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Tactically “forgot” to mention her voicing that neurodivergent thing in 1348 ex voto huh?

Guess not everything she touches turns to gold.

Great! Another weeb slop! At this point im paying exclusively for the cloud saves and since my membership expires soon i think ill just use a usb stick at this point.
Absolute garbage lately.

Many people said it ages ago, nobody believed us.

Id buy it anyway tho, really cba building a PC again for a few grand strategy games.

Naaah its like gas prices, once they go up, they never go back go where they were.

I dont usually care about validation to my purchases, but holy ***** day one adopters of Pro are eating well lately.

@naruball I treat it as more of a proof of concept that you dont need hypertealistic graphics and 100+ hours of pointless busy work to make a great game.

Theres plenty of examples, lately with Mewgenics or Schelude 1. Plus i would argue that even those that dont perform as well are still better bang for buck for devs than most modern AAA.

Slay the Spire 2 didnt cost anything, currently sits on 10x player count of Marathon.

Excuse me if i dont shed a single tear for modern AAA gaming.

Oh its time for “that article” already? So close to 9/10? Huh, time sure flies.

This game is amazing, it think it peaked at less than 80 players on steam.

Jennifer English wont be collecting any rewards for this one -.-

I wanted to say “great another ruined franchise”, but ubisoft already managed that years ago.

I think ill save my eurodollars for Saros :/

@get2sammyb Honestly solid journalism, color me impressed. Take your time boys, im patiently waiting for your review.

Minute of silence for all the neurodivergent people that preordered.

@AhmadSumadi I think the lady in the picture looks visibly older to be honest. Can be argued that its “sharpened”, but i think it was intentional that they didnt make her as “sharp”.

I dont think everything needs to be hyper realistic, sometimes its what you dont show speaks the loudest.

As a technology its absokutely fine, its judt the way they chose to showcase it what sparked sutch a backlash.

@AhmadSumadi I believe the same thing, whether we like it or not, AI is the futute.

Altho it doesnt take a rocket scientist to determine that the problem with what was shown is that it completely obliterates the original artistic direction.

Edit- just look at the videos man, most “people” look older, some even get their expression changed. You cant argue it doesnt screw with original art style cmon

@danzoEX You mean the fact that its incredibly boring, empty and uninspired game like every Bethesda release since Oblivion? Then no.

@Boomers-r-us hahaha 😂

@Gunnerzaurus We dont really have another choice since Valve is the only compant honest enough to make player count public.

What do you want to rely on? Game “journalists” that gave Concord anything above 5? Or waiting with Mararhon review because bungee told them to?

I had a laugh about this. Pushsquare not only published multiple articles about steam numbers themselves, but while were above this abhorent website, were definetly not above publishing an article about it to get more clicks.

I liked the game, wouldnt call it one of the best games of all time, probably not even the best game of 2025.
But it definetly shows what heights JRPG sub-genre can reach if you cut the anime tumor out of it. Overall 8/10 game imo.

“Morrowind style” is a big… BIG claim.

@somnambulance Damn its crazy to see sutch a different opinion, i respect it tho dont think otherwise, its just complete 180 to my own.

I feel like Concord was a horrible game, tried to be Overwatch with none of the charm and considerably worse gunplay, on top of that absolutely horrible and unlikable characters(the new horizon game is making the same mistake). I would give it 3/10, maximum 4.

To me thats why the game failed, not because of Sony. I feel like if the game is good people will play it, and vise versa. Regardless of marketting, just like Expedition33. Given its kinda hard comparing single player game to live service shooter, people are undeniably sick of those.

> The shame about gaming journalism is in 2026 that we’ve hit a point where even casuals need to research

This is so true tho, it used to be true in the past too, until Totalbiscuit era.
Now its coming back i think and its sad because it keeps lot of people from gaming.

@somnambulance I find it the opposite, i find most reviews and articles extremely biased.

Ofcourse people like you dont need reviews, you seem extremely well informed.
But if someone who doesnt read any of the internet drama or watch any videos comes to the article about Concord and reads how it “beat the hate” and how great it is, they might buy it only for it to shut down week later.

I find that dishonest and irresponsible, and since complacency is the enemy of progress i think its good to be vocal about it.

