@bpomber maybe I misread your comment - a personal preference for how someone enjoys to do things was expressed, and I thought you took as saying that other people ought to do/have done likewise
@MFTWrecks didn't occur to me until reading your comment, but TLOU part 1 is getting released on PC soon (or is it already? I lose track) - you can guarantee that there will be a mod to insert models of the actors from the series into the game
@Loftimus "Immunity Gland" lol - now you're just making stuff up. Besides anything else, it's highly unlikely that an "Immunity Gland" would be remotely suitable for engineering a vaccine (a one time injection to prevent infection). If Ellie's immunity is due to some new gland she has, then you'd need to either have a gland of your own (something which to my knowledge can't be surgically inserted, but especially in a post apocalyptic context), or you'd need a constant supply of whatever substance it is that Ellie's gland produces, which makes her immune, in order to keep your temporary "immunity" going - and that's if that's even feasible. I don't know if you can just inject stuff from glands to get the gland's effect in all cases, and I'm not about to tell the internet you can, like I know anything about that!
Aside from all this, just because something is possible in game doesn't mean that it's possible in the TV show. The TV show is a completely different story, as is evident in many ways. You don't need to be so invested in stuff from the game, when it comes to the TV show
@bpomber you need to learn the difference between saying "I" and saying "someone/anyone/everyone". It's possible to make statements about the way you prefer to do things, without them also being broad generalisations about how everybody should do things
@Loftimus did I say that? I don't know why they're very clearly signalling to us "there is no cure" - I'm sure it will become clearer in episodes to follow.
Your initial comment here on the other hand is "I love how they're pushing that Ellie actually IS the cure and how miraculous that is. Nowhere for Joel lovers to run this time."
Forget about the whole argument with regards Joel's actions at the end of the first game. You commentary on the show so far is "they're really pushing that Ellie actually is a cure"
My reaction to that is "are we even watching the same show?". They seem to be pushing much more heavily with the "a cure isn't even possible" angle, than with any evidence that Ellie can definitely cure other people.
I mean maybe they're putting all that in front of us just to make it even more miraculous when it is eventually revealed that they can make a cure by dissecting Ellie, or something. Maybe. But the big reveal hasn't happened yet, and you're kind of acting like it already has
@Slippship really bizarre of you to complain that "you work for a living", when you're the one spending your time complaining that a news site has the audacity to publish articles. I'd have thought you'd be so busy working for a living that you wouldn't even have looked at PushSquare yet, let alone ventured into the comment section!
They kept the important things consistent to the game, lore wise. Like how you can wade through waist high dirty water, then just climb a few flights of stairs and end up with dry, relatively clean trousers.
@Loftimus did you sleep through the first few minutes of both episodes or something? Where we are told explicitly that "there is no cure"? Or do you just figure those were inserted for no reason?
Even without those scenes, Ellie isn't "a cure", or "a vaccine". She's IMMUNE. Just because she's immune, it doesn't mean she contains some means to make other people immune. So even in the game, just because people say "she's our only hope for a cure", it doesn't mean that there actually IS a chance for a cure, she's just humanity's last desperate effort, which might well have ended in failure.
In the show on the other hand, it's been spelled out in big letters for you at the start of two episodes "THERE CAN BE NO CURE". And these snippets aren't there to inform Joel's decision - he wasn't there in Jakarta and the clip from Ep 1 is from 1968, so it's unlikely Joel was watching since he's in his 30s in 2003 - they're there to inform you, the viewer
@SweetSummerShunv should also point out that I'm not remotely competitive when it comes to games, mainly because I know I'm no match for some 12 year old loudmouth with a mic on . But when it comes to try hards, the PC try hards try harder than all the other try hards, by a long way
@SweetSummerShunv I'm not planning on getting this controller at all (£200 for a controller!? pffft..) but I do have so many DualSenses at this point that I have one purely for PC (one of the boring white ones that came with the PS5). Got me through Elden Ring - anyone saying there's no easy mode on FromSoft games has clearly never tried to play them with mouse & keyboard
@REALAIS I can see precisely one comment in this comment section that your comment could reasonably be a reply to - no one else is complaining about the price of this, just mentioning that the PS4 version is cheaper... which it is? Maybe dial back on the drama a little bit...
