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@thaidanh It's not just Nicole that's being censored, but it's the thing the media has latched onto because "muh gamers are perverts."

There's also some edgy jokes that have been cut, as well as removal of some graphics when a person gets morphed into a monster.

Naughty Dog desperately needs a win right now, TLOUII possibly under performed and now all they have is a remake and two remasters for the entire PS5 generation so far.

And before anyone flames me in the replies I say "possibly" because Sony won't release the actual f-n' sales data in their annual reports. We will never truly know if they made a profit beyond that insane 300 Million Dollar Budget. All we have to go on is that "10 Milllion" they claimed more than two years after it released, which doesn't seem all that great when you realize the game was selling for $30-$40 at the time.

So bigger than a Steam Deck with far less functionality.

hmmmm, nope.

Pass.

I tried Nikke because I'm a sucker for anime games and I'm still salty over the shutdown of Priconne.....and it's honestly the most shallow and shameless one I played. I can understand it's popularity but I just wasn't a fan.

I'll stick with the Arctis headset thanks. Playstation's headsets have never been comfortable for me since the Pulse Elite back on the PS3. There's always that Diagonal Plastic inside the ear cup that presses against my ear and it hurts after just an hour or two.

I've clipped underground while fighting some crimes forcing me to fast travel, I've run into bugs where if you run to close to a trapped NPC before their conversation triggers you will be unable to move or continue.

Let's see what Naughty Dog has accomplished this generation, shall we?

Remaster Collection.
A "Remake" no one asked for.
A possibly cancelled Multiplayer spin-off is MIA.
Now there's another upcoming "Remaster" no one asked for.

This feels like an excuse for Sony to charge you $70 for a game that's honestly worth maybe $35-$40. This is a shameless Money Grab, when they could've just had a $10 upgrade for PS5 and a separate PC Release.

He Brought Sony back into the world of Complacency and Arrogance we saw at the beginning on the PS3 era. I don't care how much money he made the company, I don't like supporting a company that cares more about shareholders than the players.

Even if Sony did come up with a new Emulator, it's not enough to get me on Premium at this insane price point. It would also have to allow me to play the games I already own. I'm not buying them a second time.

.....and don't even get me started on PS3 Games.

@XboxTheBestBox I won't ever be caught dead paying more for PS Plus to stream games. If they give me a legit emulator as part of that price, then they will get me.

I should be able to play my existing games as well as pick up new ones I missed without having to rely on streaming in a world where Fiber Internet and anything faster than what I have is so rare

The biggest problem with remote play and the reason for why I don't use it is the fact that the Playstation and whatever device do not communicate over the network directly, so you will always be limited by your ISP's upload speed. If you think Steam Link introduces a bunch of latency even over a 1Gbps connection, it's even worse on remote play, even if the two devices are in the same room.

Remote play has to upload to a Sony Server and then go back to your Remote Device so this introduces a ton of unnecessary latency.

I don't entirely fault Sony for that limitation since it's most likely to combat people exploiting remote play to cheat or do whatever else.

@Arnna What are you talking about. The game as a whole was mediocre at best. A polished turd is still a turd.

A game that's meant to have a great narrative and story and doesn't is a failure as a game. It divided the fan base and probably harmed ND's reputation overall with older fans. Sure, the graphics, level design, sound, and gameplay are all amazing, but it stands upon a broken foundation.

TLOU3 feels inevitable but I think they did too much damage with Part 2. There are some that just won't come back. Me Included.

Played this on PC, it's really not worth your time. Not only is more stuff locked behind a gacha than genshin but they all use their own currency.

um....duh? Did anyone ever argue that this was even feasible on the PS4 in the first place?

@ATaco I've seen PC Gameplay since the game has already launched in Japan. It's closer to an MMO than Genshin but many have complained about in game item drop rate, etc.

Tons of stuff on Youtube, just look it up and make a judgement.

Personally, I'm still concerned Amazon is going to censor and make the drop rates even worse so people will feel compelled to spend more. Western Releases tend to pull this crap where they mess with drop rates.

eh, the show was pretty middle of the road. Doesn't surprise me that the media is fawning over it for little reason.

@SJR You mean that Factions mode that according to Bungie is in a very poor state and needs major reworks?

That's just an empty promise at this point.

After the absolute bait and switch that Part II was....this is a hard pass.

Wow that's one Cynical Title....

This pretty much Confirms TLOUII was a financial flop. If it made a profit, it barely broke passed even when you include Marketing.

The post first week 6 Million sales were heavily discounted and I saw the game for as low as $10. I will assume that the 10 Million players number is real, but that doesn't account for people who borrowed the game or bought it second hand.

Which Kingdom Hearts Team, Though? The one that did KH/KHII? Or the KH3D/KHIII team?

One inspires confidence, the other might spark some division.

Sony Locked the Steelbook behind the Collector's Edition because of course they f-n' did.

Hard Pass, I refuse to support that anti-consumer BS. Just a basic Physical copy for me it is.

