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Weirdly, I saw a bunch of Marathon content on the PS5 store last night and thought "oh, I must have missed a State of Play"

Do we think as they have dumped all their Marathon videos onto PS Store they will skip it at SoP just for the sake of people not complaining about live service? Maybe a focus on upcoming SP games only? 😅

Ah, I can't wait to see the era and what the overall gameplay style and vision for the game is, and who we're hunting down. And also what the unique take, away from established canon, means for the spy himself.

I spoke about BG3 in the forum again, so I'm getting the... urge... to play some more for myself. Although the latest events of this Dark Urge run made me question whether I can keep killing characters I like without ruining the game too much for myself 😭😂

In a way, I kind of want to be my first Bard character again, simply relaxing and playing music with wolves

Rather than worry about brutally murdering everyone I come into contact with...

These moments just don't have the same feels, and the lack of musical talent is brutal 🙈

Man told to apologise, almost succeeds.

Ah yes, good family friendly f...aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare yeah, I say it because after the initial trailer I thought it would be a normal sony game, clearly taking inspiration from GotG and the like. But then the cinematics and what happened in the game just didn't fit in any way like you say and as soon as I saw the gameplay I noped out of any active interest as did everyone it seems, including those that play live service games.

All it would have taken is for one person at the studio to step back and say "why are they now fighting each other in a warehouse after this cutscene where they are all quirky space buddies ready to take on the world together?"

"Does our game even make sense?"

If a camel is a horse designed by committee. Concord is a green and orange camel on rollerskates with fireworks shooting out of its a*** 😅

In an alternate universe: this is a single player (with optional couch co-op) space heist action comedy with a fully fleshed out storyline, multiple planets and heists, with actual heist gameplay situations. It sold better than Star Wars Outlaws and I'm still playing it to this day. Also, Beyond Good and Evil 2 got made.

What a crummy universe we got stuck with 🙃

What a load of f***ing nonsense

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I'm someone that didn't know anything from game 2 other than the obvious, and I thought a few times as a TV viewer there were strange moments and too much left out.

This was definitely one of them. I don't care about these cultists, as I've not been made to care, and so it was just this little trip to say "hey" see a kid do a silly version of the Roman 'thumbs up' (down for the ill educated 😛) and then everyone just leave again. "THE VILLAGE!" Top tier dialogue on par with the... very well placed... "I'm pregnant" 😅

The latest weird thing was the actual ending. Day 1 Seattle. As a TV only viewer there is no reference for why that matters, we don't care about the war yet, and thus we don't care about "Day One". It just isn't a very good ending to a very short, underfilled season.

Overall it's still good TV, at times. But i'm not sure if it knows if it's trying to please the players or the newbies.

@J2theEzzo ah, that's it! I basically want Wolverine to be some kind of Max Payne-like, so maybe yes 😂 addiction, drinking, smoking, nightmares and depression, and also brutal violence against the scum of the earth when necessary... and when we're out of booze

A slow paced wolverine who punches people because he doesn't necessarily want to impale absolutely everyone all the time, and only chooses to do so on the very sickest of sick f***s or when in a blind rage because some bad s*** went down, and, in his spare time, likes to ride his motorbike, drink, mope and pull glass shards and bullets out of his body: good game.

A flip around like spiderman, jumping at and slashing generic enemies wolverine: Bad game.

I do wonder if they will get the tone right for a more mature game, and the lack of information for ages makes me less excited than I was when they teased the game

Are you yanking every PS Plus Premium Subscriber's Pizzle?

I'll wait to pick this up in 10 years time on sale when it's complete

Imagine if it was actually the GTA 4 "remake" shadow dropping by way of apology for it not being available on PS4 or PS5 for however many damn years 💀

@Olmaz the thing is, in this ideal world where no one buys games at release any more, there are also no game studios left to make any games because no one will buy them

It's the double Vavra:

Spending some time locked up in Mafia 2

And continuing my 'Henry Poking Things' photo collection in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

I liked it up to a point, but then, like all Bethesda games, there was just so many damn quests to do and I didn't know whether to push on with main or do everything else, so I ended up doing nothing.

It was quite satisfying setting up a Space Amazon Warehouse/Minecraft crossover, but I soon realised I was mining and shipping all these resources to and from planets via more complex shipping hub planets, directing each to its own little area on the main base just to get more resources to build containers to store more resources 🫣

There is definitely fun to be had within the game, but it makes it a bit of a chore to get to that fun.

Ah, the "We must release everything we have before GTA VI, no matter what state they are in" collection.

@GamingFan4Lyf Xbox is happy, yay, but MS is far from happy with Xbox.

It's weird to see people still think MS is happy just wasting money, when they clearly had to force Xbox to publish games on PlayStation to actually make some money from game sales to cover Phil's gambles. Game Pass can't fund x amount of AAA projects all at once any more.

I've used this one before... Elder Scrolls 6 won't just get an infinite pool of cash, games require budgeting based on projections, and if you don't make money from your other games, those budgets will shrink. The business has to support itself fully which is why we have seen MS pivot and force this change of strategy for Xbox, and Bethesda is able to now make some money for their side of things.

