It is by far not easier, if the actual thing worked. Like it wss ment to.
I've tried using it a few times for trophies but most games don't use this function and this could be a great solution, instead of devs having to implement them as most dont.
As in astro playroom has a great system as if your looking for trophies you can pull up the menu and it'll have a video of what exactly you have to do to achieve it. I've also used it in a couple of other games for certain trophies.
But the problem is lack of content and the devs not bothering with it. So if the community do opt in and just play the game and it records it for them without anything to do. Then why not.
Its helping out others without actually do it.
YouTube is great for it but if its right there on the console for that exact part or trophy it would be a no brainer.
Maybe unpopular opinion but to me this series is the most boring series I've had my time playing.
AC 1 was meh AC 2 which was fine for an hour until you realised that the combat in the game was rinse and repeat each time and I actually found the whole game q bore fest, I actually ended up having to drag myself through till the end. I really don't get the appeal of these games.
But Black Flag for me was amazing but only because it was a pirate game and we really don't get or had any truly good pirate games and thats the closest we've ever come. Still though the combat was rinse and repeat. Each enemy was the same apart from you blocked a couple more times before swinging and then you repeat.
I haven't played or attempted any of the others in the series.
But I'd be interested in a black flag remake or remaster but I'd want it to notch though not just a slap of 4k paint over it.
What id truly like though would be a gra style pirate game o the scale of black flag.
The problem with AC games has always been you never really felt like an Assassin. Not really.
That's my opinion. Black flag yes, the rest in fine thanks
My ps5 maybe online all the time but when a game which has a single player element but forces you to be online always, is just wrong.
Not because I care for being online all the time it's what comes with this, when things go south with the servers and then your locked out of a game which doesn't need online.
Stupid really, they should be 2 separate things in my eyes.
People moaning. I'm wondering what exactly are you expecting?
Its either going to be meh or amazing but I've already played them.
Because that's exactly how we all play games. We buy the great ones and don't care about any others and yet we are all different.
I mean the price increase alone for me, in a yearly subscription has basically paid for itself with the games they have offered, not everyone month is my month, but there is always something.
Dave the diver is a blast to play, easy to play, but alot of depth and is hard to master. That alone cost the same amount as the increase in price on pc when I bought it and they are giving it away here plus other games monthly.
Well it says it all when they release the first dlc for it. Everyone thinking that this could save the game and it turns out to be a strange version of the Joker, completely destroying the Arkhamverse.
Which ends up having 0 story content pr reasoning why joker is even back from the dead.
Its now obvious that WB made Rocksteady make this poor effort of a game and its now to a cash grab.
When the 2 co creators have already left and most of the core staff have left, you know the game was already.
Thats why I said we shouldn't even be having this debate and why I said about seeing comments about 30fps is fine.
It shouldn't be fine.
Every game is always better in a higher frame rate. Thats not an opinion its a fact. Whether you are fine with 30 or not that doesn't effect that games should all be 60fps or above in this day and age.
4k gaming has been around now for nearly a decade. My 1080 gpu at launch was and is capable of running games at 4k at above 30fps, it may struggle now with the newer games on pc but it still holds up. That was 2016, the ti which could truly handle 4k was only the year later.
So the ps5 releasing at the end of 2020 can't put out these games in 4k at 60fps is pretty bad.
1440p is fine but the fact remains that we are mostly playing on 4k tvs. So your not even getting the benefits of 1440p properly because its always being upscaled to 4k by your tv or they are still using checkerboarding.
I guess its not to bad but then you consider that so many games are still having technical problems. But I guess thats the developers fault.
But still a console releasing in 2020 which states 8k on the box, which can't even do true 4k gaming is beyond a joke.
Not like xbox is any better either, they both went the cheaper option.
Roblox isn't exploiting anyone, its a platform that anyone can jump in learn and create a game, be it a basic jumping game, to a free form resturant management or retail simulation.
My kids play the games all the time and honestly ill give them credit because we may all look at roblox and looks like a cheap version of dreams with its blocky awful art style.
But the actual inner workings of it, can be actually quite deep and requires a level of skill to make a decent game on the platform.
My kids made me play and I've actually found 3 or 4 games on the platform which I've played all the way through and honestly if the graphics were made mainstream and sold as a proper game it would pass as fully fledged game.
I mean all the power to them. The only ones moaning are the jealous ones who want to make money from games but just dont have the skills to and see these games as an exploit of children.
All the power to roblox, my kids love it and ive seen some stuff which ive enjoyed playing.
I actually can't believe some of the comments I'm reading.
Its 2024 frame rates shouldn't even be a talking point.
Every game should be 60fps or above at 4k. This shouldn't even be a question we have to have.
All the people saying about 30fps, being OK is ignoring the problem.
For games 60 or above is always better.
Doesn't matter if you can tolerate 30 or not.
I'm still in disbelieve that I'm in 2024. I built a gaming pc way back at the release of the 1080 graphics card and have been basically playing all those games until recent releases at 4k 60.
How any console isn't reaching these pretty old specs is astonishing.
It really shouldn't be a o well I dont mind 30 because of the amazing graphics on show the frame doesn't matter.
No it should be we are getting amazing graphics and the frame rate is a flawless 60fps.
Why in 2024 that isn't the case is beyond me, esp on console.
We had 30 and 60 fps with checkerboarding 4k on ps4. We shouldn't still be having this debate for ps5.
This in turn is why a ps5 Pro needs to come out we shouldn't have to compromise
I maybe in the minority or even on my own but I never blamed Murray or Hello Games for the hype.
I blame Playstation, they are the ones who hyped it out of reach and then put Murray on the main stage.
I dont actually think he ever lied, he's a indie developer with great ambitions and nerves and put infront of millions of people without any training, he was just spirringnout his plans.
The game now is probably the vision he had back when they made the game.
Playstation hyped it up so much, Murray didn't really have a choice.
Whoever is writing comments about how playststion has failed and how Japan needs more studios because some how Jim Ryan, destroyed it are living in a deluded world.
