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@graymamba @CaptD

Wheras I live and breathe for trophies. Sign me up 😂

I will add that both my playthroughs of KCD1 ended up well over 200 hours without trophy hunting, just enjoying. So maybe add another 200 hours to that platinum total 😛

Oh @Khayl I could kiss you 🤣

What a good round number to score it. Will settle down for a good read of this review later.

JCBP!

Warhorse, you've only gone and done it 🍻

A company that expects 10million sales for a game catering to a user base that provides under 100k sales seems a waste of time and money at this point.

Port some old games onto switch and you'd get some big sales TLoU, Uncharted, old GoW etc.

Rolled credits on my latest KCD playthrough in the week so now I'm patiently waiting for KCDII

I might check out Sniper Elite Resistance or play a bit of Hogwarts Legacy 🤷‍♂️

Sony next level trolling

@lazarus11 yeah. I think the price would be okay if it legitimately said/was battle ready, and had the unique design element for KCD on top of that. This one is not the kind of design I was after though, so it is irrelevant for me personally.

Good sparring swords seem to be at least £400 and upwards now though, which is why it surprised me that this one wasn't battle ready at the price it is listed.

@lazarus11 I was going to say that I think the selling point (beyond KCD merch) is this will be a high carbon spring steel sword, hence the price being more in line with sparring swords, rather than a stainless steel replica which would absolutely not be safe and would break under the load of swings. But the website listing says not to be used for sparring so 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Nerrrr, we don't want to gatekeep, unlike meany Sony...

Auto translate: We tried to buy a bunch of publishers and take their games away from Sony, but no one bought those games or our consoles. So, in summary, we f*king failed so hard that Microsoft had to step in and give all of us at Xbox HQ a good firm slap.

I do recommend people buy Indiana Jones when it's out on PS though. Good little game that deserves to make more than £12.50 through Xbox sales 🤦‍♂️

Driving swords where they should never be driven... in: Kingdom Come: Deliverance

@ShogunRok it's weird, because the game looked pretty much good and ready when they last did this 'x hour preview mission from 2 perspectives'

Serious de ja vu. I'm going to be looking out for more apples rolling across the ground to see if they really are buying in to the physics and destructible environments aspect in this next game

And now I've realised this is PushSquares own 4 hour impressions, which is even better, as it is hands on opinions. Nice 😁

GTAVI = 6
Trailer 2 = 2
First f***ing clue = 1

🙊

26th of January
7th February
21st or 12th or 3rd June

It's funny why people care enough to try and guess a trailer date. Like, if a trailer does drop on any of the endless guesses, what are you going to do, then? Guess when the next trailer drops? Guess the release date? Then what? 🤷‍♂️ the game will release when it releases, and time will move at exactly the same pace between now and that moment 😁

It looks a lot better than any of the combat in any recent releases. It looks like it feels good to play, too. It's hard to make a trailer actually give you that sense, but they somehow have. There's no "freeze stop" after every blade hit, the parry/block mechanic looks very manageable (I don't think they take any damage in second phase 😅) but there isn't a load of red and white flashes on screen to alert you when to parry, so it just seems to flow on momentum and character visuals.

I think the last move was them just showing off... waiting for the bulletstorm and timing it so they can flip through it with some kind of stored special move? 👀😁

Also, the jump dodge onto the opponents blade? Come on now.

Is there such a thing as too cool? 😅

They have earned my purchases, regardless.

I didn't play the DLC's in my first playthrough anyway, but recently played them as a way to get ready for KCD2, and boy, am I ready. Band of ***** felt like a perfect lead in, in terms of theme and tone, and The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon added a little more flavour for setting out on our journey with Hans in part 2. And so, after immersing myself in the main quests and side quests in full (which will be hundreds of hours of good content) I'll happily revisit the game for the KCD2 DLC in the future, too.

I'll get over them not quite having got the hairstyles to function in cutscenes yet. It's a very secondary feature in a first person game where you wear helmets frequently. But it's nice that it's still coming soon.

@get2sammyb and we already know what these vocal users will say when GoY, Intergalactic, Wolverine etc release. "Eh, I'll wait for a sale" "£70 is too much for a game" "PS Plus catalogue sucks" (every single month until one of these is on it) and then "iT's NoT eNoUgH"

Gamers have become spoilt little b*tches. In fact, all of mainstream society has. From politics to free online content. Nothing is enough and everything is sh*t unless we get everything that we want right now. The world has become a big bunch of ***** whiny babies.

Sony definitely went about it wrong, overall, and wasted way too much money on a high risk strategy, but this specific instance is the alternate way of doing it, a smaller studios with low risk, unfortunately it seems they haven't been able to cope. But this isn't going to cost Sony hundreds of millions, so they should keep trying again with smaller studios to create a hit of some kind, it doesn't even need to be GaaS. Just keep funding small teams to create what they actually want to make and develop that creativity, and let your main studios do what they do best That is what a strong Sony does. And that is what would be better for the industry.

