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@Korgon I'm the opposite. I play fighting games to play fighting games, so the guest characters should come from fighting games. Having Negan and Noctis in Tekken 7 was a big "no" for me. The MK games' DLC feels like one big advertisment for WB film franchises at this stage.

Terry and Mai in SF6 makes sense as there's already an overlap and an existing story.

@Yagami Yeah it's nothing like that example at all.

And Nintendo are "lazy" now?

@Fishnpeas You have multiple formats for playing the same games? A fool and his money...

@Fishnpeas So you bought the same game twice? A fool and his money...

@TheMightyImp2 Your comment is a perfect reminder of why I quit trophy hunting in 2009. Talk about sucking the fun out of a game.

@Paulbuck28 That's the one, thanks! Must replay it soon, actually my favourite in the series after 2.

@RubyCarbuncle Yeah I'm aware. Nintendo clearly took their time and came to the conclusion that they can get them for the patents.

That doesn't change the fact that there's similarities and Nintendo will do whatever is in their power to stop this game. So persuing the case that has the most chance of winning makes the most sense.

@Cloud39472 It's a fighting game. These aren't exactly famed for their stories.

@Cloud39472 It's Tekken. He got chucked off a cliff at the end of Tekken 1, and Kazuya got dunked in a volcano at the end of Tekken 2.

Kazuya also happens to be, you know, the devil, there's an ancient space ninja in the cast, as well as a wrestling velociraptor.

It's not meant to be so serious.

@z0d15g0d Yeah five years after the initial release when the rest of the fanbase is getting ready to move onto the sequel.

@thefourfoldroot1 Yeah it looks to be the same as all the other games that got a PS5 remaster - TLoU Part 2, Death Stranding, GoT, Spider-Man, Uncharted 4 and the one with Chloe (can't think of what it's called right now!).

@Yagami Occam's razor my dude - they're persuing a lawsuit because just look at those characters, and the fact that the game is called "Pokémon with guns" by a lot of people. And that Nintendo are like a rabid dog protecting their IP.

In before "but we used to unlock these characters for free!".

We didn't. We unlocked a lot of pallette/model swaps with a handful of unique moves. The base roster of Tekken 8 also dwarfs the fully unlocked roster of the classic games. The movesets are also far more detailed and complex in Tekken 8.

And if we went back to the old model and you really wanted Heihachi, you'd have to wait for a brand new game.

@thefourfoldroot1 It's a native PS5 app, of course it's a new SKU. They're hardly remastering the game for PS4 (and no, there's no PS5 SKU already. There's a patch for the PS4 version to hit 60FPS only on PS5, but that's all).

@Fiendish-Beaver Then don't transfer your progress over... the trophies in this game are trivial anyways, you effectively get the platinum just for playing the content you paid for.

@Yagami Not sure anyone looked at Palworld and halted their potential Switch purchase. You don't like BotW (I don't either for what it's worth), but that doesn't change the fact that Nintendo make great games that are beloved by many, and Palworld isn't competition, rather it's trying to ride on Pokemon's coattails with blatant character design theft, and an apparent patent theft.

I can't find the quote right now, but I'm pretty sure one of the head honchos of the developer said they've little interest in making original games.

@LordAinsley I don't keep up with social media or leaks/rumours about gaming, can you recommend some of these purported "leakers" so I can review the wording they used? Because context to what they said is key here.

@LordAinsley Not knowing the details that were announced last night isn't the same thing as not knowing a sequel is being worked on.

The safe bet was that a sequel was being worked on, sure, but now its been announced with not-so-far release date. So their assumptions/guesses/insider knowledge/whatever has been proven to be correct.

@Yagami Nintendo consistently release some of the best, most creative games every generation - three of the top five games of all time on Metacritic are Nintendo. Eight of the top twenty are them. And no one is buying the Switch (which is close to being the best-selling console of all time) for its potato-spec third party ports.

These guys aren't their competitors, and the moment that footage from Palworld was first seen it screamed "Nintendo lawsuit" because, well, just look at it.

@Kidfunkadelic83 I can't imagine the FoMo for coloured faceplates being so high that you replace a perfectly working console with a new one really being much of a thing.

@LordAinsley No, we're not. This game is quite clearly Ghost of Tsushima 2. Jin's story is finished. They can't tell another one so have adopted an anthology-style progression to the universe (just like they did with inFamous Second Son).

@Dalejrfanfreak Not really. Jin was fine as a character. Not dislikeable, but not exactly memorable either. The true stars of GoT was the incredible world and atmosphere, plus the pitch perfect mechanics. Jin was just an avatar to facilitate moving through it all.

How about performance fixes for the PS5 version?

You want Sony to double down on requiring this login? Because that's how you make Sony double down on requiring this login.

Jusant being on GamePass couldn't have helped its sales.

@Weebleman All good, we're just expressing very different opinions about entertainment. And for sure, if the comments were all "I too enjoyed it" there wouldn't be much discussion.

I get that complaint about the Horizon games for sure. I think they did it well. I wanted to keep pushing on to see new machines, new environs (the eye candy served up by the Horizon games is undeniable), and in Forbidden West it feels a lot less formulaic in that the Tallnecks (Ubi-towers!) are all their own puzzle, and you have the (optional) ancient ruins as well. I also enjoyed the hunting for resources by carefully picking off the individual parts (as opposed to the Ubi method of knifing an ostrich for a bigger wallet). I'd also wouldn't look at the map unless absolutely necessary, so that enhanced the sense of discovery.

