worse. and less detailed.
Try putting any game that supports it into Fidelity/Ray-Tracing mode and then come back and tell me the system isn't being taxed.
Stop accepting 30fps.
Personally I'd like my cake and eat it too, I'd much rather choose between 120Hz no RT and 60 with RT instead of 30 with RT which is what a lot of games are still offering.
Hopefully they don't use it. Would suck to lose a rare controller o drift or whatever. Regardless if you like the design or not, rare controllers should be taken care of.
Sony is insane if they think I'm going to buy the same game again at $70 especially when they removed an entire portion of it.
No Factions and it's costs more than the PS4 Remaster? What a joke. This is a low-effort cash grab for the sony pony whales that would buy it regardless. All they did was port TOUII assets and update the game to their latest engine.
@mucc you need to read Phil's words carefully. He's being purposely ambiguous like he was with Bethesda, I know there's some copium for COD and Over watch, but don't get your hopes up for COD after this coming year.
@Col_McCafferty This is always the argument. I didn't play it so I can't judge it. Yes I can.
I took the information I had and made a purchasing judgement. I didn't buy it and the leaks being accurate were why. I was hoping the leaks were fake because like anyone else I was hyped.
It's that simple. I don't blindly love everything Sony and it's studios pump out.
There are things about the PS5's UI that drive me insane though. Like the horizontal trophy list, how long it takes to access the trophies, the game base has too many clicks to get to the friends list......
"It was just a bandwagon for them to jump on, a chance to attack 'wokeness' and rally against something that wasn't aimed solely at young straight white males."
It's this argument right here where it's the weakest. I do not have to play a game to judge it and no company is entitled to my money unless it's earned. If the creators of the game think of their potential customers as Toxic I simply won't give them money. It's that easy.
When you watch a trailer for an upcoming Game of Movie do you make a judgement on whether or not your time and money are worth it based on the available information? Yes? Well there you go, I just countered the "Bandwagon" argument with a simple question.
To make what I said earlier more clear, I was hyped for TLOUII up until the leaks. The trailers and everything looked awesome until me and others realized the pre-release trailers were a lie.
@Akurusu Can I still be a fan of the Original TLOU and not be called a bigot for not liking TLOUII? Seems almost impossible.
Agree with you here though, Game Journo's are worse though, they always call for unity in the community while simultaneously trying to cancel any youtuber who dares criticize their reviews.
@Salt_AU Sounds like you're inferring I'm at least some of the things mentioned above. If anyone here needs to calm down it's you. I simply made a comment about being a proper parent, and you reacted by calling me whatever the *'s mean and and "ist".
@Salt_AU I know right? Because Parental Controls are hard and actually being a parent and protecting their kids is also hard. They gotta have Sony do the work for them. You realize how ridiculous you sound?
I don't see why people feel the need that Sony has to babysit them. If someone is being vulgar it's a simple fix, you mute/kick them from a party. And if it's in a game's public chat like Modern Warfare, there's literally a feature where you can mute anyone who's not playing with you.
Sony is not your babysitter and as soon as you allow them to start moderating, they will go too far with it.
@naruball I play in a Destiny 2 clan mainly but not always the same people. I find it annoying that I need to either make separate groups or just one and annoy the people who currently aren't playing with notifications.
Some days I play with 2 friends, other times 3, and it's not always the same people.
@AdamNovice I beg to differ, I removed the beta and gave Sony my clear feedback that it was a terrible user experience. This hinders socialization, not encourages it.
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Re: The Last of Us' Neil Druckmann Confirms He's Writing, Directing New PS5 Game
TLOU3 feels inevitable but I think they did too much damage with Part 2. There are some that just won't come back. Me Included.
Re: Open World PS5, PS4 Gacha Tower of Fantasy Is a 12-Month Console Exclusive
Played this on PC, it's really not worth your time. Not only is more stuff locked behind a gacha than genshin but they all use their own currency.
