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@ATaco You may misunderstand the word bigot. Providing valuable feedback is not a trait one would normally associate with a bigot.

@Gost each to their own but I think you can easily build an equivalent PC. The GPU is not even a 3060Ti ($300) and the CPU nothing more than $100. Add to that a $60 SSD, case, power supply and ram, it is close - but I'd much rather have a $700 machine that does games at least as well and everything else a PC can do.
Its just too close to a PC price thats the issue. Folks dont spend $700 on a games console. Ridiculous and I love my consoles but no thanks.

@TomasVrboda i hope it’s only 256 colour graphics at 320p. Sod all this future rubbish.

@IntrepidWombat because every update they do gets coverage like this, and coverage is free marketing, and marketing brings sales. Simple.
The press love them for a constant drip of stories and in turn the press give them sales. Everyone is a winner.

Tbf the quote literally says this is after the development. So it’s done and thus you don’t need the full team unless you’ve been commissioned for another game. Sad news for those impacted but I also expect it’s an industry norm that teams scale back when development is done esp if it’s a remake which had no DLC to move on to.

@EfYI lol. Who are you, the second coming?

I hate to be a prude, I am far from the pc woke brigade, but I don’t think addicted is a word we should use in any context as a positive state.
There’s many other words to infer delight, joy and satisfaction without using the one associated with umpteen negative elements of this world.
Prude out.

Never heard of it.

Would never pay more than £40. Sales are only ever a month or two away and tbh most of my AAA collection was <£25.

Fair play to those that throw £70 at a vid game but not for me. plenty to play and plenty of time.

@Cry_Zero
i also hear colour TVs are on the horizon but I'm not sure it will catch on.

@nessisonett
Always one.

Reads like it’s finally ready for the masses. Always be tempted but never had the time to overcome the perceived chore elements. Looking forward to it regardless of the armour shape I can wear Wasn’t really one of the inhibitors for me but respect, our hobby is wonderful in its breadth.

its a 4 hour walking simulator fgs. I expected £25

I seriously cant believe its almost 20 years old. Wow.
Reads as a must-buy though and I do like its simplicity - I just dont have the time to learn a truck-load of different systems - give me movement on one stick, look on the other and a button to attack.

Does she wear those silly ears for the entire movie? If so then thats enough to give it a 01/10 for me.

Hang on, it was 2 years between Elden Ring and its DLC. Unless I am mistaken the only Soulslike in the meantime was Lies of P.
So 2 in 2 years is not OTT.

Surely its just a clearance sale to empty the stock they haven't been able to shift these last year.
I doubt very much its the new price to secure its long term future.

SO many issues but wtf though a £550 games peripheral would fly?

@thefourfoldroot1 tbh I think the term "Update 7 + patch xx.xx" may have been more accurate. Its like when GT7 releases new tracks and cars (freely) we call it an update. So yes, valid point, better to clarify some of this is an update and some of it is a patch.

Such bad decision making since the end of the 360 era where they had beaten the PS3 on price and performance. A series, pardon the pun, of bad decisions followed. The woeful One launch, the joke that was Kinect, the u turn on online only, the series naming nonsense, the GamePass moneypit shambles, the closing of in house devs and finally the crazy spend on studios to still not have any AAA titles to show for it 3 years later.
And the folks making these decisions are paid not too far of £1m pa I expect.
Shambolic, the Xbox leadership of the last 10 years should be ashamed of themselves.

@PerpetualBoredom Yup, works so well in Cuba, Russia and China. Peace, happiness and prosperity everywhere you look.

@3Above I'm the same mate. I once had a relationship at 14, didn't work out, decided never to talk to anyone ever again. Couldn't be happier. Makes perfect sense.

1, just the title alone.

Sony get it right. Obv this is a PS site and there aren't going to be too many Xbox fanboys (although most of us enjoy both consoles). imho the issue Xbox have is that they released the all you can eat model without having any quality food on the table. They literally closed down their games production options and then opened the eat-all-you-can restaurant - and then scrath their heads when it failed.
Too late now for Xbox. They have about 20% of this gens market and I would be very surprised if they become anything other than a publisher going forward.

tbh there is a lot of immense skill in that video above anything the shield does for the player.

qq : If I had already just begun a NG+ run in the core game and then make my way to the DLC, is the DLC then at an even more difficult level (because I entered from a NG+ run) or does it know that its my first time in the DLC and therefore remains at base difficulty for the DLC?
This is my actual sit, and I'd rather go in with my L175 character than start fresh and get a second blokey up to spec.

It can. Hollow Knight is my case in point. I paid for the full game but will never get to play half of it because its just beyond my skill level.
I love and have 100% completion on all FromS games (ER DLC to come) but I would vote for them having a difficulty option in the menus - after all no one loses out do they? There literally is no downside.

@Bunchesopuppies really? you never played games before trophies were a thing and only play them for trophies? wow never knew there were folks that keen on trophies.
I play them for the game itself, perhaps weird i know.

Genuine comment, honest..... I've tried DE about 3 times but always give it up about 5 mins after I get out of my apartment, so perhaps 30 mins in to the game - I dont think I 'get it' because everyone raves on it and its just coming across as meh to me.
I assume its some sort of point n click adventure with RPG stats/build elements - but its just not biting.

Is it a case of it coming together and the magic happening in the next hour, or perhaps I should watch a playthrough of the first hour to help the magic along - or is it if you aren't up for a point n click 80s adventure it probably isnt for you?

LOL - Just noticed the comment above mine says exactly the same, much more succinctly though.

