psmr

@mac_da_man @themightyant in all honesty I can’t claim much credit, other than the vast amounts of time invested. I was lucky to find a boosting group where we all helped each other out on the multiplayer stuff. Probably turned a couple of years worth of playtime into a couple of months tbh.

@Bundersvessel I just hope that the other three Xbox studios games I have lined up for this anniversary year don’t funk me out in the way that this did! 😅

@KingPev cheers buddy, felt like I’d be doing it for the rest of my life at points… not a platinum I’d recommend to friends if you get me 😁

Finally finished the grind for 10k online kills for the Seriously trophy on Gears of War: Reloaded this week and after it has put me in quite the gaming funk this last month or so, I’m looking forward to getting into something new.

Thinking of starting one of my two scheduled souls-likes for the year… and maybe returning to Resident Evil: Revelations to play it through on Infernal for the last trophy remaining. Ahhhh… it feels good to be free of that Gears grind! 😊

Hmm, Square seem content with its sales… how bout that? 🤔

@somnambulance okay found you and sent 👍

@somnambulance I appreciate that bud. Is your PSN the same as your name here, as if so you can send me a full-fat metroidvania sandwich and I’d be happy to accept it. 👍

Edit. If that is your PSN, I’ve just sent you a FR… if it isn’t, well… that’s another random I can add to the list 😅

@spikes91 🤣 fair enough

@somnambulance cool, appreciate the depth you’ve gone into there. I did mean to play at least one Metroidvania per year after enjoying the two that I’ve played… but for some reason I’ve never bothered trying another. Maybe I’ll make this one my next one, while I haven’t played 50 other ones that are better 😉

That’s it… I’m goina Xbox!

The more I think about it, the more **** off i get 🤬

Just heard about this! Imho this supersedes the live service pivot as the worst decision Sony has made all gen… maybe since PS3.

@HRdepartment good old stick-digging

Im old enough to remember when video games were a serious threat to outdoor activities 😅

@somnambulance interesting… I’ve seen that you’re a big fan of Metroidvanias from your previous comments, so a 7 from you actually sounds a decent score.

I’ve only ever played Symphony of the Night and Guacamelee (both of which I really liked), how would it compare to those two in particular?

@Decimateh-xblz I’m sure I’ll end up playing the first one eventually as it’s in the backlog… who knows I might really click with it. I’m a big fan of a few game series which most people consider to be pretty average

@MrPeanutbutterz to be fair to @Balaam_ most trophy hunters aren’t a fan of online trophies, I know I’m not. It doesn’t stop me playing a game though… it actually pushes it up the list of priorities a bit tbh, to get it out’ve the way while it’s active.

Talking of upgrades, one for the Pro would’ve been nice 🤔

Looks like a nice replacement for Beat Sabre considering Best Games stopped supporting it for Sony VR last year.

Didn’t actually think this looked all that if I’m honest… would’ve much rathered that Space Marine: Recrafted Edition had releases on PS5 as well, than this be exclusive.

16x the loading screens!

I know the new fighting system bit will annoy many but I’m all for it. They may as well of just remastered them if they were still gonna play the same. Think RE2 to RE2 Remake for context.

If their timelines align and these games release around the various seasons of the TV show… well, things could explode.

@Kierant202 didn’t say anything about objectivity. I’m just saying… and for arguments sake, reviewers would treat and score a 2 dollar indie game way differently to a £70 AAA game. While that 2 dollar game may score a 90 at that 2 dollar price tag and with a sole developer, I’d bet you it wouldn’t score the same if it cost £70 and was made by a team of 500. There are simply different metrics inherently applied… whether people want to believe it or not.

If you can’t see that… and I’m beginning to think that you can’t, we’ll just call it there.

Yeah strange one that. I’ve always considered it an RPG… like Witcher 3 or a dedicated third person Skyrim. Hmm… oh well, I’m even more interested in the reviews now!

@Kierant202 There’s a reason why no one compares… let’s say Pentiment with, ooh I dunno… Ghost of Yotei. They may both have similar meta scores (both have 86 as it goes) but that in no way tells the whole story… and if you’re being honest with yourself you’d agree with that.

Similarly, I’d never compare Avowed and Sons of Sparta… crazy comparison tbh.

@OldGamer999 keep on trucking pal, you’ll get there

@OldGamer999 unfortunately I only converse with people who’ve bought, then sold and then re-bought a PS5 Pro 17 times… you’re almost there though 😉

@Decimateh-xblz I actually don’t mind Rick and Morty to be fair… not a massive fan of first person shooters though tbh. Though theres so many of them, I do tend to play most of the high quality ones.

@wildcat_kickz oh I know why 😏

Everything I’ve heard/read indicates that there’ll be a disk drive add-on available as with the case of the slim and pro.

@OldGamer999 no one is really sticking up for the game, your platitudes are simply as transparent as a double-glazed window. We all read the Pure Xbox comments sections (it’s where I’ve gone to for my comedy fix for years), so your butter-wouldn’t-melt posts over here are read with the additional context needed to fully understand your agenda.

@Kiltedhaggis he’s just still fighting the good fight love him… let him be, as it’s quite nice to get a flashback here and there to the console wars… may they never be forgotten 🙏

I’ll wait for it to hit Gamepass /s

I’d probably score it a bit higher due to making scrubs git gud to earn the co-op mode. 😁

indie-station 5 yawn /s

I’m surprised that more dev teams don’t use it… particularly Sony first party.

@Darylb88 one of the numerous ways Gamepass has negatively impacted the industry.

I’ve played and plat’d every GoW (including the portable ones) and I couldn’t say YES more affirmatively. I love the combat from 2018 and Ragnarok!

edit. If they were to just use the old gameplay, they may as well simply remaster and not remake.

Still haven’t picked up the Oblivion remaster… and I’d probably want to play that over this if I’m honest. It’s still a maybe though to be fair.

I did buy the first one, probably on one sale or another I’d imagine… never really felt the draw to actually play it though.

The excitement for this over on the Pure Xbox comments compared to the apathy here is… well, interesting you could say 🤔

@CaptD you might still get lucky mate, I reckon that there’ll still be a sale or two before their current contracted RAM runs out.

I still play my ps3 let alone my ps4… diminishing returns means that my ps5 pro won’t be massively different to what my eventual ps6 will deliver… at least at the start of the gen.

It did look good during the State of Play tbh… hope that it’s as good to play 🤞

God of Mischief

I hope they keep them in, just so Jaffe can ***** and moan about it… even though he was more than okay with it at the time.

It’s going to be so refreshing to hear Square announce that the sales have met/exceeded their expectations now that there’s no slimey platform things involved /s

@Th3solution yeah, ive only just actually fired mine up and not really tested it yet with any game that is radically improved… but there was a ridiculously good price for one in the UK just before Christmas. So that, together with RAMageddon and the eve of PSSR2 meant that I simply couldnt say no.

@themightyant the guys never gonna change bud, if anything he’ll just continue to devolve more and more into a pure caricature of himself. Considerable success early in life, followed by considerable failures towards and after middle age must be a tough thing to deal with psychologically. I think he’s finding this out first hand.

@Fiendish-Beaver i just got a Pro myself and am feeling relatively confident that PSSR version.2 (3, 4 & 5?) will handle things pretty well for the next 4 or 5 years 🤞

@themightyant cool, what was his response?