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Do coconuts have souls?

Broke down and bought The Last of Us Part 1 for the PS5 for Christmas. Giving it a play through now before the show starts. I’m hoping to finish in a week or two then be able to watch the first two or three episodes back to back. Just the load screen alone brings back a ton of memories.

Oxenfree had the best mechanics for branching dialogue choices of any game ever. It was intuitive, easy and incredibly smooth with instant transitions. I hope other developers took notice.

@rjejr I’m sure that you have already played It Takes Two (if not, buy it immediately), but this developer’s earlier game is a great co-op experience as well. It’s called A Way Out, is about a prison escape, and is free on Extra. It’s only a few dollars on sale in the PS Store if you don’t have Extra. I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

I will speak up for the underdog. Season looks absolutely delightful. I love the art style and the game mechanics look chill. This is the type of game I can get lost in.

Ho Ho Ho. And one more ho to fill the word requirement.

Finally, A Plague Tale: Requiem on someone’s list.

@dschons. Agree completely. Would have been my number four or five choice.

This is the way game announcements should be. A few months before release and a nice surprise for everyone.

@Amnesiac. Powerstone. What a great game. I miss the Dreamcast.

HBO makes quality programming. I am confident that this show will please fans and newcomers alike. Broke down and purchased the remake as a Christmas gift for me and my son. We have both played it before, but it will be nice to revisit before the show starts.

That’s odd. Several months back, you guys had a brief announcement about another horror game set in the bunkers of WW1. Ad Infinitum, I believe it was called, and to be honest, it looked better.

@NeThZOR. I read that as sarcasm from @Ravix. Maybe I’m wrong.

I just noticed that he only purchased $20,000 worth of stock. Imagine ruining your career and reputation (and possibly facing a jail sentence) for twenty grand.

Is that a recent photo? He looks too young to have created Sonic.

I understand that games have to leave the service, but I wish Sony would give us a little more notice. Two weeks isn’t enough time for me to knock out the Mafia titles for example.

@nessisonett Assault maps are now grouped together and rotate in and out of arcade mode.

@Agramonte. I think Valve announced in early October that they had shipped over a million Steam Decks, one of which was delivered to me. A million units as opposed to the ubiquity of a cell phone. I don’t play mobile games, but I can see why companies would want to invest in that market.

@Robocod. Is that the same Magnetic Fields with Stephin Merritt of 69 Love Songs? I knew that he had done the music for Coraline on Broadway but did not expect him to do video game soundtracks. Although his early albums were almost all synthesizer, so maybe.

@BAMozzy. I’m not sure if you know how quotation marks work.

This game also has a wonderful original sound track by Japanese Breakfast. It suits the art style well.

This title is free in the Epic Games Store until Wednesday, November 2, along with Warhammer 4K, for those who play on computer. I didn’t realize it was new until the mini-review.

Who the hell rated this a 1 (abysmal)? Certainly you could not have enjoyed the first game and given this a 1. And if you didn’t enjoy the first game, then why play the sequel? I somehow doubt that person even played the game.

Is this a mobile game? Why is everything grey?

Looking for a horror themed game for Halloween, but I didn’t want to spend the money on A Plague Tale with GoW so close, so I downloaded The Medium from Extra. It is much more enjoyable than I expected from reading the general comments here. Very atmospheric, quality voice acting, and I quite like the fixed camera as I am an old school horror fan. It’s much better than Tormented Souls, which is another similar, modern horror throwback on PS4 and PS5. And the soundtrack is excellent. Really adds to the tension. I cannot wait to jump back in, although I will probably wait until it gets dark. Bloober Team gets too much criticism. I think the Silent Hill 2 remake is in good hands.

If it were a tease, knowing Sony recently, it would probably be for a PC port rather than a console remake or remaster.

@HeroYoshiko. The base PS4 could output 1080p at a targeted 30fps. The big selling point of the PS4 Pro was 4K.

@thefourfoldroot1 Hey. Try standing in one spot and spinning the camera in circles around your character at the two different frame rates. I feel confident that you will be able to see the difference.

