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Could be good for sure.
Gran Turismo is too casual nowadays. The appeal of GT used to be that it was just that little bit more "real" than it's contemporaries. There are a lot of videos on YouTube going through exactly what has been lost with each installment.

Skate boarding has never recovered it's 2000 level popularity imo. Men like Tony Hawk and Bam Margera were household names. Even normies have heard of them.

I think that also goes for the X games in general. You probably had to be there, but man were those films and games everywhere. That was the era those games were born into and why they took off.

@naruball If you have a recognisable brand and publisher behind you and yet still sell so few copies that your product is being given away after six months, then yes, in this case, sales do indeed indicate quality.

"Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn't quite BioWare back to its absolute best, but it is the most cohesive and emotionally engaging RPG that the studio has delivered since Mass Effect 3."

The word "quite" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here given how Mass Effect 3 wasn't being given away for free six months later.

I want FF to be an RPG again, not a hack and slash with a coat of RPG paint.

I would like an actual remaster of GTA3, GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas please.
There are mods that look, play and run better than this so-called "fixed" version.

"Do you think this is satisfactory compensation for the outage?"

I wouldn't normally go as far as to say this, but there are people out there who really need to touch grass if going for one day without your PlayStation messed you up to the degree that you are still unhappy about it.

@naruball Maybe. And yet... isn't it funny how often products that nobody asked for turn out to be monumental failures?

It was a bad year for WB. They also lost something like 150-200 million on Joker Folie a Deux. If Suicide Squad also lost them 200 then that is nearly half a billion loss on just two products.

I do not know how many times this needs to be said but clearly it still does: Give your customers what they want. ''Subverting our expectations'' is for mugs. All you needed to do was to give us one ''Bonnie and Clyde'' style movie and one ''Justice League vs Suicide Squad'' game and you would have printed money. There is no secret formula to success and there never was.

@mariomaster96 @get2sammyb Oh, fair enough. Those people are getting ripped off. Some people really will refuse to shop around.

"Valve only sells the handheld through its own storefront, removing all retail presence and making it more of an enthusiast device."

Eh? I just checked. You can buy them on Amazon.

Tekken has always been an anime in game form and needs to be thought of as such. That said, it absolutely has gotten sillier. You only need to compare the T2 and 3 endings to what came later.

In my personal opinion, PushSquare's previous policy of turning off comments on any article discussing current politics was very wise and should continue.

@Darude84 We'll have to agree to disagree on the games because you've mostly just named a bunch of PS4 games.

You couldn't play a PS2 game on a PS1 or a PS3 game on a PS2. The fact that it is now so easy to do so is a very obvious blight on the system imo.

@Darude84 Why is the PS5 your favourite console of the five though? I'm not arguing, i'm genuinely interested.

The PS5 has been a very disappointing console to those of us old enough to play the generations that came before. I don't know why i would want to drop 800 on a machine that makes the graphics slightly clearer.

Gee, Rocksteady. Imagine if you had done this when Kevin Conroy was still alive as opposed to completely tanking your brand with garbage?

Sigh. As the saying goes, there are two types of people: Those who know that fire is hot, and those who have to stick their hand in it first.

@Feffster It's all down to licencing. First party games tend to stay for a year+ whereas you can reasonably expect third party to be three months+. PS1-PS3 games seem to last considerably longer than PS4-PS5 games.

Basically, tackle the current and last gen gen third party games first if you are worried about them going.

This game will really separate the old fans from the new.
If it does well long term, then hey, fossils like me will have to dop our caps and say "fair play, old chap. You did a right proper job with that little lady."

For now though, I'll stick with 5 and 6 and wait for the DLCs to inevitably change something drastic about the formula - just as they always do.

I have no pity for this company at all. Ubisoft and EA have been a cancer on this industry. Years of identical, low effort games. Dozens of quality studios bought up and demolished without a second thought.
We will all be better off without them.

Game Pass coming to PS5 is 50/50 at this point.

American shows always seem to go on for a couple of seasons longer than they should. Compare this to British shows that have six episodes spread across two seasons.

Either way, Imo, unless the series is going to diverge massively from the games, I fail to see how TLOU2 has three seasons of content to it. It's The Hobbit all over again.

The console exclusive is finished.
Xbox to PlayStation, PlayStation to PC. And this is a good thing.

I think ranked reset is an excellent idea, just not every half season. It really is disheartening as a newbie to come to a game and see all of those veterans with 10,000 point scores.
You don't think, "Wow! That is something to aspire to!" You think, "Wow! I do not have enough time and patience to get anywhere near that guy!" And then leave.

