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What a tiresome off-topic thread this is morphing into. We are here to talk about a game, not politics.

Art style is a real make or break for me and I do not like this. Too much white, too much lime green.
Plus, knowing the publisher, it'll become microtransaction hell pretty quickly which dampens any enthusiasm that I may have had going in.

A relic of an era whereby Phoebe Waller Bridge was getting hired for projects far out of her comfort zone.

You find that with Hollywood for some odd reason. Someone becomes cock of the walk due an unrelated project and suddenly they seem to be involved with everything.

My issue with this stat is that the word ''RPG'' has become incredibly diluted to the point that it now covers a wide variety of games that have very little in common. Meanwhile something that calls itself a Battle Royale is actually very easy to pin down as being a Battle Royale.

I wonder how many of these games actually fit our personal definitions of what an RPG is. Or even the official one if such a thing exists.

I cannot describe the first game as being anything else other than incredibly average.

It did nothing that stood out and yet did nothing all that wrong either. I played it once and then forgot about it immediately.

There is potential here but they need to do a lot better than "Fallout but now it's in space!!"

This'll be the ultimate test of whether this franchise is as popular as Sony thinks it is/wants it to be. Will it prove the massive investment true or will it become yet another Horizon spin-off flop?

Jim Sterling always used to point out that the problem with this concept is that frequently you are only paying for half a game. The final product is chopped up and sold back to you as microtransactions, DLC, season passes etc.

£80 for a game might be excusable if you actually got £80 worth of game. The actual price for the whole package is often in the region of £150.

BTW, isn't "meh, I'll just wait for discounts" and there's no way I'll ever pay rather much" basically the same question?

My ability to resist FOMO is legendary. I'll play your game eventually, but it won't be for £80 I can promise you that.

@Mattock1987 I disagree that she is a good actress who nailed the role.

But the world would be very boring if we all agreed on everything huh?

I would do what Joel did to save my dog so you can imagine how far i would go to save my child. And I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I'm glad people enjoy KH but never could get into it myself. This goes beyond your typical convoluted JRPG storyline into "i just didn't get it". Good work if you got something out of it though.

Why not both?

One wonders if the real reason is because they could not secure the original rights.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Regarding Abby's new threat level as a more slightly built woman, as I said on yesterday's article, the strong masculine is determined by muscles, not the strong feminine.

Look for example at Lena Headey's character in "Dredd" who is absolutely believable as a drug dealing, genital-chomping psycho. Or to stick with Headey, Circe, who again is absolutely believable as a black widow sociopathic blueblood.

There may be a golf club involved in the final product, but we can do SO MUCH MORE with the character than the rather one-note version that we got in the games.

Fans were outraged by Joel's death because they loved Joel. They had built a connection up with him - and no amount of "he's just a fictional character!" from those who dismiss such feelings will change that any more than me saying "it's just a couple of guys kicking a ball about!" will stop a football riot.

@themightyant I agree with you... but i also think that your description of GoT describes TLOU2 just as well. I don't buy that Ellie would just give up right at the last moment - the whole game was leading towards one of them dying and it feels like a massive cop out that it did not happen.

@Balie3000 The difference between 2077 and No Man's Sky as opposed to most of the other dreck that releases broken is that these games had genuine hype and excitement behind them and thus people were willing to give them another chance.

Most crap games do not get a second chance no matter how much time and effort you pump into them.

@EfYI How are we defining "changing Abby into a fragile woman?"

You do not have to have He-Man muscles to be strong. Big muscles are how we express the strong masculine, not the strong feminine.

For example, I would argue that an example of the strong feminine is Tess from TLOU1. She was only slightly built and yet that did not stop her from being any less heroic or badass with it.

Rule of thumb: Would it piss you off if someone defaced a church or a mosque? Then don't do it to someone else's holy land.

@ChrisDeku Or it could be because - follow along with me here - there are noticeably more articles about this game's sales figures than any other game released in the past month?

Yes, the game did well. Most of us knew that it would.

Now can we please not have continuous articles on the subject?

No one asks to have the sort of problems Bam has. What a terrible precedent it would be if we censored soneone just because their life has gone off the rails.

And side note, how dare they assume to remove anything from the original release of the game.

"Whatever your thoughts on Ubisoft, the industry would be worse without it."

No, it wouldn't.

@Toot1st Edited

The hate for this game is unjust but... system seller? Really?
Let us please not tip too far into hyperbole here.

