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Christmas is a magical time of year for those fortunate enough to have family or friends that you love. It is also one of the hardest if you do not. The rates of self ending, domestic violence and divorce are statistically at the highest until the start of January.

Basically what i'm saying is, for many people, the ability to enter a fantasy world and pretend to be someone else for a while is literally a lifesaver today. God bless the IT guys for being there.

I'm obviously not saying that I agree with the horrible working conditions in China - but China is indeed an economic powerhouse precisely because of its insane levels of productivity.

The 2030s will belong to them if something isn't done. And no, tariffs are not "something".

What?? They used an AI picture??
Burn the infidals at the stake!!

What a mad overreaction this whole thing has been.

@singleplayerguy "Tragic is the loss of a life caused by someone whose wealth and status clearly made him feel the rules didn’t apply to him."

Zip it up, son. You do not know this man nor the circumstances.

Most people in life remember their challenges not their cakewalks. Josh Strife Hayes has a great video on why easy games are forgettable.

@iDreamwalker Read Mr Singh's comment above you.
AI is not coming. Its here. Right now. Whether you like it or not. Prepare yourself so that you aren't left behind.

@iDreamwalker Give it a few years for the kids growing up with it to come of age and it'll be widely accepted and everywhere. Just as it was when hand drawn animation and practical effects met CGI.

"Long-time PlayStation owners will know Sony always goes hard in the January sale".

Lol. These discounts look exactly the same as the forty other PlayStation sales that we have throughout the year.

This vendetta against AI art reeks of "old man yells at cloud" if you ask me.

"Back in my day it took us 10,000 hours to draw everything by hand and we liked it, damn it."

This game is doa in my opinion but we'll see.

@Number09 AI is a buzzword. We've had ''AI'' since the very first video games. That line that went up and down on Pong to react to your dot? That's AI.

''Generative art lacks the soul that makes human art meaningful''.

This is one of those lines that sounds poignant but ultimately means nothing. What is ''soul''? What is ''meaning''? Survey a hundred people and you'll get a hundred answers.

Oh goody. The show's ''canon''. What joy.

Looking forward to those ghouls with Wolverine healing abilities, power armor that barely works, a Vault-Tec that started WW3 and an NCR that has been nuked to death.

They're too bloody expensive. That's why Black Friday was such a success.

The old model was to sell hardware at a loss to make it back through software. And I simply do not believe that this model cannot work in 2025. Its greed. Simple as that.

This does not mean that Sony won, it means that Tencent folded. Very different things. As Boxmonkey says, expect to see this game again in the near future in a legally obligated "25% different" state.

Vote with your wallet.
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That's what i thought.
Bluster, Bluster, Bluster. Then a game comes out that you want and you'll still buy it anyway. Its microtransactions all over again.

That sounds absolutely horrible lol.

Hey, different music for different folks, but I'll be sticking with Queen.

@Oram77 I swear that some people treat trophies as if it is their heroin fix. But that is our instant gratification culture in a nutshell.

I smell a shift back to the 90s when in comes to female character design since the success of Stellar Blade.

I'm neither saying that is good or bad, merely that I think it has happened. I do not expect anyone to be accusing her of having a five o clock shadow this time put it that way.

My two cents for what its worth is that your average mainstream gamer even if they are interested in the concept would be turned off by the graphics.

And it does matter I'm afraid because a game like this depends on you connecting with the character.

So... its a whole game as the original Ashley Graham?

@AhmadSumadi People like us, sure.
But normies? Nah.

By putting such expectations on the lifespan of a console there is absolutely no reason to buy a PS6 before 2030.

They are hurting themselves in the long run.

@Ooccoo_Jr Another plastic band for a plastic age.

You've got to wonder who out there who hasn't yet bought a PS5 will be running out to buy one based on some pop group. Sony is wasting their money if you ask me.

@Dan12836666 Half Life 3 is never happening because no game can ever live up to this amount of expectation and hype.

Looking forward to another Sega MegaDrive Collection.

You are right. I did know within twenty seconds that I am not the target audience.

Paramount is attempting a hostile takeover of WB and supposedly they have Trump on side.
Netflix has not won anything yet.

@zebric21 Agree 100%. It's also a bit hard to play an "America saves the world" game right now as a European.

The last time a famous co-creator gave me a game "unlike any I've ever played before" I got Mind's Eye.

As a fan of the original I'm glad that it was cancelled tbh. From what I saw it was a generic game starring a woman with red hair.
I would rather my childhood games remain dormant forever than to have some in name only sequel share their name.

The show started OK. But as it went on (and especially its spin off) it just became gross for the sake of gross imo.

@DennisReynolds The reviews are from Wikipedia.

@DennisReynolds Tekken 1 was the first PlayStation game to shift over a million units and pulled 8's and 9's across the board upon release.
You cannot judge an old game using modern eyes.

And as for Tekken 4 being a bad game that is internet revisionism. It ALSO scored 8's and 9's across the board upon release and won E3's best fighting game of the year award.

@dodgykebaab A generation officially ends when the next console comes out.
The last PS2 game came out in 2013 but you wouldn't call it of the same generation as the PS3.

There absolutely will be a handheld. This is not even a debate at this point.

@SuperYlvis Buying an Xbox right now is like buying a Dreamcast during the PS2 era. Will you have fun? Yeah, perhaps. But it is very obvious the direction the wind is blowing.

The digital only console discount was huge - it was something in the region of £290. That is insane value.

It also shows just how many people would be willing to buy a PS5 if Sony dropped their ridiculously inflated prices a bit more often.

@Lorfarius A million dollars sounds very impressive. But the details behind those numbers are less so. According to Google that figure was reached by 5,587 backers.

Do I need to emphasise just how few people that is? There are football stadiums where you could not fill even half of a single stand with an amount that small.

@BearsEatBeets You are greatly misjudging the power of nostalgia.
That aside, I would argue that the gaming equivalent of a black and white silent movie would be the Vectrex - and yeah, you would be hard pressed to find anyone willing to play that today.
The PS1 is more like making a 1980s or 1990s throwback. And there are plenty of shows out there that prove just how popular those are.

Colin McRae Rally was a great game back in the day. I can see myself picking this up.

@species You cannot get arrested in the UK for "posting a meme".
You can however get arrested for posting something grossly offensive that should not exist in a polite society. The sort of thing that would get you punched in the balls if you said it to someone's face in real life.

@GamingGod No corporation in the world is an ally to women, gays or other minorities despite what they may claim on Twitter or on special days of the year.
When money calls, they go sniffing.

@Realist Two week old games do not normally go on sale as they are still in their prime ''everyone is still buying this product at full price'' phase.

This was the game where, in retrospect, it became obvious that Hideo Kojima needed to be replaced.
The gameplay itself was fine but the story was a convoluted mess. And I dare anyone to tell me that they understood it the first time through.
I'm glad someone else is getting a shot tbh.

I'm just saying, there is no way the casual player is going to buy the PS6 if it is above or around PS5 Pro prices. Especially if the games actually are £70-£80.

Too big to fail lol

@Dodoo These stupidly expensive long winded games will all but vanish eventually. The health of this industry beyond the Big Ten (GTA5, Fortnite, Minecraft etc.) is deeply questionable whether it can make the returns any more. So many high profile failures...