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@OldGamer999 It's an effectively dead format, absolutely nothing strange about stock shortages.

I played most of the MCC in 2023 when I had a Series X and honestly, these games are largely dated.

I'm not questioning their standing or the magnitude of how influencial they are, rather they're old and it shows (not being able to ADS in the older games was a genuine LOL moment for me). Combat Evolved will have released a quarter of a century ago in 2026.

@Thatguyoverthere KC2 needing less sales to be a success for the devs/publishers is here nor there in this conversation. The conversation is about how many sales of KC2 will directly impact sales of AC Shadows?

Seeing as KC2 is ultimately a niche, hardcore RPG and and AC is one of the biggest franchises in gaming for over the last decade-and-a-half (with the sort of brand recognition that you can't even buy), the answer is "not a lot".

@Th3solution I'm a fan of the game since its original release. Put about 120 hours into it between release in April that year and December.

If the difficulty has been nuked since then that's kinda disappointing as the challenge (AKA not being able to play it on autopilot like far too many modern games) was part of the appeal to begin with (despite the fact that it's nowhere close to the difficulty of Nex Machina).

Power to them. Returnal is (after Street Fighter 6 - I am a fighting game dork) my favourite game this gen, Nex Machina is an underrated, modern classic, and I'm still playing Resogun since it launched over eleven years ago.

@Thatguyoverthere You reckon Kingdom Come is bigger than AC?

Like it or not, AC prints money for Ubisoft.

@Romans12 Out of Nintendo's four home systems this century, the GameCube was a relative flop, Wii did well, Wii U was a disaster, Switch did amazing.

And "why do you worship the smaller multibillon dollar mega corp" sure is a take... (despite the fact that Nintendo's market cap is just above half of Sony's).

@HonestHick That's partially why I mentioned the Wii U - 13 million sales total, and was taken out back by Nintendo and put down. PS Vita sold about 15 million, was decently powerful for a handheld and all of this happened to it too.

I agree with your other points though.

@HonestHick Because sales are in fact a partial determiner of the fun you'll have with a product.

If the PS5 was a lame duck in terms of sales, third parties wouldn't release as much content on it as they do, (and it would probably be less polished due to their projected sales), and the officially supported lifespan of the device itself would be shortened.

Funnily enough, the Switch's predecessor - the Wii U - is a textbook example of this.

@djlard A take so hot that it spontaneously melted the frost on my windows.

If you think the PS5's library is simply shinier versions of the PS4's, then boy oh boy are you gonna be disappointed with Switch 2.

I'm going with "series is massively overrated to begin with others have cottoned on to that".

Bull-shots have to be one of the most pointless things in gaming.

Always shut it down when it's not in use.

Controllers are charged from a wall outlet beside my couch, so I stick them on that whenever it occurs to me (and I'm home - never leave stuff charging unattended).

@tgt MadWorld is okay, but isn't representative of Platinum's true heights, namely Bayonetta (the best character action game, ever), and Vanquish (the best third person shooter, ever).

Returnal is my favourite game this decade, Vanquish and Bayonetta are two of my all-timers, so this will do very nicely indeed.

@Max_the_German That's entirely subjective, just like someone preferring baggy clothes vs. tight fitting.

Being real for a minute, the Xbox controller murders me with cramp. The PlayStation controller (any of them), doesn't.

Can't get a Dualsense Edge stick module near me for love nor money.

There's not really a lot to "celebrate" with here. I might give the game another run through this year though.

I bought NFS the moment it released,. amazing game.

Been meaning to give Stanley a whirl.

Suicide Squad... I'll claim it, might give it a look over some rainy weekend out of curiosity.

Good month overall.

Considering they built the entire brand in the early days on the sheer cool of WipEout, it's crimal how neglected it is.

Just give us some games that aren't third person action adventures. I love, love, love a lot of their games - TLoU, Horizon, GoT, Returnal, and yes, they are all different, but the diversity in their line up is long gone, and frankly I'm getting bored of the brand.

@Romans12 Not really. They were paid handsomely to keep this game off Xbox. They 100% sat down, estimated their profits from releasing on Xbox and decided that the big bag of cash that Sony waved at them was more profitable.

@KundaliniRising333 I didn't actually excuse it, I said your criticism is valid (and for what it's worth, I wholeheartedly agree with you there).

You're conflating "unfinished" with "unpolished". It's a finished product, just not a necessarily polished one (even if it is actually well polished outside of the low resolution and typical UE4 asset issues).

@KundaliniRising333 Whatever gripes you have about the IQ in performance mode are valid, but to claim this game is unfinished is nonsense.

@UltimateOtaku91 Those protagonists aren't comparable. One bunch is the waifu fantasy, the other a male power fantasy.