But also now, if a game fails from one studio I don't think it will be covered by, say, Oblivion selling well, or overall Game Pass revenue, it will more likely mean that the studio responsible, id software in this case, gets cuts/restructuring/absorbed because it failed to generate money for whatever game it wanted to make next.

AAA Rayman makes me think of it being rebranded with the hard-boiled, loose cannon detective Ray Man, who smokes 40 a day, and is currently serving his latest suspension from the force. He has, of course, gone to LA for a few months break just as the criminal organisation that he has been hunting since they killed his Father has completed its expansion into California.

He's from New York, but for some reason he is played by Jason Statham and sounds like a southern English gangster himself. But we soon find out that is because his father was actually in charge of this criminal outfit that orignated in the UK, before moving it to New York where he was later blown up on his way to see his family, and Ray Man only became a cop to hunt down and kill those who wronged his family, and will take over the business for himself when the dust settles.

Ray Man. A Ubisoft original.

It was nice to get some kind of reward bonus for spending lots of money on their store! But the campaigns were terrible and it wasn't exactly implemented well unless you already use the app. Not surprised they don't want to cost themselves a teeny tiny percentage of profits on digital game sales after they wasted a bunch of money in the last few years on those types of game that shall not be named though!

Strauss!

@JuiceboxMeister sorry, weird physics mostly, and a little AI with how it just carries on its optimal path afterwards. Either way, it is recycled footage we've seen before and nothing new captured. So you have to assume these clips are the best they can muster.

I'm hoping it's decent as a mid summer trashy popcorn game. But the way they have marketed it makes me think they are showing poor things so people can't complain they were mis-sold when they get tricked into buying it because of the "gta connection"

This is/was supposed to be a game made within another game (Everywhere) too, or so I thought. But they don't seem to be hyping that at all, either. And they are just selling it as a standalone game instead.

"The game was created as a proof of concept for Everywhere, a game creation tool. It was envisioned as a premium experience set entirely within the free-to-play Everywhere platform. In 2023, it was revealed by the team that MindsEye will be an episodic game."

So, who knows what it is now 🤷‍♂️

Think what you think (I'm personally interested in the review cycle for this game) but it's the logic behind these clips being used as the game's official teaser trailers that is strange as all hell.

1. They use leaked clips we've previously seen.

2. They contain weird physics and AI (a car is randomly rolling over in the background, before driving on its way, in the chase clip)

3. It isn't interesting enough for promotional material, it's like someone accidently hit 'record last 30 seconds' on their PlayStation.

That should be enough to raise concern as to why they can't capture and edit together something better in the run up to release.

My concern is why a game needs a chat bot. Okay, it's Fortnite, but in regular gaming the more we move away from scripts, the worse it will get. Fully realised characters can never be replaced as the human input from writing and performance are the only things that can achieve that.

In this case, it's hard to argue against it's use, unless you want them to fully change their game to feature a specific voiced character rather than a f***ing chat bot. But a chat bot is their choice, and so a chat bot it is. I'm sure kids will have fun trying to make it say incredibly offensive things and, who knows, that may be grounds for genuine legal discussions if that becomes the case. PEGI, or government censorship committees will probably have to keep an eye on AI chat bots in games, you'd think.

@IntrepidWombat it is important when you're talking about whether people can afford the games or not 😅

@IntrepidWombat apologies for jumping in to your debate, but I believe you missed out the cost of living from your numbers though. You can't only provide half the data.

If a larger percentage of your income is already spent on rent/bills, food, you know, the essentials to live, then what good are these other numbers?

I'm not saying your first numbers are wrong, but you do have to go deeper to provide your argument with more weight.

@GirlVersusGame I was going to see if I could find my old Alpha Protocol disc after you said that. But then... I forgot 😛

But you have made me again rue the fact that, along with the crime genre, there's a lack of Spy games, also. And even less Spy RPGs 😅 (Stay weird, Obsidian)

In the case of Mindseye, it seems they are keeping it quiet because people are more likely to buy it based on the "who" rather than the "what" and when they see the "what" they will be let down.

But, saying that, they released an even worse second teaser which is just already available footage of someone driving a car around badly in a world that reacts badly with its physics (one car in the background is doing a very strange slow roly poly) and they left the footage to show that?! So it's hard to work out what the hell they are doing 🙃

I, like many here, will be playing a bit of the old Mafia I this weekend. And maybe I'll check out the KCDII DLC a "Double Vavra" if you will. 😅

I may get back to AC Shadows at some point, having fallen off it due to the warmer than average spring being counterintuitive to playing massively consuming games. (Time gaming naturally reduces when its nice weather!) but that seems to be subsiding for the next week or so. I don't know i'm fully commited to that, however 🤷‍♂️

@GirlVersusGame (I'm speculating) but it might look like that because it might just be using assets available to everyone when 'Everywhere' hits. It's both incredibly interesting, and yet still it is probably not going to be a top quality stand alone game, and it may annoy a lot of people if it isn't good on its own merits, as a regular customer/player isn't really going to care if it turns out to be a good example of what can be made in Everywhere if they don't like the actual game 😅

It might need to be reviewed as two seperate entities: one as an example of a new type of game made within another game, and two as an actual game people buy. It could be a great example of one thing, but an utterly terrible ps5 game. That's what has me most intrigued

It might be a case of "if we don't promote it too much you can't be mad if you buy it and don't like it" and they are just letting sites and fans mentioning GTA in relation to it to do all the hard work in terms of marketing and sales.

