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Been saving up on polys, hope my luck holds cos I got Zhu Yuan in my first ten pulls. I'm trying to get as many agents I realistically can without paying.

People forget that that ND have previous on turning smaller projects and turning them into much bigger ones. Uncharted The Lost Legacy was originally meant to be a smaller story expansion that was part of U4's season pass. But it became far more ambitious that it became a standalone release and Sony had to cancel the season pass.
Just an update on Factions was never going to be enough for ND, I always felt they wanted to do something more closer in scale to something like The Division. The problem is how to you get recurring revenue from it that brings in the kind of quality content that ND is known for? Most live service games are set in fantasy or sci-fi settings because they can go crazy on cosmetics for players to express themselves, TLOU can't do that without it being very jarring, the reality is there's only so many shirts, jackets and backpacks you can make without it looking samey.

The biggest sign that will prove if Sony really have overtaken Bungie is when Marathon turns up again...will it still be coming to Xbox.

@ShogunRok Thank you for calling it Tombi

@Deadlyblack No they didn't, the deal was in the works for months before all that. Sony were already looking for a studio with live service experience, Bungie just at happened to be available.

Sad state of affairs to the point that you just feel numb to the situation. The wider industry needs to be more efficient with it's budgets and expectations on their returns.

As for Bungie themselves, their upper management have been making far too many costly mistakes over the last several years that they either turned the ship around or they huge prices had to be paid.

@RBMango I think if Until Dawn 2 is happening it'll likely be made by the remake developers.

The Concord one is the best looking for me.

@Vaako007 That's interesting, I was aware of how that university sports teams are seen as a big deal but didn't know about the what it means to both students and surrounding communities.

For me Raziel has one of the coolest designs in all of gaming imo.

@Kidfunkadelic83 Well you are human

It was the most watched trailer from the last SoP which goes to show that there's a much wider audience out there that Sony has to cater too outside of hardcore single player only bubble.

@smallbrownbike @AldusRavencorn Thanks for the information guys. So college football gives various communities sports teams that they wouldn't get from the NFL? I can see why it would be a big deal.

Bring British it's a bit hard to understand why college football is such a big deal in the states. Is it a bit like (compared to our football/soccer) where your college team is your local team, like club football is to us and the NFL team is almost like our national team because the country is so vast?

@Nem That's what I wanted with what they teased at the end of MK 11 with the great Kung Lao era but instead we got this weird reboot with the same old characters again.

I know of Jeff the land shark because of Marvel Snap.
Also Second Diner...port the game to PS5 for god's sake.
Sammy you missed the chance to say it's not "click shark bait."

Trackmania could never.

I'll probably use my Stars points to get a £20 voucher for it. Because while I want to support a new 1st party studio, I don't trust the rest of the world to support it enough.
Hopefully Sony understand that the best case scenario is that it gradually grows an audience through continued updates and features that players want.

Having put more time into it, your not wrong about it being a copy and paste of OW right down to it's modes. It's much more like OW then Concord. However I'm finding it really fun, it's really chaotic at times plus destructible environments adds some strategies to matches.
I don't agree with it feeling like a mobile game though, it has good presentation with great visual flourishes in the character menus.

Having put time into Concord and tried Marvel Rivals last night, it was obvious to me what Concord was lacking in it's beta. The biggest issue I had with Concord was the lack of a training mode or a good breakdown of a character's abilities.
Rivals had a clean and easy to read list of each character's movelist complete with clips displaying them.

@Oram77 Yeah I think Fairgame$ has a bit more of a chance because there's a gap in the market right now for a more higher quality heist shooter, the only competition has been Payday 3 and that has really struggled so if Haven can get a fun gameplay loop with some cool looking characters then it can find an audience.

Disappointed that there still is no Stars integration.

@Yousef- Himself...that was the problem.

Call yourself British Sammy? It's Tombi over here

Imagine if they add a 2B skin

The YT video has a million views already, clearly people are still interested in it.

