MrMeeeseeeks

It’s really good. Much better than the Avengers game. I’d say it’s closer in style to the Guardians game but also reminds me of Sunset Overdrive. I’m playing through the story and loving every minute. Cutscenes and dialogue in general are hilarious. Gameplay is satisfying.

I think a lot of the hate online is coming from people who dislike live-service games. But I wouldn’t even know this was a live service game so far. Feels like a single player game with optional Co-op.

I don’t think I’ve ever bought a game from a supermarket before. I usually order from Amazon with prime delivery like a normal person.

On no, I tell a lie… I ordered Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart from Tesco in Nov 2021 for £25, when it was still £70 on the PS Store. Even cheap store credit can’t get you great deals like that.

I’m also not too bothered about my personal impact on the environment either tbh. I don’t own a Land Rover. Or fly around the globe on gas-guzzling jets. I never want children. And I recycle. Already done less harm to the environment than most - so I’ll keep my physical games as long as I’m able, thank you.

I can’t believe Paddy Considine wasn’t nominated for his role in House of the Dragon. His performance was far more powerful than anything seen in TLoU show. Clearly a case of who you know.

One of the things I didn’t like about TLoU show was that it felt like it was more about the actors than the characters in the game. Thandiwe Newtons daughter being cast as Sarah and the pointless extended scenes with her, to give her more screen time, is a prime example. It felt like they were using TLoU as a vehicle to boost certain actors careers, rather than it being a genuinely good show.

The internet is a cesspit and it’s always been this way. You can’t just fall apart every time some moron says something stupid or insulting. They want to get a reaction out of you, so don’t play their game and ignore them 🤷‍♂️

Probably about the same as that complete failure, Days Gone /s

My copy arrived today but I’m still working my way through Burning Shores. I’ve installed it so will probably play it over the weekend.

@rawzeku I laughed when I read that tweet. ‘How dare you not keep me up to date with the games progress! Do you know who I am? I’m Ronnie 🤬 Pickering!’ 😂

@tallythwack it isn’t a black and white issue but the activists are so hostile. You can’t have a serious discussion because the moment you say something they don’t like they want to ruin your life. Even people in the trans community can’t speak out because the activists will turn on them too. It’s no wonder JKR has resorted to trolling them on occasion. JKR just wants the concerns of biological women to be heard and to have a serious conversation. I think the larger trans community want that too if they weren’t afraid to speak up. It’s a sorry state of affairs all round.

Anyway, I’m glad the game has done well and I’m looking forward to the new tv show.

Not to accuse anyone of anything untoward… but who’s to say this whole thing hasn’t been orchestrated for attention? Some people are so desperate for attention these days and will do anything to be noticed. Juicy Smooyay anyone?

@bozz I support representation but not in period movies/tv shows. It destroys immersion when every other character is openly lgbt+ or a poc because it wasn’t like that in 1890 sadly. Applying modern acceptance to period entertainment downplays the struggles people faced back then. Some movies/tv shows do this because they want to be controversial or to get a pat on the back for being progressive - that’s what’s annoying.

If it’s handled correctly and doesn’t pander to the woke crowd, it could be great. It needs to have the same gritty sense of realism as the game or it won’t work.

@jorel262 there’s been Naruto, Dragon Ball, My Hero Academia and now this Attack On Titan collab. There have been other original anime-style skins in the Battle Passes too I think.

They should add a special thanks to JKR in the end credits. I know she wasn’t involved in the making of the game but they are making a lot of money from the world she created. It’s ok to disagree with her views but it feels very hypocritical not to acknowledge her in any way.

@KidBoruto I love the bit when they stick pictures of her magazine covers on Kyles front door and you see them peering out of their window trying to see what kind of reaction it will get. Then when Kyle doesn’t react they get mad and feel victimised 🤣

Also, their private jet slowly pulling-up outside their new home, where they want to live a normal life in privacy 🤣

The entire episode was comedy gold.

