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@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.

Sorry but this game looked like what it's being mocked for before I saw any of these videos. It looks like a basic, antiquated experience trying to get sales from graphics and its license. A game that wouldn't have been great in the 2000s but would've at least seemed less out of place.

A lot of Sony games are smoke and mirrors to disguise that what you're actually doing is so basic, so simplistic, both in terms of input and thought process, but they look nice and have a cinematic appeal.

Those excerpts make it sound like it should be a 7 but knowing how game reviews work it'll get 8s and 9s.

My first plat was MGS3 but I don't remember that being that hard other than any inherent difficulty in the game itself. This one sounds brutal, though.

@Nightcrawler71 To be fair, once you move through the main story to the current point, and it's still very early days, it's actually very quick to do daily things like give gifts, use "character pixels" (stamina for farming that regenerates over time) and "city stamina" (stamina for job/hobby things like races, fishing, taxi work, mahjong etc, fully refills each Monday), and find a few collectibles like crows.

In a way, it's almost disappointing how you go from loads to do to just checking in a bit each dday. Though obviously more story is added over time and other features, much of it is optional. Like, you never have to do mahjong or fishing or whatever.

@AtlasLivesAgain To a point, yes. It's called Ascension and each time you get a dupe you can unlock 1 of 6 unique skills for the character. You can change around these skills whenever you want so you aren't locked in. So obviously you'll have all skills when you've got 6 dupes.

These makes more of a difference for some characters than others but there isn't a sense that a character is seriously gimped without dupes. In other games, like Nikke, the characters are basically useless eventually without dupes because it increases their max level.

I liked Yotei a lot but didn't finish it. I agree that in many ways it's better than Tsushima but there was something missing. One day I just didn't really feel like playing it and that was the end of that. Also, it says in the article that Atsu's quest was more personal because Jin was simply trying to save his island/country which is a broader thing, not a personal quest for revenge.

The thing is, for Jin it was very personal as he struggled with honour vs pragmatism, a culturally-specific morality vs actually successfully defending Tsushima. And packaged into that was the fact that becoming "the ghost" was a betrayal of his uncle. With Atsu it was just "you killed my parents so I will kill you". It's actually more boilerplate than Jin's motivation and struggles as the latter are more specific to Jin, Japan and that era.

@GamingGod Games typically run way better while also looking better, which is why PC gamers often laugh when console-only players treat 60fps as a gold standard while they're playing at 120fps+. Typically fighting game tournaments only use PCs unless Sony have paid them to promote PlayStation. That's why this stands out so much and is potentially disastrous for the game - though I think the Marvel effect will carry it through (not that Marvel properties are immune to flops...)

@Bluemoon2008 He's one of the most famous streamers. He's well known enough to apparently have a cameo in the Street Fighter movie. Also Epic wanted him to promote Fortnite but he turned them down, so clearly even the makers of one of the most popular games thinks he'd be an effective promoter in making it even more popular. And various devs know him and care about what he has to say, like Ed Boon of Mortal Kombat fame. He's also commentated at EVO. So long story short, what he says does matter to a lot of fighting game fans and devs.

@LimitedPower Sure but what's left after you said it could maybe be considered the most stylistic and is certainly extremely authentic to what its trying to emulate? What is the other metric you were measuring it by if not stylisation, authenticity or realism?

@LimitedPower Well he didn't say "most realistic", it's just that you personally equate "best looking" with "most realsitic" and have then naturally assumed he means that too. That said, I'm surprised he went for this style rather than an anime gacha game.

Signalis is good. It's basically a top-down, sci-fi, classic RE game. But I played in on my Switch years ago. The other two I have no interest in.

@Kienda Zendaya and Jon Bernthal are also in both films, strangely enough.

@AdamNovice The Australian one.

@rjejr There was a certain writer here that I haven't seen for a while that did articles that came up as partly AI when checked.

"It speaks to Xbox’s increasingly American-centric target market"
It's always been like this. The original Xbox sold something like 80% of its units in America. It only sold about 5 million in the entire rest of the world (and sold terribly in general).

Played the original, lost my mind with frustration because it was the first dual analogue shooter I'd played. I was either looking at the sky or the ground.

Eventually got good enough to do it on Legendary and knew all the tricks like area skips. So I have a soft spot for it, but not really interested in playing it again.

Annoying to those who bought it, but to be fair, it's only enough money to buy a pint (I remember when pints were £1.80...)

@RoomWithaMoose The PS5 has almost twice the install base of the Switch 2 and Xbox Series S/X combined (90 million vs 55 million - at least according to a quick google) and the game currently only has 839 players on Steam. Trying to get people to not buy the game on PS5, if it had any chance of being successful, would do enormous damage to the devs. So the idea that "we accept the devs don't have the money to release a physical version (thus removing our precious choice) but we're going to try to convince people to take away most of their sales" is a ridiculous stance.

