I think its just a combination of stuff. If sonys first party output had been better since launch and there communication had been better I don't think it would be such a big deal. Sonys first party output apart from returnal has been mainly seqeuls and remakes/remasters so I think its a bit of fatigue and people thinking Sony in general have no new ideas.
If they also at some point over the last couple of years showed what Naughty dog were working on (could just be a 30 second teaser) that would of eased a lot of the negativity as well
My backlog never seems to get any smaller due to my huge backlog I rarely buy games day one. Some bargains I have picked up in the last couple of months SFVI £20, Resident Evil 4 £22 and Dead Island 2 £25 as well as quite a few others just got to find time to play them all, only done Resi 4 out of those. I have extra but thinking of dropping it due to not having enough time to do my backlog of games.
@Jacko11 Yeah the Ui is terrible this season the locker section is specifically bad I think thats costing purchases as people cant be bothered to navigate the locker so see no point buying new skins.
@ItsBritneyB_tch Do you get Xp for BP doing the lego stuff? As may play more of the LEGO mode as not really feeling the BR mode this season and the OG season and this season XP seems a real slog for some reason
Bungie were better run and less money grabbing under Activision that says alot about the company. Bungie has the worst monestisation practices in the business, Name me one other developer that has deleted paid content from there customers! Its a huge shame as there shooting gameplay is up there as the best in the business its just everything else around it that lets it down.
On a side note I wish Push Square would stop saying Destiny 2 is Free to play thats very misleading as most of the free to play content has been deleted at least all the meaningful content has.
That explains why LEGO 2K Drive physical edition was heavily discounted for Black Friday! I have Powerwash Simulator but does mean I can sell my physical copy.
Its just seems like a dime a dozen multiplayer game not very exciting wonder if Matt and Trey have any involvement in this game like the last two games.
@Rocky1972 Yeah I bought Parappa a few years back and thought the same thing its unplayable at some points.
For peoples information Yakuza 6 and Like a dragon are leaving this month as well as the middle earth games so you don't have long to get those done if anyone is interested.
So £40 for the expansion another £40 for the annual pass then £20 for a costume. And they were supposed to be advising Sony gaas scheme. The worse monetisation developer in the business.
I have 10 months left on my sub and i can't extend at the reduced price via website or App wonder if it only works if you have under say 3 months left on your sub. Sony seem to make baffling decisions all the time now. This move is more likely to push me to not renew my sub at all.
It just seems like another half hearted idea by Sony like VR2. This is an expensive product for a very niche market. You eithe rmake it so you can download games on to it and play it natively or you make it a lot cheaper and more people will pick it up on a whim.
This does look like it has been released to just die like VR2. VR2 has been out 8 months now and Sony as far as I know only released 1 game for it and no other ones are even announced. They haven't even bothered to port old PSVR games like Blood and Truth and Astrobot!
Alternate Jake Hunter maybe the best game name I have heard in a while. Quite slim pickings for me this month but Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising has been on my get to list, so least i dont have to pay for it
That is impressive numbers. As someone who only started playing midway through Chapter 3 this map is awful and dull. If this was the first thing I played of Fortnite I would not be playing today. Glad its only a month also happy a lot of players get to have some nostalgia.
These would be fine before the price hike. But since there has been a price hike the games have been very medicore. I am not sure why they havent thrown in a first party game in like Ratchet, Returnal or Last of Us 2 or Last of us part 1 just to quell some disappointment.
I will never forgive Bungie for being one of the only developers to take paid content away from customers. But I think they are paying for there poor decisions. They needed to start fresh with Destiny 3 on a new engine instead of pumping out expansion after expansion. It would help to get new and returning players in as playing Destiny 2 is so impenatrable if you start new or return at the moment. It would also help making new content for it.
I am going to go out on a limb but I would guess people like Luke Smith and the people who came up with there horrible monitisation schemes and the idea to remove paid content from players still have there jobs!
Do like the Spiderman games but a bit disappointing it doesnt add a lot new makes it easier to wait for a price drop. This gen is becoming a bit disapointing think Ratchet was the only game I bought day one and that turned out to be on the short side.
