Markatron84

Have you been playing Helldivers 2 recently?

Recently? I bought the game in August and haven't stopped. It's my favourite game of the past 10 years.

@JB_Whiting don't worry, the anti-aliasing on the PC version is also awful.

Nobody likes hearing it, but this is one of things where we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Hookshot Media is like the patron saint of blue balling. I might not like to hear that there's every likelihood a Devil May Cry remake isn't happening, but you're the one who brought it up. Was just living my life before that 🙄🤣

Due to the positive response on these 4 themes, we’re doing some work behind the scenes to bring these special designs back in the months ahead.

For money.

@andrewsqual not true. If a game on Steam requires the consumer to use another launcher or account, the page for the game has this information on it. There are numerous Xbox Game Studios games on Steam that don't require an Xbox account to play.

@Jacko11 advocates for physical games.

@Papers92

Now, please add a sign in option for Helldivers so I can get that sweet Platinum trophy!!

I second this!

@Rich33

PSN accounts should not be mandatory for SP games, but 100% should be mandatory for online/MP games as it allows Sony some control over cheaters / toxic players. Same for all other publisher accounts

This how they handled the PSN requirement with Ghost of Tsushima on PC. An account was only needed to play the Legends mode; for single player, an account wasn't required.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare

Do you think JR actually gave a crap about reaching into individual studios to push things around? I am not sure that focuses the attention of CEO's.

Ryan was focused on making money, saw live-service as the means to that end and gave no mind to how the studios were supposed to do it, just that they should. That's the problem. If he'd been more mindful of what the studios were good at making, he wouldn't have pushed for live-service to the degree that he did.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare while head of PlayStation Studios, I doubt Hulst was super eager to take all these studios renowned for and experts at crafting almost universally acclaimed single-player narrative-focused games and set them to work on live-service multiplayer games that had no expertise and experience in making. Also settle down with the caps buddy.

@ThomasHL absolutely. The reality is that these plans were put into place long before Hulst was in charge, and he's been left to make the best of a crap situation. If anyone is to blame for the failed live-service push, it's Jim Ryan.

@Americansamurai1

also here's hoping they use a better engine on their next game

Oh my god, yes. I love Helldivers 2, but it's a bit... janky? Not enough to get me to stop playing - I'm only level 75 and still gotta unlock two more ship modules! - but it'd be nice if their next game was a little less rough around the edges.

Be still my beating heart!!!

@Nepp67

Well when you have Sony's devs practically doing ***** all for the PS5 it is not hard to feel like the PS5 is starting to feel old.

Hey, come on, that's not fair. The developers are doing plenty; their games just get cancelled before they can come out. 🤣

Someone needs to sit Roger Clark down in a locked room with Jez Corden. Corden doesn't get to leave until Clark has drummed into him that he too has no f**king clue. About anything.

Outraged? Really? I can honestly say that no game being announced has ever left me outraged.

Remasters and/or remakes of earlier God of War games would do me, though. I didn't like how God of War 2018 played, despite loving everything surrounding the gameplay.

@ATaco one of my department managers at work a few months ago actually said to me, "there's no games coming out lately". The autistic urge to list every cool arse indie game that I know he'll have never heard of because they're not Call of Duty was almost too great.

You know, Sony making or publishing live-service/multiplayer games isn't an inherently bad thing, right? And that the desire to bring these games out was to bring more money in so that these ongoing sources of revenue could supplement/finance your beloved single-player games, not replace them?

They don't want to just spend $300million making their next blockbuster game only to have it not sell enough to break even. They want to have some live-service games bringing in billions so that if Wolverine, Horizon 3 or whatever don't sell enough to be profitable due to ballooning development budgets, they still have the recurring revenue to keep those blockbusters coming.

And live-service games can be brilliant. Helldivers 2 is my favourite game of the past 10 years. Rocket League was a breath of fresh air. Destiny 2 at its height was a peak first-person shooter. Battle royales aren't my thing but I will die on the hill that Fortnite plays brilliantly and excels at what it does.

Live-service multiplayer doesn't automatically mean bad.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Clones wouldn't have sounded as cool.

I have three predictions:

1. Incels will continue to cry over the main character in Intergalactic "not being attractive" every time the game is shown by Sony or mentioned by media outlets.

2. Forza Horizon 5 will not be ported to PS5 because that game is going to be delisted from digital storefronts sometime between 2025 and 2027.

3. Incels will continue to cry over the main character in Intergalactic "not being attractive" every time the game is shown by Sony or mentioned by media outlets.

So all those years of publishers and media outlets throwing the term "Halo killer" around were for naught?

I sense that Imran Khan might be a Killzone fan.

