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I see that the Azovcels are out in full force sidetracking the discussion into non-gameplay-related territories so I'll wait for my favourite YouTubers to stream this game first before making the final purchase decision.

Spring 2023 is certainly packed gaming wise...

This trailer offers some brilliant inspiration for fanart ideas. Also glad to hear that most people in the comments are sensible at least when comes to (NOT) politicizing this game. There's actually a far stronger case for boycotting games from the West if we really want to open this stupid can of worms, but hey I'll enjoy a good CoD MW game still.

Although as a consumer I see services like the Game Pass as absolutely beneficial, I must concede that perhaps the fanboys on Team Blue are right after all.

Hmmmm... I was wondering why the Japanese PS5 units are going at a LOWER price sometimes than the Chinese domestic ones on Ali platforms, I guess this explains it. Previously a Japanese PS5 unit would cost at least a few dozen bucks more but now that markup difference has evaporated.

As for the locking of titles, it's actually surprisingly easy to bypass the restrictions on non-approved games on a Chinese domestic PS5 unit, and it's a non-issue if the discs contain the games fully. Most vendors including Sony's own flagship store would teach you means to bypass that and hard bans on game sales i.e. removal of sales pages from ecommerce platforms are far and few inbetween, in fact only one game on the PS4 and one game on the Switch had gotten that treatment in my last five years of gaming in this country.

Great article, but the best part is that I finally got to know how Sammy really looks like irl. I'd just say that it's totally unexpected... in a good way of course.

I guess the only downside is that the non-US pricing won't be going back to the pre-interest hike levels anytime soon. Other than that, its great news.

3 week delay is nothing. Take all the time you need to polish up and ensure that it's a good port.

Attracting people who only play mobile games is a must.

I own an XBox Elite Series 2 controller and I'm getting a DualSense Edge to accompany it. I currently however own neither of the consoles but I use both of them for my monster PC.

I honestly think that console generations will resemble more and more those of mobile devices going forward, so shorter generations but broader backward and forward compatibilities when comes to games. We could also see Pro and Lite variants of the same generations of consoles at launch, in order to cater to different budgets and needs of the gaming consumers.

@danlk1ng I still don't have a PS5 yet so this controller would be perfect for the time being, and don't worry about competitiveness as I'm the worst at that. I'm still fumbling through Crash 4 for starters XD

@danlk1ng Don't worry you got me here. I quite fancy getting this controller to go with my PC btw, and it'll complement my XBox Elite Controller quite well.

@SolaceCreed Inbetweeners was a great show!

I'm old enough to recall a time when the fanboys used this game as part of the exclusives d*ck measuring contest, then nothing came to pass.

@jimbouk Damn you for beating me to it. No hate against Elden Ring and I love the game myself but honestly the entire narrative of Elden Ring making Horizon irrelevant is stupid, and it's clear which fanbase is more toxic.

I very much hope for the modular PS5 to be released next year.

“There are not many platforms which could run the game in 4K, 60fps natively...”

I just can't...

@KaijuKaiser Oh don't even get me started on those weebs and nettouyokus. Say a few trigger words about their WWII atrocities and they'll be out in full force spamming copypastas. They run dedicated squads that search for Tweets with those keywords every few minutes and then spam you nonstop. They also deny their modern day problems and they then wonder why Nagoshi and Kobayashi are working with NetEase now - btw I also dislike NetEase, but that's because their track record in the video games department has been meh, so I better hope that they make good use of the talents they acquired from Japan.

@KaijuKaiser As a Chinese gamer chick, thank you. One simply cannot wade into a discussion about the gaming scene here without the mandatory hysteria about the possibility of "Xi Jinping introducing social credit into PSN/Steam/XBLive" or something along those lines.

There are of course legitimate critiques about the Chinese developers' attempts such as the (general lack of) quality and innovation, and indeed outside Genshin and a few indies I cannot think of any worthwhile examples. These are the critical discussions that often get overlooked whenever the usual suspects try sidetracking the discussions elsewhere.

Honestly I'm fine without NG+. Two years on I've still yet to finish the game other than completing the Irish DLC. While I've enjoyed my moments (80 hours into the game!) I don't fancy revisiting the game once I finish it.

It's been 84 years...

I guess we'll have to expect the extreme Nintendo fanboys to storm Famitsu a la Jan 6th and demand a recount.

@4kgk2 Cope seethe dilate. Ports will keep on happening regardless of Sony botching a PC port's launch or two.

Reading some of the comments here gives me very dim hopes about the future of gaming.

@tallythwack Most games automatically pick the most ideal settings for you based on your specs, and even if you do have to use the options setting, it shouldn't take longer than a minute. You really have to have some bizarre OCD to make a big fuss out of this.

@Ralizah As someone who had to quit gaming from time to time during her austere university years owing to both academic work load and financial reasons, selling used games was essential to paying my bills in the last week or so before my studentship cheques - yes that's how bad I was with finances back then.

