Actually a great month. I’ve almost bit at Hot Wheels a few times, and Injustice 2 is great, Superhot is great. Been a couple solid months recently, colour me impressed.
I have signed a few NDAs in my career with some biggg companies. There’s a big sense of “f*!# around and find out” to every single one of them. I’m very curious to see this play out.
Excited to try Deathloop, Spiritfarer and might revisit Rayman Legends at some point. Decent enough selection I guess, I dunno. I haven’t been putting much time into this service, luckily I have it until May to decide.
@OrtadragoonX agreed. I am going to have to check those out because I've been kind of curious about other good training modes. GG: Strive seemed like leaps and bounds ahead of most I'd seen and got me to thinking what else is out there. I want to recommend fighting games to people but it's such a turn off for most, and it's not the inputs, it's getting matched against people who know how to read and create openings.
I would rather a more fleshed out practice mode, something really, really deep that goes into the fundamentals in a gradual, gamified way, than just dumbing down the controls. Why have fighting games been so bad at teaching people how to ACTUALLY play fighting games?
People want to like Sonic way more than they’ll ever actually like Sonic. This game looks and sounds objectively bad, which is perfectly in line with an absolutely horrid track record of bottom of the barrel games. In its over 30 year history, I can count the actually fun Sonic the Hedgehog games on one hand, easy. I’ll never understand why people get excited, I’ll never understand the refusal to see a bad Sonic game for what it is. No other series elicits more “well maybe it won’t be THAT bad…” more than the blue blur, and it always IS bad. Sorry, end rant!
I am loving it so far. I don’t mind the combat myself, I think the dodge roll feels satisfying and the progression feels good so far. That’s usually all I need. Give me a good dodge roll and some levels to grind. I’m a simple man.
What’s in the guts of these things? I am assuming just some sort of emulator? If I’m going to devote a chunk of a room to an arcade cabinet, I want it to be the real thing.
THPS remake is so good. I remember when EA Skate came out I was like oh THPS is old hat now, but the game design is actually so clever once you really dig into it. The fact that it has the updated gameplay mechanics from 3 and 4 makes this a remake done right.
Hopefully they’re just shutting the servers down or something, it would be a real disappointment if Sony plans on removing 1st party titles from this service. Delay their arrival if you must, but removing 1st party titles from your own subscription service is a real head scratcher.
Interesting read. I always bounce off sim racers for a lot of the same reasons. However, recently I had a similar experience with fighting games and buying a fight stick. It really opened up the genre for me. Now I’m like well shoot, maybe I just gotta spend a ton of money and I can like car games now too haha.
I have it on Steam, it’s very hard haha. Skating is hard so I guess that makes sense. Impressive physics tech, their early access journey has been interesting to follow.
This doesn’t seem as FUN as Sea of Thieves. That’s my problem with most Ubisoft games these days, it’s content over fun. I don’t care if I can spend 500 hours in your virtual worlds if I’m bored to tears the whole time I’m there.
Inflation, like the chip shortage, stands to be another sizeable, unforeseen influence over this generation of consoles. Xbox and Switch are better positioned with their multiple SKUs/price points.
This type of licence stuff bums me out. I think the best sports game I ever played isn’t even licensed and I think it’s got so much more life/soul because of it (Super Mega Baseball 3, go Wideloads!).
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Re: Sony Will Continue to Make PS4 Games Moving Forwards
PS5 is a throwaway gen.
Re: PS Plus Essential PS5, PS4 Games for October 2022 Announced
Actually a great month. I’ve almost bit at Hot Wheels a few times, and Injustice 2 is great, Superhot is great. Been a couple solid months recently, colour me impressed.
Re: Ubisoft Issues Strong Response to Embargo Breaking YouTuber
I have signed a few NDAs in my career with some biggg companies. There’s a big sense of “f*!# around and find out” to every single one of them. I’m very curious to see this play out.
Re: Certain Enemies in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Can Summon Actual Players
Nice, the Old Monk head piece was the ticket for magic users, I welcome these fights.
Re: Rumour: PS5 Redesign to Feature Detachable Disc Drive
Hopefully they redesign their expandable storage solution along with it.
Re: 17 New PS5, PS4 Games Join PS Plus Extra, Premium Tomorrow
Excited to try Deathloop, Spiritfarer and might revisit Rayman Legends at some point. Decent enough selection I guess, I dunno. I haven’t been putting much time into this service, luckily I have it until May to decide.
