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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.

@DzarkGaz Huh. Good point.

Lol. Imagine spending money to watch someone announce a few games. Touch some grass, much?

Everyone chasing that mythical pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Graphical updates are just a little sad nowadays. Its a bit clearer with a bit of extra lighting. And no doubt requires a thousand quid telly to get the most out of it.
I was spoilt by the days that graphics were exciting. We will never experience a thrill like seeing MGS2 for the first time ever again.

It really is not that much extra, bro.
Did you buy a coffee today? You managed that just fine, I see.

@rjejr Your point about "Adding a story" does make me wonder.
The world has changed so much since this story was in its infancy - namely Trump and AI.
Maybe they felt like the story they had ready to go already felt a bit dated and it needed a rewrite? I dunno, just thinking. But a game releasing in 2026 with a narrative set in the Biden-era just is not going to work imo.

@Northern_munkey He/she is just virtue signalling. We all know that the people who dislike this game for odd reasons are odd, we do not need to talk about it again.

@Sakai Indeed. Whilst I would be willing to bet that it was once top of that list, it is still a fierce contender for the crown.
The Battlefield resurgence also seems to be exaggerated despite the loud hype a few months back.

@get2sammyb It is the sunk cost fallacy in action.
If you have spent ten years getting good at your game, buying skins, making friends etc. why would you ever start something fresh from day one? (Is how these people think, not me.)
MMO's have this problem too. Only theirs is called "Warcraft".

I can I answer a poll for a game that has not yet come out?

@TheDarts There are many kinds of "forced". Not all sales are as willing as they seem.
Go and watch the film "Wall Street". In fact, everyone should watch the film "Wall Street" before they try defending a corpo.

A story as old as time:
Corpo buys something successful.
Corpo gets bored.
Corpo runs away.
That successful thing goes under.
No comeuppance for corpo.
Life goes on.
Repeat.

These people are the personification of "go and touch some grass".

Outlaws had "PS Plus" written all over it from day 1. Glad I waited.

@PneumaPilot Feel like giving us some examples of these games that you are currently playing that are better than any game ever made in the last 48 years? Or was that just hyperbole?

Yeah, great, really impressive.
How about some gameplay? How about some performance details? How about a release date?
Naughty Dog could run for office with such a talent for so saying much and yet nothing at all.

I feel sorry for kids today. All they have to get excited for is a slightly clearer blade of grass after buying an £800 ''Pro'' console.

Do you know what was actually ''Pro''? Going from the PS1 to the PS2. Going from the top down GTA2 to the fully 3D GTA3. Going from MGS1 to MGS2 and seeing an ice cube melt in real time.

And Sony wonders why there is no enthusiasm for the PS6.

Imagine if after all of this time GTA6 turns out to be crap lol.

Imo, your poll is missing an "All Of The Above" option.

Marathon was not a Concord level failure, but it is indeed a failure.
The best metric of all in 2026 is not player numbers, it is streaming numbers. Who is getting rich off the back of these games? How many people are tuning in? And as someone who watches a LOT of both Twitch and Youtube, I can tell you first hand that Marathon is barely a drop in the ocean right now.

AI is still in its infancy. Think of how far it has come in just ten years.
Now think about the next ten. And the ten after that.
Money, money, money. That is what it comes down to. The moment that they can just press a button and make the next billion dollar game? You bet they will.

I just do not think there is a demand for it. Sorry.

A lot of fuss over nothing again.

I do not want this. The story has already been expanded over the original by somewhere in the region of 1,000%.
Time to work on something else.

I am willing to try the motion controls but I have serious doubts that it'll ever come close to replicating a true light gun.
I wonder what happened to light gun games anyway? They were very popular once.

They can whine about review bombing and conspiracies all they like, but their game sucked. Simple as that.
They gave us an empty world, a boring story, vapid stereotype protagonists, and buggy repetitive gameplay with too many fail states.
Even the titular "MindsEye" turned out to be just a chip that controls a single drone.

It'll be nice to finally see Naughty Dog's latest game. Y'know, that game? The one that so far has had less gameplay reveals than Duke Nukem Forever did in the same space of time?

Yeah sure, many do. And those us of us who put ourselves on pedestals are probably just as guilty.
BUT, just because criticism of a product is made popular by a Youtuber does not mean that it is wrong. Red Letter Media back in the 2000s destroyed Star Wars discourse for a decade because every time a Prequels discussion sparked up on a forum there would always be someone parroting Plinkett.
That does not mean however that what they said about the Prequels was incorrect. It means that people without an original thought in their heads allowed themselves to be swept up in it.

Todd: "It just works"
Robert: "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies..."

Where is Johnny Silverhand when you need him?

@Northern_munkey COD is like FIFA or Madden. They simply are not interested in innovation because it'll sell anyway. Apart from the odd feature here and there, the series has not fundamentally changed since the PS3.

Given how lazily identical each COD game is year after year, I get the feeling that it probably still could have come out on PS4.
As for the best game, none of them. The Golden Age of COD is almost unanimously considered to have ended after BLOPS2.

@Jay767 1.2 million copies total according to Google. At forty dollars a time that really isn't as much as it sounds when you factor in the hundreds of millions that it cost Sony to reach this point.

YongYea has been covering just how low the player count is for this game. I wouldn't count on it lasting that long.

@naruball ''We have more video games than ever''.
Yeah, we did during the first crash too.

Nah, we are not in the second video game crash guys. No evidence of that at all. All of these thousands upon thousands of lay offs with 50% never finding work again is the sign of a completely healthy industry.

685 signatures lol. That is barely enough people to fill one corner of a football pitch. That is not convincing anyone to stick their neck out.

@Oram77 In my opinion, if you are a parent then you will understand Joel's decision to save Ellie.
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" is easy to say until it is your kid on that table being prepared to be sacrificed for the many. And let's not split hairs here, the fact that Ellie is not actually Joel's blood changes nothing.

@HaveTheSauce Meh. I don't know that I agree with that. Only a few loud internet grifters and sad boys in comment sections really care that she is bald, or that Abby had muscles, or that Ellie is gay.
TLOU2, the game and the show, was controversial because people do not enjoy seeing their heroes die. Nothing more, nothing less.
But a good story will always be a good story and this game will sell if ND delivers one.

Talk, talk, talk.
My hype is eroding with all of this constant talk.
Where's the game?

It looks like a Hitman DLC imo.
Might be a good game, but is it a good James Bond game? I remain unconvinced.

@Shrek_Realista Because if you've been playing the game for 25 years like I have, there are certain points in this game where it begins to become a chore to get through due to the amount of talking. Bevelle and Yunalesca spring very much to mind.
The Remaster not having the ability to skip cutscenes or speed up the game was a ridiculous decision.