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Well, at least no one paid for it, unlike Concord. Not up front, anyway. Refunds for whatever battle pass/in game purchases were applicable might be hard to get, and I hope everyone can get their money back.

@Frmknst Calling all the Yakuza games awful is a bold strategy, let’s see how that works out.

@nomither6 Locked to that PSN account, of course. But also accurate!

It’s in my digital library and in my physical library. Physical media forever.

For the 3% who are all in, I hope it’s good.

This game couldn’t repel me more if it tried.

Very mediocre game. I wouldn’t get too excited for this. I still can’t make myself go back to my series X disc copy, just keep bouncing off the blandness.

@ShogunRok Thanks! I’m looking forward to a full playthru of the PS5 versions of 0-3 in the near future, once I finally get through the Trails series. (On Cold Steel 2 atm, it’s gonna be a while, but RGG gets my money on release day as a general rule!)

Been a minute since I played 3 so I’ll enjoy this very, very much.

Will be picking up my copy on release day, thanks for the review! Btw, @ShogunRok did they indeed fix the lighting issue from the demo in your review copy?

@Deadhunter This in no way invalidates my statement that a Larian-made BG4 would print money.

@Llamageddon We will never, ever let Sony forget or memory hole Concord. They need to be reminded of it at every turn so they don’t repeat the same mistakes again.

Sadly, it seems like they learn very, very slowly. The existence of this game instead of focusing on Horizon 3 is proof.

BG4, give it to Larian, print money.

This on the other hand…can’t go well.

looks at poll results

Yup. Looks like most people hate or dislike it. And I’d be willing to wager most game journalists feel the same except they don’t want to alienate Sony by saying so.

Sorry. I know it’s “the popular thing” to hate on games, but this trailer just repels me in every possible way.

For those it’s aimed at, I hope you enjoy it. Sadly, I will not be among those.

@SuperSilverback Gravity Rush and Tokyo Jungle are not fair comparisons at all. Those were unique and looked great.

This art style reminds me of Clash of Clans with the cartoony smirks. That is not meant as a compliment, I’m afraid.

But to each their own! For Guerilla’s sake I hope it does well. I just utterly hate how this looks and will patiently wait for Horizon 3 in the meantime.

…my god this looks horrible.

Every bit of that trailer just made me want to avoid this game completely. It was like the anti-trailer.

Nope. I loved Horizon 1 and 2. This…

I will be all over this when it comes out.

Very meh game. Bounced off it multiple times and I love space-based games in general. I say this as someone who owns it on Series X disc.

I can only speak for myself, but this is definitely not a game I’d touch on PS5. Mediocre at best.

@Elodin Strong Bad still lives! New Strong Bad emails are still being made and they just released an updated Kick The Cheat plush!

I was all set to say “uhm NO, this was on PS3, what are you smoking?” but then I realized that only 2 made it to PS3 and I played this one on my computer back in the day.

Oops!

@TrollOfWar Exactly. I own a Series X as well as a PS5 and Switch/Switch 2, and took advantage of GP to gauge my buying decisions for a while. It’s how I discovered that I love the Horizon series, and even got me to buy Hi-Fi Rush and High On Life for PS5!

But then, I also prefer owning (or indefinitely renting, in the case of digital purchases) my games, too. Most people who use gamepass (anecdotally, I know a few in r/l) don’t buy games at all. Except Helldivers 2, I was able to get them to buy that.

Oh dear god YES.

I have one three month GPU card left to use with FH6 on my Series X, and then I’ll actually buy the game on PS5 when the time comes and carry everything over.

So happy to see this. It was my one issue with FH5 being ported to PS5, all my Series X progress didn’t carry over.

@themightyant Gamepass. Those folks aren’t buying the game like we are, at least not at first.

So being called Overwatch 2 was just a stupid marketing stunt that failed. Good to know.

What a success!

Well, it’s beating Dustborn’s all-time count of 83 on Steam. That’s a plus, even when Highguard dropped to around 3k players on Steam earlier.

7k is…not great in the slightest for a highly-touted multiplayer game after 8 days. That’s deathknell numbers for a free to play that replies on in-game purchases for profitability. It is NOT “hanging in there” by any stretch of the imagination.

Looks like it IS still hanging in there at 0.5 Concords on the Concord scale. That 90k player count at launch was basically “well, let’s see how mediocre this is…aaaand I’m done, uninstalled.”