@Ambassador_Kong I agree. Considering this is a HBO show I expected so much more. There have been a few highlights but overall the series has been a disappointment at best and a complete disaster at worst.

Hardly a surprise. The EU and corruption go hand in hand.

Just started playing today and it’s so good. I’ve mostly been exploring Hogwarts for a few hours - the place is HUGE.

Professor Weasley’s voice sounded so familiar and a quick Google revealed it to be Lesley Nicol (Mrs Patmore from Downton Abbey) 😁

@zupertramp so many great moments. People tend to write-off TWD because it wasn’t consistently good but when it was good, it was on whole other level.

@SolaceCreed nah, TWD had its best run of episodes between 4.8 - 5.1 but season 2 is my favourite overall season (the one most people hated when it first aired because it was ‘too slow’). Some of the worst parts of the show were lifted right out of the comics, like the Kingdom / LARP community and the pet Tiger, which were ridiculously silly. What they did to Carl was unforgivable but seasons 1-7 were great.

It’s been good so far but I don’t think it’s reached the highs of TWD yet. I often see TLoU compared TWD but it’s easy to forget that TWD had some incredible moments. It had some lows, sure, but it’s highs are still unmatched. Who can ever forget ‘Look at the flowers’ or Negan’s brutal introduction - which remains one of the most horrific episodes of tv to this day. Or the episode where Rick ripped out the throat of one of the ‘Claimers’ with his teeth. Pascal’s Joel feels relatively tame compared to Andrew Lincoln’s portrayal of Rick Grimes. TLoU is ok but TWD is still the ‘King of the apocalypse’.

@djlard JKR was concerned that the rights of biological women were being eroded and disregarded. She doesn’t believe pre-op trans women should be allowed to use women’s toilets or changing rooms etc. (and more recently women’s prisons) because the safety of biological women should never be put at risk. JKR spoke out about changing terminology such as ‘people who menstruate’ and ‘people who give birth’ and publicly supported biological woman who lost their jobs for speaking out and raising their concerns. Trans activists saw this as an attack on trans rights and have been on Defcon 1 ever since. And because JKR will receive royalties from this game, they have called for a boycott.

@danlk1ng They has blocked me too. Their comment section must only show their own comments lol

@MatthewJP yeah, the people screaming ‘boycott’ are at the extreme end of the spectrum. Most people, even members of the LGBT+ community, don’t give a damn.

@Lord_Beerus_87 the more money the game makes the better. JKR donates millions of pounds to various charities. She actually lost her billionaire status due to her charity donations. She’s helped so many people. And by purchasing the game, you’re helping those people too.

Im so glad that the game turned out to be so good and has been so well received by HP fans and non-HP fans alike.

@Loamy probably related to the people sending JKR death threats. There are some real nutters out there.

The hyperbole is a bit much. It’s been good so far but hardly groundbreaking. The show isn’t a patch on the game.

@danlk1ng yeah, I do feel myself sympathising with her more and more as the attacks against her intensify. It’s crazy. She has been treated appallingly.

Very happy to see the how well the game has been received - it will only boost sales, which is a good thing.

I think you should bring back downvoting rather than removing the comments. If a post gets 5 or more downvotes it gets hidden (but can still be viewed). It’s the only fair system. Not to mention how hard it is to follow the bloody conversation when half of it is gone 🙄

@Truegamer79 the original PS3 release and PS4 remaster of TLoU sold a combined total of around 24 million copies. TLoU 2 sold around 10 million copies. So, it sold well but nowhere near as well as it should have considering it was such a highly anticipated sequel to one one Sony’s biggest and most critically acclaimed games.

I wonder if Hogwarts Legacy will credit J K Rowling for her creation? I’m guessing not.

@Angelus3K I think it’s when she wished someone on Twitter a ‘Merry TERFmas’ at Christmas lol It didn’t go down well, as you can imagine.

