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@DennisReynolds Jaffe is uber progressive. Not sure where you heard he was right wing. He just doesn't have a mouth filter. I actually like his abrasiveness quite a bit - he's pure chaos, which makes him really entertaining to watch/listen to. Doesn't mean I have to agree with everything he says, though.

@Areus Yeah I do have the app and have done that before, but my download speed is good enough that it should only take a few minutes to download anyway. Appreciate it, though!

Yup. Sign me up. Downloading this as soon as I get home from work!

This is a no brainer, for me. Great aesthetics and seemingly tight/punchy gunplay. The only X factor that we don't really know about is how they're going to monetize the live-service part of the game. Will they charge for battle passes? Just cosmetics? Will they be fairly priced? All remains to be seen, but even if they botch that stuff, this game looks like it's gonna rock.

@Marquez Yeah, I'd agree with @Northern_munkey in that Marathon will actually be less toxic than ARC Raiders, because you'll already know where everyone stands. The toxic part of ARC Raiders is its incentive to sucker-punch unsuspecting people, creating an unfair fight. At least in Marathon, you know everyone wants to kill you.

I personally love ARC Raiders and am super stoked to get into Marathon. It will be very interesting to see if both can keep my (and other people's) attention simultaneously.

@StitchJones Game engines are very malleable. It's just the application they're building the game in. For example, Fortnite and Lords of the Fallen are both built in UE5.

The art style, in general, I think looks pretty good. I just really don't like the playable character designs.

@Pat_trick It's all according to taste, but I think Beyond is more closely aligned with the essence of Star Trek than Into Darkness ever was. Beyond had great character building for Spock and McCoy and had great Star Trekkie comedy throughout. The villain, while totally underutilized, was a great Star Trek foil, in that he was a relic of a more violent past that Starfleet had moved on from. The motorcycle/Beastie Boys sequence was pretty lame though, I will give you that.

Shocker! Everyone has a problem with this, sight unseen!

Jason Momoa actually has some good comedic chops, so I don't have any problems with this casting. Justin Lin is also a pretty inoffensive pick to me.

Y'all are all being so performative with your outrage to this. "Jason Momoa isn't a good actor. How will Helldivers: The Movie be nominated for an Oscar now???"

Here's an idea: grow up and just enjoy stuff...

@Shrek_Realista I think it's a time and place thing. I didn't play 3 or NV when they came out. I totally concede that the story and writing could very well be better than 4, but the gameplay is just wayyy too stilted and dated for me to play it now.

Love to hear this! Best souls-like, by far. I even think it surpasses some of FromSoft's own games.

I really love Skyrim and Fallout 4 (sorry Oblivion and Fallout 3/New Vegas fans), so I'm very curious about Starfield. I think the BGS formula is definitely showing its age, but I'm looking forward to the PS5 release, nonetheless. Pretty curious that Microsoft is playing this one so close to the chest. Maybe 2.0 is a bigger deal than we think?

So many game developers are going with the "Saturday Morning Cartoon" aesthetic for games right now...

@LiamCroft Is there some kind of push behind the scenes to go for younger generations right now? I can't think of another reason why seemingly every game has this vibe.

Anyone want to start taking bets on how enormous the file package is going be? 150GB? Larger?

@Mr_Singh Whatever you say, dude.

@Mr_Singh I think there's a little bit of projection going on, since I don't know if I would describe your comment as "getting to me," but take that as you will. I simply pointed out that if you want to take shots at Ubisoft, go right ahead. Just don't take shots at people's tastes in games unless you feel you can take the blowback. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but if you make a comment on a forum, then you're opening yourself up to a retort.

@Mr_Singh With all due respect, if you came here and just said that Ubisoft made bad games now, I wouldn't have had a problem with that. They certainly have stepped on enough rakes to deserve it. But, what you did was go after people who like their games, which I don't appreciate. Maybe you didn't choose your words carefully and that's not what you meant, but it is what you said.

@Mr_Singh Imagine coming to a Ubisoft article to dunk on fans of their games, while simultaneously having a Splinter Cell image as an avatar...

As @RoomWithaMoose said, Ubisoft does make good games. They just haven't made a great game in a while.

I wonder if they took cues from Splitgate. When they relaunched the game, they dropped the "2" as well.

I don't know if we can reasonably read into this. It could be because of the restructuring, career opportunities, burnout, or a host of other things.

Ubisoft needs to right-size, badly, so there will inevitably be senior-level employees who leave, along with all the others.

There's not really any point in making a big deal out of this until there's tangible evidence of how this restructuring affects the game output.

It would have been crazy/hilarious if they had released a PS5 version of D1 before D2. To be fair, with both running at 60fps, they both play great on PS5 and graphically hold up incredibly well.

@DennisReynolds An all-timer movie. RIP Rob Reiner.

I had a lot of fun with the demo. Don't think I have time to pick this one up right now, but definitely want to get to it eventually!

Very disappointing, but in hindsight, they probably wouldn't have patched the game to run at 60fps if they wanted to sell a PS5 version.

I earnestly want this remake so badly. Say what you will about AC Shadows, but you can't really knock the visual fidelity. Now, take that tech and apply it to the Caribbean? Yes, please!!

I've been wanting to play KCD1 before diving into 2, so this actually fantastic news!

