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@JoeNobody
That's a Push Square thing that has been driving me crazy for years.

The answer to the headline: NO!

Spider-Man 2, Ghost of Yotei, God of War: Ragnarok, Horizon: Forbidden West, and so many other sequels are epic.

Case in point, I just finished Ghost of Yotei and it is FANTASTIC. I loved every minute of it. I'll be working on the platinum trophy later tonight. It'll be epic.

Stellar Blade, Goat Simulator Remastered*, and Demon Slayer for me on PlayStation and MechWarrior 5: Clans on PC. Feels good.

*The timing of this sale was perfect. My daughter loves playing Goat Simulator 3 with me and we just finished it.

Stellar Blade it is! I've been waiting for the standard edition to go on sale and it's at its historical low now!

The timing of the worst Call of Duty coming out right after the best Battlefield is very favorable for EA. I've always liked Battlefield better and it's nice others will get to break free of Call of Duty and find out why.

@DonJorginho
Daaaang. I have been playing Helldivers 2 longer than I thought. I thought it came out February of this year. (I'm American, so 2025 has felt like two years.)

Thanks for the correction.

Helldivers 2 not GOTY is a travesty.

Edit: The game came in 2024, not 2025. Doh! Thanks for the correction below.

@Darude84
Indeed. It is a much bigger threat. You did have technological developments in the past that would displace jobs, but, until AI, there hasn't been a technological development that could displace almost all the jobs that don't require physicality (though that will happen eventually, too).
Technological displacement is not a new thing, but at this wide scale, it is.

As usual, Congressman Khanna is right. There does need to be something standing in the way of mass job displacement or eventually every job that can be replaced with AI will be instead of AI being a useful tool to increase productivity of those jobs.

The price point certainly helped. On Steam, the game launched for $30, but for a couple of weeks before launch, the game was 10% off, too.

@DadJKP
Thank you for the clarification.

People were boycotting the game (or claiming to) because the protagonist was a woman? How embarrassing!

I'm holding out for the standard edition of Stellar Blade to go on sale. Right now, the complete edition is 20% off, but I don't want all those cosmetics.

@RoomWithaMoose
Someone rational. How refreshing. I keep saying something similar. People act like they should get three AAA games tailored exactly to their tastes every month for ~$7.

I occasionally listen to Moore's Law is Dead and I have noticed a pattern of playing the odds with his claims. Saying the Xbox is more powerful than the PlayStation is a 50% chance to be right. Depending on how you spin it, you could even claim that when it's not entirely true like when the console is more powerful in a some ways, but not in others. Take everything he and everyone else says with a grain of salt.

Buying Bungie was a big mistake. Sony could have bought over a dozen studios the caliber of Insomniac (or at least for the same price) and had plenty of money left over.

Not a single person with a brain is shocked the ABK acquisition resulted in game cancellations, studio closures, mass layoffs, and lost revenue, and giant price hike. All those things were as 100% predictable as they were avoidable, but the Microsoft judge didn't want to do the right thing.

Not a single person with a brain is shocked the ABK acquisition resulted in game cancellations, studio closures, mass layoffs, and lost revenue, and giant price hike. All those things were as 100% predictable as they were avoidable, but the Microsoft judge didn't want to do the right thing.

@johncalmc
You nailed it.

@PCMasterRace
It's a certainty they will increase the price now. As long as the service is still cheaper than Game Pass, they can get away with it.

The self-inflected wounds of stupid tyranny continue.

Is Austin Evans still a raging Xbox fanboy?

In any case, it's hard to blame Sony for cutting costs AND a price increase given the checks notes self-inflicted "economic uncertainty." Microsoft didn't take such cost cutting measures and had to implement a much larger price increase.

I was planning on getting Battlefield 6 in the future, but likely not now. The only EA games I buy are the Hazelight games. This whole thing is a shame.

My tax dollars are already going into the Trump family's pockets. I am not going to willingly give Kushner any more on top of that.

