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@Tasuki I totally get it. But If a review is not honest, what kind of review is it? also, if readers feel that they're reading "bs", they'll stop reading..
I can only talk about myself: yes, I read reviews before the game launch date, but I rarely buy them on the day they come out based on reviews. (red dead redemption 2 and the division 2 were the last exceptions.. totally regret the last one)
And never, ever ever, ever ever ever, pre-order..

@Tasuki Yes, I know that. Which is what you would expect.. No company wants bad reviews. But still, reviewrs can not be "afraid" to tell the truth. I think that PushSquare does a really good job scoring the games but most of the times doesn't talk much about technical issues (expecting that they would be crushed fast, I think).
But I have 2 games that I wouldn't have bought if I knew the technical state of them: Kingdom Come deliverance and The Division 2.
Both really great games. Both don't work really well on a playstation..
So, as @OmegaStriver said, the game score should be affected by the bugs. (I'm not talking about Fallout 76 or Anthem since those are completely broken games).

@OmegaStriver You said it all.
I Can't believe that 2K QAs didn't test this and knew about the problem.. They just didn't have enough time to fix it. (I love to give The Division 2 as an example of this since it came out completly broken in terms of textures on consoles and kinda still is..)
Also I think that most fps games are Pc oriented, so the main efforts are on pc developing..
Companies will continue to do this because there aren't any big consequences..
But hey, here's an idea: What about game reviewers giving lower scores saying "this game would be grate, like an 8 or a 9 IF this thing wasn't broken.. Clearly not thinking about console players. So, from us, is a 5".. Maybe they would start making things better, idk?

@ShogunRok I hope it doesn't goes like The Division 2, that is still a game full of bugs. Yes, they work hard to squash them, but it's funny how standards change from game to game.. Some games come out full of bugs and "it's ok, there'll be updates". No, it's not ok.. A lot of games come out clearly not finished. And we, as buyers should not tolerate this.. The beta and the Division 2 of today still share lot of bugs.. (likethe one that really really grind my gears, the texture popup, which is better, but still there)
I really hope Wildlands doesn't do the same (but I don't believe in that.. )

I already have The Batman series. Loved them.
And loved darksiders 1 and 2. Already started playing the 3rd one, and after 1 hour I must say, I'm not impressed. Hope it gets better.

Well, I bought subnautica just this week, and it's been a really good experience, but a survival game with almost no story and no coop is very lonely. So NMS is a yes, as soon as I finish subnautica.

And it's a game we can find everywhere used and really cheap.. (even new is cheap) So, I think it's not a bad investment, at all.

You mean that the button that is on the controller now is directly linked to this? Now that's an incredible feature. The rest of the gaming industry should look at this as an example. if you know what I mean..

@ShogunRok I remember the initial idea that everyone had was that the world was the same for everybody, which wasn't true.
I don't think that they changed that, since it would be almost impossible.
I assume that it works similar to The Division in the way that you are on your own world and you can invite people to it so everything you both do, changes the world of the "host". But the gest can take everything he found with him.. I don't know.
I also assume that now there's this "room", in this case a place, that is commun to everyone (or at least the same people that are in the same server as the player), and that's why you can show your things (also similar to the Division).
Now that I wrote this, I see that I assume a lot..lol

@Paranoimia Yes, because they didn't have evidence they hired the guy. Or you are just right and they're trying to intimidate the 2 guys.
Yes, you are right, looks bad for them. But at the same time, if illegal things where made, and they feel like the police isn't doing enough or don't have the resources, what should they do? (I'm not saying that this happened, just being the devil's advocate here)

@ShogunRok
I still haven't bough the game, but since its everywhere in second hand really cheap, I think I'll give it a try. But only after your feedback on the update.
Btw, the multiplayer system is like the division, I suppose?

@Paranoimia
Bravo. Very well said.
Just want to add: Ok, it was too much to send 2 guys to search and investigate, But, usualy people in this situations just call the cops and make a big fuzz about this. The youtuber didn't call the cops. Why? Were his actions to get the info totally "by the law"? a little strange to me..