@naruball Yeah, I'm a liberal guy, but that stuff is such nonsense. @AdamNovice brought up Hogwarts, which was similar, in that reviewers are bringing their own politics into a game review. I'm also now remembering the coverage of Far Cry 5, where reviewers dinged the game because it didn't sufficiently trash conservative culture. The game was about Waco, you morons!

The idea of a reviewer reviewer is not great, but it does bring focus to the fact that the standards for critics in the game industry are on the floor (present company excluded, of course!). Anyone remember when someone brought up Donald Trump in a PS5 review?

I tried it last night and didn't vibe with it at all. I gave it the benefit of the doubt, but the "fun factor" just isn't there for me. Best wishes to the developers, but I unfortunately don't see this game making a large turnaround.

@Northern_munkey I agree. And I'll also be trying Highguard. It's free to so there's no downside to trying.

@Northern_munkey I'd go a step further and say that there's general disdain for just about everything in that subsect of the community. There's almost a palpable glee that some folks take in trashing everything under the Sun.

That said, I think if Highguard had a different art style, the online sentiment may have been much different. You can definitely see the Apex Legends DNA all over it. I wonder if I'm just so removed from what's "popular" now that I just don't get it, but to me, this art style does absolutely nothing for me.

@Eadgar I totally get that. I don't really vibe with hero shooters, so Overwatch wasn't really for me, but recognize that the first was massive.

I'm also a little weird in that I couldn't care less about Diablo endgame content - I just play for the story, so I'm eagerly awaiting the next D4 expansion purely from a narrative standpoint.

Diablo, yes. Overwatch, go away. Starcraft, please??

I tend to prefer the humor of older shows, like The Black Adder, Python, Fawlty Towers, etc., but if they can nail the delivery, I'm all for it.

I don't know how anyone still believes this game is coming out. I don't mean to be a downer, but two decades?? Seriously?

@ApostateMage Completely agree. AC4 and Origins are peak, for me.

@Th3solution Yeah FromSoft is definitely consistent, though their games tend to be iterative, rather than transformative. That's not a dig, btw - I adore their games. The one thing that irks me about FromSoft is optimization. I think it's kinda insane that Elden Ring can't run at 30fps, let alone 60, with ray tracing turned on on a PS5 Pro.

@Th3solution Definitely not Remedy. FBC Firebreak was such a dud that you forgot it even exists.

Crimson Desert looks too good to be true. I want it to be excellent and if it looks to be delivering on its promises, I'll be getting it for sure. I just haven't seen enough about the story or the moment-to-moment gameplay to be sold on it yet. Fingers crossed!

@Oram77 I doubt it's an oversight. It's likely them waiting for the next new entry to have a full MP suite on PS5.

My first time playing Halo 1 in full was actually the remaster on 360, but I remember playing the demo over and over again way back on Mac in the early 2000s.

I'm personally not bothered by sprint or whatever else they're adding. We're talking about a single or coop campaign, so if you don't like sprint, don't sprint.

Whether I pick this up at launch will depend on technical performance, but I'm definitely looking forward to playing it on PS5.

Last year, I was cautiously optimistic about this game. This year, and after 200 hours of ARC Raiders, I'm genuinely excited for Marathon.

It's Bungie, so there's always a chance they'll ruin this with microtransactions galore, but the gameplay looks damn fun.

Love this. Ubisoft really does a fantastic job at making sure their catalog titles are properly supported on current gen.

Please update AC Unity and GR Wildlands next!

Very sad, indeed. Reminds me of the plot of the movie Fanboys.

Hopefully GTA6 turns out better than Episode 1.

Best and heartfelt wishes to the ill individual and their loved ones.

@nessisonett I believe that Shad Gaspard did the motion capture for Kratos in the games, but wasn't actually the body model. Kratos's face doesn't look anything like Shad, so I imagine they used him because of his body type and movement, rather than any cultural reason. We're all talking about a fictional Greek god, so I don't much care what ethnicity the actor is. It's true that cultural accuracy certainly hasn't been a priority for Hollywood historically, but I don't know if there's any real reason that Kratos must be black. Would it have been a nice nod to the legacy of the character? Sure. But if Chris Judge has given the "ok," that's good enough for me.

I don't have a horse in this race, but seems like an ok casting choice, to me. Even Chris Judge gave his blessing, so haters should probably stand down until they actually have a performance to critique.

Very well deserved. I love this game to bits. I hope they start adding more items to the rotation soon, as some new white, green, and blue weapons would be really appreciated. A quicker clip to decks would be nice, too.

@Northern_munkey We'll get something scheduled, I swear 😂

He's said this before. This isn't news.

Anthem was a cool idea, but flawed in execution. It deserved the smoke, but I'll die on my hill and say Andromeda definitely doesn't deserve the hate it gets.

@DennisReynolds Yeah I upgraded to the Deluxe after a while, since I felt Embark had earned a little extra. The player base can actually be pretty ruthless, but the matchmaking tailors to your playstyle, which is nice. The more friendly you are, the more friendly lobbies you'll be placed into.

I tend to be pretty friendly when I'm solo queueing, but am very aggressive when playing in teams. Each time I move back to solo queues, it takes a few rounds before it stops placing me in suckerpunch lobbies.