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Has anyone found a way to auto-upload the automatic captures that happen when you get a trophy? Mine seems to only auto-upload screenshots and videos that I take manually. I also haven’t found a way to manually select captures to upload, so it seems like there’s no way to upload Platinum trophy shots.

Good. They need to fix it.

If they have plans to add more content to avoid the need to replay races over and over, then why reduce the rewards now and not later when that content is available?

As far as making the cars in-game prices relative to their real world prices: did they not do that in all the previous games by making some cars more expensive than others? Why bring that up at all in this statement if it’s what you’ve always done?

I don’t really have a problem with the pricing since I’m fine grinding out races in a racing game that plan on playing for a long time to come, but it’s clear now that microtransactions are the big motivating factor for these changes and Sony is just straight up lying about it.

This looks a bit bland in the gameplay department. Does anyone here have experience with the series that could vouch for its quality?

Finally! Been waiting to play this since the announcement last year. I was really hoping this would be out before Dying Light 2, but this is close enough. By the time I’m done with DL1, DL2 could be in a much cleaner state

@Yinx dog?

Good to see no one in the media is explaining that the MXT in GT7 are completely optional and NOT NEEDED AT ALL if you plan on actually playing the game (keep up the good work everyone). You make plenty of credits through normal play to buy 90% of the cars in the game and you may have to grind a bit — not a lot — for the other 10%. But grinding in this game just means more racing, which is the entire point of the game. So unless you’re buying a racing game so you can skip all the racing and just collect all the cars as fast as possible then you have ZERO NEED to ever buy a the microtransactions.

If you’re buying the game to collect all the cars ASAP and don’t care about the actual racing to the point where you spend real money on your favorite cars then maybe you should just do a Google image search for the car you want. Because that’s essentially what you’re getting if you’re not doing actual racing: you’re spending real world money on a jpeg you could have for free.

Picked up Scarlet Nexus to play…someday… after Horizon, Elden Ring, Gran Turismo, Stranger of Paradise, and Cyberpunk… Probably could’ve waited and picked it up even cheaper, but I have a spending problem when it comes to games.

Bungie was so good at making Destiny 2 a live service that I stopped playing Destiny 2.

While I hate the overall consolidation of the industry, as an American who bought a PS5 and can’t — at least for now — afford to buy an Xbox or a PC, all I can say is I’m glad it wasn’t Tencent and I’m glad it wasn’t Microsoft.

I had a blast with this game at launch, although it got drowned out by other games.

Wish we had access to player count and revenue data for other games that went free to play after launch.

The demo for this was awesome. Anyone worried about quality should look up reviews for Team Ninja’s other games. This is a great studio that consistently puts out high quality titles.

I don’t see why Sony would ever do this. What would the revenue split even look like? Sony gets 30% of $15 a month and in return they lose billions a year in sales? I know many people that went with Xbox because of Gamepass, and besides the one or two sports games a year and CoD none of them buy games anymore. I think this would probably happen on PlayStation as well. Maybe people would buy whatever 1st party PlayStation games there are, but everything else would stop selling.I think Sony needs to stick to the current business model or find a way to make their own service sustainable. Also they should just make their own military shooter and Diablo clone.

Can’t recommend this highly enough. Best game in the series.

@BritneyfR_ee When the people making the official list only played 10 games all year

“Time-limited” guarantees I won’t touch it. I’d be happy to pay for more permanent content. Really wish this trend would go away.

Someone please correct me if I’m totally wrong about this content being timed. I’m dumb.

Ask again after we’ve had a chance to play them.

Reminder that SNK is now owned by the guy that chopped up a Washington Post columnist and stuffed him into a suitcase and holds public beheadings of LGBT people.

On the game itself: looks a bit old and generic.

Everybody really wearing rose-tinted glasses for the earlier AC games. I played through the entire series over the last 2 years and, at least by today’s standards, everything before Unity feels like hot garbage. The traversal system is absolutely infuriating and the combat is either

A. One-hit-kill or
B. Parry and then one-hit-kill.

The dialog is also cringier than 90% of modern games. The overall concepts of hunting down a target and deciding how to kill them are pretty good, or they would be if there was anything dynamic about them.