@rjejr What’s up with Foram? That guy have some beef with you? That account was just started October 8, but he talks like you have been badmouthing Sony portables for ages. What did you do?

@thefourfoldroot1 I think the 12 hour campaign was a reference to the banana collectible that was offered for only a single day, October 12, when the Stars program launched in Europe. For a couple of days afterward, the campaign and reward were still showing up in the app, but it was marked as expired. Very frustrating, as I played a game during the required timeframe, but apparently you needed to click Start on the campaign in the app to receive the reward.

@Mikey856 You can delete a game from your trophy list if you are worried about it affecting your completion rate.

Sackboy also had a free Toem skin that I discovered shortly after playing Toem from the PS Plus titles last month. It’s so cute and the timing was perfect, as was the extra free content added to Toem after hitting Plus.

Easy. OverWatch 2.

There is a twenty dollar gift card in the reward program that can be purchased for 5000 points.
@trev666 So fifty points is equal to twenty cents. That is laughable when you see the list of games eligible for the reward. Except for Inscryption, most are sixty dollar games on the PS4 and seventy on the PS5.
A seventy dollar purhase gets you twenty cents of credit.

Oxenfree nailed branching dialogue choices. Any developer that uses this mechanic should take note. It was much smoother and more fluid than most.

I am surprised by the number of people who have TLOU2 on their lists. I have always felt the structure is brilliant and such a bold move to have you play as Abbie for half the game, but I thought I was in the minority. It’s nice to see others appreciate it as well.

@thefourfoldroot1 I love the Yakuza series as well but could easily spend a hundred plus hours in each game. How do you find the time to play anything else?

Toem, a little indie game that was on PS Plus this month. It’s a joy to play. This is the type of game that is ideal for the subscription service. I only wish I had it on Switch because it would be perfect for a hand held system, with its ability to zoom in and out and rotate the environment. Can’t wait for Chicory (I have been eyeing it for over a year in the store sales) and Spiritfarer when they hit Extra in a couple of weeks. Keep the indies coming Sony.

@playstation1995 The third game Is the black and white camera puzzler Toem. Little Nightmares was last month. Word up son.

@LiamCroft Do you (or anyone) know if the gameplay is going to be presented in one long continuous shot with no cuts or edits like the last one?

@Smithylfc2008. It has been a while since I played it, but this did not have a Platinum trophy on PS4. So it probably won’t on the PS5 either. Still worth playing again though.

These comments are humorous. They go back and forth between people who prefer the stealth, parkour and assassinations of the original games and those that like the open world, exploration and lengthy quests of the more recent ones. It’s like reading the comments in any The Last of Us article, alternating between the people who would never pay seventy dollars to play it again and the others that can’t wait until Friday.

This looks absolutely delightful.

Why so many articles about Multiversus and only one mention of Rumbleverse last week before it launched? It is unfortunate timing, but Rumbleverse deserves a look, especially since it officially went live August 11.

And for people talking about box office receipts, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was entirely in Mandarin, made 128 million in America alone. And that was over twenty years ago, well before the majority of viewers had been exposed to subtitled films via streaming services.

For the people complaining about having to read subtitles during a fast paced action sequence, it’s not like there is a lot of dialogue during the action.

Anyone else missing five or six skins that should have been unlocked with the purchase of the Legendary Edition or Origins Edition? I have had those skins for years and now they are gone.

@pyrrhic_victory Glad you asked. I was curious as well.

@jrt87 I find the activity cards incredibly useful for mopping up trophies (especially for collectibles that I might have missed) or as a hint if I get stuck, rather than having to stop and look up a guide or You Tube video. Plus, it’s super fast to jump into a game at a particular spot. Only wish more developers implemented them.

@Netbean. Good luck with that. I placed a deposit and got on the wait list months ago and still have not received confirmation that I will even get one in the first quarter of 2023. Meanwhile scalpers are getting over $800 for the 256 gig model and between $1000 - $1200 for the 512 GB.