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There is also STALKER trilogy on sale.

@DonkeyFantasy Yes, the game is far better now. They did a huge work on optimization. I've played it last month and really enjoyed it. It's a very good game, I would say the best in its category for a casual driver on a PS5 controller. Dirt Rally 2 was too hard for me and not fun. For that price it's a steal! If they delayed the release by 6 months, the game would probably have had a better launch and would not have turned away most people.

@TruestoryYep Why people are thinking that they will die in decades from now? My uncle died from heart attack, took 1 minute. Another uncle died from lung cancer a couple of months after diagnosis. My sister in law died from bowel cancer literally once month after diagnosis. There was a student in my company who died from leukemia at 22 years old. He was fine a couple of weeks before. Unfair and harsh, but it happens. The management of your digital assets and footprint is a serious question. Taking over an account of someone no longer here is a pain.

It's still unclear to me at what level you should start the DLC.

Another good argument for physical. Unfortunately it will disappear with PS5 Pro or 6 or whatever will be next gen.

Street of Rage is a classic for couch co-op. Honestly it's a bit boring and pointless in solo, but with a friend it's mega fun, typically an arcade experience. The 4 is great, though it's not up to the level of the 2, which was a masterpiece.

SoR is only interesting when played as couch co-op. Probably one of the last game where you can do that ... SoR2 was the best though, Megadrive memories....

I heard that in Singapore you can be jailed if you throw a paper on the ground. So failing their AAAA game, it's like starting a war.

Only 3 comments? They should release some Stellar Blade costumes to create some noise!

@Kidfunkadelic83 I was thinking the same thing... Because of the reputation of being difficult, I waited like a year before buying the game. Actually, the game is not hard at all once you have understood the combat/character progression mechanics. My 12 years old son also beat the game without help. In last resort the multiplayer is awesome to get help when you struggle. I was lucky enough to get Let Me Solo Her to help fighting Malenia It's a very immersive game, I spent 200 hours on it, which is incredible because most of the time I'm getting bored of most games after 25 hours.

@ear_wig To put things in perspective, System Shock was released a year after Doom. The level design was rudimentary at that time, like, what can you do with a bunch of rectangles and squares... I agree that it's hard today to still tolerate that. For me the nostalgia will stay on watching videos on YouTube, unfortunately.

Maybe ChatGPT has not been trained on games with trophies. So it was unable to produce that kind of system when generating Xdefiant. Or the guys responsible for this game forgot to ask for trophies in the prompt? What do you think?

I've read some other reviews, it seems that the game is really designed to be played with keyboard and mouse on PC. Some moves are not even mapped on the PS controller, it's really difficult to play on a console. Same for the menus and inventory that are painful to manage on a controller. Ok, I'm going to pass on this one for PlayStation...

Of course, if you judge the past from today's mindset.... People have forgotten how gaming was 30 years ago, it required dedication and some crazyness. Like, I replayed Mario Bros 3 on NES, it is incredibly hard and frustrating, even not fun at all most of the time. I am surprised that 30 years ago I mastered it to the point of being able to beat the game in an afternoon. Today I would no longer have this patience! So yeah, System Shock, I know what to expect!

@mckracken I think Naruball wanted to say that gods can do evil things to humans, but are not evil in the sense of diabolic. In contrary to the monotheistic religions were God created humans as its image and is love/heaven while Satan is evil/hell, what I like with Greek mythology is that it is far more complex and less binary, with gods similar to humans with all the weaknesses and flaws. When humans suffer, it's often from a God doing a childish hysterical crisis.

I would not have put Ragnarok in 2nd place, that game was unfortunately pretty much a failure, especially the story and characters development. Probably a victim of COVID pandemic, the game felt like a patch of multiple uncoordinated contributions, without a direction.

I can understand the disappointment of people who are following closely the gaming Art. In the past, each new console generation was a revolution both in terms of tech hardware and games. In that scope the PS5 doesn't bring substantial changes compared to a PS4 Pro, and the exclusive are easily skipable. Ok Ratchet and Clank is a good game, but doesn't justify buying a new console. I mean, you don't fear of missing out by not having a PS5. During the SNES era I just had a NES, and I was clearly out of any conversation with my friends...

The real issue is, why in first place a studio is putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in the production of a game. Of course it's not sustainable and they will never recoup the spending. Is there at least a project manager looking at an Excel spreadsheet to warn people that there is a problem in the business model?

Can someone explain me what is the problem with Limited Run Games? Maybe it's a Xbox thing but I'm ignorant here.

Nintendo stealing PlayStation market? Never. PlayStation was created to attract the generation of gamers who grew up with Mario and Sonic, but who were then too old for such kids game. From the beginning Sony has targeted the market of mature audience, in contrast of Nintendo who stayed a family/kids audience. Nintendo and Sony never competed directly. Most household have a PS and a Switch, but almost never a PS and a Xbox.

Sea of stars at $20, I think I will buy it! Not sure it can go any lower.

Imagine fighting Malenia in Elden Ring, and suddenly a banner "drink coca-cola" appears in the middle of the screen ... What a great idea.

