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Am I the only one to find Master of Albion extremely embarrassing? It's like Peter Molyneux is always putting back the same game ever and ever, with the same 25 years old gameplay and graphics...

Hopefully it will not be crippled with micro transactions like Dragon Dogma 2...

@CWill97 Dark Soul 3 is very close to Elden Ring, of course without the open world aspect. Really liked this game. DLCs were awesome but boss fights are brutal.

It's not a sale, just the regular price. Got that FF7 remake for $15 a year ago. Nothing new in perspective.

@Almost_Ghostly You know that million of people bought a PS5 and joined PS+ after Sony removed Collection, right? You are blaming them for being late and expect they are happy to have miss dozen of masterpieces when the service was far better and less expensive?

@Almost_Ghostly we are talking about Essential here.

@jgrangervikings1 about a year ago, for a PS+ subscription that was costing around 20% less, you had access to the PS+ Collection. Basically masterpieces like GoW2018, FFXV, fallout 4, Days Gone, Resident Evil 7, Last Of Us, Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted 4, what am I forgetting? Now you no longer have access to these games and get each month a pack of shovelware or pay2win EA/2k sport crap. So yeah, people are not happy and that's understandable.

Sometimes PS+ feels like a shovelware subscription....

I think I explored too much the DLC because after Messmer, everything was more and more easy. Even the dreaded final boss just took me a couple of attempts. Clearly some problems of balance in the skills and difficulty.

@jrt87 The thing is that you have to tweak your robot for each fight. You can cheese anything with the correct gear, or make it impossible with the wrong gear. Trial and error is more about finding the good combination to move forward, keeping failing with the wrong gear will not solve anything.

Is there an audience for all of these games? PS5 Tactics went on massive sale a couple of weeks after release...

@Northern_munkey Dirt Rally 2 has more warm graphics, with attention to small details like water or dirt effects, your copilot, etc... WRC Rally is more about large landscapes with cool sunset over the beach, the villages on top of mountains, etc .. But yeah, as you mentioned, the driving sensation are much better in WRC Rally. Dirt Rally 2 is probably too realistic to be fun, at least for me.

@Northern_munkey And the driving requires so much attention that you don't have the privilege to see that tree popping up in the background 10 km away...

@Hypoman A PS3 title, seriously....

Yeah WRC runs great on PS5. Not 100% perfect but that's fine. I've read that the optimization on PC is still clunky though.

I don't see anything wrong, it looks like Jedi Knight on modern GPU.

@somnambulance Yeah I took a look on steam DB, in June roughly 100 players were playing the game on average. Right now an average of 350 players, probably the summer effect plus the game at $20 ?
To give some order of magnitude:
Even WRC Rally, which is a great but very niche game for the few people who like that kind of stuff, has an average of 650 players...

Nier Automata, a great old game, about 1250 on average.

I'm not mentioning Elden Ring, this is so embarrassing.

It's like Mario Kart for kids who get their first console. GTA5 is a rite of passage when you become a teenager.

Since the last update there is a major bug with Messmer. Sometimes he teleports outside the fight arena, and then stay stuck. If you wait a very long time, it will die for no reason. It happened a couple of times recently. I guess the Host of Fingers were happy to beat the boss that way!

Are they refunding a Dragon Stone for all the people who got parfum bottle weapon to +25? Seems useless now.

I think I'm at the middle of the DLC, lvl 270 and Blessing lvl 10, and I agree that there is a balance problem at this point. All the enemies are super easy and the progression is a cake-walk, but the bosses are super hard and requires a specific technique to be cheesed. All the dragon fights have been disappointing as well, it's way too easy. in the base game there are still some dragons I haven't managed to beat... I think the last patch was clearly a mistake. It changed nothing for bosses but made the game too simple without challenge

@jrt87 ok, that's not good indeed. Sounds like Sekiro.

I don't want to look elitist, but so far the DLC is quite a cake-walk for me. I'm lvl 270 and Blessing at lvl 10. At the exception of bosses that requires some effort to learn their patterns, the rest is quite easy. Plus if you consider that you can potentially cheese any boss with the parfum trick or with the new shield in attack mode...

On social media, people have found that the perfume bottle weapon with the Rolling Sparks ash of war can cheese any boss in a couple of seconds. "DLC is too hard I want a refund blah blah blah" they were saying....

@Futureshark Exactly. In these games each boss is a puzzle to solve. In Demons Souls it was very gimmickal, and it went more and more subtle to Elden Ring. It's impossible to beat the DLC bosses with a narrow minded build and unique play style. It's like Shin Megami Tensei games, you have to exploit the weakness of the boss and do not expose yours.

@breakneck Why playing the PS4 version on PS5? The upgrade is free.

Honestly, I was finding the DLC quite easy, but with the new update it has become ridiculous. Just beat Dancing Lion first try, zero effort, zero challenge. The whole castle before was a cake walk. That's all? I really don't understand all the people complaining. From what I have read, I am worrying that the final boss is mega hard while the whole DLC is super easy. So far I really love the level design and art direction, but in terms of difficulty and challenge, it's not like when you start the base game.

@lindos good question. I'm NG0 and my son NG+3 and so far the difficulty looks similar for both of us in the DLC .

