"If Sony finds its golden goose, then it’s not going to come at the expense of the single player games we know and love; if nothing else, it’s going to help the platform holder bankroll said risky projects for years to come."
You're argument is completey at odds with reality. Chasing live service projects completely tanked the single player output of this entire generation. Not only that but Sony tried both. They forced their pedigree studios to try and make one of these schemes and failed, and they also bought studios that specialize in or were wholly dedicated to making them and those also failed or are about to.
The reality is, that those big microtransaction money makers like cod, gta, hoyoverse slop, fortnite, roblox, apex, etc, Have been the only ones to to really put up such numbers for a long time now and have been at the top for the better part of a decade or more as they were the essential founders of the entire goose. They have the market share and it's been proven time and time again that nothing else has come even close to achieving what those games produce because the idea of pulling people away from them actually doesn't make sense.
The few that do have some moderate success, albeit nowhere near these giants. they have done so with unique breakout experiences of which Concord, fairgame, marathon, defiant, blah blah blah are not. Sony is trying to find a golden goose in what's already been done. Done better and the marketshare for that slop already eaten up. They learned nothing from hell divers as to why it was a mild success.
The true strategy would have been merely to invest in the giants already pretty much owning the predatory scheme market and thus take more slices from their profits and in tern making it the premier platform to play them on, which in some aspects is already happening as they are the dominant console in terms of player base.
Then make what you became successful with, marquee single player experiences.
Instead this generation from the first party front has been cash grabs, price gouging, hardware sales, remasterakes and failures. Yet yes they had record profits, ironically not just the 30% from mtxs, but the other 70% from subscriptions, third party digital sales, and more. Not to mention those record profits would have been even higher had they not had massive losses from Concord, and the half dozen or more other canceled projects they had their other studios working on for the entire generation while they pushed out AI led remasterake cash grabs.
It's pretty hard to keep making this golden goose argument when we see it failing and player sentiment toward new iterations to this unicorn chasing waning.
Lmfao, just a real sad showing from Sony and Co this gen. I don't think anyone is surprised that this one is likely failing.
Couple that with a very mid reception and outlook for marathon and wasting studio resources for an entire generation, and one has to really question just how blind the entire leadership tier of the outfit must beThey have essentially coasted on new thing other than sentiment coming forward from last gen. At some point folks are going to turn the blinders off and that gas tank will be mere fumes.
You can't keep parroting that this was a Jim Ryan thing here. Clearly the whole ship is being steered by non gamer investor interests.
Great advertising for PC this gen, especially with the diminishing value proposition the console holders are choosing merely for short term gains.
@Northern_munkey @LogicStrikesAgain yes. Indeed! I have amassed a great deal of texts on the subject as well. Starting with the many similar operandi of those secret societies, and then I began focusing on the hermtic origins that influenced most of their doctrines. It was a rather abrupt inclination to delve further beyond the veil when I had an awakening moment of my own spurred on by a moment of intense suffering and emotional surrender. Changed my life and helped me understand a bit more of I Am, beyond the physical, and mind.
Interesting stuff to see that commonality in conjunction with loving a medium like gaming here in the physical sense based pleasure plane we inhabit while in these bodies. Being all manifestations of an interconnected whole, perhaps that explains it right there 🤣
@LogicStrikesAgain had never heard that personality trait described before. Just looked it up. The logician right?. I am pretty shocked at how well it describes much of my current manifestation. Pretty close with a healthy leaning toward mysticism/hermtic understandings of the universe.
This is pretty bad, but. Man is. Feel even worse for those folks still paying into premium. What an under delivering overpriced scam that turned out to be, more so than this price inxlcreased tiered out monstrosity is as a whole.
Warner bros as a publishing outfit have been mismanaged far longer than just suicide squad.
Sony should have learned the Redfall /suicide squad lesson back then or at the very least taken some notes. Instead they learned all the wrong things and learned nothing as to why Hell Divers was a rare but fairly decent success.
They are going to learn it the hard way even more so in the next 18 months.
@Northern_munkey 🤣. Oh no broke batman is still laying dormant. I just know that the reality is we are being intentionally divided with nonsensical culture war distractions. The true only way to create a better standard of living for all forms of life on the planet is to unite as one and enact change outside the machine built with the direct explicit intention to keep us controlled, subservient, and distracted, while they extract.
I tried the go it alone strategy, and that only inconvenienced a few "lizard" masons and landed me in what I call the "men's retreat," around family members, in the process 🤣
@GirlVersusGame exactly. We are all controlled by a ruling elite class under the veil of a perceived freedom. In the end we are all one and in unity is the only way we will ever enact positive change and push back against these clandestine overlords
They already screwed themselves with too narrow a suite by selling off basically every major ip and studio they had. They can't survive on final fantasy remakes and kingdom hearts alone.
They did this to themselves. They and Ubisoft are just a more public facing example of a reckoning that is happening and will increaseibdustry wide for these bloated budget, over corporatized outfits.
It's going to be rough times ahead in the minds of the shareholder choked endless model driven drones. They will decimate these big publishers and IPs until they realize the over correction has to come from diversifying, and focusing on quality again.
Sounds decent in terms of design, I just have no interest cosplaying a cop lmfao.
Give me another fallout like game with this perspective and I'm all in. However this whole cop thing here or the corporatized criminal cliche thing Ala GTA is just not my bag.
Weird to hear that people are claiming the og unit has been overheating on them. Especially considering it has the larger heat sink. I'm not doubting your experiences however I do wonder how your setup may be playing a part. I assume the setup/venue as others have mentioned is also the issue at Evo.