Probably won't give it a shot until getting the reviews and wait to get it on sales. Aaaand because Death Stranding comes out in Setember and I haven't finished a lot of games.

@AdamNovice No, but it's their right, as consumers.. This is political and economical "thing", not a matter of games.. If you are not happy, you can allways point what you don't like. Even if you don't have the answer to the problem.. That's a free democracy my friend.. In terms of economy, a companie that doesn't listen to the consumers, is doomed (or, at least, the future is not that bright)

@AdamNovice But it isn't people's job to point solutions.. A game is a product like any other: the clients tell what they don't like and if the devs listen to critcs and find the solutions, maybe at the end they have a good game and will sell well. If not, people simply won't buy the game.

Well, after last mont, even if you get it right, you can get it wrong

Well, that's an update that we actually know what it does. good, right?
Btw, as anyone been having party errors in the last few days? people simply droping off the party?

But how much is it? for the games they present, more then 20 a year, is stealing..

The scenario changes are welcome. But for everything they try to correct, they brake 3 others.
The number of bugs in this game is getting bigger and bigger.. I think the people that play it just got used to it (and I know lots of people that just play this game) and probably they are not used to higher standards. But, sorry, I am. And although the devs interact a lot with the community and I bet they are doing their best, any other game at this state, would already been crushed by media and would be dead..
The facts that it still goes on, is proof of the potential it has. But even people with lower standards are getting tired..

I never had motion sickness, but with VR, I had serious problems playing Rigs. The jumps would just killed me. Does it play similar? Because, if yes, I can't physically do it..

Better then Cyberpunk.. lol.
Love this.

Also, They don't track the number of copies but the money. so, if you sell today a copie of Spider-man for 40€ and 3 copies of batman for 10€ each, according to them, Spider-man sold more.. So maybe this not that accurate.. I don't know..

@GodGamer it has lots of resemblances. I think spider-man success is more a product of really good marketing then any other thing. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad game, but I was quite disappointed with it, giving the success it had. I think its over hyped. On the other hand, I think Batman suffers from exactly the opposite. In terms of games, I put Batman over spider-man, easy.

It's actually kinda surprising, but at the same time one is a game for all ages and the other is darker for more mature gamers. Also, Spider-Man is a character that almost everyone loves, and Batman hasn't that love from everyone.
Personally I prefer the Batman games. Much darker and better stories, and combat mechanics are still great. The characters, I loved them both. Both orphans, with cliché background, Spider-man with the humor and Batman with the darkness that comes with him. Frank Miller explored that better then anyone and after that, Batman became more than human in collans.

"Exciting stuff(...)", " Roach is a horse in the books and in the games, so having Roach be a horse in the TV series makes a lot of sense. (...) that's definitely a horse."
hmm, I bet that there aren't many news to report right now..

@tomassi I kinda agree with you. I have this theory that The witcher 3 was such a big hit in pc and consoles because it was a 3rd person, otherwise, it wouldn't be that good in consoles. So I'm kinda apprehensive regarding this. I'll buy it, for sure, and it will almost brake sale records, but I think it will change what people expect from cd project red's games in contrast with what they feel now..

Lol, they didn't even got the Div2 to work properly and are already talking about a new game? this is bs for me. I don't remember being this frustrated with a game (not even close). The amount of bugs is just incredible. And they're allways trying to make things better by changing and improving gear status, wich would be nice, if it wasn't so damn frustrating.. When you think you're getting a really nice set, they just change things and voila, your set is no longer that good and you're being slaughter in DZ.. And it's clear that this frustration is well spread. Even though we don't have real numbers and I can't prove this, the number of players is dropping. Big time. The number of players will probably go up next Tuesday, but with the current state of the game, it will drop really fast.. again..

