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Bought one during lockdown, complete fluke that it was in stock on the website at the time.

I’ve mostly played and bought PS4 games because they’re cheaper and you get free PS5 upgrades. I’m not paying £70.

I’ll give Sony some slack as covid has not only impacted them but also the studios and developers. So there’s a reason why there’s no iconic games. Though Sony must have known that a few wouldn’t be ready for 2021 but advertised them anyway.

However, Xbox and game pass have made huge strides. The Xbox is more powerful, they have game pass, oh and they bought Bethesda. Thus losing Doom, wolfenstein etc

Played and completed borderlands 1 and 3, but only the one play-through. Never thought they were great / epic games. As a FPS I never felt as though the shooting was that great.

Tried the prequel and didn’t gel with it. However, when I saw the trailer for wonderlands I was sold. I don’t like dungeons and dragons but add in machine guns and the randomness of Tina Tiny and i’m In!

Bought this glorified ‘demo’ on release date I’m enjoying it so far. I just find two things odd;

Firstly, the games not out till March, so why release this 4 months before? Surely it would make sense to release it in January or February.

Secondly, what took them so long to realise that the DLC was good enough to be a full game. It’s been what, 8 years? Again, shouldn’t they have made this game sooner? when the Borderlands 2 hype was huge?

Well at that price and for the few hours it will kill, it would be rude not to.

I pre ordered a month ago from base.com (cheapest price around for the standard PS4 edition £44 inc free delivery).

However, the delivery was late to their warehouse, so I won’t get my copy until tomorrow.

For the first time in my gaming life I’ve pre-ordered (£46 base.com). The trailers, music, gameplay and IP have my interest.

Hoping to wrap up death stranding before jumping into this on release date.

If this is true then these are a buy on day one at full price! Which is very rare for me but that shows what MGS means to me. Played all the OG saga (survival doesn’t count) 100s of times on PS1, PS2 and PS3.

Hope the remasters are good but the controls probably won’t hold up to today’s standards. If they’re remaking MGS 3 (my favourite) I hope they don’t cut anything.

I have been playing the game continuously since 9am. No complaints so far. It’s a bit of a slow burn but nothing major. Just starting on Chapter 3. It’s not MGS and that’s one of the reasons I didn’t buy it on release day along with it being labelled a ‘walking simulator’ (which is true of the game so far). The bike makes a huge difference to traversal and all the assistance provided by other gamers is quite cool and useful.

Bought the game new on ebay a few months ago, for approx £20. When the directors cut was announced, I held of installing it until the upgrade path became available. Can’t wait until this Friday!

@Tharsman a lot of those examples shouldn’t have had sequels to their sequels. Terminator 3, 4, 5 and 6 were terrible. Predator is a great iconic film that didn’t sequels. Star Wars again didn’t need the prequel or sequel trilogy.

The consumer and the studio are both to blame for the lack creativity but then who can blame them. They’re stuck in a loop.

I’ll wait until March to get this when all the DLC is available and it’s been sufficiently patched. Added bonus the price would have dropped significantly.

@ThroughTheIris56 i’ve Read all your comments through this thread and I’m impressed with your reason, logic, facts and supporting evidence.

I’d love a more realistic FPS shooter that either focuses on unknown ww2 campaigns or the Korean War, Vietnam or gulf war. Won’t happen and we’ll be stuck in a cycle of ww2 shooter and the future.

I chuckled to myself when I saw the trailer for this COD MP and had to giggle that you could customise your guns. Not sure that was an even an option for a soldier in WW2 due to the lack of materials and resources. Fairly surely the Thompson had a choice of different a magazine, a barrel grip and stock.

@FatalBubbles pretty much. The ps5 trailers hinted at a lot of iconic sequel exclusives for 2021. Horizon and god of war spring to mind. However, covid has probably set everyone (developers and manufacturers) back 18 months to 2 years.

@The_New_Butler
If this remaster (or whatever it is) is successful the sequel will be Xbox / PC exclusive.

@The_New_Butler

Chances are this was agreed and planned prior to being acquired by MS. As such it’s still under ‘old rules’.

