I just wanna know when this Early Access is actually gonna drop!!!
As much as I love Session, I'm sick of not being able to grab my board, and skating the same spots over and over is getting old dsspite the fact that landing a switch front foot impossible never stops feeling steezy ^_^
I'm guessing October 2026 for the actual release with the next delay announced in February or March 2026. It is Rockstar we're talking about here, after all 😐
@Contimaloris Han Solo is sitting in a big chunk of carbonite on Jabba's wall when Outlaws takes place... so you'd fail your Ubisoft interview with that take 🤣
Well, there's FAR worse going on in the world than having the option to pay for a character edit voucher pack, which you can pick up during some event quests etc anyway. People just don't read the small print.
And, like the option to pay 99c or whatever for an extra Wakestone or two in Dragon's Dogma, they only exist as an easy access item for the impatient since you can get them in-game anyway. When you have other companies out there shilling character skins for $20 or shoes for $10 and release broken, incomplete games, I find it hard to sh*t on Capcom when MH has always been a polished, complete game that delivers big on content... ^_^
For me, the worst part is that it's £700 in the UK while also being $700 in the US!!
This means that living in the UK is going to cost us £165 more for the console than living in the US because $700 is £535 at current exchange rates. Where the f**k is the fairness in that?? F**king Rip Off Britain strikes again. If the prices were equivalent (say $700 and £550) I'd feel much better about buying one... 😑
I waited 12 years for DD2, with an awesome DD Online interlude until the servers shut down, so I've got space in my life for as much Dragon's Dogma as the universe allows haha!! I was always hopeful for a DD2 DLC/Expansion... the bigger the better!
If Capcom has a TGS announcement for something along the lines of BBI, but with a full story expansion the size of MHW Iceborne, I will be VERY happy ^_^
Well from my perspective, it seems that the lion's share of the complaints about performance come from the PC community, which is understandable given that anyone with a decent rig and mods is probably used to running most games at 60-120fps, so in that regard - and generally speaking I guess - optimisation for PC is something of an ongoing issue, especially when you factor in all the different GPU/CPU setups people will have.
Being a PS5 player however, I have to say that I've now got about 400 hours of playtime on Dragon's Dogma 2 and the only thing I've noticed relating to performance is the NPC pop-in and the occasional frame drop when in mid-battle and you knock down a big monster (like a Cyclops for example) and it kinda falls down in slo-mo for a couple of seconds. Ma Ma would be proud haha! 😋
Other than that, the game has been running fine for me and graphically it looks awesome... I'll often stop just to admire the scenery or my Arisen's cake as she jogs through the woodland. I don't think I've ever noticed any frame drop in Vernworth either, come to think of it!
Hopefully they'll keep improving things in any case, and we may well see another big performance boost with some BBI type DLC down the line. Digital Foundry made a video about how there's even Path Tracing built in to the game engine so maybe we'll see that too, although that might be PS5 Pro specific on consoles.
Either way, DD2 is amazing and by far the best "Adventure Sim" around in my humble opinion. Can't wait for the DLC!! 😚👌
DD2 having a good sales run is exactly what I'd been hoping for, because it deserves its acclaim and hopefully it'll translate into some Bitterblack Isle style DLC and another sequel... maybe even another Dragon's Dogma Online if we're super lucky??? 🤞🤞🤞
The thing that a lot of people don't realize is that "DD2" is really just the original DD as Hideaki Itsuno wanted it to be 12 years ago, without the hardware and budget restrictions of the era, and you're effectively playing Dragon's Dogma until the very end of the game when it cleverly becomes DD2. It was a risk for Capcom to put a ton of money into a brand new IP and so what we got in DD was a very tapered back version of what was originally desired by the dev team.
This time round, they were able to put a whole lot more into it, although I don't believe that even now the budget was really full-fat AAA tier relative to what a MHW or RE budget would be. Given that it has sold so well so far thanks to all the dedicated fans and new players (🫡🙏) hopefully it will continue to sell well and we see a bigger, bolder DD3 sometime down the line. Just don't let it sit for 12 years please, Capcom!!! 🫵🤨
@Nei the Korean dub is great!! The English one didn't hit with me, and being a native French speaker I tried that too, but the Korean one works best with the overall tone of game I feel 🫶
Well I can safely say that the Holiday Rabbit suit has definitely been censored as I bought both the digital and disc release for <ahem> posterity, but the Moutan Peony outfit has the tights on it by default, so you have to imagine that the disc version of the game DOES contain the originally intended versions of the outfits, otherwise why would they be on the unpatched disc release?
