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it was a decent movie for a video game to film adaptation, but I don't think I will be excited for a sequel. Exploring the lore of Scorpion and Sub-zero would have been better. They wasted so much time on Cole's bland story and the cast didn't have any chemistry at all.

I love to play Roguelike games once in a while than the usual interactive games of PS exclusives. $70 is a steep price for this game genre. If someone bought this solely for the cinematic experience, then they will be in for a shock because games of this genre can be frustrating to play.

The plotlines of TLOU2 is questionable at times but the gameplay made the experience worthwhile. I wouldn't mind if TLOU3 will be a prequel about Joel and Tess instead of a continuation.

@Alpha_Pulse Backwards compatibility is a great feature, if you have a growing library in one platform. I have several PS4 games in my backlog and it's reassuring to know that I can still play my last gen games on PS5 along with added performance boost. It might also prevent gaming publisher of selling the same game twice to consumers by calling it remastered.

@mariomaster96 Proof that any game can sell well even if it's not a blockbuster title.

@Agramonte Tbh, it is surprising. the best-selling PS4 exclusive which is Spiderman has sold 20M copies but the PS4 has 115.9M unit sold. I guess exclusive titles is not the main reason why people buy PS consoles.

@thiagoauler I'm playing Cyberpunk on PC. Cyberpunk doesn't crash on me during main missions but it's more often on side missions. the game crashes on me when I travel around night city or even after buying stuff from the gun store. I learn my lesson and just use the fast travel points.

If CDPR can finally prevent the random crashes. I will be happy to play another life path and 100% complete the game. It's so annoying that I need to constantly save out of fear that it might crash on me again.

@KayOL77 Your $70 will never cover the cost of game development. Gaming publishers earned profits from the volume of units sold. $70 is the highest allowable price they can sell their game to maximize returns and if the game is failing to sell at this price point, then they will lower it to capture the full market.

@Intr1n5ic You should never tell people how to spend their hard earned money. The developers may have spent hundreds of hours of work to produce these games but it's the same with the average consumer who spent countless hours of work just to make ends meet. They are entitled to spend their money in whatever they need or want and no one else. Just because they have an extra $70, it doesn't mean they should spend it to buy games when they could use it for far more important things.

You're single purchase will never move units. The overall sales of the game ultimately depends on whether the gaming studios did an excellent job to garner enough hype and positive reviews that will entice gamers to buy their game at full price.

it's good to know that people still have common sense and not supporting the $70 price hike out of blind fanboyism. I can understand the idea behind "supporting the devs movement", if they belong to an indie studios but we're talking about a multi-million dollar corporation in here.

There is no incentive in paying full price at launch because you're getting the worst version of the game and you still have to pay for the "extra content" called DLC. Gaming publishers doesn't make it harder for gamers to wait for sales either, since they will release a definitive edition down the line with all the dlc included while only charging for a fraction of its original price.

I think this PS5 exclusive is a candidate to be release on PC. I still have several games on my backlog and I don't have a PS5 yet.

Is this a good game? I'm almost done with P5 Strikers and Tales of Arise couldn't come sooner.

I don't even know why people in here are saying that the "vocal minority" didn't make any impact at all, when the market shares of CDPR plummeted and they are facing a lawsuit from their investors.

I enjoyed Cyberpunk on PC but the state of this game on last gen console is unacceptable.

@Nepp67 I agree. Your decision during the main mission doesn't really affect the story because the scenarios might be different but the outcome will still be the same. The only part with RPG element is the romance options lol

@Nepp67 The prologue of the game did have a choice making decision but after that - it's all just dialogue choices ​with different responses and scenarios that doesn't really affect the storyline at all.

There are many people who said that the side missions have altering choice decision making but I didn't bother completing those side mission because of the random game crashes. The combat and customization is the most disappointing elements of this game. it sucks because the story is great.

Cyberpunk could be great if you have the patience to play it. The constant crashes and npc's glitching during missions is really annoying. The combat system is mediocre but the story is enough to motivate you to finished the game. it's pretty much similar to The Witcher 3. Great storyline, mediocre gameplay.