I buy some stuff on sales when its below £10 but with extra I must admit my spending is down. I will play Spiderman 2 but cant justify the £70 price tag so will wait til cheaper think the only day one game I may consider is FF7 Rebirth. With backlog and extra don't really need to buy day one at the moment.
Think it will lose something without Rik Mayall doing the voiceover. I enjoyed it back in the day seems strange that it seemed to be forgotten when people recall PS1 games
@Constable_What Thanks I picked up 1 and 2 reloaded on a sale a while back. This might bump the games up on my backlog list knowing they have an English dub
Are there any of these Visual Novel games with English Dubs? I do like visual novel games but it is a lot of reading sometimes it would be nice to have the game in English so you could play them without the higher level of concentration.
@VidaJ Its a 2d side scrolling action RPG with multiple characters which there stories intertwine to some extent. Each character has different combat. As with all Vanillaware games the art style is beautiful. Couldn't hurt to check out some youtube videos to see if its up your alley.
Seemed strange to promote it as an indie 3rd party state of play and then show only 1 indie game. (was hoping for at least Vampire Survivors release date). It does seem they have given up on PSVR 2 loved my PSVR 1 but with no backwards compatability they have not given me one reason to get PSVR 2. Why they decided to do the voice chat thing for Hell Divers I will never know that never works as no group ever talks like that playing games. Was nice to see FFVII R2 so that made the show ok for me.
I am not sure how the whole twist is going to play out with Zack around. Because if he is around the group alot surely he would just say that didn't happen.
I wonder if we will get a Vampire survivors release date. If the leaks are to believed the only thing that will interest me is FFVIIR2 but a Vampire survivors release date might make it more bearable for myself.
@IOI Just going by UK prices extra is £84 at the moment will go up to £100 even 20% off brings it down to £80 which is cheaper then it currently is (not by much granted) but if the discount is 25 or 30% the saving is more. So from UK point of view makes sense to wait a couple months instead of rushing to top up today. I haven't calculated the US prices those could be different.
I am currently subbed on extra to September next year but now considering not subscribing to anything after its done. I don't really play anything online apart from fortnite which you don't need plus for. The cloud saves are useful and if I get rid of plus would reduce my backlog a bit!
Thinking about it Black friday its usually 20% off isnt it its probably worth waiting til then to up your sub as it will work out slightly cheaper my calculation for extra would be £84 now £80 on black friday.
I am currently subscribed to extra til September 2024 may get an extra year before price rise if you can do that? But will consider dropping it all together after that.
I am still surprised people still defend Bungie. The bungie remain experts in live service is one of the biggest jokes i have seen in a while. There live service model is easily the worst in the business. There the only major live service game i know of to take paid content away from its customers. There model of full paid expansions plus season pass on top of that plus microtransactions is just pure greed. And to think they have only gotten worse since splitting with Activision!
The 3D looks awful. The whole charm of the last two games was it felt like you were playing an episode of the show this looks like a cash grab live service game. I hope I am wrong.
It just goes to show how morally bankrupt he is. I am guessing it was his idea to put slot machines and casinos in NBA 2k a few years ago. All he cares about is money and will exploit anyone to get it. But there will be enough gullable and more money then sense people that will buy it at the price quoted.
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Re: New Burnout Game Possibly Teased in Developer Tweet
@Voltan
I would even take remastered versions of those 2. I know 3 gets a lot of praise but I liked revenge way more.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Remastered Director Doesn't Get Fan 'Consternation' Surrounding Re-Release
I think its just a combination of stuff. If sonys first party output had been better since launch and there communication had been better I don't think it would be such a big deal. Sonys first party output apart from returnal has been mainly seqeuls and remakes/remasters so I think its a bit of fatigue and people thinking Sony in general have no new ideas.
