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@Gloamin When no one complains about what Assassin's Creed is more and more copies spawn from the depths of laziness, bloat and greed. A large chunk of AAA games are copies of AC including multiple Sony first party franchises. Those games won't ever improve. Those franchises won't ever improve. Those studios won't ever improve.

You are part of a massive problem that will bite everyone (including you) in the end.

BTW some of the games you mentioned are painfully average and I don't do painfully average. Waste of time. I'd rather replay Deus Ex or jump from my roof.

@DETfaninATL I am actually the only one that has something of value to bring to this discussion.

Everyone else has had their soul and brain fried by grinding in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

@Gloamin Assassin's Creed also had great ideas and fantastic authenticity... 10-15 years ago. And look at where the franchise is now. Look at Horizon. Look at Far Cry. Look at Dying Light.

One day you will wake up and you will realize that all of your favorite franchises and all big upcoming games are basically the same exact thing. 200 hour behemoths with game design ripped straight out from the xbox360/ps3 era.

@Gloamin Argue with me then. How am I wrong?

@Gloamin What is the alternative? Not complaining about bloat and lazy game design in general?

If it was up to studios like Ubisoft and whoever made Alien Isolation there would be no innovation or traditional storytelling in games. Just more areas with more of the 3 quest types they bothered crafting a decade ago with more of the same old items, but with different skins with more skills to unlock with more grinding and everyone's favorite:more monetization. Because they are so damn kind they will allow you to skip some of the grind(that exists only because of them). As long as you are willing to pay money of course.

I can't wait until we have to pay for bullets in games. The amount of no bullet speedrunners that will become millionaires will be crazy.

@trev666 I don't agree with yours. Let's just leave it at that.

@trev666 people that enjoyed this game are as ignorant as a gamer can be.

@SlySnake0407 Who cares that the developers wasted everyone's time by making the game too long? The people that didn't buy it sure as hell didn't care.

For the sake of the publishers and developers I hope that they will listen to the well justified criticism because this is a great franchise (or at least 2 great movies and a million terrible movies) and it doesn't need bloat to succeed.

@SlySnake0407 They made their game longer without creating more environments or mechanics and without creating a story that justifies the length. They didn't do more at all. Think before you type.

@ItsBritneyB_tch You can say that about anyone else's opinions as well. Including people that like the original. If you want to throw playful jabs at me go for the throat.

@trev666 facts* the original was not a financial success. And it really wasn't anything special.

@trev666 They absolutely can win. Just have a better story and gameplay mechanics. Alien Isolation wasn't a massive success so hopefully a completely different team is working on the sequel.

@Grimwood If you include steam and ps store shovelware games then sure. Alien isolation is better than most games.

@stvevan The problems are well known. Bloat, obnoxious UI, poor writing, obvious copy pasting of quests, bullet sponge enemies etc

Seemingly no one disagrees, but they still play those games. Would you let your friends and family smoke? It's not good for them and you need to remind them often that they should stop. It's the least you can do.

@kyleforrester87 I figured as much. People like you are hopeless and predictable.

@stvevan Without people like me companies would do even less and charge even more.

@kyleforrester87 You probably enjoyed spending 200 hours doing that same exact 3 missions in AC Valhalla as well.

Alien Isolation was a marathon.

If there ever was a game that should have been 4-6 hours long it was that one, but they kept stretching what little they had..

@QualityGeezer No one is offending you. I am offending the game design of Ubisoft and Guerilla games.

@wennik People care about these events for the trailers not the awards tough

@QualityGeezer sure. Say whatever makes you feel happy

@QualityGeezer I never have

@QualityGeezer I am not being rude right now

@Korgon I can't fathom going from riding a real bike to a tricycle. Enjoying both definitely is weird.

I agree with Elden Ring being GOTY, but how can they possibly give those awards to Horizon and Stray instead of Ragnarok? What are they smoking?

@Pokemaniacal Not investing in China for any reason is just bad business. A lot of people in there.

“We want gamers around the world to better understand the creativity that comes from China,”

Every single Chinese game I have ever seen is a copy of a popular franchise, but cheaper looking

They can release a game that crashes every time you try to start a new campaign and there will still be at least one person commenting 'I enjoyed it!'

