The temptation is to play this with the PS5 controller speaker doing its thing, but I played the game on a good pair of headphones before and, oh my, the audio is really superb in this game, so much depth of sound that I'd missed playing it the regular way. It really is great pumped directly in to your head 😁
@SASnake oh, you thought that before it released anyway to be fair, so why did you then buy it and play it? Just to say it is bad again? 😅😅 oh well, at least Ubi got your money 😛
@SASnake I'm not arguing and im trying to keep it jovial where possible, that part just stood out to be clearly of your doing 😛 as I have stated the stealth isn't great, but then again, so what, don't actively make it worse? 😅 You don't really have to force yourself to use the tools that are there, just force yourself to not ignore them because "you can just do this instead"
I know you aren't going to change your mind, I'm just hoping you maybe don't fully ruin a playthrough for yourself by focusing on what it doesn't do well, that's all.
But as all stealth in pretty much all games is pretty sh** and illogical to some extent, I would like to know what some games that do it well are, out of discourse and intrigue as you are a lover of stealth games. And again I'm not saying this game does it well, just that there is fun to be had with it.
@SASnake yep, and the remedy when the game doesn't 'do it right', as you see it, is to make it worse for yourself? 😅
Maybe don't endlessly exploit weaknesses if it makes it less fun for yourself, and then maybe you won't hate playing it so much. Or maybe you will, fair enough. But maybe use a smoke bomb or two, or Nix commands, maybe traps on alarms, time a stun shot on an annoyingly placed guard, and use the tools the game does offer. Maybe set a challenge where you don't camp and take the guards out, but avoid them on the routes the game has for doing that, so you have to plan and time your path wisely.
I dunno, it seems you are cutting off your nose to spite your face.
And if you still don't enjoy it, it's fair enough it has its flaws. Just that part of the comment stood out to me as self destructive to your own fun.
@SASnake I get what you mean, and I don't think the stealth is great in the game, nor does it really have to be, as most of the game is not insta fail stealth like some people seem to think. It's usually stealth for a bit, checkpoint, stealth a bit more, checkpoint. Have a big fight with loads of blasters and explosions like it's Star Wars and escape.
Butttttt...
If you love stealth gameplay why the hell are you sitting in one bush and doing that, it is you that is choosing to do that, not the game 😂😂😂
It is a good 7.5-8 all things considered, so far, maybe higher if you are a proper Star Wars mega fan, or when i've finished it I might change my mind amd rescore it. I'm two planets down, and i'm saving Tatooine for the main event after going to the next. Easily plenty of fun to be had, the detail and star wars easter eggs are enough to keep anyone full for days, and the jank is part of that 😛 Star Wars is supposed to be janky and weird.
I think some of the issues with reviewers and people , are when they try to rush through the game, it is not a game to rush through, you have to go and find your way yourself in a proper RPG fashion. It is surprisingly similar in design to a proper RPG, though lacking some of those elements as it's an action stealth game. For anyone who loves a good quest log and to think about what they want to tackle next, rather than try to mainline it, it's a blast. You'd be crazy rushing from A to B, you'd miss out on so much and definitely regret it
Slowly building my Bot army ready to take over the Game Awards, presumably. When 300 are amassed we shall march on towards Geoff Keighly and flatten him into the ground
I can no longer follow the comments as words have lost all meaning to me. All I can see is Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible pulling off his face to reveal he was in fact a live service game all along. Help me 😂
I mean, it is literally the worst article I've ever seen on here, yet I can't stop looking 😂😂😂
I think at it's core it has some truth, but it is dressed in such a way that it just looks like a big F*** you to anyone who didn't mindlessly buy Concord because he actually quite liked the idea that you could pay once and get every season locked down in a live service game, before they monetised everything else later on when people were already hooked. Or not, as it turns out.
