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For me, the Pro is similar issue to the Series S.

As a console and PC gamer, the thing I love about consoles is we all get the same experience. Games are optimised and generally just work.

Now though, most Xbox gamers are using the inferior console because it has sold the most. Meaning developers have to cater to them on that console.

And PS5 gamers who are the majority on the base model risk having inferior versions because lazy developers will just make the Pro version the best because that’s their showcase version and they cut corners on the base.

In all honesty, developers ignoring the pro isn’t that bad. In fact, it might be better for the majority of PS5 users.

Does this game come with a one handed controller so players can utilise their extra peripheral?

@Pandalulz my daughter got given a tin of candy from Japan that is similar to the one in the movie. My brother pointed this out to me and it honestly made my stomach drop for a moment. Seeing my daughter innocent and happy, sharing her sweets with us from that tin and thinking of that movie.

@PuppetMaster you monster! Don’t recommend Grave of the Fireflies to anyone! I watched it once as a teenager and haven’t tried to watch it it since. Not sure I can handle it.

@UltimateOtaku91 Grave of the Fireflies is a masterpiece but… tears… big fat man tears will roll down your face and you will forever be changed.

I see they chose Apple flavour for their Tango logo.

Glad to see them back. That’s actually a relief. God bless ‘em.

@Czar_Khastik yeah, the over censorship of the gaming community in general is a bit depressing. Whether it is controversial opinions or the female form.

We are often being treated like naughty school children rather than respected as adults.

It would be really handy to have the region listed: Rosaria, Sanbreque etc.

@ChrisDeku I’m not saying every game should be the same and not every game needs sex to sell (although Luigi is a draw in Mario Kart).

But it doesn’t help to have some beautiful characters, both male and female. There is a reason pretty girls and muscly men are used to advertise things.

@ChrisDeku yes, that’s exactly what they should do.

8/10 is a good score.

Sex sells.

Gamers being willing to part with their cash for a good game and to support developers that respect them? Who’d have thunk it?

Personally, I kept forgetting it existed.

If I was more diligent about things, I’d probably have appreciated it and used it more. But really, I’m often pressed for time and want to game the way I want to game and I don’t need reward systems on Xbox or PlayStation.

So I’m happy to go without these reward systems as I then don’t feel pressured to fulfil them or that I’m missing out.

@N0CYmr0k I’m not convinced this game is going to be tickling anyone’s fetishes.

It’s just a cute Chibi art styled RPG game that’s fun to play.

That Cookie Monster parody of Limp Bizkit’s ‘Nookie’ was played many times on my Napster playlist back in the day.

Now I will have it stuck in my head all day.

No doubt I will get me a cookie and “stick it in my yum, stick it in my yum, stick it in my yum.”

Cheers, Sammy.

Is it really all doom and gloom? I mean, we are just hearing from disgruntled employees and every company has those.

Obviously Bungie isn’t peak right now, but it still has potential.

And since they are revitalising old IP, I think they could just re-release Destiny 1 as a Remaster on both PC and console with cross play and finally we can have 60fps on consoles (and hopefully they’d add gyro aiming). And they’d be on to a winner.

I just bought Wilds over the weekend. I’m guessing I need to level up a bit before tackling this quest?

I’m a real fan of money.

I will find a way to keep it by not buying overpriced games.

Last week it was a ‘lukewarm’ launch.

Now it’s hit a target seven times faster than the previous game.

But also, it’s ‘not impressive’ because it is only players and not sales.

Are ever going to know the truth?

So we are allowed to criticise it now without being called ‘incels’?

In that case… the games are better and in my opinion it should have stayed as a game only.

@Lysterao I think the fact they are adding NPC animations and interactions shows there was a real problem there that needed fixing.

Many of us noticed it and they are acknowledging it needed to be better.

The improvements to NPCs will help.

It really is a bit soulless, NPCs don’t move, cities feel sparse because of it. The fact that they don’t react to things. That guards wont get involved in fights happening right on them or the player hitting them is just a bit crap to be honest.

Glad they are fixing it, but it likely still won’t be a patch on 20 year old Oblivions NPCs though.

Is it really because it was “such a hit” or have they actually learnt they produce better games and customers get a far better product with more development time?

This type of decision makes me doubt my future with Xbox and Microsoft even more.

