ThomasHL

Is Quantic Dream still headed up by a cruddy writer who is too much of an egomaniac (and a creep) to let better people do the writing?

Please make this 'Up to 5' next time. Otherwise people have to vote for games that they haven't played or aren't their favourites.

This list is basically 'best selling games/games with best marketing' if lots of people haven't played many games on it.

I would have voted for Disco Elysium and Mass Effect. I played Ratchett but wasn't blown away with it, and I enjoyed the demos for Tales and Voice of the Cards

Empires is my preferred flavour of Dynasty, but it's always been a series that I want to love more than I do.

@The_Moose they've already got CoD: Mobile and Warzone. The future is now

What good is that going to do if they can't even make decent mainstream Battlefield titles anymore?

I don't suppose there's a way to get the Japanese plus games without creating a new account? I'd love Judgement

Finally! I've been waiting on this for ages (genuinely)

I hope it's good, I'm more excited for the AEW roster but I doubt the AEW game will have the budget to make it so feature rich - particularly not on it's first go round.

I'm happy Metal Gear Solid #4 made the top 15

The companion loyalty stats are basically just a list of how hard it is to keep a person loyal. Tali won't be loyal if you mess up her trial, but you also often have to choose between her and Legion. It's hard to keep Zaeed loyal unless you let the refinery workers die. You often have to choose between Jack and Miranda (and most people seem to have chosen Miranda).

Mordin seems to be the only exception? I don't know why he's at the bottom. Perhaps because you only unlock his mission later in the game? But then I'd assume Legion is even harder. I'm also surprised people seem to pick Legion over Tali.

@The_Moose it's Garrus, but you're not friends. The dialogue mostly works at the beginning, but they're quickly assume you've known Garrus all of ME1.

Probably my least favourite Uncharted game, because it felt like a jumble of set pieces with pretty thin reasons to get from one to the next. They also repeated Elena's storyline again which felt unsatisfying until Uncharted 4 fixed it.

But my least favourite Uncharted game is still one of my favourite games out there.

@CynicalGamer Unfortunately I don't think Sony are going to kick it up a gear until demand dies down, or the flood of Xbox exclusives starts coming out.

The scalping prices are virtually the same on eBay still, although volume is down. That suggests there's a lot of demand left to fill.

Xbox Series S scalping prices, by comparison, are now only slightly above the actual cost. People have enough S' to fulfill their desire

I thought Knockout City was free? I've got it installed and I didn't buy it.

I'm happy to get Kingdoms of Amalur for free - the sort of game I wouldn't buy, but I might try if I get given it.

This sounds like exactly the game I wanted it to be!

Interesting that Melty Blood PS4 outsold the Switch. Did they come out at the same time on both platforms?

This is just contract negotiations. EA will do the leg work to prove they can rename the series and then FIFA will back down and give them a smaller licensing fee.

I might try Brawlhalla. The ring-out is what keeps Smash fun for casual players, and I'm a filthy smash casual, so Playstation All-Stars didn't do it for me.

I was pretty bored by the demo. As soon as they put me in a room crammed full of monster fights with no context or level flow, I noped out.

My PS5 broke today, so I don't mind that there's nothing interesting this month

The pandemic definitely helped. I just don't want Sony to get over confident about this success again. They tend to be less generous to consumers the more comfortable they feel.

If the PS5 wasn't selling well maybe they'd not be in such of a hurry to make people pay for upgrades

Trapped In Another World With My Bracelet

Whoever made this had been watching the old Age of Empires 2 intro cinematic
youtube.com/watch?v=f9_xX4MM00I

It doesn't seem counter-culture, which is the one pillar of all Saints Row games. But this is only one trailer.

Plis if it is going in a new direction, it will be the 5th Saints Row game to go in a new direction!

The cinematic doesn't have the edge or humour the previous games have.

Each Saints Row has reinvented it's tone - SR2 was gritty, SR3 was more fun, SR4 was totally insane. So I'll give this new version a shot. But I agree that it looks like it's been designed for the fortnite crowd, which isn't my thing.

I guess there's no point marketing a console that's selling out faster than they can produce units

Switch games are less likely to be bought digitally than Playstation games

In 2018, one third of Monster Hunter: Worlds PS4 sales in Japan were digital. Only 8% of Super Smash Bros Ultimate sales were digital on the Switch. That's a massive difference.

I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of Playstation sales in Japan are now digital. Internet connectivity is great, and homes are small which makes storing a pile of blu-ray discs inconvenient.

Source: https://www.gematsu.com/2019/02/famitsu-2018-japan-video-game-sales-report

The first trailer really excited me, I didn't feel the MCU knock-off thing that other people got from it.

