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Re: Intergalactic PS5's Toxic Detractors Peddling Patently Fake 'Leaked' Story Details

mrbone

@RobN Frankly, I don't see many people who are upset by those who oppose DEI (look at Harry Potter). Only some media strongly feel about it. Saying 2 sides is just simply wrong here.
It is not that simple, those mob don't just hate the games, they want it to fail, hence sprouting hate and resting in every articles. Those who like don't read/ react every article. Even what they say is clearly fake, it does have impact on the general audience, as mob mentality. This has seen in many elections, and even in games happened with TLOU 2. What started as an anger because of a certain character's death, it quickly turns into woke accusation. I played that game there is nothing woke in there. Not just TLOU2, these people accuses wokeness in every games they hate/ want to fail.

Re: Black Myth: Wukong Deserved Astro Bot's Game of the Year Award, Says Game Science CEO

mrbone

@Savage_Joe Let me explain as it is beyond you. It is partly because of word of mouth effect, Wukong games sold decently in the West (also because this game has been hyped for years) But without Chinese players buying 10 million in a week or rating overwhelmingly positive on steam and put in on the top chart and subsequently in the news, I doubt it will be sold that well in the West. Yes these days words of mouth and viral phenomenon are way stronger- look at palworld, helldiver's 2 and even hawk tuah.

Re: Naughty Dog Turns Off Intergalactic PS5 Trailer's Comments As Discourse Turns Nasty

mrbone

I don't like Pushsqaure twisted the fact here. But there is no denying the vocal minority are commenting and reacting in every post related to this game, some of them are racists, some have a beef with Neil re: TLOU, some are disguised Xbox fanboys. They are clearly minority basement dwellers but what they have is time and thus they easily overwhelm any post/article. The nasty immature comments they made overtime drove away the gamers who really have interest in the game and ultimately do have some impact on game sales. This kind, you always see in political news. You will notice how fake commenters litter every post with the same comments, for eg Ukraine war news, election etc..

So people try to spread more positive news. Don't waste your time arguing with those idiots as talking to them is talking to the wall. They would keep dragging you through many irrelevant points. You never have as much time as these trolls. Their hatred is more than a protagonist's look.

Re: Like It or Not, This Is Why PS5 Pro Doesn't Have a Disc Drive

mrbone

I don't understand why some people are so upset by this. It is what it is. Deep inside, you guys know, but when the reality doesn't align with your view, then you guys bring up it does not paint the whole picture, blah blah. No used market included blah blah. Have you guys even been to used games store like CEX, Games in the UK recently? They don't even have many PS5 used discs. They still have more last gen discs than current gen in store. Similarly, there used to be more sales of Physical discs last gen, but now much rarer. Note whether selling more physical or digital does not have any impact on me.

Re: Dino Crisis Fans Hoodwinked as Capcom's PS1 Classic Requires Premium, Lacks Trophies

mrbone

Capcom is definitely going to remake this. If you want authentic retro, why do you even care trophy? Personally, these retro games controls and graphics are not holding up and will wait for remake. These retro availability are blown out of proportion. Only a very few people play them for nostalgic reason. I tried to play twisted metal and syphon filter on premium, 2 games i loved so much in the past but the controls are not good enough.

Re: PS5 May Soon Be Unchallenged by Xbox in Some Regions

mrbone

Google online game service folded just in 2-3 years. Google is as big as Microsoft and even they don't want to keep losing such a large amount of money. Yes GP is more successful but regardless what Microsoft says about revenue, the service is surely bleeding money.

Re: Silent Hill 2 (PS5) - The Horror Great Remains So in This Excellent Remake

mrbone

Should remake 1 if this one succeeds. Never got past piano puzzle back then. Could not easily check like now back in the day. SH puzzles are more difficult, and intellectual than RE. Then again, finding the secrets and solving the puzzles yourself back in the day can't be compared with anything. Imagine your surprise and sense of achievement when you accidentally found a secret in mario 3.

