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@Elfuggingjefe same. It was fine. Painfully earnest. Stopped bothering with it apparently right near the end and sold it 😂

Don’t have GTA:V. Sort of wanted it for a while but the fact you’re still having to pay for a PS3 game is wild. This almost tempts me to upgrade to extra… but not quite.

Just stop announcing specific dates years in advance for a game that needs no hype anyway!

Buy physical - this is where the entertainment industry is going when you’re buying a product digitally

It’s a fair cop. The question is how much that ethical quandary weighs against the fact you can resell and probably only pay £10 total if you sell within 6 weeks.

I assume this doesn’t take into account the second hand ownership though which would reduce carbon on a per capita basis.

@Oram77 less disposable income and higher priced games

Depends on the price. As a single player game you could blow through it now in about 4 hours.

Sorry but I work in the sector and study after study shows that gaming and video content are both growing. Gaming revenues are bigger than sports and movies combined. It’s not either / or. This is exactly what Xbox did with the launch of Xbox One. They failed to engage the core, focused on marketing it as a blancmange machine, and a new raft of executives are reading the same data about dwell times on TikTok and drawing the same wrong conclusions.

Art cart dart eart. Nope, can’t see any problem there

2025: “Why do I need a PS6 - goodbye Sony!”

2027: same person desperately buys PS6 from a scalper on day 1 for a 1000% markup

More than 3 months away? Like every game nowadays this will get delayed.

These ‘deals’ are such comically poor value. Kingdom Come 2 for 58.99, with no resale value; versus 48.99 at Argos, Smyths, basically everywhere else too and can be sold on when done for 35-40. PS store is such a scam job.

@J2theEzzo totally agree on all points. Reviews made out it was the most amazing co op game of all time. It’s fine. It’s a good game but nowhere near worthy of the hype.

Just have an indie state of play and a major third party state of play. Sets expectations immediately.

By some distance the worst SoP I’ve ever seen

There was a lot of chatter on Reddit a couple of weeks back that FFIX Remakester was going to see light of day in Feb. I assumed some sort of standalone event but possibly this?

How is price a factor? You pay way more for digital, and they can’t be resold. If you buy a physical at hit or 365 games - or on eBay - then sell it once you’ve finished it it’s cost you about a tenner in depreciation.

It’s not a fair remark to say Marvel Rivals copies Overwatch, what with Overwatch 2 being a completely miserable experience with non existent progression and Marvel Rivals being fun.

It’s just an annual reskin. Anyone who pays anything for it at all is a mug.

I buy a game brand new, complete it and sell it on eBay - basically costing £5-10 for a new game. Physical is such a smarter option. Digital is just publishers and platform holders using their monopoly to mug off consumers.

Seems a shame only readers of this site seem to have a bought it. Hope it didn’t cost too much to make!

Ubisoft games suddenly just become one massive auto-play

Me: "We need to deal with the guard in the library"
NPC: "Sure but all in good time, why don't we traverse this giant map doing a hundred hours of unnecessary fetch quests first? And we can talk about whatever you'd like while doing it"

Bought at launch and sold three months later when it became clear the support similar to gran turismo 7, RE Village etc just wouldn't be there.

I was fully expecting Alyx to arrive in the first wave of post launch announcements but nothing came.

It seems such a totally pointless system. All that work by Sony with seemingly no strategy or vision for its role in the overall ecosystem at all.

Wow wasn't expecting to be disappointed about a game being cross gen for ps6/ps5 in 2024

A massive chunk of this surely will be on ff7r2

@KundaliniRising333 100% agree and was thinking the same. I know it's not yet ready for release but my god it doesn't even look close.

Difference is one was made to be an artistic experience and the other was made to bring in as much money for as little outlay as possible. CoD employees giving it large is like them trying to claim that CoD is more popular by their metrics than the Sistine Chapel.

@The_Pixel_King 100%, it's amazing. I'd imagine a lot of people who were going to buy it all bought it week one.

Meanwhile a PS3 game is still convincing enough people to go out and physically buy it to put it in the top ten.

For use cases like this it is helpful. I am doing the same for mundane throw away 'workhorse' tasks. It allows time and focus for the things people actually care about.

Shoutout to Demeo - absolutely fantastic game. So immersive being able to zoom in and out, and the animations of the pieces are superb.

Benedikta Harman, Hugo Kupka, Barnabas Tharmr, Dion Lesage, Cidolfus Telamon and Clive.

@SJBUK something seems up. There are a lot of polls going around of who ordered the bundle and hasn't had it shipped (myself included) and the numbers were over 90% last night! There's something fishy going on.

@KundaliniRising333 allegedly all of the codes for the call of the mountain bundles don't work in the UK, so Sony are waiting for replacement codes to be generated and then put in to all of the bundles before sending them out in the UK; rather than send them out wrong and email correct ones for fear of them being sold on for overseas use.

Pity no one is receiving their PSVR tomorrow due to Sony's call of the mountain codes cock up. That's a story waiting to be written outside of Reddit! Another shambolic launch.

The only let down for me are the facial animations. They feel very PS4. So many games from Spiderman to Valhalla to Horizon nailed it on a whole other level. That aside, superb. A magically realised world.

I was going to pre-order it right up until I saw the tell-tale sign of a release day embargo combined with tonnes of mass media marketing. Dead giveaway of a middling game. Reviews drop when it's too late.

Absolutely not. Unacceptable in 2022. Not a chance I'm playing this now.

I don’t understand why it’s being framed as “no longer a remake”. There was absolutely nothing in that trailer that isn’t in the original? You had the memory bit from Kalm with Cloud and Sephiroth at the Mt. Nibel Mako reactor, and then the flashback from the Nibel Mansion of Cloud and Zack after being attacked by Shinra soldiers… was there something else in there that wasn’t in the original??

So I had it on ps4, then on ps5 but deleted it as needed the space. Do I now need to re-download the ps4 back compat version, do the 'upload saved data' thing, then download the ps5 upgrade when that's released?! Or is it already there from when I downloaded for PS5?