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Re: Poll: Did E3 2021 Suck?

InvaderJim

MS was good, Fora Horizon 5 was the stand out looked good fun and the environment is really detailed. Not surprising that DF were praising it so much. Do like Flight Simulator. While Nintendo is not really my cup of tea they showed a lot of games coming this year and ones a lot people are looking forward to so they were good to.

From what Ninja Theory just said and showed looks like Hellblade 2 is way off, said the main actress has been training for 2 years for the combat!

Re: Reaction: Xbox Game Pass Is the Thorn in PS5's Side

InvaderJim

@Col_McCafferty wouldn't count Rockstar as good developer anymore, they hardly make any games anymore. And based on how bad their support is for red dead online which is still bug ridden and badly supported and everything they add or change now is aimed at new players and driving them to buy in game currency by putting things behind paywalls.

Re: PS Now Has a Respectable 3.2 Million Subscribers

InvaderJim

@Dezzy70 To the general gaming population game pass is great option.

At work we noticed the those of us that play games normally have a PS and the the people that don't play games but have kids all have Xboxs because of games pass having all the games their kids play, and when they can get 3 years of it for same price as 3 years of PS+ its a no brainier for them.

Re: The Last of Us 3 Story Outline Has Been Written, Says Neil Druckmann

InvaderJim

@Exlee300p NPD data showed it outsold GoT in 2020, just correcting your miss information.

Also your statement that most people didn't like it is also miss information, its won far far more gamer or readers choice awards than any other game like the recent recent BAFTA or the Official PS Blog awards. To be exact it has received 195 Media GOTY awards and 108 Readers GOTY awards.

if so many people dislike it how do you explain that on Amazon for verified purchases over 80% are reviews of 5 stars?

Re: Mini Review: Hunting Simulator 2 (PS5) – An Unexpectedly Tranquil Excursion

InvaderJim

@nessisonett Hunting is not the issue, its poaching that is the issue.

Hunting maybe not nice and many people don't like it but is it is a necessary evil. People in 1st world countries need to understand that 3rd world countries can hardly feed them selves let alone worry about conservation and anti poaching, so in lot of cases they have had to turn to hunting as way to to fund these. The Anti Poaching units in Matusadona are 100% funded by hunting and have helped increase amount of animals. Programs like Camp Fire which gives a % of proceeds to local villagers has prevented a lot poaching and snaring because those animals now have a value to local villagers and not just the thing that eats and destroys their crops and they now help protect them. Namibia has used hunting proceeds for conservation and helped push their elephant population from 7500 to over 20000.

I'm not a fan of it but if helps save more animals then I can live with it.

Re: Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us 2 Battle for Player's Voice Win at The Game Awards

InvaderJim

@Kirbyboy92 Maybe you misunderstood but to clearer, in online communities there is a division because that's where you get people discussing games etc, but these communities like this one are probably less than 5% of people who buy and play games. To the general wider public as with the majority of games whats said and happens in online communities like this is never seen or known about. Things like metacritic as well a lot of people never even herd of it and that why its review score has no impact on its sales either.

If there was some big divide we would not be seeing over 80% reviews on amazon uk being 5 stars and that's verified purchases.

Re: Red Dead Online Gets Standalone Version From Next Week

InvaderJim

@ApostateMage still happy about this update after what they done with daily challengers and silly price some of stuff is now. I had my streak at 78 days but not played it at all since they stopped that.

pretty clear what their plan was for this, Introduce the new standalone Online only version priced at $5 to entice new players with some new content locked be hind gold bars. Then also reduce every method of making gold in the game so much to make it as difficult as possible so that that they can't afford any of the additional content to effectively force them into buying gold bars by locking things behind gold bars.

Re: A PS5 Firmware Update Will Add VRR Support in the Future

InvaderJim

Watch it arrive the same time as the VRR for the X900H TV, they probably left it off because they didn't have a TV ready with VVR.

Seems that a lot of items on the PS5 were not ready but they had to launch so xbox did not have an advantage, so they've got it out the door with basic items needed to play games and then be patch and fix the rest later.