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@CP2 Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3. Her main selling point was that she was just an ordinary teenager and not a big boobed model like all of the other women of the time. She has a flat chest, short hair and freckles.

Beloved character and widely regarded as an excellent game. The idea that if a woman cannot enter the roster of Stellar Blade she will be automatically hated is a hollow argument.

Why mention the "weirdos" at all apart from comment farming?
Attention is what gives these people power. Stop giving it.

VR will never be a thing until it is shrunk to the size of a pair of glasses.
Until then, just accept that most people do not want to game wearing a helmet.

Not going to happen. Trump and Vance are in bed with the tech bros like no other presidential duo before them. So much so that they reversed most of what Biden put in place to safeguard AI.

Because, like it or not, it's theft.
These fans do not own the ip. Make an exception for this and Sony will have no excuse not to make an exception for anything else. In other completely unrelated news... Sony is suing Tencent right now.

@nomither6 Buddy, even today, twenty five years later, I still shoot that ice bucket in Metal Gear Solid 2. To suggest that ''the majority of gamers'' do not care about artistic creativity and effort is a lie.

Relish these times, ladies and gentlemen. For we still live in that glorious, delicious age in which AI is still imperfect.
In ten years time you'll be completely unable to tell the difference from fiction and reality.

@RoomWithaMoose Hopefully PushSquare has learned from previous controversies cough has a lightning scar cough to steer clear of the culture wars.

The only winning move is not to play. Especially as all actual evidence from sales figures points towards BOTH sides being nothing more than a vocal minority. Actual gamers, game.

@EfYI What i said about Ubisoft is true and was found to be so in a court of law.
Google it.

@EfYI They claim.
They claim that these things happened.
I on the other hand think that trial by social media can stick it.

@EfYI Sheer greed and evil?
Lol! Ubisoft had/has literal rapists in their offices and releases broken microtransaction filled slop every couple of months.

Everyone will forget about the GTA6 delay and these protests if Rockstar releases another forever game.

@Rich33 I would recommend a Youtuber by the name of Modern Vintage Gamer who has a video on this. Basically, yes, all of the arcade versions and their ports cheated. The PS1 version has identical code to the arcade.

@seinfeldfanatic Yep. If you grew up with 80s and 90s games then you knew exactly what to expect.
This is the ''Elden Ring needs an easy mode'' argument all over again. Some games are not designed for you - get over it.

Nintendo have made their way through the faithful who would eat deadly nightshade if they got a free copy of Mario Kart out of it.

Everyone else is looking at the Switch 2 and thinking "Wow, that's expensive, and that display is kind of crap, and battery life sucks, and..."

@geordie197 And why is this not a 9/10 collection? Because some kids did not do their research beforehand? Because they were apparantly expecting a 2025 experience from a game released in 1992?

I'm not remotely suprised that today's gamers cannot play MK. They are too used to being babysat. Catch-up mechanics, hints, a big pointing arrow to the objective, the main character literally spelling out how to do a puzzle - lol.
Games before the 5th generation threw you in there like a boomer dad teaching you how to swim.

@Coolmusic Its weird as hell imo

I greatly suspect that all of those people who want PSN for free were not around when PSN went down for a month after being hacked in 2011.

Let us be clear about what "free" means in reality. It means "cost cutting because we are making no money off this service."

If something is "free", all you are doing is paying in some other way down the line. Never forget that.

@Ainu20 Only to those of us without the money to sue.
Try this s-t with Disney and see what happens.

The only reason Sony cares is because it affects them.

@SpecialT I find this criticism perplexing. You do not think that PlayStation's biggest competitor for the last twenty years going down the toilet is news worthy of a PlayStation news site?
This is the equivalent of Coca Cola no longer having to compete against Pepsi.

@HonestHick I think you may have put the wrong address into your browser, sir. The sentence you were looking for is "Pure Xbox".
I'm sure you will find the upvotes that you are seeking over there.

@Dalamar Amazon like a lot of companies over-hired during lockdown.
A lot of these job losses is pure greed too mind you.

@Questionable_Duck Yes and no. A lot of it is going nowhere. But the market valuation itself is highly inflated to the point of implosion.

Even if it does launch in 2027 it'll probably take until 2029 for any console exclusive games to come out for it.
Plenty of life in the PS5 yet.

