TheDudeElDuderino

I expect to learn about games that we will play in 2024.

I don't care. Have a ps5, played less on it than on my XBsX. I just had to get the ps5, being such a PS segz worker that I am, but I'm telling all my dudes and relatives to relax and wait for xmas 2022 before buying it.

@Kopite get an xbox and a month of gamepass. Play enhanced versions. Sell back if you will.

@Just1moretry God of War, The Last of Us and then Horizon to get out on a high and positive note.

10/10 because they matched how they look and play in my memory of them.

Aloy's face was not ok in the first game. They made it unnaturally symmetrical (they literally mirrored one side) but that can be explained within the narrative of the game, given Aloy's origins etc. I found that face to be way deep into uncanny valley.
The new face makes no sense temporally as it looks as if we are back to Aloy's mid teens and not late teen or post teen years. I am not generalising - some people have their mid teen face well into their late twenties but once they are out of that phase, they don't go back. Aloy's face was already out of that stage in Zero Dawn.
That said, and off to totally irrelevant personal appeal, I found her to look more natural, cute actually. Yes, her face is a bit chubby but so what? You try fighting those machines and keeping an eye on your BMI.

To people saying that she looks more masculine, you are not totally wrong, she does a bit, but I didn't hear you cry out in pain when FFVII remake came out and Cloud looked like the sweetest rose. 😂

Now, if you'll excuse me, I am busy playing Mass Effect.

EDIT: oh, oh, oh, yes, just to be clear, that suggested look in the tweet is just hilariously wrong. I have nothing against Instagram models and "influencers" but c'mon my man, get out a bit, meet some people.

Not sold at all, but I was not sold on Zero Dawn either and it became my favorite sci-fi game of the last generation.
Right now, I'm indifferent to it and I am sure this will change the minute I start playing it when it releases in September 2021.

@Arugula that's nice of you, but the game is ancient by now. No spoilers alert no more. Enough is enough. 😈

@Arugula that's Freya, former Queen of the Valkyries, former Queen of Asgard, Baldur's mother and, ok, yes the witch in the woods in the last God of War, c'mon now, show some respect😋.
Cc @Oscarjpc

Yes, Sony should have something like that and while they're at it, Sony should either work with MS to fully support MS' controller for special needs gamers or make something of their own, the backwards dark ages corporate a**es that they are.

I came here thinking I would be the odd one. Phew, there's quality in the comments. Forget Sunset Overdrive. Overhyped mediocre game that quickly bored me. I played it on XB1X and even that awesome performance couldn't save the game. I hope they don't waste their talent on that cr** again.

Seven is "almost half" 😂

@LordSteev yes, I preordered. When you go to your library it will let you download it now so that when release time comes you could start it then and there.

@LordSteev dude, you're in for a ride! When I played them, I had all the DLCs and especially those in ME2 are awesome! It will be a totally new game for you, man. You're gonna have a great time.

@LordSteev you said it man! same here! I just started the ME LE download. Can't wait to play them - I have also played them on release and then never again. Yup, once ME lands, I will play nothing else.

@LordSteev no problem, man. Just to clarify a bit, there are no visualised story elements, like movies and characters and stuff. It's a story that is told through mission tasks. Gameplay takes center stage as it is about overcoming obstacles to achieve goals. It's a slow game and requires patience.

I get what @Vladspartan is saying. Just enjoy the games for what they are, forget trophies, I am of the same opinion, in my old gamer brain but I also get trophy hunting, I am doing that as well. Vlad, it will help if you think of trophies as top score lists on the old arcades. We played to enjoy the games but we also played for the high scores. Trophies are the new "look I did it!" top score tables. @Sam-Bridges I think Vlad was just using a wrong shorthand for all the words above 😇

@ankehuber @LordSteev given the corona times, this was absolutely in the top of my GOTY 2020 list 😀
The game has a story, recovering areas affected by natural disasters. You accomplish this by completing delivery missions and to accomplish later ones you need better trucks, options for those trucks and equipment. In my mind, this is Death Stranding but with trucks and no BTs 🤣

Hold your wild horses. You will not see this in retail before autumn 2023.

@Snake_V5 the original did. I usually play Yakuza games with Japanese audio. I heard Judgement had good English voice acting, gave it a try and never went back to Japanese. It was that good. I'm guessing the second will be equally good if not better.

I like the story of the first one as well as technical quality. Awesome English voice acting. Awesome mini games, awesome brawling. The only thing I hated was the detective "games"... those sucked and were boring af. They want to have more? Meh. What I was hoping for is more Phoenix Wright gameplay, clues collection, courtroom drama, not some secod grade tailing repetitive gameplay.