Gaming is more often than not about that immediate dopamine rush which is why looter shooters are so popular. Most people are not there to be the Grandmaster of Gaming.

I've never understood this series tbh, but I'm glad that people have fun with it.

@Whately86 They are not dropping last gen in PS Plus. They are going to be offering less "free" games per month. The actual catalogue isn't going anywhere.

BTW, it do wonder just how many of these people who are moaning are old enough to remember the 2011 outage. Anyone in their mid-teens wouldn't have been there for it - sorry for making some of you feel old there. That was an actual outage, an actual problem.

I suspect that you'll probably find a very decent split between Zoomer and Alpha as to how much this weekend ruined their lives.

The fact that Sony is doing this "quietly", the fact that they are doing it reluctantly, proves that somewhere down the line they are making good money from these games.

My God people... it was out for 24hrs.
If this really ruined your weekend then I'm sorry, I really am, but you need a second hobby.

I'll probably be dead or too old to care by the time this becomes an issue. Sucks for Gen B, but I find it hard to care tbh.

@AdamNovice This is a PS news site. PSN bring down is news.
Besides, i would prefer this to another GTA6 update.

'A surprising degree of disappointment.''

Sorry, but the disappointment was not a surprise. Civ fans want Civ. Civ fans do not want Humankind. This is not an unreasonable expectation.
It'll make money - I have no doubt about that. But sell in record breaking numbers? Meh. We'll see.

@IntrepidWombat "but ... eh? Kind of like the Dead Space remake, I just don't see a need for it."

I do. MGS 1-3 were always kind of clunky to begin with, but now they are positively archaic. I cannot see your average Gen A for example having the patience to deal with that horrible inventory management system where you have to take off your gas mask to equip your key card.

Time has not been kind and the success of this series going forward really does depend on not having its fans age out.

@Magatsuhi Yep. If you ever look at guys who have muscles through working a hard job such as construction, even they do not have muscles like Abby. Hard work alone will not get you a body like this.
Unless Abby has a warehouse out back full of testerone injections and whey powder, it is completely unachievable or maintainable.

@Olmaz At no point did i buy Pedro Pascal as the hardened survivor type that Joel is meant to be. He was casted purely because of name recognition - the guy is in everything right now.
Compare Pascal to someone like Andrew Lincoln in The Walking Dead. When he bit off a guy's face, you believed it.

The console exclusive is dead and this is a good thing. PlayStation on PC, XBox on PlayStation.

Battlefield 4.
That's all they need to do.
No real historical events edited for an agenda. No messing with the formula to the point that it is no longer recognisable as a Battlefield game.
There is no secret formula, no mystery to success. Just go back to basics and they'll come.

Wouldn't bother me. I hate multiplayer games and never play them. If I could buy the single player separately for less? Yes please.

This is easily the most controversial Civ game I've seen so far and I've been playing it since the 90s. It'll sell - but I predict some major backtracking going forward.

If I wanted to play Humankind, I would have bought Humankind.

@8bit4Life I was just thinking that it looks very 90s E3. Full of colour and noise and fun. I miss those days.

Mass Effect has ''Halo Syndrome'' AKA it has sucked since the third game and basically not a single person from the original creative team is left.

I have no hope for this game because I have been given no reason to have hope for this game.

If this game does well it is proof that traditional RPGs are not dead contrary to what you might think from Final Fantasy 13-16 that have done everything they can to try and move away from them.

There will be the hardcore fans that would probably pay $150 for this game day 1. But for everyone else? People with mortgages, families, food to put on the table? This is starting to become an investment that you save for rather than a hobby. And that is a serious problem.

Either way, my resistance to FOMO is legendary. If Rockstar wants me to wait several years to play their game that's fine by me. I have plenty of other games to play.

How about "whoever you want it to be in a game that allows you to pick whoever you want it to be including Barrett?"

Shipping as a concept is just sad, imo.

I think if the next Xbox is a unit that combines the price and ease of use of a console with the versatility and depth of a computer then it'll sell very well. And if they add a Steam deck style handheld to it too? Very tempting.

I do not know how realistic this is. But if anyone can, MS can.

Funny old world, innit?

When i was a kid trying to get my anime fix, we had dubs in the West that turned cigarettes into lollipops and beer into orange juice. Nowadays it all seems to have done a 180, with the West becoming more mature and the East more censorship happy.

As I've said elsewhere, any game that brags about something other than it's gameplay before release is a major red flag. The game part of your game is what I'm here for, sorry about that.

I've said it before but I think that the health of the video game market is being artificially inflated by the big games. They are the ones pulling these record trillion dollar profits.
But everywhere else? We are witnessing an unsustainable market that is correcting itself after years of propping itself up.