StitchJones

That thumbnail is funny. Shoot 'em!!!!!!! Do it!!!!

I'm totally bummed. Had plans on getting lost in this world. I know metacritic of 77 is not terrible. But listening to the reviews, there's too many core components with this game that are bad. Its not simple stuff. That's the key for this game. For $70 and an RPG with a 80+hr investment, it needs to review better. In this world, if it seems "too good to be true", it's usually too good to be true.

I did my 2nd playthrough of this epic game this past summer. Thought I was done for good. I usually never play long, sprawling RPG's a 2nd time, but Cyberpunk themed anything does it for me. Maybe I'll make this a summer thing again in a few months, if the patch brings the game's ray tracing mode up 60fps. If it does not, I don't really see the point of the patch. It looks and runs fine in Perf mode, just no RT

@lazarus11 Should def be the better place to play GTA6 regardless, but now I'm intrigued to know if they will have GTA running in 60fps now. I rolled my eyes many months ago when it was said "sony is working with R* to get GTA6 running at 60" But that was way before any of us knew they had PSSR2 in development so. Maybe that will be the key to it all and its not a pipe dream afterall

Got a Ps5pro and its been the gift that keeps on giving in my experience. Yes there's been some duds and some troubled games (is borderlands 4 memory leak even fixed yet?) But in Borderlands case, that was a developer problem. Anyways I've been anticipating this game for ages. Finally getting insight into the console ver. is great. Hope it turns out good for you base ps5 players.

@MFTWrecks yeah, me too. the first one wasn't epic, but it was a solid action RPG. What makes matters worse is, I hate turned based RPG's they are a hard pass for me. Everyone has tastes, I get it, not mocking those who like it. But again, it wasn't turned based to begin with. Just plain dumb.

How do they even call this a proper sequel? They totally abandoned the action RPG style and made the sequel's combat, tactical turned based. I mean wtf? Why would you turn the whole combat mechanic upside down for your sophomore effort? They got a crack at making a sequel and instead of refining the core mechanics and making a better game for #2, they ditch everything they built. lmao

@Godot25 Whatever bro. I don't really care either way. I don't have stock in Sony, a PC company, or xbox etc etc etc. With not having any money invested in them, its a fools errand to give a F how they handle their business. All I know is, Playstation is alive, well and not going anywhere. So we have to wait longer for the AAA games, but there sure hasn't been a shortage of games to play. The back half of this gen has been loaded. As long as I have games to play, which I will, theyre not going away, then they can cancel whatever they wish on the other platforms. Everyone likes to sound like Sony's decisions directly affect their lives. But that's what this world has morphed into in the age of social media, comment sections, whatever. Everyone thinks they have a voice now cause they can type it out on the net. At the end of the day the fact is, NOBODY F'in CARES!!!

Sony's sales were perfectly fine for the decades, back when console to PC wasn't a thing. It was never a necessity before and they are cutting it off now, so whatever....

@Lysterao yeah rinky dink awards. I guess..... whatever

Award winning??? It ended up a 77 avg score on metacritic. Don't get me wrong, that's not bad, prob a solid game, but Award winning? lmao Awards from who, Sarah bond, Phil spencer and Asha Sharma? WdaFuq they talking about?

LMAO $1k to $1.2k for the xbox heap of plastic, all that power but no more epic AAA exclusives have come out of MS game studios in 2 gens now.......no thanks. The next Xbox and new Steam machine can be filed next to each as DOA

I see she's a clown picking up right where Phil, the former clown left off. If i had a dollar every time xbox said "our console will lead in performance" or "most power console ever" all while the xbox-titanic continues to sink with every announced console I'd be rich.

Xbox oneX-"Most powerful console at the time".......the much weaker ps4 continued to piss all over it in sales.

Xbox seriesX announced-"the most powerful console ever created"-........the weaker base ps5 not only pissed all over it, games ran better on it and the whole gen it wasn't even close in sales.

next gen ps6, next xbox.....will be the same song and dance.

@Gemini53 best Eastwood movie for my $$$ is "million dollar baby". I'm not too much into the dirty harry's or the westerns he did. I prefer his more modern drama movies, esp the ones he directed himself. Gran Torino was a good movie as well.

@tangyzesty yeah I know, i heard them say that. Whatever the case, I'm itching for a new sprawling RPG type of game (is that better?)