@wiiware if you don't mind spending 50% more, for a better performing solution, then samsung t7 seems to be the best way. Although, for that price, I would wait a bit longer and see Sony's list of supported nvme's because right now, for the price of T7 you can get a 1TB gen4 nvme (which should perform close to PS5's built in storage).

@wiiware do yourself a favor and buy a samsung 1TB qvo ssd and an external case for it that supports UASP (e.g. Sabrent Hard Drive Accessory Case Toolless 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure).
This is the cheapest way to get max performance of an ssd over usb. It will perform superbly on both ps4 pro (not on OG or slim ps4 though!) and ps5 (for ps4 games).

Oh man, all the people who preordered and bought day1. 😪 not fair.
Stockholm Syndrome will be renamed to Returnal Syndrome soon.

@Dislecksier let me tell YOU something, pendejo, you pull any, uh, crazy ***** with us, you flash a "don't forget" on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your *** and turn it into "remember" till it clicks.
😂

My pet peeve: noticing when professional writers somehow decide to go with "don't forget" where they could have used "remember".

Remember to Download April 2021's Free PS Plus Games While You Can

Do you see? Sounds like a friend... instead of your 5th grade 60 year old teacher.

Let's be real here. It's an internal dissection of a competitor's product done for some internal purpose (e.g. learn what is good and bad about the game, to learn from it etc.).
It's fine that they identified gunplay as not on par with the rest of the game's quality AND they did understand that even so, that gunplay works within the game's narrative. It's ok, quit biting y'all. 😂

@Jimmer-jammer CP fan as well. You can't equalise the two. Crashes in CP were the rule, here they are the exception. But, and this is a big one, although I had probably more than 100 crashes during my playthrough of CP, the game never, NEVER, lost any of my progress (due to its phenomenal save checkpoint system). Crashes in Returnal are heart breaking. But hey, that rogue-lite way is spilling to your real life with that game. You die, you repeat from the beginning. Hahaha
Also, many PS fans playing Returnal who poopooed on xbsx' quick resume feature will understand the awesomeness of it now.

LoL at all the Sony's pre release PR with new ways to patch +new compression = less data to be transferred for patching. I mean yes, 10 GB is less than the whole game.

@Coltaine22 no Europeans were mentioned in the question and in terms of geography all three rules, if you don't know Japan's history, could have been invaders. The hint was in the question - year 1281. Both Timur (a.k.a. Tamburlaine) and Ivan the Terible were not even born then.

@SoulChimera I found that since the last update hdmi link finally started working and turning on the tv will turn the ps5 as well (which is something I did not want 😂). Maybe your issues are related to those options? You have to check the hdmi options on both ends, maybe you swith to another source and your tv puts the ps5 into rest mode? Just spitballing...

@Loftimus oh I see. you misunderstood. Well, let me help you, old chap. What I meant was: US has been sticking their nose in everybody's business since they entered WWII. It was a joke, as in, your demand for them to keep out, is hardly gonna cut it with the state of the world.
And here you are, thinking it's a flex, insulting me for no reason. Splendid. Do go on.

@Loftimus excuse me? What are you on about?

@Loftimus 😀 well you can't be sure who is coming from where, with vpns and people having us psn accounts, you are never sure, so I can bet you those are not all US voices.
That said, "so maybe they should stfu on this one and leave us to it." has not been the way americans worked since December 8, 1941.😂

@Loftimus it'll never happen. As long as oil is traded in $. All money is a representation of debt, but the $ represents energy as well. Like in the old days when certain currencies represented gold. New money (crypto) is trying to imbue value into representing data. In any case, as long as the $ represents world's energy transactions, those who control the $ are the empire and the rest are provinciae. And the provinciae always foot up the empire's bill. Thus, the empire's people pay less compared to others.

@UrbanPlaystation 😄 well, dude, we found us a great reason to return to this comment section in 6 months 😂 let's see together. You could be right, I could be right. Let's just hope the game doesn't end up on ps plus by then 😉

@RaZieLDaNtE hey dude, I appreciate your comment and time. You will be happy to know that I bought Hades on its release (release release, not early access) for exactly the reasons you mentioned and that has been the only rogue-like/lite I like.
If Returnal turns out ot have such a strong story, characters and non repeating script, I will be buying it sooner rather than later. If not, then the arcade splendor can wait for black friday sales.
Cheers and stay safe and healthy.

