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Much needed. Would love to play this game without constant distracting performance issues, like screen tearing, slowdown, and delayed loading of textures (without having to suffer with 30 FPS stutter, which makes this game especially unplayable on OLED).

Hard to care unless they fixed the embarrassingly bad inventory system and baffling inability to tilt the camera to look upwards.

This is tough news for the one PS4 owner who gives a sh*t about whatever tf “Planet Coaster” is 🙄

Your whiny nitpicking here is really tiresome.

Rated M for blood, language, partial nudity, sexual themes, use of drugs and violence — so not censored, I hope? Anyone seen any confirmation on that?

If you won the “privilege” to pay $500 for a PS5 only to play primitive, ugly old games on it then you’re an idiot and you don’t deserve it.

That’s not what stingy means. Sony’s pricing would arguably be greedy; customers who balk at the price would arguably be stingy (and entitled).

Definitely not impressed with the goofy jump physics and the scabbard clipping through the cape. Just looks like more of the same old outdated FromSoft jank. Dark Souls 3 only open world isn’t really going to cut it.

Whatever they eventually release almost certainly won’t be free. My guess is that it will be WLF vs. Seraphites factions online multiplayer set in Seattle, taking place prior to and/or during the events of TLoU Part II. Probably PS4/PS5 cross-gen since the overall PS5 player base is still relatively small due to console shortages.

You’re very conspicuously using “backwards comparability” incorrectly. This would be forward or upward compatibility.

LOL, of course my comment was immediately followed by someone propagating sole creator auteur cult of personality BS.

Yes, but they should ditch the term “director’s cut.” It’s a goofy, cheapening misnomer.

As in film, “director’s cut” propagates the “auteur” fallacy, which diminishes the often more-significant contributions of literally every other individual who collaborated on a project, all to to feed the ego of the director and create a marketable cult of personality around them.

Many of the big name “directors” are megalomaniacal climbers who got ahead by taking disproportionate credit for the work of other more talented people who typically get lip service at best.

They/we should just call them expanded. It’s more accurate and less fraught with desperation to ape the worst aspects of the film world.

Apparently, it needs to be reiterated that whining about upgrades not being free is pure entitled butthurt. The labor that goes into producing upgrades needs to be compensated.

It also bears pointing out that without gamers actually paying for content (including upgraded content), this site and the jobs of those working here probably wouldn't exist.

Frankly, I can’t care unless they intend to finally let me buy a PS5 after countless failed attempts at various online retailers (including at least five failed attempts to purchase from Sony Direct). Looks like their answer to their ongoing supply debacle is to shrug, to which I can only shrug in return.

These indie devs sound like entitled whiners. If they want access to Sony’s profitable player base, then they have to adapt to Sony’s policies and standards. Frankly, I almost exclusively go to PlayStation for exclusives—not indie games that I can play on other platforms.

Sony’s strategy of prioritizing high production value exclusives is perfectly sound. A curated high quality library is preferable to a bloated one. Exclusives sell consoles; multi-platform indies don’t.

These downgrades are an obvious attempt to cope with ongoing, no-end-in-sight console scarcity. I can’t imagine being so impatient that I’d pay to play inferior versions of what should be next-gen exclusive games.

It’s hard not to see this generation transition as an unmitigated failure. PS5 won’t be easily attainable until some time in 2022 at the soonest, at which point the hardware will already be increasingly outdated. Many game releases will have been diminished by the limiting demands of straddling generations. It’s a rather bleak outlook if you care at all about innovation and advancement.

Considering how difficult and time consuming the game of actually purchasing a PS5 from Sony Direct or an authorized retailer is, I guess a platinum trophy is appropriate.

I never bought it at all, not interested, don’t care about it, and this only reaffirms that. There is a less bitter, dickish way of suggesting that gamers support the games that they like and want more of. Also, sales tend to lure people who otherwise wouldn’t buy at full price, obviously.

Muzzle your dog, Sony.

Looks like they really captured the boredom of watching boxing. It’s hard to imagine a punching simulator being fun for more than five minutes. Ideally, pinching someone should be just one small element in, you know, an actual game with a compelling story and diverse player interaction. But hey, that’s just me.

Entitled, opportunistic psychopaths’ fragile egos are often easily wounded when they face criticism for their antisocial behavior.

Hopefully the makeup person will have a marker handy to fill in his too-sparse facial hair.

Gave up trying to get one. Playing my PS4 Pro less. Not buying new games. Not at all pleased with how Sony has handled this release, particularly with regard to their utter inability to cope with scalpers and bots. They clearly don’t care as long as they get paid/their sales numbers are strong. They could have implemented programs to ensure that their more dedicated PS4 players were ensured pre-order stock, but they chose to take us for granted and leave us to at the mercy of staggeringly inept retailers and scalpers/bots. Getting to purchase an expensive gaming console shouldn’t be a game/grind in itself. I’ll see if I still care when I can just easily buy one at MSRP, in 2022 or whenever. Can’t say that I’m enthusiastic to give Sony my money at this point.

I have never been interested in this game as I hate first-person perspective in games and find cyberpunk genre tropes and aesthetic to be egregiously corny and outdated.

