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At this point I don't see why anyone would settle for 60fps on an update for a last-gen game.

@naruball Good idea, I'll put some of my $2,750,000,000 annual revenue towards that /s

People shouldn't need to pay for access to multiplayer in the first place.

It's a stupid complaint but it's also a stupid requirement. They should have seen this coming.

"Early access" is ***** marketer speak. The game is out, you're simply not allowed to play it yet if you 'only' bought the standard edition.

Hard to tell if Randy does this ***** on purpose or not sometimes

"your only option is to play it on a PS3"
That's not really true, emulation is always an option.

Yuck! I need that gif of Michael Scott screaming NO

Xbox has 'big' games?

@BeerIsAwesome Youtube videos last minutes though, not hours

What's the point of streaming retro games? Ten seconds of streamed video is going to use more data (and do more harm to the environment!) than simply downloading* the game to the player's device and running it locally, not to mention the increased latency, video feed quality and all those other streaming issues.
There's a case to be made for streaming modern games but any device in this day and age that can stream these games can play them locally.

• PS1 excluded of course, but over the course of a completed game I still think streaming would use more bandwidth

@WhiteRabbit "both William Adams and Yasuke are historical to Japan" Honestly what the hell are you even trying to say? Are you suggesting Ubisoft are a Japanese studio like Team Ninja?

@WhiteRabbit William Adams is such a disingenuous comparison that I don't even see why you'd bring it up. If you can't tell the difference between a Japanese studio making a game based on their own culture and a Western studio making a game based on a foreign nation's culture then you should stop posting and wasting everybody's time.

@WhiteRabbit it's funny because they say this after peppering a modern-day reenactment group's flags all over the promotional material.

"We are trying to create a game that is as authentic as possible. It's something we take pride in"
LMAO

I don't really care about the balancing (I'll continue to use what feels good regardless of whether it actually is good) but the Impaler is just awful to play against. I'm at the point where I'm not playing bugs again until they've done something about that.

@Boxmonkey yeah

What do they mean by "without compromise"? They had to shoehorn in a crafting system to justify covering the game with pickable flowers because without those it would've been obvious how much of the game was just empty space. If that's not compromise then what is?

I hope it's better than the movie.

@Frmknst Not true, the ease of health recovery (simply hit the thing that hit you) led to much more inconsistent combat - either you take a hit for every hit you land and walk away with near-full health or you take a hit, get stunlocked, take a few more hits and die. Makes it a very different game (a worse one in my opinion but people seem to love it)

The new Lords of the Fallen is one of the best Soulsclones ever made imo, I don't remember feeling that same sense of vulnerability in any other game since Demon's Souls first came out. Been hoping for news of an expansion but this is even better. Can't wait.

@Specky if you're ok with games being held back by consoles because "that's the way the world works" then i take it you're in favour of the wars in ukraine and gaza?

@Specky Now consider how much better TLOU2, Horizon, RDR2 and GTA could have been if they weren't held back by weak console specs.

@DonkeyFantasy Now you know how the PC folk feel

Honestly wouldn't consider playing a game at below 60fps. Ideally every game would have a 720p @ 120fps option, I'd probably pick that 90% of the time.

@Northern_munkey have you? I played it day one. It's an open-world flower picking simulator with a handful of localized dungeon areas. Least dense game in the series by design

Do people normally describe Elden Ring as having "dense exploration"? The rest of the Fromsoft stable sure but Elden Ring is 99% empty space.

I'm only half-way through but it's an 8/10 for me. Knocked a point off it for making me do Dondoko Island. Worst minigame I've ever played, just awful

Candy Crush should cost $5000 up-front

Yuck.
(Hmm, is that it? Can you think of something more to say?)

Runs like butter on my PC but even at absolute max graphics it still looks like a PS3 game. Surprised to see the PS5 struggles with it at all

Glad I spent $200 (AUD) on five years of PS+ through Turkey when the new tiers were announced!

@DennisReynolds You sure have trouble with hypotheticals, huh?

@DennisReynolds What I'm saying is that ideally there'd be one platform to develop for (PC) with a handful of static devices (like the Steam Deck) to for developers to target. A single open platform covering every use case for every user. The only reason it hasn't happened yet is because Sony and Nintendo (and MS to a lesser degree) have their brainwashed legions of fans who don't want things to be better.

@NinjaNicky Ideally there'd be a (non-paid) option to unlock everything from the outset, that'd make everyone happy. Last year's CoD is one of the worst progression systems I've come across though, you're right about that

@NinjaNicky Should a good game need something to "work for"? Battlefield got where it is now off the back of games where you had every weapon unlocked when you started the game up and could play the way you want without having to play an arbitrary length of time first
@JohntheRaptor Well sure, if you beat the game and continue playing it of course it's going to be a grind. You can do the same in any game though

Is Diablo really known as a grindy series? I beat D1 and D2 many times as a kid without really grinding.
@Northern_munkey When my friends got a week's head start I played my ass off to clear the game and try to catch up only to end up still a week behind my friends and still not able to play with them. I would've loved to be able to catch up with them in just two hours.

@DennisReynolds ok lmao

Been saying this for decades, just stop making consoles (a.k.a. DRM boxes) and put everything on PC. Now with the Steam Deck providing a standard platform for people who want it consoles are only holding things back.

Why are they limited to 60fps? Not enough juice to run them at 120? Glad it's happening though, if modders can do it this easily once they get access to the system hopefully whoever's in charge will pull their thumb out and make it happen for those of us with unmodded consoles.
I wonder if they could mod the aspect ratio to remove the black bars, IIRC the game was letterboxed so there were fewer pixels to render which is why they were able to push the graphics so hard.

Too bad it's open world, I was really looking forward to it. The two The Surge games are my favourite soulslikes but I doubt even this developer can make an open world game interesting

Paying for cosmetics is one thing but paying to grind for cosmetics? How did this ever take off?

English? Yuck.

If there's a game on "competing" hardware that you want just buy the competing hardware. Brand loyalty is nonsense. Sony doesn't care about any of us

Kojima's the heart and soul of Metal Gear. If he's not on board I'm not interested.

Great, exclusives are cancer

They've released a new Call of Duty literally every year since the first game, did anyone actually believe they'd skip the series' 20th anniversary?