I call censorship after the fact, which of course sucks because it's just a bit of extra skin on a character model as opposed to anything egregiously inappropriate or sinister in an 18 rated game... 🤨
I got it the other day as a bit of an impulse buy for some co-op action in the lead up to Dragon's Dogma 2 next month... I like some of the game mechanics but my concern is that if the game's core concept is just to drop you into bleak landscapes and complete samey objectives while fighting off the hordes over and over again, it's not my hold my attention for very long 😐
I've already noticed that levelling up your ship and Stratagem arsenal is a slooow process due to the small amount of samples and credits you earn per mission, and the overall presentation seems a bit limited in terms of what you can actually do within the game, whether it's on your ship or on the ground... the Battle Pass and the armor sets aren't super exciting to look at either, so while the co-op gameplay is both tense and fun, the budget price of the game seems to reflect the overall depth of the content...
Well $70 for a game I'm going to spend hundreds of hours playing is a drop in the ocean really. I recently worked out that the 2790 hours I've spent in RDR2/RDO has worked out at 3 cents per hour of play time 😅
@ErrantRob Hey Rob... well I really enjoyed Gotham Knights too, and The Division, which I also still play from time to time and would continue to do so if there was some newer and more diverse content available... I really think they missed a trick with the Resident Evil crossover event as the gameplay would have been amazing if Washington had been overrun with zombies haha! Interesting that The Division is infinitely more bullet-spongey than Suicide Squad and has similar open world gameplay with patrolling enemies AND a decent overarching story, but has generally been well received. What would the reaction to The Division 2 have been if it had previously been a Last of Us style single-player narrative driven game I wonder 😄
Anyway in answer to your question, I think you'll most likely enjoy Suicide Squad and I DEFINITELY think the best way to approach it is indeed to ignore all the negative press (as I did) and form your own opinion about the game... given you really enjoyed Gotham Knights and The Division, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet you'll have fun with SS 🫶
Hum... the naysayers are out in force ***** on the game before they've even played it 🙄
Well, at 41 hours of play time I'm still having a blast and I HAVEN'T finished the campaign yet, so all this talk of it only being 7 hours long is nonsense. Suicide Squad is actually a very polished game that looks gorgeous on PS5... character models, cutscenes and voice acting are all top notch and the co-op has been seamless and bug free. Yup, it's a shooter but it's also a really good Arkhamverse story that has many of the classic Rocksteady lore nods and easter eggs along with a great performance by the late Kevin Conroy. If you're an Arkham purist who JUST wants a Batman game then this probably ain't for you, but if you liked The Division, Outriders or Zombie Army and even the original Crackdown, then you'll have a lot of fun playing this. Suicide Squad has a lot of serious storyline going on with some real WTF/emotional moments, but it also doesn't take itself too seriously and the members of the squad are all on point when it comes to their humor and banter... at times it reminded me of the good Saints Row games (i.e. SR2 and SR3) and that ain't a bad thing at all lol. Anyway it's disappointing that people have jumped on the hate bandwagon just because it's not an actual Batman game and it's "Live Service", but that's the culture we exist with today. Suicide Squad however does not ram the "Live Service" down your throat at all, there's no FOMO trap at work and it does not oblige you to buy anything from the cosmetic store or pay to win. It's a co-op game after all so you're not trying to one-up your friends with your KD ratio. At the end of the day video games are supposed to be fun, and that's exactly what Suicide Squad is... 🫶
@Terra_Custodes Yup!! Character creation for me is one of the best things about gaming 😁 And having seen the updated DD2 character editor, I know I'll be spending a LOT of time getting my character ready for the holy grail that is DD2. We've been waiting 10 years for this!!! 😅😅
Just as well I pre-ordered it on my SG account so I can play it 8 hours before the UK release time... so that means 8 hours of character creation before playing!!! 😋😋
@DennisReynolds Here's my fun fact! I will be completely oblivious to any similarities between the characters and their gameplay because I'm ONLY going to play as Harley and it's gonna be fun!! ✌️😃
So much hate... too much hate IMO but I can't wait to get stuck into Suicide Squad and kick some ass with Best Girl Harley 😄
Personally I really don't see what the fuss is about... if Live Service means more content then great! I love having the option to change up the characters I'm playing with new skins etc, or get stuck into some new modes/maps or whatever... and I'm no Whale or Live Service fanboy... I just like gaming 🙂
Rocksteady did a great job with the Arkham games so why not give em the benefit of the doubt with Suicide Squad? Obviously the gameplay is different and it's not a Batman game but so what? Creative Assembly went from making RTS games to knocking it out of the park with the tremendous Alien: Isolation... a completely different genre of game. So dontcha think Rocksteady can do the same?
Live service just seems to be about content delivery to me, and yes some of it will be paid for with real world money, but that doesn't obligate anyone to buy it... and it's all cosmetic from what I understand. It's not even a PvP game so Pay To Win doesn't factor in at all 🤔
Seems to me like people are pooping on SS when there are far better things to do with your time, like playing games you're actually interested in 😄
There's only one thing I want above all else in the Cyberpunk sequel and that's a THIRD PERSON camera view!!!