Re: Told You So! Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Really Wouldn't Have Worked on PS4
um....duh? Did anyone ever argue that this was even feasible on the PS4 in the first place?
Re: Preview: Blue Protocol Might Be the Competition Genshin Impact Needs
@ATaco I've seen PC Gameplay since the game has already launched in Japan. It's closer to an MMO than Genshin but many have complained about in game item drop rate, etc.
Tons of stuff on Youtube, just look it up and make a judgement.
Personally, I'm still concerned Amazon is going to censor and make the drop rates even worse so people will feel compelled to spend more. Western Releases tend to pull this crap where they mess with drop rates.
Re: The Last of Us TV Series Handed 24 Nominations at The Emmy Awards
eh, the show was pretty middle of the road. Doesn't surprise me that the media is fawning over it for little reason.
Re: The Last of Us 3 Rumours Are Doing the Rounds Again
@SJR You mean that Factions mode that according to Bungie is in a very poor state and needs major reworks?
That's just an empty promise at this point.
Re: The Last of Us 3 Rumours Are Doing the Rounds Again
After the absolute bait and switch that Part II was....this is a hard pass.
Re: Glitzy Genshin Impact Trailer Introduces Gacha's Glittering Cast of New Money Makers
Wow that's one Cynical Title....
Re: The Last of Us 2 Cost $220 Million to Make, Horizon Forbidden West Cost $212 Million
This pretty much Confirms TLOUII was a financial flop. If it made a profit, it barely broke passed even when you include Marketing.
The post first week 6 Million sales were heavily discounted and I saw the game for as low as $10. I will assume that the 10 Million players number is real, but that doesn't account for people who borrowed the game or bought it second hand.
Re: Kingdom Hearts, NieR Automata Teams Assisted on Final Fantasy 16 for PS5
Which Kingdom Hearts Team, Though? The one that did KH/KHII? Or the KH3D/KHIII team?
One inspires confidence, the other might spark some division.
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Pre-Orders Begin 16th June, Various Editions Detailed
Sony Locked the Steelbook behind the Collector's Edition because of course they f-n' did.
Hard Pass, I refuse to support that anti-consumer BS. Just a basic Physical copy for me it is.
Re: PS5 Remote Play Handheld Allegedly Has Just Four Hours of Battery Life
What Players Want: Vita 2 with non-proprietary memory cards.
What Sony Gives: A Remote Play handheld no one asked for.
This thing deserves to be mocked relentlessly.
Re: Horizon Vocalist Receives Abuse Over the Use of Her Voice
@TheElectroFunky The tweet doesn't even state they received death threats so where are you getting that from?
Celebrities deal with it all the time and you don't see them whining about it on Twitter.
Also, this article is just more "Muh Gamer Community is ToXiC" rhetoric when we all know it's just a fringe minority of people who probably never even played the game.
Re: Horizon Vocalist Receives Abuse Over the Use of Her Voice
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Re: PS5 Pro Is '100%' Happening, Says Reliable Report
@WallyWest I didn't specify it had to be Native 4K, but even in games that do offer performance RT, we often lose quite a bit of res. Some go as low as somewhere between 1080p and 1440p.
A bump closer to maintaining 1440p would be a nice upgrade.
Re: PS5 Pro Is '100%' Happening, Says Reliable Report
@Blacksmith1985 I suspect that's due to those games clinging on to supporting the PS4. Burning Shores still didn't provide it so I cannot make an argument for it.
As for God of War Ragnarok, did it really need it? There's not a lot of scenes besides the safe house that has tons of reflective surfaces.
Re: PS5 Pro Is '100%' Happening, Says Reliable Report
I'm not surprised, many games are unable to maintain at least 60fps with ray tracing. You usually need to choose between one or the other.
If the Pro offers better RT Support at good framerates, then I'm game for it.
By "many games" I am referring to third party games, Sony's studios are usually pretty good at offering a Performance RT Mode.