Sammy is basically a big gatcha machine stuffed full of these articles ready to drop this month, I bet. This will be our punishment 😁
Live service, also known as games as a service (GaaS), is a business model in the video game industry that provides games or game content on a continuing revenue model
Key words: business model and revenue model Adding free stuff to a single player game isn't a business model and doesn't directly generate revenue, thus it isn't a live service. Can we delete the article now? 😁
Next time just say "some elements from live service games can benefit other games" as I think that is what was meant, overall. Rather than a "gotcha, you've been playing live service all along muahahaha" article
@get2sammyb in reply to comment #17 you would then of course, because that would change the entire game and how it is played. But you can't just say "if they did that it would be" because they didn't 🤦♂️
Astro Bot and Ratchet and Clank aren't designed to be played over a year or more, with people coming back each month instead of playing some other new games, they are single player games that have a goal, a finishing point, and happened to have a bit of stuff added later. So until they are not that, they can't be seen as live service just to poke people on the internet because you love gatcha games 😛😛
If Astro Bot released and you could only play one system of planets this month and then next month more unlocked, then it would be live service, and much, much sh**ter. If they add levels in the future, fine, but it would be more akin to DLC, as I'm assuming this game has an ending. I.e collecting all the bots. After it ends, it is the end, and not "tune in next month for season 7, only £42.65. Don't forget to buy parappa the rapper in an all new never before seen hat, only £12.97"
Playing it in little bursts and making little .gifs as I go 😁
If anyone wants the Bloodborne one for their Avatar, go ahead, I have no personal experiences with that game, but it is definitely a cool Bot costume worthy of display for someone who does 😁
Got to admit when I fired up the game for a little bit it did make me want one, kind of. But I think the next controller I buy will be a hall effect controller, if there's ever some available with all the dualsense capabilities
I really hope Sony will put some money and tech support behind some indie devs who want to make similar types of games that utilise all that the Sony system has to offer in new and exciting ways.
I'm sure with the right support some really creative teams could have similar success if backed by SIE and really push the boundaries further than otherwise would be possible.
Is there a physical release? I was just browsing the weekly top tens and it hasn't broken into either of the last two weeks, even though it has sat consistently high up on the digital sales in the UK, and at times being number one overall digital.
Not that it matters a whole deal, as they will be doing backflips with 18m and rising. I was just surprised at the apparent disparity in this one. I think total UK sales should be pretty high, even if mostly digital
I was really surprised that Ubi offer all of their new games for a £15 a month rental on Ubi+premium, with all of all their other games also available if you finish the new one. Crazy, really.
No real reason to buy their games on Xbox or PC.
I wonder if publishers like UBI and Xbox (lol) realise that new games on subs is killing them slowly especially when they have to spend hundreds of millions to create a new release, and at some point your back catalogue always loses value to the consumer as you can't constantly keep up with the demand for new content to replace the games everyone has played or isn't interested in before they unsubscribe in waves.
Reuse the IP as something else entirely as no one wanted this, free or otherwise. Use meta jokes to mock the original release. See how the reception of the inclusion in that amazon show goes, build something more organic from the ground up where maybe people will discover it through other means and then maybe there will be a demand for something based on the IP. All much better than releasing something that had zero demand from the get-go.
It would be salvageable with the right minds behind it. But not the actual game, just the IP. It's a long shot, but Sony has plenty of talented people tucked away.
Failing that... it can be a tax write off, oh yes. They are always fun. Lovely stuff.
@KundaliniRising333 we know in the other cases from the studios own mouths too, to be fair, and that is kind of the point 😅
@ShogunRok is just having a dig at the other articles and the people who react to the rumoured nonsense, when it is clearly a trend that there are issues with getting games onto the Xbox ecosystem in the first place for varying reasons. Some of which are people now trying to make current gen games not series s/ps4 pro games 😅
Also, let's applaud the free marketing that the game will now generate in the coming week when certain people latch on to this 👏😁
For maybe one week some of my more heavily Fifa and CoD playing friends tried this game, before going back to, you guessed it... so it is impressive that it got them for a short while... But yeah, something about "always destined to fail"... and "99% of live service games" comes to mind.
Honestly, when it clicks you will be fine. Just spend a few seconds looking at the yellow light, and if it goes blue you know you got it. Because I'd heard people were having trouble is why I set all the stuff on mine to hard settings to give myself something to master. But I did find it surprisingly easy once I stopped doing the wrong thing as initially the description just plain fooled me 😅😅
Finished Jedi Survivor so went for Star Wars Outlaws (via Ubi+) set all the mini games to the hard settings like a true masochist, and will get stuck into that this weekend, I think. All I've done so far is walk around the first area a bit, absorbed some of the atmosphere, and picked a few locks.
FYI: Just look at the light on the right and press the prompt a couple of times in time with that, come on people, lockpicking is easy 😛😛
I may try the thing out via Ubi+ seems like the best idea. Doubt it'd take more than a month to complete at a few hours a pop anyway. And if it really clicks with me then I'll get it on PS down the line, if not £15 is better than £100 of regret 🤷♂️
If GTA 6 is £70+ for the game and £70+ for GTA online then i'd happily avoid paying for the online element as that is not something i'm personally interested in funding 👍
But overall I think everyone should buy the games they want to be made as soon as your wallet allows, and at a respectable premium price to support the fact the games you want are actually still being made in the current climate. Otherwise, its bye bye good games. But for the rest that you're not as sure about, or happy to wait for then sales and subs will suffice.
