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I'm following the updates and you're going through the phases haha. First you hate the pogo, then find a crest or two and think it is actually nice to have options, then you find very little rosaries but when you get in the castle you find that you can farm them quickly and easily and many enemies drop a lot. The runbacks are bad though, especially early in the game where movement options aren't plenty, after having finished the game I can think of one or two runbacks which are especially bad, and I still think they are bad design and meaningless. However, the game overall is a master piece for the ages, and I hope it gets all the recognition.

I don't care about an Xbox port but this Mahler guy is really toxic, I read the reports about how he treats his employees and it looked really bad and if I were Microsoft I'd split up from him and his company. I bet this story is more about his ego than the actual numbers. Too bad as gamers and consumers we don't have a clear compass to steer us away from purchases that reinforce these practices in the industry, many studios have been plagued by toxic work environment allegations and no mechanism exists for us to push back as consumers.

The story, combat and world design were awesome and top of their genre. The open world though felt repetitive after 15 hours in the game, all the side quests eventually felt like following a dude's footsteps and then killing a bunch of enemies. The camp clearing also got repetitive at the end. These things stopped me from getting 100% in the game and from playing the DLC. Other than that a very good game and a solid 8/10.

After what I've seen from Marathon and it being somehow Bungie's last shot I guess they'll go under in a year or two. I don't know how could Sony pay 4.7 billion for such a studio, they were clearly scammed. With Ryan's push to live service, this gen for Sony has been an overall mess, A LOT of dev time was wasted and it'll take some time before we see a stream of good first-party games from Sony again.

Hmmm, is the game out yet?

@ATaco Imagine having a handheld device which has the same power as a PS5. The fact that they got PS4 specs out of switch 2 is amazing for me.

Fot a purely multiplayer game I'll never pay full price, but for Bungie and Sony it'll be a great boost for PS Plus if they Marathon on it day 1 since they need a player base.

As a longtime push square reader, this review doesn't resonate with the experience I had with the game, I know each reviewer has their own experience, but this is somehow wrong. I wanted to check out the game on Friday night and I was completely frozen in front of it for the past 3 days and have >30 hours and I expect next weekend to be the same. This was one of the best gaming experiences I've had and it is definitely a 10/10. I can delve deeper of what I don't agree with, but I urge people to go try it on their own.

If you like Hollowknight and Sekiro get Nine Sols, an amazing game.

@NeonTiger This type of game is not about lore, it is clear that FromSoft is capitalizing on their IP and giving people what thousands of YouTubers and twitch streamers are giving, a fun randomizer coop experience in the world of ER. I don't think the criticism of lore in this kind of game is valid since it is not a main entry with a campaign like the other games. I expect the next mainline game to have the kind of lore you're talking about for sure.

I honestly don't respect that much the fact that Wukong is framed as the 'not so good but popular' game, especially because of it appealing to Chinese audiences. I'm not Chinese and I found it to be a fantastic game, easily my GOTY for 2024 and for a studio debut I don't see why it wasn't universally acclaimed.
Critics sometimes ignore the fact that a game is just fun and look for over the top things, and for Wukong it was the case.

I wonder what traffic pushsquare gets from continental Europe but it seems weird that every time they put prices they completely ignore € prices, as if these readers didn't exist. It costs the writer one additional line only ...

Finally, I can remove the ugly black veins off my character's face. It's unfathomable for me that this is not an option in the base game.

Why Horizon Zero Dawn? Isn't it Sony's title? Sony really works in mysterious ways. Why not keep old prestigious titles with diminishing sales on the service to increase its appeal and keep it competitive?

They shouldn't have added these mictrotransactions, that is it. Devs should stop doing that, I don't see a single upside. Even if that didn't have an effect on the design of the game, you could still make the argument that IT DID and it is not a defensible position by any means. Technical issues are Ok and they can be fixed, the reputation of a greedy game stuffed with silly micro transactions cannot.

Cool, Sony raises PS+ prices 30% then gives us this. If this keeps going I'm not renewing my subscription in February.

I think what Sony is doing is exactly what should happen in a subscription service (at least for the Extra tier, I cannot care less about the premium tier). The day 1 releases harm the devs a lot by taking away a "possibly" huge revenue stream that can be reinvested in good games. I hate the 80€ price tag that Sony has, but I'd pay it for exceptionally good games on release and many people would, and that creates a revenue stream GamePass can never bring in.
Sony could add a day 1 game trial for the premium tier (I know they're doing it now, but I'd love to see it extended and becoming an industry standard to try games before purchasing to avoid disasters since not everybody reads gaming news), and that would make the upgrade totally worth it for me.

I just hope this doesn't end up like Steelrising, and all the half-baked souls-likes we've seen come out these past few years.

