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I'd certainly hope so, since there's a substantial number of PC users who are waiting for it to come of of exclusivity with Epic Games before they'll go near it

Let's just face it - if you habitually pre order games due to hype, you're a cow at this point, and Rockstar are acknowledging that you've been milked (I struggle to really see this as an apology given there is zero chance that they couldn't have seen these technical issues coming)

People complaining about Americans getting the same game "cheaper" need to realise that comparing prices between two countries isn't as simple as looking up the exchange rate. I don't pretend to fully understand all the factors that go into regional pricing but for the most part it boils down to "regional affordability". In the most extreme case, games in some Eastern European countries tend to be cheaper (going just on the exchange rate) than the UK or the US - because if they were priced like the UK and US no one would buy them at all. That's why there's a thriving (but morally questionable) grey market for Steam games, buying Steam keys in cheaper countries and selling them to more expensive countries for less than the full price on Steam

It's truly worth it for the games, but the best bit is all the entitled complaining that it entitles you to. Sign me up for another year!

@alexbolton2 there have definitely been sales on breath of the wild, even on nintendo's digital store. Having said that, the best I've seen has been about 1/3 off, and they've never dropped the RRP at all (as opposed to say The Last Of Us 2, which is already much cheaper when it's not even in a sale, than it was when it released just last year). I've bought a PS5 and got my PC gameworthy, and built up a whole 400 game (roughly) backlog in the time I've been waiting for BoTW to drop to a price I'm willing to pay for it

@nookie_egg yeah it's on PS4 - I also have it on Steam. IMO the Wii was the best Okami port of that generation. The Wii didn't have particularly good graphics but the control scheme (pointing a the stick-like controller at the TV and using it as a brush) was better

@nookie_egg they're both PS2 games sure, they had remasters on the PS3 but they weren't particularly notable as remasters go

Edit: did okami have a PS3 remaster? I think it did but I'm doubting myself now. I know it's on pretty much everything now and I first played it on the Wii, I'm not sure if it hit PS3 or not..

Nice to see them mixing up their tactics getting people to get clubcards. Whenever I've found myself going to a Tesco recently I've been surprised to see "clubcard prices" everywhere, that you have to have a clubcard to get. The surprising thing about it is that "clubcard prices" tend to be about the same price as every other supermarket sells things for without a loyalty card - so generally I just shop elsewhere

"not as bad as the backlash suggests" is about as glowing as the praise gets though. The game is £55.

£55 for a "not bad" but incredibly buggy remaster of a trio of 20 year old games.

It'd have been acceptable, even understandable at a lower price point or if there'd been more clarity as to exactly what fans were buying ahead of time (e.g. there was talk of overhauling the gameplay systems to be more in line with GTA5 whereas all this really boiled down to was some re-mapped controls). The issue isn't that it looks like an absolutely terrible game, it's just massively overpriced for what's actually been done to "overhaul" the games

it's also free for PC on Epic Games store next week

@TheArt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_derived_from_mods

oh look, it's the guy who hasn't any clue what he's talking about. I think I'd rather have the guy who comments first on nearly every article (although you're probably wrong about that too..)

@munstre none of these are graphics mods. They all extra content - e.g. items, characters, quests, game mechanics etc.

I haven't checked but I assume there'll still be room for free mods (some of which may also involve items, quests, etc. it's just that these are what Bethesda consider "curated premium mods" as it were), including graphical improvements

@Nepp67 No

They're telling you a PS5 (not a PS4) can't play a PS2 game at 60FPS

With regards the fidelity mode it's understandable IMO. Anyone who's ever used graphics mods for Minecraft on PC will tell you that you don't have to be playing a game with a huge polygon count, for the graphics settings to bring the GPU to a halt if they're pushed too far. Having said that Rockstar should be able to do a better job of getting the balance between fidelity and framerate right, than some minecraft mod user

Performance mode not maintaining a steady 60 FPS though? there's really no excuse for that at all

@ztpayne7 I thought it looked pretty good when I fired it up this morning, but I couldn't tell if it looked better than I remember the PS4 version looking or if I was just imagining it. 60fps makes a massive difference though (and I know you could get the PS4 version running at 60fps on PS5, without disabling trophies even - but even after doing that I always thought the PS4 version still looked a bit janky in a way that this version doesn't so much), as do the near-nonexistent loading screens. You can also transfer PS4 saves into PS5 saves, so you don't have to play that god awful intro again if you don't want to

@BoldAndBrash
-free upgrade to PS5 version if you already own the PS4 version
-runs at a steady 60FPS without faffing with extra mods (like you had to with the PS4 version via backwards compatibilty on PS5)
-lightning fast loading screens
-free extra content (with the option to pay a small amount for ALL of the creation club content)