I own two Xbox Series consoles and I am a multi platform gamer. At the start of the generation their best efforts were game preservation, the fact I could put old physical games in my new Xbox and play them at 4K/60fps.

Now they do this nonsense, and on repeat.

As someone who is waiting patiently for a physical release of Oblivion Remastered… I am losing hope.

I don’t think this is review bombing. It’s just not that good.

Would you say that the critics ‘review bombed’ The Minecraft Movie because that’s 47% Critics vs 86% Audience.

Critics and Audience often don’t see eye to eye. And usually the ones pushing the agenda are the critics who feel like they can’t criticise anything that has a certain political view.

The media then pushes it out and we get comments like the first one calling everyone ‘incels’ for not liking a mediocre show.

All it leads to is shutting down of conversations and stopping people from being honest about what they think.

My opinion is this: The show isn’t as good as it could have been. And Season 2 is actually bad compared to the game. And both TV series are not as good as the games.

My 9 year old daughter loves this game.

It’s clearly not for most of the Push Square audience. But if you have a child that loves cats then I think this and Stray are the two best cat games (Stray is far better, and my daughter prefers that also).

@Lup but it is propaganda.

Nobody has friends. That’s a conspiracy… 😅

Brothers!

Through the howling winds of this digital storm, we must stand unyielding.

Every time we open a physical case let it thunder louder than the tempest’s roar.

When we kneel to insert those sacred discs into our consoles, be it is as if we are making a holy rite.

We must vow to never abandon the path of physical gaming.

Let the digital tides surge; we march on, unbroken, forever loyal to the true way.

A gaming site declaring that the TV remote is mightier than the gaming controller?

We used to burn people at the stake for less.

Everyone laid off has my sympathy.

EA on the other hand does not.

It makes me wonder how much different the industry would be without the greed of the biggest companies and their ‘maximise profits at the expense of everything else’ mentality.

So, the cheaters are on a global leaderboard highlighting exactly who they are for Capcom to ban?

Sounds a bit dumb to me.

But then again, anyone who cheats on an online game is not someone to look up to.

So overall a PS5 Pro with Disc Drive is £40 less. (If you really want to spin a positive).

And I wouldn’t buy the Pro without the disc drive as I’m predominantly a physical gamer.

The problem is I can’t justify the price of the Pro console. Even though I really do want to see Tifa and Aerith in 4K 60fps…

I’m sure this movie is Marmite to most people.

I’m going to watch it with my two Minecraft mad children who are already hyped for it thanks to the McDonald’s toys.

Based on the reviews above though I have no idea if we will enjoy this or not.

7 for me.

The world, environments, weather systems, graphics etc (barring some bad animations) are amazing. Everything else is quite similar to previous Ubisoft open word games. Combat is a bit basic.

Gotta say I’m a little underwhelmed outside of the graphics. But it’s still a fairly solid game.

@themightyant those are interesting stats.

Do you have a source for them? I’m interested to see the Monster Hunter Wilds ratio. Is that more popular on PC for example?

Do you know where I can find this info?

@PuppetMaster yeah, that’s fair enough. There is a lot of brain rot in the world and definitely a few have influenced many in a not so positive way.

@PuppetMaster @ChromaticDracula @Ralizah @breakneck

The people who disrespected the shrine were not ‘Western’ or ‘Caucasian’.

Please try not jump to conclusions or broad brush groups without knowing the information.

Sadly, it appears it was Asian tourists who were doing the disrespecting. Smoking, dropping cigarette butts, spitting, throwing stones, allegedly a case of defacation, and the final straw was a staff member getting assaulted.

My family is Asian (it wasn’t us! 😅) so I’m not writing this to blame a group or looking at the ‘other’.

This is not about race. This is not about culture. This is about a few individual bad actors who has ruined a nice thing for many other tourists who visited the shrine and were respectful.

@FuriousMachine Thank you for pointing out the problem being the character of individual people, not their background.

@get2sammyb if you want to update the article as there is more information available now. I’m sad to say it looks like it was South Korean tourists (the comment above links to an article with more information and here is a link to images: https://x.com/mrjeffu/status/1904327369982132731). The vagueness of ‘who done it’ can sometimes lead people to make their own minds without the facts. Ultimately these acts should not smear any group but the individuals who did it.

Also, the shrine will still allow foreign tourists (although more restricted), but they must show respect or they won’t be allowed entry.

@DennisReynolds I’m talking about the Hideout upgrades.