Mega brands? Hollow knight, Sifu, Celeste, Elden Ring, RDR2, ... etc. All of them are games which sold extremely well and came out of almost no where compared to long-running franchises.
Ubisoft has to stop with the ***** arguments and just start making good games, horrible management and the devs are the ones left to bite the dust. I'm happy actually this's happening, I grew up playing Splinter Cell, prince of persia and the original AC and they were amazing games, and about a decade ago a disease has gotten into this company and they started to make the same games over and over again looking only for profit in the stupidest way possible. They need to refocus their efforts and build new IPs with fun gameplay and good stories and stop releasing the same games 10 times over.

@Kachiun This is stupid, why should we hit start the challenge for it to count? I just figured out why my Inscryption purchase didn't count.

Anybody else has the 50 points purchase bonus marked as expired? I'd like to buy inscryption but I don't know whether I'll get the points or not.

@LiamCroft What should we do to have Pushsquare write prices in euros too?

@nomither6 What would hinder sales? Warzone is free and if I buy COD MW for the single player campaign and the multiplayer and I don't want Warzone I should be able to chose not to download it. Other than the ridiculously cluttered Home Screen, Warzone requires frequent updates that I have to download although I've never played Warzone and never will.
If it's the case with MW2 I won't buy the game.

Make it a separate game from COD MW2 for god's sake, having to download 200GBs to play multiplayer only and the continuous updates is awful.

@reek FromSoftware doesn't lay out the story for you in 30 interactions a minute with people and unending dialogue. I've certainly sensed the difference in ER's lore compared to BB and DS. There are many factions in this game and the demigods battling is certainly the work of Martin, I recommend you go more into the game, in 10 hours I'd reckon you've barely scratched the surface. I'm 40 hours in and I've explored a third of the world and met just a bunch of NPCs, but the story has Martin's prints all over it, I don't want to spoil anything, but look well for backstories of the demigods and the interactions between them and the effect this had on the world around them.

Dark souls 3, trying to round up all the remaining rings and covenant items to get the platinum before ER comes out.
Might try out Death's door if I had time but doesn't look like it.

Elden Ring all the way. Game of the year 2022.
I have to get myself to play the first Horizon in order to get the second.

@pimpjuice When people get to play it on PC they won't wait 4 years to get Ragnarok on PC, they'll be extremely tempted to get a PS5 to play Ragnarok. I think it's a great idea.

Elden Ring for me and that's it, I have good reason to believe it'll be the best game ever made. FromSoftware has only made masterpieces and this will just add to the long list of excellent works by the studio.
I'll probably end up playing God of War at some point after the release because the story was very interesting, gameplay wise the 2018 one was lacking.

@Dan_ozzzy189 It got the same score on IGN and the guys there usually overrate games. So I'm really skeptical.

Oh no ...
I really thought this would be a good game, I suppose you can never trust the look of a game in the trailer these days.
I played Crimes and Punishments and it was very good, but the Devil's daughter was clunky as hell. I guess I'll pass on this one.

I played the Network test, I got two sessions only since I didn't have much time over the weekend.
The game is AMAZING, one of the best games I've ever played. The combat is not a mix of dark souls and Sekiro, it has a completely new flavor. The use of summons and weapon arts (Ashes of war they're called) changes everything. The posture break from Sekiro (it exists in Dark Souls but I'd compare it more to the one in Sekiro since it depends on how you approach the enemy), all of these are elements you should think about when fighting a boss. And this amounts to a new, more dynamic combat system that has its special character. I'm excited to see how the full game will force us to learn these new techniques like Sekiro did.
The open-world is full to the brim with stuff, you literally cannot pass 1 minute without seeing something, whether it being a pack of wolves, a giant, a dungeon, weird sea creatures floating around, eagles carrying swords that they attack you with, and all kinds of stuff. I've played many open-world games before and this doesn't even come close, they actually designed the whole open-world as they design their areas in their previous games. For instance, I started the game in a cave and then made my way out of it, got the horse, and then after a while I found a part of the beach which isn't accessible, but if you do some careful platforming you can get there, I roamed a while there and I found a cave, inside the there was a tunnel that got me to the same starting cave but from a different spot and I picked an item on the way, I was completely mind-blown after this. This is the same (door does not open from this side) trick but in an open world scheme.
The game is also hard, you have SO much more accessible tools at your disposal right from the start compared to Dark souls, but the bosses are not easy. You get easily swarmed by mobs and the bosses are fast and agile as in Sekiro, so you really need to be quick on your feet.
I'm super excited also for magic and faith builds which don't require now an insane amount of investment in stats to be playable, right from the start with 16 intelligence I was able to effectively use magic to fight off enemies. In my 6 hours I didn't have time to try other build unfortunately.
Can't wait to play the game in February and IMO we already have our game of the year for 2022. I think the network test even with the frame drops and the few glitches I encountered was the best gaming experience I had in 2021.

Performance first playthrough. Quality second with magic and faith build.

This is my 2022 game, I don't need anything else. I spent 500 hours in Sekiro alone, let alone DS and BB. FromSoftware never disappointed and they'll not do it now.