@DrClayman My point is cheap titillation was used in place of an overall superior product because it sells and is a whole lot easier to implement.

If this game had a gruff dude named ADAM as the protagonist it would have been long forgotten as the poorer version of Metal Gear Rising and Sekiro that it clearly is.

Okay Herman,wake me up when there's a new WipEout.

@marktehshark69 No, it's not.

@Corc11 And I think it's even crazier to conflate quality with gestation time.

@Balaam_ I'd sooner give up gaming entirely than consume them like you do. It all sounds so utterly miserable, which is quite an achievement when gaming is a form of entertainment.

Genuine question - is Infinite Wealth as utterly disrespectful of the player's time as other Yakuza games? The first few hours of LaD were so slow I thought it was trolling. Also played Zero, 5, 6, and they all took an age to get going.

There's a lot to love about the series, but so far my experiences says the pacing isn't part of that.

@EfYI Was my first one too. Also the first game that I maxed out the timer on the save file for.

I'm cool with this. Not my favourite game of the year, but a jolly good time nevertheless.

The wheels came off it in the last 20% or so. There was definitely a bit of fat that could've been trimmed off its bones. Ditto with the mini games. I also found navigation in Cosmo Canyon (and one of the other areas; I haven't played this game since a month after release so can't remember) a chore. And let's not forget the visual soup that is performance mode.

Still though, love the combat, love Queen's Blood, and the soundtrack is the best of the year.

@Blauwe_Chimay Yup, probably never happening now that a lot of the main Platinum heads have moved on.

@Northern_munkey You too, hope it's a Helldivers-y one.

Enjoyed about 30 hours of it, but had to drop it due to the shocking performance. Navigation did become a bit of a chore after a while. I like wandering off and exploring, but having to walk the exact same roads and fight the exact same small handful of enemy types got repetitive a million times over loses its charm eventually.

@Champalimo Settings > Controller (General) > Controller Speaker > slide the bar all the way to the left to route all controller audio to play with the rest of the audio on your TV.

Works the same on PS4 too.

@Blauwe_Chimay Yes? Why would I comment if I didn't play it? Compared to Vanquish and Titanfall 2 it's janky.

@Northern_munkey Definitely not taking the wee-wee. My two standards for any kind of shooters are Titanfall 2 and Vanquish, so I guess everything else feels janky in comparison.

Glad to hear you found such comfort in it and the people you got playing with in it.
That's why I was careful to say that some of the randos you can be teamed with are toxic, not the playerbase in general. But sure enough when stuff hits the fan, instead of laughs you'd get a sweat raging on the mic. Even had one guy chase me down and repeatedly kill me because he walked under my respawn pod. Ugh.

Had a similar experience myself in terms of life low point and I used to have a bit of relief playing TLoU Factions (on PS3!), and yeah, cannot thank those heads enough and the bit of relief playing a few matches online brought.

Hope life is being kinder to you of late.

@Champalimo You can toggle pretty much all the Dualsense features on and off at the system level.

Got bored of the janky controls, developers who don't understand balancing around "fun", and some of the ultra-toxic sweats you end up in random matches pretty quickly.

Meh/10.

@Diowine Well I can only speak for myself and no one else. So yeah, bum deal.

They all want a piece of the pie, yet miss the fact that PS Plus numbers are only what they are due to the need for online play, and (with the higher tiers) the gargantuan selection of games. Sega can't offer either of those things.

As it is, you'll probably get people subbing for a month or two to play the Sega game they want, and then tapping out. Which in turn loses them a boatload of cash from sales.

Watching the industry slowly eat itself sure is a wild ride.

Own everything I want to play from here already. Subscriptions are a bum deal.

@LavenderShroud There's a marked difference between commenting on a game that isn't for you and making valid comments and engaging in discourse about exploitative garbage like this. Plenty of people in the thread agree with me, BTW.

But if you don't like my comments and they're "clearly not for you", you are more than welcome to follow your own advice "just let them go" and stop telling me what to do ☺️

@LifeGirl

That's because editorial standards nowadays range from lazy to amateurish. Capitalising every word besides the connecting words such as to, if, of etc. is how it has been done for hundreds of years. I'm curious as to why you were not taught this at school, unless educational standards have also dropped that far.

Ironic, because there's different styles that follow different rules and there's no one true correct way to do it.

I'm curious as to why you weren't thought this in school...

@dskatter Nothing to do with standards. There's different styles depending on who you're writing for (as in, reputable publishing entities, not just entertainment websites).

@16BitHero Yet Sony's sales are still more plentiful than Xbox's, and have deeper discounts than Nintendo.

I've bought games over the years from PSN for pocket change. Like I'm really not gonna be annoyed that a game on PSN was €5 and the same game on Steam was €4.50.