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@WhoderMan Agreed, that a a ridiculous price.
We all know this can be played for, ahem, much less, very easily. So why not charge 1.99 for the pleasure of it being official and encourage more to have this piece of history on their PS.

@LiamOliver They are talking PS Premium, not PS +

@Th3solution Fair play but to be balanced Steam doesnt charge you £150 a year to play games on your Steamdeck when you have already paid for them.

Its not for me to buy the device AND pay £150 pa to play games I already own. That just sounds ridiculous tbh.

@dodgykebaab and tbh any game using a 3 rather than an E deserves to be forgotten by history.

@Czar_Khastik Agree. I think its scandalous the gaming press fell right in to the marketing trap of allowing such games to be known as "Free".
Its like saying a restaurant is 'Free to Enter'. Ridiculous.

tbh FN isnt the worst by far but the marketing folks must be wetting themselves that they got away with that name.

tbh its that ridiculous corporate nonsense
language that grates the most "reimagining workflows and amplifying the creative power of our teams". Complete load of BS that 90% of the workforce will see through with the other 10% grinding the ladder in the hope of spouting such tosh themselves one day.

@Striker21 lol. Do the maths.
As reported on this site and many others the average games bought per year is <2. So lets double that to 4 to hammer home the point. Thats only £240 per year compared to 30x12 = £360 per year for GP.
Its a complete rip off and always has been except for when we all jumped aboard for £1 pm back in the day.

tbh much as i don't enjoy these almost decade long console cycles since PS3, i honestly can't name 5 games on PS5 that make me think "wow, that could never be done on a PS4". ie. i don't feel we've rung the best out of PS5 yet.

@Acquiescence He says it would get an 8 with the performance addressed, i.e. same as meta, so whats the problem?

@DennisReynolds it’s unlikely that Microsoft would increase the price of the PS5 tbh

What a bonkers idea. Sony happy to charge for the bleeding edge and then ask us to use like it’s an N64.

@djlard LOL, wrong genre for suggesting good value. Imagine buying iracing, and then having to stump up a monthly sub, and then finding almost every car is paid DLC and then finding almost every track is paid DLC !!!! Yup it really is that bad. Can't believe its not called out as the biggest scandal in gaming tbh.

Tbh given Xbox is as good as dead so is GP. Most non GP folks do not spend the annual cost of GP on games per year ie. It was only ever a good idea for consumers with the £1 per month trick, which is now gone.
Good riddance.

@RoomWithaMoose Jeez its taken you 8 years to not complete HK, should we pop back in another 10 and see how you're doing?

Had to shelve it as too difficult. Desperately needs a single player difficulty mode. I platinumed Bloodborne but this is just too much single player, waste of my money as it stands

Great idea. Would be delighted to see many games follow this lead. I much prefer FP and would play many more typically third person games if they had this option to flip to FP.

@Czar_Khastik every time they release an update they get more press. That coverage drives views which drives sales. There’s always people who haven’t bought it yet.
Every update = more new sales simply because of the free advertisement it brings.

In addition it brings more eyes to the PSN store. The new eyes might buy something in addition to NMS and the peeps just there for the download might see something other they fancy buying.
So it’s a win win win.

Perhaps I missed the comment but I remember this being the first AAA game I bought where I thought it was incredibly short for the money. I remember about 6 hours and I am notoriously slow.

Would not pay £40 for a 6 hour remake. No chance.

Would much prefer the Forza Motorsport game but I understood the mass market appeal of this arcade spin off.
Sure it will bring joy to many gamers.

@Haruki_NLI jeez. Bet you’re a right laugh at a party. Well done devs.

@Darude84 Indeed. I dont want the 'nonconstructive' delete hammer but we hardly celebrate 'Free' shows on Netflix do we? They are part of the service users pay for, just like users pay for the service that includes these games.

@nessisonett Fair point, but tbh I'd rather have some extra protection than none at all.
The first line of defence is of course good parenting, but I am all for extra safety nets. Most of us over 18 can be googled and a picture found on the wonderweb. Those under 18 should neither have their pic openly avail on the web nor be submitting to these sites - so whats the problem? Surely we all want kids to be protected. Not even worth a question mark.

There's also sites out there offering fake IDs so those underage can get alcohol & tobacco. What next an article on how these sites help to overcome the oppressive regime that inhibits children from accessing such wonderful adult only goods?

@InJeffable yeh, bet you are.
The WiiU is well known for its sim racing community and I bet you/it must be gutted.
You never know it may still happen.

Mind blowing that the PS5 (digital) is cheaper than the XB series S (also digital only) and about 4x more powerful (depending on how to count performance).
Its shocking the price they charge for the XBS these days.

@Grimwood New? Its almost 5 years matey. That used to be an entire generation. When do you consider a generation is in its swing? 7 years?

@Truegamer79 tbh if the second TV series did anything well it was making Ellie as unlikable as Abby and thus I am now, as someone who's previously never played TLOU2, enjoying a first run thru, currently with Ellie and have no issues expecting Abby control to pop along in a few hours

I've also found that changing the language to Italian and using English subtitles helps to soften the caustic grime of much of the discussions; allows focus on the gameplay.