Hate to an an arse butnot sure you can call a single insallment a franchise. The Ben Hur franchise featured one film then?

@Shepherd_Tallon yup, still £4 on C*KEYS, and 3 and NV £1.

@Old_Man_Harper Agreed. Its works for some like yourself, but for others, like me, I prefer to pick just a handful of games a year, usually on sale. Thus the £20x6 games per annum is better value than the £17x12 GPU subscription when I may not even get the 6 games I really want to play on the sub service.

Horses for courses.

I think a few of the folks in these comments have hit the nail on the head. Its an art-house game with a blockbuster budget. That was always going to be a hard equation to balance.

I have it sitting on my drive waiting to be booted for the first time from the £20 Epic Christmas sale; but it doesn't feel like a priority - and thats the issue; art-house is great for those moments, but its not pizza; its not what you could have every week.

@Yorozayu I am not sure you can have a plural of greatest. I think the work greatest implies some sort of 'top of the list', i.e the one. But fair point, I guess you like it.

@MiaowMinx Not mutually exclusive.
It is, AFAIK, humanly possible to be smart, successful, athletic, and talented in many areas of life and also be attractive and have some sexuality - even attractiveness you are happy to show a little of to the world.
Crikey - the PC crowd will outlaw sex next.

@nessisonett each to their own. But You'd go hungry and cold if you were to boycott goods from every organisation that has an unsavoury boss or two. Contrary to popular opinion the world isn't 100% 'nice' folks. Sorry to break it to you.

Dont Atari like to relaunch themselves every couple of years. Have they actually done much of substance on the last 30 years since the heady days of the Jaguar, Atari ST and the 2600?

@BAMozzy LOL so it's your favourite from the 2 you've
played out of 10.

As if anyone on PC would run a game at 30FPS.

What gets me is how can a meeting go along the lines of.....
"we could do the game at 1440p and 30FPS which will be incredibly janky, with stutters, a lack of control, fluidity and flow and with poor latency, or we could do it at 1080p, let FSR2 do the upscaling so no one will notice the resolution difference and run it at a super fluid 60 FPS that plays so much better"......

How do we vote guys............. 30 FPS please. FGS.

@Balie3000 It is an interesting point. I suspect that in actuality the % of folks that feel aligned to one extreme or the other is much the same as its always been (humans dont evolve that quickly) but what has changed is the ability to communicate widely and at pace. Thus we have many more people able to latch-on to the latest band-wagon or group-think : perhaps because thats what the cool kids (in their blinkered view) are saying, perhaps they want to belong, perhaps they want to momentarily stand out. In actuality they are really no more extreme than aunt Matilda from Blackburn and will align to the next fad-think just as willingly and fleetingly.

Anything less then 60fps is a no pay. Jeez its 2024, PCs haven't entertained anything less than 60 for over 10 years. It is, imho, ridiculous that the question even has to be asked.

For anyone on the fence, try playing Control at 30fps; its a joke and will tell you all you need to know as to why its an insult to those spending almost £500 that they are served such nonsense.

@matekomlosi Indeed mate. The console pushers (Microsoft/Sony) always appear to label their console for the generation +1.
The Xbox One / PS4 they claimed 1080p but no they were 720P and we had to wait to get 1080p on the XBO-X and PS5, the XBO-X and PS5 they claimed 4K60 but no, that will be the pro and so on.

The term procedurally generated has always struck me as a negative, i.e. as if the universe didn't really matter because it was all random and everyone had a different one. But if I now understand it correctly that is not the case - everyone shares the same universe, its just the case that the single universe was generated by a mathematic equation as such - but its the same for all and we all live and breathe and explore the same.
This makes it much more real, and much more valuable for me. And tbh is they stopped using the procedural term I think they would sell even more - it is seen as a negative not a positive.

Day 1for me if we see a roadmap of Sony exclusives that can take advantage of the performance.
For x-platform games I'm afraid the Xbox S holds everything back, whilst its not everything we will have a 33TF console towering over a 4TF console - thats just ridiculous to try and code for them both.

Thats a very good point. tbh whilst some will argue it allowed more budget constrained fans to jump on this generation I think a key part of the failure of the generation (i.e. lack of a step-change in the content) is the xbox Series S. I have every console, always have so have no fanboy flag to fly - but releasing a console that is 25% the power of the other two units it shares the generation with (the XBX and PS5) has meant that all games have to be essentially crippled to run on the S. It has surely held the generation back, and thats why we aren't ready for the next half step of a generation to the Pro.

have they patched in left handed controls though or still ignoring accessibility options?

Well done PS, thats the best layman's outline of these 'downres and upscale' options I have read.
The key is that the upscaling is so good that the lower res image, e.g. 1440P can be made to look like a native 4K image, and thus you get 1440P performance but with 4K image like quality.

Sincerely best explanation ever.

Such a shame.
At £299, with back-compat this could have been a killer.
Heart goes out to all those who helped bring it to market.

tbh even if this is nothing but false rumour it is about as dead as they come - its only the imminent death rumours that give it any airtime these days - and that aint good.

@Zenos agreed. both consoles released under the propaganda of 4K60 and neither can do it. sometimes 4k sometimes 60fps but never both consistently in a complex game. this is a welcome introduction to true console 4k gaming. day 1 for me. 35tflops is about upper-midrange PC spec and with the benefits of a closed system that could be awesome.

You guys really holding off a value £25 remaster of 3 of the finest games ever made, put in to one compilation with nothing taken out, and shined up with one of the finest remaster treatments ever because some virtual gold stamps from year 2 primary aren't perfect? Wow. Hate to see what you thought of TLOU remaster.