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@Oram77 “Milking the franchise” and “rescuing a trilogy from PS2/PS3 jail” are two very different things.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHno. No we are not ready.

I have to be honest…I forgot this game existed after trying it for a couple hours at launch. But glad to see it’s still getting support.

…well, maybe I’ll give SF6 a shot.

Gonna be honest, I forgot they even made a season 1. Then I remembered that it was apparently crap and wanted to forget it again. Thanks, article!

@Hyena_socks Bleh, that sucks. I just fired it up and messed around a little bit to see the new shiny and didn’t explore more options beyond those specific graphic modes. Maybe I’ll wait for another playthru till a follow up patch…

@Hyena_socks What happened with Cyberpunk?

…holy moley did I miss some fun in here.

That said, I will criticize the heck out of these devs for their ill advised decisions (base ps5 footage? Why would anyone want THAT?!?) while also supporting their attempts to correct/fix/improve things. I bought the game a week or so ago and played for a little while, but overtime at work has kept me from doing much beyond the intro. The pop-in was really distracting even on PS5 Pro and I hope they’ll fix it.

However…Pragmata just came out and that will be my focus once I get some time, so Crimson Desert will wait for a few more patches before I get back to it.

@darylb24 Figured it was something like that! Appreciate the verification that this is indeed an actual word used by actual people! With as much British media as I’ve consumed over the years, I’m honestly amazed I’ve never heard it before.

Is “papped” a common word for you non-American folks? Because this is a new one on me!

@DartLOD I chose my timeframe carefully.

It’s a little sad that a Lego Batman game is better than anything Rocksteady has made in the last ten years.

That said, I am getting this day one. Looks fantastic.

@3Above They'd have to give me PSN store credit to bother trying this out. I don’t even want this garbage registered in my game library!

This game looked atrocious when we first saw it, and I can’t imagine it’s any better now.

Looks like we’ve got another entry in the Concord series for sure. Honestly cannot wrap my mind around what Sony is thinking with all this uninspired slop.

Ah, Bethesda. Never change.

And by that I mean please fix your stuff before it gets released and make better games, please.

@RyPal Your opinion is noted and discarded.

Thankfully I have the PS5 disc. Snagged the Switch version digitally last night just in case. Sadly the XBox version was already delisted by the time I heard or I would have picked that up as well.

I prefer NOT seeing the behind the scenes stuff that happened. It almost never lives up to expectations when you have a fill-in-the-gaps movie/show/game like that. That’s just me, though.

“It turns out all we have to do is tell everyone we’re raising prices to ginormously stupid levels in a week or two, and they’ll just buy our crap! We should have done this YEARS ago! Genius!”

…and yes, I say this as someone who sold his PS5 to a friend and got a Pro the day these increases were announced. I’m dumb too!

”Did you say the critics didn’t like it? Sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the sound of box office success!”

There needs to be a “both” option for the poll. Yes, it was not quite ready for launch and should have been held back a little longer. Yes, it’s good that the devs are doggedly working on it.

“Now you can [REDACTED] younger folks in 4k 60fps! We’re totally not a danger to kids!”

Capcom, my wallet can only take so much pain, you’ve gotta slow down!

I look forward to this game very much. I broke my no-preorder rule after I played the demo, a nice shiny physical copy will be waiting for me on Thursday!

Wow, a Bethesda game launching with issues…whodathunkit?

Not every game has to allow you to make your self-insert.

Let Kliff be Kliff.

…how is $19.99 expensive for this? Talk about bad take.

Now THIS I’m looking forward to. I picked up Crimson Desert yesterday (yes, I’m coming around after seeing the post-launch support) but seeing the difference in Cyberpunk on my Pro after finishing the game on my base PS5 a couple years ago will be a huge treat. Enough to pull me away from Pokopia and from starting my Crimson Desert play through a little longer!

Stsrfield is the most boring spade game I’ve ever played, but I hope it appeals to someone.

Can they make it less like Starfield? I’d appreciate that.

(Yes, I own it on disc for Series X, before anyone says “Play it before you mock it”)

@UltimateOtaku91 And since they’re the only numbers we have, they’re all we can go by without guesstimating actual PC purchases. No sense inflating the numbers we can see with best-guesses.

