SleepyNick

No doubt if I make even a hint of a complaint about a service I am forced to pay for if I want to play online, someone will be along to call me an 'entitled buffoon'.

@Wiceheid Fair enough, I wasn't aware Ubisoft had a subscription service where you can play their brand new games. Does make me wonder how many other players are aware that Ubi has a subscription service and how much that actually affects things.

I'm sure they're hoping to sell some copies! But of course, it would be great for them if people subscribe and forget to cancel even though they are not using it - just like my gym membership.

lol okay I'll talk about the content of the article itself shall I, because I'm struggling to see any controversy. Let me get this straight - People are posting a romance scene between Yasuke and a non-binary person on social media which IS real and IS in the game, but you call this misinformation because they aren't explicitly saying that the scene is optional? Really? Calling that misinformation is pushing it don't you think?

I finished Dead Space recently and did the Nicole side mission. If I recorded the ending scene from that side mission and posted it to Youtube without explicitly explaining that it is optional content, would that be misinformation?

Having a quick browse of X I see the scene posted a few times, some are talking about how "woke" it is and some are just clowning on the scene because it is a bit cringe. So, I guess that is the real controversy here? (Even though this is just standard behaviour for people on X) But misinformation it is not.

"Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet has attracted an unusual amount of animosity, forcing Naughty Dog to turn off comments on the trailer."

Naughty Dog had the comments turned off right from the start. What you are suggesting is that they had comments turned on and then got a lot of hate, so they were forced to turn comments off. This is not true. You can see it on the WayBackMachine.

Anyway back on topic. I agree, misinformation is a bad thing.

@Sakai See, I don't really know if a 69% drop is bad. If spidey sold like 2.5 million units in the first weekend then selling 30% of that in the next weekend is fine isn't it? This is why the Japanese charts are better, you can see the actual number of units sold it tells a much clearer story.

As for the number 1 spot it would have been tough to predict it. Spiderman and Mario are both massive.

Edit - and as others have mentioned the Switch install base is bigger. Mario is also cheaper. You could get it for half the price of spidey if you shop around.

@Sakai It only fell to number 2 behind arguably an even bigger IP in Mario that had a hugely popular movie release earlier this year, so also has a reach beyond gaming. Its hard to tell without the exact numbers but I really doubt that spiderman has had a large sales drop off.

@Victor_Meldrew You watched 6 seasons of an extremely boring TV show?

I do prefer the books, and they actually end properly so maybe you would prefer them.

Blops cold war campaign is pretty good if you're a CoD campaign enjoyer

I heard a rumour that this game was on Game Pass

Ghostbusters and Tomb Rader 2013 are both PS3 games remastered for PS4 yet one is "classic game" on premium the other isn't. If Ghostbusters was also called Definitive Edition instead of Remastered, would it be on Extra? Or is it because Ghostbusters is a few years older? What are the rules?

There is a bit of chatter here about how people who played the game are only disappointed because they want the TV show to be too much like the game, or even a one-to-one adaptation. And how those people shouldn't expect a one-to-one adaptation because TV works differently.

This is true, a TV adaptation of a game shouldn't be one-to-one, it should be adapted for TV and changes should be made where necessary. So I don't understand how episode 8 is being defended in this way because this episode WAS a one-to-one adaption from the game. It took all the cut scenes from the game and took away the "gameplay" bits. It made me feel like I was watching "David's greatest hits", like I may as well have been watching one of those YouTube videos which plays all the cutscenes in a row uninterrupted.

It isn't the action scenes being taken away that makes this episode disappointing. It's the fact that nothing was added to it.

Not like episodes 3/4/5 which are still my favourites. They took Sam & Henry's story and expanded on it over two episodes with extra characters/back story. It was very good! Why couldn't they do something similar for David? At least do something to build him up a bit more.

Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed episode 8 for what it was. Troy Baker was great.

The 40 minute~ runtime on the finale doesn't fill me with confidence though. Better get to that hospital sharpish! I feel like we might be skipping the Giraffes but I'd love to be proven wrong.

@Valgore Ah, so, if you had an issue you would contact them directly? Such as leaving a comment on the article? Well if that ever happens I wish you luck in not getting your comment removed.

Also, I personally don't care that they included this in the review. You mentioned on #180 that it shouldn't be discussed here, that is what I was responding to on #189.

@Valgore, Correct! This isn't the place to discuss such an issue. But when the opening paragraphs of the review (plus pinned comment) include opinions on the issue, you can't expect people not to respond.

If the review didn't include it, then no one (or very few) here would be talking about it. Just looking at the last couple of Hogwarts Legacy articles on PS and there is five removed comments out of 91.

They have gone from giving you a list and asking you to choose one game to play, to giving you a list and asking you to start up each one.

Went from a decent idea to a tedious chore real quick.

Ya'll at PS need to start using the filter, there is not 350 games on sale unless you count shark cards and Sims add on packs as games. Go to filter and select "Full Game + Game Bundle" and it brings it down to 223 results and even then it shows multiple versions of the same game so it's probably less than 200 games.

Minor gripe but I can't help myself

@solocapers It's okay disagreeing with his political views but that isn't what this article is about. He has credentials in the VR space, and sure his views won't matter to most people but they could matter to enthusiasts. And its enthusiasts that use this website I assume! Push Square obviously thought people might be interested.

Also, no. No it isn't worthwhile highlighting what his sisters views are. Do you also look up the family members of Push Square staff just in case their siblings have conservative views?

Yep, NowTV is pathetic. £10 for 720p and an extra £5 on top of that if you want a whopping 1080p!

The deal between HBO and Sky expires in 2025, hopefully it doesn't get renewed and the UK can have HBO max like the rest of the world in time for season 2 of TLOU.

Ah good, I wasn't quite on the edge in the second game

Starting to think they should have dropped the 'Forbidden West' part from the title and marketed it as Horizon: Burning Shores - a small standalone game for PS5.

Would have been less contentious maybe.

I don't know how I feel about this. New PS5 only games are good but I'm sure a few people with the PS4 version of the game were looking forward to the DLC.

Yeah I don't know why people are saying it isn't worth checking out when you get free store credit with no drawback. The other bits like the levels and digital trinkets are kinda whatever.

I got my first £5 store credit yesterday. Most of the points came from buying PS plus extra on black Friday which left me on 1200 points, but the fact that I could push that over to 1250 just by playing a game I was planning to play anyway is really nice.

Big recommend on The Messenger btw

@nhSnork I don't see how it's a contradiction. ME is the best game on the list for sure but it is still a 10 year old trilogy in 4k, it isn't a remake like demon's souls or TLOUP1. Never claimed that "everyone who is anyone" has played ME. You are right, not everyone has played ME trilogy but a hell of a lot more people have played ME than say... literally any other game that came out in the last few years that isn't a re-release. I'm not asking for brand new games on the service.

There are lots of games to pick from the last few years, plenty of which aren't re-releases.

They have included early access to a premium edition of a free to play game, a remake of an old trilogy and a game that got 6 out of 10 aggregate that you can already find in the bargain bin.

And this is a good month?

@jrt87 ...so any thoughts on PS tournaments?