I say this as I am still rocking a launch month ps5, have shamelessly put thousands of total hours and had hundreds of several hours long individual gaming sessions on it without issue.
For additional context: in our old townhouse, my partners parents crib as a temporary waitover, and now at our house; the gaming setups have all not been in a very cool room and the unit has never overheated even on super hot days that had dramatic affects on the indoor temps of those rooms. I've always made sure to keep my unit in tower form and with space on all sides to allow air to better circulate.
Maybe I just have an outlier OG unit? Because I have used the hell out of this thing far more than the average use case, as I don't have a traditional brick and mortar workplace.
I mean for a good amount of people Borderlands 4 isn't a super exciting notion, so for those folks myself included, $80 just ensures it's doa in terms of mindshare.
These AAA slop factories continue to learn the wrong lessons from the recent game successes in gaming. Most of them were $60 usd or less, a fraction of the budget of their slop, and of more quality, creativity, and polish than almost all AAA releases of this generation.
Yet these idiots think they can blame the inflation myth and tariffs for their reasoning to charge more for inferior products to fuel the endless growth madness as sentiment for said slop declines. A rude awakening is coming for many of these itarative things aside from GTA and the zombies that buy the new cod, soccer game, madden, etc every year.
All the anti "woke" discourse is just moronic idiocy for sure.
However, It seems like many of the legit negative reviews are actually because Bella Ramsey is a terrible Ellie, and in all honesty that is a 100% valid take that I share.
She is a terrible casting choice that cannot carry the role even remotely as good as the game and it makes the show harder to watch than it should be.
Watch the latest DF video on the true state of the oblivion remaster console releases(posted yesterday). Then you realize that "Bethesda," need to finish the game they already released.
You play this game more than 15 mins and the performance gets worse and continues to over time until a likely crash because of its assumed to be memory leaks
That's just one of the issues...
If we don't have a conversation about that first, they will merely do the same unfinished AI led gloss over they did here with the same massive problems because it sold so well and continues to be spoken about as some revelation in the remaster game when all it is is an engine upgrade overlay that was unfinished and rushed out at best.
They will see this as a cheap way to print money and learn the wrong lessons if we don't demand better, starting with calling this out until they fix this mess.
The resell market has been so ridiculously, Dimished. At best you are making back money only if you finish, and resell it during it's release window. Which fine, I get that but what I don't get is how you don't see that there is literally no betterment to doing that than just paying a sub fee for a fraction of the cost per month as one single game.
Both result with you not owing the game, just one option leaves you with less money even after you get some funds back from a resell. This idea that you can buy and resell games to then have money to buy the next game is just not true in terms of new releases. You are losing money each new game purchase no matter what and still owning nothing until you stop. Not to mention with a sub fee you are only limited by time and thus can play and finish multiple new releases in a month if possible for you...(granted I'm really referencing gamepass here, as Sony's sub svcs are overpriced and vastly inferior).
I'm not advocating for digital here by any means, yet I think the argument for game preservation makes sense in terms of physical.
However, This idea that the resell market is so lucrative just doesn't make sense for me.
@GirlVersusGame yah it does beg the question: is this really about cutting cost at all? Or perhaps they really are doing it with the direct intent to continue to push to an all digital no ownership future. Especially when you see the price hikes for said games with nothing on the disc's...
I think the motive is subscription fees. Every other media industry has already almost completely gone digital sub scheme as their business model. Gaming is largely now run by non gamer investors whom want the same for the medium. It starts with a sub, then tiered subs, then sub tiers for ads and no ads, then tiers for quality of content.
Pretty sad what the endless growth model has done to humanity.
Genuinely an overpriced underdelivering letdown. The choice to not upgrade the cpu (which they did with the cheaper upgrade price of the ps4 pro), means the Ps5 pro Can never really deliver much more performance in most games. Instead slightly better image quality will be the norm. For 700 $ or more that's just not appealing to anyone aside from those with nothing else going on that they could better use their money for.
However here's the even greater issue. Sony just has nothing in the immediate pipeline aside from yotei, which is absolutely going to only look slightly better than it's ps4 predecessor. By the time the final slate of over bloated budget, iterative AAA thing comes from the rest of their Studios, it will be a cross Gen situation, making the damn thing even less of a wise investment rather than just waiting for the 6.
There will be those incapable of reflection and defend its value with nonsense for fear of admitting buyers remorse, however it's quite clear it was just another In a long line of Sony cashing in via hardware releases to pad their bottom line during a generation they wasted chasing unicorns.
These modern doom games aren't worth playing until they Milk all the DC out of them anyways. So I'll wait to play the full offering on discount.
Another great example why gamepass is the only sub service that justifies it's asking price. You look at the day one first and third party releases that have gone into that service in the last 4 years, it's a staggering value, especially considering the games one may want to play but not at all buy fullnprice or at all.
I'll wait just like I did doom eternal. As these games are as mindless as a marvel movie.
@Simu001 you 100% are not alone in your sentiment. There are a great deal of folks that love Kojima but also many like myself and you whom find him overblown, and many of his games mediocre in terms of coherent storytelling and fully fleshed out gameplay.
Side quests/activities and the lame cosmetic only rewards for almost all exploration was just awful. They double down on these two aspects, and it's wait for a steep sale for me.
They could also improve variety and progression, as both were very bare bones and fizzled out before the end.
The game was praised by the internet and media machine but when you take a step back it's hard not too see it's formulaic nature, similar to AC. It really was just a modern AC game with better combat, story, and a unique art style. The follow the wind/smoke gimmick was really only that, and the open world still boiled down to clearing fog, chasing icons, and repetitive side content.
