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To quote HGT: 'it's like Metroid-vania was mixed with Pure Cocaine'. And they never stop the feed...

Pre-ordered and storage ready!

Someone! Quick! Another pandemic! They are going OUTSIDE! Ignore the needless deaths! Our projections must be accurate!!!

Oh my poor storage on Steamdeck!

Shame the Digital Ownership issue wasn't an open agreement. It's an amazing tool that will just never reach it's potential.

Must go clear space on Steamdeck....

@PhhhCough I'm running on a Series S currently. And played it on the One X originally, the enhanced/quality mode vs performance was so negligible graphically I could barely tell. So just ran it in performance for FPS. Maybe they will go Bonkers with Ray tracing or something else substantial. CDPR may have crapped the bed with the Cyberpunk launch, but it is at least very solid now with the upgrades. (Although I would still love a 1080/60 mode for series S.)

Only thing left is what, a 4k/60fps mode? The game looks flat out gorgeous as is.

Sweet! Now to finish the Stea...I mean PC version.

@tallythwack I feel the same about Chihuahuas. Spawns of Satan they are.
meow hiss meow meow

@PhhhCough It's still weird that there is a portable PS5 and no one is talking about it. Just picked up Deathloop and Death Stranding on the Steam Sale for 50$ total! FF7-Int was even 30% off. Tough to complain with so many options nowadays tho.

Pre-ordered for PS-Steamdeck. Can't wait!

The Last of Us in development for PC. Biggest announcement for me.

None of the above.
Spiderman on Pc.

More, give me more Sony! Steamdeck wants more friends to play with!! Give me Concrete Genie! Give me Bloodborne! Give me the Ico,SotC, Last Guardian sorta Trilogy!

Please, take my money now. Steamdeck needs more friends.

More PC exclusive releases. I'd expect the announcement for Ghost, the slam dunk of TLOU and possibly Horizon Forbidden West. Or hopefully.

Wow. That's some serious douchebaggery.

Is Steam the only one left in town not actively crapping on it's users? Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all seem to love tripping over their own feet. Punishing legacy players and trying to double dip on nostalgia. I'm sure Steam is doing something to someone that they dont like, but hell, at least the games I bought 10 years ago work just fine tyvm.

Just put it on Steam already so modders can help Big Bird & Elmo cross the barren landscape of now and fight against Count and his horde of Grogers.

I'm just thrilled that old purchases will be honored and downloadable independent of the subscription (Ps3 not withstanding).

The big win here is that old purchases via the PS Store on PSP, PS3 or even Vita (depending on the purchase) are available for download and play once this launches. It also seems to imply that these titles will be purchaseable via the Store, tho not confirmed.

Granted that list was EXTREMELY light on the back-compat titles, specifically with PS1, PS2 and PSP. Considering the lack of big name publishers: Square, Capcom, Bandai-Namco, etc. I would expect this list to be a slowly rising crescendo of HOLY CRAP! they did it! Very similar to the Xbox Back Compat which hit its final peak last year.

Considering the absurd depth of Playstations Library if they get with it and go nuts, this could be the biggest move in years towards serious Game Preservation. I am SOOOOOO glad they did not follow Nintendo's style of paywall only. I will hate that till the day I die.

Although that list is ridiculously underwhelming this right here ', if you already bought them in the years gone by, you'll be able to freely download and play them outside of the PS Plus service' is the best move they've made thus far.

@Agramonte I'd give your comment more likes if I could. Steamdeck totally reminds me of the Vita. Can't wait for mine and playing some Robo-dinosaur hunting on my lunch break.

Hell's ya. Great, if flawed, game. Been building up my Steam library a little waiting for my turn in line for the Steamdeck purchase to happen. Q2 is almost up fellas! Call me!!

Oh look! A firmware for a dead system! So glad you kept up the support for Vita while all those Fab indy games went to Switch!

...I'm not bitter.

I get the idea of an Opus. But honestly he had the funds and the time to make Shenmue 3 truly epic. And wrap up the whole series. Instead he just went with another episode in the saga and then later said he always planned it for 7 total episodes. Rather ridiculous.

Love that quality Roadmap. I'd be just as keen seeing it written on a napkin tho.