@Bamila LukeskywalkerNOOOOOOOO.gif

“You’ll want to play this on the Pro”

…no, no I don’t think I will. My peasant class PS5 should run it just fine!

I may buy a copy of this for $4.99 someday for the Shelf of Shame. It’ll sit next to my forever unopened copies of Dustborn and Failguard which were also $4.99 each.

As the great Jeremy Clarkson once said: “Oh no! Anyway…”

I’m sure tens of tens of people will be drawn back with this change.

@SuperSilverback Nah, there’s plenty of games that are entertaining to watch.

This is not one of them.

Looks like a .6 on the Concord scale so far. Maybe that will go up, maybe it’ll find some footing, but it’ll be interesting to watch.

Watch what happens to it, that is. Watching the game itself being played was intensely boring.

Still have my copy preordered, and glad they’re patching this.

Translation: “We know it’s a god-awful game, but enjoy more of it for more money!”

@Rhaoulos Which is why I said, “I wonder how much…”

I also stand by my comment about it being too much, even if it was zero.

I still wonder how much Geoff got paid to shill for this game.

However much it was, it was too much.

Given some of the really, really bad takes from reviewers over the years, not to mention the obvious biases some have shown (anyone remember the comments from IGN France about Stellar Blade? Pepperidge Farm remembers) it’s not surprising this has been said.

Of course, a lot of reviewers seem to love anything that comes from certain studios even when the actual public massively disagrees.

No real good solution to this other than finding folks who like the same games as you and seeing what they think, really. YouTube has been wonderful for finding alternatives to game journalists for sure.

That peak number was definitely, “Let’s see how full of it Geoff was when he touted this so highly.”

The massive Steam drop off on day two is quite telling.

Guess that’ll be a no-buy from me for a while. Not that I intended to get it at launch anyway.

Starfield is, at heart, yet another standard Bethesda game.

If you like the Bethesda’s formula, you may enjoy Starfield. I did not, and the series X disc (bought at a large discount, thankfully) sits on my shelf unplayed for months.

One of the only MS published/developed games that just makes me go “meh” when I hear about a PS5 port.

Nah, I’m good. I’ll just watch the festivities from afar and not get any of the Highguard on me.

@Northern_munkey The timing of the Ubisoft stock plunge and game cancellations with this just gets my brain a-jogging. I’m weird that way!

As far as From goes… glares at Bloodborne, amazed that From/Sony just refuses to do a 60fps patch

@Northern_munkey Three Far Cry games getting updated all at once with more AC games coming soon(TM) is unprecedented, though. They’ve been doing them one at a time in dribs and drabs.

If all three FC games used the same engine though, it could make sense.

That said, I’m glad to see it whatever the reason. These games are so much better than recent Ubi fare.

Am I the only one who finds it interesting that this sudden flurry of 60fps upgrades comes at a time when Ubisoft’s stock is in the toilet and projects are being canceled left and right?

Hmm…

@Toot1st Imagine being so overconfident that your game will be amazing that you keep completely silent after your big game reveal, with exactly zero communication or demonstrations beyond a lackluster promo weeks ago. And then only announce a video for the DAY IT RELEASES.

Do I want it to fail? Not particularly. Will I be amused when it does with how they’ve handled everything? Yes, yes I will.

I will not apologize for my lack of blind support for this game, moral or otherwise, based on everything I’ve seen.

@Boxmonkey If they were confident in what they’ve built, you’d think they’d want to…show it off more than this.

I’d be glad to be wrong in this situation. But I doubt it.

Can’t wait to see how hard this Concords after complete radio silence up till now.

Not promoting your game in any way, shape or form other than the announcement is a bold move, we’ll see how it works for them.

I just want Fable Anniversary on PS at this point.

Calling it, servers will be dead in about a year and a half to two years.

But it’ll make more money than Marathon.

@JDINCINERATOR …that would be the most mind-bogglingly stupid thing they could do, no company would ever do that. Talk about reaching.

They’re not going to urinate away 5 years of development just to give gamers a middle finger. Even Ubisoft isn’t that brain-dead.

Not since the Elden days of McDonalds have I enjoyed a ball pit this much. Been playing it a lot on Switch 2, hoping they eventually release a physical disc for PS5!