I welcome this. If anything, it will cut down on e-waste!

@DNortonX You must be thinking of something else.

Xbox had controllers that ran on AA batteries. They charged as much for their controllers as Sony charged for theirs which had more features AND came with a rechargeable battery. Xbox sold their rechargeable kits for $20 separately.

For the items sold through this "rewards" program to actually be rewards, they need to be less expensive. Sell it for cost or slightly above cost. The exclusivity of the merchandise is not the big selling point they think it is.

In short, it's not an awful idea but it's executed terribly.

Supply chain disruptions, shifting production to more expensive areas to avoid tariffs, and the inability for manufacturers and suppliers to plan ahead effectively are all ways that tariffs increase costs for us besides the direct cost of the tariffs themselves. This is why tariffs are generally a lose-lose, especially when implemented so widely and without any sensible strategy. There is, of course, much bigger concerns, but I worry the PS6 is going to be delayed, gimped, or more expensive than it should be because of all the damage tariffs are causing.

"If you buy a game at launch, you are paying the most amount of money for the worst version of a game." -TotalBiscuit

@Artois2
Indeed, but monetary fines are generally a deterrent.

"[Sony] now wants $150,000 in damages and access to all the game's materials so they can be destroyed."

This just seems so low. Tencent is one of the richest companies in the world. I'll be surprised if they don't have that much money under their couch cushions.

@Rich33
I think I'll still give this game a try on an easier difficulty. The game looks appealing visually and conceptually. I just don't know if I want the stress.

@EchoRange
Oh dear...

Is Lies of P a Soulslike? I read that you don't lose anything on death, so it just seems like an action game to me. I find Soulslike games too stressful for me to play these days.

@Lowdefal
This is a reasonable take. Those who say, it's a crap selection every month could take some notes. Not every game is going to be a brand new AAA game. We get tons of value for our ~$7 month.

I can certainly get behind a return to form for Battlefield! Battlefield 4 was the peak of the series for me.

@UltimateOtaku91
This 100%. Anime makes a fortune worldwide. It has surpassed $20B annually and then you factor in the video games, the manga, and other products like the boat loads of cash Bandai is making on the One Piece card game, and it probably clears over $30B.

@Oram77
They own a stake in Kadokawa, not Bandai.

This is good. I still think $80 games are coming in 2026 based on their wording, though.

Now I did not know Fidelity Super Resolution 4 was a byproduct of PlayStation and AMD working together. That is cool! I didn't know PlayStation Super Resolution was also created out of that partnership. I thought that was Sony going off and doing their own thing to reduce reliance on AMD/Nvidia.

If only someone could have predicted letting Microsoft buy up half the gaming industry was such a bad idea.

These ***** made $88.1 billion in profit last year.

I'm happy the game is getting more love. I found the game to be fun in short bursts. I'm not sure if I'm going to jump back in or not.

Consoles should be built in the USA! Who cares if they will cost 10X more?! The billionaire criminals tell us that's a small price to pay for the glory of America! USA! USA!

In all seriousness, I saw this crap coming and upgraded both my PC and my PS5 in January. I knew prices would skyrocket. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together did, too. Unfortunately, too many didn't meet that very low requirement.

@Vladspartan
Why are you a thief of joy?

I wonder which incompetent moron caused all the supply disruptions and "economic uncertainty." The U.S. price hike is coming, sadly.

Nintendo is charging $80 for their games now???

A rare 10 indeed!

I have never heard of Gsmefound before, but sign me up! I'll take more Helldivers any way I can get it.

@Nakatomi_Uk @naruball

Actually, setting up price alerts at PSPrices.com is the way to go! You will love it.

Well-deserved success! My daughter and I loved It Takes Two and we love Split Fiction even more!

The intergender matches are what I am looking forward to most. When I play 2K24, she always wants to play as her favorite wrestler, Bianca Belair, which means I cannot play as mine, Bret Hart and she has no interest in playing as a dude.