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@get2sammyb

“We don’t have meaningful stats but I’ll say this is an L because I hate the other toy maker”

This site has plummeted downhill quickly over the past few months.

$700 unless you own a physical copy, then it’s $800. Also if you live in a place with sales tax (vast majority of the U.S.) then it’s much closer to $900.

What a joke.

Just hit Prestige 3 today, glad to see they’re adding so much.

@B0udoir

Visually World is much better than Rise. I really liked the fluid gameplay of Rise though. People called it “Arcady” but it’s really a true successor to 4U/Generations

I bought World on PC when it launched in August 2018. That PC had parts from 2016/2017.

The PC launch version of World felt and looked much better than the beta I played last week. There’s really no excuse for a downgrade 6 years later on a console that’s much more powerful than what I had back then.

My hope is people who are interested in MH discover Rise after playing that beta and decide to give it a try. It’d be nice for that game to get a stronger community ahead of the Switch 2 launch.

8 is a really fair score. The multiplayer maps are pretty rough and are all way too fast-paced, besides Red Card which is an absolute slog and should be removed from the rotation.

The two zombies maps have been great to switch to from time to time to level/weapon boost. I just hit Prestige 1 level 41 today and it feels like Zombies solo is by far the fastest way to level.

For sure looking forward to Season 1 coming and hopefully some more balanced traditional 3 lane maps.

Played for about an hour and yeah, it feels like an extension of World and not a step up. Had fun hunting the Alpha Doshaguma but man there’s way too much going on on-screen at any given time with all the pop ups and environmental objects you can click on and use. Not to mention the NPCs talking to you nonstop.

I’ll take the art style, rock solid performance, and gameplay of Rise + Sunbreak any day.

Deleted my previous comment and came back to say this article is not right. Downloaded the Beta and played through the first hunt.

The game looks and runs great.

Set it to performance mode, with 120fps enabled, and turned on the motion sickness settings and I’m having no problems with performance or fidelity.

I usually cringe at this comment but maybe we’re not playing the same game 🤷

Got the platinums for 2 & 3 already but I haven’t played 7 since release. Will definitely pick it up

Wow I didn’t realize this review was up. I agree wholeheartedly 👍 I just hit 62 today and beat the main story quest. It’s really impressive what they’ve pulled off. I can’t say yet if I like it better than FFXIV but it certainly plays better. We’ll just have to see now if AGS can follow it up with meaningful content.

@REALAIS

Why did you @ me and quote the word balanced and say finished? I never said either of those things.

Excited to play it but October is an insane month for new releases. The expansion will be better 4-5 months down the road anyways when Blizzard gets some balancing done

@ThorsHammer

You probably already figured it out but it’ll have PSVR2 support on day 1.

Really glad to see the $20 price tag, makes it any easy buy.

Excited to see Phasmophobia is officially coming to PS5 w/ PSVR2 support in a couple of weeks. Been waiting a long time.

Got past the tutorial island and uninstalled it. In my 2-3 hours of playing I just felt like I wasn’t getting anything out of it. Luckily it’s F2P so no harm no foul

I thought it was really good of Sony to refund Switchback VR for me because it was giving me such terrible motion sickness. I had to call in to get the refund but I appreciate them breaking their own policy in this case.

I forced myself through the first level and practically threw up. Not only did I get motion sick while playing, I felt motion sickness for almost 2 hours after I stopped, something I haven’t experienced before. Even turning the camera in World of Warcraft was making me sick.

I f***ing love that there hasn’t been a single article on this website about Throne and Liberty launching on PS5 today. Let’s keep it that way, no one should be burdened by that game lol 😂

Looks really good but they fumbled Archeage over time and turned it into something unplayable. Hopefully they’ve learned their lessons.

Any chance we could see TLoU on PSVR2?

Anything first-party PSVR2 related would be very welcome. Mine has sadly been collecting dust for the better part of the past 2 years.

Also it’s always the pipe dream but Bloodborne or Resistance would be awesome to see.

I really enjoyed Inquisition. Too bad about Andromeda and Anthem.

The games have gone downhill steadily over the past 7 or so years. Sun & Moon and ORAS were decent efforts, but generations 8 and 9 are the low point for the series. Hopefully Z-A can do what Arceus couldn’t, and be a good game without looking like it’s from 2006.

@Fiendish-Beaver

Wow that’s incredible, nice to meet a fellow fan. Wish you could’ve been there with us for the Gears of War 3 launch in Bellevue, WA. We went to the official Microsoft midnight release for the game and my buddy and I won the tournament they held. Got the Gears of War 3 edition Xbox 360

@Fiendish-Beaver

E-Day is short for Emergence Day 😅 sorry I was a huge Gears nerd growing up I just had to point that out.

