Daveuppercut

Battlefield V had one or two genuinely good maps but everything else surrounding that game was a car crash, the snowy mountain map was the laziest piece of level design I had ever seen and the general lack of content gave off an unfinished feel, that just gave the whole game a soulless feeling.
What ever your views on the female protagonist reveal was, it didn't seem to help sell copies, so whilst they believe they were doing good, they do have to ask themselves who they are making these games for, because it seemed to sour a lot of people's opinions on the game. People tried to spin as sexists against progressives, but a lot of players just wanted authenticity instead of larger than life characters jumping out of windows with cricket bats and prosthetic arm models that didn't exist back then.
I hope EA focus on progressing the gameplay and improving on what the hard-core fans like about the series instead of copying current trends.

Faked death in an English country estate? Is that a spoiler for the murder mystery story line?

@JJ2
Thanks for the tip, I've managed to order the headset finally.

Just in time for Halloween

I always thought housemarque had the most important aspect about games design perfected, gameplay. Now if they can put it into a full game experience, they'll be on to a winner. Story and character, sound and graphics are all important but not essential to a gaming experience, gameplay is the only unique aspect you get in a game, everything else can be found in other forms of media. I think this could be well worth a purchase.

Nah, you're alright.

He's not wrong

Excellent Excellent game and I'm not even that keen on open world games, but the combat kept the gameplay feeling fresh and the art design kept me interested in the world, definitely my game of the year.

I can't decide which game to buy, its a tough choice

Got in to play on my ps5 and after 7 hours I've not had any bugs or crashes, so far. I'd say it was good, not amazing, but definitely worth playing if you have any interest in this sort of thing and the required hardware.

Housemarque have always got the basics right, gameplay, the minute to minute action, it'll be interesting to see if they can add other AAA game tropes on top of their trademark formula

@PSfan4Life22
Judging by the amount of posts and language your using,I can tell your far too emotionally engaged in this, so whatever I say will be shot down or viewed as phobic, all ill say is this, partisan people on the Internet exist in regards to pretty much everything these days, both sides think they are right and there's no changing minds or compromise. All I was saying is people fight their cause, its a new sport for the modern age, but ultimately Internet debate is pointless pursuit.

How is Neil Druckman trying to garner votes from his thousands of twitter followers any different from tens of people on 4chan trying to get there choice to win. You do what you can to get votes.

@Danloaded
Yeah that rings a bell, I thought at the time it might be worth dipping back in after a couple of years out of it.
I stopped playing because of the amount of time spent loading activities, staring at a top down view of los Santos, hopefully ps5 will sort that.

Wasn't GTAV online suppose to be free for ps5 users or something like that?

@get2sammyb
I don't know who she is either, never even heard her name till now, maybe some people have different interests or don't follow the same things as others. Either way, I don't see why its funny to not know who someone is.

Awesome news

I can't flipping wait!

Ubisoft are probably just trying to workout how to add micro transactions to a single player stealth game. Then it'll get announced pretty sharpish.

Nah, you're alright

I'll get shot down for asking this, but here goes, is there anything actually revolutionary about this game? Anything thats never been seen in a game? A new mechanic? Something that'll be implemented by every other game of this sort in the future? Some new, fun, exciting aspect of combat?
Story telling is all well and good, but gameplay is king, the thing you spend most of your time doing, I loved the brutal combat of the first game but its done now and I'm ready for the next new thing, if it plays the same as the first but with a few bells and whistles all the time looking nicer, I don't think it'll be enough for me, I'm not saying this game will be bad, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if its meta score was 97 plus, but, like with a lot of Sony first party games, such as horizon and days gone, it just seems to be more third person action but with an extreme amount of polish and nothing revolutionary.

@Bagshot
The silence from all gaming websites is strange, a story about an emoji makes the news but a massive games studio copyright claiming YouTube videos for just talking about the leaks doesn't. Whatever your opinion on the situation, surely news is news and needs to be reported.

It could look like the best game ever, but I'm still not going to IGN to look at it.

Green day have done a lot of good songs in the past, these are not them.

Having seen what obsidian are working on next, I'd say they would be better off concentrating on the outer worlds as much as possible.

I'm sure EA have looked at the numbers and have decided Skate 4 would not be profitable, a vocal minority made a lot of noise about a mirrors edge sequel and that bombed.

@carlos82
I agree, if a skill tree let's you build a truly unique character different from another players and that suits your play style, then I'm all for it, but like with days gone, I hope it's not just holding back basic skills or slightly improved skills that Ellie would and should have anyway given the circumstances. That would feel like padding and gives the whole skill tree a tacked on feel that for me would break the immersion.

Looks as naff as the upcoming film, a low budget feel and shouty one dimensional characters in vests, no actual substance, originality or innovation.

Genuine question, who looks at game boxes once they've got the game? Mine go in a drawer and stay there till I trade them, even if people put them on a shelf you can only see the spine of the case. I couldn't tell you what the cover of some of my favourite games of all time look like.
I really think there isn't enough news to fill websites these days.

Parkour, skateboarding, graffiti? All whilst working for a counter terrorist unit?
How do you do fellow kids?

@Medic_alert when did I say it was OK? I'm saying that it's a by product of open world games. If there was a long period of open world games coming out with no bugs, then your argument would hold up, but you are complaining about something that has always been, it's like moaning that it's raining because it could be sunny.

@Medic_alert but most open world games do release with bugs, assassins creeds, red dead, fallout, skyrim. It's nothing to do with mediocrity, it's all down to variables, the more you can do in a game the more equations are involved the more scope there is for the maths to not add up. That's why once the games released and more and more people play it, the more the codes being tested in almost infinitely different ways and then bugs get discovered. It's not like here's a bug flick a switch, there could be thousands of things tied to the bug that need to be isolated before the bug can be removed. Having extra time won't remove everybug. Bugs are still being found in games twenty plus years later.

@Medic_alert it's almost like modern games are infinitely more complex, vastly bigger and deeper, and far more packed with features and mechanics, as apposed to games that are 1mb in total and involved not much more than a jump mechanic and 8 bit graphics.

@jdv95
Why? If people enjoy it why does it need to end?