NorrinRadd

Ahead of ghost of Tsushima? Nah. Rankings invalid.

You must have mistakenly put this game at number 3 when you know
it belongs at number 1

Waiting for the salt...

Excellent! Well done, Smithers!

I think the answer to your question lies in the poll results. Most people will be waiting for a sale to pick it up. This follows buying trends from the last generation. Sony are aware of this. And sales AT release aren't as indicative to the lifetime sales health of a game as they used to be. SO, price high at release for early adopters and then expect a bump when the title goes "on sale".

If you don't start the initial price at a high enough point, the sale price won't look as good or generate enough revenue. If you drop from $70 to $40 or even $35 - that's a heck of a deal! But - if you go from $50 to $40 - not so much.

@ORO_ERICIUS

You ARE the only one! What are the odds???

I’ll be getting this when there’s a complete edition on sale for $30.

Loving this game (on PS5). PS4 version was waaaaay buggier.

I intended to load this up when I got the PS5 just to see if it ran smoother. The narrative sucked me in and I haven’t touched another game on there yet. SMMM, Borderlands 3, GoT new game +, all waiting to be played!

It looks like it also comes with the camera and the headphones which I didn’t see listed in the description.

For me no external HDD. I downloaded five games, booted up two of them. And put it in rest mode several times throughout the day. So far so good!

@ShogunRok

“@NorrinRadd Yeah, I feel like aspects of the game have definitely been scaled back so that it sticks to its 30fps cap on PS4.
Very interested in playing on PS5 after 60+ hours on PS4, hoping for a reasonably big improvement.”

Just wanted to follow up. I got my PS five yesterday and managed to play about three hours. All of those issues that I was hoping it would go away, went away! At least, in the three hours that I played, I had no texture pop in, no weird graphical glitches, no instances of characters floating in space or running in circles or doing any of that weird ***** that they’ve been reported to do. Clearly this game was designed with next gen in mind and has been scaled back for previous hardware.

What a giant difference it made in the gaming experience though! It was much easier to not have immersion broken. Really plays very nicely now.

@ShogunRok

"For example, there is a lot of texture and asset pop-in during busy gameplay, or when the game has to switch to a different location for a cutscene. Issues that simply shouldn't exist on PS5."

I think that's the right on the money and I've noticed the exact same thing. Later today (FedEx willing) I'll be trying out the game on PS5 and HOPE that a lot of that texture pop-in vanishes. I know the load times will be decreased dramatically (see JorRaptor's video) so I''m looking forward to that. Leads me to believe this game WAS designed with the next gen consoles as a priority (unlike AC4 which was clearly designed for the then previous/current get consoles and only had slight improvements on the new hardware).

@ShogunRok

Just because you personally dislike the modern day doesn’t mean it sucks. I just started the game last night and I’ve played through the first modern day sequence. What I played through is leagues better than anything I experienced in the previous two games. I know there’s a whole contingent of people who would like to see the modern day scrapped. But I am definitely not one of them. As long as it’s got the title Assassin‘s Creed in its name, it better damn well have some modern day ***** in it!

@thefourfoldroot

That is an incredibly accurate point that I had not considered. My apologies.

I love how everyone in this thread is blaming Sony for 2Ks inability to actually optimize the games file size! Plenty of other AAA games are rolling in around 50 or 60 GB

@thefourfoldroot

Who cares what happens with other people’s trophies?

I hope this game is decent. Would I play it? God no. But I want it to be a decent enough game that it lasts a while - I enjoy the memes too much for it to disappear quickly.

It looks fantastic! Wish I had the skills and patience.

Brilliant! Love these.

I guess I will go back and play the remaster!

@PeterN80

Except that walls to progression have existed in RPGs since their inception. That is a not a new thing. That’s part of what an RPG has contained historically. Odyssey gave you an option to bypass that wall. It wasn’t “required”. There are plenty of other ways within the game to level up your character to move on to the next section. I’m not on board with this revisionist history that thinks RPG‘s have never had level gating!

@pyrobolt

I agree, but what better opportunity for the haters to express their opinions!

Seriously, I played odyssey over 400 hours and not once felt “pressure” to buy from the store. And aren’t these the kind of micro transactions that gamers always say that they want in games? Those that are purely cosmetic and have nothing to do with gameplay or pay to win strategies? I just don’t get it either - the hate, that is.

Just as a point of clarification - CDPR did NOT get Witcher 3 running on Switch - that was done by Saber Interactive.

