@Geep You’re forgetting about PC and Mac, IOS and Android, etc. anything that’s requires an actual computer has long dealt with this, and continued to do so as a total monopoly hasn’t formed.
@tameshiyaku You say that like 2077 didn’t pretty much earn all of that. It’s still not the game they promise yet. That wasn’t gamers being flippant, it was the faith being misplaced.
You know, I wonder if waiting a month will be a blessing depending on the number of fixes. I understand that Original Sin 2 got so many updates that said "requires a new game" in a 100+ hour game like anyone who played before the update had time for that. If they change or fix anything with stuff you're stuck with the entire game, I'll be very glad for the months wait. I hope they don't do that again though. This will be the most unreplayable but most replayable game ever made.
Having regular cinematics and a proper DnD combat system are exciting me a lot. This sounds like it won't be as hard and time consuming as D:OS2's combat, which is a great game, but combat takes a long time and many tries. It also helps that I already know the rules. The one down side of looking things up though, is that from EA there's whole bunch of wrong info out there.
That doesn’t sound great…. Especially because it’s probably not going to tie some of the horny things to playing a bad guy. However, they did announce what I believe is a nudity filter, so that will probably be convicted by that to pick it up.
Why does the fact that Madden and EA FC is on here but Armored Core and BG3 are not on the essentials seems suspicious? This isn’t a natural list nor does it seem like any sort of honest recommendation.
I’d rather we try again and get a team that can actually take the story of Twisted Metal instead of replacing it with a generic one since they don’t know what do with the story given to them. I guess good for the people who like, but Twisted Metal 2 has a special place in my heart and I’m a bit of a purist with it. And I think it had more potential than the premise given.
I can’t get past how generic they made the premise because they didn’t know how to actually utilize the concept of Twisted Metal. I’m glad it’s not a total disaster, but it to be lacking is basic creativity and it needed to be more than a silly romp. Twisted Metal is actually known, especially after black, to have some interesting story. Yes, comedy is important to TM, but so is the dark story of it.
I’m confused, everyone here send to hate it. As in, everyone who has Kiel my played a Twisted Metal game seems unhappy. It might be a disconnect between those with an expectation and their who don’t.
I mean, no PS5 port doomed it. If they were going to support it this long, they needed to put it on PS5 to keep it relevant, and they chose not to. It gave still turned out this way, but a proper effort wasn’t made.
This sounds terrible. It’s a weird TM fan fiction. Sony needs to be careful with its IPs. The moment this didn’t have Calypso running a tournament it should have been canned. It could have been new, instead it’s a generic pair apocalyptic story that steered clear of doing something more interesting because the show writers didn’t have the talent for it and they knew it.
I’m honestly shocked this is for a flat game and not a PSVR2 game. It sounds interesting, but not $500 interesting. Mirage also isn’t looking good enough to justify even if it was potentially worth $500.
@GamingFan4Lyf If it get blocked, I personally say it’s worth it and it is the gov is doing its job. And if not, the problem is less the waste, and more the basic failure to perform its gov.
COD staying on PS is also not a fact. Not at all. There is a lot reason from history to assume COD will be gone after 10 years, which means MS is just lying through its teeth.
@Kylekgh Sex and violence are completely different and provoke entirely different reactions. There's a reason we allow kids to take a martial arts class, but not a be sexy class. We play violence with kids all the time. We do not with the other one.
Scary is also very much the wrong word. Disliking plain degeneracy does not mean sex is scary.
Also, it's not giving as many choices as possible. Romance doesn't mean sex, but if you want to romance this druid, it means a bear sex scene. That's giving no agency in the romance and denying my ability to choose. It would be giving as many choices without this scene.
@MikeOrator In general, I like romance options, and I don't want graphic sexual scenes and whatnot shoved my way because I chose romance (which doesn't equal sex).
DnD pen and paper has a persuasion skill. Obviously that's not immoral. Can someone turn DnD into immoral smut? Yes, and many DnD horror stories happen because someone wanted to turn the game into smut. In actual DnD, that's almost always a ticket to disaster.
This just seems excessive, and I don't see why BG needs explicit sex scenes in the first place. @mikeorator MY DnD games don't have naked people having sex with bears. BG is the kind of games I'm the market for, but all the sex scenes are turning me away from the game.
