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Embracer, Microsoft, Sony to a lesser degree. I think it's clear that consolidation is just mainly greed and does not benefit developers at all in terms of their job security

@Anguspuss well they still collect $70 even if people finish it after an hour

That subtitle 👌

@Ravix knowing WB they'd market the outage as a feature and charge the early access players £50 a day to play until the release.

They are constantly attempting to fan the flames out before they even appear, that is a red flag.

I have issues with the gameplay loop but the gameplay (movement, traversal, combat) looks fun, story is fun, live service elements aren't THAT intrusive. This game is likely to be a hit.

I just would've loved for this to be a SP game with a co-op online add on, like GTA. Because that gameplay loop of shoot purple thing and run across empty map just to do it again, with boss fights sprinkled in-between has no business being in a Rocksteady game or with those really good looking cinematics and story

@UltimateOtaku91 don't forget Dreams was early access too

@Konks yeah this is making a lot of sense but just wish they were more progressive with it. Give us another game like Black Flag but new story at least. I know many others will love this but just feels like a waste of development time for me

Okay so now what was the point of Skull & Bones?? Like you've just spent a decade making a game just to end up remaking the starting point.

Plus why don't they go and make a smaller scale AC game that is easy cash money. We could be Edward Kenway in his latter years or any other Assassin that everyone wants to see, like they did in Mirage. All this stuff could be so more productive but no lets go remake a game that came out on PS3 & PS4 for the PS5. Ubisoft, Bethesda, Nintendo & Rockstar are ruining forward progression

Game development and most things related to tech are so stupidly over saturated. Anyone trying to enter needs to either be extremely skilled, start off an indie studio or just go into freelance work. Too many people have access to computers (not a bad thing)

And everyone said they joined DC studios 🙄

I'm guessing GTA 6 Online will have a built-in role play server type function? That would be really cool. Hoping they bring back cops & robbers

@DragoonZied you're underestimating how much I really wanna shoot some barrels 😭

@DragoonZied where it at

Game looks great! Can't wait to play this with friends

@Dom_31 as in, it supports us players by getting enemies to group up, allowing our party members to kill them easily

The only one I'd want to play is the one with rolling barrels where the number decreases when you shoot it

I still don't understand how HZD has as many sales as this, if not more and it was a new IP. Yes I know it's been out much much longer

@TrannosaurusBex 'clickbait-ism'

Absolute shambles in this comments section

@KundaliniRising333 you have a lot of sense !

Definitely animated. I've always disliked the look for Steve. He's got a weird face

Ironically, the 2 cancelled Live Service games (that we know of) could've been the most successful. I know many here would have played Factions 2 and the the Spider-Verse one from Insomniac would've been incredible, but here's to more Single Player games that in about 5-10 years time, these same people will complain about getting stale

@sanderson72 should come in handy if I decide to use my PS4 again, thank you!

@Fyz306903 true, or they quietly push it into the start of the following year

@sanderson72 ah so you put the PS5's fans into the PS4, I read your initial comment wrong. That's really interesting, guess Sony cheaped out on the fans for last gen

@MrMagic the One X is likely running it at lower settings (textures, foliage, etc) but at a 4k resolution. The Series S is running it at similar settings but lower resolution as Series X. That's how many cross-gen releases have been. Making the Series S a very pointless console as the One X already serves that lower end purpose

@sanderson72 I've still never heard my PS5 fan, meanwhile my PS4 fan is on the minute I start any game

@MrMagic the S is truly a weird console. I think it might have the same image quality and texture settings as the Series X, just at a lower resolution but everyone would rather have 4k 60fps than 1440p

@Mikey856 hopefully it's a new IP. I really want a fantasy third-person RPG type game, kinda like Dragon Age.