I am wondering if buying HiFi Rush is even a good thing right now? The money is no longer going to the studio but the corporation that killed it. Buying and playing this game feels like a wrong thing to do in the current context. Thanks Microsoft.

It seems obvious that Xbox as a hardware console is going to disappear, and the focus will be Microsoft Gaming as a publisher. Which is what Microsoft was doing in the 90ies by the way.

Wow, this is incredible. They completely revamped the game. RPG elements are now very strong, and the list of quality life improvements is crazy. For example the ability to save anywhere, this was a real problem in SMTV: on a 100 hours gameplay, half the time was about going back and forth the save point to avoid taking any risks and losing progression. Free camera to explore the map is a very nice feature as well, in some places the landscape was confusing.
Totally hyped for this game, would be a day one purchase if Elden Ring DLC was not coming at the sale time.

What's a shame is that Microsoft owns a lot of technology, like GitHub, ChatGPT, Teams, etc .. They could revolutionize the gaming industry if the people behind the tech stack could work together under a good management. I guess right now it's just a caricature of a huge corporation who is just trying to get track on who is doing what with the cash flow.

Is that surprising? Stellar Blade is a niche game for a specific audience, it's already good that it is so high in the charts.

Definitely looking forward this one. I just hope the Art direction and gameplay will bring new elements and some originality, rather than just being a bigger Hades with a girl and more weapons/monsters.

Well, it's similar to EA asking you to create an account to play WRC Rally, or 2k asking to create an account to play NBA2k2x, or Microsoft asking to create an account to play Minecraft. But for Helldiver, I find such requirement is a bit too much. It's not like PSN is directly linked to PlayStation rather than a game collection from a publisher.

Honestly it's a decent month. FIFA will please soccer fans, Tunic looks like a cool little indie game, and Ghostrunner 2 gathered very good reviews from medias and gamers (once again a good game snobbed by Push Square). Compared to previous months that had only crap games, this one is good.

Bought Dark Souls 3. I know I'm late to the party, but what a game! I'm starting to wonder if it's not even better than Elden Ring.

I appreciate that From Software is always respecting the gamers.

@nomither6 Wait, you're saying that it can live longer than Suicide Squad?

@NEStalgia Ah ah you nailed it. But I would have summarized with "like all the mobile games we produce, you can collect sexy costumes to dress a doll but we innovated by locking the process behind an action game rather than just the usual gatcha thing "

Of course it will be possible to buy no name blank boards in bulk like a real skateboarder?

Ubisoft: ChatGPT, generate a free 2 play multiplayer looter shooter with a catchy name for the GenZ.

CharGPT: Certainly, here is Xdefiant.

Once again, I am amazed that nobody has anything to say about the story, the characters, the narrative, the design level, the photography, the tone palette, etc... From journal articles to comments section, it's like this game is only about unlocking costumes to dress your doll.

In the music industry, a small part of the billions made with Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber are invested in jazz and classical music, domains that are barely making money. Why it's not the case with the big corporations in the gaming industry?

Is that an impression or all the EA Sports game are on PS+ Essential at some point?

From what PS1 game the screenshot is coming from?

@MikeOrator Same, I love SMTV and would really like to play it again, but my backlog is so huge. SMTV took me 100 hours to finish ..

@NEStalgia It's like you are discovering lukewarm water A media relying on publishers money and writing positive articles for said publisher? It's pretty much the definition of journalism since the invention of the mechanical press!

If we are really honest, can we say that Bethesda is a good studio? All their games, absolutely all, are the same, and share the same flaws. It's always the same thing: you start excited in a big open world and a lot of quest in all direction and many books to read and people to talk, and then at some point the lore starts to feel bland, quests are just teleporting to markers to do FedEx stuff, you forgot what the story is about because the main quest is hidden below a pack of other quests, roleplaying aspects also reveal themselves to be bland, and there are so many caves to explore and they are all the same, clunky combat starts to get annoying, etc... then you quit at 150 hours without having moved forward into the first 20% of the game. Rinse, repeat. For me it's like that as since Daggerfall.

It's amazing that for this game, absolutely nobody has anything to say about the story, the level design, the combos you can do to beat a boss, etc.... It's like dressing your doll with a bikini is what matter the most to the players.

I didn't like the demo. Combat feels clunky and sluggish, it's not really what I expect from an action game. Maybe I'm biased by all the souls games I played in the past 6 months. Plus, the artwork, story and characters look generic and bland, it's not catching me at all. Pass on this one.

The "input delay" in Elden Ring is principally linked to your dexterity stat.

@glennthefrog Source ?

@MrBook Mr Marketing told me it was "the new Nier Automata". Turns out it is not, still a decent action game, which is great by itself but not enough to skip the line in my backlog.

As expected, it doesn't live the hype and falls flat. It is decent but not a masterpiece that justify $70. Will probably give a try when it will be under $20.

"vibrant visuals" ? It looks awful to me, though the animation of players seems well done with motion capture.