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@nomither6 "As a consumer - why the hell would i be against that ??"'
If something sounds too good, it's usually too good. They lure you in, but nothing is truly free in life apart from the air you breath, so far at least. They will find a way to make you pay even more longterm but they hope you'lll never notice it.
Paying a "little" every month for rest of your life or buy a game and own it? Depends if you want to replay games, and I know I love that the older I get. You might be different, just saying.

My wallet is looking at me with big sad eyes....

@Northern_munkey @Northern_munkey Last patch is 1.48 But anyway, I own the Fanatec DD Extreme base / GT7 wheel and went from my Thustmaster (beltdriven) T300RS GT and it's a MUCH better experience on my new setup!!
But if I crank up FFB to max both on wheel and ingame (GT7) it doesn't feel good. I think I have 5 or 6 in Fanatec software and max ingame and it feels fiiiiine.
And the Direct Drive part, well, I should have not waited until 2024 if I had knew it can be this smooth and fun to drive with DD. I love my new setup!!! I could go on about my pedals an shifter but I wont. But same happy feeling.
But hey, that's just me and how I feel. No Pro driver or nothing, just a boomer with too much money to spare at the moment.

The important thing is, Fanatec is going through some real turmoil at the moment. The founder and former CEO got sacked and claims some "infiltrated" his company just to make it possible for Corsair to buy them and he in return is now teaming up with outside investors (some chinese that I don't like the idea off) but it's a struggle internally it seems.
I ordered beginning June and got all my stuff shortly after but as you are in the U.K it should be fine, seems their american and asian departments doesn't send anything since last Black Friday!!..
One final tip for you, only order things that are in stock! If one single item is comin at a later date, the ENTIRE order will be held to that date. Just so you know.
Good luck whatever you end up buying! (I bought a Playseat Trophy and it works great with my gear and doesn't take up that much space in case you wonder what I put all my gear on)
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@Kienda Yeah I saw that hour long video with that japanese dude that went over the trailers and pointed out racial stereotypes and how Ubi totally ***** on their legacy and history.
I actually lost quite some respect for Ubi right there tbh (the little I had to begin with).

"We are experiencing problem with Playstation Stars"
And something "we are aware and working on it"....
Edit:
(Sure, I'll give them 6-8 more weeks to sort this out.)

I solved it, I turned off my phone for a minute, had to login (again) and now it works, Loads of points so I will doublecheck later if they got everything covered.
So try on/off with your phone if you still got problem like I did.

@Sveakungen Då finns det hopp! Translated: Good.

And now my PS Star icon disappeared after I pressed it again. LOL. Sony must have enough cash to hire a real programmer right?!!

Still not up in Sweden, redownloaded the app to make it force a clean sign in but no luck. What a joke, and has been for weeks.
If my purchase of a few games and loads of DLC since it went down waaaay back doesn't give me the coins it should, I'm done with this.

Still not up in Sweden...

@LordFunkalot In game, at the selection map cafe, garage etc. Go up to the leftupmost corner of the screen, press GT to open GT Menu, Options, Sound Volume:
Here you can choose Race sound (BGM means background music) so you can mix and match how you want the game to behave. Check if Race BGM is off if so, set it to ON for music during races.
Hope that helps.

I just claimed my 1 million for guessing right on Lexus in Manufacturers Cup and the 2 tickets for watching both streams, so far so good. But it's annoying when you have all 505 cars and the tickets give you 2 cars you already own, fine you think, just sell them. Yeah right, now I got like 50% of their values, on 2 brand new cars that I just got!! Polyphony Digital should make the game check owned cars first and ASK if you want another of that same car or the actual value for a brand new car.
I love GT7 but this moneyfarming crap they drag us through must be stopped! Remove useless spareparts and double cars and always 5 or 10K on the tickets and the game would be near perfect. And more tracks of course, I know Eiger Norwand is coming, but more tracks!!

This looks great, I have to check this out at release.

It's also summer, people tend to go outside and numbers will increase in a couple of months. Same thing happens every year for every game.

