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Yep. I’m not going to buy anything from the PlayStation store until this stops.

I wish they’d say what they mean. It’s not to help pay the bills, it’s to keep profit margins crazy high.

What standards are those? I’ve gone for a few LRG limited editions and the quality on all of them was shockingly bad for the asking price. It’s all been total junk. So much so, that even if it’s a franchise I love, I’m not going to buy another collector item from them again and only published base games from other stores.

From my experience (yes it’s just my personal experience and I can’t speak for others) LRG has no quality standards and peddles in expensive trash.

This is really disgusting.

It seems cool, but with very confusing menus.
I’d probably play it if it had a single player campaign like Halo. I enjoyed playing through single player campaigns from all the Halo games.
I would have played Destiny if it had single player, and would play Marathon, but online shooters are really not my thing.
It’s really a shame these online games don’’t have single player campaigns anymore.

@datamonkey I really hope so! 😊

I feel they came out with this release date now to try and take people’s focus away from them closing Blue Point and firing a bunch of staff for short sighted and psychopathic reasons. I hope it doesn’t work. Consumers need to hold companies that make billions a year to a higher standard and not give them a pass.

The staff of Blue Point must be sooo happy to see all this love for them and empathy of the jobs lost. It’s nice when people come together for what is right and support each other. I hope Blue Point is feeling all the love!

I miss motorstorm soooooo much. The franchise should have continued. The post apocalyptic motorstorm was doing exciting things with dynamic tracks that I’ve been desperate to see in racers and nothing else has bounced off of that idea to make exciting dynamic set pieces that alter the tracks. Mario Kart Wii had one track that was dynamic and it was really great, but it was still minimal. Such a missed opportunity for an arcade racer, and it doesn’t feel like anything has filled in for motorstorm’s absence.
I wasn’t interested in this Star Wars racer before, but if it’s like motorstorm, that sure makes me interested.

@ItsAlwaysSunnyyy yeah it seemed obvious to me too. It surprised me so many have been blaming Phil for some of this stuff, but it never made sense because of how sudden there was a shift. It clearly was being forced on him from above, and there was also a sudden change in his appearance too. He started to look and talk like he was just a shell, absent from his own mind.
Everyone makes mistakes sure, but he also brought back a lot of positive sentiments to Xbox that Mattrick destroyed. The last few years has never felt like he was in control, but that higher ups decided to take over.

I met Mattrick once and it was so surreal. He was in front of me in a pharmacy line and started talking to me, and I live in a small town in BC, so it was so unexpected. It took me a minute to recognize him, and then I was like oh my god this is the guy that destroyed Xbox.
I looked him up later and he did indeed have a mansion here.

And there it is. I always felt Phil was being dragged against his will through all of this because it didn’t make sense otherwise based on his history. Now so much about the last few years makes sense.

I haven’t played it, but looking forward to trying it. I think the art style is incredible!

And I’ve tried to play the god of war games a number of times, and I really don’t like any of them. I find the classic ones incredibly monotonous and boring and don’t understand the appeal. And the new god of war games, I found a bit pretentious and monotonous and boring, as well, with a lot of pretentious exposition.

I know they are critically acclaimed games and happy so many people enjoy them and love the series, but they aren’t for me.
The side scrolling game though has my attention and really looking forward to trying it.

David is in really poor form here. Offering criticism is fine, but he should be respectful about it and spew vitriol. Not cool behaviour. People really need to start putting a check on their hate, because it’s making the world intolerable to live in.

@MrPeanutbutterz thank you for your sacrifice! I don’t feel like I have to try the full game now. Everyone seems to love the game so I thought it was only me who felt this way, nice to know I’m not alone!

@Mintie 😂

@MrPeanutbutterz yeah the demo really didn’t do it for me, though maybe the other courses in it are better? But I loved transformed! So from what I played, I agree with you

Good. I have a ridiculous number of ps5 controllers now cause of two limited editions I couldn’t pass up.

I finally tried Fortnite, and the menu is like 100 menus threw up. I spent so much time just trying to understand it.
Falling from the bus was fun, but after playing for about 30 minutes I started to get so bored. The falling from the bus was actually the funnest part, and was over way too fast.

Something like Stardew Valley I totally can understand someone playing for years and years, but I really don’t get the mass and ever lasting appeal to Fortnite.
But I’m clearly in the minority since an overwhelming number of people love it, and have for a long time.

I also really value diverse experiences and want to experience different things. Even games I love, and return to, I still need to play other games between them, in different genres, and about different things.

Using AI is pretty reckless, because of how devastating it is environmentally. It should only be used for very specific things, and not be made widely available until it isn’t consuming vital water and energy supplies, among other things.
Information about how serious its environmental impact is being publicly available, it is disappointing that any game studio is choosing to use it. Disappointing so many individuals are using it too.

I still find it very strange the region locked model is the digital version, when Japan still uses a lot of physical media. It will be interesting to see if it does end up selling despite no disc drive because of the price.

@Balaam_ blah is right. It is missing something great art has, that is hard to quantify. But for lack of a better term, it doesn’t have a soul. It is not greater than the sum of its parts. It’s a bunch of generic open world systems put together, and it isn’t bad, or good, it’s just kind of blah.
I think one of the main issues for me was how closely it followed that endless checklist open world design that is pointless and exhausting. And on top of it, there was so much dialogue that didn’t have a point, or fill in lore, or really do anything but waste time. Which is also true of its open world design. So much filler.

I really wanted to love the game but it made me really bored with its repetitive open world design. I think the game would have benefitted greatly by not being open world, but a more guided narrative adventure game.
And it did have a bit of jank, with awkward controls. For me the best thing so far about Horizon was the Horizon Astrobot level.

It’s strange they chose the digital only console to do this though. Japan buys more physical games, compared to other regions, and looking at the sales numbers, the disc drive model has sold far more than the digital only model.
I guess they are hoping the reduced price will help drive the market more towards digital, which sucks, and I hope doesn’t happen.

I may not always agree with Pachter, but he’s absolutely right about this and it’s what a lot of us have been thinking for many years.

Really looking forward to this. I’ll miss the hot spring scenes from the first game, though.

It looks like the sexy guy has 4 bullet holes in his chest.

This is stunning! I especially love the moon with the PlayStation logo. Would be cool if Sony reopened their retail stores and had this type of experience as permanent fixtures.

That’s so beautifully said and something I’ve always felt. “An experience for a certain time of your life.”