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@Northern_munkey Yeah, I'm not a fan of Warzone at the moment. Last time I played they were doing something called Black Ops Royale or something like that and I didn't enjoy it much.

The whole CoD launcher is an absolute mess. I even need parts of BO7 (which I've never bought) installed in order to play any part of BO6. Turns BO6 into like a 300GB game. I deleted it and reinstalled MW3, which I still think has the best MP in the series so far. There's like 40-50 MP maps on rotation from MW2 2009, MW2 2022, and tons of others added after launch.

@PuppetMaster Regarding the Chinese as villains in games, I think you'll find them lacking ever since China became a more dominant market for console video games. Also true in movies and TV. Remember when CoD whitewashed Tiananmen Square from their Cold War trailer?

@TheDarts I understand that, but I'm not making a legal argument.

@PuppetMaster Well, an American studio certainly isn't going to make America the villain of the story 😂

The reality is that North Korea, Russia, and Middle Eastern countries are convenient enemies in video games because their outrage doesn't make a large difference commercially. It's why you never see China as an enemy in video games - their outrage and boycott would have a substantial impact on the game's sales.

@Northern_munkey I think they're probably moving it over to whatever the MW4 engine will be. Activision likes to pretend that Warzone and the annual CoD entry aren't the same product, but they really are. I'm pretty sure you even need a large portion of BO7 installed to even get Warzone running right now.

I look forward to all the remixed missions and targets, but I must admit that I'm uneasy with using the likenesses of dead actors in these and I fear that, because this is a Bond game, they'll use a lot of them. I have the same opinion with Hitman (a la Bruce Lee). Having an estate sign off on monetizing a dead person's face is not the same as the person themselves signing off on it.

@For-Kier funny. i had the same thought with your comment. keep telling yourself that you're not a hater, while simultaneously going out of your way to dunk on games and fans. it's the same lame "i'm just being honest" argument, when in reality, you're just acting like an *****.

@Northern_munkey The funny thing is I think everyone here is under the assumption that I'm a total Marathon-stan, completely invested in Marathon's success. I think it's a great game, but the extraction loop does get a bit old for me after a while. I do still think that Halo and Destiny 1 were more fun to play, but that doesn't take anything away from Marathon and, at the end of the day, it's just my opinion.

What I am invested in is calling out internet trolls and hate-gluttons.

@Northern_munkey I feel like I don't even know myself anymore...

@LifeGirl Really? I'm curious what you think I'm lying about.

@Pat_trick Yeah, that kinda pissed me off. It really does seem like they put all their eggs in the Marathon basket, which definitely was a mistake.

I'm gonna be there. I still play MW3 regularly. Best MP suite CoD has had, in my opinion.

That said, I can't help but find the humor in the inevitable confusion between CoD Modern Warfare 4 and CoD 4 Modern Warfare.

@Pat_trick It's certainly possible. But if it got shut down in a couple years, I think that would be fine. Games don't need to last forever and I would argue that they shouldn't. I'd be really bummed if they shut down Bungie, but I don't know if Sony wants to take that optical hit at the moment. They're definitely in for some layoffs though, but that's likely more tied to Destiny support ending than anything else.

@LifeGirl Is there a reason you're responding to things I didn't say?

Also, maybe you should make sure the studio your talking about is spelled correctly. You sound like a tourist.

@Pat_trick I'm not saying that Sony isn't losing money on Marathon - they clearly are, but calling it "Concord 2" or "Concord 3" or whatever clearly is missing the mark, too. Calling something "Concord" implies that it is a complete bomb and is shutting down. We're almost 3 months after release, so that clearly didn't happen. It rings pretty similarly to the 2012 folks who, when 2012 came and went, they said, "No, I meant the next 2012."

I put about 50 hours in, dropped off, and have just been waiting for the season wipe to get back in. Excited to try the new map and the PvE mode.