If they also at some point over the last couple of years showed what Naughty dog were working on (could just be a 30 second teaser) that would of eased a lot of the negativity as well
Re: Publishing Exec Claims 'There Are Too Many Games'
My backlog never seems to get any smaller due to my huge backlog I rarely buy games day one. Some bargains I have picked up in the last couple of months SFVI £20, Resident Evil 4 £22 and Dead Island 2 £25 as well as quite a few others just got to find time to play them all, only done Resi 4 out of those. I have extra but thinking of dropping it due to not having enough time to do my backlog of games.
Re: Rise of the Ronin Preview Details Open World, Moral Choices, Combat, More
Oh look another souls like this gen has come down to sequels, Soulslikes and Remasters/remakes really depressing to see no imagination this gen
Re: Fortnite Fans Are Miffed with Season 5's PS5, PS4 Item Shop
@Jacko11
Yeah the Ui is terrible this season the locker section is specifically bad I think thats costing purchases as people cant be bothered to navigate the locker so see no point buying new skins.
Re: LEGO Fortnite Is Available to Play Right Now, Watch the Gameplay Launch Trailer
@ItsBritneyB_tch
Do you get Xp for BP doing the lego stuff? As may play more of the LEGO mode as not really feeling the BR mode this season and the OG season and this season XP seems a real slog for some reason
Re: Talking Point: Is Bungie Really the Right Developer to Aid Sony's Live-Service Push?
Bungie were better run and less money grabbing under Activision that says alot about the company. Bungie has the worst monestisation practices in the business, Name me one other developer that has deleted paid content from there customers! Its a huge shame as there shooting gameplay is up there as the best in the business its just everything else around it that lets it down.
On a side note I wish Push Square would stop saying Destiny 2 is Free to play thats very misleading as most of the free to play content has been deleted at least all the meaningful content has.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for December 2023 Announced
That explains why LEGO 2K Drive physical edition was heavily discounted for Black Friday! I have Powerwash Simulator but does mean I can sell my physical copy.
Re: Destiny 2's Pricey Witcher 3 Crossover Armour Sets Remain Undeniably Cool
@riceNpea
Weirdly this site always seems to defend Bungie and never calls them out on there shady practices
Re: South Park: Snow Day! Still Not an RPG in Four Player Co-op Gameplay
Its just seems like a dime a dozen multiplayer game not very exciting wonder if Matt and Trey have any involvement in this game like the last two games.
Re: PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for November 2023 Available Now on PS5, PS4
@Rocky1972 Yeah I bought Parappa a few years back and thought the same thing its unplayable at some points.
For peoples information Yakuza 6 and Like a dragon are leaving this month as well as the middle earth games so you don't have long to get those done if anyone is interested.
Re: Alright, Destiny 2's Witcher 3 Crossover Armour Is Cool
So £40 for the expansion another £40 for the annual pass then £20 for a costume. And they were supposed to be advising Sony gaas scheme. The worse monetisation developer in the business.
Re: PS Plus Subscriptions on Sale Now, But There's a Big Catch
I have 10 months left on my sub and i can't extend at the reduced price via website or App wonder if it only works if you have under say 3 months left on your sub. Sony seem to make baffling decisions all the time now. This move is more likely to push me to not renew my sub at all.
Re: Sony Says PS Portal Wasn't Designed to Make a Profit
It just seems like another half hearted idea by Sony like VR2. This is an expensive product for a very niche market. You eithe rmake it so you can download games on to it and play it natively or you make it a lot cheaper and more people will pick it up on a whim.
This does look like it has been released to just die like VR2. VR2 has been out 8 months now and Sony as far as I know only released 1 game for it and no other ones are even announced. They haven't even bothered to port old PSVR games like Blood and Truth and Astrobot!
Re: 14 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Coming Next Week
Alternate Jake Hunter maybe the best game name I have heard in a while. Quite slim pickings for me this month but Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising has been on my get to list, so least i dont have to pay for it
Re: PS Plus Gets Heavy Discounts for Black Friday
I am subbed to extra til September next year usually top up another year on black friday but don't think I will bother this year.
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth ESRB Rating Teases Swearing, Alcohol, Impalement
Guessing god damn isn't a swear word or in a twist Cid gets his tea!