I loved CP2077 and 2.0/Phantom Liberty really fixed things, but the whole time I was playing I was just wishing for a Third Person camera switch 😔 Every time I got some new gear and/or went to change my wardrobe or appearance it just took the edge off the enjoyment because the only way I could see my V properly was in the inventory or in Photo Mode... it's obviously a matter of opinion but I don't feel as immersed in a game in First Person as I do Third Person. I think that CDPR could make a lot of people happy by having both in the sequel, like they do in GTA/Red Dead/Skyrim etc.
@KundaliniRising333 'Tis a trifling thing to know nothing... 🤨
"Him who knows that I know what he seeks to know, knows it well while he who knows not, knows not what I know or know not."
Now off you pop back to your hole and never speak ill of the Dogma again!! Copy and paste yourself into the naughty corner and ponder your ignorance awhile... t'will serve you well 🤫
@PepperMintRex if you want a co-op companion for Granblue add me on PSN... I'll be playing day one but also don't have any friends who have preordered 🙈 My PSN is Pixiponpon 🤙
So... a new update that involves shelling out a couple of million for a property, then a couple more million to upgrade said property with a bunch of useless cosmetics, then some fetch quests to get materials and a long wait while those materials are turned into a shipment you must then deliver for less payout than the cost of a fancy GTA supercar?!?
It's about time they just made Fortnite into an Open World playground instead of this rinse and repeat Battle Royale story... it's been getting old for a while now 🥱
Oh GHOD... this MUST mean they have a live service game in development!!!! Look what happened to Rocksteady!!!! No doubt Warner Bros are involved in this somehow 😋😉😋😉😋
Hm what happened to reserving judgement and not judging a book by its cover? 😋😋
Everyone seems to be sh*tting on Suicide Squad without ever having played it... the new deep dive video log from Rocksteady talks about taking a different approach from the Arkham games because of the subject matter and the multiplayer aspect, while still being story-focused and quality driven, which is what Rocksteady does. I think the problem with this is that it's Rocksteady but it's NOT an Arkham game, and when you throw in the Live Service/Shooter elements, that just makes people see red. If it were a Ubisoft game I doubt the outcry would be nearly as bad.
In any case I'm gonna give Suicide Squad the benefit of the doubt and I think I'll have a blast playing it with my friends, it looks FUN and that's what games are supposed to be 🫡
Co-op gameplay is always my jam, it's got Best Girl Harley in it, and I enjoy shooting the crap out of stuff whether it's Red Dead, GTA, Cuberpunk, Zombie Army, Outriders, Aliens: Fireteam Elite etc etc! Rocksteady did also showcase the melee combat in their video log by the way.
In any case I have faith in the story, gameplay and potential for fun DC Easter Eggs/References, so it's a day one purchase for me... BECAUSE it's Rocksteady... and of course we get Harley's classic costume!! 😃
At the end of the day It may not turn out to be the AAA "Classic Rocksteady" experience people are looking for, but like the Suicide Squad, I think it'll be a bit of an antihero game that will surprise the naysayers and gain word of mouth traction once people get hold of it... a bit like Dragon's Dogma.
Give Squad a chance!✌️😇
THIRD PERSON MODE AS AN OPTION.... that's all I want as a baseline for a CP sequel. The rest I trust CDPR to deliver because the story, characters and environments in CP2077 were all amazing.
Launch woes aside, the game turned out to be pretty damn good, especially after 2.0 and Phantom Liberty, which I'm playing at the moment. But for 'saka's sake CDPR, don't ship a sequel without third person!!!!! 😤
Yeah, I'm not on board with the idea that it's too similar to the original Dragon's Dogma and doesn't evolve the game enough, as there's surrounding context to the nature of the sequel. For those of you who don't know, the released version of Dragon's Dogma back in 2013 was only about 40% of what Hideaki Istuno and co originally envisioned for the game. Due to hardware and resource restrictions/limitations, it was not possible to make the game as complete as they wanted it to be, so Dragon's Dogma 2 is effectively going to be part remake and part sequel, allowing the original vision for the game to be realised while developing the story and game mechanics in a way that lines up with what the second iteration of a game should be. If you've been with Dragon's Dogma since it originally released, the fact that a sequel exists at all is in and of itself God Tier news, and the fact that it is set to retain so much of the original game's character is absolutely perfect 😉👌
Definitely interested because of the urban punk aesthetic and the ARPG gameplay, but I wasn't sold on Genshin as much as Tower of Fantasy, and then there's still Project Mugen and Blue Protocol to consider as well! Plus, Gacha games 'n' all that... I've had a blast on ToF and dropped some dollars on it, but it is kind of a cheap thrill at the end of the day and if you really want to invest in upgrading your characters to A6, it's not so cheap lmao. Depends on whether or not you choose to go whaling 😅😅
@Nebbuless yeah the absence of third person really was a bummer for me especially after The Witcher games... and I believe the original version of CP2077 which was in development until 2016 was in fact a third person game. Apparently they switched director during the development cycle and changed everything.