PS5 is Sonys fastest selling console and out pacing its direct competi by 3 maybe 4 to 1.
This is reality for anyone who doesn't understand.
Western first party Studios have been at the forefront of playstation success since the beginning.
Japan Studios which has been folded into other studios and mainly Team Asobi, which Team Asobi was a sub division for Japan Studios.
Japan Studios failure was nothing to do with playstation closing them down. Their failure was they hadn't done anything meaningful in over 10 years while they wrestled with the last guardian project.
They didn't really have any other Japanese studio either.
Capcom success is very recent, it wasn't that long ago that they was in dire need of change or they would of gone under.
Nintendo is in a league of its own since before Playstation was a thing. They have enough money that the Wii U was such a failure that they just put it down to a loss and moved on.
Just look at Sega for a normal company, Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast failed and the company basically crumbled to the point it was a shell of its former self for a long time.
Now Playstation complete failure, by having the most sold console ever PS2 (158million) Switch is behind at 131million.
The fastest selling console of all time, PS4 coming up quick PS5.
PS3 was a slow starter but by the end, out sold the xbox 360.
Playststion 5 is out pacing Xbox series X by 3:1 And its not that far behind Switch considering that the Switch came out way before PS5.
So the deluded thinking that playststion is some how failing is ridiculous. They are the most consistent gaming company in the world and far from failing.
The lay offs which every single industry is having is nothing to do with failing its all to do with the global economy being an absolute mess and the higher costs we are all facing in life. Nothing to do with failure.
@Gfoot well yes it does, because for a review you have to have a point of reference, unless its a game which has never been done before and then the game is reviewed upon what the game is trying to do and how well it implements it.
You actually answered your own theory. DS1 DS3
DS3s point of reference is DS1 and 2 which are already top tier games so to give you more of the same, is fine, aslong as it wasn't worse and it built upon the first 2 in a meaningful way then its fine. Plus its from the same developer also in the same trilogy. They built upon 1
Just like Uncharted 1, 2, 3. Same gameplay with tweaks, same genre, 3s reference is 1 and 2. They built upon 1, thats how they judge and determine a review.
This game is a brand new ip so one must look at games which are similar, if there is any and are within the same genre because its not a unique concept for a game so there are already examples out there for this type of game.
When a game has an old school already done open world way of doing things then it has to be judged in whether it does it better, on par or worse. It all comes down to that if its not better and is just on par.
Then you have to look at the story itself and is it memorable and in this case quite forgettable for the reviewer.
Then it comes down to gameplay and this is where this game was saved because it is the trade mark developers gameplay on show. Hence the 6/10.
You've literally quoted games within the same series and by the same developer, for a debate, which were all reviewed by referencing the games before them.
if that's what you like thats what you like.
You also mention the whole DD1 and DD2. but what your missing on those scores is the actual words used. The game scored highly because of the exploration between points A and Points B. They are to the reviewer unforgettable moments.
The review also points at it being a improved version of 1. Again reviewer referencing the first in the same series and also acknowledging that many players may not of played the first game.
The review for this game not the score was actually very well written and explained all the reasons why it wasn't a great game but an OK game. Everything its trying to do, has been done and has been done better. I mean you can't really say it much clearer.
I've never truly understood the hype for Bethesda games. They are buggy messes and they aren't all that great.
Witcher 3 completely destroys what an rpg should be and skyrim just isn't that great. I did enjoy oblivion.
But honestly if Starfield is what they could make with all that time and it's basically not that much better than their previous outings then I don't have much hope.
Not when we've had a game like baldurs gate 3 come out and now dragons dogma 2.
It just puts it into perspective that for me Bethesda isn't that great at them. If starfield was all those years experience. Same old tac in my eyes
It didn't work back on the N64..... it still doesn't work now.
Sorry to say but South Park only works as a 2d RPG because those 2 games "the stick of truth" "Fractured But Whole" are the most authentic south park games I've ever played.
To me they never got boring and it always felt like it was one large episode and it work perfectly those games for a south park game are both 10/10 Matt and Trey should of known this and shouldn't of signed off on it.
The future of south park is only RPG.
All they had to do was extend the map or flushed it out alot more. I mean the map was perfect, they should of just added more interaction and more areas to go.
What I'm trying to get at is, they have the map just make a new story and it would of been great.
For me they peaked at Ninja Gaiden, I played the hell out of those games back in the day.
Give me a top tier point a to point b skill based ninja gaiden game like it was and I'd be down.
Way to many open world games these days which aren't that special anymore.
I'm sorry but open world games have become stale for me and if you want my attention for that sort of world you've got to bring something special to the mix instead of just fetch quests
Love it that as a society we've made a generation across generations where an employee wants people back into the office and they spit their dummies out.
Now citing that it may cause crunch and being over worked.
Yea more like these people can't just get up and go to their scheduled mid mid morning coffee shop or to the gym.
They may have to actually get dressed and go to work.
Still baffles me, esp when the truth is because its all being done remotely leaks and hacks are happening easier and rockstar is the biggest developer in gaming. All I know is, if you want to work for the top dogs just obey there rules. You work them not they work for you.
Yes yes the people make the game but its like any job. You still obey the rules because you ain't the boss.
@Gfoot I dont believe the reviewer is missing any point. Its quite clearly route down.
A review has to be scored within the genre its based. This includes all games within that genre.
No one cares if the game itself doesn't change the page on what's possible. Its if the game can at least be on par or better it.
The review is pretty straight forward. It follows the same path of old open world games, it doesn't do anything to surprise you and what's there isn't that compelling just run of the mill. I mean are we ment to score the game high just because???
I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to get at.
They've used a template of old open world games which in all honesty has become stale, thats just facts. The only saving grace it seems is the combat and this is why a 6 is a fair score.
The fact remains if all the pieces are already found on the map then your basically just clicking and choosing which menu you have to walk the map to.
