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I might give the beta an honest go, but every indication is that the writing is on the wall for this game. I had my fill of hero shooters with Overwatch back in 2016/2017. I do wonder whether this game is simply 8 years too late to the party.

I just want them to do a full on remake of DA:O. God that game was good, but it's been downhill ever since for the series IMO.

I guess that explains Murray's recent tweets which were reported the other day.

I've saved so much money in the last couple of years since I stopped engaging with these sales and needlessly adding games to my backlog. These days I buy a game when I'm going to play it, and if it's on sale then that's great timing. Sony knows what its doing when it comes to separating you from your money, I swear. (:

Loved it so much that I plumbed for the physical special edition and bought it twice. I think this is the only game I've ever done that for. Great to see Larian still working on it, and can't wait for cross-play so I can get on with my friends who have it on PC.

@thefourfoldroot1 I honestly have no idea and don't think I'll look it up! I just assumed that if it had a screen then it must go online... show's how far gone I am I suppose.

@thefourfoldroot1 You can't imagine what someone might like to be looking at while using this thing?

I'm sure it won't be debates about theoretical physics, let's put it that way...

Just be done with it WB. Rocksteady are now wasting their time and effort. You've got to imagine that the longer the situation is allowed to persist, more and more talented devs who worked on the Arkham games will jump ship, exacerbating the rot at the studio. Get them back on quality content before they get bored.

I'm still playing and having fun, but they need to give me something to work towards again soon. Once I get another 200 Rare samples I'll have enough to buy the last 2 Ship modules and unlocked everything in the game.
And I doubt Sony or Arrowhead are too bothered about the numbers at the moment. It blew through all their projections, everything from now on is just pure gravy I'm sure.

Lost Legacy is probably in the right place for ranking the games overall, but if you were ranking just particular set pieces from the games, then the final sequence of Lost Legacy would be #1.

I'd swap U4 and U2's ranks in this list, but otherwise I'm in agreement.

@LN78 Dunno about disc versions, but I think I saw a complete version on the PSN store the other day.

I recall enjoying Dead Rising. Doing the save-everybody run for the achievement on 360 was good fun. I'd want the controls to get a good looking at on any remake/remaster, from recollection they were slightly clunky/wonky.

That this is the very first time I've ever heard of the guy reassures me somewhat.

Day 1. Looking forward to a release date. Getting my vampire fix from V Rising in the meantime.

The trailer for this on PSN Store convinced me to add it to my wishlist. Glad it's reviewed well, will leave it there and hopefully get to it when I've cleared a few things from the backlog and in the mood for this sort of thing.

I tried. I'm lucky enough that paying the couple of £ difference between Amazon and GAME's prices wasn't a big deal to me, and I used to go into my local GAME to get physical games whenever I could to try and support the local High St (or, if you rather, the local 'House of Frasier GAME Concession Stand' as it later became). But our local House of Frasier closed a few months ago so that's gone too now.
Over to Amazon I guess.

Fine by me. I only manage to play these games by finding somewhere to grind and overlevelling myself, so I make my own easy mode. Mad respect for the people who are able to finish them at lvl one with the broken sword.

Ok... ok... a bit more interested. But that is a lot of nodes... If they're just "reduce cooldown of spell by 2.5%" then that's seriously underwhelming.

The mines were always an automaton trap. 9 times out of 10 they kill more Helldivers than bots.

Origins was the only one really worth a damn, and I replayed it numerous times. Get back to that level of storytelling and they'll have a game on their hands.
Sadly, Bioware is not what it was. The old guard has moved on.

Is this something to do with football?

Hella cool! Looking forward to seeing how Max is getting on.

Armello is great. I remember it was in one of those months where PlayStation invited us to vote on what game we wanted to hit PS+ games list the next month. I can't remember what the crowd went for on that occasion, but they made a mistake.

@Olmaz I used to feel the same way, but give it a go and you get used to it and start to see the sense of why it is the way it is. I recommend starting by joining the public server of a game dev or game that you're interested in, as these are generally well thought out with different rooms for different purposes.

Save the kids. Many more Helldivers die to friendly mines than automaton scum, so it's a false choice. Kids are the future of our Managed Democracy, saving them will likely yield other benefits, such as an increase to liberation rates across all campaigns.

My takeaway is that the problem is Sony is speaking to the wrong audience for games like this when it puts them in a State of Play. The people who tune into those presentations are fans of PlayStation's single player narrative games. They don't like F2P, they don't want another live service, etc, etc. I'm sure there's an audience for Concord, but I don't think you reach them in this way.

Sounds a lot like the "Bioware magic" which was supposed to kick in and make Anthem good.
Another sad lesson in how chasing the live service golden egg when you have a team that doesn't know what it's doing in that genre is a fool's errand.

Nice. Just need to find 15 more SC in the game and I can get it for free.

Dunno what's going on with the pricing. The bundle of both 1 and 2 is £59.99 here in the UK, which seems fair to me. Just 1 on its own is £49.99 (without the current PS+ discount) which seems high.

