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@InJeffable I like the fact the it makes it more unpredictable and a bit interesting when it comes to possibilities. Also this game is one of the best when it comes to make "failures" having interesting results and not being just the bad outcome.
But your point is completely valid. It does inject randomness and it's totally fair to consider it a deal-breaker due to the agency being taken away from the player.

@Suur I think you just found the solution for your problem. I love both BG3 and Elden Ring but I acknowledge that both are for a specific audience. If I may be so bold as to advise you, watch gameplay trailers before deciding to buy the game. Reviewers are frequently people who play all kinds of games so they will give glowing reviews to niche games if they excel in their areas, which is the case for both games. But if you're not a fan o slow burner turn based RPGs or DnD in general, BG3 is a hard sell.

"so we're left wondering what these ports will actually improve."
I know this one! NISA financial situation, of course.

I used to have PS Plus and PS Now. When they merged the services I dropped from Premium to Extra because Premium never justified its price. With this new price I can't see a good reason to still have Extra so I'll drop from it to Essential.

I also stopped buying first party titles at launch because of the absurd £70 cost.

Because of corporate greediness Sony has effectively been getting less and less money from me.

I'll wait until they release Persona 3 FES remake in a year at full price.

PlayStation U? Nah, thanks.

I honestly think if BioWare doesn't succeed in their next game EA is going to shut their doors down like they did with many other developers.
They buy a creative studio, force the creativity out of it to make their games more "mainstream", the game inevitably fails because it lacks personality and quality, EA blames the developer and shut their doors.

@Kang81 That's my philosophy too. The idea of consumers being conscious about their purchases seems less likely every day. I think the only thing we can do is to not partake in it and advise people when they ask for it.
I have it on Xbox 360 too and I'd rather dust it off and play it than play this absurd price. At least we're doing our part.

Sony and Nintendo got the console market locked down. Both have very different strategies and that's why they survive in the same environment. Microsoft trying to compete directly with Sony is more likely than not going to be their downfall.

Even though we criticise it here, we're part of a very niche group. Most people that play games are not invested in knowing the state they're in and the quality of the port, they see the title, recognise it and buy it.

It sucks that's going to sell well because of brand recognition, but it's nice to see that people here at Push Square understand that it's a cash grab.

@MasterVGuides I understand that. But most publishers only react when you stop buying their product. I know the developers did their best to make an amazing game, but I can't support this predatory model established by Capcom.

I was on the fence about buying SF 6 considering the mess that SF 5 was, but Capcom pushed me in the right direction.
Bye, SF 6!

Nope, I bought the original and loved it. No need to buy it twice.

Just keep it away from Tetsuya Nomura. If he directs it, Terra will have visions of Kefka every 5 minutes and we will be able to change history so the world won't be ruined.

@MattBoothDev I meant because I have it, it's not a relevant month for me. But yes, definitely good.

For me not so great because I have both Dreams and Death's Door.
But 2 out of 3 being good is a strong month.

Wait, sex is not supposed to be awkward?

@Jacko11 Black humour.
If I disappear tell my wife and family I loved them very much, but don't touch the PS5!

Size doesn't matter? Or does it?

Did Sony add Dreams and Death's Door in the same month as joke?
Wow, that's mean.

Remember people desperate on copium when this game released? I think it's time for everyone to acknowledge that the good ol' Blizzard we knew and loved is dead.

The same flaws that made me stop playing the first one are still there. That's a pass for me.

I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

Considering the state Diablo 3 was released it really shows people only have short term memory.
Blizzard has fumbled almost every release for the past decade and their patches are able to kill player bases just like they did with Overwatch.

If the comedy is similar to Rick and Morty that's a pass. It was new and funny way to show comedy in the first two seasons, but starting on season three the show became a caricature of itself. Also Dan Harmon has a tendency of being meta for the sake of it, breaking the fourth wall nonstop just to wink at the audience. It gets quite repetitive after a while.

I've criticized some character design in a previous article for being bland (Especially Raiden), but Tanya's design is the best in the whole series. In every other game she was a bit meh with not much to show besides the colour yellow, they turned how unique she looks up to 11!
Baraka also looks really cool with a more slender design making him look younger.
Li Mei is more subdued but still a good design, just a by underwhelming.

I have mixed feelings about rebooting the story again so soon, but I always have hopes for an interesting single player campaign when it comes to MK. Fingers crossed it'll be a good one!

When will developers learn that buffing is much more interesting than nerfing?
If you need people will inevitably feel like something was taking away from them, if instead they rebalance the enemies and buff the weakest classes you make more people happy while still keeping the difficulty.
Unless something is completely broken I'm generally against nerfing. Let people have fun with overpowered builds!

@get2sammyb To be doubly fair it's not the first time journalists reported that some series was going to be much improved to only come out with slight changes. Pardon my skepticism, but the media tends to overhype which leads to inevitable disappointment.
I know it took you a lot of effort for you to write this article and I have no doubt you believe the game is going to be much better. But it is not absurd of a consumer like me to think it's going to be the exact same buggy broken mess given EA's track record.

My comment wasn't a slight on you, but on EA always talking about their numerous innovations and most of the time coming up short.

Yeah, it's gonna be the same thing it is every year. You know that, I know that, everybody knows that.

Cool character, but I take everything coming from EA with a grain of salt

Hopefully without Tetsuya Nomura's participation.

This game is going to flop harder than a Spinosaurus.

@Uncharted2007 I wholeheartedly agree with free-speech and that twitter loved to censor certain groups more than others in a very biased and unfair manner.
What I don't agree is putting Elon on a pedestal as a paragon of free speech is a fallacy.
He censored the Turkish people before the election he helped the Indian government quiet some people and there are more examples that I can't remember right now.
I'm all for free speech, Elon Musk definitely isn't.

The game looks much better without motion blur. If the frame rate dips are fixed this game is 100% perfect.

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
In my opinion it looks fugly.

Of course it won't.

But Phil Spencer is "PR Man"! He has the super power of never making any definitive statement!

Is that a yes? Is that no? It's a maybe! It's always a maybe! PR Man knows that he should never compromise himself and his company!

His pitch is way too high. If he has range it will be ok, if it's his normal voice, not at all.

"Bold visual style" I think you misspelled bad visual style.

@Kevw2006 Absolutely true.

@cburg You're definitely entitled to your opinion, but I disagree.
Aggressively buying huge studios in billion dollars deals and taking huge financial hits just to get ahead in the market are things that Sony doesn't even have the monetary capability of doing.

We all know that Microsoft is trying to bully the competition out of the market. Fortunately it's not working, people still prefer quality over quantity.

Good looking game, interesting plot, good dialogue. The gameplay is really solid and combat is satisfying.

The only downsides I would say are the performance being a bit iffy and feeling a bit too linear, to the point of forcefully railroading.

After playing the demo I feel that worst case scenario it's a really solid game with flaws and best case GotY.

@Kidfried Thanks for the clarification. I went back to the video and while most of the comments were criticizing the game not looking or playing like a Prince of Persia, there were a few that unfortunately were directed at the character's race.

@Fghtbk85 Sure, generalize and put everyone in one group. If it makes you feel better and superior disliking hundreds of thousands of people because their opinions differ to yours, go for it.

It absolutely has nothing to do with virtue signaling, does it?