For me elden ring went to far with 0 indicators for where things are esp when you've been to the location. It would of been nice for a small in game notebook.
Balders gate did the best but its such a long game only the hardcore lovers will stick it out.
But then you have the other end assassin creed which just tells you everything from the get go and your just ticking check points off.
Seems like this game is just doing what assassin creed has done since the ps3 days, but if you ain't got a memorable story its not worth the time. Unless you like the gameplay.
Their closure had 0 to do with Sonys short sighted view of live service.
This is what happened at this studio.
They pitched a perfect pitch to Playstation. They believed in it due to the people who was working on it. They partnered with them.
The game just wasn't coming together a co founder left and the game was just to big for the big heads who thought they could do it with their first game. Ens of story
@gymratAmarillo Uncharted was a strange one though. It was never going to sell on pc.
They literally ported/remastered, the 4th game in the series.
Who in the right mind is buying Uncharted 4 when it makes 0 sense unless you've played the first 3 games.
The 4th game in the series is such a Swan Song and a farewell to the series that to play it on its own doesnt give you any picture of who Nathan Drake is.
I believe if they had put out a Uncharted Collection that would of sold alot better.
@nomither6 I dont agree on the best but I definitely missed that in my memory, sp ill give you that.
I just remember the newer movies, and the stick thin looking turtles from a few years ago, which I hated, even the new movie which was alright but the art style for me is not what I want.
But I am old, so nostalgia may play a part in that and 2003 I was definitely in party and rave mode for a good few years so missed that.
I mean still 2003 isn't that far removed from the 90s did that come straight after the 90s cartoon or is there other ones in between.
If so it shows how much they took inspiration from the 90s art style and kept it in the same type.
Very x men type style from the 90s. I may give that series a watch. Thankyou
@Rafie I said it was great. I was just being vague of the side scrolling part, trying to get across more of the fact we've not had much or really anything apart from those types of games, which were any good. I was complementing that game but still that game is a nod and a throwback to the arcade games which is great and all but we've never had anything else which has been good.
I'm thinking a true turtles game in the style of say a god of war over shoulder type game now, ive always wanted one.
I was actually quite excited when the rumours came out about rocksteady maybe doing a game.
There gameplay formula from the batman games and world building, would fit perfectly to a turtles game. Such a shame.
The 90s turtles cartoon for me is the only one which ever looked great. It still holds up.
Anything after that has been awful.
Films aswel the classics are still the best. They actually look like turtles.
This game looks awful.
Can we not get a proper turtles game. One which actually follows the lore. All we ever get is best em up knack style 3d turtle games.
I'm looking forward to the last Ronin but I'd love a more gritty teenage ninja turtles game, disguises, only coming out at night, foot clan taking over the city.
Its funny that still to this day 80s and 90s cartoons have probably the best art style and they actually had a pretty deep continuous story.
@Shepherd_Tallon this sir is the world we live in. All I've heard is the moaning abd crying about going back to the actual job they got employed to do in the first place.
You have now given the story from the opposite said of trying to get them to do something and thats what you get.
Its madness gone insane.
And we all sit here reading articles like these with conflicting views and we are ment to think the worst.
When reality it probably is more on the lines of your story.
@naruball exactly, I've heard people call put employees for asking them to come back.
Reasoning? Because they actually have to get dressed.
Of course its a different story if you got the job on the work at home basis.
But if you was at the office before covid. I really don't see why you have anything to complain about if your employee has decided that they want you all back in the office now.
Even asking the question is being used as toxic and mental health.
Its so funny that covid times it was all about being isolated in your home was the cause of mental health.
Now we are at the point that People are using mental health as an excuse for refusing to leaving your house and going to the office.
The world has now completely gone mad.
We've actually created a world where no one wants to leave their house, even for work.
People these days are quick to call anything toxic
I mean I cant take anything serious. With how many wet fish are out there.
I mean the story going around that rockstar wants to bring their employees back into the office. Now every crying like a baby and even talking about how eockstar doesn't care about their health and well being. They are even calling that toxic.
Spoke to a person who works 13 hour shifts for a hospital and her husband is at home crying because his work want them to do 50 50 home and office.
Literally because he won't be able to go to the gym on certain days,
Our culture since covid has some how made people think they are entitled to do what they want and work anywhere.
No one batted an eye lid before covid. But since everyone got separated in those times.
Anything and everything can now be called toxic.
And now this is where we are getting conflicted reports because some just get it and others don't.
@Deoxyr1bose it doesn't matter if its the same or not. Prices have sky rocketed. Bread and milk now costs pretty much a fiver. Bread used to be less than 50p, 4 pints of milk used to be a pound.
My money ain't gone up.
I see it all the time and we all probably do it to without thinking. But everyone is asking for more Money for the same job they did with 0 increase in business.
The NHS striking for more money Train unions striking for more money Everyone asking for more money. Government dont have more money, not really.
People are not buying the same as they dont have more money.
Let alone energy companies tripling our bills for the same amount energy, yet they are making record profits and no one actually cares. The world just keeps going.
Mega corporation or not. Their bills must be gone up to numbers I cant even think up. Let alone studio time and voice actor wages.
The double size teams which cost sheer less a few years ago, their wages must be alot now.
Everything adds up.
But think about it.
Energy bills cant be changed. Game development time cant really change without crunch. Voice actors wages are just going up.
How else can they cut cost? Fire the fluff employees.
All this game has done is got rid of the people who made rock steady rocksteady.
They have all left what is left?
It was such a bad decision to go chasing this market when your fundamentally a single player game maker.
I just find it odd that both developers went for this type of game. Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad.
Honestly am devastated that I waited this long for what Rocksteady would do next since the epic trilogy and this is all they could come up with and that trilogy is probably going to be the last great Rocksteady set of games we get.
Ao reality is and still rare hasn't made a game for playstation.
So its a non story and it is just sea of thieves good game but come on rare is a shell of its former self. Microsoft made sure of that for those years of wasting Rare talents.