Is rocking back and forth waiting for KCDII classed as playing anything? 🤷‍♂️

Nah, I'll probably be putting up a nice new sword display at some point though, so that will satisfy my historical weaponry urges, and maybe i'll play a bit of KCD too, which sounds like KCDII if you say it out loud 😛

"but what if we get it right next time?" - Hermen Hulst 🙄

Seriously, think for a moment how many small scale independent studios could have been financially supported by Sony/SIE over these past few years. Studios that could themselves potentially hit live service, latest craze or cult hit gold with the type of genuine artisan creativity that can only be achieved in small passionate teams.

Sony could have literally given heaps of money to every single genuine independent game studio and in return published their games for them... for free! And it would still have been money better spent with much more chance of a positive return on it than what they have got by backing all of these failed and binned "AAA live service" ideas.

Mind boggling stuff.

It's over half of their studios they have had doing this sh**, right? I'm genuinely dumbstruck. Please send Bungie and anyone who recommended any of this sh*t in the first place out of the earth's atmosphere, cheers.

The header should simply read: For f***s sake! 🤦‍♂️

Wait, the Bend game was legitimately a live service game and not an open world rpg/single player game 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ the one that was a brand new IP learning and taking elements from Days Gone? The one we had been waiting to be announced?

So all that time, and all those poor devs hard work was for... f*** all and something that noone even wanted, once again 🙈🙈🙈

My question is: Will 'Switch 2' even come anywhere near to being a rival to the Switch itself? Switch players aren't exactly hardcore gamers overall, so will adding power really inspire them to move on from their Switches?

I think it will be interesting to see who they do target with the console.

Daniel Vavra can happily relax and say "I wrote Mafia 1, Mafia 2, KCD and KCD2, what have you done?" It's a strong resume.

So weird that there's doubters to quality 😅

One of the worst studios at optimising games fixes the PSSR issue they were having?

Good signs for everyone, right?
The third game might be a bit more playable on the PS5 Pro nearer to launch than all the other versions that are forced out too quick, too 😅

@GraniteFraggle your statement is kind of incorrect, but a common misconception. You can sleep to save, there's autosaves at important quest checkpoints, AND you can buy/craft saviour schnapps for an "any time" save. Which you can use to experiment with how to tackle a camp full of bandits when away from towns, for example.

The problem is people just run through games without paying enough attention these days, and then pass on misinformation on the internet and put people off trying things for themselves.

If you are a gamer that likes to think for yourself there is a strong possibility that you will enjoy the series. Especially if you already have an interest in medieval life, weaponry and warfare.

Someone genuinely posted "Modern slop" in a comments section about Kingdom Come: Deliverance 😁

And for some reason (I assume because of the first few posts) this comments section has gone seriously off the rails 😂

@ApostateMage assuming you will be there Day 1? We'll have to get a thread going in the forum soon

As Indiana Jones is all wrapped up, I find myself playing...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Where I will probably be fighting hoards of bandits in the dark

and maybe helping Hans to delight the butcher's daughter with his own... lordly sausage. Ahem.

@DonJorginho people are properly hungry for it to fail. Every AC sells over 10million, especially the later ones that "no one likes"

I'm personally glad it's delayed for selfish reasons, in that KCDII is far more important to me. But AC Shadows is still a game that I'm really looking forward to, and f*** what "everyone else" thinks about that haha.

Well, the common folk won't be getting PC's any time soon for their common games. But you can easily argue that PC is cutting more in to the console market for games that aren't Sport and Shoot, so the need for exclusives is semi-vital on that front.

If Steam OS or some universally more "console like" OS start hitting prebuilt PC's and you get more PC's designed specifically for living room/media room gaming, free from the tyranny and sh*tness that is MS Windows workplace-centric OS ruining everything, and also then get games from all publishers, then it could be even more people leaving the console space behind.

Whipping butts in the snow in Indiana Jones.

I'm thinking that maybe I'll start GoW Ragnarok, too, as the weather seems right for it. But will only commit if I think I can beat it before Feb 4th. If not, then i'll just pootle about in a few older games when i'm done with Indy. JCBP

I've also unearthed some rumours of something new at SIE called the: Give Team Asobi Anything They Want to Make Protocol.

@riceNpea was it around the time he played/became possessed by Andy Kaufman? That was quite an intense role, and spiritual to boot, so I wouldn't be surprised if it changed something within him

Jesus Christ Be Praised

Just so you know: there's hundreds of other games due to release well before GTA 6 comes out 🫡

Happy New Year!