Sounds like you just dont want to repeat a Concord review scenario, so you wait for how public reacts and tailor your review to that. If they want money now, the game should be rated now.
The argument you made only really works in EA games, which this isnt.

@somnambulance @Northern_munkey
They gave Concord 7! The whole review is absolutely hillarious in retrospect.

7 puts it the same group with some genuinely good games that are absolutely worth your money. Concord isnt one of them.
I feel bad for people that dont read into this “echochamber” and actualy bough the game based on the review.

Thats the exact opposite of honest, thats misleading.

@somnambulance Yes its always nice to see game journalists be completely out of touch with their audience.

I hope it does well, playstation desperate needs some competition.

In the unrelated news, bunch of construction workers that built an unlivable building that fel down a week later got all fired. How sad…

The biggest surprise is that anyone still plays this.

everybody ITT:
"Ive seen the video on my Apple Watch and I cant see a difference.... im also too poor to buy PS5pro and I absolutely need everyone to know."

Im not super happy about joining the game late. The economy will be ruined by xbox and PC players by the time they release it on PS5.

Had so much fun with the original SW: Racer as a kid, I hope this is half as good!

Oh a lazy, uninspired release from Ubisoft, shocker!

Whats so confusing? People are poor, just look at PS5 Pro. You have so many people shouting into the air that they dont need it, its ridiculous.

PS6 being delayed gives those people feeling of having the latest hardware for little bit longer. So ofc its celebrated.

Concord 3 looking good!

Anybody with half a brain couldve predicted this…
Still its hard not to feel bad for the people working hard on this that are now “on the pavement” :/

Cant wait to get thru the same thing with Marathon and the Horizon hunter thingy game.

@Athrum Disco Elyssium, Planescape Torment, Witcher 3 are pretty much top of the line in that regard imo.

Also like New Vegas, Mass effect to some extend and BG2.

@Athrum Yee, i would even extend it to people not playing any proper RPG with actually good writing. Its not necesseraly derogative term i think, at least not for me.

Imagine if youre a football fan for example and you took me to the worst game in history, I, not even knowing any rules, nor watched any good plays would be entertained just because the ball is moving.

Another good example is the Fallout show, completely crapping on the legacy and story of the old games, but “normies” are entertained just because they show a power armor or a nuka cola.

The BG3 characters are all pretry badly written, albeit covered by stellar voice acting, with exception of maybe Astarion and Laezel(both still subpar tho). All with their millenial jokes and jargon absolutely kill any sense of immersion.
It all comes out in act3 where, for some reason, the devs really had to tie it to the old BG games with the dead three making the villains flat as all hell and introducing several plot holes.

I agree with you on Divinity tho, while also pretty subpar writing, it has some interrsting characters and definetly held by combat that is actually optimized for a game instead of tabletop dnd.

@RBMango What are you talking about? The writing was absolutely horrible. Cringey with ton of plotholes.

What “made it tick” is that its somewhat faithful representation of the stupidity that is 5th gen. So normies were all over it.

DEFINETLY not the writing lol.

Thank god, it was worse than fallout.

The only difference is that TLoU2 is already pretty sh*t, but what they did to New Vegas will be studied for generations.

Loved the original game. Have zero hopes for todays ubisoft to not royally F it up.

@Nightcrawler71 Half Life 1/2 is still pinnacle when it comes to fps. If you want a console shooter Titanfall2 has a really good campaign.

Definetly! Most peiple giving BG3 10/10 clearly didnt play act3.

Hell its boring! Really makes you miss original Overwatch too.

No wonder it already lost half its player base on steam. Why do devs keep shoveling this slop?

Thats wierd, considering the huuuge success they have with AC:Shadows

@nomither6 oh ye 100%, even ME3 is serviceable, but the cracks definetly began to show.

Bioware has been dead since mass effect 2, idk what yall expected.

I kinda like this format for game showcases. It has a potencial, what it desperately needs is better hosts tho.

@Troubbble This!

While the weebeyness levels of most characters are within tolerable limits, i cant get over the blonde prince dude who looks straight up escaping from Team America.

@somnambulance Judging from how long the “pay to skip content” microtransactions like XP boosters are around, quite a lot of people i guess.