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@tselliot If a game makes you grind to have fun then the money you paid for it are already wasted. It should've been free to play.

@Triumph741 The problem is free to play economy, namely game design driven by exploitative monetisation.

@djlard Integrated batteries won't go away. The batteries need to be "easily replaceable by the user" which expanded as not glued to the body and not requiring special tools to replace.

I don't know if I would purchase it. This is indeed my type of game. However, some time ago knowing that this is a Microsoft exclusive I watched several YouTube videos about the story, different phases of the game, etc. Obviously, all spoiler heavy.

Now I doubt there's a reason to play a game which is light on gameplay and heavy on the story arc, when you know the story already.

@Ken_Kaniff If it's not free then there will be no reason playing it. Fans of that kind of games expect their games be free to play.

@4kgk2 It's not about every game. There are very few decent single player shooters on PlayStation. It could have been another one, but now it won't. It's a missed opportunity.

@Synthatron_Prime Sorry, I spoke too soon! Later in the game I saw pretty significant drops, with fire in the castle. So yeah, those drops are quite noticeable, and I hope they will be fixed.

@Uromastryx Games about grinding are not about fun

@KundaliniRising333 It's so weird. I haven't noticed any motion blur, or ghosting. I also haven't noticed any frame drops, but maybe VRR helps or I haven't travel far enough in the demo.

@Ocat They will not get Xbox once the news that Starfield only supports 30 FPS on Microsoft's consoles reach them. They will keep their PS5s and get a gaming PC.

I voted "it's not for me" but it's not the exact answer. I would like to play the game, but I'm boycotting Blizzard since their behaviour towards a player who demonstrated his support for Hong Kong freedom movement. Then Blizzard put forth several lies, explaining how they ban all political content and how it wasn't big of a deal.

Until the company comes clean in that regard I won't pay a single cent to them.

it may sound "naive" or "immature", but I'm none of those things. I have first hands experience with a dictatorship and despise every entity that suppresses people who's against this.

From the store owner perspective streaming games from your hardware is much less profitable than selling or renting out games to players to run on their own hardware. Because of that I predict it will remain a niche forever.

Whatever they are doing for the sake of sanity and common sense I hope they will not make employee bonuses dependent on Metacritic score.

Looking forward to your review! Potential buy 😊

@Impossibilium I think you are conflating two different things. It is possible to support trans people and be vocal against harassment directed at JK Rowling at the same time.

@thefourfoldroot1 Corporations have no morals. They are money making machines that differ in their mode of operation.

I would call Microsoft's mode "ruthless". Microsoft is not very suited to operating outside of monopoly bounds, and as such they try to establish one at all cost.

I for one would love episodic games, where content is designed with such care. I still believe episodic games can work; a publisher has to find the right price / hours of fun balance.

Most likely it's a security fix.

Never played a Yakuza game, but want to get into action. I don't feel like I want to go through all of them, but I don't want to miss good ones either, so which one should I start with, and which ones should I pick next?

@Kanji-Tatsumi Technical category had pretty weak competition

@trev666 Not so for me. That's why I stick with PushSquare. Their review scores match my own opinion pretty well.

@JB_Whiting I think the developers relocated to Cyprus.

@LiamCroft Fair play. But nothing will. When the game came out me and my clan were eager to have fun, as we had in Destiny 1. You can guess what happened next.

I gave this game every chance I could. Played for almost a year when everyone left it. Returned when they "fixed everything" and the game was in a "best" state ever according to some gullible gamers. No. The broken game design, destroyed game mechanics, and clear consequences of movement into "free to play" territory killed the franchise.

They can release the best trailer in the world. But D2 still won't hold candle to D1 year 1.

@Ralizah I don't think many trans activists are on a crusade. Some are. But the most vocal voices are from, how to put it politely, different kind of people.

@StylesT It is good for consumers in the short term. In the long term the games will degrade to remain profitable on subscription.

@Widey85 I think they are rising price because that ensures console sales profitability. When you can reliably make consoles for profit, you loosen dependency on game sales.

Technically, Returnal is very hard to port to Windows. Taken as is the requirements for configuration will be pretty high. So they will need to create a lower tier mode for the game to be comfortably playable on lower end machines. A lot of new code will have to be written just for that.

There are videos on YouTube going deep into technical aspects of the game. Making it run on Steam's average gaming rig and not looking ugly will be a real challenge.