@Richnj
Directors cut existed on the PS1 all the way back in 1997.
Resident evil announced a directors cut, it basically enabled the dual shock controller to be used with the game.

@eltomo
Probably find it was in the deal struck with Disney a few years ago I.e two games to be produced. Disney gets paid even if the games a commercial flop.

@fR_eeBritney

why is gamora

Back to the game, this looks good. However, I’ve played avengers (different studio I know) so here’s hoping lessons have been learned and this game isn’t complete and total meh.

Avengers was average at best. Given what it could of been (singleplayer) and the characters, game mechanics that could have been utilised , Crystal Dynamics should be embarrassed.

How are they going to handle something as unique and quirky as Guardians of the Galaxy?

Damn I watched laymen gaming’s YouTube review and they gave it high praise. Maybe they had the PC version? They commented along the lines of Samie enemies but they really seemed to enjoy it. Shocked that’s it’s scored a 4. Oh well back to doom eternal.

Just completed the main game after purchasing this for £20, which I’d argue is still too much for this the ultimate ‘meh’ game.

They should have called this game pushsquare as that’s all you do in this game! Pushsquare to punch, pushsquare to open doors, pushsquare to open crates.

The graphics are great, the storyline is ok. Leading with Kamala was a good idea story wise but she’s not a mainstream name like Thor or Ironman so can see why people complained about her inclusion.

The levels are dull, the missions are dull, the RPG elements are dumb. In the middle of a fight I can stroll over and go looking for a crate to upgrade my bracelet by 1 point. I must have missed that in the MCU films!

Everything is solved by punching, there are no puzzles, no other game elements absolutely nothing radical or revolutionary. Crash bandicoot on the ps1 had more interesting gameplay!

The skins (which are truly awful) have to be bought, yet in insomniac Spider-Man they’re free if you go and look for them.

This was truly an ultimate example of wasted potential that should have been handed to rocksteady or insomniac.

You play as Thor, Ironman etc for a max of 2 hours each! Nowhere near enough time to unlock any skills or special moves or even care about your character or their motives. Black widow is terrible to use, her pistols do absolutely zilch.

‘ piss-stained PS3-era visuals,’
Not sure that’s the colour palette Sony were aiming for!

@PegasusActual93 I’m sold on that as it sounds an interesting concept. But I’m in the minority as I loved infinite and thought 1 & 2 were ok (I played them 10 years after release).

@Shepherd_Tallon you hit the nail on the head.

Angry birds (remember that) made billions so did flappy bird. It costs very little to develop an app but you could make a billion. It costs £100+ Million to develop a AAA game and dev time is in measured in years.

Sony have the branding, rights and consumer awareness of these games they’d be daft not to go down this route, the real question is what took them so long? iPhones have existed since 2007.

Hhhmmm tough one. By the time this gets released (assuming a 4 year dev cycle) then it would have been 12/13+ years since the original released. So a decent amount of time has passed, however TLOU1 still stands up today compared to modern games. TLOU2 didn’t reinvent the gameplay.

Sony aren’t being adventurous with creating or supporting high cost new IP’s but then if consumers only purchase remakes and remasters then they’re playing it safe and guaranteeing sales.

With all the IP’s that Xbox just bought and all the potential sequels is Sony being safe or scared?

Doom 3. Plays like a classic resident evil game in first person.

Hasn’t this game cost square Enix a £60 million loss?
Should have focused on solely being a single player game.
How do you ruin the freakin avengers?

@TheRedComet my thoughts exactly and make the campaign a good 10 hours + to explore the combatants and their views / reasoning.

Won’t happen. The single player campaign Will just be a 5 hour tutorial for the online arena.

Suspect Korea is out on bounds as doesn’t tencent (a Chinese company) own a percentage of Activision. So doubt they will risk the wrath of their owners.

Can’t wait for this. I have been following this game since it’s announcement trailer and now it’s finally here. Hopefully the reviews will be good.