2025 being a big year for games means 2025 should also be a big year for PushSquare. So let's dial it up to 1000% and work those writers' fingers to the bone 😛

And with the Game of the Year coming out in little over a month's time, it's going to be a strong start 😉

Indiana Jones and the Plunger of Doom

@shogunrok

Can we have a category for 'Whiny Gamer Controversy of the Year'? Damn near every game had one.

The top 3 on this list alone were: mtx, Fast-Travel, T*ts & China 😅

@Zuljaras remember, even if it takes a while to get into, keep going. Even people that love the Witcher (me) initially took quite a while to really click with it and get it, and maybe even put the game down for about a year before trying again. But once you do pass that period it's obvious why the box says "over 1000 awards" 😁

See you on the path ⚔️

Properly started Indiana Jones and the Great Circle last night, so hopefully going to get stuck in to that when I can.

KCD is still tempting too, however. And it pairs so nicely with Andrzej Sapkowski's 'The Tower of Fools'

JCBP and have a happy holidays

It'll be out before the Unreal Engine 5 Gothic Remake, regardless 💀

Poised to be a console and system seller because it certainly won't work on a bunch of consoles and graphics cards that people currently have, but it certainly is a pretty big franchise.

GTA and The Witcher, the games that will continue to move us into the future 🍻

@PerpetualBoredom haha I was going to do a tally of the total cost for my most wanted games list for 2025, but I don't think I will, as it might make for painful reading 🙈🙉🙊

@SrpskaArtilerija I know, I get what you mean, 2024 especially hasn't been a marquee year for games that I want to play, either. I'm just glad 2025 is stacked now. A lot of those games were probably initially planned for earlier releases too, but sh** happens, resources spread too thin, live service distractions, strikes, some games started production during covid or 'work from home' times etc. The whole generation has been a little bit delayed, and a lot of games releasing with tech problems too, no doubt stemming from some of those issues.

@SrpskaArtilerija they are waiting for us in 2025 😁

@Arkman I think it handles detail and upscaling really well, it just struggles as a denoiser. Which is, I believe, what an Activision dev solved in 10 minutes a few weeks ago. Hopefully it shouldn't be long before there are real solutions to that one issue and everyone can move on 😅

KCD2
GTA6
Ghost of Yotei
AC Shadows
Mafia
Death Stranding
Crimson Desert

I mean, 2025 is literally insane, and I've missed a bunch i'll probably also like off that shortlist

@ApostateMage Jesus Christ Be Praised 🫡

Has KCD2 won most anticipated game yet? 😁

@ApostateMage lol, whut? I feel like FF16 is the game I had to press the most buttons on ever in the history of gaming. Like 4 million special moves per boss fight 😂 yes, it's not the most challenging of combat, but it certainly requires input galore to make that screen fill up with particle effects 😛

How to reduce sales and alienate people

Would have to see how it'd work, of course, and I do like that they are thinking up new ideas, but can't imagine how they will execute this one that well.

1a. If there's a time limit, you can't also have generous checkpointing and save chances, because then, what's the point in having the time limit in the first place?

1b. You can't not have generous saves and checkpointing because you will annoy everyone if they miss the deadline by a few seconds or minutes and then have to go back hours or even start again.

3. Rushing games isn't really fun for a lot of people in the first place, and having a time limit means no player choice in the matter.

4. No sidequests could mean a more focused story with actual dramatic quality (with or without a time limit) But the story is hardly ever the best part of these types of games, it's more about the sandbox world with the odd cutscene slapped on it to give you a bit of direction. And how much of that 24 hours can they really risk being not gameplay?

Overall, with limited information and drawing from what Far Cry games are, it sounds more like a DLC sized adventure with a basic storyline of "free my family" and the rest will be running around killing people who might know where to go whilst chatting via radio comms to some person who is helping you for some reason (who later turns out to be the big bad 😱 dun dun dunnn)

Wouldn't put it past Sony to secure marketing rights for some future Xbox releases and bang "This is a PS5 game" on the advert. The games might actually sell pretty well if they allow it 😅

@Johnion it says a LOT about the idiots who react to sh** like this. I doubt they want to sell the game to the those closed minded folk anyway.

Play games and live life with an open mind, it's not going to hurt you ffs 😅

@Nepp67 ah, yes... but why will that ridiculous reason put you off playing the game? I'm genuinely intrigued why it matters, especially if you think the game looks really interesting.

Did you not manage to enjoy The Witcher 3 even though Geralt is literally a hideous mutant? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ why would you have to be attracted to a character to enjoy a game? 😅

@Nepp67 "think it looks really interesting but the shaved head look does kinda put me off."

Puts you off what?! Playing the game? Or something else entirely? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️