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I looted a bounty before the little mission complete pop up and I didn't get a sword kit reward. That is the only thing I can think of 🤷‍♂️

Got to get back on Yotei. Ezo won't photograph itself now, will it?

@ApostateMage safe, sensible, digital skating, I see 🤣

Did you ever try Session the skate sim? It's fiddly, but it is satisfyingly realistic and a good challenge.

@Oram77 my hype has always been suspicious but hopeful. But the more I see the more I think it lacks a soul or a real x-factor. But I thought similar things about Dragon's Dogma 2 pre-launch and I still loved actually playing that. This is the game it most resembles, to me, but DD2 was really nice from a gameplay standpoint and had it's own unique weirdness and systems that make it unique. If this achieves similar it could well be very good, but it is still a tough ask.

Sometimes games do feel much better in-hand than in previews is all i'll say. As watching videos you kind of notice any blandness and negatives you might not notice when playing.

Then again it could be similar to Forspoken, which is another one I was excited for, but the devs put me off with their long drawn out videos of how bland the game looked before release. And when I tried that one I still thought it was boring and lacked soul.

Real user impressions or a playable demo are definitely needed on this one before a digital purchase.

@get2sammyb i'd be more sceptical on whether this is PS footage. They have showed PS footage with the "captured on ps5/pro" in the past and it has got progressively worse looking, and this is suddenly an upgrade. Really nice if it is and they managed to optimise it, but i'd expect this to be PC.

But there is some other huge news worthy of an article and further PushSquare research into the matter... it seems they have finally replaced Comic Sans as the in-game font! 🙌 We need an interview with the dev team detailing this monumental change and the thought process behind 1: first using comic sans in the game, and 2: realising it looked terrible and changing it 😁

Somewhere between great and excellent, but i'm likely to give it a 9 or 10 on here as i've given GoT a 9 and this feels like a better game.

@ApostateMage mate, i'm sorry, but that is hilarious 🤣🤣🤣 The amount of times I've come off a BMX (without a helmet and got away scratch free 😬) makes me glad i'm not a stupid kid any more. Please refrain from putting your body in further peril and STICK TO VIDEO GAMES! 😁

Ghost of Yotei it is better than I expected, and I loved Tsushima going in. It does everything Tsushima did, but it is a better game all round. Atsu is a proper sneaky savage and I love it. This is a long game if you want it to be, too! And I want it to be. Having a blast duelling every **** in Ezo!

(Apparently .gifs from imbb don't work on PushSquare like imgur did 😭)

@Rich33 not only do these crazy reviews suck because they are mindless nonsense spewing things they've been told to think that take away from genuinely good games. But if you have a legitimate reason to not like a game as much, your genuine opinion gets lost in the wave of nonsense and that, to me, is the worst part of it.

Legitimate concerns get left behind. And usually they feature in the most genuine reviews.

A good example is the Witcher Netflix show. It isn't bad because it's woke nonsense. It isn't bad because it's not like the games. It's isn't bad because of one weird decision (did Eskel turn into a tree? I have forgotten a lot about the show, thankfully, haha) It's a bad adaption because the showrunner didn't like, understand nor respect the source material and therefore it lacks the original soul. It almost had some moments or glimpses of something, but mostly it lacked quality and had no real long term direction which meant it got worse and worse as they tried to link things back together after making some weird changes. But it is probably enjoyable enough as a standalone thing for kids, teens and general consumers of content who don't know any better.

Extreme reviews never help anyone, is the base of what i'm saying, anyway. And it drives a culture of people trying to make up for it on the other side. Although someone being excited and rating a game they love in the moment a 10 is far more forgivable than someone rating it 0 or 1 because they have insufficient minds for an original thought of their own.

@ShogunRok the 6 second load to actually playing the game where you left off shocks me every time I put the game on. It feels faster than Xbox's 'Quick Resume', but it is loading from a totally shut down state. Madness.