The only thing good about ACIV is the ship combat, but that gets repetitive after the first few hours.

TLDR: I used to like the early AC games, but then Origins came out and I realized how terrible they actually are (Unity feels like a decent middle-ground). People should play AC2/4, then go play Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla.

Edit: Based on other comments in this thread, I feel I should also say this:

My opinion really shouldn’t matter to anyone but me, just like your opinions really shouldn’t matter to me. What’s really important is that we all play games and at least we have this in common, which is pretty cool. If my dumb comments, which are dumb and ultimately unimportant, have offended you, just go kill some stuff in a game and pretend it’s me. You’re all the good guys in my book.

Unlike other MMOs, FFXIV doesn’t drop beginner friendly content with each expansion 95% of the game can be played solo. For the other 5%, there’s matchmaking and, unlike other MMOs, the matchmaking is very very good. The story of each expansion is huge and continues the story of the previous expansion, so at this point FFXIV is basically XIV plus 4 sequels. Oh also the base game and first expansion are free, which is like 400 hours of gameplay, so there’s that.

I’ve stopped buying Ubisoft games at launch altogether. They have steep discounts all the time, so I’ll probably pick this up in a year or two with all the DLC for ~$20

Always feel like these polls should come out after everyone’s had a chance to download the games and try them out. I’d be more interested in seeing how many people actually tried the games and how many of those people liked the games they played.

With that said, He’ll Let Loose looks like fun for a bit, MKX is a genuinely great game, and PGA games are pretty chill, so not bad if you don’t already own these.

@kejsi-sensei MKX is the 2nd fighting game this year. The only other fighting game was Virtua Fighter 5. Before that, the last PS+ fighting game was Street Fighter V in Sept. 2020.

Very much looking forward to this. The graphics in the demo weren’t great (kind of bad actually), but the gameplay was awesome.

@Ralizah IV, V, VI, and VIII are on mobile. Obviously it’s not the best way to play really any game IMO, but they’re functional. No sign of VII and IX though, sadly

I agree. If not BluePoint getting cold feet about the deal, it might have not been a thing at all and somebody at PlayStation just made a random graphic for fun which got mixed up. This wouldn’t be the first time Sony let an important studio go. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft saw the writing on the wall and offered BluePoint twice as much money or something.

Idk. I think people put too much stock in Gary Whitta’s writing abilities and Amy Hennig hasn’t finished a project since Uncharted 3. The new trailer has cringe written all over it to me, but the action and world look good. It’s also the same devs that did FF15 and I loved that game’s world and combat, so there’s hope.

“Al, this may be the most awesome moment of our entire lives!”

• Barry Wheeler

I’ve been feeling very pessimistic about PlayStation showings lately and I’m not sure why. Gaming on PS5 has been awesome for me. I think I might be broken..

My predictions for the showcase:
More Deathloop, more Horizon gameplay, no mention of BluePoint (I’ll believe the acquisition is real when they say it’s real).

What I want from the showcase:
These InFamous rumors to be true (really anything infamous is good to me). Anything Metal Gear related. FFXVI. Remasters of other PS3 exclusives (I didn’t have a PS3, so everything is new to me). Don’t spend time on gameplay of Deathloop, Horizon, God of War, or Gran Turismo - I don’t need to see anymore from these as I’m already sold.

5 days before Deathloop.. Just to set my own expectations low, I expect a 15 minute Deathloop multiplayer demo, but I’m hoping for FFXVI and whatever first party things we haven’t seen before.

At the end of MGS V, there’s a cassette tape - “Truth Records: Les Enfants Terribles” - in which Ocelot talks about David and Eli being raised free range. In regards to Les Enfants Terribles, he says ‘might as well call it “ABANDONED”.’

@SoSolidSnake Thanks! Just added it to the list.

@theheadofabroom happy gaming, my dude! <3

@theheadofabroom Zenimax Online Studios is the development studio that makes Elder Scrolls Online. ZeniMax Media is the publisher

Correction: ZeniMax Media is the parent company that owns that big group of developers as well as “Bethesda Softworks” which is the in-house publisher that publishes all ZeniMax Media games, including games made by ZeniMax Game Studios.

