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Well, having played last night the game....well, if this is the result of not getting review keys, I hope noone ever receives such. The game has one of the best atmospheres ever. Also, one of the best attention to details, runs smooth as hell. Italy is soooo real. I do not understand heck of Italian but just checking the game in sicilian was a wow. So immersive.

So, the only thing bad here for me is the very short game time. I will deffinately pick it up but will wait for discount.

@Americansamurai1 ohhh, for sure. If not before since there is another holiday season comming

Yes, all the educated comments how Sony are stupid, consoles are dying, PS5 is the worst performing ... and yet pro shows those figures and as of today PS5 has sold 80.3 Million and soon will jump over PS3 sales. Yes, Sony has no idea what they are doing

IGN says great, but still no PS5 review is indeed red flag.

Now, first do not blame the company, it is an EU regulation. If this regulation is meaningful is whole different topic. But it will be funny to see the number of workarounds that will be found

I am always 100000% for Demos. You really need to feel a game to know if it is yours. Sometimes you can be so sure (like me and Pacific Drive) and then it is just so not you.

You damn missed Hellblade 2

@get2sammyb Maybe, lets see when those come out. I hope we are pleasantly surprised by both. Win-win

Pfff it is awesome but also too much, if not 100% little nightmares. And LM3 is due also to be released soon so not sure if, at least, the time is right for it.

Excited for the game but really disappointed if the lack of Pro support. Will wait for some patches and then with the regular price drops will get it on lower price and better performance. Not to be locked at 60fps, but average with those graphics...lazy work.

Such high hopes here.

OK, but this is looked only one-sided. If sony ports some titels to Xbox those will go sky-high too. Why? Well the people from one of the ecosystems suddnely get good games while waiting for the new releases. Not sure where the news here is to be honest.
What would have happened if MS was the winning party in terns of consoles and Sony ported God of war, uncharted, Horizon, Ghost of tsushima , etc? Same thing.

@Flaming_Kaiser you are correct as well. My critic here is towards the state of the games on release day. We all suffer from that

Well, the article points to a good thing but in general I do not think it is good. How the fact that one game becomes very good year or so after its realse. So, the point here is that if you buy day one and pay the big bucks you actually play the worst verion of the game. If you play last and pay 10-20% of the price or for free with PS plus after a year, you get great exeprience.....
Kind of a broken logic to me.

Give that one a chance. It is great. Now I have the reason to replay with Antea this time on the Pro. Very cool game and the first game where the side quests are the highlight.

Thise who have not played Banishers now is the time. It is a game that was underappreciated af.

@Dan12836666 Happy gaming then

@Bluemoon2008 Exactly.
However, I am downloading now the eddition with Vessel of Hatred which it gave me for free I am happy.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner ah too bad. Thanks for letting me know. Well, I can still then replay it.

@sanderson72 I played the base game, this is why i was hoping

Extra is great. People need to keep their expectations in check. For the price of 2 AAA games you get lots of stuff during the year.

If D4 is with all the DLCs then it will be awesome addition.

Awesome !!! But also strange. I see this like some action packed game where the firsttwo were jsut being cautious and rarely even have weapeons. I hope they do not go in some "same as other games" direction.

@Reeneman I agree. I am also happy with mine but expected that sony will mandate pro enhanced features. When big titles can skip it totally then it is a disapointment for me.

@Reeneman I think you got me wrong. I mean the game was well optimized as a whole and nothing in particular done for the small differneces between systems. Even with that they game was high res and ray tracing. So, witcher can do great stuff.
As for PS5 Pro, i do not think that anyone will actually fully utilize it. It is a shame.

not neccessarily, Indiana Jones did a very good job and it was not even optimized for PS. They just now starting to really do games for PS5 without the PS4 to hold back the game.

And they said PS5 is weak It was all about devs and PS4 holding back.

@16BitHero Absolutely agree. I am not buying day ones at all.

@RagnarLothbrok Good for you. As things are turning to be - the later you play, the better the experinece.

OK, so this sounds not like a new story, but just new regions within the same story. That is disappointing for me. Hoped for new story even short one.

@BAMozzy I would only disagree on who would buy physical. I do for 2 reasons:
1. Resell value. I do not reply games ever. So I buy, play and sell. This way each game I play at the end I pay 30% of price.
2. When I am not sure if it will be my type of game so I do not loose money ( basically same as reason one).

I enjoyed it a lot. It was the "hidden" gem of the year. Deffinately interested in continuing the story.

@__Seraph nope, i am not a fan of playing one game more than once. Hoping the next will be at least as good as.

@__Seraph dont wait for other articles. go and enjoy it. I did several months ago and i enjoyed every bit of it.

That looks almost unreal. If they pull it off ... they can charge premium and they will be right to do so.

I went for the physical eddition pre-order.

Ohh, and this will be great for all others that moved their releases because of them and they moved them in 2026 too

Yeah, i saw that commimg and reacted last month and got the pro. Sold the fat ps5 for half the price of the pro so i am happy.
Btw this goes for all tech if you are planing to change. Do it now.

@Godot25 You are forgetting compatibility mate. Like downloading now PS1 game is an option.

Now thats a good news !!! Damn it is going to be an expensive year

So far is great but a nasty bug of triggering/activating the triggers when i face an NPC makes the controller click every time. Very annoying. I needed to turn of the triggers. Lame bug.

Hey guys, not sure if anyone will read here now but I have a strange issue. In the game whenever I look at a NPC the addaptice triggers click. It is very annoying. Even if an NPC goes infrom of me , it clicks. Like activating them. The only solution is to turn triggers off but it is stupid solution

So many reasons for Astro to be GOTY and all well deserved.

Well, you do not need 4K on a small screen. the smaller the screen the less ppi you will need to have a crisp picture. This lowers the tech requirements so...why not. 9 inch with 1080p is 200+ ppi....more than enough.

On PS5 Pro it is native 4K. Now waiting on all others to see their pitty excuses how other games could not and it is not enough power in the pro. Also, the base PS5 is exceptional too.

Mafia 1 and 2 were great, 3 was *****. So, I am hopefull but I will wait for the reviews. Really hoping to be a great thing.

Damn. That may be most valuable month.

I have never understood payng higher price for couple of days early access. A games value is the experience not the time of that experience. And with the state of games these days, it is best to wait for a patch or two to experience it properly. (Usualy this comes bundled with a discount). Patience always pays off.

I dont see it at all.