I think the biggest wait and see, even if this game is a return to form for the series, will boil down to the current times and trends. These games are practically a precursor to what has evolved into the now losing momentum live service predatory schemes we see today. So if they try and turn this into a monetized live service long tail thing beyond the dlc they used to do, it could really make it garbage.
I'm in the borderlands 3 sucked camped for sure, however even the humor of 2 is just so lame in my eyes today that it would really have to ditch most of that in it's push to be grounded for me to really even give it a chance for that alone.
I don't think with pitchford still at the helm, that it's even possible for this series to grow and refine.
This is why the economic system we live in is so disgusting. Xbox has an earnings report where they announce they are finally seeing some growth due to some smart changes in terms of a more multiplat approach. An approach that in some ways is even more gamer friendly, especially more so than what Sony has done this gen.
So then just a day or two later, these little fat pigs in the boardroom decide the next best course of action is to raise the price of everything just to squeeze the masses a little more and continue the trajectory of pricing some people out of their platform.
All in the midst of an economic climate where purchasing power of the vast majority of the world is low and projected to continue to worsen in the foreseeable future.
All the while you have a game like expedition 33 coming out for sub 50 and is better than 99% of the AAA output we've seen this entire generation. Along with a fraction of the dev team, budget, and in less than 5 years.
Sony has been no better this gen.
You factor in hardware capability gaps, these price increases in games/hardware; then the value proposition of the PC space is far more appealing. Especially considering the next console Gen to come. It would take only a year or two of pc games at a more valid price to make up the ever decreasing gap between the cost of a console and a pc(that is more powerful, and something that can be upgraded incrementally).
It's seems so insane to price people out of a console cycle that is nearly over. Ridiculous. I expected it next Gen, and will likely drop Sony as my platform then, considering how garbage this gen as been in terms of their only shtick: exclusives (Which became remasters and canceled live projects this gen 🤣).
Genius.... You don't want my money anymore MS and Sony? No worries, I will oblige
Honestly this game has taken so long to make that at this point, and so many metroidvania games have flooded the medium, that this will never live up to the hype. There are so many good metroidvanias now, and they all just blur into one another now because they all do the same thing.
It's to the point for me where I liked the first one, but I have zero interest in this sequel now, merely because there are too many of these that are all the same game with varying art styles.
This is why the economic system we live in is so disgusting. Xbox has an earnings report where they announce they are finally seeing some growth due to some smart changes in terms of a more multiplat approach. An approach that in some ways is even more gamer friendly, especially more so than what Sony has done this gen.
So then just a day or two later, these little fat pigs in the boardroom decide the next best course of action is to raise the price of everything just to squeeze the masses a little more and continue the trajectory of pricing some people out of their platform.
All in the midst of an economic climate where purchasing power of the vast majority of the world is low and projected to continue to worsen in the foreseeable future.
All the while you have a game like expedition 33 coming out for sub 50 and is better than 99% of the AAA output we've seen this entire generation. But with a fraction of the dev team, budget, and in less than 5 years.
Genius.... You don't want my money anymore MS and Sony? No worries, I will oblige.
@UnlimitedSevens thanks for sharing that, appreciate it. I'll look into that. Maybe they have and I just need to get past 26 or just am not noticing it. I am going to set the game aside for Now to see if they put out meaningful patches.
@UnlimitedSevens yah maybe that's what I'm referring to with what I'm seeing is the item scaling? Most of my stats are in strength, agility, endurance though. It seems highly unlikely that they would leave the item scaling unadressed and have basic bandits in the best gear, and yet refine the enemy dmg and health scaling. It seems far more likely both were untouched.
I started the game on expert but quickly switched to adept when I saw how unplayable expert was.
Literally today I made it to level 23, first mission I actually engaged in, A very early introductory one in the imperial city, now has a body guard wearing daedric armor that took 8-12 hits to down with a decent weapon and very high strength and agility (near 90/100),and took 1/3 of my health per hit with level 85 endurance.
From what I have seen the level scaling hasn't been toned down at All And. Many Independent reviewers familiar with and Having recently Revisited the non remastered version agree. If it's toned down it's so minor as to be indistinguishable.
I intentionally leveled up without really doing a single quest to test this myself. It's as awful and as equally game breaking as I remember. Unless you don't mind not engaging in the progressions systems and/or turning the difficulty to easy, which I don't think is a solution.
A 6/7 out of ten feels about right. It's just so dated in nearly every aspect by today's standards. The glow up does nothing to address that, nor does it address the greatest probable the game has that practically breaks all progression: the enemy level scaling. In an RPG, this is just a huge downer and completely removes the power fantasy and hinders most of its rpg mechanics. For those of you playing on adept or higher, that want to discount this, get to level 23 or higher and go visit the first available dungeon in the game. Lol
It looks great but the dungeons are very repetitive and the quests pretty terrible by today's standards. It was great for its time, but to give it a high rating in our time would be crazy and extremely biased. Couple that with the less than ideal performance, it's just a bit underwhelming for the asking price when the nostalgia wears off.
Potentially leaving more space for GTA? Nahhh the yotei release date suggests gta isn't coming this year after all, or at very least not until Nov/Dec.
I suspect this release date change is to address the stupid decision to set the Marathon release date the same day as Borderlands 4...
A state of play that is essentially a 20 min paid ad for Borderlands 4? Lol. Is this what the people want Sony?