I want purchaseable game options. That's all. If this is Nintendo Online style and the games are paywalled only, I'll ignore it entirely.

Might help of the PS5 didnt push 350wph usage. Just sayin.

Uhhh...yeah it is. CDPR either A-found a cheaper way to do the upgrade than paying Saber (likely an auto-ai-upscaler) or B-Really didn't like the work Saber had done. Or possibly both.

I'm still uncertain as to the big deal on this. The game looks phenomenal to me.

@hoffa007 I dunno, Driveclub still works. You just can't buy it or play it online. I'm more concerned with the vagarious nature of digital license 'ownership'. I recently had to 'renew' all my movie and tv licenses thru XBL for my baby Surface (total pita). That's just weird. There is no standard or regulation controlling digital licensing. It seems the entire digital world is evolving into an always online license check. So we end up going backwards. There is something to be said for the semi-permanent nature of physical ownership. Although it means far less now with the necessity of day 1 patches. My favorites are the (very rare) physical cartridges that still run entirely on the 1.0 version or cart only version. I think I have like 4 total lol.

@Rural-Bandit
You make all the points behind my originally going all Digital. I only in the last 2 years started a very small Physical collection for two reasons, my kids both have switch-lites and I'll be damned if I'm gonna buy 3 copies of Mario Odyssey or Smash Bros and secondly, my collection is stupidly large on Switch and out of caution for space I wanted some games on Cart. I keep all those carts either in my small case which is always in my backpack or my kids have them. But all your points are perfectly valid. I take my bug out bag with me to work every day and never worry about my games getting thieves or melted.

Sidenote: You make a great point about the undervalued Nintendo Store points system.

@Rural-Bandit I also went all digital around the same time. I haven't regretted it once. Only recently I started picking up a few Switch Carts just for space saving.

Maybe I missed this, but is the PS+ Premium backward compatible tier, exclusive to PS5?

Doesnt do any good on those systems anyway.

Is the legacy content stuck behind the paywall or can we purchase the titles individually? What if we own the titles already thru the PS-Store? I have so many questions.

Isn't there a pricing firm they hired who states the value on these microtransactions?

Good call making the game as online only as possible.

State of Lame.

Great game. Like they started with Witcher 3 and ended it with Mass Effect 3.

What's, no Crypto or NFT tie-in? Despite my life-long love of this series, I'm really glad I've passed this up. Forza is far more relaxing and lacking in weirdness.

I was fascinated, right up till the Elden Ring tie in.

@johncalmc First thing I did with Ghost was enable Japanese dialogue. Even with the lack of lip sync at the time. Kurosawa mode was a bit much, but still gorgeous in spurts.

@johncalmc I'm in the same boat. I was really surprised at the lack of a Mandarin option. Even tho the gameplay is fantastic, I couldn't enjoy it. It's like watching Crouching Tiger with an English Dub, why???

Shame that its online only. With a single player campaign. Removes any motivation. To purchase

I got well into Horizon 2 and have dipped my toe into Elden Ring. But I've decided to wait till I'm done playing with Robo-Dinosaurs and then enjoy ER. Playing both simultaneously would be like reading LotR and 'War and Peace' at the same time. Both are classics that deserve my undivided attention. Don't get so caught up in the fomo that you lessen your own enjoyment.

Avoiding other comments for spoilers. But I'm 30 hours in and am fascinated by the game. Both the story-telling and depth of gameplay. BUT, there are some bugs. I just encountered one this morning where my weapon type got locked and it wouldn't switch. I ended up having to die and restart. Another one last night where a required enemy kill somehow got stuck inside a rock!
The bugs are totally immersion breaking. If they didn't keep popping up, this is an EASY 10/10. As it is, it's a solid 9.

The exploration of the game is so amazing. I've spent hours just going with a 'hey what's over there'?

I've a bad feeling this is gonna end up on my backlog now that Horizon 2 grabbed my attention. Love the art style. Oddly, it's used in The Long Dark with great effectiveness. It seems to be especially good for facial animation. Just wish I had more time.

The major difference here is: Nintendo doesn't care about public opinion. Sony does. Just look at Nintendo-Life running 3 different articles the day-of and hundreds of responses. This is not Iwata's Nintendo anymore. They legitimately don't care what we think.