It seems these devs been pushing this game into people's minds hard since announcement. The game has had like 200 freakin' videos/trailers the last year alone. And they keep pushing the "we're different and huge" vibe too. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to have enough RPG elements to be an official RPG in the end, when they stop talking and just release the game lol

Yesssssss!!!! Please be good on console, please! Esp the ps5pro ver. I need a new sprawling RPG itch to get scratched. Been waiting for this thing. Fingers crossed it runs great

@Gemini53 yeah, its kinda cheezy, the only really good top notch acting was by Eastwood and Mario Van P. Everyone else is just filler roles. One subtle line I always found funny in that movie, is when stich is playing clubs and the announcer is introducing him. He says "back from an awesomely successful tour!!!!"

Lmao, awesomely successful???? The dude got into fights and thrown out of every club he played in the movie hahaha

@Gemini53 yeah i wanted to reply, forgot to insert replies, thought i deleted after inserting replies, but turns out i didn't delete, therefore i repeated lol. im sure we've all done this once.

"Swede, Swede, Swede, Swede. Sweeeeddddee?????. "Put your chin up. Higher." (powwww!!!!!)

@spikes91 @Toot1st
Good. Sony took decades building the best 1st party portfolio out of any company. By no means should our games land on xbox when they go pc/console hybrid next gen. I don't mind PC getting the TLOU's or Horizon's of our world, after they've been out for 5yrs or so. But sorry PC players, if you don't like it, then go talk to xbox for F'in this all up.

@Greifchen speaking of exclusives, nice avatar by the way. I can't wait

@Oram77 Yeah, well said. It's like his mind is on people preordering the game and pushing it to people instead of addressing. The whole "let it cook" statement is the one that's crazy to me the most.

This game prob holds the record for most amount of trailers and times shown since announcement and has gone gold ages ago. Nothing should be raw at this stage which still needs cooking. Maybe some polish, but if you can't show the ps5 ver. at this stage then uhhhhh ohhhhh

@HRdepartment lmao nahhhh. nioh can't hold a candle to any fromsoft game, sorry

@Balaam_ 100% with you. Nightreign and Duskbloods both are a waste of Fromsoft's genius and resources. We fromsoft diehards want them to stick to their strength. The most epic Souls-bornes we can get. (Lies of P/Lords of the fallen fantastic, but nothing else has the Fromsoft secret sauce)

Therefore please let this be a new From game. Its been a minute since Elden ring. I need that itch scratched

Jaffe made the first 3 GOW games. He also invented shoes, and walking, and air, and breathing....

Good!!!! Do whatever you gotta do Sony to make sure Xbox doesn't get our exclusives when they enter the PC hybrid space with their next Console

Well I tried my best to hold off on Rez Evil req till October for Halloween but the recent DF video on how it uses PSSR2 broke me. Started last night. The game's graphics, art direction, atmosphere is abso fantastic!!!! I still think Decima is the pinnacle engine right now. But RE engine is def 2nd and right up there only a millimeter behind Decima

@nomither6 Listen I appreciate your opinion, and I will never mock you for what you're saying. But obv its debatable whether or not Sony's rep is damaged. And if it is, how much so. I do not believe Sony rep is damaged one bit atm. What have they really done this gen to lose the trust of the fanbase? What heinous thing do you speak of, because I have no idea what that would be.

If we are talking about the whole live service push, then sorry, that was a business decision that was kind of worth the gamble for them, from a business perspective. I'm like everyone else. I think it was a dumb idea, it pushed back some games from the big dogs that prob should have been out already, but there certainly hasn't been a lack of games this gen. Its been pretty stacked overall and not slowing down due to the GTA6 affect.

Turns out closing bluepoint was fairly justifiable with todays new info. The whole Bloodborne remake thing Sony got crap for, turns out fromsoft is the culprit on that one, shot it down hard when Sony wanted to greenlight it.

Sony just passed ps3 lifetime sales already only 5yrs into this gen. 97million consoles sold and still going. Seems to me like their rep is perfectly fine atm, the numbers don't lie my guy.

@Dorkthrone I agree with you. That's the way the world seems to work online these days. Its such a fools errand to get into arguments or leave opinions on things that are subjective and fail/succeed based on taste.

Even with things like the Bluepoint closure. Everyone was so quick to jump on Sony and bash with little detail. Then the news drops about what really went on behind the scenes and Sony wasn't so out of line closing them. Bluepoint made a ton of bad decisions, was pitching head scratching ideas. And was totally fumbling their task on hand, which lead to its cancellation.

