Yeah, it always winds me up that people are "upset" about this kind of thing. There's far more to get upset about than a 5 year old game getting delisted. The game is still available physically and if you've waited until now, you're just jumping on the bandwagon because it's something to get mad about.
I really enjoyed The Division 1, but I'm glad I haven't picked this up. They really seem to have dropped the ball with their support of the game. Ubisoft are normally pretty good at keeping a game going, but this one seems to be very amateurish.
If they get rid of loading screens (which I doubt, it'll be like Mirror's Edge's incredibly long lift rides, or Metroid Prime's doors that take a day to open, or even Tony Hawk's American Wasteland's bus ride to the next area), they'll need to bring manuals back to help people learn to play, or have a dedicated menu for it. Loading screens have been used to parcel out tips and tutorials for a long time now.
Dark Souls, for instance, offers lore for certain items you may otherwise miss. Not to say I wouldn't miss how long the Soulsborne games take to load!
I had noticed this a few days ago, but thought that I was just really blind. I've had a Penny Dreadful book to give to Jack since Chapter 2 and I can't find him. Weirdly enough though, there's no tent that they sleep in, as John sleeps in a tent by himself, so I'm not sure if that's why they disappear, because Rockstar forgot to give them a place to sleep.
The only thing I don't like about their message is the following;
“This horrific event will not define us,” it said, “but only serve to make our community stronger.”
The words are nice, I imagine they are very sincere, but these events will define the lives of the families destroyed. The community has no right to feel stronger because of it, the community is insignificant compared to the victims friends and families.
Eh, an extra £10 a year, that's about 83p a month. The monthly charge has only increased by £1, and the quarterly price, by £5. It's not a huge increase, that little bit of extra money isn't going to affect anyone in a major way.
Hopefully, this does mean more substantial PS Plus offerings, but a business needs to review their prices periodically, especially with rising costs in other areas.
I understand people being outraged, but it is a very negligible increase, one less coffee a month, for instance. Barely noticeable. And even then, you can just buy from CDKeys, their prices won't go up much more, certainly.
This game and Persona 5 show the level of care and attention some developers put in to their games. Persona is on a completely different level, that game has been tuned to within an inch of its life.
I'm loving it, but after playing SO MUCH Persona 4 Golden, this prologue is dragging with all the tutorials. Great story, but having everything spelled out for me is boring!
I honestly have zero interest in this game now. I'm a huge fan of Final Fantasy, but with all these delays, and the fact that the entire game has changed multiple times, with a development time rivalling Duke Nukem Forever, it's almost ridiculous to even think of letting yourself get interested in it. You're just setting yourself up for disappointment.
I'd rather just have Kingdom Hearts 3, and for Final Fantasy XV to just join Star Fox 2.
If an item is mistakenly advertised at a certain price, a store has no obligation to sell the item at that price. The offer of "free" was not definite and clear that is should be free, as there was nothing specifying as such apart from the price, therefore Sony has no binding law stating they have to fulfil that order.
No practise mode is a massive oversight, and quite literally puts me off of getting the game. I'm an Expert level player that FCs songs, so practise mode is a MUST for the game.
Mighty No. 9? Should change it's name to Measly No. 6 at this rate, because the game is looking pretty rubbish. Shame, because it had so much potential.
I agree with the article, I do hope they hire more voice actors. Oblivion stands out as one of the most immersion-breaking games when I literally spoke to 3 people in one area and they all had the exact same voice. Hell, they could even change voice after their main dialogue, when you would get the random lines from talking to them again.
£30 is a bit steep, considering the same edition (with the exception of the commentary, if I recall) is a third of that on PS3. £20 would be more acceptable, but £30 is a con.
Console exclusive content has always been stupid, and not consumer-friendly. Console exclusive games, designed by first-party companies? Fine, no problems there. Extra content that dictates which console you have to buy for? Not fair.
Now I know that a little bit of DLC is not really a big deal in the long run, but it's an opposite of what many humans fear; missing out. We like to know what is going on, we like to be involved, and we like to get our packages complete. It's like buying a book that is missing a page; even if that page is just a foreword and has no bearing on the story itself, if we know that page is missing, we don't have a complete book.