I always thought that was the case tbh. The game sold 3 million in its first week - meaning that it only sold an extra 500,000 in the two years since despite also getting a PC port in the meantime?

This describes the Western games industry very well. The Eastern games industry is actually doing quite well.

"They're the same picture."

Let me tell what the Devs who said that single player games are dead actually meant: "Stop playing them because we do not get a continuous supply of cash from your time."

That's it. They hoped single player games were dead. EA and Ubusoft tried desperately hard to make it happen. Even Bethesda were open about this during the release of Fallout 76, with Todd Howard bitching about not making any money from the thousands of people still playing Fallout 4.

Most of my favourite games and shows have been from the East in recent years. The West's output has imo become stale for a variety of reasons.

Japanese games for the Japanese seems like a winning formula and I wholeheartedly support it.

They might have my sympathy if they shut up on Twitter X and didn't spend their time during the controversy insulting the old fans.

Its a simple lesson and yet these devs keep on doing it.

That's his opinion.

Mine personally is that if it wasn't for her silicone materia she would be no more popular than any other FF character. People do not remember Cindy for her mechanical skills or Lulu because of her personality.

I'm not saying that this is a good thing btw, I'm saying that is the society that we live in. I wonder how liked she would be by certain people if Square dared to give her face fuzz?

Let me tell you what the takeaway of the SAG strikes were as far as the corporations are concerned: human beings are no longer needed. In fact they are an active liability to profit. The only thing that the strikes achieved was to speed up the demise of Hollywood.

And guess what? It is happening everywhere. Only legislation will stop it but that clearly is not coming soon.

Hoo boy, if you thought that Final Fantasy has a toxic fanbase, welcome to this one.

@SeanOhOgain And my games on it still work as good today as they did then.

This whole thing seems a bit exaggerated to me.

KiraTV on YouTube has a whole series on why this was a scam. The warning signs were there from almost day 1.

Is it more or less impressive that FF16 has only sold 3.5 million copies?

That is a scandalous price imo.

@PegasusActual93 The potential issue with TLOU3 is the same problem that the MCU fans had who decided to go and check out the Civil War and Infinity War comics: the game is not the show. The characters share the same names but they are not the same characters, the plots share the same beats but they are not the same plots.

@ATaco I think it's a pretty safe bet that if you're on PushSquare that you know of the scene in TLOU2 that everyone is waiting for regardless of whether you have played the game or not.

@DennisReynolds Did you read the comment that I was replying to?

I know.

@AhmadSumadi There are opinions and then there are "opinions".

@Rhaoulos Ironic considering Elon Musk is one of the world leaders in AI development.

Imagine a GTA game in VR whereby you could walk down the street and actually hold a conversation with the pedestrians. AI has the potential to effectively make Star Trek's holodeck a reality.

We are a long way off from this of course, but interactive AI technology has enormous potential and I am really looking forward to it.

Faith and religion are immensely interesting topics if done correctly. The danger is that you do so with the intention of pushing your own opinions upon the audience.

BTW, I've already seen it mentioned here so i have to refute the claim that Lightning is the female Cloud because it bugs me whenever I see it.

I don't remember Cloud punching Aerith in the face repeatedly for annoying him. I don't remember Cloud planning to abandon a child because he could not keep up.

Lightning is a horrible person. The fact that she gets better is irrelevant - the damage was done early and completely derailed Square's continuous attempts to make her the series mascot.

The best review of this game online is still the one by Noah Antwiler AKA The Spoony One.

He nitpicks a lot in it i won't deny that, but he nevertheless makes some excellent points. The repetitive dialogue, the fact that the story at points is incomprehensible, the ending that makes little sense when you actually think about it.

It's hate is well earned imo.

@Cry_Zero This series is ten years too late unfortunately. We all know that Ellie was originally based on Ellen Page. A fact made even more clear if you hunt down the pre-release material for the first game.

@0niguy No, tbh with you. I wish with all my heart that the PS6 will return to the days of innovation and trendsetting that Sony used to be known for, but I haven't seen much proof of that.

My gut feeling is that it will be designed around the concept of bridging the gap between console and Steam. Look at the shovelware already available on PSN. That'll get worse imo.

@Ultimapunch Don't worry. If the PS6 even remotely follows the trend set by the PS5, you will be playing nothing but PS4 and PS5 games on it for many years afterwards.