The sad thing is, there is a lot of potential here given the large cast of characters and the time travel aspect to do something Sonic the Hedgehog adjacent.
It should have been a movie.

Halo is yesterday's news let's be honest. If this happened in the 2010's the internet would be on fire. As it is... meh... probably get it eventually...

AI is a tool. It is only as evil as its users. Sadly there are many evil people out there.

In other news, did you know that every major techbro is building a bunker in preperation for the day that we turn on true AI? Look it up.

I was suprised by how good this game is tbh. Silent Hill was such a pachinko, gacha, dead franchise for so long that i was not expecting much.

Like Mortal Kombat and the first two Tekken games, this has aged BADLY. One for the nostalgic among you because I doubt that anyone used to faster, deeper, more intricate fighters will find much here.

Every single Fallout game to date has been bundles of fun gameplay wise but technically among the worst that I have ever played. Multiple crashes are expected, softlocks, broken quests, poor UI, dated graphics.

It'll sell. Of course it will. But Todd Howard has a bad reputation for a reason. Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies...

@trev666 Then don't read the articles that are clearly about XBox then. That is the simple solution to your distaste of them.

@trev666 Take your blinkers off. The console wars are over. Don't be like that Japanese soldier who was still fighting WW2 in 1970.

I suspect, like with the first game, this will be yesterday's news pretty quickly. It'll probably have a nice stint on PS Plus by the second half of next year.

I got to say, i really feel sorry for kids today who never got to experience the heyday of SNES v Genesis or PS3 vs 360. Continuous innovation, brand new IP every few months, games that actually shipped with a game on the disc.
I do not think that it'll happen again.

Then there is no reason to buy an XBox if you can get all of its games on PlayStation. That is what it comes down to.

Anyway, we know why they are saying this. XBox alone can no longer shift the product required to make an exclusive worth it. If they had another Modern Warfare 2 vs Halo 3 situation on their hands I bet she would change her tune very quickly.

@Sanquine Many analysts in the know are 50/50 that the AI bubble is the next Dot Com crash.
One report I read in the news recently stated that something like 90% of companies that have adopted AI have only seen marginal gains. As what often happens with new technology, you have this huge burst in the early days followed by marginal gains as you get further along.

@saffeqwe A high score and a trophy is nothing alike. A high score requires continuous improvement and effort, whereas a trophy, once it goes ding, that's it. Forever.

Once again let me announce my dismay at the fact that people today apparantly cannot play a game without their little drug hit in the corner of the screen.

@MichaelNau This comment section seems to think that she is hated. But outside of a few chumps on YouTube most people seem to be rather mild towards her the best i can tell.

@awp69 As someone who has owned consoles from every major brand at some point, I can tell you straight and without bias that the XBOX deserves everything thrown at it.
The 360 was an amazing console with amazing games - but in retrospect it was Microsoft's MegaDrive. Because as with Sega, everything has been progressively downhill since almost entirely due to terrible corporate decisions.

Tekken 3 is the best Tekken imo. I wonder how they got around the licensing issue with Gon? I suspect that they will have deleted him.

This is a good thing imo. AC has been feeling stale for a while. New blood, hopefully new ideas.

@Futureshark They never said that you could not enjoy boobs. They said that her design is generic. Which it is. You could put this character in the line-up of basically any Japanese fighting game and she would blend right in.

@darkswabber Yep. Fortnite might not be the the all-conquering colossus that it once was, but it is still pulling live service numbers that Herman Hulst would kill for.

@Oram77 No. And I never claimed otherwise.

Does review bombing exist? Of course it does. But I also think that is a very convenient excuse to dismiss other people's opinions.
Sometimes, a lot of people are calling your game crap because a lot of people legitimately think that your game is crap.

It'll be interesting to see if the Switch 2 has legs over the long term. Nintendo's anti-consumer practices recently have caused even the faithful to grumble.

But some companies legitimately do seem to be immune from the consequences of criticism. They aren't doing much that Microsoft isn't with the Xbox and yet only one is being dragged over the coals for it.

This surprised me tbh. I would have assumed Digimon to be a dead franchise.
Good for them.

The only people who find this controversial are Xbox stans.