Re: The Apocalypse Awaits Your Bank Balance if You Pod Out $2,000 for This The Last of Us 2 Statue
Hard Pass, I'll stick with cheaper anime figures that look better. I've splurged on a gaming figure before and they always look worse. and less detailed.
Re: Everyone's Talking About the End of Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores on PS5
Can we maybe focus on the AI Monster coming to destroy the planet instead of "oh look, I'm gay now"?
Re: Rumour: PS5 Pro Targeting Potential 2024 Release
@stvevan "nothing taxxing the console"
Try putting any game that supports it into Fidelity/Ray-Tracing mode and then come back and tell me the system isn't being taxed.
Stop accepting 30fps.
Personally I'd like my cake and eat it too, I'd much rather choose between 120Hz no RT and 60 with RT instead of 30 with RT which is what a lot of games are still offering.
Re: Special PS5 DualSense Gifted to PlayStation Employees
Hopefully they don't use it. Would suck to lose a rare controller o drift or whatever. Regardless if you like the design or not, rare controllers should be taken care of.
Re: Simon Pegg Revealed as the Voice of Hogwarts Legacy's Headmaster
I'm buying this game just because the "controversy" brought it to my attention. It legit looks good.
Re: PlayStation's Jim Ryan Named Among 500 Most Influential Global Media Business Leaders
Still don't like him, Playstation has taken a 180 degree turn towards anti-consumer this generation under his leadership.
Re: Need for Speed Unbound Has 10,000 Customisation Options on PS5
Cool, so if I want to make a character avatar with culturally acceptable rainbow hair, I can do that?
Re: Sony Discontinuing PS5 Accolades As No One Used Them
Maybe it would have seen more use if it was integrated into games and was easier to access?
Jeez Sony, people aren't going to go out of their way to use something that has such little benefit to them.
Re: Sony Posts Official The Last of Us: Part I PS5 Gameplay in Extended Look
This only proved it's a cash grab.
Re: Sony Officially Licenses PS5 SSD from Western Digital
To be fair, the SN850 is a great SSD. I've got the 2TB myself and got it on sale for a good price.
Re: Video: In Defence of The Last of Us' PS5 Remake
Lazy Cash Grab, hard pass.
Re: Poll: Will You Buy The Last of Us: Part I?
Sony is insane if they think I'm going to buy the same game again at $70 especially when they removed an entire portion of it.
No Factions and it's costs more than the PS4 Remaster? What a joke. This is a low-effort cash grab for the sony pony whales that would buy it regardless. All they did was port TOUII assets and update the game to their latest engine.
Re: PS App: How to Send PS5 Screenshots to Your Phone
This inexplicably disabled itself after the recent update and I cannot find any way to turn it back on.
Re: All These Activision Blizzard Studios Will Likely Cease PlayStation Development
@mucc you need to read Phil's words carefully. He's being purposely ambiguous like he was with Bethesda, I know there's some copium for COD and Over watch, but don't get your hopes up for COD after this coming year.
Warzone is the most likely to stay.
Re: Game of the Year: #1 - The Last of Us: Part II
@Col_McCafferty This is always the argument. I didn't play it so I can't judge it. Yes I can.
I took the information I had and made a purchasing judgement. I didn't buy it and the leaks being accurate were why. I was hoping the leaks were fake because like anyone else I was hyped.
It's that simple. I don't blindly love everything Sony and it's studios pump out.
Re: PlayStation Celebrates Pride 2021 with Free Theme and Curated LGBTQ+ Games List
Company marketing BS as usual. Don't care about Pride month, never will.
Because what gender someone else prefers is none of my business. You do you.
Re: PS5's April Firmware Update to Feature Many Unlisted Tweaks and Improvements
@The_Anomaly Did they confirm it's vertical now? What a relief.
Re: Free-to-Play Juggernaut Genshin Impact Comes to PS5 This Spring with Multiple Improvements
@GamingVeteran Disagreed, the game hitches and has framerate issues. The asset pop-in is also immersion breaking.