What backlash are you after exactly? Backlash that there's another generation of Skyrim? Backlash at the lack of haptic feedback? (I was hoping they'd have done something with this but once again - it's free, at least) At least it runs well and it's free for owners of the previous version, neither of which is really true for the GTA remastered collection

@Richnj to be fair that's pretty much the MO of the internet. Not just with regards gaming, but generally "I want to both significantly contribute to a problem and also whine about it"

The "Pre-order" button should really have it's name changed to the "I don't even value my money, just take it!" button . Honestly, there's been so many messy games at launch recently, and GTA trilogy was never anything other than a remaster- I don't know how anyone was expecting a solid, undisputable £60 worth of fully functional, bug-free game to drop today.

If you buy games at launch you're basically paying a premium for the privelege of beta testing, these days. In fairness, maybe for some people this is worth the full RRP of a new game. Maybe you like playing the very latest games, in whatever state they launch in - and that's fine. But if you're complaning about the state of new games, I'm just saying it's not as though there isn't a precedent. If it really bothers you that much, stop pre-ordering this rubbish and maybe the industry will take notice.

@iamtylerdurden1 that's not entirely true. Some of it's free, it's only the "Anniversary Edition upgrade" that isn't free, and from what I gather it includes all/a lot of the mods that were previously in the creation club (not sure whether it's actually "all" or just a lot - I've read somewhere that it's around £100 worth of mods if you were to buy them with Creation Club points though)

The upgrade itself (to PS5 version with all existing DLC + fishing at least) is free though, it's up to individuals if they want all the other stuff

I'm actually looking forward to this, and the fact that Skyrim is being "released again" is only really funny because of Bethesda's habit of releasing it on anything with a CPU - if it were any other game we wouldn't even really be calling it a re-release, since it's just the Special edition with a bit of extra DLC included. Sure, there's a native PS5 version too which is new but I'm not going to complain about a free upgrade.

The last time I really played Skyrim was back on PS3, I've tried it for a couple of hours on the PS4 version (on PS5) but it'll be nice to have some new content and native PS5 version

@thechetearly let's be honest, "next gen gameplay" is just going to be the same as last-gen gameplay but 60fps (at least, it'd better be 60 FPS) and with free fishing and a few other mods. I don't really see the point in seeing a video of that

But I wasn't flapping to nothing, honest

Looks great, but I'm not entirely convinced we need a narrator to explain the various mechanics/features that the new souls game is borrowing from other franchises

@Telekill same, I didn't bother signing up at all as I'd rather have a longer time slot, purely for flexibility, not so I can just binge the game for 12 straight hours or something

But it makes sense that the time slots are so limited given that they're testing network functionality - they need a good amount of users at the same time to check that they can handle it

If you fail all of Markus' missions - get chased away from the warehouse without filling your bags, fail to break into the cyberlife store (you really have to fail that one intentionally, as it give you 10 mins to do it), and run away when the armed police turn up at the protest, North will usurp Markus and Markus leaves Jericho, which is an ending in itself (after this the game continues as it otherwise would if Markus has died. got this one last night during a playthrough purely to get the "undefeated" trophy - failing Markus' missions is quicker than completing them in some cases )

Sad to be losing NieR Automata. I signed up for a year's PS Now in the recent half price deal - don't regret it in the slightest but it's a shame this game in particular isn't sticking around for longer (maybe it'll be on PS Plus soon )

@naruball methinks most of the truly sensible people are busy actually playing the games rather than using that free time to feel entitled to better and complain about it on the internet

I'd understand if the games we're being offered weren't good value for money, but if you're sensible about when you renew a PS Sub is about £3 a month. Anyone who doesn't think the games have been easily worth more than £3 a month this year is out of their minds.

That isn't to say the games have to appeal to everyone - but they're not so bad that they're worth less than that. If someone genuinely found this year that no games appealed to them at all on the service, they're just too picky for PS Plus (or, they just go and buy all the games they're interested in so there's no possible game that would be good enough for them to claim)

This finally made me take the plunge and try out PS Now - I've never really been all that tempted before (I got my PSN store credit from instantgaming too, so managed to only pay £21 ish for the year's sub)

Probably the most revolutionary thing about it for me is that I can stream games on my PC too, through PS Now. I have a PS5 but it's the family console (I have 3 kids) so I can't play PS games while one of the kids is also doing so - well now I can! (only games that are on PS Now though, obviously)

People keep freaking out that Playstation exclusives are being ported to PC, but where is the freaking out that PC users can currently get a years worth of access to some pretty decent Playstation exclusives for £25, without even having to buy any Playstation hardware?