Re: In Show of Dominance, Fortnite OG Draws 44.7 Million Players in One Day
That is impressive numbers. As someone who only started playing midway through Chapter 3 this map is awful and dull. If this was the first thing I played of Fortnite I would not be playing today. Glad its only a month also happy a lot of players get to have some nostalgia.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for November 2023 Announced
These would be fine before the price hike. But since there has been a price hike the games have been very medicore. I am not sure why they havent thrown in a first party game in like Ratchet, Returnal or Last of Us 2 or Last of us part 1 just to quell some disappointment.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for November 2023 Announced
If it was the other aliens game may have given it a go. A pretty lacklustre month for me personally.
Re: Interest in Destiny 2 Reportedly at an All-Time Low
I will never forgive Bungie for being one of the only developers to take paid content away from customers. But I think they are paying for there poor decisions. They needed to start fresh with Destiny 3 on a new engine instead of pumping out expansion after expansion. It would help to get new and returning players in as playing Destiny 2 is so impenatrable if you start new or return at the moment. It would also help making new content for it.
Re: Bungie Layoffs Reportedly Impacted Around 100 Staff, Revenue 45% Below 2023 Projection
I am going to go out on a limb but I would guess people like Luke Smith and the people who came up with there horrible monitisation schemes and the idea to remove paid content from players still have there jobs!
Re: Venom Spin-Off Game an Option for Insomniac, If Fans Want It
I would take a Venom game same sort of size game as Miles Morales was
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (PS5) - A Familiar But Fantastic Superhero Sequel
Do like the Spiderman games but a bit disappointing it doesnt add a lot new makes it easier to wait for a price drop. This gen is becoming a bit disapointing think Ratchet was the only game I bought day one and that turned out to be on the short side.
Re: Lollipop Chainsaw's PS5 Revisit Now a Remaster Rather Than Remake
I presumed it would be more of a remaster then a remake. I think its now going to come down to price on release.
Re: PS Store Plunges the Price of Almost 3,000 More PS5, PS4 Games
I buy some stuff on sales when its below £10 but with extra I must admit my spending is down. I will play Spiderman 2 but cant justify the £70 price tag so will wait til cheaper think the only day one game I may consider is FF7 Rebirth. With backlog and extra don't really need to buy day one at the moment.
Re: PS1 Cult Classic Hogs of War Is Bringing Home the Bacon with a Crowd-Funded Remaster
Think it will lose something without Rik Mayall doing the voiceover. I enjoyed it back in the day seems strange that it seemed to be forgotten when people recall PS1 games
Re: Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue Gets Sadistic 19th October Release on PS5, PS4
@Constable_What
Thanks I picked up 1 and 2 reloaded on a sale a while back. This might bump the games up on my backlog list knowing they have an English dub
Re: Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue Gets Sadistic 19th October Release on PS5, PS4
Are there any of these Visual Novel games with English Dubs? I do like visual novel games but it is a lot of reading sometimes it would be nice to have the game in English so you could play them without the higher level of concentration.
Re: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Gets January Release Date Alongside Gameplay, Story Trailers
Surprised it’s so soon thought they would space out this and gaiden only a couple months in between the two.
Re: 20 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Coming Next Week
@VidaJ
Its a 2d side scrolling action RPG with multiple characters which there stories intertwine to some extent. Each character has different combat. As with all Vanillaware games the art style is beautiful. Couldn't hurt to check out some youtube videos to see if its up your alley.
Re: Poll: Was Sony's Latest State of Play Worth the Wait?
Seemed strange to promote it as an indie 3rd party state of play and then show only 1 indie game. (was hoping for at least Vampire Survivors release date). It does seem they have given up on PSVR 2 loved my PSVR 1 but with no backwards compatability they have not given me one reason to get PSVR 2. Why they decided to do the voice chat thing for Hell Divers I will never know that never works as no group ever talks like that playing games. Was nice to see FFVII R2 so that made the show ok for me.