In this era of games, having both third and first person options shouldn't really be a stretch considering it's been around dating back to Skyrim, and especially in games where there's character creation and extensive cosmetics/customization.
I REALLY hope CDPR feel the same way for the next Cyberpunk game. If nothing else, it would increase their player base because it caters to everyone in that regard...
Ugh that's a tough one... mainly because I played through CP to the end and sunk quite a few hours into it. There is a case for a fresh playthrough though. I'd be 100% sold on it if they'd added a third person mode to the game but I'll just have to hope the sequel ticks that box 🤞🤞
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Re: Devil May Cry, Dragon's Dogma, and Rival Schools Combine in Capcom Legend's New AAA Game
@Dalamar No 🫵🤨
Re: Capcom's Going All-In on TGS, Games and Showcase Announced
DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 😥😥😥
Re: Skate's Latest Dev Blog Talks Customisation, Seasonal Updates as Early Access Looms
I just wanna know when this Early Access is actually gonna drop!!!
As much as I love Session, I'm sick of not being able to grab my board, and skating the same spots over and over is getting old dsspite the fact that landing a switch front foot impossible never stops feeling steezy ^_^
Re: Capcom Will Present 90 Minutes of PS5 Updates at New York Comic-Con in October
JUST GIVE US DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 DLC ALREADY FFS 😅
Re: Monster Hunter Wilds Reveals Free Akuma Armour and More in Street Fighter 6 Crossover
@DennisReynolds Indeed!! A big fat L 🫠
Re: Monster Hunter Wilds Reveals Free Akuma Armour and More in Street Fighter 6 Crossover
How lame... Cammy and Chun-Li for Alma only. What about our HUNTER?!?!
Especially given that this ISN'T a Dragon's Dogma 2 collab, this is just a big ol' L for Capcom. Akuma can go take a hike 👎👎
Re: GTA 6's New Release Date Raises Concerns It Might Slip Again Beyond May 2026
I'm guessing October 2026 for the actual release with the next delay announced in February or March 2026. It is Rockstar we're talking about here, after all 😐
Re: Team Up with Hondo in Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate's Fortune DLC, Arriving Next Month
@Contimaloris Han Solo is sitting in a big chunk of carbonite on Jabba's wall when Outlaws takes place... so you'd fail your Ubisoft interview with that take 🤣
Re: Capcom's Crappy Microtransactions Are Back in Monster Hunter Wilds, Including Paid Character Edits
Well, there's FAR worse going on in the world than having the option to pay for a character edit voucher pack, which you can pick up during some event quests etc anyway. People just don't read the small print.
And, like the option to pay 99c or whatever for an extra Wakestone or two in Dragon's Dogma, they only exist as an easy access item for the impatient since you can get them in-game anyway. When you have other companies out there shilling character skins for $20 or shoes for $10 and release broken, incomplete games, I find it hard to sh*t on Capcom when MH has always been a polished, complete game that delivers big on content... ^_^
Re: Big Dragon's Dogma 2 Patch 2.01 Out Now on PS5, Boosts Performance, Balances Vocations
PLEASE GIVE US DLC!!!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Re: Capcom Finally Breaks Silence on Dragon's Dogma 2, Confirms New Update Is Incoming
BWAHAHAAA!!
I never left Dragon's Dogma!!! 572 hours in and I'm still making monster stew and loving it 🤘😁
Bring on new performance updates!! Bring on PS5 Pro enhancements!! Bring on DLC!!
LET'S GET IT ALL, CAPCOM!!! 🫡
Re: Talking Point: Is PS5 Pro Way Too Expensive?
For me, the worst part is that it's £700 in the UK while also being $700 in the US!!
This means that living in the UK is going to cost us £165 more for the console than living in the US because $700 is £535 at current exchange rates. Where the f**k is the fairness in that?? F**king Rip Off Britain strikes again. If the prices were equivalent (say $700 and £550) I'd feel much better about buying one... 😑
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 DLC Hopes Reignited By Suspicious Steam Updates
JUST GIVE ME MORE DOGMA!!!!
I waited 12 years for DD2, with an awesome DD Online interlude until the servers shut down, so I've got space in my life for as much Dragon's Dogma as the universe allows haha!! I was always hopeful for a DD2 DLC/Expansion... the bigger the better!