MGS would be insane but wouldn't be possible due to Konami probably wanting to be all over that, plus we know Bluepoint to be working on OG content

@Mikey856 agreed, their attention to detail is top tier, PS Studios worthy. I think whatever they release should be ready by 2025-27 due to the longer production times so thinking about it, might not be ready for reveal yet

@Brawl4002 I don't think it's a remake, it's been said to be a new IP in the past I think

@Grimwood here's hoping they're ready to be revealed. Excited for what Bend studio, Firesprite and Bluepoint have been cooking up

@UltimateOtaku91 yeah I agree seems wishy washy, but also if people care so much they should go outside and touch some grass

@UltimateOtaku91 you should read comment from @ShogunRok

@pharos_haven yeah you've got a good point there 😂

@Dragoon1994 fingers crossed!

@pharos_haven but from what I've seen, Skull & Bones is atrocious. I guess theoretically they'd be able to get the game out but it would be a steaming pile of ass and is that even worth it at that point?

@Dragoon1994 yeah I think you're right, its gone or doomed. So are the days of smaller scale linear games being profitable, so don't think we'll ever see it in a form that's true to the OG idea

@Dragoon1994 yeah that's a big get! I think BGE 2 would benefit from just being a linear game with a story. From what they showed us they have the tech to make it look impressive. Doesn't need to be some big online open world game

@Dragoon1994 I fear BGE2 will never come

@CharlieChooChoo parents should protect their kids by banning them from reading PlayStation news because their kid wants to read about PlayStation news on a PlayStation news site and sees an article about a porn site. Got it 😀

@Gunnerzaurus MysticRyan really has been and still is one of the better 'gaming aggregators' that is out there. His longevity is crazy, still watch his LTPS to this day

@CharlieChooChoo nah. The overt mentioning of the porn site is the issue I have, other than that it's a laugh. And don't act stupid, how regular and accessible is it for a kid to commit war crimes or shoot people after watching/playing violent games/movies vs developing a porn addiction after watching porn.

And before you come in with "people shoot people all the time after consuming violent media", I know it happens but at a very disproportional rate compared to the young people affected by porn consumption. I am very informed in that field.

Protect the children is all I'm saying

Press release written by an English language graduate for sure. Serial Wafflers

I'm not going to lie, I started viewing this site when I was a kid. I made this account after years and years of viewing articles. This isn't very appropriate to have on here. If a kid was browsing your site, which isn't an adult site, you are directly responsible for now triggering their porn curiosity from this article.

Sony's proprietary tech for upscaling is bound to be another checkerboard-like tech. Didn't vibe with the checkerboarding on PS4 Professional. I'm not convinced PS5 Pro's will be anywhere on the level of DLSS but probably comparable to FSR which isn't anything eye catching with all the blur and shimmer.

Still, looking forward to the update though. Current gen games running in a boost mode taking base PS5 games on fidelity mode with ray tracing to 4K 60fps? A fidelity mode that ups the detail to the max, ray tracing, smooth performance, VRR that actually kicks in at low FPS, will be very very interesting to see what features they add.

Yeah it's weird not to see them release something new but we know when they drop a new game it's going to be incredible. Factions didn't work out, glad they chose sticking to what they're best at than live service. These days if you drop a multiplayer game, you need to support it for a long time, it's not worth it. Maybe instead of cancelling though it could've been given to another studio 🥲

Painful February for Rocksteady and WB incoming

It is not speculation but from those leaks we saw the other day. Not really fair for anyone to find out this way if it's true

@Bamila your knowledge needs some updating. Sony don't own everything to do with Spider-Man. Marvel sold Spider-Man MOVIE rights to Sony in the 90s. They have nothing to do with anything else. When it comes to gaming media, Marvel Entertainment still own the rights to Spider-Man. It was licensed to Activision for eons and then taken off after Activision released poor movie tie-in games repeatedly.

They took the IP to various studios and settled on PlayStation's worldwide studios because of their track record of delivering top quality single player games. That's basically it. Nothing to do with Sony having control of the movie rights. As much as PlayStation and Insomniac are reaping the rewards, it could've easily been an Xbox Studio but they were quoted to have turned it down to focus on their internal IP 🤷