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@SinisterPledge Bugger all to do with 'Woke', mate, just straight up fact.

It's a bit risky having the enemy in Arabic militant masking. Sure, being a recognisable differentiation of who the enemy is works well. But the problem is that just as many Arabs fighting on the Allies side against terrorists wear the same gear - so this portrayal tarnishes them all with the same brush.
The choice of enemy is more controversial and less clear cut than WW2, sci-fi enemies or specifically identified factions or groups like we find in Modern Warfare.

Bioware screwed up big time. I actually deleted all trace of it from my PS4 and trashed the disc. I went and bought all the DLC and expansions for Destiny 2, which I already had and am having more fun with that.
Anthem had a character and story base that had phenomenal world building potential. There were characters in Fort Tarisis each of whom could have provided all manner of story driven game play but as you say, we got missions by numbers that quickly became mind-numbingly mundane. Raising it to its full potential I think is nigh on impossible and like other people have already said, it should be torched.

It looks okay enough to make me want to keep it on my radar to see how it develops. Though it's going to have a tough time against BGE2 and Cyberpunk 2077 which I'm really looking forward to.
Division bored me quicker than i expected and as for Anthem. I got so frustrated with it I broke and binned the disc and wiped it from my machine.

Even as a grizzled old, life long fan of Marvel, I'm not willing to be ripped off with this pound for dollar charge which adds an extra ten quid to the price. They can stuff that idea where the sun don't shine and give it a twirl.
Think I'll wait for the price to drop or get it second hand later this year.

When I saw $2.99 I thought, well that's worth a pop., Then I saw the Uk price and thought 'well *&^% that' They're having a laugh.

So how does dancing with trailing wires work?
VR is hard enough with confused dogs wandering about totally confused as to what I'm up to

Ugh. Naughty Dog cashing in. Take me back to the days when ND made games that were 'games', and we played them for fun.
I always welcome various equality, diversity elements as just a natural part of the game's (books, films, TV music) world, the story, characters, relationships, narrative, etc. but I've a very strong feeling that ND are being so nauseatingly desperate to jump on a bandwagon and try to be uber contemporary, 'right on' and 'out there' that its embarrassing.
Having played all the Uncharted and Last of Us games I see a clear 'weighing down' of the games themes/look and feel over time. Uncharted 4 narrative wasn't as easy to swallow as 1, 2 and 3 but it was still fun. And TLOU put other factors before entertainment (and just managed to get away with it) so in some ways the current news is not surprising . I don't welcome it. I'm just biased and have this notion that games should be "games", fun entertaining escapism - which covers a broad enough range of experiences to be had Puzzles, shooters, racers, horror, adventure etc. I guess it's a subjective thing.

I'd say it's Hawkman based on the wings and the bird's head. With a look in from Wonder Woman. Google 'Hawkman Logo."

I loved the campaign and side characters - each of whom had enough potential back story to create fascinating twists but these were quickly dead-ended. Bad mistake. I stuck with the game because the world, co-op and combat was fun to occasionally jump into. But last week I tired and frustrated by all the niggling faults, I deleted the game and binned the disk. It'll take one helluva reboot to get me back. I'm mostly angry Bioware totally F**d up what could have been a top notch game and story.

@wiiware I bought the digitial bundle for the PS4 and have played all of them through at least twice. Such fun!

Sure, why not? I'm just here for the ride.

The music just makes me wish for a Firefly game with the same characters and voice actors

It's Resistance with budget terminators instead of Classy Chimera then?
Graphics are early PS3 type. Lame Game

@oldschool1987
Hi, No, not got the game. Still unsure about it - not because of the controversy. Not sure I'm still into the genre. I did buy and play all the other MW and Black OPs. I'm inclined to wait and dive into Cyberpunk 2077 and Beyond Good and Evil 2.
Having said that I might be convinced to give MW a shot.

@oldschool1987 The Nazis were National Socialists, not socialists in the conventional sense of the term.
Socialist would say 'Workers of the world Unite'
National socialists on the other hand take the ideology of 'unity of the people' as a common cause and restrict it to a particular country or ethnic group.
A bit like it's good to be a patriot but how patriotism can be taken to the extreme, and exclude any loyalty of migrants who may have even served in that country's military, police and public services

If it's as good as your review suggests then count me in.
If I'm saving up for a PS5, 4k TV, might as well chuck in for this set of cans too. What's the point of top visual quality if the sound isn't there to match?

