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Switch 2 and PS5 are the best gaming combo. Just like Switch 1 and PS5 were up until last Thursday!

My Series X, while appreciated for what it is, is just superfluous right now.

Mods like his have existed…well, for ages. You have only to look at FF7 Remake/Rebirth for a recent example.

PC gamers do enjoy the freedom that us console gamers don’t have, sometimes!

Funny. I thought I was enjoying my Switch 2 on a big screen.

Dang, I guess I’ve been wrong all week!

@Czar_Khastik @N0CYmr0k Damn, Czar coming in hot with the best explanation! I have nothing to add here, stated perfectly.

Oh, I actually would add that not everyone has hyper fast internet even today. Buying a physical disc only to find another 80GB download is needed is…not great if you have a 5-10 MB/sec download speed, as I did only a few short years ago. “Yay, I bought this game on disc that…I’ll get to play…tomorrow I guess…”

@get2sammyb I will say that I’m not hugely bothered either way as I DO own the upgraded Gears of War release on disc for Xbox, so passing this up won’t hurt me all that much. But if it has the actual game AND is on PS…yeah, that’ll be an instant buy for sure!

I’ll believe it when I get confirmation it can be played offline and installed ONLY from the disc.

Till then, it’s in do not buy at launch territory for me.

I’m sure reports of these refunds are just part of the concerted negativity campaign.

@TruestoryYep Dang, you’re right. Apologies, thank you for correcting me! Edited my comment to reflect today’s numbers instead of ever!

That said, Stellar Blade has done better than several AAA games recently released in the last eight months or so. I’d name them, but it didn’t go well for me the last time I did so!

For even more perspective:

Stellar Blade now appears to have the fifth highest concurrent number of players on Steam today.

Yup. This game done good.

Edit: I misread what I was seeing, corrected “EVER” to “today”.

Huh. I was reliably told by a regular Push Square commenter a day or two ago that we shouldn’t rush to judgement on this game based on the lack of review codes, the overall mehness of the look and the ravings of the dev saying all negative opinions were some coordinated campaign.

Funny how things work out.

@Propaperpusher The woman she’s modeled after exists in real life, you know. “Overly exaggerated” indeed.

It isn’t a perfect game, but for a studio’s first non-mobile game? It’s an incredible achievement.

@Oram77 shrug Nothing but praise for Stellar Blade. Wasn’t trying to insult other games, just provide some extra context.

Okay, I’ll try again because I was somehow trolling naming other successful games?

Stellar Blade has also outperformed at launch on Steam very notable games released in the last year or so which have also recieved high praise from reviewers. Not just Sony published games. Pretty impressive that, a mobile developer’s first non-mobile game blowing MANY games out of the water at launch.

(There, I named no names. Am I cool?)

Does it fix the whole play-15-minutes-and-your-frame-rate-plummets thing?

@JB_Whiting I’m definitely not complaining about the other trailers, mind you. I’m a Kojima fan. I’m just amused that we actually get to see gameplay instead of the usual Kojima tableau.

Wait, it’s a regular trailer? Did someone lock Kojima out of the editing room?

But…but…it was a concerted negativity campaign! Support the devs! Surely it’s good and everyone’s just out to get them, otherwise the dev wouldn’t have told us this!

@AdamNovice I’d have played the hell out of a new Syphon Filter.

Dumb decision on their part. I loved that series on PS1.

@tameshiyaku Is it your mission to crusade for people who claim any negative options are a smear campaign, and will never know you exist?

@tameshiyaku Call me crazy, but when a dev is afraid to have reviewers review their game, that’s a giant neon-trimmed red flag.

It might be good. Too bad I won’t risk my money on it to find out directly, especially after the dev made that asinine statement.

Well, one good thing came out of this.

Paimon will be recast.

I sure as heck won’t be buying it anytime soon. Or even touching it on gamepass with my series X.

$80 for this? Nah. I’m good.

@tameshiyaku No review copies sent to outlets. Dev decries any negative comments about the game as a coordinated smear campaign.

Gee, I wonder why everyone thinks this will be bad…

I wonder how hard this will Concord? I mean, obviously it’ll be less than 1 Concord on the failure scale, but maybe 0.4 Concords?

@JAMes-BroWWWn We must travel in different circles. Everyone I know was hyped for it, and there was plenty of buzz where I live.

Just give us a straight port (with some graphic enhancements) of MGS 4 and Revengence and I’ll be happy. I need nothing more from Konami at this point.

I’m a simple man. I see a sequel for one of the most boring games I’ve ever played, and I simply save my money for something else.

@elvisfan1 Eh, I was playing video games before achievements/trophies existed. They’re meaningless. But to each their own!

@The_ghostmen That was an artistic expression, obviously it can’t be criticized. XD

“Something something chuds something something only wearing for the followers and money something something chuds.”

Pretty much every Stellar Blade decrier at this point who gets upset seeing how well this game has done.

@elvisfan1 Online online trophies will keep you from buying a game?

The life of a trophy hunter is apparently a difficult one…

“We’d rather not paint a giant target on ourselves this year. We want to spread the negative comments over other folks’ presentations.”

@djlard Because a highly rated visual novel is coming to the platform? I, uh…okay.

@DennisReynolds Stellar Blade sold 1M in a few months. On one platform. From a developer who previously only made mobile games. So cheaper to make AND only available for PS5, AND not from a massive company like Ubisoft.

Let’s not pretend that it isn’t impactful with those factors, given it was the studio’s first game like this, the “OMG, busty girl, chuds are sick for wanting this!” backlash, IGN saying she was designed by someone who had never seen a woman or whatever, etc etc…

@DennisReynolds She can look forward to the money AND like the outfits at the same time! One doesn’t negate the other.

Complaining people: “I can’t believe people are so perverted to mod it to be even sexier! Gamers are such chuds!”

Eve’s body model: “Oh, I want to wear these!”

complainer’s head explodes

@MrGawain They made the right decision.

@TheArt Some games do have like L3+R3 as a default for photo mode, but they almost always let you disable that as well. So it’s still a little self-inflicted if they don’t disable it.

As far as using the share button, it doesn’t get rid of interface stuff. Photo modes do, and then you use the share button after.

@Damage99 It doesn’t have to be a dedicated button in this game, and a good number games let you disable it anyway if it is.

Just have a “photo mode” option in the pause menu, and your hatred can just simmer till you pause the game.

I mean, Conan O’Brien was in 1.

Kojima gonna Kojima!

Huh. I didn’t have “claim a concerted paid smear campaign is responsible for my game looking kinda meh” on my bingo card.

@VelocityXCI Thanks for the info! I could have sworn it was twice, but my memory sucks sometimes.

About the only argument against the PS5 is Gamepass, and as a series X owner I don’t even find that compelling due to my weird urge to actually own my games.

PS5 is the way to go.

@RagnarLothbrok Came here to say this, was not disappointed. “Endearing heroes,” indeed.

It sucks, but might be best to do a clean slate approach. How many times has Chie’s VA changed, for example?

At least we still have P4 and P4G for the memories!

@ozkrmz So Sony discounts the PS5 temporarily in one country and this somehow proves it was overpriced…while MS raises the price of the XBox everywhere.

…not following the logic here.

@Balaam_ I agree with you on so much usually, but respectfully I hard disagree on this one. P5 combines style and functionality, and I had zero issue navigating any of the interface while loving the total style of it. But to each their own!

It’s nice to see other developers appreciating near-perfection while creating their own near-perfection!

@Haruki_NLI You are completely wrong on that.