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@NavalHistorian Also, to your other question about psvr2, for me personally it's definitely worth the money. I have over 300 hours in GT7 vr, playing a flat car game after feels boring. I have just over 50 games for the system, of varying quality I'll admit. But it has some amazing experiences you just can't get on the normal screen.

@NavalHistorian it's not really a campaign as such. Just 10 historical missions(Though one is training) and 13 they have created. There is a fair few hours of content in that, plus the mission creator but it's not a normal campaign. I like yourself used to love falcon 4.0 and spent many hours in a f117 and playing this game in VR would have blown my teenage brain apart. The level of immersion is incredible. But If you've never used vr you would need to build up gradually.

Well, it looks bloody awful to me. I love the first two games, the graphics, gritty world and the grounded characters. This is just a mess, and the heros, Jesus they learnt nothing from concord. Why are they all smirking? They had so many great characters from the main games to pick from but they had to chase the fortnite crowd.
I would have genuinely played a coop game set in the main game with my friends, taking down the machines together and exploring the world. But none of us have any interest in this.
I believe it will be DOA because it won't attract the people they think it will!

I've been loving it so far. Extremely immersive and fun. I don't think the learn curve is too bad, but could definitely do with some more training missions.
Graphics on the whole are great, cockpit details are amazing. Sometimes the clouds, especially from above can look a bit off. Tons of missions, 22 plus the training one. The editor is a great tool. Haven't tried online yet, still getting to grips with the flight model.
I managed to get a hotas 4 from cex for £55 and it works great with this game once you change a few button options. Bought it for this and MS flight simulator when the VR drops, so consider it money well spent
I'd definitely give the game an 8 or a 9, nothing apart from GT7 gives you this level of immersion. Just hold onto your stomach when you go into a spin!

@RoomWithaMoose I'd argue that for the majority of the population public sentiment hasn't changed that much in the last 20 years. It's just now we have people that seem to wake up every morning thinking "what shall I be offended by today"!
For me personally, they could have put any attractive woman of any nationality or race in the advert and it would have still been great. And yes attractive people sell, shocker!
Anyway I look forward to the film of a great game with a genuine nice person as a lead.

@RoomWithaMoose A bit more than a flash.
Was a clever ad playing on her being an attractive woman with great genes/jeans. 20 years ago it wouldn't have stirred up any controversy, and any interpretation that is racist is in the individuals own head!

@RoomWithaMoose "Just saying, looking at it as an ad that's supposed to sell people something, kinda a s*** ad."
That line of jeans sold out in a week. Share price went up and added 400 million to the company's value. The company was in a downward trend.
Forbes, "American Eagle Outfitters Inc. posted third-quarter results that outpaced expectations as the retailer raised its outlook and left weakness earlier this year in the rear view mirror."
"The apparel company cooked up a storm earlier this year when adverts extolling actress Sydney Sweeney’s genes/jeans caused the kind of controversy a brand can hardly buy.

American Eagle said its quarterly revenue rose 6% to a record” $1.4 billion, which was ahead of Wall Street’s expectations for revenue of $1.3 billion, with earnings of 53 cents per share also above forecasts of 44 cents a share."
Not bad for a crap ad eh!

If they do it right, this could be a really fun movie. I loved the game, so much originality and imagination.
And though she's not the best actress in the world, I'm sure she'd be great in this. Seems like one of the few genuine people left in Hollywood.

My most anticipated psvr2 game. The campaign looks great and I'm sure the multiplayer will be fun. Be interesting to see the price.

Will buy the game the day the psvr2 patch drops. With this and Aces of thunder, I'm going to be spending hours in the sky's (and probably crashing into the ground)! Just need to get hold of a hotas 4!

Will buy MS flight simulator when we get a confirmed release date for the psvr2. I don't trust MS's word anymore. Has the potential to be absolutely brilliant though.

Bit more than I thought it would be, but I'm day one. We've had years of free content and this seems like many more hours of new single player content.
The full race weekends, championships and 24hr races are going to be great in VR. After over 400hrs in this game, it's still one of, if not the best experiences in VR in gaming today. A brilliant piece of software.

@yume26 that looks like a great first time setup! I reckon you'll love it.
I use a playseat challenge myself, with a fanatec dd pro. I fold it away after every play session, takes less than 2 minutes, it's very easy to do.

@lessthanleo thanks for the link. Little bit more than I'd hoped, but I'll still be there day one. Looking forward to the full race weekends against the newer AI!

