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@BeerIsAwesome Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Imminent means right around the corner, like next week or something 🤣

Single player My Career is heavily tied to VC though. All of your progression and clothing/sneakers requires VC, which you're given very little of through gameplay

The Order 1886 was probably the easiest platinum I ever got. There's only like 12 trophies and your can get them all in one playthrough

@get2sammyb This was before their big PC push, so more like a massive oversight, I think. And MLB the Show was pretty much out of their hands

@get2sammyb And I'm talking about my career, not franchise which still has rookie difficulty

retrieves and dusts off soapbox Yes when 2K18 released - the first NBA 2k game with the big city hub - Visual Concepts removed the rookie difficulty, so from then on pro difficulty is the lowest. It made the game - for some, including myself - exponentially harder, no doubt a scheme to get players to cave in and buy VC to make their player moderately better. I could understand that for multiplayer, but for those that only play the single player story, like myself, it is infuriating

Microtransactions, VC, no more rookie difficulty, etc...

Man, Embracer is like the runaway freight train from the film Unstoppable- (RIP Tony Scott) just no signs of slowing down!

@Boucho11 Yeah, it was one of my favorite Vita games. I really hope Sony adds it to the premium tier on plus, as the campaign was pretty decent

I was mildly excited about this until I saw the gameplay. Even then I was still a little interested until I realized that it is not a sequel to Arkham Knight's hidden ending

@Tharsman The Definitive Edition? Both versions launched in January 2014 at the same time. The initial game launch was in March 2013, before the new consoles released

@Tharsman The predecessor game, Tomb Raider 2013 (which launched on Xbox 360, PS3, PC) was multiplatform, and Microsoft paid for the sequel to be an Xbox exclusive. At the time there was no word on how long that exclusivity would last. My point was that the sequel to a multiplatform game was turned into an exclusive, not that game was exclusive in general.

@PaperAlien Xbox also started the console exclusivity deals back in 2015 with Rise of the Tomb Raider - a game whose predecessor was multiplatform

Why should Sony help game pass grow? The developers/publishers don't have to accept the fee, and it's not like they're restricting the games from Xbox itself, just game pass

And this is why we got zero single player story expansions in 5 and will likely not get any in 6 either

I was hoping there'd be an expose about how/why crappy games like Life of Black Tiger, Flowers are dead, heck even Abandoned, got signal boosted by official PlayStation blogs and YouTube channel videos

I actually preferred this game to Breakpoint, even with the looter shooter elements removed. The story made a lot more sense and the map wasn't quite as cluttered as the monstrosity that is Breakpoint's

Hopefully it is a full-length FPS with a strong single player campaign. The last game like from SCEA/SIE was Killzone Shadowfall back in 2013 - a PS4 launch title. Firewall is decent but I think we're long overdue for a proper first-party FPS

Imo they last true Tomb Raider game was Underworld. The reboot trilogy wasn't bad, it just wasn't Tomb Raider

It'd be nice if they introduce a system where you increase your player's skills through XP instead of currency, which makes no sense outside of blatant greed

@get2sammyb Possible dumb question, but why is the header/graphics for this article red as opposed to the usual blue?

@Jacko11 Exactly. I think at this point I've given up on these games because they just throttle your progression by tying EVERYTHING to vc and then not giving you enough of it. No matter how good each year's release looks, my mind immediately goes to how microtransaction laden it's going to be

@Oopsyloopsy91 Yeah it was pretty weird after GTA 4 where you just played as Nico, and then 5 where you're bouncing around between characters. I would've preferred if the character swapping was just limited to the heists, or if they let you pick a character at the beginning of the story

Am I the only person who didn't like playing as three protagonists, and managing their money, weapons, etc?

@Quintumply Me too. Nintendo added folders to Switch but they're stuck in the library, and you have to select a tab to get to them. Completely defeats the purpose in my opinion

Paid early access but then free to play for the full release?

I would love for Ubisoft to finally make AC Syndicate run on PS5 and add that to Extra

Also probably live service with lots of microtransactions

@xjulianvel Yeah, I think it's a missed opportunity to not make the experience more seamless. It's not like they'd have to come up with anything new

As soon as it was announced that all the costume dlc would be included, I knew it wouldn't be a free upgrade. It's a shame though, I'm STILL working my way through Royal and would love to continue on PS5

@xjulianvel I know it is included. I'm asking if it is integrated into the game. In the previous versions, you have to access it from the main menu. With this being a complete remake, I would hope they take the opportunity to incorporate this dlc chapter and weave it seamlessly into the story.

