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Would love to see what they could do with the Syphon Filter franchise now.
I wouldn’t trust Ubisoft to bring out a quality Splinter Cell title that’s close to its Tom Clancy roots these days so think this team could fill in that void

If it was a fully interactive PSVR2 game, yes.

Otherwise the game still looks & plays good in its current remastered state so unless it’s improved even more than TLOU2, then why bother?

I really enjoyed Watchdogs 2 (although the driving mechanics were still way too arcadey). Watchdogs 3 is just more of the same except with characters you don’t care about, a story that’s meh & no character progression system because of the ability to choose anyone (a technical marvel but gameplay misstep in my opinion).

I just wish Ubisoft would give us what we’ve been asking for - a new Splinter Cell & proper Rainbow Six (Vegas) game. Although I’m afraid it would be a barstardised, soulless open world game built around microtransactions & broken AI that has nothing to do with Tom Clancy’s vision or the games that came before it.

@figboot just you buddy. It’s a sport. Sports don’t have stories. As long as it captures the finesse, subtlety’s & offensive/defensive strategies of the sport, it will be a hit with boxing fans.
Pong doesn’t have a story or diverse player interaction & was a great game

@Wavey84 tether free on the quest 2 is a huge game changer, even with the limited FOV of the Q2, I much prefer that over the PSVR. Replaying a lot of games I already own on the PSVR & they’re way more fun on the Quest 2.

No weight from the cable & nothing getting in the way means you can really get into the room scale games. Not to mention the increased resolution of the Q2 screen makes everything sharper.

You can tell there is some compression with Virtual Desktop, but to play HL:Alex on a wireless headset beats every PSVR game I’ve played.

You’re looking into the numbers & dismissing it already. Wait until you experience it for yourself & you’ll see how important having no cables can be

Since I got a quest 2, I can’t be bothered firing up the PSVR. I’ve got a PS5 & a had a switch box to deal with the HDR issue but that doesn’t work with the new console.
I really want to try the games that had patches for PS5 resolution unlocks but I have a mental lazy barrier that compares the grab it & go ease of use with the quest & then I just can’t be bothered.
Really want to have a few races of GT Sport with the wheel, but then have to hook that up too. I hope Sony come out with a wireless option too. Virtual Desktop works well with the quest - no reason Sony can’t do something similar

• inside out tracking
• new controllers with thumb sticks & haptics
• ideally would’ve been wireless but single cable has already been confirmed
• wider FOV
• higher resolution

All the game modes are too similar & the handling is too much on the arcade side for my liking. Was hoping for something a little more similar to DriveClubs slightly more realistic arcade sim handling.
Definitely needs a lot more tracks, which sounds like we’re not getting.
I’d say that playgrounds is probably the best thing about this game. Not much else. They don’t even have replays which has been a staple of the Dirt/Colin McCrae series.

EA Sports UFC 4 has some of the worst, irrelevant cosmetics in a game. The majority have nothing to do with MMA or the UFC.
They’ve put in all these fortnite type emotes, instead of focusing on actual fighter animations. I’m not sure what they’re actually thinking - are they making sports games or pokie machines these days?

I’ve returned two controllers for the broken R2 spring issue. First broke within a month. Just before I received my replacement my second controller had the same issue. The springs they use are just as flimsy (if not more) than the PS4 triggers

I ordered on day one. Got the confirmation that it had been sent on November 13th & still waiting (NZ).
I’ve ordered stuff from AliExpress since & it’s arrived faster.
Gave up waiting & bought a Quest 2. It’s pretty amazing!

@wittypixel yeah I downloaded it & can only play the PS4 version. Can’t see anything related to PS5. Wanted to try out the haptics but will give it a miss if this is the case

@2cents Days Gone has had quite a few patches since before the PS5 came out, so it’s not really an apples to apples comparison.
EA UFC 4 on the other hand was a buggy piece of ***** on release. Now it’s a slightly buggy fart.