@DennisReynolds I guess technically you are right. I pretty much lump all multi-player games into that camp Now. So I admit that's a bit reductive on my part. However the days of true multi-player offerings in the vein of like Socom are dead. they are now all created with the intent to be monetized as indefinitely as possible. If you think Fromsoft isn't hoping to do the same with nightreign if it takes, off, sadly I think you Wil be disappointed. However I don't think this one will have long legs in terms of a large player base.
It's not what we want from FS. Sony is learning the same hard lessons chasing the same at the expense of their premier single player studios.
@lazarus11 I'd argue this game isn't for men either. More targeting something like teenage boys, mentally that is.
I did a bit of time in prison during my vigilante days and can tell you the same level of cringe in there is evident in this game. When you get to know the underlying depth of those persons you realize what you are dealing with beneath the act: scared insecure souls compensating via pretending to be the extreme opposite...
Sadly that same mentality is prevalent throughout much of the population in my country including leadership figures...
Despite the mediocrity of the characters and writing, the game was OK. A solid 6-7 with a ton of potential. Had they better refined it on the editing floor and not gone the route of douche stereotype murica storytelling through those characters, it would have been a solid 8 or more for me.
Setting all of that aside though this remaster is completely pointless when you compare it to the ps4 version played on Ps5. It's also quite clear that the lighting looks worse and actually affects the art style of the game with the choices they've made in my opinion in a negative way. Aside from that, it's almost indistinguishable in terms of it being an actual upgrade. So I get why it seems fine to waste 10 bucks on a nothing upgrade, as it's a low entry point; but man do not spend full price for what they're asking for this. This is the definition of what we've been talking about with needless cash grab double dipping.
And sometimes you really got to look at what they're doing here regardless of whether or not you like the game. Because they're getting a huge influx of cash even with a small upgrade fee depending on adoption, with far less investment to get it.
So from purely a business perspective if you continue to condone this with your wallet or defend this just to fit in online or stay on brand with platform Allegiance rhetoric, even if it seems like a small investment for you they are going to continue to do it and put less and less effort into these projects if they see folks continue to buy the ones like this of which very little effort was put into.
Not sure I want a bigger map if the incentive to explore is largely guided by cosmetic garbage. I really hope they don't just do the safe, by the exact same numbers sequel formula that most Sony studios have been stuck in for over a decade.
Only make the game bigger if you improve and expand what the original offered in rewarding to the game and player ways. Don't just go bigger via size and bloat.
certainly don't boast about it if you just populated a bigger space with filler.
I genuinely hope they improved on the firsts side content shortcomings. We don't need this franchise any closer to a Ubisoft open world game...However this whole bigger map and non linear design thing literally sounds like every modern day AC game. 😔
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Re: Like It or Loathe It, This Is Why Sony Won't Stop Trying to Make Live Service Games for PS5
"If Sony finds its golden goose, then it’s not going to come at the expense of the single player games we know and love; if nothing else, it’s going to help the platform holder bankroll said risky projects for years to come."
You're argument is completey at odds with reality. Chasing live service projects completely tanked the single player output of this entire generation. Not only that but Sony tried both. They forced their pedigree studios to try and make one of these schemes and failed, and they also bought studios that specialize in or were wholly dedicated to making them and those also failed or are about to.
The reality is, that those big microtransaction money makers like cod, gta, hoyoverse slop, fortnite, roblox, apex, etc, Have been the only ones to to really put up such numbers for a long time now and have been at the top for the better part of a decade or more as they were the essential founders of the entire goose. They have the market share and it's been proven time and time again that nothing else has come even close to achieving what those games produce because the idea of pulling people away from them actually doesn't make sense.
The few that do have some moderate success, albeit nowhere near these giants. they have done so with unique breakout experiences of which Concord, fairgame, marathon, defiant, blah blah blah are not. Sony is trying to find a golden goose in what's already been done. Done better and the marketshare for that slop already eaten up. They learned nothing from hell divers as to why it was a mild success.
The true strategy would have been merely to invest in the giants already pretty much owning the predatory scheme market and thus take more slices from their profits and in tern making it the premier platform to play them on, which in some aspects is already happening as they are the dominant console in terms of player base.
Then make what you became successful with, marquee single player experiences.
Instead this generation from the first party front has been cash grabs, price gouging, hardware sales, remasterakes and failures. Yet yes they had record profits, ironically not just the 30% from mtxs, but the other 70% from subscriptions, third party digital sales, and more. Not to mention those record profits would have been even higher had they not had massive losses from Concord, and the half dozen or more other canceled projects they had their other studios working on for the entire generation while they pushed out AI led remasterake cash grabs.
It's pretty hard to keep making this golden goose argument when we see it failing and player sentiment toward new iterations to this unicorn chasing waning.
Re: Helldivers 2 Dev Breaks Away from PlayStation, Next Game Will Be Self-Funded
Smart Move. Good for Arrowhead
Re: Fairgames, One of Sony's Last Live-Service PS5 Games, Loses Studio Founder Amid Internal Worries
Lmfao, just a real sad showing from Sony and Co this gen. I don't think anyone is surprised that this one is likely failing.
Couple that with a very mid reception and outlook for marathon and wasting studio resources for an entire generation, and one has to really question just how blind the entire leadership tier of the outfit must beThey have essentially coasted on new thing other than sentiment coming forward from last gen. At some point folks are going to turn the blinders off and that gas tank will be mere fumes.
You can't keep parroting that this was a Jim Ryan thing here. Clearly the whole ship is being steered by non gamer investor interests.
Great advertising for PC this gen, especially with the diminishing value proposition the console holders are choosing merely for short term gains.
