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Why is ‘I don’t have it’ an option. If it’s not relevant to you because you don’t subscribe to it …. WHY ARE YOU VOTING?

@Ravix The thing is - I find Baldurs Gate can’t be played in large doses. Things happen so slowly and require so much thought. I started playing overwatch again to give me relief from it (I’d quit that for good) and now it’s just given me my overwatch addiction back…

@nessisonett I’m down for that. Sounds a lot more entertaining than the usual superhero drivel

If people honestly think this is a ‘crap’ selection of free games on the basic tier, they should probably go live in isolation on a desert island at this stage …

I loved it at first but the grind is quite excessive after a while

Brilliant month if you ask me. Can’t really argue with getting Callisto and Weird West free

Fifty four comments before mine. I’m not going tk read them but I’m going to guess st least 20 are the usual chorus of ‘I’m not going to buy it because it’s digital only’. Sigh

If roughly another 65 people could come along to whinge about how they want but it because it’s digital - that would be amazing.

Honestly - I really love reading the same stuck record party line comment over and over and over again.

I haven’t read all these comments - but if someone could give me a round up of how many of the usual suspects came along to tell us they wouldn’t buy it because it was digital only … that’d be great

Considering all the of Kameo roster also have fatalities … that’s a lot of fatalities to describe

@Sil_Am Probably because this isn’t a war and neither of these corporate giants deserves people to be pledging loyalty and fighting battles on their behalf?

The Series S works for me. I’m primarily a ps5 gamer but I have a series s to play Xbox exclusives I want to play. It didn’t cost me a whole lot but I wouldn’t have considered a series x worth the cost. Ergo: I’m totally ok with accepting compromises.

I wonder how many others use series s for that purpose and not as their primary platform…

@Arnna There are of course only those two options. Be a COD player … or … play souls likes. This is all. Pick your side in the war to come.

Personally I’m not one of these (many) people who is threatening to boycott a game I want to play because it’s digital only.

I do find it strange though. Surely games released during a packed build up to holiday season should be factoring in Christmas.

No one is going to actually play all of these games during September and October. I would think a lot of people would be looking at getting some and leaving some for Christmas gifts (either given to kids so they can play too or receiving if appropriate).

I really don’t think many people are going to be buying someone a digital only game as a Christmas present - doesn’t have quite the same effect, does it?

How are some of these releases STILL cross-gen?!

I can’t ever get into Yakuza games and that seems to be the one everyone is heralding. The rest of it looks like scrapings from the floor of a carpenter’s workshop to me

@Phantasystar77 “from lefties into that stuff…’ I mean literally WHERE does one even start with THAT?! Lolz!

@LifeGirl the good old days - he would never be allowed to do that on a holding screen now…

I’m not even an old skool rpg fan and I thought divinity 2 was GREAT. Trouble is I’m not that good and my party build started to unravel deep into the second act. Then I fell off. Do wish I’d been able to complete it. Wonderfully rendered world-building in that game!

Random guests are really quite irritating when it’s literally half of the dlc pack and the rest of it really isn’t up to much either

@Northern_munkey I’m really trying to get into Diablo 4, having purchased the bloody thing! I thought I liked the beta. It’s just that it seems SO SO repetitive. Like beyond repetitive even. I’m wondering if I understand the appeal at all tbh.

I’ve played to the point where I’ve beaten a few story bosses, done a stronghold or two, tried to keep myself bothering to do side quests despite the intense tedium of them. I dunno if I can keep going. What is it that devoted fans love so much?

While we are at it with remasters people aren’t asking for - can we have a remastered collection of Star Wars games which got butchered by reviews? I’d like to play Masters of Teras Kasai and that vehicle combat arena one. Cheers

What is actually going on with this barrage of collections of ancient games most people don’t actually even remember because they weren’t really notable?

For once I do agree that this is a weak selection. Some real riff-raff being served up as headline additions and it only gets more conspicuous from there.

It doesn’t bother me much because I’ve downloaded about 10 games from the last 3 months, none of which I’ve actually played yet !

The leaked roster acknowledged that there were still 6 spots missing from the total number didn’t it?

I assume that means no Cyrax and Sektor. This upsets me

Cyrax and Sektor - not in the leaked roster but the trend is that if they’re part of the story but not the roster … they make the next roster

I’ve also enjoyed it but I have progressively felt it getting stale. I think it needs a lot more content and quicker roll out of new content. They’ve set up well with huge amounts of potential Disney content to dig into. Whether it really lasts is going to hinge on how they manage that. It’s crying out for more game modes and the new race types they introduced with season 2 were far from convincing!