The open world, although not truely peak in the open RPG space, is pretty damn good in the open world action game space. I could not stop playing the game last night after saying "just this one last little sidequest" and I think it grabbed me for another hour and a half 😬

It's very good. I've not really been following the yellow story quests yet, as i'm exploring, dueling, and bounty hunting at my own pace to settle into the area and get coin, so I can't comment on the story as much. But during a regular activity I was fed an unexpected cutscene to set a little more of the tone for the area, the story and the "political circumstances" which was a nice touch.

I'm going to push on with a main marker I discovered to see exactly how they balance story and side content though, as i'm at risk of overdoing side content at this rate, and I want to see if they improved the layout for quests in a way that takes you towards side content more naturally anyway. (The structure and layout of stories and activities in the first game was a slight critisism I had of it)

Everyone dislikes "young Atsu" VA, but it is so goofy that, after the initial double-take of "what the hell is that voice", I actually quite like it. She's an annoying kid, and it's an annoying portrayal, so it works for me 😂

My only gripe, so far, is I want a horse that can move at a canter rather than the choice of: slow trot, or gallop like its been shot out of a bloody cannon 😬

Ghost of Yotei primarily, but also a bit of
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 as the DLC's were longer than I expected so i'm still dipping into that from time to time.

Yes! As in, I have it and will be playing it later tonight, anyway. Got my CE delivered and have quickly checked it out. I was in two minds whether I really wanted it, but as soon as I saw it in person I was glad I kept my pre-order!

🤞 @CrispyMango92 it really is a nice set, well put together.

My instant reaction to the title was "oooh, yes!" And then within seconds my brain processed it and asked "will it though? Will it really compete with Hogwarts Legacy, or are you just trying to sell it to investors"

And would you look at that. The rumours have come from a sales pitch, rather than from anything to do with the actual game being good in any way.

Gonna need a time machine to unbuy all the EA games I've bought over the years.

I do wonder what PIF will do with the PGA tour games license, though, considering they own LIV and are hell bent on owning all golf. But i'd be tempted if they made 'Bryson DeChambeau's Big Baby Simulator - Now with 110% more tears'

@Oram77 oh god. I will say no more on that, but yes. Yes, we have 😂

@Oram77 oh, wow. Ignore that reply, then. I didn't know that was a thing 🤦‍♂️ I guess I thought I lived in a world where, when people bought games, the games are still included, haha.

@Oram77 it can be an annoyance if you have the digital only console. In that case a digital code is welcome as anyone can use that. They should maybe offer the choice at this point, as the landscape is what it is with a lot of folk having digital consoles and games rarely being fully playable on the game disk anyway. I guarantee this game will have about 3 massive patches before it works, too 🙃

Steelbook, cloth map and cards, plus game for £80 or the game for £55 is not bad pricing.

I mean, i'd prefer to have the whole thing, but, being a complete unknown of a game, I guess i'll pass. If this was The Witcher 4 and £250 for game, statue, map and steelbook i'd not bat an eyelid 🤷‍♂️

🙌 Violent & Visceral 🙌

I might as well share the rest of my thoughts I noted down:

They are saying all the right things, for me. The actor seemed to know what he was doing, and understands the emotional depth behind the role. And they all pretty much mentioned the damaged nature of a man who has been used and abused, lost everything, lost himself, and that struggles to keep himself on a level.

🤞🤞🤞😬🤞🤞🤞

I'll give them 10 seconds to include an actual reward alongside this "exclusive merch store" before telling them they are dumb f***s

...

They are dumb F***s

Back to the Kingdom of Bohemia for the KCDII DLC

I was surprised that the modern warfare remakes are higher up than the originals for units sold. I thought when MW came out it was one of those games that everyone in the world had, and I thought people had soured on the remakes.

Other than that, looks about how i'd expect, sadly.