@dark_knightmare2 I can’t remember a single track from HFW. Can’t have been THAT good, clearly 😉

@dark_knightmare2 oh please, HFW is some privileged interns idea of how horrific the world can be (i.e. not very). Whoever wrote these characters does not live in the real world, has never stepped foot in the real world and lives an extremely sheltered existence. They need to hire someone with real world experience to write the next one. Unless, ‘Disney version’ of post-apocalyptic world is what Guerrilla are going for?

Don’t care about any of those examples you gave, if you’re trying to incite some kind of reaction. The writing in HFW was weak. Weak.

@jrt87 I loved it, I did… “kung-fu space wizards” … goood. “cross between the Nouveau Riche from Yakuza 0 and Albert Wesker?” … gooooooood! 🤣

@Loftimus 🤣

@Loftimus you’re absolutely right. Don’t dwell on it, baby 👍

@Loftimus “youve just proved my point darling.”

Wrong.

“All of the artifacts and audio logs describe the lore aka the setting (which is just as fantastic in the second game).”

Wrong.

“The story mechanics are what drive the game forward.”

So wrong.

Look, I can see I’ve hurt your delicate sensibilities. You’re absolutely right, baby - the story in Forbidden West is amazing. Couldn’t have written it better myself lol it’s not silly, or absurd, it’s wonderful… really… 👀

@Loftimus well if all you took away from the first game is that it was a ‘basic origin story’ I’m not surprised you preferred the story in the second game. You have to pay attention to the details, baby. Did you read the artefacts and listen to the audio logs in the first game? Forbidden West was amateur hour compared to the first. The article in question even states ‘it’s all a bit silly’ and it was. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate Forbidden West but the story was awful.

@Loftimus and yet the overwhelming consensus is that the story in Forbidden West isn’t as good as the first game. It’s the weakest element of an otherwise great game. We’re all entitled to our own opinions though I guess.

@bozz Game of Thrones was a brilliant show with Dragons and and army of undead zombie-like creatures, until the writing fell off a cliff. Same applies to Horizon. None of the characters in Horizon Forbidden West behave like real people would. The writing is shockingly bad.

@Loftimus that’s like saying all the Star Wars movies are the same because it’s the same lore. When we all know some Star Wars movies are better than others (because they have better stories and the writing isn’t appallingly bad).

The other games were good but Ghostwire Tokyo came out of nowhere and blew me away. Gets my vote.

@RogerRoger “Amazon's a name that's almost too big to fail.”

I would have agreed with that before Rings of Power.

I bought PSVR and barely used it. I’ll wait for PSVR2 to flop and pick it up at a huge discount.

I don’t think scalpers will touch this. No way near the amount of demand PS5 has.

Feels like a really bad time for Sony to be releasing an expensive and niche product like this (in the midst of a global recession lol).

@naruball well, there is TLoU2 and Horizon - not sure if Aloy is gay (I’m sure it was hinted at in Forbidden West) but they definitely made her face more ‘masculine’ in the sequel (god forbid she be seen as conventionally ‘pretty’). Female leads have to be super strong, determined and smart to be taken seriously, apparently. They certainly can’t be seen as being an object of desire for evil men, hell no. I don’t care if the lead is gay or not but I know for certain that Days Gone with a female lead (gay or straight) would have been reviewed better than it was. It would have been seen as being brave and progressive or whatever. Days Gone with an unapologetically ‘male’ lead was easy for reviewers to dismiss and write-off as a failure. The fact that it resonated so much with actual gamers speaks volumes.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I think he’s saying because the main character was like a redneck male and kind of a douchebag the game was reviewed unfairly. If the main character was a butch woman (or anything other than what it actually was), it would have been reviewed more favourably. There’s probably some truth to that. If this game was about a female biker trying to find her girlfriend, we’d probably have two or three sequels by now lol

@ItsBritneyB_tch the kind of honesty only old people can get away with without seeming mean 😂

@Constable_What most people would be disappointed but not make a fuss. Mistakes happen. I don’t think making a big deal about it on Twitter is the right way to go about it but she’s had her 15 minutes now I suppose.