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I hope it crashes and burns. Predatory and greedy games like this SUCK.

@Acurisur
1. I don’t recall once telling people what they can and can’t play.
2. A big budget Harry Potter game is always going to sell millions. So?
3. That game selling millions doesn’t legitimise the author’s view on Trans people in any way.
4. Her views are still abhorrent.

@ItsBritneyB_tch This didn’t happen. You’re literally making up stories to make excuses for the slimy worms who attack women and the Queer community on a daily basis. The toxic vitriol always comes from conservative bigots who want to subjugate and denigrate vulnerable groups for simply existing.

@Would_you_kindly Maybe she shouldn’t have attacked trans people with her grotesque distortions of feminism first. She started this.
Casting her as the victim is cringeworthy.
Her statements are not only objectively wrong but also damaging to the most vulnerable members of society who have hurt exactly no one. But please, continue defending a bigot.

Turns out JK Rowling doesn’t need another ivory back scratcher. She’s no doubt concentrating on subjugating vulnerable people instead.

@Bez87 Yeah when the action mechanics of an RPG game are sub-par it really breaks the game for me.
Especially when there are games like Nioh 2 which have the deepest and most elite combat while also being a functional RPG.

Having played Nioh 1 and 2 for literally thousands of hours, I’m mega hyped for this game. Those games are absolutely amazing and have the most intricate and deep systems. The end game content is also amazing. I still play Nioh 2 to this day.
Wo-Long and RE4 Remake will keep me going all year.

Still can’t believe this game even exists considering it was announced a decade ago!

It’s a big budget AAA HP game - of course it was going to be a licence to print money. Still not touching it with a barge pole because of JK Rowling.

Regardless of the patch, I could never get over the weird floaty controls. Everyone seems to love this game but I just couldn’t get into it.

@shonenjump86 Is there a rereleased version that has the music intact?
I have the original Megadrive cartridge but I’d rather not set that up.

@shonenjump86 Sonic 3’s music is my very favourite of the series, so I hear ya.

Still play Nioh 2. Amazing game.

@Northern_munkey It’s clear you don’t understand what ‘privilege’ means in this context. The societal privilege of cisgender heterosexual males is so vastly disproportionate to non-binary and trans people, it’s absurd. You’re making a ridiculous false equivalency.

@danlk1ng None of what she has said fall under the banner of ‘genuine concerns’. She is spreading fear-mongering rhetoric which has no factual basis whatsoever. None.
She isn’t qualified to pontificate about the lived experience of being trans and isn’t qualified to relegate decades of peer reviewed science around gender dysphoria, transitioning, and physiology to the dust bin because she doesn’t agree with it.
This isn’t subjective - she is catastrophically incorrect and needs to stay in her lane.
A lane that is informed only by a grotesque misunderstanding of feminism, and equally grotesque white, cisgendered, hetero privilege and obscene wealth.
So please don’t contribute to the already disproportionate pain and hardship of trans people by trying to tell us she has ‘genuine concerns’. It’s both ignorant and offensive.

Oh, and Rowling isn’t even vaguely ‘left’. She’s a TERF and a transphobe. A bigoted extremist.

@Northern_munkey I never once said or implied that cisgender people or heterosexual people have anything against trans people.
I said they often diminish the damage that people like Rowling make because they can’t see past their own privilege.
Then they get on the defensive when that is pointed out. I’ve seen it thousands of times. Wholesale fragility and victimhood from the majority.
Kindly don’t put words into my mouth.

@KundaliniRising333
Funnily enough, you can care about multiple social issues at the same time. It’s not a competition where we need to create some imaginary tier list of what’s important and what’s not.
It’s blatantly obvious that a significant section of cisgender, heterosexual males have deemed JK Rowling’s comments innocuous and are (as usual) downplaying anything that doesn’t directly pander to their privilege.

@Vorlon As they said, the game doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Her views have a very really effect on millions of the most marginalised and vulnerable members of society.

Not for me. I refuse to give JK Rowling any cash. She’s a noted transphobe and TERF who makes a mockery of real feminism.
Her rhetoric is offensive and dangerous to some of the most vulnerable levers of society.
Push Square is correct in saying the game doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
I understand that the world-building and characters created by her are beloved by many, but I also think that we need to have an honest discussion around whether it’s ethical to bankroll someone who actively makes the world a more oppressive and dangerous place for many innocent people who have never hurt anyone. People who only want to exist peacefully in the world we all share.
It’s important to also recognise that she has both real-world and social media audience of millions. Her views are then amplified by right-wing media who have audiences in the literal billions.