@Wheatly There's a fair amount of truth to this. Diablo 3 for example is on sale for $20 as it is half the time if not more if feels like. The game's actual price is obviously $20, but by keeping it at $60 they can put it on sale while never actually discounting it from the normal $20. It's also roughly $20ish at Gamestop and Amazon too.
@awaltzforvenus Hold up, don’t do Gameloft dirty like that. They made quality and fun “clones” that provided something not already there on the platform. I would love to have some paid gameloft games again, or at least the old ones available on new phones. They made better iPhone games than pretty much everyone else does today.
The chibi art style is long me big time. They were already pushing it with this many spin offs, doing this with art style was just a bad idea. Way to make a niche more niche than it already was for no reason. It just looks for P5, if wasn’t P5, it wouldn’t look bad, but does since it is P5.
@kyleforrester87 It’s honestly a mess on PC too. DnD is meant to be played turn based, one person at a time. I really don’t understand people who defends the awkward rigging of the DnD rules for real time with pause. I play actual DnD too.
I mean let’s be real. In OG BG, combat was clearly as afterthought.
@Spanky84 The small sweet spot is barley noticable if at all most of the time. the cable doesn't get in the way of standing up either, I only play standing up unless the game needs sitting down (Gran Turismo would be an example of something I'd play sitting down). It's a very simple plug and play. I also think playing on max brightness works just fine. I also hold a different opinion on the rings, they make for a much better controller than quest has to offer. I can let of the PSVR2 controller go and it won't fall it'll stay right there. I don't have to worry about my grip. If I let go of a quest controller, it's just gone.
@Bez87 It It I’d possible that Sega just quits after an MS acquisition and mandatory exclusives. And by quit I mean all the important talent just leaves and the series lose their charm and talent quickly.
I've tried the demo a few times, a few months after the PSVR2 launched, but could never find a match. I don't if the matchmaking is bad, or it's dead, but it just seems like a bad deal for an online game. I get the chicken and the egg, but the demo doesn't give any eggs and that's a problem.
Maybe just delay a few weeks for when you know it’s ready? If it’s not ready in time for a disc, you have no idea that it’ll be ready for launch 3 weeks out, you’re just hoping. That already happens plenty, but now they’re just especially saying they’re taking that approach. This is actually a bad look if you ask me
I wonder how that’ll turn out. I guess you had to move on eventually, but for all the money people spent that’s a shame. I guess it cannabalized the second one. Why lose all your progress and goodies form the first that you wanted and/or spent money on?
Good to see a release date, but that’s a lot for a collection of old games. I was thinking $40, maybe $50. $60 is a big ask for something like this. It’s 3 games (practically speaking). Not each is something you could resell for $20.
@Highlar Prudence, prudence. That’s how you know. It’s not a matter of if we have exclusives or not, it’s if a giant corporation has the right to buyout the whole industry at the expense of all the consumers and citizens. MS is just trying to buy everything out, which is hugely different.
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Re: Final Fantasy 16 Producer Reckons One Gaming Platform Would Be Better for Everyone
@Geep You’re forgetting about PC and Mac, IOS and Android, etc. anything that’s requires an actual computer has long dealt with this, and continued to do so as a total monopoly hasn’t formed.
Re: Green Hell's PSVR2 Port Offers Next Level Terror for Survival Enthusiasts on PS5
It looks cool, but I heard it was the quest version and not the PC version, and that may push away. Otherwise probably want this.
Re: Larian Studios Still Cooking the Ability to Change Baldur's Gate 3 Character Appearance
@tameshiyaku You say that like 2077 didn’t pretty much earn all of that. It’s still not the game they promise yet. That wasn’t gamers being flippant, it was the faith being misplaced.
Re: Armored Core 6 PS5 File Size Isn't So Bad
I'm so glad I got another 2TB of Storage. AC isn't not huge, but with BG3 coming a couple weeks later, it's such a great QoL improvement.
Re: PS5 Release of Baldur's Gate 3 Will Mirror the PC Version at Launch and Beyond
You know, I wonder if waiting a month will be a blessing depending on the number of fixes. I understand that Original Sin 2 got so many updates that said "requires a new game" in a 100+ hour game like anyone who played before the update had time for that. If they change or fix anything with stuff you're stuck with the entire game, I'll be very glad for the months wait. I hope they don't do that again though.
This will be the most unreplayable but most replayable game ever made.
