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Interesting. I guess the game must be pretty playable at this state seeng as it was only pushed for polish, presumably the delay was too late to stop some physical copies getting out.

Good to hear it seems decent, plus theres another whole month of polish incoming

Personally yes, but I believe anecdotally people have lost the stomach for paying for them.

They've got to be on a service like Plus or they're just not getting played. I frequently see people complaining that 20 hour tripleA titles like Spiderman don't offer enough hours of gameplay, so what chance does a less polished, smaller scaler 10 hour game have against that mentality?

"No, no, dont worry Marvel fans! We'll continue investing in the game so you can continue feeding us microtransaction money! We're simply optimising the money filter from paying employees to paying shareholders!"

Of course thats the plan, and I think thats fine.

I just hope that Rockstar do some internal work creating a team specific to dealing with maintaining and updating it.

They really need to start making sure they've got a team that works on other projects whilst maintaining GTA online. It makes enough money, I want to see some other games coming out from them.

This is a cool series. I might start trying to players pick every month (if it isnt something im also playing!)

I'm surprised there's not more reaction to Mindseye. The Benz was the key part of so many Rockstar games and it's fascinating to see this game, which is apparently built in Everywhere.

Of course, also very hyped to see Housemarques new game announced and can't wait to jump back into lies of P in a few months, the greats non-from soulslike ever made

@thedevilsjester @ATaco I assume the intention is when that list comes up of potential trade routes, you can pick one and your merchant walks over there? It straight up doesnt work.

I thought maybe I was misunderstanding it, but it greys out trade options with Civs you're at war with and has a note that "you cant establish new routes with nations youre at war with" so I think it is the intention it just doesnt work.

Like you say, yeah I've just been backng out of the menu, then manually walking my merchant to other cities, then it lets you establish a route

@Jswift56 Mark Zuckerberg is a well publicised Civ-head, there are countless interviews where he brings up epic 10 hour sessions after coding.

I would have thought he probably lobbied for this personally, I cant see Firaxis thinking VR is big enough to bother with it otheriwise

@ATaco Yeah I played maybe 200 hours of 6 and then last week just as a curiosity jumped on and played another 10 by accident.

I'd quite like to play something with some interesting changes and yeah, like you said, I can just play 6 some more if I hate it. It's not exactly aged badly, I was playing it last week

just let someone else use the nemesis system please.

it doesnt even really make sense in a wonder woman game, I assume they'd let her use the lasso to hypnotise people or something.

anyway, please make something with it

@LifeGirl Abby is actually jacked because TLOU2 is a video game so she doesnt actually have to focus on fitness and nutrition because she's not real, happy to help.

I'm so excited. Looking forward to checking out these new changes and new ways to play

@lazarus11 I cant put my finger on it but it just repelled me pretty quick.

I thought the story and character seemed interesting, but as soon as I was walking about and doing the sword fighting tutorial I just knew "I dont want to play this for 40 hours"

Thats cool. Just need to wait to see if the game is actually good now.

I honestly found the last game a total chore that needed a lot of polish, hopefully the studio scaling means this is a much better game

@LifeGirl not much doesn't upset you huh?

Gamers hate live services until they dont. Then they want them

Great idea. I love Metros game section and it's reader letters section so this is definitely going to be appreciated.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Yeah its just kind of mid honestly.

I dunno why people are super surprised, DA:2 is mid as well. Inquistion is probably only a little better than this i remember it really benefited from a empty launch window.

Last Mass Effect game was bad. I feel bad, but I dunno, I'm not sure why people were so surprised the game wasnt incredible.

As for the audience, its MCU folks right? I think thats fine, and I think those folks did enjoy it. But I think a lot of corporations think that the marvel style media is still mainstream. A lot of people are burnt out on it. Its not 2012 anymore.

Sounds cool. Honestly, mirage is the best game they've made in ages and this one was firming up to be good.

Nothing but good for it to get delayed for more polish.

@Lavishturtle To you, someone who has no knowledge what so ever on the topic, yeah maybe.

Wow, its almost like Jeff Grubb makes stuff up to try and get people to listen to his unpopular podcast because it's not very good and he's not an engaging person to listen to!

And this keeps happening over and over!

But that cant be true, because every time I mention hes a liar, I am refuted by people who explain to me "Nuh-uh".

@LifeGirl which failed live service game had unneccessary politcs inserted into it?

@DonJorginho Mirage is the best game they've made in years

@dark_knightmare2 No idea what youre talking about seeing as I also said that I think Killzone is rubbish.

@Sanquine I agree.

I think its OK that they made a sequel, but the game itself is proof that they haven't really got much else to say about the world, it was very grasping to build some sort of story worth seeing through and ultimately failed.

After that, I didnt need a remaster. The lego game is fine but I dont like lego games that much so didnt bother.

The VR game annoys me because they put it forward as the "Playstation Studios" franchise to respresent in VR and its just not very good. Now we probably wont see an Astro Bot or Last of Us VR game.

