@NintendoFanman So you'd be okay with footage of a recent school shooting in America being used in a game? The victims being carried out in bodybags? And all just to show a fictional war?

I do find the disc ownership a bit weird when everyone posting on these gaming sites is basically okay with physical magazines being replaced with digital equivalents. Surely they shouldn't be here and should be physical only, buying mags and sending actual letters in, instead of digital correspondence like this?

@lindos He is right about that.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2el319vzr3o
"OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies"

@Spider-Kev It's been out of stock because it's selling so well, obviously. If everywhere had a massive abundance of stock, that would imply it isn't selling.

@Mr_B021 "still fork out that amount for smartphones"
People have contracts where they pay like £35 a month for their phones. I don't know anyone who just outright bought a phone. Maybe Sony could try that way of paying if it's gonna cost that much.

The SSD isn't memory, it's storage. People that don't know about tech often refer to storage as memory but I'm surprised to see that on a gaming site.

@Krlozgod They have. That's why GTA6 can only manage 30fps. If it was running at 120fps then you'd have a point but the PS5 isn't powerful enough to run the game properly. It's not like Rockstar dont know what they're doing, they've been working on it for ages, and it's had a phenomenal budget, so you can't blame bad optimisation. When it comes out on PC, people will be playing it with better graphics and at well over 60fps. The PS5 reached the point of being eclipsed a while ago.

@GirlVersusGame Well for one thing, watching someone play the game is often better than a written review. You're seeing the game as-is rather than a description of it that might overly praise or criticise things compared to your own tastes, or leave certain things unmentioned.

Also, it's only like people watching a sport rather than playing it (not that I really enjoy either...) Or various things like cooking programmes, travel programmes, etc. And let's face it, so many games are basically linear cinematic experiences with very flat gameplay so if the story is the allure of the game, well, you get it for free.

Side note, but I've thought similar things about why play a game of something instead of doing the real life version. Like, why play Top Spin instead of actual tennis? Why play Guitar Hero with a silly toy guitar rather than actually learn to play a real guitar?

Why do these reaction thumbnails always look like they're giving pleasure to an invisible man?

@Oram77 Same here. When I saw this article headline it confused me because I thought it hadn't come out yet.

Not a fan of how each of the portraits is the exact same face with different hair. Anyway, I know what he means but I think he's more thinking of pseudo-RPGs like Horizon or games with RPG elements like GoW.

Games like Crimson Desert (which is also pretty much a pseudo-RPG but theres more to it than HZD) or Dragon's Dogma have amazing exploration and a fantastic sense of discovery that isn't just (or at all) checklist stuff, and they do it way better than old classics like BG. DD2 is amazingly sandboxy with how you can experiment and think of clever tricks to solve quests or get to late game places early.

@ThatOtherNewGuy Why would the PS5 becoming compatible with pirated software (if a certain FW version or below, and if the user is confident enough to attempt the hack) make Rockstar rush towards releasing it on PC, where every single person can easily pirate almost any game?

It's like saying "uh oh, it's slightly raining and I don't want to get wet. Better hide from the rain by diving into this lake".

Maybe considering getting Dark Arisen. Not sure. I loved DD2 but did get bored after some time and felt I'd had my fill and wouldn't really get much more out of finishing it. If I get DA, I feel I'd want to start from scratch and not just jump in as a character from 3 (?) years ago, into a world I haven't been in for a long time. But then going through all that again for the DLC... I'm not sure.

But then, it is only £25. Argh, I cant decide.

Do you think we'll get a "shipped" total, or worse, the dreaded "hours of engagement" number, rather than actual sales figures?

@Stevemalkpus It's nice feature but this is more of a case of Rockstar being late to the party. You can do that in Saints Row IV (which came out the same year as GTAV), Watchdogs 2, and the most recent example I remember is Neverness to Everness.

Sounds like the guy above forgot to take his meds today. And yeah, this does look cheap.

Kind of reminds me of Shadowrun.

Also, you do have a precursor to RE on the NES in the form of Sweet Home by Capcom. Basically a spooky mansion with similar Metroidvania exploration, inventory management etc.

This is a new thing? I remember when those Nerd Box things or whatever they were called were the meme thing that was advertised on every podcast and then they became a joke - like Raid Shadow Legends ads. All the companies involved vanished and it was just another odd little fad like Pogs. This was probably a decade or more ago.

(Not to mention, they're bascially just more expensive versions of those 20p machines where you twist the handle and get a plastic frog or something).