If Capcom has a TGS announcement for something along the lines of BBI, but with a full story expansion the size of MHW Iceborne, I will be VERY happy ^_^
Re: Legendary Devil May Cry, Dragon's Dogma Director Hideaki Itsuno Leaves Capcom After 30 Years
@TruestoryYep "Dragon's Dogma 2 being not very good" he/she/they/it says 🤣🤣
Either you haven't played DD2 or you just don't understand it 🤭🤭
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Patch Clearly Improves PS5 Performance, But It's Still Far from Perfect
Well from my perspective, it seems that the lion's share of the complaints about performance come from the PC community, which is understandable given that anyone with a decent rig and mods is probably used to running most games at 60-120fps, so in that regard - and generally speaking I guess - optimisation for PC is something of an ongoing issue, especially when you factor in all the different GPU/CPU setups people will have.
Being a PS5 player however, I have to say that I've now got about 400 hours of playtime on Dragon's Dogma 2 and the only thing I've noticed relating to performance is the NPC pop-in and the occasional frame drop when in mid-battle and you knock down a big monster (like a Cyclops for example) and it kinda falls down in slo-mo for a couple of seconds. Ma Ma would be proud haha! 😋
Other than that, the game has been running fine for me and graphically it looks awesome... I'll often stop just to admire the scenery or my Arisen's cake as she jogs through the woodland. I don't think I've ever noticed any frame drop in Vernworth either, come to think of it!
Hopefully they'll keep improving things in any case, and we may well see another big performance boost with some BBI type DLC down the line. Digital Foundry made a video about how there's even Path Tracing built in to the game engine so maybe we'll see that too, although that might be PS5 Pro specific on consoles.
Either way, DD2 is amazing and by far the best "Adventure Sim" around in my humble opinion. Can't wait for the DLC!! 😚👌
Re: CDPR Says Boston-Based Dev Studio Will Make Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel More Authentically American
I don't care what they do with the fire hydrants, mailboxes or manhole covers...
AS LONG AS THEY MAKE IT THIRD PERSON THIS TIME!!!!
🫵🤨
Re: Capcom Now Considers Dragon's Dogma a 'Key Brand' Following Substantial Sales
DD2 having a good sales run is exactly what I'd been hoping for, because it deserves its acclaim and hopefully it'll translate into some Bitterblack Isle style DLC and another sequel... maybe even another Dragon's Dogma Online if we're super lucky??? 🤞🤞🤞
The thing that a lot of people don't realize is that "DD2" is really just the original DD as Hideaki Itsuno wanted it to be 12 years ago, without the hardware and budget restrictions of the era, and you're effectively playing Dragon's Dogma until the very end of the game when it cleverly becomes DD2. It was a risk for Capcom to put a ton of money into a brand new IP and so what we got in DD was a very tapered back version of what was originally desired by the dev team.
This time round, they were able to put a whole lot more into it, although I don't believe that even now the budget was really full-fat AAA tier relative to what a MHW or RE budget would be. Given that it has sold so well so far thanks to all the dedicated fans and new players (🫡🙏) hopefully it will continue to sell well and we see a bigger, bolder DD3 sometime down the line. Just don't let it sit for 12 years please, Capcom!!! 🫵🤨
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Stellar Blade?
@Nei the Korean dub is great!!
The English one didn't hit with me, and being a native French speaker I tried that too, but the Korean one works best with the overall tone of game I feel 🫶
Re: Stellar Blade PS5 Dev Thanks Fans for 'Passion' Following Censorship Controversy
Well I can safely say that the Holiday Rabbit suit has definitely been censored as I bought both the digital and disc release for <ahem> posterity, but the Moutan Peony outfit has the tights on it by default, so you have to imagine that the disc version of the game DOES contain the originally intended versions of the outfits, otherwise why would they be on the unpatched disc release?
I call censorship after the fact, which of course sucks because it's just a bit of extra skin on a character model as opposed to anything egregiously inappropriate or sinister in an 18 rated game... 🤨
Re: Talking Point: What's Your Favourite PS5 Game of 2024 So Far?
Hot take!! 😁👌
Helldivers 2 is boring, bleak and repetitive and the gameplay loop isn't really that far removed from Suicide Squad yet it gets none of the hate...
Dragon's Dogma 2 is THE BEST GAME and the micro-transaction/frame-rate drop hate is just reductive clown college dropout material 🫵🤨
Re: Rumour: PS5 Pro Is Up to Three Times Faster Than PS5 as Specs Surface
In the words of Peregrin Took, "I'm getting one" 😄😄
I don't care about the price... I'll just sell my regular PS5, keep my Slim for backup and put the money I make from it into the Pro 🤙
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Character Creator Out Now on PS5, Transfers to the Full Game
@Enuo what a dumb comment.
