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I've got this DLC as I bought the game with it included, but I've only spent 100 hours in the main campaign to finish it and it bored me to tears. Not sure I can go back - there's so many other games which don't send me to sleep playing it. I much preferred Diablo 3, that seemed way less boring to me.
Maybe if my wife bothers to get a character together couch co up might inject some fun, but I'm not feeling this game at all, push forward and press fire for 100 hours...

@StonyKL 6 million is decent units for non portable in Japan. You are noticing the disconnect between actuality, and what 'triggers' journalists will use to get some engagement! 😊
It's fair to say sales have reduced a bit, but if you factor in the extra sales they got before the well announced price hike and take a longer term view, these few months are likely to be a blip rather than the long term trend. I guess time will tell, but they are building on a decent base.
Of course these figures will be dwarfed when Switch 2 comes, but thats to be expected!

Despite the negitive sentiments of many here, I think this could be good fun and I dont think it looks rough. Clearly its not as polished as a Sony AAA game, but all that glitters is not gold.
For a first title, it looks pretty impressive and Im rooting for it and likely to try it once I finish a few more titles...

I disagree, but hey we are all opinionated. I've never had so many great games to play since the start of video gaming, and I've been a huge gamer since the Atari VCS was released when I was in my late teens.
The indy scene is especially full of varied and interesting concepts as we are no longer tied to the big publishers to get games published. There are now loads of new funding models for smaller games companies meaning that people can pursue unusual and interesting ideas in a way they never previously could.....

That's fantastic news and clearly shows that great sales dont always depend on milking an IP, and inventive well crafted games can win big!

@BAMozzy
I certainly never expected to change your opinion. In the years I've been on these sites I've never seen you change your opinion on anything. I'd bet you would still tell users on Pure that MS buying ABK was great for them all, despite the majority having seen how that didnt help them one bit.
I expected a huge wall of text where essentially you say exactly what you said in the first place, because that's what you always do.
Day 1 is when the public start playing the game. Everyone will feel the same and can see through this. I worked 20 years on AAA games and we all knew exactly when day 1 was.
My only reason to copy you in at all, was to point out that your obfuscation and defence of this practice makes you part of the problem.
Despite seeing you as part of the problem, that doesn't stop me from wishing you a good day and ending our conversation there. So have a good day

@BAMozzy I'm afraid you are exactly part of the problem. In order to protect your corp of choice from their obvious deception, you pretend that a release date is 'whatever gets recorded in 5 years time'.
Every other gamer will see that it's when the public start playing the game and videos of gameplay and end game are being played all over social media. Extorting money from people to actually play it on day 1 instead of day 7 is a MS BS strategy to exploit its players whilst still pretending it service gives you games on day 1.
Trying to pretend that paying more money is not 'paying more' is also absolutely ridiculous, it simply doesn't bear any close inspection and you make absolutely no sense. If the game is $70 and I paid $90, then I paid more and no amount of gaslighting from you will change this. Nobody is paying for a digital art book and different looking set of clothes, they are paying more to play the game on day 1.

..and why are you trying to advertise GP standard here? Why is that relevant to the article at all in any way?

Nice article Sammy. I agree this practice is getting ridiculous and designed to fleece the dumb and the 'super fans' out of cash for nothing.
I've long argued with team green fanatics, that day 1 is the first day someone can play a game, and therefore game pass often doesn't release 'day one' games despite their specific promises.
It amazes me that some even try and defend the practice.

Those that would defend such nonsense, here or elsewhere, are the people who also don't see a problem with loot boxes or other exploitative business practices - 'people can buy what they want'. They are probably telesales people who spend all day exploiting the vulnerable to sell them sh*t they dont need. Hideous attitude.

Thank you Push Square, you really have done an excellent job with this interview and write up. This is the content that has kept me coming back here year after year.
Its delightful to hear the thoughts of this guy and hear the vision of what they wish to do with their series and where it might go. It gave me a slight 'heart pang' to hear they are considering how to end the series, but nothing lasts forever eh?

The upside to doing this is that those of us who subscribe to premium get a game we might want to play?
Capcom never said they were going to release it or do any work on it, so releasing it as is on a service meant to be able to reply old games is fine. Stating they 'hoodwinked us' is just awful journalism, Push Square standards are getting much worse.
'Not playing without added trophies' is also something that strikes me as ridiculous. It was a game that never had trophies, so it's offered in its correct original format. Capcom don't care if you are stamping your feet demanding trophies, play it dont play it.

For those of us who care enough about access to old titles that we sub to premium, it's a nice bonus. For the rest of you it's no change.

@Toot1st Glad to hear you like it, I might give it a try sometime, but there's much more appealing titles waiting my attention, so I'm not in a rush to get back to this. Diablo 3 was far more entertaining for me..