@AaronBayne What happens if you die due to the survival mechanics, like dehydration? Do you respawn but lose things or is it just back to the last save? And if the latter, how would you not be softlocked in a state where you're destined to die? For that matter, what if you die from combat (or stupidly falling off something)?

The KH3 platinum nearly made me lose my mind. Those bloody minigames... Those bloody flans... I didnt bother wirh the earlier games' plats because I was racing through the series in preparation for KH3's release (gallingly, that was nearly 8 years ago.)

It would've been good if they'd added HDR support for III since it didn't actually support it despite often being listed in "PS4 games that support HDR" list back then. Or do all PS5 games automatically support it somehow?

@get2sammyb The article says Drake won't be the main character and then supports that with a quote that says he might be the main character:

>"the new Uncharted title will have Nathan Drake in some form, though as the protagonist or a side character, cameo, we can’t nail down for sure now."

>"you may as well make interest on your money until the very last moment, no?"
Eh? Most people have their money in a current account. I don't think people put all their money in a savings account and switch things to the current account every time they want to buy something. And pre-ordering 6 months in advance is no different than ordering a week in advance, or basically before whenever reviews appear.

And in almost every case, pre-ordering physical is the same thing; you're not going to find all copies sold out there either. I don't think I've gone to buy a physical game - either in a shop or online - and found that it was sold out. Obviously, it's at least possible whereas it isn't with digital, but that's not typically a concern.

>"Sakutaro Higashi, who’s voiced by Natsuki Hanae in Japanese and Griffin Burns in English."
Griffin Burns is a great name and also a good tip for Dragon's Dogma.

I wonder if you could take it out with you, with it connected to your phone with the PS Remote Play app streaming to the PS Store, and use random people's cards to pay for stuff? Put the controller by people's pockets and stuff.

@get2sammyb I mean, to be fair, people still care about how their character looks in a single player game.

@DennisReynolds Yeah, completely agreed. I love LotR and Tolkien in general but these games were so bland, soulless and vaguely depressing.

@guacguacboo Sorry to be that guy, but Rogue came out in 1980. When I just googled it to check the dates, I saw that it was inspired by a Star Trek videogame (creatively called "Star Trek") with permadeath and randomly generated layouts from 1971.

One of the first roguelikes was Hack which was 1982. Pretty much every game in recent times that's referred to as a roguelike isn't at all a roguelike. The 99 level dungeon in Lufia II is a lot more like one, though.

I played Lufia II over 20 years ago and it stuck with me. I remember really liking it. I tried the first game afterwards and it felt a lot worse in every regard so that's the one that'd need the most work.

@Thrillho Yeah, and also because if you started with the NES/MS, SNES/MD or PS1 pre-Dualshock, you had to use your left hand for movement anyway since they were all d-pad only. Even after that, when analogue sticks came in, you still couldn't typically switch sticks. I think the first time I saw the option was in Halo but that was a very rare thing.

I'd be absolutely crippled if I had to play with switched sticks. That said, on a PC I'd play an FPS with the mouse in my left hand.

@lindos You missed the photos in the tweet below the video. The video is just the original video.

@Max_the_German Most kids have access to an iPad so they could just stream to that and connect a PS5 controller to it.

From the gameplay demo they showed a few months ago, it reminded me of the kind of game I'd get from CeX a couple of decades ago - a throwaway mindless game you'd get on a whim for £5 and play when you're drinking with friends before going out for the night. I have a fondness for those sorts of shallow games you pass the controller around while getting drunk - very nostalgic of the early 2000s - but for this to be some flagship release is pretty disappointing. The reviews simply lined up with my expectations.

Yes, I'm sure 9% of posters here still have their PS5 unplugged yet are still checking regularly on a PS5 news site and even participating in online polls. 😂

@Beerheadgamer82 Yes, it's a coincidence. A very old-fashioned (and not in a good way) game where you just hit one button over and over again while waiting for the next cutscene in a story you'll forget within a few weeks of finishing it is terrible. Sony always lean towards interactive movies rather than games, and they got away with it more in the past. But look at how even their relatively open world games in the form of HZD and HFW were both massively overshadowed by BotW and Elden Ring respectively. Two games that are still being talked about, and still influencing other devs, years after release. I don't think there's been a Sony first party game that has genuinely stuck in the public consciousness and inspired other game devs since ICO and SotC - although there was a time that awful action games were inspired by the simplistic, QTE fest of the OG God of War.