It's actually a great success.

I can't possibly imagine why would you want to NOT have access to 99% of games and more flexibility in general. How much money will console gamers spend on ps plus and 70 dollars releases and rereleases of old games? It's really not that much cheaper. And let's not ignore that facts that the ps5 pro and ps6 will cause a lot of extra spending. Last Of Us Part 1 Remake Remastered.

I am pretty sure that Microsoft bought ABK just because they can and it will generate a lot of passive income for them. They can't possibly beat Switch and Playstation in console sales. They would actually prefer to allow those users to subscribe to gamepass without buying an XBOX

@RobN Think about what pc offers you. Access to 99% of software ever created. Connect it to any devices, connect any device like the dualsense into it, stream emulate or play natively the entire PS and nintendo llbraries, multitsasking, modding, playing any game in vr or in ultrawide etc, highter framerates, better tech like dlss, you won't have to buy games for a second time ever again, play classics like Deus Ex or new titles like Elden Ring, and I can go on and on and on

As for the price you can definitely build something solid for about ~1000 bucks. You mentioned that you own a series s so that makes the value proposition of a PC even better:

GPU 3060ti - $439.99
CPU 13600k - $300.00
MOBO ASUS Prime Z790M-Plus - $200.00
EVGA 600W 80 Plus Certified - $60.00
SAMSUNG 980 SSD 1TB - $110.00
CORSAIR Vengeance DDR5 32GB - $140.00
some case - $100

Final price for a brand new 13th gen pc is ~$1400 and you can save a lot of money if you go down to 12th gen and ddr4. It will still be much more capable than the console. And you can do EVERYTHING with it.

@RobN My aunt works with a computer, but she can't do anything besides using the company's internal software.

PC is not only the best platform, but also the best when it comes to bang for buck

@RobN You are not a tech savvy person. You don't realize just how much you can do with a pc. It's fine. Enjoy your consoles, but their value proposition is bad in comparison to pc which gives you access to 99% of all software ever made.

What does Summer 2023 mean? January?

@themightyant @Kienda A lot of gamers don't follow the news daily like we do so Sony day1 first party releases is still something that they are not aware of wanting. If it became clear that Ragnarok will launch for PC in November a lot more people on PC would have bought it and even upgraded their PCs with a new GPU just like people want PS5 instead of PS4.

I get console exclusivity, but PC is not a competitor to consoles and will never be. People are just not tech savvy and they never will be. If VR ever becomes a thing it would be due to accessibility and simplicity.

@Sil_Am Don't obsess over that 1b+ number. It really doesn't matter and no one cares for it. Also, the people who pirated the game weren't going to buy it anyway.

@themightyant Is there a proof that people buy 500$ consoles that don't require any tech knowledge instead of $1000+ PCs that can run literally 99.9% of all software and thus games because they will play some games a year or so sooner?

That honestly sounds silly to me. Owning a PC as a gamer is the most bang for buck purchase you can make, but people are naturaly ignorant because they are not tech savvy.

I hope they try a day 1 release at some point. Maybe they will get even more sales because of the hype.

Even if they don't, having a version of the game that will still be looking great and playable in 10 years without needing to pay 70 bucks for a 'completely necessary' remake is great for every gamer!

I predict that this will be the long-awaited downfall of Sony.

Isn't every new AC basically 60$ ng+ for the previous one?

PSVR2 needs porn. Yeah, I said it.

This just proves that Elden Ring is game of the year.

It seems like Sony and Nintendo are the last 2 companies that still care about physical copies.

@dark_knightmare2 And you need to grow up and stop playing games for babies

@dark_knightmare2 The people who dislike HFW disagree with you completely. The story gameplay and everything else is mind-numbingly terrible imo. Carbon copy of AC.

BTW Origins was disguising too. Absolutely unplayable. Worst UI in gaming history. And Why can't I kill someone with an arrow to the head? Whoever came up with mmo bullet sponges in SP games should never be allowed to work on a game again.

@dark_knightmare2 What? How are they different?