KundaliniRising333

"Ghost of Yotei is not the kind of game that will turn detractors of its predecessor into converts"

It's the side activities that turned the first stale in the end. It sounds like it's more of the same on that front unfortunately. Which were outdated and unrewarding in the first.You read through a bunch of reviews and becomes clear this sequel doesn't address the side content issues and does devolve into repetitive checklist like open world fodder hidden behind the veil of the wind gimmick. Which imo has long since been played out.

Had they addressed this I'd be there day one.

The most insane thing to read in these comment sections is Gamers running defense for a company raking in record profits yet justify price gouging, double dipping, homogenization and over monetization inflicted upon themselves..... And applaud the company for it no less.

Crazy world

This and code vein look so dated visually. Jesus.

Soooo much filler. Reternal 2 is what it is and will be fun to play but looked like the same hollow environmental design. Wolverine definitely looked 'Spiderman insomniacified', with blood, so that could go either way. Sony is literally just collecting marketing checks by putting on these mediocre trailer fests.

The format is so corporate and sterile as well.

They really need to pivot into a new pr operation strategy. This ain't it.

I absolutely loved and played the hell out of reternal. However when you tease a new game from a studio that doesn't usually make sequels, it's kind of misleading to come to find out it's just basically returnal2 with a different title and lore but overall the same game play and hollow gamey World design.

The game was solid but because Ubisoft was involved it's packed so full of icon chasing far cry like bloat that it gets stale long before it's over.

It's comical at this point how little Ubisoft has refined that same tired formula in nearly two decades. So much potential overlooked in the mess of formulaic large outfit business model driven decision making.

30 mins? So more marketing deals with some first party tid bits slapped on the ass. Gotcha👍

This is what Sony has become. Opening a merch shop and calling it a rewards plan is laughable push Square.

Milking these ones dry eh?

Yet another stellar technical showing from pro/pssr. 🤣

Love me some daft punk

Yes great, but out with the release date already...

Perhaps a new one or finish 5? 🤣

Neither are even close to a good deal or fairly priced.

Between the likely cost of a ps6 and a current mid range pc that already is more powerful than it will be, It's a no Brainer to save for a pc. Especially after this gens first party efforts.

Jesus, the 60 fps mode can drop to half that after a few hours play. Even aside from the memory leak the game dips into 40s even on pro, which shows that the cpu is just too dated and more glaring an upgrade omission for "pro." The 30fps mode is far less nerfed on all consoles.

Pretty ridiculous. Rather than wait and address it they just held back review code lol. Pretty hilarious that they moved up the release date and pitchfork said consoles ran buttery smooth prior to launch.

Intentional deception Ala cyberpunk all over again.

I think it's time to move on from this. It was a decent game at the time but from soft has evolved their mechanics since then and a lot of other games have improved upon what bloodborne was unique for gameplay mechanic wise.

I would much rather see fromsoft break out with something new and different or even maybe reboot kingsfield because Valor mortis made me realize there really isn't any legit first person sold likes and in truth kingsfield is where it all started.

@Rich33 100% agreed. And the fact of the matter is 2 to $5,000 PCS are having performance problems with this s*** as well. I don't think this is necc a ue5 problem. this is a development problem. It's also interesting to note like when you take a game with the visual Fidelity of something like this game and compare it to like fortnite both have online capability both are not pushing graphical boundaries/photo realism by any means and yet that game runs buttery smooth 60fps much of the time even on console with 50-100 players in a match and uses almost all of ue5s toolkit features with little blur and a decent rez....

Not entirely comparable but when you realize how open world streaming in works then you know that most of the s*** is not present until you're within a certain lod.

Fair points all around.

I do think that we need reviewers to start taking into account performance just like youTubers do. With the caveat that returning and re-reviewing a title if the performance ever gets fixed is standard practice. This game shouldn't be getting more than a five or six based on what I'm seeing the console performance is.

A clear message needs to be sent to these AAA Developers in terms of releasing these games broken at launch. They all think they can pull off a cyberpunk story arc. Yet what they're forgetting is cybersunk still sold double-digit Millions in its first few months these idiots are losing sales in the hopes that maybe they'll get additional players when the game is by that time on discount or a sub service it's f****** ridiculous.

the people that buy and early adopt this s*** or even run defense/minimize it are only condoning their own belittlement as a gamer, and welcoming more of the same in the future. The only way the message will be heard is if review sites start truly taking into account performance and thus affecting these large outfits bottom line.

They raise prices 3 times of the 5 year old console, then slightly throw a sale up. Very gas price level manipulation here. 🤣

It makes sense I mean if you've played any online competitive game at all in the last two decades or so that you realize the cheating is absolutely insane from the PC crowd so I understand why people get upset when they have to contend with people that have mouse aim and are cheating it's absolute b*******. These nerdlets and streamers ruin the fun posing with that *****.

The aim assist argument in terms of console is nonsense by the way. it's literally b*******. The advantage you get using a mouse to aim is not even close to parody with console not even with lackluster aim assist. Not to mention macros and other ways to get a competitive advantage used on pc. That's why the aim assist is even implemented is because even the developers of these games no damn well that there isn't an even playing field.