I've yet to see anywhere if Left Behind will be incorporated into the main game. It would be a missed opportunity not to

Have any games that use Unreal Engine 5 come out yet?

I have two cats, am playing Stray on PS5 and can say that it has the most accurate depiction of a cat that I've seen in a video game to date

@Zombiechris What?

In my opinion, Lady Dimitrescu is fairly overrated as a character. Yes she has some good dialogue, but she mainly just stalks you around the castle and then turns into a dragon thing and you blow her up. She's the first boss of the game basically

I've tried to get into Warframe so many times but I just don't understand the story

Welcome to Raccoon City was a huge disappointment for me. The director talked it up saying how he's a big fan of the games and it would be a faithful adaptation, just to attempt to cram the first two games into a 107 minute film. Not sure why it's so hard to JUST focus on the first game with the Arklay Forest murders, Spencer Mansion, and underground lab.

So the one AC game I don't currently own - Syndicate - doesn't get added. Also, no new PS one games? The Premium tier is looking less worth it

Obviously a lot of time and effort has been put into this project, so it shouldn't be free or $20 or anything like that. But $70 is a bit much for a game whose story we know very well already and apparently won't have any new content besides remade graphics. I think think $50 is a more fair price for a game that most people have played through several times already

It should've been their focus right after GTA V first came out

Why is it whenever they release an image from the new NBA 2k it's always Steph chewing on his mouthguard

Back with still more microtransactions

@AdamNovice I tried BOTW and I honestly could not get into it. Between weapons constantly breaking and extremely overpowered robot enemies dotting the landscape, I lost interest after a few hours

I upgraded my existing plus - which expires in October - to premium. Not thrilled with the selection of ps one games though, I'll see what they add between now and then, otherwise I'm switching to Extra

@allblaxx Exactly. So many locations were left out: the park, newspaper office, the gas station only appears briefly in a cutscene, and the hospital sequence is severely simplified - with the vaccine synthesis removed for Carlos. And Raccoon City itself is oversimplified - you don't get that sense of progression, moving through the city uptown to downtown and back, trying to repair the cable car and escape, never knowing when the Nemesis will show up. The remake is technically sound, but overall pales in comparison to the original

@GorosBat Studios yes, PUBLISHERS no. But yes you have a good one as well 👍

@GorosBat But making an exclusivity deal with a third-party publisher for a specific game and BUYING the publisher to make the game exclusive are kinda the same thing, only one is far more extreme and relatively unprecedented until Bethesda. The intent is to keep a game away from the competition, is it not?

@GorosBat I understand and appreciate the point you've been trying to make about console exclusivity. However in my opinion, and of course you're welcome to disagree, Microsoft has been far more egregious in this area. If remember back in 2015, MS paid Square Enix to make Rise of the Tomb Raider an Xbox One exclusive for about a year, where the previous game had been multiplatform. Then they began purchasing entire publishers: Bethesda, Activision; and potentially cutting off even more games from other platforms. Yes I realize Phil Spencer has stated that Call of duty will remain multiplatform, but he's all but confirmed that Elder Scrolls 6, (and probably Fallout 5) will be Xbox exclusive. PS players will never have to opportunity to try Starfield either. And then there's the acquisition of Ninja Theory, and Hellblade 2 also being an Xbox exclusive now. Hellblade originally launched on PS4/PC and sold close to a million copies before the Xbox/Switch versions came out. There's no way that the game's success on PS4 as a new IP wasn't a factor in Microsoft buying it up. Ninja Theory even made a next-gen version of Hellblade for Series X/S but (seemingly per Microsoft) barely acknowledged the PS4 version and refused to at least make a PS5 version as a final show of goodwill to the players who took a chance and supported the new IP. So my point is that Microsoft seems to take series or games that were once multiplatform, purchases them, and then cuts the series off from other consoles. Again, I get your frustration about FF7 and Persona, but I feel that Microsoft's behavior has been far more extreme in the last couple of years. No one was talking about either MS or PS buying entire publishers until Microsoft bought Bethesda. And just to clarify, I own a PS5, Series X, Switch, and have in the past owed every generation of PS and Xbox console. I am not a PlayStation fanboy or anything like that

@GorosBat So if Sony bought Square Enix, you'd be fine with FF7 being a PS5 exclusive?