I just dont understand how playstation operates. They have their flagship console nailed down but why do they always introduce these hardware add ons and then never support them.
They have the best tech headset around for plug and play and just dont bother with it.
The headset itself would completely destroy the world of VR and yet nothing.
@Titntin ill give you your credit. I like the opinion.
Mainstream and journalist are just catching up blinded.
Xbox as a brand is awful.
Not because Xbox is a bad platform or even its internal development teams. Its the mismanagement and 0 basic understanding of what gamers want.
I honestly believe this since xbox 1 they've had an identity crisis.
Phil I like the guy, he comes across like he knows what he talks about but I honestly believe he's a man who talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk.
All he's ever done is talk since he got in and year on year disappointment. No games and when the games came not really up to snuff.
Yes he turned xbox around but I honestly believe he did this just by his talking and not with any real action.
I mean he's wanted to cut corners ever since by just buying top end multiplatform companies. Panic mode in my mind.
You could actually argue that the only reason xbox got as far as it has, is because xbox 360 got out a whole year in before PS3 came out and was cheaper.
Due to the fact once ps3 and xbox 360 truly came to an end, ps3 outsold the 360.
The funny thing in all this is.... if xbox goes multi plat properly then all our multiplat games we thought we had all lost to corporate greed and exclusivity have now become multi plat again hahahaha
Cutting corners in the end doesn't get you the results you want
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Re: Sony Wants You To Aid Your Fellow Gamers via Community Game Help
Actually I cant believe some of the comments.
It is by far not easier, if the actual thing worked. Like it wss ment to.
I've tried using it a few times for trophies but most games don't use this function and this could be a great solution, instead of devs having to implement them as most dont.
As in astro playroom has a great system as if your looking for trophies you can pull up the menu and it'll have a video of what exactly you have to do to achieve it. I've also used it in a couple of other games for certain trophies.
But the problem is lack of content and the devs not bothering with it. So if the community do opt in and just play the game and it records it for them without anything to do. Then why not.
Its helping out others without actually do it.
YouTube is great for it but if its right there on the console for that exact part or trophy it would be a no brainer.
Re: Rumour: Ubisoft Is Going All-In on Assassin's Creed with Black Flag Remake, Another Remake, Co-op Multiplayer Games, and More
Maybe unpopular opinion but to me this series is the most boring series I've had my time playing.
AC 1 was meh
AC 2 which was fine for an hour until you realised that the combat in the game was rinse and repeat each time and I actually found the whole game q bore fest, I actually ended up having to drag myself through till the end. I really don't get the appeal of these games.
But Black Flag for me was amazing but only because it was a pirate game and we really don't get or had any truly good pirate games and thats the closest we've ever come.
Still though the combat was rinse and repeat.
Each enemy was the same apart from you blocked a couple more times before swinging and then you repeat.
I haven't played or attempted any of the others in the series.
But I'd be interested in a black flag remake or remaster but I'd want it to notch though not just a slap of 4k paint over it.
What id truly like though would be a gra style pirate game o the scale of black flag.
The problem with AC games has always been you never really felt like an Assassin. Not really.
That's my opinion. Black flag yes, the rest in fine thanks
Re: TopSpin 2K25 Is Being Slaughtered for Its Always Online Requirement, Even When Playing Solo
@Topov81 maybe but big ant is a great studio, there cricket game is amazing.
But they aren't the best when it comes to the graphics, if only they had bigger budgets, because they seem to nail the controls
Re: TopSpin 2K25 Is Being Slaughtered for Its Always Online Requirement, Even When Playing Solo
My ps5 maybe online all the time but when a game which has a single player element but forces you to be online always, is just wrong.
Not because I care for being online all the time it's what comes with this, when things go south with the servers and then your locked out of a game which doesn't need online.
Stupid really, they should be 2 separate things in my eyes.
Re: Atari Revives Classic Video Game Brand Infogrames
@Golem25 hmmmmmm I still do. It makes more sense hahaha literally had to go read it. Never even gave it another thought until right now.
You just blew my mind and now I'm sad.
My whole 90s was a lie
Re: PSN Data Says Foamstars' Future Is Bleak, Just Two Months After Release
@DoppiaD the one studio whos only ever made syphon filter and a couple of psp games and took that long to make Days Gone half the studio left?
Not saying Days Gone was bad. I actually enjoyed it but their track record isn't on the scale with the main first party studios.
I'm pretty sure this wasn't Sony making them make that type of game either.
Re: PSN Data Says Foamstars' Future Is Bleak, Just Two Months After Release
@Maubari I just want to point out that non of Sonys efforts into live service has impacted their budget in single player games.
Its not like they stopped investment in single player games. They upped the budget to invest in live service.
Nothing was cancelled for their live service effort.
Non of its core teams in which they have absolute control (first party) have made a live service game as of yet.
Maybe you could use Naughty Dog but in all honesty they were going to make a multiplayer part anyway as history shows.
We are still getting the single player games they are just taking alot longer than any of us on the outside thought they would take.
Re: 16 More Games Coming to PS Plus Extra, Premium in April
People moaning.
I'm wondering what exactly are you expecting?
Its either going to be meh or amazing but I've already played them.
Because that's exactly how we all play games. We buy the great ones and don't care about any others and yet we are all different.
I mean the price increase alone for me, in a yearly subscription has basically paid for itself with the games they have offered, not everyone month is my month, but there is always something.
Dave the diver is a blast to play, easy to play, but alot of depth and is hard to master. That alone cost the same amount as the increase in price on pc when I bought it and they are giving it away here plus other games monthly.
Its always the same some people aren't ever happy
Re: $70 Games Are Just a Phase, Believes Saber Interactive CEO
He is right.
Pc games have been half the price of console games since they switched to all digital.
Once discs are forgotten about, then prices will fall in line.
All I know is 70 isn't really that hugh considering game prices haven't really got up all that much since the super Nintendo.
I wonder how much the actual developers get after all the cuts along the way.