It doesn't seem to be about trying to affect any kind of positive change - for that, try getting people to wait for the GTA6 physical release (they won't) - but this has zero chance of doing anything. And if it did affect anything it'd be the devs, not Sony. So not only is it contradictory in terms of accepting the devs don't have much money to their name, but then trying to shred their sales, it's guaranteed to make no difference. Therefore it can only be taken as main character syndrome grandstanding.

@RoomWithaMoose But it does acknowledge there are financial reasons for being digital-only for one thing. And again, the argument is basically "I want to have a choice to buy physical or digital... But anyway, I'm going to buy this digital-only product where I have no choice for physical because I hate having no choice! But just not on this one platform, but instead maybe on this other digital-only platform!!" It's just a mangled stance. And even recommending you buy it on PC, a platform that went digital-only ages ago. And back then there was an outcry about that, like there is now with PS, but it's all swept under the carpet now.

@NieR_Dark Well I partly address this above. It also ties into something else I was going to say. People may defend PC being digital-only by saying at least there are different storefronts. Yet people religiously stick with Steam. It makes up about 75% of all PC game sales globally. If you compare it only to the EGS, it's actually about 97% to Steam and 3% to EGS - even though the latter gives more of the money from each sale to the devs.

Totally agree with the idea of bringing back the Playstation Stars thing, or something similar.

@dskatter Because if Sony going only digital is bad, this game has been released as digital only. Wherever you buy it, it's digital only - and if being digital only is bad, then surely also hate games that release digital only, but that's a side point.

Not only do most people not care about this, it's this weird main character syndrome thing where they think they're actually going to change anything by making people buy a game (again, a digital only one!) on certain platforms, and a game that's going to sell small numbers anyway.

@TheSingularity Yeah, was about to post the same thing. It's a weird nerd kind of virtue signalling. Like people that treat open source vs closed source as some kind of human rights violation.

@dskatter I bet they loved the 900 korok minigames in BotW, though.

I haven't played many games since Crimson Desert, and even then just dipping my toe in, but I love murder mystery type games so I'll get this if it's not expensive.

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Oh wow, £5.89 on Steam. I'll get it there instead of waiting, then.

It's like Bully made by Swery65.

I'd rather have another PoE, Avowed being an action RPG sequel to those two games. They can make it in 3D if they want but the more detailed dialogue, more interesting combat, better writing and depiction of the setting, etc... Avowed was a massive disappointment even if I ignore the fact it crashed everyone 2-3 hours on average and once even crashed 5 minutes after I booted it up after the last crash.

@TheSingularity Your post kind of goes against itself. Yes if you asked vegans if they thought eating meat was evil, you'd get a far higher than the actual average of people saying it was evil. But this is a PS site. You're far more likely to get people fiercely loyal to Sony here than if you asked the general population. This is very poll is like asking vegans if they think eating meat is bad.

>"Chinese studio"
What a crazy surprise. I wonder why this is so often the case with blatant rip-offs, and not just videogames.

@darylb24 In both cases it's not quite what you said. Naoto isn't a tomboy (the tomboy is Chie) but she thinks no one will take her seriously as a detective both because of her age and sex, so she pretends to be a boy and also acts in a more serious way (how she perceives maturity) than she normally would. And with Kanji, it's not exactly that he's feminine, it's that he likes doing something that society perceives as for women. It's like saying female footballers are masculine because they like something traditionally associated with men. He likes working with textiles IIRC and he's insecure that it makes him seem gay.

That's why Naoto's shadow is like a little kid wearing a lab coat that's way too big for them, and Kanji's shadow is a stereotypical gay man.

Yeah. I mean, yes it's more expensive but living in a house is more expensive than living in a shed so why don't we all just live in sheds? And you save money by not having to pay for online, cloud saves etc. Wider game selection, cheaper games - and extremely cheap if you put on an eyepatch. So you'd actually save money in the long run, even without donning your wooden leg and parrot. And mods too - and while some may say "I don't want mods" it's amazing how many console gamers say things like "I wish the minimap was bigger" or "I wish I could change the UI size" and other various tweaks; well you can with mods.

I know it sounds like some silly clickbait headline but I do think traditional console gaming is dying. MS are doing some Steambox type thing and Nintendo dropped out of the home console market by switching to a handheld that can send its signal to a TV.

I loved consoles when they had a real identity and personality, and when PC and console had almost entirely mutually exclusive catalogues. But that's over now, sadly.

@LikelySatan Oh yeah, absolutely. But the corruption of FIFA only manifests when it benefits certain people or teams and this was one such case.

And also look at France vs Paraguay. Endless very suspicious decisions made in favour of Paraguay when their opponents are the favourites and the head of FIFA has literally made up a pretend award to give to the president of the host country.

Sometimes you are the corruption, sometimes you're trying to battle against it.