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Music to my tinnitus ravaged ears.

I hope the potential crossover is just as wacky as the Final Fantasy crossover in Origins!

@GirlVersusGame Thanks for the tips! Much appreciated!

@GirlVersusGame I've tried a few over the years: The Forest, Minecraft, Green Hell, No Man's Sky, etc. It's not a genre I'm super into, but for $Free.99, I'm happy to give Ark a try 😁

This is a killer month! I haven't played any of them, but am excited to try each.

WH40K: Boltgun - Seems like a really fun Boomer Shooter. Also really interested in its ties to Space Marine 2.

Balatro - Duh.

Ark - Been looking for a new survival game. Maybe this is it?

Having a map indicator when a dungeon has been cleared like in Skyrim is at the top of my list (aside from general performance). Without it, I feel the need to complete a dungeon as soon as I discover it, which isn't ideal, since I'm usually pretty full up on loot from the last one.

Awesome news! My favorite Far Cry, by far.

@ButterySmooth30FPS If you do the $10 upgrade from a disc version, you'd still need to PS4 disc in the console for the game to boot up.

For a $10 upgrade, this is a no brainer for me. While I never really liked the story and characters, the gameplay is just superb. I never finished the game the first time around, so looking forward to jumping back in!

I'd love some expanded Hideout building features. I've already maxed out my building capacity and the placement restrictions are pretty limiting (though you can kinda break open those limits to some extent through glitching).

Bought and started last night! I played maybe the first few hours back in the day, but I came to it after playing Skyrim and just couldn't get into it due to the dated mechanics and graphics.

With all the improvements, I'm VERY excited to get into it now, since it's basically a brand new TES game for me 😀

Seems like a pretty substantial glow-up. I hope it gives BGS pause with regard to how TES6 is shaping up.

That said, I wonder how people will receive the world design of a nearly two decade old game. For example, will people be upset that the capital of the entire empire is the size of a city block?

@naruball Very welcome! Hope you enjoy it whenever you pick it up.

@Jey887 I totally get that. I personally don’t get too hung up on cosmetic mtxs, so as long as there’s plenty of progression built into the base game and future expansions/seasons are fairly priced, I think I’ll be ok. But yeah, I completely agree that archiving content is not cool. I really hope they learned that lesson.

I'm not nearly as skeptical as it seems a lot of PlayStation fans are. Bungie has repeatedly shown they know how to get their hooks in you through pure fun gameplay.

I say we let them cook and give them the benefit of the doubt until proven wrong.

@Northern_munkey Yeah I totally respect that. For me, setting does a lot to keep me coming back, though gameplay is obviously very important too! I'm just a huge sucker for the thorny, borderline Catholic vibe of the game, so I'd be disappointed if they lost it.

That said, I'm probably gonna be there day 1, regardless 😁

@Northern_munkey What's your take on Hexworks dialing back the bleak imagery for the next installment? I saw they were making the next game more palatable for a wider audience. While I understand the business sentiment, I think they said this game has been played by over 4 million people, so it's not like they're hard up. I'm personally pretty bummed about it. I thought the super grim-dark, religious vibe was excellent (a la Blasphemous) and gave LotF a rather unique vibe in the genre. I worry if they dial it back too much, it will just make LotF disappear into the ocean of typical dark fantasy.

@JB_Whiting To be fair, the male character faces looked pretty heinous, too. I just kinda chalked it up to being part of the grim universe the game takes place in, but I certainly wouldn't mind some new options. That said, you've probably got a helmet on most of the time, so it doesn't really matter.

@naruball I'd say combat speed is pretty comparable to other Souls-likes, if not a tiny bit quicker, but it depends on what weapons you're using. I think Hexworks probably took to heart the major criticism of their predecessor's game, which was that it felt pretty heavy and slow. Your character definitely zips around a lot faster that in Dark Souls, though. If you've played AC Shadows, your character is as fast as Naoe.

I think this update adds a "demo" of sorts, so you can play through the tutorial section without having to buy the game. There's not a TON of combat there, but maybe enough to give you a general vibe of how weapons swing, etc.

Wonderful news! Sounds like the perfect time to do an Umbral playthrough!

@Bluetrain7 Bro, what? It's not even the same author.

I can't figure out how to post a gif, so ya'll are just gonna need to use your imagination and picture Dr. Evil saying "How bout no."

@QualityGeezer I'll save you some trouble. The Witcher 3 is still better 😂

I really didn't vibe with the gameplay of BG3 at first, but after playing actual D&D 5e, I have a newfound love for the game. From a "video game" perspective, I still wish exploring out of combat felt better (I was really hoping for a 3rd person camera mod on console), but once you get invested in the characters and story, there really is no going back.

@Ilyn @Oram77 I think it pretty much comes down to the setting. Morrowind had a very other-wordly vibe and Skyrim had a Norse vibe, but Oblivion had the bog-standard High Fantasy setting. Lots of green grass and trees, but not much else. Hopefully the remaster can spice up the visuals to make it more interesting.

I probably would have gotten back onto Destiny 2 a few times now, but the onboarding for new and lapsed players is so comically bad.

It really puzzles me that a developer would make it so hard to get new players in. Seems like they want the game to fail via attrition.

There are only so many weeks in April that leakers can claim "next week" for. Which 2012 are we at now?