I'm guessing you deactivated your brain before you made that one... 🤨
Re: Sounds Like PS5's Stellar Blade Will Be Playing Dress Up Long After Launch
GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!! 😃
There's not nearly enough fashion in good video games outside of MMOs...
Re: Helldivers 2 Servers Finally Stabilising, Team Now Resuming 'Original Plan'
I got it the other day as a bit of an impulse buy for some co-op action in the lead up to Dragon's Dogma 2 next month... I like some of the game mechanics but my concern is that if the game's core concept is just to drop you into bleak landscapes and complete samey objectives while fighting off the hordes over and over again, it's not my hold my attention for very long 😐
I've already noticed that levelling up your ship and Stratagem arsenal is a slooow process due to the small amount of samples and credits you earn per mission, and the overall presentation seems a bit limited in terms of what you can actually do within the game, whether it's on your ship or on the ground... the Battle Pass and the armor sets aren't super exciting to look at either, so while the co-op gameplay is both tense and fun, the budget price of the game seems to reflect the overall depth of the content...
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Unlikely to Be Capcom's Last $70 Game
Well $70 for a game I'm going to spend hundreds of hours playing is a drop in the ocean really. I recently worked out that the 2790 hours I've spent in RDR2/RDO has worked out at 3 cents per hour of play time 😅
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League?
@ErrantRob Hey Rob... well I really enjoyed Gotham Knights too, and The Division, which I also still play from time to time and would continue to do so if there was some newer and more diverse content available... I really think they missed a trick with the Resident Evil crossover event as the gameplay would have been amazing if Washington had been overrun with zombies haha! Interesting that The Division is infinitely more bullet-spongey than Suicide Squad and has similar open world gameplay with patrolling enemies AND a decent overarching story, but has generally been well received. What would the reaction to The Division 2 have been if it had previously been a Last of Us style single-player narrative driven game I wonder 😄
Anyway in answer to your question, I think you'll most likely enjoy Suicide Squad and I DEFINITELY think the best way to approach it is indeed to ignore all the negative press (as I did) and form your own opinion about the game... given you really enjoyed Gotham Knights and The Division, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet you'll have fun with SS 🫶
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League?
Hum... the naysayers are out in force ***** on the game before they've even played it 🙄
Well, at 41 hours of play time I'm still having a blast and I HAVEN'T finished the campaign yet, so all this talk of it only being 7 hours long is nonsense.
Suicide Squad is actually a very polished game that looks gorgeous on PS5... character models, cutscenes and voice acting are all top notch and the co-op has been seamless and bug free. Yup, it's a shooter but it's also a really good Arkhamverse story that has many of the classic Rocksteady lore nods and easter eggs along with a great performance by the late Kevin Conroy.
If you're an Arkham purist who JUST wants a Batman game then this probably ain't for you, but if you liked The Division, Outriders or Zombie Army and even the original Crackdown, then you'll have a lot of fun playing this.
Suicide Squad has a lot of serious storyline going on with some real WTF/emotional moments, but it also doesn't take itself too seriously and the members of the squad are all on point when it comes to their humor and banter... at times it reminded me of the good Saints Row games (i.e. SR2 and SR3) and that ain't a bad thing at all lol.
Anyway it's disappointing that people have jumped on the hate bandwagon just because it's not an actual Batman game and it's "Live Service", but that's the culture we exist with today. Suicide Squad however does not ram the "Live Service" down your throat at all, there's no FOMO trap at work and it does not oblige you to buy anything from the cosmetic store or pay to win. It's a co-op game after all so you're not trying to one-up your friends with your KD ratio.
At the end of the day video games are supposed to be fun, and that's exactly what Suicide Squad is... 🫶
Re: Create Realistically-Furred Characters in Dragon's Dogma 2's Complex Creator
@Terra_Custodes Yup!! Character creation for me is one of the best things about gaming 😁 And having seen the updated DD2 character editor, I know I'll be spending a LOT of time getting my character ready for the holy grail that is DD2. We've been waiting 10 years for this!!! 😅😅
Re: Create Realistically-Furred Characters in Dragon's Dogma 2's Complex Creator
Just as well I pre-ordered it on my SG account so I can play it 8 hours before the UK release time... so that means 8 hours of character creation before playing!!! 😋😋
Re: Suicide Squad Teases Major Post-Launch Support, 'Hundreds' of Build Combinations
@Ken_Kaniff Now that would just be silly!!
Sounds like you've been talking to the Riddler, so riddle me this:
"Him who knows that I know what he seeks to know, knows it well while he who knows not, knows not what I know or know not..."