For all the inevitable "Concordian Timeline" write-ins, just know that you all sound like the 2012 apocalypse wackos to the rest of us

@RobN I also have Premium, but mostly for the Portal. I agree that the trial program, which is basically just demos, should be available for any PS Plus subscriber or, honestly, anyone. It's a really lame "extra value" for Premium subs.

That said, I've tried a few trials and can't think of any games I actually bought because of it. If anything, it saved me a purchase because I realized the game wasn't for me. I shouldn't have to be subscribed to the highest tier for that "privilege," though.

Music to my ears!... do ya get it???

In all seriousness, I can't wait. Witcher 3 is the GoaT, so I'll be there day one.

Fingers crossed they also come out with the promised modding for consoles soon. A Pro patch would be very welcome, too.

@J2theEzzo I doubt I'd put any appreciable amount of time into it, but I bet it would be fun for a weekend. For $Free.99, it's hard to complain!

@LifeGirl Not sure what you were expecting. Have you seen the movies and read the books?

Funny, I was talking about Darktide with a friend just last night. Seems like a good ol time.

Can't wait to boot this up tonight. Rewatched Casino Royale over the weekend, so I'm good and primed for some espionage and/or action.

This could be mostly solved by requiring the use of some kind of 2FA on the call. If customer support required you to get an email or text with a code to read back to them, it would go a long way. It's not perfect, but would be way more secure then it is right now.

Of course, Colin also mentioned in the podcast that folks within customer support might be in on the scam and if that's the case, then there needs to be a restructuring of who has authority to give access to an account.

@Jay767 I get being defensive about the quality of Marathon. I've definitely done my share of it. But @MasterChiefWiggum isn't out of line with his take. Extraction shooters, with the exception of ARC, just aren't designed for casual fun, which can be alienating for most people. I, myself, have gotten pretty burnt out on the extraction loop. If you like that cycle, then the game is phenomenal, but it really is a taste thing and it's pretty clear by the numbers that most people don't find that taste appealing.

This is mindbogglingly disappointing. Marathon plays great, but it's no replacement or even a meaningful successor to Destiny.

If they don't even have D3 in the pipeline, this reinforces my idea for a D1 Remaster. Definitely wouldn't cost nearly as much, take nearly as many people, but would generate a lot of positive buzz for Destiny while Bungie figures our what the hell they're doing.

@get2sammyb A new Crazy Taxi game is All I Want.

Best CoD studio by a wiiiide margin. I'm genuinely excited for IW's next game.

@get2sammyb Linking to the Offspring music video made me genuinely happy. Crazy Taxi almost singlehandedly got me into punk.

@AdamNovice Unfortunately, it's not that they can't find joy. It's that they've decided they get the most joy out of schadenfreude and pretend it's some sort of "revelation" that we haven't caught on to yet. If everything is a zero-sum game, then every game that they don't like is an opportunity cost, taking away a fictional game that they do like.

@get2sammyb Do you really think there's any way for Sony to re-reveal Fairgames and not have a completely unhinged reaction from PlayStation fans? I honestly don't think so.

People these days find genuine joy in watching studios and games fail and I don't know how you overcome that once the audience decides the game "needs" to fail.

This is actually fantastic news for me. Destiny 1 is one of my favorite games ever, resulting in lasting friendships made through my clan. We all went over to Destiny 2 when it came out, but quickly fizzled out. It just wasn't the same. I've tried numerous times over the years to get back into D2, but it's just so unapproachable for new and returning players.

Fingers crossed that they're actively developing Destiny 3 because I would be over the moon for a hard reset where everyone can be on the same page again. Maybe a prequel???

Edit: Or.... Destiny 1 Remastered? I'd be so f'ing down for that, too.

Just to remind everyone, we have only seen one cinematic trailer for Fairgames and that's it. Not nearly enough to have a real opinion on it. It could suck. It could be good.

If this is a rebrand of Fairgames (or even if it isn't), try to judge it based on the actual game and not as a live-service boogieman.

Live-service does not equal bad. There are bad live-service and good live-service games, as there are bad and good static games.

