MikeOrator

It's time for everyone to pull out their wish lists and then get mad when Sony doesn't address any of them. It seems it's our favourite internet pastime...lol...

@DogPark

The Assassin's Creed stuff is fairly similar to the other games in the series but the naval parts make up most of the accolades this game gets. Exploring the sea, ship-to-ship battles, assaulting fortresses, mythic creature hunts, ghost ships, etc. Its all very fun and very well done.

@Vault_Mcfly

I can't stand more Assassin's Creed games, people really love generic and mediocre franchises.

...says the person with the Fallout avatar pic...lol...

@NEStalgia

I agree, I would think that most people starts out in their career with rose-tinted glasses when it comes to making games. Then the reality of deadlines, margins and return on investment rear their ugly heads and we end up with Ubisoft, EA, Activision, Sega, Take-Two, Capcom, SquareEnix, Gearbox...etc etc etc.

Most video game companies have ALWAYS been in it for the money and your right the business ruins the fun for everyone.

@NEStalgia

That was kind of my point...lol. Everything the publishers do these days is to try to make more money from the players, but every attempt is blasted by one part of the fandom or the other.

Developers want to make good games, fans wish for good games, and I think for the most part Publishers want to provide good games. The problem is the stakeholder, the parent company and the Capitalist Pig.

@Steel76

Only when they are on the Xbox...lol...

@GamingFan4Lyf

Potatoe/Potatoe (hard to do with both pronunciations spelled the same...lol)

You say: Nintendo is Unique and quirky, and claim it is not their fault that people don't understand their direction

I say: Nintendo should stick with a proven thing and quit trying to reinvent the wheel because they think they are too big to fail.

Either way, if Nintendo messes up the Switch 2 by doing one of their "quirky" things its not going to be good for anybody.

@NEStalgia

Radical Change = $100 games, no physical games, GAAS, and gacha/lootbox mechanics.

I forgot - Day one DLC and selling new game + for a premium

@GamingFan4Lyf

I would hope. I would hate to lose Nintendo to more of their own hubris.

@trev666

Only if the Switch 2 is backward compatible with the Switch making the upgrade easy and it's not another "Nintendo doesn't give a f**k" follow-up to a success. (ie Wii to WiiU). If the Switch 2 is a dog and nobody wants to upgrade, we may as well give Nintendo a standing 8 count. I don't know how well they could weather another failed console launch.

PS4 games on the Switch 2 would do more for Nintendo at launch than for Sony

Besides Nintendo still hates Sony over the whole Nintendo Playstation CD ROM business partnership gone south.

@Zenos

maybe...lol...

My point was more about defending an artist's vision than the censorship anyway. If we defend the fan service as important to the artist's vision of Stellar Blade then we need to defend the realistic character models in other games as well. If we don't then it is just about looking at T&A and not about the "art".

@Zenos

...but they did run to Metacritic to drag down a score to diminish the vision of the artist. So in essence these people were trying to censor the aforementioned games. Or at least try to silence the creators voice

@Zenos

I don't know what "false equivalence" means but I can assume it's some sort of way to deflect what is being said to minimize what everyone knows is being said.

PS. I know what it means. In this case, it's not though. People trashed the games because of how the female main characters were being represented in the game with their physical looks and characterization.

To me, there is a fundamental difference between an artist or the publisher of an artist SELF-censoring their work, especially commercial art (which video games mostly are) or a government entity telling me what I can and cannot see.

If we want to complain about censorship let's start with what passes as an impartial newscast from any news provider, not these bits of cloth in a still very adult-looking game.

This crap is making gamers look like what everyone already thinks we are, misogynistic incels. I have been saying this since the beginning, but if we acted chill about this game's content nobody would have given a crap, but the community had to Harald this release as a "taking back games from wokeness" moment.

If everyone is so concerned about an artist's vision being taken away with censorship, you should be just as ready to defend the artist's vision for games like Forspoken, Horizon and The Last of Us.

