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Yes, and all the drum machine music sucks. Because it's cold and sterile. Just like a lot of the garbage games that have failed recently. Your machines and tech already define you, and they are going to replace you, in the very near future.

Not something that I would be interested in playing, so logically, I wouldn't comment on it. IGN'S reviews are just silly at this point, so I don't read them. Learn to scroll on by, people.

You will own nothing. And you will volunteer for it.

San Andreas was my favorite, as well. Something about 5 just didn't vibe with me, and I can't shake the feeling that Rockstar and Take 2 are more interested in the online cash cow, as opposed to the single player experience. I will not be pre-ordering, and I will be listening closely to reviews and the day 1 crowds feedback. Something feels off with this entire cycle of delays and radio silence from them.

@THEBrew it isn't just the axiom force puzzles that unnecessarily difficult and inscrutable , it's nearly everything. Driving a wagon is needlessly hard. Forget trying to figure out which faction missions trigger the other faction missions, or the ten to fifteen hour missions to get elemental powers, which I had no idea existed. After 150 hours, I gave up trying to play without a guide, and I have never seen a gold bar, can't win a horse race, have next to nothing in alchemy, and apparently missed a boatload of other things. The open world is astonishing, but learning all these needlessly complicated and intricate mechanics is frustrating, to say the least. Hey Pearl Abyss, make your objectives little clearer for pity's sake.

@THEBrew I have well over 200 hours in, and made it to Chapter 7. Problem being? It appears I missed half the game.There is so much going on in this game, and the developers did such a poor job explaining everything, that I am seriously considering starting over.

@THEBrew I never could get into AC games, but IF I ever finish this game, the Black Flag reboot will be one I will give a go. As for this game, I never thought anything would be more brilliant AND frustrating than Oblivion. Clearly wrong about that. The folks over at Bethesda must be nauseous.

Tried to play without a guide, after 175 hours (!), I had to look stuff up. And I missed half of what there is here. This is a monumental achievement, if sprinkled with some VERY frustrating moments. When Todd Howard saw this? He had a very bad day. Is it hard to figure out? Yep. Is it utterly astonishing? Yep. The more you look, the more you find.

@THEBrew I only, and have almost always only, played one game at a time. And Crimson Desert requires dedication.

@gamer153 Don't care. Not spending $1k on something that "works 80 percent of the time". This game looks absolutely fine to me, runs fine. Never once looked at the settings. Don't care about Digital Foundry's nitpicking nerd lunacy. Having a grand old time poking around, and don't care about my frame rates or ray tracing, or any other nerd complaints.

Just finished Eiyuden Chronicles 100 Heroes, which I highly recommend. Old school sprite RPG goodness. Dove right in to Crimson Desert, where it appears I am going to be spending a LOT of time.

@RyPal I couldn't agree more. It looks pretty amazing to me, and I never even looked at the settings. Base PS5 and my TV is nothing special. I always laugh at Digital Foundry's lunatic drivel, mainly because I have no idea what they're on about.

Kliff is a white man. If he was a black lesbian? The game would have scored perfect tens amongst the folks who insist there is a " modern audience" that needs to be catered to. You know, the people who didn't buy The Veilguard, but lamented the fact YOU didn't either. You are disobeying your programming, and are in grave danger of getting social credit deductions.

@GirlVersusGame As an old guy, this is a trip down memory lane. The Suikoden games were sort of a cult thing on the PS1 and 2, and this game really captures the feel of those titles. So glad I took a look at what I actually got for the PS+ sub. If you liked this, check out Dark Cloud 2, which I replayed last year, and should still be available. I think you might enjoy that one.

I am also waiting for the patchwork on Crimson Desert, and having a surprisingly good time playing Eiyuden Chronicles 100 Heroes. They really nailed the Suikoden vibe with this, and its nice to play something bright, colorful and lighthearted.

@Andy22385 As near as I can tell, it would $450 for me to upgrade. Minimum. If I hadn't spent exactly that on new golf clubs? Nah, even then I probably wouldn't do it. I just don't care about graphics and frame rates and ray tracing all that much.

I haven't pre ordered more than 3 games in my life. And those were sequels to games I loved from developers who earned my trust. Imagine the base PS5 not looking as good as a high-end PC or the Pro. Shocking. If it reviews well, I will pick it up next month, after the first 4 patches have dropped.