@glassmusic I can't really comment on Genshin but with ZZZ the combat is really fun but there's a lot of talking and dialogue boxes but in a neat feature you can skip it and the game will give you a summary as to what happened. Most of the game is spent going around locations talking to people, picking up quests etc.
As for the currencies my advice is to just ignore them outside of doing tutorials, the game gives you characters that are good enough see you through the story content for a good long while.
If you have any specific questions then I'll be happy to help.

@get2sammyb That's what I did and I managed to pull Ellen with my penultimate Encrypted Tape. Going to save my Polychrome to try and get the new character.

@themightyant After putting nearly 30 hours into ZZZ I agree I've seen way worse. I've managed to unlock 11 out of the 15 characters currently available and I've not had to spend a penny.

@Korgon Yeah it was amazing, right down to the last round.

Such a left field but awesome choice, they could have gone with V or maybe David but no they went with the character that I think suits GG's style more.

I don't know what I'm impressed by more...that Simon Fitzgerald got 10/10 or that he did it in 22 seconds.

Love this new quiz format, great job @antdickens

@get2sammyb They should really do the Brawlhalla thing where they sell a pack that unlocks all present and future characters.

Only @korgon has mentioned it but I think it could be a new Virtua Fighter.

@EfYI You question the kind of people that enjoy Gacha games yet are demanding that whole studios shut down just because they don't make your mind of game.

I keep thinking "what more could they possibly add at this point" and then HG are like "here's another big free update"

It would be nice if it was actually part of the real Olympic games instead of it's own event that the mainstream won't give it a single thought.

@itsfoz I get your stance but the economics don't lie. Single Player games are getting more expensive to make which means they need to make more sales and there's much less revenue to make outside the initial price because if they started adding mtx there would be a firestorm online. It's one of the reasons why there profit margins are very thin right now.
I do respect that your voting with your wallet but this pivot was always going to happen.

@get2sammyb If England win tomorrow then Gareth should appear on every thumbnail for the next week.

@Glens0n How many times does it need to be said, ND would have had to commit to it full time at the expense of their SP games.

Karate Kid is unashamedly 80's the movie that I love it.
The 3rd movie isn't good but it's plot is hilarious. The main villain is a successful business man who decides to spend weeks of his time plotting to get revenge on a teenager and an old man because they beat his mate's karate school in a tournament...friggin insane.

Not played much yet to form much of an opinion. But something I think this beta really needed was a training mode, outside of the customisation screen you wouldn't know what abilities each Freegunner has if you just jumped straight in.
I agree that the pace is a bit slow though it makes a change from the twitch shooters.
The presentation is really slick and I like most of the character designs and the cutscenes were high quality, which is promising for the weekly story scenes their planning on release.
But if the game ends up failing to take off I hope Sony and Firewalk don't give up on the IP, they can go on and make a SP spin off game.

Very smart move, hopefully people will actually try it and judge it as a game.

@Areus I was talking about the original but I also forgot about the remake.

I wonder if there's now a chance for Tactics Ogre to get released as well

1000% Many of us said from the very beginning that adding AAA games day one was unsustainable. Personally I'm glad subscriptions aren't taking off like they hoped. MS were trying to change the consumer buying habits were no one buys games anymore I.E. not owning their games.

@Czar_Khastik Damn, beat me to it lol

I platinumed Elden Ring by following a YouTuber's walkthrough step by step. I know it will annoy the hardcore who think you have to play a certain way but I know what would frustrate me playing these type of games.

These type of games remind of the many hours I spent playing Micro Machines 96 on my Mega Drive.

"However, he can be unlocked as early as 8th July if you complete enough Rifts in the 'Beat Rifts, Get Agent Smith Free' event."
Yeah I suspect most people wouldn't have been able to do that.

@yohn777 The way I look at it is if it's just upping the resolution and framerate, maybe even Changing art assets then it's a remaster.
If the graphics and/or content have been completely redone then it's a remake.