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How on Earth is Media Molecule still around? Look, I like LittleBigPlanet and I love Tearaway, but has the studio ever actually had a bona fide hit? I'm amazed Sony has kept it around as long as it has.

Wow, considering that we've seen bugger all of Wreckreation since its announcement 3 years ago, that trailer was arse.

Taking that quoted statement at face value - risky, I know - it seems like "hit the skids" is overblowing it somewhat. It at least sounds like 2K understands that they can't just s**t this game out and that it needs to be great. If anything, I personally find this report encouraging.

I just went with Daredevil because

1. He's been snubbed for every Marvel vs. Capcom game so far. If Capcom won't show hornhead any love, maybe ArcSys will.
2. He's my guy.

@CJD87 The Emmerdale Files.

Move it to Peckham and get the licence for Only Fools & Horses and I'm in.

@TheEnygma my wife and sister-in-law both love Animal Crossing and have also both played an obscene amount of Hello Kitty: Island Adventure. From what I've heard from them and seen for myself, it's a quality product.

I swear that WB executives are still touching the stove when it's on.

That is a sleek and sexy looking piece of kit, with an awful name. It's like a Greek god named Keith.

@Jammer

not a big fan of shooters outside of the Resistance trilogy.

You like what you like and that's your right, but to me this is like someone saying they're not a big fan of racing games outside of the Crazy Frog Racer games 🤣

@TheKramer89 same. I've played a lot of PvZ, but only ever with a mouse or touch screen. I feel like some of the later levels would be a pain to play with a controller.

@thechetearly 2, 3, ODST, Reach and 4 are all definitely worth playing. I played through the Master Chief Collection again last year and only the first game doesn't quite hold up nowadays. It's alright, but it has bad and repetitive level design in quite a few spots and those sections are really tiresome to play through. All the others, though? They're top tier.

5 is boring and I didn't finish it. Infinite is better, but the open world is a chore to get through and adds nothing of value to Halo, so I also didn't finish that.

Do a Marvel Rivals and get some obscure characters on the roster. Or really wild picks. Let me pit Jeff the Land Shark against Doop and I'm in

@Oram77 so it's called Marvel Fighting Soul: Fighting Souls? Oh, Japanese game developers, please never change.

@ShogunRok is there still an upgrade system, or has Treyon done away with it?

@Hylian-Likely "Hyrule, here we come!"

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots Arena 2 confirmed.

@Anya-chan Blasphemy! There's no such thing as enough HD-2D.

@AdamNovice Thinking about it some more, I would put the mall bits in the winter chapter and the Riley bits right after Joel and Tess find out Ellie is immune.

I was going to ask about whether I should play the game (for the first time) in chronological order or as it was originally released, but people have covered that. Original, it is 👍

@AdamNovice I recently played Part I (PC). I hadn't played The Last of Us since 2013 and had never played Left Behind. I sort of agree with you, except I don't know how they'd integrate it into the main story. Would you have Naughty Dog put the whole thing into the logical place in the story, or would you prefer them to put just the Ellie in the mall sections there and put the Elliee/Riley parts nearer the beginning?

@Propaperpusher I've also never played The Last of Us 2. Guess I'll go f myself, too.

@lazarus11

ill have the controller in hand , cig in my mouth and a bottle of whisky on the table till 4am 😂

You're my spirit animal.

@get2sammyb No kisses? Wow.

Dear Hookshot,

When you inevitably post this story on Pure Xbox tomorrow, do us all a favour: disable the comments and just copy/paste this thread into the comments section. It'll save everyone a lot of time and effort.

Regards,

Mark
xxx

@Deljo still sounds like I made the right decision, to be honest 🤣

@Deljo I saw this comment and was like "oooh what did I miss? What's the tea?". Looked for the comment you were replying to, couldn't find it. Turns out that user is on my ignored users list. Guess I made the right decision 🤣

I'm straddling the line between "Nah, but I am tempted" and "No, Monster Hunter Wilds just isn't for me". On paper, Monster Hunter should be a Mark-ass game, but I tried Rise and got 4 hours in before becoming completely overwhelmed by all the mechanics and information it was giving me. I know Wilds is supposedly the most approachable Monster Hunter game yet, but I'm sure people said that about Rise.

@trev666 Avalanche Software is a subsidiary of WB Games.

Edit: I think I know where the confusion stemmed from here. Avalanche Software, a subsidiary of WB Games, developed Hogwarts Legacy. But there's also Avalanche Studios, the developers of Just Cause; they developed Mad Max, which was also published by WB Games.

That episode of Gamescast is well worth a listen. There's a lot of interesting information about how WB Games has been mismanaged the past 8-10 years.

