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@WolfyTn nothing sad about it! I don’t agree that every new game has to keep up with what everyone else is doing. I never understood this “dated” concept for insert current year. If there are fans then it’s okay which this game appears to have.

@ShadowRJ a delay isn’t bad as long as we get a full physical release. This gives developers time to patch the game for a year after release and give us physical fans the best base game version on the disc.

There is not an abundance of games that are big. People complain about the costs of games. RPGs with big interactive worlds provide the best bang for ones buck. I prefer long RPGs with big worlds. Plenty of quick games on the market. Anyways it’s all about balance and what the artists are trying to achieve.

@INeedGoodGraphics also many studios put too much pressure on one IP or game to be so successful beyond reason. Like marvel movies video game executives want a so few IPs that will be cash cows. Unfortunately gone are the days of big studios putting out many games which break even at a minimum. To make matters worse their bigger games have had so much money poured into them, money income becomes sparse. With modern software which is called “ai” I hope that companies find an efficient balance with putting out content.

@Sergo I’m tracking that the core staff of the Witcher 3 started the new studio. We cannot underestimate the influence of the directors and executives, as they set the tone. With that said, I wish the new dev team well as it’s not an easy business for a startup! Remember how the A team bioware mass effect veterans could not get their project off the ground? I think they will at least make a profit from this game. After the latest trailer for some reason I’m just not interested anymore. But like I said I wish them well.

@AdamNovice we can all have preferences! Hence why there are various genres and types of things. No one needs to justify theirs.

Looks like the last of us part II naughty dog to me!

Wolverine seems very boring to me. Super hero games have never excited me glad others like these. With that said this year really has something for everyone and the current generation has a good stride now which we can all be happy about.

@Sergo people should be more concerned about playable games with good plots. Also the devs making the game are the Witcher 3 A dev team. CDPR has a bunch of new hires post that game whom I highly doubt will deliver the same Witcher 3 experiences based off studio as of late.

They are trying to force the last of us all into digital only games. I’m not paying for a EUA online license that says I “own” a game as long as it’s listed.

@Balaam_ I was actually going to get this game for the first time ever. Nope.

Graphics look vibrant for this game. This gameplay is Not my cup of tea but I like that Sony publishes different types of games. They really need to get back to this as a whole which is what made 1st party Sony games the best. 9/10 for its genre is respectable. Like degrees not everything is equal and different degrees carry more weight. For now I’ll stick with my 6/10 RPG crimson dessert this year haha.

So what?! Microsoft is free to do with their IPs as they wish. No one is entitled to others IPs. Be mad at Sony for not providing enough in house experiences this generation and doing so much for live service games.

@Locksley agreed Craig’s films had big promise especially the first one. It had the classic bond ethos. But after in my opinion just became sterile like a Jason Bourne film. Not to say that Bourne is a bad character. He’s just a serious character doing a job and doesn’t have much dynamic to the character. Probably the most accurate for real life agents.

@SEVENTEENSOILS I completely agree about getting the IP back in the spotlight first. Which is why just a simple remaster would do as it could be sold very cheap. I was the opposite, I never even knew or monster hunter before lost planet. I still haven’t played yet. But it’s as you said with the DNA.

@gamer153 to many people that is worth it. I bought the Witcher 3 so many times. I will buy again if they ever do a physical release for the next Xbox an PlayStation. I love experiencing the best graphics for these games from my couch.

@Retron it will be given grace because it is rockstar and just because mate. Crimson dessert nope despite being one of the most ambitious current generation games.

@SEVENTEENSOILS yea people like monster hunter. I don’t see why the lost planet 2 formula cannot be successful. They wouldn’t even have to spend so much money making it either. I would buy all again if they lightly remastered them with full online capabilities.

I know it’s off topic. But I’d really love it if Capcom made a Lost Planet 2 again. Or remaster that LP2 with full online multiplayer. Was one of my favorite multiplayer games of the PS3/X360 era.

@Scoot23 I’m good mate! A lot to be grateful for. And at this point in the current generation we are starting to get really good games.

@AnginaPectoris not necessarily. I just don’t like the undertone for so many new games and movies over the last several years. I don’t know what woke means today. I just know what I like and don’t like. I’ve been this way for years which is why I have always had such a narrow band of entertainment that I have observed. Speaking of Bond I stopped liking it so much with the Bronson movies when in the first one they made it know it was a new direction. Very overtly too. The first interaction with the new M made me dislike it. As all the previous entries weren’t like that. I digress.

