QiaraIris

Jesus ***** that looks bad.

This is the same machine that can run Ghost of Yotei beautifully with long distance draw and 4k/60 just fine?

Ironically, everything this game studio does in term of marketing for this game has significantly reduced my interest on it. Initially I was really hyped for this game as the next Open-world RPG, then comes their weird insistence on not calling it RPG. That triggers something in me, is the narrative bad? shallow? is everything about this game wide but no depth? I tried those kind of games before, and I got bored.

Then come their super cagey approach with base console performance, and their unnecessary aggressive PR respond for people asking for it. This doesn't affect me as I was planning to get this on PC and with my current system, I can run this at 4K/60 just fine. But I know how ***** Black Desert ran on console, and I know what Pearl Abyss reputations are on listening to their customers feedback. Hell, we have issues from Black Desert being reported by community from day 1 that still occurring today.

This is not new from this studio, their reputations are not really the best with their MMO community and I doubt it'll be different with this.

So now this game has been downgraded for "wait for a deep discount" for me. This entire thing should be studied as a thesis on what not to do for Marketing Courses.

Great article.

No BASE PS5 performance yet?

At least that site has enough journalistic integrity to admit that they wrote the wrong information and update it with a correction.

This one doubled down on the rage bait and opened a readers vote on top of the misinformation to farm more engagement.

Schadenfreude is hell of a drug, especially when it's in relation to out-of-touch executives.

Great site.

Based on the company's own announcement, we know that PS5 Pro will shine running this game. But since majority of us are still on base PS5, that is the performance we're waiting for.

So this Digital Foundry report is pretty much useless for me.

It's called modding sir.

I'm a big baby on horror games, but I'm playing RE:Requiem on PC modded. So Grace was usually chased by a gigantic plush of Matikanetannhauser from Uma Musume.

Also other comments arguing against this, are other players asking for an option for them to also enjoy the game affects you in any way? Why wouldn't you want a game to have more players by being more inclusive? People who gatekeep a genre never made sense to me.

Here's hoping we're still be around and not dealing with a Nuclear War fallout till my Trails stories are done.

Who was the CFO? Why don't we name this person in the article?

The best part about this article is that there was literally 0 evidence mentioned of Sony jacking up prices, outside of a small anecdote of a different discount shown between a logged-in account and a non logged-in account. DISCOUNTS.

I'm looking at my PS Store right now and the non-discounted price of any new games remain the same, whether or not I logged-in. That being said, dynamic pricing has been happening for Switch 2 exclusives where we in Canada paid an extra few cents and yet you don't see Nintendo Life complaining about it.

I said it again, this is pure ragebait article, and judging from the comments, it worked wonderfully. I wish I can just block a certain writers from this site so I don't accidentally click their article ever again.

PS: Someone mentioned surge pricing from Uber above, here's an idea, no one forced you to use Uber during surge pricing. Just like no one forced you pay a non-discounted price for game released on day 1. What exactly are we fuming about here?

I was seriously waiting for this review. The restraint I had holding off on the demo because it capped at level 10 was unreal, so I can't wait to start this on Friday.

Thanks for this review.

@ElectricWizard

The best part about that video me will always be that Steve Race, who announced that price, was a former SEGA of America employee.

@raidenpb you know why. That line wouldn't gather enough clicks.

Dynamic pricing works the other way too, buying digital with dynamic pricing also has the potential to be significantly lower price than buying physical retail. But of course, ragebait article wouldn't cover that.

They literally listed the lower price differential in this article:
https://psprices.com/news/sony-ab-testing-prices/

Microsoft just handed Sony another win on a gold platter this time, if this is true. Before Sony always had to compete with specs, but this time they don't even need to chase that. They have exclusives, they have the studios, and now they have the price advantage.

I don't know what XBOX is thinking, especially after admitting that they lost the console wars because of how out of touch they are.

This is the "$299" impact of our era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExaAYIKsDBI

womp womp, maybe this should finally be the one that remove Hermen from his position for his hardons on live services.

I had a high expectations for this reveal instead of just getting another SAO and this time soulslike apparently.

What a disappointing announcement.

Why would anyone ever want to buy an XBOX these days?

Capcom was so confident with this game that they moved the release date up.

Absolutely reasonable move though, the demo was amazing.

Guy is blaming everything else but his own shortsightedness for greenlighting a bad game. Sounds like a great leader to me.

Being that this was an FPS game, Steam WAS the most important piece of that puzzle.