But no, nobody wants to take into account what could be happening behind the scenes. They like to "read article, take at face value, then spew hate accordingly and immediately"

@Nnfyrbsnss "The visual design is broken at the core and I am dumbstruck as to why anyone finds it appealing."

Wow you might win an award for "most self-centered and ignorant comment of the year"

You're basically implying that since you don't like the art style, then nobody should. That's the only way you could possibly be dumbstruck as to why its getting a lot of praise for its visuals since the server slam went live, by many outlets. So clearly, the visual design can not possibly be broken as you say. Only to you.

The only thing broken at its core here is your ego-centric bias towards the game. I think maybe you wanted this thing to be another Concord for some odd reason, its pulling its weight after all and you seem bitter.

Looks like everyone's crying about Bluepoint was all for nothing and an apology to Sony is due. Demon's souls was fantastic. But they had no clear direction or leadership at that studio with very bad ideas/decisions.

They pitched a Ghosts of T spinoff? SP prolly like "no, get your own franchise, that's ours. We got Yotei coming out soon anyways"

Pitched an updated ver. of shadows of Collusus. WhyTF do we need that??? lmao

Everyone frying Sony over Bloodborne relentlessly and turns out Fromsoft was the culprit.

The GOW game-"the developer supposedly made little progress with the project and "spent several years floundering" with it."

Can't blame Sony for not wanting to pour $$$ into a losing operation.

@1970sGamer Exactly. Perfectly said. Its tech is said to be around a base ps5/xboxseries. By the time the thing drops, this gen will be close to 6yrs old already. Who TF enters a console race 6yrs late? Even if the hardware was on par with ps5pro, they still would have been way late to the party. Valve-clueless.

@Americansamurai1 @wilky2988 @LogicStrikesAgain If it indeed turns out to be a huge, deep RPG with like a 30-40+ hour campaign, wouldn't it be worth the reg price of $70? Wilky here said, he can't see spending more then $50 on this like EX33. If a game is done by a similar studio to EX33's, is that the auto expected price their game should be now or something? If so, thats a crazy notion

The first game was solid all around, nothing epic, but was so great in atmosphere. This game looks like its backed with better funding and it reflects in the trailer. Its looks wayyyy deeper. This sequel has the potential to turn out to be something huge, kind of like how EX33 hit the scene and wowed everyone. Even if its not quite on that level, but similar, I think we may be in for a treat

@ButterySmooth30FPS Yeah, that guy part of a master race. Last time I checked, every other PC game DF reviews the last few yrs all have frame gen probs, frame rate probs, lack of optimization, bugs, bugs and more bugs.

Then enter Valve, one of the master races darlings for decades, announcing steam machine back in NOV. "we'll give you the PC master race experience, underneath your TV like a console" Right? Wrong!!!! lmao

That hump of plastic is predicted to be between $800 - $1000 for 5yr old tech and no true AAA exclusives, only the bones Sony sent them on Steam, which they will be cutting off soon thanks to Xbox.

All that said, Master race my a**. PC been turning into a joke like Xbox lately. Will never sink like Xbox, but not worth the time or $$$$.

@ZeD @KundaliniRising333 Yes good points, I see we are all in agreement. I'm def not bashing the game. I hope people who into these really love it and it does well. I just have no desire to be going from building to building, opening boxes and collecting junk as the core gameplay loop. So tedious and boring. I'm sitting there with two randoms in my team, picking this stuff up and just thinking to myself "I don't F'in care what any of this sh** does" lmao

I'm really bummed, because I'm a sucker for cyberpunk themed IP. And again, the visuals and art direction are unique and so good.

With Halo getting tanked ages ago by 343, Resistance/Killzone both sunset a long time ago, COD really starting to fall off, there's so much space for a new, story driven, epic FPS game in the industry. Bungie is the team to do it too. This game could have been the next Halo if Bungie really focused and made it that way.

Wow, the visuals and art direction, cyberpunk/cybernetic vibes are incredible. The gunplay and movement is top notch as expected from bungie.

But I just don't wish to play a game where the point is to start match, collect junk and extract. Then at base have 1,000's of lines of text to figure out what this crap does. Just not for me. The UI is too busy and too much sensory overload, it confuses me and makes my eyes hurt. So same thing as ARC raiders. Gave it a try, then deleted mid game, knowing that I will never play this. Oh well, i tried.