Re: Hands On: Street Fighter 6 Makes It Fun for Newcomers
@OrtadragoonX agreed. I am going to have to check those out because I've been kind of curious about other good training modes. GG: Strive seemed like leaps and bounds ahead of most I'd seen and got me to thinking what else is out there. I want to recommend fighting games to people but it's such a turn off for most, and it's not the inputs, it's getting matched against people who know how to read and create openings.
Re: Hands On: Street Fighter 6 Makes It Fun for Newcomers
I would rather a more fleshed out practice mode, something really, really deep that goes into the fundamentals in a gradual, gamified way, than just dumbing down the controls. Why have fighting games been so bad at teaching people how to ACTUALLY play fighting games?
Re: Ubisoft Joins $70 Game Train, Skull and Bones the First
I’d rather read a book
Re: Hands On: Sonic Frontiers Is a Positive Step Forward That Needs Further Work
People want to like Sonic way more than they’ll ever actually like Sonic. This game looks and sounds objectively bad, which is perfectly in line with an absolutely horrid track record of bottom of the barrel games. In its over 30 year history, I can count the actually fun Sonic the Hedgehog games on one hand, easy. I’ll never understand why people get excited, I’ll never understand the refusal to see a bad Sonic game for what it is. No other series elicits more “well maybe it won’t be THAT bad…” more than the blue blur, and it always IS bad. Sorry, end rant!
Re: PlayStation Acquires Savage Game Studios, Focusing on Mobile Games
Someone on here predicted an acquisition announcement the other day to distract from the price increase press haha, I’m too lazy to find it.
Re: Americans Earn the Fewest Platinum Trophies for PS5, PS4
must be all the sky high attention spans down there
Re: Discord Integration Allegedly Imminent for PS5
@Sequel Discord smog cloud? Genuinely curious, what about Discord integration is worrisome/bad?
Re: Aloy Confirmed for Horizon Netflix Show, Helmed By Umbrella Academy Showrunner
Can’t wait to see people lose their effing minds over casting on this one. You KNOW it’s coming. There’s gamers and a female involved.
Re: Japanese Gamers Aren't Impressed with PS5's Price Hike
Real bad optics.
Re: PS5 Price Increase Confirmed for UK, Europe, Japan, Canada, and More
The amount of people on here desperate to defend this company BAFFLES me.
Re: Sony Reveals Official PS5 Pro Controller, DualSense Edge
reminder: better stick technology exists but they want you to keep paying
Re: PS5 Action RPG Lies of P Still Looks Killer in New Gameplay Trailer
haha with that many removed comments, I have to wonder what did I miss?
Re: Devolver Debunks Ludicrous Rumour Claiming Sony Paid to Keep Cult of the Lamb Off Xbox Game Pass
Ludicrous rumours are far from an Xbox exclusive haha. Internet tribalism sucks, and the vast majority of this site LOVES to play along.
Re: PS Plus Premium, Deluxe Officially Adds No New Games in August
Pretty sure it’s all been setup to fail anyways
Re: Cult of the Lamb (PS5) - Deliciously Evil, Giddily Gruesome, and Bloody Brilliant
I am loving it so far. I don’t mind the combat myself, I think the dodge roll feels satisfying and the progression feels good so far. That’s usually all I need. Give me a good dodge roll and some levels to grind. I’m a simple man.
Re: PS5 Robot Shooter Arc Raiders Delayed to 2023
Kind of forgot this existed? Aesthetics are on point, not sure about everything else.
Re: It May Be Time for You to Buy an Arcade Cabinet
What’s in the guts of these things? I am assuming just some sort of emulator? If I’m going to devote a chunk of a room to an arcade cabinet, I want it to be the real thing.
Re: Random: Maybe Don't Buy PS5 Stock from Celebrities on Twitter
Wow, Mick Foley of all people. One of humanity’s best.
Re: PS Plus Essential PS5, PS4 Games for August 2022 Announced
THPS remake is so good. I remember when EA Skate came out I was like oh THPS is old hat now, but the game design is actually so clever once you really dig into it. The fact that it has the updated gameplay mechanics from 3 and 4 makes this a remake done right.
Re: Hands On: Rollerdrome Feels Utterly Phenomenal to Play
Wait this is a single player game?! Would have bet the house on this being a multiplayer game, I’m actually a bit shocked.
Re: There's 'No Comparison' Between The Last of Us on PS5 vs PS3, Says Dev
The relentless PR is a tad concerning.
Re: In-Depth The Last of Us Remake Comparison Deep Dives PS5 Improvements
Sony’s/ND’s “it’s good bro, trust us” psyop continues.