Re: Suicide Squad Woes Continue As Hackers Make Free with Unreleased Character, Skins
Well it says it all when they release the first dlc for it.
Everyone thinking that this could save the game and it turns out to be a strange version of the Joker, completely destroying the Arkhamverse.
Which ends up having 0 story content pr reasoning why joker is even back from the dead.
Its now obvious that WB made Rocksteady make this poor effort of a game and its now to a cash grab.
When the 2 co creators have already left and most of the core staff have left, you know the game was already.
This game is actually worse than avengers
Re: Poll: How Much Do You Care About 60fps on PS5?
@Terra_Custodes I agree with your statement.
Thats why I said we shouldn't even be having this debate and why I said about seeing comments about 30fps is fine.
It shouldn't be fine.
Every game is always better in a higher frame rate.
Thats not an opinion its a fact. Whether you are fine with 30 or not that doesn't effect that games should all be 60fps or above in this day and age.
4k gaming has been around now for nearly a decade.
My 1080 gpu at launch was and is capable of running games at 4k at above 30fps, it may struggle now with the newer games on pc but it still holds up. That was 2016, the ti which could truly handle 4k was only the year later.
So the ps5 releasing at the end of 2020 can't put out these games in 4k at 60fps is pretty bad.
1440p is fine but the fact remains that we are mostly playing on 4k tvs. So your not even getting the benefits of 1440p properly because its always being upscaled to 4k by your tv or they are still using checkerboarding.
I guess its not to bad but then you consider that so many games are still having technical problems. But I guess thats the developers fault.
But still a console releasing in 2020 which states 8k on the box, which can't even do true 4k gaming is beyond a joke.
Not like xbox is any better either, they both went the cheaper option.
Re: Roblox Boss Insists Payment Model Not Child Labour Exploitation, Says It's a 'Gift'
I agree with most comments here.
Roblox isn't exploiting anyone, its a platform that anyone can jump in learn and create a game, be it a basic jumping game, to a free form resturant management or retail simulation.
My kids play the games all the time and honestly ill give them credit because we may all look at roblox and looks like a cheap version of dreams with its blocky awful art style.
But the actual inner workings of it, can be actually quite deep and requires a level of skill to make a decent game on the platform.
My kids made me play and I've actually found 3 or 4 games on the platform which I've played all the way through and honestly if the graphics were made mainstream and sold as a proper game it would pass as fully fledged game.
I mean all the power to them. The only ones moaning are the jealous ones who want to make money from games but just dont have the skills to and see these games as an exploit of children.
All the power to roblox, my kids love it and ive seen some stuff which ive enjoyed playing.
Re: Poll: How Much Do You Care About 60fps on PS5?
I actually can't believe some of the comments I'm reading.
Its 2024 frame rates shouldn't even be a talking point.
Every game should be 60fps or above at 4k. This shouldn't even be a question we have to have.
All the people saying about 30fps, being OK is ignoring the problem.
For games 60 or above is always better.
Doesn't matter if you can tolerate 30 or not.
I'm still in disbelieve that I'm in 2024. I built a gaming pc way back at the release of the 1080 graphics card and have been basically playing all those games until recent releases at 4k 60.
How any console isn't reaching these pretty old specs is astonishing.
It really shouldn't be a o well I dont mind 30 because of the amazing graphics on show the frame doesn't matter.
No it should be we are getting amazing graphics and the frame rate is a flawless 60fps.
Why in 2024 that isn't the case is beyond me, esp on console.
We had 30 and 60 fps with checkerboarding 4k on ps4. We shouldn't still be having this debate for ps5.
This in turn is why a ps5 Pro needs to come out we shouldn't have to compromise
Re: Random: Seven Years Later, No Man's Sky's Reputation Is Slowly Improving
I maybe in the minority or even on my own but I never blamed Murray or Hello Games for the hype.
I blame Playstation, they are the ones who hyped it out of reach and then put Murray on the main stage.
I dont actually think he ever lied, he's a indie developer with great ambitions and nerves and put infront of millions of people without any training, he was just spirringnout his plans.
The game now is probably the vision he had back when they made the game.
Playstation hyped it up so much, Murray didn't really have a choice.
Re: New PlayStation CEO Hiroki Totoki Starts Temporary Role Today
Whoever is writing comments about how playststion has failed and how Japan needs more studios because some how Jim Ryan, destroyed it are living in a deluded world.
PS5 is Sonys fastest selling console and out pacing its direct competi by 3 maybe 4 to 1.
This is reality for anyone who doesn't understand.
Western first party Studios have been at the forefront of playstation success since the beginning.
Japan Studios which has been folded into other studios and mainly Team Asobi, which Team Asobi was a sub division for Japan Studios.
Japan Studios failure was nothing to do with playstation closing them down. Their failure was they hadn't done anything meaningful in over 10 years while they wrestled with the last guardian project.
They didn't really have any other Japanese studio either.
Capcom success is very recent, it wasn't that long ago that they was in dire need of change or they would of gone under.
Nintendo is in a league of its own since before Playstation was a thing. They have enough money that the Wii U was such a failure that they just put it down to a loss and moved on.
Just look at Sega for a normal company,
Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast failed and the company basically crumbled to the point it was a shell of its former self for a long time.
Now Playstation complete failure,
by having the most sold console ever PS2 (158million)
Switch is behind at 131million.
The fastest selling console of all time, PS4 coming up quick PS5.
PS3 was a slow starter but by the end, out sold the xbox 360.
Playststion 5 is out pacing Xbox series X by 3:1
And its not that far behind Switch considering that the Switch came out way before PS5.
So the deluded thinking that playststion is some how failing is ridiculous. They are the most consistent gaming company in the world and far from failing.
The lay offs which every single industry is having is nothing to do with failing its all to do with the global economy being an absolute mess and the higher costs we are all facing in life. Nothing to do with failure.
Re: Random: Vladimir Putin Considers Creation of Russian Gaming Console
Well cant really blame Russia. Every other controlled dictator country has there own console which can be monitor and controlled 100%, has 1.
