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@Nei Chadley still confuses me as a name. Did Squeenix thing that since Brad is short for Bradley then Chad must be short for Chadley..?

South Korea need soft cultural power worldwide to maintain support for their stalemate with the north. The entire K-pop and now games industry is essentially just a rush to create as much ‘content’ as possible to see what sticks, because if they can get eyes on their products then they keep themselves in the conversation. Similar to Ukraine in that aspect but South Korea are more of a well-oiled machine by now as they’ve had more practice. This is why the government are pushing it so hard, it’s practically a form of national service.

@Nei More that the sidequests are baked into the environment rather than being a person telling you to collect 5 wolf skins with map markers and the like. They don’t take you out of the game, they’re along the main path mostly. But the dodging lightning strikes is rubbish 😂

I love X because every single slightly boring part feeds into the narrative. There’s no 5 hour detours or nonsense sidequests, basically all of the game happens on the pilgrimage path. It has focus that later games completely botched. It’s funny that XIII attempted the same thing but failed completely. I do love XII but you just sort of wander around for most of the game.

Beginning to think you could just give a dog a suit and it would do a better job in charge of Playstation than Hulst.

The originals should really be on modern consoles. Totally worth playing. Although to be fair I played the Evo versions so technically I haven’t played the original originals. Cannot fathom playing them without speed up.

@StitchJones Why is the bald chick not hot but Eve from Stellar Blade is?

You play as Arteta?

@THEBrew Did you really just make an entire post slagging Ubisoft games and then quote a Ubisoft game?

@Balaam_ I got the platinum last month. The single player section is entirely separate and can be done in single player, you just have to find the whales and convoys and don’t have to bother with the online elements. The multiplayer trophies were a huge grind but also almost all doable in private lobbies solo.

They should have ported 4 too. Adore that game.

That art style in the visual novel segments is horrible. Looks like plastic.

Looks rubbish. Horrid art style. A series which does nothing for me at the best of times never mind when turned into a money milking machine. Ragebait headlines are beyond pathetic.

Really excited to play Nioh 3 but just can’t afford games, PS Plus is the only thing keeping me playing new stuff these days.

God that first season was wretched. I don’t get what the point of adapting something is if you’re going to fundamentally change massive parts of the story.

I have absolutely zero interest in this. Just bring back Uwe Boll so that people can stop pretending making movies of games is worthwhile.

Those reviews make me miss the old magazines. Genuine well-written criticism is an art and it’s a crying shame that they’ve been drummed out of games journalism by the same couple of companies owning every major site and prioritising ‘content’ over quality. You look at the actually interesting criticism that movies and music get and then you look at games reviews and it’s no wonder that it’s seen as a lesser art form.

@captainsandman It was definitely implied across this site at the time. The PS4 Pro was checkerboard 4K so it was pretty much seen as a lock-on that the PS5 would be true 4K at 60FPS in most cases. While it absolutely has been a mixed bag. I don’t mind 40FPS though, used that for Spider-Man 2 recently.

@8thDoctor The sad thing is that I genuinely think the Ezio tailing missions were pretty good because those maps had such well-designed rooftops that made tailing people more of a parkour challenge than anything else. By the time of AC3 and later, they emphasised hiding in undergrowth which sort of undermined the entire ‘social stealth’ aspect.

@8thDoctor They need to just straight up remove ship tailing missions. Those are the worst missions in the entire franchise.

I’m still a bit confused by it all. Assassin’s Creed literally has a perfect narrative reason for remakes built into it but I gather this cuts out all the modern day stuff? And the original game outside of the pirate stuff was still the OG formula with decent-ish stealth action across Havana and Kingston and stuff. So I hope that it doesn’t just feel like the open world games.

Bad times here in the UK. Plus all this data is being handed over to Palantir. It says a lot when the guy who really kickstarted all of this - his daughter having killed herself after social media algorithms were feeding into her mental health struggles - is against how hardline the government has become. Also this was passed under the Tories too so it’s pretty much a stitch up by all parties.

@cainhurst94 If it’s already sold 1.7 million copies despite being early access then I’m pretty sure it’ll do alright on consoles.

The poster should just say “From the man behind DMC: Devil May Cry”

On the one hand, I love Vampire Survivors. On the other…. it’s a card game. And those are rarely fun.

12 live service games in development. Only Marathon and Helldivers 2 are still supported. For now.

…is this supposed to read like an advert?

No New Rules or One Kiss is a bit surprising to be honest. Dua Lipa’s pretty decent.

@Hyena_socks Plus Taylor Sheridan is involved. Might as well just call it Let’s Invade Iran and call it a day.

@Oram77 Two of them aren’t even out yet. I have no idea how anybody can view the last few years of Sony’s output as a success. Anything halfway decent has been a sequel.

I personally am a little disappointed that it’s not showcasing the environment like Exodus and it’s back to claustrophobia but I also totally get why.

It’s never going to work. Not in a million years. They’ve basically killed any idea of first-party games being associated with quality.

Rivalry is good. And the game not having the truly abysmal Red Sox team this year might actually be a good thing.

Pretty perfect for a Bond game. David Arnold just knows the sound inside out by now.

I thought it was pretty good. Very cool playing it in Farsi too.

Oh dear lol. Probably the worst month yet.

I’m a huge fan of weather systems in games. Especially if they impact gameplay. Still need to get to Shadows, only the Unity and Mirage platinums left to go.

I started Spider-Man 2 today and the writing is pretty similar to the original and Miles Morales. Peak Woke 1 and therefore cringy but largely harmless.

@Bramble Those games weren’t multiplayer. Newgrounds was rife with nonces but they didn’t have ease of access like they do with Roblox.

Spoiler - Bond kills the villain at the end (probably a former mentor) with a quip following his death. He then shags the girl. The end.

Genuinely thought Exodus was a beautiful ending for the series but I would never say no to more. Exodus was a bit of a technical mess when I played it but it really resonated with me in every other way. 2033 is a classic too, only Last Light was a little bit of a disappointment for me.

Looks to me like a way to feed your browsing data into an algorithm so they can roll out dynamic pricing even further.

Not entirely unexpected. It’s probably the biggest media since maybe Avengers Endgame. It’s bound to be a massive target.

@RyPal I don’t even have to click profiles anymore to know hands down that somebody is clearly a Yank.

Not a mention of Gen AI in the article? The entire ‘creative’ process is underpinned by the slop machine.

I’d love to bring myself to care but I look at what we’re doing to the Earth and to other humans and it leaves a bad taste. This planet is literally the only place in the entirety of the basically infinite universe that is home. Until we sort out ourselves then I have no interest in colonising other planets.