MrMeeeseeeks

Completed the game 100% at launch and repurchased a copy recently to play over Christmas (in anticipation of this update).

The Avatar movies are the greatest sci-fi movies of our generation. No one else is making such incredibly polished, heartfelt movies like Jim Cameron’s Avatar. Nothing else today comes close. I’ll be there on December 19th when the new movie comes out. Honestly can not wait 😁

People ***** on Fortnite but at least Epic Games actually try to keep their players happy. Rockstar DGAF. I would laugh so hard if GTA6 underperformed. Rockstar really need a kick up the *****.

Best event in a looong time. These events are usually disappointing/anti-climatic but this was actually very good. The charge forward into battle with all of the different characters was straight out of Ready Player One. And the intro with all the heroes appearing from rifts/portals was Avengers Endgame levels of epic. Lara Croft fighting alongside Iron Man, Super Man, King Kong, Godzilla, Marty McFly, A Star Wars Destroyer and The Bride from Kill Bill… More of this please 🙌

I’m really not enjoying Death Stranding 2, after loving the first one. It’s like they stripped away everything that made the first game good. Can’t walk more than five feet without something interrupting the quiet.

This is the ultimate troll by the Emmys lol. But we all knew it would happen.

Bella is one of the worst actors in the business but somehow keeps getting opportunities and award noms in place of genuinely talented actors. Genevieve O'Reilly deserved a place on that list over this joker.

She’ll win of course 😂 but never has an actor been more undeserving of an award.

What exactly was his role in the show? The story was already written. Was he just there for morale? 😂

Either way, I don’t think it’s been the success they hoped it would be (and should have been if they had better casting). Worst mistake ever casting Bella and Pedro. Bella can’t act and Pedro needs to take a break for several years at least. Tired of seeing him in everything.

Is there still time to change that dreadful title of ND’s next game? Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.

I replayed it recently and some of the story choices are still, shall we say, ‘not great’. But I didn’t completely hate it like I did five years ago.

I don’t know if it’s because the HBO show was just so terribly written and comically miscast, that it somehow made me appreciate the game more.

@AK4tywill yeah, the people who made TLoU Part 1 and the early Uncharted games so great are no longer with the studio. Unchecked Druckman is what we have now and it’s a huge decline in quality. He needs someone to reign him in.

@Perturbator Yeah, HotD was irreparably damaged by the atrocious writing in S2. It’s a shame because S1 was excellent.

What happened to all the great writers? Why have standards slipped so much? There must be a reason.

@Americansamurai1 the problem is… if it takes 2-3 years for the next season to be released, who is even going to care? They should have filmed the whole thing back-to-back and released the final bunch of episodes next year. 2-3 years is too long a wait to see how it ends. They’ve made such a mess of this show.

Not really tbh. A game that’s been in development for 13 years is going to feel dated as hell. And Rockstar gameplay already feels like it’s a generation behind. I’m happy to be proven wrong but if it’s anything like GTA V or RDR2’s stiff/floaty gameplay I won’t be surprised. Great storytelling and bad gameplay is kind of their thing.

The game has always been great and I never understood the hate it got. We were robbed of a sequel.

I’m sure it will be great but between AC Shadows, Rise of the Ronin and Ghost of Tsushima, I’m kinda done with this setting and period of history now. All the games blend into one. I hope Yotei can stand out from the crowd and isn’t just more of the same.

As someone who was lukewarm on S1 and absolutely against the casting of Bella (in particular) and Joel, I actually liked this episode. Maybe it’s because I didn’t care about Joel in the show, so it didn’t feel like as big a FU as it did in the game?

Bella was atrocious as always. Game Ellie was kinda cool but Bella is just so awkward and childish. Saying F a lot and acting like a brat is not cool.

I still find it frustrating that Joel doesn’t tell Abby that he killed her Father to save someone he loved (because the Fireflies neglected to tell Ellie that the procedure would kill her). If they had given Ellie the facts and let her choose, it would be different. But they didn’t. They are the bad guys.

And I’m glad they’re making Abby seem more villainous in the show. She wanted to kill Joel for killing her Father but Joel didn’t torture him (although my Joel does use a flamethrower on that MF every time). What she did to Joel was ten times worse than what Joel did to her. Ellie has more justification to go after Abby than Abby did to go after Joel. And somehow Ellie is wrong.

Just watched S2E1 and my god, I know ugly people exist but Bella is so unfortunate. It’s like if they made a Justin Bieber biopic and cast Sloth from The Goonies as Justin.