Thanks for calling it how it is Sammy. A short racing game with no sense of speed and poor handling needs calling out, no matter how much you like the franchise.
Shame, but there's much better games vying for our cash..

I want to play so many of these - but the Backlog!
From my perspective as a premium subscriber- it's another really strong month..

Thanks Echo - good write up!
I've had my eye on this game for a while and it looks like it delivers on everything I want it to. Another one for my backlog, but I often squeeze in a smaller game like this instead of games waiting in turn. I expect to be enjoying this soon

@Yagami
Any decent PC will become a radiator and make a shed load of fan noise the moment you start playing anything that uses the GPU - it's like the awful ps4 pro issues but much worse.
Many games have awful shader compile times that mean your games are very often stutter fests, no matter that you spent £2k on a graphics card. People have quite wrongly had a pop at the PS5 pro for diminishing returns - look at the PC GPU market where you can spend an extra £500 on your GPU and have not much of an upgrade unless you use a specific game that use RT. PC's invented diminishing returns!
If you play multiplayer, the proliferation of cheating and hacks which ruin games is far more widespread on PC than anywhere else.
I could go on and on- there are so many reasons why playing on PC sux in comparison to switching on a console and sitting on the Sofa, but this post is getting large enough! Suffice to say, I've always had a top PC from even before GPU's became separate (I am an old man), but they have always had big problems for relaxed casual gaming.
As for titles available, I've never had a backlog as large as the one I have right now and I've played games as an adult since videos games first started. So many others are saying the same thing - so much goodness to play, their backlogs are huge.

My PC remains available (I'm using it to type this message on its own 48" LG C1 OLED), but i only Surv the net and occasionally develop something in UE5. I will always turn it off and go sit down with a gamepad on my sofa to chill and play games as its far preferable to me, and having discussed this with several others over the years, there are a great number of people just like me.

So you love your PC. I'm happy for you. Absolutely not jealous in the slightest, but I've no idea why you would try and belittle a platform that has so many advantages over the way over priced
spread-sheet reader you use to play games!

PS you know I'm egging it on , right? You can love your PC, just don't come in here bad mouthing what we are enjoying and pretending you are sitting on a super solution, cause you are really not.

@Yagami
TBF, I was replying to your original post #9 - I can see in a further post that you have a PS5. I thought you were one of the breed who come here to stir and yet have no real interest in the platform. If you own the platform you are perfectly entitled to your views of course, even if I consider them to be way off the mark
My views on PC's: -
OK if you don't have your own home and have to do everything on a desk in your bedroom.
Utterly pointless if you work on a PC all day and just want to sit on your sofa and game with no issues. I have all the consoles, they all boot quicker than any PC and will have me playing games in under a minute. The games will all be working fine for the console and are tuned so that there is a universal experience created by the Devs for the target hardware.

PC, gives each and every person a different experience as no two PC's are the same, and even after you've done all your research and tried all the best published settings to try and get a decent experience, you still wont be seeing what others are.
No consistency of delivery, I must have a million programs to launch games, EA this, Battlenet that, Steam here, Amazon there, Xbox somewhere else, Epic in another direction - its a mess.
PC's always need updating and tweaking to keep them performant - my Evga FTW3 3090 needs a new driver to cope with the lastest games every few weeks.... and the problems with a windows operating system hardly need expanding on - its awful and open to exploitation and malware, while spending your computers resources running bits of code a pure game machine just doesn't need.
It just simply wont sit under a lounge telly easily and just switch on - I've tried - manhandling touchpads and keyboards trying to get games to launch makes a pain.
— to part 2

Poor list imo, deliberately missing Rebirth and Wukong which are clearly fantastic titles.

@Yagami It may seems like a weird concept to you, but my enjoyment of a game is not dictated by which logo shows when I boot it. This year has been stuffed with amazing games, and many have been exclusive to the platform.
No one wants PC zealots here, I have a £4K rig and its the worst place to play games - not played anything on it this year at all. Why are you even here - go play games on your platform of choice..

@Cal_ I hope you do my friend. Its a game full of joy and really puts a smile on your face

@Cal_
Lol. Its a game for anyone that wants to enjoy it and from my perspective, you are still a kid!
I loved it to bits and it will be in my GOTY considerations for sure.
I'm 60. Never too old to enjoy a fun game

@Toot1st Yeah, and after 100 hours that were pretty boring, Im not in a rush to jump back in. I only have the dlc as the game and dlc were in a bundle for £30 a few months ago... I would not have bought the dlc if it were not included, Im just a little bored by it.
But Ill try it eventually 👍

@IOI Oh yeah, cause Xbox are just launching the exact same console they've been selling all gen, but no disk drive, no way to add one, and only a 2tb drive being a difference for $600. Fantastic competition. Based on what MS are offering, Sony could put the price up.
Xbox being the 'saver of the consumer' is a tired old drum to beat, and demonstrably untrue.