@TripleKing333 there's not much reason to believe that backwards compatibility isn't going to be an ongoing feature for Sony consoles going forward. The PS2 - PS3 - PS4 transitions were completely different, because all three of these had completely different architecture to each other (hence why "backwards compatible" PS3s have actual PS2 hardware in them). PS4 to PS5 on the other hand, both consoles are built on the same architecture, the main difference is the sheer power of the PS5 in comparison. Obviously that's not to say that they run exactly the same, just at different speeds - there are a few PS4 games that run badly on PS5, but the main thing here is that we're talking incredibly small numbers of games, and even then, they still run - it's just that there are clearly unintended glitches when a PS5 runs it because it was coded for PS4
In effect, consoles are more like PC's now than they've ever been, and it's hard to imagine them not sticking to this for future generations - it's just more beneficial for everyone this way.
Having said this, I can't predict the future. If for some reason it turns out to be in Sony's interest to go their own way again with some crazy architecture, obviously they're going to do it. Or maybe they'll block PS4 games from running on the PS6 in principle. Who knows. I don't see any reason for those things to happen, but what happens isn't always reasonable..
can only assume that this is why the price of these games on digital for Xbox and PSN has increased - when they're full price it's the same price but they cost 2-3 times as much when they're on sale now.
On the other hand, in PC land (where the closest you can get to a physical game released in 2022 is a piece of card with a steam code on it - for major publishers anyway. I'm sure there are niche cases that specifically release on CD/DVD) the sale price is still a consistent £7 for the complete edition
@TheCollector316 don't know about turning everything into Assassin's Creed. If anything, Assassin's Creed has changed more and become more Far Cry-like over the years, with the big open world maps (as opposed to city-sized maps), enemy camps to clear out etc. If you take a look at AC3/Black Flag and Far Cry 3 (all of which were released 2012-2013), Far Cry and Assassin's Creed were very different games at that point.
Far Cry has only really changed incrementally since then, whereas AC Valhalla doesn't even feel like an Assassin's Creed game any more, much as I enjoy Viking Simulator 2020
@Toypop the first episode of TWD is near identical to the comic - in a similar fashion to the first episode of TLOU. There are some parts that match the comic word for word, and I think there are a couple of minor bits added in (e.g. I'm not sure if the random zombie woman without any legs, dragging herself around is in the comic. Not 100% sure though)
@themightyant really? I mean there's a bunch of new faces that weren't in Ep 1 but I don't really see much in the way of plot spoilers, not unless you already know what happens to the people from the game. The biggest revelation that could be spoilery is showing Ellie with a fresh bite, except we already know that Ellie got bitten from Ep 1
@InvaderJim I mean, that's a bit presumptuous. It might have been voted "terrible" by a bunch of spores, angered by their lack of representation in an adaptation of a story that heavily featured spores.
On a serious note though, I do agree that episode 1 was great!
@SerJosh97 I mean " hurting the devs" is a bit of a stretch. Don't get me wrong, if the game flops due to a boycott, obviously it'll hurt the devs. But if the likes on this comment section alone are anything to go on, there are more people planning on buying the game (at some point, not necessarily at launch) or at least considering it, than there are planning on boycotting it. They just know better than to actually enter the discussion, so they're just liking other people's comments instead.
The people boycotting this game are more vocal than the ones not doing so, but I strongly suspect that the devs aren't going to be hurt financially at all
@Ralizah "evergreens" is a great description for these . Always boggles my mind how they manage to sell so consistently. I mean FIFA at least releases a new game every year (debatable, from what I understand, but "new" enough that actual FIFA fans will buy it again every year) but it amazes me that there are still people buying GTA V in significant numbers
@Constable_What not arguing about whether or not fungal infections can be cured - but you seem to be focusing on this distinction (that they can only be treated, not cured) and ignoring the fact that Ellie is completely immune.
Obviously, we're not talking actual events here so I don't know if immunity itself is just unfeasible in a real life scenario, but surely if the world was in the sort of state that it's in in TLOU, and you found a kid with immunity, it would be worth looking into, even if only to develop "treatment" rather than a cure? I get that there's a distinction between "cure" and "treatment", but the distinction is pretty meaningless if the effect (fewer fungal zombies) is the same
Feel free to correct me as I could just be talking jibberish and not knowing it it just seems to me that a completely immune human would be a significant thing indeed in a world like TLOU's, regardless of whether the best they can hope for is "treatment"
Also seems to me that the doctors, scientists etc. would know full well the distinction between "treatment" and "cure", but the doers on the front lines might not understand the distinctions quite as well, and the hope for "a cure" is probably a better motivation than the knowledge that there's no such thing, despite the fact that treatment would be just as big of a deal, in a world that has neither
@GreatAuk I mean I think you might be misinterpreting the disclaimer, just a little bit there. I don't think it's there purely to dissuade people who believe Rowling is a transphobe, and I especially don't think it's due to Push Square having the opposite opinion. I think they simple don't want a massive flame war on their hands. They'll just as quickly delete comments that say something like "JK did nothing wrong". They're not trying to dissuade one particular side of the "controversy", they just don't want any part in it on their articles at all
Personally I'll probably get the game at some point, but it's incredibly rare that I buy anything at launch, and not likely in this case
@ApostateMage Witcher S1 was pretty faithful actually. I mean not completely, but it didn't really go off the rails at that point, like it did in season 2.