This surprised me cos generally it seemed to have been getting 7.5-8. Perhaps those were based on a pc version?

I teach his sons at a college. That is all. Thanks for listening

This looks absolutely terrible. Unequivocal. My apologies.

I hope never to see this again.

Please produce the dustbin

@Icey664 I kinda agree … and I voted good just off the back of it!

@GodofCapcom Unfortunately you only have to spend half an hour playing any online shooter with your mic plugged in to realise what you’re up against with gamers. You mention gay characters in games and tragically - this is still seen as some HUGE statement … mostly because everyone knows that there will still be a tirade of extremely old fashioned and very cheap commentary about it amongst the ‘innnit innit innit bruv bruv bruv’ contingent of the gaming community!

This looks absolutely incredible from what they showed.

I’m really wondering what is going so right with this game … cos everything else they showed looked to me like they were developing games early in the generation of the ps4. The Avatar game looked especially ropey graphically and the new driving game also just looks a little dated when put up against what’s out there on ps5… This however … looks amazing!

… and as for the Starfield deep dive - I came out of it not having a single clue what to think. It felt like I was watching a showcase on about 6 different games. At times it looked stunning, at others just pixelated. As an experiment in fusing procedural generation with curated story and narrative it IS going to be fascinating. I’ll give it that much.

Honestly - Avowed looks like it could easily have been made for the Xbox360.

That aside, the first ten minutes literally grabbed the audience and said ‘this is going to be a proper showcase.’ I’m not convinced the rest of it lived up to that and there was still a fair amount of dross/filler. There’s no doubt it was better than Sony’s though, which was 80% dross!

@KidRyan have you SEEN them??

There was something REALLY embarrassing about watching these guys talk about this game. That is all

The fact it comes out days before Spider Man is no problem to me. I love Remedy; I thought Control was absolutely brilliant and (shock horror I know but) yet another superhero game doesn’t really fill me with excitement anyway. I’ll take this every time - it looks stunning!

Did Sony’s abject showcase (is that even the correct word?) make it an easy job for this gig? I mean it wasn’t wonderful but it was better than that!

There’s a lot of people around here who find a lot of reasons not to play this, that or the other.

Personally I won’t be playing any of these because I only play knitting simulators, hate most devs because of their demonisation in the media, won’t buy a game until it’s on a subscription I don’t subscribe to or it’s less than £3 in a sale and don’t have the time because I’m replaying Space Invaders on my Atari.

OH WAIT - I love new games and will probably get both Diablo and FF! How about THAT

It’s a cool idea but I kinda wish it didn’t look like a GameBoy game from 1992

@naruball judging on quite a lot of the gunk wheeled out for the PlayStation showcase it looks like a lot of So called Indy devs are doing that already

Surely the only important point of discussion is:

Are any of them fully patched and on sale in a year’s time?

Personally I was waiting until this game had at least 47 patches and was on sale in a years time.

Oh.

Hang on actually.

I just realised I’m actually still alive and not a Pushsquare robot who’s been in the cryogenics chamber for a few months.

No idea what else I could possibly say though …

The next 20 comments:

This isn’t day one for me - I’ll wait a year until it has had 28 patches and is on sale. / Not day one for me because I won’t play games with online requirements.

Oh wait.

That’s not applicable to this article.

My god.

How are people going to have anything to say??!!

…meltdown on push square impending …

The man doesn’t sound like an actual life form. Is he still alive or do they keep him in a cryo chamber and wheel him out for these dog showcases. Much like the Conservative Party secretly do to a generation of voters long since presumed dead?

What has actually happened to the KOTOR remake? It’s getting cancelled isn’t it… sigh

@GeneJacket Quite right. Only Pushsquare with its chorus of ‘I’m not buying it because it has micro transactions’ and ‘I’ll buy it in two years when it’s fully patched and cheap’ is representative of the player base of gaming.

@Brydontk @GeneJacket Oh I really don’t know about that. Do a Reddit search and you’ll find a pretty consistent trope running through them of fans who don’t want the guest characters.

As for people moaning that my proposed alternative game is a clone … I don’t care. It would remove the nuisance from Mortal Kombat and I would have to pay attention to the chat about that game. Angel face emoji.