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@PuppetMaster I'm half hoping some of the dorks in my local - and very small - FGC do jump ship as they're all glued to T8 and poor ol' SF6 hardly gets a look in!

Heck, they play Strive more than 6 lol.

I stopped playing this game ages ago (it pales in comparison to Street Fighter 6), but I'm playing a local tourney over the weekend and I main Paul lol.

@themightyant Here's the prices on Nintendo Ireland's site...

https://store.nintendo.ie/en/nintendo-switch-2

@Vaako007 Gaming as a hobby when compared to the number of hours of entertainment you can extract from it is relatively cheap.

The amount of money I've spent on CDs, records, audio equipment, going to gigs, and musical instruments over the years dwarfs what I've spent on a sizeable gaming set up.

@Vaako007 But a good 1v1 fighting game is a massively complex thing to create.

@Rich33 I was just perusing the Nintendo Ireland site, Mario Kart World is listed at €80 for digital, €90 for physical.

ITT - lot of people not understanding how billion dollar corporations do business.

I get I'm not the target market for this, but I've a 65" LGC3 for a reason.

I'd rather just read a book than muddle through on a tiny screen if I'm on the go.

Tekken 8 is a textbook example of change for the sake of change (and change that makes it worse too).

@Dampsponge Because you can still shop around for a deal (my local retailer had it physically for €10 less than the PS Store on launch day), or borrow a copy from a friend/the library, and you can still resell it after you finish (I'll be getting €50 for my copy).

Now that's not to say I don't agree with you broadly - it's nonsense that a complete v.1.00 of the game isn't on the disc, but with physical continuing on its slow death march, I'll take the "win" of still being able to walk into a shop and buy it on disc.

@Nakatomi_Uk Objectively wrong. Sony's remasters have been great. There's a genuine generational leap between The Last of Us Remastered on PS5 and Part 1 on PS5. Ditto Demon's Souls Remake. Ditto Horizon Zero Dawn.

Stuff like TLoU Part 2, GoT, Death Stranding, etc. aren't quite as obvious with their jump in quality, but no one's opting for the PS4 versions when the PS5 versions exist.

And they clearly are wanted and sell - otherwise we wouldn't have so many.

"I'm dog tired, boss".

"Like" 👍

(Filler text because reasons lol).

@Cry_Zero So what missions have you done? What sort of build are you going for with the two characters? Are you not impressed by the seasons and how they affect the world? The weather and atmospheric systems? The overall aesthetic design of the world? The pretty much locked 60FPS at launch?

If the game doesn't tickle you then that's fine (though if you're 50 hours into it then it's clearly doing a lot right), but it's objectively a well-made game - RDR2 bores me to tears, but I can still see it's a well made game.

2016 is one of my favourite games of that decade, but Eternal turned out to be one of my all-time biggest disappointments. It was more akin to a cool-down management sim with some of the worst 3D platforming welded onto it for good measure.

I wish I had this sort of money when I was 14...

@EddieGallad Ironic that you're pissing your pants about the game being "offensive" while spewing homophobia.

@Cry_Zero Plot twist - Ubisoft Quebec have done a brilliant job with Shadows, it's a fantastic game.

@Oram77 An hour of Starfield is what prompted me to box up my Series X and sell it.

Oddly enough, I sold it to a buddy who was looking to buy a Series X to play Starfield, and even he thought it was meh.

@PuppetMaster That's the beauty of it. I don't mind losing because I'm a good learner and pick up stuff from the fine art of getting owned.

And it can remind me too of my strengths too - I fought a fellow (at the time) Diamond 5 Blanka, and he was pulling off combos that I just don't have the manual dexterity to do myself. I had better footsies and punishes though, and won the set 2-0.

Kim and Cammy I don't mind, a decent Bison has crazy damage output, and I kinda dropped the game when Mai came out, so haven't learned the matchup very well.

Honda still clowns me when I'm Blanka, and JP is a nightmare to approach as Honda.

I'm fizzy just talking about the game now. I'm getting ready to head out this evening but kinda want to raincheck to hit up Metro City!

@PuppetMaster Yeah I take my lickings and see them as part of the process, though a losing streak is part of the learning process. I think I lost eight of my first ten fights in Master with Blanka, then didn't play for a bit. Then I hopped on and tried a Blanka specific tournament and danced through it.

Particularly some of the 5 characters - Luke and Rashid are great in this.

You wrote a great reply to nomithir6 there too.

@PuppetMaster Hell yeah. I'll be back with bells on for Elena. The job they've done on every single character is immaculate. And I'm maining characters in this (Blanka, Honda, Bison, Manon) I would have barely touched before, so I'm excited to see how Elena plays.

I've been playing fighting games since SF2 on the SNES, and I've owned and played most of the obvious ones. At the minute installed on my PS5 - though not necessarily getting much play - is Blazblue Centralfiction, Chronophantasma Extend, Crosstag Battle, DoA5, DBFZ, Garou MotW, Guilty Gear Xrd Rev. 2 and Strive, MvC Infinite, MK11, Injustice 2, KoF 2000, 14, Collection, SamSho Neogeo Collection, Skullgirls 2nd Encore, Soul Calibur 6, SF 30th Anniversary Collection, SF5 Champ Ed., SF6, Tekken 2, 7, 8, Ultimate MvC3, Under Night In-Birth Exe, Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown... you get the gist that I certainly like my fighting games. Hand on heart I think SF6 is possibly my favourite fighting game ever (and already in my top three videogames of all-time).