My point being that we're not past season 1 of TLOU yet
@rjejr to be fair, Netflix in the UK charges extra for HD streaming too. There are 3 levels, although I guess there's 4 now:
1 - basic with adverts (cheapest)
2 - basic without adverts (only 1 device at a time)
3 - HD (2 devices at a time)
4 - UHD (more devices - 3? 4? not sure)
I imagine these are the exact same tiers you have in the US - these guys have just forgotten about it, or something
Possibly because Netflix generally has a very wide variety of stuff on it, whereas most people (who don't have Sky already!) usually only want Now TV for the things that are specifically on there
@SerJosh97 relax dude - you can both support difficulty options and accept FromSoftware's choice to not include them. There's no need to express hatred for some person you don't even know, just because they're happy with FromSoft's choices. Difficulty/accessibilty options aren't going away just because FromSoft don't decide to implement them, and nobody is arguing that they should be scrapped for all games in general
@commentlif but that's the thing. You don't need to call it out. He knows he doesn't have the same perspective as someone who needs this controller for accessibility reasons. And we know he's not coming from that perspective too (I mean maybe that's a big assumption on my part but I doubt it). Merely calling what you're doing "calling out" is inserting drama into a situation that doesn't need it. If you'd "suggested that people with expertise designed the controller and there were very good reasons that it looks the way it does" that'd be one thing, but instead you're "calling out a lack of perspective". It's just not necessary, despite the fact that you're free to do it
@commentlife and I stand by my response - you seem to be picking nits because there are no true ***** around to call out. People are allowed to express an opinion. It's not like they were calling for a boycott or in any way objecting to the design, they just thought it looked confusing. People are allowed to think things look confusing. Time to move on with your life and find something actually significant to call out if that's what you're after. Maybe find a facebook post to do with The Last Of Us or something and go blow off some steam on some idiots
@commentlife bear in mind that so far we've had absolutely nothing in the way of toxic "why does this even need to exist" comments - which is great, but it does mean that right now, you're the bottom of the barrel of this comments section! (On the plus side, it's a pretty good barrel today)
A user has an opinion about the look of something but is wanting to buy it anyway, even though they're not the intended demographic (and they know it) - I don't really see the need to create drama (other than, it's the internet so if you're not offended, you don't exist, or something?). No one is actively claiming expertise and asking Sony to change this for the sake of able bodied people or anything
Yeah, I remember all the hype around Biomutant, some of which was around the graphics. And to be fair I haven't really played it so I'm not judging the game as "good" or "bad", but all that hype sure amounted to very little in the end.
@MaccaMUFC annoyingly, the trilogy bundle only includes all of the base games, not the DLC content. Which makes it by far the most inconvenient way to buy the games if you're remotely interested in the DLC, because DLC never seems to get the price cuts you might think it would (prime example is The Witcher 3. Before the PS5 version came out, it was £7 for the GOTY edition, £5 for the base game. But the DLCs were both reduced to about £3/£5 ish as well, so if you already own the base game you would have to spend about as much to get all the DLC as you would buying the GOTY edition in the first place)
for anyone like me who played + platinumed Fallen Order before there was a PS5 version, on EA play - you can get your platinum/all trophies to auto-pop, all you need to do is transfer your PS4 saves (this is easy enough, there's an option to do so when you first load the game up), load your completed save file, and then find a meditation circle and meditate at it. You might pop a few trophies along the way depending on what you do before you get to the meditation circle, but as soon as you meditate, the platinum should pop.
After this, you're free to replay the game without your inner completionist nagging you (unless your inner completionist is a real stickler for proper process, in which case God help you..)
