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@Cry_Zero The second one was not that good, but the first one was really fun. The use of force powers never felt as good until Control

@GirlVersusGame @PlatinumMikey Yeah that's a big nope for me too.

It reminds me of Roundguard which was really fun.

I guess they had to wait for Kentaro Miura to die to dare do this : a random Kratos lookalike barbarian wearing the real berserker armor and wielding the Dragon Slayer in a live service mobile game. They couldn't be more insulting than this... or can they?

Nothing about her age, but I still can't understand how people think Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal fit the roles on any kind of way.
The general feel and look of the series nailed the games almost perfectly, but the two main actors just took me out of the series in every scene.
Clearly in the minority there, I know, but I really can't see them as Joel and Ellie...

It's not about right or wrong. It would never be "right" to ask a father to sacrifice his child, whatever the situation. This is what being a father is.

@Cornpop76 "With the Right focused on the rights of the individual, and the Left considering individuals worthy sacrifices for the greater good."
Weird, as while this may have been the stance of Right and Left 50 years ago, today it seems completely inversed to me.

Ouch, I was curious about the game but this gameplay makes it "wait for a very big sale" or even better "wait for it being on PS+".
Really clunky characters and animations...

Seeing the number of articles here about how big a success this game is, it's clearer now why the comment sections about AC Shadows are some of the most moderated on this site.

@SuperSilverback The idea that OG Kratos is boring and one dimensional is so baffling to me.
He's a tragic character, destroyed by his greed and then his insatiable anger. He faces insurmontable odds, and is ready to risk it all and to sacrifice the world to get his revenge.
More importantly, the gameplay of the games are completely in phase with the character, asking the player to become this indomitable brute. The end of GOW3 is simply a masterpiece, when you as the player have to realise, as does Kratos, that everything you suffered through was your own doing and that you could stop anytime.

As for Daddy Kratos, he's a very predictable character who faces issues with a kid becoming a teenager. Nothing in the gameplay really helps us bind both character together, except for those long boatrides that replaces cutscenes. Yes, there is a redemption arc somewhere, but it's so stereotypical and, again, predictable that it doesn't really elevate the character.

I get why some would prefer the second character to the first, but I don't. And I'd have prefered if they hadn't used a character I loved to change it into something I really don't like.

THe biggest question is will we have Daddy Kratos or the real Kratos?
While the last 2 games had undeniable production values that brought some quality to them, I despise what they've done with the character.
Bring back the vengeful, the shell of a man destroyed by his greed and anger, Kratos, he was always more interesting than the grubby old man having issues managing fatherhood.

@themightyant Yeah, you're not listening. You're arguing with what you want to think I'm saying, not with what I actually say. So I'm done.
Cheers mate.

@themightyant You seem to be the one who fails to comprehend : Getting to choose whether or not to engage in a romantic relationship with a "non-binary" character doesn't make the interaction optional. The character is in the game, the quest is in it too. A lot of AC players are completionist and enjoy the games for their plethoras of sidequest, so telling them to go out of their way to avoid content they may not like and calling it "optional" is disingenuous. This is the kind of defense one gives when they finally get what they want but get backlash for it. This is the kind of defense that allowed microtransactions to fester for example.

@Hoodie718 The content is not "optional" since you don't have the option to play a game without it. The fact the game gives you a choice to go through with the relationship or not doesn't make the content less in your face. And side quests in a AC are everything but optional, they have alawys been the crux of the game for most fans.

My comment was : "people who are simply getting sick of seeing f***ed inclusion of such content in games and franchise that generally would not have them are as stupid". - I had to censor it so it's not taken down again, but it ended up even worse!
So yes, here it aply to LGBTQ content, but "inclusion of X content" can be used for other topics. When a game dev "includes"new content that wasn't in the franchise before, they know they may attract negative feedback. Your example is a good one : every time AC tried another historical setting, there has been positive and negative feedback. I don't see what could be controversial about the fact that new content will garner reactions from fans.