People can't be mad if it sucks and isn't anything like GTA as they aren't the ones saying it is.

This gameplay seems like clips from the larger videos we have already seen too, just quickly edited together without random cinematics in-between.

I am firmly waiting for a full review and some gameplay videos. I don't mind an average popcorn game for summer, and it may fill a gap quite nicely. But it might also just be experimental nonsense built inside "Everywhere" to showcase what can be achieved if you have actual devs, writers and actors working with it, rather than what can be achieved by little Jimmy in his bedroom when Everywhere is available to everyone.

It's my most anticipated review, because it is totally different to a regular release

@Oram77 otherwise known as European games 😁

@EfYI it is quality on the Pro as you get the quality mode at a nicely unlocked frame rate, if your tv supports it. I tried it on both consoles and something felt off on base PS5 in direct comparison so I stuck to exclusively playing it on Pro

I think it's because people learned to enjoy the gameplay of DS1, but initially it was like "what?" for a lot of people and they will have marked it down because of that. The test reviewers won't be as confused now the formula is a known one, especially if regular gameplay has been made more "fun"

I still expect it will be absolutely bats*** crazy and alienate, confuse and annoy a lot of players for the hell of it 😅 especially if people see the hype and think "oh, I didn't play the first, but i'll try this one" those people, those are the ones that won't know what's hit them 👀

Bigger games, higher quality, developed for more platforms, and in half the time. What could go wrong?

The gift that keeps on giving

@IamJT what if the DLC is actually based in Trosky and can be played as part of your current journey anyway 😉 that would make it the perfect time to play it 😁

@bluemage1989 that's why we read the words and use our brains to extrapolate the information given to decide for ourselves whether the points raised resonate with us as individuals, or whether we need to further research other opinions to get a more varied view of the product overall 😛

@Deadlyblack @Northern_munkey

What is this? Baldies Unite?

https://youtu.be/b3RG1WzK71Y?si=YnT43JEHgE5mlOrW

Contrary to popular belief, cars, and indeed, hats, don't vaporise when they cross state lines.

@Dalamar nope. That would just be stupid. But no one has played the game yet so it's a bit early to say it's s***, for example.

Everything should be judged on its merits, not on perceptions of what it might be, not because of prejudices and not because of movements targeting it.

Saying that, I've still got my copy paste review ready to hit ASAP regardless.

"Woke trash slop. Trump Musk Yeehaw."

(First part of comment serious, second part of comment joke. It may or may not be important to mention this 🫡)

@JustinTimberlake Ah, yes... Justified hate. The very best of all the hates 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

Let me know when I can play games with my face instead

Kind of depressing it's PS Plus and not their latest top Blockbuster game (yes, we know why, and I bet the Concord concept art for a bundle is knocking about somewhere)

I suppose GoY will get one, at least 🤲

Unlocked frames for First Party Games, and in brand new games like KCD2 has quickly become my favourite way to play, so yes. The more I try, the more it feels the best way to play games and you don't have to sacrifice any quality to get that when devs support it well.

Add in RT and advanced features on top of that, which always enhances the immersion of a game world, then the Pro gives us the best options, the most choices, and the best performance.

I know some people want just one game mode, but having toggles to adjust something to your own tastes is still very nice, and kind of what PC users do anyway.

PSSR already seems less annoying than FSR in most cases too. And even Ubisoft went from being PSSR illiterate to PSSR capable within a couple of months.

@KingPev turns out I'd already beaten the race, despite having less than fond memories of it 😅 I'm not far beyond that section, though.

@KingPev Patches be praised, and automatic cloud uploads too. I can probably just pick it up right where I was, and I can't even remember which console I first played it on haha.

All good news for getting it finished this time 😁 I've always wanted to see the story through with it being a Dan Vavra script and organised crime theme, to boot.

Cheers!

Downloaded Mafia: Definitive Edition as I think I last played it a few years ago and left it at a certain Grand Prix as I moved on to Mafia 3 instead. Will see if I can get back into it from there or start over at some point this weekend.

Save excitement for when it's actually released.

There's many, many things to see and do before then that aren't the videogame GTA VI. But, saying that, on release day, let's go f***ing crazy, because, why not 😁 I'll be giddy as it downloads, I'm sure.

@Uromastryx yeah, things like TLoU are linear and shorter too, but still command top price. But I suppose it'd be a risk for them aiming too high right now, even if a lot of people actually want this more focused approach for their games.

I hope it's quality over quantity, anyway, as I'm quite interested in it, so far. And it feels like they are a dev that need a success, as all their games are instantly compared to R*. Someone in the comments is already saying "well it won't outdo RDR2" like, yeah, no sh** 😅