However it's the cheating that's really ruined almost all online shooters. There's an entire industry around it at this point so even the Developers have Financial incentive not to truly address it. Fortnite is a great example as hokey as the game is. There are dozens of competitive and streamer folk that are literally lifted up and promoted by epic that are quite obviously cheaters not all of them but a lot of them.

Im just going to come out and say it at this point it's Thursday a full week after release and they're still zero mainstream site console reviews other than one or two obscure ones.
what is going on this is incredibly suspect....
Stinks of corporate influencing a delay even beyond the obvious subversion they pulled by not releasing early console review codes.

It's Borderlands, a week later this game should be finished and reviewed.
Just be honest and keep some level of credibility and release your review we already know that the game runs like ass on consoles so no matter what you say on that front we know that truth....

I'm just going to come out and say it at this point it's Thursday a full week after release and they're still zero mainstream site console reviews other than one or two obscure ones.
what is going on this is incredibly suspect....
Stinks of corporate influencing a delay even beyond the obvious subversion they pulled by not releasing early console review codes.

It's Borderlands, a week later this game should be finished and reviewed.

The baffling part is that some of the really new and should have been in the base game side elements of this expansion don't apply to the base game. A huge miss that would have greatly improved the exploration, side activities, dual protaganist mechanics and overall greatly increased the value of the entire pkg.

This was a completely different studio that did this content(the mirage team), let them handle the rest of ac lol, because there are some pretty good side content ideas they tried in this expansion. Big missed opportunity here to get return playthroughs and new buyers into shadows with those potential improvements.

This game has no pro support at all. I guarantee you the same is occurring on base ps5.

Sad for those that bought it on release. The writing was on the wall with this. Hopefully people will stop pretending it runs great on console now that the truth will start coming out from reputable testers.

This game doesn't run well on the highest end pc hardware available. This isn't Un unreal engine 5 issue, nor a hardware issue. It's a greed issue where development was cut short so that gearbox and 2k could meet financial quarter sales targets.

After pitchfords comments since release, I'm not even going to buy this one on sale. Decent game or not, there's no way I want to increase the wealth of an ***** like that.

In this AC game specifically I think the Modern Day stuff was done terribly and it was pretty bad. I'd be pissed if they took out Desmond stuff from the first two but in the case of walking around what is essentially just a Ubisoft office in the mid-2000s was pretty lame.

So normally I would be upset if they cut something like that, as i think the best part of AC that is now missing was the actual isu storyline. Which is all but gone now. However in the case of black Flag I played the hell out of it and I'm going to be honest: it's not really even an Assassin's Creed game. it has so little lore and assassin specific anything. it's just essentially a pirate game where a pirate picked up an assassin suit so he gets to do some stealth kills and magically can all of a sudden parkour like a ninja.....
Lmfao.

It baffles me that so many people put Black Flag at the top of their aC list. It's the least Assassin's Creed game out of all of them but a fun Pirate game at the time.

He's not wrong. All of these publishers and devs know how important threading the needle in terms of release dates is in a crowded time.

For silksong to be essentially shadow dropped in terms of release date announcement was a dick move, just as the actual shadow drop of the oblivion remaster was.

I am playing Hell is Us over the overhyped metroidvania and loving it.

@Tarvold49 there isn't an fov slider because the game is so poorly optomized that allowing that adjustment would make it even worse performant on consoles.

Pretty clear holding back review code and decisions like this were intentionally made to try and mask the fact that this game was releasing in the state it is.

There are a lot of people claiming it's fine on console, however the actual footage and early impressions from tech gurus are that it is very much so not.

It's the performance wasn't so trash I'd be tempted just for some mindless shooter fun.

I just can't support broken on release games from AAA developers anymore

This game looks like a bit of a retread.

How many times are we going to ecplore a mansion/elaborate building with old world architectural elements, complete with the curved staircase entryway. Hopefully the story carries it so it's worth a playthrough on sale at the very least.

Great month for me with two (Invincible and green hell), I didn't want to pay full retail for, and hesitated on sales yet nonetheless interested in a playthrough of both.

So glad they didn't go straight into tlou3. They have spent the entire generation helping Sony cash grabbing/milk the property alongside the remasterake studios. The ip is getting tired at this point. Oh my bad they bailed on factions as well.

Looking forward to something new in Intergalactic.

Alot of games are stunning visually but look blurry and downgraded on console. That being said you can still see that beauty through the down grades even on PS5, but I'll not ate pc is the best visually
Not going to even give credit to rereleases of ps4 games like TLOU/Tsushima:

Clair obscur (pc) , bg3(pc) , Alan Wake 2(pc) lies of p (pc), hell is us, horizon forbidden west, Ragnarok, Rift Apart, Demon Souls Remake, Avatar, Indy, Wuchang (pc), Wukong. (pc)

I really hope this game gets more exposure. It truly is a great game a rare Oddity in the current gaming landscape. It's too bad it shows to release right before yet another metroidvania that is over hyped but I still think it might get legs.