Re: Square Enix Reveals Where Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Will End
I am not sure how the whole twist is going to play out with Zack around. Because if he is around the group alot surely he would just say that didn't happen.
Re: State of Play Livestream Revealed for Thursday, a Focus on Indie and Third-Party Games
I wonder if we will get a Vampire survivors release date. If the leaks are to believed the only thing that will interest me is FFVIIR2 but a Vampire survivors release date might make it more bearable for myself.
Re: State of Play Livestream Revealed for Thursday, a Focus on Indie and Third-Party Games
Seems Sony is going full Harry Maguire at the moment!
Re: 20 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Coming Next Week
@Shepherd_Tallon
Odin Sphere as well, I highly recomend that game to anyone that hasnt played it
Re: Reminder: Last Chance to Stack PS Plus Subscriptions Before Price Rise
@IOI Just going by UK prices extra is £84 at the moment will go up to £100 even 20% off brings it down to £80 which is cheaper then it currently is (not by much granted) but if the discount is 25 or 30% the saving is more. So from UK point of view makes sense to wait a couple months instead of rushing to top up today. I haven't calculated the US prices those could be different.
Re: Reminder: Last Chance to Stack PS Plus Subscriptions Before Price Rise
Maybe not the best advice as a good chance they could be discounted to lower prices in the black friday sales
Re: PS5, PS4 Owners Are Understandably Irate with PS Plus Price Hike
I am currently subbed on extra to September next year but now considering not subscribing to anything after its done. I don't really play anything online apart from fortnite which you don't need plus for. The cloud saves are useful and if I get rid of plus would reduce my backlog a bit!
Re: PS Plus Essential, Extra, Premium Price Increases Announced by Sony
Thinking about it Black friday its usually 20% off isnt it its probably worth waiting til then to up your sub as it will work out slightly cheaper my calculation for extra would be £84 now £80 on black friday.
Re: PS Plus Essential, Extra, Premium Price Increases Announced by Sony
I am currently subscribed to extra til September 2024 may get an extra year before price rise if you can do that? But will consider dropping it all together after that.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for September 2023 Announced
@Grumblevolcano You would think it would make sense to have a killer month for essential to justify the increase
Re: Rumour: PS Plus Essential Game for September 2023 Leaked Early
My guess is NFS Unbound is coming to Essential or Extra very soon. Will maybe give this a try at some stage
Re: Microsoft to Sell Activision Blizzard Streaming Rights to Ubisoft in Revised Deal
So what happens when Microsoft buy Ubisoft?
Re: 8 PS5, PS4 Games Are Leaving PS Plus Extra, Premium Soon
@Voltan I had the same thought least Chicory is a lot shorter then Yakuza Kiwami 2 managed to do that in a month.
Re: Destiny 2 Will Try to Win Back Some Positivity with Its Annual Showcase Next Week
I am still surprised people still defend Bungie. The bungie remain experts in live service is one of the biggest jokes i have seen in a while. There live service model is easily the worst in the business. There the only major live service game i know of to take paid content away from its customers. There model of full paid expansions plus season pass on top of that plus microtransactions is just pure greed. And to think they have only gotten worse since splitting with Activision!
Re: Gamescom Opening Night Live Less About Announcements, More About Big Updates
Least I know to skip the show now and catch the higlights on here. Been disappointed to many times by Keighly's show's in the past.
Re: South Park: Snow Day! Is Not the PS5 Game You Were Expecting
The 3D looks awful. The whole charm of the last two games was it felt like you were playing an episode of the show this looks like a cash grab live service game. I hope I am wrong.
Re: 17 New PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Revealed for Huge Update Next Week
Get to try Cursed to golf which is good
Re: $50 for Red Dead Redemption PS4 Port 'Commercially Accurate', Says Publisher Take-Two
It just goes to show how morally bankrupt he is. I am guessing it was his idea to put slot machines and casinos in NBA 2k a few years ago. All he cares about is money and will exploit anyone to get it. But there will be enough gullable and more money then sense people that will buy it at the price quoted.