For the die-hards, this is important, but PlayStation's success is mostly from casuals who probably won't watch anyway.

This State of Play will have a hard time, regardless of its quality, just because the last one is widely considered one of the best they've put on.

@LordOfTurnips You had me nodding along until that last low blow at the entire Dragon Age franchise. Can no one make a comment here without throwing an insult in?

@dskatter Dude, Disney broke even with their purchase of Star Wars within a few years of purchasing the IP. Do you understand how much money that franchise generates? 😂

Sony definitely made a bad choice in buying Bungie and the sales of Marathon are definitely not great, but for the people that do play, they love it and have largely stuck around. That's a much better situation than nearly every other live service venture lately.

Are they currently in the hole? Yes. But they have a great foundation to build off of.

I imagine they didn't call Saros a Returnal sequel because they didn't want to scare off people who didn't like Returnal, found it too hard, or whatever.

The problem is it visually and mechanically looked so similar that people who weren't interested in Returnal probably wrote it off immediately and the changes they made to make Saros more approachable turned off the people that actually liked Returnal. Kinda a lose lose situation, unfortunately.

Ubisoft had this feature in Ghost Recon Breakpoint, too. Boring game, but I loved that option. Definitely should be a standard.

@Matroska Nope, totally on porpoise. Don't know what you're talking about.

I think I'm too squeamish for this one. Ultra-graphic horror is a little too extreme for me. Give me psychological or existential horror any day, but stuff like Saw and Hellraiser is just a bridge too far.

I know I'm a hypocrite, but nearly 100 comments on an article about a commercial is hilarious.

I hope they take the gameplay that Housemarque was built on, but don't do a rougelike. That type of game just isn't my thing.

What a dream come true! I wonder if they'll make an original story or reinterpret something Tolkien wrote or intimated.

@RoomWithaMoose That's all very reasonable and fair. I also agree that it's fine to have some subjectivity in your news, but if the objective of the piece is to convey that opinion, which that LotF2 article did, then that no longer counts as a news article, even if the article presented new information to us. Presenting an opinion as fact is where credibility is lost for me. I imagine we're on the same page about that.

@RoomWithaMoose I think I would broadly agree. I also agree that games journalism should be held to the same standard as any other kind. Journalism is journalism, regardless of the subject.

That said, an article like this is pretty inoffensive to me. Given Push Square is a highly specialized site, it's pretty easy to have really slow news days where puff pieces are used to fill out the article count. I don't really consider it semantics and more just knowing that there are going to be days where the articles just aren't as substantive.

I do; however, have issues with the way Push Square labels some of their articles. Any article where there's a very obvious opinion being presented shouldn't be labeled as news. The recent LotF2 piece about female outfits comes to mind. They really need an "Opinion" label for articles.

@RoomWithaMoose I don't mean any disrespect to the Push Square team, but Push Square is more of an aggregator site and less of a news site. They're usually providing commentary on the news, not breaking it.

I say this because "journalistic standards" don't really apply in the same way to opinion pieces or editorials.

@THEBrew What are words anymore anyway?

Taking all games (MS Studios, Bethesda, A/B/K) off of PlayStation and keeping them exclusive to Xbox consoles would definitely incentivize people to buy Xboxes again, but at the cost of extreme reduction in revenue. That reduction would likely make their developer suite completely unsustainable, resulting in lots of studio closures.

I can maybe see them making MS Studio games exclusive again, but taking away Bethesda and A/B/K games would be suicide for Microsoft's gaming division.

Be careful what you wish for, folks!

@THEBrew Social engineering applies to the fact that you can trick customer service reps into giving access to someone else's account. Nothing to do with politics.

Seriously degenerate behavior. Glad Colin got his account back.

I was never bothered by them porting titles to PC and honestly didn't understand people being so opinionated about it, but if they found it wasn't worth the effort, then it is what it is.

Glad to hear they aren't using the same philosophy with multiplayer games, though.