Even with 1Gig internet connection, cloud gaming could be unstable. I would still prefer gaming offline with single-player games for now. it's a great option if you don't want to spend thousands of dollars for a gaming pc or console. However, I can't imagine constantly paying for a subscription service just to play the games that I already bought, when I could just buy a gaming pc or console and play my games whenever I want and not lose access to it when my subscription service ends.

Sony is offering Bravia Core - a free streaming service for their 2021 TV line up. This move aligns with their TV product but it's giving me the same impression with Xbox One E3 presentation, where all the focus shift to TV content than games. However, Sony is still creating exclusive games so, there's nothing to worry about. Additional content is welcome as long as it doesn't affect the selection of games.

@MatthewJP LMAO! That's exactly what my friend said when he watched me play the game. He was wondering if Cyberpunk is worth buying now for the full price.

Even after the recent patch of Cyberpunk. I'm still experiencing crashes just by driving around Night City and I'm playing on PC.

@AnasMD128 You can say the same thing with HZD. I think I already have most PS4 exclusive game except Order 1886 and Infamous Second Son. I'm more interested with their free third party games.

Free games is a welcome gesture. Judging from the games they are giving away. HZD and R&C, we are going to get games that have sequels in line for PS5. It could be God of War or RE7.

@UrbanPlaystation Dude, the guy admits that he is not a people person. I'm not saying that he's a bad guy. Frustration is guaranteed at work but it doesn't make it right that you have to vent your frustrations to your employees. Even Sony think that he needed training/intervention. That came out from his own mouth not mine.

@UrbanPlaystation So, now I need to work with a big company to know if my boss has anger management issues. The mental gymnastics to defend this guy is unbelievable.

@UrbanPlaystation It didn't come out of my mouth. That is his own words. Why the hell would Sony put him into "training" to be a "better director" if he wasn't being an ass to his people smh.

@UrbanPlaystation Did you read it or what? I don't even know if your sarcasm is supposed to be funny.

The fact that Sony even paid for his leadership training says a lot about this guy.

@UrbanPlaystation It's better, If I just post it. Just in case I'm accuse of making things up for no reason like I'm working for Microsoft 🙄

"Elsewhere in the four-hour interview, Garvin confirms that his departure from Bend Studio was based on his personality, rather than anything to do with the performance of Days Gone or any potential sequel talks.

After being asked directly by Jaffe if he was fired, Garvin replied: “It was a hard, long development, six years, and I worked six years of crunch. And here’s the thing, I love working crunch. […] I love what I do so it’s not that big a deal, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for me. So the last two years I’ve actually been away from the studio have actually been a blessing. I have been able to get up and do what I want, I’ve written three books, and it’s just a different thing.

“When you’re in development it’s a non-stop pressure with milestones, profitability and people management […] and to be honest, at the end of the day, what it really comes down to is, we had a few heated arguments over the last year or so, and I would end up yelling and saying something like “just give me a package so I can get the ***** out of here”, some ***** like that.

“And when it was just Chris [Reese] and I in a very small studio, that kind of heatedness was fine, but by the time you get to a 100-person studio you can’t have one of the directors losing their temper, you know. And I’m not a great people person anyway, and it’s not like they didn’t try, I was put through training a couple of times, like ‘hey, here’s how you go out to lunch with people more, and be a better director’, and dude, I just kinda sucked at all that.”

@UrbanPlaystation https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/days-gone-lead-says-dont-complain-if-theres-no-sequel-if-you-didnt-buy-it-full-price/

Maybe you should read it. Can't believe you actually watch a 4-hour podcast.

@UrbanPlaystation I've read parts of the Jaffe interview and this guy openly admitted that his departure from Sony is because of his personality and not that the sales performance of Days Gone. The guy was probably an ass to his devs that Sony wanted him to attend "training" to deal with his behavior/leadership problem.

The PS5 community is chewing this guy out. This is the only website where I actually found people defending Garvin.

