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Re: Poll: Five Years of PS5 - How Would You Rate Sony's Console?

Kriandis

@Junghova
Same here. I have been gaming since the Odyssey.
The PS5, in my opinion, is the worst console Sony has released.

For most of this cycle it has only had remakes or remasters. That is fine for people that never played the games, but us old timers that grew up gaming, I feel we just do not care for those, because it is a been there done that.

I love gaming, and I have a HUGE back catalog on PS5/PS4 and Switch, so I will hold off on the PS6 so I can catch up on the games that I have not played yet.

Re: 'PS Portal Users Are More Engaged Than Non-Users': Sony's Hit Handheld Outperforms All Other Remote Play Methods

Kriandis

'PS Portal Users Are More Engaged Than Non-Users': Sony's Hit Handheld Outperforms All Other Remote Play Methods

LOL!

How many MORE remote play methods are there for PS5?!?!?!?

This cracks me up as well
None of this is hugely surprising given the bespoke nature of the PS Portal – if you bought it, you probably did so for Remote Play – but as we alluded to above, it demonstrates how penetrative the peripheral has proven overall.

WHAT!?!?!?! LOL!

Re: Sony Speaks on Bungie Acquisition Disaster, Takes an 'Impairment Loss'

Kriandis

It is funny how everyone but Sony seen this as a disastrous move.

Bungie only ever had ONE....Count that....ONE...One hit under their belt and it was Halo.....Which did not come with the deal!

Sony buying Bungie, and especially what they paid for them, was the dumbest thing I have ever seen in my 40+ years of gaming.

Re: 'Increasingly Selective Consumers' to Blame for Underperformance of Blades of Fire

Kriandis

@KoopaTheGamer
This right here!
Marketing is so easy to do now a days. All the developer has to do is make a video of actually playing the game while talking to other people involved in the game making, post it, let media outlets like....Oh I don't know....Push Square know about it, and it advertises itself. Or even, hear me out....Continually invite media to play your game, and it literally markets itself.

Marketing can be done by the developers at no cost to them. It is just about getting the product out there, and keep getting it out there.
A perfect example is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Sandfall did a great job of keeping media, and gamers, informed, at little to no cost for marketing.

Re: What the Hell Has Happened to Call of Duty?

Kriandis

I am Gen X
We are the entertainment generation.
I have seen corporate greed first soak into music, then movies, and now video games.
People that grew up in my generation seen this coming a mile away as soon as gaming surpassed music and movies, for in profit entertainment.

We seen the music industry fall prey to corporate greed, then movies, and now video games.

Not to say that there are not a lot of great independent art out there, it is just the nature of the greedy beast!
People talk about it as if it surprising..It is not surprising at all, when you have seen it happen before.

Re: Poll: How Do You Feel About The Last of Us Part 2, 5 Years Later?

Kriandis

@nessisonett What do you mean, says nothing???
(SPOILER!!!!) Ellie went on a unrelenting mission for revenge for Joel, and it cost her the one thing that Joel passed down to her....Which was how to play guitar, which she loved and enjoyed.

When Abby bit off two fingers from Ellie's fretting hand, Ellie lost Joel all over again.
Abby did not take that from Ellie, Ellie took it from herself.

The game is about how revenge can take more from you, than what you will get from performing it.

Re: Hands On: MindsEye Is a Boring Mess

Kriandis

OUCH!
I did not see a lot of promise in this game as it is just a cheaper looking version of games such as GOW, Vanquish, and Deus Ex.
I was really hoping for the best for it, but some upstarts just have loftier goals, than they do discipline.

Re: You Too Can Wear Joel's Jacket from The Last of Us Season 2

Kriandis

Re: 'Don't Bet' on The Last of Us 3, Warns Neil Druckmann

Kriandis

@Flaming_Kaiser The ending was perfect. Ellie went on a path of revenge and it cost her dearly. The ending shows that.
It cost her her relationship with her spouse and adopted child, and cost her the one thing that Joel taught her and that she could have passed on to her child. How to play guitar.
Losing 2 fingers on her fretting hand was just like losing Joel all over again. That is what I took from the ending.