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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.

It's quite amusing how the ABK acquisition may have turned out to be a poisoned pill that kills the XBox as we know it.

Nice, Tunic has been on my wishlist for a while. Don't care for football or Destiny, but great for those that are into that sort of thing. Still need to get to the original Ghostrunner at some point, but definitely interested in it.
I can stop Helldiving whenever I want, I tell myself. I don't know when I'm going to get to any of the above in reality.

I'm enjoying the new patch, personally. The damage reduction to the Guard Dog 'Rover' seems like a nerf until you realise that it now won't kill you immediately when it hits you, then you realise it's a counter-intuitive buff. The Sickle got fixed and can now shoot through foliage. The Quasar got a long cooldown between shots, but that's fine, just take the EATs instead - you'll get 2 shots in quick succession then, and can use its drop pod as a weapon too.
Personally I think every balance patch has improved the game so far, which is as it should be.

I hope whoever is responsible for this marketing reflects on whether it was worth winding up the game's fans over... Jeeze.

Fallout 4 killed my interest in Bethesda games generally. They're no longer RPGs in my mind, as they've taken player agency out of the story and questing (and, to me, those are more central to being an "RPG" than simply having character build options).

'Bethesda Games' are their own thing at this point, to my mind at least, and that's fine, I just don't find them that interesting compared to something that allows you to influence the story and world through your choices.

I love seeing them turn up and 4 red beams immediately land on their heads. Teamwork makes the dream (of Managed Democracy) work!

Reminds me I have number 2 on my backlog, I think I'll try and move it up the running order.

Seems fair enough to me. Devs that think that their game won't sell any more with or without the label won't bother patching their game - that's their prerogative - and those that do do the market analysis and conclude the costs of patching the game are worth it get a little kitemark to put on the store and their marketing materials.
I know I've ignored games because they didn't hit 60FPS this generation. Sorry, but I've been spoiled by the games that have managed to hit that performance and can't go back now.

Long live Helldivers 2. A few of those purchasers were mates of mine, who I've been guiding through their first few missions over the weekend and yesterday.
I think they were just humouring me as I wouldn't shut up about the game, but now they're hooked too.

Fine by me, but being able to apply colour filters to some of the items would be nice. There are plenty of helmets or capes that I would like to wear with other sets but wont because the colours clash (to my eye at least). Not sure if that's what he meant by transmog - I agree that taking the medic perk and applying it to a suit that was dripping in grenades wouldn't make a lick of sense.

"The multiplayer spin-off Crash Team Rumble doesn't seem to have moved the needle nearly as much, as its sales are not disclosed on the same page."

Didn't they recently announce that development of content was finished? Would have been around the time of the news that TfB was going its own way following the ABK acquisition. Neither are what happens if the game had a healthy playerbase.

@breakneck In edge cases, if I was on the fence about a game, then I might pass over it if it didn't have a platinum.

Now she dresses like my great aunt...

@ROTTIEMAN16 Fair play to what they're doing over on the green team with backwards compat, but I am not going to buy a second console to play retro games on when PS keeps me busy enough.

They'll all come to PS eventually too, and I am a patient man. But let's not get into that.

I doubt it'll get me to come back for a 6th attempt at playing it. My problems with F4 are all related to the very limited scope it gives you to complete quests your way or role-play.

I wish they'd do it for Fallout 3 or New Vegas. Those games deserve a glow up.

Been playing on iPad and wishing that I could play on PS5 with trophy support.

Day 1 baby. Fantastic news.

Whuff, a tough associated major order... "succeed in the defence of at least 5 planets".