The other thing I don't understand is why it needs to affect PC as well? This stupid console war is between Xbox One and PS4, why does PC have to suffer as a result?
@get2sammyb Oh, certainly, a typo is a typo, but I wouldn't consider it a major typo in the way the author considers it. He made out like it was a huge typo that nobody should ever make, because it's apparently the easiest word in the world to spell. When Capcom screwed up with the Resident Evil Revelations 3DS cases, that was a big typo, because it's an easy word to spell, molybdenum is not a word you say or spell very often.
Regardless, a typo is a typo and they should take more care when printing it on a console, but I just found the tone a little pedantic.
I wouldn't call it a big, fat typo. It's a word that is very rarely typed, and I would imagine even spoken, so it's not really a big typo, more of a smaller one.
A big typo is spelling lose as loose, or of as off.
I couldn't care less about backwards compatibility. I have over 20 consoles in my games room, if I want to play the 360, I'll just pop the disc in to my 360.
It was a very good showcase, and it's about time they showed the fans that they still care. Being backed in to a corner brings out the best in something. I have an Xbox One already, and it's nice to see a few new exclusives to play. Though, a lot of them are coming out on the PC, which I'm heading towards making my main system as soon as my graphics card arrives, so it doesn't matter too much to me.
As for Sony's conference? I'm not getting my hopes up. Destiny and Morpheus? I may as well not even bother watching it. I'd rather see what EA are doing.
At least RB4 only has a rubbish box art, as opposed to a rubbish UI. I would have proffered them to go with artwork like the one at the top of this page, but then again they've always used a live set-up on their cases.
I'm still struggling to be as excited for this as I was back in the earlier 2000s, but bit by bit, it's happening.
Who believes newspapers anymore? Especially in the UK. One told me once that Holly, 26, from Essex has a deep care for politics and how the country is run. She doesn't, she just likes taking her top off.
I think those patch notes are from the PC version 1.05, the candles and a few quest fixes are not in the PS4 version 1.04. A lot of what is listen here is in the current patch, but not all of it.
I looked at some screenshots over on Reddit today that didn't have all the YouTube compression, and I must say, I needed some water to help wash down my words that I had to eat. It does look really nice, looking at it how it's intended to be looked at. I still think the animation is wonky, as it is in The Witcher 3, but I know when I've been shown.
I hope so, because I'm not interested in Black Ops 3, and have lost interest in Battlefront (I want it to be awesome, I'm certain it won't be), and will be buying Syndicate. Fallout 4 will be the most exciting release, in an otherwise not too fantastic calendar of releases.
Come on, is there anybody that ever pays more than £40 for a standard edition copy of a game? If you do, then you're a fool. I know £60 is the new RRP, but other than Grainger Games and GAME, nowhere is going to charge you that much.
I'm hoping for an awesome collector's edition though, as I missed out on the last 2. I better finish The Witcher 3 and Bloodborne before this comes out, else I won't get back to them for weeks!
Hey, it's one of those box arts where the hero poses in the middle, head down looking like the business! Don't see those very often. What's next; a box art where the hero poses in the middle, facing away from you? No, that would be just too awesome for human consumption, surely?
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Re: It's All Over: The X Button Is Officially Pronounced 'Cross'
I'm not listening to what some random employee manning the Twitter account says. It's ex, round, box and tent.
Re: DriveClub Still Available on US PlayStation Store Days After Delisting Deadline
It was a botched launch, so it's fitting it's having a botched death.
Re: The Outer Worlds Invites You to the World of Halcyon in Latest Trailer
I haven't been excited for a game in some time, but this game has me very excited!
Re: DriveClub Has Already Been Delisted in Multiple Territories, and Fans Aren't Happy
Yeah, it always winds me up that people are "upset" about this kind of thing. There's far more to get upset about than a 5 year old game getting delisted. The game is still available physically and if you've waited until now, you're just jumping on the bandwagon because it's something to get mad about.
Re: Oof! These New PS4 Controller Colours Are Gorgeous
Purple or Rose Gold for me.
I'm a metal head through and through, but I love Rose Gold. 😂
Re: Need for Speed Heat Is Official, Coming to PS4 on 8th November
The "acting" is a huge turn off for me. I can also see the daytime stuff being mundane.
Sorry, but I'm out.