Everytime I read "white protagonist" I think I will start writing "black protagonist" and so on in my comments about other games and see how long it takes before I'm called racist...
Shouldn't it work both ways? 🤷
Those "white protagonist" reviews should been called out for being woke and racist but no one dared. Sad thing really.
I think it was a solid 8 and would love a sequel! And yes it was a 8, that is why we all still talks about the game, 6 or less and it would have been forgotten in my opinion.

Astro Bot
The Wolf Among Us 2
Assassin's Creed: Shadows
Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake
Lego Horizon Adventures
Those are the only 5 I care about and my backlog is still huuuge.

I now own all 505 cars in GT7 since about a week ago. I love to collect cars but would love a new track or 2! 🥰

Can you guys at Push Square give up on Jeff Grubb "the insider that got reliable info".
He's guessing, you guys already wrote how he was sure about a BIG PS SHOW and all we got was another State Of Play...
How many times have you cited him for "Bloodborne remake" "Bloodborne II" over the last 5 or so years?!
He is guessing and hope something sticks, in my view reddit is more reliable than J.G and reddit is wrong 99% of the time. Soooo bored reading his lies/guessing in your articles, please bury him as a source for a few years until he actually guess right a few times in a row, please?!

@get2sammyb "I personally found the end of Elden Ring, particularly the last few boss fights, to just be borderline unfair. I know the series is "supposed" to be hard and I know you're "supposed" to gitgud — but I didn't find the last bit to be fun at all."
I totally get what you are saying, but you also have the ability to "trivialize" those bosses by using gear to make you more or less immune against their primary attacks, and that's one thing many gamers seem to forget about From Software games!
You can't beat every single endboss with your prefered cookiecutterbuild, you also need to adapt a little to the current situation. Same in this DLC as far as I got. I had to put on my best "antifire-setup" to beat the fire-miniboss in the starting field and after that it was back to my prefered gear, for a while at least.

The problem with many games of today is the spongy neverending lifebar bosses. I can understand that is putting people off.
But Erdtree DLC is pretty much on par with Elden Ring endgame, just as I expected.
But this is a he same way Nioh 1 was treated "it's to hard with double bosses" that many reviewer's complained about, but it was actually a pretty well balanced game if you gave it enough time. 🤷😎

@tabris95 Thanks, I googled it after reading your answer and actually learned something totally new today. Thank you 😁

@tabris95 Sorry for being noobish but what does SMT stand for? 🤷😉

@Logonogo The dlc is indeed great. I only played 2.5 hours and now it's time to celebrate Midsommar (midsummer) here in Sweden ☀️😎🍻 so probably too hungover tomorrow to play, but inital impression is that it will be a great addon. I love the color palette of the Land Of Shadows!

@Blofse You pretty much summed up my concerns. I can just agree. Still don't like the intrusion in stuff like my game collection.

The Horizon game that came with my PSVR2 was a boring climbing simulator. But I love using it frequently with GT7 and No Mans Sky.
I have alot of games for it but every time I put on the headset I seem to gravitate towards those two games for some reason. I love my VR but I hate games that feel more like a workout than actual gaming immersion 🤣

Just read an article on another site that said M$ is adding AI to all their games, starting with Minecraft. The AI is supposed to help the player but I can't stop wondering how much data it will collect from our systems.
I will never ever install any game that collect AI data in the background. I rather just go back to my Amiga 500 and PS3/PS4 that I can play offline.
I can't understand how everyone seems ok with AI without any rules attached to it, It's intrusive af right now and it will destroy all our privacy within a few years if no laws are controlling this trial and error way to approach AI that is the current model.
And for us gamers, it seem to start with Minecraft, just so you know. 👀🤷

@LiamCroft Damn, I check this trailer when I beat the dlc then. But thanks for the heads up, now I will only be mildly dissapointed when I don't get any cutscene.

Not the "launch trailer above" I assume they have some new intro cutscene for the dlc...

Thanks for the warning, I watch i tomorrow when I boot up the DLC instead.

Plot twist: he never played any other Dragon age game.

Bloodborne II.

@Boxmonkey If you really want better comments just post the comments you like to read? Only way to change things is to start doing it.
Now you just posted criticism about criticism. (/jk)

But I agree, I have heard so much negative things about No Man's Sky, Nioh 1+2, Rise Of Ronin, Horizon FW and so on here and on another forums but I just gave up and shut of my brain for most haters. If you like/love a game, comment about the good stuff you like with games, only way to fight the haters tbh.