I'm only taking a break from it right now as I've a pile of other games that I haven't even got around to booting up because of it!

@Majin_Deicide I'm the opposite. Have about 80 hours on Tekken 8 and I'll never play it again.

SF6 I've 600 hours and counting.

Was excited for half a second at the thought of Gradius V being available. Sigh.

I'd happily take a 60FPS patch for the existing Batman games on PS5.

@Wiceheid You missed No. 4 - people who don't want what is a very obvious cynical ploy to bring in more consumers by including a fella (who has nothing to do with martial arts) who is paid almost four million euros per week to be really good at kicking a ball included in what is supposed to be an escapist fantasy.

I didn't enjoy the beta like I had hoped, but the game was still a buy. After this nonsense? Not a chance.

+1 here for the RoboCop weekend sale.

@SystemAddict According to Digital Foundry's tech review, the homestead swaps into quality mode to employ the ray traced global illumination as seen in that mode.

Really have to question the logic though - if I'm tickety boo with the hit to the lighting and IQ in general for 99% of my time playing the game, why force it on me for that one particular section?

The "boo-hoo for us" narrative from publishers around the secondhand market has always been nonsense.

The vast majority of people selling on their games have little intention of returning to them (so they'd be gathering dust on a shelf), and they use the funds to buy more games. The ability to sell on games quite literally drove the new game market.

I've been no-lifing this these last few days (about 25 hours in) and I have to say, I'd be a lot more inclined to buy games at launch if they launched with this much polish.

An all-time classic, pumped about 200 hours into it plus the DLC, but suffers from a similar issue I have with most Fromsoftware releases, namely the back end/final 20% or so is a step down in quality.

@PuppetMaster As someone that's been playing Tekken almost as long as Street Fighter (which is to say, since the mid 1990s), this would probably be only top five most frustrating things about T8.

A real "swing and a miss" game. Lots of changes that feel just for the sake of change.

@lazarus11 Yeah it's nauseating. Especially when people are saying the industry would be better off without them - no Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, no PoP The Sands of Time, no Beyond Good & Evil, no AC2, no Rayman Legends, etc. That to me is definitely a weaker industry.

I forgot to mention how their games go into such frequent and deep discounts it's basically a meme. And yet that's supposed to be a bad thing (which to me is the logic of someone who never owned a Nintendo console - their games are pretty much locked to full price).

@themightyant I still can't understand why Bluepoint were purchased and then pivoted to an original game. Their work on the DS and SotC Remakes were sensational and fulfilled a niche that we don't really see elsewhere in the industry. Sony also have a stack of dormant IP that could truly shine with their work.

It's a bit like hiring an amazing guitarist for your band because of their jazz ability, and then once they're in telling them not to play jazz.

The discourse around this game and Ubisoft in general is exhausting. They've gone and delayed this multiple times and instead launched with a polished product a bit later (that's both a good videogame and an impressive achievement with the tech - go watch DF's video) - precisely what people have been crying out for.

They also support their games for what feels like an eternity - R6 is how many years on the go now?

They also pumped out more (free) 60FPS patches for their old games on PS5/XSX than any other company.

They're also one of the few companies that actually has a steady cadence of releases. I know I was enjoying PoP The Lost Crown when there wasn't a lot else. I was also enjoying Fenyx at PS5 launch (once I NG++++'d Demon's Souls). And FC6, Motorfest, Valhalla, Avatar.

They are of course miles away from being some benevolent force - no gaming company is. But they've also done a lot right, and it's become face-palmingly frustrating that the discourse seems to be as nuanced as "blacker than a black hole" or "retina-detaching white", with nothing in between.

@graymamba That's it exactly. Inference - we hardly knew ye.

Bought it today. First three hours have been rather tedious and directionless.

Edit - it really starts picking up after the first five hours or so. Really enjoying it now, and the seasonal changes are quite cool.

@Cornpop76 @Titntin Yeah more options for all is the business. I was always happy with the 30Hz that most games aimed for over the PS3 and 4 generations, but PS5 has spoiled me. Hard to look at anything that isn't 60.

Hahaha, sound advice about not starting with 60. My thing is I find 40 "weird" to look at as it just hasn't been a thing until this gen on consoles.

@wildcat_kickz @Boxmonkey Yip. I maintain it's an incredible experience, just not necessarily a "fun" one.

One of the best games of last gen, but also one of the few that were genuinely emotionally draining to the point where I've yet to replay it (and I have the PS5 version since it released).

That choppy animation is a big no-no.

@Titntin I find 40FPS fascinating as I just cannot use it. There's a weird, uncanny feeling to it that's undoubtedly a product of a lifetime exposure to 25/50Hz, 30/60Hz games.

Found Exodus borderline unplayable on PS5 due to the controls.

Bulletstorm is legit one of the best FPS games ever, so this is potentially very cool.

It's not early access, it's delayed access for people who want to pay the regular price.

@Oram77 Thought it was garbage. Dull and repetitive open world, simplified Team Ninja combat, doggy-doo performance in a game that wouldn't look out of place in the early PS4 days.

PoP is a fantastic game. A mate borrowed it before I finished it, and never gave it back (the bugger), so I'll get to roll the credits.

How autonomously does Activision operate under Microsoft? Surely the green light (Xbox pun intended) for this comes from above Activision's heads?