Re: Red Dead Redemption Out on PS4 This Month, Not a Remaster
@ShogunRok I think they have been for a while now with older games after the remasters of the old games....
Re: Round Up: Baldur's Gate 3 Reviews Suggest It's One of the Best RPGs Ever Made
Having regular cinematics and a proper DnD combat system are exciting me a lot. This sounds like it won't be as hard and time consuming as D:OS2's combat, which is a great game, but combat takes a long time and many tries. It also helps that I already know the rules.
The one down side of looking things up though, is that from EA there's whole bunch of wrong info out there.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3's Bear Sex Just the Tip of the 'Horny' Iceberg, Apparently
That doesn’t sound great…. Especially because it’s probably not going to tie some of the horny things to playing a bad guy.
However, they did announce what I believe is a nudity filter, so that will probably be convicted by that to pick it up.
Re: Upcoming PS5, PS4 Games for August and September 2023
Why does the fact that Madden and EA FC is on here but Armored Core and BG3 are not on the essentials seems suspicious?
This isn’t a natural list nor does it seem like any sort of honest recommendation.
Re: Will There Be a Twisted Metal Season 2? No Idea, Says Showrunner
I’d rather we try again and get a team that can actually take the story of Twisted Metal instead of replacing it with a generic one since they don’t know what do with the story given to them.
I guess good for the people who like, but Twisted Metal 2 has a special place in my heart and I’m a bit of a purist with it. And I think it had more potential than the premise given.
Re: Poll: Is Twisted Metal's TV Show a Win or a Write-Off?
I can’t get past how generic they made the premise because they didn’t know how to actually utilize the concept of Twisted Metal. I’m glad it’s not a total disaster, but it to be lacking is basic creativity and it needed to be more than a silly romp. Twisted Metal is actually known, especially after black, to have some interesting story. Yes, comedy is important to TM, but so is the dark story of it.
Re: Lost Soul Aside Pushes PS5 to Its Limits, Likely Cancelled on PS4
What Chinese games have actually released and delivered? I hear a lot about vaporware with them.
Re: Twisted Metal Surpasses All Expectations on Rotten Tomatoes
I’m confused, everyone here send to hate it. As in, everyone who has Kiel my played a Twisted Metal game seems unhappy. It might be a disconnect between those with an expectation and their who don’t.
Re: Dreams Live Service Ending as Media Molecule Couldn't Find a 'Sustainable Path'
I mean, no PS5 port doomed it. If they were going to support it this long, they needed to put it on PS5 to keep it relevant, and they chose not to.
It gave still turned out this way, but a proper effort wasn’t made.
Re: TV Show Review: Twisted Metal - Car Crash Entertainment
This sounds terrible. It’s a weird TM fan fiction. Sony needs to be careful with its IPs. The moment this didn’t have Calypso running a tournament it should have been canned. It could have been new, instead it’s a generic pair apocalyptic story that steered clear of doing something more interesting because the show writers didn’t have the talent for it and they knew it.
Re: PSVR2 Hit C-Smash VRS to Receive New Modes, Music in Major August Update
Most well received? All I’ve heard about is how no one can actuseemt I find a match, and the demo with one mode was dead despite trying many times.
Re: Dying Light Studio Techland Set to Be Acquired by Tencent
Can we just have Tencent banned from doing this anymore? I'm actually a bit serious here.
Re: LISA: Definitive Edition Removes and Changes Content to Release on PS5, PS4
This is just ridiculous. Absolute insanity. Also right as a game is parading bear sex. Definitely a double standard going on here.
Re: The Latest PS5 Firmware Update Is Available Now, Here Are the Patch Notes
No new features, and not even more system stability to prevent my vertical PS5 from falling over, dang.
Re: Venom Is the Focus of Fresh Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Look
@wiiware To start. He ate anyone and everyone. Including a child who wanted his balloon back 😂
Re: Nautical RPG Sailing Era Docks on PS5, PS4 This Week to Plunder Skull & Bones' Treasure
Did anyone one else think this was about Skull and Bones for a moment? I think the title is a bit confusing.
Re: Venom Is the Focus of Fresh Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Look
@wiiware Venom ate people in the T rated The Amazing Spider Man on the PS2.
Re: Venom Is the Focus of Fresh Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Look
I’d be more excited if this was like Amazing Spider-Man and you played as Venom too. That’d be so much cooler than playing as Miles Morales too.