I mean the streaming quality obviously depends on your internet speed, but on my PC it runs pretty well

The irony here is that Sony makes most of its money on games, not consoles. If some PlayStation gamers get their knickers in a twist and decide they're never buying Sony hardware again, it's really no big deal, there's plenty of PC gamers who'll buy Sony's games in their place - so the only real loser is the PS gamer for having a tantrum in the first place.

At the end of the day console gaming is still much cheaper and easier (in terms of hardware, anyway) than PC gaming (and there are plenty of gamers who do both). And timed exclusivity still means something if you're the type of person who wants to be playing the latest games on release. Let's face it, those people are the ones who really put money in Dev's pockets. Stingy buggers like me who rarely buy a game that's less than 50% certainly aren't

@NEStalgia in fairness, with regards the jump to NVME style SSDs this generation does make sense, if for no other reason than NVME SSDs are much more mainstream than they were when the PS4 released. If you were shopping for a laptop in 2014, chances were it would have had an HDD unless you're shopping for a laptop waaay more expensive than your average console.

If you're shopping for a laptop in 2020/2021 there's a very good chance that it'll have an NVME SSD, even if you're shopping in the £500 range. SATA SSDs are great and all (compared to HDDs) but I'm not aware that they've ever really been a standard in this kind of price bracket.

Interestingly, when my wife's laptop stopped working (bought 2016 or so?) and I took the hard drive out I was surprised to discover that it was a hybrid SSHD. Partly because it really didn't perform any better than a normal hard drive (because for the most part it still is one), but also because I don't remember that being specified in the specs when we bought it

@lolwhatno kind of. I'm in team "sticking to my £500 console and also keeping my mid budget PC"

I've gradually upgraded my PC over the last year or so, to the point that now it's a completely different set of components/casing to what I started with, and I've probably spend about £700-£800 on the computer itself (it's not worth converting the currency to USD - in practice American prices seem to be numerically the same as UK prices, sometimes less despite the fact that currency conversion would lead you to believe otherwise). It's not the most powerful computer in the world, but it's competent right now. I can play the vast majority of even the newest games, even if occasionally I have to switch to "low" settings - but playing the very latest games isn't really what I use it for anyway, the big plus of having a PC is that there's a vast back catalogue, and backwards compatibility is nowhere near as much of an issue as it is on consoles (I mean, it's not a non-issue. Games built for windows XP won't always run flawlessly on windows 10, but there are often ways to get them to work)

A prime example is that I have most of the Assassin's Creed games on PC - everything from the first Assassin's Creed up to Syndicate (Origins and Oddysey I have on PS4) - you can't really have that on PS4, I mean you can own the Ezio collection and AC3 remastered but IMO it's not quite as satisfying as seeing each individual game sat there in the library, and besides that if you owned the games on PS3 it's a bit of a pain having to buy a remastered version in order to be able to play the game again (assuming you don't have the PS3 any more - I used to have one but it died of YLOD a while ago now )

I also have the whole Legacy of Kain series on PC as that released on GOG a little while ago, if I wanted to play those on a Sony platform I'd have to replace my PS2, which died something like 11 years ago

But yeah - I'm aware you're not really PC bashing so hope this doesn't come across as too defensive, just pointing out that you can game on PC without chasing after the highest specs all the time (and with the current prices of graphics cards it's not really worth chasing after that)

@Futureshark well yeah I can't argue with that. It is pretty pointless

Still, the distinct category of "playstation games" used by this article is not a bad one, since it's looking at games funded and published by Sony (whether developed in house or by a third party) - not merely games that happen to only have been available on playstation for any other reason.

But yeah, as articles go it's definitely in the "mostly useless clickbait" category

@Futureshark because there's no such thing as "PC game studios" nor is there really any such thing as "PC exclusivity".

Games might be exclusive to particular platforms on PC (steam, epic, GOG etc) but for the most part the only reason a game is only available on PC is because the developer hasn't ported it to a console. And there are various reasons why a developer would release on PC only (e.g. they're only a small developer and don't have the resources to release on both PC and console effectively), but for the most part these are practical reasons rather than the existence of an exclusivity deal - so it's not remotely the same

Maybe next month we can have a double whammy - PS Plus manages to avoid it's games being leaked, and Push Square manages to avoid writing an article telling us that nothing happened (pretty sure we can infer that there is no news, from the lack of an article telling us there's news)

compression on the PS5 is so impressive, it seems to have massively cut down the size of some of these articles as well!

"We dislike NFTs because they're environmentally unfriendly.