Don’t get me started on Pedro. He couldn’t act his way out of a wet paper bag. They’re both riding on GoT fame.

Cailee Spaeny and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau were right there…

I’d be down with most of the changes they made but Bella is terribly miscast. It just ruins it for me. It’s like if you ordered fillet steak in a restaurant and they served you liver. I’ve seen Bella in a few different things and they were fine. But not this.

Cailee Spaeny would have been a better choice. At least she vaguely resembles the character from the games.

The original face design was much better.

OG Aloy had softer, more feminine features (slight resemblance to Evangeline Lilly). New Aloy is more masculine, with a fuller face structure and darker/thicker eyebrows.

I had a few issues at the start but in the end I really enjoyed it. Probably the best game I’ve played this year.

@The_Wailing_Doom it’s not ticking all the boxes exactly. It’s ticking the same handful of boxes every SoP.

Happy about Ghost but these State of Plays are the same thing every time… Weird indie games, check. Retro/Megadrive-looking games, check. PSVR games, check. Medieval/fantasy games, check. JRPG’s, check. One good game at the end that people actually want, check. I suppose we have a Remasters category now too, check.

I know they’re trying to cover all of their bases but I could do without the Retro games and PSVR games every time.

It all just feels very stale.

It was ok. GoY was a nice surprise at the end.

There seems to be a lot of medieval/fantasy games with cute creatures, where you fight giant monsters. They all look the same to me.

It looks lovely but I don’t need it.

Im not a fan of limiting them to 12,300. It’s just going to encourage scalpers and people who genuinely want one could miss out.

@tangyzesty Yeah, Forbidden West killed my interest in the franchise. It was nowhere near as good as the first game. The writing took a huge nosedive and the plot was ridiculous. I have zero hype for the next one sadly.

They need backwards compatibility on the PS6 because they only have 5 (?) exclusive PS5 games this gen. Not really much for them to remaster. Unless they start remastering the remasters. This gen has been such a dud.

I thought Japan loved these cutesy, colourful, Nintendo-like games?

So do we think Sony will start downgrading the old versions to make the Pro versions look better? I wouldn’t put it past them at this point.

£700 to play slightly better versions of the games we played on the base PS4. There certainly isn’t anything of note of the PS5 so far.

Sony don’t deserve our support anymore. They’ve truly failed to bring the goods this gen. Instead, wasting money and resources on failed projects like PSVR2 and the many Live Service disasters. They are completely out of touch in every way.

I just hope MS have something up their sleeve to shake things up (unlikely). Sony only seem to be innovative when they’re struggling financially and facing fierce competition.

If it was £600 with a disk drive and a stand I might have considered getting one. No way I’m paying £800 👎

For £800 it should come with the Dualsense Edge controller.

This is why I’m sad Xbox has failed this gen. Sony are only at their best when faced with fierce competition. Without it, we get terrible games and ridiculous prices like this.

I was mad yesterday because I lost 2 hours of progress (because the game failed to auto save and wouldn’t allow me to manual save). I’ve fell through the ground a couple of times too, annoyingly.

I’ve caught up now and progressed to a point where the game is letting me manual save. It’s a good game but things like this shouldn’t make it to launch.

The stealth mechanics are one of the things I’m enjoying the most tbh.

I was going to give it an 8 but I’ve just lost 2 hours of completing side content because the game doesn’t auto save at all between missions and the manual save option is always greyed out. Fuming. I was enjoying it until then. I’m so mad rn.

Edit: and now the bloody game is broken because the slicer doesn’t disable energy fields. Seriously F this game.

They wouldn’t have done this if there wasn’t a new game to sell. I would consider this good marketing rather than live service. And I have nothing against live service. I love Fortnite and have played every season since C2S4.

The problem Sony have is that there’s no room for another live service game. Certainly not one that will last more than a few months.

It feels like how everyone jumped on the bandwagon when Nintendo wii blew up. Sony went all in with the PS Move and MS with Kinect. They were too late to the party. And that’s what this live service drive feels like.

They see games like Fortnite brining in millions and they want a piece of the pie. The pie is gone. As long as games like Fortnite continue to thrive, it’s going to be incredibly difficult to have another big hit. No one is going to abandon a game they have invested years into for the desperate, wannabe, new kid on the block.

I hope Sony realise this before they waste even more time and resources.

I haven’t played the new game (until tomorrow 😁) but Astro’s Playroom absolutely felt like a celebration of PlayStation. I completed the game 100% and it was magical.