Can't wait for both these updates. The 2 new tracks look really good and love some of the cars.
Will be interesting to see the price of the power pack. Looking forward to the single player races and the updated AI, even championships I believe. And with the 24 hour races(a long requested feature), will they be bring back B Spec? Let an ai driver drive for you, and you'll be able to speed up time! I'm presuming you'll be able to save the race whilst in the pits!
Will be waiting Friday with the VR ready!

I gave it a 9.
Only played the MP and have been loving it. Takes me back to BC2 days. Runs and looks great, gun play is brilliant, sounds effects are first class. Atmosphere is spot on, watching someone dragging a team mate into cover is so cinematic. Good to have proper destruction back aswell.
Dropped a point for the slow leveling up and some of the stupid challenges.
But I'm having a great time, interested to see how the seasons, maps, content and the BR mode turn out in the coming months.

This sounds like a great idea. Especially if 3rd party companies did their own replacements.
I had a company put 4 back paddles on one of my controllers and at the same time they put a bigger battery inside. I can l get around 12 hours out of it now.
So it's definitely possible to upgrade
the battery, and if Sony made it easier for the customer to do themselves, this could be a really winner for gamers.

Is it just a reskin of returnal, mostly yes! Do I care, Nope!
Returnal is a masterpiece to me, one of the most immersive, atmospheric and dialed in games I've ever played. Best use of the dual sense in ps5 too.
Can't wait till March!

PSVR2 support is going to be brilliant. Will wait till it's in the game then will be a day one buy.

Been loving bf6 beta, rush was great yesterday. After buying COD the last 2 years it's definitely just bf6 for me this year.
COD is just so bland now, static/lifeless tiny maps with cartoon characters running around. And with warzone now just a mess with terrible servers and overrun with cheaters, if bf6 lands the free BR I can uninstall COD completely.
Though I think bf6 will be the better game, I'm under no illusion that COD won't sell millions more copies and be the best seller of the year. Though maybe bf6 might take a few million off them.
What's good for us gamers though is strong competition between the two will hopefully mean better games for both sets of fans.

I've put in 12 hours over the weekend and I've been really enjoying it. Really feels like they have captured the essence of what made bc2, bf3 and bf4 so good.
With COD been so stale now, and the developers being so lazy and complacent, it's great to see developers showing their passion for a game. Nothing beats the big game moments you get in a decent battlefield, and I've had so many over the weekend. Looking forward to trying out the New York map on Thursday.
With this and Ghost out in October, it's going to be a great month.

Just looked on steam player numbers, the closed beta is sitting at 325k. That's just steam, never mind the ea app or epic game store, playstation or Xbox. The open beta this weekend is going to be big numbers.
Speaking personally, if this game lands in great shape and the BR mode is good(please have destruction and weather) I'll uninstall COD and warzone. Warzone is just a mess, cheating and servers are a joke now.
Obviously COD is probably too big to fail, but I'm sure their numbers will drop.

I completely agree that Bad Company 2 was the pinnacle of the series. So many great memories playing that game, all fps games seem to have gone backwards since that released.
Have the beta downloaded ready for the weekend. Hope it lives up to the hype, quietly confident.

Really looking forward to the beta next weekend. If it's a good as all the reports are saying and feels like the days of battlefield 3+4 it will be a day one for me.
Hoping the BR mode that's coming after launch has the destruction as well. Oh and a good anti cheat!

Brilliant news for them. I have been loving the game playing with my son and friend. Shows people want to play this type of tactical immersive game. Single or coop its a great experience,

A brilliant game. Looks good, gun play is solid and the audio is awesome. Very dark and gritty game too.
The single player is very good and a challenge, but the coop with my son and a friend has been a great experience. Beat all the missions plus dlc. Then went through getting an S grade, meaning no casualties/ deaths, you have to take down everyone non lethal! Also trying some missions on hard setting now. Games worth every penny.

@themightyant xdefiant, star wars outlaws, skull and bones all flops. All costing many many millions.
Ubisoft needed this game to sell, and sell in big numbers. Player numbers and how many hours played don't pay the bills.

@themightyant you think shareholders care about hours played? Player numbers? They mean nothing vs if the game actually made money/profit.
I could have bought the game and my 2 boys played it on their profiles and that's 3 players for 1 sale. Yes you have subscriptions, how many paid the £15
for a month, beat the game and then
cancelled their subscription? I do it all
the time with tv subscriptions.
When they delayed the game they said the cost of the extra few months was $22 million. This was a game in development for 5 years. The whole it went over the 100 million budget but we're not saying how much is a joke. Some industry people that know far more than me estimates it could be anywhere between 250 to 400 million, especially including marketing. That's a lot of full priced sales needed just to break even.
Me personally I don't reckon they are near profitable. I may be wrong, but 5 million players just looks like PR spin to me.