@CameronEB Sorry, but I totally disagree with you.
I'm a dev, so I understand the PTS. But you can not do it for everyone with a pc.
Even though the content has bugs, if you have a PC you can play it (I believe that when saying that it's free, it's implied that you need a copy of the game) . And you are playing before the people that payed to play before you... Since it came out, the game has been oriented completly to PC. The texture loading time in consoles has made me so angry that you can't even imagine (especially when it was kinda sugested by a moderator in the forum to buy an ssd). And now this.
Just get more QA's to test the game.. Simple. How do the other companies do? How is it possible that so many other games with better graphics, physics etc, came out without a tenth of the bugs?
It's a 3A game. No excuses. Test it in house. Too many bugs? Get better devs and QA's or reinforce the teams, change the release procedures, improve the testing methods, get new tools, use different development methodology, I don't know..
Because, at the end, a game is a software. If it has too many bugs, there are solutions to it. PTS shouldn't be one.

@PC-Gamer1234 Do you know how much does the playstation costs? Grab that money and build a pc with only brand new parts. How is it now?

Well, in my opinion, this swap is good because they're trying to make the community happy.
On the other hand, they should had added a game insted of swapping. Even if it wasn't a game this good.
Once they said they're going to give PES, they should keep their word and just add another game.

Well, for me is a much better month, since I wanted to buy Detroit.. But at the same time I feel that if they announced PES and wanted to make things better, they should had added a game instead of replacing it. Maybe add a game not as good as Detroit, but a good one anyway.. Still, it's nice that they heard us..

Love the article, love the critic. I've been saying this for a while..
Only one thing:
FOOTBALL please, not soccer. Football is older than America it self, and it's called football by everyone except by americans.. Respect tradition and seniority =D

cool, but that initial "bup" sound tho.. not cool.

@Bagshot Well, that's not quite true. The Division has good pvp. This one has better pve and much worse pvp. And the builds in the first one are much better.. So, as you can see, TD One is not the same as TD Two. The TD one is better =D

I've been playing The Division 2 since day One.
I've never found a game with so many bugs. Ever.. I've made really good friends in the game and that's the only reason whey I keep playing it.
There's still the "texture loading time issue" that they just keep ignoring. There're huge threads in the "The division 2 playstation official forum" that have only one answer: "thank you. We'll pass the information".
The list of bugs goes on:
There are also sound issues where you can fire a bullet, reload and only after all that you hear anything.. Problems with loot drops. Problems enemies just going underground and then pop up.
Not to mention the build system that's broken since day one.
If I could, I would sell my game in a sec. But I pre-order it on ps store. Lesson learned: Never again.

@kendomustdie My first ones where Broken Swords, at the time.. But then I start searching at the magazines and even sent a letter to one asking for a list of games like this (I think I was 9 or 10 years old). yap, game magazines where Da Thing..
So, my favorites are Nightlong (cyberpunk style, loved it),Grim Fandango (it's so well written) and Blade Runner. If you haven't tried any of these 3, you must.
Funny thing, I never really enjoyed much Tales of monkey island..

Oh boy, a point and click mature game with dark humor. How I loved these games.. Broken sword, sanitarium, Nightlong, Grim Fandango, Blade Runner, Beneath a Steel Sky, and the list goes on.. I played all that I could. Still love them. Really nice to know that a game like this, in a ps4, gets a 7. I just hope that the author isn't giving a score affected by emotions. Because I would.

well, "opinions are like noses. Everyone has one".. And people have the right to have it and express it, as long as it does not offend anyone. If someone gets offended because a game was criticized, well, it's my opinion that this person should die. =D ( jk. That person should get a life..)
It is also my opinion that just from looking to a game, most of the times I can tell if I will like it or not. Exactly the same way many people will look at a game and think they will like it.
On the subject of Dreams, I believe it's a great idea, and a few good things could get out from it, because there're too many people with too much time to spare. But it's like "to count your chickens before they're hatched".. Saying it's going to be game of the year it's a little bit too much for me..

I had never pre-ordered a game until The Division 2. And What I learned from that is: Never Pre-order.. Ever.

Games come full of bugs and actually, the guys that pre-order, since they start to play earlier, continue to work as QA's..