As for qualifying "negative"feedback as "obnoxious", I'm sure Ubisoft loves to hear tht their potential customers don't listen to negativefeedback, that makes their marketing job that much easier.

@themightyant It is forced because the franchise, until recently, never had these LGBTQ elements. So now, people who liked their AC games are forced to consume content that wasn't part of the games they liked if they want to keep playing the franchise.

It would be true for any kind of content, so it's true for LGBTQ content too. When they included pirates in AC4, they took a risk of a big feedback, but it paid off. When they included microtransactions, it garned negative feedback. So now (since Odyssey) they include more and more LGBTQ content, it's fair that fasn of the franchise express their opinion, positive or negative, on this new kind of content.

@Hoodie718 No. It's "forced inclusion" of elements that weren't part of the franchise before.

Think of it this way : the tower defense game of Assassin's Creed Revelations was forcefully included into a franchise that was never made for tower defense.

When you inject new content into your game franchise, you risk alienating your fanbase. Apparently, in Shadows' case, this has happened sufficiently to create a important negative feedback.

"KOTOR would certainly be a game that it’s talked about in the past, therefore must still be in development."

What a weird sentence! Another example of AI gone wrong or just bad writing?

@Pilot_Six4 It's weird you keep talking about what they "had" to do. They didn't have to do anything. They made some choices, which they were entitled to, and a lot of their potential customers disliked the choice they made. It's that simple. You may personally feel that the choice of Yasuke was a good one, apparently enough fans of the franchise think it's not.

@Pilot_Six4 Of course they can do whatever they want with AC, and we as customers can do whatever we want and buy/not buy the game. We can also voice our disappointment with their choices as vocally as we want.
As for "requirements", I didn't think there were any, unless you're talking about ESG requirements...?
About the game looking good, as I said elsewhere, Ubisoft games almost always look fantastic. Now will the story, characters and gameplay hold up... well the last AC games since Origins have shown, imo, a very wrong direction in all these matters.

@Dragon83 Yeah, I'm sure most Japanese people will completely agree with your assessment of Yasuke.
Please get informed about how Black people are perceived in Japan before uttering such things. You can start with an easy article with nice links : https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00591/

@Dragon83 And I don't remember anyone complaining about these Black characters.
Maybe what you see as "haters" are just people extremely disappointed that when one of their favorite gaming franchise finally goes to Japan (after years and years of fans yearning for this), they can't manage to do it justice without entering the "culture wars".
How hard was it to put 2 Japanese characters, one male samurai and one female kunoichi? The deliberate choice of Yasuke as a main character is not one of historical value, but of ideological bias. And in 2025, companies choosing to do this finally reap what they sow.

On a good sale, I'd be very tempted but the lack of OLED display is a big downer for me.

@Athrum I miss the times when the gaming industry was mostly cheeky and fun done by nerds.
I know, old man screaming at clouds here.

@Rich33 Can you imagine this : all disc games from now on won't be playable with only what is on the disc, and will need the day one patch to even start.
Why are we giving them ideas?

Spider-Man 2 felt fantastic to play, and looked gorgeous. But the story and character development were really not good at all and a big let down after SM1.
Hopefully they can remediate that in SM3, and also diversify the gameplay while keeping it as fun as it is now.

At some point, people handling the LOTR IP should realise that most fans don't care at all for the hobbits. They were a good gimmick for the books (characters being vulnerable but ultimately surprisingly resilient) but they are not franchise material.
Look at Baldur's Gate 3 stats for chosen races : Halflings are at the bottom.

I bet that everyone sleeping on Sonic Racing Crossworlds hasn't played Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed and so doesn't know...

A return of the old Kratos would be great, but I agree with most comments that it would be hard to do anything interesting with the Greek pantheon after 6 games and the masterpiece GoW3 was.
Could we get something like a young Kratos sent by Ares to conquer Egypt? That could be nice...

@carlos82 This.
The main issue with video gaming being always connected is not the hardware (even if it is an issue), but the software. Most games today are unplayable buggy messes lacking a lot of content and features without a day zero or day one patch. So even if your console can play offline physical games, what you'll end up playing is not going to be any good...