They did a good job with the opening. However from that they have shown of the characters and limited videos, it won’t have the classic bond ethos that I like. It will just a Modern ethos game that is built upon their bread and butter hitman series.

@danzoEX that’s all my brain saw at first. PS5 disc and Red redemption. I immediately went to excited for RDR2.

@Enuo what’s incomplete about it? The game runs at launch better than previous ambitious RPGs at launch. Quality of life improvements listening to real community feedback of paying customers doesn’t mean a game is incomplete. Artists oftentimes have a vision and go with it. We are lucky this dev is humble enough to receive feedback. As recently we have seen many developers especially in the west be nasty if fans don’t like something.

People hold this game to different standards. Plenty of games before it that launched with continuous updates with much worse gameplay and I’m not even talking about cyberpunk. Even starfield which was rated higher by journalists at launch. Despite that game not even being optimized. Give this dev a break! They launched at current generation RPG which to me feels next generation just like when the Witcher 3 came out.
The devs are being humble and listening to community feedback to make the game better. As internally what they had before they thought was fine. And their paying customers whom are their base didn’t like some gameplay elements.

@Andy22385 which is why I never respect any game ratings! In general unless I agree with the person on many things and have the same tastes, a rating means nothing to me.

Do it. So buying whatever the next Xbox becomes is actually compelling. Keep the traditional IPs that were multi plat that were bought the same. Increase the cost of windows and other MS subscriptions by 0.02$ each calendar year. A lot of money will still be made by the corporation.

It happens to the best of us. They should still be embarrassed as they make so much money and should have the best cybersecurity measures implemented by the quarter. They can afford the best engineers, hardware and software. If it’s an insider breech then that is harder to defend against.

@WolfyTn we shall see. The A team who made the Witcher 3 what it was is no longer with the studio. I don’t have any confidence that CDPRs new hires will deliver the same ethos that made the trilogy popular to the mainstream. Sure it will be popular at launch just because of what the previous blokes built but most likely not like before. Studios are just names. It’s the blokes that make the games not the name. Just look at BioWare. Also they are using the Toyota Camry engine that is Unreal Engine X.

I hope the game doesn’t go on sell anytime soon. I hope it remains full priced for the years to come. I also hope that they release a complete edition in the coming years with a real physical media release. I will buy it again.

@Dyn_Arall besides performance patches, as long as a game is playable quality of life updates for what the fans deem necessary is just extras. The devs likely thought how they had the game setup worked for them. But many fans didn’t like what they had. So they are listening to the majority of people who purchased the game’s feedback. They could always say take it as it as were only updating performance, like some ego driven devs might do.

Not the first ambitious current generation game to have frame drops for any console generation. CD has received so much negativity in my opinion for its performance. Launched better than studios that use the Toyota Camry engine! DF should help them code to find a comprise but they won’t. Witcher 3 had its rough spots for the consoles last generation and was given much more grace!

@Gaia093 this game has had such an interesting reception. From my perspective seems that it has been judged harder than many other releases. I wish more eastern devs luck as they are bringing interesting stuff to the market! This title is very ambitious and the devs did get it working on the very old 7+ year console chipsets. They have had various performance modes. Being a gamer of many years, each generation has had an ambitious game which the devs didn’t want the throttle back their vision all the way. I remember when the Witcher 3 came out. It was still playable to me and I enjoyed it. Despite the performance being not good on xbox. Anyways there is a disconnect between gamers, random YouTube critics and mainstream critics. Lastly, I think people should learn to not take critics seriously especially if the taste of the critics doesn’t match with one’s own. I’d never take beer advice from someone whom doesn’t like premium Belgian beer like me for example.

Kudos again for them releasing sells numbers. Sales aren’t subscriptions nor player engagement counts. Good for the studio! It’s always a risk launching a new title and hoping it sticks with people. I hope that they have good profits and are past the break even point. I also hope it doesn’t go on sell anytime soon. So that they can make as much as possible for future projects.

This is why number ratings should be followed by the genre for the rated game in question. This game wasn’t the most popular but because it was on subsidized gamepass it had more players whom would most likely not purchase it outright. Meanwhile different genre games like crimson desert get judged harder despite being more ambitious and having more hours of new content.