This one is not so good. The actually writing seems fine, and the concept is fun, but the editing is leaving massive gaps between every line of dialogue and it's missing background noise, which is ruining the scene

There are going to be a lot of stories this year about companies having 'incredible growth' or 'surprising declines'.

I'm not going to read too much into any of them, because we've been through a very abnormal time period, and comparisons to the immediate past aren't worth a lot.

In the past year, no PS Plus pull has had more than 43% rate it crap (October 2020, Vampyr & Need for Speed Payback).

The negative rating this month blows that out of the water.

Well if this isn't a Kojima conspiracy, the developers certainly know how to be as weird as Kojima, so kudos to them.

That's a bad trailer. Why would you put 'auto-battle' as a feature to sell your game? I've got no idea what the hook is meant to be

In one year Playstation is getting Returnal, Hades and Deathloop

I'm experiencing some major deja vu

PS5's were being sold at a 100% markup in March. Xbox's were only being sold for a 30% markup. That's how you know demand is still stronger for a PS5 in the UK at the moment

@fR_eeBritney I put it down to momentum. Everyone knows Sony had great games last generation and that the PS4 was a good way to go. At the moment people are assuming the PS5 will go the same way.

When Microsoft's exclusives are actually releasing in a few years, that's when they'll have a chance to catch up - if it's not too late by then. Crossplay will help them, otherwise people would get a PS5 just because their friends also have one

Sales are just what publishers do instead of lowering prices over time now.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey has been on sale 7 times in the past year. Each time it's on sale for roughly £16, compared to a normal price of £55. On Amazon, Odyssey is £18 all year round.

The actual cost of Odyssey is £16. They're just making it look like a good deal by pretending it's £55 for half the year.

This got me excited, if the combat lives up to the hype of being more dynamic, this might get me to dive in

Dragon Age development must be such a mess. I suspect they've rebooted it at least twice now - once to rebuild it around live service components, and now again to remove them.

I don't know if these specific complaints are the issue, but we've heard from multiple devs that it's uniquely hard to sell indie games on the PS4, and that's bad for me as a consumer.

Maybe the store needs revamping so games are more discoverable.

@blinx01 that return won't work out if it convinces less people to buy a PS5 though. Every none Sony game bought on a PS5 is £20 with practically zero investment.

Sony is normally happy to take a loss on the games they sell - never mind a good profit - if it helps sell consoles which brings them commissions, which is where the best money is.

I think the idea is that more people playing these games will make people want a PS5 to play the sequels. Maybe that will work out, but Sony could do with some PS5 exclusives when 2022 rolls round, and it's not looking like they'll have many.

This game is never going to run well on a PS4. ArsTechnica called it correctly years ago when they said the Cyberpunk trailer didn't look designed for (then) current-gen consoles.

CD Projekt got greedy. They could have restricted it to PS5 level hardware or at least told people that the best experience was not on PS4/Xbox One but they wanted the profits.

I'm a fan of this. There aren't many creative mainstream western RPGs, but eurojank is holding down the fort.

This is the E3 game I'm most interested in, I hope it turns out well

@twitchtvpat the issue isn't this year. The issue is the year after that, and then the rest of the generation. Next year they'll reach the point where production overtakes demand, and then the year after that Microsoft exclusives will start coming out, and they're going to come out at a scale we haven't seen before. I don't think people realise just how many game studios they bought up, but it's beyond what Sony or Microsoft have ever produced before

Plenty of consoles have sold well in the first couples of years, only to fall off later. And Sony have a real threat to face. They're competing against a company who are ready to throw billions just to get to the table - and then to essentially ignore the sales income from those games by putting them straight on gamepass.

Sony should be worried, and in five years, this is going to look a lot different than it looks now.

I'm surprised Sony aren't acting more scared. In a couple of years Xbox will have a formidable line-up of exclusives coming in, which could shift the sales balance heavily back towards them.

If I was Sony I would be concentrating on putting out as many PS5 exclusives as I can in the next two years, so people buy PS5's before Microsoft studios get into gear. Instead God of War and Horizon being cross-gen titles is going to slow down PS5 take-up

How did the first game control on console? I was skeptical about playing this kind of controller, but Frostpunk showed it can be done really well if they put the work in.

@Jayofmaya I use https://en.psprices.com/ after it was recommended here. It's always worth taking a quick look before buying something, because you might find the game is frequently on sale for cheaper

@Jayofmaya this is exactly what you see if you look at a price history chart. Most games in sales are on sale every other month, and the price just cycles up and down.

It means you don't really have to worry about missing out. The good sales are when it drops to a new low, but that's much rarer.

@zupertramp most modern batteries last longest if you keep them between 40% and 80% charged, so that fits.