Re: Underperforming XDefiant Pours More Misery on Embattled Publisher Ubisoft

mrbone

Ubi will either have to come back or get bought by someone after series of high profile failures. I think Xdefiants and Concord are not bad games, but the live action shooter genre is already crowded and has no place for new IPs. The main issue with Ubi is that their games are all similar first- or third person open world games.
Open world games, by their nature, have to be padded with mundane tasks. GTA, by its nature, do not have big issue to pad out with filler missions. I personally find most open world games would be better if they had fewer filler quests/missions. But again, there are some vocal minority who relate the number of hours with the cost. The longer does not mean the better. Even with linear games like TLOU and the plague, their first games are shorter but better.

Re: A Massive 75% of UK Game Sales Were Digital Last Month

mrbone

Like others said, get out of your bubble. Music, movies, and PC games have been almost entirely digital for almost a decade, and they are doing fine. We are not owning blah blah- drop cliche excuse. It is what it is.
By the way, even if you own a disc, it does not mean you own them forever as these things broke with time too.

Re: Talking Point: Is PS5 Pro Way Too Expensive?

mrbone

Disagree with gaming is inexpensive luxury. Completely ignorant quote. Games in 90s are much more expensive, if you take into inflation. Even console price are similar if you account into inflation.
Yes this is expensive but think of it as ipad, macbook or desktop everything electronic pro. Just buy the base version, you can still play the same game with a bit lesser experience. You want more, you pay more. You arent priced out of playing the same game.

Re: Best Simulation Games on PS5

mrbone

Having multiple games from same franchise discredit this list. FIFA doesn't have any meaningful changes in terms of gameplay between each entry and yet,.. And no the sims 4?

Re: Earth Defense Force 6 (PS5) - More of the Same Insectoid Mayhem, and We Love It

mrbone

Dont be fooled by its graphics. It is very enjoyable and entertaining game with interesting plot. I love helldivers 2 but i even like EDF more. The only thing I dislike was it needs a bit of grinding and needs to get to the boxes to get actual upgrade. With a bit tank like control, it wasn't very easy to do that. But at its peak, no game can compare to the chaos it creates.
Has EDF 6 fixed that? Do i need to get all boxes to get weapons and upgrade?

Re: Preview: EA Sports FC 25 Promises a Different Kind of Rush on PS5, PS4

mrbone

Every year, articles like this pop up, boasting what have improved. Realism blah blah. When I actually played ( from ps plus), it is almost the same as last year. Realism?? You can dribble past everyone and score. PES/ efootball has much better gameplay, but transition to mobile focused efootball and poor licensing has nearly destroyed the franchise.

Re: Square Enix Offers $30 Upgrade to Play Life is Strange: Double Exposure Two Weeks Early

mrbone

What’s wrong with that? Ultimate version with early access is not new. You don’t need to pay if you don’t want to. Spoiler is easy to avoid for such a niche game. The story and plots always leak for bigger games and even if doesn’t leak, the story was there on social media as normal gamers don’t finish the game in a few days.
Articles like this are damaging game companies and then these sites again cry foul when they lay off employees.

Re: Sony Committed to Better First-Party Games, 'Richer' Experiences, More PS5 Users

mrbone

I agree that not all first party games need to be state-of-the arts hundreds of millions budgeted games. I missed games like Heavy rain, Detroit, Until Dawn, Heavenly Sword etc, all of which are excellent with low budgets. Ray tracing, detailed grass are overrated and blown out of proportion by PC players. Reducing those extra would also help with frame rates even though that is not important for some games.

Re: Capcom Hits Record High Profits for Seventh Year in a Row

mrbone

Do you think it is related to the fact that Capcom develops all of their games in Japan? The west game development is mostly in trouble. Japanese people work so hard for a relatively low salary while due to cost of living and other multiple factors, game development cost, I think, is much higher in the west?

Re: This Year's Call of Duty May Not Be Included in Xbox Game Pass After All

mrbone

I always expect something like this could happen. There is no win for Microsoft here, whatever they choose. Last year they shift the blame on Sony and blind fanboys just take it but no excuse this year. A year old COD value has come down a lot as Sony usually gave out for free many times. But the new COD, no matter how bad the reviews are, always make loads of money. Will Microsoft break their promise (like they always do) and don't put it on GP day1? Or they keep their promise and eat their mega revenue loss? We shall see. Yes Playstation mostly contribute to the sale of COD but giving out the game free on whatever platform changes people's perceptions of that game's value, based on previous day 1 released games.