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@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?

@wilky2988 Have you tried using the entertainment medium for entertainment?

@Oram77 *could've worked.

There goes my "no new games in 2025" promise. Gonna have RoboCop for that price (sure I spent more on two packs of KP peanuts yesterday FFS).

I also bought the System Shock remake at my local Smyth's on clearance yesterday for €15.

@DonkeyFantasy I forgot about the dialogue until you mentioned it...

It's fine as it's a new game to the PS ecosystem, ergo it gets a new game price. But there's a wedge of people who've already bought it on Xbox or PC, and an even bigger wedge that have played it via GamePass on Xbox or PC (I'm in that category with Series X that I've since sold). So a full price pickup isn't particularly appealing.

Lightbulb moment - amazing that GamePass has effectively cannibalised Microsoft's sales on a completely different platform where GP isn't even available. It really is a blight on the industry.

As is their doggy doo performance.

Absolutely not. Cannot reward a company releasing a game with such compromised performance metrics with my cash.

@ATaco Here's the thing about people who notice the framerate dipping - they're focused on the game too, but cannot help but notice the performance issues. We don't look for these issues, rather they're as obvious as can be, distractingly so.

For me it'd be like listening to a record and someone comes along and keeps turning the volume up and down.

@Toot1st Yeah my 15 year old laptop will run this like a champ.

@EfYI They don't have a "more developed" sense of car games than you, they're just saying that a game that's semi-sim where the grass and weather greatly affects your handling isn't the same thing as a (quite clearly) arcade game that lets you drive a hyper car at 350km/h through a stone wall with zero consequence aren't exactly the same.

You're basically saying a rib-eye steak and McCoy's crisps are the same because they both go "yum yum" in your mouth and taste of steak.

If there were PSVR2 versions of Astro and WipEout Omega Collection I'd bite at that price, but as it is, only GT7 really appeals.

@Neither_scene Aaannnddd Microsoft thought they could buy all those publishing houses to entice people into their walled garden, but it all blew up in their face.

So what's your point? Walled gardens is how the console industry has always worked.

@AhmadSumadi It's mind-blowing how little critical thinking is on display at times. None of these companies are our friends, but all Spencer had to do was wear a t-shirt and jeans, and have a GamerTag to have millions chanting "one of us, one of us!".

The Xbox subreddit is wild

@YoureTooSlowBro I never saw the fuss with it TBH. Like I went out of my way to decapitate some orc captain, then he shows up again an hour later with his head stitched back on and some mates in tow.

Probably gonna get Kill Knight.

Looking at The Last of Us, it's really one of those games I could play again for the first time. One of those medium-defining experiences.

Bounced off Veilguard hard. Played as the melee class and it felt like a poor cousin of GoW 2018.

Might dip in again with this and try the mage.

Absolutely sick of being gaslit by Microsoft's narrative around this. They only want their games to "reach as many as possible" because they tried to outspend the competition and still somehow utterly failed as a platform. They see the pivot to third party as the only way to claw back that 76 billion they spent. They're not some benevolent force bringing games to the masses.