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@Medic_Alert can I ask why you cancelled? Was it because of the trophy list, or other reasons?

@AdamNovice point of clarification; they didn’t ‘put them in long crunch’, management offered it as an option to get the game done. Devs agreed to crunch and get compensated for the over time.

@I_Like_It Stadia is excellent. All the latency problems at launch are gone. I had the same thoughts as you, but tried it on a browser on my 9 year old iMac and it ran perfectly. Ended up buying a controller and chrome cast ultra and am playing all games in 4k. For the Immortals demo, just go to Stadia, sign up, and you can play it straight away, it’s free, no downloads. All games are no downloads. Had a three month free trial and in that time, there’s been a load of free games for it. Despite having a PS5 pre ordered, I’ll be playing Cyberpunk and Valhalla on Stadia.

@I_Like_It you can play a demo of it, for free, on Stadia later today. Hype!

Good, I had wondered about this. Given Valhalla is out on the 10th and PS5 on the 19th, will be carrying my save over to the new console.

I don’t play multiplayer games or with friends tbh. Ironically, gaming is just a hobby I do to ‘disconnect’ from everything and get lost in a world somewhere; so there’s not much here to enhance that. Still though, I bet the features are amazing for people who play that way, happy for those that this makes happy. I’ve got a PS5 pre ordered and even though this UI does little for me, I’m still excited to play on next gen. Not long to wait now. I’m more concerned about Godfall info as a looter to get into straight off the bat would be ideal.

Just an FYI for everyone saying they’ll play this after BOTW or because it’s like it - it is NOTHING like BOTW. Art style is similar but this a free to play gatcha game with micro transactions. But you can finish the game without buying a thing. No news on endgame though.

Didn’t try the beta, heard some terrible things. But I’ve got this (managed to get for free) and it’s actually really great. Very surprised.

Strange top line in the article, no? Surely the story here is that he’s saying the game should have been made in Japan.

11/20 my second ff game and loved it back then but couldn’t ever play it again.

No one for Godfall? Quietly optimistic.

@Scollurio not quite 5 hours in, but I’m 3 or so. And have to say, this is one technically incredible game. I haven’t played the first one but watched a let’s play a few years ago or so. Then played it while it was free on PS+ and decided it wasn’t for me. But something about this has game has got its hooks in deep. There’s so much mystery around a lot of aspects. I learned today that people are upset about ‘sjw stuff’, of which I had to google to find out what the meaning really was. And that seemed really silly to me, so if it was a male protagonist in a heterosexual relationship, they’d be happy? Quite a bizarre thing to get in the way of your enjoyment of a game. Anyway, I don’t see that as an inhibitor. So onto the things that actually matter. Graphically, this is superb. I do wonder if a PS5 version is on the way (perhaps inevitable?) and would be interested for a comparison video. The combat is, without sounding too brazen, chunky. You can feel every strike - is this a Naughty Dog trait? Because if so, I think I’ve missed out over the years. It all marrys up with impressive and crunchy sound design. Oh for clarity; this is my first Naughty Dog game and my only complaint so far is the linearity at the moment - but even then, if it’s a trait of the genre then I’m happy to be handheld as long as the story keeps pace to make up for the lack of real decision making. Still, this is too early to judge - but the story beats feel so consequential, my jaw dropped at one scene. Sure you know which one. But even then; the lingering impact and aftermath bounces along with such pacing and confidence that you get wrapped up in the rhythm of it and feel ready to press on and get the job done. I’m quietly optimist about this, there’s a lot of nuance about various things but I want to play more to formulate a real opinion - like, craft benches as a mechanic, will fast travel be a thing? Will you need to backtrack? Missables? But as always, super interested to hear how other people are finding it so far. I’ll do a little check in at 10 hours.

@Scollurio it’s a date.

@Scollurio same thing to be honest my friend. Doesn’t make it a 0/10 - and depends on factors that are more nuanced than one thing happening. I can’t judge this one because I’ve not played it, and I tried the first part - couldn’t get into it. That was a few weeks ago though when it was free on PS+. I had no intention of playing this game, but was happy people were excited about it. But, I just watched a few episodes of a let’s play and honestly stopped it and bought the game immediately - because there was one scene that blew me away, and I don’t even know the characters. And yeah I appreciate the irony of one thing not making a review - but it was that which made me decide I have to experience this. And I’ll be happy either way, whether it’s a 1/10 or 10/10, it’s my decision to try it out. What I won’t do is bomb a review site for it because what does that achieve except making gaming culture look so very toxic? Surely the correct procedure is to open a dialogue with the devs, ask for reasonings behind their decisions, rather than giving a 0/10 on meta critic which will inevitably be deleted. If you like, or if you’re interested, I’d be happy to share my thoughts after 5/10/15 etc hours of gameplay, coming from a completely unbiased POV. I don’t know why you’d want that but hey, just trying to help.

@Scollurio this is silly. A game doesn’t deserve 0/10 because it’s different then the first. What about technical prowess? That’s basing the game on how it is relative to the first, a seven year old game. To put it in context, it’s like review bombing Cap America: Civil War because it doesn’t have the same Cap/Iron Man relationship as the Avengers. Come on. People who rate it 0/10 because it’s different is the silliest thing I’ve read today.

@Kdog so fragile minded idiots then? Gotcha.

What if, and hear me out, the faceplates are white so that they can have any image on them. Like a screen saver or skin, but one you can change via the system menu.