I’d have respect for digital only if there was an option to download a purchased game once to a verifiable removable media device sold by MS, Sony or Nintendo. That way people can always boot up the game indefinitely. And they would be able to easily ensure that it’s only downloaded once or ensure it’s deleted for being downloaded again.

@LifeGirl that’s the plan for internet of everything. Keep people beholden to servers. Fans are at the mercy of a studio keeping a game listed.

lol at people having a problem for this in a fantasy world which has many elements across different periods. I see no problem for procedural generation for petty things. For this I hope that the game doesn’t receive a price cut anytime soon. As the studio works diligently to deal with petty things like AI art that is background noise.

@Oram77 that’s honestly what turned me off from this game. I get it that is how Bethesda designs games. But one thing I like and appreciate about modern hardware is the ability for faster loading maps and assets.

@Hyena_socks I like the American system. People get more of their own money and can manage their funds accordingly for healthcare. It just seems more expensive in general when people need to use it because they didn’t plan. Whereas in Europe money is already taken for the general public. Obviously this case the companies greed got to them and there isn’t a good system in place there to take care of people whom fall terminally ill. No one asks for that. So I would like to see some concessions and more compassion for those cases.

The west has itself to blame here. No reason we cannot make more of these high tech products across all western nations. We seriously should have never let production get so lop sided with all things related to semiconductors. By (WE) I’m not talking about you and I. I’m not a board member whose eyes turned green at East Asian cheap production for decades. I digress! I hope next generation is delayed. And with it Sony re-designs the SOC so it will be a year or so less behind by the time it comes out.

@Rich33 ha! The boys will be okay in regard to the cellphones. But graphic card bros whom like to upgrade often won’t like what is to come!

@twitchtvpat gaming has always been a luxury hobby. Growing up my parents got my siblings and I nearly every console when they could. But we didn’t get every game just a few to hold us over as there were other things. I think many people forget gaming is a hobby and most of the world just cannot afford it. Hobbies are always a luxury when we have spare change. No one is entitled either to it. Yes I’m very familiar with how much these games cost to make. Fans don’t appreciate or understand how much it costs to run these studios. Developers and engineers need good compensation to keep talent as there are other industries that want talent too. It’s all a cycle. Lastly, most people only play a few games at a time anyways. So not sure why the cost for one game is such a sticking point. Modern games provide so much entertainment value!

@Sulleymonster my thoughts exactly. The developers probably liked how the game played upon release. They release their game and the core audience didn’t like some things. They adjusted and listened to their fans. At least they are humble enough about it.

@twitchtvpat my points exactly. Modern gamers expect consoles and games to cost nothing. Or better yet be free while offering so much! Personally I think games should cost more! As developers require increased compensation just like you and I.

Consoles are still cheap and gaming remains a good value. People pay more for phones and other vanity goods which they don’t hang on to. I’ve said it before on this site. It costs money to get production allocations in China or Taiwan. The only two countries which have the production capacity for semiconductors. Worldwide demand for consumer electronics has also gone up. So those two countries get to set the tone for pricing. Until manufacturing gets cheaper by other places getting serious capacity this will be the norm for chip production. At the end of the day, gaming is a vanity hobby. Hobbies aren’t cheap and it costs money. I want Sony to continue to be in the business and have money to innovate. Things like PSSR cost money for their teams to develop. Nothing is free.

@carlos82 gaming has still remained cheap over the past several decades. People make more than they did three decades ago and inflation has gone up too. Yet consoles have remained rather steady. For the value these machines provide and for how long they are expected to last, console manufacturers do such a good job.

Game is good. My favorite RPG last generation the Witcher 3 didn’t run the best on the base consoles but the experience was still phenomenal. Generation pushing RPGs should be given more grace! As each generation the engineers and designers push the envelope and move the needle. Especially compared to other safe genres.

@MidlifeCrisis this is why I don’t place any weight on reviews. As there are games that are praised on this site like the Sony Astrobot game. For me that type of game is beneath consideration. Reviews and scores take away from the various game genres. I wish people would just play what games interest them if they deem them playable. Let us return to enjoying the art form of gaming. There is something for nearly everyone at this point.

AI is nothing new. People have been using specialized software for a while now. I don’t see the problem with using AI for a fake fantasy game. How about people be mad about how the lack of privacy laws got companies like google rich and now they aim to keep their leverage.
And what do people expect? It’s a massive game. I expect more studios to use procedural generation (AI) to take care of mundane things in a game world. People already complain about the cost of new games. So studios are leveraging many tools. I still wish them success.