Does the mean even the flashbacks are in chrono order? That could feel very weird and disjointed as the whole context and purpose for the flashback is established by the preceding scenes. It would be like a random collection of mini-shows with no thread.
Interesting to see it but not sure it would work for me.

@kmtrain83 of course you can have both. You can have record breaking revenue with record breaking costs. You’re still not making profit, still not providing cash to your share holders and thus you go out of business.
The game is profit, not revenue.

I’m just glad we have the freedom, the wisdom and the courage to have these discussions - from all angles.
There are a loud minority that would wish it otherwise seeing only one view as THE view.

@ButterySmooth30FPS imho only if you want to play it as-if its on a 100" screen; which some may find appealing.

@kcarnes9051 I dont think do "The game is trying to trick you into thinking that this is a revenge fantasy where we're solely rooting for Ellie ....." The game is very clear from the first hour that Ellie is no more sane or rational then Abbie. Not sure where you are coming from.
I think its a simple telling of "people do terrible things in terrible times" - been told many many times, often enjoyably.

@Frmknst where? Every site raved about it and continues to do so.

@johncalmc Attractiveness and the appreciation of such is not a sin my friend.
Just because someone finds another attractive doesn't make them filth. Sorry to chip in but this whole vibe of be ugly or go home is just ridiculous.

@Mythologue Agreed, its pretty much the same warning on SH2.

As many have said
a) thats exactly the content I expect in a SH game
b) the warning is of value to newcomers to the series and even better that it will point to options for support.
I cant see a downside.

Perhaps PS could do a survey of the reasons people didn't rate S2. Be interesting to see the balance between presentation, story, characters, ahem lead performance, etc etc.

Personally I never played the second game beyond the first couple of hours and strangely S2 makes me want to. It cant be worse than the show being my logic.

@UncleByron Could you point to one example of that, i.e. of a detractor suggesting that?

@StandardMario Exactly. And in the industrial revolution those looms sure looked like there would be a few folks out of a job. Its called progress. Just because tech has has only recently moved on from automated mechanical and factual uses (science) to encompass art it doesn't mean art will be any less impacted.

I think ellie almost cracked a smile in this episode and thus its worth it for that!!
I dont understand the fuss about the scene; whether she knew he had saved her at the possible expense of mankind or not she is in full on revenge mode imho in reflection of his years as a loving guardian, not as a result of that 10 minutes in the hospital.

@RagnarLothbrok agreed she’s been let go from every role she’s had the last ten years. You’d have to worry if she joined your team next.

Really enjoyed this weeks episode. For me it ranks number 2, behind episode 2
I think its at its best when its a video game, the exploration, the combat, the escapes and especially the infected...... and really quite poor when it slows down and does the people stuff. But tbh if there wasn't some people stuff you wouldn't appreciate the good stuff quite as much .

tbh I found this 3rd in the ranking of episodes to date. Best to worst 2, 3, 4, 1.
Other than the train subway sequence it lacked in most every way. The torture sequence was completely uncalled for and added absolutely nothing. The revenge motive is there already, we dont need to see 'people do terrible things when in a terrible world'.
Dina imho continues to be the star of the show.

I remember this OG, and it was the first AAA 'full priced' game I ever played where I felt short changed by its duration. Approx 5 hours soup to nuts, and thats with an old slow bloke like me on the controls. Fun game, but it was the first of the sub-6 hour AAA title campaigns.

@Starkei thats a great idea.... its only £480 for the console and then 12x£15=£180 every single year. So lets say you do it for just one year, that's a fantastic saving of
£480 + £180 = £660, minus the £230 you've spent on just the games you want on the system you own..... oh hang on thats not a saving at all

imho it was a good episode. Not quite the level of ep2, but far better than ep1.
Ellie began to grow in to the role, she might even have cracked a smile at some point Dina is great. Tommy excellent as always.

It was great. Much better than Ep1 imho. Ellie was much more likeable and less 'hate the world'.
Its still doesn't make sense that Abbey would do what she did; but hey if she didn't the whole series would be rather short.

Must better.

Each to their own but Day 1 was imho a massive downturn for the 'franchise'. No one associated with it would fill me with confidence for future ventures.
But that's the beauty of art, one frogs pond is another frogs puddle.

@iDestinedOne if you think this is weird wait until you get to your teenage years - there's a whole world of weird out there

To be clear both FSR and DLSS increase frame rate by simply running the game at a lower resolution. It’s as simple as that and that’s what PC gamers have been doing for 30 years, it’s called the Settings menu.
Their secret sauce is then to use antialiasing to mask the quality of the lower resolution image.
Their marketing machines would like you to think it’s so much more.

20% reduction is hardly attractive. The intro led me to believe I would scroll down and see a 50% price cut. The Quest 3 is £289 and is far superior, objectively, in pretty much every measure. Why on earth would someone buy a PSVR2 when they could get a Q3?