@Goober1 I've been a PC gamer my whole life, until I bought a PS4 for no good reason. Never looked back. Finally I felt myself free from the necessity of micromanaging every tiny aspect of setting up games, only to repeat it some time later when I see a frame rate drop. Now I just enjoy the games.

That's why you can't review games on technicalities. Charm adds a lot. Novelty too.

The game is simple. maybe it's not great but it's good. It's adorable. It gives good time to player

@JohntheRaptor Small team? They had around 800 people working (their own plus Activision owned studios helping them) and it still wasn't enough.

Whatever Bungie's problem is it isn't the lack of people. Maybe lack of talent?

@MKD88 @JudgeDredd @OrtadragoonX @RobN Clean it with a contact cleaner. There's no way the stick assembly which is the same as on PS4 dual shock could have worn out in that period of time.

I fixed the drift by opening the casing and spraying the contact cleaner into the stick assembly. That's it. No drift for more than a year since then.

@JJ2 It very well may be that the next generation PlayStation will have an Arm chip.

Let's put the separating line here: No Man's Sky is a live service game, while what's listed there is either "pay to skip the grind" or subscription-based games.

@neitan Do what I did, just clean it. I used "wd-40 specialist contact cleaner". After fixing the drift it still works without issues, for more than a year.

@BReal DualSense rocks. My first one that came with PS5 developed some drift in about 3 months, but I fixed it with a spray contact cleaner (had to open the casing a bit to get there). That's all there is to it: dirt causes drift, as it takes years of active usage for stick assemblies to wear.

What kind of question is that? Obviously, Bloodborn remake would make everyone excited!

With the battery life below 2 hours in those games it's no Vita 2.

If they'll add raytracing as a separate "quality" mode that will be struggling around 30FPS, then it'd be as useless as it gets.

@ED_209 PS Plus in the current form is a success, judging by the number of the subscribers. So the real question is how many current PS plus subscribers will upgrade their plan to pay more.

Me and many others won't be comparing that PS++ to some GamePass. We will be comparing it to the current subscription.

@Lavalera All fair points about lack of accessibility modes, but personally I'm against several difficulty settings in all games.

First, the game will be much harder to balance, and inevitably it will show in some encounters. The overall balance quality will suffer as the result, unless the game is developed and tested with one core mode all the way through, and additional modes are added later. But that's not how games are designed. Many modes? Design and test them all with the same size QA team. Adjusting difficulty in one of them leads to shifting neighbouring difficulties etc.

Second, as a player every time I have to somehow predict what difficulty is the right for me. Granted, I can switch it later, but then the nagging feeling that I didn't pass some part of the game on the same difficulty stays. When there's no difficulty I know I can accept the challenge.

@Spiders It's very naive to presume that those reviews on Metacritic were written by people who played the game. I repeat it once again: any rating counting scores from anyone (and not only from those who made the purchase) is just a hype noise measurement.

@LiamCroft Any idea if there will be the first day patch?

Unlike films I never found an aggregate review site for games that works for me. That's why I'm on PushSquare, their review scores are most of the time match the experience I get playing those games. But other sites can be way off. If I would take an average, then the score would be skewed too much.

So yes, for PlayStation I get my reviews from just one source (and watching some gameplay), and I'm better off for it.

@EVIL-C Review bombing is mitigated on platforms that require you to purchase the game before reviewing. One of the problems with Metacritic is that people use it as a popularity context: upvote something you root for, downvote something you don't like.

@Spiders If you trust reviews on sites that allow you to score a game without purchasing one, how do you know which one was review bombed?

@mucc To be fair, Xbox guys have Starfield coming out this year, so they need just to wait till holidays.

@TheRedComet Regarding the melee. I only started playing Horizon Zero Dawn this weekend. I'm not far into the game, but playing on very hard difficulty I find melee more efficient than ranged. Maybe I'm a poor shooter, but anyway. It is working on anything I encountered so far, except the corruptor and sawtooth: basically the machines that can perform frequent wide area attacks.

Would love to work there. Sadly, my skillset doesn't match lol

Nope. Never bought the game and don't feel inclined to do.

@nessisonett I wouldn't compare to No Man's Sky. From my perspective that was the case of eager gamers expecting different game from what've been released. And later Hello Games just added features to the robust core, without communicating with "gaming community".

Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't have robust core. Its open world model is shallow and lacking basic mechanics players came to expect from years of playing GTA. That's wobbly foundation to build on.