A single player FPS set in this world would have been amazing.

This article and some of the reviews making it real hard to reserve this game for Oct and making it my Halloween game

Yeah prob cause we won't really see it in full force until Horizon 3 and that will more then likely be on ps6. So I would hope that they have upscaling tech that is better then what will be on current gen with PSSR 2.0

@Haruki_NLI Oh really? duhhhhhhhh lmao clown. Sony would just make that decision on the IP. They would not develop the game. Use your head before you get all sarcastic in your reply thinking you are the smartest guy in the room.

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@Grumblevolcano I'm not saying its impossible and that game won't end up on switch, who knows and whatever. I'm saying that isn't the kind of business that Sony would go out there in person with Kojima to handle.

@Grumblevolcano Why would playstation be at Kojima for a switch 2 ver. of Death Stranding ? lmao

I was going to be doing this anyways, more the likely, but the reception of this game makes it easier to wait for OCT and make it my Halloween game. I bet its still great though, but not a barn burner that needs to be played on launch day.

@Oram77 this is the new "wtf did they do to Joel in the sequel?" moment that nobody is gonna shut the F up about.

I'm more of a BF and TLOU multiplayer type guy then the likes of ARC raiders and Marathon. But I'll give the server slam a try. I really love the art direction and visuals of the gameplay trailers. I just wish Bungie would have made a single player FPS in this world of marathon, instead of a live service game, but oh well.

@Boxmonkey uhhhh no. The steam machine is rumored to have a ridiculous price tag and the thing is just on par tech wise with a base ps5. This gen will be close to 6 yrs old already when that heap of plastic launches. How is a console/pc hybrid with the same tech as a ps5, 6yrs late to the party and no real AAA exclusives like Sony going to become Playstations main rival? lmao. In fact most people in the industry are saying this thing has a good chance at being DOA. It was already going to be between $800-1000 for and that was before the RAM shortage. Lmao, main rival at that price tag, with inferior tech and games? Not a chance

@Scottyy you can't just automatically assume if xbox fades out of existence that Sony will just get lazy without having them as competition. Did you forget that Sony released 2 consoles, the ps1 and ps2 before xbox was even in the console gaming business? Big corporations like Sony just dont decide to get all lax when other competitors go away. Its not how business works. I respect you opinion, im not trying to convert you. But believe me, things are going to stay just fine in the world of PlayStation.

@Scottyy To be quite honest, xbox hasn't been much competition for way longer then people think and PS has been 100% fine. Halo was xbox's flagship. 343 tanked Halo ages ago. Infinite was just an above avg FPS. Forza has been forza, but racing is niche. Gears has been in the stage of an IP where there's been a ton of iterations already and its been 7yrs and counting since Gears 5 and the one in dev now.

Starfield was a total flop for "skyrim in space"/bethesda standards. A solid game, but forgotten about quick and not the killer app xbox needed. Too many exclusives that are ok games, but don't move the needle such as South of midnight, Avowed, Outer worlds 2, Hellblade 2. I know, they're on ps5 now but the fact they aren't system sellers is what got them on ps5 to begin with. Xbox 1st party has had a prob with dev'ing killer apps for ages now. Its nothing new

When's the last time xbox put out a truly epic AAA game, that would be up to par with TLOU, Horizon: ZD/FW, or Ghost of T???

So with all that said, Xbox going away will not affect Sony one bit. They haven't been much competition since the 360 and that was 12yrs ago.

@OldGamer999 take the RAM out of the console 1st before you eat it. Do you have any idea what that may be worth 2 years from now???

No impact? so does this mean they'll be using the same game engine on ps6 and ps7 too, for the next 20 years?

"One of the main lessons the platform holder learned from Concord was to get players involved as early as possible"

Yeah they learned this lesson. That's why Fairgames still only has a CGI trailer that's 3 years old now.

Microsoft is one of the richest companies in the world, all time. That takes brains and hard work to achieve. Yet with Xbox they have no clue wtf they are doing from one day to the next. lmao I thinks its hilarious watching xbox (st)fumble all over the place like a drunk on a crab fishing boat on the high seas

@DETfaninATL Awesome to hear you are playing Metal Eden. I think it was a gem that was highly overlooked. I'm halfway through and dropped it for a bit, but will be picking it up this weekend. The cyberpunk vibes in that game are so great. Everyone likes doom and likes cyberpunk theme. IDK why that game flew totally under the radar