Obnoxious edgelord dialogue isn’t the fault of the voice actor.
Just like adding progressive characters and themes into TLOU2 wasn’t the fault of the voice actors. That whole thing was cringeworthy and offensive and just adds fuel to the fire that a huge section of gamers are sad little Incels and right wingers.

As usual I’m unimpressed. It’s not that the games are bad per se, it’s just that by the time they’ve come out I’ve usually bought the games I know are for me. However I was pleasantly surprised by Gone Home and Meat Boy - both amazing games.
I usually use PSPlus for the online component in FROMSOFT games and if I feel like being yelled at by neckbeards - the Modern Warfare remaster that was also a PSPlus freebie, but only with friends.

@OrtadragoonX I agree with what you’re written. I don’t have the solution. My personal solution is to not buy anything associated with the women.
Apologies for the late reply - some deeply pathetic individuals spammed erroneous reports on my comments.

@MatthewJP Those comments obviously didn’t abide by the site’s terms of service. How would you know the content of those messages unless you were responsible for them?

@MatthewJP Because I kept my messages within bounds and moderate. At least one message which replied to my original comment used offensive slurs and was deleted. Can’t believe I need to explain this..

@OrtadragoonX I understand that this is games site and not a political one, but alluding to the issue and then sitting on the fence is cowardly.
There is no middle ground. People who choose to be bigoted and bully an already vulnerable section of society by misusing feminism and citing rhetoric instead of widely accepted medical science, are damaging to society and progress.
Suicide rates among trans people are outrageously high and she is directly complicit in adding to those statistics. She is never held to account for her actions.
Adding to her income stream is ghastly.
Same goes for all the Hollywood actors who take paychecks in the Fantastic Beasts series.

@Netret0120 And? Adding to revenue stream because she wrote a kids book is disgusting.
She actively makes the world a worse place for vulnerable minorities who have hurt no one.

Would never support a TERF and transphobe like JK Rowling.
Push Square: Why won’t you name her or her abhorrent views if you’re going to state you don’t agree with her views. Sounds a lot like fence-sitting to me.

Gee I can’t wait for more obnoxious characters and sub tomb Raider gameplay.

That inexplicable moment where EA does something right.

The songs better be arranged well and not just be boring ass orchestral music

@Jeanhenry They didn’t release finished at all. There were literally hundreds of shovelware titles.
Difference was we just bought them anyway.

@Smiffy01 I buy roughly 5 games a year day one and have never had a single issue like this because I buy games by developers and publishers that don’t treat customers like Guinea pigs.

Wow this sucks.

It’s so cringe when designers are so out of touch they think having teenaged or young adults constant swear is going to connect with any audience.
Resident Evil Revelations 2 had this issue. First it forces you to play as this cringelord teenager and then after that forces co-op in a series where co-op ruins all the tension.

@Stocksy The slow death of the Wipeout series still baffles me. Wipeout 1 sold me on buying a PS1 back in the day.

The remaster of the PS3 ones were ok I guess, but would it be so difficult to give us a new game? We’ve only waited 20 years-ish. Or even just a remake of Wipeout 3 Special Edition would be great. Imo the best in the series.

That thing which only 2% of the planet would want. Great for pinball fans I guess 🧐

Man I hate it when corporate suits create teenaged/young adult characters who just swear all the time or crack edgelord jokes. It’s like being in a room full of Incels.

@theheadofabroom thank you so much, I appreciate that greatly 🤗

@carlos82 so I have to open the PS5 and swap out the ssd drive for a bigger one? Sorry I’m not technical

@HotGoomba It can be both things!

@lankieBD I know right? Thanks!

This is a bit off topic but hopefully someone can answer this: what format/specs does an external HD specifically for PS5 games require?
Does it affect loading times?

I have one external HD already connected for playing my old PS4 games - can I have two external HDs connected at once?

Fortnite do this kind of cross promo stuff all the time - I admire Epic for constantly updating and changing the game but Fortnite isn’t for me.
However I’m watching the mailbox for my PS5 Dead Space!!! So pumped.

So you did buy at least one game. Good for you.
I thoroughly enjoyed your scaremongering and completely unproven fallacy that day one discs ‘crash’ systems, as a desperate justification.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika My point is if you treat every release (I’ll wait till it’s cheaper)
like this you’re not supporting the game developers who put in the effort to craft potentially great games.
By the sounds of it you’re supportive of GameStop’s toxic ecosystem too…

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Great, so you choose to support no one…

As much as I hate EA and try not to buy their games, I’m hyped for Dead Space. I know it’s not this week (it’s next week) but all the same, nothing else matters for the time being. 😁