Re: Marvel Games' Comic-Con Panel Was a Whole Load of Nothing
Personally, I think this game looks rubbish. With such a huge name, they're really dropping the ball.
Also, the first paragraph needs cleaning up a bit. You've muddled up a few words in the last sentence.
Re: Rumour: PS Plus' August PS4 Games Revealed Ahead of Official Announcement
@senorwoohoo
Well if they're not entirely convinced, they seem to be going the opposite way about it.
Re: Rumour: PlayStation Plus August PS4 Games Leaked Ahead of Official Announcement
Why does this article keep appearing above all of the other articles? Am I just going senile or is it saying this article is being posted everyday?
Re: Assassin's Creed Odyssey's New Lost Tales of Greece Quest Is Live Now
What about The NeverEnding Story?
Re: The Division 2's Latest Update Seems to Break Enemy AI and Damage Output Again
I really enjoyed The Division 1, but I'm glad I haven't picked this up. They really seem to have dropped the ball with their support of the game. Ubisoft are normally pretty good at keeping a game going, but this one seems to be very amateurish.
Re: Sony Patent Shows How Loading Screens Could Be Killed Off on PS5
If they get rid of loading screens (which I doubt, it'll be like Mirror's Edge's incredibly long lift rides, or Metroid Prime's doors that take a day to open, or even Tony Hawk's American Wasteland's bus ride to the next area), they'll need to bring manuals back to help people learn to play, or have a dedicated menu for it. Loading screens have been used to parcel out tips and tutorials for a long time now.
Dark Souls, for instance, offers lore for certain items you may otherwise miss. Not to say I wouldn't miss how long the Soulsborne games take to load!
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 Bug Potentially Removing Key Characters from Camp
I had noticed this a few days ago, but thought that I was just really blind. I've had a Penny Dreadful book to give to Jack since Chapter 2 and I can't find him. Weirdly enough though, there's no tent that they sleep in, as John sleeps in a tent by himself, so I'm not sure if that's why they disappear, because Rockstar forgot to give them a place to sleep.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 Launch Trailer Rides into Town
Cannot wait for this game! The trailer was a bit dull, though. If I wasn't already excited, this trailer wouldn't have done much to help.
Re: 19 Years Later, the PS2 Is Officially Done, Dead, Finished as Sony Ends Customer Support
Who the hell put that disc in upside down?
Re: EA to Support Jacksonville Victims' Families with $1 Million Donation
The only thing I don't like about their message is the following;
“This horrific event will not define us,” it said, “but only serve to make our community stronger.”
The words are nice, I imagine they are very sincere, but these events will define the lives of the families destroyed. The community has no right to feel stronger because of it, the community is insignificant compared to the victims friends and families.
Re: Round Up: Is the New South Park Game Fractured or Whole?
@naruball An 8 average is not disappointing, Mr or Mrs Way-Too-High-Standards.
Re: Star Wars Battlefront II Blags a Limited Edition PS4 Pro Bundle
That looks awful. Like those chavvy boy racers you see at Sainsbury's, with the terrible stickers stuck all over their car.
God awful.
Disgusting. Urgh, no.
Re: Pick Framerate or Resolution in Hellblade on PS4 Pro
Or you know, PC.
Re: PlayStation Plus Prices Are Increasing in UK and Europe Next Month
@Hengist Haha probably, I was born in 1990.
Re: PlayStation Plus Prices Are Increasing in UK and Europe Next Month
@Hengist Well if the most powerful hardware is your deciding factor, then get a PC. There's no subscription costs.
Re: PlayStation Plus Prices Are Increasing in UK and Europe Next Month
Eh, an extra £10 a year, that's about 83p a month. The monthly charge has only increased by £1, and the quarterly price, by £5. It's not a huge increase, that little bit of extra money isn't going to affect anyone in a major way.
Hopefully, this does mean more substantial PS Plus offerings, but a business needs to review their prices periodically, especially with rising costs in other areas.
I understand people being outraged, but it is a very negligible increase, one less coffee a month, for instance. Barely noticeable. And even then, you can just buy from CDKeys, their prices won't go up much more, certainly.
Re: Horizon: Zero Dawn Patch 1.13 Cleans Up Remaining Complaints
This game and Persona 5 show the level of care and attention some developers put in to their games. Persona is on a completely different level, that game has been tuned to within an inch of its life.