Re: Internal Death Stranding 2 Reviews Are Tracking Much Higher Than the First Game, But Kojima Isn't Pleased
Such a pretentious soul.
Don't you worry Kojima, trust me there are plenty that have zero interest in this game. I am firmly one of them.
Re: Even More PS5 Price Increases Being Considered by Sony
@Northern_munkey @LogicStrikesAgain yes. Indeed! I have amassed a great deal of texts on the subject as well. Starting with the many similar operandi of those secret societies, and then I began focusing on the hermtic origins that influenced most of their doctrines. It was a rather abrupt inclination to delve further beyond the veil when I had an awakening moment of my own spurred on by a moment of intense suffering and emotional surrender. Changed my life and helped me understand a bit more of I Am, beyond the physical, and mind.
Interesting stuff to see that commonality in conjunction with loving a medium like gaming here in the physical sense based pleasure plane we inhabit while in these bodies. Being all manifestations of an interconnected whole, perhaps that explains it right there 🤣
Re: Major Assassin's Creed Shadows Patch Dated, Teases Dead by Daylight Crossover Quest
@wildcat_kickz @DennisReynolds nice!!
Re: Even More PS5 Price Increases Being Considered by Sony
@LogicStrikesAgain had never heard that personality trait described before. Just looked it up. The logician right?. I am pretty shocked at how well it describes much of my current manifestation. Pretty close with a healthy leaning toward mysticism/hermtic understandings of the universe.
Re: 10 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for May 2025 Announced
This is pretty bad, but. Man is. Feel even worse for those folks still paying into premium. What an under delivering overpriced scam that turned out to be, more so than this price inxlcreased tiered out monstrosity is as a whole.
Re: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Bombed So Hard, Warner Bros' Games Revenue Still Hasn't Recovered
Warner bros as a publishing outfit have been mismanaged far longer than just suicide squad.
Sony should have learned the Redfall /suicide squad lesson back then or at the very least taken some notes. Instead they learned all the wrong things and learned nothing as to why Hell Divers was a rare but fairly decent success.
They are going to learn it the hard way even more so in the next 18 months.
Re: Even More PS5 Price Increases Being Considered by Sony
@Northern_munkey 🤣. Oh no broke batman is still laying dormant. I just know that the reality is we are being intentionally divided with nonsensical culture war distractions. The true only way to create a better standard of living for all forms of life on the planet is to unite as one and enact change outside the machine built with the direct explicit intention to keep us controlled, subservient, and distracted, while they extract.
I tried the go it alone strategy, and that only inconvenienced a few "lizard" masons and landed me in what I call the "men's retreat," around family members, in the process 🤣
Re: Major Assassin's Creed Shadows Patch Dated, Teases Dead by Daylight Crossover Quest
@DennisReynolds I may have to replay. Didn't it get a 60 fps ps5 update too?
Re: Even More PS5 Price Increases Being Considered by Sony
@LogicStrikesAgain ☮️
Re: Major Assassin's Creed Shadows Patch Dated, Teases Dead by Daylight Crossover Quest
@GirlVersusGame @ShogunRok 🤣
As my favorite modern AC game, I'm still in shock I somehow missed this. That "chocamel," is ridiculous and awesome at the same time 🤣
Re: Major Assassin's Creed Shadows Patch Dated, Teases Dead by Daylight Crossover Quest
@DennisReynolds wait what?! It did? I somehow totally. Missed a ff/ac crossover and played the hell out of origins.
Nutty.
Re: Even More PS5 Price Increases Being Considered by Sony
@GirlVersusGame exactly. We are all controlled by a ruling elite class under the veil of a perceived freedom. In the end we are all one and in unity is the only way we will ever enact positive change and push back against these clandestine overlords
🫶
Re: Major Assassin's Creed Shadows Patch Dated, Teases Dead by Daylight Crossover Quest
Wtf? A dead by daylight crossover like some call of duty season nonsense? Wtf
Re: Square Enix Demands Bigger Games, Faster Development as Sales Continue to Slump
They already screwed themselves with too narrow a suite by selling off basically every major ip and studio they had. They can't survive on final fantasy remakes and kingdom hearts alone.
They did this to themselves. They and Ubisoft are just a more public facing example of a reckoning that is happening and will increaseibdustry wide for these bloated budget, over corporatized outfits.
It's going to be rough times ahead in the minds of the shareholder choked endless model driven drones. They will decimate these big publishers and IPs until they realize the over correction has to come from diversifying, and focusing on quality again.
Re: The Precinct (PS5) - GTA-Style Sandbox Is a Dynamic, Addictive Cop Movie Homage
Sounds decent in terms of design, I just have no interest cosplaying a cop lmfao.
Give me another fallout like game with this perspective and I'm all in. However this whole cop thing here or the corporatized criminal cliche thing Ala GTA is just not my bag.
Re: Helldivers 2 Continues to Be Sony's Most Successful Live Service by a Mile
Good for Hell divers. Hopefully it will balance out the flop that marathon is shaping up to be.
Re: Hot PS5s Cause Havoc At Sony’s EVO Japan Grand Final
@BleedingDreamer @Weebleman
Weird to hear that people are claiming the og unit has been overheating on them. Especially considering it has the larger heat sink. I'm not doubting your experiences however I do wonder how your setup may be playing a part. I assume the setup/venue as others have mentioned is also the issue at Evo.
I say this as I am still rocking a launch month ps5, have shamelessly put thousands of total hours and had hundreds of several hours long individual gaming sessions on it without issue.