This pole should be taken with a grain of salt. As interesting is it is to see the prevailing opinion of people on this website, we, as I have said before are not the entire gaming public. Most people who own consoles have no interest in who makes or publishes a game they see a game that their friends are playing and want it too. Fans of the individual consoles may pay attention to this stuff but the average Joe Consumer does not.

I rushed to the comments to say what everyone has already said, argued about and now is on cool down over. Maybe we need to petition LimitedRun.

@2here2there @TrickyDicky99

Nintendo saved the industry back in the 80's as well. You are right! Nintendo! Nintendo! Nintendo!

Ok, How long am I going to be playing this game for? Atlus games are like a full-time job for me right now.

We are due for another crash in the video game market. I wonder who will survive.

The teens in my life already play the other Jack in the Box games in a way that makes them way more adult than they are. It's like those that vote for the grossest but not the FUNNIEST Cards Against Humanity pair (ya I'm still bitter about it Janet)

@PrettyPawsome, you are not alone @Stevemalkpus is wrong.

@NEStalgia

I was writing something similar until I read this and decided to respond to yours. I have been saying similar things since the beginning. Even though I believe this game deserves to exist, a certain segment of the fandom has ruined my desire to own the game. I mean, I like a bit of fanservice, or at least I'm not offended by it, but the misogyny on display with this part of the fandom is beyond even the normal amount.

I also find myself curiously thrilled at the latest controversy surrounding 2 of the costumes being redesigned. I am not a fan of censorship, but watching these gamer bros go crazy is a wonderful catharsis.

@carlos82

That Star Wars Force Awakens reference on the sign though! 2015/16 before the franchise went sideways and we all still had New Hope for that galaxy far, far away. Halcyon Days!!

I have a feeling I may have been to dumb for Paradise Killer. I tried it on PS+ and did all sorts of investigating, talking, exploring, puzzling, and farting around but I figured NOTHING out...lol...very cool game though.

This though...This looks like a side game in Like a Dragon.

@wildcat_kickz

I know a guy who still plays GTA San Andreas every day after he gets off work. He says it's the only game he needs.
Sometimes a game hits like it's made just for you. You are who Bethesda updated this game for...have fun Vault Dweller!

I downloaded and played it on the weekend like a chump. Game is surprisingly nice looking at 60fps and the two-second load times are a revelation. But it's still a 10-year-old game; whatever it did 10 years ago is all it's doing now.

Instructions on how to get Fallout 4 PS5 version cheaply

Step One - Buy the game at launch 15 years ago.
Step Two - Purchase all the DLC
Step three - Wait 10 years and never sell/trade the game.
Step four - Insert Disc
Step Five - ***********
Step Six - Profit.

@UltimateOtaku91

If they release Senua's Saga: Hellblade II on PS5 with a physical release, I will believe it.

@Gremio108

This comment wins the comment section today!!

Shamefully I downloaded it last night without a hitch.

@NEStalgia

I wasn't trying to be derogatory in any way to either site. These sites have their fans and the crossover is real. I observed that Xbox, as hard as they try, has an uphill battle for attracting JRPG enthusiasts.

@Jaz007

I wasn't trying to point fingers or call anyone out. It's like any other fandom when the owner of an IP can sense the hunger for a continuous stream of content. I LOVE getting different and special editions with built-up content so I am absolutely part of the problem with so-called Developer Greed.

@NEStalgia @Mintie @Jaz007

From what I have seen with the SMT/Persona community as a newly minted member, fans of this series stand in line with fists full of cash saying "YASS DADDY" as Atlus edges us (can I say that here) with DLC and rereleases.

@NEStalgia the term you used, grooming, is probably the most accurate word for this...lol...

Just as an aside about this game.

When we have seen trailers for this game they have always been emblazoned with the Xbox logo and have not had any PlayStation branding. We do know, however, that it is not an Xbox exclusive. So I went over to PureXbox just to see what the buzz was over there about this game as it's being marketed by Microsoft (I guess). What did I find you ask, two articles with 16 total comments between the two of them? In contrast, this site has 10 articles with dozens of comments on each.

Don't know what to do with this info but I thought I would share.