@EfYI It's totally valid if you don't want to pay full price for the game; whether you think $70 is worth it is completely your choice - especially if you have access to the game via Gamepass anyway. If I had Gamepass, there'd be no way I'd pay for the Great Circle.

But, because I don't have Gamepass and don't have any plans of getting it, I have no problems with Microsoft charging $70 for a high-budget, relatively new game. But that's just me.

@get2sammyb Is Respawn acting as a sort of XDev producer for this?

Edit: @Quintumply Sorry, thought Sammy wrote the article. Same question to you!

@EfYI I'm wondering if you could elaborate a little on the fairness (or lack thereof) of the price? $70 for a AAA game seems pretty fair to me. Why would the game's inclusion on a subscription service demand a lower retail value for people who don't have that sub?

@DennisReynolds @MrPeanutbutterz I've heard that the gameplay is kinda like baby's first immersive sim, which actually sounds pretty cool to me.

I'm actually pretty surprised by the negative reception. I think Marathon looks really cool!

Starting to get pretty excited for this, but I need to finish Shadows first. Too much time designing rock gardens at the hideout and not enough time being, ya know, an assassin...

@Dan12836666 I've only noticed crashing if I have a lot of mods installed. In particular, I noticed it with some clothing and hair mods.

Say what you will about Mafia 3's repetitive gameplay, but the story was really great. If The Old Country has the story chops of Mafia 3 and the gameplay structure of 1 Remake (linear story in a connected "open" world), than I'm going to be a very happy boy.

Absolutely love the setting, too.

@EfYI Yeah, it's true. We all comment here a lot, but it doesn't mean we're wrong. Some folks love to catastrophize and we like to call a spade a spade.

This is exactly what I assumed it would be - a collection/bundle. It's not a "rerelease."

Once again, people complaining about this are just outing themselves as the outrage-hungry lame-o's we all know you are.

P.S. @Slippship Long live Mort!

An addition that is cool for those that want it and harmless to those that don't. Complaining that this has been added as a feature is genuinely asinine.

@ChrisDeku Yeah, that's kinda my point. The title of "Producer" isn't clearly defined and may not have anything to do with the direction of a game itself, so saying someone was a producer on multiple cool projects doesn't necessarily translate to the new projects being cool.

It's like bragging that the payroll guy from Naughty Dog is starting a new company.

No digs on Toriyama, but I can't see how anyone would be excited for an announcement like this. The general public doesn't even understand what producers do for video games. Like, did he help Miyazaki construct the aesthetics of Bloodborne or did he facilitate Skype meetings? Pretty big difference.

They really need to give a glow-up to the eldritch-looking character models.

@zhoont I pop in a couple times a month and haven't really had any issues finding matches. A big bump in new players would be nice though, but mostly because I'm not very good in BF games, so some scrubs will be welcome 😂

@Nightcrawler71 I think the blurb references the launch state, but the score/ranking is an aggregate of user scores of the website, not the review score that PS gave when it launched.

I respectfully disagree -

Here we go:
16. Liberation
15. Freedom Cry
14. AC1
13. Valhalla
12. Mirage
11. Syndicate
10. Odyssey
9. Rogue
8. Revelations
7. Unity
6. AC3
5. Brotherhood
4. AC2
3. Shadows (pending)
2. Black Flag
1. Origins

I'm VERY curious to see what Bungie has got up its sleeve with this game. Loved all the Halo games and dumped well over 1000 hours into Destiny 1. Fell off Destiny 2 in the first year and never found a way back (I can't believe how bad D2 onboarding still is - it's like they're begging to kill that game through attrition, though that's a whole other conversation).

I've long been craving a good extraction shooter on console and am really hoping this is the one that hits. CoD DMZ was fun for a bit, but didn't have legs and, while I love Hunt: Showdown in premise, the gunplay just isn't tight on console.

I never played Marathon back in the day (started with Myth), so I can't speak to how connected or not to the original this game is, but, regardless of the bad press Bungie has gotten recently (and justifiably so), I still have faith in the rank-and-files' ability to make top-of-class gunplay.

As much as I enjoy those campaigns, I'm actually a little disappointed that they aren't bringing MW 2019 forward. I think 2019 is a surprisingly underrated title and has one of the best campaigns, best gunplay, and best MP maps of the last decade.

Correct me if I'm wrong, @Ravix, but before this patch, did Quality Mode had even more RT effects turned on, as opposed to Balanced? Sounds like this update might address that and makes Balanced Mode even more viable, though obviously, if you don't have a 120hz TV, then this improvement is pointless 😂

@JB_Whiting, I've been running on Balanced instead of Performance because too many features were deactivated (RT, hair, etc.). I agree that 30fps is a little jarring compared to the other options, but Balanced seems to really hit the sweet spot for me.

@RyuChamploo I definitely hope that gets fixed for Balanced, too, but honestly, I don't mind. I'm usually in the editor mode at the hideout anyway.

Yeah, the game was announced too early, but they are also totally within their rights to reply "No," when asked for an update.

Excited to see PSSR implementation. I've been playing on Balanced mode and have found visuals/frame rate totally great, so if it looks even better with PSSR, then I'll be a very happy boy 😃

Also the streamlined selloff is a great addition. I loot just about every chest I come across, so there's no value in dismantling gear, rather than selling it.

Seems like opinions of Season 2 are bound to be as divided as opinions of Part 2. Either way, should make for very entertaining television.