Re: Reminder: 10 Quality PS5, PS4 Games Taken Off PS Plus Extra, Premium Tomorrow
I'm glad I bought Stray now. It was a way to get Stray at launch, but now it's gone. This is why I don't like these services.
Re: Experience 'Severe Abdominal Wounds' with Official Assassin's Creed Mirage Haptic Feedback Suit for PS5, PS4
I’m honestly shocked this is for a flat game and not a PSVR2 game. It sounds interesting, but not $500 interesting.
Mirage also isn’t looking good enough to justify even if it was potentially worth $500.
Re: Twisted Metal Completes Grand Comeback with PS Plus Premium Pair Ahead of TV Show Debut
I owned TM2 on the PS3, so this will be a great addition assuming I can download separate like many other PS1 games.
Re: The FTC Officially Files an Appeal Against Microsoft-Activision Court Victory
@GamingFan4Lyf If it get blocked, I personally say it’s worth it and it is the gov is doing its job. And if not, the problem is less the waste, and more the basic failure to perform its gov.
COD staying on PS is also not a fact. Not at all. There is a lot reason from history to assume COD will be gone after 10 years, which means MS is just lying through its teeth.
Re: Larian Studios Gets TikTok Ban for Bear-Form Druid Sex Scene in Baldur's Gate 3
@Kylekgh Sex and violence are completely different and provoke entirely different reactions. There's a reason we allow kids to take a martial arts class, but not a be sexy class. We play violence with kids all the time. We do not with the other one.
Scary is also very much the wrong word. Disliking plain degeneracy does not mean sex is scary.
Also, it's not giving as many choices as possible. Romance doesn't mean sex, but if you want to romance this druid, it means a bear sex scene. That's giving no agency in the romance and denying my ability to choose. It would be giving as many choices without this scene.
@MikeOrator In general, I like romance options, and I don't want graphic sexual scenes and whatnot shoved my way because I chose romance (which doesn't equal sex).
DnD pen and paper has a persuasion skill. Obviously that's not immoral. Can someone turn DnD into immoral smut? Yes, and many DnD horror stories happen because someone wanted to turn the game into smut. In actual DnD, that's almost always a ticket to disaster.
Re: Larian Studios Gets TikTok Ban for Bear-Form Druid Sex Scene in Baldur's Gate 3
This just seems excessive, and I don't see why BG needs explicit sex scenes in the first place.
@mikeorator MY DnD games don't have naked people having sex with bears. BG is the kind of games I'm the market for, but all the sex scenes are turning me away from the game.
Re: New PS Store Essential Picks Sale Has 1,400 PS5, PS4 Game Discounts
@Wheatly There's a fair amount of truth to this. Diablo 3 for example is on sale for $20 as it is half the time if not more if feels like. The game's actual price is obviously $20, but by keeping it at $60 they can put it on sale while never actually discounting it from the normal $20. It's also roughly $20ish at Gamestop and Amazon too.
Re: Random: There's a Weird The Last of Us Knockoff on Nintendo Switch Now
@awaltzforvenus Hold up, don’t do Gameloft dirty like that. They made quality and fun “clones” that provided something not already there on the platform. I would love to have some paid gameloft games again, or at least the old ones available on new phones.
They made better iPhone games than pretty much everyone else does today.
Re: Persona 5 Tactica PS5, PS4 Gameplay Spotlights Joker, Morgana, and Newcomer Erina
The chibi art style is long me big time. They were already pushing it with this many spin offs, doing this with art style was just a bad idea. Way to make a niche more niche than it already was for no reason. It just looks for P5, if wasn’t P5, it wouldn’t look bad, but does since it is P5.
Re: Comprehensive Baldur's Gate 3 Playthroughs Set to Last 200 Hours
@kyleforrester87 It’s honestly a mess on PC too. DnD is meant to be played turn based, one person at a time. I really don’t understand people who defends the awkward rigging of the DnD rules for real time with pause. I play actual DnD too.
I mean let’s be real. In OG BG, combat was clearly as afterthought.
Re: Jujutsu Kaisen's Finally Getting a PS5, PS4 Game, But It's a 2v2 Arena Fighter
@Brydontk Anime games need to be appealing without the source material being required.