Lots of ways they could adapt Part 2, especially with all the Joel & Ellie flashbacks which explain their characters. Keeping roughly to the same structure as the game would keep Pedro around into S3 and S4 for those flashbacks. But I think they'd need to adhere quite closely to the game's story to give it the same emotional hits. (I just hope they do some retconning on the circumstances and character interactions leading up to the major event at the beginning of the game.)

@anubisvel The data in my Apple account is things like my photos, health data, etc, stored in iCloud.

I'm talking about digital purchases, like albums, films, and TV Shows (from the pre-streaming subscription days), apps, etc. I would like the law to be changed so that I can bequeath those items to my loved ones as if they were traditional chattels.

not just games, but the vast majority of digital “goods” suffer this problem.
Lobby your MPs about this (or, timing being what it is, raise it with candidates on the doorstep). I’d love to see a change in the law requiring Apple, Sony, etc, to allow me to transfer my account in the event of my death.

I’ll pick up Sly for a third time. Sony, get the hint already!

Oh! Rocksmith+! Oh!

I’ve always pronounced it with a soft g because the word obviously comes from giblets. I didn’t even realise this was a discussion to be had. But then I haven’t been in a CoD lobby since 2011 so maybe things have moved on since my day…

I can wait for a port. (And a discount given the state of the reviews.)

I doubt I'll interact with them unless there's a way to enhance or unlock things in the more mainline games by doing so, and even then it's unlikely. I am just yet to find any mobile game that I wouldn't rather play on PS5, if I enjoyed it in the first place.

@Americansamurai1 Closing a business takes time to do responsibly, as I'm sure Sony would have wanted to ensure.

Congrats to Larian. Given their previous comments, I am sure it is responsible and sustainable growth for them, and I look forward to seeing what they're cooking up!

Now that MS bought ABK, gaming is a massive part of MS' business. And games, however good they may be, where investing $1 gets you back $1.25 (for the sake of argument, idk the real numbers) isn't going to cut it anymore. MS' board wants to see that division growing in a way which will please its investors, which means a focus on the bigger IPs.

That narrator sounds like he really appreciated the paycheck and wanted to give 115%.

And Lo! Yesterday's XBox studio shutterings and layoffs are explained. They're paying the price for a lack of growth.

Some of the more conspiratorial takes on Sony's/AH's motivations over the weekend were ridiculous and mean-spirited - IMO this was far more cock-up than conspiracy - but fair play to the PC crowd for getting what they wanted.
Going forward, I think it would be a good middle-ground for Sony to say that you need a PSN account for cross-play with PS players: Giving Sony the benefit of the doubt and that this was about 'player safety'; taking the PC players' point that they can see other users' Steam IDs even if their in-game name is generic; and noting that (AFAIK) PSN players cannot see Steam IDs, then this would seem to be a reasonable compromise.

I bet the game is doing so much more than Sony budgeted that they’d be happy to lose the players upset over this move (or, if not ‘happy’ exactly, then willing, at least). The actual player numbers on Steam don’t seem to have been affected since the announcement and the review bombing.
The brigading of the game and the dev team in Reddit and Discord is very often disgusting, I’ll say that. People really need to think about how they say things, but that’s been true of social media since day 1.

I got one last weekend and it's already been very helpful in allowing me to do something more interesting while my Mrs watched the TV that she's interested in. I haven't played anything too crazy on it yet - the most twitchy game I've tried so far was a level 5 dive on Helldivers 2 with two buddies taking the lead - but it's a wonderful little device.

@NinjaNicky That would be very cool, hopefully they've got something cooking. Some more build variety would be good, but I can see how it would be a nightmare to balance it all.

I can live without XB exclusives - I have done since switching from 360 to PS4 at the dawn of the last generation - but if they were to bring anything to PS5 I'd probably buy:
1. Gears 1-3 collection;
2. Halo 1-3 collection;
3.Fable 1-3 collection;
4. Hellblade 2;
5. Sunset Overdrive;
6. Ori series.
Like I say, I have tonnes to play as things stand, so not particularly desperate for any of these. Half of them I'd only want to pick up for nostalgia purposes.

It's getting kinda busy. If only there was a long weekend at some point in the calendar, probably best to have it in the summer months when releases tend to be a bit quieter, where all the big publishers and platforms could get together and go through their announcements sequentially. Heck, they could invite media to try games and do previews, and the event could be great for teams to network with one another and speak to publishers. They could call it the Expo of Electronic Entertainment, or 3E for short, or something like that. I bet the consumers would love it and it would build a lot of hype!

I was thinking it would be very cool to have a medic themed Warbond and get some support builds going. Like a secondary weapon that allowed me to shoot my squadmates for a small amount of healing while they try to extract themselves from a bug swarm, would be very cool.

@NinjaNicky As of the latest patch, helmets have armour effects. Per the latest patch notes:

• Armors with armor rating above 100 now also reduce damage on headshots.