Apparently, it takes a lot to get fired (or forced to resign) at Ubisoft—and it shows.

Too bad HBO still only airs/streams content in 1080p SDR. It’s going to be ironic when the live action series looks worse than the games.

Unless it can be heard at optimal viewing distance from a TV with noise canceling headphones on, I can’t see it being much of a problem. My PS4 Pro whooshes and whines like a dying blow dryer, so a softly whining PS5 would be a considerable improvement (whenever I can actually buy one). Anyone expecting silent operation is simply being unrealistic.

I thought it looked a little lackluster for next gen, especially the scene featuring Shiva. Somewhat relieved to hear that it wasn’t “tuned or optimized.” Tentatively looking forward to playing what kinda looks like a Final Fantasy take on The Witcher 3.

Don’t care about factions/multiplayer, never have, never will. Would much rather have DLC, or any other upgrade to the main game.

I could not possibly care less about this. Bethesda is one of the most mediocre, overrated developers. Their games are bloated, clunky and insipid. They should be right at home in the MS/Xbox stable.

She kind of looks the part, but she’s too old to play 14 year old Ellie and too petite to play 19 year old Ellie (if they get around to adapting Part II).

I don’t envy whomever has to cast this show. I’d prefer it if they just did a high quality animated series with the same voice actors (ideally for another network as HBO can’t really be trusted not to ***** it up).

Hopefully HBO will at least finally adopt 4K HDR, which they’ve been stubbornly and foolishly lagging behind on. It would be great if any low-light scenes are actually watchable. It’ll be kind of ironic if the live-action adaptation ends up being visually inferior to the games.

As usual with Dark Horse, the face is conspicuously and egregiously wrong. This is a statue of someone cosplaying as Ellie. Not sure who would want that.

If I were any more paranoid, I’d speculate that this might be a conspiracy to make professional critics look useful/important. Their reviews are at least typically sincere, informed and measured. User scores/reviews are often best regarded with skepticism—I’ve typically only found them useful in rare instances where critics were too harsh on something that was actually pretty decent.

Metacritc won't let me leave a positive review—it hangs on mobile and I get a "Error 503 Service Unavailable" on desktop when trying to submit. I assume they're overloaded or have temporarily disabled reviews, but it's hard not to see it as suspicious. There certainly seems to be an agenda against the game, reflected not only in the review bombing supposedly perpetrated by actual people, but also in the few minority negative reviews from (undeservedly) prominent outlets like Kotaku, Polygon and WIRED.

Personally, I didn’t really need any more pre-game hype, but the mostly-overwhelming early acclaim is reassuring. Glad to see that the 💩 Kotaku review wasn’t cited here. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a gaming publication or reviewer try harder to make themselves (more) irrelevant.

I’d be content with no backwards compatibility. I already have a PS4 Pro. I’ll buy a PS5 to play PS5 games—not to play old, outdated games.

FFS, just let Good Smile make Joel and Ellie Nendoroids.

My only concerns are “is it easy to dust” and “will it blend in with my dark entertainment center and therefore be easy to ignore.” I mostly like the PS4 Pro design and default color, but its grooves are annoying to dust and the LED strip is distracting. Naturally, I’m more interested in my TV screen.

I love Witcher 3. I've owned most consoles since the Atari days, have played many, many games, and Witcher 3 is probably in my top 3 of all time. That said, it's the only CDPR game that I've played, and, while I admire the work they did on it, I don't necessarily have any special loyalty towards them. I don't regard them as a legendary faultless developer. Witcher 3 has problems. It's best played on PC with mods that correct those problems. The last PS4 patch left it with serious draw distance issues and a few other, apparently abandoned, bugs that really ought to have been addressed.

So, knowing that CDPR is (understandably) not perfect, I don't expect their games to be perfect. Add to that the fact that I generally hate first-person games (I find the gliding character movement and field-of-view movement relative to character movement to be egregiously unnatural, and I hate the claustrophobic "locked in" feeling). I also don't particularly care for cyberpunk as a genre (I find its tropes and aesthetics to be rather goofy and outdated). All of which is to say that my expectations for Cyberpunk 2077 are actually rather low. If anything, I will most-likely be pleasantly surprised if/when I eventually play it.

Hype is easy to ignore when you don't work in the industry. I've been disappointed by too many over-hyped games, and thoroughly enjoyed too many under-hyped games, for it to matter much at this point. "Hype" prior to release is just marketing and should be regarded—or rather disregarded—as such. Post-release "hype" (or lack thereof) is often more telling.

It's one thing to use a game to role-play as a violent bigot in the privacy of your home—it's another thing to use the game to promote and glorify violent bigotry on a social media platform. For most decent people, shame and humility would preclude the latter (if not the former as well).

Using a video game to illustrate violent misogynist hate speech should be treated the same way any other kind of violent hate speech would be treated on the platform. If the guidelines prohibit it, then it should be subject to removal. Ultimately, YouTube can remove anything that they don’t want to host. Having your content hosted by a corporation on their platform is a privilege—not an entitlement. Restoring the videos was most likely a calculated capitulation enacted for PR reasons.