For additional context: in our old townhouse, my partners parents crib as a temporary waitover, and now at our house; the gaming setups have all not been in a very cool room and the unit has never overheated even on super hot days that had dramatic affects on the indoor temps of those rooms. I've always made sure to keep my unit in tower form and with space on all sides to allow air to better circulate.
Maybe I just have an outlier OG unit? Because I have used the hell out of this thing far more than the average use case, as I don't have a traditional brick and mortar workplace.
Re: Could Borderlands 4 Be an $80 PS5 Game? It 'Might' Be
I mean for a good amount of people Borderlands 4 isn't a super exciting notion, so for those folks myself included, $80 just ensures it's doa in terms of mindshare.
These AAA slop factories continue to learn the wrong lessons from the recent game successes in gaming. Most of them were $60 usd or less, a fraction of the budget of their slop, and of more quality, creativity, and polish than almost all AAA releases of this generation.
Yet these idiots think they can blame the inflation myth and tariffs for their reasoning to charge more for inferior products to fuel the endless growth madness as sentiment for said slop declines. A rude awakening is coming for many of these itarative things aside from GTA and the zombies that buy the new cod, soccer game, madden, etc every year.
Re: Just Like the Game, The Last of Us 2's TV Adaptation Is Getting Review Bombed
All the anti "woke" discourse is just moronic idiocy for sure.
However, It seems like many of the legit negative reviews are actually because Bella Ramsey is a terrible Ellie, and in all honesty that is a 100% valid take that I share.
She is a terrible casting choice that cannot carry the role even remotely as good as the game and it makes the show harder to watch than it should be.
Re: Poll: Which Bethesda RPG Needs an Oblivion-Style Remaster Next?
Watch the latest DF video on the true state of the oblivion remaster console releases(posted yesterday). Then you realize that "Bethesda," need to finish the game they already released.
You play this game more than 15 mins and the performance gets worse and continues to over time until a likely crash because of its assumed to be memory leaks
That's just one of the issues...
If we don't have a conversation about that first, they will merely do the same unfinished AI led gloss over they did here with the same massive problems because it sold so well and continues to be spoken about as some revelation in the remaster game when all it is is an engine upgrade overlay that was unfinished and rushed out at best.
They will see this as a cheap way to print money and learn the wrong lessons if we don't demand better, starting with calling this out until they fix this mess.
Re: PS5 Fans Furious As Microsoft Ships DOOM: The Dark Ages with Just 85MB on the Disc
The resell market has been so ridiculously, Dimished. At best you are making back money only if you finish, and resell it during it's release window. Which fine, I get that but what I don't get is how you don't see that there is literally no betterment to doing that than just paying a sub fee for a fraction of the cost per month as one single game.
Both result with you not owing the game, just one option leaves you with less money even after you get some funds back from a resell. This idea that you can buy and resell games to then have money to buy the next game is just not true in terms of new releases. You are losing money each new game purchase no matter what and still owning nothing until you stop. Not to mention with a sub fee you are only limited by time and thus can play and finish multiple new releases in a month if possible for you...(granted I'm really referencing gamepass here, as Sony's sub svcs are overpriced and vastly inferior).
I'm not advocating for digital here by any means, yet I think the argument for game preservation makes sense in terms of physical.
However, This idea that the resell market is so lucrative just doesn't make sense for me.
Re: PS5 Fans Furious As Microsoft Ships DOOM: The Dark Ages with Just 85MB on the Disc
@GirlVersusGame yah it does beg the question: is this really about cutting cost at all? Or perhaps they really are doing it with the direct intent to continue to push to an all digital no ownership future. Especially when you see the price hikes for said games with nothing on the disc's...
I think the motive is subscription fees. Every other media industry has already almost completely gone digital sub scheme as their business model. Gaming is largely now run by non gamer investors whom want the same for the medium. It starts with a sub, then tiered subs, then sub tiers for ads and no ads, then tiers for quality of content.
Pretty sad what the endless growth model has done to humanity.
Re: PS5 Fans Furious As Microsoft Ships DOOM: The Dark Ages with Just 85MB on the Disc
Yah 85 mb is insane. Don't buy this physical. You are literally just paying for owning garbage.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 580
Just started Clair Obscure. Refreshing after a very mid Indiana Jones.
Re: Talking Point: What Do You Think of the PS5 Pro, Six Months Later?
Genuinely an overpriced underdelivering letdown. The choice to not upgrade the cpu (which they did with the cheaper upgrade price of the ps4 pro), means the Ps5 pro Can never really deliver much more performance in most games. Instead slightly better image quality will be the norm. For 700 $ or more that's just not appealing to anyone aside from those with nothing else going on that they could better use their money for.
However here's the even greater issue. Sony just has nothing in the immediate pipeline aside from yotei, which is absolutely going to only look slightly better than it's ps4 predecessor. By the time the final slate of over bloated budget, iterative AAA thing comes from the rest of their Studios, it will be a cross Gen situation, making the damn thing even less of a wise investment rather than just waiting for the 6.
There will be those incapable of reflection and defend its value with nonsense for fear of admitting buyers remorse, however it's quite clear it was just another In a long line of Sony cashing in via hardware releases to pad their bottom line during a generation they wasted chasing unicorns.
Re: DOOM: The Dark Ages (PS5) - Medieval Mashup Slows Down for FPS Excellence
These modern doom games aren't worth playing until they Milk all the DC out of them anyways. So I'll wait to play the full offering on discount.
Another great example why gamepass is the only sub service that justifies it's asking price. You look at the day one first and third party releases that have gone into that service in the last 4 years, it's a staggering value, especially considering the games one may want to play but not at all buy fullnprice or at all.