1. JCBP.
2. So would I 🔰⚔️
3. I've literally just finished Jedi Survivor, but via EA Play. So I get that aspect too, it's a game I knew I'd like, but it's also a game I know I won't play again or spend hundreds of hours on, so I didn't have any desire to buy it digitally to own it without being able to sell it, and certainly not at launch because of the issues they had with it.
4. I'd recommend going for Jedi Survivor now though, it is worth a play, for sure, whether in a sale or via ea play 😄
He said this. She said that. Ooooooooooh, it's news now.
This is an article based on an article that is based on a comment taken to mean something else entirely by someone who already had the idea in their head for another reason and corroborated by someone else "hearing something similar" 👍
It is confirmation bias running wild over the internet, and even though Sammy clearly didn't believe in his gut what he has written in the updated articles, it is now on Push Square forevermore for someone else to cite as a source until we actually hear some factual information 😅
You can always do what I did and pre order the digital gold version too, which, although may be excessive, I did because I definitely know that is the digital version, and for the collector's edition, I have no idea of its code in a box or disc, but if it is disc, I'd rather be able to actually play the game on my current digital ps5 or the pro of it's ever announced anyway 😆
@ApostateMage cheers. Haha yep, was messing around on KCD a bit, and found a hat I didn't remember even existed in the game so had to relieve a bandit of it to goof it up around the towns.
I might end up getting Outlaws when I finish Jedi Survivor anyway, I'll see if I'm still in the mood for a lighter relief type of game. If so, we can compare notes, ha.
The delay of KCD has definitely opened up the end of 2024 for other games to be bought, that's for sure. It's a long old wait now 😅
@DennisReynolds see, this is why I'm still tempted. Not everything has to set the world on fire, and most things dont anyway. Sometimes we just need popcorn entertainment and a bit of exploration. And surely it's more memorable than the acolyte, which I literally forgot I'd even seen the day after i'd finished it 😅
@ApostateMage yo, let me know via the weekend 'what are you playing' thread, or on the forum how it is when the open world opens out, if you would. I can never trust if a Liam review knocks off one or two points unfairly or not, so always prefer to see what like minded players think instead.
I couldn't make my mind up after watching a bit of gameplay, but I also made sure to kind of skip through footage so I wouldn't spoil anything either, so I couldn't gauge anything that well 😅
@get2sammyb is it not possible that "game science didn't report any tech issues to xbox" which is what the whole thing is seemingly based off, is simply just that? It doesn't mean game science lied about having issues, and it doesn't actually mean another thing happened regarding exclusivity, it just means they didn't tell them they were having issues 😅 I can't imagine the communication links between a US corporation and a Chinese company being the absolute best, for some reason anyway.
Let's wait for some actual facts at the very least, shall we? Rather than just jump at some US based news sites looking for a little clout based on a very popular game.
Trust your gut, Sammy, and if you're wrong, then it will be strange news to all of us 😅
@KillerBoy missing the point by being subjective 👀 The advice they suggested wasn't aimed at people who aren't sure if they want the game, it's aimed at people that really want the game and thus buy it on release day(-3), so it is obviously the type of game they want to play in the first place so that argument is totally moot.
It doesn't matter if it's Ubisoft, or some indie dev, if someone makes games that you know you want, you should always support them if you are able to.
Whether or not you think Ubi is worthy of this doesn't really matter as you aren't the one buying it. So you're basically saying the fun of others is not a valid reason to buy games they want 😅
Overall, I do agree with you that people should vote with their wallets... so if you do not believe the quality you want is present, dont vuy it. But on the flip side, if it's a game you want, you buy it otherwise what is the point in ever wanting anything.
@Loamy ah, thought I'd lost you. Class action would have been an entertaining twist in the tale. But i'm glad you found out anyway, as I was wondering the exact ins and outs of the issue, but didn't really know where to look.
So atleast someone can play through 1.0000 and never update and get to the end. But if they update it will kill their original save. Very strange indeed and probably quite muddy waters, no doubt covered by all the terms no one reads 😅
@Deoxyr1bose that advice is also kind of loopy if you think about it though. "If you want to buy a game that you definitely want to play then wait until it's cheap or second hand"...
...So, then what? Studios will never make any games that you want to play, as no one is buying them 🫠
I know it's Ubisoft, and I've made my thoughts clear about this f*** up, but come on... think a little about what that advice would actually mean to the industry.