I've mainly been a Playstation gamer since the PS1 and have a lot of negative things to say about Nintendo, yet Sony still haven't come close to putting out anything like OoT, LttP, BotW, Mario 64, SMB or Mario 3 in terms of being a perennially replayed game that still holds up, that still is a popular let's play or speedrun game, that's genuinely as revered as those games.

I mean, we say Uncharted is a story-based game but I can barely remember any of their stories. What the hell is the name of any of the antagonists? I would bet my life that about 10,000 times more people could remember the name of the antagonist of FFVII, most Zeldas, or Street Fighter II (and I'm intentionally picking different levels of story focus) than in the supposed narrative-driven, cinematic masterpieces that are the Uncharted games.

I think the Eurogamer review excerpt they have on Metacritic sums up what I expected this to be and why I wasn't looking forward to it.

"Jump, punch and slash, move on. Over and over again. Back in the day, if done well, that was all a straightforward action game needed. It's certainly worth some praise that Wolverine stays true to this goal. The action is direct, clearly defined, and brutal. Which is cool. For an hour in the evening."

@HairyBizRat Its Metacritic score is 78 based on almost 100 reviews so this review is as close to the average as it could be.

I appreciate you not giving it a 10 just because it's first-party. From the review, it's exactly what I expected it to be. Though for me it'd be a lower score because I cant get even slightly hyped for what's basically an on-rails beat 'em up.

@ShadowRJ Like any point and click game does, or Ace Attorney, or Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, or Pillars of Eternity. There are lots of games on PS5 that have a cursor you move with the analogue stick.

@Leinad7 " I wouldn’t be so sure to tell which sells better considering Ocarina is a classic."
Well it's pretty clear. The GTA series has outsold the Zelda series nearly 4 to 1 despite the fact it's been going over a decade less and the fact the Zelda series has 33 games while GTA has 11 (both according to Wikipedia).

So as much as I like OoT, theres really no competition which will sell better.

They should have the ingredients for crafting just naturally growing, like berries on a bush or mushrooms in darker places.

I agree, for me it would be Ace Attorney. Some of the most heartfelt (without being cheesy) games I've ever played. They seem silly at first but theres a lot of emotinal depth to them. The trial logic can be infuriating but you do tend to adapt to the sometimes weird logic of them.

>"it just looks like they’ve aged her up a bit, presumably to match her real-life actress."
Well not exactly. You make it sound like the casting was done to them. They aged her up on purpose by casting her that way.

@Ooccoo_Jr He's writing about videogames where you pretend to be a cartoon character with a house, not Israel attacking Palestine. It's like comparing the judge of a high school dance contest to a supreme court judge. Are you also laying out ethics instructions on, say, the GB News website on how they report on climate change or genocide, because somehow that seems very unlikely.

Meanwhile absolutely no one I know IRL has mentioned this once.

@Ellie-Moo They announced a trilogy version in the SoP. There's also this set which seems to be exclusive to Japan - at least for now.

https://store.jp.square-enix.com/estore/pages/sp_ffvii_revelation.aspx

77,777 yen or £370.

Well they've done the cutscenes. Now to start work on the game!

One of the Skyrim devs said he'd completed the main quest of that game in 2h30m. That sounds more like rushing than an actual speedrun - the fastest speedrun is 1h5m glitchess, 19m with glitches.

With WRPGs it's usually the non-main quest stuff that makes up the vast majority of things to do.

@RoomWithaMoose Well presumably the CCTV one means they know your general location now because they'll know which camera saw you. Also maybe you can destroy cameras and they stay destroyed so if you see that icon it's a heads-up to do that for if you're wanted in that area again.

But yeah, that aside, this is just some random guy on Twitter. Not sure why it's being treated as fact by the article.

@Simu001 In most cases they haven't spent hours creating a character model, they've just used a computer to scan a face. In the cases where it is actually a model created from scratch (Cloud and Tifa, for example) it looks particularly bad because it is actually doing what you're saying.

I'm not saying this to defend DLSS5 but rather to criticise the way that most AAA western games don't really have art direction with character faces, they just use other tech to copy a real face. So the criticism of tech taking over from artistic intent is already applicable to what they're doing. Same with mocap instead of using skilled animators.

@biggestlozer28 FFIX sold worse than the FFs around it. It's my favourite FF but it didn't make much of a splash in terms of like a dedicated fan base specific to it rather than the wider series. Apparently it sold 5.5 million copies eventually, over many years, but mainly in Japan. It only sold 700k in Europe. Kingdom Hearts as a series has sold tens of millions, and as a series it has the advantage of developing a dedicated fan base whereas IX is sort of stuck just being part of general FF fandom mainly.