I'll wait just like I did doom eternal. As these games are as mindless as a marvel movie.
Re: Sony Celebrates Death Stranding 2 with Limited Edition PS5 Controller
@Simu001 you 100% are not alone in your sentiment. There are a great deal of folks that love Kojima but also many like myself and you whom find him overblown, and many of his games mediocre in terms of coherent storytelling and fully fleshed out gameplay.
Re: Sony Celebrates Death Stranding 2 with Limited Edition PS5 Controller
Good God what is going on with this level of cash grab low effort nonsense. This controller looks like garbage.
Re: Talking Point: What Should Ghost of Yotei's Biggest PS5 Improvements Be?
Side quests/activities and the lame cosmetic only rewards for almost all exploration was just awful. They double down on these two aspects, and it's wait for a steep sale for me.
They could also improve variety and progression, as both were very bare bones and fizzled out before the end.
The game was praised by the internet and media machine but when you take a step back it's hard not too see it's formulaic nature, similar to AC. It really was just a modern AC game with better combat, story, and a unique art style. The follow the wind/smoke gimmick was really only that, and the open world still boiled down to clearing fog, chasing icons, and repetitive side content.
Re: Best Remakes and Remasters on PS5
@graymamba exactly what I was thinking. 🤣
Re: GTA 6 Delayed to 2026, Out on 26th May 2026
Called it. Lmfao
Re: Poll: Are You Sold on Borderlands 4?
I think the biggest wait and see, even if this game is a return to form for the series, will boil down to the current times and trends. These games are practically a precursor to what has evolved into the now losing momentum live service predatory schemes we see today. So if they try and turn this into a monetized live service long tail thing beyond the dlc they used to do, it could really make it garbage.
I'm in the borderlands 3 sucked camped for sure, however even the humor of 2 is just so lame in my eyes today that it would really have to ditch most of that in it's push to be grounded for me to really even give it a chance for that alone.
I don't think with pitchford still at the helm, that it's even possible for this series to grow and refine.
Re: PS5 Pro Is No Longer the Most Expensive Console You Can Buy
This is why the economic system we live in is so disgusting. Xbox has an earnings report where they announce they are finally seeing some growth due to some smart changes in terms of a more multiplat approach. An approach that in some ways is even more gamer friendly, especially more so than what Sony has done this gen.
So then just a day or two later, these little fat pigs in the boardroom decide the next best course of action is to raise the price of everything just to squeeze the masses a little more and continue the trajectory of pricing some people out of their platform.
All in the midst of an economic climate where purchasing power of the vast majority of the world is low and projected to continue to worsen in the foreseeable future.
All the while you have a game like expedition 33 coming out for sub 50 and is better than 99% of the AAA output we've seen this entire generation. Along with a fraction of the dev team, budget, and in less than 5 years.
Sony has been no better this gen.
You factor in hardware capability gaps, these price increases in games/hardware; then the value proposition of the PC space is far more appealing. Especially considering the next console Gen to come. It would take only a year or two of pc games at a more valid price to make up the ever decreasing gap between the cost of a console and a pc(that is more powerful, and something that can be upgraded incrementally).
It's seems so insane to price people out of a console cycle that is nearly over. Ridiculous. I expected it next Gen, and will likely drop Sony as my platform then, considering how garbage this gen as been in terms of their only shtick: exclusives (Which became remasters and canceled live projects this gen 🤣).
Genius.... You don't want my money anymore MS and Sony? No worries, I will oblige
Re: Hollow Knight: Silksong Is Playable in September, But Only in Australia
Honestly this game has taken so long to make that at this point, and so many metroidvania games have flooded the medium, that this will never live up to the hype. There are so many good metroidvanias now, and they all just blur into one another now because they all do the same thing.
It's to the point for me where I liked the first one, but I have zero interest in this sequel now, merely because there are too many of these that are all the same game with varying art styles.
Re: Xbox Now Selling PS5 Games for $80, Joins Switch 2 in Price Increase
This is why the economic system we live in is so disgusting. Xbox has an earnings report where they announce they are finally seeing some growth due to some smart changes in terms of a more multiplat approach. An approach that in some ways is even more gamer friendly, especially more so than what Sony has done this gen.
So then just a day or two later, these little fat pigs in the boardroom decide the next best course of action is to raise the price of everything just to squeeze the masses a little more and continue the trajectory of pricing some people out of their platform.
All in the midst of an economic climate where purchasing power of the vast majority of the world is low and projected to continue to worsen in the foreseeable future.
All the while you have a game like expedition 33 coming out for sub 50 and is better than 99% of the AAA output we've seen this entire generation. But with a fraction of the dev team, budget, and in less than 5 years.
Genius.... You don't want my money anymore MS and Sony? No worries, I will oblige.
Re: Days Gone Remastered (PS5) - The Definitive Version of a True Fan-Favourite
@Peite yah I have no doubt that's a worthwhile addition considering the horde fighting is the best part about the game.
Re: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (PS5) - The Largely Fantastic Revival of a Landmark RPG
@UnlimitedSevens thanks for sharing that, appreciate it. I'll look into that. Maybe they have and I just need to get past 26 or just am not noticing it. I am going to set the game aside for Now to see if they put out meaningful patches.
Onto Clair obscure and Indy
Re: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (PS5) - The Largely Fantastic Revival of a Landmark RPG
@UnlimitedSevens yah maybe that's what I'm referring to with what I'm seeing is the item scaling? Most of my stats are in strength, agility, endurance though. It seems highly unlikely that they would leave the item scaling unadressed and have basic bandits in the best gear, and yet refine the enemy dmg and health scaling. It seems far more likely both were untouched.