FPS lives or dies based on how many players are playing on it PC because that IS still the FPS platform.

Then show the PS5 footage, you cowards!

Next is that Fortnite wanna be Horizon game right?

Also was this an F2P game, or did people pay for this game like Concord?

Did we call it, or did we call it?

This game has been downgraded from day 1 to "I'll wait for a review".

Still only showing PC gameplay this close to the release date is an absolute red flag.

Here's the thing, I was really looking forward to this, but let's face it, Crimson Desert right now is fighting against the same release week as another one that's really in my radar, Monster Hunter Stories 3. Surprise, surprise, this is indeed the third installment of Capcom long-running Monster Hunter JRPG with a capital J. I know what I expect from this and it will be a day 1 (especially since you can create a custom character here like any other Monster Hunter games).

I get that for most people, they're not in contention with each other. But all these noises seriously make me consider getting Crimson Desert on day 1 because now I'm thinking "what are you so afraid of?"

Are they so adamant that it's not an "RPG" because narratively it's shallow? As in, you're technically really on the rail and nothing you do contributes to the state of the world at all?

Just seems like a weird thing to really vehemently against and made me kinda considering buying it day 1.

"But these days, it’s expected that everything will be unlocked and available on day one, reducing the friction – but robbing the releases of some of their rewards."

That comparison is, frankly, disingenuous.

Either you’re fully aware that this situation is fundamentally different from unlocking a secret character in Tekken and chose to frame it this way anyway, which reads as calculated provocation, or you genuinely believe the two are comparable, which suggests a troubling lack of understanding of the issue.

Multiple posts in this thread have already laid out, in detail, why that analogy doesn’t hold. I won’t repeat them.

But this kind of framing, flattening nuance into a catchy but misleading comparison, is precisely what erodes credibility. It’s the sort of rhetorical shortcut that nudges a publication away from thoughtful critique and closer to the realm of rage-bait tabloid commentary.

They are capable on making this yet Pokemon:SV launches broken, WTF Gamefreaks??

Excellent choice of thumbnails xD

Brigandine: Abyss and the new JRPG from Konami, yes please.

Why does this survey said "it's not currently active"?

I really want to tell them what I think about Hermen Hulst and his hardon for live service titles that I'm pretty sure brought this game up in the first place.

Oh yeah, I probably won't touch grass again when March comes.

Very brave of them to do this.

In all seriousness, I think someone already mentioned this above and I completely agree with them.

I specifically buy my PS3/4/5 because Sony has always been strong in a single player platform. From exclusives to JRPG, PlayStation was my go to if I want to be immersed in a great single player games. These days, that has been taken over by my Switch 2. So anytime Sony and their out-of-touch executives tried to push these new Live Service titles, I automatically just tune them out.

I'm not their target market for these, and never will be.

Are we supposed to still be surprised by this anymore?

Interesting, as someone who played all Yakuza games from the start, Gaiden Kiryu had the weakest combat. Yes, he got speedier, but I absolutely hated how weak he feels and how spongy the enemies were. In fact, it was probably the only Yakuza game where I skipped all the mini-games so that I can just be done with the story because I hated the combat so much.

Also what is with that screenshot? what is with that colour palette? Honestly, this is probably the first Yakuza game that I'll wait instead of getting it D1. This remake is just not vibing with me.

Next, they'll remove the IV from Diablo IV and just call everything, Diablo.

Yeah no thanks, I'll stick playing this on PC.

So what are we looking at here, before a shut down? a few more weeks? a month?

Holy *****, that looks bad...wtf

I'm still debating whether to get this on my PS5 or PC.

@Jacko11 because every little things need to be framed as a corporate conspiracies now to get clicks. Research and Journalistic integrity be damned.

Not The Witcher expansion I expected. 😅

@Nem Because I was confused. Everything including Tecmo Koei called it a Remaster, it's literally in the title. This is the first time I heard it being referred to as a remake. If it's a remake, I'm getting it, remaster, I won't.

That's why people asked questions usually, to get clarifications.

@Nem What? it's not. Remake is a remake from the ground up like Trails in the Sky, remastered is just an enhanced graphic to make it up to the standard of modern consoles like all iterations of The Last Of Us.

If it's just an enhanced graphic with a few additional stages, that's a remaster.
If it's a completely new work with a new engine from scratches even if it's the same gameplay, that's a remake.

It's not that complicated.

Wait, is it a remake or a remaster? Those are two very different state of a game these days.

@JackiePriest

EA, Activision, Ubisoft: "wait, we can do that???"