@Loamy as I said in the forum, if this is the actual reason, does that mean that they released a game in its version 1.0000 state that did not function as a complete game? Testers will have seen this, surely, as it is just from regular progression, not even stress testing. So they green lit it for release in that state with the "patch later" mindset, knowing full well it was totally broken. It is fine for small glitches and random stuff in a game that still works as a complete game, but if the original game does not actually function, how can it be legal to release in that state? it really baffles the brain 🫠🫠🫠
Let's be honest. It isn't failing or could never fail because of all the online vitriol, the online vitriol was because it was always destined to fail as no one wanted the damn game to begin with. Same as SSKTJL. These could've turned out to be genuinely great, but your audience is already limited by the lack of interest to begin with.
But it's hard to make a game people want, and it's especially hard to do that with a live service game. And in a world of copying stuff, it's a huge ass risk to copy something with a 4 year dev cycle, as the thing you are copying might be as good as used toilet paper by the time you release anyway.
In some alternate universe Rocksteady made a single player Suicide Squad game with some online modes and a cosmetic store tacked on to please WB/shareholders/whoever. And Concord was a hit tv show that got adapted into a game that people wanted to play. But at least in our universe some devs got things spot on over the last few years 👍
Crimson Desert because it was a real playable game.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Not from the actual show to be honest, but via the exclusive footage they gave to some YouTubers. About 18 minutes of gameplay that really made it look like it is pretty much going to be more of the same, but enhanced and fine tuned.
Indiana Jones I don't think had a great showing at the event, other than the PS5 reveal 😉 but reading the devs talk about what makes it tick got me excited for quite a special game, that may or may not look super jank at times (which is fine if it has soul)
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Re: All PS5 Pro Compatible Games
KCD II.
TW3. Cyberpunk.
Indiana Jones 😛
Re: PS5 Pro Announced, Costs $700 and Out in November
Feel like they have to announce some actual games to soften the blow before November, at least 🫠
Re: Astro Bot (PS5) - One of the Greatest PlayStation Platformers of All Time
The temptation is to play this with the PS5 controller speaker doing its thing, but I played the game on a good pair of headphones before and, oh my, the audio is really superb in this game, so much depth of sound that I'd missed playing it the regular way. It really is great pumped directly in to your head 😁
Re: PS5 Pro Showcase Set for Tomorrow, Hosted by Mark Cerny
Break out the cerny giiiiifs. Let's goooo!
Re: Sony Increases PS5 Controller Prices in US, Europe, and More
High Costs Drifter.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Star Wars Outlaws?
@SASnake oh, you thought that before it released anyway to be fair, so why did you then buy it and play it? Just to say it is bad again? 😅😅 oh well, at least Ubi got your money 😛
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Star Wars Outlaws?
@SASnake I'm not arguing and im trying to keep it jovial where possible, that part just stood out to be clearly of your doing 😛 as I have stated the stealth isn't great, but then again, so what, don't actively make it worse? 😅 You don't really have to force yourself to use the tools that are there, just force yourself to not ignore them because "you can just do this instead"
I know you aren't going to change your mind, I'm just hoping you maybe don't fully ruin a playthrough for yourself by focusing on what it doesn't do well, that's all.
But as all stealth in pretty much all games is pretty sh** and illogical to some extent, I would like to know what some games that do it well are, out of discourse and intrigue as you are a lover of stealth games. And again I'm not saying this game does it well, just that there is fun to be had with it.
Huh! what was that noise? 😁
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Star Wars Outlaws?
@SASnake yep, and the remedy when the game doesn't 'do it right', as you see it, is to make it worse for yourself? 😅
Maybe don't endlessly exploit weaknesses if it makes it less fun for yourself, and then maybe you won't hate playing it so much. Or maybe you will, fair enough. But maybe use a smoke bomb or two, or Nix commands, maybe traps on alarms, time a stun shot on an annoyingly placed guard, and use the tools the game does offer. Maybe set a challenge where you don't camp and take the guards out, but avoid them on the routes the game has for doing that, so you have to plan and time your path wisely.
I dunno, it seems you are cutting off your nose to spite your face.
And if you still don't enjoy it, it's fair enough it has its flaws. Just that part of the comment stood out to me as self destructive to your own fun.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Star Wars Outlaws?
@SASnake I get what you mean, and I don't think the stealth is great in the game, nor does it really have to be, as most of the game is not insta fail stealth like some people seem to think. It's usually stealth for a bit, checkpoint, stealth a bit more, checkpoint. Have a big fight with loads of blasters and explosions like it's Star Wars and escape.