I’d like to see it not continue to suck without any competition.

I’ll be interested in madden again when the general consensus is that they actually changed something for the better.

And it’s not a micro transactions vacuum.

Game Informer used to be a great unbiased magazine that you could count on for good reviews. Then they got bought by GameStop.

Borderlands 2 is one of my favorite games. I picked up 3, but have only gotten half way through the story on 1 character. I guess I will resume when the PS5 launches. Thanks for the free upgrade, Gearbox!

Excellent! Have Platinum, was hoping for NG+ on PS5. Also, have been holding off starting LoU2 for PS5 in hopes of 60 FPS. Make it happen, Sony/ND!

@nessisonett

Well, that's awfully reasonable and responsible of you!

@nessisonett

Honestly, GoT is worth every cent of the MSRP.

Excellent! Will do new game+ come PS5 launch - if my save transfers over.

@Orpheus79V

TBF, I was kind of pointing that out to show how much of a deal we are actually getting for the technology that exists inside a PS5. You are right - it would be really cool to see what tech a $1,000 PS5 could have in it.

Also, being an American in 2020, I really enjoy considering the possibility of alternate/parallel universes!

@Orpheus79V

“@zupertramp I can't say I've ever seen a phone with about 600GBs of storage. Do they exist?”

Apple makes a phone with 512 GB of space. It also can play a ton of games. Available at the low low price of $1,449, OR the equivalent of 3 PS5 disc versions.

Apple TV+ has some great shows - Ted Lasso, For All Mankind, Morning Show, Servant, Mythic Quest and plenty others. Totally worth the subscription IMO.

@Juanalf

“I can't wait to see that Microsoft studios logo on my PS5.”

It may seem petty, but that is exactly 1 big reason neither of those games will hit my PS5.

As long as they get rid of that f$&@ing engine...

Rich at reviewrech has an interesting video. He theorizes that Sony wanted the chaos at the pre-orders to prevent scalpers from scooping up all of the PS fives - the best way to get the items into actual gamers hands.

Who knows if there’s any truth to that, but he contrasted that scenario with the one for the 3080 cards, where the time and date were announced and all of them got purchased by scalper bots.

@Kev_Morrison

Lol! And somewhere a bridge is missing its basement resident...

@Noob_Saibot

“Sony's Worldwide studios as we know today are tough, but not tough enough to challenge the richest company in the world if it manages to acquire very talented studios in the near future !”

BREAKING NEWS!!! Apple to jump in video game console and game development company acquisition markets!

I wonder how many of theses games will allow you to also upgrade your save to the next gen version?

I like the upgrade idea but I wouldn’t want to have to start every game over.

@RayNick

Too many words. Short attention spans. Grab reader quickly. Redundant?

@RayNick

I'm guessing because it was announced at the PS5 reveal event?

@Col_McCafferty

The developers explicitly stated that it is not a GaaS. There will likely be DLC (much like each of the previous Batman/Arkham games) AND the entire game can be played solo. No co-op is required anywhere in the game.

It definitely WILL be a different experience the n the Arkham games. It's supposed to be a different experience. Whether you prefer that or not is personal. (For me I prefer the single protagonist focused single player style of the Arkham games). So it will not be that. BUT, it sounds more like and RPG lite with 4 different potential characters. You can mix and match as you please - or not at all. I love this idea. I'm going to play through 4 times, once with each character and then a 5th with whomever I liked best in New Game +, presuming there is one.

@daveofduncan

Turning off bars/health meters/numbers as an option has now been confirmed by the developer.

Hoping for PS5/XSX only - no current gen, please! I know it’s a long shot...

@playstation_king
“yeah even has a new xbox 360 game coming out next year called halo infinite”

That’s harsh, man! Accurate. But harsh.

I can’t believe I’m looking more forward to the Warner Bros. upcoming game!

Excellent! Never use controller vibration but love that armor. Good news!

All I know is that I’ve been playing ghost of Tsushima since release every single day and each time I am dumbfounded by how amazing it is. I just want Sony to keep on doing whatever it takes for them to keep delivering experiences like that. I’m all for it.

What are the other 99.6 million PS4 owners waiting for???

I have it strictly for cloud saves. Everything else is a bonus. It’d be great if they combined it with Now though, I’d be all over that!

@BlueOcean

How exactly?

@jdv95

Sweet! Had no idea - will check that out - thanks!