Edit: Although I'm really tempted to ignore my own self advice and go for cyberpunk and death stranding..

I probably wouldn't do this, simply because, I wouldn't remind to do so : I would be to much excited..lol.
I think it's a very noble gesture. And if it is as @ApostateMage says, even better.

But even if it was a Go-Kart, a real one, It's peanuts for a big company. And although they're not a charity company, I see no harm..

Well, I'm actually here because I've been playing the Division from the first day.
As I played the first one and I must say that this one feels very different in a bad and good way.
PVE it's much better but at the same time, PVP and the darkzones are just really bad (my opinion).
But in the end, it's a good game.

With that said, I also, at this moment, do not advise anyone to buy this game. It's completly broken: textures loading time, loot system has bugs, combat PVE has bugs, pvp = bugs. And so on and so on. The one that bothers me more, is actually the "textures loading time" since is allways happening so I can see it all the time.
The thing is so bad that people started buying ssd disks, because the bug isn't even officialy recognised by Massive..

So, for me, it would be a 7, maybe an 8.
BUT, since the game is so damn broken, a 6 would be the best option..

@wardener007 https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ks8500/settings

I tryied on mine q6 but in my case was a dark room setting, so it didn't work that well, but in your case maybe it's good.

@Dange This "sales" are not that "salish".. Last Black Friday I bought my pro (latest version) for 150€ (also had to give my slim..which was bought 3 years ago for 270 with 2 Duallshock and any game I wanted).
So no, not a really nice deal here..

@tomassi @Milky_Bandit Darksiders 2 already came out with plus.

@Splat The all 'Division idea' is to eventually go for the darkzone and PVP. Or at least, it was. While trying to make people that say the samething like you happy, they already f* up the darkzone.
But it makes total sense to have the higher gear in the darkzone. It's more difficult and danger, so it makes sense that the reward is better.

Personal opinion: a lot of people tried the beta and liked the game without understanding what the game was supposed to be about, not even knowing well the first one. And now that they have it, are giving feedback to change it accordingly to what they want.
Which makes sense in a perspective of someone that bought something and was expacting another. But, the thing is, people bought a game that they would never like very much..

About matchmaking: I completely changed my opinion. The Raid needs a good team that cooperates at a new level. Matchmake would not help with that..
About the raid it self: Yes, pc players will allways have an advantage with mouse and keyboard, and that's a fact that every console player has to accept. Now, being that said, I believe that something has to be done to the raid, but don't know exactly what.(lol) I Know a few hardcore console division players. Guys that really play the division (1 and 2) and nothing else (I really don't know how they do it..). In the first division, going on an incursion with them was nothing, but even these guys haven't finished the raid yet. They are all trying to make a build just to the raid but the general feeling is that the raid was something that everyone was waiting for, but it's a disappointment. So at this point I don't know if the raid it's too difficult, but still having such a big thing in the game that just a few people can finish, well, I think that that says something..

This is just proof that The Division 2 on consoles is not a very good game for many reasons. As I said before, the devs only care about PC..

Maybe if there weren't so many bugs that where on the beta that still exist today, the sales would be better.
Also, they focus a lot in PC. You can clearly feel, on the weekly state of the game, that consoles are not the main focus of the devs..(just to give 2 examples: you can see this with the initial mapping of buttons for consoles, and the HUGE bug that still exists today that I'm tired of talking: the Texture loading time.. a bug that exists only in consoles)

@Its_badW0lf I agree and disagree with you at the same time. I would agree with you 100% but the fact is that (I think) most of the people can't get 7 friends to join at the same time the team.. I wouldn't want a mandatory matchmaking, but the option to do so.
Example: you have 5 friends ready to go in. So you could go with a team of 6 OR you could try and make matchmaking and you would have a full team.
That was what I was thinking..

Without the matchmaking it won't be easy to play a raid with 8 players for most of the people..
What a stupid decision..

Won't buy any of them, no matter what.. The state of the Division 2 is a complete lack of respect for the people that bought it.
And I still like very much a lot of games they have, but what they're doing is not acceptable.