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Re: 10 Digital-Only PS3 Games You Should Buy Before Sony Shuts the PS Store

sabaki08

Is there a complete list of digital-only PS3 exclusive games? I don't care about the top ones. I have a hard time finding one and all outlets, instead of helping people with a full list, go for top tens.

PS: Funnily enough, Hard Corps: Uprising is free this month with GWG. Huge Arc Sys. fan! All the soundtrack for their games is dope!

Re: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Patch 1.012 Out Now on PS5, PS4, Adds River Raids, New Skills, and More

sabaki08

A huge shame they didn't address the Milk of Humankind quest, where when moving the boulder, if it touches the wall that faces the sea the cow stops following you. Had to revert to a save and lost 5 hours of progress when going for the Plat.

Happy they fixed the fish spawns. Those drove me crazy.

BUT I'm happy to see they added all these skills and abilities. A pleasant surprise.

Re: Warner Bros Under Fire for Patenting Nemesis System

sabaki08

@Balosi The patent doesn't forbid anyone to try and find another way, but every attempt grants the patent owner the right to drag them in court regardless of them being in the right or the wrong. They are betting on the fact that most developers won't want to suffer the costs of going into court. Unless someone with big cojones comes out and tells WB to go ***** themselves. Someone like Epic Games for instance. They have the capital to pull the rug underneath WB.

Re: Warner Bros Under Fire for Patenting Nemesis System

sabaki08

@JustATomato Nah, the stuff in AC wasn't that. What makes the Nemesis System unique is that when the player inflicts changes to NPC A, it also inflicts changes to NPCs B, C, D, etc. That's now what happens in AC Odyssey. When you kill one of those brutes looking for you on the map, it gets replaced by another NPC that has slightly better skills than the one you killed. There's no hierarchy present.

Yes, there's a map of targets you need to kill in ACO, ACOdyssey and Valhalla, (and also in the last two Ghost Recon games), but the targets don't communicate between each other. No matter the order you kill them, it's always the same result.

Re: Warner Bros Under Fire for Patenting Nemesis System

sabaki08

@OmegaStriver Don't think people can patent things that were already reproduced by others. Developers had a ***** ton of time to try and reproduce the Nemesis System, but they just didn't care, which is frustrating, because no one ever will.

In the same time, if all the games using it will be under this LOTR umbrella, I won't be able to care less.

Even scummier than this is if they actually never implement it in a game. EVER. Like what happened to the loading screen mini games patent. They patented that and never used it. It just sat there for 17 years.

Re: This Is How Watch Dogs: Legion Is Handling Microtransactions

sabaki08

Sounds like Odyssey, and in all fairness there were some really rad cosmetic. I recall purchasing the Isu pack, the Hades pack and then the Abstergo pack, which was my favorite. I played through the remainder of the Season Pass content with Kassandra and her horse dressed to kill in the Abstergo armor outfit, haha.

Re: PS5 Is Breaking Pre-Order Records at Some Retailers

sabaki08

@NEStalgia I don't think scalpers care about scalping Xbox, because it's not expected to sell out like the PS5 was, especially after the, although false, rumours Sony is making less stock due to COVID. No one's worrying about that with the Xbox.

Re: PS5 Is Breaking Pre-Order Records at Some Retailers

sabaki08

Why are people calling it a mess? Wouldn't a fixed date and time give scalpers and bots even more time to prepare and pull the rug off of everyone's feet?

An unscheduled pre-order dropping out of nowhere like that and still selling out in minutes every where speaks volumes about the demand.

If even with all the scheduling, Microsoft's hardware doesn't sell out, you draw the conclusions.

Re: PS4 Boxes Will Have PS5 Upgrade Banner for Compatible Games

sabaki08

@Shepherd_Tallon @Octane

It's just like Apple marketing features that are years old on Android and people deifying them for being innovations. Like the recent Smart Clips where you don't need to download an app to access a specific feature, only a part of it. It's a smart strategy and it works. But in a few years we'll look back and realize that as you said, it's nothing more than a marketing tactic.

Re: PS4 Boxes Will Have PS5 Upgrade Banner for Compatible Games

sabaki08

At the end of the day I wonder how many more games will have Smart Delivery on Xbox compared to the ones on PlayStation.

I can hardly think of any instance where a game has Smart Delivery on Xbox, but can't be upgraded for free on PlayStation.

All publishers that announced free upgrades, announced them for both platforms.

Re: Site News: Where's Our Marvel's Avengers PS4 Review?

sabaki08

@LiamCroft I know you can keep using those 1000 Credits earned from a card onto the next one, thus avoiding spending money them, but is it mandatory that you buy those first1000 Credits at least once or can you earn them through normal play?

In Rocket League I only paid once for the Rocket Pass, then kept earning the decryptors back and kept them for the next one. Is this how it is for this game as well?

Re: Indie Dev Demonstrates How Bad PS Store Discoverability Can Be

sabaki08

On one hand, yes, all three parties have utter ***** store interfaces. Recently, for the first time this generation got to play around with the Xbox One X's interface. I expected, since it's an X, it'd be quick and snappy. So damn clunky, so slow. There's no excuse, next-gen, not just the store interface, but the whole OS should move as quick, as snappy, as fast as my phone, PC or tablet does. This is ridiculous. On Switch I'm wasting entire minutes waiting 10 seconds for each 6 more entries to load. Why would anyone have the patience to scroll through the lists of games you make and discover new games if it's such a horrid experience?

On the other hand, I played this game on GamePass. No disrespect to the developer, but I would not want games like that covering the front pages of the store. Maybe some indie section somewhere. I was excited about this game, because it looks fun to play, but overall feels like an unfinished university project. It'd be a fine release for something in Early Access.