Re: The Highest Rated PS4 Game of 2017 Is Out Today
I'm loving it, but after playing SO MUCH Persona 4 Golden, this prologue is dragging with all the tutorials. Great story, but having everything spelled out for me is boring!
Re: Final Fantasy XV Buckles Up Until 29th November on PS4
I honestly have zero interest in this game now. I'm a huge fan of Final Fantasy, but with all these delays, and the fact that the entire game has changed multiple times, with a development time rivalling Duke Nukem Forever, it's almost ridiculous to even think of letting yourself get interested in it. You're just setting yourself up for disappointment.
I'd rather just have Kingdom Hearts 3, and for Final Fantasy XV to just join Star Fox 2.
Re: Sony Revokes Free Fallout 4 Season Pass Purchases on PS4
@JoeBlogs See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation_to_treat
If an item is mistakenly advertised at a certain price, a store has no obligation to sell the item at that price. The offer of "free" was not definite and clear that is should be free, as there was nothing specifying as such apart from the price, therefore Sony has no binding law stating they have to fulfil that order.
Re: Wait, Final Fantasy XV's Development Is Actually Going Great Right Now?
I hope that picture is not a recent release, because that looks horribly bland! Where's the texture on the grass?!
Re: Beyond: Two Souls Ghosts to PS4 Next Week
@DualWielding I guess you never bought the Special Edition version of the film Memento?
Re: Review: Rock Band 4 (PS4)
No practise mode is a massive oversight, and quite literally puts me off of getting the game. I'm an Expert level player that FCs songs, so practise mode is a MUST for the game.
Re: Mighty No. 9 Powers to PlayStation in February 2016
Mighty No. 9? Should change it's name to Measly No. 6 at this rate, because the game is looking pretty rubbish. Shame, because it had so much potential.
Re: Fallout 4 Features More Voiced Dialogue Than Any Other Bethesda Game
I agree with the article, I do hope they hire more voice actors. Oblivion stands out as one of the most immersion-breaking games when I literally spoke to 3 people in one area and they all had the exact same voice. Hell, they could even change voice after their main dialogue, when you would get the random lines from talking to them again.
Re: There's a BBC Drama About Grand Theft Auto
That image has 2 too many flat-peaked caps for me. Actually I think it has 3, but one moron has put it on the wrong way around.
I don't want to watch it because it looks like crap, but I do want to watch it because it looks like crap.
Re: Journey's Getting a PS4 Collector's Edition Next Month
£30 is a bit steep, considering the same edition (with the exception of the commentary, if I recall) is a third of that on PS3. £20 would be more acceptable, but £30 is a con.
Re: Rev Your Engines for Mad Max's Exclusive PS4 Content
Console exclusive content has always been stupid, and not consumer-friendly. Console exclusive games, designed by first-party companies? Fine, no problems there. Extra content that dictates which console you have to buy for? Not fair.
Now I know that a little bit of DLC is not really a big deal in the long run, but it's an opposite of what many humans fear; missing out. We like to know what is going on, we like to be involved, and we like to get our packages complete. It's like buying a book that is missing a page; even if that page is just a foreword and has no bearing on the story itself, if we know that page is missing, we don't have a complete book.
The other thing I don't understand is why it needs to affect PC as well? This stupid console war is between Xbox One and PS4, why does PC have to suffer as a result?
Re: There's a Big, Fat Typo on the Metal Gear Solid 5 PS4
@get2sammyb Oh, certainly, a typo is a typo, but I wouldn't consider it a major typo in the way the author considers it. He made out like it was a huge typo that nobody should ever make, because it's apparently the easiest word in the world to spell. When Capcom screwed up with the Resident Evil Revelations 3DS cases, that was a big typo, because it's an easy word to spell, molybdenum is not a word you say or spell very often.
Regardless, a typo is a typo and they should take more care when printing it on a console, but I just found the tone a little pedantic.
Re: There's a Big, Fat Typo on the Metal Gear Solid 5 PS4
I wouldn't call it a big, fat typo. It's a word that is very rarely typed, and I would imagine even spoken, so it's not really a big typo, more of a smaller one.
A big typo is spelling lose as loose, or of as off.