I wonder if a UK/europe list would have more leftfield surprises? Or just more Fifa :/

@Ricky-Spanish whatever helps what? I detect a childish "get out clause" to avoid reply to that point, as it seems you think you have won and will close off your brain to any responses. Why are you even talking about MS profits? Do you genuinely think that MS having all the money in the world means gaming is in a good place and games will only improve because of it, while industry experts and people that have inside knowledge of how things are going at Bethesda say otherwise? 🤦‍♂️ You're in too deep to the cult of Phil, and you think people talking objectively about the negatives are an attack on this dear company that you love, for some reason. You are banging on about a console war whilst coming to help defend a trillion dollar corporation while other people speak objectively about how subscriptions f***ing suck for the industry.

They all suck. But maybe Sony's sucks a little bit less because they haven't bastardised their new releases within their subscription model. This is not a war, it is an objective statement about how each decided to pursue their own subscription model.

But do please read why these industry experts think subscriptions are bad for the industry, rather than assuming it is some weird console war s***, because maybe, just maybe, they have the interests of the creatives and the players in their minds, more than, you know, a trillion dollar corperation that just wants to hoover up more money 🫡

And hey, I only came on to make a joke about how people act in these situations, but now you've got this to reply to. So, enjoy it, haha.

@get2sammyb careful Sammy, don't want to highlight the flaws, noted by industry experts, of their cheap gaming sugar daddy.

"He gives me lots of games and tells me i'm a good gamer for eating it all up" all while the industry slowly burns in front of their blindfolded eyes

Kinky lads, these Xbox Game Pass lovers 👀

@Jammer haha it is well worth it. Premise is basically the same, wander about and look for ways to mess with people. I think the AI in Goose Game is a bit better than in Bond, though 😅 (noticed that the dude just stares at the tap ad infinitum 😬)

@get2sammyb did you get Untitled Goose Game vibes? That was my first thought when Bond gets to actually start doing things to upset the guards and staff 😁

And I mean that in a very positive way 🪿

I know this is totally unrelated, but how is (bare with me, forgotten the name of it) ... Minds3ye doing these days? Did they release any of the DLC and fixes yet? Or has it totally fallen off the face of the earth? It'd be cool to see a PushSquare update article on the state of that at some point, just saying.

As for Fairgame$... that sounds... promising 🙃

If only Concord had released on Xbox too 😅

A quality live service, like Helldivers, totally worth porting (or releasing day one everywhere) Everything else, maybe not so much. SiE's big IP single player titles have even struggled (relatively) on PC, haven't they? And Sony will still want first party exclusives to matter as the more prominent high end console on the market

@SMJ I think you have to take into account no one you replied to was actually talking about first party, but storefront sales, it was you that changed the narrative there, i believe. So: FC, CoD, Madden, NBA, GTA, that kind of stuff is what sells a tonne via PS Store, but not so much on Nintendo.

I'm not sure why you are debating who "wins" though. I was informed console wars are over. 😁

@TheArt yep haha. I loaded up an old save the other day just to test it out, but the pace is pretty fast in first person, and it doesn't really suit it the same way as third person for rockstar games. I was hoping it might feel a bit like KCD for immersion, but weirdly Rockstar games are more immersive in third person.

Enjoy KCD by the way. JCBP 🙌

I've been a lapsed gamer again. Embarrassed to think I even like gaming with how little I've played lately. Such poor form 😂

Unsure whether to crack on and try and get the Cyberpunk DLC finished before Ghost of Yotei arrives, or to pivot completely as I have an urge to try a First-Person RDR2 playthrough. But I believe it is a bit janky, as it was designed to be a third person experience, really. And who knows. Maybe there will one day be a PS5 patch...

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@kyleforrester87 😂 nailed it.

I couldn't decide whether they based it on Chuck Norris or Kenny Loggins

Settled for K-Logg

https://youtu.be/siwpn14IE7E?si=eZwcXjt29uFPWSst

(Please embed this, Pushsquare so we can jam out to some Solid Snake tunes 🙌)

Release the patch and let people review it? Literally no need to hold back the day one patch to avoid reviews

@LiamCroft I did say it "reads kind of like advertising" and then mentioned the reason why it reads that way, as the quote states something proven to be untrue. It is not an accusation. I'm just pointing out it might be a little awkwardly worded, now that there is evidence of this not being the case. "I found the frame rate to be smooth enough for my enjoyment" rather than stating there "is a smooth frame rate on PS5 Pro" one is opinion, but the way you have it worded reads more like a fact, and things stated like facts can be proven wrong. So, it is worth drawing attention to the fact that it does currently have issues on Pro, that aren't mentioned here, in case people take this as gospel and are then dissapointed.