So only fitting.
10 years though is a long time and who knows where tech will be in that time, its probably a non starter.
Re: Rise of the Ronin (PS5) - A Safe, Outdated Open World Game
@Gfoot well yes it does, because for a review you have to have a point of reference, unless its a game which has never been done before and then the game is reviewed upon what the game is trying to do and how well it implements it.
You actually answered your own theory.
DS1 DS3
DS3s point of reference is DS1 and 2 which are already top tier games so to give you more of the same, is fine, aslong as it wasn't worse and it built upon the first 2 in a meaningful way then its fine. Plus its from the same developer also in the same trilogy.
They built upon 1
Just like Uncharted 1, 2, 3. Same gameplay with tweaks, same genre, 3s reference is 1 and 2.
They built upon 1, thats how they judge and determine a review.
This game is a brand new ip so one must look at games which are similar, if there is any and are within the same genre because its not a unique concept for a game so there are already examples out there for this type of game.
When a game has an old school already done open world way of doing things then it has to be judged in whether it does it better, on par or worse. It all comes down to that if its not better and is just on par.
Then you have to look at the story itself and is it memorable and in this case quite forgettable for the reviewer.
Then it comes down to gameplay and this is where this game was saved because it is the trade mark developers gameplay on show. Hence the 6/10.
You've literally quoted games within the same series and by the same developer, for a debate, which were all reviewed by referencing the games before them.
if that's what you like thats what you like.
You also mention the whole DD1 and DD2.
but what your missing on those scores is the actual words used. The game scored highly because of the exploration between points A and Points B. They are to the reviewer unforgettable moments.
The review also points at it being a improved version of 1. Again reviewer referencing the first in the same series and also acknowledging that many players may not of played the first game.
The review for this game not the score was actually very well written and explained all the reasons why it wasn't a great game but an OK game. Everything its trying to do, has been done and has been done better. I mean you can't really say it much clearer.
Re: Xbox Planning to Release the 'Majority' of Its Exclusives on PS5
I completely understand developers getting bored of Xbox.
At least playstation, you've just got the 1 PS5 either with or without a disc drive and ps4 if they want the extra cash.
Xbox has 2 different consoles out at the same time and they do or did demand that they are released on both.
With a failing console aswel, with my business head on xbox console development isn't worth the cost of development for not kuch return.
Must cost quite abit to have to develop for s and x and there isn't much of a player base.
Re: Capcom Responds to Dragon's Dogma 2 Microtransaction, Performance Backlash
The reality is.... does it really matter?
The game got a high score anyway.
The games enjoyable without.
So if they want to try make a bit of extra money then why not, we all got to get paid. You either buy it or you don't.
My only ever problem with microtransactions is when they truly impact the game.
Just like games like NBA 2K where career is such a grind it basically begs you to buy in because the grind is harder than a jrpg.
Re: The Elder Scrolls Celebrates 30th Anniversary, Gives a Small Update on TES 6
I've never truly understood the hype for Bethesda games. They are buggy messes and they aren't all that great.
Witcher 3 completely destroys what an rpg should be and skyrim just isn't that great. I did enjoy oblivion.
But honestly if Starfield is what they could make with all that time and it's basically not that much better than their previous outings then I don't have much hope.
Not when we've had a game like baldurs gate 3 come out and now dragons dogma 2.
It just puts it into perspective that for me Bethesda isn't that great at them. If starfield was all those years experience. Same old tac in my eyes
Re: South Park: Snow Day! (PS5) - 3D Co-Op Card Brawler Is a Step Back for the Franchise
It didn't work back on the N64..... it still doesn't work now.
Sorry to say but South Park only works as a 2d RPG because those 2 games "the stick of truth" "Fractured But Whole" are the most authentic south park games I've ever played.
To me they never got boring and it always felt like it was one large episode and it work perfectly those games for a south park game are both 10/10 Matt and Trey should of known this and shouldn't of signed off on it.
The future of south park is only RPG.
All they had to do was extend the map or flushed it out alot more. I mean the map was perfect, they should of just added more interaction and more areas to go.
What I'm trying to get at is, they have the map just make a new story and it would of been great.
Re: Days Gone Dev Bend Studio Staffing Up for 'AAA Live Service' Game
Just give me days gone 2.
The first wss epically underrated.
All it needed was a bit more interaction within the world
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Rise of the Ronin?
I'm just not a big team ninja fan anymore.
For me they peaked at Ninja Gaiden, I played the hell out of those games back in the day.
Give me a top tier point a to point b skill based ninja gaiden game like it was and I'd be down.
Way to many open world games these days which aren't that special anymore.
I'm sorry but open world games have become stale for me and if you want my attention for that sort of world you've got to bring something special to the mix instead of just fetch quests
Re: Rumour: GTA 6 Could Slip as Far Back as 2026 Due to Development Issues
Love it that as a society we've made a generation across generations where an employee wants people back into the office and they spit their dummies out.
Now citing that it may cause crunch and being over worked.
Yea more like these people can't just get up and go to their scheduled mid mid morning coffee shop or to the gym.
They may have to actually get dressed and go to work.
Still baffles me, esp when the truth is because its all being done remotely leaks and hacks are happening easier and rockstar is the biggest developer in gaming. All I know is, if you want to work for the top dogs just obey there rules. You work them not they work for you.
Yes yes the people make the game but its like any job. You still obey the rules because you ain't the boss.
Re: Rise of the Ronin (PS5) - A Safe, Outdated Open World Game
@Gfoot I dont believe the reviewer is missing any point. Its quite clearly route down.
A review has to be scored within the genre its based. This includes all games within that genre.
No one cares if the game itself doesn't change the page on what's possible. Its if the game can at least be on par or better it.
The review is pretty straight forward. It follows the same path of old open world games, it doesn't do anything to surprise you and what's there isn't that compelling just run of the mill.
I mean are we ment to score the game high just because???
I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to get at.