Re: Soapbox: No Free PS5 Upgrade for Persona 5 Royal Is an Insult to Fans and the Game Itself
If you want to stop being milked, stop being so milkable. This stuff keeps happening because the sales data is there to support it.
Re: Killzone Shadow Fall Standalone Co-Op Mode Leaving PS Plus Extra
@Voltan good to know, thanks for the head’s up
Re: Killzone Shadow Fall Standalone Co-Op Mode Leaving PS Plus Extra
Hopefully they’re just shutting the servers down or something, it would be a real disappointment if Sony plans on removing 1st party titles from this service. Delay their arrival if you must, but removing 1st party titles from your own subscription service is a real head scratcher.
Re: Sony Posts Official The Last of Us: Part I PS5 Gameplay in Extended Look
Haha what a load of hastily produced, fluffy PR nonsense and y’all ate that up like birthday cake.
Re: Ubisoft Delays Its Avatar Game, Could Be a 2024 Release
@Dezzy70 God of War, Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7… all subject to lengthy delays. Let’s not pretend that Sony is somehow above this stuff.
Re: Iron Man Is All About Buffing His Own Attacks in Marvel's Midnight Suns
I think this is the one Marvel product I’m still looking forward to.
Re: Stunning Watersports Sim Kayak VR: Mirage Planned for PSVR2
Everyone: so chill, so beautiful. #vibes
Me with an intense fear of open water: NOPE.
Re: Skate's Anticipated PS5, PS4 Reboot Will Be Free-to-Play
@get2sammyb for me, it’s not so much that it’s a live service game, but that it’s an EA live service game haha
Re: Skate's Anticipated PS5, PS4 Reboot Will Be Free-to-Play
At least there’s Session on Steam. S’good.
Re: PS Stars' Digital Collectibles Are 'Definitely Not' NFTs, Sony Stresses
I’m way too disloyal for a loyalty program
Re: Round Up: Resident Evil Netflix TV Show Reviews Are All Over the Place
If you’re going to GameSpot for your TV and movie reviews, then I don’t know what to tell you.
Re: Soapbox: A Racing Wheel Taught This Arcade Die-Hard the Joy of Gran Turismo 7
Interesting read. I always bounce off sim racers for a lot of the same reasons. However, recently I had a similar experience with fighting games and buying a fight stick. It really opened up the genre for me. Now I’m like well shoot, maybe I just gotta spend a ton of money and I can like car games now too haha.
Re: While EA's Still Working on Skate, Session Gets Underway in September on PS5, PS4
I have it on Steam, it’s very hard haha. Skating is hard so I guess that makes sense. Impressive physics tech, their early access journey has been interesting to follow.
Re: Skull & Bones Finally Sets Sail for PS5 in November, a Day Before God of War Ragnarok
This doesn’t seem as FUN as Sea of Thieves. That’s my problem with most Ubisoft games these days, it’s content over fun. I don’t care if I can spend 500 hours in your virtual worlds if I’m bored to tears the whole time I’m there.
Re: Gaming Spend Will Continue to Decline in US as Living Costs Increase, Says NPD Report
Inflation, like the chip shortage, stands to be another sizeable, unforeseen influence over this generation of consoles. Xbox and Switch are better positioned with their multiple SKUs/price points.
Re: NBA 2K23 Celebrates the WNBA for a Second Year with Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird Cover
It should be Brittney Griner.
Re: RWBY: Arrowfell Is a Stylish Metroidvania Set in the Popular RWBY Universe
There is a typo in the first paragraph.
Re: God of War Ragnarok Dev Sony Santa Monica Demands Respect After Unsavoury Week
Oh, the irony of people coming on a PushSquare comment section questioning the existence of toxic Sony fanboys hahah.
Re: No inFAMOUS or Sly Cooper Games in Development, Sucker Punch Confirms
That’s unfortunate, because GoT suuuucks haha. Nothing but Far Cry with swords. Absolute snooze fest with absolutely nothing new to say.
Re: eFootball Snags Exclusive Rights to Inter Milan from 2024-25 Season
This type of licence stuff bums me out. I think the best sports game I ever played isn’t even licensed and I think it’s got so much more life/soul because of it (Super Mega Baseball 3, go Wideloads!).
Re: Random: EA Gets Destroyed for Trying to Meme About Single-Player Games on Twitter
I cringed so hard I pulled a muscle.
Re: Rumour: Upcoming Need for Speed, Avatar Games Reportedly Release in November
After reading that last article about the harassment being aimed at Santa Monica, I hope they delay the stuffing out of that game just out of spite.