I'm genuinely not trying to be confrontational, just mentioning it might be worth tweaking the wording.

@LiamCroft @Rich33 "Coupled with its mesmerising visuals is a smooth frame rate on PS5 Pro...."

Digital Foundry states otherwise with evidence of findings

They have PS5 Pro as having a worse resolution than PS5 quality mode (rather than at least matching it, as was Cerny's blueprint) And the frame rate is worse off/less stable than in PS5 performance mode

Also, the paragraph here reads kind of like advertising when there is examples out there of this not being the case. But i'll just put it down to reviewer not noticing it or it not having an effect on their enjoyment, which is fair enough, not everyone notices these things. But it is worth drawing people's attention to

Random American Price Elevation due to the elected Random American President, Is So Tough... for consumers.

but i suppose it is to be expected 🤔🤔

@ShogunRok "Highly recommend setting a few hours aside and just blasting through it on a big TV with the volume high"

This sounds perfect, the game we all need right now.

Bored of this whole 'people chat sh*t on social media and it becomes news on a website' era we live in. Wake me up when the people of MySpace have something to add to the debate 😴

Matrix x Cyberpunk x Deus Ex x CoD Zombies x...

...Mindseye 🤦‍♂️

Move it forward ~3 months or move it back ~3 months, but don't release it at the end of f***ing May 😅

But I think he already knows this isn't launching in May.

Let's hope they can get Max Payne out while Sam Lake still looks like Max Payne because it might be awkward at TGA/SGF if he rocks up with greying hair, a hearing aid, and stooped over a zimmer frame as he slowly shuffles out to chat to a hologram of Geoff Keighly

All we need to know is if it works on consoles as it feels like it is exactly as I thought and what we should maybe expect... a Mafia Game like Mafia 1 & 2. And maybe this is using quite a lot of the gameplay and assets or ideas from the Mafia 1 remake to keep costs down. But overall that might not actually be that bad a thing if the story is good, sure it might be clunky, repetitive gameplay, but it isn't usually a game where you notice that being much of an issue as it doesn't outstay its welcome due to the structure of: watch a cutscene, travel to a location to shoot, steal or bomb something, then shoot, steal or bomb something, watch a cutscene, escape from where you shot, stole or bombed something, cutscene.

But this time with stabbing and horses too!

Always a concern considering they could have pushed a day one patch out for reviews anyway, it's not like they are working on a patch right up until release day. So this makes you think it will either need a v1.3 build to get it right on consoles, or they just don't think a middling console review at the moment will help sell any more than the pre orders they've already generated.

I don't want to jump to conclusions, but i'm not buying it day one unless it definitely works.

First-person shooter rogue style.

She's AI isn't she? It's begun...

I got the email about the kind of skins you can get... the first theme is "Bat Company" and it has bats on it 🙄 I thought they weren't doing this kind of 🐂💩? Or, should I say, 🦇💩

Going to Cyber me some Punks at some point

@Eduard_Brenton eh, think I've heard that one

Good Luck. And, if anyone falls asleep, I hear airhorns are quite useful. Even just the threat of them can be enough to prevent that happening, but mostly because people will have left if you threatened them with airhorns. Maybe leave the airhorns out and just let people sleep 🤷‍♂️

so 60fps average means it has to be either locked 60fps or at some moments will be reaching above 60fps, right?

You can't average 60fps if at some points it drops lower and at some points it hits 60fps, as that would be a lower than 60fps average.

Let's get Digital Foundry on the case 😂

Jesus Christ Be Praised! Henry's come to see us with an unlocked framerate.

(I actually finished a playthrough on PS5 early this year, and it was not too bad, the game loads well before Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, dies, and the game actually plays a lot different with all that peace and prosperity still knocking about)