@Fudo Yeah, that sounded elitist by the reviewer. Guess he was afraid to change up his build too much to work with the new weapons?! My *****'s Stars build is running circles around any Lordsword Greatsword build I can make, so it's all about using the runes most efficient for the build you want to make, I'm sure the new weapons will be great with the right setup.

Edit: so the forum censor the ingame name on my weapon LOL??!! "B_A_S_T_A_R_D's Stars"

@B0udoir "Check that you have the HDR mode activated, which turns on the VRR with your TV. Game is unplayable for me without this mode, but super smooth with it."
HDR and VRR are two separate settings both on your TV and on the PS5. You can have HDR on and VRR off without problems...
HDR are manipulating the colors to give you the feel for more natural lightning on the graphics while VRR (if your TV is a 120 HZ tv and supports it) takes a 40+ fps game and runs it in 120 hz.
So, you should ask @Contimaloris if he/she has a 120 Hz TV and if so, activate 120Hz Mode on it together with VRR in the PS5 settings. If he/she doesn't play Elden Ring on a PS4 that is, then you should suggest to play it on a PS5 instead

Sorry for being nitpicky this early in the morning, but the more you know...

@djlard I'm with you, if the bossfights are tuned for co-op, usually that's too hard for most singleplayers to beat. So I'm not very happy about this, as I'm playing all my games solo 100%.

@Rich33 That's strange, nothing I experience on my PS5 (OG /Discdrive dayone version).
Maybe they released a VRR patch along the way so my TV kicked into 120Hz mode?? I don't know but I have very stable FPS when I play, nothing that distract me graphically when I'm playing the game.

@Rich33 Tried it in performance mode ? I think that will sort out most of your problems to be fair.

@Rich33 So have you actually played it or did you just have it on your wishlist until 1.50? And "I have never had a problem" is kinda true in my experience. The few things that I had a "small" issue with was fixed by all patches released. Works great for me on my PS5!
No apologist, just facts for me!
@MKD88 Same experience for me, nothing to really complain about here either.

I just hope you guys at Push Square will be as nitpicky when reviewing this game as you were with Rise Of Ronin so we the readers can start to learn what way you see these games. Right now the reviews are all over the map, doesn't makes sense to me. As you been hyping up this game since day one I guess it will get 10/10 but will it REALLY be a 10??!!
Personally it seems like a bossfight marathon without real levels inbetween, but I haven't played it, just seen the PS showcases...

@The_Pixel_King I bought the game on last Christmas sale. I ended up with playing it for 6-8 weeks nonstop. I beat every single boss and explored every inch of the map, dungeons, extra bosses and all. Worth every Swedish crown/euro/dollar/pound it cost.
Play the game, enjoy it. And check on youtube if you get stuck 😉🦾😎✌️ You will love Elden Ring if you give it time! 🥰

The summoning pool functions are great. I hope the unnamed improvements are pre-dlc adjustments.

@breakneck

@Specky So you are really calling me "fanboy"? for liking a game that I think was 9.5/10??!!
I didn't read anything after "fanboy" but I'm sure you put all your braincells to work to come up with somethng witty.
I played Rise Of The Ronin on hardest difficulty from day one. Platinumed it in 6 days and played through most of the story on Midnight difficulty when I unlocked it.
How much have you played it to say I'm wrong to have my own opinion??!! I LOVE THE GAME!! Deal with it.

@Kanji-Tatsumi Nioh 3, that would be a dream come true for me too!

Push Square 6/10....

@breakneck "Also, wouldn't it have been easier to switch on a PS4/5 and check the trophy percentage over there for a more accurate look at the boss completion?"

Shardbearer Mogh trophy: 34.7% of players have it. So the article is right (35%). I guess they did check the PS trophylist.

I'm set. Bring on the DLC.

Lego Horizon will probably be released around 10-20th Nov together with the Pro. That way they can bundle it for families to buy as christmas gift..

@0niguy You can check out the "ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree Edition PS4 & PS5" on the PS Store if you need to buy both.

@0niguy I would assume so because they said you have to be at a certain point in the story to be able to travel to the dlc zone.

I believe it when I see it, less stress that way.