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@Ultimapunch not so ironic if you look at how scummy Disney has pretty much always been.

Can't wait for the usual sad people who don't even understand how AI works to try and paint the artists protecting their work and livelihood as the villains because "progress is inevitable hurr durr".
All my solidarity goes to the actors involved.

@get2sammyb Just here to congratulate you on that sub header 😂

@JuiceboxMeister basically all of cultural anthropology as a field goes on to demonstrate what I just told you, along with a dose of history of socialism and how it's been besieged on all fronts by the US and other capitalist forces in every single one of its incarnation.
Seriously, if people educated themselves about socialism we'd stop with this "looking for the best system/nothing's better than capitalism now" nonsense.

What a nothing article. It's the same story every time.

I mean, if they really did that, that would make the reboot games even more pointless than they already are.

@JuiceboxMeister exactly. We do have scientific proof of that.
The "inherent greed" you talk about, instead, is just another capitalist myth, and one you seem to have fallen for.

@Johnstonian2003 ah yes, entitled for wanting a €60 game to work properly.
Nobody expects anything to be perfect, just to match the quality of previous PS ports.
Stop being a fanboy, please, your arguments are beyond ridiculous.

Lol at the fanboys jumping to absurd conclusions about piracy and PC gamers hating Sony (what? 😂), when in reality people are simply calling out a badly optimized port.
Also gotta love the lack of moderation when a people are called incels undeserving of Sony's games, chapeau.

If there's a game I wouldn't pay more for, it's Rockstar's incredibly overrated money grabbing casual bait.

Now I get Sony's master plan: they've been making movie games for 3 generations, so this will certainly close the gap and realize their ideal game, one that plays itself!
Lol I'm only half-joking seeing how little agency you have in Sony's first party blockbusters

This one is very, very good!
If you have a passing interest in it, by all means try it out!

@dark_knightmare2 lol, but somehow Horizon is a masterpiece because of the same Metascore you're (correctly) insinuating means nothing here, which is lower for Horizon than Infinite btw.
Sorry but I couldn't resist pointing out the irony of your comment, you truly do just cheesy pick whatever suits you in the moment.

"One of the best-written games ever made, BioShock Infinite"
😂😂😂😂😂

I knew standards were low, but seriously?
The base game is a an incoherent mess that crumbles under a minimum of scrutiny, and the DLC's are simply abysmal, to the point of really looking amateurish.

@dark_knightmare2 yes they actually do.
If you think the mainstream reviews are the right avenue for judging a game's artistic merit, I'm sorry but you're completely off base.
Reviews are meant to describe a product, not a piece of art, and that's exactly why mediocre, run of the mill games get high marks.
But then again, you bring up sales as a testament to the games' quality, so I'm not sure we're on the same page as that's the first thing you learn to decouple from art when assessing it as, well, art and not a product.

Blergh.
Goes to show what little grasp people have of actually good games, but then again, we live in a world dominated by shallow, meaningless franchises like Marvel and such, so I'm not exactly surprised by the low standards.
With all the great games out in 2024, this shouldn't even be mentioned.

Wow does this look generic and bland.
Also hate any kind of real world brands in games, there's no quicker way to shatter my immersion.
I'm sure it'll be just as mid gameplay wise all ND games are but will still be applauded to hell and back just for their name.

So this is a blatant rip-off but Stellar Blade isn't? What's the logic behind that exactly?
The amount of similarities to the "inspiration source" look the same to me.
Oh but wait, Stellar Blade is a heavily marketed PS exclusive...

Glad more people will be able to play it, as it's a really amazing game that deserves a lot of success.

@nomither6 ah yes, gambling, nicotine, alcohol, any kind of drug... they're all absolutely good for your body and mind.
Addiction itself is not healthy, and is usually geared towards unhealthy things.

@kyleforrester87 welcome to the Deck community lol
To be fair I haven't had it for a long time (only a few months), but I absolutely adore the thing, it's become my boomer shooter machine and I love it lol
Other than that, JRPG's I always find great when portable, along with metroidvanias and platformers in general (even 3D ones!).
Some highlights of these first few months include Witchfire (Early Access), HROT, Cassette Beasts, and replaying a lot of DOOM games lol

"PS5 Pro allows us to make an emotional journey rather than a technical one"

That has to be one of the single most meaningless and pretentious quotes I've ever heard.

No matter how good YIIK's "I.V" update ultimately is, we'll always prefer its earlier, less commercial work, if on principle alone

Pure gold, sir 😂👏🏻

@ChrisDeku lol, if getting the core gunplay right is enough for you to crown them the best you've got an incredibly low bar and should probably play a lot more FPS games.
There are Indies made by one person or a very small team that are bona fide masterpieces in many areas, while Bungie can't get anything right aside from the basics (and I've always thought that to be the case, regarding Halo as well).
And if we're talking AAA, nobody beats id Software, mechanically or technically speaking.