Honestly the setting is why I started Days Gone twice (once near launch when it was still buggy, and then for a gawk at it on PS5). That dank, rainy woods setting isn't a mile away from the UK/Irish countryside. But alas, it jist did not jive with me.

I haven't seen conkers on a lace in decades. Core memory unlocked! My weekend involved trying the Dragons Dogma 2 trial now that the performance has been patched up a good bit - it's in the "janky-as-hell but is much more playable" category now. And I replaced a pickup on a bass guitar. Riveting stuff altogether!

@Dudeitsme The Japanese SNES is one of the most beautiful consoles ever made.

I'm assuming the controller is the "B" revision, so the triggers (which I disabled the resistive feedback on) make a cheap plastic sound when they clap back. The launch controller and "A" revision don't do this.

Ho-hum.

@Weebleman Indeed you didn't, I used "troll" as a generic catch-all for being negative for seemingly no reason about a game.

Yeah Witcher 3 is one of my favourite games ever, I have two complete playthroughs + DLC of it done.

Horizon has similar hours. I found the world, the premise, and particularly the gameplay mechanics far more engaging than DG. The characters were merely "tolerable", which for me is all I need if everything else lines up as I've been playing games for a long time and 90% of the appeal is the gameplay.

I hope your weekend is good.

@Weebleman No, that's like saying "you can't have an opinion about that meal because you didn't clear your plate". I played enough of the game to know I despise the characters, the writing, the tone, the pacing, the done-to-death premise, the gameplay is wholesale lifted from better games that did it better.

It's my personal opinion, not a professional review. You can form a personal opinion without having to guzzle down the whole thing. I played 8 hours of the thing - that's longer than a lot of classic games. And if you're still effectively in the intro after 8 hours, then your pacing is wack - which is another common complaint about the game. The Witcher 3 and Horizon Forbidden West are much bigger games than this, and they're probably up and running after 3 hours.

And no again, it's not silly that I have pointed out others share my opinion. It goes to show that I'm not being a troll or whatever about the game - it proves that the other people have seen the exact same problems with the game that I have.

And no again I'm not being dramatic. And I never claimed others couldn't enjoy it.

@Weebleman How Long to Beat has the main story at 36 hours. So my 8 hours puts me at just under a quarter of the way through. I saw enough of it to know I genuinely despise the game. And I also reasoned that the atrocious writing and characters (which is one of the most frequent and vocal complaints leveled at the game) weren't going to magically improve, so what was the point in pushing on?

@Weebleman It's not at all dramatic. It's a subjective opinion, one that some people agree with via upvotes, and I have someone else saying thank god someone else is on the same page as them.

It's a discussion section, so I'm engaging with it via discussion.

@Nem Performance issues at launch that were long patched out. It runs almost perfect 60FPS on PS5

@Shalooda like I said, "one of", yes.

@LikelySatan Oooh yeah I had a similar experience with the bike. Trying to get it refueled was just a miserable experience. And not in the good The Last of Us Part 2 sort of miserable experience.

@Yousef- Aye up, no worries. It's clearly a marmite game; some people think it's a classic, some genuinely hate it. Gotta play it to be sure.

@McTwist Framerate in particular isn't a "shallow gimmick". Ain't no one going back to playing games with framerates from the early days of 3D.

@starbuck2212 Speak for yourself. Horizon is my favourite Sony franchise this century, while Days Gone is one of the worst games I've ever played.

I thought Hulst would have his finger on the pulse given his background, but if this turns out to be true then it's absolute insanity and shows he has no clue what he's at.

@Balaam_ That's the popular opinion. Once the dust settled it was viewed as an inferior game to 2018.

@LikelySatan It was okay mechanically, but I got the impression that it wanted to be the offspring of The Last of Us and Far Cry. Which in turn made me feel like I wanted to go play either of those games instead.

The bike being the most fuel inefficient ever built in the first few hours was also obviously "videogame-y" in a bad way.

@Ward_ting Good to know there's at least two of us! I'm genuinely baffled at how people could even tolerate these characters. I ended up muting the character dialogue after about two hours it was so incredibly bad. Even reading the subtitles annoyed the hell out of me. I abandoned the game entirely at eight hours (which is apparently the tail end of the intro that should've lasted no more than an hour).

Legitimately some of the worst writing I have ever come across in a work of fiction. And it's so utterly bemusing that your man John Garvin goes on like he wrote Anna Karenina and we just didn't understand it. I'd be embarrassed to be associated with the writing in this game.

@Yousef- No vitriol, just calling it what it is (and my opinion is hardly unique).

@SuntannedDuck2 Nah. They play games, they're gamers. Doesn't matter about their critical thinking abilities or whatever.

@PloverNutter Neither the patches or speculated PS5 remaster wipe the slate clean of the genuinely atrocious writing and characters, the awful pacing, and the gameplay that was lifted wholesale from older games that did it better.

That's why this turd got the reviews it did, not the buggy launch.

@Balaam_ Crap trophy lists tells you what the developers think - namely they don't give a fudge about trophy hunters.

Legitimately one of the worst games I've ever played in my 32 years of gaming.

If you were paying me to take a copy I'd still decline.

@Flaming_Kaiser Yep. I bought the game digitally, so I own the PS4 version as well. I haven't even been tempted to download for a look, because I know it's the same game as the PS5 version, just with potato (by comparison) graphics.

@Max_the_German You can tell which offers require PS Plus because they're all under a tab on the store titled "PS Plus Exclusive Discounts"...

Ah, anything even remotely resembling balance, we hardly knew ye.