They've used a template of old open world games which in all honesty has become stale, thats just facts. The only saving grace it seems is the combat and this is why a 6 is a fair score.
The fact remains if all the pieces are already found on the map then your basically just clicking and choosing which menu you have to walk the map to.
For me elden ring went to far with 0 indicators for where things are esp when you've been to the location. It would of been nice for a small in game notebook.
Balders gate did the best but its such a long game only the hardcore lovers will stick it out.
But then you have the other end assassin creed which just tells you everything from the get go and your just ticking check points off.
Seems like this game is just doing what assassin creed has done since the ps3 days, but if you ain't got a memorable story its not worth the time. Unless you like the gameplay.
Re: Reminder: You're Losing Access to 7 Great PS Plus Extra Games Tomorrow
Only just downloaded outer wilds haha thats a shame.
But o well, this is how it is. Same with every sub platform you win some you lose some
Re: Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake News Teased for David Hayter's Legacy Series
I'd be excited but that gameplay trailer was god awful to me.
Snake looked lifeless, the environment was great but with the character models just don't fit the world.
Re: Sony Partner Deviation Games Shuttered Before Shipping Its First PS5 Project
Just to point out to many.
Their closure had 0 to do with Sonys short sighted view of live service.
This is what happened at this studio.
They pitched a perfect pitch to Playstation. They believed in it due to the people who was working on it. They partnered with them.
The game just wasn't coming together a co founder left and the game was just to big for the big heads who thought they could do it with their first game. Ens of story
Re: Smooth Sailing for Xbox Exclusive Sea of Thieves As It Tops PS5 Pre-Order Charts
@gymratAmarillo Uncharted was a strange one though.
It was never going to sell on pc.
They literally ported/remastered, the 4th game in the series.
Who in the right mind is buying Uncharted 4 when it makes 0 sense unless you've played the first 3 games.
The 4th game in the series is such a Swan Song and a farewell to the series that to play it on its own doesnt give you any picture of who Nathan Drake is.
I believe if they had put out a Uncharted Collection that would of sold alot better.
Re: All Three STALKER Games Remastered and Out Now on PS4
@zhoont hmmm probably the best looking game on the ps5 for a long while was a remaster of a pre 2010 game and it was a launch ps5 game.
Just saying time to let old consoles just die already.
You think 3/4 years into the ps2 or ps3 or ps4 cycle we was getting news articles about a remaster being released on a old system?
No we didn't it's ridiculous
Re: Rumour: Next Ghost Recon Game Is a Realistic, Tactical First-Person Shooter
Yeah I'm good thanks.
I liked Ghost Recon for the third person perspective. We have enough first person military shooters out there.
Give me realism but third person.
I'm out
Re: All Three STALKER Games Remastered and Out Now on PS4
@zhoont yet we are a good few years probably half way into the ps5 life cycle, on the verge of a ps5 pro.
Selling close to the same as the ps4 at the same point and yet a remaster is being brought out for the ps4??
And everyone was moaning when was next gen going to the start and we are still seeing this.
We never saw this with ps3 to ps4.
All I'm saying is it's not much of a remaster when it's for an old system.
Re: Get Your First Glimpse of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed on PS5, PS4
@nomither6 I dont agree on the best but I definitely missed that in my memory, sp ill give you that.
I just remember the newer movies, and the stick thin looking turtles from a few years ago, which I hated, even the new movie which was alright but the art style for me is not what I want.
But I am old, so nostalgia may play a part in that and 2003 I was definitely in party and rave mode for a good few years so missed that.
I mean still 2003 isn't that far removed from the 90s did that come straight after the 90s cartoon or is there other ones in between.
If so it shows how much they took inspiration from the 90s art style and kept it in the same type.
Very x men type style from the 90s. I may give that series a watch. Thankyou
Re: Get Your First Glimpse of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed on PS5, PS4
@Rafie I said it was great. I was just being vague of the side scrolling part, trying to get across more of the fact we've not had much or really anything apart from those types of games, which were any good.
I was complementing that game but still that game is a nod and a throwback to the arcade games which is great and all but we've never had anything else which has been good.
I'm thinking a true turtles game in the style of say a god of war over shoulder type game now, ive always wanted one.
I was actually quite excited when the rumours came out about rocksteady maybe doing a game.
There gameplay formula from the batman games and world building, would fit perfectly to a turtles game. Such a shame.
Re: Get Your First Glimpse of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed on PS5, PS4
Its not floating my boat unfortunately.
The 90s turtles cartoon for me is the only one which ever looked great. It still holds up.
Anything after that has been awful.
Films aswel the classics are still the best. They actually look like turtles.
This game looks awful.
Can we not get a proper turtles game. One which actually follows the lore. All we ever get is best em up knack style 3d turtle games.
I'm looking forward to the last Ronin but I'd love a more gritty teenage ninja turtles game, disguises, only coming out at night, foot clan taking over the city.
Its funny that still to this day 80s and 90s cartoons have probably the best art style and they actually had a pretty deep continuous story.
Its time we get a proper triple a turtles game.
Shredders revenge was a great side scroller game.
Re: All Three STALKER Games Remastered and Out Now on PS4
O wow a remaster shadow dropping on an old console woooooo.
Seriously ps4 just leave it behind please.
It should be remastered on PS5. When are we going to let a console generation just die
Re: Sony Studio Firesprite Accused of Alleged Toxic Culture in Exposé
@Shepherd_Tallon this sir is the world we live in.
All I've heard is the moaning abd crying about going back to the actual job they got employed to do in the first place.
You have now given the story from the opposite said of trying to get them to do something and thats what you get.
Its madness gone insane.
And we all sit here reading articles like these with conflicting views and we are ment to think the worst.
When reality it probably is more on the lines of your story.
Re: Sony Studio Firesprite Accused of Alleged Toxic Culture in Exposé
@naruball exactly, I've heard people call put employees for asking them to come back.
Reasoning? Because they actually have to get dressed.
Of course its a different story if you got the job on the work at home basis.