It was also a chance to play as another character, and they failed to make that character interesting either.

Personally, this isn't a "Horizon is a problem" issue, it's a "Guerilla make boring games" issue.

Technically they're very proficient, but I don't really like Killzone or Horizon. I think they have real issues writing interesting characters and stories.

And I think they do get special treatment within Sony, especially now Herman Hulst works directly for Playstation. The combo of this means you get loads of games from this studio, but they have nothing to interesting to say.

I do think a good director and writing team on a Horizon movie could flesh out Aloy a bit more and combine the games storybeats with some actual interestng writing and a good actor portraying her.

But I am definitely bored of Horizon games and think Guerilla should move on after they close the trilogy out.

such a bizarre title to this article, I know you're framing it in a PS way but they're the biggest score composers outside of Hans Zimmer

Is there a way to get updates and see the roadmap for the official Syrup emulator this team are working on?

I think it's awesome and would love to get updates

I think he's semi joking or at least saying it's silly to talk about, but at this point it is just completely not worth engaging with anyone who asks you about DEI.

It's just someone arguing in bad faith, looking for something to get mad at. It's best ignored.

It's so good that the product has succeeded and so they're adding features.

It's just a shame that shortsighted design meant they tried to save money on storage and bluetooth headphone compatability, something you cant patch in.

Id say quality over quantity but Metaphor has a good long story.

Like a Dragon is like a soap opera. It's hardly worthy of a nod for best story.

Attention seeker disputes other attention seekers attention seeking statement in order to seek more attention. More at 11.

I think the controls could do modernizing. If it's from the ground up remade, the load times should hopefully be fixed, they were so long in the original release

@TruestoryYep yeah I'm not sure why some people say that 2 is great and 3s is bad. They're both pretty cringy.

Even the first game, I remember at the time complaints from reviewers about how aggressively annoying claptrap is. Although I think the first game kind of has a consistent tone and it doesn't go too over the top

It's disengenious to say they won't rely on toilet humour as it implies they just hit the fart noise button one too many times in BL3.

The dialogue in BL3, imo, is borderline unlistenable. A cringe hotpot of stale, 5 year old meme references, Marvel-lite "he's behind me isn't he?, well that just happened" tosh and characters who just scream at you like a child on a sugar rush.

I legitimately turned the dialogue off in the game and just played through without it, which I think is the only game I've ever felt compelled to do that for? Plenty of games have bad writing but never to the point of just wanting to not hear any more of it.

If this guy worked on the first game, it's definitely a risk this game is just as bad. He mentions he hired a bunch of funny contractors to help, and that's potentially a good sign. But are they funny writers? Or what he considers to he funny writers? Because he obviously thought BL3 was a fantastic hilarious product.

@rusty82 oh man you're giving me flashbacks to my last playthrough

@wildcat_kickz on your point, I played the game and just thought it was kind of bland and unfun to play. The action set piece at the start was well done but once you're in the open world I found it not great to explore.

All the so called "social commentary" stuff was probably the most interesting stuff in there, at least it deviated from generic fantasy "we must stop this evil elf" stuff that ive seen done a hundred times

@FutilityInExcellence "I'm not going to get into it but....". proceeds to make 7 comments about the game

These events are so awesome, but its like a monkey paw for me.

It's such an awesome idea to do these insane, huge budget, virtual concerts that defy your average concert experience but just:

its in fortnite, a game I dont like. I hate the art style. the artists they pick are always so middle of the road.

Its so good they do them and I'm sure there are people out there who have an absolute blast with them and I'm so happy for them, but I always watch them and it just feels like it could be so much better.

I'd love to see one of these experiences in VR, which a different art style. I think first persons the way to go as well

Not much going on.

I want to finish DD2 and play Nine Sols and Space Marine 2 so looks like I've got time for this

Hope this is good, but its unfair to assume that because SH2 was good, this will be good.

Their last original IP, the Medium, is absolute garbage. The only thing you can use SH2 to compare is whether they've improved their graphics engine.

I cant wait for this DLC.

It's been a while, I'm super curious of the scope of it. If it's over 10 hours, man, that'd be so exciting

@thefourfoldroot1 im ok with this, we can call it a 10% gooners tax on new game software

Apparently this is a real cringefest. I've seen a few streamers play it and it honestly looks godawful. out of touch unfunny reddit writing and the gameplay itself is just pretty bog standard

@Cerny @Rich33 I think that was case for PS4 Pro but I dont remember anything about it this time. Hopefully you're right. To be fair, last time you didnt have to backdate games for Pro. I do find it surprising for CDPR to not take a chance to show off their game looking good, but maybe they're burnt from the whole Cyberpunk thing and ready to just stop thinking about it

Adoption of this is starting to concern me.

Do we know if Sony are demanding all new releases support the pro by default?

they should just churn out some garbage like temple run with an uncharted skin and candy crush but its got astrobot dropping the bricks or whatever

@Decoy_Snake the new whales are gooners.

every game should just add a skimpy £20 DLC for the MC to offset high AAA production costs.