@Juvenlast your points are good but I feel like they'd be much more relevant if:
the game was being re-released for sale, even as a free PS5 upgrade (i.e. the upgrade is free but you have to buy the game)
and/or
the review simply existed with a 2018 time stamp on it, and we'd descended out of nowhere to take offense at it for not being updated in all this time
Plenty of games undergo changes over time, and I don't expect PushSquare to update their reviews over time or release new articles every time a games gets a new patch.
What's different in this case is that PushSquare is pushing their own review as "relevant again because the game is now free on PS Plus", and specificially they've updated the date on the review but nothing else.
The way they've pushed this review now makes it look like it's a review of how the game plays in 2022, and the note at the top doesn't even make note of the fact that the game has changed significantly since launch. And they've only updated the article at all in order to bring attention to it, specifically because the game is free with PS Plus Essential soon.
I really don't care that this review exists at all. It's an accurate representation of what Fallout 76 was like at launch (reportedly at least. I personally never played it and I'm not particularly keen to - my backlog is big enough), and even if that's debatable, it's an accurate representation of what the reviewer thought when the game was launched.
All we're pointing out is that slapping a 2022 time stamp on this review without any kind of disclaimer that the game has undergone massive changes is incredibly misleading. Nobody would have cared that this rewview existed if they'd just left it in 2018 where it belonged, and left it there as a resource that anyone could easily find if they could be bothered to
I don't expect PushSquare reviewers to keep on re-trying games that they didn't get on with. That's a bit much to expect of anybody, the only issue I (and I think most of the other commenters) have is that it currently looks like it's an up to date review (based on the time stamp) but it's really not
7 mins 59 secs - that's all? I mean I get it, it's pretty long as acceptance speeches go, but I wouldn't have thought it was world record breaking. I'm pretty sure longer accptance speeches have happened, even on televised award shows. Maybe not the Oscars, but I bet there's evidence out there somewhere if anybody can be bothered to find it
I don't even intend on playing fallout 76 and I think that republishing this review as-is was just lazy. We can all find it if we really want to know what you thought about the game at launch, there's zero point putting it to the top of the news feed unless you're going to actually update the review.
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Re: TV Show Review: The Last of Us (HBO) Episode 2 - Establishing a New Lore
@bpomber maybe I misread your comment - a personal preference for how someone enjoys to do things was expressed, and I thought you took as saying that other people ought to do/have done likewise
Re: TV Show Review: The Last of Us (HBO) Episode 2 - Establishing a New Lore
@MFTWrecks didn't occur to me until reading your comment, but TLOU part 1 is getting released on PC soon (or is it already? I lose track) - you can guarantee that there will be a mod to insert models of the actors from the series into the game
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate The Last of Us - Episode 2?
@Loftimus "Immunity Gland" lol - now you're just making stuff up. Besides anything else, it's highly unlikely that an "Immunity Gland" would be remotely suitable for engineering a vaccine (a one time injection to prevent infection). If Ellie's immunity is due to some new gland she has, then you'd need to either have a gland of your own (something which to my knowledge can't be surgically inserted, but especially in a post apocalyptic context), or you'd need a constant supply of whatever substance it is that Ellie's gland produces, which makes her immune, in order to keep your temporary "immunity" going - and that's if that's even feasible. I don't know if you can just inject stuff from glands to get the gland's effect in all cases, and I'm not about to tell the internet you can, like I know anything about that!
Aside from all this, just because something is possible in game doesn't mean that it's possible in the TV show. The TV show is a completely different story, as is evident in many ways. You don't need to be so invested in stuff from the game, when it comes to the TV show
Re: TV Show Review: The Last of Us (HBO) Episode 2 - Establishing a New Lore
@bpomber you need to learn the difference between saying "I" and saying "someone/anyone/everyone". It's possible to make statements about the way you prefer to do things, without them also being broad generalisations about how everybody should do things
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate The Last of Us - Episode 2?
@Loftimus did I say that? I don't know why they're very clearly signalling to us "there is no cure" - I'm sure it will become clearer in episodes to follow.
Your initial comment here on the other hand is "I love how they're pushing that Ellie actually IS the cure and how miraculous that is. Nowhere for Joel lovers to run this time."
Forget about the whole argument with regards Joel's actions at the end of the first game. You commentary on the show so far is "they're really pushing that Ellie actually is a cure"
My reaction to that is "are we even watching the same show?". They seem to be pushing much more heavily with the "a cure isn't even possible" angle, than with any evidence that Ellie can definitely cure other people.