Re: Jujutsu Kaisen's Finally Getting a PS5, PS4 Game, But It's a 2v2 Arena Fighter
@rachetmarvel How is this more mainstream? It’s another arena fighter. It’s not going to affect any stream that isn’t a side stream niche.
Re: Jujutsu Kaisen's Finally Getting a PS5, PS4 Game, But It's a 2v2 Arena Fighter
@rachetmarvel Bleach has gotten plenty of games like this, just no recent ones. The DS, PS2, Wii, and even a bit of PS3 are full of them.
Re: PS5, PS4 Action RPG Fate/Samurai Remnant Reveals New Gameplay Details
I'll keep my eye on this. I think the story, side activities, in addition to non warriors combat being good will make my decision for this one?
Re: Mini Review: Synapse (PSVR2) – Some Incredible Gameplay But Not Enough Content
@Spanky84 The small sweet spot is barley noticable if at all most of the time.
the cable doesn't get in the way of standing up either, I only play standing up unless the game needs sitting down (Gran Turismo would be an example of something I'd play sitting down). It's a very simple plug and play.
I also think playing on max brightness works just fine.
I also hold a different opinion on the rings, they make for a much better controller than quest has to offer. I can let of the PSVR2 controller go and it won't fall it'll stay right there. I don't have to worry about my grip. If I let go of a quest controller, it's just gone.
Re: Price of Fortnite's V-Bucks Set to Change in Select North American Regions, UK Because Inflation
It was already overpriced and adjusted for a 100 years of inflation at the least. Nonsense.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Cost $220 Million to Make, Horizon Forbidden West Cost $212 Million
Insane.
For point of reference, Uncharted 2 cost 20M to make, just 20M. Those costs are crazy.
Re: PS5 Exclusive Final Fantasy 16 Hits a Slightly Skewed 3 Million Sales at Launch
@Th3solution I was wondering weather it being rated M made a difference. I do have a feeling it did TBH.
Re: SEGA and Bungie Were On Microsoft's Shopping List in 2020, Xbox Emails Show
@Bez87 It It I’d possible that Sega just quits after an MS acquisition and mandatory exclusives. And by quit I mean all the important talent just leaves and the series lose their charm and talent quickly.
Re: C-Smash VRS (PSVR2) - Squashed Potential
I've tried the demo a few times, a few months after the PSVR2 launched, but could never find a match. I don't if the matchmaking is bad, or it's dead, but it just seems like a bad deal for an online game. I get the chicken and the egg, but the demo doesn't give any eggs and that's a problem.
Re: Alan Wake 2's Digital-Only Release Allows for a More Polished Game, Says Remedy
Maybe just delay a few weeks for when you know it’s ready?
If it’s not ready in time for a disc, you have no idea that it’ll be ready for launch 3 weeks out, you’re just hoping.
That already happens plenty, but now they’re just especially saying they’re taking that approach.
This is actually a bad look if you ask me
Re: "We've Lost the Console Wars," Says Trillion Dollar Underdog Xbox
@EVIL-C That’s less than one a year. That’s totally reasonable and not industry hostile.
Do you know what applying prudence to a situation is?
Re: Call of Duty: Warzone Shutting Down on 21st September Across PS5, PS4
I wonder how that’ll turn out. I guess you had to move on eventually, but for all the money people spent that’s a shame. I guess it cannabalized the second one. Why lose all your progress and goodies form the first that you wanted and/or spent money on?
Re: Fate/Samurai Remnant Starts a New PS5, PS4 Grail War on 29th September
A non Warriors, 3v3, or basic turn based combat anime game that looks to have excellent animation and good looking gameplay?
Color me interested.
Re: Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Is Out for PS5 on 24th October
Good to see a release date, but that’s a lot for a collection of old games. I was thinking $40, maybe $50. $60 is a big ask for something like this. It’s 3 games (practically speaking). Not each is something you could resell for $20.
Re: Starfield, Redfall Exclusivity 'Powerful Evidence' Against Xbox's Activision Buyout, Claims FTC
@Highlar Prudence, prudence. That’s how you know. It’s not a matter of if we have exclusives or not, it’s if a giant corporation has the right to buyout the whole industry at the expense of all the consumers and citizens.
MS is just trying to buy everything out, which is hugely different.
Re: Bethesda's Fallout 76 Suddenly Runs Better Than Ever on PS5
Nothing misunderstood about F76’s past lol.