Butttttt...
If you love stealth gameplay why the hell are you sitting in one bush and doing that, it is you that is choosing to do that, not the game 😂😂😂
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Star Wars Outlaws?
It is a good 7.5-8 all things considered, so far, maybe higher if you are a proper Star Wars mega fan, or when i've finished it I might change my mind amd rescore it. I'm two planets down, and i'm saving Tatooine for the main event after going to the next. Easily plenty of fun to be had, the detail and star wars easter eggs are enough to keep anyone full for days, and the jank is part of that 😛 Star Wars is supposed to be janky and weird.
I think some of the issues with reviewers and people , are when they try to rush through the game, it is not a game to rush through, you have to go and find your way yourself in a proper RPG fashion. It is surprisingly similar in design to a proper RPG, though lacking some of those elements as it's an action stealth game. For anyone who loves a good quest log and to think about what they want to tackle next, rather than try to mainline it, it's a blast. You'd be crazy rushing from A to B, you'd miss out on so much and definitely regret it
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 545
Slowly building my Bot army ready to take over the Game Awards, presumably. When 300 are amassed we shall march on towards Geoff Keighly and flatten him into the ground
Re: Soapbox: Astro's Playroom PS5 Did Live Service and You Didn't Even Notice
I can no longer follow the comments as words have lost all meaning to me. All I can see is Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible pulling off his face to reveal he was in fact a live service game all along. Help me 😂
Re: Soapbox: Astro's Playroom PS5 Did Live Service and You Didn't Even Notice
@riceNpea @species
I mean, it is literally the worst article I've ever seen on here, yet I can't stop looking 😂😂😂
I think at it's core it has some truth, but it is dressed in such a way that it just looks like a big F*** you to anyone who didn't mindlessly buy Concord because he actually quite liked the idea that you could pay once and get every season locked down in a live service game, before they monetised everything else later on when people were already hooked. Or not, as it turns out.
Sammy is basically a big gatcha machine stuffed full of these articles ready to drop this month, I bet. This will be our punishment 😁
Please sir, more tomorrow
Re: Soapbox: Astro's Playroom PS5 Did Live Service and You Didn't Even Notice
Live service, also known as games as a service (GaaS), is a business model in the video game industry that provides games or game content on a continuing revenue model
Key words: business model and revenue model Adding free stuff to a single player game isn't a business model and doesn't directly generate revenue, thus it isn't a live service. Can we delete the article now? 😁
Next time just say "some elements from live service games can benefit other games" as I think that is what was meant, overall. Rather than a "gotcha, you've been playing live service all along muahahaha" article
Re: Soapbox: Astro's Playroom PS5 Did Live Service and You Didn't Even Notice
@get2sammyb in reply to comment #17 you would then of course, because that would change the entire game and how it is played. But you can't just say "if they did that it would be" because they didn't 🤦♂️
Astro Bot and Ratchet and Clank aren't designed to be played over a year or more, with people coming back each month instead of playing some other new games, they are single player games that have a goal, a finishing point, and happened to have a bit of stuff added later. So until they are not that, they can't be seen as live service just to poke people on the internet because you love gatcha games 😛😛
If Astro Bot released and you could only play one system of planets this month and then next month more unlocked, then it would be live service, and much, much sh**ter. If they add levels in the future, fine, but it would be more akin to DLC, as I'm assuming this game has an ending. I.e collecting all the bots. After it ends, it is the end, and not "tune in next month for season 7, only £42.65. Don't forget to buy parappa the rapper in an all new never before seen hat, only £12.97"
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Astro Bot?
Playing it in little bursts and making little .gifs as I go 😁
If anyone wants the Bloodborne one for their Avatar, go ahead, I have no personal experiences with that game, but it is definitely a cool Bot costume worthy of display for someone who does 😁
Re: Gallery: Astro Bot Has the Best PS5 Controller Design Yet
Astro Bot Edge - now with winky eyes.
Got to admit when I fired up the game for a little bit it did make me want one, kind of. But I think the next controller I buy will be a hall effect controller, if there's ever some available with all the dualsense capabilities
Re: Astro Bot PS5's Live Action Trailer Is a Whole Vibe
@get2sammyb booooo!
Speaking of .gifs, however 😁
Re: Astro Bot PS5's Live Action Trailer Is a Whole Vibe
Please never say "is a whole vibe" ever again, thank you 👍
Re: Astro's Playroom Is Having a Party Inside Your PS5 Right Now
I really hope Sony will put some money and tech support behind some indie devs who want to make similar types of games that utilise all that the Sony system has to offer in new and exciting ways.
