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Does the mean even the flashbacks are in chrono order? That could feel very weird and disjointed as the whole context and purpose for the flashback is established by the preceding scenes. It would be like a random collection of mini-shows with no thread.
Interesting to see it but not sure it would work for me.

@kmtrain83 of course you can have both. You can have record breaking revenue with record breaking costs. You’re still not making profit, still not providing cash to your share holders and thus you go out of business.
The game is profit, not revenue.

I’m just glad we have the freedom, the wisdom and the courage to have these discussions - from all angles.
There are a loud minority that would wish it otherwise seeing only one view as THE view.

@ButterySmooth30FPS imho only if you want to play it as-if its on a 100" screen; which some may find appealing.

@kcarnes9051 I dont think do "The game is trying to trick you into thinking that this is a revenge fantasy where we're solely rooting for Ellie ....." The game is very clear from the first hour that Ellie is no more sane or rational then Abbie. Not sure where you are coming from.
I think its a simple telling of "people do terrible things in terrible times" - been told many many times, often enjoyably.

@Frmknst where? Every site raved about it and continues to do so.

@johncalmc Attractiveness and the appreciation of such is not a sin my friend.
Just because someone finds another attractive doesn't make them filth. Sorry to chip in but this whole vibe of be ugly or go home is just ridiculous.

@Mythologue Agreed, its pretty much the same warning on SH2.

As many have said
a) thats exactly the content I expect in a SH game
b) the warning is of value to newcomers to the series and even better that it will point to options for support.
I cant see a downside.

Perhaps PS could do a survey of the reasons people didn't rate S2. Be interesting to see the balance between presentation, story, characters, ahem lead performance, etc etc.

Personally I never played the second game beyond the first couple of hours and strangely S2 makes me want to. It cant be worse than the show being my logic.

@UncleByron Could you point to one example of that, i.e. of a detractor suggesting that?

@StandardMario Exactly. And in the industrial revolution those looms sure looked like there would be a few folks out of a job. Its called progress. Just because tech has has only recently moved on from automated mechanical and factual uses (science) to encompass art it doesn't mean art will be any less impacted.

I think ellie almost cracked a smile in this episode and thus its worth it for that!!
I dont understand the fuss about the scene; whether she knew he had saved her at the possible expense of mankind or not she is in full on revenge mode imho in reflection of his years as a loving guardian, not as a result of that 10 minutes in the hospital.

@RagnarLothbrok agreed she’s been let go from every role she’s had the last ten years. You’d have to worry if she joined your team next.

Really enjoyed this weeks episode. For me it ranks number 2, behind episode 2
I think its at its best when its a video game, the exploration, the combat, the escapes and especially the infected...... and really quite poor when it slows down and does the people stuff. But tbh if there wasn't some people stuff you wouldn't appreciate the good stuff quite as much .

tbh I found this 3rd in the ranking of episodes to date. Best to worst 2, 3, 4, 1.
Other than the train subway sequence it lacked in most every way. The torture sequence was completely uncalled for and added absolutely nothing. The revenge motive is there already, we dont need to see 'people do terrible things when in a terrible world'.
Dina imho continues to be the star of the show.

I remember this OG, and it was the first AAA 'full priced' game I ever played where I felt short changed by its duration. Approx 5 hours soup to nuts, and thats with an old slow bloke like me on the controls. Fun game, but it was the first of the sub-6 hour AAA title campaigns.

@Starkei thats a great idea.... its only £480 for the console and then 12x£15=£180 every single year. So lets say you do it for just one year, that's a fantastic saving of
£480 + £180 = £660, minus the £230 you've spent on just the games you want on the system you own..... oh hang on thats not a saving at all

imho it was a good episode. Not quite the level of ep2, but far better than ep1.
Ellie began to grow in to the role, she might even have cracked a smile at some point Dina is great. Tommy excellent as always.

It was great. Much better than Ep1 imho. Ellie was much more likeable and less 'hate the world'.
Its still doesn't make sense that Abbey would do what she did; but hey if she didn't the whole series would be rather short.

Must better.

Each to their own but Day 1 was imho a massive downturn for the 'franchise'. No one associated with it would fill me with confidence for future ventures.
But that's the beauty of art, one frogs pond is another frogs puddle.

@iDestinedOne if you think this is weird wait until you get to your teenage years - there's a whole world of weird out there

To be clear both FSR and DLSS increase frame rate by simply running the game at a lower resolution. It’s as simple as that and that’s what PC gamers have been doing for 30 years, it’s called the Settings menu.
Their secret sauce is then to use antialiasing to mask the quality of the lower resolution image.
Their marketing machines would like you to think it’s so much more.

20% reduction is hardly attractive. The intro led me to believe I would scroll down and see a 50% price cut. The Quest 3 is £289 and is far superior, objectively, in pretty much every measure. Why on earth would someone buy a PSVR2 when they could get a Q3?

Yes it would be great to see a remake, but the game remains remarkable and beautiful. It also remains dirt cheap and playable on both PS4 and PS5. So if you will forgive me, what the heck are they whinging for? Go and play it. Its a great experience as is. Twas my one and only platinum, and forever will be

@Bentleyma Afaik there’s only been about 4 asymmetric mp online games and they just don’t seem to take off do they.

Still always heartwarming to see gamers being happy gamers.

Just wait till he plays his second video game. There's a whole world of opportunity out there.