I was about to write an essay about my love of Ubisoft open-world games and how I have fallen off them but then I decided to say this:

Less of them coming out yearly has freed up my time to play other things. Now I get what everyone was talking about when they would bash them. I have finally escaped from the Stockholm Syndrome that Ubisoft had placed on me.

That being said, I still hope these new AC games are good.

@AccessibleDaydream

Yes, then no, then an EP, now the full thing. The Persona 3 Portable soundtrack and the dancing games have similar tunes but not the full remade songs on the P3R soundtrack.

"When the Moon's Reaching Out Stars" is peek video game music. The jazzy/funk of City Pop with a hip-hop backbeat. /chefs kiss/

I have decided to make this the year of Atlus. I had a detour with Fallout 76 for about 8 hours (mistake). Playtime this year includes Persona 3R with second playthrough for Plat, Soul Hackers 2, Persona 5 Royal, SMTVV, Persona 5 Stikers, Metaphor: Refantazio, and Persona 4 Golden (from Limited Run). I May pick up a copy of SMTIII on PS4. I have been trying to source out some 3DS games but I cannot abide paying those prices, hoping to find some yard sale deals. I get this is ambitious but, /shrug/ gonna give it the old hyper fixation and see what happens.

@Terra_Custodes

Its all good. I get heated sometimes and I was probably a little overzealous in my response. I will say that I have not played the first 2 so I cannot even judge that. I did however redownload Fallout 76 because of the show and guess what...It's crap. If Fallout 4 was a mess it was at least some sort of fun but 76 does not even have the fun left in it. Fallout 76 should be called, "Over-Encumbrance: The Search for Caps". Why tell me, in my menu, that a gun is worth 63 caps if I can only sell it for 3 caps which is 2 caps less than it costs to buy 1 bullet...??!?!??!?

They should take a page out of Stellar Blade's playbook and make all the female hobbits smexy. All the jank will just disappear in a cloud of jiggle effects and thick thighs.

@MrBook

I did play the demo. It seemed janky to me. Or at least I couldn't forgive the jank as much as some people seem to be able to.

Don't get me wrong, I think this game deserves to exist in its current presentation. But the way it's being lifted by some of the community and used as a pillar in their so-called "war on wokeness" is a shame

@Darude84

There wasn't any censorship of genitalia in Cyberpunk 2077. So that cannot be the censorship everyone is worried about for this game.

@MrBook

Again I must preface my comment by saying that a little bit of fan service in a game is always fun for the right games. TONS of games offer this with varying quality, Final Fantasy, Nier, Atelier series, and even Genshin/Honkai. So actually, there isn't a shortage of games with "smexy gyatt" in them.

But this game has been BLOWN out of proportion to what it is, a janky AA game. It would not have been in any conversation if this game had a "realistic" character model. I also feel that the wrong side of the fandom is using this game as a flag to wave in protest of perceived "wokeness" in games.

Sexyness in a game does not make average gameplay better, just as realism does not make great gameplay bad.

What's up with all these realistic-looking character models, this game has gone woke.

I can't wait for this game to come out so I can see that 99% of the people earned the trophy for starting the game and playing through the introduction and then the trophies fall off as fewer and fewer people decide to keep playing.

@Ryu_Niiyama

However, when Fallout is spoken about in broad circles, "real" Fallout IS Bethesda Fallout. What's the point of coming here and gatekeeping a franchise because of two entries from 25 years ago?

Article: There is a cool game coming to other platforms that may or may not be your cup of tea, but if it is, enjoy.

Gamers: Neat! Now let's fight for some reason.

@Terra_Custodes

This is like saying Rockstar Grand Theft Auto or actual Grand Theft Auto.

I don't make a distinction because the vast majority of the world's population has no idea there is a difference and of the very few that do know most of them don't care.

So to answer your question. The Fallout that most gamers "actually" played and know.

Fallout 1 and 2 came out so long ago as to be considered like Dig Dug or Frogger. Something for grandpas to rave about while they say things like "back in my day" or "get off my lawn"

@K1LLEGAL

Xbox IP's dominating the game charts is not on my 2024 bingo card.