@NieR_Dark These knights are weak to death magic. I'm literally cheesing them with Prince of Death staff and the Rangcor something spell, the one that throw skulls in the air.

So far I find the DLC not especially hard, so I am afraid that they broke it with this update to please the mass.

They can tune the game indefinitely, it doesn't change the fact that most people suck. I'm trying very hard to help other players in multiplayer to beat bosses, but Host of Fingers are always panic rolling anywhere to get one shoted. This is really annoying. Please learn how to face a boss, stop spamming spells that are useless, stop the nonsensical rolling, stop trying to attack when it's not your open window. If you are so bad at understanding how this game work, at least stay hidden and let other people beat the boss for you. And stop complaining it is too hard. At some point it remembers me people yelling that SMTV is a bad game and too hard because after lining up 4 demons weak to fire against a boss with a strong fire attack, they don't pass the first turn of the battle...

Some people say that they don't have time to invest in a game like Elden Ring to master it. I would say that I don't have time to invest in 90% of games that are treating me like an idiot. From Software is one of the unique company that is respecting their customers.

All the people complaining about the difficulty are the same who are panic rolling everywhere to get one shoted. It's all about learning the game mechanics and building muscle memory. It's no more complex than Street Fighter. I have beaten Rellana last night after 10 attempts to find her weakness. My son has just beaten Dancing Lion in 5 attempts. Seeing people on social media yelling that the game is impossible is probably part of the entertainment.

@cburg That review is also superficial. Some other reviews have detailed all the innovations of the DLC and how it provides a fresh new experience. Putting that together with SMTV recently getting a 7/10 while the game is widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, I seriously question how games are rated here.

Just watched the Before you buy video about this DLC. The reviewer is basically saying the contrary: the DLC proposes a new way of exploring the world, it's much dense, with more verticallity, multiple paths that cross and separate, caves and mini dungeons have their own originality rather the same copy paste, etc.. conclusion is that it is a refreshing and refined way of playing Elden Ring.

Sometimes Push Square reminds me the IGN tactics when Metroid Dread was released: give a relatively low score to a universally acclaimed game that collects 10/10 everywhere, so that you stand apart from the mass and everybody will talk about you. A 8/10 to Shadow of the Red tree, like a 7/10 to SMTV... there is something phony here.

@Contimaloris Check that you have the HDR mode activated, which turns on the VRR with your TV. Game is unplayable for me without this mode, but super smooth with it.

@Mikey856 I find that Elden Ring is quite linear. The map is like a c-shape and you go from bottom right all the way up, more like a succession of small open area than a big big map like HFW where you have to go in all directions at once.

@ear_wig All the bosses can be cheesed by using the correct weapon + buffs. There are thousands of guide on the web. And at this stage of the game, you likely have all the major weapons, talismans and spells/miracles.

@djlard Not sure to understand what you mean. Demons Souls is extremely unfair, you can totally destroy your playthrough just by making a small mistake, forcing you to start over. There is no such thing in Elden Ring. Same for failing a boss that requires you to redo a whole level from scratch. Elden Ring is extremely friendly, especially with the multiplayer where you can invite people to do the job for you.

@KillerIsD34D He probably wanted to point out that most Persona reviews ignore that it's a spin-off from SMT, while all SMT reviews are comparing the games to Persona. At some point there is this feeling that SMT is not legitimate in the Persona canon, though it's the OG game series.

"excessive grinding".... Ok, so the reviewer just didn't understand how to play a SMT game and gave a 7/10 to this masterpiece. For the people: there is absolutely no grinding needed in that game, you just must fusion your demons to stay on top of the raising difficulty. Once you have understood that, the game is pretty easy, though the final fights against the bosses can be tough. SMTV was already a 9/10 on Switch, it's a 10/10 with this updated version.

Easiest way to beat the boss is to call for help from multiplayer. It's also pretty fun!

Personally I don't like the trophy system, it's more a clutter than anything.

That just doesn't make any sense. Horizon is the less appealing IP, with its boring, generic universe and repulsive characters. Nobody identify to Horizon, nobody care about this IP. It's just pointless. I'm pretty sure that even a Lego GoW or Elden Ring would have make people hysterical. But why fighting so hard with Horizon, just let it go.

Lego Horizon: lol. It's not like nobody care about Horizon IP, with all of its repulsive characters and stupid story behind. What are they thinking, seriously... Maybe the dinosaurs in Lego would be the most attractive thing?

Interesting. When you know the censorship in China, it is incredible that such piece of work can be produced.

@Nepp67 Yeah, makes me think about GoW Ragnarok or Horizon Forbidden West, they did a great job at creating repulsive female characters...

Interesting, for some reason I decided to start Octopath Traveler II just 2 days ago, I bought the physical edition last year during Black Friday when it was super cheap. So far so good, the game is beautiful and captivating. I like that it is still possible to revisit this old school genre and still be creative in terms of graphics and gameplay. No idea about the 1, I read it was not as good as the 2.

Honestly it's an excellent game. Yeah Atlus needs money. That way they will no layoff hundred of people like other studios who forgot that gaming was a business....

Maybe you can view your photos at 8k in the media manager. PS5 is not just for gaming right?