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@Playstation yep, it's the age of social media being the primary source of 'news' validating all the nonsense we used to ignore.

@hypnotoad I hope the portions were decent, but I doubt it 😔

Def Leppard? Imagine that at Selhurt Park!

@hypnotoad I don't know why the staff here get so judgmental so often. What do they want, an echo chamber? Mate, I know what you mean. I attended a game and unless you're a fan of the sport the stop/start nature of the sport is really boring and off-putting. 4 to 5 hours is way too long for such relatively little activity to watch. I love football but I can't imagine wanting to watch a 5 hour long match, even if its Palace. 😆👍 horses for course I guess 😊

I predict it will be 2 - 1 after extra time 😊

Life of Black Tiger 😁😆

Such a shame, it was hoping for a good remake. With any luck things might change in the future.

And I love your use of 'oft' in your writing Sammy! Good old English term seldom used, nice 😊
So much better than the American-driven fascination for using the term 'oftentimes'. So uneconomical, what's wrong with often? 😆

Voice chat complaints 🙄

Such a non-issue. It was 2 button presses to mute chat (PS button then square button), and 1 to mute the mic on the controller (located on the controller).

@theheadofabroom there's logic to what you're saying. It's certainly another way things can be perceived. Some people will think like how you put it, others will find it funny, it depends on the individual. What's sad and disappointing is when people like Liam, who works on a website and should know better, can't even acknowledge that the comment could be taken humourously. Very immature. Clearly that's wrong as it has been demonstrably shown that some people have got the joke and found it amusing.

@suikoden they're cheap because they are warranty returns. Some of them come from stores that can't sell them because the box is damaged. It was sold 'as new'. I suppose it was lucky timing on my part to see the deal. I have alerts set up on HUKD for deals like this.

@Amusei thanks mate 😊

@Liberty____1st 😆👍

I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: ‘This could be interesting.'

For the price this game will sell for, if it reviews well and it's the real deal, it will be well worth it.

Keep an eye out for Amazon Warehouse sales. I bought one for £39 because it had some physical damage to the box. It still has a warranty from Amazon.

@Tharsman so it would seem, cheers, you're right. The not knowing me is an important part if it. Like I said, I find it all quite interesting.

@leucocyte hahaha very true 👍

@LiamCroft well that shows quite a lack of imagination Liam. I guess emojis are what's required this day and age. There seems to be a disconnect in social media that if tone and intent it isn't spelt out for people with visual aids like a smiley face, and you don't know the person, a negative perception is likelier.

@LiamCroft well thats on you because your bias is towards negative behaviours. Several times you've singled me out because you take issue with what I've said. We're communicating on a thread. You have to be open minded to the fact that your impression isn't necessarily the one meant by the commenter. Maybe I should've put a laughing emoji on it to make it clear for those people who choose to take things negatively over positively. Thats my fault.

@LiamCroft you too?! How come the first reaction i receive is a negative one? I made a joke not a complaint. I thought this place was meant to be friendly.

Haha unless your joking with me 🤯 the internet is a minefield!!

@PegasusActual93 Yeah I was being deadly serious. No way I could've written that as a joke 😆😉👍 Its quite interesting psychologically speaking; you read it and in your mind I said all that as if I were complaining. Another person with a different frame of mind would take it for the tongue-in-cheek comment I intended to make. It's not your fault.

Anyway, interestingly, the Halo team even included the Halo 5 Guardians beta in the Complete Collection, let alone just the games and dlc.

Are you mental? I'm not stupid enough to watch a video where Darren Brown talks directly to me. Who knows what I'd end up doing after.

The boy's become a man

Is there still an option to pay £70 for this? To whom do I make the check out to?

Some of the DLC will be missing? No problem. They'll just have to make a slight adjustment to the game's name to
'Mass Effect: Legendary, except a little bit of dlc from one of the trilogy that would've taken 6 months to produce but, you know, we could've, but management didn't want to do that work, deadlines and all that, i suppose they're not motivated by a sense of pride in the franchise like the Halo team, oh well, guess this is almost complete and still good value Edition'

Edit: after consulting with my lawyers I've been instructed to point out this is a joke. Its not my actual opinion. I've taken a hypothetical opinion to an obviously absurd extreme, a fairly standard formula for a joke

Edit2: edit 1 is also a joke. And so is this. And this.

@Snake_V5 never going to happen. PSNow is not available in many countries.

Just to let you know mate, its tonne not ton if you're typing that in England. Also, interestingly, they actually relate to different amounts of weight, the American ton is 2000lbs which is a little over 900kg, less than a tonne 😁

Thanks for the link, definitely going to take a look.

Edit: aww crap I have data turned off.

@Bentley-Ma- you can't hack, slash or dodge in turn based games?

Anyway you're missing the point. Hack, slash, dodge and roll is in every game with combat in it, its hardly describing combat mechanics. If you reviewed FFXV or Persona 5 and all you said about the combat system was you can hack, slash, roll and jump would you think thats adequate for a review? Maybe so for people familiar with the games. So I suppose it depends on who these reviews are aimed at. Everybody or just those who've already played them.

I think Ys games are a hidden gem and more people should experience them. Its a shame that they're not being given more exposition to better illustrate what they offer.

If you need a definition for launch window games why not go with any game that was in development before the console launch when developers were working on dev units.

All games that came after them are usually considered the second wave, or second generation of games on said console.