Sony have made some mistakes this gen but that doesn’t mean their glory days are behind them. If they focus on giving us the single player, story-driven games we want, they can turn things around. Personally I would also like some colourful 3D platformers like Sly, Ratchet & Clank and Jak & Daxter. They don’t need to be big budget releases. Just stop wasting money and resources on multiplayer and live service games.

This gen has been a complete bust but next gen could be great if they get their act together. Hopefully Concord will be the disaster they needed to open their eyes.

Astro’s Playroom was already the best game available on PS5. Nothing else has come close this gen. So it’s great to hear the follow up game is even better. I never had any doubts.

Who would have thought Team Asobi would become Sony’s best studio? What’s everyone else been doing for the last five years?

I like it so far. It kind of reminds me of Mass Effect in some ways but set in the Star Wars universe.

Im a huge supporter of AI. I heard an AI Mariah Carey cover of Justin Timberlake’s ‘Selfish’ and it sounded exactly like her. It was amazing. Most singers don’t even sing live these days anyway. If it’s already fake, why not cut out the middle man? Imagine a new album by AI-my Winehouse or Whitn-AI Houston. So many opportunities.

Same applies to the gaming industry. Let the AI do the crunch if it means we get new games on time.

I don’t need flashy graphics for every game. Give me some PS2 era Ratchet & Clank games and I’ll buy them all.

Sony waste so much time, effort and resources trying to hunt a white whale they’re never going to catch. They’ve lost their creative drive and imagination.

This gen has been an absolute bust. Astrobot is the only decent game to come out of it.

Chasing the live service money train is mad when there are already insanely popular (and free) live service games that people have invested in heavily for years. No one is going to abandon games like Fortnite for the new kid on the block. Especially when these new games never last more than a few months. People have realised it’s a bad investment.

The big name live service games have already dominated the market. There isn’t space for any more. And them not being F2P at launch means they’re DOA.

You can’t ask players to pay full price for the game and then expect them to spend hundreds on cosmetics. It’s like they want to have their cake and eat it too. Pure greed and delusion.

Imagine all the great single player, story-driven games we could be playing right now if studios would stop throwing these desperate, DOA multiplayer games at us.

@Truegamer79 Right… I can’t wait for GTA VI to come out with it’s dated PS3 Rockstar gameplay and get 10’s across the board 🙄 Obvious bias against Ubisoft is obvious.

I wrote this game off without a physical release. I might get it when the physical version releases in October, or I might wait a few more months for a price drop. I’ve waited long enough already, so a few more months won’t kill me. If they don’t support the fans who wanted a physical release at launch, why should we support them now? They’re giving us a physical release now but only because they realised they F’d up.

Days Gone sold similar numbers to Horizon Forbidden West and that game is seen as a huge success, getting dlc and a LEGO spin-off.

I don’t know what issue Sony have with Days Gone? The horde fights were the most intense encounters in any game ever made.

Well my interest in this game just fell off a cliff. Ubisoft just can’t help themselves can they?

It would have been great with just the woman.

The pictures aren’t a big deal really but I wish they would stop trying to sanitise her character. So what if her character is sexualised? Lara can use her sexuality to exploit her enemies if she wants to, she can steal artefacts from other countries to fund her extravagant lifestyle (better safe in her vault than to fall into the wrong hands), she can kill without remorse. Why does she need to be a saint? The reason Lara stayed relevant all these years is because she’s a flawed character. She does what she does because she enjoys it and occasionally she saves the world.

@boreal187 once you get used to drawing your guns to hop backwards it becomes second nature. The modern controls are so good - I wouldn’t be enjoying these games as much with the tank controls.

@Mintie the platinum would be near impossible anyway - finishing the game without using a med pack seems impossible with the mummies jumping all over you in the Egypt levels. You can’t escape them. I’ve just decided to replay the games without even thinking about trophies.

I agree. Lara Croft is definitely more iconic than Mario.

Nah, I’d be all over it if there were ANY stellar games this gen. But so far all we have are spruced up PS4 games.

Sony are especially guilty of releasing the same old (safe) open world games, with the same in-game collectibles, boring side quests and average plots. There’s only so many times you can play the exact same game with a different skin before the excitement wears off.

So what’s the point in having a PS5 Pro? So we can play slightly better versions of PS5 games that are slightly better versions of games that are/were available on PS4?

I keep hearing that the golden age of gaming is over. And judging by the games we’ve seen so far this gen, I’d have to agree.

PS5 Pro? I’m still waiting for the PS5 to do something (anything) that’s genuinely impressive. And it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen this year…