Re: Random: Someone Recreated the PS5's UI in JavaScript, Then Turned it into a Tutorial
There are things about the PS5's UI that drive me insane though. Like the horizontal trophy list, how long it takes to access the trophies, the game base has too many clicks to get to the friends list......
Re: Game of the Year: #1 - The Last of Us: Part II
@Col_McCafferty
"It was just a bandwagon for them to jump on, a chance to attack 'wokeness' and rally against something that wasn't aimed solely at young straight white males."
It's this argument right here where it's the weakest. I do not have to play a game to judge it and no company is entitled to my money unless it's earned. If the creators of the game think of their potential customers as Toxic I simply won't give them money. It's that easy.
When you watch a trailer for an upcoming Game of Movie do you make a judgement on whether or not your time and money are worth it based on the available information? Yes? Well there you go, I just countered the "Bandwagon" argument with a simple question.
To make what I said earlier more clear, I was hyped for TLOUII up until the leaks. The trailers and everything looked awesome until me and others realized the pre-release trailers were a lie.
Re: Talking Point: Did The Game Awards 2020 Meet Your Expectations?
@Akurusu Not only deaf ears, everyone will just assume you're reasoning.
Two most over used examples:
Abbie's Muscles.
You are anti-trans/lgbtq.
The Anti-LGBT one always gets me laughing. Why was there zero outrage over Left Behind? Oh... Because it told a good story.
Re: Talking Point: Did The Game Awards 2020 Meet Your Expectations?
@Akurusu Can I still be a fan of the Original TLOU and not be called a bigot for not liking TLOUII? Seems almost impossible.
Agree with you here though, Game Journo's are worse though, they always call for unity in the community while simultaneously trying to cancel any youtuber who dares criticize their reviews.
Re: Neil Druckmann to Continue Writing and Directing at Naughty Dog as Co-President
I kinda wish he didn't.
Re: 10 Things to Do First with Your New PS5
What's missing from the list? Get a Dbrand cover for the middle and protect that shiny center.
Re: How to Use the PS5 DualSense Controller on PC
Not working for me. I have games that support DS4 and I followed the settings exactly but no luck.
Re: Sony Explains PS5's New Voice Chat Reporting Feature
@Salt_AU Sounds like you're inferring I'm at least some of the things mentioned above. If anyone here needs to calm down it's you. I simply made a comment about being a proper parent, and you reacted by calling me whatever the *'s mean and and "ist".
Re: Sony Explains PS5's New Voice Chat Reporting Feature
@Salt_AU I know right? Because Parental Controls are hard and actually being a parent and protecting their kids is also hard. They gotta have Sony do the work for them. You realize how ridiculous you sound?
Re: Sony Explains PS5's New Voice Chat Reporting Feature
I don't see why people feel the need that Sony has to babysit them. If someone is being vulgar it's a simple fix, you mute/kick them from a party. And if it's in a game's public chat like Modern Warfare, there's literally a feature where you can mute anyone who's not playing with you.
Sony is not your babysitter and as soon as you allow them to start moderating, they will go too far with it.
Re: Sony Explains PS5's New Voice Chat Reporting Feature
@nessisonett Mute people?
Re: Sony Seemingly Doubles Down on Poorly Updated Party System for PS5
@naruball I play in a Destiny 2 clan mainly but not always the same people. I find it annoying that I need to either make separate groups or just one and annoy the people who currently aren't playing with notifications.
Some days I play with 2 friends, other times 3, and it's not always the same people.
Re: Poll: What Do You Think of the PS5 UI?
All of this looks great, except this new party system sucks.
Re: PS4 Owners Aren't Happy with the New Party System
@AdamNovice I beg to differ, I removed the beta and gave Sony my clear feedback that it was a terrible user experience. This hinders socialization, not encourages it.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Multiplayer Will Be Worth the Wait, Says Neil Druckmann
Probably because there's no plot to ruin. lol