What Players Want: Vita 2 with non-proprietary memory cards.
What Sony Gives: A Remote Play handheld no one asked for.

This thing deserves to be mocked relentlessly.

@TheElectroFunky The tweet doesn't even state they received death threats so where are you getting that from?

Celebrities deal with it all the time and you don't see them whining about it on Twitter.

Also, this article is just more "Muh Gamer Community is ToXiC" rhetoric when we all know it's just a fringe minority of people who probably never even played the game.

@WallyWest I didn't specify it had to be Native 4K, but even in games that do offer performance RT, we often lose quite a bit of res. Some go as low as somewhere between 1080p and 1440p.

A bump closer to maintaining 1440p would be a nice upgrade.

@Blacksmith1985 I suspect that's due to those games clinging on to supporting the PS4. Burning Shores still didn't provide it so I cannot make an argument for it.

As for God of War Ragnarok, did it really need it? There's not a lot of scenes besides the safe house that has tons of reflective surfaces.

I'm not surprised, many games are unable to maintain at least 60fps with ray tracing. You usually need to choose between one or the other.

If the Pro offers better RT Support at good framerates, then I'm game for it.

By "many games" I am referring to third party games, Sony's studios are usually pretty good at offering a Performance RT Mode.

Hard Pass, I'll stick with cheaper anime figures that look better. I've splurged on a gaming figure before and they always look worse. and less detailed.

Can we maybe focus on the AI Monster coming to destroy the planet instead of "oh look, I'm gay now"?

@stvevan "nothing taxxing the console"

Try putting any game that supports it into Fidelity/Ray-Tracing mode and then come back and tell me the system isn't being taxed.

Stop accepting 30fps.

Personally I'd like my cake and eat it too, I'd much rather choose between 120Hz no RT and 60 with RT instead of 30 with RT which is what a lot of games are still offering.

Hopefully they don't use it. Would suck to lose a rare controller o drift or whatever. Regardless if you like the design or not, rare controllers should be taken care of.

I'm buying this game just because the "controversy" brought it to my attention. It legit looks good.

Still don't like him, Playstation has taken a 180 degree turn towards anti-consumer this generation under his leadership.

Cool, so if I want to make a character avatar with culturally acceptable rainbow hair, I can do that?

Maybe it would have seen more use if it was integrated into games and was easier to access?

Jeez Sony, people aren't going to go out of their way to use something that has such little benefit to them.

This only proved it's a cash grab.

To be fair, the SN850 is a great SSD. I've got the 2TB myself and got it on sale for a good price.

Lazy Cash Grab, hard pass.

Sony is insane if they think I'm going to buy the same game again at $70 especially when they removed an entire portion of it.

No Factions and it's costs more than the PS4 Remaster? What a joke. This is a low-effort cash grab for the sony pony whales that would buy it regardless. All they did was port TOUII assets and update the game to their latest engine.

This inexplicably disabled itself after the recent update and I cannot find any way to turn it back on.

@mucc you need to read Phil's words carefully. He's being purposely ambiguous like he was with Bethesda, I know there's some copium for COD and Over watch, but don't get your hopes up for COD after this coming year.

Warzone is the most likely to stay.

@Col_McCafferty This is always the argument. I didn't play it so I can't judge it. Yes I can.

I took the information I had and made a purchasing judgement. I didn't buy it and the leaks being accurate were why. I was hoping the leaks were fake because like anyone else I was hyped.

It's that simple. I don't blindly love everything Sony and it's studios pump out.

Company marketing BS as usual. Don't care about Pride month, never will.

Because what gender someone else prefers is none of my business. You do you.

@The_Anomaly Did they confirm it's vertical now? What a relief.

@GamingVeteran Disagreed, the game hitches and has framerate issues. The asset pop-in is also immersion breaking.

There are things about the PS5's UI that drive me insane though. Like the horizontal trophy list, how long it takes to access the trophies, the game base has too many clicks to get to the friends list......

@Col_McCafferty

"It was just a bandwagon for them to jump on, a chance to attack 'wokeness' and rally against something that wasn't aimed solely at young straight white males."

It's this argument right here where it's the weakest. I do not have to play a game to judge it and no company is entitled to my money unless it's earned. If the creators of the game think of their potential customers as Toxic I simply won't give them money. It's that easy.

When you watch a trailer for an upcoming Game of Movie do you make a judgement on whether or not your time and money are worth it based on the available information? Yes? Well there you go, I just countered the "Bandwagon" argument with a simple question.

To make what I said earlier more clear, I was hyped for TLOUII up until the leaks. The trailers and everything looked awesome until me and others realized the pre-release trailers were a lie.

@Akurusu Not only deaf ears, everyone will just assume you're reasoning.

Two most over used examples:
Abbie's Muscles.
You are anti-trans/lgbtq.

The Anti-LGBT one always gets me laughing. Why was there zero outrage over Left Behind? Oh... Because it told a good story.