@Voltan there’s YouTube vids where the pro’s and speedrunners kill him in 6 seconds. Though pc keyboard makes it easier to quick switch weapons.

@Welsh_Will
Play doom 2016 if you want a easier intro but to be fair eternal does a great job of introducing you to the mechanics. I play it on normal mode and have completed the first dlc which is harder than the base game.

The game has a learning curve; I hated the platforming and the marauder on my first play through but on the second I was acing all the aspects of the game. Strongly advise watching some YouTube vids.

I will be buying part 2 tomorrow to play Friday and I can’t wait.

@stefan771
Let’s put it like this. Doom eternal is the demo for Part 1. You get everything unlocked and upgraded to begin with but you’ll need it.

Storyline was great the rest of the game was poorly executed.

@Boucho11
Played the first level of the first game back in the day but it never got its hooks into me whereas the most recent games have. I’m even tempted to play doom 3.

Can’t f%#£*ing wait. Love this series, I’m a recent newcomer to the series I bought doom 2016 last March and bought eternal recently love the lore, gameplay and graphics. Replayed them both twice and bought the DLC, a superb FPS is not the best.

Just have to hope MS doesn’t lock it to the Xbox...

Doom and wolfenstein. Though the doom dlc looks like it’s wrapping up the plot nicely. Wolfenstein Youngblood sucked but the previous titles were ace.

Not sure why people are expecting a sequel to prey, whilst it was a great game I’m under the impression it’s sale figures underperformed.

By any chance will they be selling an XP booster micro-transaction???

@2cents
I’m getting a bad feeling about this...

“I know this will be disappointing to the community of Anthem players who have been excited to see the improvements we’ve been working on.”

Rough translation: we’ve made our money, sooo long suckers!

Well MS tried to double the cost of game pass recently, the internet declared war and MS backed down. So MS definitely are seeking to make more money from gamepass.

I suspect doom, wolfenstein, fallout etc will be locked to the MS console and if they are continue losing money then they might send some titles Sony’s way.

MS hasn’t been able to comment on their plans until the deal is signed and done. Hence we find out in March what their actual plans are....

I guess Konami ‘kept you waiting huh?’

I’ll see myself out...

@tameshiyaku
Geek moment: the la le lol thing isn’t supposed to be in the game. It’s supposed be static / censored / gibberish every time someone mentions the patriots. but for some reason when the game was released in foreign markets they didn’t get the memo...

Well I’m still waiting for level 50 it’s only been 5 odd years.
Also f**k Konami.

@GamingVeteran - Sony wont ever get rid of micro transactions. let alone force studios to remove them, as can be seen by the main article they make Sony a huge amount of revenue (for doing absolutely nothing on Sony’s part).

They put the dates in the trailer to ensure people had a reason to buy a ps5. If the ps5 released in late 2020 but there were no games scheduled for release until 2022 no-one would have bought the console.

Also covid has no doubt impacted the dates.

I remember that when this game came out and people complained about the plot, the twists, the crunch, the trans character, they said that cyberpunk 2077 would show Naughty Dog how’s it’s done.

How’d that work out?

Well that means CDPR have made £650 million from a sub par broken game. My PS4 copy is under the tree - so I’m practicing my surprised x mas face!

@QuizKid agree with everything you’ve said. I’ve been watching videos comparing cyberpunk’s AI, NPC’s, Psychics to 5+ year old games (GTA V, Farcry 5 etc) and those games do it so much better. How/ why did CDPR not implement basic gameplay features?!

@Whyita the simple answer is that there are approx 100 million PS4’s and not that many PS5s. If you’re going to sell a game, recoup costs and make a profit the console with the most units sold / available is the only option.

Sadly this game’s ambition outstripped the PS4s and Xbox capabilities and CDPR knew this but went ahead any way.

Level 50 for MGS5 incoming!

I love that gender selection, side missions and dialogue options are seen as ‘new’ in COD. Pretty much standard in most games!

I’m only ever interested in the single player campaign, which by the looks of it is shorter than usual (possibly due to the impact of covid) so I’ll pick this up when it’s bargain bin price.