Couldn’t agree more though 2026 is most plausible. I remember Microsoft mentioning in 2020 they wanted a shorter console lifecycle this time and no mid-gen refresh.

@Flaming_Kaiser

No you’re misreading my comment it was a laptop, not a GPU.

https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/gaming-laptops-pcs/rtx-4070-gaming-laptop-for-dollar999-is-an-unsung-black-friday-hero

I enjoyed the closed beta, but the fullscreen water mark was a real turn off.

Just realized I’m still under NDA for that beta. It’s been nice knowing you guys 🫡

I like the re-designs. The idea of the robot being a party dude reminds me of BIV from Fallout 76 or even Bender from Futurama.

Not sure about the rest of the world, but here in Arizona we have a %10 sales tax. So the $700 console, $80 disc drive, and $25 stand actually make this a $900 console when all is said and done.

Last Cyber Monday I bought an ASUS TUF A1 4070 laptop for $900 at Best Buy. That purchase becomes more of a steal by the day.

The Call of Duty beta, Smite 2 launch, and new season of Overwatch all happening within a week was a recipe for disaster unfortunately.

I remember paying $60 back in the day to get Monster Hunter Tri for the Wii and it came bundled with a Pro Controller. What a time.

It’ll forever be remembered as the MMO that banned Asmongold lol.

Hopefully Throne and Liberty or New World can find a PS5 audience this fall. The New Workd beta was actually rather fun.

The weekend one operator skin is very reminiscent of the hazmat suit skin I used in Cold War zombies so I’m glad to see it.

Ah hah hah ha! Ooh! Majestic! A rumor is a rumor, even in a dream.

Really looking forward to Silent Hill 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds

I miss Resistance

SMITE 2 releasing in 2 days won’t help 😕

About 4 months ago I got into Overwatch 2 and have really been enjoying it. Being f2p helped big time.

@pip_muzz

Can’t believe in almost 100 comments no ones pointed this out, but there is no “upgrade path” for Spiderman PS4 on PS5.

You can buy the MM ultimate edition which was $70 at launch (sorry I live in the U.S. and don’t know conversion to £) and that’s it. There’s no way for people who own the game for PS4 to upgrade their version. No matter what way people want to spin it even if you own the PS4 version of the game you have to shell out what is now $50 to get the upgraded version.

Still baffled we have this many comments and no one pointed that out 😅

Seems like this fall is a scary release window for devs. Can’t blame them for not wanting to compete with MW2

I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords.

I mean 14 x 14 is 196, so your likely looking at 13 or 14 characters which can each live or die. That would make up the endings. It’ll likely result in a short recap cutscene at the end explaining who lived and died, and the result. Can’t wait 👍

The initial reactions on this site are such a cringey echo chamber sometimes it’s embarrassing 🤦‍♂️ I’ll never forget the Elden Ring reveal where a large amount of people here said it would be DOA because it looked like Dark Souls 3.

Blizzard has 55 games/expansions they’ve released over the years on Metacritic and of those 55 only 5 have “mixed” reactions. Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, Blizzard’s new IP, WoW: Classic WotLK are all going to be massive successes in the coming years; not to mention Hearthstone is still very popular.

@Uncharted2007

Except this game isn’t PlayStation exclusive lol 😅

It’s a shame I’ll have to play it on the Series X at launch since I won’t have my PS5 back until November. My wife and I got the platinum for Until Dawn the first week we had our PS5

Lol I actually wanted to play the SpongeBob game but I just gave my brother my PS5 🤦‍♂️ I swear my timing is always terrible

Darn what a shame. I just put together a 6-month plan to get into this games online community. Oh well.

I would agree, it’s pretty amazing. My second favorite is the GameCube controller, specifically the re-release they did for the Switch.

Well sadly I just lent my PS5 to my brother until at least November, so it would be a while before I was able to play this anyways. Oh well.

And what’s up with the weird Bethesda sucks comments? Since when do 2 games make a trend? Fallout 76 and Ghostwire Tokyo are different developers, and neither are indicative of Bethesda as a whole going downhill. DooM, DooM Eternal, Wolfenstein, Deathloop, and Fallout 4 all got massive praise. Heck even Dishonored 2 and Prey were decently liked. Let’s not start pretending like Bethesda is the new EA or something because they’ve had a couple of lackluster games recently.

Looks great! It’ll just have to wait patiently in line like every other game that’s come out recently 😅 great time for gamers on every platform rn

Woot! (And obligatory added words for PS comment requirements).