@MrPeanutbutterz Exactly. If sex, relationships or god forbid soft-porn ever becomes prominent in this world thats it, I've had it and I'll just go wokie. I'll be off to the monastery in a heartbeat. After all the church is the one place there will never be sexual desire....oh wait.

tbh it is a little like the cannabis dealer asking the cocaine dealer to ease off a bit. Sorry but its obviously intended to be sexually attractive in the first place, just as some other games are. I'm not saying being sexually attractive is a bad thing; the world (despite what some wokies think) would literally die if people weren't sexually attracted to each other - but lets not kid ourselves.

@RedRiot193 Hopefully you can customise the character so she doesn't look like Riddick on a bad day.

@DadJKP Thx, one to keep on the banned list then

With respect, and I speak as probably the oldest on the forum, its a little like going on to AVFORUMS and asking folks what are their memories of the switchover from B&W broadcasting to Colour. Its ancient history, even to an old fart like me . But given you ask...... my memory is Wipeout, thats it. All the cool kids got to have pretty girlfriends, play Wipeout at nightclubs, and have sex with those girlfriends afterwards. Us uncool nerds did not have any of those 3.

tbh I dont think PC is the place for a lego game and thus not a worrying statistic.
These are sit on the sofa and co-op with the kids games - not huddle over your mouse and WASD controls.

Some games are great on both imho (From games as am example) - but the Lego series was never in my view to be judged as a PC experience.

Jeez, surely DS1 or DS2 are much more appealing options. DS3 already looks the biz and plays with modern approaches to controls.

This is like doing a RE6 remaster rather than a RE2 remake. Nonsense.

@B0udoir yup, I think you are.

@dark_knightmare2 Exactly, and tbh I would suspect the PC original could already be running natively at 4K, at 60FPS and with all the bells and whistles the OG playstation version didnt have as the PS4 couldn't hack it.
If it were a remake fair enough, but just a remaster doesn't make sense on PC.

It would be interesting to know what % of regular readers at PS are PS5 owners already. I always suspected about 80%+ and thus the best time was for them months or years ago. About 4 years ago for me.
Assuming that the super long console cycles continue and its another 8 year stint, then yes, if you are not already on board I'd say by all means its a great time to get one. I dont see the PS6 for at least another 3 years and the Xbox is literally dead. So unless you want to play 1990s games on Donttendo go for the PS5.

tbh I thought it was exclusive to PC/PS5 anyway.

Its a shame really. All those folks celebrating the demise of the Xbox will be moaning no doubt when Sony has no competition and titles start going for £80 a pop or more.

tbh for £10 its worth a sniff. I never stayed around to the end of it first time thru and would like to see it out.

No hate here; always thought it a good old romp - doesnt take itself seriously and isnt preaching. These days that worth £10

Its a shame really. It was the OG Xbox back in 2001 that got me back in to gaming - I was in New York that Christmas and would play it to my then girlfriend's grimace as we enjoyed our Christmas getaway - to a U.S. games store.

The 360 was ace too, but they really messed it up with the One, the whole connected all time debacle, the mixed platform of the One, the S, the X. Whereas PS kept it beautifully simple with the 1/2/3/4.

Then the Series X and Series S. Again just the worst names. Bob dad walks in to a game shop and doesn't know what Xbox to buy - go for the Playstation and you just buy the highest number! I know its a lot more nuanced than that; but it just goes to show how they got even the very basics of a name wrong.

PS. If you dont recognise the importance of a name then speak to Nintendo. The otherwise brilliant Wii U absolutely tanked for no other reason than that stupid name - hence 90% of its great games being ported to the Switch and being received very favourably as if it was their first outing in the wild.

I expect 50% of the sales are from misinformed parents that dont realise its just a screen for remote-play (nor understand what remote play is).
I'll wager so many giving it to their kids and feeling right numpties when a 10 year old tells them what it really is (versus a PSP/Vita/Playstation handheld).

@get2sammyb Understood - but it is quite short per run through isnt it? I know some argue they'd pay $200 for a 2 hour game if brilliant but I tend to think £5ph is the max I would pay.

Apols if mentioned above but imho worth noting that this is a really short game. I played it back in the day like most and remember it as a 4-6 hour affair at best - which for £20 wasnt so bad.
Nice little game, a break from the norm but certainly a once and done £20 blast and not a £40+ proposition.

If you want to see the future see the Amazon Firestick home screen. Without exaggeration over 90% of the screen real estate is ads with only 6 tiny icons user definable and crammed in as an afterthought.
Now thats a disgrace but if thats the place PS is going......

@species and your problem is?

She's still a little chubby tbh.

tbh much of society has feely been giving their underwear drawer to google, Meta and Microsoft for the last 20 years. The horse has bolted. If people dont think goods and services are subsidised by the sale of your data by now then it's them that need to wake up not the providers.

Great to see success from simple old school fun.

For those on the fence, and with at least a potato PC, the 2016 remake can be had for about £3 (yup really) - just go to your fave digital keys site - all above board.

@ATaco You may misunderstand the word bigot. Providing valuable feedback is not a trait one would normally associate with a bigot.

@Gost each to their own but I think you can easily build an equivalent PC. The GPU is not even a 3060Ti ($300) and the CPU nothing more than $100. Add to that a $60 SSD, case, power supply and ram, it is close - but I'd much rather have a $700 machine that does games at least as well and everything else a PC can do.
Its just too close to a PC price thats the issue. Folks dont spend $700 on a games console. Ridiculous and I love my consoles but no thanks.