LordAinsley

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.

@Matroska I love this site.

My favourite is that Tiger Woods 99 straight up had a copy of the South Park "Jesus vs Santa" short on the disc

Pay up gooners

I pre-ordered but from a glance it looks like availability has actually improved post-launch sales.

Seeing a lot of people happy with the review coverage who have just walked to a store and picked one up on a whim

Dont shorten Callisto Protocol to CP bro please

@Icey664 the story and characters of stellar blade are garbage.

fun combat but not GOTY potential. sorry!

@thefourfoldroot1 I'm sure there are some good examples of it but Yakuza is such a bad example of you're trying to argue devs aren't looking for a quick buck. They release a game every year with the same city and mechanics. I guess you could argue they build something great by jamming in an additional mini game every year

@carlos82 @themightyant Super interesting. I know the percentage only went up 1% the last year. Which is bad, but its slow growth. Slow enough that it could swing back imo.

The Pro definitely shows they prefer a digital future.

@thefourfoldroot1
i get your point. however this is a sequel, with 2 previous games in the franchise and is also billed as part of the Control universe, a game that won numerous GOTY awards and was highly reviewed. The studio made Max Payne. At what point are you being won over?

If I was making games, I wouldnt bother catering to you as it requires releasing numerous games that you will not pay for before you'd consider dropping any money, in which case you're going to wait for a sale. You are basically only going to accidentally have games targeted to your taste through luck.

People complain about Concord, but sales figures probably showed Sony that game was worth making. Your opinion (and I reckon there are loads of great games that you like) doesnt register to companies looking for game ideas because you dont pay for anything!

They certainly dont read our various gripes on message boards like this! They look at the Fortnite bar going up and sell to those customers.

@carlos82 great point, I'd like to see a sales breakdown but that would make sense. I buy single player games physically every time to sell the game on when I'm done.

@themightyant you're right about echo chambers.

this sites comment section, myself and yourself included, would prefer games to be released physically, however digital sales and no disc consoles say that we are in the minority.

Yeah seems fair. This is honestly on the high end of what I was expecting, this could have easily been a 4/10 experience based on the gameplay I've seen.

The pedigree here is amazing but man, the footage they've put out of this...it honestly looks awful. Clunky movement, dodgy jarring unfun looking combat.

I love Deadly Premonition but the gameplay makes the game a real slog.

@themightyant sure but its nebuleus. i recommended this game to a few people and I think one person bought it.

I recommended titanfall 2 to a bunch of people and noone bought it.

I mean, maybe I'm not very persuasive but I dont think it pushes the dial.

I am pro-physical by the way, and pro-second hand game sales!

I just unfortunately dont think if they launched physical the small market of people who are:
people into survival horror, people who are interested in the niche alan wake franchise, people who buy physical, people who are so anti-digital they will refuse to buy something if they don't offer a physical version and people who only buy second hand games and dont buy them new...its got to be like a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of sales you're missing out on.

@LowDefAl Does that matter? A sale is a sale right?

They've never really said the games are historically accurate have they?

I know they put a few modes in the recent games that let you just walk around the city and give you historic facts etc

In the second game, Leonardo DaVinci makes you a flying machine that you fly about in and theres also a magic apple that the Pope uses to gain magic powers, noones playing these and thinking that actually happened are they?

@Rob_230 the news last week was that 70% of all sales are now made digitally, with the number going up every year.

I also wish it had been physical but I dont think it would have pushed the needle.

not only is it only 30% of the users, but I am one of those users and I picked it up digitally so I wasnt even a lost sale.

@thefourfoldroot1 the game is financially unsuccessful, if only the released it in a way that allowed me to pick it up second hand, allowing them to get zero revenue for my purchase, it could have been a success!

i wish they had released physical also but your argument is one of the reasons they did the digital only release lol. I'm not even completely convinced that a physical mass release would have helped. I'm a physical buyer and I just got it digitally anyway. plus it would have increased the budget that they already are struggling to make.

also, if you're not willing to put £42 in to try something that cost the studio 70 million to make, I dunno, just kind of a weird way to be. either stuff is worth your time and money or it isnt, seems like you've made your mind up that this isnt.

@commentlife it'll be fine, you just need to wait for them to release the game and then wait 6 whole months.

I appreciate noting the quippy, cutesy dialogue in the review.

Something that I personally, find a turn off, but others will really enjoy.

I'm not a big fan of leakers, and this to me just strikes as the most obvious position, thus feels to me like a classic leaker guess rather than an actual leak.

If I was to guess, yeah, I'd say they'd avoid porting Halo and Gears because they're synonymous with Xbox.

"Ho-ho, now THAT is a big boner" - Garcia Hotspur, 2013

Do I just need to upgrade to the premium version to play these 2 DLCs? so its 15£?

As soon as I saw the gunplay in the gameplay trailer showing you have to pump like 10 bullets into each enemy I knew I wasnt going to play this.

Goofy ass saints row bullet sponge hell

I'd say "Good" but I dont particularly like Horizon either.

Guerilla have some amazing tech and make beautiful looking games, but they cannot create a new interesting play experience or story in my opinion.

Killzone chased the AAA FPS trend present in the 00s, Horizon chases the AAA Open World trend present now.

If you enjoy these games great, but they've never done anything remarkable.

They can likely 100% get away with launching a discless, no compatible drive console with figures like these.

I think people will eventually really want to watch a DVD or Bluray, dig one out and then realise they cant anymore

Jonah was my favourite character from the reboot. Underused in the 3 games I felt, he's a great companion. Good to see him showing back up here although sounds like he's underutilised again.

This is good news.

I think too many gamers are far too accepting of repetitive, copy paste gameplay.

GoT is a fine Open World game with a good story but yes, a bit dull in places.

I honestly think the game looked and played like garbage and had awful performance.

The multiplayer was also broken for MONTHS after launch. I'm sure they can make a good Lords of the Fallen game, but they havent yet.