Being an old man, who owned an Intellivision, AND a Colecovision? Who played Pong in 1974? I am sure the graphics will be more than good enough for me.

I just don't see how slight graphical upgrades justifies spending $700 on aPro. I don't care that much.

Why would anyone care?

Yeah, this why I don't pre-order any game. I will wait for the third update, or maybe the fourth. I have plenty of games to play.

All the hype around the new Fable actually got me to hook up my ancient old 360 and get into some old school Fable 2, one of my all-time favorites, Shocked the old girl can still run a game.

There should be a "I will never defeat my backlog, and am now years behind" option.

I actually dug out my old 360, just to play Fable 2 and The Witcher 2, which I owned for years but never played. It looks surprisingly good on my smart TV, and once I went on the internet to figure out the component hook up, everything shockinglystill works. As for the new Fable, please don't @#$% this up. Not a lot of modern games interest me, but this one actually would.

@GuttyYZ
Forgot how impossibly hard Detlaff is, and my build is all messed up for that fight. Still might be the best game I have ever played. Certainly top 5.

Not only is that game YEARS away from releasing, it will release as a buggy, basically unplayable mess. On top of that? All the people that made Skyrim what it was are long gone. It will be Starfield all over again. The wailing and gnashing of teeth will be epic.What has Bethesda done in the last ten years that make you think otherwise?

XIII was not an awful game. Its sequel was dreadful, and it is the exact moment where Sqeenix went off the rails.i never even looked at the 3rd one. 2 sequels no one asked for. Years of desperately hawking Lightning, and failing.

Deep into another playthrough of The Witcher 3. About to finish the main story, and loading up on cash and crafting materials for Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. It's a masterpiece, maybe the best game ever, even with some of its weird mechanics. Like the annoying, clunky inventory system, lol. Hopefully those 3rd DLC rumors are more than just romors.

Lol. There is no hope left. AI will be all you have to choose from. You cannot stuff the genie back in the bottle. In less than a year YouTube has become a sea of AI generated nonsene, and the money men will never, ever be able to not go cheaper.

I played a grand total of one new release for the year. So Ghost of Yotei is the winner of everything. Where do you all find the time to play all this stuff?

Had to bail on Jedi Survivor. Worst map ever. Bad enough that it's ridiculously difficult, but the map makes the game nearly unplayable. Whoever designed that map should be jailed for crimes against videogaming.

Uncharted 2. Couldn't pass up the Drake collection for $6. Game holds up incredibly well. I bought a used PS3 just to play this game, in 2010(?), and it was one of the very few games in 50 years of playing I would give a 10 out of 10 to.

Who cares at this point? The guys that actually made Skyrim are long gone, Starfield was an epic disaster, and if Todd Howard told me the sky was blue? I would double check. Who here thinks Bethesda can deliver ANYTHING that would even remotely come close to Skyrim?

@Oram77 I bought a used PS3 just to play Uncharted 2. Another really underrated game is Bioshock 2. Again, not as good as the original, but a game that got way too much hate.

I think its extraordinarily rare for direct sequels to surpass the original IP you fell in love with. The only games that fits that particular niche for me are Uncharted 2 and Witcher 3( I have never played the original Witcher, so Assassin of Kings was the original to me.) I usually gravitate toward an original idea, I definitely liked Zero Dawn better than Forbidden West, and Jin Sakai's journey just resonated with me more than Atsu. Ghost of Yotei was an excellent sequel, it was a ninety five out of a hundred, and I loved it. Sucker Punch did a phenomenal job, but at the end of the day? It is still a sequel.

About to finish Ghost of Yotei, but my backlog is such that I can't justify any new games for a while. I have Metaphor Refantazio, the Cyberpunk PS5 edition and the first Code Vein as my choices. What do you all think I should play? And the first Outerworlds was way too short, and frankly underwhelming. And it didn't get glowing reviews. That's going to be a wait for me.

Closing in on the 100 hour mark, and I am nowhere near finished. They packed this game to overflowing with stuff to do. Would I buy DLC? I would, because Sucker Punch has earned my trust. Would I prefer Jin continuing his story? Probably. That said, these are the pinnacle of games in the current gen, and I am on board..

I have at least 1000 hours between the 2 games. And have zero desire to watch any movie or show based on it. I consume no Hollywood product anymore, they are incompetent, bereft of talent and ideas. Go remake Matlock.