I started the game on expert but quickly switched to adept when I saw how unplayable expert was.
Re: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (PS5) - The Largely Fantastic Revival of a Landmark RPG
@UnlimitedSevens I'm playing it.
Literally today I made it to level 23, first mission I actually engaged in, A very early introductory one in the imperial city, now has a body guard wearing daedric armor that took 8-12 hits to down with a decent weapon and very high strength and agility (near 90/100),and took 1/3 of my health per hit with level 85 endurance.
From what I have seen the level scaling hasn't been toned down at All And. Many Independent reviewers familiar with and Having recently Revisited the non remastered version agree. If it's toned down it's so minor as to be indistinguishable.
I intentionally leveled up without really doing a single quest to test this myself. It's as awful and as equally game breaking as I remember. Unless you don't mind not engaging in the progressions systems and/or turning the difficulty to easy, which I don't think is a solution.
Re: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (PS5) - The Largely Fantastic Revival of a Landmark RPG
A 6/7 out of ten feels about right. It's just so dated in nearly every aspect by today's standards. The glow up does nothing to address that, nor does it address the greatest probable the game has that practically breaks all progression: the enemy level scaling. In an RPG, this is just a huge downer and completely removes the power fantasy and hinders most of its rpg mechanics. For those of you playing on adept or higher, that want to discount this, get to level 23 or higher and go visit the first available dungeon in the game. Lol
It looks great but the dungeons are very repetitive and the quests pretty terrible by today's standards. It was great for its time, but to give it a high rating in our time would be crazy and extremely biased. Couple that with the less than ideal performance, it's just a bit underwhelming for the asking price when the nostalgia wears off.
Re: State of Play Set for Wednesday, 20 Minutes of Borderlands 4 Gameplay
Potentially leaving more space for GTA? Nahhh the yotei release date suggests gta isn't coming this year after all, or at very least not until Nov/Dec.
I suspect this release date change is to address the stupid decision to set the Marathon release date the same day as Borderlands 4...
A state of play that is essentially a 20 min paid ad for Borderlands 4? Lol. Is this what the people want Sony?
Re: Elden Ring Sells 30 Million Units, and It's Still Not Done Yet
@DennisReynolds I guess technically you are right. I pretty much lump all multi-player games into that camp Now. So I admit that's a bit reductive on my part. However the days of true multi-player offerings in the vein of like Socom are dead. they are now all created with the intent to be monetized as indefinitely as possible. If you think Fromsoft isn't hoping to do the same with nightreign if it takes, off, sadly I think you Wil be disappointed. However I don't think this one will have long legs in terms of a large player base.
It's not what we want from FS. Sony is learning the same hard lessons chasing the same at the expense of their premier single player studios.
Re: Days Gone Remastered (PS5) - The Definitive Version of a True Fan-Favourite
@lazarus11 I'd argue this game isn't for men either. More targeting something like teenage boys, mentally that is.
I did a bit of time in prison during my vigilante days and can tell you the same level of cringe in there is evident in this game. When you get to know the underlying depth of those persons you realize what you are dealing with beneath the act: scared insecure souls compensating via pretending to be the extreme opposite...
Sadly that same mentality is prevalent throughout much of the population in my country including leadership figures...
Re: Days Gone Remastered (PS5) - The Definitive Version of a True Fan-Favourite
Despite the mediocrity of the characters and writing, the game was OK. A solid 6-7 with a ton of potential. Had they better refined it on the editing floor and not gone the route of douche stereotype murica storytelling through those characters, it would have been a solid 8 or more for me.
Setting all of that aside though this remaster is completely pointless when you compare it to the ps4 version played on Ps5. It's also quite clear that the lighting looks worse and actually affects the art style of the game with the choices they've made in my opinion in a negative way. Aside from that, it's almost indistinguishable in terms of it being an actual upgrade. So I get why it seems fine to waste 10 bucks on a nothing upgrade, as it's a low entry point; but man do not spend full price for what they're asking for this. This is the definition of what we've been talking about with needless cash grab double dipping.
And sometimes you really got to look at what they're doing here regardless of whether or not you like the game. Because they're getting a huge influx of cash even with a small upgrade fee depending on adoption, with far less investment to get it.
So from purely a business perspective if you continue to condone this with your wallet or defend this just to fit in online or stay on brand with platform Allegiance rhetoric, even if it seems like a small investment for you they are going to continue to do it and put less and less effort into these projects if they see folks continue to buy the ones like this of which very little effort was put into.
Re: Elden Ring Sells 30 Million Units, and It's Still Not Done Yet
Gee I wonder what motivated them to try and translate the formula into live service garbage....
Oh Fromsoft, have you learned nothing from the last 5 years.
Re: Ghost of Yotei Has the 'Biggest Map' and 'Greatest Freedom' of Any Sucker Punch Game
Not sure I want a bigger map if the incentive to explore is largely guided by cosmetic garbage. I really hope they don't just do the safe, by the exact same numbers sequel formula that most Sony studios have been stuck in for over a decade.
Only make the game bigger if you improve and expand what the original offered in rewarding to the game and player ways. Don't just go bigger via size and bloat.
certainly don't boast about it if you just populated a bigger space with filler.
I genuinely hope they improved on the firsts side content shortcomings. We don't need this franchise any closer to a Ubisoft open world game...However this whole bigger map and non linear design thing literally sounds like every modern day AC game. 😔
Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Doubles Its Sales, Now Sold 1 Million Units
Nice. Congrats to Sandstorm.