I'm sure with the right support some really creative teams could have similar success if backed by SIE and really push the boundaries further than otherwise would be possible.
Re: PS5 Pro Seemingly Teased in New 30th Anniversary Artwork
@Deljo 4 stripes of hole, but 3 stripes of plastic 🫨 tell me your mind isn't blown when you look again 😛
I applaud the joke's sentiment though, Temu is a pile of sh*te 😁
Re: Astro Bot PS5 Is the Best Game of the Year So Far
F*** it, I think I might just buy it to support proper SIE game development, 30 years of Sony, pure fun, and the fact it isn't a live service game.
The fact that it nailed it (of course they did) is just gravy now. Platform games aren't really my thing, but I bet I will still enjoy my time on it.
Weeeeeeee!
Re: Astro Bot (PS5) - One of the Greatest PlayStation Platformers of All Time
What, no special one off score of 11? 😛
Re: Black Myth: Wukong's Sales Top 18 Million in Two Weeks on PS5, PC
Is there a physical release? I was just browsing the weekly top tens and it hasn't broken into either of the last two weeks, even though it has sat consistently high up on the digital sales in the UK, and at times being number one overall digital.
Not that it matters a whole deal, as they will be doing backflips with 18m and rising. I was just surprised at the apparent disparity in this one. I think total UK sales should be pretty high, even if mostly digital
Re: Star Wars Outlaws, XDefiant Disappointments Pour Pain on Ubisoft's Share Prices
I was really surprised that Ubi offer all of their new games for a £15 a month rental on Ubi+premium, with all of all their other games also available if you finish the new one. Crazy, really.
No real reason to buy their games on Xbox or PC.
I wonder if publishers like UBI and Xbox (lol) realise that new games on subs is killing them slowly especially when they have to spend hundreds of millions to create a new release, and at some point your back catalogue always loses value to the consumer as you can't constantly keep up with the demand for new content to replace the games everyone has played or isn't interested in before they unsubscribe in waves.
Re: PS5, PC Shooter Concord Dead on Arrival, Is Being Taken Offline This Week as Dev 'Explores Options'
Reuse the IP as something else entirely as no one wanted this, free or otherwise. Use meta jokes to mock the original release. See how the reception of the inclusion in that amazon show goes, build something more organic from the ground up where maybe people will discover it through other means and then maybe there will be a demand for something based on the IP. All much better than releasing something that had zero demand from the get-go.
It would be salvageable with the right minds behind it. But not the actual game, just the IP. It's a long shot, but Sony has plenty of talented people tucked away.
Failing that... it can be a tax write off, oh yes. They are always fun. Lovely stuff.
Re: Just Like Black Myth: Wukong, PS5 Action RPG Enotria Is Delayed Indefinitely on Xbox
@KundaliniRising333 we know in the other cases from the studios own mouths too, to be fair, and that is kind of the point 😅
@ShogunRok is just having a dig at the other articles and the people who react to the rumoured nonsense, when it is clearly a trend that there are issues with getting games onto the Xbox ecosystem in the first place for varying reasons. Some of which are people now trying to make current gen games not series s/ps4 pro games 😅
Also, let's applaud the free marketing that the game will now generate in the coming week when certain people latch on to this 👏😁
Re: Rumour: Ubisoft Live Service Shooter XDefiant on Brink of Being Shut Down
For maybe one week some of my more heavily Fifa and CoD playing friends tried this game, before going back to, you guessed it... so it is impressive that it got them for a short while... But yeah, something about "always destined to fail"... and "99% of live service games" comes to mind.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 544
@KilloWertz
Quite hypnotic 😁
Honestly, when it clicks you will be fine. Just spend a few seconds looking at the yellow light, and if it goes blue you know you got it. Because I'd heard people were having trouble is why I set all the stuff on mine to hard settings to give myself something to master. But I did find it surprisingly easy once I stopped doing the wrong thing as initially the description just plain fooled me 😅😅
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 544
Finished Jedi Survivor so went for
Star Wars Outlaws (via Ubi+) set all the mini games to the hard settings like a true masochist, and will get stuck into that this weekend, I think. All I've done so far is walk around the first area a bit, absorbed some of the atmosphere, and picked a few locks.
FYI: Just look at the light on the right and press the prompt a couple of times in time with that, come on people, lockpicking is easy 😛😛
Edit: game looks great
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Star Wars Outlaws?