@Greifchen My walking instead of riding thing has me way behind you. I will have 150 hours minimum, because I use no guides and am an obsessive forager. I did max out 2 weapons and have lots of stuff. But, apparently, I am glacial.

Base PS5. Horizontal. 70 plus hours. Not a hiccup,crash, nothing. Game runs perfectly. I also am mystified by the ridiculous nerd nitpicking over things like Raytracing and Performane modes. Dude, I played Donkey Kong on a Colecovision. On a 9 inch CRT. I am astonished at how gorgeous this game is. Utterly flabbergasted. Never once looked at the settings, until I needed to up the brightness because I am old.

@Titntin As a fellow old person, you are not alone in doubting that anything else will get played besides Ghost of Yotei for a good long while. There is just too much content in this game.

Finally got some time to get seriously into Ghost of Yotei. This is very deep game, with a ton of really well thought out and well implemented side content..Spectacular visuals, fun and frenzied combat and plenty to do.

Solid nine . Just different enough. Packed with side stuff.Is it a radical departure? Nope. But it's gorgeous and the combat is fun. Pretty steep learning curve, but it gets to be fluid and effective as you progress. I give Sucker Punch mad respect here, because sequels to solid tens are difficult to get right. And this keeps the feel of the Ghost.

I have had my PS5 since slightly after launch. I have bought 9 physical releases. Maybe the same number of digital releases, but some of those were older 2 and 4 titles. I have bought one controller, and that's probably from dropping it on the floor, or getting food on it. Any digital games I purchased were heavily discounted on the PS store. So, I average maybe 4.5 games a year, and one controller in 4.5 years. I did buy way more games for older systems, and my biggest complaint about the PS5 is that there just haven't been enough games that really interest me. That number has recently gone up, I grabbed Ghost of Yotei on launch day, and the new Trails remake/remaster is a possibility, and Claire Obscura looks like it may be a buy. I have other interests besides gaming, but the winter months are my heavy gaming time., but my backlog will get me to the golf courses opening in the spring. I work full time, play golf twice a week from April to October (sometimes 3 or 4 times), and I also own guitars. I have PS4 games from years ago that have never been played, lol. If a game grabs me? I play it until I beat it, and if I pay full price?No guides or cheating.Yotei will be well over 100 hours for me, and I am always 20 to 40 hours behind whatever reviewers and other players say a game takes. I have seen people who buy dozens of games year, and have never been able to figure out where they get the time.

Ghost of Yotei, with some Balatro mixed in. Yotei is just different enough to keep it fresh, while retaining what made Tsushima so compelling. My backlog should have prevented me from buying anything new, but I couldn't pass on this. I have hundreds of hours of games unplanned, so nothing new until I thin out what I already have.

It is up as of 7 am EST US time, if a bit overpriced. That's a wait for me.

@PaulCapp Suprisingly not on the US PS store, either. I wanted to check the price.

I am buying a copy. Sucker Punch has earned my interest. The original GOT is one the best games I have ever played, and certainly the best game I have played on my PS5. Female protagonists don't bother me, crappy games do.

@PuppetMaster I own that. Never could get into it. Playing FFX-2, lol. Could have been special. Is sort of not special.

I was 33 years old or so. I had not really played games for a while, I had gone through a very rough break up, and was living at my childhood home. My life long friend, Patrick , (we are playing golf tomorrow), calls me up on the phone, and asks me to help him out with this new game he has. That game was Resident Evil. He brings over his PS, and on my 9 inch Sony color tv( yes I had a 9 inch Sony color TV, it had a handle that popped out of the top), we spent an entire night trying to figure out how to open the door that leads into the main mansion. We finally got it around 4 am, lol. We had cut our gaming teeth on the Mattel Intellivision, so this was some sort of epiphany for me. I actually yanked my broken hearted head out of my ass, because I absolutely HAD to have my own PS and a copy of RE. Which lead to Tomb Raider. Which lead me to read an advertisement for some game called Final Fantasy VII, which breathlessly touted it as being "Quite possibly the greatest game ever made". Probably Game Pro, December 1997. Well, 30 years, and 5 Playstations later, I still have a copy of FFVII on my hard drive, and played for the umpteenth time this year. It still holds up.