Sums up EA Sports this year.
EA UFC 4 is still a horrible mess. Going back to UFC 3, you’d think they were made in reverse order

EA have been absolute ***** this year. EA UFC 4 is still unfinished, buggy as ***** & in many cases worse than the 2 year old UFC 3. NFL 2021 another cut & paste mess that’s still glitchy but features slick micro transactions

What has EA been doing in the last year?
NFL was a buggy mess, EA UFC 4 is a buggy dumpster truck of recycled animations & even less gameplay than UFC 3 (which they had 2.5 years to develop),
FIFA on switch is just a player update charged at full price & now this!
These guys are just coasting while adding more micro transactions for useless content & slowly turning these games into ***** casual mobile ball snot.

@RudeAnimat0r the ads don't fit the presentation. They had full screen ads appearing at the end of the rounds & 3 times when you finished the fight & tried to skip the replays.

The game came out with a gamebreaking bug which was only just fixed in that ad patch & that's what we were rewarded with. It's still a buggy mess with less features than it's predecessor. Not even an annual release - this took 2 years.

If they want to put in ads that match the broadcast presentation style, then they need to put effort into the whole broadcast presentation (individual walkouts, commentator interviews, getting rid of the ***** pre fight emotes) & polish the damn game.

They're still reusing animations from UFC 1

UFC need to ditch EA as well.

After reviews have already gone out for UFC 4 (which is horribly buggy & is missing a lot of elements from UFC), they patched in-game ads into the 4 week old game last night.

I hope @get2sammyb picks this up. EA are nickle & dimming us for a full price game, that already has microtransactions as a focus

#UFCdropEA 🖕🏻

If they make it fully playable in VR, I’m sold.

EA UFC 4 is the same. Spent more time over the last 2 years introducing ridiculous cosmetics removing game modes than releasing a polished & upgraded game.
I can’t even play the ranked mode because of the purple screen of death bug

Where are you Gran Turismo 7 with full VR support?

They didn’t really give what mma & EA UFC fans wanted. They focused more on trying to bring casuals into the game.
Still using animations from UFC 1.
The new clinch & takedown system is awesome but the ground game is worse. EA focused on a simple control system at the expense of overhauling the ground game which now feels worse than UFC 3.
Submission system is now so simplified it’s not fun & ground attacks such as elbows & transitions off your back have been removed.
The character customisation has more pointless fortnite accessories & emotes & misses out apparel that was in the last game.
Overall, it’s slightly better than UFC 3, but worse in many ways.

I wish Ubisoft would sell the Splinter Cell rights to another team, like Insomniac or Naughty Dog. I’m worried the next SC game will be a generic open world RPG looter with absolutely no connection to what made Splinter Cell great. It’ll be designed around micro transactions, poor AI & the biggest map ever for a video game. Sam Fisher will probably be a Viking

@thefirst I think you have emotional intelligence confused with maturity - none of which I stated that I have. I do appreciate the old dig with sarcasm though & glad I could make you laugh.

@thefirst that's a great idea! I was trying not to kill you knowwho during the fight & died because of that.
Would also be interesting to match the results of those ending choices to peoples reviews (and maybe emotional intelligence).
I'd suspect the ones that chose to kill would be the one's slamming the game.
While I thought the very ending could have been more powerful - as a whole I loved the journey & the fact that a game could make me feel certain ways about the characters - whether good or bad.

@carlos82 I loved it too. Was so refreshing to play an adult game with great themes.
I thought it was going to end the 2nd time with Ellie rescuing Abby, then deciding to sacrifice her body to Abby & the fireflies for research.
There seem to be a lot of butt hurt, immature people who just can't handle character evolution & adult themes. I'm just happy we got something this amazing. I'm struggling to find any current movies of this sort of quality to watch

Thank god we have Ghosts of Tsushima for an actual assassins game coming out

I really hope this is nothing like Assassins Creed Valhalla, Origins & Odyssey, & the latest Ghost Recon. Ubisoft really know how to turn their franchises away from what they were, into some generic, soul less RPG POS.
I enjoyed Watch Dogs 2. I just hope the driving physics have improved & the drones worry me. Feels like a lazy way of adding ***** enemies without having to develop decent AI....cough, cough...Ghost Recon