I may try the thing out via Ubi+ seems like the best idea. Doubt it'd take more than a month to complete at a few hours a pop anyway. And if it really clicks with me then I'll get it on PS down the line, if not £15 is better than £100 of regret 🤷♂️
Re: How Much Would You Pay for Your PS5 Games? Dev Says Industry Is Waiting for GTA 6 to Hike Prices
If GTA 6 is £70+ for the game and £70+ for GTA online then i'd happily avoid paying for the online element as that is not something i'm personally interested in funding 👍
But overall I think everyone should buy the games they want to be made as soon as your wallet allows, and at a respectable premium price to support the fact the games you want are actually still being made in the current climate. Otherwise, its bye bye good games. But for the rest that you're not as sure about, or happy to wait for then sales and subs will suffice.
Re: How Much Would You Pay for Your PS5 Games? Dev Says Industry Is Waiting for GTA 6 to Hike Prices
@EfYI
1. JCBP.
2. So would I 🔰⚔️
3. I've literally just finished Jedi Survivor, but via EA Play. So I get that aspect too, it's a game I knew I'd like, but it's also a game I know I won't play again or spend hundreds of hours on, so I didn't have any desire to buy it digitally to own it without being able to sell it, and certainly not at launch because of the issues they had with it.
4. I'd recommend going for Jedi Survivor now though, it is worth a play, for sure, whether in a sale or via ea play 😄
Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Collector's Edition Is a Medieval Masterpiece
@Fiendish-Beaver oh dear, oh dear. I suppose it will stack well with any of your other collector's editions boxes, at least 😂😂
Re: Dramatic Conflicts as Sony Accused of Signing Secret PS5 Exclusivity with Black Myth: Wukong
The whole saga:
He said this. She said that. Ooooooooooh, it's news now.
This is an article based on an article that is based on a comment taken to mean something else entirely by someone who already had the idea in their head for another reason and corroborated by someone else "hearing something similar" 👍
It is confirmation bias running wild over the internet, and even though Sammy clearly didn't believe in his gut what he has written in the updated articles, it is now on Push Square forevermore for someone else to cite as a source until we actually hear some factual information 😅
Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Collector's Edition Is a Medieval Masterpiece
@Fiendish-Beaver no problem 😄
You can always do what I did and pre order the digital gold version too, which, although may be excessive, I did because I definitely know that is the digital version, and for the collector's edition, I have no idea of its code in a box or disc, but if it is disc, I'd rather be able to actually play the game on my current digital ps5 or the pro of it's ever announced anyway 😆
Re: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Collector's Edition Is a Medieval Masterpiece
@Fiendish-Beaver PC collector's edition available on Amazon UK earlier if that's any use to you 👍👍
Re: Star Wars Outlaws (PS5) - Open World Pledge Produces a Superficial Space Outing
@ApostateMage cheers. Haha yep, was messing around on KCD a bit, and found a hat I didn't remember even existed in the game so had to relieve a bandit of it to goof it up around the towns.
I might end up getting Outlaws when I finish Jedi Survivor anyway, I'll see if I'm still in the mood for a lighter relief type of game. If so, we can compare notes, ha.
The delay of KCD has definitely opened up the end of 2024 for other games to be bought, that's for sure. It's a long old wait now 😅
Re: Star Wars Outlaws (PS5) - Open World Pledge Produces a Superficial Space Outing
@DennisReynolds see, this is why I'm still tempted. Not everything has to set the world on fire, and most things dont anyway. Sometimes we just need popcorn entertainment and a bit of exploration. And surely it's more memorable than the acolyte, which I literally forgot I'd even seen the day after i'd finished it 😅
Re: Star Wars Outlaws (PS5) - Open World Pledge Produces a Superficial Space Outing
@ApostateMage yo, let me know via the weekend 'what are you playing' thread, or on the forum how it is when the open world opens out, if you would. I can never trust if a Liam review knocks off one or two points unfairly or not, so always prefer to see what like minded players think instead.
I couldn't make my mind up after watching a bit of gameplay, but I also made sure to kind of skip through footage so I wouldn't spoil anything either, so I couldn't gauge anything that well 😅
Re: Sony Accused of Signing Secret PS5 Console Exclusivity Agreement with Black Myth: Wukong
@Oram77 yeeee hawww. I'll drink to that. Sources rule!!
Re: Sony Accused of Signing Secret PS5 Console Exclusivity Agreement with Black Myth: Wukong
@get2sammyb is it not possible that "game science didn't report any tech issues to xbox" which is what the whole thing is seemingly based off, is simply just that? It doesn't mean game science lied about having issues, and it doesn't actually mean another thing happened regarding exclusivity, it just means they didn't tell them they were having issues 😅 I can't imagine the communication links between a US corporation and a Chinese company being the absolute best, for some reason anyway.