Yours Sincerely,
People who go mad for plastic tat if it's based on a video game of their choice."

Yeah ok. I'm generalising. I'm hoping that really, it's all the gamers who avoid plastic tat like the plague doing the complaining and it's the plastic tat collectors who are really into NFTs - but I imagine there's at least a little bit of crossover

Yeah, cos what we really want is splinter cell, but open world and with microtransactions. As far as I'm concerned hitman 2016 and onwards is the new splinter cell. Sure it's not as serious and it's not the same by any stretch, but I much prefer it to what I imagine Ubi putting out as another splinter cell game..

@Vacuumator I'm not talking about a specific ad campaign nor am I saying they target a particular brand, but if you've ever read the blurb on the back of one of their cans/bottles or visited the "about us" section of their website (admittedly, I've done neither for a good 5 years or so so it's possible they've "gone corporate" in the meantime and cleaned up their PR - not that they weren't "corporate" 5 years ago but they were certainly making a big effort to appear not to be) you'll get the impression that "Big Beer" flooded the market with nothing but likenesses of weak urine, and then one day Brewdog saved the day! Hooray for Brewdog!

And I'd be the first to admit that most mass-selling beer is exactly as they've described it, but there were also plenty of decent beers around before the craft beer crowd decided to add more hops and boil them to the point that the resulting concoction could be painted on children's fingernails to stop them biting them . Admittedly underneath all the BS they do work with other brewers, but the image they tend to put out there (or at least used to) is that they're the sole saviour of the beer industry from the threat of mediocre beer

@fR_eeBritney when did I say Sony weren't also guilty from time to time? All I really said was "douchebaggery sells" and gave another example. Sony seems to be pretty good at selling things, so I wouldn't be surprised if there douchebaggery involved at some point

Agree with everyone that these guys just seem like annoying douchebags - but sometimes douchebaggery sells, I mean look at BrewDog ("good beer didn't exist before we did" - Brewdog, paraphrased)

@Boxmonkey you do realise you can't actually play a PS5 game (or a PS4 game for that matter) off a disc, you have to copy it from the disc to the console first? So whether you have a disc version or not, the storage capacity of your PS5 still matters in terms of the number of games you can have ready to play at any one particular time..

I mean if you don't have a huge library (in terms of the total size of the games in GB, not necessarily the number of games) or you tend to play only one or two games at a time before uninstalling them and installing new ones, then it's not really an issue. But then, if that's the way you do things then it wouldn't be an issue if you had the digital version either.

Btw I have a disc version too, I have a 2TB external HDD for most PS4 games and I'm in no hurry to expand my PS5 game storage, so my point isn't that you should go out and buy an SSD or anything. More that all PS4/PS5 discs are good for is being able to sell your game second hand - they don't affect the amount of storage you need to play them

Main thing I wish they'd fix in HZD is whatever's going on with the lighting - the brightness of the screen just seems to vary massively depending on what you're looking at. I know other games do this too (e.g. Assassin's Creed Oddysey, changes the brightness when you go from a light area to a dark area - presumably it's meant to simulate your eyes adjusting in the same way) and to some degree this makes sense but HZD just seems to do it way more than necessary, and at times it can be hard to see anything

Really don't get why every single guide under the sun for a game has to appear on the news page rather than just staying in the "guides" section, all it does is push all the other news wayyyy down to the bottom of the page. But at least it makes it painfully obvious whenever a new game releases

@naruball to be fair you can find all the parts incredibly cheap if you're willing to put up with chinese fakes

Nice of them to clarify, but I had to take the original article with so many grains of salt that I've now run out

@Just_2_milky Spiderman definitely kills people. Maybe not directly by slashing their throat out, but imagine the number of concussions/other serious injuries he leaves behind, the way he throws low level enemies around/throws heavy objects at them. Statistically some of those people are going to die, the rest are going to be a drain on the health system for a while. Presumably this is why Americans are all about a private healthcare system - Spiderman would be a massive drain on the NHS

@Kienda haven't you learned yet that the internet is all about the extremes?

@Kienda I mean it depends on the tone of the comment. Some people clearly come across as entitled whiners who can't conceive of the notion that games that "aren't for them" might still be good games that a lot of people enjoy - and/or they think Sony is out to get them when a PS Plus game turns out to be one they've already bought.

I wouldn't have read your first sentence that way, even if you hadn't elaborated, but some commenters do explicitly whine about such things

@FinneasGH it usually takes a little while for the games to show up in the "PS Plus" section of the app. If you were to try later today or tomorrow they'd probably be there, but it never seems to get updated at exactly the same time as the deals go live

Yet another month of being unable to please some people