I used to understand the desire some people have to own their media physically, but in many cases now I really don't. Most games nowadays are patched numerous times after the game itself has gone gold and the discs have been printed. There are countless games nowadays that you really wouldn't want to play in their raw unpatched state, or discs that simply won't function one day because the servers get shut off.

Owning physical games isn't the be all and end all of game ownership that it used to be.

Also impressive: there are currently more people playing Wilds right now this second on Steam than DOTA 2 and PUBG put together.

@Splat same here. My place of work wouldn't shut if a hydrogen bomb went off in our car park.

@get2sammyb early access is a bit mental on a game that isn't a port.

@breakneck Avowed is doing well, unless you ask one of the anti-woke brigade, in which case it's the worst game ever made and an example of why the games industry is dead.

@Majin_Deicide Thing is, anyone who were to potentially buy any/all of WB Games' studios wouldn't be getting any of the IP, because those are Warner Bros.' (as a whole) IP. So at that point, you're just buying what? Office space and people? You'd be better off not spending the money on buying an entire company and just hire the affected employees directly.

@dBackLash @StrickenBiged thanks for explaining it to me. Like I said, I'm still struggling to even understand a lot of generative AI stuff. You'd think with the amount of news (and uproar) posted about it on a daily basis I'd have figured it out by now 😂

I'm still not that knowledgeable about generative AI tools, but it's my understanding that - when creating an image, say - you tell the tool what you want and it pulls from sources online to create something? How hard is it to go "oh bt-dubs, make sure there's not too many fingers, innit"?

@Member_the_game I am without a shadow of a doubt absolutely positively 100% sure it'll be multiplatform at day 5. Not day 1, because they will probably sell a premium edition with "5 days early access" or some such nonsense.

In that filing, for example, his lawyers state that “behavior that was known at Bungie included:

“A very senior Bungie executive texted Barrett and others sexually suggestive material, including lewd photographs, texts about his sex life (including graphic descriptions of particular sex acts), and texts concerning the appearance of women working for Bungie;

And

Bungie maintained an email channel that shared lewd and semi-pornographic content to the entire studio. Those images were occasionally shared on a projector at studio events;

I f**king love this level of stupidity. He's essentially saying "I didn't do the inappropriate things I was fired for allegedly doing, but if I did, everyone else was also doing it". Well which is it Chris? Bore off mate.

The AA market didn't disappear at all. Publishers and investors wanted (want) to see unreasonably high growth and abandoned AA because they wouldn't make "enough" profit.

Yoshida continued that, to his knowledge, no first-party studio has been forced to make live service games. He noted that sometimes teams see the direction the company is heading, and pitch their titles accordingly.

This sure seems like being forced to me. How many times do you pitch a game that goes against what the parent company wants and have it rejected before said parent company has enough?

A few years ago where I work, we were "not forced" to sign new contracts that were less beneficial than the prior ones. The alternative was no longer working there and not being offered redundancy because not signing the contract was "a choice".

Of course Sony can't hope to match the amount of games Microsoft is publishing on PS5 in 2025; if an in-development game was live-service they cancelled it, and if was one of the few in-development games that was single-player it costs $250 million and takes seven years to make.

"F**k movies and the Oscars, but waaaah the movie based on my game is taking too long."

Also, look, I swear a lot, but for a writer Fares sure doesn't seem to know many words beyond s**t and f**k. At least spice it up with a c**t every now and then.

It was alright; good, even. There were some cracking looking games there. I do have some key takeaways though:

1. From the monologue in the trailer, Saros sure does just sound like it'll be Returnal 2 in all but name.
2. Randy Pitchford. Ew.
3. Randy Pitchford's mate Randy. Double Ew.
4. Woo! Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. I'm so in.
5. Days Gone Remastered, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
6. No sign of Ghost of Yotei was disappointing.
7. There's no way that Fairgamedollarsign hasn't been cancelled at this point, right?
8. It wouldn't surprise me if Marathon gets cancelled.
9. Nor would it surprise me if that Gummy Bears project gets cancelled as well.
10. Wow, Sony's got bugger all going on right now, huh?
11. Days Gone Remastered, HAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

edit: Oh, and Mindseye looks like the most boring run of the mill thing ever.

@Kienda get out.

Fairgame$ better be there or literally nobody will be up in arms.

From what I've seen/read, Yasuke basically excels at combat, but is useless when it comes to stealth and parkour; y'know, two of the core pillars of Assassin's Creed. So Naoe all the way.

The Order is probably the very best example of a game that fell short of its full potential. I don't think it was bad. I enjoyed it while it lasted, it was/is absolutely fantastic on a technical level. It just could've been so much more.

Did the PSN Outage Ruin Your Gaming Plans Over the Weekend?

No, because PC players complained enough so that Helldivers 2 doesn't require them to log in to a PSN account. Not so stupid now, are we? 😉

Insomniac Games has put out so many quality games over the years. Resistance ain't it.