😁
Re: Suicide Squad Teases Major Post-Launch Support, 'Hundreds' of Build Combinations
@DennisReynolds Here's my fun fact! I will be completely oblivious to any similarities between the characters and their gameplay because I'm ONLY going to play as Harley and it's gonna be fun!! ✌️😃
Re: Suicide Squad Teases Major Post-Launch Support, 'Hundreds' of Build Combinations
So much hate... too much hate IMO but I can't wait to get stuck into Suicide Squad and kick some ass with Best Girl Harley 😄
Personally I really don't see what the fuss is about... if Live Service means more content then great! I love having the option to change up the characters I'm playing with new skins etc, or get stuck into some new modes/maps or whatever... and I'm no Whale or Live Service fanboy... I just like gaming 🙂
Rocksteady did a great job with the Arkham games so why not give em the benefit of the doubt with Suicide Squad? Obviously the gameplay is different and it's not a Batman game but so what? Creative Assembly went from making RTS games to knocking it out of the park with the tremendous Alien: Isolation... a completely different genre of game. So dontcha think Rocksteady can do the same?
Live service just seems to be about content delivery to me, and yes some of it will be paid for with real world money, but that doesn't obligate anyone to buy it... and it's all cosmetic from what I understand. It's not even a PvP game so Pay To Win doesn't factor in at all 🤔
Seems to me like people are pooping on SS when there are far better things to do with your time, like playing games you're actually interested in 😄
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel's Development Is Officially Underway
There's only one thing I want above all else in the Cyberpunk sequel and that's a THIRD PERSON camera view!!!
I loved CP2077 and 2.0/Phantom Liberty really fixed things, but the whole time I was playing I was just wishing for a Third Person camera switch 😔 Every time I got some new gear and/or went to change my wardrobe or appearance it just took the edge off the enjoyment because the only way I could see my V properly was in the inventory or in Photo Mode... it's obviously a matter of opinion but I don't feel as immersed in a game in First Person as I do Third Person. I think that CDPR could make a lot of people happy by having both in the sequel, like they do in GTA/Red Dead/Skyrim etc.
#ThirdPersonCyberpunkPleez
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Gets 18 Minutes of New, 4K Character Class Gameplay on PS5
@KundaliniRising333 'Tis a trifling thing to know nothing... 🤨
"Him who knows that I know what he seeks to know, knows it well while he who knows not, knows not what I know or know not."
Now off you pop back to your hole and never speak ill of the Dogma again!! Copy and paste yourself into the naughty corner and ponder your ignorance awhile... t'will serve you well 🤫
Re: Here's Another 20 Minutes of Fantastic Granblue Fantasy: Relink PS5 Gameplay
@PepperMintRex if you want a co-op companion for Granblue add me on PSN... I'll be playing day one but also don't have any friends who have preordered 🙈
My PSN is Pixiponpon 🤙
Re: Kill Time in GTA Online with The Chop Shop Update on PS5, PS4
So... a new update that involves shelling out a couple of million for a property, then a couple more million to upgrade said property with a bunch of useless cosmetics, then some fetch quests to get materials and a long wait while those materials are turned into a shipment you must then deliver for less payout than the cost of a fancy GTA supercar?!?
Yup, can't wait for GTA6 online... 🙄
Re: Solid Snake, Peter Griffin Dropping in Next Fortnite Season
It's about time they just made Fortnite into an Open World playground instead of this rinse and repeat Battle Royale story... it's been getting old for a while now 🥱
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Is Getting 'One More Patch' with New Gameplay Elements, Details Incoming
I want THIRD PERSON!!!! That's all...
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Will Be 'The Ultimate Dragon's Dogma'
Dragon's Dogma 2 will be the masterwork of masterworks all!!!
I CANNOT WAIT... 😃👌
Re: Returnal Director Is Leaving Housemarque After 14 Years
Oh GHOD... this MUST mean they have a live service game in development!!!! Look what happened to Rocksteady!!!!
No doubt Warner Bros are involved in this somehow 😋😉😋😉😋
Re: Rumour: Dragon's Dogma 2 March 2024 Release Date Leaked
JUST TAKE MY F'KIN MONEY, CAPCOM!!!!
✌️😃💰💸💰💸💰💸
I've been waiting 10 YEARS for Dragon"s Dogma 2, so March works for me... 🤤
Re: Suicide Squad Returns with All-New PS5 Gameplay
Hm what happened to reserving judgement and not judging a book by its cover? 😋😋
Everyone seems to be sh*tting on Suicide Squad without ever having played it... the new deep dive video log from Rocksteady talks about taking a different approach from the Arkham games because of the subject matter and the multiplayer aspect, while still being story-focused and quality driven, which is what Rocksteady does. I think the problem with this is that it's Rocksteady but it's NOT an Arkham game, and when you throw in the Live Service/Shooter elements, that just makes people see red. If it were a Ubisoft game I doubt the outcry would be nearly as bad.