@RamboMike yeah everyone is an entitled whiner, it's not you that are bitter.
It's always the same story in every comment section regarding strikes, people brainwashed by this workaholic culture who go against their own interest and belittle their fellow workers for...what reason exactly? Bitterness? Envy?
I'm freaking tired of seeing this crap as well, so what?

Not my kinda game, but if it's half as good as The Finals is, we're in for a treat.

"I honestly don’t understand why it didn’t work."

And that here, my friend, is exactly why you picked it in the first place, because you don't have a clue how the games industry works. If you did, you would've picked literally anything else.

Watched SkillUp's review and it confirmed exactly what I suspected: it's a waste of money because the more powerful GPU is hampered by a CPU barely more powerful than the base model's, so you only get marginal improvements for €700.
It's a premium product but it doesn't have basic features the base model has.
Oh and the fact that they're still pushing 30 FPS modes on this thing is outrageous.
If I had €700-800 to burn, I know I'd build a much better PC than this half-baked, needless half-step.

@EfYI Also, do not waver from having them sign in. There are adult crybabies who will cry about anything that isn't crystal meth shot directly into their veiny eyeballs.

I think you missed the part where PSN is not available in a large majority of countries around the world.
But then again, the way you speak of other people is so unrespectful and childish you probably don't care about it either.

@Toot1st no, on all platforms.
I agree it's a bit confusing due to PS's editorial line of always specifying PlayStation platforms in the titles, which makes the news in question sound like they only concern those platforms even when they don't.

"Post over 100 replies to unlock Prestige Mode in the comments section below."

Not gonna lie, this made me chuckle quite a lot ahahahha

The amount of unempathetic people in here is seriously sickening.
You're so f*****g brainwashed by society and miserable that everyone has to suffer like you do, right?
Can't be happy or side with someone fighting for their rights?
No, let's lick the corporation's boot and pretend these workers are entitled whiners.
I swear some people has no humanity left in them.

@Flaming_Kaiser yeah I know, it's just tiring to see people throw out dog whistles and then cower away when they're exposed.
If you're gonna be a bigot, at least own it.

@riceNpea it's ironic that you're clearly referring to those that who don't know better would call "the woke crowd" when it's literally the opposite side that has been exposed multiple time as taking offense and stirring up controversies on behalf of actual Japanese people.

@RBRTMNZ you definitely need to branch out and play Bayonetta or DMC then, because GOW's combat system is mid at best.
The camera is completely at odds with the type of combat it wants to be, relying on stupid red arrows to tell you when hits are coming, instead of, you know, letting you see the action. Kratos Is magically magnet pulled to enemies, which is a cardinal sin of any good character action game, as the player must be the one dictating the rhythm of combat.
The controls suck, but I know I'm in a minority there; "a few mid puzzles" are actually an incredible annoyance thwt shouldn't even be in the game to begin with. What's the point of having a puzzle for pacing, if you're just gonna give me the answer? It ruins the pace instead of improving it, because it just amounts to literal busywork.
The gear system is completely redundant and tacked on, included only because you can't have a AAA game these days without one.

@RBRTMNZ ah yes, great game design that.
Since we aren't capable of designing interesting puzzles, let's put some arbitrary roadblock from time to time which requires no brainpower whatsoever.
It isn't even the only major issue this game has and it got perfect scores everywhere nonetheless 🤢

@dskatter @IntrepidWombat of course I didn't, everything about it looked mid from the get go and reviewers I trust, plus watching part of the story, only confirmed that.
The characters are dreadful, the themes ape Nier Automata without understanding them, and so on.
As I said in the review, if it weren't a heavily publicised PS exclusive, nobody would score it as high as they did.

So that explains why one of the best games of all time is doing a crossover with its poor man's carbon copy

Why are you putting Concord and The Finals in the same sentence?
One didn't reach 1k concurrent players and was shut down after 12 days, the other one is going strong and is on the verge of Season 4 which will surely boost its numbers.

@PegasusActual93 his was obviously a joke, but hey, Ubisoft did it with Far Cry Primal lol

This is a game I never thought I'd play for several reasons, but I recently picked it up on a whim with low expectations and I've been having a great time. Wrapped up the main story, I'm currently tackling the first DLC.

I mean, it's a Star Wars Ubisoft game...do you expect any more than mediocrity?

@Quintumply I couldn't help but chuckle like an idiot at that subheader 😂👏🏼

@Blaze215 no, he's perfectly right.
The game is wildly underperforming because of several factors such as price, generic looks, trite gameplay etc, not because of some made up culture war only Americans care about.
And if you think only one factor was decisive in the downfall of this game, I'm sorry but the world is a very complex system where nothing can be attributed to one single variable in most cases, and certainly not one as vague and meaningless as "wokeness".