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English dub of Yakuza games? Not for me, Clive.

Yep, those outfits have changed my mind about buying this incoming train-wreck.

Far Cry: Blue Edition

'Free-to-play looter shooter' = bin

I've been having a go at the Suicide Squad alpha - it's a weird combination of high polish (the UI, the cutscenes, the story), and absolutely terrible gameplay which feels like the recent Saints Row reboot. Bullet sponge enemies, purple orbs to shoot, heavy feeling character movement, and so on.

By coincidence I'd recently been replaying Arkham Knight, and the two are night and day - and not in a good way for Suicide Squad.

Glad to see a developer abandon the tedium of a 'a team-based action game' and focus on a single player experience. More of this, please!

I still think the boss fights against Kuze are the best in the series, in large part because the soundtrack to them is absolutely incredible.

Missing the Amiga version with the terrifying FPS sections.

Coming in 2024: the Chairman Mao 'Liquidate all the Landlords' expansion.

David Harewood is so cool.

> 'unique gameplay experience'

> shoot the big purple orbs

"Public conscience"?!

@LiamOliver if Sony were really concerned with longevity they wouldn't require an Internet connection to make it work.

Since when is Robocop 'cyberpunk'? Dystopia yes, but it's never cyberpunk in a million years.

Nothing but vapourware.

The 'over-privileged' footballer who grew up poor and is making an admirable stand against racism in football and Spanish society more generally, you mean? All power to him.

I can still hear the din of pachinko parlour ringing in my ears, over a decade later!

Great to see Cyberpunk is now out of early access!

No Amiga Jurassic Park? My interest just dissipated.

'announcement cadence'?

@somnambulance easily my game of the (last) year - utterly strange and utterly captivating

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut for £12? I'm in like Flynn.

This looked garbage from the word go.

The Amiga game was the best one - the first person levels were terrifying.

@nessisonett Agreed, it's basically a snuff movie now. Really unpleasant.

The original Marathon and Marathon 2 were superb, great single-player modes, and genuinely exciting co-op. This looks to be everything they weren't.

Not getting my hopes up - this is Konami, after all.

F2P? In the bin.

Looks a jankier and more irritating version of Dying Light.

I get faster and ad-free browsing through UBlock Origin, but for free!

Noping out of this one big time - the gameplay looks thoroughly uninspiring.

I did indeed ask for this.

Re. Syndicate, don't hold your breath. This is from @UbisoftSupport a few minutes ago on Twitter:

"Hi Good Hunter, as AC Syndicate is no longer developed, we don't have any updates planned for the game. Though it may run on PS5, the game may exhibit errors or unexpected behaviour and some features available on PS4 may be absent.
Sorry for any inconvenience."

https://twitter.com/UbisoftSupport/status/1580230966593097728

Good analysis of this in the FT.

In addition to rising global costs and a semiconductor shortage that has held production levels far below demand, the PS5 has been a victim of currency volatility. The PS5 was launched in November 2020 when the yen traded at about ¥105 against the US dollar. Since June this year, the currency has been below ¥130 to the dollar, significantly increasing the PS5’s production cost in yen terms.

Also, that before the price rise Sony was already making a loss per PS5

In June … Sony was losing as much as ¥15,000 on each PS5 unit it sold in Japan. Globally, the average loss per machine was likely to be about $50

Finally, a bit of sales data, as of June 2022 total global sales were:
PS5 21.7m
XSX 15m
XSS doesn't mention

Meaning on average Sony have lost $1.085bn on PS5 hardware sales.

It's not just CEX ramping second-hand prices, check out this news from Japan:

In Sony’s home market of Japan, machines have been in such short supply that units at present sell in the second-hand market at a premium of about 70 per cent over the official (pre-increase) retail price. In May, Sony sold just 2,693 PS5 units in Japan — a number that reflected the exceptionally tight supply.

The three stages of disappointment:

1. A new Dune game! BRILLIANT!

2. Open world survival game? Okay...

3. MMO. Oh no.

It lost me at F2P multiplayer.

The more I see of this the less I like it.

Can I rim the world in this game, then?

Loved this first time round.

Looks remarkably generic.

Bin the NFTs please, lads.

@Milktastrophe You mean 'it's the better one'.

Uncharted 4, purely because there's no supernatural ***** which I always thought ruined the last act of the other games.

I think you mean 'nul points', not 'nil poi'.

Dani Rojas! Football is life!

This sounds dreadful.

This sounds really, really terrible.

So, Dark Souls 4, then?

Days Gone-a make a new game.

Looks utterly generic.