I mean maybe they're putting all that in front of us just to make it even more miraculous when it is eventually revealed that they can make a cure by dissecting Ellie, or something. Maybe. But the big reveal hasn't happened yet, and you're kind of acting like it already has
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate The Last of Us - Episode 2?
@Slippship really bizarre of you to complain that "you work for a living", when you're the one spending your time complaining that a news site has the audacity to publish articles. I'd have thought you'd be so busy working for a living that you wouldn't even have looked at PushSquare yet, let alone ventured into the comment section!
Re: TV Show Review: The Last of Us (HBO) Episode 2 - Establishing a New Lore
They kept the important things consistent to the game, lore wise. Like how you can wade through waist high dirty water, then just climb a few flights of stairs and end up with dry, relatively clean trousers.
Overall a fantastic episode
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate The Last of Us - Episode 2?
@Loftimus did you sleep through the first few minutes of both episodes or something? Where we are told explicitly that "there is no cure"? Or do you just figure those were inserted for no reason?
Even without those scenes, Ellie isn't "a cure", or "a vaccine". She's IMMUNE. Just because she's immune, it doesn't mean she contains some means to make other people immune. So even in the game, just because people say "she's our only hope for a cure", it doesn't mean that there actually IS a chance for a cure, she's just humanity's last desperate effort, which might well have ended in failure.
In the show on the other hand, it's been spelled out in big letters for you at the start of two episodes "THERE CAN BE NO CURE". And these snippets aren't there to inform Joel's decision - he wasn't there in Jakarta and the clip from Ep 1 is from 1968, so it's unlikely Joel was watching since he's in his 30s in 2003 - they're there to inform you, the viewer
Re: Video: What's in the Dualsense Edge Pro Controller Box?
@SweetSummerShunv should also point out that I'm not remotely competitive when it comes to games, mainly because I know I'm no match for some 12 year old loudmouth with a mic on . But when it comes to try hards, the PC try hards try harder than all the other try hards, by a long way
Re: Video: What's in the Dualsense Edge Pro Controller Box?
@SweetSummerShunv I'm not planning on getting this controller at all (£200 for a controller!? pffft..) but I do have so many DualSenses at this point that I have one purely for PC (one of the boring white ones that came with the PS5). Got me through Elden Ring - anyone saying there's no easy mode on FromSoft games has clearly never tried to play them with mouse & keyboard
Re: Special PS5 DualSense Gifted to PlayStation Employees
@PlayStationGamer3919 really not quite sure what you were expecting..
Re: Video: What's in the Dualsense Edge Pro Controller Box?
I mean if you really wanted to "take your competitive gaming to the next level", just get a PC surely
**runs away from the comment section**
Re: The Witcher 3 on PS5 Gets a Physical Release Next Week
@REALAIS I can see precisely one comment in this comment section that your comment could reasonably be a reply to - no one else is complaining about the price of this, just mentioning that the PS4 version is cheaper... which it is? Maybe dial back on the drama a little bit...
Re: The Witcher 3 on PS5 Gets a Physical Release Next Week
@TripleKing333 there's not much reason to believe that backwards compatibility isn't going to be an ongoing feature for Sony consoles going forward. The PS2 - PS3 - PS4 transitions were completely different, because all three of these had completely different architecture to each other (hence why "backwards compatible" PS3s have actual PS2 hardware in them). PS4 to PS5 on the other hand, both consoles are built on the same architecture, the main difference is the sheer power of the PS5 in comparison. Obviously that's not to say that they run exactly the same, just at different speeds - there are a few PS4 games that run badly on PS5, but the main thing here is that we're talking incredibly small numbers of games, and even then, they still run - it's just that there are clearly unintended glitches when a PS5 runs it because it was coded for PS4
In effect, consoles are more like PC's now than they've ever been, and it's hard to imagine them not sticking to this for future generations - it's just more beneficial for everyone this way.
Having said this, I can't predict the future. If for some reason it turns out to be in Sony's interest to go their own way again with some crazy architecture, obviously they're going to do it. Or maybe they'll block PS4 games from running on the PS6 in principle. Who knows. I don't see any reason for those things to happen, but what happens isn't always reasonable..
Re: The Witcher 3 on PS5 Gets a Physical Release Next Week
can only assume that this is why the price of these games on digital for Xbox and PSN has increased - when they're full price it's the same price but they cost 2-3 times as much when they're on sale now.