Very nice, very nice indeed. Though come to think of it, starting tune is a bit Disneyish

Buttonmashingroleplayinglagfumingrespawningreloadingrestarting Pepsi

@JJ2 Shut up!!
Of course you got me googling and I found this. which is fun but fiction
https://ideas.fandom.com/wiki/Daredevil_(2023_PS5_Video_Game)

Excelsior!
Make Mine Marvel
Nuff Said!!
etc etc

Good to finally have some clear facts

@Neolit Yes. Thanks.
I decided to check out Eurogamer for more info and found the same link there. The Wired piece could have been written better. I came back here to comment and found your reply.
Appreciated anyway.

Who from sony said "holiday 2020" I can't find the quote or any reference to the quote anywhere.

Please clarify. I've just read the original article on Wired and nowhere does Sony's Jim Ryan say Holiday or 2020 in the same sentence. In fact, he never mentions those words at all.

Ah, nothing like predictable continuity.

I'm leaning more towards character / more story driven games rather than grindy ones nowadays so I'm holding out for Cyberpunk 2077. Though BGE2 looks to be phenomenal.

Looks interesting. might buy it depending on the price.

Microtransactions because 'games are expensive to make'
Yes, because 1. Developers want big houses, flash cars, expensive s**t.
2. Microtransactions, annual passes, expansions etc, etc, just put off enough people to dent the games profitability.
So in short, greed and microtransactions are the cause of the the need for microtransactions

Still a no from me. A couple of months ago I deleted the Destiny 2 bundled with the first two expansions I had pre-ordered. It got too messy for my liking. I wiped it the same day I wiped Anthem.
Anthem had so much potential and they just blew it. Watching the Spurs game last night was a similar experience.

First game I looked for was Resistance: Fall of Man. Not there.
excellent work getting this list together though.

@clvr Agreed. It's why i deleted Destiny 2 and the original expansions I bought. Good news is that since then I worked my way through the first three Uncharted games again and had a blast.

Kudos to Ubi for getting this done.

Looks like just the thing to wind down with in between all the
gorefests and shooting and looting

Yep, I've a feeling they're definitely not in Kansas.

@Hengist I'd say that "Those diagonals on flags are crosses because they 'cross' from one end of a boundary to another, the lines that cross touching all four ends.

a cross is a horizontal line crossing a vertical line
The shape on the controller is as X as one sees on alphanumeric keypads.
Playstation UK is categorically wrong and get an X for their errors

At this rate Tom Holland will be playing Sully by the time shooting begins.

Anyone remember Fuse?
No, i didn't think so.
That was Insomniac's Anthem

Stark still looks like the Iron man Fan from Iron Man 3.
Either that or a George Micheal fan

Of the three, I enjoyed the first one most of all. It was solid, the tone of the music, the gunplay, the colour pallete. R:FOM was the best game of the PS3 along with Uncharted.

I played the story through from start to finish yesterday evening. It's pretty good and I plan to have another run through today. One downside is there is no Android app, only iphone, so I had to play with the controller touchpad - which wasn't a real problem as long as you were careful

The low key announcements are a stroke of genius.
It presents the announcement like the discovery of a trinket of information that when fully uncovered exposes a far greater and more important story.
The usual method of a big, fanfare announcement would have come across / be interpreted as another takeover story of a mega-corporation with all the accompanying risks and downsides.
Also it doesn't come across as grandstanding or trying to steal the limelight.

Why has no one mentioned Resistance?
That's crying out for a reboot or R4

So you ride around on the grav-cycle and order your ground troops around?
Hopefully we can dismount and do some other stuff and leave the team to get on with it.

Looks like MeoMeo has been nerfed big time.
Natasha Romanov needs to deal with that mophead.
Overall the powers of abilities and gear is inconsistent from use to use. And Thor can hover now?
Oh, and Kamala Khan in the mix, that was mildly interesting.

@chris730920 Never experienced the noise issue with my PS4. I've never understood the noise complaints.

@Number09
Which is probably why it won't cost that much. Last thing Sony will do is price the PS5 out of the market.

@Amusei Same here. Got my Monzo saving account all set up

Uncharted 3 for the umpteenth time.