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A whole new generation of Metal Gear Solid 3 fans can now get pissed off at the fates of their favourite characters.
Oh, and make yourself a nice cup of tea and a sandwich before sitting down. MGS4 is at least 50% cutscene. In a series famous for forcing you to put the controller down for long periods, this one is where things got stupid.

@ButteredCrumpet "I find all this “it’s not a man so I can’t relate and enjoy it” attitudes very strange."

Isn't it interesting though how gender and race swaps in our media tend to use representation as an argument? It is almost as if it is only a problem when men or white people say that they prefer to play as male or white characters...

@MrPeanutbutterz Yes and no. Whilst the overall market is 50:50, what men and women play is markedly different. Men are more likely to play sports and action heavy games whereas women are more likely to play puzzle games and simulations.
In other words, more men than women are likely to play God of War.

@JimmyRiddle Sorry for the 5 year old reply. But I just wanted to say that absolutely nothing has changed. GTA5 Online is perhaps one of the most unsatisfying and annoying gaming experiences that I have ever had.

The disc production factories are closing down, its people already redeployed and retrained.
Its done, people.

@shikadi That literally makes no sense.

@ThePlaystationStan "Naoto is 100% transmac non binary."
It sounds to me like you are writing your own story tbh.

I've been laid off before. It effing sucks.
But a fake memorial service to mark my redundancy? That seems like a sketch from The Simpsons.

The death knell of any franchise in 2026: "remade for the modern audience".

I enjoyed Cyberpunk once it was fixed. But it very much has been diminishing returns for me. This universe does not have much depth imo.

@Fluberuper I never said that all of those people are watching the world cup. I am saying that they are reading the news and laughing.

@Fluberuper Do you have any idea just how unpopular Trump and by extension the USA currently is in the world? 95% is a bloody good estimate as far as I can tell. Everyone outside of the USA who cares about fair play and honesty was Belgian the other night.
We make no apologies for our schadenfreude.

@TheDarts Maybe because there is precious little to celebrate right now? Let people enjoy themselves, Scrooge.

@Jacko11 The irony is, these Boomer games are most likely going to be played by Boomers. As in, people less likely to be always online tech-savvy kids who want a digital future.

@Damage99 Yes... but also ridiculous levels of unsustainable overspend even for Microsoft.
These studios were never worth the billions that they spent on them.

@MidnightDragonDX That's just it though. It is hard to find an exact figure but half to two thirds of people laid off from gaming devs in the past couple of years never found work in the industry again.
The jobs simply do not exist.

Lay offs everywhere, physical media dead, $1,000 consoles, the same ten games on the bestseller list every month.

Gaming is totally fine, guys. Real healthy. Not crashing at all.

Lol. I wonder how many of these trend chasers have actually bought a physical game this year.

Breaking news: "Audience complains about audience led change."

You and I made physical media unprofitable. It is easy to blame Sony for making a business decision instead of yourselves.
Use it or lose it. That is how capitalism works.

@ThePlaystationStan I cannot think of anything more narcissistic than liking your own comment.

Use it or lose it, folks.
So many hypocrites crying about the end of physical media and yet over two thirds of sales are now digital. What did you think would happen? It is just as much your fault as it is anyone else's.
See also: people who cry about the death of the high street whilst ordering everything off Amazon.

Holy s-t though, just imagine the atomic bomb that'll go off on the internet if this game turns out to be crap lol.

This is the first console generation in history in which you got a better deal at launch. What a mess.

"Dead or Alive deserves better"

Does it? This game is softcore porn. Always was. Its target market is people who used to watch Baywatch with one hand. Just because it has tried to be something else in recent years does not mean that it succeeded or that we are losing something from its failure when we already have so many better fighters out there.

@wildcat_kickz Yeah, i accept that. But i fail to see how i am wrong when Marathon in its prime has failed to even come close to Destiny 2's twilight years.
Still the wrong horse.

I'm sorry, but they are talking absolute sh-t.
Destiny 2 did not fall short of expectations. Right up until the end its player count was eclipsing that of Marathon.
Either Sony or Bungie needs to admit the truth: they backed the wrong horse. All of this money, all of this time, should have been spent on Destiny 3, not Marathon.

@SavoyPrime It is a pretty vulgar image too. I know that makes me sound prudish, but not all of us want to see a hooker with her tongue out.

@JAMes-BroWWWn If Naughty Dog actually bothered to put out some games maybe they would get the same treatment.

This will be one easy game to platinum.

Naughty Dog better release a banger of a game because they are pissing away a lot of their good will.
Rockstar can get away with a development cycle of eons because GTA5 has never stopped being popular. ND can not.

I was going to say that it seems like a mistake releasing such niche games but the more I think about it, the more it seems like genius.
Statistically, kids do not buy new games. They are the ones playing Fortnite and COD to death. It is us oldies who still have a collection of single player games and we are still good part of the market. It may be the future to re-release the past.

Ridiculous. No wonder we have a productivity crisis in this country. I bet this won't happen in places like China.

Just... uninstall your games...

Too many people let Bethesda get away with releasing crap for too long. It is as simple as that.
Fallout 76 and Starfield is the audience wising up.

Get used to it, kids. AI is here to stay. It's faster, it's easier, it's cheaper.

Oh look, more evidence that we are in the second crash.

Of course this is good news.
But it also should not have taken this long to reach this point either.

Horizon is nowhere near as popular as Sony seems to think that it is.

@ZeroRows Those who love the game are considerably less than those who don't. Sorry but please face facts. Push Square is simply reporting the truth.

I predict that in a couple of months time Destiny will uncancel itself.

People will whine and moan and cry... and then buy it anyway.

The devs know that you will too.

If they've rolled back basically everything that made this game unique, why play this over Civ 6 to begin with?

Ironically, I feel as if Johnny Silverhand would not approve.

@wildcat_kickz Anazing. Literally everything that you said was a lie. Just incredible.

@wildcat_kickz "The rest of us" is not the group that you personally are in though, no matter how much you may want it to be.
The player numbers for a flagship Bungee product meant to replace Destiny 2 are pathetic. It is not Concord, but it is not a success either. Sorry about that.

Destiny died for this.

So, its a cross between Hitman and Uncharted?
Does not sound much like any James Bond film or book that i've seen.
What it sounds like is what I was afraid of: generic action man with a coat of James Bond paint. Not impressed.

I suspect Sony probably are unhappy with the glacial pace of Naughty Dog tbh.

@Northern_munkey Go and watch Yongyea on YouTube. He has video after video detailing the slow death of Marathon in terms of both player count and money wasted.
We get if you love the game. And that is perfectly fine. But to say that a website that waited a whole month to review Marathon is now running negative spin stories is fantasy.