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@Czar_Khastik You forgot to mention the game is a lot better on OG PS4

Classic propaganda. Blame the innocent NPC and don't even mention Denuvo (the real culprit)

I'm still not sure if this game is a chore or a masterpiece. I probably won't play it again, even if it gets a good update.

I can't wait for them to develop an AI to replace their CEO and investors. Maybe that AI will be more humane and re-hire humans to make proper games "by humans, for humans".

@Lolocopters Would you be happier with "spiral of death"? I mean life leads to death, but death doesn't necessarily lead to life depending on which religious fiction you choose to believe.

The good thing about not having ps plus is that you don't lose access to things. Also anything about the videogame industry is more a cycle of death, than a cycle of life.

Some people got overexcited when the PSVR2 sold out. But it only meant they didn't have enough stock, possibly because they didn't believe in it. That was actually the PSVitaR2

Don't you have a disclaimer for advertisment? Or even mention the sponsored article in the title.

Like this:
"Sponsored: get a credit card from a company that is so indebted it sacked 900 people. What could go wrong?"

I wonder if they learned from this experience. Making a full BS first trailer, releasing a broken game that doesn't even run on old gen, promising refunds on playstation without even involving Sony.

They should call it "The last of us Port II"

Atlus' releases are a mess. Like P5S wasn't a sequel to P5R but P5. As if their re-releases aren't canon.

I didn't understand a thing while I played through the game. When I watched/read explanations about the lore online, I felt like they were talking about an entirely different game.

I'm not too crazy about having 99% of the lore hidden in item descriptions (same as not having a basic quest log or a simple pause button). As much as I enjoyed most of the game, it's a shame you have to rely on the internet if you don't want to waste hours trying to make sense of it yourself.

I'd rather replay a modest almost-indie game like TotK or a ridiculously low budget game (because it's missing the all important 4th A) like God of war or Horizon.

I don't get the hate towards a guy who created great games. Could it be because people are addicted to micro transactions and his games aren't full of it?

@DennisReynolds In the west, CEOs get a huge bonus when they fire lots of people

Not sure how many think like me, but I refuse to pay 80€ for an unfinished game. The only game I bought on PS5 in 2023 was Octopath Traveler 2 at around 40€. Higher prices mean people are more hesitant to buy.

"We have made the extremely hard decision to announce our plan". So the hard part was the announcement, not the decision to fire 900 people. Seems about right for these big companies.

@Flaming_Kaiser I guess I'm not the only one who experienced this. I thought I had lost both my legs the first day I played BotW. It was the only time in my life I forgot I wasn't in front of the TV. A horrifying experience.

I remember playing Xenoblade Chronicles X while pooping. But I'm not paying the price of a Wii U for a simple controller with a screen. I can pause my game and play something else on my Switch instead... Or simply spend a little less time in the loo.

I can't wait for an article saying "noone was fired in the gaming industry this month".

Whenever I see the acronym DLC, I read "wait for a full release". And they talked about the game being so final (pun intended), it would never get a patch.

Death to the DLC/GaaS/Macro-transaction/AI/NFT era!

Yoko Taro should work with Valve to get Nier 3 out as soon as possible.
I there ever is a Nier 3, I hope it'll be closer to Automata than Replicant/Gestalt

@Ooccoo_Jr The Philips CD-i and Virtual boy were abandoned as quickly as the PSVR2. I suppose the V in PSVR stands for Vita as a lovely reference to how quickly it was abandoned by Sony. But some people will still tell you ho great it was to justify their waste of money

More specifically, they should stop entertaining and surprising people with extremely bad decisions. Also antagonising players isn't the same as delighting.

At least they aren't blocking roads and transportation like all those idiots (SNCF, RATP, farmers, Air France, etc.) who don't even know who the strike is against and end up pissing off everyone

Those 70-80€/$ games made me stop buying games day one entirely. Instead of paying 50+€ I end up waiting for the price to drop around 40€. At least developers have time to finish most game by the time it drops low enough.

That's what happens when decisions are made by humanoid things barely pretending to be human, who only care about making more money, and couldn't give a f*** about games or actual human beings.

I can't wait for AAAAAAAAA games that are well worth 3 times the price of the console they run on, but still fully broken.

This is what everyone has been dreaming of without knowing it: seeing casual gacha players break their overly expensive phones after dying a million times, spending 500€/$/£ on the shop and not getting anything

I watched season one of the show and it bored me to death. Can't say I'm interested in this one

I expected something like "Now that we are part of microsoft, we asked Bethesda for some help and we discovered they are even worse than we are. Who would have guessed?"

I bet everyone is looking for a full AI generated NFT game as a service that will die 5 minutes after release.

So much rage against him in the comments.

Regardless, I'm sure we can celebrate Kotick's carrier the way French people did with royalty and nobility in the past. There must be a few working guillotines lying around

The best way is to let people change the difficulty halfway through the game, but only when they want. I hate those popups saying pretty much "You suck! Need me to babyproof the game for you?"

"We made the best online game of all time, but you'll never get to play it!"

Well ok. Glad to know that.

Awesome, it's been at least 15 seconds since we've heard a rumour like this. And yet I was hoping the PS5 "lite" would put these rumours to rest. Should we all agree not to speculate on this until at least September next year then?

Why is an accessory compared to console sales? This makes no sense whatsoever. Are the psvr2 and all controllers in this list of so called "systems"? Also selling out could mean Sony didn't believe in it and didn't produce much.

@themightyant My point being, it's called "The Game Awards", but it barely has time for the people who receive those awards.

I'd love to see Rockstar patent the name "Florida Joker", just to provoke him.

They barely tried to hide the fact that the awards were just a pretence to get some highly paid advertising.

It's a lot better than a boring open world just to follow a trend. I'd rather have a tight semi-linear game than an dull open world like Hogwart's Legacy or AC Valhalla.

I'm sure they just want to keep the Xbox exclusivity quiet as long as possible following the Activision-Blizzard acquisition.

There is your justification for increasing the ps+ price. 9 games at once! Oh hang on, they are removing those games...

There has been more unfinished junk released and layoffs than great games. Not sure it can be considered as "achievements"

Sony acknowledged a problem? That doesn't sound like them. Remember in the distant past (by which I mean earlier this week) the problem with randomly banned accounts?

OK folks, that more than 30 comments. Time to wrap up this comment section.

The good thing about postponing release is that it might not be under baked... Unless they release it because they just couldn't make it good and didn't want to cancel it altogether. I'll wait for the reviews and a discount (not paying 80€ for a game, especially from the DLC specialists)

Since Bethesda games are riddled with bugs and are only fixed by mods, so they could manage to sell bug fixes. I'd love to see that.

Sony is the worst when it comes to communication. A simple "we are aware of it and working on a fix" goes a long way.

Rockstar is big enough to track and sue the leakers. If they get caught, Rockstar will probably make an example out of them.