But if you was at the office before covid. I really don't see why you have anything to complain about if your employee has decided that they want you all back in the office now.
Even asking the question is being used as toxic and mental health.
Its so funny that covid times it was all about being isolated in your home was the cause of mental health.
Now we are at the point that People are using mental health as an excuse for refusing to leaving your house and going to the office.
The world has now completely gone mad.
We've actually created a world where no one wants to leave their house, even for work.
Re: Sony Studio Firesprite Accused of Alleged Toxic Culture in Exposé
I just dont know anymore with this toxic stuff.
People these days are quick to call anything toxic
I mean I cant take anything serious. With how many wet fish are out there.
I mean the story going around that rockstar wants to bring their employees back into the office. Now every crying like a baby and even talking about how eockstar doesn't care about their health and well being. They are even calling that toxic.
Spoke to a person who works 13 hour shifts for a hospital and her husband is at home crying because his work want them to do 50 50 home and office.
Literally because he won't be able to go to the gym on certain days,
Our culture since covid has some how made people think they are entitled to do what they want and work anywhere.
No one batted an eye lid before covid. But since everyone got separated in those times.
Anything and everything can now be called toxic.
And now this is where we are getting conflicted reports because some just get it and others don't.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for March 2024 Announced
Sifu is an absolute brilliant game. But I already bought it and played it.
I do like f1 but im not a huge racing game fan so I may give it a quick go.
Hello Neighbour 2, I mean the first game was a great idea and my kids loved it. So I guess thats something.
Not the best month for me but not a bad selection.
Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now
@Deoxyr1bose it doesn't matter if its the same or not.
Prices have sky rocketed. Bread and milk now costs pretty much a fiver.
Bread used to be less than 50p, 4 pints of milk used to be a pound.
My money ain't gone up.
I see it all the time and we all probably do it to without thinking. But everyone is asking for more
Money for the same job they did with 0 increase in business.
The NHS striking for more money
Train unions striking for more money
Everyone asking for more money.
Government dont have more money, not really.
People are not buying the same as they dont have more money.
Let alone energy companies tripling our bills for the same amount energy, yet they are making record profits and no one actually cares. The world just keeps going.
Mega corporation or not. Their bills must be gone up to numbers I cant even think up.
Let alone studio time and voice actor wages.
The double size teams which cost sheer less a few years ago, their wages must be alot now.
Everything adds up.
But think about it.
Energy bills cant be changed.
Game development time cant really change without crunch.
Voice actors wages are just going up.
How else can they cut cost? Fire the fluff employees.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 517
Literally read every single comment and only saw pacific drive mentioned twice. Crazy
I'm gonna give it some love this weekend
Re: Your The Last of Us 2 Platinum Trophy Will Be Safe After PS4 to PS5 Upgrade
@wildcat_kickz thankyou
Re: Poor Suicide Squad Sales Disappoint Publisher Warner Bros
All this game has done is got rid of the people who made rock steady rocksteady.
They have all left what is left?
It was such a bad decision to go chasing this market when your fundamentally a single player game maker.
I just find it odd that both developers went for this type of game. Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad.
Honestly am devastated that I waited this long for what Rocksteady would do next since the epic trilogy and this is all they could come up with and that trilogy is probably going to be the last great Rocksteady set of games we get.
Re: Sea of Thieves Will Be the First PlayStation Game in Rare's 39-Year History
Ao reality is and still rare hasn't made a game for playstation.
So its a non story and it is just sea of thieves good game but come on rare is a shell of its former self. Microsoft made sure of that for those years of wasting Rare talents.
Re: Poll: What Do You Think of PSVR2, One Year Later?
I just dont understand how playstation operates. They have their flagship console nailed down but why do they always introduce these hardware add ons and then never support them.
They have the best tech headset around for plug and play and just dont bother with it.
The headset itself would completely destroy the world of VR and yet nothing.
I think I'm just trying to get at is why bother.
Re: Your The Last of Us 2 Platinum Trophy Will Be Safe After PS4 to PS5 Upgrade
@wildcat_kickz is that in game or on the ps5 because I did it on the ps5 but the ps4 version
Re: EA Sports College Football 25 Could Be PS5's Best Sports Game Yet
Hold on. Best sports game yet?
This is EA this is college football.
I mean you do realise its probably going to be madden with a college football skin over the top?
Re: Without a Physical PS5 Release, Alan Wake 2 Is Still Remedy's Fastest Selling Game
@Netret0120 how? By its 1.3m sales and the only place you can buy it is online? I am not sure this counts as evidence.
And this article doesn't actually tell you the full story. They haven't made profit on the game yet. So that tells you more.
I'm sorry but the only reason they decided against a disc version was to cut costs not because they believe in an all digital future.
Re: Reaction: Xbox Is Bringing Some Great Games to PS5, But Rumours Will Remain Rampant About What's Next
@Titntin ill give you your credit. I like the opinion.
Mainstream and journalist are just catching up blinded.
Xbox as a brand is awful.
Not because Xbox is a bad platform or even its internal development teams. Its the mismanagement and 0 basic understanding of what gamers want.
I honestly believe this since xbox 1 they've had an identity crisis.
Phil I like the guy, he comes across like he knows what he talks about but I honestly believe he's a man who talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk.
All he's ever done is talk since he got in and year on year disappointment. No games and when the games came not really up to snuff.
Yes he turned xbox around but I honestly believe he did this just by his talking and not with any real action.
I mean he's wanted to cut corners ever since by just buying top end multiplatform companies. Panic mode in my mind.
You could actually argue that the only reason xbox got as far as it has, is because xbox 360 got out a whole year in before PS3 came out and was cheaper.
Due to the fact once ps3 and xbox 360 truly came to an end, ps3 outsold the 360.
The funny thing in all this is.... if xbox goes multi plat properly then all our multiplat games we thought we had all lost to corporate greed and exclusivity have now become multi plat again hahahaha
Cutting corners in the end doesn't get you the results you want