Re: Destiny's Getting an Action Figure, and It Costs a Titanic $190
Though I can't read the text at the side of it, I can imagine it still has more story than the game.
Re: Behold Destiny: The Taken King's Limited Edition PS4
I quite like the design, but I detest that horrible, all that is wrong with gaming, pile of crap software.
Re: Talking Point: Was EA's E3 2015 Press Conference Up Your Alley?
Other than Mass Effect, Mirror's Edge and Battlefront, it was a waste of my time.
EDIT: Oh yeah, Unravel. That looked awesome as well. Sorry, the event was that boring, my brain has already started erasing it from memory.
Re: Reaction: Xbox's E3 2015 Attempts to Block PS4 Upgrade Path
I couldn't care less about backwards compatibility. I have over 20 consoles in my games room, if I want to play the 360, I'll just pop the disc in to my 360.
It was a very good showcase, and it's about time they showed the fans that they still care. Being backed in to a corner brings out the best in something. I have an Xbox One already, and it's nice to see a few new exclusives to play. Though, a lot of them are coming out on the PC, which I'm heading towards making my main system as soon as my graphics card arrives, so it doesn't matter too much to me.
As for Sony's conference? I'm not getting my hopes up. Destiny and Morpheus? I may as well not even bother watching it. I'd rather see what EA are doing.
Re: E3 2015: Harmonix Shows Off Rock Band 4's Box Art, Says to Stay Tuned to E3
At least RB4 only has a rubbish box art, as opposed to a rubbish UI. I would have proffered them to go with artwork like the one at the top of this page, but then again they've always used a live set-up on their cases.
I'm still struggling to be as excited for this as I was back in the earlier 2000s, but bit by bit, it's happening.
Re: The Last Guardian Will Be Shown on PS4 at E3 2015, Sources Say
Who believes newspapers anymore? Especially in the UK. One told me once that Holly, 26, from Essex has a deep care for politics and how the country is run. She doesn't, she just likes taking her top off.
Re: Blood Will Spill as Super Meat Boy Comes Free to PlayStation Plus on PS4 and Vita at Launch
Got all the achievements for this on the 360, and will happily do so again!
Re: The Witcher 3 PS4 Patch 1.04 Promises Performance Improvements, and It's Out Now
I think those patch notes are from the PC version 1.05, the candles and a few quest fixes are not in the PS4 version 1.04. A lot of what is listen here is in the current patch, but not all of it.
Re: The Witcher 3 PS4 Patch 1.04 Promises Performance Improvements, and It's Out Now
The new font size is nice, it does make it a lot easier to read.
Re: Prepare for Destiny to Take to the Stage During Sony's E3 2015 Press Conference
Yay, let's use E3 2015 to talk about an old, overhyped game. Great. Oh well, Nintendo should fare better.
Re: Get a Better Look at Fallout 4 with These High-Res Screenshots
I looked at some screenshots over on Reddit today that didn't have all the YouTube compression, and I must say, I needed some water to help wash down my words that I had to eat. It does look really nice, looking at it how it's intended to be looked at. I still think the animation is wonky, as it is in The Witcher 3, but I know when I've been shown.
Re: Rumour: Fallout 4 May Usher the Apocalypse in 2015
I hope so, because I'm not interested in Black Ops 3, and have lost interest in Battlefront (I want it to be awesome, I'm certain it won't be), and will be buying Syndicate. Fallout 4 will be the most exciting release, in an otherwise not too fantastic calendar of releases.
Re: Crikey, Fallout 4 Is Already Available for Pre-Order at a Decent Discount in the UK
Come on, is there anybody that ever pays more than £40 for a standard edition copy of a game? If you do, then you're a fool. I know £60 is the new RRP, but other than Grainger Games and GAME, nowhere is going to charge you that much.
I'm hoping for an awesome collector's edition though, as I missed out on the last 2. I better finish The Witcher 3 and Bloodborne before this comes out, else I won't get back to them for weeks!
Re: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Unleashes the Angst in PS4 Box Art
Hey, it's one of those box arts where the hero poses in the middle, head down looking like the business! Don't see those very often. What's next; a box art where the hero poses in the middle, facing away from you? No, that would be just too awesome for human consumption, surely?