Its hardly worth me stating Im happy, Im always happy with the service! But I am, and this month I'm particularly happy as lots of the titles on offer appeal to me - two point campus was made by some former colleagues, so Im looking foward to that one.
Premium also continues to add titles I want and the premium collection is now a decent pool of titles.

Ive gone to my backlog and Im playing Avatar. Its a beautiful world thats well crafted and I like the efforts the devs went to to portray the culture of the Navi. If you trully hate ubi open world games with lots of side quests and a map full of markers, this will not be the game to change your mind. But I dont mind that style of game at all, and the Navi culture and a beautiful world have seen me trully become engrossed in this gem. Im glad Ive gone back to play this.
I have the Diablo 4 dlc to install and play, but having only finished the original campaign first time last week, taking over 100 hours to do so, I feel like I need a little break before diving in again!

Whatever you are playing this weekend I hope you have fun!

@OldGamer999 Hi mate, Im back again...
For info I have last years top mini led sony tv, 65x95L. £3k last year, £1550 this year. Always buy last years model. I also have a LG C1 oled at the back of the room, for the second ps5 and the PC.
Its true that with a higher end tv, especially the higher end Sony ones, the 4k upscaling from 1080p is excellent. The AI upscaling in the pro will still do a better job, but its diminishing returns, you are not going to see night and day differences, but it will be a bit better.
But thats not the main reason to own a pro imo. Its to be able to achieve better quality output for sure (especially if you have a cheap 4k telly), but its more about offering the quality option at 60 hz or 120 hz if the game can manage it. Faster frame rates, and hence response times, are the game changer for me.
I played most of FF7 in the performance mode myself, but because of my tvs good upscaling I could cope with the output, whilst others could barely look at the blurriness that can come with that mode. I will appreciate the sharper res for sure, but its not going to be night and day for me.
A lot of these old games getting a quick pro patch will not show all the benefits of the pro hardware, they will simply patch in a few quick wins which need minimal recompiling and work. However games which are just starting to get to their optimisation stage and in alpha, will benefit more, as the 'pro settings' are likely to be far better tuned. If you've ever gamed on PC, its like being able to turn a few options on to ultimate or high settings from the medium setting, so you may get a better shadowing solution, lods changing further away from the camera, better volumetric lighting etc. We may also see more games having some ray traced functions, shadows, reflections, AO etc depending on the devs priorities.
Although its not a huge uplift the extra headroom may help with engines that are a bit cpu constrained too, either allowing for smoother frame rates or maybe an extra effect or two, depending on how the programer wishes to use the extra 10% or so thats available.

How much are you going to notice? Thats a really different answer for all of us. For some, they simply wont notice, or if they do, they wont care. For an old dev like me, I'll notice everything, as long as I put my glasses on! If I only get to play one or two titles @60hz where I'd otherwise have been stuck with 30hz it will be worth every penny of the upgrade, but again, thats gonna be different for everyone.
For a stunning looking game, nothing will ever beat a beatifully crafted and considered aesthetic, a skillfully executed direction and pure artistic talent.
But if you want and crave to experience it at its best, then you'll always take the very best hardware you can afford.
Nothing says you have to pre order? If you have doubts, just wait till its been out a few months and see if you can get some hands on with it, see if it works for you.

@OldGamer999 Its 7.32am, and Im about to go on an extended drive, wont be back till early afternoon, but I'll come back to you when Im home!

@Jey887 I completely agree mate.The US obsession with polarising every thought into black or white is in danger of ruining decent debate just like it has on their shores and shouldn't immediately be the main narrative when discussing any media.

I'm looking forward to watching this - and the main character can look like a brick or turnip without me really caring in the slightest.

@hoffa007 @hoffa007 Thanks for your information, but I beg to differ. I checked regularly from 7am till 10.30 am and they had no listing at all. This was also confirmed on ' the daily express PS5 pro stock checker' which confirmed sales were available on very, game and argos but had not gone live on amazon. Its why I bought on Argos.
Even after I made the purchase I checked Amazon in the afternoon and they stll did not have a product listing for it.
I checked this morning after reading your message here, and they are indeed now listed and available. But they were not available all day yesterday at all and that is and has been confirmed.
Last time I looked yesterday was late afternoon. Maybe they went live shortly after and thats when you looked? Either way, you wont find anyone who bought one at Amazon yesterday morning as it wasnt there.

I worked for IBM at the time, my patch was wc1 covent garden.
In the covered market there, a friend Ash ran a specialist import buisnes for Japanese games and had a stall there. We got the neo geo carts within a week of them being released in Japan. I remember when the machine was released, staring at Magician Lord and Nam 75 when they arrived, I had to have one!
New consoles still excite me, even if its just a small tech uplift. Better is better.