I'm a little disappointed that the graphics and the overall look of the game being held in equal regard as the gameplay in this review. The Ys games have never been much to write home about in the graphical stakes and I wouldn't hold that against it even if the tone of this one is less ebullient than previous games. Ys games are about the sublime gameplay, secrets and the combat. I'm fortunate enough to have played games in this franchise but if I had never there's absolutely no light shed in the review as to how this game actually plays. It could be turn-based for all we'd know, the review assumes I'm already familiar with it. Having said that I'm glad that you have reviewed it as these games often get overlooked for being too 'niche'.

Never heard of it. After playing Genshin and Immortal Fenyx I not in the mood for another Zelda clone. The odd habit of capitalising every word in the headline except for an arbitrary selection of prepositions had me thinking the game was called Oceanhorn 2 Forges a Path 😆

Isn't a management game at odds with a Utopian society? By definition its meant to be a post-scarcity civilisation, why do I have to manage resources, no one should be wanting for anything! 🤔😁

@Kalvort I don't think its that they prefer Switch over Sony as such, they prefer mobile gaming over static console gaming.

@get2sammyb great, thanks.

precisely. The notion is absolutely propersterous. Bloomsberg get a whiff of some disquiet over an issue as pathetic as changing the default button for action to what we're used to in the West and it becomes a story about how Sony have disrpected their homeland.

Where I'm from thats sh*t-stirring. Japan has a culture rooted in traditions. They can't even change a button press option without nonsense being insinuated about it. I don't know why opinions like that get validated by news outlets. Actually what am I saying, of course I do! 🤣

Claims. Pffft. Some noisy minority gets their knickers in a twist and it makes headlines because it's sensationalist. As if Sony is abandoning Japan. What a ridiculous notion.

Not a slight at your article PS before you get all judgmental at me again. It's a lamentation.

@2cents Historically games make the vast majority of their sales in the first month. Few games have long tails in their sales numbers and become less profitable in terms of unit sales as the price inevitably drops.

Considering there's no official length of what constitutes a launch window there's no right objective answer. Add to that PS5 consoles 3 months after launch are not available to buy freely or at will. At the point where PS5 are in constant distribution I would argue that would be the philosophical start of the launch window.

Anyway its a pretty pointless question. Console generations have slowly been getting longer each time and their lifetimes extend well into the subsequent generation (apart from MS consoles. Until now they dropped their old consoles like a stone when a new one came out). The last PS3 was made 18 months after PS4 launched. If a console has a near decade lifespan its not a stretch to consider Year 1 as a launch window.

@Voltan I know, I totally agree with you, you're absolutely right. Not the point I'm making. All PSPLUS games have been available to claim regardless of what platform you own, its part of the PSPLUS package. This article is headlined and framed as if people couldn't claim PS5 games if they don't own a PS5 and they're 'missing out, right?' Clearly we all know that's nonsense, we've never needed to own any platform at all to claim any game. They've always been available from the app, console or website store to claim.

If this article had been titled and presented in the fashion you have mentioned it would make more sense to me. You completely made it clear and relevant. Its not a big deal, and I appreciate your reply.

Nothing new. Same as when VITA games were given, you could claim them even if you didn't own a VITA. Why would it matter if you owned the platform or not anyway?

Did you check to see if there were any Activity Cards available to help with the puzzles? There no mention that they're not there in the review.

We wants more gifs 😄

If it's in line with Rocket League im ok with it.

@nessisonett as long as it can be played single player I'm OK with it.

I've received it twice 😊 lucky me

Loud, shrill and unfunny, it's a Borderlands wet dream to cast him.

Look forward to seeing the innovative and creative microtransaction possibilities EA have in mind. Can't wait!

Damn it. I knew this was going to be a US promotion only when I saw all the marketing spelt in American English, i.e. 'sanitizer'. We have 7-11 here, where are the PS5s? Stick it in a Londis if you have to Sony!

Activision are snakes. Issue a pay-to-win item in the Battlepass that currently CAN NOT be bought and paid for, let the community see how effective it is for people with it, get the community to aspire to owning it, eventually sell it at a later date to even the playing field again. Good psychology.

@Gosberg I would love that. If no-one does could you pop it to me?😁

@get2sammyb why do posts have to be constructive? I've never seen an article dedicated to a gif before, you can't tell me that isn't funny 😆

Don't take things so personally that you feel like you have to keep singling me out for special attention because every now and then I'm not conformist. I could go through all the posts here and easily find a non-constructive post that you're not bothered about...heck there's even one that jokingly alludes to this article being a marketing ploy 😆 ...made me laugh anyway. I got told I need to get 'sand out of my v...g...a' the other day in a rude manner, don't remember anyone being told they're not being constructive then 😆 ....not that I'd want that, Its not like it bothered me 😊

Come on, I've been reading various gaming websites for decades, I've never seen an article this insubstantial published, you've got to admit the PS style is lots of articles with minimal content. I think as a newcomer I'm just starting to wrap my head around it.

I think the way you and your staff engage with the community is easily the best I've seen. You're all constantly in the comment section, which is brilliant...hand on heart it's what I'm most impressed by, for what that's worth.

Let me get it out of my system and get used to your website's scattershot editorial approach 😊👍 ....this is going to be tough..😆

Look forward to your reply. Seriously, its great that you all take the time 😁

An article about GIFs? 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

@fR_eeBritney the alternative script by Colin Trevorrow was so much better than the mess JJ made of The Last Jedi.

The only decent Disney film has been Rogue One.

@Wormold they can't make that rubbish any worse.

This game sounds ambitious. I hope they take the time to finish it before its released.