Either way, unless and until Bungie gives us hard numbers, those who think its lower will continue to think its lower and vice versa.

@UltimateOtaku91 Marathon has never cracked past 88k on Steam. Apologies, but your numbers are WAY off.

If she wasn’t in 1348 Ex Voto and this wasn’t Marathon, he might have something there…

Kinda wish I’d picked up a Portal at Sam’s Club for $100 a month ago now.

Oh, well. I never use my Switch 2 in portable mode, I’d probably never use the Portal anyway.

Tl;dr Drooling idiot tries to make us not play games locally.

No wonder the devs wouldn’t share any base PS5 play video before launch.

I am completely and utterly shocked, SHOCKED I say.

Whelp, I already own two of these, but I guess I can try out a Sword Art Online game! Good month for other folks!

You know what really helps a future court case? Making an in-game mission about how your game was supposedly sabotaged in a concerted negativity campaign.

It’s a bold move, let’s see how this plays out.

Narrator: “It did not play out well.”

@Kienda Agreed. Especially with the looming price jump.

I was fortunate enough to upgrade to a Pro last week, but I almost decided against it. Reviewers absolutely should spend a little time playing on a base no matter what. The Pro owners are a vast minority of the installed base.

60fps on Pro is expected. What about base PS5?

@Sergo I didn’t attack the website you’re currently reading. That’s why you can still read my comment.

I’m a Sony fanboy. But these prices are obnoxiously huge and ridiculous.

This is the only console generation where prices have gone up, and I hate it. I’m a massive Sony dork, and even I would think not twice but thrice about getting a new console at those prices. Heck, the ONLY reason I caved and got a Pro before the price increase was someone at work buying my regular PS5 for a nice tidy sum.

@Sergo Show me on the doll where this article hurt you. This site exists to share/write PS articles and generate revenue. Do you think they are NOT going to follow up on their own poll?

Disappointing news. I’ve heard good things about this game, but I’m glad they have some things to add before the end comes. Will definitely have to pick it up soon.

It’ll be interesting to see if MS does cross-platform releases in the future with the new CEO. With the “This is an XBox” promotion being killed by the new head (and thank goodness, that was such a dumb thing), they might be rolling the cross-platform releases back as well. Maybe we won’t get E-Day for PS5 after all.

I definitely hope I’m wrong, but still!

@lazarus11 The game has ALWAYS interested me. I’m just not a fan of things the dev did leading up to launch and the cumbersome (from what I’ve read, anyway) control scheme.

This update tells me they know they have issues to fix and they’re doing so. That makes up for a bit of the pre-launch annoyances.

Like I said: when they finally complete the game, I’ll give it a shot. Likely on a sale. My backlog can’t take the hit right now.

I’ve crapped on these devs a lot, and I won’t rehash that here. But this is a very good sign, and I look forward to playing the finished product down the road.

@cainhurst94 I thought so! I take care of my stuff and he knows that. I’d rather my much-loved console go to someone who will appreciate it!

Ordered one that afternoon, and sold my current one (with 1 tb extra storage and the controller the Pro came with) to a friend for just north of $400, so half my Pro was paid for immediately. Of course I got the disc drive as well since I’m not a complete doof!

I wondered what it would take to get me to go Pro. Guess another impending price increase on top of an existing price increase did it!

@LogicStrikesAgain It’s still too much for a damn game console. I felt dirty buying that Pro yesterday, and if I hadn’t gotten a friend to buy my PS5 (he’s an XBox guy and wants to switch to PS, was VERY happy to get my PS5 once he found out about the impending price increase) I would have kept it and lived with it.

Either way, I’m just tired of this situation. AI has truly enshi***icated prices.

Looks like my PS5 Pro might be my last console, unless the Switch 3 keeps costs down.

I will not pay $1000 for a console. The only reason I even got the Pro yesterday was because a friend bought my PS5 + 1 TB SSD for half the price of my new Pro.

The whole point of console gaming is that it is, in general, less expensive and annoying than a gaming PC. (I know there are exceptions, calm down PC master race folks.)

That seems to be no longer the case.

“We’re making it as expensive as we probably can justify right now so we can lower the price later.”

I…okay, I guess?