It's rare anymore that you have a game that's just straight up fun to explore Above All Else and this one did it for me. I genuinely hope it gets a sequel because there's just a few things that need a little expansion in this would be one of the Great action adventure series

@UltimateOtaku91 I don't necessarily disagree with you on your point but the problem is this entire generation tailor Made for consoles has often just meant using upscalers (terrible FSR), to compensate for significant downgrades due to underpowered hardware that usually result in a blurry mess in motion and often don't really run that great considering the downgrades.

Still a hard pass. Too saturated a genre that has worn out its welcome mechanically in terms of personal fun factor. I do wonder how many singing it's praises as a masterpiece, will actually finish it. This game could end up rivaling some of the top games reviewed ever in terms of Metacritic score which I think is insane that this could compare to something like Elden Ring, The Witcher 3, Clair Obscur: expedition 33, or Baldur's Gate 3. As it's nowhere near that tier personally. However different taste different folks I suppose.

Greast for those loving it despite it's shortcomings.

This is shaping up to be a really bad technically performing release. It's clear that the console code was held back strictly due to performance. Another example of this shady practice. This game is being shredded on steam due to performance.

Expect this to be insanely downgraded in console, likely relying on terrible amd uosamcaling from a low resolution to attempt to achieve playable fps targets.

Wait until they actually finish their game. Don't give them your money when they want it to inflate a significant benchmark in of the most important months in the corporate goon financial calendar.

It sounds like it's completely un-polished even on pc. Bugs are frequent/widespread, some almost game breaking. Along with actual text typos. Pretty insane for a AAA effort.

So yah one can deduce that console.
performance is terrible.
It's a bummer story, legendary drops, and characters are mediocre, as that's basically always been the case and the primary area needing improvement. The mundane side activities and very repetitive combat encounters absolutely needed to evolve and apparently have not.

Sounds like you'd be selling yourself short to Play this at launch. A wait for a steep sale or never is where I'm at now.

It's a great one and I will absolutely jump back in for a new game + play through when they are done patching it up. The only downside aside from performance which was shaky for sure is the last act.

The game just released unfinished and it shows in the last area for sure but even with that I was hooked to completion. Grest lore, atmosphere, gear, and build craft in a setting more dark and gritty than the hokey elder scrolls tone.

This one is a hidden gem completely not given a spotlight by games media.

It was a breath of fresh air compared to that overhyped oblivion remaster.

@Frmknst it's not like it was in the past though the resale value drops so drastically just a month after release that it's not worth it you might as well keep it to play it again or try it out if there's updates

This game in particular will get you like 15 to 20 bucks resell now, maybe 30 tops a month or two after launch

@themightyant that's a good point I forgot it's necessary to cloud stream. That does offer value. Regarding game lubrary: it's not that an expected slate of monthly games is missing. It's that what they have added is pretty mundane an offering as a whole.

Still haven't booted this up, but plan too. I have no doubt this is a great chill game.

Really bounced off 2. Was just to boring and repetitive gameplay-wise

Premium is a waste if your in it for old games at this point, however, if you cloud stream it still has some value

Good month for me though👍
I've been wanting to play Green hell and the Invincible. NICE

@DreadfulDragon @wildcat_kickz perhaps, however I suspect that if you polled a large subset of those that purchase cod and/or fif, made, and NBA whatever. You would come to find a great many of them only play shooters and sports or one or the other.
This is obviously an assumption o my part but I've personally met dozens and dozens of individuals that own the newest console and only play Call of Duty and or "insert whatever sports game you like. So it's really an assumption based on my lived experience.

I also think it's quite the stereotype to assume people that don't play those games are" nerds" as that's quite the similiar generalization as well.

Yes we all know that these games sell millions and millions of copies a year I was merely suggesting that it would be interesting to see what the top sellers were when you weed out those that engage in those annual obligatory purchase games.

Even that 10% though could probably bust out some smaller side projects like a Cooper sequel or something new would be awesome . I can't imagine all of them wanted to just be stuck in a current Sony IP sequel Factory forever making ghost games for the rest of their existence lol.

Or like poor insomniac stuck with Marvel

These studios are big enough now where it seems like they could work on multiple projects of varying size and add much needed diversity back to Sony's portfolio.

I would argue you need to take out all of the call of Duty games though because that's a totally different subset of folks that really only play those games. I personally wouldn't even classify those folks as true gamers in the broader sense of the medium. Obviously there's a few exceptions of folks that play Call of Duty and a ton of other games but I bet it's a very small group.

I think taking those out along with Guitar Hero, any sports games that would take their place and maybe even Minecraft would produce a much more interesting list.

@GrimWillows right after I posted this I thought about that and the fact that it is an exclusive as well. this is totally going to come to PS Plus at some point but I highly doubt they would do it with the Dlc.maybe though

Nice!
the base game's half off right now too for one more. Day. I might just finally bite on this so I get caught up. Definitely want to give this a go. 8-12 expansion is definitely a meaty offering!

Another delay incoming too maybe?