Let's wait for some actual facts at the very least, shall we? Rather than just jump at some US based news sites looking for a little clout based on a very popular game.
Trust your gut, Sammy, and if you're wrong, then it will be strange news to all of us 😅
Re: Rumour: PS5 Pro Design Seemingly Leaked
@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare
I'm simply saying to people worrying about being able to play their games to remember that Sony sells their drives seperately already.
I'm not responding to people slating "paying extra" for a disc drive.
Re: Rumour: PS5 Pro Design Seemingly Leaked
Why have so many people forgotten that Sony now sells its disc drives seperately? 👀 calm down everyone.
Re: PS5 Fans Who Paid $110 for Star Wars Outlaws Early Access Asked to Restart Saves
@KillerBoy missing the point by being subjective 👀 The advice they suggested wasn't aimed at people who aren't sure if they want the game, it's aimed at people that really want the game and thus buy it on release day(-3), so it is obviously the type of game they want to play in the first place so that argument is totally moot.
It doesn't matter if it's Ubisoft, or some indie dev, if someone makes games that you know you want, you should always support them if you are able to.
Whether or not you think Ubi is worthy of this doesn't really matter as you aren't the one buying it. So you're basically saying the fun of others is not a valid reason to buy games they want 😅
Overall, I do agree with you that people should vote with their wallets... so if you do not believe the quality you want is present, dont vuy it. But on the flip side, if it's a game you want, you buy it otherwise what is the point in ever wanting anything.
Re: PS5 Fans Who Paid $110 for Star Wars Outlaws Early Access Asked to Restart Saves
@Loamy ah, thought I'd lost you. Class action would have been an entertaining twist in the tale. But i'm glad you found out anyway, as I was wondering the exact ins and outs of the issue, but didn't really know where to look.
So atleast someone can play through 1.0000 and never update and get to the end. But if they update it will kill their original save. Very strange indeed and probably quite muddy waters, no doubt covered by all the terms no one reads 😅
Re: PS5 Fans Who Paid $110 for Star Wars Outlaws Early Access Asked to Restart Saves
@Deoxyr1bose that advice is also kind of loopy if you think about it though. "If you want to buy a game that you definitely want to play then wait until it's cheap or second hand"...
...So, then what? Studios will never make any games that you want to play, as no one is buying them 🫠
I know it's Ubisoft, and I've made my thoughts clear about this f*** up, but come on... think a little about what that advice would actually mean to the industry.
Re: PS5 Fans Who Paid $110 for Star Wars Outlaws Early Access Asked to Restart Saves
@Loamy as I said in the forum, if this is the actual reason, does that mean that they released a game in its version 1.0000 state that did not function as a complete game? Testers will have seen this, surely, as it is just from regular progression, not even stress testing. So they green lit it for release in that state with the "patch later" mindset, knowing full well it was totally broken. It is fine for small glitches and random stuff in a game that still works as a complete game, but if the original game does not actually function, how can it be legal to release in that state? it really baffles the brain 🫠🫠🫠
Re: Talking Point: Can PS5, PC Shooter Concord Be Saved?
Let's be honest. It isn't failing or could never fail because of all the online vitriol, the online vitriol was because it was always destined to fail as no one wanted the damn game to begin with. Same as SSKTJL. These could've turned out to be genuinely great, but your audience is already limited by the lack of interest to begin with.
But it's hard to make a game people want, and it's especially hard to do that with a live service game. And in a world of copying stuff, it's a huge ass risk to copy something with a 4 year dev cycle, as the thing you are copying might be as good as used toilet paper by the time you release anyway.
In some alternate universe Rocksteady made a single player Suicide Squad game with some online modes and a cosmetic store tacked on to please WB/shareholders/whoever. And Concord was a hit tv show that got adapted into a game that people wanted to play. But at least in our universe some devs got things spot on over the last few years 👍
can't win 'em all 🙄
Re: Poll: What PS5 Game Had the Best Showing at Gamescom 2024?
Best showing?
Crimson Desert because it was a real playable game.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Not from the actual show to be honest, but via the exclusive footage they gave to some YouTubers. About 18 minutes of gameplay that really made it look like it is pretty much going to be more of the same, but enhanced and fine tuned.
Indiana Jones I don't think had a great showing at the event, other than the PS5 reveal 😉 but reading the devs talk about what makes it tick got me excited for quite a special game, that may or may not look super jank at times (which is fine if it has soul)