On the other hand, in PC land (where the closest you can get to a physical game released in 2022 is a piece of card with a steam code on it - for major publishers anyway. I'm sure there are niche cases that specifically release on CD/DVD) the sale price is still a consistent £7 for the complete edition
Re: French Trade Union Calls on Ubisoft Paris Workers to Strike Following CEO's Comments
@TheCollector316 don't know about turning everything into Assassin's Creed. If anything, Assassin's Creed has changed more and become more Far Cry-like over the years, with the big open world maps (as opposed to city-sized maps), enemy camps to clear out etc. If you take a look at AC3/Black Flag and Far Cry 3 (all of which were released 2012-2013), Far Cry and Assassin's Creed were very different games at that point.
Far Cry has only really changed incrementally since then, whereas AC Valhalla doesn't even feel like an Assassin's Creed game any more, much as I enjoy Viking Simulator 2020
Re: Random: Rapper Logic 'Conned' His Way into The Last of Us Part II
@Grimwood I suppose your idea of the ultimate Fortnite fan is someone who won a match once, and never touched it again
I'd go on, but I think it's pretty clear by now what the comments section thinks of this..
Re: TV Show Review: The Last of Us (HBO) Episode 1 - Faithful Retelling Deviates in the Right Ways
@Toypop the first episode of TWD is near identical to the comic - in a similar fashion to the first episode of TLOU. There are some parts that match the comic word for word, and I think there are a couple of minor bits added in (e.g. I'm not sure if the random zombie woman without any legs, dragging herself around is in the comic. Not 100% sure though)
Re: TV Show Review: The Last of Us (HBO) Episode 1 - Faithful Retelling Deviates in the Right Ways
@MakersMark careful - the bar for what is considered "discussing moderation" is pretty low, I think that might count!
Re: Last of Us HBO Trailer Teases the Trials to Come in the Weeks Ahead
@themightyant really? I mean there's a bunch of new faces that weren't in Ep 1 but I don't really see much in the way of plot spoilers, not unless you already know what happens to the people from the game. The biggest revelation that could be spoilery is showing Ellie with a fresh bite, except we already know that Ellie got bitten from Ep 1
Re: TV Show Review: The Last of Us (HBO) Episode 1 - Faithful Retelling Deviates in the Right Ways
@InvaderJim I mean, that's a bit presumptuous. It might have been voted "terrible" by a bunch of spores, angered by their lack of representation in an adaptation of a story that heavily featured spores.
On a serious note though, I do agree that episode 1 was great!
Re: Simon Pegg Revealed as the Voice of Hogwarts Legacy's Headmaster
@SerJosh97 I mean " hurting the devs" is a bit of a stretch. Don't get me wrong, if the game flops due to a boycott, obviously it'll hurt the devs. But if the likes on this comment section alone are anything to go on, there are more people planning on buying the game (at some point, not necessarily at launch) or at least considering it, than there are planning on boycotting it. They just know better than to actually enter the discussion, so they're just liking other people's comments instead.
The people boycotting this game are more vocal than the ones not doing so, but I strongly suspect that the devs aren't going to be hurt financially at all
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Re: UK Sales Charts: God of War Ragnarok Dethroned in Familiar Top 10
@Ralizah "evergreens" is a great description for these . Always boggles my mind how they manage to sell so consistently. I mean FIFA at least releases a new game every year (debatable, from what I understand, but "new" enough that actual FIFA fans will buy it again every year) but it amazes me that there are still people buying GTA V in significant numbers
Re: Soothe Your Yearning for The Simpsons Hit & Run Remake with Soundtrack on Spotify
@stvevan and yet, here we are
Re: Poll: Share Your First Thoughts on The Last of Us TV Series
@Constable_What not arguing about whether or not fungal infections can be cured - but you seem to be focusing on this distinction (that they can only be treated, not cured) and ignoring the fact that Ellie is completely immune.