@Ravix It really depends on the playstyle of the player and personally I don't agree with your example there either - heck I even dunked on these PC elitists myself, but I don't think when some PC players choose to skip cutscenes, it means that they don't like stories or plots. Heck in the ancient days of PC gaming, there were wholly text-based RPG games, so I don't think skipping a few convo lines mean that PC gamers are in general uninterested in storyline.

@TrickyDicky99 Piracy also helps games to get a lot more exposure so it also helps the industry, even if less directly so. Plenty of kids who were born in less-than-wealthy families got to know these games through playing the pirated versions, and end up buying legit copies when they grow up. The industry won't be getting the pirates' money anyway but stand to lose the revenue from the legit PC gamers.

@TrickyDicky99 So now it's about the consumers, then in that case why singling out the PC gamers who pirate if they're also trying to save some money? If it's about the game studios getting compensated then buying and selling second hand games is as damaging as piracy. Don't think for a moment that if the console makers just ditch DRM tomorrow pirated discs won't start popping up all over the places, and indeed jailbroken PS5s that allow pirated games already exist:

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/03/the-ps5-has-been-jailbroken-to-allow-pirated-games-for-the-first-time-17492849/#:~:text=It%20happens%20to%20every%20console,custom%20software%2C%20including%20pirated%20games.

Again I won't judge PS5 players who do this either, so long as you intend to go fully legit when you've landed yourself a well paid job.

@Ravix Fun fact: most played games on the consoles are still sports, CoD MULTIPLAYER and racers.

@Intr1n5ic Sony would not be getting money from the pirates at all either if they haven't released the PC port. On the contrary they'd not even get the money from PC gamers who do not pirate. Furthermore, piracy can still serve as ways to increase exposure, and do you honestly think that everyone who knows about Mario or Zelda outside the developed countries did so because they own a legit Nintendo console?

@TrickyDicky99 Ah the sanctimony about piracy. Buying used games would have similarly deprived game studios of their income, and prior to the implementation of DRM piracy on consoles wasn't uncommon either. Going back further to the days before I was even born, Famiclones and 100-in-1 cartridges were everywhere too and ironically it's because of that Mario and Zelda have become household names.

Tbf I feel like Uncharted's released in a rather crowded time window, awkwardly sandwiched between A Plague Tale: Requiem and Persona 5 Royal, with Modern Warfare breathing down Nathan Drake's back too. Furthermore, Uncharted as a franchise have always been viewed with some negativity amongst the so-called PC Master Race owing to its so-called CiNeMaTiCity, so it's not entirely surprising that the game didn't do as well as it should even given its mascot franchise status. Expect TLOU to do even worse imho. I personally find this kind of attitude insufferable but sadly Bloodborne or Bust is a very prevalent mentality amongst this community.

That said I'm one of the proud 10,000 players who have given the game a second go, and is eager to experience the 4K 100+fps max visuals goodness on her newly bought RTX 4090.

Great review but I feel like some info about the hardware specs of the PC used to play this game for this review would be great. Having played this game on the base PS4 I'm excited to relive the magic I experienced 6 years ago, this time with the beast fully unchained on a powerful hardware - holy moly I can't imagine 2016 being that far past us now!

I guess I'll just stick to my XBox Elite Series 2 controller for my PC for now. I was considering getting this controller for my PC but I guess that'll have to wait a while now.

Too bad this game's released a day ahead of the launch of Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs, which means that my RTX 4090 will be hamstrung by the relatively mid Rocket Lake and DDR4 RAM that I'm currently using.

@Avishayafriat Yes I'm aware of the relationship between Sony and Epic. Rather I intended it as some kind of alternative to UE5 and perhaps should aim for a different segment of gamemaking altogether.

Now the only thing left is for Sony to return to E3 next year and make Gabe Newell appear on its show.

Perhaps Sony should consider open this engine to public and compete with Unreal.

I just hope that it won't end up being a Polish-Lithuaniapunk 1377.

I can disagree with near-same-gen remasters, 70 buck games, price hikes and still celebrate treating employees superbly. Why do people have to insist that the employees of the companies that make their products work in soulless venues like the FBC from Control?

@stueyd67 Me too. I don't understand the hate towards this game.

Time to double dip!

@Porco I immediately thought about this as soon as I saw the thumbnail XD

@Would_you_kindly you just poked the hornet's nest just saying...

I'm still not sold on getting a PS5 just yet (even though I'm definitely getting it at some stage) but this will be a perfect piece of current gen PlayStation hardware for me to get to go with the PC. I currently have an Elite Series 2 controller but I'm missing the PlayStation controller layout as of late.

@Milktastrophe so you admit that PC gamers are actually child prodigies ahead of their times?

How about a PC and PS5 port of the game first? That game can definitely make use of some much beefier hardware to smooth out those jarring technical rough edges first.

That said, I don't find a Danganronpa 3-esque treatment of this franchise to tie up some loose ends.

@Ralizah Nintendo's model only works so long as their passionate fanbase is there, and that may even change when they have a more forward looking CEO down the road. At some stage their first generations of fans will be in nursing homes barely able to move their hands or remember what 1-1 in Super Mario Bros is like. It likely won't happen for ages but at some stage even they will have to lap it up.