kyleforrester87

I should get to do whatever I damn well want with my school boys

I haven’t been this excited since Microsoft bought Activision

This is exciting, I didn’t want to read too much of that for spoilers though. I didn’t realise this was quite so far along. I’m really surprised and happy they have managed to make this, it didn’t look likely at all not too long ago. Guaranteed day one for me, which is rare to say these days.

SOMEONES GETTING FIREEEEEDDDDD

@BowTiesAreCool Haha, I feel that. Undecided much?

I'm not sure it's for me, but I can't deny it's bloody impressive. That's what happens with all that money, manpower and time I guess. Great stuff. I'll probably end up getting it.

“If we stay laser-focused on the same American setting, that would exhaust possibilities, and also potentially cause fatigue for the playerbase."

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Yeah you know what, annual releases that reduce in quality will solve that issue 🙄

As if setting the games in America (you know, Silent Hill, specifically) is actually the problem here. Christ…

Just make another franchise in that case.

Please don’t control like sh*t 🙏

Hmmm I don’t think I have experience with those particular games, but I would love to see some other C64 collections come down the pipeline.

I don’t think I could justify spending more than around £1 per game though, and I bet this collection will be £15-£25.

@Mindless_Demon I'm sure they have done their sums. They spend millions (and tens of millions) per episode on shows that also need to return an investment in the form of subscribers. If they spend £50 million on this GTA deal they need to add about 800k subscribers to the 325 million people they have to break even. They also might count on holding onto subscribers who may otherwise be leaving through the summer months.

Reports are saying it cost Netflix 100 million so they'll want to add or retain 1.6 million people for 1 month to break even.

I wonder how many of those 1.6 million would forget to unsub for a few months too...

There are a lot of people questioning why they would pay when they could just wait 6 hours, and I agree, but I think you're missing the point a bit.

Inevitably there will be an influx of people who can't wait who sign up only to cancel straight away, but it's about adding value to the subscription that people already have, encouraging them to stay if they have been thinking about leaving, or encouraging people to subscribe as part of a desire to watch everything else under the Netflix service along with this. You'd be a bit mad to sign up just to watch this (although f*ck me, I regularly waste £5 on loads of sh*t) but if there are some other shows you're interested in, or are already subbed, why not?

Doesn’t look any goofier than his other suits, or any other super hero suit for that matter..

Ok actually looks pretty good

So funny. 15 years ago this would be bundled with Horizon 3.

@Leeg it's spelt "grandma".

@Flaming_Kaiser yeah that’s absolutely valid. Just my point is there is not a binary right/wrong way of doing it, it’s up to the developer really, for example they could give you 2 discs then they could charge you another tenner for it, either way you’re just along for the ride!

@CielloArc @Max_the_German yeah it’s a DLC expansion. It’s the complete edition because you get access to everything including the DLC when you buy it. You can decide how you want to frame it, though. Silly arguments waste precious life.

Yeah the clue is in the name. DLC.

@Tobimune no pause is kind of annoying, but I do also get it. For example you might pause periodically during a boss fight to collect yourself between phases or whatever. In the spirit of what the developers are trying to achieve with the Souls games, I do think it’s valid to not let you do that. Maybe they should let you pause when you’re not in combat, or something!

@Faraz27 lol no you weren’t going to get it.

@TheArt Yes PP ran out of steam but the moment to moment gameplay was really good. I was surprised to go back and see the other day that I played GZ for over 70 hours!

But yes, as much as I enjoy how MGS4 wraps things up I would probably give the gameplay a 2/10.

@TheArt I assume you're not talking about GZ and PP, where the gameplay is pretty fantastic. MGS1, 2 and 3 were also all good to great for the time. Really, 4 is the only one where I agree, it felt dated at launch.

@Reeneman I read it made over $100 million in its first few weeks alone, combined with the low overheads I assume they could afford to support the game for years on just that. But, of course, they have continued to make multiple times more than that since then.

I don't wish to be cynical, the guy seems to have wanted to do the right thing after the poor launch, but I suspect it was a lot easier to make the decision to do that given all the money they have in the bank!

@clvr aye it’s a good little game

@Johnnycide I always figured that is what will naturally happen when the industry gets too big for its boots, it's why I am not really worried about all the negative stuff right now.

It looks okay, but I don't love it.

Felvidek on the other hand... <3

@PaperAlien no, Sony just can’t monetise this in the way Netflix are able to.

@shoeses That'd be nice wouldn't it!

So what we saying, no more Dead Space?!

I’m playing Pillars of Eternity 1, lots of fun

Can’t get off unless it’s man made huh? It’s an issue, for sure

@johnedwin https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/the-creator-of-ultima-is-reportedly-reclaiming-the-series-rights-back-from-ea-and-it-could-happen-as-soon-as-next-year/

I always thought the Steam refund policy was more to check whether your system had any issues running it, as much as anything else. There are so many variables it’s just better business sense for them to give buyers the option to refund, than to try to handle the enormous amount of technical support and complaints.

I’d honestly be surprised if Sony offer a refund option and don’t expect it, but it’d be nice.

It’s fine but then we just need to be happy with 1 game per generation with that logic. I don’t really mind.

Yeah, if you do look at this as 20% of console games being sold physical.. and then factoring in the dirt cheap digital sales on older games, it doesn’t look quite so bad for physical. Like, a quarter of sales being physical where physical is an option isn’t so bad. Seems a bit unfair to lump it all in with PC sales and old PS1 games at £2.99, anyway.

I mean, I don’t really care either way, just saying what I see I guess. I suppose I would rather just move on anyway if that’s the way the industry is going. Writings on the wall.

How about we all agree that if we have nothing new to add we just stop commenting?

Looking great!!

Can’t wait to watch MGS4 again

@IntrepidWombat sorry to hear that, take it easy

@Exerion76 recovery time would be uncertain and insurance may not be that generous. You can’t just leave everyone and everything on ice. The show must go on…

That’s expensive, production will be very well insured for this sort of thing though.

@get2sammyb sounds bloody important!

damnnnn...dozens!

I finally got SSX3 on my Steamdeck, great fun playing this again after all those years. It holds up brilliantly. Why don’t they make games like this?! I’m also playing Ico, Silent Hill 3 and GTA4 all for the first time. I like Niko and Liberty City!

@shoeses that’s some high praise, thanks!

I did recently watch this BBC archive about video games and the industry from back in 2004, and it does seem that the promise has not been fulfilled.

https://youtu.be/RdvXlBDWH3s?is=17cSjjTE2z-IPRwy

Maybe they just don’t like how it comes across these days. People change and it’s their game to change… I wince at some of my Facebook posts from 20 years ago.

I canceled my sub about 8 years ago, what the hell do I get???

@ShadowRJ doesn’t that make sense if they have not posted for a while and it’s sitting at the top?

Not good enough for who though? The vast majority really couldn’t care less if they do or don’t, is the reality.

Of course, I would like them to get back to their old ways, though.