The reason they have them in the store is because it takes a while to farm them, so why not just pay real money.

It’s just a practice I don’t like.

@ChrisDeku we shouldn’t be accepting it.

I haven’t touched Diablo 4 because of what they did with Diablo Immortals, which I played then realised it was pay to win. There is a video of someone who spent $10k getting one shot by someone who spent far more.

The gaming media should be calling that out and the community should be boycotting greedy companies rather than accepting it. Instead we have so many, who claim to care about the average person, instead shilling for multi-billion dollar companies.

It’s quite sad really.

The success of the game is not a surprise (I’d argue it would have been more successful if they didn’t make so many missteps).

However, it’s quite sad to see practically the entire gaming media world playing defense for Ubisoft and seemingly engage in this culture war political nonsense.

The game looks amazing. It’s definitely an achievement in that. It has good gameplay, but nothing special. No improvement over the previous games. And the combat is limited and simple. It has a task driven gameplay loop that isn’t innovative either.

It gets worse though. In parts it is downright anti-consumer with some of its mechanics that should be objected to. (And yet no reviews mention this). They purposely made it harder to farm stuff so you’ll be enticed to pay money in game [Edit: the entire in game real money store is problematic in single player games]. Not to mention some dodgy decisions in development, their plagiarising of others work (remember that Yasuke sword they displayed that was from One Piece?), and a myriad of other controversies.

Politics has stopped gaming journalists from doing their jobs. This not helping Ubisoft improve or the gaming community get better games. It’s pandering to mediocrity that holds the industry back.

Anyways, I look forward to ranting more at the next fawning article that overlooks all controversies and bad practices. 😇

I’m not sure AC Shadows is a system seller, as such, but with games having this much improvement, it might prove to be a reason to upgrade.

However, I think it should be noted that the solid 60fps on base PS5 and the still good graphics you get with it, kinda make it so that you don’t have to upgrade.

I always thought the Pro would make developers lazy and that we’d get terrible PS5 base versions. But Ubisoft have actually delivered on both consoles in terms of graphical fidelity and performance, which is very impressive.

Thanks for the review. It seems like it’s a solid Assassin’s Creed game.

However, I am going to respect the Japanese and get their verdict on this before I consider buying.

People can defend Ubisoft all they like, but really the developers have been extremely lazy with respecting Japanese culture with this game; ripping off sacred artefacts and googling stuff rather than consulting Japanese experts, the previews were full of mistranslated stuff, wrong cultural practices (like writing sideways on a scroll) and inserting Chinese stylings into Japanese culture.

If they have fixed that stuff, then good. If not, then they won’t get my money. Sorry.

@Skeletor85 it was literally my first time using the word waifu and I got called out. 😅

What’s wrong with the word anyway? It seems to accurately portray what Tifa is viewed as?

My hope for Ronald is that he gets hooked and becomes and avid gamer.

Tifa is the complete package.

There are lots of female characters with big breasts that didn’t make the cut, so anyone saying that is the reason has missed the point (or is distracted by the two points?).

This isn’t only about big breasts. Most men want an attractive waifu, of course, and Tifa is attractive, but they also want someone who is loyal, caring, and strong, but isn’t dominating or overpowering.

Most female characters written today are girl bosses in all the bad ways. They are angry, feisty, argumentative, dominating, belittling the male characters etc.

Most men don’t act like that and don’t like other men who act like that, let alone women acting like that.

Tifa isn’t those things, but is one of the most kick ass female characters there is.

Developers could learn a thing or two. Make female characters attractive, feminine, but also tough in a way that compliments not competes with the male characters, and you’ll be on to a winning formula.

@nessisonett it’s kind of the opposite in my house. I will be playing this so much my kids will be telling me to stop.

I don’t want it.

I don’t want it in my house.
I don’t want it on my screen.
I don’t want it in my memory.

Why did you make me look, Sammy?! 😅

Wash, wash, wash, indeed.

@nessisonett I would imagine only about 5% of the player base even knows this drama is taking place.

That’s not the player bases fault. That’s just the way it is for most games.

@Ooccoo_Jr I was meaning it as a compliment. I love a good nugget of info, and you provided.

@Ooccoo_Jr

Thanks for sharing that.

I’m glad to see you too are a Noble Enthusiast for Reliable Data.

I think there might be an acronym for that… 😁