In any case I'm gonna give Suicide Squad the benefit of the doubt and I think I'll have a blast playing it with my friends, it looks FUN and that's what games are supposed to be 🫡
Co-op gameplay is always my jam, it's got Best Girl Harley in it, and I enjoy shooting the crap out of stuff whether it's Red Dead, GTA, Cuberpunk, Zombie Army, Outriders, Aliens: Fireteam Elite etc etc! Rocksteady did also showcase the melee combat in their video log by the way.
In any case I have faith in the story, gameplay and potential for fun DC Easter Eggs/References, so it's a day one purchase for me... BECAUSE it's Rocksteady... and of course we get Harley's classic costume!! 😃
At the end of the day It may not turn out to be the AAA "Classic Rocksteady" experience people are looking for, but like the Suicide Squad, I think it'll be a bit of an antihero game that will surprise the naysayers and gain word of mouth traction once people get hold of it... a bit like Dragon's Dogma.
Give Squad a chance!✌️😇
Re: Cyberpunk 2077's Sequel Will Be Spearheaded by the Team Behind Phantom Liberty and Update 2.0
THIRD PERSON MODE AS AN OPTION.... that's all I want as a baseline for a CP sequel. The rest I trust CDPR to deliver because the story, characters and environments in CP2077 were all amazing.
Launch woes aside, the game turned out to be pretty damn good, especially after 2.0 and Phantom Liberty, which I'm playing at the moment. But for 'saka's sake CDPR, don't ship a sequel without third person!!!!! 😤
Re: Preview: Dragon's Dogma 2 Feels Like a Remake of the First Game, in a Good Way
Yeah, I'm not on board with the idea that it's too similar to the original Dragon's Dogma and doesn't evolve the game enough, as there's surrounding context to the nature of the sequel.
For those of you who don't know, the released version of Dragon's Dogma back in 2013 was only about 40% of what Hideaki Istuno and co originally envisioned for the game. Due to hardware and resource restrictions/limitations, it was not possible to make the game as complete as they wanted it to be, so Dragon's Dogma 2 is effectively going to be part remake and part sequel, allowing the original vision for the game to be realised while developing the story and game mechanics in a way that lines up with what the second iteration of a game should be.
If you've been with Dragon's Dogma since it originally released, the fact that a sequel exists at all is in and of itself God Tier news, and the fact that it is set to retain so much of the original game's character is absolutely perfect 😉👌
Re: HoYoverse's Action RPG Zenless Zone Zero Confirmed for Consoles
Definitely interested because of the urban punk aesthetic and the ARPG gameplay, but I wasn't sold on Genshin as much as Tower of Fantasy, and then there's still Project Mugen and Blue Protocol to consider as well! Plus, Gacha games 'n' all that... I've had a blast on ToF and dropped some dollars on it, but it is kind of a cheap thrill at the end of the day and if you really want to invest in upgrading your characters to A6, it's not so cheap lmao. Depends on whether or not you choose to go whaling 😅😅
Re: CDPR Recommends a Fresh Save for the Best Cyberpunk 2077 2.0, Phantom Liberty Experience
@Nebbuless yeah the absence of third person really was a bummer for me especially after The Witcher games... and I believe the original version of CP2077 which was in development until 2016 was in fact a third person game. Apparently they switched director during the development cycle and changed everything.
In this era of games, having both third and first person options shouldn't really be a stretch considering it's been around dating back to Skyrim, and especially in games where there's character creation and extensive cosmetics/customization.
I REALLY hope CDPR feel the same way for the next Cyberpunk game. If nothing else, it would increase their player base because it caters to everyone in that regard...
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Headlines Capcom's Live Presentation at TGS
YEEEEEEEE!!!! DD2 is top of the list out the MANY exciting games coming out in 2024/2025.
Release date and Collector's Edition announcement pleez Capcom!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Everyone buy DD2 so we can get Dragon's Dogma Online 2 next!!! 😃😃
Re: CDPR Recommends a Fresh Save for the Best Cyberpunk 2077 2.0, Phantom Liberty Experience
Ugh that's a tough one... mainly because I played through CP to the end and sunk quite a few hours into it. There is a case for a fresh playthrough though. I'd be 100% sold on it if they'd added a third person mode to the game but I'll just have to hope the sequel ticks that box 🤞🤞
Re: PlayStation's 2024 Release Schedule Is Already a Joke
DRAGON'S DOGMA 2!!!!!! 😃😃😃😃😃
Re: Apple Insinuates iPhone 15 Pro Will Be a Better Games Console Than PS5, PS4
Ahh I get it... so it's like Stadia!!! Awesome 🤣