Obviously, we're not talking actual events here so I don't know if immunity itself is just unfeasible in a real life scenario, but surely if the world was in the sort of state that it's in in TLOU, and you found a kid with immunity, it would be worth looking into, even if only to develop "treatment" rather than a cure? I get that there's a distinction between "cure" and "treatment", but the distinction is pretty meaningless if the effect (fewer fungal zombies) is the same
Feel free to correct me as I could just be talking jibberish and not knowing it it just seems to me that a completely immune human would be a significant thing indeed in a world like TLOU's, regardless of whether the best they can hope for is "treatment"
Also seems to me that the doctors, scientists etc. would know full well the distinction between "treatment" and "cure", but the doers on the front lines might not understand the distinctions quite as well, and the hope for "a cure" is probably a better motivation than the knowledge that there's no such thing, despite the fact that treatment would be just as big of a deal, in a world that has neither
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Re: Hogwarts Legacy on PS5 Supports 30fps, 60fps, and VRR
@GreatAuk I mean I think you might be misinterpreting the disclaimer, just a little bit there. I don't think it's there purely to dissuade people who believe Rowling is a transphobe, and I especially don't think it's due to Push Square having the opposite opinion. I think they simple don't want a massive flame war on their hands. They'll just as quickly delete comments that say something like "JK did nothing wrong". They're not trying to dissuade one particular side of the "controversy", they just don't want any part in it on their articles at all
Personally I'll probably get the game at some point, but it's incredibly rare that I buy anything at launch, and not likely in this case
Re: Assassin's Creed Mirage Doubles Down on Being a Traditional Assassin's Creed Game
@ATaco yeah, I'm enjoying Valhalla right now, but really what I'm enjoying is running around medieval England as a Viking, not playing an AC game
Re: Simon Pegg Revealed as the Voice of Hogwarts Legacy's Headmaster
@koverby not really. I mean I know what you're saying, but this is a very tame comment section, considering
Re: Simon Pegg Revealed as the Voice of Hogwarts Legacy's Headmaster
@Jswift56 the greater good
Re: Round Up: The Last of Us TV Reviews Praise a Great Adaptation
@ApostateMage Witcher S1 was pretty faithful actually. I mean not completely, but it didn't really go off the rails at that point, like it did in season 2.
My point being that we're not past season 1 of TLOU yet
Re: Where to Watch The Last of Us TV Show
@rjejr to be fair, Netflix in the UK charges extra for HD streaming too. There are 3 levels, although I guess there's 4 now:
1 - basic with adverts (cheapest)
2 - basic without adverts (only 1 device at a time)
3 - HD (2 devices at a time)
4 - UHD (more devices - 3? 4? not sure)
I imagine these are the exact same tiers you have in the US - these guys have just forgotten about it, or something
Possibly because Netflix generally has a very wide variety of stuff on it, whereas most people (who don't have Sky already!) usually only want Now TV for the things that are specifically on there
Re: Where to Watch The Last of Us TV Show
I just hope the pirate version of this is better than the pirate version of Game Of Thrones. There weren't any pirates in it for ages
Re: Where to Watch The Last of Us TV Show
"If you're in the United Kingdom, you can watch The Last of Us on Sky Atlantic (I don't have Sky) and NOW TV"
To me this is like saying "if you're in the UK you can buy gold wrapped in excrement"
Yeah, I think I'll just not
Re: Random: Streamer Beats Two Elden Ring Runs at the Same Time, Complete with a Dance Pad
@SerJosh97 relax dude - you can both support difficulty options and accept FromSoftware's choice to not include them. There's no need to express hatred for some person you don't even know, just because they're happy with FromSoft's choices. Difficulty/accessibilty options aren't going away just because FromSoft don't decide to implement them, and nobody is arguing that they should be scrapped for all games in general
Re: Sony Reveals Highly Customisable Accessibility Controller for PS5
@commentlif but that's the thing. You don't need to call it out. He knows he doesn't have the same perspective as someone who needs this controller for accessibility reasons. And we know he's not coming from that perspective too (I mean maybe that's a big assumption on my part but I doubt it). Merely calling what you're doing "calling out" is inserting drama into a situation that doesn't need it. If you'd "suggested that people with expertise designed the controller and there were very good reasons that it looks the way it does" that'd be one thing, but instead you're "calling out a lack of perspective". It's just not necessary, despite the fact that you're free to do it
Re: Sony Reveals Highly Customisable Accessibility Controller for PS5
@commentlife and I stand by my response - you seem to be picking nits because there are no true ***** around to call out. People are allowed to express an opinion. It's not like they were calling for a boycott or in any way objecting to the design, they just thought it looked confusing. People are allowed to think things look confusing. Time to move on with your life and find something actually significant to call out if that's what you're after. Maybe find a facebook post to do with The Last Of Us or something and go blow off some steam on some idiots
Re: Sony Reveals Highly Customisable Accessibility Controller for PS5
@commentlife bear in mind that so far we've had absolutely nothing in the way of toxic "why does this even need to exist" comments - which is great, but it does mean that right now, you're the bottom of the barrel of this comments section! (On the plus side, it's a pretty good barrel today)
A user has an opinion about the look of something but is wanting to buy it anyway, even though they're not the intended demographic (and they know it) - I don't really see the need to create drama (other than, it's the internet so if you're not offended, you don't exist, or something?). No one is actively claiming expertise and asking Sony to change this for the sake of able bodied people or anything
Re: Atomic Heart Sure Looks Sick on a Superpowered PC
Yeah, I remember all the hype around Biomutant, some of which was around the graphics. And to be fair I haven't really played it so I'm not judging the game as "good" or "bad", but all that hype sure amounted to very little in the end.