@Cornpop76 "Not sure why they went with that."

Let's say it : we all know why they went with it, they wanted the controversy of a muscular woman being taken for a trans character before the game came out. This was free publicity, and added to the cultural dispute about this topic, about which Druckmann has been adamant as to where he stands.

Nothing else. They could have gone with a heavy muscular guy instead to make thinsg more realistic and believable, but we all know they wouldn't have gotten all the virtue signaling point for it.

To this day I still can't understand why people why people liked Bella Ramsay and Pedro Pascal in season 1. So no surprise that Abby was miscast too.

Good step in the right direction. Now make him not in charge of first party games anymore, and we'd really be getting somewhere.

@RBMango My young adult self already told my teenage self that Sega would go out of the console business, and that Microsoft and Sony of all companies would take the industry by storm.
My teenage self still doesn't believe any of this to this day.

This would so incredibly funny if people's jobs weren't impacted.
The issue with the games has been told to them clear and loud since the first pre-review and leaks came out. It's not difficult to see where everything went wrong. But instead they always called any criticism as homo/transphobic and doubled down. Go figure.

@breakneck Being almost forced to switch to Windows 11 was what did it for me : I went for Linux Mint. Easy to install, works out of the box, very configurable and secure and you can do almost anything you'd do on Windows with open-source free programs.

Sadly, I have to keep a Windows install somewhere for my job =, as my employers forces us to use Microsoft products, but damn Windows 11 is a mess. If it was just the UI, I'd be ok, I've used Windows since Windows95, so I know what a bad UI is! But the AI, lack of security, constant prying and the ads were too much. It's not an OS anymore, it's a data gathering program first.

Puppeteer, SSX and Split/Second
Give me those and I'm a happy man for life...

Ahahahahahahahahaha!!! No way they are giving away Suicide Squad!

@FutilityInExcellence Ac*shu*ally, X is the most politically neutral social media platform between the big ones as per Pew research.

Maybe it's just most people here are so used to only see opinions they disagree with presented in a negative light that seeing as much of it as what they believe is making them nervous...

I actually enjoy seeing the opinions of both (or more than two, god forbid!) sides.

The game looks good, but I'm not a fan (pun intended) of this kind of title...
I never noticed this "fans of X should look at this" kind of header, did I just miss it or is it a new style for PushSquare?

Sorry but "c0nc02d" ?! Really?

Just imagine seeing Marx as an example of "some of the great people that came before us" while living in the 21st century...

> Sorry for taking the bait, but that's on @khayl

We really needed these experts to tell us the PS5 Pro would lead to the PS6. I would never have guessed otherwise. Thank god for experts of all ilk for pointing out the obvious in expert ways...

@Kiefer-Sutherland yeah, back in the day people were saying the same thing about ads on web pages and then in YouTube videos. Look where it got us.

At one point, the change rate between $ and € in the game industry went from 1:1 to 1:1.14
Before, 60$ games were sold at 60€.
Now, 70$ games are sold at 80€, and 700$ consoles at 800€.

I have no idea when exactly it happened (but it's recent) and why. Does anyone have any insight on this?

@LikelySatan Look, i agree with the modern games being bloated and not fun, believe me. But a basic java game is not the answer to this.

We are sadly cursed in these days : our niche hobby has become mainstream, which makes games like Elden Ring or Baldur's Gate 3 possible, while indies like Balatro or Dead Cells are thriving, but at the same time we're flooded with bad games like what Activision and Ubisoft push out, and with all the gatcha games and other "free" MTX games...

Instead of putting a game like Vampire Survivors on a piedestal we should laud even more games like the afore-mentioned Dead Cells, which give to the player what a modern game should give, without all the "bloating" the industry delivers all the time.

Imo, VS is just a sweet java game, should be free to play on your phone and that's it. People trying to make it a "masterpiece" are just trying to be edgy in the sense they want to show they are able to praise and understand what others don't.