@OldGamer999 Yeah I had a Neo Geo, cost me a fortune!

@OldGamer999 Exactly mate. I buy just about every bit of gaming tech and always have. Not gonna skip the latest..
I was a dev 25 years ago when me and the misses got married, and she had been coming round my flat on game nights for years before that. She always knew a significant portion of our income was destined to be spent on gaming tech... 🤣

@LowDefAl It comes with a horizontal stand, which is perfectly adequate. Ive always used my ps5s horozontaly so its perfect..

My pro is already ordered via PS direct, but Im buying one for a mate. Amazon havent had them all day - I got another one from Argos instead.
My wife is making noises that our second ps5 will need upgrading too, so this could get expensive!

Peter had left by the time I arrived - I went there to work on Dungeon Keeper 2 initially, after a title I was working on for Sony/Psygnosis got canned. I was fortunate enough to go to the pub with him, as we had several big nights out with the old team, many of whom were still at Bullfrog. We had a few chats, seemed like a really nice guy.

@Yagami @Number09

Thanks guys, its nice to know some of my old titles are still remembered with fondness - it's why you pour your heart and soul into it!

@Deityjester
lol at the food critic!
I like the style, got no problem with it at all, and I think several of the creature designs are interesting. Having worked for several AAA game companies (including E.A.) I'm entitled to a view that I've been paid to provide for several of the biggest dev houses. BUT, that doesnt make my view any more right than yours and I accept you do not like it. That's OK my friend, I'm happy that we don't all like the same thing, and there is no 'right', just preferences.
I'm likely to pick this one up - I'm getting a vibe that you will not be... 🤣

I think people who read this as 'spiders have been censored from this game' are simply looking for things to complain about.

If the game does not have them, then I assume they wanted to more creative with their bestiary than simply add something we have all seen so very many times before? I applaud that.
The buzz around this title from those that have played some of it, has been pretty promising so far, so I'm keen on seeing the final reviews and I expect to grab a copy and enjoy it. It would be great to see Bioware hit a home run with this one...

I really want to play this - I remember the original with fondness.
Unfortunately, PTSD has become a thing in my life and I'm not sure my system will take it any more - doh! I now can't watch many of my fave films or play scary games.
nvm, we have been blessed with so many great games this year, I'm not going to be wanting...

Ah - memories! I worked on bullfrogs Theme Park World about 25 years ago - it was a delight!
I think these type of games always work better with a mouse and keyboard and I'd usually play them on the PC for that reason - I often spend more time struggling with the controller scheme that I do building and having fun on a console!

@twitchtvpat Thanks mate. My comment was in July, the last time they had one of these 'sales', but I think my thoughts still stand. If you use the sites you allude to, you will see that there's rarely any special deals which offer particular value, and I'm often offered one day deals on Amazon which will beat these Prime Deals....
You offer good advice though, if you are thinking of a purchase, check out its price history and make sure it's as good a deal as you thought!

Nice to see plenty of pro users also want a drive. I have no use for a drive, and have always used my console horozontaly, so no extras required here. Except we have 2 ps5s and my misses has already stated we should upgrade them both, so this is a doubly expensive mid gen refresh for me!
Nvm, its only money 😁

Finally finished the campaign for the first time in Diablo 4, ready for the new dlc.
Also finished Astrobot, which is every bit as good as everyone says it is 😊
I tried some Revenant 2 last night and might continue that today, but Im still struggling to finish Black Wukong. Tbh, Im still trying to get out of chapter 2 after 48 hours, so Im making hard work of it!

Whatever you are playing this weekend, I hope you have a great time 👍

Delighted they landed this so well. Nice job bloober.

Its the sickening face of rampant captalism, which doesn't value your work force at all. We see it time and time again, record profits, huge bonuses for execs, yet devs thrown to the wolves.
I despise this behaviour...

I like these chroma colours, but Im happy enough with stock white.
Its always good to offer people choice though..

The sad story of fantastic developers forced to make a game by managers and shareholders with absolutely no vision other than trying to hop on a money train thats already full up.
I hope this is a lesson to some of them. When the game concept is locked by the non creatives, start looking for a new job.
I practised this and left a job for exactly that reason. Doesn't mean I didnt work on games which then performed poorly, but they were games I believed in.

Im actually looking forwards to this game. I like both franchises, the tech looked pretty good from the last preview, and I get the feeling this will at least expand the mould of what a lego game is.
As long as its daft and makes me chuckle Im likely to enjoy it I think.

Happy to play all three. Ive some issues with ptsd, so I need to take it easy with dead space, too many jump scares leave me triggered (god dammit!). I remember how good the original was though and I understand this remaster is excellent. Hope I can play it.

Theres a sucker born every minute. Getting fooled when there is no history is one thing, giving money to proven liars and scammers is just asking to be ripped off.

I cant resist!