Re: Hitman 3 Will Soon Include All Modern Hitman Games for Free on PS5, PS4
@MaccaMUFC annoyingly, the trilogy bundle only includes all of the base games, not the DLC content. Which makes it by far the most inconvenient way to buy the games if you're remotely interested in the DLC, because DLC never seems to get the price cuts you might think it would (prime example is The Witcher 3. Before the PS5 version came out, it was £7 for the GOTY edition, £5 for the base game. But the DLCs were both reduced to about £3/£5 ish as well, so if you already own the base game you would have to spend about as much to get all the DLC as you would buying the GOTY edition in the first place)
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for January 2023 Available to Download Now
for anyone like me who played + platinumed Fallen Order before there was a PS5 version, on EA play - you can get your platinum/all trophies to auto-pop, all you need to do is transfer your PS4 saves (this is easy enough, there's an option to do so when you first load the game up), load your completed save file, and then find a meditation circle and meditate at it. You might pop a few trophies along the way depending on what you do before you get to the meditation circle, but as soon as you meditate, the platinum should pop.
After this, you're free to replay the game without your inner completionist nagging you (unless your inner completionist is a real stickler for proper process, in which case God help you..)
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for January 2023 Available to Download Now
I might give Fallout 76 a try, just cos it's still a Fallout game, but don't expect me to expect to enjoy it
Re: Elden Ring Dominates God of War Ragnarok in GOTY Awards, Breaks The Last of Us 2's Record
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika sounds like you're saying it's not about winning awards, it's about the games we played along the way
Re: Fallout 76 - A Shockingly Bad Attempt at Multiplayer Survival
@brazzios_84 "You get one first impression"
Personally I find it hilarious that your very first comment on PushSquare was removed for trolling.
Well, I guess that settles it, you're just a troll anyway and we can all ignore you. You don't get "second impressions" by your own logic
Re: Fallout 76 - A Shockingly Bad Attempt at Multiplayer Survival
@Juvenlast your points are good but I feel like they'd be much more relevant if:
and/or
Plenty of games undergo changes over time, and I don't expect PushSquare to update their reviews over time or release new articles every time a games gets a new patch.
What's different in this case is that PushSquare is pushing their own review as "relevant again because the game is now free on PS Plus", and specificially they've updated the date on the review but nothing else.
The way they've pushed this review now makes it look like it's a review of how the game plays in 2022, and the note at the top doesn't even make note of the fact that the game has changed significantly since launch. And they've only updated the article at all in order to bring attention to it, specifically because the game is free with PS Plus Essential soon.
I really don't care that this review exists at all. It's an accurate representation of what Fallout 76 was like at launch (reportedly at least. I personally never played it and I'm not particularly keen to - my backlog is big enough), and even if that's debatable, it's an accurate representation of what the reviewer thought when the game was launched.
All we're pointing out is that slapping a 2022 time stamp on this review without any kind of disclaimer that the game has undergone massive changes is incredibly misleading. Nobody would have cared that this rewview existed if they'd just left it in 2018 where it belonged, and left it there as a resource that anyone could easily find if they could be bothered to
I don't expect PushSquare reviewers to keep on re-trying games that they didn't get on with. That's a bit much to expect of anybody, the only issue I (and I think most of the other commenters) have is that it currently looks like it's an up to date review (based on the time stamp) but it's really not
Re: Random: Kratos Actor's Epic God of War Ragnarok Award Speech Broke a World Record
7 mins 59 secs - that's all? I mean I get it, it's pretty long as acceptance speeches go, but I wouldn't have thought it was world record breaking. I'm pretty sure longer accptance speeches have happened, even on televised award shows. Maybe not the Oscars, but I bet there's evidence out there somewhere if anybody can be bothered to find it
Re: Fallout 76 - A Shockingly Bad Attempt at Multiplayer Survival
I don't even intend on playing fallout 76 and I think that republishing this review as-is was just lazy. We can all find it if we really want to know what you thought about the game at launch, there's zero point putting it to the top of the news feed unless you're going to actually update the review.