Actual Budget and actual sales figures would be very interesting. Strange how they won't release either.

@Frmknst its a single player game as well. Full on commander mode. Games brilliant. Having a blast playing with my son and a friend.

@Frmknst you can play it as a full single player campaign, called commander mode. You take control of 4 ai teammates. You have to look after their welfare, carry out missions correctly. You can swap them out, fire and hire. Some missions flow into others. 20 missions in the main campaign, plus others they've added.
Much more than just a multiplayer game. Personally think it's a bargain compared to some of the full priced AAA games we get these days.

@dskatter as I understand it, they had to censor a few small things(nothing game changing) to get it on console. As they are a small team I believe they only want one build of the game going forward, not 2 separate builds.
Yes censorship can be bad, but this is hardly anything. More sales, more players, bigger and better future.

@ShogunRok it's a big list, but no Ready or Not! One of my most anticipated games of the year, can't wait to play it coop.
Not sure if pushsquare have done an article on it or not, but it's releasing 15th July for £40!

Hard to pick 3 from such a great list! I'm going to get more of them, but my 3 were 007, ghost of yotei (as I loved the first one) and Romeo is a dead man! Romeo just looked mental, fun and very violent.

Be interesting to know how much it cost to develop and market.
Many reports say subscription services are stagnant right across the board. So after spending billions on these developers, these games need to be adding big subscription numbers, not just player numbers. If it's just current subscribers playing and no growth in the service then share holders are not going to be happy.

More hyped for this game than any other this year. GOT was almost a 100% masterpiece in my eyes, and I will be playing through it again before this new game drops.

This is brilliant news, it's excellent on pc. Looking forward to having a proper tactical shooter like this on ps5, online co op will be great.

To me it was not only the right decision, it was the only decision. The chances of them finding a cure in that hospital, in those conditions from one sample is miniscule.
For them not to tell her the truth, and give her the right to sacrifice herself for the greater good makes them evil. Especially given the odds of it even working.
Joel did it right, the only villians were the fireflies and they got what they deserved.

Excited to drop back into this map, many fond memories playing this back when warzone launched.
But unless they get the cheating, bugs and the terrible servers sorted i don't think it will bring back and keep, the players numbers their hoping for.

I'm really enjoying my time with the game so far. Atmosphere and world building are straight from the first 2 films. Graphics are really good and I've had no performance problems.
Yeah i agree the aliens themselves are a bit of a let down, movement wise. But it's still great fun using the pulse rifle (i really like the hand gun too) and tracker.
So far it's an 8 from me, and I'm hopefully part 2 will be even better.

Really looking forward to playing this, should be amazing in vr if done right.
A nice Christmas game to scare you senseless.

Great month for me. Definitely planning to try sonic, forspoken, WRC and FIST.
And for anyone on premium with psvr2, I can highly recommend the Star Wars game. Had a brilliant time with it.

@BeerMonster you bought the consoles, they made the games and the platform to play other 3rd party games.
They owe you nothing, but also you owe them nothing.

@Slippship I bet they are great experiences too. I was really hoping for F124 to come to psvr2, but they just don't seem interested.

Nice to see some positively around the psvr2. I've loved mine since it's release day. A great package with some truly great gaming experiences.
Definitely getting Aces, hitman, wanderer and the new alien game.
Highly recommend to new owners star wars, both saints and sinners and the arizona games. Though GT7 with a steering wheel set up is one of the best gaming experiences you'll ever have.

I personally just want an updated Bad Company 2! Lots of destruction and great maps. Also with the state of warzone at the mo, I'd love a BR mode with the battlefield realism/destruction and game play.

This sounds very impressive, really intrigued to see how this effects the psvr2, especially after the proper patch!
It's already one of the best, most immersive games in VR.

Really looking forward to playing this Thursday. All the reviews I've seen are very positive. When VR is done probably, it's unbeatable.

I love this series, and this looks like it could be one of the best VR games out there. I think the immersion will be incredible.
I have it preordered, but will wait until my pro arrives before i start it! Sony took the money from my account for the pro today, so not long now!

@PsBoxSwitchOwner your forgetting that it's not just series X only. It's also out physically for the xbox one (and the ps4)!
That's many consoles with a disk drive. So an 88% split seems pretty high to me.