@UrbanPlaystation Deamon Souls PS5? Dude, it still has not been six months since it released, but also not every six month period is the same. When Returnal blows that 6 months candles on its birthday cake, we will be damn near black friday period. It will sell for 35 then no doubt about it.
Of course, this will also depend on how well it continues to sell post release. If, by some miracle, it has steady sales throughout 6 months, they will have no reason to reduce the price.
But see what happened to TLOUp2. It sold like gang busters on release and then shrivelled to nothing real quick. Six months after release it was easy to get it 50% off, and 9 months after release it was in the dumpster sales. And that was Sony's biggest exclusive last year. You think Returnal will maintain its price for longer while being a game in the rogue-lite genre? Nah, dude, it's gonna go down like a Vegas **.

@Jester1701one in six months it will be 50% off. It is very easy to know when to go for a purchase these days with PC digital storefronts (Steam, Origin, Epic), and those for PS and XB.
If a game is your bread and butter and you can afford the price tag, preorder.
If you can wait but are not really frugal, you should be able to jump in 3 months after release for that 25% off.
If you really can wait and want to spend as little money as possible but still play the game while it is still in the zeitgeist, 6 months and 50% off is your friend.
If you REALLY don't care when you are going to get your hands on the game, wait until it inevitably goes down to dirt cheap (e.g. 10 or 15 monetary units).
Other than that, don't buy current gen console until it is close to their end of life (e.g. a year or two before the next one is released) get them dirt cheap and get all those exclusives for next to nothing.

EDIT: exclusion to the rule - always, always be pre-ordering Nintendo 1st party exclusives with shops that offer some discount. You will never be able to get them cheaper 😂 (as in, new, not pre-owned).

@Intr1n5ic people undervaluing other's work? This cannot be! Well, dude, welcome to planet Earth at the beginning of the 21st century. Be sure to remember to value the infinite hours put by others for you to have that water right in your kitchen. Who cares, dude? They make a product, we buy it if we feel like we want/need it. Valuing someone's work is for employers not for customers.

@Mad-Vampire £70 is roughly $97. The same applies for the game's price in EU, €80 which is almost $97. The $70 price tag for US customers is also not really true in most of the states as this is price before tax (which is included in the stated prices for £ and € markets). After tax, you are looking at, roughly 10% price increase, so, say $77 which is still nowhere near that highway robbery of $97 that the European (geographical category not political) customers are di** slapped with.

@4kgk2 46% doesn't qualify as "most of us", dude 😂

@vapidwolf thanks dude, but I have issues man, you know, pent up aggression and stuff. I can't risk breaking the dualsense, not at this stage 😂
Seriously though, my problem is not repetition, hell, I love repetition, my issue is losing weapons, equipment and capability and having to grind all over for it just to die again soon after getting it all back. Rrrrghhhh no. 😅

@Kidfried yes, to each their own, I am just not convinced that Returnal will turn people like me. I may be wrong.
And yes, I also did not buy day1 a number of open world games fir that same reason of wasting my time.

@tatsumi from the hands on "A rogue-lite structure means that you lose most of the stuff you gather upon death, but most runs result in some form of reward".
Rogue-like, rogue-lite... it's all the same rogue-s**te to me. I don't have that much time for games and when I can dedicate some time to play I like my games to respect it.

@Voltan I love Hausmarque and the game looks and sounds amazing, but my hate of roguelikes is much stronger. Nothing is going to change that. You think gamers like me will want to pay $70/£70/€80 to play a wonderfully looking and sounding game and have that miserable feeling of having to restart our progress whenever our in-game character dies? No, dude. This is exactly what we hate and no amount of visual, aural or game mechanic splendor will change that. Not touching a roguelike with a 10-foot pole.
I mean, yeah, sure, I'll try it, once it becomes ultra-cheap or comes to ps+ or psnow... and then rage uninstall it. 😂

@Turismo4GT Rez and Thumper can be played traditionally.

@PhantomMenace84 yes, and as a business, the publisher (not developers) has determined that they will maximize their profit margins by giving up on bigger sales numbers in favor of higher pricing.
How can this be? How are they sure this strategy will play out well? How are they sure they will sell enough to the player base to cover for lost sales?
Easy. They are not. What they do rely on though is that they will sell at higher price point to all that can't resist or don't care. They will get the next bunch later when they slightly reduce the price and then everyone else when they go 50% down.
Good for them.
I choose to be in the "everyone else" group this time around (bought their last game day1).

@Jaz007 you are not alone. The price will hurt the sales of this game (unfortunately). I love Housemarque's games and have played them extensively since PS3.
I will not buy Returnal at full price.
I can happily wait 6 months and buy it at 50% off.

It would be awesome if they included wireless firmware updates of the dualsense controller in some of the future ps5 updates.
This is one of the little things that MS has done right with their controller updates on XBSX. No need to connect to a usb cable.