Been seeing a lot of people claiming the Sony acquisitions and Microsoft acquisitions are the same, so here’s the lists for each company’s acquisitions from the last 10 years:

Sony:
Media Molecule
Sucker Punch
Insomniac
Housemarque
Nixxes

Microsoft:
Twisted Pixel
Press Play
Mojang
Ninja Theory
Undead Labs
Compulsion Games
Playground Games
InXile Entertainment
Obsidian Entertainment
Id Software
Arkane Studios
Machinegames
Tango Gameworks
Alpha Dog Games
Bethesda Game Studios
Zenimax Online Studios
Doublefine

@Orochilocka Big agree here. I was expecting trash based off the trailer, but after playing the demo all the way through this is an absolute day 1 buy for me.

Demo tip! Use that lightbringer!

I definitely don’t want an acquisition war to happen, because clearly Microsoft could and would buy basically every other publisher if they wanted, but I really think Sony needs to lock down some of their more important partnerships while they still can. Microsoft’s new model is basically: use our mountains of cash to either put all competitors out of business or at least get them to the point that they’re no longer serious competitors; and I would bet that a possible move on Microsoft’s table includes throwing massive amounts of money at studios Sony has historically partnered with to take them out of the equation. I’d be surprised if MS isn’t looking into buying Bluepoint, Housemarque, Team Ninja, Square Enix, Sega (for Altus), etc.

My PS5 just says the data is corrupt when I launch the demo, and tells me to delete and reinstall. I’ve done this 4 times and rebooted my console multiple times. Anyone else having any luck?

Final Fantasy remasters only in mobile and pc. Final Fantasy Origins looked generic. Guardians of the Galaxy looks flashy, but boring. Babylon’s Fall is live service. Life is Strange exists. No FFXVI. Pretty sad state of affairs IMO.

@AdamNovice hoping it’s the same as the switch version, which I believe was $25

Never had a ps3. I wish they’d just remaster all the ps1, 2, and 3 exclusives the possibly can (a la uncharted and TLoU) and let me buy them piecemeal on ps4/ps5. Pump these things out and get this issue (somewhat) behind us.

Also, Shuhei casually talking about/showing off Chicory, which looked like a throwaway indie game, but It’s currently the highest rated game of 2021 on Opencritic, so maybe worth taking a look at.

@General_Spiller How else are they gonna take out the helicopters?!

@PhantomMenace84 Yup! Apparently the trophy issues are still a thing for a small number of people. I’ll probably just delete my save and play the game again in a year. It’s definitely my favorite game on the PS5 so far, so I don’t mind playing it all over again later.

I gave up when the trophy for beating Act 3 didn’t pop. I have it on video though! That’s good enough for me. For now…

I think they said the reason the PS4 version was so big was because they used so many unique assets to build the world - besides the interior of the reactors, every area of the game looks different. If that’s the case then it makes sense that the PS5 version would also be big, especially if they’re using higher resolution textures. Still pretty impressive that the file size is smaller than the original.

@Voltan There’s a message that pops up on the PS4 version when you use the new save upload feature that says the trophies will pop. Def confirmed .

As long as the games are still good, I’m not bothered by the inconsistent messaging.

I imagine the the process of determining if a game will be cross-generation is something like:
Sony to dev: “does your game do anything that can’t be turned off or scaled down to run on PS4?”
Dev to Sony: “nope”
Sony to dev: “make a PS5 and PS4 version.

Wondering if this will be a 60fps mode with or without RT. 🧐 Would love something similar to Spider-man’s RT implementation

Anything decent works for me. I feel PS+ has been pretty good since the PS5 came out, so if they keep up the quality I’ll be happy.

My picks from the last few months in no particular order:
Hollow knight
Maneater
Control
Wreckfest
Battlefield V
Bugsnax
Greedfall
Remnant: From the Ashes
Days Gone
Subnautica

It’s not Gamepass, but it’s pretty good and they won’t be rotated out of my library.