@Flaming_Kaiser I don't know if you're disagreeing with me or not. The deluxe edition of games before is $70 but now you're paying the same price just for a standard edition. Isn't that a price hike?

Third-party games have microtransactions but its optional. You're not required to purchase those to play the game.

@NEStalgia Tell me about it. Even the PS5 community on reddit is crucifying this guy and you have people in here defending statements like this.

The gaming community is behind the devs of Days Gone for a sequel against a remake of TLOU, a game that is considered to be greater than Days Gone, and this guy just needs to ruined it. What a way to insult the gaming community that actually supports you.

@Exlee300p Does it really matter if the deluxe edition is only digital? I pre-ordered the digital edition of Ghost of Tsushima but also bought the collectors edition which contained the physical edition inside. It's not out of the goodness of my heart to "support the developers" but its because I actually want it. However, since supporting the developers is such a noble idea. I thought you'd buy the deluxe edition to maximize their profit because apparently money is not an issue in all of this.

@Exlee300p Why didn't you pre-order the deluxe edition of Returnal? Now, Sony and Housemarque wouldn't know that you love them $10 more 🤣

@kyleforrester87 Really? He simply could have said that sequels are guaranteed, if the game was commercially successful.

@kyleforrester87 His argument is stupid. He assumes that every person who complains about a sequel didn't bought the game at full price and if you bought the game cheap then your opinion doesn't matter - to hell if you didn't have disposable income to buy $70 games. Let's support the developers because nothing is more important than filling the pockets of these corporations.

So now its the consumers fault, if a product failed to meet the corporations expectation? I bought Days Gone at full price and didn't return it - even though Gamestop was offering a full refund within 48 hours, if you didn't like the game.

Garvin is literally saying "don't even try to complain about a sequel, if you didn't buy the game at full price." F this guy and his future projects. Not everyone have the money to buy games at full price.

@Loftimus Isn't it nuts that people are defending price hike now? LMAO

I'd rather play the demo after launch. Your progress doesn't carry over anyway.

@Feena Nah, Capcom had released demos for RE7, RE2 and RE3. So, there's really no "If Covid wasn't around" situation here.

I've played this game on PC and its relatively good visually and storyline-wise, but it's a mediocre open-world game.

There is certainly room for improvement if they create a sequel. They should really stop with their over the top marketing which ultimately bites them in the ass.

@Ichiban Or you could have just ignored the article. No one's forcing you to read the comments lol. Just saying.

@Shinnok789 That's basically the issue. They are following the safer trend. People praised Sony on the last gen because they invested on new IPs and was willing to be experimental.

it's alright for Insomniac to delay the game. We don't want another CP2077 scenario. its still hard to get a PS5 these days anyway.

Sony doesn't want to fund smaller games but would rather make a deal for time-exclusivity. I'm fine with Sony focusing on AAA game because it's rare to find games with such quality, but If it means that they will only focus on their existing IPs and stop being experimental then it won't be long till we have a Gears, Forza and Halo scenario for PS.

@Total_Weirdo You can say the same thing with Uncharted. I think we're all glad that Bend Studio is working on a new IP, but I think Sony set their bar too high that I can see them cancelling future sequels of new IP that they deemed a failure in their own standard.

@Ward_ting The dialouge on Deacon and Sarah's wedding was a cringefest 😆

It just looks bad that Sony rejected Days Gone 2 and instead greenlit TLOU Remake, a game that had been released on PS3 and was remastered for the PS4.

@JohnKarnes the conversion is still 1:1. If you never have an ultimate before, you will only pay $1 for the conversion, but the succeeding conversion will be $15 (one month of ultimate).

@JohnKarnes You can get 3 years of Gamepass Ultimate for only $180 by converting Xbox Live Gold to GPU. CDkeys sometimes sells GWG for only $35.

The graphics of TLOU2 isn't a massive leap from TLOU Remastered. It isn't the same with FF7R and RE2 with PS1 era graphic. This project is mostly have to do with TLOU live action. Imagine if Joel's face will resemble Pedro Pascal than the original face model.