Arrowhead wasn't on my radar at all before, then I played Helldivers 2. I haven't been so invested with and "into" a game in a long, long time; 157 hours played so far (since late August) and I just went to keep going.

Anything that Arrowhead announces in the future will automatically be something I'll at least keep an eye on.

One franchise Sony won't abandon in the future is Intergalactic. I can officially corroborate this release schedule from a leaked Sony internal document:

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet - 2027
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Remastered - 2028
Intergalactic: Part II - 2034
Intergalactic: Part I - 2035
Intergalactic: Part II Remastered - 2036

Depends if I end up getting anything for Christmas and/or my birthday. Whatever the case, Helldivers 2 will be in the mix. I only have Christmas Eve and Day off, so I won't be going mad.

Incels. Incels everywhere.

Incels. Incels everywhere.

Have you returned to Helldivers 2 since the new update deployed?

Please. I never left. I'm no dissident.

Sign me up. Dave the Diver is one of the very best games to come out in the last couple of years.

@dark_knightmare2 I aim to please.

@dark_knightmare2

I really hope this quickly passes because it annoys me almost as much as seeing 30 and 40 year olds trying to use young people slang in threads which is just embarrassing

This comment is totes based.

How long until Mike Ybarra claims that "10 million players in 72 hours" was actually stolen from Overwatch?

Arrowhead made a gas mine stratagem available to all Helldivers 2 players, so this weekend I am learning that many, many, MANY Helldivers don't know how to use mine stratagems properly; my guy spent most of yesterday evening coughing up a lung.

Maybe they'd have had more players if the game was available on more than one storefront. Releasing a paid multiplayer-only title solely on PlayStation? What did you expect, Squeenix?

Also, this would be a good time to release Gran Turismo 7 on PC, Sony. Hint... Hint... 👀

@LifeGirl @HotGoomba it sounds like a Gran Turismo playset manufactured by Fisher Price.

@Jrs1 🤣🤣

@Dimey I've only played with randos, as nobody I know is playing it, and I have to agree that it's the most friendly online game I've ever played. I've only had a handful of incidents where people were actively being toxic. Oh, and one incident where one of my teammates must have hit his head and thought he was actually in the armed forces, barking out orders and telling us what stratagems we should and shouldn't be using. I paid no attention to his strategies, which is a good job really, because I put a gatling turret in a prime position right on the edge of a platform and the dope still managed to squeeze in between it and the edge and get torn to shreds, before blaming me for "not taking enough care in my turret placement" 🤣

@Americansamurai1 I do wonder if they'll wait until next year to add them. We're a little over two months away from the game's one-year anniversary, after all. Then seems like a good time to add in an entire extra faction and set of planets.

@Americansamurai1 yeah, I imagine the numbers will spike when the third faction drops, just like they did with the "buff everything" patches.

I didn't get it until late August/early September; I'm at 104 hours so far 😁

People go on about Helldivers 2's decline in popularity like it's a dead game, but the reality is that most live-service/multiplayer games lose the majority of their initial players very early on. Plus those launch period numbers were an anomaly; very few games peak that high that early on, or ever.

Go into the game right now and you'll have no problem finding a team to join. Or start an operation and you'll have three other players join your team almost immediately. Helldivers 2 is still going strong and any nominations or awards it receives are well deserved.

FOR DEMOCRACY!!!

I really hate the word Matterlings.

@iPaud it's one of my most wanted PC ports, alongside Astro Bot.

The S.E.A.F. denies allegations of testing new equipment under live fire conditions.

@XenonKnight plus, Steam users can't be that miffed about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2; it currently sits at 76% positive in user reviews. If the Steam audience at large isn't happy with a game, you can be sure the user score will plummet. Case in point: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is currently at 20% positive.

@XenonKnight that's better 👍

@XenonKnight I love it. "The Steam forums are not happy"... but the link just goes to a thread where the only replies are from people clowning on "I'm voting with my wallet". 🤣 I'd have picked a better example, to be honest.

There's not enough salt in the world when it comes to Nick Baker (I'm not calling him that; it's stupid).

Black Myth: Wukong will win, provided China's cheque clears in time 😏

Put Doop in, you cowards.

@Dominator2885 *grammar.

@Tecinthebrain maybe they did, maybe they didn't. I did say probably, because I'm on the outside looking in. But the buck doesn't stop at GSG whatever the truth is.

@colonelkilgore then explain to me what you actually meant. Explain to me what subtle, clever and insightful subtext I'm not getting from your original comment.

@colonelkilgore no you didn't. GSG probably did the best they could with the time and resources they were given. Then they spent years fixing the game that Rockstar decided to put out when it wasn't ready and had their name removed from the game as thanks. Pinning the blame on GSG while proclaiming that Rockstar was "returning the favour" is one of the most idiotic things I've ever read.

Groan.